Re: [newbie] Missing .bashrc for root (Mandrake 9.2)
El vie, 06-02-2004 a las 03:59, Alexander Shupliakov escribió: Could anybody please mail a copy of the original /root/.bashrc file? This is from 8.2, not 9.2, but for what it's worth: [EMAIL PROTECTED] warren]# cat /root/.bashrc # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin ENV=$HOME/.bashrc USERNAME=root export USERNAME ENV PATH -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Finally, a socially responsible virus
This story caught my eye: MyDoom Virus Could be 'Linux War' Weapon http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3304311 I wonder if it would run under Wine? :-) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copn, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Web host query
El lun, 19-01-2004 a las 09:53, Todd Slater escribió: Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced Web hosting company? I'm having a hard time finding one that will let me install a not-so-common Apache module. Transfer and storage requirements are minimal. I use and recommend Pair Networks http://www.pair.com/. They are reasonably priced and very supportive of Open Source. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TIP: cups and cups-common-1.1.18-2.1 break printing on 8.2
At least it did on my box. cups and cups-common-1.1.14-2mdk, which come on the 8.2 disks, work fine. But cups and cups-common-1.1.18-2.1-mdk, which are on the update mirrors, cause all printing to silently fail. Replacing the older packages fixes it. (Easier said than done in my case, as I had updated a boatload of packages the same day. Tracking down which packages were responsible was no fun. But at least broken updates are reversible, unlike that other OS.) -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Running programs at startup
I am trying to understand the different ways that programs can be run at startup. What has sparked my interest is that I am experimenting with different windows managers, yet I would like some basic things (xmms, xscreensaver, gkrellm, etc.) to be launched upon entry into any window manager. Yet aside from getting specific answers to specific questions, I'm hoping to understand the big picture here. So here's what I understand so far, gleaned from this list's archive. Please help me correct my misconceptions and patch my ignorance: /etc/profile Runs a program upon login of any user, any WM, in or out of X. I have, for example, xmms here so that xmms starts up regardless of user, which is what I want. It tries and fails to launch xmms even if the user is logging in to a console, so I should move this to a file that executes programs only if logging in under X. Is there such a file? If not, is there a way I can condition the launching of xmms (or any program that requires X) upon X being running? /etc/rc.local (- /etc/rc.d/rc.local) Said to do the same as /etc/profile, but I can't get it to work, nor do I understand when one would use this vs. /etc/profile. ~/.xinitrc Runs a program upon a particular user starting X. Only works if you login at a console and then start X manually. ~/.bashrc Runs a program every time a particular user opens a terminal, assuming he uses bash. ~/.bash_profile Runs a program upon login of a particular user, any WM, in or out of X. I haven't mastered this yet as sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. As with /etc/profile, I'd like to find a way to condition the launching of a program that requires X upon X being running. And of course many WMs have their own ways of launching programs on startup, such a placing things in ~/Desktop/Autostart. I'm not considering them here because for the moment I am looking for WM-independent ways to launch programs. So... what else is there to know about running programs at startup? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] boot messages
El sáb, 10-01-2004 a las 10:12, Eric Huff escribió: Where can i find the boot messages displayed while booting (with the [OK]'s and everything? Boot messages are split across two logs. The initial boot messages are written to /var/log/dmesg, and the later messages are written to /var/log/boot.log. The latter is what you're looking for; every line that appeared as [OK] on the screen ends with succeeded in the log. You need to be root to view either of these files. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work - SOLVED
El vie, 09-01-2004 a las 10:34, Warren Post escribió: Several of you have convinced me to try fluxbox, and I love it. One minor annoyance I am dealing with is edge snap. It is easily set in ~/.fluxbox/init (session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold per the man page), but it doesn't change fluxbox's behavior. Has anyone been able to enable edge snap in fluxbox? Answering my own question, I see on the fluxbox home page http://fluxbox.org/ that window snapping is a planned, not implemented, feature. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
El vie, 09-01-2004 a las 09:39, Anne Wilson escribió: Warren - this was a well-publicised problem with 8.2. The fix was simple, though I can't remember it. It was described on the 8.2 Errata page, and I think it's still available. Actually, it was a problem with 9.0: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90errata.php3#urpmi The fix is unfortunately not applicable to 8.2. I'm thankful that you mentioned it in any case, because now I have the 8.2 errata bookmarked. Several people suggested that I may need to update my sources first. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I had updated everything just last week. Others suggested several variants on urpmi commands, but I am using rpmdrake, the GUI frontend to urpmi. Still, these suggestions gave me the idea of trying urpmi from the command line on the problem packages, and they installed without complaint. So apparently the problem is with the version of rpmdrake that shipped with 8.2, and the workaround is to use urpmi from the command line. Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] edgeSnapThreshold in fluxbox doesn't work
Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * Several of you have convinced me to try fluxbox, and I love it. One minor annoyance I am dealing with is edge snap. It is easily set in ~/.fluxbox/init (session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold per the man page), but it doesn't change fluxbox's behavior. Has anyone been able to enable edge snap in fluxbox? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Managing downloads and packages
Reposting at Margot's suggestion... * I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way to do that (with thanks to Derek for that suggestion). If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
El jue, 08-01-2004 a las 16:43, Margot escribió: I can see your message. Perhaps the gurus are still recovering from the holidays? Try posting again and see if you get any replies. Will do, and thanks. Perhaps the hangovers are beginning to wear off now. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Are my messages appearing on the list?
