Re: [newbie] KWallet question
On Monday 04 April 2005 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: I've saved a wrong login in kwallet. How can I get to edit the wallet? I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but I can't find it. Anne Go to Configure your desktop-Security-Launch Wallet Manager Double click on your wallet. Then you can remove and edit entries in your forms, and passwords for that site. Also you can just re-enter the information at the login screen and it'll see the change and fix it. John -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpQ3wbcNuuBA.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Display problem
I've been working on setting up a new system at work, using an older Linux box. The only trouble is the display settings for xwindows are not correct for the new monotor, and as a result, when I run startx, I get nothing but lots of moving horozontal lines. I found xorg.conf, but I'm not sure what changes I need to make there to get it up and running, or if that's even the right place. For refrence, the new monoter has a max res. of 800x600, and the old setting was for 1280x1024. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KGPG
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:09, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: --On Tuesday, March 01, 2005 22:53:34 + Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, February 28, 2005 16:30:51 -0600 John Michael Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- I've also noticed this. gpg says that the email in my sent box has a valid signature but the copy I get via the mailing list has an invalid sig whereas if I just mail myself its OK. I've wondered if this has something to do with the address displayed in the From/To column in the email client. If I mail myself this column has my email address and the sig is good whereas if I get one of my posts via the mailing list the From/To column has newbie@linux-mandrake.com and a bad sig. This could be a red herring but is the only pattern I see. Where does gpg get the email address to look up the sig for from? Damn, just posted a message to expert and it said the sig was good. That blows that theory or is it something to do with newbie? Cheers Nigel It's not just the newbie list, it also happens to me on the expert one as well. Strange. John -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgplwRW7bIaRI.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] KGPG
I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpg75IQtKjWF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] linux books
On Monday 21 February 2005 23:55, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 09:35 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 22 Feb 2005 18:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 08:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi all Just wondering if there is any recommended texts suitable for beginners. I know there's heaps of stuff on the web, and I do download and print stuff. I like to have a written reference to follow when doing new things. Rute urpmi rute or download it http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz or just read it online Thanks Rosemary Yes I am wading through that and have some printed. Linux Etudes is also good but very basic For very beginners there's Linux For Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant. It's based off of Fedora, but much of the information can be gained from it. It's written in a very informal style. For a more in depth, but not too in depth, I liked Linux Administration: A beginner's Guide by Steven Graham and Steve Shah. It gives a few Red Hat information, though they confesses to love and use Mandrake, but what I love is that he also shows how to administer using the actual configuration files. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpHq0oZ5j6SW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] which word processor
On Monday 21 February 2005 11:32, Julie Sloan wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 03:53 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:19, Dennis Myers wrote: Rosemary, in my OO.org if I click on the bullets icon on the tool bar after hitting enter to start a new paragraph, the bullet that it creates at the empty paragraph dissapears and normal paragraphing continues. Does that make sense? HTH yes - it does make sense. I will try it - thanks. Don't want to go installing a whole heap of word processors to try! I've heard good things about abiword but haven't tried it myself. I'm a big fan of KOffice. Use it quite regularly for reports and such. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. Richard Stallman (Slashdot interview 1 May 2000) pgpE2DEBUr3Cg.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Why does ps shows uid for dbus-daemon-1, but user name for all other processes?
On Mandrake 10.1 Community, when I run ps -ef, the UID column shows the user name for the owner of all processes except the dbus-daemon-1 process owned by uid 72. The line for that process shows the numeric uid instead of the user name. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group all have an entry for a user named messagebus with uid 72. Why doesn't ps display the user name for this process? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Woinoski Pine Needle Consulting Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 05:10, Derek Jennings wrote: That NIC is very common and usually just works. Before you start worrying about drivers you should check out some of the more obvious causes of network problems. 1/ In MandrakeControlCentreNetworlManageConnections is the interface static or DHCP? If you have selected DHCP you must have a DHCP server on your network. It is set up for DHCP, but the network it's on has a hardware router with a DCHP server. How is your interface connected? Not quite sure what you mean here, but I have tried unplugging and then plugging the network cable severel times - it's cat5. 2/ If you select the 'Options' Tab on the same page, try unselecting 'Network Hotplugging' Network Hotplugging will automatically enable/disable interfaces when the plug is inserted/removed. Some devices get confused when hotplugging is enabled and contantly toggle up/down. When I checked, hotplugging was already unselected. 3/ A few devices fail to auto detect half/full duplex. To determine if you might have this problem open a terminal window, enter 'su' to become root user and enter 'ifconfig eth0' what do you see? What happens if you type 'service network restart' ? eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:B4:15:FD BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:22 Base address:0x2400 Shutting down loopback interface: ./ifdown: line 73: kill: (5102) - No such process [65G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] Setting network parameters: [65G[[1;32m OK [0;39m] Bringing up loopback interface: [65G[[1;32m OK [0;39m] Bringing up interface eth0: [65G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] Bringing up interface eth1: [65G[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m] Yes, there are two network cards installed. Both use the same chipset, and nether works. For the moment, the network is plugged into eth1. One other question. Are you certain it is not working? I ask this because on some boxes there has been that failure notice on boot, but if the network has been set up properly it can actually be used. This appears to be a timing problem, in that the module had not loaded at the time that boot checks it. For those boxes the failure notice can be ignored. Yes, I'm sure it's not working. I've tried using Samba to access some of the Windows shared drives on the network to no avail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you try choosing a static address just to eliminate any issue with the DHCP server? Pick a unique address on the same subnet as the router. There should not be any need to alter your router configuration. It will not care if you use a static address. With a static address can you 'ping' the router? (ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the router. Ctl C will stop the pings) Ok, setup the static IP address, tried to ping the router, and got this message: connect: Network is unreachable Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Hahn wrote: First, thanks for the advice about how to get a shell instead of a KDE session. Worked like a charm. Second, the box I'm planning to use as a server is a HP pavilion 503n, which has a RTL8139 Nic included in the motherboard. I've been trying to get the machine up on the network, but each time I boot up, the eth0 check comes up failed. After some searching, I found that I'm not the only one who has had problems with this particular nic chipset. The search finally lead me to this page: http://www.scyld.com/rtl8139.html, however, I'm not sure about using those drivers, as they specify that they are good up through the 2.4 kernel. Does anyone know how to get this nic to work? Try turning off hotplugging, it has given me trouble before, i think with that chipset. Actually, I got it up and running. I reinstalled with noapic, and it came up just fine this time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] login in to shell as default
Sorry for such a basic question - but I installed Mandrake 10.1 last night ona server I'm setting up, and I wanted it to default to the shell, rather than KDE, on boot. I can't seem to figure out how to bypass the very pretty, but unnessary, to even get it to just the shell.
