Re: [newbie] Broadband modems
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 12:38, Keith Powell wrote: > I'm lost!! > > I want to go broadband, and the ISP gives me the choice of two modems in their > broadband pack: > > Voyager 105 USB Modem > > or > > A220 PCI Modem (internal?) > > The Mandrake hardware database does not list either. > > Any advice on either of these, please? Will either work with Mandrake? > > Would I be better off going to a computer shop and buying a different modem? > If so, what would you recommend? > > I am running Mandrake 10.0 > > Many thanks > > Keith > Of all the choices, go for the third *every* time. Get almost any ethernet card (unless your motherboard already has one) and external modem or modem/router will do the trick. It will be easier to set up & more stable than either of your ISPs choices (even under windows). pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] What Ritter says
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What Ritter says
The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty over WMD to bolster the US and UK's case for war 10 October 2004 The Independant UK http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=570477 It appears that the last vestiges of perceived legitimacy regarding the decision of President George Bush and Tony Blair to invade Iraq have been eliminated with the release this week of the Iraq Survey Group's final report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The report's author, Charles Duelfer, underscored the finality of what the world had come to accept in the 18 months since the invasion of Iraq - that there were no stockpiles of WMD, or programmes to produce WMD. Despite public statements made before the war by Bush, Blair and officials and pundits on both sides of the Atlantic to the contrary, the ISG report concludes that all of Iraq's WMD stockpiles had been destroyed in 1991, and WMD programmes and facilities dismantled by 1996. Duelfer's report does speak of Saddam Hussein's "intent" to acquire WMD once economic sanctions were lifted and UN inspections ended (although this conclusion is acknowledged to be derived from fragmentary and speculative sources). This judgement has been seized by Bush and Blair as they scramble to re-justify their respective decisions to wage war. "The Duelfer report showed that Saddam was systematically gaming the system, using the UN oil-for-food programme to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions," Bush said. "He was doing so with the intent of restarting his weapons programme once the world looked away." Blair, for his part, has apologised for relying on faulty intelligence, but not for his decision to go to war. The mantra from both camps remains that the world is a safer place with Saddam behind bars. But is it? When one examines the reality of the situation on the ground in Iraq today, it seems hard to draw any conclusion that postulates a scenario built around the notion of an improved environment of stability and security. Indeed, many Iraqis hold that life under Saddam was a better option than the life they are facing under an increasingly violent and destabilising US-led occupation. The ultimate condemnation of the failure and futility of the US-UK effort in Iraq is that if Saddam were released from his prison cell and participated in the elections scheduled for next January, there is a good chance he would emerge as the popular choice. But while democratic freedom of expression was a desired outcome of the decision to remove Saddam from power, the crux of the pre-war arguments and the ones being reconfigured by those in favour of the invasion centre on the need to improve international peace and security. Has Saddam's removal accomplished this? To answer this question, you have to postulate a world today that includes an Iraq led by Saddam. How this world would deal with him would be determined by decisions made by the US, Britain and the international community in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. One of the key historical questions being asked is what if Hans Blix (who gives his own view, right) had been given the three additional months he had requested in order to complete his programme of inspection? Two issues arise from this scenario: would Blix have been able to assemble enough data to ascertain conclusively, in as definitive a fashion as the Duelfer ISG report, a finding that Saddam's Iraq was free of WMD, and thus posed no immediate threat; and would the main supporters of military engagement with Iraq, the US and Britain, have been willing to accept such a finding? The answer to the first point is that Blix and his team of inspectors were saddled with a complicated list of "cluster issues", ironically assembled by Duelfer during his tenure as head of the UN weapons inspectors, that would have needed to be rectified for any finding of compliance to be made. These "clusters" postulated the need for Iraq to prove the negative, something that is virtually impossible to do. We now know that Iraq's WMD were destroyed in 1991. The problem wasn't the weapons, but verification of Iraq's declarations. The standards of verification set by Duelfer-Blix were impossible for Iraq to meet, thus making closure on the "cluster" issues also an unattainable goal. This situation answers the second point as well. Since the inspection process was pre-programmed to fail, there would be no way the US or the UK would accept any finding of compliance from the UN weapons inspectors. The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty regarding Iraq's WMD, which was used by the US and the UK to bolster their case for war. It appears that there was no way short of war to create an environment where a finding of Iraq's compliance with its obligation to disarm could be embraced by the US and British governments. The main reason for this was that the issue wasn't WMD per se, but Saddam. The true goa
Re: [newbie] Thats a relief!
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 12:26 -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > The US Patent office has *rejected* all claims by Microsoft to the FAT > filesystem. > > :-) > > http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004093003026NWLL MS began its appeal against its 497 euro fine, demands that it remove Media Player, and demands that it share details with competitors. Their lawyer argues that "This is the first time in competitive history that a company has been ordered to draw up a description of secret technology and deliver it to its competitors," Against them Samba said "The protocols are not secret because they're valuable; they're valuable because they're secret," & "each time Microsoft updates its products, it can tweak the protocols so others cannot use them." said that each time Microsoft updates its products, it can tweak the protocols so others cannot use them. pm 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: data cd's
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 09:08 -0400, john wrote: > Björn Lundin wrote: > > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > > > >>On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:17, john wrote: > >> > >>>Hello > >>>I will be using cdrw media in upcoming work to transfer files between > >>>work and home and also use for backup. In winblows, it was a matter of > >>>"save as" and indicate cd. I have not used win for about a year now and > >>>don't intend to. Would appreciate some advice on which application would > >>>be simplest to setup and use or point me in the right direction for > >>>info. I have tried k3b, eroaster, and nautilus without much success. My > >>>lack of experience in setup is probably the real issue. Thanks in > >>>advance. John > >> > >>John what exactly are your problems? > >>I myself used Nautilus on a laptop and K3B on my desktop. Both are > >>"no-brainers" to install as one uses "urpmi" to do that correctly. > >> > >>Neither of them require any special setup as they probe for CD drives > >>themselves. If your drive isn't found, there might some other problem with > >>your hardware. > >> > >>Nautilus offers the option "burn to CD" when right-clicking an a file and > >>K3B > >>supports drag & drop very well IMO. > > > > I think he's after UDF writing. I'm not sure if that's supported at in > > Linux. Some googling only gives dead projects, but no valuable info. I'd go > > with a usb-stick instead, if moving data between machines is the primary > > reason, and burning to an cd-r/dvd with k3b for backup > > /Björn > Hello > Thanks for the response. I will be developing spreadsheets, schedules, > e-mail to send out at home, etc. I have 2 projects that require driving > about 150 miles per day. I use laptop on road and desktop at home. It is > easier to enter info. during day and sort out,adjust. or modify at home. > When using k3b for example, it burns the first file on cd ok, but then > doesn't like adding the next file or making changes to the existing > file. I tried the force button but this ends with error. I'm not > familiar with a usb-stick but might be an alternative. Thanks again for > info. > John > In light of this, ignore my last post (or transfer all the files at the day's end) A USB stick is almost certainly the best way to go (or any USB mass storage device). If you take your laptop home, you could possibly use a crossover cable to network it to your home machine. pm 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: data cd's
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 13:50 +0200, Björn Lundin wrote: > H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:17, john wrote: > >> Hello > >> I will be using cdrw media in upcoming work to transfer files between > >> work and home and also use for backup. In winblows, it was a matter of > >> "save as" and indicate cd. I have not used win for about a year now and > >> don't intend to. Would appreciate some advice on which application would > >> be simplest to setup and use or point me in the right direction for > >> info. I have tried k3b, eroaster, and nautilus without much success. My > >> lack of experience in setup is probably the real issue. Thanks in > >> advance. John > > > > John what exactly are your problems? > > I myself used Nautilus on a laptop and K3B on my desktop. Both are > > "no-brainers" to install as one uses "urpmi" to do that correctly. > > > > Neither of them require any special setup as they probe for CD drives > > themselves. If your drive isn't found, there might some other problem with > > your hardware. > > > > Nautilus offers the option "burn to CD" when right-clicking an a file and > > K3B > > supports drag & drop very well IMO. > I think he's after UDF writing. I'm not sure if that's supported at in > Linux. Some googling only gives dead projects, but no valuable info. I'd go > with a usb-stick instead, if moving data between machines is the primary > reason, and burning to an cd-r/dvd with k3b for backup > /Björn > Surely UDF isn't required? Cds are written to iso9660 standard, readable by anything - a disk burnt under k3b will be read by a Windows box, and a Nero-burnt disk read under linux. However, there are UDF tools at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux- udf/ pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] List of linux compatible devices
