Re: [newbie] installed perl modules
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:36:52 -0500, Chris wrote: Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. rpm -qa | grep -i perl Hope that helps, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:24:17 -0500, Mikkel wrote: On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but not with KDE upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash drive results in it being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am able to access it without problem. But people that have upgraded KDE have run into problems because of the other packages that need to be upgraded to use the new KDE packages. It seams to break the 10.1 hotplug setup... When you upgrade to Thac's KDE, it also installs the HAL daemon which is responsible for changing the mount points, etc. I understand HAL is a good thing, but it's really annoying if you're not expecting its changes. The good news is that after installing Thac's KDE, you can uninstall HAL without uninstalling everything else KDE. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ark rar
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:26:53 +0200, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100 schreef Q.H. Wang: Or is there some other good tool for rar? http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.5.b1.tar.gz Even easier: urpmi unrar Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ark rar
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100, Q.H. wrote: I have tried to use ark to extract a rar file but failed. It reported something like the file compressed using x-rar- compress and then failed. Ark will complain because it doesn't think x-rar-compress = rar but if you specify rar in the dialog, it'll likely open it without further complaint. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:23:26 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:37:14 +0100, Paul wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 12:26 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. Are you running KDE 3.4, Miark? Ya, I am. But I get the same problem in XFCE. Cannot it be caused by KDE 3.4? I really don't know. But I sure as hell wouldn't be surprised! I'm not one to jump on the Community Edition when it comes out, but Thac's KDE packages have screwed up my system enough that I'll be among the first in line. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:51:11 -0400, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Here's one tidbit that makes the change a bit more palatable: The long-winding trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation has reached a point where we decided it is more reasonable for us to move forward. By adopting a new name, we eliminate the liability attached to the Mandrakesoft name Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:23:03 +0200, Philippe wrote: when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can understand that it powers down my PC. but it is risky for my data, so i would like to know if others saw that happen too. Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 7
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:38:36 +0200, Pablo wrote: Since I installed Acrobat Reader 7, KGhostView no longer works (hangs forever). I've just downloaded KPDF: doesn't work either (*very* strange characters). Has anyone had the same problem? No problems here. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by default AFAIK. This should go for most if not all of your 'data', depending on how you have your disk partitioned. This is true if /home is its own partition, but what if it's on the same partition as /? Will it not get wiped on a new install? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pdf text
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:52:15 +0100, Q.H. wrote: I have some problem when using the feature of select text of Adobe reader 7.0. For some pdf documents, the texts I selected are ok. But for some others, the texts I slected are kinda mess when I put them into OO writer. Does any one have similar experience? Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:10:03 +0100, JR wrote: I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor requirements would be skills with MS word and excel. I was thinking of using this as an opportunity to say but I've also started to use OOo more often because I find I am more productive and it does x y z. Can anyone give me a few differences / similarities they might be interested in? I'm not going to get into open source to them at the interview. But if I can quickly mention a few tangible clenchers, I will. The jobs not that good anyway :) * It's multi-platform * It's free to them _and_ free to any departments and clients or customers with whom you might share documents * It exports to PDF naively * It can be installed on any machine at any time without concern of licensing issues * I understand it's more secure than Word out-of-the-box, but you might want to double-check that * The suite comes with other software that is also free, e.g. you get PowerPoint-type software at no addition cost As you say, though, I'd make this an exceptionally _minor_ sidenote to your interview. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:38 am, Cameron MacDonald wrote: Now I feel even sillierI remembered uname but forgot the switch!! uname -a Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:59:07 +1000, WauloK wrote: Hence, it's the first naive Word processor! On Apr 6, 2005 7:38 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:10:03 +0100, JR wrote: * It exports to PDF naively :-) Since moving to Sylpheed 1.9.6, the spell check has gone crazy. If you check a word, try to correct it (I say that because it erroneously flags many correctly spelled words) and then later keep typing somewhere else in the message, the characters appear in the last error spot, and it won't stop. I've had to resort to saving the message as a draft, and then reopening it to continue typing. Believe it or not, I _did_ actually spell this correctly the first time! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] pdf text