[newbie] Getting a RTL8139 nic to play nice with Mandrake Linux
First, thanks for the advice about how to get a shell instead of a KDE session. Worked like a charm. Second, the box I'm planning to use as a server is a HP pavilion 503n, which has a RTL8139 Nic included in the motherboard. I've been trying to get the machine up on the network, but each time I boot up, the eth0 check comes up failed. After some searching, I found that I'm not the only one who has had problems with this particular nic chipset. The search finally lead me to this page: http://www.scyld.com/rtl8139.html, however, I'm not sure about using those drivers, as they specify that they are good up through the 2.4 kernel. Does anyone know how to get this nic to work? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
Can somebody give me a link or something to sign up to the Off-topic list? :-/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sorry KDE Panel error message when opening Kontact
after upgrading to Mandrake 10.1 official when I go to open Kontact I get a Sorry-KDE Panel window with this mesage: KDEInit could not launch 'kontact-kmail.sh' on closing the window Kontact and components seem to work fine.. I have googled the error and find nothing of use any clues? some have said they have seen this before: the old can't launch app but then it launches when you hit OK. it only affected certain types of applications/kicker buttons and AFAIK this was fixed in a later release but thats whats puzzling me as I upgraded from 10 community to 10.1 official. I am getting the same error on a clean install on a different box..after importing old email from a transfered /home directory thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 Installation Error
Ok, on the advice of several people from this list, I downloaded the 10.1 ISO files, and burned them to CD. Initially the installation seemed to be working fine, until I reached the end of Partitioning step. I set up the partitioning, and selected next. I then received an Internal Error: no kernal available. MDK::Common::Various::internal_error() called from /usr/bin/perl-install/pkgs.pm197 pkgs::bestKernelPackage() called from /usr/bin/perl-install/install_any.pm:610 and so on. Any thoughts on what might have caused this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Installation Error
I found the problem. The Md5 checksums of the files I downloaded don't match up the correct checksums. Back to waiting for a download. - Original Message - From: Michael Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 6:54 PM Subject: [newbie] 10.1 Installation Error Ok, on the advice of several people from this list, I downloaded the 10.1 ISO files, and burned them to CD. Initially the installation seemed to be working fine, until I reached the end of Partitioning step. I set up the partitioning, and selected next. I then received an Internal Error: no kernal available. MDK::Common::Various::internal_error() called from /usr/bin/perl-install/pkgs.pm197 pkgs::bestKernelPackage() called from /usr/bin/perl-install/install_any.pm:610 and so on. Any thoughts on what might have caused this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 22:58, Michael Hahn wrote: I recently needed to replace the hard drive in my M5305 notebook, and decided to install my old copy of Mandrake Linux (8.2) on it. However, when I tried to install, it reached Partition Check: hda (my new hard drive, a Hitachi HTS424040MSAT00 40 GB) it freezes. It is accessing the HD, but nothing happens. Does anyone have any advice, or am I doomed to go back to WinXP? Is that a SATA drive? If so, I don't think 8.2 would be able to manage it. Is there a particular reason for your choice of 8.2? It no longer gets security updates. No, its a standard ATA-5 notebook drive. And I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 1:53 pm, Michael Hahn wrote: I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Fair enough. Download 10.1, it's GPL - you don't have to pay. It would be nice if you joined Mandrake Club the next time you've got some spare cash, but you don't have to. If you don't have the bandwidth etc. to download 3-4 CDs then it is available quite often on the Linux Format magazine DVDs, CDs are available by mail from a number of shareware distributors, or ask here and someone might burn you a set for a small consideration. Thanks for the heads up, both to you and Anne. I do have cable, so downloading is definitly the way to go. I'll let you know if I fare any better with 10.1 than with 8.2. Thanks again! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check
I recently needed to replace the hard drive in my M5305 notebook, and decided to install my old copy of Mandrake Linux (8.2) on it. However, when I tried to install, it reached Partition Check: hda (my new hard drive, a Hitachi HTS424040MSAT00 40 GB) it freezes. It is accessing the HD, but nothing happens. Does anyone have any advice, or am I doomed to go back to WinXP? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Package installation freezes during Mandrake 10.0 instal
I am trying to install Mandrake 10.0 on a Dell Latitude 505 laptop. The installation proceeds without problems until it starts to install the selected packages. It loads a couple of packages but then just stops. The mouse still tracks but the hour-glass cursor is displayed, and the machine refuses to respond. I have to switch it off to recover. I tried again, this time de-selecting the package that gave the trouble, but the machine just froze again somewhere else. The Sony model DW-R56ADVD/CDROM combo drive works fine when I have to boot into Windows XP parition. (I'd prefer to boot into Linux but if I can't install it then ...!) My CDROMs were purchased from Mandrake and so I would hope that they're all right. Has anyone out there come across this sort of problem and have found the answer to it?? Cheers Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Need some help with updating.
I am running Mandrake Community 10 and I'm having a problem when I try to do updates from the Mandrake Control Center. No matter with mirror I goto it says that the hdlist has failed to download. Why is this? Thanks in advance for your help. Mike 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: Allowing SSHD to accept outside connections
snip You can also prohibit login by root user by putting the line PermitRootLogin no in /etc/sshd_config (It might be the default I do not remember) snip As of 10.0 (possibly earlier than that) the sshd_config file is under /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You are correct that it does set PermitRootLogin no as the default (as part of the comments, uncommented values change the defaults. Michael -- Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepag e=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks In earlier version of Mandrake, there was a floppy group that you had to be part of in order to mount floppy disks. As of 10.0 it was still in there, so it is a good bet that it is still part of 10.1 CE. Try adding yourself to floppy and see if that works. Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Partitioning new HD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Kaplan Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning new HD I suggest increasing / to 10-15Mb, then putting everything but /home there. I find this leaves me plenty of room to modify an installed system. If you need more space for personal files, you can always add an external drive. Keeping /home separate allows you to destroy / and leave your personal stuff untouched. P snip I'm guessing you mean 10 - 15 GB here. With regards to partitioning, it really depends on what you are going to use the system for. With a server, you typically separate /boot, /var /home, /tmp, /, and /usr to separate partitions. With a desktop, most people will only set up a / and /home partition (possibly adding /boot). Michael -- Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org 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: 9.1 PPC configure sound ??
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 12:23, michael higgins wrote:
Thanks for your replies. Still, no luck.
The oddest thing is that every test, but for actually using the sound,
shows that everything is loaded and ready to go. Mandrake Control Center
under Hardware doesn't show any sound hardware. From my reading, it may
be some hack via the initial boot in MacOS that gives access to the
sound. IDK. Aumix shows it ready to go, as well as /proc/devices
/proc/modules /dev/sndstat (IIRC). In other words, it looks like it
should work.
Googling has not led me to find any success stories with this particular
mac (beige g-3, and 'old world' ppc), but for one who said he had it
working until he installed and booted into MacOS 9.1 on a different
drive: then, bootx into linux failed to load the sound. This is much
like my system, with 9.22 on the scsi bus.
That aside, I re-installed mdk 9.1, just to be sure I didn't miss
anything in the installation phase, and installed nearly everything,
just in case. I like how it works. I'm still trying to get both monitors
('heads'?) to work, but that's another story.
Anyway, I tried the 10.1 'cooker' distro, and didn't get it to go.
Meanwhile, I tried compiling alsa from CVS, but it failed. Maybe I'll
post a query on the alsa list. Or the ppc-cooker list.
Thanks again,
-- mike higgins
Check your machine specs for what sound device is installed...that may
start to lead you down the right path mate.