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:22 +0200, Thereidos wrote: > Hi folks. > > Sorry to bother you with this but I'm perfectly sure that a list of > linux compatible devices was posted here (actually it was a link) some > time ago but I cannot find it in the archive. Could anyone point me to > where I can find it? > > I'm actually thinking of buying a new scanner. I think I'll go for a > Tevion/Medion MD-40420. AFAIK it's the same model as Microtek's > ScanMaker 5800. But I'm not sure if it will work good with my ML (Tevion > of course). > > Can anyone help me with this? Some link or advice would be really > appreciated. http://www.linuxcompatible.org/ but probably more use is the SANE (Scanners Are Now Easy) pages at: http://www.sane-project.org/ which says the Tevion 40420 is not supported. pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:27 -0400, Todd Slater wrote: > > You should just be able to point to all of your directories from the > command line, such as > > normalize -m /path/to/dir1/*.wav /path/to/dir2/*.wav > > You might even be able to put all of the directories in a text file and > do something like > > normalize -m `cat directorylist` > > You might even be able to automatically generate the directory list with > something like > > find /path/to/start/looking -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 2 >> directorylist > > (then you'd have to add /*.wav to the end) > > Or, just recurse a top level directory to find all the wav's with > something like > > find /top/level -type f -iname '*.wav' > > and use those results as input to normalize. > > Todd many thanks for the tips pm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:49, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 > PM disseminated the following: > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts > > > on, > > > and it won't boot from the CD. > > > > > > I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the > > > install > > > I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit 'Ok', it tells me to insert > > > the > > > 'Additional Drivers floppy'. > > > > > > I can see nothing in the INSTALL or README about this, except for network > > > drivers to do a net install, and no images that fit this description in the > > > /Images dir on the CD. > > > > > > Help? > > > > How Old? Is there any possibility that its a non-ATAPI CD in the box > > (old Dolphin, etc)? > > Well, it's pretty old, but it's from another box which I had installed MDK on > before, though that was 9.2 (IIRC). This machine, however, does not allow for > booting from the CD :-(. One thing I should have mentioned, if I boot from a > Win98 floppy (one of the few useful things to come out of MS), it detects the > CDROM and I can read from the drive. Unfortunately, this does me no good as the > MDK CD doesn't appear to have any 'setup' or 'install' scripts I can run to get > things going. > > Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? have you tried making a boot disk from the /images/alternatives directory, rather than the cdrom.img? -- pm The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:00, JoeHill wrote: > Hey all, > > Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, > and it won't boot from the CD. > > I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install > I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit 'Ok', it tells me to insert the > 'Additional Drivers floppy'. > > I can see nothing in the INSTALL or README about this, except for network > drivers to do a net install, and no images that fit this description in the > /Images dir on the CD. > > Help? How Old? Is there any possibility that its a non-ATAPI CD in the box (old Dolphin, etc)? -- pm Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 16:04, Todd Slater wrote: > My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it > would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and > put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! > > I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to > encode to flac, but it just hangs with all sorts of problems. > > So, why the diff? Any way to rip it from my stereo's cd? (Technics > SL-PG480A) > > Todd > As you already own it, there should be no reason why you can't download it as MP3 if not FLAC (I know its not as good, but) from a torrent site. Probably the easiest way to go. -- pm The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 21:04, David Johnson wrote: > Wow! I can't wait for this! > > To answer your question (at least to provide some more information), I > notice that there are links to download the preview in MP3 format. I > can only assume that they will offer the same when the series > starts...? > > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:27:50 -0400, Charles A Edwards > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:13:16 +0100 > > Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > xine handles it without problem for me > > > > Charles > > > > -- > > Necessity has no law. > > -- St. Augustine I doubt that they will put it out as MP3, because then they'll loose the royalties when they put it out as CD etc. The choice will be Real and (possibly) wm. Programme will be broadcast on a Sunday? evening & Thursday night at 11.30 UK time. After the Thursday broadcast will be able to listen from the BBC site for 7 days. -- pm Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. Peter Ustinov Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [HAB] Wireless Networking Package
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 11:07, MyEE wrote: > Dears, > > I would like to setup a wireless network in my home. I have no idea > where to start. But I guess the best start is to buy the equipment. Can > anyone recommend a wireless equipment for home use (such as, hotspot > router, cards, etc.) > > The web site http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ The Book 'Linux Unwired' Weeks, R. et al, O'Reilly media Inc., 2004 ISBN 0-596-00583-0 Google for others, but I found the more I discovered the more confused I got. -- pm --- I would never die for my beliefs. I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:35, John Richard Smith wrote: > Much has been written on this thread about, > > Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem > Netgear DM602 router/modem > > but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests > the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here in the uk. > > The model most often suggested is the, > > NETGEAR DG834 ADSL Firewall £52.17 £61.30 inc VAT > Product Information > Anyone got any experience with this model ? > Does work well ? > > See http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=1291 > Of course this equipement isn't only a router/modem but also a 4 port > 10/100 LAN switch. I could just about cope with a 4port put this leaves > me with no room for expansion. > > I already have a DES1008D 8 port D-link . Is it then possible to just > cross link the two to provide additional ports ? > > Or should I look around for an alternative model possibly the same but > with an 8port switch. > John -- pm Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. Peter Ustinov 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote: > Margot > I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake. > I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend. > > It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working than a DSL router, but > it is certainly possible to get it to work. > > You will need the speedtouch_mgmt package installed which contains the Alcatel > binary driver. It is not on the download edition, but is available on the > Powerpack CDs, or from MandrakeClub. Contact me if you have trouble finding > it. > > I could not get my friends working with the 2.6 kernel, but the 2.4 kernel > worked fine. > Mandrake 10.0 has a wizard to set up the speedtouch. Information you will need > is :- > > VPI/VCI number - In the UK this is VPI=0 VCI=38 > Framing VC/MUX > Protocol PPPoA > Username - supplied by your ISP > Password - supplied by ISP > > I do not know how Linux friendly your ISP is, but I have just put DSL in for > my sister using Pipex, and they are not Linux hostile like some other ISPs. > (Good prices too) > > derek > Just one point - depending upon provider, protocol might be PPPoE. -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux utility to fix partition table
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 23:56, Johan Sch wrote: > Hi, > > While rsyncing data to my second drive for backup it went into "forever" . the disk > light stayed on and the box "hanged". The only recourse was to press the reset > switch. > > So to be on the safe side I booted with the cdrom rescue system. > > Fdsik -l . told me that disk hdg1 , hdg2, hdg3, hdg4 the extended partition did not > end on a cylinder. The rest from hdg5 up to hdg11 were OK. > > Checking with partition magic 8. I was told there is errors and want to fix it. > I read sometime ago on one of the many lists I belong to not to fix this with PM. > There is a linux utility that can fix linux partitions. > This drive was partitioned with qtparted. > > There was also mention that linux utilities exist to reset the mbr and other disk > repair operatins. > > Kindly please may I have the names of these utilities. > > Thanks dd_rescue *might* be what you're looking for. -- pm The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:31, Margot wrote: > > Right now, I can afford the broadband service plus the USB modem. > I'd have to save up for another 2-3 months to go for the other > option. I'd appreciate your opinion on this - will the ease of use > of the ethernet option be worth the wait and the extra expense? > > Thanks > Margot > Margot, I can just about guarantee you WILL end up buying an ethernet card - even if you get a USB modem first, there is no comparison between the two. Save your money, forget the Speedtouch would be my advice every time (I've been down that route). -- Paul M _ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:19, Aron Smith wrote: > On Thursday 02 September 2004 10:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I don't have this actually working yet , been waiting until affordable > > decent quality broadband comes into use in UK. Everything takes for ever > > in UK. They never market for the masses in UK. Not like the Japanese who > > would not even think of any other market than the mass market from day > > one. They ought to be marketing a minimum 2MB/sec download/upload for > > what it costs to buy dialup, but they don't, so the market remains > > narrow and unfulfilled.But that is UK marketing for you. No competition, > > everything has to go through dear old BT one way or another, who know > > how to squeeze the local loop monopoly to the bone. > worse here (California) $49.95/mo (1.5Mb down 256k up) > > > > John > Cyprus Pounds 35.00/month (1 Mb /256 K) (approx USD 73). But Where I lived in the UK still has no broadband access. -- pm Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:32, warren wrote: > PM wrote: > >>Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 > >>options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to > >> > >>urpmi > >> > >>to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know > >>what the name of that is? > >> > > > > > > urpmi IS the mandrake rpm package installer. > > > > sorry, i should rephrase the question. I now have the control center > back, and when i open it up i only have 6 options in the GUI menu, > Boot, Hardware, Mount Points, Network, Security and System. > > now before I ballsed things up, I used to have a menu iten for > software installation in this MCC menu. How do i get this back? > > When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the results: /usr/bin/drakbug* /usr/bin/draklocale@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-remove@ /usr/bin/drakconf*/usr/bin/drakrpm@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-update@ /usr/bin/drakhelp*/usr/bin/drakrpm-edit-media@ Do you get the same? -- pm Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. Peter Ustinov 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > >On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > >>Bryan Phinney wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem > >>>as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. > >>> > >>>Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook up to > >>>your ethernet card and should be as close to plug and play as you get. > >>>The USB option is more likely to result in possible compatibility > >>>problems. > >>> > >>> > >>But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with > >>your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? > >> > >> > >MCC will configure your card real nice > > > > > >>John > >> > >> > When you say configured, that is as a card recognised by the systen and > a device to be used by the system, you don't mean as part of the network ? > > > John > > Mcc will do both, for eth0, likely to have a few more problems with a second card (eth1). -- pm Only the educated are free. Epictetus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:19, warren wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > Then reinstall drakconf > > > > In a root terminal > > urpmi drakconf > > > > If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM > > and install it with > > > > rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm > > Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 > options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to > > urpmi > > to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know > what the name of that is? > urpmi IS the mandrake rpm package installer. -- pm Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:49, PM wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:22, Margot wrote: > > Richard Urwin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney > > >> > > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >>>On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: > > >>> > > >>>>They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will > > >>>>definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now > > >>>>dual booting)? Preferably an external one, as I'm not confident > > >>>>with screwdrivers! Or, are there any I should definitely avoid? > > >>> > > >>>Margot, you really should be asking them for a list of > > >>>recommendations. ADSL is not totally universal as far as equipment > > >>>goes, so the kind of modem that you need is going to be determined > > >>>by the hardware at the DSLAM and phone company, not based on the > > >>>operating system you run. According to their web page, they > > >>>support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear > > >>>DM602 router/modem. > > >>> > > >>>Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook > > >>>up to your ethernet card and should be as close to plug and play as > > >>>you get. The USB option is more likely to result in possible > > >>>compatibility problems. > > >> > > >>It appears that the USB is fine as well: > > >>http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/fc2_speedtouch_usb.html > > >>http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ > > >> > > >>There are some issues, but the howto's should get them through it. > > >>There is a lot of support for it out there. It won't be as easy as > > >>the NetGear but it's all about choice. > > > > > > > > > The other nice thing about ethernet routers is that you can have a > > > firewall up that allows no evil traffic to even get as far as your > > > machine. > > > > > > Try the reviews on http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ > > > http://www.adslguide.org.uk/reviews/ > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, all - I think I'm going to have to go with the USB option > > for now - I don't have an ethernet card! And the Speedtouch 330 > > seems to be fairly cheap and widely available... > > > > Margot > > > > Can't let you go down that route without a comment, Margot. > > Save some money and get the card & modem - you will end up doing that > anyway, and have a USB modem to hoard. > > When you look at all the advice regarding USB, you'll often find > comments such as "that's what you are supposed to do, but I never got > mine to work". > have to add, look at http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16970 for advice on setting up a Speedtouch. -- pm Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:43, warren wrote: > PM wrote: > > > > what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) > > give you? > > > > the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing > bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is > the Open Office or Mandrake control utilities) > > I tried to install firefox again by clicking on the .rpm and where > it usually asks for a root password this time it just asked what i > would like to open the file with. > > Apologies, I should have said /usr/bin/drakconf (its one of those days) Always use the command urpmi rather than rpm. e.g. urpmi firefox urpmi drakconf will identify whether mcc is missing & install it if it is. To use urpmi you will need to have it set up for the sources you want to use (CD, Penguin Liberation Front, mandrake Updates, Club, etc) see the easy urpmi site for advice. -- Paul M _ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:20, warren wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > > open a terminal type as root "mcc" if you get mandrake control center then > > open another terminal an as root type "updatedb && update-menus" > > > Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# mcc > bash: mcc: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# > > thats all i get :-( > what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? -- pm ___ I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:29, John Richard Smith wrote: > PM wrote: > > >On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > > > >>But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with > >>your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? > >> > >>John > >> > >> > >> > >> > >I bought the first/cheapest and had no problems - turned out to have a > >RealTek chipset immediately recognised by Mandrake - cost UKP 9.00. > > > > > > > > > > > Do you mean to say that the system itself only had to recognise the > ethonet card for the router/modem to work, you didn't have to spend > hours and hours in badly documented procedural to get the ethonet card > configured properly ? > > John > > No problem at all with the card - with a standard installation there'e loads of drivers in the kernel as modules. If you've configured the kernel yourself type lspci -v in a terminal and find what kind of card it is and then modprobe that driver. (as for any PCI card you've got) Configuring the router/modem is a different story - if you want to set up firewall (for example), but then you've got security that a modem (USB or ethernet) won't give you. -- pm ___ It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > >On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: > > > > > > > >According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well > >as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. > > > >Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook up to your > >ethernet card and should be as close to plug and play as you get. The USB option > >is more likely to result in possible compatibility problems. > > > > > > > > > > > But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with > your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? > > John > > I bought the first/cheapest and had no problems - turned out to have a RealTek chipset immediately recognised by Mandrake - cost UKP 9.00. -- pm We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses 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 needed for UK Broadband
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:22, Margot wrote: > Richard Urwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney > >> > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: > >>> > >>>>They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will > >>>>definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now > >>>>dual booting)? Preferably an external one, as I'm not confident > >>>>with screwdrivers! Or, are there any I should definitely avoid? > >>> > >>>Margot, you really should be asking them for a list of > >>>recommendations. ADSL is not totally universal as far as equipment > >>>goes, so the kind of modem that you need is going to be determined > >>>by the hardware at the DSLAM and phone company, not based on the > >>>operating system you run. According to their web page, they > >>>support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear > >>>DM602 router/modem. > >>> > >>>Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook > >>>up to your ethernet card and should be as close to plug and play as > >>>you get. The USB option is more likely to result in possible > >>>compatibility problems. > >> > >>It appears that the USB is fine as well: > >>http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/fc2_speedtouch_usb.html > >>http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ > >> > >>There are some issues, but the howto's should get them through it. > >>There is a lot of support for it out there. It won't be as easy as > >>the NetGear but it's all about choice. > > > > > > The other nice thing about ethernet routers is that you can have a > > firewall up that allows no evil traffic to even get as far as your > > machine. > > > > Try the reviews on http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ > > http://www.adslguide.org.uk/reviews/ > > > > > > Thanks, all - I think I'm going to have to go with the USB option > for now - I don't have an ethernet card! And the Speedtouch 330 > seems to be fairly cheap and widely available... > > Margot > Can't let you go down that route without a comment, Margot. Save some money and get the card & modem - you will end up doing that anyway, and have a USB modem to hoard. When you look at all the advice regarding USB, you'll often find comments such as "that's what you are supposed to do, but I never got mine to work". -- pm Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. Peter Ustinov Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] M$ has beaten Linux?
