Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites
I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to reverse-engineer that file format to create a new filter for their competing office suite. Sun licenses the file formats from MS, don't they? They didn't reverse-engineer them, I thought. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
- Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. NETBIOS name to IP resolutin is (or can be) done by a WINS server (which SAMBA will emulate, if you tell it to), or - optionally - from an LMHOSTS files (not LMHOSTS.SAM - that's a SAMple file). - -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ... which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng, since many apps depend on it. I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding. Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] changing gnome to kde
clueless newbie wants to switch to KDE. I've got gnome running. How do I change it? Can someone point me to the documentation? If you have kde installed then just logout and click on kde and log back in..thats it :-) IF you log in graphically, yes. However, not everyone does login graphically. If you run X from the command line, as I do, type startx kde -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java
It's not safe, and you NEVER should connect as root. For much the same reasons you should NEVER use Windoze to connect at all. In both situations, anybody has root capabilities This is not 100% correct. If you use Win9x/WinME, it is correct. All users have root privleges. If you use NT/Win2K/WinXP, you most certainly can easily connect to the Internet as a non-root-user, with no rights to install software. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. msg83355/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why? NOWVIRI LERT
Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr followed by giberish. I tried to reply but it bounced. I am trying again by removing the underscore. Could just be a spammer. It's a Windows virus. The gibberish is the encoded virus executable itself. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. msg83273/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] What have Mandrake done to cdrom/floppy devices?
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want it that much there is a kernel on Mandrake Cooker version 2.4.13-2mdk in which supermount works. However I do not recommend it since when I tried it my computer would hang on unloading usb drivers. Compile USB core support directly into the kernel; do not load it as a module. Then it will work. You can have all other USB options as modules; it's just the core support (the usb-uhci, etc) modules that hang when unloading. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. msg81621/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read: THEIR standards. Specifically, their use of VBScript, I believe. IE supports it; other browsers don't (or don't support it well). So when they start getting around to using VBScript to dynamically write the HTML part of the page, other browsers (probably) won't render it as well as IE will. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that Opera and Mozilla were designed *specifically* to be as closely as possible in compliance with W3C standards -- unlike IE. IE is very standards compliant, actually. The earlier versions weren't. But yes, Opera Mozilla are also very standards compliant. If you can change your User Agent string to make it say IE for the domain msn.com, it'll work. I've been there with Konq on KDE 2.2.1 just now. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
[newbie] Graphical ESCPUTIL version?
I have an Epson Photo Stylus 870, and I used to have a program that performed the same duties as the command line escputil program that is included with the gimp-print drivers for CUPS - it would show ink levels, etc. But escputil is a command line program, and this would show inklevels graphically. And I'm having problems finding the graphical version. Anybody know the program I'm talking about, and where to get it? -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nimda virus
From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] The closing sentence of a San Francisco Chronicle writeup on the virus said that server users should contact Microsoft for patches :). It's yet another instance of the Outlook Virus Transmission software. Not quite. Nimda can and does propogate via Outlook attachments, and embedded HTML; However it *also* propogates as Javascript on infected web pages, which has no dependency on Outlook (altho does depend on MS's IIS web server to house it's infection). Also, it can spread across MS network shares, again with no dependence on Outlook. Nimda is REALLY thorough in exploiting many ways to propogate. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked alread