For the past week or so my questions are going unanswered and I am wondering if my messages are appearing. Alternatively, perhaps my questions are so stupid as to be unworthy of reply. ;-) In any case, if you see this message, please let me know. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi: everything already installed - NOT
Frequently when I try to update my system, rpmdrake (urpmi) tells me that everything is already installed. For example, I have bind-utils-9.2.0-6mdk currently installed. bind-utils-9.2.1-2.2mdk is available on the update mirrors, but when I try to update it I am told everything already installed. If I download the rpm from the mirror and install by hand, everything works fine, so it's not like the packages on the mirror are damaged. What should I be looking at to fix this problem? I'm using urpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk and rpmdrake-1.4-18mdk on 8.2. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Managing downloads and packages
I'm trying to manage better my downloads and packages. From previous posts to this list, I've concluded that I should always prefer an Mandrake RPM, but if a suitable RPM is not available then I should build an RPM from source tarball and install it that way, and that checkinstall is an easy way to do that (with thanks to Derek for that suggestion). If I decide to keep the source after building the RPM, it belongs in /usr/local/src -- correct? And is there any reason to save the source? Charlie suggested in an earlier post that If you're building RPMs from tarballs you'll want to set up a build directory and add that as a local source as well. Then you can install with urpmi from there..., which sounds like a good idea. Yet checkinstall does not place the RPMs it creates in a single directory but rather in several subdirectories under /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/, classified by architecture. I am tempted to find how to change checkinstall's behavior to place RPMs in a single directory and follow Charlie's advice, but before I do I'd like to understand what the logic is in having RPMs for different architectures in different directories. This issue becomes more relevant considering that I also download pre-rolled RPMs and want to save them in the same place, and those RPMs come in different architectures (at the moment, I have RPMs for i386, i586, and noarch). It would be more convenient for me to have all my RPMs (both pre-rolled and those I rolled myself, regardless of architecture) in one place, and so be able to define one local source for urpmi rather than many. Perhaps this is all much ado about nothing, but I want to understand what is going on and why before I start messing things up or reinventing the wheel. All advice welcome. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver - SOLVED
It's more an ugly hack than an elegant solution, but it works. After
some fumbling, I found that appending -lgdk_pixbuf_xlib to the end of
the line LDFLAGS = -L${exec_prefix}/lib in
/usr/local/src/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/Makefile does the trick. It
makes just fine now.
What gave me the clue I needed was section 17.4.5 (6) of the Mandrake
Linux Reference Manual, which also taught me something about unresolved
symbols. Perhaps this will be of use to others with unresolved symbols.
--
Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394
Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
http://srcopan.vze.com/
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[newbie] Tip: checkinstall on 8.2 broken
Probably no one but me is using 8.2 anymore. But just in case, the version of checkinstall that came on the 8.2 Power Pack seems to be broken, and no update appears on any mirror I checked. The fix is easy: on the checkinstall website http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ is an RPM that works fine at http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/files/rpm/checkinstall-1.5.3-1.i386.rpm. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
As I never saw this appear on the list, I am resending it. Warren -Mensaje reenviado- From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver Date: 24 Dec 2003 10:27:55 -0600 El lun, 22-12-2003 a las 09:28, cdrack escribió: You have to look at undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file. This function are included into the library GdkPixbuf, so you have to install it first. That's what has me stumped: I've already installed every pixbuf related RPM on the 8.2 Power Pack and all their dependencies. Specifically, I have installed: gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.16.0-1mdk gnome-guile-0.20-15mdk libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-devel-0.16.0-1mdk libguppi16-devel-0.40.3-1mdk pygtk-0.6.9-1mdk rep-gtk-0.15-4mdk rep-gtk-gnome-0.15-4mdk Your comment inspired me to re-run ./configure and take a look at the messages that fly by. Among many other messages I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# ./configure (snip) checking for gdk_pixbuf with gdk-pixbuf-config based tests... checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-config checking for gdk-pixbuf includes... -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-1.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include checking for gdk-pixbuf libs... -L/usr/lib -lgdk_pixbuf -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h usability... yes checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h presence... yes checking for gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h... yes checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h usability... yes checking gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h presence... yes checking for gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h... yes checking for gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file in -lc... yes checking for gdk_pixbuf_xlib_init in -lc... yes Looks like pixbuf is already there and usable. Yet when I look at config.log, I notice that the only reference to pixbuf is this line in the Output variables section: gdk_pixbuf_config='' which makes me wonder if I am indeed missing something or have something misconfigured. But what, if everything pixbuf related on the 8.2 disks are already installed? Assuming that I'm missing something, and I install it, do I have to ./configure again before I make? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
As I never saw this appear on the list, I am resending it. Warren -Mensaje reenviado- From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't make xscreensaver Date: 23 Dec 2003 12:13:55 -0600 El dom, 21-12-2003 a las 15:01, Kaj Haulrich escribió: Why not just (as root): urpmi xscreensaver ? For 8.2, all urpmi can find is the xscreensaver version I already have. And yes, my sources are up to date with what easy urpmi shows. Someone will ask why I don't move up to 9.2. It's because I'm so happy with 8.2 that I don't see the need, aside from cases like this... and after all, it's time I learn to compile my own from source (and later, roll my own RPMs with checkinstall, but one step at a time, methinks). -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't make xscreensaver
I've decided I just can't live without the xmatrix screensaver. I download the latest xscreensaver tarball from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/, unpack it, and follow the INSTALL and README. ./configure goes fine, but make dies thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# make (big snip) demo-Gtk-support.o: In function `create_pixmap': /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:165: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file' /home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver/demo-Gtk-support.c:175: undefined reference to `gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [xscreensaver-demo-Gtk] Error 1 make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/home/warren/tmp/xscreensaver-4.14/driver' make: *** [default] Error 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] xscreensaver-4.14]# What should I be looking at to find and correct the problem? -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: CSS Editor
El mié, 03-12-2003 a las 05:27, Marco Verheul escribió: Is there a CSS Editor for Linux that comes close to TopStyle? It's not a TopStyle clone by any means, but I've been using Bluefish with great success. Now that I'm used to it, I like it better than TopStyle. Marco, I think you'll want to fix your reply-to header. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
My principal business is a restaurant http://pizzapizza.vze.com/ and I've been running Linux Mandrake on our office computer since 8.0. The system is more stable and our data is no longer hostage to Microsoft's proprietary formats. One of the reasons that made me look at alternatives to Windows in the first place is that I use the office computer to supply background music for the dining area, but under Windows the system was never stable enough to rely upon. With any player under Windows -- Winamp, Music Match, whatever -- the sound would stutter and crash after a few hours. With Linux Mandrake and XMMS, I don't even have to think about the music anymore. I just turn on the system and it plays, with perfect reliability. The heart of our restaurant's office work is a spreadsheet with a list of raw ingredients that my restaurant uses. It is referenced by another sheet that has all our recipes and calculates costs and prices. It in turn is referenced by a word processing document that has our menu ready to print. Microsoft Office could never get it right: cell references were dropped, formatting was mangled, and files were irrecoverably corrupted constantly. OpenOffice imported the relevant files, converted them, and made everything work out of the box. As a side business I develop and manage web sites. The software available in Linux is so much better than the equivalent apps in Windows. Bluefish, Gimp, gFTP... they blow away the best there is for Windows. I'll never go back to Microsoft. I had opened our town's first Internet café. I have since closed it for business reasons, but at the same time I switched our restaurant to Linux I switched the café as well, renaming it the Tropical Penguin Cybercafé with a logo of Tux wearing a Hawaiian necklace. Steady customers didn't notice that it wasn't Windows but did comment on how much faster and more stable the workstations had become, and how much nicer the desktops looked. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how many...