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files, but I got no luck. What I got in the text files are some mess. Could you please show me more on how to use it? Thanks. Not much to it, really. I just type 'pdftotext filename.pdf' which generates filename.txt. Feel free to e-mail me the file offlist if you'd like me to take a crack at it. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Ah, ok, let me ask : how old is your burner? Seems like some of the older burners had trouble when going past 650mb cause that is what the old CDs were limited to. Or was this one of my weird dreams, must remember medications. It's an el cheapo grneraic CD/RW- DVD 16X drive I don't see any reason why this should not work. Have you tried in Winblows? Seriously this is going to be a problem with a lot of hardware.. It's not. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like trying to help, but reading your messages is a pain in the ass. Anyway, do you have a broadband connection? If so, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. Also, do you check the md5sums of the discs after you burn them? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] network install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 17:40:00 +0100, JR wrote: I have a desktop and a laptop on a network. I want to install mandrake on the desktop. My mandrake installation disk is a DVD. The desktop does not have a DVD drive, but the laptop does. Export /mnt/cdrom or whatever it is on your system as a NFS share. Then do a network install (NFS) pointing it to the shared folder. I've done the same thing a few times in the past months. If you're sharing from a laptop, though, you might want to copy everything to the harddrive first as that'll spare you all the DVD drive's spin-up time. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:49:52 +0200, Philippe wrote: Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ how Adobe Acrobat is spying on users, and how to disable their snooping system: http://helping.net/p2p/AdobeAcrobatSpyingonUsers.html Version 7? Cripes, I never thought I'd see the day! Thanks for the spyware tip. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:23:57 -0800, Aron wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:00 am, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like trying to help, but reading your messages is a pain in the ass. Anyway, do you have a broadband connection? If so, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. yes I do have broadband I have downloaded the mini torrent but in spite of the md5sum being correct there I get a crc error about 45 seconds into the install Also, do you check the md5sums of the discs after you burn them? no howw do I do this? md5sum /dev/hdc or whatever the device name is. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:23:57 -0800, Aron wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:00 am, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like trying to help, but reading your messages is a pain in the ass. Anyway, do you have a broadband connection? If so, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. yes I do have broadband I have downloaded the mini torrent but in spite of the md5sum being correct there I get a crc error about 45 seconds into the install. See if the install floppy images on you CDs are readable. If so, make a network install boot floppy and try it. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:32:17 -0500, Josenildo wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Ya, screw Linux. Now, where did I put that abacus...? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:05:34 -0800, Aron wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime video
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:52:33 -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:20:30 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? depends on whether yer talking about a stream or a file. If it's a stream, you can snag the mplayer plugin for moz/firefox here: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ Speaking of which, the mplayerplugin always displays a time status on streaming video. Is there a way to turn that off? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime video
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:31:25 +0700, Teddy wrote: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? install MPlayer or Xine. you can play the QuickTime video file using those application. dont forget install quicktime codec. Set up PLF free and non-free urpmi sources, and then 'urpmi mplayer' as that should take care of everything. Hmm, you might need to set up a contrib source, too. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:16:00 -0500, Lee wrote: Thanks all. Trick was rename .sylpheed to .sylpheed-gtk2. Right--when you said 1.9.6 I was thinking you were using Claws, not Claws2. That 1.9 naming convention still throws me for a loop! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Wireless
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new for less than $10. It has a Prism chipset, so it works great. No ndiswrapper needed. But why not use a CardBus NIC instead? It would be a bit more convenient than a USB NIC. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.4 cannot shutdown
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:50:27 +0700, Fajar wrote: Yes, actually i like mdkkdm better (the graphics is nicer), but using console to shutdown? I dont think it's nice. Because it won't save my KDE sessions, do you think so? You can configure KDE to restore _saved_ sessions, then just save a session which takes literally two clicks (Star Save Session). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Running apps on networked machine
I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine. Odd! How do I prevent that? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Running apps on networked machine
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:35:26 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine. Odd! How do I prevent that? Miark Miark, How did you determin that it ran from the local machine? 1) I have no bookmarks on the remote machine, but the instance of Firefox that ran had all the bookmarks from my local machine. Also, I use a theme on my local copy. 2) 'ps' on the remote machine did _not_ show Firefox running. And the plot thickens! It turns out that this happens only when I _already_ have Firefox running locally. If I kill all local instances, and then run it from the remote machine, I get the X-forwarded Firefox. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Auld lang syne.