--
stephen kuhn - proprietor
I can't believe it, but, indeed, installing MacOS 8.x instead of 9.22,
fixed the sound server problem. Go figure. That should be in big type in
the install readme, imho.
Anyway, I've had my moment of pure geek joy. That's days of hacking away
at it, finally resolved.
So, again, thanks for the replies. I'm sure I might've given up without
'em. '-)
-- mike higgins
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Re: [newbie] Re: 9.1 PPC configure sound ??
Jonesy wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:04:24 +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:30, michael higgins wrote:
I was hoping anyone might help me get the sound going on my g-3 macdrake
machine. I did a text install, and it's going well.
But I don't have any sound. I just urpmi'd mplayer and it installed as
well, and appears to work if I pass it -ao oss, for example, but artsd
and alsa report no soundcard. aplay -l gives me nada.
So, I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to what I do next to get
sound out of this thing, or where may be the best place to ask?
You might actually want to check all your mixer settings prior to
proclaiming that the sound isn't working - and as well - double check
the settings in the Mandrake Control Center under Hardware and make sure
that the proper driver is loading - provided you've already checked out
the mixer settings - to make sure it's not turned down all the way.
Ah, yup. MDK 9.1 here. Sound by default (with my SB 5.1 card) was
always set to 0. In fact, *all* levels were set to 0, and I had to
reset them with kmix (/usr/bin/kmix) after _every_ re-boot.
A real PITA until I discovered aumix (/usr/bin/aumix). Now my levels
are set and they stay set across re-boots. urpmi aumix -- recommended.
Regards,
Jonesy
Thanks for your replies. Still, no luck.
The oddest thing is that every test, but for actually using the sound,
shows that everything is loaded and ready to go. Mandrake Control Center
under Hardware doesn't show any sound hardware. From my reading, it may
be some hack via the initial boot in MacOS that gives access to the
sound. IDK. Aumix shows it ready to go, as well as /proc/devices
/proc/modules /dev/sndstat (IIRC). In other words, it looks like it
should work.
Googling has not led me to find any success stories with this particular
mac (beige g-3, and 'old world' ppc), but for one who said he had it
working until he installed and booted into MacOS 9.1 on a different
drive: then, bootx into linux failed to load the sound. This is much
like my system, with 9.22 on the scsi bus.
That aside, I re-installed mdk 9.1, just to be sure I didn't miss
anything in the installation phase, and installed nearly everything,
just in case. I like how it works. I'm still trying to get both monitors
('heads'?) to work, but that's another story.
Anyway, I tried the 10.1 'cooker' distro, and didn't get it to go.
Meanwhile, I tried compiling alsa from CVS, but it failed. Maybe I'll
post a query on the alsa list. Or the ppc-cooker list.
Thanks again,
-- mike higgins
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Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase
Derek Jennings wrote: Marvellous new for all HitchHiker fans is the broadcast of a new radio series based on the last three books starting on 21st Sept http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/ Now the question is. How can I record a real audio stream? RealPlayer 10 plays the preview stream OK, but I cannot persuade mplayer to play it. Preview stream is here http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/hitchhikers_trail.ram mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/hitchhikers_trail.ram IE, mplayer works fine with it. Look at -dumpstream -dumpfile options to keep 'em. HTH -- mike higgins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
Todd Slater wrote:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:29:22AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
Does somebody know about a program for giving us the number of
occurrences of each word in a text file?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
I don't know of a program that does it--perhaps it's built in to a word
processor? You can use a few commands to accomplish the same thing.
[snip]
Well, this sounds like a good job for perl...
perl -e 'open F,$ARGV[0];for(F){for(split /\W/,$_){$t{lc
$_}++}}for(sort keys %t){print $_, = , $t{$_}, \n}' forums.txt
Will count all the occurrences of words, w/o non-word chars, lower the
case and print them in order.
HTH
-- mike higgins
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Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file
Paul Smith wrote:
michael higgins wrote:
Does somebody know about a program for giving us the number of
occurrences of each word in a text file?
Well, this sounds like a good job for perl...
perl -e 'open F,$ARGV[0];for(F){for(split /\W/,$_){$t{lc
$_}++}}for(sort keys %t){print $_, = , $t{$_}, \n}' forums.txt
Thanks to all who have tried to help me.
Michael: your perl program does not work very well with accented words.
Please, apply it to the following text:
O primeiro-ministro iraquiano, Iyad Allaoui, deu uma última hipótese às
milícias de Moqtada al Sadr para deporem as armas e abandonarem a
mesquita do Iman Ali. Em Nadjaf, o ruído de tiros e explosões regressaram.
Paul
Sorry, Paul. I didn't consider that, being practically monolingual. It's
clunky, but FWIW:
perl -e 'open F,:encoding(iso-8859-9),$ARGV[0];for(F){for(split
/\W+/,$_){$t{lc $_}++}}for(map{$_-[0]}sort {$a-[1] = $b-[1]||
$a-[0] cmp $b-[0]}map{[$_,$t{$_}]} keys %t){print $_, = , $t{$_},
\n}' thenews.txt
...works for me like this:
a = 1
abandonarem = 1
al = 1
ali = 1
allaoui = 1
armas = 1
as = 1
deporem = 1
deu = 1
do = 1
em = 1
explosões = 1
hipótese = 1
iman = 1
iraquiano = 1
iyad = 1
mesquita = 1
milícias = 1
ministro = 1
moqtada = 1
nadjaf = 1
para = 1
primeiro = 1
regressaram = 1
ruído = 1
sadr = 1
tiros = 1
uma = 1
às = 1
última = 1
de = 2
e = 2
o = 2
But, at this point it looks like a form of self-torture - not very
useful as a '1-liner'. I don't know if this works on perl v5.8 either.