As far as what the activation process does, I'm just going on the article I read a few weeks ago... Right or wrong when I read the articly it was the last straw for me and I'm glad I've taken a step away from the Microsoft universe. Yeah, I'm not planning on running it at home, either - and none of my Windows-only friends are planning on running it, either. :-). I'm a Sys Admin, tho, and so will have to support it at work. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this You are offered the choice to register over the Internet, or read off the code to MS over the phone, who will then read you out the activation code, which you will then have to type in. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked alread
..There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and address and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in return for your copy of the OS. Not correct. The WPA (Windows Product Activation) only sends a unique code, dervived from your specific mix of hardware. Your name and address is not sent to MS. It does not read unique serial numbers of your hardware. There have been studies done, which have broken down the code that Win XP sends out. Do a google search for the exact breakdown of this combined code. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] But if you're just an ordinary user who surfs the web, does word processing, this kind of thing, you don't need Windows at all. Ordinary (home) users usually want to surf and play games. Also electronic banking/bill paying. I haven't seen a good Linux e-banking program, so I use MS Money in Win4Lin. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: [newbie] sane and Mustek scanner
When logged in as root everything works fine. I think the solution has something to do with permissions but I've no clue how to fix it. Had the same problem with my USB Epson. Try doing (as root) a chmod a+r and a chmod a+w on the device that the scanner uses. For me, that was /dev/usb/scanner0. That lets all users (the a part of that chmod command) read and write to that device. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
[newbie] RE: I need libraries for KDE 22
Does someone have any idea where I can find these libraries: libSDL.so.0 I used the libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm libSDL1.2-devel-1.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm available from KDE's site. http://www.rpmfind.net should have them, too. libpcreposix.so.0 libpcre.so.0 libpcre0-3.4-4tex.i686.rpm libpcre0-devel-3.4-4tex.i686.rpm I got mine from http://www.pclinuxonline.com xanim apmd Again, http://www.rpmfind.net -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
[newbie] Anybody upgraded from KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2. on 7.2 yet?
I'm running KDE 2.1.1 on 7.2 (I installed using the RPMs at kde.org, so I have X 4.0.3-1; QT 2.3.0-2; and KDE 2.1.1). I'd like to have a go at the new KDE 2.2, but I tried it once, and so totally screwed my system, I had to reinstall from scratch (even GNOME wouldn't load; when I screw things up, I *really* screw them up :-). My fault, no doubt - I probably screwed up some install order, or forced a dependcy that I shouldn't have. So now, I wanna do it RIGHT. I have downloaded the latest KDE 2.2 RPMs for 7.2 from kde's site. The 2.2 upgrade apparently doesn't require newer versions of X or QT. However, I also keep seeing references to some speed enhanced KDE 2.2. RPMs from tex - that's from the http://www.pclinuxonline.com site, right? I went to the download section there, but only found a .tar.gz update. So, my questions: 1. Has anybody successfully upgraded from KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2 on Mandrake 7.2? 2. If you have, which RPMs did you use - KDE's or tex's? 3. HOW did you upgrade? I've seen references on the mailing list that I should uninstall all KDE *and related* RPMs (but not QT). - What does this mean - remove arts, anything named KDE, and libmng, all of which I used to install KDE 2.1.1? Anything else? - And then rpm -Uvh *.rpm to install all my new RPMs? -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: [newbie] just wondering
Yes, I'm curious to. I suspect it was Code Red or some other Windoze email worm embedded in the HTML that couldn't have caused any Code Red is *NOT* an email worm, and has *NOTHING* to do with HTML. It is an MS *SPECIFIC* infector, altho web servers on other OSes may have problems, due to the amount of (illegal) traffic that a CR-infected web servers spews out in all directions. There is *NO* way to receive CodeRed in an email. Kmail. Then again I'm no security expert. I don't have to be. I quit using M$ products to connect to the Net, mail or news years ago. EVERYBODY needs to be a bit of a security expert. You don't seriously think that Unix/Linux has NO security issues whatsoever, do you? Look at all the security problems BIND and WU-FTP have had over the years. Unix/Linux has better security potgential than MS, but it doesn't mean you can just ignore security. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure. PGP signature
Re: [newbie] 'Rumor' of TCP/MS WinXP [Check this out]