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:35:30 -0700, Ron wrote: Vi is one of those necessary evils, because sometimes when your system is really messed up, it's one the few things that will still work, and that can save you. But I would never use it when something more sane was available. My sentiments exactly. I've had to use vi several times in a pinch, and was very glad to have know the basics. But the instant I can use something else--anything else--I do. But that said, I agree vimtutor is a great way to get the basics. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.4 cannot shutdown
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:48:16 +0700, Fajar wrote: Thanks Paul, After I change it from mdkkdm to kdm, I can shutdown normally again. Since I switched to XFCE, I figured I didn't have anything to lose by upgrading KDE to 3.4, so I did. Well, as it turns out, I _did_ have something to lose :-) Now when I boot, it hangs on ALSA, and the display manager was screwy, too. I switched to the non-MDK manager, and that fixed the manager problem. As for ALSA, I do an interactive startup and choose No for ALSA which gets me over than problem, too. This means I'll have to do an interactive startup each time to not run ALSA, but oh well. It's not like I reboot every week. Oh, it seems kcontrol does _not_ appear anywhere in my menus, so I have to run it from the commandline. Again, no biggie. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:08:24 +0700, Fajar wrote: Hi folks, I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find many interesting packages once I click on them and read the description. Right now, I've just passed the packages start with 'b', phew..! I'm now installing many interesting games, such as adonthell, brutal, and.. many rpg like games I forgot the names :) Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress level? Thanks :) UT2004. And I've been enjoying the original Quake lately, too. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:27:38 +0800, Aidan wrote: This morning firefox asked me to look for an update for the theme I was using. I clicked the update now button and things have gone horribly wrong. All the buttons etc now appear as text... You may have to blow away your ~/.mozilla directory. Actually, I'd rename it to something else, let Firefox make a new directory, then copy my bookmarks from the old directory to the new. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:18:17 +0700, Fajar wrote: The last time I used Thac's RPMs for KDE, it was a nightmare, as it was for at least a few other people. Any reason to expect similar problems with 3.4 RPMs? I'm going to do the upgrade.. wish me luck :) You bet! Were you one those who had problems with his 3.3 RPMs? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:37:00 -0600, Leaf wrote: KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Another good place for non-mandrake club members is the dutch users group MCNL. The last time I used Thac's RPMs for KDE, it was a nightmare, as it was for at least a few other people. Any reason to expect similar problems with 3.4 RPMs? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
If I install sylpheed-claws2, will I be able to use my current Claws mail and configuration without any hiccups? Miark On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:00:16 -0500, Charles wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 bogofilter-0.94.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-devel-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-clamav-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-devel-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-dillo_viewer-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-image_viewer-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-pgpmime-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-spamassassin-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-trayicon-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm terminal-0.2.4-0.pre1.1mdk.i586.rpm xfce-4.2.1-0.1010.2mdk.i586.rpm xfce-panel-4.2.1.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xfce-panel-devel-4.2.1.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xfmedia-0.7.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xfmedia-devel-0.7.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Charles -- Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. -- Lily Tomlin -- Mandrake Linux 10.1 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.8.1-12mdkenterprise -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] qmail cool site
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:37:47 -0800, Fernando wrote: Finally, I'm done running QMail. I'd like to recommend this website which helped me a lot: www.qmailrocks.org. Not to start a religious war, but is there anybody here who has used both qmail and postfix recently and can highly recommend one over the other? I'm also curious as to whether spamassassin and such things integrate more easily into qmail or postfix. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:07:50 -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:36:40 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: sylpheed2-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Yer doin' this just to tempt me to up to 10.1, admit it...admit it! What's the difference between Sylpheed2 and Sylpheed Claws 1.0.3? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound in a laptop