El jue, 06-11-2003 a las 07:23, Inhabitant of Zion escribió: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb? None, they merely change the standard to darkness and then they upgrade the customers. From the Microsoft Knowledge Base: As noted in the light bulb EULA, no provision has been made for uninstallation of light bulbs. Should you desire to remove a light bulb, it will be necessary to reinstall the system. -- Warren Post Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
One of my boxes does the same thing if I don't get the memory seated just exactly right. If I pull the memory one stick at a time I can isolate which stick was incorrectly seated and fix the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Misreported CPU
My CPU, a 366 MHz Mendocino Celeron, has always been correctly detected. But suddenly it is reported as a 368 MHz Mobile Pentium II. Bogomips remain the same, 730 or so, and the BIOS continues to recognize it as a Celeron. Beats me what I did to screw this up. Is this purely cosmetic or should I fix it? If so, how? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pppd dies
El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 13:01, John Richard Smith escribió: Other factors, Line quality, Well, that's probably it then. The problem is more acute when it's raining, and I'm dialing in over phone lines that our government telco splices with masking tape. Guess I'm just going to have to learn to be more patient. Ah, the joys of government monopolies. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pppd dies
Most, but not every, time that I try to connect to the net, pppd dies within 5 seconds with an exit code #10. /var/log/daemons/errors says: Oct 20 15:03:40 gerencia pppd[2104]: Could not determine local IP address What could cause pppd to be unable to determine a local IP address, and what can I do to correct this? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Remotely answer incoming fax?
El dom, 20-07-2003 a las 17:16, JoeHill escribió: On 20 Jul 2003 17:10:43 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now my fax machine has died and I'd like to do the same thing with my computer's fax modem. So far I can't find any reference to any such feature in Efax or HylaFAX (I'm assuming such a feature would have to be implemented on the backend). Any leads, anyone? try Sourceforge or Freshmeat Sorry, I should have specified that I'm going through all the interesting frontends on Sourceforge and Freshmeat, looking both for this and several other features that I want. So far no luck, but there are many frontends that I have yet to look at. What concerns me more, however, is that I suspect that that this particular feature would need to be implemented in the backend before a frontend could offer it, and I can find no reference to such a feature in the Efax or HylaFAX documentation. Does anyone know if what I am looking for is even currently available in software, or am I going to have to buy a fax machine to get this feature? BTW and OT, my apologies for being so slow in my replies. Shortly after posting the original question I hurt my ankle and am now under doctor's orders to stay in bed for a couple of weeks -- and my computer is at work, not at home, so I'm no longer able to reply to email as often as I'd like. But I do read and reply to your help, even if it takes me a few days to do so. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Recommended laser printer parts vendor
Can anyone recommend a reliable online vendor of laser printer parts? My Brother MFC 4500ML multifunction laser needs a new fuser controller board. Sure, I could Google, but my interest is not so much finding the lowest price as finding a reliable vendor. TIA, Warren -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Splitting a file across floppies
How can I split a large file across multiple floppy disks and reassemble them on another computer? In that other OS, I would use Winzip or a similar tool, but I don't see how to do it either with Gnozip or from the command line. Specifically, here's my situation. I've downloaded a 3 MB Windows executable on my Linux box, which I need to install on a Windows box. I don't have CD-R, so I have to split the file across several floppies. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Human language translation software
Can anyone point me to language translation software, like (for example) English to Spanish? qtrans is on the installation disks but I need something far more robust than that. All I can find on freshmeat and sourceforge are web based services, and I'm looking for something I can run locally and tweak. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This ROCKS
El sáb, 21-06-2003 a las 10:09, Derek Jennings escribió: Question for you Warren Why choose LEAF Dachstein as opposed to LEAF Bering ? Simply because Dachstein was the first I looked at, I liked it, and jumped right in. I have since heard good things about Bering so I can't recommend one over the other. -- Warren Post Your opinion counts! Direct your complaints to /dev/null today. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This ROCKS
El jue, 19-06-2003 a las 21:22, JoeHill escribió: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ It sure does. I put Dachstein LEAF on a client's abandoned 486 and saved them from buying a hardware router/firewall. The client has 25 brand new Windoze machines and the LEAF box is the only reliable 'puter in the building. Ha! -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 09:49, Maurice O'Connor escribió: I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. At least with the version I use (1.0.3), click on Bookmarks | Add a new bookmark to, then navigate to the place in your bookmarks that you want to add the current page to. Easy, once you find it. Some people will find this second method even easier: Bookmarks | Add bookmark. Then later you can edit your bookmarks and move it to where you want it. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] deadkeys usage in keyboard layout.
El lun, 16-06-2003 a las 16:50, manolis escribió: I cannot use the deadkeys on my keyboard (for foreign letters with accents). When I press such a key and after a vowel I get no char. Your keyboard is configured as U.S.-International? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?
El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 09:46, eric huff escribió: Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? PuTTY. I don't have the URL handy; you'll have to Google for it. I put PuTTY on a client's Win2K box to ssh into the Linux box I set up for them as a firewall. Works great. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux drver genius colorpage vivid III scanner
El dom, 08-06-2003 a las 12:27, Johan Scheepers escribió: Hi, I need linux driver for above scanner The Genius ColorPage-Vivid series are rebadged Plustek products, so you need drivers and instructions for Plustek scanners: Drivers and general information: http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html Clear newbie friendly instructions: http://home.t-online.de/home/g-jaeger/howtos/NewbiePlustekHowto/node1.html Anyway where is the best place to look for linux drivers The manufacturer's web site is the place to start. Genius's web site http://www.genius-kye.com/ provides links to Linux drivers for their scanners. Failing that, try Google. Failing that, search the archives of this list. I save all the posts to this list for that purpose. Failing that, ask here. Johan, I suggest you remove the Reply-to information from your email client. When I started to reply to your query, my reply was addressed to you personally and not to the newbie list. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recording Audio from Cassettes
El vie, 06-06-2003 a las 21:50, Dennis Myers escribió: As the subject implies, I am recording my old cassette tapes to make CDs. Some of them are nearing 22 years old and I don't want to lose them. I am using gramofile since I can't quite get audacity to record to harddrive. Now the question is, what's the best way to do this, do the record as a .wav and then burn as mp3s or record as mp3s and burn CDs as mp3s? I record to .wav, normalize using normalize, and encode as ogg with oggenc. Sounds great. is there a faster way to do the process than just play the tape and record? No. This is not a gramofile limitation, this is a limitation of the analog cassette format. Even pro quality cassette to cassette duplicating machines should be not be run at faster than playback speed if you want the highest quality sound. If you are willing to sacrifice quality, I suppose you could record to .wav at a higher than normal speed (you'll need to find a cassette deck with a high speed dupe function) and later stretch out the .wav's time scale, but methinks that you'll sacrifice a lot of quality to save a little time. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL
El lun, 02-06-2003 a las 20:56, Joeb escribió: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 21:47:14 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is only up when I have time to use it. So it gets halted once, and sometimes twice a day. Nearly everytime I bring it back up, the system has lost my Winmodem settings and I have to run hcfpciconfig, the configuration program for the Conexant chipset it uses. (The modem is a Zoom, model 3025). After I run the config everything is back to normal and the modem is usable. Why is the system loosing my config settings? What can I do to make the config settings permanent? I am not familiar with the Conexant chipset modems (since I don't have one), but for the PC-Tel modems, you can insert a couple lines in the /etc/modules.conf that force Linux to load the modules automatically when needed. You might check the readme for the drivers and see if they have similar lines to manually add to your /etc/modules.conf. I'm afraid that I have nothing to add except second Joeb's advice. I had to add my modem's modules to /etc/modules.conf before the modem worked across reboots. HTH. Joeb: Thanks for the service -f devfsd tip. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?