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux has had IPv6 support for quite some time, and I beleive that Win2K has it as well (because they stole the TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD). They did NOT steal it. The license ALLOWED them to use it. It was perfectly legal, if a bit hypocritical. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
Re: [newbie] Lin4Win
I am always getting confused on this issue. In short: Lin4Win - http://www.netraverse.com/ Lnx4Win - Tool to install Linux-Mandrake on a Windos partition So I was right this time :-) SO close! But the NeTraverse product is Win4Lin, not Lin4Win. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Netscape is a clone of Mozilla from way back. Nope; Mozilla is the open source REWRITE of the original Netscape Navigator code. And it's so much better now than the original code, that Netscape has thrown away their old code, and used the Mozilla code. In fact Mozilla is one of the grandaddys of web browsers Nope; that was Mosaic. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
RE: [newbie] HTML in Email
Hi folks, For years as President of the Queensland Internet Development Society Inc. I trained people to turn off HTML in their Emails and graphics in their Browsers. Simple logic: 1. Only brochures (usually spam) come via HTML Anyone wanting something more visually interesting than plain black-type-on-white-background. 2. Graphics are usually useless things providing no value in the information exchange. To YOU, maybe. Not to everyone. A picture is worth a thousand words 3. Do YOU yourself actually surf with graphics on? ( Unless looking at the competition, or doing it for fun ) I VERY RARELY meet anyone who DOESN'T surf with graphics on. Finally, the ever-increasing invasions of our systems and privacy are going to increase exponentially, not go away, as scriptkiddies get hold of and simply replicate html bugs at a rate that will make the current intrusions seem tame! Usually on MS mail clients, and it takes about 30 seconds to stop embedded scripts from automatically executing, and then you're protected from (most) problems in HTML email. (HINT: set email to be treated as RESTRICTED ZONE settings, and then set RESTRICTED ZONES to not execute by default). In Linux, if you use a console email client like mutt or pine, simply have it bring up lynx or similar non-graphical browser, when you get HTML email. Then others are free to send email the way they want to, and not as others want them to. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uli) Subject: Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok? I have got wine from www.codeweavers.com, I think it's different from Mandrake's wine. I start winword and other windows-progs by wine winfile in a KDE-konsole. Then I start the windows application by double click. I have to add that I have a working MS-Office on a windows partition under Windows 98. Ah HA! *THAT'S* why it all works so well for you - WINE is accessing a real, installed Windows installation, instead of just emulating the Windows API. I've never seen MS Office work if you use just WINE, without any real Windows partition to point WINE at. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Pysche closed for renovations.
Re: [newbie] What is the MFT?
/dev/hdb6 15G 9.5G 5.5G 63% /mnt/f Trying to open MFT /dev/hda5 2.0G 1.7G 267M 87% /mnt/nt Notice the Trying to open MFT sandwiched in the middle? What does it mean? Is it important or a warning or something? MFT = Master File Table; it's an MS thing. Is that partition formatted as NTFS, by any chance? -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Pysche closed for renovations.
Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??
These lists are also heavily censored. I was once having a look at some messages in an Intel newsgroup when the topic of overclocking was raised. Intel eventually filtered out all messages with mentions of overclocking. I'm sure Microsoft would act in a similar way in similar circumstances. I'm not sure they would, since I have seen posts critical of MS, it's software and MS's practices. This still leaves the many mailing lists, and the serachable web pages. (altho I will admit that searching MS's Knowledgebase SUCKS, since it seems to have a mind of it's own, when it comes to indexing and cross-referencing :-)
Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel?? or you haven't explained it well enough. You should feel lucky that you have this kind of free community-based support -- you'll never have it in the M$ world. There, you'll have to pay through the nose for tech support. You can There are free MS support options. There are free newsgroups, hosted by a news server at microsoft.com, and readble via any newsreader. And there are many free email lists, as well. Both of these are community help, augmented (in the case of the newsgroups) by advice from MS employees, just the way Mandrake employees monitor this list. Not to mention web searching thru MS's Knowledgebase, or on their TechNet site. Just setting the record straight.