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:23:08 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on top of 10.0 in my laptop. That's the only way I can get the multithread boot option. My problem is that I have no sound. For what I gather the problem is that /dev/dsp does not exist in my system. I have gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. Try running sndconfig. If that doesn't do the job, try alsaconf which is part of also-utils. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cleaning optical mouse
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:59:41 -0600, Chris wrote: Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? I've had a MS optical mouse for at least 3 years and have never had to clean it, although I blow lint out with just my mouth once in a while. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:03:58 -0800, Fernando wrote: Pardon me? Are you blamming Europe? Haha, wasn't U.$. who allowed Microsoft to become such a huge beast? The US made M$ a beast in the US. Europeans are responsible for what happens in Europe. (News flash: The US is not responsible for every thing that happens in every corner of the world.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:46:22 +1100, Stephen wrote: Bear in mind that once the media gets a hold of Microsoft swaying government/courts again, it's going to be a media circus. That's _if_ they can connect the dots. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Playing Quake I singleplayer
Despite a lot of Googling, and I cannot figure out how to install and play the original Quake. The documentation I found at QuakeForge, DrakPlaces, and other sites is so useless, it may as well read, Bing, tittle, tittle, bong. Can anyone help? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:49:55 +, riccardo wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 09:55 pm, Paul Smith wrote: i.e., with the possibility of browsing by topic, by author, etc __ probably, a database like MySQL would suit. A straight text file/flat database would also work. Just grep what you want from the commandline. For instance: grep -i politics quotesDB.txt | grep -i twain would give a full list of quotes on politics from Mark Twain. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Playing Quake I singleplayer
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:36:12 -0500, Miark wrote: Despite a lot of Googling, and I cannot figure out how to install and play the original Quake. The documentation I found at QuakeForge, DrakPlaces, and other sites is... useless Okay, I figured it out: 1) Install cvs if it's not already: urpmi cvs 2) Make a directory for darkplaces, and cd into it. 3) Login to the darkplaces cvs server: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cvsroot/twilight login 4) Download the darkplaces files: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cvsroot/twilight checkout . 5) cd into the darkplaces directory and 'make' darkplaces: make cl-profile 6) Make a subdirectory called id1: mkdir id1 7) Copy the .pak files into that directory, such as the ones that come with the original CD. 8) To play, type ./darkplaces-glx in the darkplaces directory. This might be a good thing to add to the twiki, but I hate that thing. Anybody willing to add this? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mardakesoft grows
This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2539wslang=en Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:59:35 -0600, Teilhard wrote: I cannot set wireless Internet in computer1. Now computer2 which uses the same wireless adapter than computer1 (SMC2662W) has Internet and works just fine. Neither machine lists the adapter in Hardwaredrake. They probably do with usbview. The protocol in the machine where the adapter works is wlan(0). If I go to Mandrake Control Centre (Configure your Computer) and I select Manage Connections it doesn't give the driver the connection is using, so, I cannot know what to try in the computer1. I know (If I am mistaken please correct me) that this device is an Orinoco device. Well, none of the Orinoco drivers work in computer1. Yes, I've had the same experience. I have a a USB wireless adapter that uses prism_usb, but I cannot set up the driver manually using it. I doubt it's a driver problem, though. To end, the adapter SMC2662W is an USB adapter, and I am using Mandrake 10.1. Ah. I hid a similar problem. I installed a wireless USB NIC on a machine, then had to reinstall 10.1 after a nasty power outage. After the re-install, I had a very tough time getting it to configure. What I ended up doing was using Mandrake Control Center to set it up as a LAN connection (not WLAN!). It spotted the USB NIC fine. Then to get it working on my network, I used a small app called wlanfe which allows you to configure the wireless connection. That got it completely working. Then, once it was working, active connection, I went back to mcc, added a real wlan connection, and mcc found it just fine. I can't remember if I set up the wireless stuff at that point or had to go to manage connections after that. But that was the basic procedure: add it as a lan connection, get the connection actually working with wlanfe, then re-add the connection as a wlan connection, and optionally configure it with Manage Connections if need be. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:08:02 -0800, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. The oldest equipment in my main computer is a Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD drive. I've put it through its paces for years, and it's never so much as hiccuped. It's probably not made anymore, but if Toshiba's current drives are as good as their old ones, I'd highly recommend one. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] tar'ing dot files