El dom, 01-06-2003 a las 21:37, JoeHill escribió: beatcha to it... You sure did. That happens to me a lot. I can only connect once a day (and that only if our lousy government run ISP happens to be working) so I often answer threads that unknown to me have already moved on. I must be on several people's twit filters by now for this. ...but he wants to view many types of files, not just pr0n. So I see now. Sorry, rikona, can't help you there. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dreamweaver equivalent linux
El lun, 02-06-2003 a las 06:07, ivette brusselmans escribió: Is there a dreamweaver equivalent in linux? The most Dreamweaver-like app for Linux is IBM Websphere. I'm not the best person to review it, as I prefer hand coding, but if I were to use a WYSIWYG tool I would prefer Websphere to Dreamweaver. Websphere is a lot cheaper than Dreamweaver, and last time I checked you could get a 30 day trial version. Personally I use Bluefish, which is head and shoulders above anything in its class in Windows. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File viewer (like QuickView for Win)?
El sáb, 31-05-2003 a las 13:13, rikona escribió: Hello, Is there a file viewer for MD, perhaps similar to QuickView for Windows, that allows one to browse dir trees files, and can display the files (without opening them) as you scroll through them? gqview is much lighter and faster than Nautilis, Konqueror, et al. Works great even on an older system. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Tip: When the Winmodem goes AWOL
My Winmodem (PCTel HSP Micromodem, CM8738) has always worked better in Linux than in Windows. But yesterday it suddenly stopped working. It took me a full day to find a solution, but is so simple that I'm posting it for the benefit of others. All I did was remove the modules and device files, and then recreate and reload. Duh! In my particular case: rmmod ptserial rmmod pctel rm /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem mknod /dev/ttyS15 c 62 79 chgrp uucp /dev/ttyS15 chmod 666 /dev/ttyS15 ln -s /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem insmod pctel insmod ptserial HTH someone. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail enhancements
El vie, 28-03-2003 a las 04:26, Owen Berio escribió: I'm presently using KMail but I can't find any way to enhance text such as hi-lighting, underline, italicize, etc. What you are referring to is called HTML mail. I don't use KMail but take a look in KMail's preferences for some way to activate HTML mail. The use of HTML mail is frowned upon by most lists (including this one) and many users. My mail filters, for example, throw away all HTML mail unread, as the only HTML mail I receive is spam. So I would encourage you to use HTML mail sparingly or not at all. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Video for Linux
I'm looking for newbie oriented HOWTOs and basic information about desktop video. Our church, which tapes its weekly services on video, wants to switch from VHS to CD or DVD as a recording and storage format, and I've been asked to find out how. I know nothing about this, but I do know that if I can come up with a Linux based solution I ought to be able to finally replace Windows with Linux on the church's computer, something I've been trying to do for a year. I've been Googling but all I've found is either too far over my head or so Windows-centric as to be useless. So, anyone have any URLs for me? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Updating Mozilla
I now have Mozilla 0.98 and Galeon 1.0.3, which came as RPMs with Mandrake 8.2. I need to update them to more recent version. In the case of Mozilla, I need also to install the Spanish language pack, which I have been unable to do with 0.98. As best I can tell from reading previous messages on this list, I should: 1. Download recent Mozilla and Galeon RPMs, preferably mdk specific ones. Perhaps from Texstar's site? 2. Upgrade Mozilla and Galeon. Test. 3. Install the Spanish language pack for Mozilla. If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please speak up. I normally prefer the trial and error approach, but this particular job must be completed today without error or fail. I've already downloaded Mozilla 1.2.1 and Galeon 1.2.8 as tarballs, but after reading previous posts on this list I get the impression that I would be better off with RPMs. One of these days I'll learn how to roll my own RPMs from tarballs, but today's not the day. The reason I need to upgrade Mozilla is not so much the limitations of 0.98 as the fact that I can't get the Spanish language pack to install and I need a Spanish Mozilla working by OOB tomorrow for a course I'm teaching. Rather than fight the language pack install with an old version, it seems wiser to just upgrade to the current version. Does anyone see any gotchas, or have any tips? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Updating Mozilla
So far, so good, with thanks to Raffaele and Todd for suggesting that I use a tarball and not RPM. I had to kill my /user/.mozilla file before the Spanish language pack would work, but that's no problem. Thanks again. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)
El lun, 24-02-2003 a las 04:59, Josenildo Marques escribió: And why is it used so much in examples ? The story as I've heard it is this: Long ago, coders began to use the acronym fubar (F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition), which later evolved into the more phonetic foobar used today. Being a popular term, both foobar and its shortened form foo have since become common placeholder terms in examples, to keep examples clearer and less obtuse. Thus if you were to ask me, say, How can I read a man page?, I might reply To read man page 'foo', enter 'man foo' at the console. It's clearer, if less precise, than replying man [options] [section] [title]. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
El dom, 16-02-2003 a las 17:18, Jim Snyder escribió: Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? XMMS has lots of eye candy like you're looking for. Select Options | Preferences | Visualization plugins, and play around. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?