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 09:22, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html > > - -- 2 quotes from the above: "For years customers griped that Microsoft was gouging them. Now, thanks to IBM, Novell, and Red Hat, customers are learning what it is that Microsoft charges them for--upgrades, patches, research and development, indemnification, integration of disparate programs. Some, like the folks in Newham, are discovering that Microsoft isn't ripping them off at all." and "And, yes, as Newham proves, Linux is forcing Microsoft to slash prices and to work harder to keep customers." If MS isn't ripping them off, how can they 'slash prices'? -- pm I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 08:37, M.Schild wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:02 am, Erylon Hines wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: > > | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50 pm, M.Schild wrote: > > | > charlie wrote: > > | > >On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: > > | > >>My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop as > > | > > | I cannot recall for certain, but 9.2 worked everything rather well too. > > | HTH > > | > > | Charlie > > > > Ditto, here. 9.1 worked well and 9.2 is problem free (except for the need > > to download the kernel-source, which is 40+ megs and the need to get the > > update-db bugfixes--absolutely mandatory). If you have a Lucent chipped > > winmodem that will work with the 2.4 kernel, too. Truthfully, I don't see > > much difference between 9.1 and 9.2, and I have both systems side-by-side > > in my office. > > > > If my friend is willing to try 9.1, where do I find the kernel-source and the > updates? > Maryse > iso for CDs at: ftp://mirror.fis.unb.br/pub/linux/Mandrake-old/iso/ RPMs at ftp://mirror.fis.unb.br/pub/linux/Mandrake-old/9.1/i586/ pm -- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues...
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 22:10, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi all, > I experience some strange behavior when I try to download files, etc. > from an ftp site. For example, when I click the following (to download > UltraEdit) it times out. > > http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=1 > > When I click the same link on a Windows box on the same intranet I can > download it no problem. > > I am behind a firewall but so is the Windows box. I'm guessing it has > something to do with my Linux box but I don't know what! > > Any ideas on why this is? > > tia At a guess, you're using Internet Explorer on the Windows box, and it's a non-standard site, e.g uses the crap MS called javascript . if this is true you can do several things: 1. set up your browser to masquerade as IE, (Opera is probably the easiest), 2. download using windows, and the MOST IMPORTANT 3. contact the owner of the site and complain about their web page not using standard HTML coding, thereby reducing their consumer base. -- Paul M Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. Jules Renard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 01:35, Richard Urwin wrote: > Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al debacle > fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase. > > (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has accused Linus > of copying MINIX when creating Linux. That would be an unlicensed use > of MINIX and if it were true would call into question the legality of > Linux.) The developer of Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum, has stated that this is not the case. See his comments at: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ and http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/followup/ -- pm We can learn even from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other > applications then the most common, such as Office. "Derive" is a > very special beast. > > Never mind Hoyt, Lyvim, John and all you nice people. My daughters > Windows box stays off the net, she uses Linux for networking, > there's peace in my home, in my mind and - hopefully on this fine > list too. > > Have a good week-end, all. > > Kaj Haulrich. Crossover only list the tried & proven applications, I use it for several other apps that aren't listed. Try the trial version, check whether yours work or not, but still probably better to maintain the present setup. pm -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Radio Ham Question....
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:43, JRH wrote: > Hi, > > I know there are a few Radio Hams who lurk on here > > I'm looking for the Linux equivalent of CWGET, the soundcard morse decoding > program. > > Anybody know of a linux equivalent? > > 73's, > > JRH Check the Linux Ham Radio & Utilities page at http://radio.linux.org.au/ there are about 20 morse applications there, including a couple of decoders (plus everything else you might need) -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:17, Wolfdreamer wrote: > Hi me again. > > Ok, Ive managed to break URPMI again. > > I've some how managed to get it to disable the links for: > > international CD (x86) (cdrom2) > international CD (x86) (cdrom3) > > and when I try using the X configure sources thing it tells me > > Unable to update medium; it will be automatically disabled. > > How do it get it to work again? > > on either cdrom or cdrom2 I don't care which, just want it working > again. > > Clyde > > See http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom you will need to have the first cd in the drive for this. -- pm --- I would never die for my beliefs. I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:26, M.Schild wrote: > > > > Thank you. It wasn´t on : > > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ > > but I found an article in frech on: http://linuxfr.org/~spada/8122.html > saying Debian 3.0 installs well on it. The modem only works with the 2.4.23 kernel > but the rest functions with 2.6 > Problem: how do I get the modem driver if I cannot connect her laptop? > Maryse > > > > > > > > > > Does it have a floppy? If not then CD, memory card reader, or a simple network to another machine with a crossover cable. -- pm Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:10, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: > > Hello, > > A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One > > Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to > > Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. > > From what I found out on the net, her laptop has: RAM 256Mo , 1GHz ,HD > > 20 Go. > > What version would be best, MDK 9.1 or 10? Any foreseeable problems?( > > she would assassinate me if things went ( more) wrong. > > Thanks for your help > > Maryse > > > I would suggest you go over to > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html?PHPSESSID=8fb36aeaa7ea05b6eacff6cbbc718acb > > and get yourself a copy of PCLOS. > > PCLOS is a bootable linux liveCD based on Mandrake 9.2 made by a guy called > Texstar. > Tex has for many years produced RPM packages for Mandrake, and now he has > forked off his own distro. > > What is really nice about PCLOS is that you can boot it from CD just like > knoppix and it comes up as a Mandrake desktop with everything already > preconfigured with Nvidia drivers, Acrobat, Java etc, and with online update > sources predefined. (Tex uses Synaptic instead of rpmdrake for updates) > > Tex has bundled in a sensible selection of applications all ready to go. > Perfect for a Linux newbie. > > If your friend likes what she see. It is real simple to install PCLOS to hard > drive as a dual boot with Windows. Or alternatively you could proceed with a > standard Mandrake install knowing that if PCLOS runs then Mandrake will also > install OK. > > > I believe in the future all Linux distros will install like this. > > derek I'd go along with this suggestion, but I forgot until it started) it will take maybe 6 times longer to load as it comes from a CD not hard-drive. The other person wasn't impressed. Once applications are in RAM it goes well, just the starting up. -- pm If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:33, M.Schild wrote: > Hello, > A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One > Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to > Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. > From what I found out on the net, her laptop has: RAM 256Mo , 1GHz ,HD > 20 Go. > What version would be best, MDK 9.1 or 10? Any foreseeable problems?( > she would assassinate me if things went ( more) wrong. > Thanks for your help > Maryse > > Your best bet would be to check out the Linux on Laptops site at: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Should be little difference between 9 & 10, but there may be difficulties with sound and/or modem - depends on what they use. -- pm Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Real newbie stuff
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 17:30, Peter Davis wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Dell XPS T500 last week. I've used > various flavors of *n*x in the past, but this is my first experience > with Linux. So far, I'm very pleased, but I have a few questions. > > 1) Is there a way to get the KDE terminal icon to bring up a terminal > with tcsh instead of bash? > > 2) I've tried installing various rpms from various network sites, but > the installer always tells me there some component or other missing. Is > there anything like cpan, where installing will automatically install > all the required software? I installed nmh 1.1 RC3 by hand, but I'm > trying to get sylpheed-claws, SpamAssassin, and various other things. > > 3) How come there's no link -s? All I can find is plain link. Is this > a hard or soft link? > > Thanks. I'm sure there will be thousands more as I proceed. > > -pd 1. From the k menu - system - configuration - KDE - components - component chooser - terminal emulator 2. check out urpmi once it's set up instead of rpm -i xxx.rpm use urpmi xxx (there are options but save them for later). urpmi can be set up easily from http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php 3. You can create a symbolic link with the command ln -s -- pm The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch 22 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: Mandrake Club
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Sunday 22 August 2004 01:50 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > Derek Jennings wrote: > > > Do not be under any illusion. Mandrake Club membership does not give you > > > many 'monetary' advantages. It is really just a way for people who would > > > otherwise buy boxed sets to use the download edition and still contribute > > > back. > > > > Wouldn't be better if Mandrake Club offered boxed CD sets for (less > > than) 60$. If I wanted to help Mandrake, maybe I'd rather buy directly > > from them than from local bookstores (and the local bookstores sell for > > not much more than CD media costs). > > > > Regards, > > > > Misko > > Misko: > Mandrake Club members _do_ get a discount when they order CDs at the Mandrake > Store. I'm not certain whether this is available to all members, or only for > Silver and up. > -- cmg > > Plus discounts on other items (e.g. Crossover Office) -- pm If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Dear list... > > I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you > have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : > > A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years > old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special, > school-related apps. The PC came with WinXP pre-installed. > > The first thing I did was to install Mozilla, OpenOffice and some > sort of firewall, called ZoneAlarm. Now, I thought it was safe > > Suddenly, when she tries to send an e-mail (from within Mozilla, of > course, I'm not THAT stupid), up pops a message from our ISP saying > that the box is compromized, accordingly the smtp-server won't > accept the mail. In fact, her IP was blacklisted. > > Some on-line security scans, revealed no less than 159 trojans, > worms and viruses ! Hi Kaj, I see you've received plenty of replies re adaware, Zone Alarm etc. You say that you need XP for school related apps, but does this include internet access? If not, I would suggest you dual-boot, set up a FAT 32 partition to store data that can be read by both XP & Linux, and use linux for emails, web. file transfers, etc. yes, virii can be transferred by a linux box, but you'll stand a better chance of catching it. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 3Com Wireless PCMCIA card to work on Gateway Profile
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:03, Thinker wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Gateway Profile 3. For anyone > unfamiliar with this model, take a look at > http://products.gateway.com/products/GConfig/prodDetails.asp? > system_id=prf5m1&seg=sb > > > Anyway, these machines have PCMCIA slots like laptops and I have a 3Com > Wireless card (3CRPAG175) that worked flawlessly when this machine had > Windows XP home on it. The only info I could find was this > http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp? > selected=5&sort=fsize&sku=3CRPAG175. > > We have decided to look into Linux as an alternative to Windows XP for > all of our future workstations. This Profile is being used as a 'test > subject'. The 10/100 Network is working fine as well as everything else > except the wireless card. Can anyone offer any help or advice on how to > get this working? > > > Thanks in advance > > .:Thinker > The definitive resource: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html The 3COM page refers to the madwifi drivers, stating they do not offer support: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ and Mandrake do a madwifi kernel rpm so just type urpmi madwifi_kernel-2. (with your kernel entered, of course) -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Boot from UsB or Firewire.