[newbie] Re: Digest for list newbie
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] moving drives While it's possible in some cases to run windoze on a partition other than hda1, it's certainly not the norm, True. and almost always won't work. Windoze won't tolerate it, Not (quite) true. You can do this with Partition Magic. I have a HD with WinNT, Win98, and Win2K (with separate boot and system drives), all on different partitions, as well as a couple of data-only partitions. And all work perfectly (you can only 1 OS at a time, obviously, and the non-active OSes are marked as hidden, so you won't see that partition). Using PM's Boot Manager, I also get a choice of my Mandrake Linux on hdb. (granted, Windows won't run from anything but hda. Supposedly, if you use System Commander, you can run Windows from non-hda) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 242 1943833+ 16 Hidden FAT16 /dev/hda2 243 650 3277260 1b Hidden Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 651 1101 3622657+ 1c Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda4 1102 4981 31166100f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1102 2376 102414067 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 2377 3551 94381567 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 3552 4981 11486443+ b Win95 FAT32 hda1 = WinNT Workstation 4 (yes, formatted as FAT16) hda2 = Win98 hda3 = Win2K boot partition hda4 = entry for extended partition hda5 = Win2K system partition (not that it's running in a non-primary partition) hda6 = NTFS-formatted data partition for WinNT hda7 = FAT32-formatted data partition for Win2K
Re: [newbie] Install error
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install error On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:15 am, Randy Kramer wrote: One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any (functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason something (in Windows) would not work because the attributes have been changed?) No. There's no permissions in Winblows, which is one reason it's so inherently insecureable. M$ uses those attributes (ie, hidden and Windows most certainly has file permissions. Or have you never looked at WinNT or Win2K? Check out ACLs on an NTFS volume sometime. Don't make the mistake of thinking that Win9x/WinME are the entire Windows line of products.
[newbie] Re: Digest for list newbie
Here is my comp : Motherboard Soyo 7vca , video geforce 2mx , ram 128mb , cpu intel pentium 733 , windows Windows 2000 Pro . I have 2 hdd's and the first is partitioned into 2 . Both are 20,5 hdds. C: SYSTEM (this is the first partition on my 20,5 hdd , there is win2kpro) D: ARCHIVE (this is my 20,5 hdd , there are programs , games and other things) E: LINUX (this is the second partition of my 20,5 hdd , on this partition i want Linux Mandrake 8.0 ) This is highly confusing. It looks as if the C; and E; partition, to maintain these M$ expressions, are on 1 disk, and the D; is the second HDD. Right? Understandable, and it shows Windows DOS roots. He's got Primary partitions on both drives. I've seen it many times. Disconcerting, but normal.
Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:45, Solver wrote: As for the permissions, no offence taken. But, you'll be very surprised to know that I am a sysadmin. Additionally, I often repair stand alone PCs. My network currently runs W2K, which I hate for everything except the increased security, but I'll put Windows XP on ASAP. If I were you I'd wait till at least the first service pack is released before doing a switchover. Win2K officially had about 63,000 (that's not a typo: sixty-three thousand) open bugs when it was released. It is common practice to wait a while for bugs to be fixed before deploying *any* major system change -- GNU/Linux included. FYI, Win2000 is on it's 2nd service pack.
[newbie] Re: Digest for list newbie
Here a link for ya'. http://www.mostang.com/sane/ -s On Saturday 26 May 2001 07:10 pm, you wrote: Hi there, I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it mentioned that my scanner (UMAS Astra 1220U) was supported with a certain version of Kernel. Well, I have that version, but how do I configure my system to recognize that there is a scanner on my USB port? The site wasn't really helpful, at least it didn't speak in English where I could understand it. Any help would be greatly appreciated...I am regoing to the web site, maybe it has it clearer (or my head will be) where I can get it. I will post that I got it if that is the case. Please send me the message as a private message. Thanks! As a staring point ... you need the proper USB support in your kernel (or as kernel modules) - this includes the USB scanner module. Also, you need to configure SANE (which is the Linux scanner program) to use the USB port for your UMAX. As an example, I have a Epson 636U (U=USB); I had to add the line usb /dev/usb/scanner0 after setting up the device /dev/usb/scanner0. And I can scan fine. All this info is at the SANE website mentioned above.
Re: [newbie] Wine
type at a terminal wine --managed /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office/winword.exe or whatever your program path is This might work, if you've got a Windows partition. If not (I don't, for example), you'd have to run the Word setup under WINE to try and install Word onto your Linux partition. And I've never gotten WINE to install anything useful - it always dies during the install. Of any program. And I've tried 4 different releases of WINE. But hey - YMMV.