El mar, 11-02-2003 a las 09:31, Angus Auld escribió: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an easy to use HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the inexperienced user. While my personal preference is Bluefish, you might like Mozilla Composer. It lets you switch between WYSIWYG and directly edit the code, so it's easy to, say, do something in WYSIWYG you don't know how to hand code, then see and tweak the code to learn how it's done. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] If I have to have MSIE...
I have to have MSIE. I don't like the browser, but I do a little web design and I need to have MSIE handy (and multiple versions, no less) to test my work in -- as I learned the hard way last week. :-( Given that Bill's Bad Browser isn't and will probably never be available for Linux, how have others on this list with the same need handled this? Ideally I'd buy VMWare, but economically that's not an option right now. Which leaves me with setting up multiple Windows partitions (one for each version of MSIE I need) and reboot every time I want to test my work, or run multiple versions of MSIE in an emulator. Thoughts? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:58:30 +0200, Gil Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? There are several. If you're familiar with Outlook Express you'll feel right at home with Evolution. It does everything Outlook does except propagate viruses. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kalle.saarinen@acte.fi
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:00:02 +0200, Silent Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how to display disk space in commad line? Used/free etc. df, or if you need more information, du. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:56:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I get something like this almost every 2 weeks... Only one every two weeks? What's your secret? I get two or three a day. Shall I forward my extra ones to you? :-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution Sending
El sáb, 18-01-2003 a las 01:47, Russ escribió: While we are at it, is there a way to have all messages sent to Outbox until I choose to send/receive instead of directly sending? Upon opening Evolution, click the connected cables icon in the lower left corner to put Evolution into offline mode. In offline mode, messages you write will go to the outbox until you explicitly chose to send and receive messages (you do not need to switch to online mode to send and receive). -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues
El sáb, 11-01-2003 a las 19:16, Andrei Raevsky escribió:
1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French
letters with accents (such as é or à)..
Use the Mandrake Control Center to change your keyboard to U.S.
International. Now the apostrophe (') and quotation mark () keys are
dead keys that are used to create accented letters. To type é, for
example, press the apostrophe followed by the e. To type an apostrophe,
press the apostrophe key twice. Once you get used to it you will find it
a much easier way to type than those silly alt codes in Windows.
2) How can I rapidly change keyboards? I could use the Mandrake Control
Center's hardware menu to change keyboards, but this would also be very
slow...
Can't help you with this one. Anyone else know?
--
Warren Post
Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
http://srcopan.vze.com/
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Re: [newbie] Linux W2000
El mié, 01-01-2003 a las 16:38, Smiley escribió: What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... FAT32 or NTFS? If the latter, I can't help you. But if the Win2K partition is FAT32, then try parted, available at Freshmeat or at: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted I used parted to shrink my Win95 partition and grow my Linux EXT2 partitions several times as I weaned myself from Windows. If you use the boot disk version, you can resize partions that are normally in use, like root and /home. It works, and the documentation is very newbie friendly. Highly recommended. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 11:48, Mr. VLE79E escribió: I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win box for developing web sites... I'm not answering your question, but if you don't mind my jumping in may I suggest you rethink your idea to use a Windows box for website development. I do websites and use Windows only at gunpoint. The apps available in Linux are so far beyond what Windows has to offer that there is no comparison. Code editors? Bluefish and Quanta beat their Windows brethren. Preprocessors? What few there are for Windows are mostly ports or ripoffs from *nix. WYSIWYG? I recommend hand coding, but IBM's Websphere stands up well to Dreamweaver. M$ Runt Page is too unworthy for comparison. Image editors? Gimp compares very well to Photoshop. Granted, if you have a favorite tool that you just can't live without, you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, as always. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PHP Editor
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: Anyway knows a good PHP Code Editor that support indentation and text highlighting Bluefish. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LILO
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. You can edit the configuration file manually (/etc/lilo.conf) as root or use the GUI tool in the Mandrake Control Center, under boot. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem Installation
El mié, 11-12-2002 a las 12:30, Mr. VLE79E escribió: Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I install it? See http://www.winmodem.org/ and look up your modem. Some work quite well, some are flakey, and some don't work at all. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED
El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribió: OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down... Thanks to everyone who offered ideas. The solution is to edit the OOo startup script (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice) and add this line: unset SESSION_MANAGER That fixes it. Gory details at: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81762 -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening
OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But now that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while opening. OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down. No message of any kind appears in the terminal window I launch it from, I am simply returned to the prompt. ps ax afterward shows no lingering traces of OO, so at least it shuts down cleanly. This happens perhaps 75% of the time I try to open any component of OO. The other 25% of the time OO remains open and works normally. The behavior is the same if opened from a menu vs. a terminal window, and regardless of WM used, user, or previously running apps or daemons. Clue #1: When I run the OO repair tool (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/setup as user and select repair), that user does not suffer this problem for a day or so. Clue #2: Before I installed OO on 8.2, I installed StarOffice 6.0 from the rpm on the Power Pack. I never could get StarOffice to work, so I uninstalled the rpm prior to installing OO. Any ideas of what I should be looking at to fix this? I'd rather not rerun setup every day from now on. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound issues
El vie, 29-11-2002 a las 10:11, Ralph M. Los escribió: 1. What's a good file manager type application? Nautilus plain sucks. I like XWC: fast and light. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 14:34, Anne Wilson escribió: For some peculiar reason every time I try to print I am having problems. The printer starts OK, but hangs part way down the page. It is as though the print is not spooling, and drawing direct so that the slightest thing interferes with it. Has anyone got a fix for this? My printer (a Brother MFC 4500ML) would also hang midpage with anything but the most simple documents. It turns out that I didn't have enough memory in the printer, and installing more solved the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Evolution folder repair
Perhaps this will help someone. I had a mail folder in Evolution become corrupt. Evolution's error message went so far as to declare the entire folder irrecoverably lost. Not true! It's easy to fix: I closed Evolution and went to the relevant directory (/home/username/evolution/local/foldername/). There you will find several files, among which are mbox (the messages themselves) and mbox.ev-summary (a summary of the contents of mbox). This summary file became corrupt and had to be rebuilt, so I renamed mbox.ev-summary. Then I reopened Evolution and accessd the folder in question. Evolution rebuild the folder's summary file and the folder worked fine. To clean up, I then deleted the renamed mbox.ev-summary file. Easy. Perhaps this fix will work with other mbox based email clients as well. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus sign and Ctrl-Alt-minus sign are what you want, I think. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen
El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:49, Peter Spotts escribió: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop to screen? I had a similar problem: the X display was off center. Outside of X the display was centered correctly. I solved it by running xvidtune, which among other things lets you align the X display horizontally and vertically. Try it and let us know if the problem persists. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't start a program at boot
I have been trying unsuccessfully to launch XMMS automatically on boot, or alternatively whenever any user logs in. I use several different windows managers so a wm-specific solution such as using ~/Desktop/Autostart won't work for me. I've searched this list for ideas, and have tried: * xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in /etc/rc.local. I've tried it both as the last line and as the next to last line. Fails silently. * exec xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in ~/.xinitrc. Fails silently. * xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u in ~/.bashrc. Works, but annoyingly restarts XMMS ever time I open a terminal, which is often. Yes, the command xmms -p /home/warren/.xmms/xmms.m3u given manually in a terminal does work. What else might I try? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding to OpenOffice gallery for all users
It's easy enough to add items to OpenOffice's gallery for one user. But how do you add items so that they will be available to all, without having to install the same items separately for each user? I copied a number of images to subdirectories of OpenOffice's shared gallery directory, /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/share/gallery. These images can now be installed in each user's gallery, but each user has to do this installation by hand. How can the installation be done once and for all for all users? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing 8.1 packages on 8.2
I've just switched from 8.1 download edition to 8.2 Power Pack and like it. But there are some 8.1 packages that I'd like to use in 8.2, for example: * Blackbox (present on the 8.1 disks, not on 8.2) * findutils (the 8.1 package contains slocate, 8.2 does not) * Some themes for IceWM and XMMS that 8.2 doesn't have * sane 1.0.5 (which works with my scanner's module; 8.2 ships with sane 1.0.7 which breaks the module) ... and so forth. Given that I already have these packages on my 8.1 disks, is there any reason why I should not install these 8.1 packages on my 8.2 system? Could I simply define my 8.1 disks as additional sources? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Stop %^$#@$% print job
El jue, 10-10-2002 a las 01:21, Dale Huckeby escribió: I seem to recall there was a brief discussion on either the newbie or expert list not too long ago on how to stop a print job and clear the printer's memory (don't want to waste 70 or 80 pages worth of ink), but I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone point me to it, or offer some suggestions? Here's what works for me: Delete the files in /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/cups/tmp Service cups restart -s Reboot the printer (not the computer) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Formatting from boot disk
El lun, 07-10-2002 a las 11:43, Julie escribió: I recently recieved a free 133mhz machine for free from a friend and I decided to install the Mandrake 8.0 I had bought some time ago. Unfortunately I didn't check out the system fully before trying to install, and after I finished and rebooted, it loaded and the log in screen came up completely stuffed. I could barely see a portion of the screen and couldn't click on anything so was unable to log in. It looked fine during setup, but looked as if it were only in 16 colors. I've tried reinstalling three times with the same result. Can I possibly boot up from the floppy somehow and format the drive so I can load Windoze on temporarily just to make sure there are no hardware problems? I've tried booting from a Windoze98 startup disk but it's a no go. Aside from whatever problems your Mandrake installation might have, it sounds like the Windows startup disk you used is damaged. Assuming the BIOS is set to boot from the floppy, a Windows startup disk should boot any PC into DOS, regardless of what is on the hard disk. Try a different startup disk, or download a DOS boot disk from the net (there are several, try Google). Or perhaps the floppy drive is dirty or dead. The Mandrake symptoms you describe may be a configuration problem: wrong video adapter selected, wrong version of XFree86, etc. Give the list some details about your video hardware and configuration. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I
El mié, 02-10-2002 a las 17:41, Edward Reynolds escribió: I would like to know if there is a tool that will allow me to resize my Windows partition, without loosing the data on that partition. I have about 5 GB of free space on that partition. Partition Resizer. Free from tucows.com but not open source. DOS based floppy. Parted. Free from freshmeat.net and open source. Linux based floppy. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution and recurring tasks
El mar, 01-10-2002 a las 02:20, Brian Parish escribió: I have a mission to convert my sister to Mandrake. Evolution is an important part of this. She asks how to do something fairly simple: create a recurring task. It certainly aint obvious to me. Can it be done? This is my biggest gripe with Evolution. You can't make a recurring task, only a recurring appointment, at least not with 1.0.2 which I am using. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of Mandrake Linux on an old machine
El jue, 26-09-2002 a las 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I installed on an old Compaq Deskpro 566. I have 32MB of ram. I also have two disk drives. One is a 500MB drive and the other is a 1G drive. I installed the root on the 500G drive with swap and home on the 1G drive. Problem: I installed KED. I saw it install but when I boot up all I get is the text only command window. Do I need more memory? Thanks, Dave Capuano I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are, and we would need to know which version of Mandrake and KDE in any case. But I can say that with your older system KDE is not an option. You will find a lighter window manager like IceWM or Blackbox to be much faster and probably more stable. If you can put more memory in the box, do it. Linux uses RAM very efficiently and so there's no such thing as too much RAM. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
El vie, 27-09-2002 a las 12:42, Andre Stevens escribió: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? For printers, see http://www.linuxprinting.org/. For modems, you'll have to first identify it. I have a sinking feeling that you have a so-called winmodem, so take a look at http://www.winmodem.org/. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The print job that wouldn't die - SOLVED
El lun, 23-09-2002 a las 15:01, s escribió: delete the files in /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp then service cups restart. -s That, plus rebooting the printer (not the computer) finally took care of it. Thank you! -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Won't boot if headless
This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has faced this problem before. I've amazed my friends by setting up a Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy in our city hall on an ancient 486 that was retired ages ago. But when I try to run it headless, it won't boot unless I plug a keyboard back in. As a workaround I've got an old keyboard that doesn't work very well plugged into the box, but that is both an inelegant solution and a temptation to idle fingers. Nor is this an idle complaint: our frequent power outages mean that the box must reboot often and reliably. I suspect that the problem is hardwired and the only solution is to change the motherboard. (I see no BIOS settings that should affect the keyboard.) But somebody prove me wrong, please. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The print job that wouldn't die
I have a print job I want to kill, but not even a stake through it's heart seems to work. I have tried: * Killing it with the CUPS web admin tool (localhost:631). CUPS now says there are no jobs pending, but the printer keeps printing. * ps ax. There's nothing obvious to kill. * lpq. It says lp is ready and no entries * cancel lp. It says cancel: cancel-job failed: client-error-not-possible What else can I try to kill off this monster? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Smiley faces
To send, type a smiley emoticon, which is: :-) The receiver needs to have enabled display emoticons as graphics, which in Mozilla is at Edit | Preferences | Mail and Newsgroups | Message Display. Warren El jue, 12-09-2002 a las 07:43, Marcia escribió: Dear All, How does one add those cute sunshine faces to email? I have LM8.2 and use Mozilla messenger. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE
Actually there are many more options than just these two. Each has its advantages, so try 'em all and see which one(s) you like the best. When you install Linux, you'll be asked which graphical environment(s) you want to install. Choose 'em all. Upon each login you will be able to choose which one you want to try for that session. Pretty soon you'll see just how limiting Windows is with only one graphical environment. Warren El mar, 27-08-2002 a las 21:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know ur comments :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download manager for LINUX?
