Re: [newbie] Building Source RPMs?
On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:38 am, you wrote: OK, I am feeling a bit stupid right now! How do I build a source RPM? I have been trying 'rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm', but I keep getting the message 'package.src.rpm: no such file or directory'. The package *does* exist. I installed it, and the tarball went into /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, and the spec file went into /usr/src/RPM/SPECS, like I would have expected. The source RPM itself is in /usr/src/RPM, where I copied it before installing it. I am su'd to root. Is this a PATH issue? You dont install the rpm then rebuild, just rebuild. So the package.src.rpm should be in your current directory, then type rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm Alot of text will then scroll by, in that text it will tell you where it saved the newly made rpm. It's something like usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686. Change to that directory, then install the rpm just like any other rpm. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and cdrom
On Sunday 09 December 2001 12:05 pm, you wrote: This machine doesn't have SCSI support, to the best of my knowledge. Why is Mandrake seeing two RW drives and why is it seeing a SCSI device? This is a very common question, easily found in the archives. The linux burning program, cdrecord, relies on a SCSI cd burner. SCSI emulation is provided for IDE burners so that they can work with cdrecord. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] linux fitness/health programs?
I know this is a super long shot, but does anyone know of any of these? I found one (Diondine) but it was closed source, cost money and wasn't so great. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transgamings Winex question
On Saturday 08 December 2001 12:40 pm, you wrote: i have been wondering, does the winex (or wine for that matter, never even read up on either) require a windows install or dual boot? or just select files from windows, or niether. i would love to play diablo and starcraft and TFC, but i am NOT putting a win partition on here, soo Apparently not. Here is a howto on how to run halflife in Linux via wine, and it says a windows install is not necessary. You can run halflife's installation program from wine itself. http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half-life-HOWTO-0.4.1.html I haven't tried it yet. As halflife, despite its age, is still a full price game :/ Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows connection problem
On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote: When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0% dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is the case, wich one? That's correct. Unix ping will ping forever unless you stop it. Hit CTRL-C to stop it, and it will then clean up the program for you. Windows ping will ping 3 times and then stop. If I want only one of them to read/write on the other, could I live with this or do I have to fix it? If you want read/write between them, the best solution is probably Samba. Don't get discouraged, getting Samba running can be a pain, it's a complex set of programs. The best crash course on samba I've figured out is to just install the samba rpms then work your way through the diagnosis file, which is online at: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/DIAGNOSIS.html You will fail the later tests, samba doesn't run out of the box unfortunately. But when you do fail, you'll have an idea of what you need to troubleshoot. I've set up samba a few times, and I'm sure others here have as well. So you can always post here with problems. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rescue and copy directories
On Saturday 08 December 2001 04:48 pm, you wrote: When I try a cp /home/bill /mnt/windows I continue to get a 'omitting directory' message and only files in the root of the directory are copied. Is there a way that I can copy the entire directory and maintain the directory structure? by default cp will not copy directories. try cp -r /home/bill /mnt/windows the -r is recursive which is a fancy way of saying it will dive into directories and copy their contents over. Also, I tried to do a cp --help but the messages scrolled off the top of the screenwhat is the command to halt information a page at a time? There's several ways. You can look up cp's man page man cp or you can pipe that help message you got to a program which will let you see it. cp --help | less or cp --help | more whichever you prefer. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vmware in LM 8.1 continues
On Friday 07 December 2001 07:44 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Thank you for your answers and help. I was installing my vmware 2.03 on my LM8.1 and got a complaint about not having the correct module and they needed to know what file my C ++ header files were in. I did not know the answer to that one. Does anyone know what files I need to have installed for these needed C++ header files so that I may run this vmware 2.03? Thank you for the help. Hmm, it should provide a default answer that is correct. For me it is /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/build/include I'm running vmware 2.04, I don't know how different 2.03 is. 2.04 won't successfully compile a vmmon/vmnet module for the stock 8.1 kernel unless you first use a little tarball that fixes this. Otherwise it will try to compile and fail. This might be the case for 2.03 as well. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's this dependency nonesense all about?
On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:27 am, you wrote: Hi list, Being new, I'm sure I'm going to have lots of questions and stuff I just don't like. However this dependency stuff when installing software in Linux is making me nuts! Take a number and get in line :) Why in Linux does software depend on other software? Why? Why can't each program stand up on it's own two 1's and 0's? Packages depend on other--usually lower level-- packages to save on system resources. If you have a library A and programs B, C and D all need to use it, it makes more sense to have a common A library that all programs can draw on. Having each program compile library A into themselves would result in larger binaries, more memory usage and just generally waste resources. It's possible to compile the library directly into the binary in Linux, but it's rarely done. If a newer version of library A is released, most of the time you can replace the library and B, C and D will immediately benefit from the upgrade. the alternative would require new binaries for all the programs that use A. You are most likely coming from Windows. Windows does things similarly (but not as well, of course :)), they're called DLLs. But a Windows program pretty much always comes with all the DLLs it needs and installs them. Sometimes they may check to see if the DLL is already installed, a lot of times they don't. Sometimes you end up with two different versions of a DLL, which can cause problems. And that brings me to another question. RPMS. I'm not comfortable with the concept of installing just yet, and Lord knows the Kpackage and the like in the distros aren't helping. I have a problem pointing the installer to the source disks. I kinda thought this would be as easy as pointing to a drive letter as in Windows. You mean rpmdrake? What error messages are you getting? What exactly is happening? rpmdrake should have the three 8.1 cds as sources by default. Why do I get the feeling someone is about to point out to me that I should have read a RPMS HOW-TO. rpms really aren't that bad. The dependency thing is a common thing for beginners to get stuck on. I was tearing my hair out on this not too long ago. Using a program like rpmdrake or urpmi can lessen the blow of that. After a while you'll get a feel for when you can force an rpm to install despite dependancy problems. rpms become second nature really fast, I promise :) If you ever need rpms that aren't on the cds, www.rpmfind.net is your best bet. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Network question....I think.
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:57 am, you wrote: Hello again, Okay, I'm new to the Linux world but want to become dangerous. I am also new to the world of Networking, but I'm still building my courage in that field! I have a dual boot system up and running with Win'98 and LM 8.1. On the Win'98 side I have my machine networked with two D-Link DFE-530TX+ cards with the wifes machine across the other side of the room. She has Win'98 installed also. I have the printer connected to her machine, and we have Internet Connection Sharing setup also. I want to be able to print to the printer, access her computer, and share the Internet connection from inside Linux Mandrake 8.1 here on my machine. Can this be done? Someone told me to go buy a big book on Samba! I told him to go stick it, real men don't dance! Where do I start??? Your computer has two NICs? One for the internet and one that's going over to your wife? Setting up NAT (network address translation. Otherwise known as internet connection sharing) with Mandrake is very easy. There appears to be a bug in 8.1 that complicates this just a tad. For me I had to remove my NIC that is feeding my internal network, and set up my internet connection with the other NIC. You may or may not have to do this. Once the net connection is going, I replaced the NIC I removed (removed and replace it with the computer off of course). Run harddrake (mandrake control center - hardware - hardware) and confirm the second NIC has been recognized. Now, still in the Mandrake control center, go over to network - connection sharing. It should tell you it is about to set up connection sharing on eth1 (the second NIC). Just follow the wizard, you will probably need to install some stuff off of your mandrake cds. It will then set it up so other computers can access your internet connection via dhcp. On your wife's computer go to control panel - network. Find the TCP/IP entry for her network card and select properties, then IP address tab. Now select obtain IP address automatically, reboot her computer. She should be up and running sharing the net with you. This is by far the easiest way to do it. But the mandrake wizard does it via dhcp and I didn't like having both the dhcp daemon and the dns daemon (named) running on my machine. They took more resources than I liked. I also thought dynamic addresses would complicate other aspects of my network needlessly. So I redid it with static IP addresses, eliminating dhcp. Also, it's really ideal to have a third computer be your network's gateway. It can run NAT, the firewall, the local name server, samba, etc and do just that, taking the burden off your computer. That's how I will do it once I find another computer to use. But for now, one step at a time. Get this far and you'll be doing well. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Network question....I think.