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 21:13, Ayoub890 wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > Todd Slater wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? > >>> > >>> Thanx, > >>> > >>> Ayoub > >>> > >> > >> > >> As long as your BIOS supports it. > >> > >> Todd > >> > >> > >> > > Or if you can put /boot on a drive your BIOS does support. You need > > to load the kernel, and the initial RAM disk using the BIOS. After > > that, as long as support for the root file system in in the kernel, or > > the RAM disk, you are all set. > > > > Mikkel > > Does /boot mean the Master Boot Block? > I think this means that both the BIOS and the kernel need to have > appropriate functionality. > Does the LM10 kernel have the necessary feature? and if so are there > Motherboards with BIOS that support the feature? > > Thanx, > > Ayoub > > > The important word is *BIOS*. Can you go into your motherboard's BIOS settings at boot, and select 'USB' in addition to 'floppy', 'CD-ROM', 'IDE-0', etc. The kernel little relevance here, although clearly it will need to to be optimised for USB after you have booted. -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 18:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 20 August 2004 07:54 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Friday 20 August 2004 07:38 am, PM wrote: > > > You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ > > > > > > Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15)& they will give you > > > a serial number to run at full speed. > > > > > > Basically, Conexant won't release the information & Linuxant have bought > > > a license from them to sell drivers. > > > > If you are going to spend $15 for the Conexant driver anyway, you would be > > much smarter to do a quick search at http://pricewatch.com for "external > > 56k modem" and buy one of the external cendyne serial modems on sale for > > about $18 or even less, including shipping. Same price, better modem, no > > driver issues and they work seamlessly under Linux. > > Bryan: > That's excellent advice for those of us who only use desktop machines, but > what is a laptop user supposed to do? Schlepping around an external modem and > its associated wires and power wart would be a real pain. > -- cmg > > It's also excellent advice for those living in the U.S. I don't use (e.g.) pricewatch because the bulk of US dealers won't post overseas, and won't post to PO Boxes (the only option in many parts of the world). In addition, charges are a joke when you are buying from a company for posting to outside the US. If I buy from an individual via ebay (for example) the cost of postage is much more reasonable. -- Paul Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.org. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Windows XP 2 - already broke
Couldn't really make it up could you? A year late, billions of dollars, out less than 24 hours, and now: http://secunia.com/advisories/12321 Advise your friends running XP sp2 to turn off Active Scripting. -- pm ___ I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Full driver for Conexant modem
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:05, aj aj wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using Mandrake 10 and I installed a driver for Conexant > modem > hsfmodem-6.03.00lnxt04072900full_k2.6.3_4mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm.zip > and worked fine,but limited me to use the modem to 14.4k. > Anyone has a full driver functioning to 56k please send me. > > Your help is appreciated. > > Ahmed > You are using the trial version. See http://www.linuxant.com/ Send Linuxant some money (I think it's about USD 15)& they will give you a serial number to run at full speed. Basically, Conexant won't release the information & Linuxant have bought a license from them to sell drivers. -- Paul M _ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hewlett Packard Scanjet 3500c
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 10:27, Amy wrote: > Hey everyone! > > I've been googling to see if I could get my scanner working under > Mandrake, and I've getting very very frustrated and disappointed over > what Google seems to be telling me. Every single page I've found is > either trying to sell me the Scanjet 3500c, review it, or is some other > mailing list's archives with someone else asking a variation of the same > question I'm about to ask here. > > Is there any way I can get my HP Scanjet 3500c scanner working? Or would > I be better off finding a new home for it with someone who's stupid > enough to run windows still, and go hunt for a scanner that will work > with Mandrake instead? > > I hope someone on this list knows what I can do, because I really can't > afford to go buy a new scanner right now... but I've got stuff that I > would really like to scan. > > Thanks in advance! > > Amy > two possible choices: 1. http://www.lychnis.net/wiki/HP3500C "There is a working demo program for the HP ScanJet 3500C, HP ScanJet 3530C and HP ScanJet 3570C: [WWW] http://projects.troy.rollo.name/rt-scanners/rtdemo-1.0.tar.bz2. This demo can scan images at resolutions of 1200, 600, 400, 300, 200, 150, 100, 75, 50 and 25 DPI (although 1200 and 400 still have some issues with calibration), in full colour mode, and store the results in a PNM format image file. 2. A commercial program called vuescan. from http://www.hamrick.com/ It doesn't list the 3500 amongst it's supported scanners, but you can download a trial to check it out. I used it a couple of years ago for a scanner that wasn't supported by SANE and it's good. -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - OT
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 00:21, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 05:44, PM wrote: > > Could someone please remind me of the OT list address? I'm suffering > > badly from abuse withdrawal. > > > http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/mandrake/ > > -- > stephen kuhn - proprietor Like it. pm -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT - OT
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 23:02, Aron Smith wrote: > On Thursday 19 August 2004 12:44 pm, PM wrote: > > Could someone please remind me of the OT list address? I'm suffering > > badly from abuse withdrawal. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bring Asbestos undies :-D > Apologies, - the address to re-subscribe? -- pm The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT - OT
Could someone please remind me of the OT list address? I'm suffering badly from abuse withdrawal. -- pm ___ I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Powerpack VS CE
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 22:28, Gregory Croes wrote: > > > What is the difference between mandrake powerpack an community edition > Mandrake explain it at their sites. Specific links: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/10/powerpack http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.0/features/ BTW, 'CE' was replaced by 'Official' Amongst other things, powerpack has a wider range of commercial software (e.g. Acroread, Flash). -- pm If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A Little Something for us SysAdmins!
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 21:37, Lanman wrote: > Courtesy of a fellow list-lurker, I received this link and thought I'd > share it with all the sysadmins on the list. I especially like the > pictures of all the racks a setups! > > Happy Belated System Administrators Day! > > Lanman > > OK, Enough fun. Now get out there and fix something! > > > __ erm? -- pm Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. Peter Ustinov Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Torrent
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 20:35, JRH wrote: > Hi All, > > My CD1 of my 9.2 install set is buggered. > > Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a .torrent file for LM9.2 > CD1, pref ISO file? > > Many thanks, > > JRH > There won't be any advantage in a .torrent file for this, they are only useful when there's a large number of downloaders. The torrent also downloads all CD isos. You can still get the full 9.2.1 distribution as a torrent at the club download page, or an iso for individual cds from the mandrake mirrors (they'll take you to 10, but move up to a higher level and then choose 9.2 (e.g. ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/os/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/ official/iso/i586/9.2/ -- pm The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Stopped printing.