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:53:41 -0500, JIE wrote: I want to create a gzip'ed tar archive of all my dot files for backup purposes but I can't figure out how to select only the dot files without also getting everything else in the folder. $ tar -cvf backup.tar.gz .* This seems to get everything in the folder; not good. I'm guessing by the .gz that you want it gzipped, but you're missing the 'z' switch. Should be tar cvfz. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:19:10 -0500, RickSisler wrote: Thx Greg, switched to xine, crossfading is ok, but I can live without it. Kinda wanted to get away from aRts since I don't run KDE. Amarok itself is a KDE app. Running Fluxbox actually, and I was using Juk, tho' now being a convert to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. on the other OS. They did a nice job on it, I like the cover manager, nice work ;) Never had that before .. There's a plugin for XMMS that does the same thing... CD Cover or something equally obvious, IIRC. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ If you use Firefox, I use an extension called downTHEMall! which works kinda like FlashGet in Winblows. It'll give you a list of downloadable items, and you can check them one-by-one, or specify by extension or type (such as images). Quite handy. I used it today for the very same purpose. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100, Michel wrote: You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. I use XFCE, but do file manager stuff with Konqueror. If I click the little arrow beside the File Manager icon on the XFCE Panel, it allows me to choose among Konq and others. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A touch of humour
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:48:35 -0500, Lanman wrote: http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/102722.html Enjoy! Very funny! Now how do I get a copy? I can get the video with the following URL: http://www.novell.com/img/flash/n_fader.swf?streamIn=/video/win_nt/win_nt.flv But I dunno how to get it as one single file that I can play later. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Task Manager
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:03:34 -0800, Fernando wrote: ...this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... gps (kinda like top, but graphical) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Snapshot of video
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:10:47 +1100, John wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:07, Miark wrote: If I pause video using mplayer and take a screenshot, the video still is replaced with solid blue. Is there a way around this? That's because the default X video driver XV uses something called screen overlay which you cn't catch in a screenshot, but I won't go into details here (too many red wines :-). You need to use a player like Kaffeine which has a screenshot function (in Kaffeine either File/Save-As or just ctrl-s). Alternatively, in Mplayer Preferences, under Video, change the driver from xv to x11 or xvidix and try again, the video quality may be worse though. Kaffeine did the trick--thanks! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP refresh command?
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:32:36 -0500, Hugh wrote: I have searched high and low but can't find the command to refresh my dhcp configured ip address. Often I find myself moving from one network to the next and I don't want to reboot my laptop every time I want to acquire a new ip on the new network. What shell command will do this for me? ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 or replace eth0 with the correct interface, such as eth1, wlan0 or whatever. (More than one way to skin a cat.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Snapshot of video
If I pause video using mplayer and take a screenshot, the video still is replaced with solid blue. Is there a way around this? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB drive floppy image
I want to install 10.1 onto a laptop from a USB hard drive. I've read there is a hdcdrom_usb.img or some such thing, but it's not in the install directory. Where is it? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:36:17 +0100, Paul wrote: Ah, that's good. But there are other things that need it too, such as less and god knows what else. Is there a way to export the variable permanently? Yup. If you need it for your user-id only, add this to your ~/.bash_profile: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should work, but for some reason, it doesn't. Odd. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM
On 28 Jan 2005 12:23:38 -0500, J. wrote: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Does Powershell have a .rc file? It does, but I've gone through the docs and it doesn't have the ability to set variables--at least not that I could see. It only sets built in preferences. Well, for the time being, I'm going to have to give up and just use konsole instead. It's slow to open, but it's my term em of choice, so I can't complain. I still love XFCE 4.2, even if I can't use Powershell. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:17:58 +0100, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:02:41 -0500 schreef Miark: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should work, but for some reason, it doesn't. Odd. Whoops... I see I made a slight typo. The export command does not need the $ in front of the variable. So, perhaps you could try this with export TERM and see if that works. Sorry about that! Ya, tried that too. No go! :-( Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SUCCESS!