Sorry to muddy the waters. I'll go back to lurking now, until I figure
out how get a mandrake install on my beige mac g3. It seems perhaps I
don't drink enough beer. '-)
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[newbie] install 9.1 ppc... mac won't boot from CD1
Just grabbed the 9.1 ppc disks. Burned the ISO images. Trying to boot the machine (beige desktop g3) from the CD fails miserably. Booting by holding the 'c' key after the chimes works fine with my os9 CD, so booting from the cd is possible. Anyone have a success story they'd like to share? Like, how does one get an istallation started? Running the applescript in the /bootX folder fails completely as well... i don't know why. Seems to be unable to find preferences in my system folder and quits. Pointers, tips, directions, rtfm directives all welcome! -- mike higgins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] odd behavior with Evolution
Hi, I've been using Evolution since installing Mandrake 10. Tonight the screen configuration suddenly changed. Before the change I could view a column of folders on the left, the message list top right, and the actual text of a highlighted message lower right. Now I can only view the folder column, and, either the message list OR message text. I cannot simultaneously view the message list and the text of the highlighted message. I've tried making changes in the view menu but nothing works. Help. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] odd behavior with Evolution
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Tienhaara Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] odd behavior with Evolution Hi, I've been using Evolution since installing Mandrake 10. Tonight the screen configuration suddenly changed. Before the change I could view a column of folders on the left, the message list top right, and the actual text of a highlighted message lower right. Now I can only view the folder column, and, either the message list OR message text. I cannot simultaneously view the message list and the text of the highlighted message. I've tried making changes in the view menu but nothing works. Help. Michael Michael, You have got ticked the Message Preview and the Folder bar I take it? Tony. Thanks Tony.If a check the preview pane I can ten read the message. However, the list of messages then disappears. I should be able to see the list of messages, and, if I highlight a message, I should then be able to read the message in a separate pane. Until yesterday, this was how it always worked. Now, I can only view the list, or, the message pane. Not both. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] odd behavior with Evolution
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 01:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 08:39, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I've been using Evolution since installing Mandrake 10. Tonight the screen configuration suddenly changed. Before the change I could view a column of folders on the left, the message list top right, and the actual text of a highlighted message lower right. Now I can only view the folder column, and, either the message list OR message text. I cannot simultaneously view the message list and the text of the highlighted message. I've tried making changes in the view menu but nothing works. Help. Michael I feel for ya mate; I'm having heaps of probs with MDK 10.0 as well - and especially with Evolution under MDK 10.0; but what I'd suggest is to run gconf-editor and go to apps = evolution and check all the configurations there; I've been able to change SOME issues, but not all; it would appear as thought there are no updates/upgrades to Evolution or it's associated libraries as well - and you can't run red-carpet through MDK 10.0 (at least as of yet). stephen kuhn - proprietor Thanks Stephen, I was hoping you would have a solution. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Won't play MIDI
David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:57:51 -0400 Michael Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer refuses to play MIDI files on the internet, and I can't figure out why. With which application and which sound card? I'm having some problems making it work here too with rosegarden (I also tried kmid) and a SB Live card. It's not as easy as it sounds to just run the midi file through /dev/sequencer (more or less) like it was in the old days. First you have to connect the software to the right midi synthesizer, and it seems by default that would be an external one. I posted about this underneath a thread in newbie rosegarden and managed to get it to play with a software synthesizer (timidity) which ran as a daemon, intercepting the midi signals and converting them to wav signals which the sound card could handle. But it's not that good, because I can only get one instrument, namely piano. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Konqueror / ES1371 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Won't play MIDI
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[newbie] I guess I am a real newbie
ok I have just downloaded the first cd in the mandrake 9.1 ppc set, I have tried to install it directly by holding down c at startup and also by using the script thing in the BootX folder of the cd. The only way I was able to get Mandrake to install was using a text install after holding down c. I have read that the newer hardware requires the benH version of the kernal, and I don't think that is what is installed with the text installer. When I tried to install using install-gui-benh the screen went blank after a few lines of code went by. when I tried the old gui option I get a blue screen that won't change. When I tried installing via text, I couldn't get the graphics part to test right using the KDE part. I am going out here I will give my stats because I am very new to this and have little to no idea what I am doing G4 Dual 450 896 MB Ram 30 GB Hard Drive with a 5GB partition that is free space (that's what I was using for the swap and linux native parts) Rage 128 Pro Graphics card Apple Studio Display 17 max resolution of 1600 x 1200 millions of colors internal zip 250 internal dvd-rom external cd-rw usb internal 56k modem is this machine just too new to be used by linux? I had this same problem when I tried to install Debian 3.0r2 at startup the screen would just go blank like it turned off, and the only way I could install was by using the install24-safe option. Oh yeah, when I use the wrapper I think it is called on the disk, the BootX thingy the computer restarts to a blank screen. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] TV Card recommendation
I am ready to purchase a TV Card Requirements: Include cable ready tuner have s-video in/out accept antenna or cable PCI TVWin (TV-PVR-350) does everything I want. Is this the one to get. Any cheaper available. Recommendations?? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
'chkconfig --list' will tell you what services you have and at what run levels they are on or off and at the end of the list you can see what is managed by xinetd. 'man chkconfig' will give you options for turning them off and on. Question for the masses, how do I ensure that I have no servers running? I'm pretty sure that apache is shut down and I remember doing that a long time ago, but what about telnet and ftp servers. This all stems from the fact that port scan sites still insist that I have 21, 23 and 80 open to the world. The usual: MDK 9.0 Firestarter .0.9.0 -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:10pm up 8 days, 23:30, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.26, 0.27 This login session: $13.76, but for you $11.88. Live - From Virgin Radio UK Virgin Radio Classic Tracks - The original classic rock station -- Michael Holt 163 Pine Ave Snohomish, WA (360)568-8229 - LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day
? chkconfig --list will tell you all the services you have running; it just puts the xinetd stuff at the bottom of the list. Thanks, and if 'xinetd' isn't running? I remember being advised to shut that down also quite awhile ago, just can't remember who advised me. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:51pm up 9 days, 1:11, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.12 Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. Live - From Virgin Radio UK Virgin Radio Classic Tracks - The original classic rock station -- Michael Holt 163 Pine Ave Snohomish, WA (360)568-8229 - LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. 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 decoder
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:05 am, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves google for dvdrip. It is a GUI that uses transcode and others. Runs well on 10.0. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake OT
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Re: [newbie] cd mount problem
On Saturday 12 June 2004 10:44 pm, David E. Fox wrote: If you're using 10.0 (which seems likely) you want to use the ATA device for the cdrom, not the scsi device. You'll want to prefix your device with ATA: (i.e., cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0). try cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATA, see what it reports. It should report your manufacturer under 1,0,0. I am using 10.0 CE and when I tried the above I get: ** scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-mdk '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'LITE-ON ' 'DVDRW LDW-451S ' 'GSB4' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * *** Although it says the drive is on 1,0,0, dvd::rip would only work when I set the cdrecord device = ATAPI:0,0,0. Bottom line is it now works. Thanks for your help! Mike 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 Movie making
On Friday 11 June 2004 01:06 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone know of a good DVD authoring package? With menu creation? Thanks! Have you looked at: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems
Thanks ZBrandon. I'll try your suggestion. I did look at gftp. The interface is indeed obscure. Michael I had the same problems when trying to connect to my FTP service which is hosted on a WinXP box. You might try turning of passive ftp for that site to see if that helps. As for me, the more I used KBear the more bugs I ran into. Although I don't care much for the UI I'm now using gftp, it is at least, dependable. __ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems
Thanks Brant, I just tried Konqueror and I was able to connect. However, I'm still getting slow connects. With Konqueror just like Kbear it's taking several minutes just to navigate between directories. In the past I've always used FTP Voyager in Windows. With it I can connect and navigate between directories in seconds. Obviously I'm encountering a Linux issue when communicating with the site. I will try tech support at the hosting site to see if they have any suggestions. Thanks, Michael Have you tried just using Konqueror? You can bookmark ftp server connections (password and all) just like any other directory. You can navigate, copy, delete, and preview files on remote servers just like you would your local file system. There is no que, but I don't ever use it anyway. You can even drag and drop files between servers. I think it relays it through your local machine, but the capability is there. To connect to an ftp server just use: ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/ It will ask for your username and password and you're on. Bookmark it and you have quick access in the future. - -- Brant Fitzsimmons Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems
Hi, Are you going through a proxy? I'm not sure I know what that means. I checked the configuration for Konquerorunder proxy I have connect to the Internet directly checked. Michael I have a terrible time using ftp in Konqueror while going through my Squid proxy. I have to bypass it for anything to work. - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems
Thanks again, I'm not going through a LAN. My computer connects to the internet directly through the modem. Michael That means that you are not intentionally going a proxy server on your way to the Internet? If you are on an office LAN you may still be going through one. I can't seem get ftp in Konqueror to go through a proxy. That's just my experience. I'm sure if I can help any further. May be someone else can chime in. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kbear FTP problems
Hi, I tried to use Kbear for the first. I have no problem connecting to a website. After connecting, I see that the login and password was accepted followed by this message: 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode. But, after I connect I can see no directories and files at the website. I also see the word reading and below it 0%. After a wait of about 4 minutes the file system on the website appears. However, it takes another 3 to 4 minutes to open any directory. Every directory change requires another 3 minutes. Why would Kbear run so slowly? Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
Thanks to everyone for all the replies. Regards, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] defraging
Hi, I'm a new Mandrake 10 user. What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] defraging
Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael I'm a new Mandrake 10 user. What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? Thanks, Michael Shouldn't be necessesary to defrag with linux. It does it by itself. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Modem installation
Had the same problem. Bought a ZOOM external serial modem for less than $60. Works great in Linux or Windows. Michael But externat hardware controlled serial port modems don't cost a busting fortune why not treat yourself to one and they work well in both linux/windblows. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] monitor configuration gamma and brightness
Thanks Derek. I now have a couple choices. Michael On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 04:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 05 May 2004 16:55, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I need to switch back and forth between Mandrake 10 and Windows. In Windows I use Adobe Gamma to set up my monitor brightness/gamma which produces reasonable accurate color that I need for viewing artwork. However, when I switch to Mandrake the monitor is noticeably differentway too dark for viewing artwork. I can make adjustments to the monitor, but, then I need to also start over when I go back to Windows. In Systemconfiguration I found a setting for gamma. But that won't solve the problem. Is there another way to establish a monitor default setting for brightness/contrast either in Mandrake or with some 3rd party application? Thanks, Michael Check out xgamma http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/xgamma.1.html and the gamma statement in the XF86Config-4 file http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/XF86Config.5.html derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] monitor configuration gamma and brightness
Thanks for the link. Much appreciated. Michael On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 02:19, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:55, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I need to switch back and forth between Mandrake 10 and Windows. In Windows I use Adobe Gamma to set up my monitor brightness/gamma which produces reasonable accurate color that I need for viewing artwork. However, when I switch to Mandrake the monitor is noticeably differentway too dark for viewing artwork. I can make adjustments to the monitor, but, then I need to also start over when I go back to Windows. In Systemconfiguration I found a setting for gamma. But that won't solve the problem. Is there another way to establish a monitor default setting for brightness/contrast either in Mandrake or with some 3rd party application? Thanks, Michael http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/KGamma The Twiki is your friend !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] monitor configuration gamma and brightness
Hi, I need to switch back and forth between Mandrake 10 and Windows. In Windows I use Adobe Gamma to set up my monitor brightness/gamma which produces reasonable accurate color that I need for viewing artwork. However, when I switch to Mandrake the monitor is noticeably differentway too dark for viewing artwork. I can make adjustments to the monitor, but, then I need to also start over when I go back to Windows. In Systemconfiguration I found a setting for gamma. But that won't solve the problem. Is there another way to establish a monitor default setting for brightness/contrast either in Mandrake or with some 3rd party application? Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] modem recommendations
You're right...it's an excellent modem. And it does work great in Windows. Now I just need to learn how to get the most out of Mandrake. I've been away from Unix for 10 years. Things have changed. Michael On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 17:55, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 01 May 2004 08:04 am, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the replies. Today I picked up a ZOOM 56K V.92/V.90 external serial port modem. Works great in Mandrake. Michael Michael: Excellent move. Believe it or not, it will even work in Windows _without a driver_. (Well, it will once you convince the Beast from Redmond that you really don't need a driver.) -- cmg __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] problems with Kontact mail
Hi, Just installed Mandrake 10 this weekend. Ximian Evolution works fine...I can send and receive mail from my dial-up ISP. However, Kontact is not working correctly. With Kontact I receive mail but all sent mail sits in the outbox. I'm assuming something is not configured correctly. I've gone into settings and have tried everything I can think of but the problem remains. I'm sure that I'm overlooking the obvious, but, after hours of fooling with the settings, I have not idea what that might be. Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] problems with Kontact mail
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 11:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 08:29, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Michael, what happens if you click file --Send queued Messages or some such ? - It is a setting somewhere in Kmail. Kaj Haulrich. When I send I get the message failed to send some messages. What it should say is failed to send any messages. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] problems with Kontact mail
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 17:59, Marc Lijour wrote: Try settingsconfigure Kmailnetwork You should add smtp: name: whatever_u_like host: smtp.myisp.com port: 25 Thanks, but, my configuration looks exactly like your example. It's the same configuration I use in Ximian which works fine. Perhaps a bug in the Mandrake 10 distribution? Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] problems with Kontact mail
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 18:19, Jason Jesso wrote: Wow. I had this same problem today. I removed all config and reconfigured. Now it works. Weird! I tried what you did. No success. Same problem. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wheel Mouse
Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with Dell on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on their machine.) I tried all the PS2 drivers under mousedrake, and none of them seem to work. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] WheelMouse
Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with Dell on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on their machine.) I tried all the PS2 drivers under mousedrake, and none of them seem to work. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse
Thanks, I'll try that out. Apologies for the double post. Cheers, Mike Bill Echols wrote: This is how I got mine to work. http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/157510http://linuxquestions.org/ questions/history/157510 Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Risley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with Dell on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on their machine.) I tried all the PS2 drivers under mousedrake, and none of them seem to work. Any help is appreciated. Cheers, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
I don't know how well it would work, but I used to use the nt bootloader to dual boot windows and linux. Maybe you could add just the nt boot stuff on a small partition and then have the nt bootloader send you over to lilo -- just a thought YMMV. On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:10, Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine bascule Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the Gateway computer was able to recognize. It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as time passes we will hear more storys like this. It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. If that Is the case I hope that the Linux community comes down on Gateway and, or Intel like a ton of bricks. Marc __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ** * 59. Wonder what *this* command does? * ** * --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say* ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Updates
Hello, Sorry for the stupid question: I am unable to update my Mandrake 9.2 install. Here is the error message: Unable to update medium, it will be automatically disabled. Errors: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for source update_source problem reading synthesis file of medium update_source I am sure this is an easy one. Thanks for the help! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:12, Paul wrote: Hello all, I got my new printer in. Epson C44 USB. Hooked it up, and I can see in the logs that it is recognised as a USB bidirectional device: Jan 7 16:44:16 nwyfre kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x5) is not claimed by any active driver. Jan 7 16:44:19 nwyfre /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup printer for USB product 4b8/5/100 Jan 7 16:44:20 nwyfre kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jan 7 16:44:20 nwyfre kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0005 I am not sure what I should do about is not claimed by any active driver. Is that caught by 'registered new driver usblp'? I ran the Turboprint setup program, finished that up and waited for the testpage. Which did not come. So I fired up webmin and found the printer defined but not working. The setup says it is a local file usb:/dev/usblp0. In /dev/ I can't find usblp0 but I do see usb/lp0. Trying to change the output to there in Webmin gives me: Failed to save printer : 'usb:/dev/usb/lp0' does not exist But... Failed to save printer : 'usb:/dev/usblp0' does not exist also happens. I tried setting it to a local printer 'USB printer 1' and that also hits me on the head, with: Failed to save printer : lpadmin failed : lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible I am getting a bit lost now. What do I do wrong, or what do I miss, or what do I have to add so the printer does what it is supposed to do? Thanks, Paul Hi Paul, Not to say I told you so... but: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg147507.html Sometimes it's prudent to buy slightly behind cutting edge to assure that you can get your work done - unless of course your work is to see if you can get new hardware to work with the system - and in that case, you may want to subscribe to cooker ;) Now to your problem; I'm currently testing cooker on a separate hdd and it does seem to have support now for the c64 - you might try it if you can't return your c44 to the store which you bought it - no guarantees. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:55, Paul wrote: Hi Mike, I know, I remember your post. But since Turboprint looked so promising, I decided to order the printer. One should expect that it works when support through software/driver is there. There is something weird with the USB hookup... I tried to get a printer less new, but for some strange reason that did not work. I had aimed for an HP 6xx or so, I know these work. But alas... A new challenge. Paul Hehe; I'm just giving you a hard time :) I've done the same thing; try to pick something that you think is going to work and get home to find out it's the one version that isn't quite supported yet. On reading the posts at linuxprinting.org, I came to the conclusion that Epson did something different with the way they're printing on their new printers - and honestly, even printing from windows looks pretty bad. I'm not really impressed with their new line of printers at all. I had an Epson 860 that did great photos and pretty decent speed, but it was actually cheaper to buy the new printer than to buy the ink cartridges for the old printer! Now I know why. Anyway, stick to linuxprinting.org. Till Kamppeter is the guy who brought much of the great cups printing support to mandrake and he works on the list quite a bit - if anyone can help you get it working, it will be him. http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.epson.general Scroll down the list and you'll see some entries for c44 and how they got it working. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer C44/C64
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 07:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 30 December 2003 14:57, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, My old printer is having problems. I am looking for a different one, and I found the Epson Stylus C44 or C64 able to do more than I need. I found the C64 as printing 'mostly' on www.linuxprinting.org, but the C44 (which is cheaper) is not there. How would the odds be that the C44 works as much as the C64? Does anyone know? I don't need to print much, so I would like to spend as little as possible on such a device. Thanks for any info, Paul I have an Epson c64; I would not recommend it at this point for linux use (nor the c44). They are supposed to have support with the latest unstable version of gimpprint, but you will have to jump through several hoops to get even usable output. Epson does have great support normally; I would maybe try ebay and see if you can get a slightly older model. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ** * 69. ``Why is my rm *.o taking so long?'' * ** * --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say* ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer C44/C64
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:08, Anne Wilson wrote: Michael - have you tried the driver from http://www.epsondevelopers.com/epijs.jsp ? Anne Hi Anne, No, I hadn't, but just took a look. It might be something worth investigating further - I haven't had much extra time lately to mess with things like that and it does seem a bit more involved however than just using printerdrake+cups. Thanks tho! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ** * Linux; a re-Gnu-able resource. * ** *-- Gareth Barnard * ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 18:40, Paul Kaplan wrote: I looked hard about 6 months ago to find something, including installing MSP and some other commercial programs on Codeweavers Crossover Office. No luck. Codeweavers also isn't planning on working towards MSP compatability unless someone is willing to support them. There's apparently some heavy duty proprietary formatting in those MPP files. Bummer. It's the only app I haven't found a good Linux replacement for. Let me know if you uncover any solutions. Paul On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:08 am, Ed Smits wrote: Is there a Linux app that can read and write MS Project files? I looked at MrProject, it can't read an MPP file as far as I can see. I assume that it or another app can do an equivalent job of creating project plans, however I am forced to use Project and need true compatibility. Any help or ideas appreciated. Cheers Ed Smits (a true newbie) mrproject? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ** * I'll never forget the first time I ran Windows, but I'm trying... * ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System mail
Hi , I have Mandrake 9.2 installed on a box here. I also have a Postfix mail server installed on another box on the network, and I need to forward all system mail from the Mandrake box to the Redhat box, without leaving the local network. How can I set this? Box 1 running Postfixed Hostname Polaris Box 2 not running Mailserver Box 2 has a problem running a Cronjob and mails the error. I need that error to be passed to Box 1, without leaving the local network. I dont have MX records, and have no idea on how to set them up, the mailserver pulls it's mail from a POP server using fetchmail. Is there just a settting I can set to say use this address as a SMTP Server? -- Best regards, Michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sign on a clothing store - Come inside and have a fit. http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk/ PGP KeyID := 0xA9547E32 'To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower To hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour' Using TheBat! Version 2.00.6 Running On Windows XP (2600, Service Pack 1) Sent From OneAndOne pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] general opinions about file servers and firewalls
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:57:28 + et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my .02$usd.. MUCH better Idea to have a separate box for firewall/router, and keep files on and inside box... Mandrakes mnf 'should' *be the ticket* for that firewall box, and 9.1 or 9.2 is fine for the fileserver. Actually the firewall _is_ IPtables, and is at the kernel level and shorewall is a configuration tool. keep shorewall fully configured on the file server toojust in case, and since there is no real noticeable negative. can't be too safe with your data. ET And for my tupence worth... IPCop is the standalone to have on a seperate box. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Have i been unsubbed ***** Eric?