On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:08 am, you wrote: Hello Matt, Just noticed your answer to this post, and was wondering if you could help me sort out a problem. I've finally got dhcp, samba, bastille and nat(sharing dialup connection) working on lm80, but just don't understand how to set up dns on a local network. I have run all the tests on samba, and everything works ok except that I can ping by name from linux to win98 but only by ip from win98 to linux. this appears to point to incorrect dns settings but I have no idea where to start. btw, I need to use dhcp so my laptop can be used at home and work. All I know about named is using it as a caching dns. My internal network asks named for dns resolution, named asks my ISP's dns for the info, and then keeps a copy of it internally so it can serve it up itself next time the information is needed. If you have a small private network, hosts files are probably a better solution. In the file /etc/hosts, add in the IP address then the host name for each computer on your network. Then in Windows, do the same with C:\windows\hosts (win9x), or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (winNT, 2000). Check this out for a good explanation: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-iface.simple-resolv.html Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER
From: Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and no one has done anything in the past to resolve it. I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro.. :) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems very difficult to install. I was wondering if anyone out there knew of an AWESOME spam filter, that can be used system-wide (for ISP use) and is EASY to install and administer.. can anyone please help me?!?!? :) Give procmail a try. I'm about to set it up for my network as well. I don't actually have it running yet, but I've seen nothing but positive things about it. http://www.procmail.org/ Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realtek 8139 and internet
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 08:04 am, you wrote: Greeting from Poland Linuxmen ! I'm green. Can anyone tell me where to write my ip, mask, dns numbers to connect to internet ? Which file, or maybe your example. If you're in X, load up the mandrake control center. Then Network-Connection-configure. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations
I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, KDE is using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those two numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time. I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me directly, I had about 70MB free of my 384MB of memory. That just doesn't sound right. I thought I left memory fragmenting behind with the Macintosh :) Now, coming back into kde, kde is using about 150MB. A big improvement over 250MB, but still more than it seems like it should be using. I am using kde 2.2.1. I had 2.2.2 briefly installed and noted it did the same thing. Searching the net doesn't turn up much. It seems people think Linux handles memory ok :) I think I will start using gnome or iceWM for a while and see if I notice the same thing happening. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache public_html help needed
On Sunday 02 December 2001 09:54 pm, you wrote: I know I had set this up right on a different CPU, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. For some reason I can't get my ~dherndon43/ directory to work. I'm getting a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~dherndon43/test.php on this server. Where are the apache permissions placed? Here;s a snippet from the apache faq, it might help. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#forbidden -- Why do I get a Forbidden message whenever I try to access a particular directory? This message is generally caused because either The underlying file system permissions do not allow the User/Group under which Apache is running to access the necessary files; or The Apache configuration has some access restrictions in place which forbid access to the files. You can determine which case applies to your situation by checking the error log. In the case where file system permission are at fault, remember that not only must the directory and files in question be readable, but also all parent directories must be at least searchable by the web server in order for the content to be accessible. --- Why do I get a Forbidden/You don't have permission to access / on this server message whenever I try to access my server? Search your conf/httpd.conf file for this exact string: Files ~. If you find it, that's your problem -- that particular Files container is malformed. Delete it or replace it with Files ~ ^\.ht and restart your server and things should work as expected. This error appears to be caused by a problem with the version of linuxconf distributed with Redhat 6.x. It may reappear if you use linuxconf again. If you don't find this string, check out the previous question. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations
On Monday 03 December 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me directly, I had about 70MB free of my 384MB of memory. That just doesn't sound right. I thought I left memory fragmenting behind with the Macintosh :) Well I got one answer to this. Linux purposely grabs free memory to use for disk write caching and the like. So the fact that my memory is nearly full despite most everything being shutdown is not really a concern. I'm still curious about KDE, though. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux which will prevent memory leaks -- it comes down to care and testing by the programmer. AFAIK, memory leaks can be created anywhere C or C++ are used (and probably many other languages). Yup, I just tested that. Linux does not appear to make any attempt to stop memory leaks. I wrote a quick program with an infinite loop that dynamically allocated some memory. Watching top, its memory usage climbed dramatically. There's really no way for Linux to know if I really am using that memory or not, so I don't see how it could interfere. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...
For what it's worth this problem is addressed in KDE 2.2.2. It's part of the bug fixes listed at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2_1to2_2_2.html Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde 2.2.2 slooooow
I just upgraded from kde 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. The install went very smoothly. I downloaded the mandrake i586 rpms from kde's ftp site. I only had two failed dependencies which I fixed, and then did rpm -Uvh *.rpm from the directory they were in (kde was not running at the time) and away it went. When I returned to kde I found it to be really slow. Kmail isn't so bad, and non webbrowsing konqueror is ok, but kdevelop and web browsing konqueror are incredibly slow. Kdevelop takes a good 5 minutes to shut down, and about a minute to do anything (say switch to a different document). Generally speaking any k apps are slower than they used to be. I'll be reinstalling Mandrake 8.1 tonight, as that's the only way I know of to go back to 2.2.1 and be sure of no problems. But if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. Fortunately I backed up everything before attempting 2.2.2. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xine - no sound
On Friday 30 November 2001 09:52 am, you wrote: I compiled the .mdk package of xine 0.9.6 to play .asf files. However, it keeps saying that the audiodriver (null) failed. Maybe that package did not include any audio driver? http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.6/i686.RPMs/ This page has rpms for xine, including the sound drivers for various types of linux sound architectures. I originally had no sound with xine. I just installed all the sound rpms and now my xine has sound. No conflicts or anything. Perhaps a bit brute force, but it worked. Those are i686 rpms, if you have something else, go up a directory. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux-- and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a slide show than playing a game. This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions. My computer should be able to handle tuxracer. My video card is just a 16MB Nvidia TNT2 M64, but even with software rendering my 1.1 ghz Athlon should be able to get, say, 5 fps? :) As far as OpenGL goes I have the mandrake Mesa-Common and Mesa rpms installed. Running the gears Mesa demo gave me 250fps, which maybe suggests a tuxracer problem and not mesa? Any ideas? I usually just play 2D games, which are fine in Linux. But I wasn't expecting performance like this. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: tuxracer: FIXED
Never mind, I figured it out. Installing the nvidia drivers did wonders. I'm pretty ignorant on 3D acceleration and computer gaming in general. My gears demo framerate jumped from 250 to 800, so I guess it wasn't running very well either. Oh well, time to race! :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that to get rid of that message, i can get rid of linuxconf from the list of services that Bastille audits. I don't know much about the issue, and can't find the message in the archives. But I think the point was, unless you are concerned with someone with physical access to the system making changes via linuxconf, you don't need linuxconf auditing. -Paul Rodríguez Do you think the full security configuration I chose was applied, or does Bastille abort when it strikes the 'linuxconf' trouble ? Do I need to run InteractiveBastille again ? An easy way to confirm bastille is doing its job is to go to www.grc.com, then to the shields up section, and have it probe your ports. it doesn't test all ports, but if all the ports return as closed rather than stealth, bastille isn't up. if they don't report as stealth run as root /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall start Although the linuxconf error does not cause bastille to abort. I get that error as well, I just ignore it. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] About CD burning stuff.....?