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi An echo $TERM replied dumb so I thought it did define one, but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!! Thanks a bunch! Thanks to Paul, too, for the different ideas. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi An echo $TERM replied dumb so I thought it did define one, but I tried your trick in .bashrc and voila! It works!! Okay, false alarm. During my test, I opened powershell _from_ konsole, so it worked because konsole exported TERM. When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, it failed. So I'm back to square one. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:23:46 -0500, Charles wrote: When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, Try using this as the command in the Xfce entry powershell TERM=vt100 export TERM Promising, but no. :-/ Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- REALLY SOLVED!
Well, that is easy to fix. Change it to: if [ $TERM = dumb ] ; then export TERM=xterm ; fi _THAT_ did it!! Hurray! One thing to keep in mind - if Powerterm is setting TERM to dumb, then it probably does not support some of the terminal functions of xterm. So some programs may not work correctly. There really is a terminal definition called dumb, with its own description of terminal capabilities. At this point I only really care about less, clear, and MicroEMACS, and they all seem to work fine so far, so I'm happy as a proverbial pig. Thanks much! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Powershell and $TERM
When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:42:29 +0100, Paul wrote:
Op Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:00:09 -0500 schreef Miark:
How do I make this change permanent without affecting
other working term emulators which I still use regularly?
Through a script?
Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my bash,
so I tried to get the following Perl one-liner on every shell:
$ENV{TERM} = xterm if `echo \$TERM` =~ m/dumb/i;
which works, but only as long as the script--a split second, and
then Powershell continues to run without TERM.
What's the proper way to do this with bash? (Although I am also
curious as to how to make this work in Perl, too.)
Miark
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Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:52:48 +0100, Paul wrote:
Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:45:25 -0500 schreef Miark:
Through a script?
Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my
bash, so I tried to get the following Perl one-liner on every
shell:
$ENV{TERM} = xterm if `echo \$TERM` =~ m/dumb/i;
which works, but only as long as the script--a split second,
and then Powershell continues to run without TERM.
What's the proper way to do this with bash? (Although I am
also curious as to how to make this work in Perl, too.)
In a bash-script it would look like this:
TERM=vt100
MicroEMACS # Insert proper command if this is wrong.
When this is together in the script, you do not need to export
the TERM variable, it will hold only for the session of that
script.
Ah, that's good. But there are other things that need it too,
such as less and god knows what else. Is there a way to export
the variable permanently?
Miark
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Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:45:48 +0100, Michaël wrote: I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is the right way to find out about this? Is there a list of all the Alt-F2 names of the programs installed on my computer? The Alt-F2 dialog probably just searches PATH like any other shell. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net
I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's going on? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:12 +, Derek wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:14, Miark wrote: I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's going on? Miark Do you have the Mandrake Update applet running? It checks for availability of new updates. Not that I... well hell, that's what that orange icon in the system tray is for. I guess I was! Okay, mystery solved. Thanks! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] df is bs
A df displays this for my fat32-formatted external USB 2 drive: /dev/sdb1 56G -256Z 58G 101% /mnt/removable2 but cd'ing to it and doing a du -sh shows that 11GB are used. What's going on? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firestarter problem
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:08:23 -0600, Chris wrote: I upgraded from 9.2 to 9.3 last night using rpmdrake, now when running firestarter I get this: ... Is the above telling me that the new version was installed and is now running even though I get the msg about the 'proper configuration file'? Do a ps ax from the commandline to see if Firestarter is running. If it's not listed, start Firestarter as you normally do. If so, how do I pull up the firestarter 'wizard' now? Or, do I need to uninstall and reinstall? Same as always: from the menu or commandline. If the GUI doesn't appear, you could try stopping and restarting it. If that doesn't work, uninstall and re-install Firestarter. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:42:52 +0530, P.Prabhu wrote: How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0 ? Mmmm, plug it in? :-) What happens in KDE when you plug it in? Does a device icon appear on the desktop? Have you tried rebooting the machine with the drive plugged in? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no uploads with firestarter