I have two Newbie and expert accounts. A - with this e-mail address which is set NOMAIL, ie I post on it but receive nothing. I never fetch anything addressed to this account from my ISP. B - with an e-mail address which i never post anywhere with. This i read the list traffic on but the address is secretish and thus spam free. Anyways, i stopped receiving mail from newbie, should i resubscribe? Hmm i'll perhaps have to read your reply on the archives. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:19:34 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm looking at getting a RAID card to put in my box. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and wondered what would be the best card. Here is what I'm looking at so far: Promise SuperTrak 100 or 66, 3WARE DiskSwitch AccelerATA 8 port UDMA100 EIDE RAID Card, or the Promise FastTrak 66 or 100. What I would like to know is: which one is best supported under Linux (i.e. in kernel, with drivers, etc.)? which one is the easiest to install? I would like to eventually do RAID level 5 but I will start with RAID 1 and go from there. I have looked on Google to find support and on the respective Web sites but would like to know if anyone has specific experience. Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond This info from the archives. If it is out of date someone else will have to advise you on that. quote 2001-12-08 9:53:14 So few people know that the promise RAID controller is nothing more than a BIOS extension chip with some proprietary, secret, copyrighted software. Look at the Duke of URL site. He was taken in sufficiently by the totally fake hardware to show how to write a driver from the proprietary RH driver. Or check www.linux-ide.org for a link to a project to support these so called hardware RAIDs. Or look at kernels after 2.4.8-31mdk and you will find support for reading Windows RAID but happily no support for using the vastly inferior software RAIDs in linux. As a matter of fact there is a RAID in linux and it has been around for a while, in software. Feature Promise, HPT, CMD Linux Software RAID RAID styles 0, 1, 0+1 0, 1, 4, 5, 0+1 Extents 1 No limit Volumes No Logical Volumes of several drives Cost in space Yes, drive destrokedDependent on RAIDx Compat with Windows Yes No, but can read after kernel 2.4.9 Basically, some controller manufacturers and board manufacturers are making money selling these RAIDs representing them as something they are arguably _not_. If you want a read hardware IDE RAID supported in ANY OS that runs on a PC, its name is ARCO, and there is a link to it at http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html I am really displeased that so many folks are being taken in by this hype. If my opinion is not enough, then see what Mr. Linux-Ide, Andre Hedrick, the fellow who slaves to keep up with industry drivers, had to say about it. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=450lang=en Sorry to go on a rant, but this one really annoys me. The manufacturers are so jealous of their bogus IP that they won't provide enough info for us to be compatible. Civileme /quote Civileme (whose word was once gospel on this list -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:51:23 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 08:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives and also published a method for reflashing already dead ones. Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/ click Device Driver icon click CD-ROM link The first hit is Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from Mandrake Linux 9.2 There is a .gif attached that explains how to reflash the drives. There are also firmware upgrades for 9 drive models. WDYT? This is great but the english is so broken that I am not sure exactly what to do. First problem is how to boot into MS-DOS mode? Second problem is what the heck does C:W(with a bar through it)temp mean? I can get the light to come on again on the drive but have no idea how to flash the firmware from the discription. Any help is appreciated. Oh, I am trying to revive this drive using a K6II soyo mobo with win2K loaded. Hi Dennis, It's not a class act is it! The C with the bar is a character mapping error - should be a \. So this is just the DOS prompt, not a command you have to enter. The example assumes that you've downloaded a program called xferlg and stored it in C:\temp It also assumes that a file called q1iglx32 exists in the same directory. Where you get these files is unclear to me, but I have looked around their site to try to find them. The best way to do this is probably to build yourself a DOS boot diskette, and copy the downloaded stuff to it. Your procedure would then look like: A:\ Xferlg q1iglx32 [enter] I presume the CDR-8322B that follows is a response to a prompt issued by xferlg. If you are using W2K, then it's likely that you have NTFS which DOS can't read. Hence the suggestion to do all this using a boot floppy. HTH Brian OK, I got the thing figured out to the extent that the firmware file comes up and looks for the cdrom, which it can not find. what I did was use a win 98 boot disk to get to msdos. then when I got a A prompt I did a C: and into the C drive and then did cd tmp where I had the firmware and executable for my drive and then typed in jv4 JV4LGX52 and the firmware install tried to find the CDROM. It did not so I finally gave up. When I booted the machine and pressed the eject button with the jumper as shown in a horizontal position it gave me a light but it stayed on and would not go off. So I don't know, maybe the thing is really dead or I am doing something else wrong. If anyone gets it to work on a dead drive please post what you did. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Your win98 boot floppy loads CD-ROM drivers? not sure of relevance. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dialup connection
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 04:43:18 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm giving one of my boxes to my sister who lives 200 miles from here. I want to leave 9.2 up with a VMware win2k. I have all working except that she will use a dial up connection. It has been part of my lan/broadband connection. Bottom lineHow do I off the lan connect and configure her modem before I send her the box? I've not had a modem connect for several years and it appears things have changed somewhat. Lee Get a modem into the box (check for compatability), check the coverage of her ISP, and if it covers your place plug it in the phone line, get her ISP account details, (for security she can change the password first) then set it up from mcc. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TO STOP AUTOMATIC STARTX FOR A WHILE - TO STOP X-SERVER FOR A WHILE
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:18:49 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Switch to runlevel 3 and then back to runlevel 5. telinit 3 (do your driver thing) telinit 5 I agree completely with the advise. I do have a query as to why you use telinit instead of init. I quote the man quote TELINIT /sbin/telinit is linked to /sbin/init. It takes a one-character argu- ment and signals init to perform the appropriate action. The following arguments serve as directives to telinit: 0,1,2,3,4,5 or 6 tell init to switch to the specified run level. a,b,c tell init to process only those /etc/inittab file entries having runlevel a,b or c. Q or q tell init to re-examine the /etc/inittab file. S or s tell init to switch to single user mode. U or u tell init to re-execute itself (preserving the state). No re- examining of /etc/inittab file happens. Run level should be one of Ss12345, otherwise request would be silently ignored. telinit can also tell init how long it should wait between sending pro- cesses the SIGTERM and SIGKILL signals. The default is 5 seconds, but this can be changed with the -t sec option. telinit can be invoked only by users with appropriate privileges. The init binary checks if it is init or telinit by looking at its pro- cess id; the real init's process id is always 1. From this it follows that instead of calling telinit one can also just use init instead as a shortcut. /quote The first and last sentences say it all really. In my understanding all systemV, thus all linux versions, use init. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web radio broadcasts
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:04:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i like to listen to radio web broadcasts at work but some of the stations i prefer only use windows media player format. i've talked to them in the past about adding realplayer accessability and was told it's a matter of cost. If its a matter of cost streaming ogg is free. ;) i can use media player in my vmware session but the volume controls seem to have a lower cutoff than rp in linux. is there a current product usable in mdk 9.1 that will play the format used by media player for the web broadcasts? strictly sound, don't care about video. thanks, joe -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] source rpms
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:25:23 +0200 They basically consist of tarballs of all the sources and patches that are applied, plus a spec file, which is a configuration file that tells rpm how to build and package the program. If you try to install one, these files will be copied to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and /usr/SRC/RPM/SPECS. and that's where I'll find a normal rpm? Unless you make changes they build the standard RPM's anyways. So if you know how to make changes go ahead else no advantage gained. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Qcad
snip Right now I need to figure out how to get a line more than 1 pixel wide. Makes for hard reading. Lee http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad/manual_reference/layers.html Figure 16, 2/3 of the way down the page. HTH -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gotmail for yahoo?