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote: > I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from > Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other distros). I > haven't altered anything since it printed correctly in Mandrake yesterday! > > I have tried Open Office, Abiword, KWord, KWrite and printing from a terminal. > None will print :-( > > This is the error message I get: > > > A print error occurred. Error message received from system: > > cupsdoprint -P 'EPSONStylusCOLOR670' -J 'Untitled' -H 'localhost:631' -U > 'keith' -o ' copies=1 cpi=12 lpi=7 > multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies > orientation-requested=3 page-bottom=36 page-left=36 page-right=36 page-top=36 > scaling=100 wrap=true' '/tmp/kde-keith/kdeprint_7KoTFRaB' : execution failed > with message: > server-error-not-accepting-jobs > > > Can anyone help, please? > > Many thanks > > Keith > use cups to re-start the print server. If you are using KDE, open the menu, configure, printing, cups WWW admin, admin, manage printers, start printer. You might need to check 'jobs' first and remove any that are stuck in there, if so, you may not need to go into admin. -- pm The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lintalk
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > Anybody successfully used this program? I've been trying to use this > > > between my laptop and my desktop but I'm not having any luck. Docs > > > seem to be very sparse, no man pages, google returns next to nothing > > > on "lintalk howto" or "lintalk" or "lintalk help". > > > > > > I started it from a shell to see the output and the only thing I can > > > get is that its failing to load the "buddy" list from > > > /home/darklord/.lintalk but I checked this file, it was blank so I > > > put in an ipaddress, but with nothing to go on I'm not sure about the > > > format needed, so of course that didn't work either. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Sounds like most linux programs. > > Actually its quite a bit sparser than most. Honestly, between man pages, this > list (especially!) and google searches - there's not been much that I could > not find. This one is a tough nut to crack though. There is a newsgroup - it's got a whole 3 messages. The first is welcome to the group, but the other 2 deal with the buddy list. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lintalk-list/ Hope it's of use. -- pm Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 18:29, Tom Brinkman wrote: > 'rpm --rebuilddb'(as root, to make sure it's current) > > 'rpm -qa | grep -i mdk > mkd_rpms.txt' (txt file of all currently > installed Mandrake rpms) > 'rpm -qa | grep -i plf > plf_rpms.txt' (same for PLF) > > 'cat mkd_rpms.txt plf_rpms.txt > all_rpms.txt' > > That should give you a list of all currently installed rpms. > I usually do it for PLF only, so I've got a list to go by after a > fresh install to replace PLF packages. If you've got others, > like Charles' 'cae' rpms, just add that step into the mix. > > BTW I use an alias to save typing (alias frpm='rpm -qa | grep -i') > so just 'frpm plf > plf_rpms.txt' does the deal. many thanks for this, Tom. certainly one to save. -- pm ___ It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Package list help.
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 15:37, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2004 05:28, Frank wrote: > > OK. A favour for a favour, ( I hope? ) > > > > # rpm -qa > > > > Thats the command, now what do I add to the end of it to successfully > > pipe it to a text file? > > > > Regards > > > > Frank > > > > rpm -qa (filename) | tee (file where you want the answer) Any way to convert this to an alphabetical list? 8-) -- pm Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 23:57, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:41, PM wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 21:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 29 Jul 2004 at 12:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use > > > > > copy/paste. Please give me a clue? -- Regards; Hoyt > > > > > > > > for the man page > > > > > > > > $ man -t | lpr > > > > > > > > or see > > > > > > > > http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html#q10 > > > > > > > > pm > > > > > > Thanks for the refrence. LPR isnt quite right yet. > > > > That sends it straight to a printer at lpr. > > > > You could always man -t > .ps > > man -t sensors > sensors.ps > Nothing happened. Maybe I should explain, I have a i850 printer which > is not recognized by linux. I use a turboprint driver called tp0 and > any printer not called tp0 wont work. I just dont know how to tell > everything its there. > Regards; > Hoyt > man -t > .ps will convert the man file to a psotscript file & save to disk. Will man -t | tp0 do anything? -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 21:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 29 Jul 2004 at 12:56, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > There has to be a better way to print man pages than to use > > > copy/paste. Please give me a clue? -- Regards; Hoyt > > > > for the man page > > > > $ man -t | lpr > > > > or see > > > > http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html#q10 > > > > pm > Thanks for the refrence. LPR isnt quite right yet. That sends it straight to a printer at lpr. You could always man -t > .ps -- Paul Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] Mandrake10 Community
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: > What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? > > Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to > the package versions in it? > > I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the > information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a > dial-up connection. > > Many thanks for any information. > > Cheers > > Keith > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Useful links
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 00:09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > I may be the only guy in the universe who hasn't found these sites, but just > in case you missed them: > http://lottalinuxlinks.com/ > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ > -- cmg > > many thanks. I know the linux questions site but hadn't seen the lottalinuxlinks site. Looks useful. -- pm Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Albert Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ltmodem
Marc Lijour wrote: > Hi > > I have a Lucent Tech winmodem. I used ltmodem rpm in the past, and it > has to be combined with a kernel rpm. > > I have not found a kernel rpm for 2.6.3-9 which is the latest. > Somebody has one? Instead of using the kernel rpm use the source rpm, works with any kernel. -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for the brother of FrontPage for Linux
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 23:16, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am looking for a program similar to FrontPage for Linux. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > > Take a look at Quanta, flwriter, nvu or Bluefish. pm -- Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Miguel de Cervantes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 10 download - no torrents?
Downloaded & used MDK 10 for a while, but CD1 I burnt is now faulty (don't ask). Went to the club site at the weeke-end to re-download the iso using bittorrent, left it running for 24 hours, with nothing happening. Just tried again and a couple of hours later 0 download speed, 0% downloaded. However the 10.1 beta I can download at 22 kb/sec. Am I being forced to be a beta tester? pm -- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Bordem ;-)
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 12:49, John Richard Smith wrote: > Marc Hultquist wrote: > > >What does Mandrake actually mean ? Was just thinking about it now and well > >while apache 2.x compiles I thought I would see what I could find out. Its > >unfortunately to slow for me to browse the net right now :\ > > > >Anyone care to shed some light on this ? > > I believe it was used in english medieval times for medicinal purposes. > I expect it was an early ruling class version of coke. > > John Don't forget also that King Features sued Mandrake last year over the use of the name - 'Mandrake the Magician', seems everybody had been confusing the distribution with the comic strip. (That's why I couldn't get 'The Gimp' to work!). *** http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/R/real_wizards/witches_t.html describes mandrake's use by witches - a witch I knew 30 years ago was using it (he ground it to a paste & rubbed it on his temples). "Through the ages, magic often involved taking drugs and seeing things. Where the druids had ergot and the shamans had mushrooms, witches had mandrake. The mandrake has long been regarded as having magical properties, perhaps because its forked root gives the plant a human-like shape. According to tradition, the plant would scream when it was pulled out of the ground. Consequently, mandrake was not dug up by hand; instead, a dog would be harnessed to the root and encouraged to drag it out of the ground. The mysteries of the mandrake are not limited to its shape. It is related to henbane and deadly nightshade. All three contain a number of very powerful alkaloids. When absorbed into the body, these chemical substances can cause double vision, hallucination and even coma. With their knowledge of the effects of mandrake, witches would have been able to dose themselves to produce the required effects without risking their lives. The witch's cauldron would have been used to boil the herbs in a fatty solution; this produced an ointment that the witch would smear on her body. A trance-like state would follow, with the witch experiencing sensations of flying - this is probably the origin of the familiar imagery of witches flying on broomsticks. Witches, like druids and shamans before them, derived some of their authority from their apparent ability to travel into another world. -- pm The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tiscali Uk Help
On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 08:11, Richard Mace Tiscali wrote: > Hi, > > A little background to myself: > > I have been using Mandrake for over two years now (7.3 onwards), and am > experienced in setting up awkward hardware (eg winmodems, parrallel port > scanners). I am not a newbie, but not an expert either. > > > > > I have recently switched from dial up to Tiscali Broadband (UK) and I cannot > get the modem configured correctly. I have tried to get it working on > Mandrake 9.1, 9.2 and now Mandrake 10. > > The modem is a Sagem Fast 800 E2T > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I am using Windows more than > is healthy for me! > > Many Thanks, > > Richard Mace > > There is a Tiscali Unix forum, a question about Mandrake was posted at http://tinyurl.com/67f22 There is a response giving instructions but saying 'if you can get it working you're one up on me' ! The advice then given is get an ethernet modem (& card if you don't have one) - advice I'd strongly support. -- Paul Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] Forms (typewriter is dead)
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:15, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Em Qui, 2004-07-15 às 12:53, Thinker escreveu: > > Hello All, > > > > My question is about forms. We are currently using a few forms in our > > daily routines that require the use of a typewriter. After sitting here > > and watching one of the business office managers spend 15 minutes > > typing up a form and then another 10 going back and 'whiting out' the > > mistakes that were made, I feel that I need to do something to fix > > this. > > > > I was thinking I need to create an HTML form that can be filled out, > > and when the submit key is clicked, I need the values to automatically > > appear in the correct places on a preexisting word document to be > > printed off. > > > > > > Does anyone have any suggestion as to how to do this, possible > > resources or better ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > .:Thinker > > I think that instead of having HTML documents, you could make pdf ones. > I've seen a kind of pdf which you could fill in and then print, but have > no idea how to make it. Would an Open Office template meet your needs? -- Paul Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] OT Typing program for linux
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:19, Greg wrote: > Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Monday 05 Jul 2004 07:22, Greg wrote: > > > >I believe that from 9.1 ktouch is included as part of kdeedu, also gtypist is > >just called typist (but to launch it from the cl it is still called > >gtypist)- kdeedu is included in 9.2 PowerPack and is included in 10.0 club. > > > >They are both on the club downloads page - or for non-members they are on > >http://rpm.pbone.net > > > >ktouch is indeed "flashier" than typist/gtypist > >-- > >http://www.poogle.co.uk > > > > > i will just wait then i am still running 9.0 ( no i am not kidding) i do plan to > upgrade real soon > Greg Greg, if you're happy with 9.0 why go through all the hassle of upgrading? i.e. if it ain't broke, why fix it? -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT Typing program for linux
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 09:08, Greg wrote: > Hi evryone i hope evryone is having a nice weekendIs there typing program like > mavis beacon teaches typing for linux or some thing like it > I have not done any searches on it yet Just wondered if any one could recommend > one they like Thanks Greg probably not as flashy as M. beacon, but try gtypist. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] reason to smirk 25,034
Something else to pass on to MS users, entitled 'R.I.P. I.E.' http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-06-25-018-26-OP-DT-SW Virus hiding on web pages utilises I.E. 'features'. Don't know what virii or what web pages. When is someone going to start a class action against MS? -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Software Patents - good news (at last)?