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:06:33 +0100, Carsten wrote: here's something I can't figure out on my mini-lan. A Fedora C2 box makes the router (used Firestarter 1.0.1 to set it up). One of the clients is a MDK 10.1 machine (and why I'm subscribed to this list). Whenever I attempt to upload from either machine it will lock down the whole network until i cancel the request. this happens with ftp as well as http (for example fetching a mysql-dump from a remote server with phpmyadmin). Pinging from the clients results in Network unavailable then until - as said - the request is cancelled. An obvious one, but are you 100% certain the machines have different IP addresses? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:12:25 +0100, Kaj wrote: Well done Poland. Indeed. We can all show our gratitude here : http://thankpoland.info/ Done! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Bandwidth limiting
I'd like a simple commandline or GUI app to limit outgoing bandwidth from my FTP server. Any suggestions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bandwidth limiting
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:39:03 -0600, Randall wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 08:57 pm, Miark wrote: I'd like a simple commandline or GUI app to limit outgoing bandwidth from my FTP server. Any suggestions? Miark Hi Miark. I assume from your posts on the expert list that you're running ProFTPd. With that being the case, you're going to need to use the 'TransferRate' directive: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_TransferRate.html That directive should do all you need it to and then some... Excellent! That should take care of my immediate need. I am still open to other limiters, though, as I think I'll need to do it on other services later. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Rush Limbaugh
Dear comrades, I heard that capitalist hate-monger do something right today. Two, actually. First, when a caller noted that his browser doesn't get inundated with pop-ups, and when she said she was a Windows user, he recommended she download and use either Firefox or Mozilla. And second, at one point their call center went down and Rush said it was a Windows computer responsible, and that it had crashed five times in the last day (or recent days). So we got an endorsement of Firefox and Moz, and a testimony of the unreliability of Windows from the Maha Rushie. Cool. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:44:12 -0600, David wrote: I've tried it for about a week now, and honestly, I can't tell any difference. Besides, my conscience forbids me to send 30 request to a server in order to get one page. There's enough clogging the net already. But that's just me... This 'scheme' was proposed elsewhere last week to almost universal condemnation. There are pieces in it that are worthwhile (like #3), but as Kaj mentioned, there's a lot that's unethical as well: http://www.livejournal.com/community/linux/1065384.html I read the whole page (without following each thread) and quite honestly, I didn't read any compelling arguments against it. If 10 people hit a page with 10 items on it, that's 100 items that have to be served. Whether those items are served in big bursts (as with pipelining) or little bursts (serving 10 items 10 times for 10 users without pipelining) the CPU and storage drives are going to work just as hard. The only difference will be the distribution of the used resources. Perhaps someone can do a better job of explaining the problem. But in the meantime, I've changed mine to 9. It's a huge difference in performance, and it's low enough not to be construed as a DOS attack. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Rush Limbaugh
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:29:50 -0800, Aron wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 05:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:57:25 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: See if you can get it to say Open Source Well, I had something else in mind... I tried it on Anne Coulter, but apparently even with Voodoo there has to actually be a functioning brain ;-) She don't need a brain she's rich and influential You forgot to mention her legs ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:45:34 +0100, Kaj wrote: ...citizens of English-speaking countries rarely need anything besides us/uk-ascii Anyway, an easy way to check what charsets are installed is : Open a browser, i.e. Firefox. Select View --Character Encoding. Ah ha! ISO-8859-1 is selected, but I do have UTF-8 in the list so I guess it is on my machine. I wonder why Sylpheed could see the some of your funky characters, but not the Euro-crap char. Oh well. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:16:40 -0500, Carroll wrote: æ, ø and å or even the Euro-symbol ___. While I can't speak for David, using KMail 1.7 under KDE 3.3.0-5 I could read all of the Scandinavian characters as well as the Euro symbol in your original post (and Anne's). Of course, when Miark joined the thread, the Euro became a n-tuple underline. According to the KMail configuration tool, the us-ascii, iso-8859-1 and utf-8 character sets are installed here. Would I not already have utf-8 installed by default in 10.1? How do I check? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firewall
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when he knows you use Mandrake. Oh well, perhaps it's just me :) You just have that effect on people YOU ASSHOLE! ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ASCII characters