[newbie] Gnome 1.4 via Red Carpet?
Anybody know what Ximian's plans for releasing the official Gnome 1.4 via Red Carpet are? It's been out for a couple of weeks, but there's no mention of a target date of it becoming available via Red Carpet yet, on Ximian's site. RC is still listing the beta version of 1.4.
[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 - do I also need to update XFree86?
Hello all. I'm using KDE 2.1, on XFree86 4.0.1. I want to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1, from sunsite.uio.no/pub/kde/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS. I realize I need all the k*.rpms (well, not all the other languages), and all the qt*.rpms. BUT .. are the XFree86 updates actually required to run KDE 2.1.1? I'd rather not update X just yet. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF And if it's too much fun, that oughta clue you, son You're probably doing something that's wrong ... "Don't Do It" Little Charlie and the Nightcats
Re: [newbie] AHHHHHHHH!! too many problems
THINGS I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IN LINUX (Can linux do it?) Be able to use WINE with all the trimmings (including full 3d rendering). I've never gotten WINE to work with anything useful, and I seriously doubt it will do 3D rendering. By useful, I mean Word, Photoshop, IE, etc. The customized WINE that comes with WordPerfect and PhotoPaint9 is supposed to work. Be able to use my TVCard with capture ability. KWinTV is supposed to be able to that, along with a couple other programs. You need to get your graphic adapter problems straightened out first, tho, since that stuff only works in X. Be able to play DVD's. Technically illegal, as DVD de-coding is only supported on Mac and Windows. Also technically possibly. :-) There's a program out there to do it, somewhere. Wheel support for mouse. Mine works for me. I told it I had an Intellimouse when I was setting up X, and there it was.
Re: [newbie] total and utter frustration
Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) I notice that you have selected /dev/ttySO. Are you sure. That's usually reserved for the mouse. Not really. /dev/ttyS0 (note: that's a zero, not an O) is equivalent to COM1: in Windows. If you have a PS/2 style mouse (as just about all modern PCs do), your mouse is actually attached to /dev/psaux - with a symlink to /dev/mouse, so that you can specify it either way, and still mean the mouse. So, yes, it it entirely possible that /dev/ttyS0 is a valid for a modem. Mine is. :-) So type: #noauth lock Then REBOOT! No, no. This is Linux; you should hardly ever HAVE to reboot. You may want to kill the pppd daemon (if it is even running), but you don't need to reboot for that. Frequent reboots are a Windows thing, not a (l)unix thing. You should just be able to try again; the pppd daemon will re-read the file, and use the new options. (I think - it's been a while since I did dialup PPP; thank G-d for DSL :-)
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration
- Original Message - From: "abe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:55 AM Subject: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration Does this work? Any body have this working on their machines? I reinstalled to convert to ReiserFS and now X crashes everytime I start a 3d accelerated application. No messages left in the logs except that X caught a signal 11. X 4.02 Nvidia driver 0.9.6 mandrake 7.2 Please help! How do you start X? If you do it from the comand line, you could do startx 1stdout.txt 2stderr.txt stderr.txt would then have the output of any error messages that X had. Abe
[newbie] Re: SPAM
Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the truth is that unsolicited e-mail IS Spam Uhmmm ... no. Spam is unsolicited COMMERCIAL email (UCE). Auto-replies are not spam; they are not (by definition) commercial - in the sense of "commercial solititation". Still ... he could certainly have phrased his response in a more polite and civilized manner. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF You've got your glory, you've paid for it all You take your pension in loneliness and alcohol Billy Squier, "Everybody wants you"
Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking
I will add only one thing. Worms are not written in C, particularly the windoze versions. The difference between a virus and a worm is this: A virus has a "leg" to stand-on, self-executing. A worm do not, it needs to use the programming language of the host system. Javascripts and Visual Basic Scripts are "worm" incubators. That is, the host "feeds" and "nurtures" the script. I hope I am coming through clear as I am suddenly hungry. If you need further clarification on the difference between a "worm" and a "virus", I can dig up my bookmarks or rummage through one of my old magazine articles and post it to this list. I hope that won't be neccessary, well at least until I have eaten first! Laters. Recall the first well-known worm - the Morris Worm, in 1988 (http://www.software.com.pl/newarchive/misc/Worm/darbyt/pages/worm.html). Neither JavaScript, VB Script nor HTML existed at the time, yet a worm it still was. Which is beside the point that that Tom was making about how "all HTML mail is bad and a security risk".