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7442 reports that the Dutch government is considering revoking their minister's vote at the council meeting a couple of weeks ago. If I recall correctly, it only went through on the Dutch vote, after badgering by the Irish (presidency sponsored by Microsoft) -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. 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: Rusty Morse.
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 22:24, Bill Spatz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 05:13 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > Keith Powell wrote: > > > Are there any radio amateurs on the list? > > > Here too! > > I am a digital sort of guy, rtty, gtor pactor amtor > > Bill > N7OKD Plus -- __ Paul 5B8BA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 and a Scanner
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 00:08, SME Admin wrote: > Hiya > > I've a flatbed parallel port scanner that I'd like to use with Mandrake 10 > that I've got installed here. > > Installing it shouldn't be a problem, but if there is you'd know about it > here :) Any suggestions?! You don't say what model it is, so check it at: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] *.iso.bin??
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 01:50, eric jackson wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "PM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] *.iso.bin?? > > > > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 22:58, eric jackson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure about this anymore but doesn't the bin extension indicate > > > a > > > compressed file? And it's used mostly by Macs. > > > > > > Eric Jackson > > > > > > > iso & bin are image files. > > > Doesn't binhex produce files with a bin extension. I rarely use a Mac > anymore but it seems I remember that from running Shapeshifter on my Amigas. > iso & bin files are (in the windows world) also produced by applications like Nero and other CD burning programs > If it does, can he run a program under linux that will perhaps decompress > binhexed files? If so maybe that will leave him with an .iso that he can > burn onto CD. There's a good chance that k3b will de-compress & write to cd -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstalling programs compiled from source
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 00:07, Marv Boyes wrote: > > Anyway, my question (there IS a question) is this-- is there a > convenient way to uninstall programs I've installed, or (more often) > tried to install, from source? There's probably a lot of crap strewn all > over my hard drive, and I'd like to be able to clean some of it up. I'd > also like to know for any future failures to run things I've compiled > from source. > > Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. > > > Marv Sounds like it's too late for stuff already there, but checkinstall should take care of future problems/sucesses > -- > Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like > Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's-- donate your computer's > leisure time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ > -- Good project. Just set up on my box. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] *.iso.bin??
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 22:58, eric jackson wrote: > > > I'm not sure about this anymore but doesn't the bin extension indicate > a > compressed file? And it's used mostly by Macs. > > Eric Jackson > iso & bin are image files. Try k3b -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Editions
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:09, Curt wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:05:30 +0300 > PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:48, OOzy wrote: > > > What is the difference between the Download Edition and the one > > > you buy from the shop? > > > > > > OOzy > > > > > > > > > > Box, disks, manuals, support. > > > > Plus less money goes to mandrake than if you download it & join the > > club. > > > > Several proprietary programs also ... if I'm not mistaken > Are these available to club members? -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Editions
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:48, OOzy wrote: > What is the difference between the Download Edition and the one you buy > from the shop? > > OOzy > > Box, disks, manuals, support. Plus less money goes to mandrake than if you download it & join the club. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Good Rich Office
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:51, OOzy wrote: > What is a good office similar to MS. I need a rich Word processor. I am > switching from Windows to Linux. At least I don't lose much > functionality. > > BR > > Open Office. Or it's 'richer' relative Sun Office at USD 80 -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux Tutorial
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 20:21, OOzy wrote: > Anybody knows a good tutorial for Mandrake Linux or Linux in general? Linux Document Project. RUTE LAME Plus man pages. Paul -- Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] getting new programs in the menu
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:30, Thinker wrote: > OK.. got that. > > Now, how do I find a list of all the available programs on my machine > and the commands that execute them? > > > > > > On Jun 2, 2004, at 8:59 AM, PM wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 15:52, Thinker wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I have been installing new programs on and updating my 10.0 official > >> box for about a week now. I am noticing that none of the programs that > >> I am adding are showing up in the program menu. Now that I think about > >> it, a lot of the programs I selected during installation aren't > >> showing > >> up there as well. Is there a command I can run to update the program > >> menu to include every program that is available to me? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> .:Thinker > > > > menudrake > > > > Either from a terminal (as user), or (if you're using KDE) right-click > > on the star menu icon (usually bottom left). > > > > -- > > Paul M. > > _ > > In the beginning, man created god. > > Usually it will find the applications - when menudrake has started up just save it. If there are programs that you've added that it doesn't find just click on the 'add application' in menudrake & work through it. BTW, top-posting tends to confuse things & upset people. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 22:45, Mike Coppins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please, ingnore the email. It was just a test. > > A test for us to see whether we could ignore this mail? > What mail? I didn't get a mail -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [toread] [newbie] application on internet explorer
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 22:33, di di wrote: > Richard, is Crossover office a free software package?? > > > >From: Richard Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [toread] [newbie] application on internet explorer > >Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:00:23 +0930 > > > >Crossover office has been suggested to run IE, to me... > > > >On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:51, di di wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information > >Server > > > of Microsoft. > > > > > > My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on > >my > > > notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine > >or > > > winexbut I am not an experienced user of linux yet to make it > >work. > > > > > > Other alternative is to install XP an share the disk with mandrake, but > >I > > > really wanted to go for a real solution. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > I'll step in for Richard, if that's OK. Crossover products are not free, although you can download a trial from: http://www.codeweavers.com/ One further point, please don't top-post. -- Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] Start KDE application as root
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 17:49, Video 4Linux wrote: > Is it possible in KDE to start a certain KDE application as 'root' when I'm > logged in as a regular user? > > Greetings Bas > use su in a terminal & enter app. name -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] rar
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 13:03, Paul Kaplan wrote: > What program can be used to unpack .rar archives and where might I find it? > Paul > unrar can be used with file-roller -- Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] MD10 and Sane and OCR
On Mon, 2The Ultimate One Women 004-05-24 at 13:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anyone use OCR with Sane yet ? > > How do you set it up ? > > John I'd never tried it before, so gave it a go when I read your message, and found it was all set up.. Started Xsane, preview, then scan. Viewer opened, clicked on file & saved under OCR. As someone said the other day, linux is so difficult to set up compared with windows. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 00:17, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 07:08, PM wrote: > > > Makes sense to me - the old saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' > > certainly applies. > > > > Another advantage of Linux over another operating system. > > > > BTW, moved here to Cyprus 2 years ago & do have broadband (after a > > fashion - have to log on via an Active-X page), still can't get it where > > I used to live the the much more technologically advanced UK. > > "Technologically Advanced UK" is an oxymoron. > > Now Turkey, OTOH... > > (And actually, Australia is rather amazing in most areas - we have > wireless, ADSL, cable - just a matter of saving up the right amount of > dollars to get my unlimited - yes - unlimited 512/256 connection going - > along with a modem/router/vpn router) > > stephen kuhn - owner Sorry, I should have put some kind of sarcastic warning about "Technologically Advanced UK", forgot We're a multi-national group. -- Linux number 312953 June 1995 http://counter.li.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] MDK 10 Official, when?