On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:21 am, you wrote: On your Mandrake disc there are a whole bunch of CD burning apps. Here is my take on them. It is purely personal others will have other opinions :- snip Don't forget the one that started it all, cdrecord. It's command line but I actually find it to be easier and more intuitive than most of the gui frontends. A quick crash course of mkisofs and cdrecord and you'll be up and running. gui cd burning is one thing I don't like about linux at this point. Frontends should be simpler than the backend they are covering up :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tuxracer: terrible framerate
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:26 am, you wrote: if you don't see the nvidia splash screen when X starts, then they aren't installed right. you can run an /sbin/lsmod and make sure NVdriver is loaded, if not make sure you edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 correctly . Under modules you need load glx, and for your driver, change nv to nvidia, save it and restart X, you should then see the splash screen. Yeah, I wondered about the splash screen as it doesn't show up for me. But my framerate in tuxracer is very good now, and the mesa demos are screaming, so the drivers do seem to be working. I read nvidia's installation guide really thoroughly, I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:07 am, you wrote: Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be much appreciated. @home gave you an ID number. It's in the form of Cxxx-A. In windows this is the name of your computer (control panel - network - identity tab). In linux, set that as your host name, use dhcp, and your cable modem should fire right up. The easiest way to set the host name is to go into mandrake control center, then network-connection-configure. the only downside is your bash prompt will be [user@cxxx-a user]$, although there's surely ways to change that. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dying connection
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote: By the way, yesterday I wanted to restart the network from the internet setup GUI, but it didn't work. I found no better solution than reboot. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by you losing your connection. But one of the two methods below should get it up again. ifup eth0 or /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (or reload or restart) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:25 pm, you wrote: I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was wondering where I could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. Are you sure it wasn't the Unix version? IE was made available for some flavors of Unix, but not Linux. The IE for Unix is also old and out of date. The day MS supported Linux, you'd know about it. It'd be enormous news. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: Yeah, my big problem is I can't decide! Linux should come with just one browser! That way I don't have the choice problem. I'm always curious about different distros. I've only (briefly) tried RedHat and Caldera. I want to get another computer to mess with other linux/BSD distros. At the moment I just open a different browser on different desktops (including Lynx) for the hell of it. Deffinitly UN-productive:) Al least let there be a bad one among them so I can kick one out:( Oh there is, Netscape still comes with Mandrake. Did I hear someone wanting IE on Linux Definitly De Sade Porting the Mac IE to Linux would be awesome. Everyone forgets, there really does exist an excellent version of IE. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install newbie
On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:01 pm, you wrote: fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? the file you want is /etc/lilo.conf in there is a setting for timeout. You can change that to adjust how long it waits before booting. After making the change, you need to run lilo to make it take effect. Just type lilo at the prompt. All of what I just said about lilo needs to be done as root (type su then enter your root's password). Also how do I start xwindows or navigate through the installed software. startx at the prompt should start x. You can also set it up so X start at boot. When mandrake opens i give my user and p word on the cpomand line. I can navigate through the folder but most of ot seems to be system files. Make sure you are not root when you use your machine. Root is for administrating and if you use it as a regular account it wont be long before you screw something up :) Linux gives root full rule of the roost. But it makes sure regular accounts don't harm things. If you are using a regular account, you can pretty safely explore. Although I wouldn't recommend randomly trying things. The book Running Linux from OReilly will get you comfortable with Linux very quickly, at least it did for me. it's $35, but well worth it IMO. Be careful, you may not want to use Win2K much after you get the feel for linux :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Book recommendations
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:07 pm, you wrote: Santa just asked me what I want for Christmas. A Linux reference book, of course. But which book? Dennis Myers has already recommended O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell. Any other recommendations? Stuff along the lines of Linux in a Nutshell or references to other aspects of Linux? Running Linux, also from O'Reilly, is also a good general reference for Linux. If you plan to do any networking the Linux Network Administrators Guide pretty much covers it all. Also from O'Reilly (also available for free at www.linuxdoc.org if you don't mind an electronic version). I've found, generally speaking, you can't go wrong with O'Reilly. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XINE reccomendation: [was] mplayer error
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:52 am, you wrote: On 28 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but I wasn't all that impressed. Take a look at xine. Much better overall, nicer gui, better playback, etc. And much easier to install! Agreed; xine is brilliant, on 7.2. It installed easily under 8.1 but breaks down on running the d4d plugin with a message which implies that 8.1 does not support raw devices, out of the box. What is needed is /dev/rdvd. Does that exist on your system, and if so, how did it get there? xine runs with d4d on my 8.1 machine just fine. I symlinked /dev/hdc (my dvd drive) to /dev/dvd. I don't get any error messages. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/26/01 12:13 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I wish to say is that the reason the US Judge wanted to split M$ into two or more companies was to split the OS off from the rest of their offerings. So that the application M$ would be on even ground with everyone else writing software so that we continue to have lots of competing software companies out there developing software for the windows platform. But that basically turns it into MS providing Windows as a charity to the industry so other companies can compete on it. Why should they do that? Why does MS have the burden of maintaining and developing an OS, just so other companies can come along and compete with them, sans that heavy burden? If MS is in the position of providing the very OS these companies need to create their products, why shouldn't they be given some incentive? Now I don't think MS should be allowed to bolt all these apps into the OS just so other companies don't stand a chance. But when it comes to developing the apps, an insider's perspective on the OS should be perfectly fine, if not used maliciously. I don't like MS, at all. But I also don't think MS should get shafted just because their MS. A monopoly is not necessarily illegal. There are some benefits a monopoly provides that are perfectly legal, and some that are not. In the case of MS, most everyone wants to just say it's all illegal because they hate MS. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/26/01 10:03 AM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that basically turns it into MS providing Windows as a charity to the industry so other companies can compete on it. Huh?? That would put MS in the position of providing Windows just so the industry can keep going. Why should they do that? Why does MS have the burden of maintaining and developing an OS, just so other companies can come along and compete with them, sans that heavy burden? If Have you ever met anyone who had their life's work bought out for pittance or worse stolen by microsoft in their process of 'developing' the Windows OS?? Their lack of ethics is the stuff legends are made from! Ethics is one thing, legality is another. I've stated several times in this thread I don't like MS at all. Just because I don't like them doesn't mean I automatically find them guilty. MS is in the position of providing the very OS these companies need to create their products, why shouldn't they be given some incentive? You give them your incentive. I'd rather give mine to the open source community- a much more diverse and creative group of people who puke at the thought of toeing the 'party line'.. I do the same. I do run Linux you know :) This is a perfect example of people letting their emotions get in front of their logic when trying to decide if MS did anything wrong. Then why do we have antitrust laws in the US? To take down monopolies that are anti-competitive. Monopolies are not always illegal. If you live in the US, there's a very good chance your phone, gas and electric companies are all monopolies. Monopolies are inherently anti-American and anti-capitalist in that they eliminate competition to produce better products... Sometimes. Not always. As I've said, monopolies are not automatically illegal. Some of what MS does is illegal as far as monopolistic practices. But some of it is not. Everyone wants to lump *all* of it as being illegal. That's all I'm saying. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/26/01 10:12 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for your comment on it being fine for M$ to use the kernel instead of the API's then you havent been reading the thread on this, there are heaps of reasons why that shouldn't be done. security realiability... etc.. It's hardly good coding practice, but it's also not illegal. If MS wants to make shoddy stuff, I'd say that's their choice. By can you honestly say you can think of a nice way for a company to use shortcuts that no-one else has access to? Sure, use your knowledge of the OS to create a better application. If M$ won't let any OEM's sell linux or any other OS dual boot with windows, and you need an OS, then people are not going to have a choise (I am talking about newbies here.) Yes, and that is wrong and most likely illegal. they will get windows, and if what you say is correct, they will use Office, IE, msm messanger, and all the other MS apps that have put their competition out of business or dangerously close to it.. I did not say that at all. I stated I think it's wrong to bolt the MS apps into Windows. Windows should ship like MacOS does, with very little added on. Not a future I want... what about you? Nope. It's also not at all what I was talking about. Whether I think MS is good for the industry is an entirely different matter. I'm simply saying that MS gets accused of illegal practices when not all of them are illegal. I'd love to see MS put in their place, but not by a lynch mob. One last point I would bring up, Microsoft got windows to where it is by using the developers, not by any technical merit of the OS itself.. It's rare that a product is successful on quality alone. Marketing, savvy business decisions, smart contracts (which is what bit Apple), and such are usually what make a product successful. There's no denying MS is very good at that. and they all jumped on board... not knowing that M$ would use their own software ideas to put them out of business one by one... Which is possibly illegal, it depends on how its done. Many of the ways MS has done it is probably illegal. The Windows you speak so highly of Woah, woah. I've never spoken highly of Windows in my life. It's quite possibly the worst family of OSes ever made. NT/2000/XP was based on work by IBM if I remember correctly. they split off, and went their seperate ways and from that single code body immerged OS2 and windows NT Microsoft and IBM co-developed OS2. I just don't think many people can objectively look at Microsoft. Way too many emotions brewing. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail (was: No Subject)
on 10/24/01 7:49 AM, Dan Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2001 06:10 am, Sridhar wrote: What version of KDE do you have? KMail has had this feature quite some time. How about the ability to insert a signature somewhere other than the end of a message. That was the one thing that had me using Sylpheed for a while (I'm back to Kmail because of all the accursed HTML email my clients send me). If I could insert a signature in an arbitrary spot without cutting and pasting, I'd be a happy emailer. I'm not at my linux box right now, but I do know kmail has this feature. It's in one of the menus when writing an email. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TO: Column In Email Readers
on 10/24/01 5:03 AM, Sevatio at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious if any of you consider a TO: column as being important for email clients. Why won't some of the email readers (like Kmail Netscape/Mozilla) include this important TO: column? It would allow me to quickly spot if its junk mail or just know who it's addressed to. I currently use StarOffice for email but would rather use something fast with this feature. Any email that was addressed to someone will have a to: header. Most spam will not address their email to anyone. Instead they place your email address in the bcc header. So technically an email like that isn't to anyone, although it is being blind carbon copied to someone. bcc is just like cc except no one but the sender knows who it was bcc'ed to. That is a very common and simple technique of spammers to make filtering them more difficult. Kmail does have a to: column, as does any email reader. It's what I use to filter mail from this mailing list into its folder. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vmware startup problem
on 10/24/01 4:25 PM, ivan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was trying to Install Vmware 3.0 on my PC (dual boot with W2k).Setup all vmware parameters,when i try to start the virtual m/c the boot screen stops at LILO 21.5,what could be the problem and how can i proceed further? I had a similar problem when I tried to make vmware use a raw disk, it'd repeat LI on the screen over and over. Are you trying to access your win2k install from linux? If you are, that's considered for advanced users according to the vmware website, a lot of people have problems with raw disks (accessing a raw disk that isn't empty probably complicates things even more). I gave up and went back to a virtual disk. I'd suggest adding news.vmware.com to your news client and ask around on the newsgroups in there, lots of vmware experts to be found. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kmail (was: No Subject)
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:26 pm, you wrote: If I could insert a signature in an arbitrary spot without cutting and pasting, I'd be a happy emailer. I'm not at my linux box right now, but I do know kmail has this feature. It's in one of the menus when writing an email. MENU File Insert File Actually attach append signature is a bit better. Although insert file would do it too. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
on 10/23/01 1:57 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. You don't want to ever use Java. In a move against Sun, Java support has been discontinued in IE6. Actually I dont ever want to use Java in a webpage. I hate java applets. Most people forget or don't realize there's another, far superior, version of IE out there, the Macintosh version (as you mentioned below). This version of IE truly is the best browser ever made. The most standards compliant of any browser for css, html and javascript. MS has no special access to the OS, they make Apple apps just like everyone else does. Apple enforces a strict set of interface guidelines, which miraculously MS follows. It's fast, stable, intuitive just overall excellent. When Linux gets a browser like this (and they're getting there) I'll be very happy. Mozilla itself, which is largely developed by Netscape, is shaping up to be a fine browser, but it still has some issues to work out. I think Mozilla has the most potential of the Linux browsers. It will become a great browser before the others IMO. Konqueror is also nice, but renders some pages rather poorly. Mac users are generally apprehensive when it comes to using MS applications I dont think that's true anymore, at least with web browsers. Netscape for the Mac has basically always sucked. Netscape 6 for the Mac didn't even work when they first shipped it. IE for the Mac was great from the beginning, and most noticed. Mac magazines have been praising IE for a long time now. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows on linux
on 10/23/01 3:44 PM, Dechao Wang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know what and where is the program that I can run windows' applications from linux box? There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run the app right in X. www.winehq.com Then there's vmware and win4lin. Which are very different solutions than wine. They allow you to run a full fledged Windows installation and Linux at the same time. vmware has a trial version which is a good way to see if this is what you want, www.vmware.com. win4lin has no trial version, www.netraverse.com and I've never used it. I can give my nod to vmware, I'm very satisfied with it. It has some quirks and can be a pain to get configured and running the way you want. But once it's up it's really nice. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] windows on linux
on 10/23/01 11:14 AM, Steve Borrett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run the app right in X. www.winehq.com smug Just because I am in a pedantic mood, I would like to point out that saying wine is a windows emulator is an oxymoron. WINE stands for Wine is not an emulator, therefore proving itself that your statement is woefully inaccurate. *grin* /smug Yes, I'm well aware of that. But pointing out the technicalities of what Wine is and isn't, isn't exactly necessary to inform the OP of a program that will let him run Windows apps in a Linux environment (excuse me, a GNU/Linux environment). Calling it an emulator probably gives him an idea of what it does, a reference point. If he's really interested in what it does, he can read up on it at the URL I gave him. What's with the unnecessary attitude? Last I heard, being in a pedantic mood and wrapping your post with cute little tags is not a viable excuse to be an ass for no reason. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
on 10/23/01 3:02 PM, Robert Pena at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hardly seen Mac crash but as far as multitasking goes I get the impression it is slower than Linux and Windows. What MacOS are you talking about, pre 10 or 10+? As a big time Mac fan I can assure you Macs using 9 and earlier crash. They crash often, and they crash hard :) They're less stable than Windows9x, which is pretty sad. Also pre 10, Macs didn't have preemptive multitasking. Multitasking was up to the software, not the OS. If a program doesn't give up his share of the processor, everyone else is SOL. This is not the case for 10+. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] disk
