Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, "Unix-like"; the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have Linux equivalents; others that come in source code format can usually be compiled under Linux. For pre-OSX Macs, uh, well, I think you're probably out of luck, unless someone has written some emulator software somewhere that'll do the trick. PG M.Schild wrote: Hi, someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no doubt one of you will. Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting to another computer
It's easier if they have a 24/7 broadband connection. In that case Linux has a lot of good tools for remote access connections (ssh, etc) If they use a dial up modem it's harder because their IP address will be changing all the time. Paul Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I installed 10.1 for a friend and it would be wonderful if I could access his computer from here because he lives very far. How could I do that ? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Any good detailed references on custom kernel compile options?
Is there any good references available that describe in detail the different options you can choose when creating a custom kernel compilation? (beyond the standard help files themselves, which are often kind of limited and don't describe the implications of choosing certains options) Thanks Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Easiest way to transfer files from lin to win?
Most linux installs now include an SSH server by default. If you get an SSH client installed on your Windows laptop, you can use secure file transfer between the two laptops. www.ssh.com has a Windows based, free for non-commercial use, SSH client with an easy to use GUI interface. Then it's just like using a GUI based FTP program to download/upload files back and forth. Paul JR wrote: I need to transfer about 15GB of data from my linux laptop to a windows laptop. We will both be on the same wireless network, but I dont actually know anything about file transfer on linux or windows! Are there any quick pointers someone can give me to look into? Thanks, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound recording in Mandrake 10
What's a good Linux application to use for digitizing music from a cassette tape player connected to the microphone jack on a PC soundcard? I have a bunch of older cassette tapes that I'd like to burn to CD and/or copy to disk. PG 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 website problem (Please skip it, if you have no interests)
China blocks a lot of websites for various political reasons. It's possible that your website is just simply being blocked by the government, even though it appears that your root domain is getting through. What country is the website being hosted from? Paul Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi folks, I know this might not the appropriate place to ask this website problem. But I do have no clue what's going on out there. Please forgive me. I have set up my wensite in November. But recently my friends in China told that my site (looks like http://ourdomainserver/~qinghua) is not accessible for them (but they can access our domain server http://ourdomainserver/). But my friends at US has no problem to access my site. Our domain server is running WinNT. I believe if our domain server, my site should also be accessible. Does anyone has any suggestion? Is there something to configure on the server side (I could not search my site through google locally in our intranet)? Many thanks in advance. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] keep losing IP addressing / update - still problematic
Hmm, removing the tmdns service did seem to get rid of the 127.0.0.1 loopback address from popping up in /etc/resolv.conf. But it still seems like a prolonged idle period of no network activity still kills networking, even though "ifconfig etho" still shows the interface as being up and correctly configured for the right IP address. Do you have any other suggestions? Paul Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 December 2004 18:33, Paul Greene wrote: Dear all, I'm having some trouble maintaining an IP address on Mandrake 10. In the network config, I configure an IP address of 192.168.0.5, and use an internal DNS server running on a Win2k box, and the ISP DNS address for backup. When the system first boots, all connectivity is fine, both with my internal network, and with internet destinations. After awhile, even though the ifconfig command reveals the link is UP and still has the correct assigned IP address, I cannot ping any other host on my internal network, and, of course cannot get out to the internet. The error message that comes back is "Destination Host Unreachable". The IP assigned to the box is ping-able, but nothing else on the network is. Another weird thing is that the entry "nameserver 127.0.0.1" is added to "/etc/resolv.conf". Even if I remove the entry, it comes back again on the next reboot. The NIC is a Linksys LNE-100, and was working fine for a few days in a Windows box, so I don't suspect a hardware problem with the card, or the cabling. Any suggestions? Paul Stop the service tmdns That will stop the 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' appearing and may well resolve your problem. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] keep losing IP addressing
Martin wrote: On Tuesday 21 December 2004 19:33, Paul Greene wrote: Dear all, I'm having some trouble maintaining an IP address on Mandrake 10. In the network config, I configure an IP address of 192.168.0.5, and use an internal DNS server running on a Win2k box, and the ISP DNS address for backup. When the system first boots, all connectivity is fine, both with my internal network, and with internet destinations. After awhile, even though the ifconfig command reveals the link is UP and still has the correct assigned IP address, I cannot ping any other host on my internal network, and, of course cannot get out to the internet. The error message that comes back is "Destination Host Unreachable". The IP assigned to the box is ping-able, but nothing else on the network is. Another weird thing is that the entry "nameserver 127.0.0.1" is added to "/etc/resolv.conf". Even if I remove the entry, it comes back again on the next reboot. The NIC is a Linksys LNE-100, and was working fine for a few days in a Windows box, so I don't suspect a hardware problem with the card, or the cabling. Any suggestions? Paul Paul i have noticed that with 10 my kmail connection will dissapear after the computer being on all day. I get a message like - cannot connect to pop3. but at the same time any radio i have going or xchat for example are working fine... i wonder if or propblems are related? have you had anythign like this? Martin I wouldn't know! Just installed Mandrake a couple days ago, and haven't done much in the way of e-mail yet because my network connectivity has been hosed. Now that it seems to be working ok (thanks to Derek Jennings post), I'll be migrating my e-mail over to Mandrake, though I'm using Thunderbird for e-mail so it might not have similar problems anyway. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] keep losing IP addressing
Derek Jennings wrote: Stop the service tmdns That will stop the 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' appearing and may well resolve your problem. derek Thanks, that did the trick. I just removed the service altogether since it wasn't needed. btw, your website is very nice, and useful. :-) Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] keep losing IP addressing
Dear all, I'm having some trouble maintaining an IP address on Mandrake 10. In the network config, I configure an IP address of 192.168.0.5, and use an internal DNS server running on a Win2k box, and the ISP DNS address for backup. When the system first boots, all connectivity is fine, both with my internal network, and with internet destinations. After awhile, even though the ifconfig command reveals the link is UP and still has the correct assigned IP address, I cannot ping any other host on my internal network, and, of course cannot get out to the internet. The error message that comes back is "Destination Host Unreachable". The IP assigned to the box is ping-able, but nothing else on the network is. Another weird thing is that the entry "nameserver 127.0.0.1" is added to "/etc/resolv.conf". Even if I remove the entry, it comes back again on the next reboot. The NIC is a Linksys LNE-100, and was working fine for a few days in a Windows box, so I don't suspect a hardware problem with the card, or the cabling. Any suggestions? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