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 23:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > That is becoming something of an issue with me personally. Everyone else > appears to be of the mindset that everyone else has a broadband > connection and that they can happily urpmi everything to do this that > and the other thing - which is not entirely true. Doing large scale > updates is entirely out of the question for me unless I can do an > upgrade or complete install from already created CD's. Really does tend > to raise my ire. > > Aside from that, after many weeks of watching the MDK 10 issues and > quirks, I'm resolved to sit and wait (as I always do) for a "non whole > number" version. Every distro, every version that has been of a "whole > number" has been, in my eyes, a "testing ground" and the .1 or .2 > version has been the better bet. > > I've tested 10CE - played around with it enough to see that it's not > going to be anything I can "upgrade" to or anything that I can install > on my working box without heaps of headache, heaps of hacking, and heaps > of change. And I'm certainly NOT going to get rid of my trusty linmodem > "just to get by". > > Mind you, I'd really like to have MDK 10+, but I fear it's going to be > some time off - same as I waited for MDK 9.1 - which after I HAD waited, > it was worth the wait in the end. > > I'm not trying to deter anyone from anything - I'm venting here. But > bear in mind I'm also stating something that most of y'all "oldies" will > already know. > > I'm also just mad as a wet hen that everyone seems to think that most of > the world is capable of having broadband...ahem. > > > > stephen kuhn - owner Makes sense to me - the old saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' certainly applies. Another advantage of Linux over another operating system. BTW, moved here to Cyprus 2 years ago & do have broadband (after a fashion - have to log on via an Active-X page), still can't get it where I used to live the the much more technologically advanced UK. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Funny for the Day
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:21, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:41, JoeHill wrote: > > Look at what Andres S. Tanenbaum says about Mr. Brown: > > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/20/1427257 > > > > The author has another article at the adti site, going back 2 years to when MS was judged to have actied criminally, where he reports for that internationally admired publication, the 'Conway Springs Star': "Rather than focusing on breaking apart products, and companies that work, the government should fine Microsoft Corporation fog its alleged anti-trust violations and use the funds to sponsor grants for competing operating system development. The approaches was suggested by Gregory Fossedal, chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a public-interest research foundation. "The fund," he said, "could be operated by the court itself or by a commission composed of leading members of Congress, industry, and the executive." http://www.adti.net/conwaysprings_kbrown062200.html I wonder if the sponsors have read it? Strangely, when you click on the 'accomplishments' heading on the adti page you get a 'Not found' response. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Funny for the Day
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:41, JoeHill wrote: > Kenneth Brown, president of the 'Alexis de Tocqueville Institution', has written > a great big book in which he: > > "...conducted a comprehensive study on the source of open-source code, > tracing the free-software movement over three decades, including interviews with > some two-dozen principal developers of Linux..." > > Really? Then how, after all that, did he find a way to make this error: > > "Among the conclusions is that there is a high probability that Linux is a > derivative work, based on previous operating systems -- including, but not > limited to, Unix and Minux," > > 'Minux'? Dontcha mean MINIX, prof? LOL! > > Well, shows ya what them book-learnin' people know... > > Link: > > http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7 > > Groklaw takes him apart messily here: > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040518204701382 Try: http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7 and the register yesterday at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/20/tanenbaum_on_adti_brown/ Where Tenebaum (writer of Minix) decribes the author of the article as 'not the sharpest knife in the box'. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. 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
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag "on the > fly?" Or, at set times? > Michael > It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its various forms), and doesn't fragment files (not so you'd notice, anyway) so there's no need to defrag. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Fw: WINMODEM AND COMPUTER´S NAME
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 19:40, Hederson wrote: > > Good Afternoon, > >I have installed version 9.2 of Mandrake in a Toshiba notebook > that has 128Mbytes of memory and CPU Pentium III Celeron. > The modem of this computer is a Winmodem Lucent and the Mandrake > didn´t detected it. Do anyone know how to configure it? I searched at > internet by a drive to it but I didn´t find anyone that Mandrake > detect. > > I need to change the name of the host of this notebook. Do anyone > know how to do it? > > thank´s , > > Héderson Santos. Try: http://www.linmodems.org/ Isn't google wonderful? -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] *HELP* About where to reg no. etc.
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 00:08, Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote: > Hello. > > I have made som 9.2 cds of the 3 iso files and like to know where I find the > number for registering and serfication etc for Mandrakelinux 9.2. > > --- Hi Gert, You get a registration number when you buy Mandrake, not when you download it. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 00:28, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:23:02 +0200 > Ronald disseminated the following: > > > > Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! > > > > yes we can :-) > > > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html > The register (as usual) reports with a few sensible (to my feeble mind) comments http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/11/xpsp2_pirate_blocking/ MS spells it out: pirates can, can't install WinXP Sp2 -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 01:01, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 07:07, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:15:23PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > > > > Solidarnosc! > > > > > > (wife's Polish...) > > > > Thanks, to you and yours! > > > > And for my brainwashed compadres: > > > > http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html > > http://www.powertech.no/anarchy/mayday.html > > http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/about/mayday.html > > http://www.mayweek.ab.ca/articles.php > > > > Stick it to the man! > > > > Todd > > I thought the only one brainwarshed was Joe...? > > stephen kuhn - owner > == No, Joes's the only one who *isn't* brain-washed. -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 21:15, JoeHill wrote: > Solidarnosc! > > (wife's Polish...) Thanks Joe, Poland & Cyprus no members of E.U. too (wow). -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 17:36, Marco Terzuoli wrote: > Hi, > I am due to buy a laptop computer, but I know that linux mandrake (and > probably other distros as well) have problems working on certain laptops. > Do you have any suggestion about which model I should buy? > Thanks, > Marco > > You might want to check out these sites for advice/recommendations/howtos, etc. http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://www.tuxmobil.org/howtos.html -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:12, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: > > > > There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame > > them. > > > Frustrated, definitely. > > > No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their customers, > > even before a major restructure of the mirrors, but it seems they all > > went home for Easter withour fixing it. So much for Mandrake's > > 'enterprise' ambitions. > > > An unfair and unjustified comment. Try reading the explanation on the > Club pages. The situation only developed as people were going home for > the holidays. Warly tried to contact the various mirror owners, but > they are totally independent of Mandrake, and most of them were > unavailable. Oddly enough, they like holidays, too. There is no way > that Mandrake employees can guarantee how long it will take mirror > owners to sort out this problem. Let's just hope that not too many of > them are taking an extended break. > > Anne fair points, Anne, but would you do something like this knowing you (and everybody else) were about to have a few days off? Paul M -- -- In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Turtle Beach soundcard
Hi list, I have moved from Red Hat 6 to Mandrake 7.2 (and therefore from KDE 1.1 to 2.0) and I'm not able to have my Turtle Beach Pinnacle back to work. I did the same things as I did once (with Red Hat), that is recompile the kernel for a Multisound Pinnacle non-PnP, putting the files pndsperm.bin and pndspini.bin in /etc/sound/ and specifying the right IRQ and memory addresses. When I launch any player in KDE 2.0 I get the message that artsd is not running. So I run artsd and it stops saying that the device /dev/dsp is not present. Besides the Mandrake Soundcard Wizard doesn't show up in Harddrake. Anyone can help?