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 00:34:26 +0100, Kaj wrote: In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15. But then again, I don't use KMail for html. My guess is, that our American friends here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read Scandinavian characters like æ, ø and å or even the Euro-symbol ___. I can see the first three, but the Euro-symbol looks like three underscores. I'm using Sylpheed Claws. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:52:32 +, Q.H. wrote: I have just used FireFox 1.0 for a couple of days. I guess it's really nice, faster than mozilla, konquer. But I also notice that it's easier to crash. In contrast Mozilla (1.7) I used to use is very robust. I recall that it never or seldomly crashes. Is this the price for FireFox to run faster than others? I use 10 official. I use it exclusively now instead of Moz and it's never crashed on me. My only complaint has been the lack of a search sidebar, but I suspect there's an extension for that somewhere. Are there any particular sites that crash Firefox on you regularly? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Interface Aliasing
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:08:47 +0300, EE wrote: I am using interface aliasing (Many IP Address on one physical card) ... the problem is that everytime I restart my PC everything goes back to its original i.e. I have to retype the above again. Where can I put these commands so it is executed everytime I restart my computer. /etc/rc.d/rc.local Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves and 10.1
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:31:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently converted to LM10.1 Official and I was wondering if xdesktopwaves can work on it. I have installed the 1.2 version but I'm wondering if it works due the X11 vs. XOrg switch. Does anyone have it working? I haven't tried it in 10.1, but I ran it on 10.0 just fine and it used XOrg. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] M$ using pirated software
This is good for a chuckle: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:05:51 +0100, Paul wrote: Suddenly this morning my pc stopped talking to the internet. In /var/log/messages I found this: Nov 18 11:15:27 nwyfre dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to xxx.yy.zzz.aa port 67 Nov 18 11:15:55 nwyfre last message repeated 4 times It comes back again and again. ... For the last 57 days my PC was up and running without any problem, and now this happened. After restarting the network services, eth1 (which connects to the net) came up again and communication is restored. Paul, This happened to me just yesterday with my cable modem, and it got fixed today. The problem was that the signal from my provider was just _barely_ strong enough for my cable modem to lock on. For the year that I've had this service I never had a problem (!) then just yesterday for some reason, it was just weak enough for my cable modem to loose the signal. It would eventually get the signal again, but this kept happening over and over again. This morning a technician from my provider came to my house and figured out the problem pretty quickly. He installed a signal amplifier, and now all is well. Hope this helps, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB 2.0 performance in MDK 10.0
When I can copy large files to my external USB 2 drive at about 10 MB/sec, which is fine. But I cannot read faster than 1 MB/sec--sometimes 1.5. This is annoying because I can't, for instance, watch videos with mplayer. Is there a way I can improve the read performance of the drive? Or is there perhaps an mplayer switch to at least help out my video viewing? Thanks, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:23:19 -0500, Jack wrote: On another tack... would Bittorrent Windows version be as safe as it is in Linux? It's not the OS version you need to concern yourself with as much as the _kind_ of software. Being Win32 software does not make any software risky--it's whether or not the software is open or closed source. If you go to SourceForge, you'll find a ton of open source software that is made for Windows. I'd trust any Win32 software I get from there. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Ext. USB drive / high CPU load
I'm using a USB 2.0 external harddrive. It's actual performance is fine, but what's bothersome is that if I do something disk intensive, such as copy a huge file or rename file in a big directory, my CPU meter hits 100%. Is this typical? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh wrote: One ofthe complaints leveled against the mozilla suite, was feature bloat, speed etc. So they split up the apps.. moz mail became thunderbird, mozilla itself became firefox, the calander app became sunbird and so on. When all the stand alones are past ver 1.0, you will start to see them bundled together to become the new mozilla suite. A ha--thanks! I searched all over mozilla.org for that simple explanation and couldn't find it anywhere (even the FAQ). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l iso image file Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: Why not? The following command works regardless. in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. It still comes out different. Although I think I forgot to double-check the sectors written by cdrecord. Perhaps my burner is starting to lose its mind. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