on 10/22/01 9:49 AM, Ralph Slooten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, why in mandrake do users all have a tmp folder in their home directory? What is the advantage of this, and if none, how can I get rid of it? One use is when compiling your own programs. gcc will place temporary object files into that directory. So I think generally speaking it's a place apps can stick temporary files that only pertain to you. If you get rid of it, you may find some apps complain or no longer work as they may use it without you realizing it. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
On Monday 22 October 2001 08:02 pm, you wrote: I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop for PPC. There's always MkLinux and LinuxPPC. MkLinux has Apple themselves contributing to it (which just shows how much cooler than MS they are). I'd think the much more centralized hardware configurations of Macs would make hardware compatibility and drivers a smaller issue (although I've never used a ppc linux to know for sure). Although I expect that we would usually use OS X on the Mac I'd say the number one thing to consider is whether the software you want has an OSX version yet. If you have to run OSX in classic mode 99% of the time, you're losing basically all the benefits your new Mac would give you. I would be interested in any thoughts/experiences people have concerning Mac vs Intel architecture (either relating to the above or in any other respect). One thing to consider is the quality of hardware. If you avoid iMacs and Cubes, you'll get a machine that's very well made with excellent components. There's no such thing as a macmodem or anything like that. The same can be said for x86 machines, but you'd have to do a lot more homework. I added a second hard drive to my Mac at work recently which is just begging me to put Linux on it. But I don't want to risk it :) Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
On Monday 22 October 2001 05:11 pm, you wrote: On Monday 22 October 2001 02:50 pm, you wrote: In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:07:10 +0100 Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft do not mix. Could we PLEASE be a little nicer to the poor guy. They *DO* have IE for non-Microsoft operating systems. I believe Sun has a variant, and they were doing one for HP-UX. Don't forget MacOS and MacOSX. The latter could qualify as a form of Unix. I wonder why MS sees Linux as a threat and not these other Unices. I suppose since it can run on the x86? -- Matt I'd be a pacifist too if I fought like you. -- Home Movies Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
On Sunday 21 October 2001 12:38 pm, you wrote: Thanks Dennis. Since I have tiny firewall running, do I have to stop it or remove it or both so that I don't risk crashing my system or will InteractiveBastille automatically replace it? As I understand it, Tiny Firewall and Bastille are just interfaces to the kernel's iptables. So setting Bastille will just replace what Tiny Firewall did to iptables. Either way, I set up Bastille while Tiny Firewall was running without any problems. Bastille's widgets (lesstif?) make it hard to figure out which radio button is selected, so I'd pay attention to that. I made an error because of that the first time around. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
On Sunday 21 October 2001 10:38 pm, you wrote: I ran InteractiveBastille and got an error message that Bastille_Tk.pm could not be found. A search of the entire drive turned up nothing for this file. What does this file do and how do I create it? That file drives the gui for setting up Bastille. For some reason it is not installed by default. If you load up rpmdrake you should be able to find its rpm as an installable from one of the cds. -- Matt I'd be a pacifist too if I fought like you. -- Home Movies Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing
On Saturday 20 October 2001 09:31 am, you wrote: Eh... See: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Heh heh, I liked that line :) Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] messed up my KDE
I installed Mosfet's Liquid rendering engine (very cool, makes menus semi transparent ala macOSX). It works great except one feature was not available and never being satisfied I decided to experiment a bit. I launched the kde program kcmshell from a terminal just to see if I could find out anything. I suppose this is a sensitive program as now a lot of things in kde are all messed up. File associations are lost (I cant just open anything, I have to select the program to open it with), directories won't open, konqueror won't launch, and the kde control panel is completely empty. Not so good :) Is it simple to just remove all kde rpms and then reinstall them, or upgrade them? Is there any way to tell kde to just revert to all its defaults? I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with KDE 2.2.1. Matt who should learn to respect his boundaries :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] messed up my KDE
On Saturday 20 October 2001 08:59 pm, you wrote: |I installed Mosfet's Liquid rendering engine (very cool, makes |menus semi |transparent ala macOSX). It works great except one feature was |not available |and never being satisfied I decided to experiment a bit. Could you please tell me how you got it to run under LM8.1? Texstar made an RPM for 8.1. I also found if you run configure with --prefix=/usr then you can get the compiled version to work. The problem with the default compile is it sticks the binaries in the wrong directory. But anyway, the rpm is the easiest. It's at http://66.69.180.43:8080/download.php?op=viewdownloadcid=14 Towards the bottom. Unfortunately the translucent menu options do not become available with either the rpm or the compile. So for mandrake we are stuck with the default amount of transparency. But it's still very cool, highly recommended for kde users. Thanks for the tips everyone, I'll know what to nuke the next time I do something stupid with kde. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) 1024 bytes. Computers operate on base 2. 1MB = 2^10 bytes. Only hard drive manufacturers use base 10, to artificially inflate the size of their drives (false advertising basically). mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A bit is as small as it gets. A bit is either 1 or 0. mb generally means megabits, which is 1/8 of a megabyte. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] deluxepaintish programs, AOCP, anyone?
on 10/17/01 2:59 PM, Miark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about The GIMP? http://gimp.org/ Thanks to all who replied. I looked at the Gimp first, but it's not really what I'm looking for. It looks like those types of programs died with 2D games and the demo scenes. Oh well, vmware it is. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Themes
on 10/18/01 4:24 PM, Brandon Hutchinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another good relatively new site for KDE themes is: http://www.kde-look.org Cool, thanks for the link. That site has got some good stuff. I can't wait to go home and try out that translucent OSX engine out :) Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] terminal games?
On Friday 05 October 2001 03:15 pm, you wrote: Not sure if it uses ncurses, but Star Trek is really cool. And there's Snake (well, that's what it's called on cell phones :) ), Thanks, nibble (the snake game) was what I needed. It dawned on me to stop searching for linux terminal games and search for ncurses games. That did the trick. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Insall and Screen Resolution
On Friday 05 October 2001 10:50 pm, you wrote: Hello, I just started getting into Linux and I have two questions: 1) How do I change the screen resolution size? Right now it is at 640x480 and I would like it at 800x600. How do I do that? Go to the Mandrake Control Center. Which should be on your desktop. I'm pretty sure the Control Center is accessable from all window managers. From there go to hardware display. 2) I just installed WINE and another program (FreeAmp), but I don't see any icons for these. Where does the install normally put these programs? type in a terminal which freeamp which should show you where it is if it was installed in a standard location. I've yet to install a program that will create an icon and stick it somewhere for you. You can do that yourself, but it depends on what window manager you are using. Even if you did have an icon for wine, it probably wouldn't be very helpful. You need to tell wine on the command line what windows program it should attempt to run. Before you do that you need to set up your wine config file. If you're brand new to linux, I'd stay away from wine. Get a feel for the OS, then try it out. It's a somewhat difficult program to use. Yes, I am a Windows person, but I am looking forward to using another OS. I highly recommend Running Linux by Matt Welsh (and a few other people). Others have recommended Linux in a Nutshell but I've never read it. In the areas that Linux is like Windows, it's a lot like Windows. But in the areas that it's different from Windows, it's *very* different from Windows. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] All your numbers are belong to us
on 10/4/01 12:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it DOES offer us a great example of the dangers of overzealous patent and copyright protection, which directly relates to the open source/proprietary software debates. Hmmm, their number check page doesn't appear to have a form on it to enter your number. I've checked in netscape and IE (the only browsers I have at work). Is it temporarily down or are they using some odd java applet or something? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] terminal games?