Several. I use NT, but there are others as well. When I'm looking for software, I almost always find what I need either on the LM install disks (open Software Manager and search the descriptions) or on freshmeat.net, which is to Linux what Tucows is to Windows. It's remarkable how much high quality software there is for Linux, and a lot of the best is already on your installation disks. Warren El vie, 30-08-2002 a las 00:32, Markus Bela escribió: Hi, is there a download manager available, like FLASGET, DOWNOAD ACCELERATOR, etc? Béla Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nasty OT question. NTFS
These are my favorite partition manipulation tools. They complement one another, so collect 'em all: * Parted, available through freshmeat. You want to download the floppy disk image and run it from a floppy. It's Linux based, open source, and so well documented even I understand it. I'm not sure if it plays nice with NTFS, so test first. Works great with FAT32, for what that's worth. * Partition Resizer, available through tucows.com. DOS based freeware but not open source. It strives to be a freeware alternative to Partition Magic. Again, I'm not sure if it does NTFS. Good luck, Franki. If nothing works and you have to do the format-and-reinstall dance, install Windows as FAT32 rather than NTFS if possible. (If you're on a local network, check with your sysadmin first.) Decent NTFS tools are hard to find. One other thing: on your failed test with Ghost, take a look at C:/boot.ini (which is Windows 2000's lobotomized version of lilo.conf). Maybe the only thing wrong was a bad configuration file. Warren El sáb, 24-08-2002 a las 16:49, Franki escribió: Hi guys, This is the wrong forum for this question, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have a problem on one of my dual boot machines, in this case the problem is with the windows side of things. (win2000 pro SP3 to be precise) Anyway, I have a 40 gig in this PC, unfortunately I thought a 1.5gig NTFS partition would be enough for just win2000 (all applications are loaded onto another partition) unfortunately, win2000 with all the service packs, hotfixes, patches etc etc etc take up that whole drive to the point where it has only 100mb free. (not enough to even run defrag on it.) even with the windows swapfile on another partition. There are several other NTFS partitions on this drive, and I'd love to shrink one of them a couple of gig and enlarge the win2000 partition by same... Is partitionmagic the only one that can do that? I will probably never need it again so I don't really want to buy it..(120 dollars + over here in Oz.) (I have an old version of Ghost, which I tried to use to resize the partition but it clagged the win2000 install on the test drive I tried it on because it didn't update NTFS correctly to the new size) Is there an open source tool for this or am I out of luck??? Any tips would be great. I cringe asking winblows questions, but I have to have windoze on this one PC for work, so I figure you guys would understand. regards Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't find fpc compiler
I've installed the Free Pascal Compiler, fpc, included on the 8.1 installation disks, but the compiler doesn't seem to be installed. Man fpc tells me that the command syntax is fpc [options] [sourcefile], but even something as simple as fpc -h produces fpc: command not found. Indeed, the Mandrake Software Manager shows me over four hundred files in the fpc rpm, but none of them are named fpc. In order to run the command fpc, I need a binary executable named fpc, correct? I've read the man page, the readme, the faq, and the freepascal.org site, but everything takes for granted that the compiler will work after installing the rpm. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? TIA, Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't find fpc compiler
El dom, 25-08-2002 a las 16:45, dfox escribió: I've read the man page, the readme, the faq, and the freepascal.org site, but everything takes for granted that the compiler will work after installing the rpm. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? One would expect that 'fpc' is indeed installed somewhere, perhaps /usr/bin, with the other support files somewhere else (/usr/share/fpc or someplace like that). Can you verify that 'fpc' is in /usr/bin? It is not, nor is a file named fpc anywhere else, as 'find' shows: [root@gerencia warren]# find / -name fpc find: /mnt/floppy: Input/output error find: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error /usr/lib/fpc (The last entry being a directory, not a file. fpc isn't in there, either.) Nor does the rpm package I installed contain a file named fpc that is supposed to go to /usr/bin/: [root@gerencia warren]# rpm -ql fpc-1.0.4-2mdk | grep /bin/ /usr/bin/bin2obj /usr/bin/data2inc /usr/bin/delp /usr/bin/fd2pascal /usr/bin/fpcmake /usr/bin/fprcp /usr/bin/h2pas /usr/bin/plex /usr/bin/postw32 /usr/bin/ppdep /usr/bin/ppudump /usr/bin/ppufiles /usr/bin/ppumove /usr/bin/ptop /usr/bin/pyacc /usr/bin/rstconv There are probably three possibilities: /usr/bin not in PATH - but I find that highly unlikely... /usr/bin/ is in my path: [warren@gerencia warren]$ env (snip) PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:...(snip) It could be that the installation directory is not in your path, or the install is broken in some respect (i.e., by not placing the compiler binary or at least a link to it in /usr/bin). That's what I'm wondering. How is this rpm supposed to give me a working compiler if it doesn't contain a file named fpc? you installed the source rpm by mistake, so you'd have to compile it, but that doesn't seem that likely. Did the filename end in src.rpm? No, it is fpc-1.0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm, from LM 8.1 CD3. At any rate, typing 'rehash' at the command prompt (or exit relogin) might actually work. It can't hurt. No change after exit and relogin. Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux
What alternatives to Outlook exist for shared calendars, contacts, tasks, etc.? It has to run in both Windows and Linux, and has to be in Spanish. I've successfully switched our city government from MS Office to OpenOffice as a first step in migrating it to Linux later. Now we have a new city manager who wants either Outlook or something with similar groupware features for our LAN. He's cautiously open minded about open source and Linux, so even though the easy thing to do is buy a few copies of Outlook I'd much rather impress him with something open source (that will also work under Linux, thus making it easier to later dump Windows). I couldn't find anything on Freshmeat. Twig and phpgroupware, which come on the Mandrake CDs, are interesting cross platform groupware. Any other ideas? Thanks, Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Embedded Ethernet Adapaters
Mine is (on an ECS M748LMRT motherboard). It was far easier to get going under Linux than under Windows, in fact. Of course, your mileage may vary. Warren El sáb, 10-08-2002 a las 22:57, Isaac Curtis escribió: ...my primary question isn't whether these particular onboard network adapters are supported but rather if onboard ethernet adapters are supported in general. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Distributing the Power Pack?