*** Today, Paul jumped up and screamed: *** I have a yahoo.com free mail account on which I can't use pop or forward. Google for fetchyahoo.pl; I use it, works great. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:57:04 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This response actually brings up something that has been bugging me of late about some elements of the tech community. I realize that there are a large number of clueless politicians and lawyers out there but tech people have a tendency to be just as clueless about laws and the judicial system as well. Rather than each trying to recognize the strengths of the other and work out realistic compromises, the tech community appears to be retreating with some type of egotistical attitude that politicians and lawyers are helpless to be anything other than completely clueless when it comes to tech matters and that any law is a bad law. snip http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3529203thesection=technologythesubsection=general An exception exists to every generalisation. Of course the greens have about 5% of our vote and this one smokes dak (hence has a hard time getting treated seriously). -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Password Expiration
Matt Winer mused: I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do I prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec levels? Thanks! man chage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TightVNC
Hi Does anyone know if it's possible to set vnc up so that the desktop I see on my pc is the same as the one I see on VNC Currently the only solution is having to seperate X servers running I use the following command: vncserver :1 -httpd /usr/share/vnc/classes to get vnc up and running Any ideas anyone? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] grub lilo
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:10:17 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between them, but mandrake tends to prefer lilo so I use that now days. Strangely, grub was their choice for non-expert install on my first Mandrake distro 7.1. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Children Programs and Linux
Troy Davidson mused: Hello all, I am wanting to find programs that are similar to the Reader Rabbit series and the Fisher Price series for Windows. I have tried to run a few of these programs in Wine, but they didn't work properly (I am still wanting to try this since I probably had a setting wrong.). I have found www.kidslinux.com and edu.kde.org. These are helpful but I am looking for other software. If anyone knows of other sites, programs that are similar to the ones I have mentioned above, or how to get the ones above to work with Wine, please let me know. Try http://www.linuxforkids.org/ -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:31:34 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:41 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update I had wondered about having two versions running the same kernel. For instance, could I allocate a partition and install the same version as on another partition, make temp mounts for the original /etc /usr and /var and copy across a whole existing install? I'm wondering because it would be really nice to try an upgrade for the experience, without risking losing the existing install in case of problems. I went from new installs for each. /etc needs to be in / for the bootup. I have seperate /usr for each install but a common /var and /home for my 9.0's. If i want to update a package in one only as a test this was the minimum setup. In the past I have always kept the existing stable install and done a new install, but of course it is necessary to start a whole raft of configurations and installs afterwards. ?raft? - I let the newly installed lilo overwrite the old, borrow any vmlinuz and initrd that dont match the new, copy them to /boot, then rewrite the old lilo.conf's to suit. Of course i have to keep a written sheet of my 'a-hem' 15 partitions. They then behave nicely with each other. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update Anyone familiar with Debian will be familiar with the names (read Unstable for Update). Stable: the one firewalled, locked down (for me), and rock steady that i do my day to day stuff with. Can only see its own partitions. Tweak: identical to Stable except for fstab and lilo.conf. I can configure any new things in here and break it if need be. If it gets jiggered completely, in theory i can dd Stable to Tweak, reload fstab and lilo.conf from backups, and start again. I have never tested this option yet though. Update: I got 9.1 well after the initial release date and never got it configured to my satisfaction, although 'some' programs run better on it. Will be wiping it in favour of 9.2 when i get a copy. Who knows, i may replace 9.0 yet. This is as close as i get to bleeding edge. Stable and Tweak share a common /home and /var. I ftp all updates to a directory, URPMI them from the directory to Tweak as soon as, and then to Stable after a week or so. If the update breaks any configs i can figure it out in Tweak first. Try that with windows update, even HFNetCheck(Shavlik Technologies) isn't that flexible for updating. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:00:24 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade tools. Which is the best option and where|can I get information on installing and using this option to keep my|Mandrake distro up to date. | |Thanks, | |-=Thinker urpmi seems to be the method of choice for most Mandrake users - it's simple to use - google for easy urpmi - the first hit will take you step by step through configuring your software sources - then it's a simple as # urpmi --auto-select -a (do urpmi urpmi first to update the urpmi package) to update every software package you have installed - although I think 9.0 sources are drying up. I would add that there are a large number and that you should do the updates in init 3 or console mode as KDE/X tends to bork its updates if running. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:45:56 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:33 pm, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: Balmer may be conveniently throwing in *all* of Red Hat's critical vulnerabilities in its *distribution release*, which amounts to many, many applications, not just the O/S. If he compares O/S to O/S, instead of O/S to total distribution, Red Hat (or any other Linux distro) doesn't look as bad as he suggests. Windows is Windows. I've never seen anything freely given in the O/S that ever could have been called an app. Applet, but not app. As usual, mind games are being played that affect the multitude that don't look with clear eyes. Actually, no one should be surprised by the remarks and I would be highly surprised to find anyone that takes anything said at these types of press conferences seriously. snip Trouble is Bryan, mainstream press quote these statements verbatim and do not quote anything to the contrary alongside it. They are not interested in doing any 'investigitive journalism' nowadays when they can cut and paste from press releases. Joe public get Microsofts version exactly as it gets peddled and dont even think to question it. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] multivolume tar
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can :-) No, you still can't, because it is not tar doing the job anymore, it is either you or some script. The original discussion was about the capabilities of tar itself, not your own ability to provide workarounds for tar. And tar plainly cannot do the job by itself. THanks for the discussion guys, this answers my earlier question. I commend you on your ingeniousness but you should not be fixing the go-cart for the trip to the grocery store while there's a perfectly good Corvette in the driveway. Not my fave analogy, the vet would stay tucked in the garage, and the wifes lexus -- lada would be kept running get the groceries ;) (range from a lexus to a lada) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger + Linux clients
Either in hte console put a after the comand ie amsn Or press alt + F2 and type in amsn in the window that appears Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that after I start aMSN via the terminal the terminal session that I used to start aMSN is dead. Meaning, I can't do anything with that terminal session unless I close out aMSN. Is there a way to launch aMSN through the GUI so I don't have a term window just sitting around useless? -A On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded aMSN and got it working okay. It crashed about 30 seconds after I logged in for the first time. Had to kill -9 the process. We'll see how it goes. It was easy to install.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kopete upgrade
im just new to linux also but sounds like u need to install db and gdbm Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I cannot find a specific Mandrake upgrade for Kopete (so that I can use the MSN plugin post October 15) I tried to compile from source.I downloaded and extracted kopete-0.7.2.tar.bz2 and kopete-0.7.3.tar.gz but when I typed ./configure I got the message "configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"What do I do to fix this on Mandrake 9.2?--Robert Fisherwww.fisher.net.nzWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
Re: [newbie] tar CD
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:00 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and then use split. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tar CD Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael I was of the impression that tar would do volumes itself with the -M option. I am just too slow to work out how to impliment the volume size part. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tar CD
Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that memory. Has anybody done anything like this? If not too involved I would like to try it before I buy new. snip Terry If its old RAM more failures will be coming your way. If its new stuff, take it back where you bought the box/sticks. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Use the Shift Key, Go to Jail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: [snip] so many necks, so little time badump-bump -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MP3 to OGG converter
What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? Thanks Mike PS I really like GUIs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter
Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:50:44PM +, Michael Lothian wrote: What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? Thanks With the caveat that you're going from one lossy format to another--can you live with that? One way would be to use XMMS with the diskwriter plugin. That'll write the mp3's out to wav, then you could convert from wav to ogg with oggenc. If I had the sources I'd just rip them anew. t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What should I use to rip them? Also converting to wav will just mean a low quality wav. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code ATTN Anne!!!
On 08 Oct 2003 13:59:14 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good, thanks. I've written to the 8 MEPs for the Eastern Region UK. Like you, I found Anne's letter excellent - mine is a straight crib with a few additions. I hope she doesn't mind [Letter follows] Maybe we could do with a min-TWiki to hone our arguments for future use! DougB Now thats a good idea. A Linux/Open Source political issues Twiki page. When these issues hit New Zealand i want my arguments ready and be fully versed. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