Does anyone know of any action games that are done in the console (probably using ncurses)? I mean games that use text characters to produce all the graphics, you could run the game without X installed at all. I keep downloading games that claim to be console games, compiling them, then running them and they pop up in kde as a graphical game. Getting frustrating :) Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gcc-c++
on 10/1/01 10:05 AM, mik at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, maybe this is more of a question for the expert, but anyways: what's the deal with gcc-c++?. everytime i try to compile a c++ program i get messages like c headers not found (while running configure) or strcomp not defined (while compiling). in some cases i've been able to fix the by using egcs, but since most programs are set up to be compiled with gcc, it would be nice i could get this working. compile with g++ ] g++ file1.cpp file2.cpp -o program Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installs don't run
on 10/1/01 2:08 PM, Peter Rymshaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no make file but there is a file named INSTALL. But typing make, as you would expect, says there is none; and, typing INSTALL returns no such command. It doesn't recognize INSTALL as an executabe. (There is an asterisk after the name when it is listed.) Windows and DOS have whatever the current directory is as part of your path. But *nix does not (by default). So if you're trying to run something that isn't in your path, you need to tell the computer exactly where it is. the easiest way is to type ./INSTALL The period means current directory. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Telnet refused
On Saturday 22 September 2001 14:01, John Clegg wrote: for some reason I can't quote your message. this is regarding telnet working at first but not after a reboot. Go into the mandrake control center, it's likely on your desktop. Then system services. See if you can find telnetd in there. Is on boot checked? If not check it and reboot. Your telnet daemon should be up and running. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 8.0 on IBM Thinkpad T21: No recognition of track-point!!!
On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:16, you wrote: I'd would like to try out Linux. But I dare not fulfil the installation procedure on my IBM thinkpad T21, as the Mandrake ver. 8.0 does not recognise the Thinkpad track-point. I have tried all mouse setting posibilites of the installation program. Any solutions or advices out there? http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html has a few accounts of installing linux on your laptop. Not necessarily mandrake, but you may find some pointers there. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What program for news ??
on 9/21/01 2:41 PM, Joan Tur at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What program do you use to read and write from the news lists? I'm thinking on reading messages from Fido again... ;) Do you mean what program do I use to access usenet/newsgroups? I use knode. It's pretty good. I dunno if it will work with anything besides KDE. If you're using KDE, look under kmenu:networking:news:knode. It should be there. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help
On Friday 21 September 2001 17:43, you wrote: I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive. (I really wanted a 5.25 drive.) ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up to my system. It has a PCMCIA drive socket. I thought that was for laptops. ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine? Not even the power chords seem to fit. You're gonna need something like this http://www.pccard.co.uk/pci/wirelesslan.html I have no clue on what linux would think of that thing. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating
on 9/20/01 8:09 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Energy Consumption: This is what I've always wondered about. Does leaving a computer on all the time save or cost more energy than just having it on when needed? Doesn't starting a computer require a lot of energy? My energy bill is a concern and I've always opted to only have my computer on when needed because I tend to just use it in the evening and early in the morning. So I start it up and shut it down twice a day. 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. Any good websites that cover this? I've searched but it's an awkward thing to search for. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:04, you wrote: Hi, For the internet, stick with RGB; most browsers don't support displaying CMYK images (correctly or at all). Also, most browsers support a very limited colour palette, so even though RGB covers a smaller portion of the colour spectrum, it is MORE than adequate for the amount of colours supported by browsers. That is incorrect. RGB supports more color than CMYK does, by a rather large margin. CMYK is generally a poor, but required, color space. This page has a good breakdown of the two gamuts, and the differences between additive and subtractive color. http://web.wi.mit.edu/graphics/pub/photoshop/colman.htm Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs
on 9/18/01 9:04 AM, Terry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are any alternatives to these in the Linux community. The programs I was mostly interested in alternatives are: Adobe Photoshop The gimp, which is exceptionally good when you consider it's free. But price aside, it's not as good as photoshop. Adobe Pagemaker None that I know of. Why are you still using pagemaker anyway? :) Macromedia Dreamweaver bluefish isn't too bad. It lacks the macromanagement that dreamweaver has, but for html (and even php/javascript) coding, it's pretty good. I'm starting to like it. Both gimp and bluefish are included with mandrake 8.0, so you may already have them installed or they're easily installed (assuming you have m8.0 of course). For design oriented programs, I use vmware. Which allows you to run a windows session from linux. It's almost as fast as running windows natively. So I do all my illustrator/quark/etc stuff in there. I'm still crossing my fingers that the advent of Mac OSX will cause Adobe/Quark to keep going and bring their apps over to linux as well. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 23:15, you wrote: Hi, NO professional in ANY publishing/graphics field would EVER use RGB when making films for pre-press/production. RGB (Red Green Black) has major limits pertaining to decent reproduction of the colour spectrum. rgb is red green blue. It has a larger color spectrum than cmyk actually. rgb is used right up to the point the file is needed for press, then is convereted to cmyk typically. The thing is it's an additive color system (add red+green+blue and get white). Where as cmy(k) is a subtractive color system (add cyan+magenta+yellow to get black. Or conversly, start with black and remove cyan, magenta and yellow and you end up with white). Inks are always subtractive, which is why the cmyk system is used. Anyways, this is just to let you know, that CMYK is NOT just something that never is needed; like I said before, it is the ONLY way to go when producing any works (that are to be taken seriously by professionals). I use cmyk every day. Basically everything that's printed (from gorgeous art books to the weekend coupon flyer in your newspaper) relies on cmyk and/or other ink systems. rgb is reserved for things that will never leave a digital medium, and some specialty photographic processes. The gimp lacks support for anything subtractive as far as I can tell, which is more than just cmyk. So until/if that happens, it can't compete with the majority of the stranglehold that photoshop has. Adobe is the microsoft of the design world, afterall :) But don't get me wrong, I think the gimp is a great program. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)
on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should have already. What exactly is a journaling file system? What does it mean that it journals? Also, with 8.1 around the corner, what does it take to upgrade? If I were to upgrade 8.1 over my 8.0 system, do most things remain intact? Do I need to reconfigure everything? Anything to watch out for? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache question
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:33, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:02, Jon Doe wrote: Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some reason now I always just get a: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443 error. What am I doing wrong? The apache faq addresses this problem over at www.apache.org. I had the same problem but unfortunately the faq's solution didn't work for me. If I try to move my html root out of /var/www/html (updating the configs to reflect the change) I get that error, but it's fine if I move it back. I haven't figured out the cause despite lots of reading. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Network Cards
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: Can anyone recommend a pcmcia network card that works well with Mandrake 8.0? My D-Link DFE-650 works perfectly under mandrake 8.0. It's about $40. I chose it off of the pcmcia compatibility list, and I'd assume most cards on that list will work. I dont have that list off hand, but a search for pcmcia linux should find it pretty easily. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. Can send. Can't receive.