My Linux advocacy is beginning to pay off. One of the people I've turned on to Linux Mandrake has just ordered himself the 8.2 Power Pack. Should be arriving any day now, and he I are like a couple of little kids just before Christmas. I've been giving away copies of 8.1 download edition, and the most common complaint I hear is of the temperamental supermount. I'm tempted to burn myself a copy of the first three disks of my friend's 8.2 Power Pack and start giving them away as if they were the download edition. A freely distributable 8.x with a working supermount would go far in promoting Linux and MandrakeSoft here. Is this a good idea? Or should I continue to give away the 8.1 download CDs until I can get the download edition of 8.2? I want to promote LM and MandrakeSoft, not cause a good company harm. Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures
Greetings from the world capital of brownouts, blackouts, spikes, and thunderstorms. Here's what I recommend, in order: FOR FILESYSTEM PROTECTION... 1. Use a journaling file system like XFS. This, alone, would probably have avoided your problems. FOR HARDWARE PROTECTION... 2. Make sure your power outlets are properly grounded. If you do nothing else, do this. Most of the following measures depend upon proper grounding. 3. Use good quality power supplies. Most PCs today come with junk, but a good name brand supply (PC Power Cooling make good units) will provide quite a bit of spike, brownout, and surge protection even without separate line conditioning equipment. 4. Decent power protection equipment will indeed cost you the proverbial arm and a leg. The cheap stuff is junk that is not worth buying. Before you buy, consider the specific power problems you face: * If power outages (even momentary ones) are common, you need a UPS. If they are rare, then using a journaling file system should be enough protection. * If lightning strikes or other massive surges are common, have a qualified electrician check your building's wiring with an eye to lightning dissipation. Consider a surge protector from a reputable company like Tripp Lite only if fried computers are common in your neighborhood after a thunderstorm. * If line interference or voltage fluctuations is causing problems, have an electrician check your building's wiring and major appliances. Most problems can be corrected without the need for line conditioners. After having said the above, what do I do? I use XFS, my outlets are grounded, and I have a combo UPS/line conditioner. But that's overkill for most localities. For the average installation, a good power supply connected to a well grounded outlet should do if you're running XFS. Warren Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras El lun, 29-07-2002 a las 14:17, John Richard Smith escribió: This may sound a simple question but what if anything can computer owners do, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg , to protect their equipement from bad weather. Here in Milton Keynes, England we have just had the mother and father of a thunder storm, which caused a momentary cut in power, and naturally crashed all the running computers. Some rebooted OK , that is after lengthy file system checks, but one refused even after this, it got as far as loading USB interface (USB ohci) , and hung. I'm back in , but not after some nifty failsafe rebooting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures
El mar, 30-07-2002 a las 14:55, John Richard Smith escribió: Thanks for that reply I am still not familiar with the term -- combo UPS/line conditioner It's not a technical term; I referred to the fact that the UPS I have is designed to also serve as a line conditioner. It's a model Tripp Lite makes specifically for poor power environments where otherwise one would need both a line conditioner and a UPS. Here in the uk we have stable good quality electricity supplies.Our national grid never blips at all. But no national grid can cope with massive thunder storms. In that case you might well not need to do anything more than switch to XFS and make sure the wiring in your building is in good order. Here we get at least one momentary (1 sec) power failure a day, and our nominal 120 VAC never reaches even 100 volts. So what would be minimally acceptable protection here would be massive overkill for you. Glad to hear that your house wasn't one of the ones hit. Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through the Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't keep on reboot. How can I make the change permanent? 2. Can the U.S. International keyboard driver make an upside down question mark and upside down exclamation point? I want to be able to properly tell you !gracias! Warren El mar, 23-07-2002 a las 22:17, Richard Holt escribió: On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren, I solve the problem by using what's called the US International keyboard driver... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed
I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not appear in the start menus. I've tried editing menudrake and rebooting, but no change in the start menus. What should I do to make my menus reflect what menudrake shows? Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed
El sáb, 27-07-2002 a las 19:57, Dennis Myers escribió: On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not appear in the start menus. I've tried editing menudrake and rebooting, but no change in the start menus. What should I do to make my menus reflect what menudrake shows? Warren Warren, I believe that some of the menus were probably KDE specific and since you got rid of KDE they are not really there anymore, just a guess. So I would try update-menus -v from a su console and see if that does not fix up your menus and menudrake. HTH No, quite the opposite, I'm afraid. Everything has been lost from my menus except the freshly installed Gnome apps. The Mandrake Control Center is gone, the Software Manager is gone, the window manager specific apps are gone (for example, the configuration tools for Blackbox), and so forth. These apps have not been uninstalled and can still be launched from a terminal; they're just not on any menu any more. update-menu produces no change. Any other ideas? Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X
I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot matrix drivers that are available for Star under CUPS. What I get when I try to print a test page is a single horizontal line followed by line feeds forever. Ditto when I try the Epson dot matrix driver. What else should I be trying? I've already looked at linuxprinting.org and posted this question on linuxprinting.star.general with no luck. TIA, Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pcx viewer
ee opens .pcx images fine for me. But try ImageMagick, which also opens .pcx. Warren El sáb, 20-07-2002 a las 16:59, Rick Henderson escribió: ee does not seem to open .pcx files. is there one that could be suggested? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] xterm command line to display a jpeg
display imagename.jpg or ee imagename.jpg display launches ImageMagik, and ee launches Electric Eyes... assuming you have ImageMagik and/or Electric Eyes installed, of course. If you don't, they're on your installation CDs. Warren El dom, 14-07-2002 a las 15:33, Rick Henderson escribió: Could some one tell me what a command on an exterm terminal would be to display a jpeg picture? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Users can't logon under X
My home box was working fine, so of course I had to mess with it. I went through the Software Manager and removed all the packages I (thought I) didn't need. I freed up a lot of disk space, but now users can't log on under X. If a user attempts to log on from the graphical logon window, X appears to restart and the graphical logon window returns. A user can log on to tty1 through tty6, but gets a bash prompt instead of the usual [user@computer directory] prompt. My guess is that I removed a package that I shouldn't have. Any ideas as to what it was so I can put it back before my kids kill me? Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