[newbie] Re: eh?
From: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] eh? I must confess to being an absolute 'newbie' on Linux. I have managed to install lm7.2 correctly. all my devices see to be working ok except my usb deskjet895cxi printer which i'm not too fussed about yet. what i am desperate for though, is to install a '98 emulator to continue using office2000 (sorry guys, but i really do need to use it!). i've tried the 'wine' thing using the rpm manager in knome but the damn thing still doesn't appear in my program list. I really would like to use the vmware or whatever it's called but don't know where to start. i need a real idiots guide to downloading/installing, etc taking me right from switching on my pc to ?switching it off! I'm pretty much a whizz on '98 / win2k, etc but Linux is killing me. I was born and raised of DOS3.21 and i'm really struggling. help! I started way back when with MSDOS 2.0; glad to meet ya! :-) Wine doesn't like handle O2K. Wine is more for installing specific applications. What you want is a full OS emulation. You can try using Win4Lin (http://www.win4lin.com). Realize that this is not exactly a true newbie exercise, but you should be able to get thru it. Win4Lin is limited to only running Win9x, not ANY OS like VMWare is. It's also easier and cheaper. (VMWare is industrial strength hardware emulation, so you can install any OS into it's virtual machine) I have installed a full copy of Win98 using Win4Lin (you must have a legal copy of a Win98 CD to use, or the program doesn't even install). and I have installed O2K Pro into this Win98 install. Worked fine. I had to recompile my kernel, to add in support for running Windows under Linux. You might be able to use the RPMs available from the web site to do this step; I couldn't, because I had already upgraded my kernel to v2.2.18 - and the RPMS are for stock Mandrake 7.2, kernel versions 2.2.17. Wasn't hard, tho - you just need to (mostly) follow the step-by-step instructions for re-compiling a kernel. Then install Win4Lin. It - literally - is a full Win98 install, running in a window on a Linux desktop. I'm doing this on a P3-550, 384M RAM. No performance problems. p.s, while i'm on the subject. what's the best e-mail client currently. i'm after something similar to oe5 but without the vb / java script support crap! I like Evolution, from the Ximian (foremerly Helix Gnome) folks; very Outlook like. Also, KMail under KDE is quite nice. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF You've got your glory, you've paid for it all You take your pension in loneliness and alcohol Billy Squier, "Everybody wants you"
Re: [newbie] Newly compiled 2.4.1 kernel won't boot- grub to blame?