On Saturday 15 September 2001 17:38, you wrote: I set up postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. I can send messages out but I can't retrieve anything. Does anyone have ideas? postfix only sends mail. You need to use fetchmail to receive mail. From a command line try fetchmail. your.isppopserver.com You should get asked your login and password, then receive your mail. If that's the case, you can then set up fetchmail to get your mail automatically. But try that first. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 2:44 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was saying that all resolutions are supported except for 24bpp. I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as 16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp. Heh heh, I feel pretty stupid. My computer (running the riva tnt2) runs at 32bpp just fine. I started at 8 and worked my way up. When 24 didn't work I just assumed 32 wouldn't either. Thanks for pointing that out. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list -- some people pay foremail access by volume
on 9/14/01 8:55 AM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most people in Europe that do not have access to ADSL or Cable internet (like me). Using a phone line already costs money, local phone calls are charged between $0.60 and $1.00 per hour (as far as I know) What I mean is that the US is not a place where, AFAIK, anyone should have such a problem. Actually that's not true. Here in Chicago local calls cost by the minute, as much as 9 cents per minute. This is probably true of New York and LA as well, but I don't know for sure. I have a cable modem and cell phone and it's actually cheaper than having a standard phone line and dial up internet access. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list -- some people pay foremail access by volume
on 9/14/01 9:58 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Greer wrote: Actually that's not true. Here in Chicago local calls cost by the minute, as much as 9 cents per minute. This is probably true of New York and LA as well, but I don't know for sure. Matt, Thanks for the reply! So in Chicago, you can't pay a (slighly (or significantly?)) higher rate to get unlimited local calls? There's a plan where you can pay a fee (I think it's $10/month) then all calls are ten cents per call. The cost of the local call depends on distance. Close calls are 5 cents/call. The longest distance is the 9 cents/minute I said previously. The plan above makes all calls ten cents regardless of distance. My problem was I never found any isp within the 5 cents/call range where I live. The best I could find was 5 cents/minute. But no matter what you do, there's no unlimited calls at a fixed rate. At least there wasn't, I haven't had a phone in a little over a year now. I'll dig on Ameritech's site and see if I can find the rates. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list
on 9/13/01 8:15 AM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Denis HAVLIK Hi, folks While I do agree that recent airplane flights which missed their intended destinations and bumped in WTC and pentagon ARE extremely interesting subjects for discussion, it is time to remind you that this is a LINUX-MANDRAKE related mailing list. But I find your above comment trivializing the terrorist attack and the death of what now looks to be more than 6000 people as being patently offensive Denis' comment was simply immature, and of course very offensive as well. That's the kind of thing that people hide behind their computers to say. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 12:24 PM, Gary Traffanstedt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three machines running Mandrake. Two are pc's and one is an iMac. All three run 32 bit at high resolutions. The iMac is at 1024x768 and the other two have 19 monitors so I run them at 1280. I have had problems in the past with various hardware setups and for those just starting out with Linux, it really helps to have common hardware configurations. I have a Riva TNT2 with 16MB of RAM. Mandrake recognized the card fine during install, but when setting the resolution it says 24bpp is not supported for this card. Also if I try to set my res to 1280x?? it will instead keep it at 1024x768 and give me a 1280x?? virtual desktop. It's one of those things I keep meaning to get around to but haven't, since 16bpp isn't at all bad for general computer use. Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for me that'd be great. But I need to look into this more myself. I was more making a comment on the seeming prevalence of 16bpp displays in Linux rather than asking a question. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 1:40 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had/have 2 different Riva 16MB cards. These cards have never supported 24bpp. This is by design, not because of the OS being used. My card supports 24bpp fine in Windows, although it may be 32bpp. Are you saying that 24bpp in particular is not supported or they won't go beyond 16bpp? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnome VS kde
On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:25, you wrote: I'm scared to death I'm going to hit Lock accidentally and then not know how to get back. Just enter your password. And yeah, I always accidently hit logout in the K menu. Having the most destructive element being placed first in a menu is bad interface design. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem
on 9/13/01 5:48 PM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100 Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor experience. Can't recall everything. If you are not on a notebook, perhaps a different vidcard would help. I use a Geforce II Nvidia something and that works well on 16 bit 1024x768. But I cannot rule over your money, of course. What about 24 or 32? Whenever screen res comes up in linux groups--from what I can see--16 bit seems to be the norm. I'd really like to get at least 24 bit color on my machine, but I can't get beyond 16. Is this a video card thing or something about linux itself that forces this restriction? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USA this and USA that,w here did the newbie list go?
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 23:17, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:09:02 +0200, you wrote: Considering this is a Linux newbie list and I have managed to delete over 150 email regarding the US TERROR ATTACK can we please drop the subject on this list. some of us do have limited email space which we pay for! How about a little sensitivity for those of us who consider ourselves affected by this event? This event is unlike anything in US history. People are going to talk about this whether others like it or not. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
on 9/11/01 8:23 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, Eric S. Raymond, the writer of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has written a little article explaining how to ask questions over Internet fora like mailing lists, newsgroups and IRC: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I've actually found the more you follow these guidelines the less likely you are to get an answer. The most open ended, incomplete questions tend to get the most attention on all forums I frequent. I'm not really sure why. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 10:11, you wrote: coz everybody assumes if u can get that far u already know enough to answer ur own q But if you can get that far you're also smart enough to realize you need help. If someone follows those guidelines then that shows they're asking their question as a last resort. It reminds me of the old usenet saying. If you need information from usenet, don't post a question. Post inaccurate information. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 16:33, you wrote: My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all) in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh? The mailing list has set up a reply-to: header so hitting reply will stick in the ml's address. If you select to view all headers you can see it stuck in there. The easiest solution, IMO, is to reply all then remove the ML's address for private replies. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:42, you wrote: Someone's in for a world of hurt! Right about now, Mass Religious Suicide is going to start looking pretty good to those idiots. You can bet that the U.S. is about to give them a major Wedgie. Then guess who'll be dancing and celebrating on the rooftops?? This isn't a college football rivalry. I hope our government makes the right decisions and minimizes the impact as much as possible as they bring the people who did this to justice. War on an entire nation is not the right response to the actions of a small, extreme group. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:51, you wrote: we might as well face it... a drastic action has to be taken.. and they will fight dirty and hide behind childeren, and women, and the old will we fight thru that? Bush said anyone harboring the suspects is considered equally as guilty, and I can agree with that. But if people truly have nothing to do with this, then their lives should be spared at all costs. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0
on 9/10/01 12:41 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my main question - if I install on F: and the disk is reformatted by Linux, how will I get Windows to eventually claim it back? Will it be easy, or am I committed? Will Win still recognise the HD as F:? When you install mandrake, it will replace window's MBR with lilo. Lilo will allow you to choose whether you want to run windows or linux at boot. When removing mandrake, one thing you'd need to do is restore your windows mbr. The mbr is the master boot record, which is what the system looks to in order to load an OS when the system is booting. To restore your windows mbr, type in a DOS window: fdisk /MBR Now, to kill of mandrake, just run fdisk from a DOS prompt, and reclaim the partition as fat32 (or fat16, whichever you're using). When rebooting Windows should recognize the partition, when you try to access the drive Windows will say it needs to be reformatted. Just reformat it as Windows directs and the drive will be back to what it originally was (sans any files it had on it). Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Mandrake 8.0 install on small machine
on 9/10/01 1:46 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt - sounds fine to me, although scary. I guess I'm just going to have to go ahead and install. Check for what Michael Viron had to say. My instructions were incorrect. Sometimes we think we know more than we really do :) I did try and install on a smaller machine (as a pre-test) that I managed to salvage from work - 500m hard drive, AMD200 processor, 49MB ram, - which was going to be a dedicated LINUX machine However, KDE installed fine, but was terribly slow (unworkable). KDE needs a pretty peppy machine to run well. installing Gnome, as I'd heard that it was a lot less needy of resources, but I've always got an error. There was an error with the file''. - could this be a problem with the CD that I bought? I'm not sure about the error. But if you're interested in a window manager that doesn't use too many resources, try iceWM or blackbox. Both are quite basic. IceWM has somewhat of a resemblance to windows/KDE, while blackbox is super simple. IMO, neither iceWM or blackbox serve well as environments you'd use constantly in linux. On my laptop I run in console mode most of the time and head over to iceWM just when I need to run netscape or something. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] silly question (OT)
On Monday 10 September 2001 18:00, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: whats with the 'message.footer' file attachment? it's this below... (Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ) right there, that little advert. or is it just an OE thing different mail programs seem to handle the footer differently. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] where to get new kernel?
On Monday 10 September 2001 22:32, you wrote: I am looking for the kernel 2.4.7-3.12mdk.rpm (recommended in MandrakeUpdate to cure security hole) where can I find it? -Paul Rodríguez Did you by chance mean kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm? If so, it's at www.rpmfind.net Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partitioning and formatting harddrives
On Sunday 09 September 2001 20:24, you wrote: are you using M$ fdisk? or linux fdisk? Oh, whoops. Forgot about MS fdisk. It's linux fdisk, whichever is installed with Mandrake 8.0 Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] partitioning and formatting harddrives
I have a hard drive which was previously used for Windows that I'd like to convert over to ext2. But when dealing with mkfs and fdisk, I'm getting a couple of contradictions. When I first ran fdisk it reported there was one partition and a fat32 file system on the disk, which at the time was true. The disk originally had two partitions on it before this check. /etc/fstab reports the disk still has two partitions. is fstab a static file or is it dynamically created based on how my computer is currently set up? Do I need to alter it? I then ran mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 and it proceeded to format the drive, which appeared to go ok. But going back to fdisk, it still reports the disk is fat32. What am I doing wrong? I don't want to use this disk until I'm sure it's alright. Thanks, Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
on 9/7/01 8:51 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've already seen several replies to this, so you can see each individuals needs vary quite a bit. For me many graphic design programs don't exist on Linux or aren't on par with their Windows/Mac counterparts. I primarily use Linux for testing my site's php, xml, etc locally. But I still need to revert to Windows when it comes to the design end of my site. Another argument to make is why throw away something you already got stuck for? Most computers come with Windows on CD. You can always reinstall if necessary. I don't prefer dual booting if possible. I'd prefer to go entirely one OS or the vmware/winforlin route. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] paste in console?
on 9/6/01 10:27 AM, Jon Doe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't beleive I have never needed this up untill now, but what is the keyborad equivilent of paste? In windon't it was Ctrl + v are you in console mode or using a terminal emulator in X? In terminal emulators, pasting is typically the middle button (your wheel if you have one, or both buttons if you don't). One of my biggest peeves against X. If you're in console mode, I don't believe you can cut and paste. You can cycle through previous bash commands with the up arrow. If you can cut and paste in console mode, I'd love to hear how. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] paste in console?
on 9/6/01 10:50 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but in console only the middle button works, and I usually have to have the (mouse) cursor very close to where I want the paste to occur. Are you refering to true console mode where X isn't running at all? I can't get the mouse to work in the console. I could with RedHat. Is this supported in Mandrake? Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] paste in console?
on 9/6/01 11:17 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2001 10:43 am, Matt Greer escribió: on 9/6/01 10:27 AM, Jon Doe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't beleive I have never needed this up untill now, but what is the keyborad equivilent of paste? In windon't it was Ctrl + v and it is in Linux also. Ctrl+c to copy, Ctrl+x to cut, and Ctrl+v to paste Unfortunately only some of the time. Other times you need to use the middle mouse button which is a bit unintuitive (and has no equivalent key command). Still worse is cutting and pasting is dependent on the app, and cutting and pasting between apps sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I'm very interested in resolving this and setting up universal cutting and pasting across all apps in my linux environment, I just haven't found the time to look into it. As it stands it makes working in Linux rather inefficient. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
on 9/5/01 7:00 AM, Charles Punch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stability gets top priority here too, and I'm just talking about desktop single user stability. MS doesn't even have enough of that for me. Sometimes Linux users on this list get accused of bashing MS, when in fact all they are doing is presenting the facts. The Emperor has no clothes! I recently put Win2K on my machine and I've just had nothing but problems. The real kicker is it won't shutdown or restart the computer no matter what, it just hangs. This is a fresh install from a brand new copy of Win2K on a freshly formatted harddrive on a less than 6 month old computer. So this little Win2K charade has taught me to respect Linux just that much more. I dont even want to look at WinXP, and I fear the day when my Dad gets a new computer and it has XP on it. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
on 9/3/01 10:13 PM, Warren Post at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. Both will be used for public Internet access: IceWM, Konqueror and/or Netscape, KOffice and/or StarOffice, a messenger program... and no doubt a whole bunch of other stuff I don't even know about yet. I'd recommend 64MB for each minimum. I run Linux on my laptop with 32MB and it's not really ideal, lots of swap space used, rather slow. I'd like to upgrade but ram for my old laptop costs a fortune. I run icewm or blackbox on my laptop. ram right now is rather cheap. I got a 256MB dimm for $30 from crucial.com for my desktop. Those older machines will be more expensive, but hopefully still reasonable. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?
on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you can get a 256MB for about $33 now... That's true for RAM intended for recent computers. But if a computer uses SIMMs and such, it's not so cheap. A 128MB 72 pin SIMM is about $200 right now. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)
on 8/31/01 1:13 PM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're basically personal config files. rc stands for resource configuration. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network question
On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:50, you wrote: Hi I was setting up network and it asked if my IP address is Manual, DHCP, or BootP. What is the difference? I know what DHCP is in Windows terms (dynamically assigned IP address), so that's the same thing, right? dhcp isn't a windows thing. It's a protocol for getting an ip address dynamically, most isp's now adays use it. Bootp is a similiar protocol, but less used. manual means you have a specific ip address that your nic will always have. That's typically for a LAN, but it could be for any number of reasons. If you used dhcp in windows, then dhcp is what you should choose for linux. If you're not sure, call up your isp. Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