On 10 Feb 2001 05:11:13 -0800, wrote: When you re-compile you'll need to 'make mrproper' before 'make xconfig' and edit the Makefile to at least uncomment the line export INSTALL_PATH=/boot No, you don't have to do "make mrproper" before you re-compile a kernel. This will also remove your previously chosen options, so you'll have to choose them all over again. % make xconfig and then: % make dep % make clean % make bzImage you didn't do a 'make install' here "Make install" is not required, especially if you want to run multiple versions of the kernel. All it means is that you have to do the next steps (copying, symlinking, running lilo, etc) yourself. then I moved and renamed both bzImage and System.map % mv /arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1 % mv System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.1 and finally deleted the existing symlinks for System.map and vmlinuz and made new ones linked to those new files: % rm System.map % rm vmlinuz % ln -s System.map-2.4.1 % ls -s vmlinuz-2.4.1 vmlinuz all that would be unnecessary. I usually clean up uneeded links and files in /boot, after I get the new kernel to boot successfully. Doing it this way makes it easier to run multiple versions of the kernel. If you need/want ramdisk support, you do need a initrd if you want a to be able to boot the kernel. 'man initrd' if so, after 'make modules_install' the next step is mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.1.img 2.4.1 I compile ramdisk support in, but do NOT do the mkinitrd command. Works fine.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
Can anyone tell me how to get my sound blaster x-gamer running? I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed and have tried many online tutorials on how to get a SB live running and have had no luck. LM knows it's there but when I try hard drake it errors out. I would like to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.x before I get the sound blaster running. Is that a smart thing to do? I've got the original SB Live!, and my LM 7.2 worked out of the box. All SB Lives use the EMU401K chip (think that's the right identifier; I'm at work right now); what happens if you "insmod emu401k"? BTW ... yes, kernel 2.4 also includes support for this chip.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
I have a pci Sound Blaster Live and /usr/sbin/sndconfig did mine! Sounds great too with my Altec Lansing speakers. It sounds as good as it does under windows with Creatives' bloated drivers and software. Well no, the Linux version does not really sound as good (IMO). Mostly because I can find no way (or no Linux software) to activate the 2nd set of speakers that I have. Under Windows, I have sound from all 4, as well as control over the sound placement; under Linux, I only get sound the front 2, and I have no control over the sound placement. Nor do I have control over all the effects (reverb, delay, etc) that I have under Windows. Nor does it come with the profusion of presets (jazz hall, optimized for certain games, etc). Which is not to say that the sound from the front 2 speakers is bad, or wrong, or anything; it's just that I have nowhere near the amount of control over my sound system under Linux, as I do under Windows.
Re: [newbie] HTML
On 16 Jan 2001 10:25:03 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 03:20 am, s wrote: I hope it wouldn't be too rude of me to ask that the people posting especially with MS Outlook Express to turn off their HTML. Most ngs and mailing lists don't like it for security reasons and it's harder to read under Kmail. It shows up as little bitty teny weny fonts and I have to get out the ole Kmag. Anyway, it is as equally rude to post in HTML as it is for me to ask them not to. You're not being rude at all, it's those that post in anything but ASCII plain text that are being rude, and/or clueless, arrogant. The 'Welcome' email that everyone is sent when they join this, or most any other email list, requires posting in plain text only. Requests. Not Requires. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -- -- Michael J. Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Registered Linux user #201348 "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
Re: [newbie] Modems
On 16 Jan 2001 19:27:42 +, GrUnTiE GoOdInE wrote: Just wondering if anyone can point me two a web page that lists Linux Compatable modems?? Any external modem. Any modem that does NOT say WinModem is pretty much guaranteed to work. if it is a winmodem,try http://www.linmodems.org. Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- -- Michael J. Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Registered Linux user #201348 "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
Re: [newbie] samba-novell
On 17 Jan 2001 00:12:24 +0200, Leonidas Papadopoulos wrote: In my business, i have a server with Novell, and 2 computers running Windows 98, and pluged with the server. Can i replace Novell with Samba(Linux)? Samba imitates a Windows server, not a Netware server. Use the mars-nwe software to emulate a Netware server. -- -- Michael J. Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Registered Linux user #201348 "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
Re: [newbie] samba-novell
On 16 Jan 2001 20:47:09 -0500, Dan LaBine wrote: Actually, unless you are stuck with Novell for some specific requirement, No, I don't think so. I'd lose the SFTIII (mirrored failover servers); I'd lose the Zen (that software install from server is NICE); the directory support is not nearly as complete. -- -- Michael J. Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Registered Linux user #201348
RE: [newbie] =ModeM-
On 14 Jan 2001 13:40:31 -0500, Jeff Norris wrote: Ditto on the U.S. Robotics modem, 7.2 on the Linux. ALWAYS get an external modem. Pay the extra money, and avoid all those potential problems about WinModems, IRQ conflicts, etc. I like USR and Zoom modems, myself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of L. H. LOO Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] =ModeM- At 13-01-2001 -0800, you wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) FYI I am using external 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem with Linux-Mandrake 7.1.The modem works; also 'cured' my Bios port IO conflict at 2f8 : com2 aka /dev/ttyS1. -- -- Michael J. Leone mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF
