Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me. Be patient. With time, and with some effort, it will quickly begin to resemble not Greek, but Esperanto. :*) Several books that I have used include: LINUX: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE, 5/E THE LINUX COOKBOOK LINUX ETUDES RUNNING LINUX I'll second the recommendation for Running Linux, which I'm currently working my way through. At times it gets a little heavy or technical for a casual user, but on the whole it does a pretty good job of explaining basic concepts in an understandable manner. RUTE is also good. What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html its free but you can also buy a hard copy. It's definitely worth a look. I had a look at Sams RedHat 9 book and found that there was reasonably little that was different to Mandrake. Except Redhat is for goons...:-) Also worth a look if you want a massive manual to make you feel a little more secure. That said, I still know /so/ little ... yet, it's volumes more than I knew 5-6 weeks ago. Some problems I've been able to figure out on my own, others with the patient help of those here in this group, and others I still don't understand well enough to tackle ... those I've put aside for a later time when, hopefully, things will have fallen into place for me and they'll be a piece of cake. :-) One of the problems with Linux books is there current-ness. Many books offered are way out of date. Mandrake is very similar to Red Hat, so a current Red Hat book could be a good buy. But don't leave us, as there is alot of useful stuff that is not documented in books, that only we Mandrake folks know about. I'd also recommend -- being somewhat of a miser myself, and on a very limited income at the moment -- checking out the used book sources (such as Amazon, or perhaps http://www.bookfinder.com). That's what I did a few weeks back when I was first getting my Linux feet wet, and managed to pick up like-new, current editions of Running Linux, Linux Desk Reference, and Linux in a Nutshell for around $50 total, SH included. And the pundits that talk about how linux is not ready for the desktop have no idea what they are talking about. Linux has been ready for this desktop for the last 4 years. I run a 100% MS free PC. My processor has never seen MS code. Linux is certainly ready for the desktop ... I would, however, say that most (more casual) users are not ready for Linux. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -=-=- ... For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. -- Titus Lucretius Carus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla FTP oddities
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I am setting up an FTP page for some of my friends to use. Only thing is it works fine for Internet Explorer but in Mozilla when you click the link you just get a new page open with what looks like raw code. I do come across this occasionally with some ftp sites. You can download using Mozilla if you right click the link and choose save target as. Anybody know what the issue is and how I get the link to the file to download to work properly under Mozilla for those lazy gits that expect to just select the link and it works. It's something about setting the mime-types. It has something to do with the helper applications thing in the preferences. I used to get that for rpms but don't any more. What version of mozilla are you running? Cheers Anton -=-=- ... This fortune intentionally left blank. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:19, anton wrote: What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html its free but you can also buy a hard copy. It's definitely worth a look. Doesn't urpmi rute work, as well? Again, wtf is urpmi, and isn't it for installing apps? What do you mean you install documentation? Why do you need to install documentation? Cheers Anton -=-=- ... You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 06:22:51 +1100 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: You should have mentioned that your howto actually shows how to create your very own fortune databases, which IMO really rocks. In my case it allows me to disseminate loads of commie propaganda :-D ...or rather, dope related drivel? ...bong related babble? Counterrevolutionary scum! You'll be the first one up against the wall! ...er, ya. Smoke 'em. 8-) Anton -=-=- ... She's genuinely bogus. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:27:26 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:02, Aron Smith wrote: Thanks for jumping on this before I had a conniption. that anything like a Walalaby? WALLABY. Great Ceasar - y'all cain't spell for the life of ya! Wallabies don't jump, they hop. They're also very gentle unless provoked. They way small than a kangaroo, but are part of the kangaroo family. They ARE endangered now - especially rock wallabies. may they all die, like all furry aussie animals destroying NZs beautiful and unique nature! Anton the kiwi who won't be for much longer... ps. Yes, we do have them, what's more, we have/had a species that is extinct in Aussie! And we graciously gave them to you instead of killing them all! What have you done for us lately? Eh? -=-=- ... The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. -- Dorothy Parker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'
Here in Turkey, Windows costs around $2 (Mandrake costs a bit more, because there are more CDs). To quote a local comedy show, Please don't use the word 'pirate'. We are art distributors. Here that OS would cost around US$3. But, you know what, I think it's still too expensive. :-) I once read (possibly even on a mandrake list) that M$s biggest asset was that MOST of the world's programmers and sysadmins and certain almost all of the world's joe bloggs' are only comfortable using M$ products. I would like to see the figures of M$ still losing ground. Sure Linux and others might be gaining a little here and there, but i'm sure M$ is also still growing as a company. Actual raw numbers are growing for both and while that is still happening then M$ can afford to let this little Linux thing continue. While I know lots of people that think it is cool to use pirated M$ software - the joke is on them. While people are only comfortable using M$ then there are always situations where they will extract their pound. 3rd world companies still have to pay for their licences. Jesus, aparently even in China now they are getting strict! But ask yourselves this - how many companies would buy copies of M$Office if all their employees used Open Office at home? Eh? Think about it. Microsoft will dance the fine line trying to stop the scourge of piracy but only so far. If they really stopped all those $2 and $3 copies then people would really start looking for alternatives. They would see that M$ is just glossier, and gives no real competitive advantage. M$ does not want that to happen. I recently flat out refused to get my dad an illegal copy of office, which I could have acquired, had I wanted ;-). No I will not, I said. I will, however, give you a copy of Open Office, and also of Star Office (when they had their free licences I got a few). So I got ready to send it to him... but in the meanwhile dad, just boot into the linux partition I installed for you when I was up for christmas... and btw you don't need to worry about viruses in Linux so you don't have to get another virus checker... What do you know? Dad now uses Linux. Be vigilant my friends and free your fellows from crime - stop piracy NOW! The less you condone the use of pirated software the more you promote alternatives - FREEDOM. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- G.B. Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?
Anne: You raise a good point. Back when I lived in Dilbert's world, I learned that even moving documents from one installation of MS Office to another -- even within the same version -- is not as simple as the MS advertisements might lead you to believe. We would get templates from A Higher Level that required some fudging so that they would print in the proscribed format. The usual culprit was that the originator had either diddled his printer settings, or was using a printer that had capabilities that were not available to us. It was worse, of course, when the template was created using a newer version of Word/Excel/Whatever than we had, since going from new -- old -- new is never bullet proof. Yip that's right, I have had big differences between word 97-2000-xp. not worth the bytes its written on.;-) cheers Anton -=-=- ... God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail clients
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I suspect the general split will probably be between Sylpheed, Kmail, Moz Mail and Evo. mozmail for me. kmail seemed (3.1.3) a bit clunky, never seen sylpheed and evo is gnome. Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 March 2004 02:15 pm, anton wrote: Hey, How do I do that? I am using tagzilla to get my sigs. Is there a way just to call a script like this? I would prefer that... Cheers Anton -=-=- ... A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. -- Shaw What mail program do you use? Just copy that script into a file and make it executable, and set it up in the mail program. unfortunately its the set it up in the mail program that I can't do. I'm using mozilla mail. I tried `sh /home/antonovich/dd` in the signature part but no joy. CIA Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem recording voice
Mike Adolf wrote: I was trying voice recording using rec/play. Play seems to work ok since a downloaded .wav sounds good. But, rec only produces an faint static recording. Aumix seems set OK. (the button under rec column is red). One strange thing. My mic feeds through to my speakers, a loud speaker system, in effect. I've been having similar probs!!! Cheers Anton -=-=- ... From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr. Seuss Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
Fajar PRiyanto wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Monday 15 March 2004 07:12 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:32:45 +0700
Fajar PRiyanto disseminated the following:
Btw Joe, how do you make your signature shows all those stuffs?
I copied, pasted, and hacked together some stuff I got off this list and
from Todd Slater's page:
#!/bin/bash
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user*}
RESULT=${TIME% *}
echo -n $RESULT `cat /etc/mandrake-release`
echo
echo ++
echo `fortune /home/joehill/sigs/quotes`
exit
Geez,
Thanks Joe, so you're using /etc/mandrake-release, huh? ;)
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19:33:20 up 6:02, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586
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Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
Hey,
How do I do that? I am using tagzilla to get my sigs. Is there a way
just to call a script like this? I would prefer that...
Cheers
Anton
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his mother
drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
-- Shaw
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Re: [newbie] can Mandrake 9.2 write on ntfs file system?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:05 pm, jimmy wrote: But I don't know why can't I still write on that partition. Because it will get corrupted. Do I have to convert it to FAT32? This is the best option agreed. ;0 Anton -=-=- ... Man is the measure of all things. -- Protagoras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can Mandrake 9.2 write on ntfs file system?
jimmy wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.2 but cannot write on my windows partition which is NTFS. So I thought I need to remount it in read-write mode and I did it. But I still cannot write on that partition, though it shows that it is 'rw' when I do mount -l google is your friend. It can be done but is really not recommended. M$ don't like sharing you see... It has to be set up special though, so you will have to piss around if you want it. Best not to write to a partition that has an OS on it anyway (from another OS) - set up a share with FAT32 that is no probs for linux and Windoze. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. -- Spock, Amok Time, stardate 3372.7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] connexant modems - cheeky request...
hiya, Mi da' has one of these monstrosities (on a cheapie dell) and I am trying to get the thing to run from a few hundred miles away... I gave him a copy of the beta files mentioned on this list a while back but the rpms don't work. I guess they have to be compiled special for his kernel (duh, more brain juice for Anton please...). The problem is that he needs to have the kernel sources installed I guess, and though he doesn't mind me giving him instructions over the phone, I am not very good at this! So if there is any very kind soul out there with the kernel source installed running the standard distro kernel for 9.1 (I no longer have the disks ;-(, or a machine running it...) who would be gracious enough to build a copy of it... it would save me a lot of hair and is far more likely to get dad positive about linux (he is a bit paranoid so I have made great strides ;-)) if I can get this running quick - so he has no reason to boot to doze at all. I think the files are still available at the original download link posted to this list: http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/ if not then there is a copy here: http://antonovich/free.fr/hcfpcimodem-0.99mbsibeta02123100-1.src.i386.rpm and http://antonovich/free.fr/hsflinmodem-5.03.27mbsibeta02122600-1.src.rpm Thanks heaps!!! Anton -=-=- ... We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. -- Nick Faldo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connexant modem driver
My guess is if you bought the POS in the first place you have the legal right to use it as you see fit, and if it means a beta driver to get it to work in Linux, then go for it. Better though not to buy the POS in the first place. OTOH, winmodems have about the same amount of electronics in them as $cientology emeters and you probably need a license to operate the latter ;(. Hey, I think you are being a little harsh there. Sure not having connexant drivers is a real PITA, and they should definitely not be supported for that, but I have never had a problem with either of my two lucent-based winmodems. In fact, once I knew how and where to get things going I have had no probs at all. Somehow heaps better than in doze!!! My only question is why doesn't mdk package the ltmodem driver? It may not be gpl (not sure) but WGAF? mdk people are not FSF zealots and good on us! It isn't pay software, and would make life a lot easier if it was put on the mirrors (even maybe plf?) precompiled. My opinion... Cheers Anton -=-=- ... ...I would go so far as to suggest that, were it not for our ego and concern to be different, the African apes would be included in our family, the Hominidae. - Richard Leakey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
This is just a kludge til you get it figured out, but what I would recommend is not having X start at boot, yeah... the wife wouldn't be very impressed though. She won't let me install linux for her (as a linux only box) yet and I think a text login for my box (which she needs to turn on to connect to the net, even for her box) would just fuel the fire. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] buzip??
I think Ark can handle files like that. Try a right-click and open with Ark I would advise against that... I would say it is much better to become comfortable with command line compression and decompression. I had a number of problems with ark (though it is generally good). Command Line Tar kicks butt, and can handle zip, gzip and bzip. Once you know how to use it it makes everything heaps easier. My opinion anyway. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Nobody said computers were going to be polite. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
But ya, Robin's suggestion is probably a good one, I'm not sure as I never mess with KDE/KDM (which may explain why I don't even have an /etc/X11/kdm dir on my system...) well I am in trouble then! I am using mdkkdm (and have been for some time) and I also have no /etc/X11/kdm directory!!! ;) Anton -=-=- ... grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
I had the same problem - changing to mdkkdm fixed it. wow! talk about weird response! nobody took much notice of the message and now lots of people reply. That's not the weird thing though - The source says this (my original one) was sent on the 30/08/2008. WTF?!? That is bizarre. And cheers joe, ill get into the x11 files. Ai no nahting about x and definitely need to do some finding out. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. -- Clint Eastwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmbuild
See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. It was the same with all the google leads except one, where the actual site didn't make that much sense to me.It wasn't obvious to me where the htmldoc file was that I needed.Is there some sort of lock on the acquisition of this file or do you think it's my mozilla browser settings or something? John mozilla browser settings. I middle clicked on the link i your last reply and got my download window in Charles' latest mozilla (1.6) no wukin furries. The links are good, mozilla is bad for you here. And btw... if I were you I would choose my battles. I started compiling and installing from source and stuff for a while, but it is not sustainable if you want to play with lots of stuff, and actually have a job. Urpmi is just point and click (well almost...). Heaps easier than anything in $doze. There will be some stuff that you want to do from source - great. The rest should be urpmi. I have DIALUP, yes, that is right, DIALUP, and in spite of dodgy mirrors and broken connections I would not have the time for half the stuff I do wihtout urpmi (or similar). Cheers Anton ps if you like then just cut and paste: wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk.i586.rpm into a konsole. You will have it in seconds. (paste is Ctrl-insert) -=-=- ... Human kind cannot bear very much reality. -- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets: Burnt Norton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmbuild
So whuch htmldoc package does it require. I don't use urpmi. John ...I am sure you're taking the piss but: htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk In case your not... Cheers Anton on your disks... or on an ftp server near you. -=-=- ... If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] simple but quite useful (for newbies)
Hi, This is really simple and easy but I just did it and am really finding it useful. I was often typing: rpm -qa | grep ... which can be a bit annoying. So I added it to my .bashrc file as an alias with the line at the end of the file: alias rpmq='rpm -qa | grep ' and now only have to type: rpmq ... instead. Simple but I found it useful. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #5 A: The Halls of Montezuma and the Shores of Tripoli. Q: Name two families whose kids won't join the Marines. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmbuild
All roads blanked, except, a google to a site I could not make much sense of. No I was not kidding ya. It's why I asked. me no understand? ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk.i586.rpm no idea... first google entry... Cheers Anton -=-=- ... The more I see of men the more I admire dogs. -- Mme De Sevigne, 1626-1696 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmbuild
I guess I don't have some package installed ? I usually get chastised when I am this lazy so... Lazy bones! urpmi htmldoc and there we have it! Cheers Anton -=-=- ... After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main
I'm not sure if this is possible. Mozilla and mozilla-mail are closely intertwined. They are the same program, actually, with different interface options. You can try running the command, 'export BROWSER=konqueror'and see if that makes a difference. Nope, Cheers anyway, Anton -=-=- ... Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - web host update
shameless plug So, if you have special hosting need, you might want to check out RimuHosting. And if you decide to go with them, tell them webonaire sent you (I'll get a free month of hosting). /shameless plug Seriously, I just signed up and so I can't speak to support issues or anything. I think it's a great deal, though. And why is it so good? Its a Kiwi company!!! ;-0 anton ps Rimu is a native tree here that my dad made furniture with... -=-=- ... divorce, n: A change of wife. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)
How did you manually change lilo to select the 2.6.3 kernel ? manually? I would have thought manually would have been to delete the symlinks (vmlinuz initrd.img) and set them to the 2.6.3? maybe not? Cheers Anton -=-=- ... You definitely intend to start living sometime soon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] has the 2.6 kernal been patched
Aron Smith wrote: I ran across this http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1530875,00.asp So has Mandrake released a patch? reread the article, look at the kernel versions ready for download, and ask yourself whether this question needs to be asked... Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, Henry VI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8 as main
Now, click on Advanced on the left side of the screen. Then double click on preferred applications. The first window should be about web browsers. Change it to Custom, then type in, 'mozilla-firefox %s'. Hiya, should this work for konqueror too? It doesn't seem to... Is there any way to get konqueror to load when I click a link in mozilla mail? Cheers Anton ps, neither do any of the other suggestions... Im running mozilla 1.6 from Charles and kde3.2 from lanman. peace. -=-=- ... We've got a problem, HAL. What kind of problem, Dave? A marketing problem. The Model 9000 isn't going anywhere. We're way short of our sales goals for fiscal 2010. That can't be, Dave. The HAL Model 9000 is the world's most advanced Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. I know, HAL. I wrote the data sheet, remember? But the fact is, they're not selling. Please explain, Dave. Why aren't HALs selling? Bowman hesitates. You aren't IBM compatible. [...] The letters H, A, and L are alphabetically adjacent to the letters I, B, and M. That is a IBM compatible as I can be. Not quite, HAL. The engineers have figured out a kludge. What kludge is that, Dave? I'm going to disconnect your brain. -- Darryl Rubin, A Problem in the Making, InfoWorld Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mailman
I've got some quick-start instructions here: http://clevername.homeip.net/howto/ Hey! This is not fair! Why do you get to post questions on this list about ... (omitted because my messages get intercepted!)? Do you have, by any chance, a version of this that is valid for 9.2? I know some things have changed (like locations), any help for Anton then? ;-0 Cheers Anton -=-=- ... There is is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. -- Ken Olsen (President of Digital Equipment Corporation), Convention of the World Future Society, in Boston, 1977 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...
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Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
lanman wrote: On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32 folder is in /home/dale urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz Just copy and paste that line into a root user's shell or console. Modify the path if you store the KDE32 folder somewhere else. Lanman Or if you are allergic to the command line then just open the MCC, go to software management, software media manager, add, then type in a new name (e.g, kde32) and browse to the folder you want to add (like /home/antonovich/kde32/). If you want you can tick the hdlist box and type int hdlist.cz, or just let it find it itself (by leaving it blank). I used this method just to try it out with that very folder (cos I'm trying very hard to NOT be allergic to the commandline!)! cheers Anton -=-=- ... I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. -- Bob Dylan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
In the meantime. Do I need to uninstall kde 3.1.3 first, or can I just go straight for the urpmi *? Cheers It had to go anyway, so I just uninstalled it. This is being written from kde 3.2. Good stuff, though I will be changing the ugly MDK star back to the K as soon as I can be bothered! Cheers Anton ps. Not completely without problems, but pretty much! pps. Don't know how anyone managed to get urpmi * to work though... -=-=- ... War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
Big hairy things! ARGGGH! My one real wish with 3.2 was to put the KDM blues (having to use GDM) behind me. Alac, alas, not to be! The piece of )*()*^ still doesn't work (for me)! It will log me into a desktop now (before, with 3.1.3, not even that), but only Ice. No KDE, no Gnome. What? Why? How? GDM, however, does it just hunky dorey! If Gnome didn't suck so bad I would, well, use it! Any ideas on why KDM has suckiness embedded deep within it are most welcome. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... I want a VEGETARIAN BURRITO to go ... with EXTRA MSG!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to update to 10b2
Is there a way to updtae do mandrake 10, without burning the iso? My cd-r is broken... Can I download the 10b2, and install? Hi there, There certainly is! All you have to do is save it to harddrive and then mount it as though it were a normal cd. Unfortunately, I am not skilled enough to tell you how to do it! You might google, or if the )*^)(* Mandrake mailing list from about a week ago gets archived in the next 10 yrs or so you can search them. Someone was asking about putting the cds onto harddrive. I have had a scan of the emails on both expert and newbie... sorry can't find it. Maybe start a new thread asking for mounting isos from the harddrive or somthing if no one else answers. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... The Abrams' Principle: The shortest distance between two points is off the wall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
ftp://ftp.maximumlans.com Log in as newbie with password newbie Cheers Heaps I seem to have them all. It only took 12-13 hours! Yippi! In two months I leave this dark hole to the light of telco competition (in a foreign land)! Hurraaah! Cheap broadband! In the meantime. Do I need to uninstall kde 3.1.3 first, or can I just go straight for the urpmi *? Cheers Anton ps. I have already shouted loudly how cool this wee community is. Damn, thanks for being good bastards! -=-=- ... Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?
It was down just before again as well, but now is ok. Strange. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student? Does a good father allow a single child to starve? Does a good programmer refuse to maintain his code? -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice traffic policy like to mirror this so this guys server doesn't get bogged down? And so unlucky b'stards like me on dialup can have a go without leaving the rest of the community waiting for ... well, days? ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 Cheers Anton -=-=- ... What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandake Move to the rescue
Re-boot to failsafe, wait for error then create a temp mountpoint for floppy and mv /floppy/fstab /etc/fstab, reboot, success. There was probably a better way to do it (I'm sure you will all rush to keyboards to tell me) Rush to keyboards to write useless information? Not I! ;0). Alright... You could simply have booted to failsafe which I think is single-user mode (or if its not then just boot to single user), which only boots the / partition. You could also have popped disk one in the cd drive and gone to rescue console, where you could have manually edited the fstab with a non-x text editor (like vi or pico). but my excuse is that I did this after a nightshift and a total of only 8 hours sleep in 48 hours. You actually sleep!?! What luxuries you afford yourself '-) Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nVidia GeForce4 MX440 drivers
Trey Sizemore wrote: Just got a new machine and want to install the new Mandrake 10 Beta 2. I have an nVidia GeForce4 MX440 card on this machine (Pentium 4) and was wondering what is the best way to get it working. Should I be looking at the nVidia site for drivers or use the Open Source alternatives? In either case, what specific driver? I don't know that I'll be using the machine much for gaming (and therefore 3D support not such a big deal). Thanks for your advice and experience with these drivers. I have such a graphics card and you shouldn't HAVE to do anything. It lets me watch dvds and watch video of all sorts, though I havent tried any 3d games. It just uses some generic driver, which is ok. I have problems with mplayer crashing the system, but I think that is related to a crap processor. It still crashes, but not nearly so often with transcode and xine, so it is mainly mplayer. They (mplayer) say bad things about nvidia though, which could be some of the problem. Cheers Anton -=-=- ...On Krat's main screen appeared the holo image of a man, and several dolphins. From the man's shape, Krat could tell it was a female, probably their leader. ...stupid creatures unworthy of the name `sophonts.' Foolish, pre-sentient upspring of errant masters. We slip away from all your armed might, laughing at your clumsiness! We slip away as we always will, you pathetic creatures. And now that we have a real head start, you'll never catch us! What better proof that the Progenitors favor not you, but us! What better proof... The taunt went on. Krat listened, enraged, yet at the same time savoring the artistry of it. These men are better than I'd thought. Their insults are wordy and overblown, but they have talent. They deserve honorable, slow deaths. - David Brin, Startide Rising Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RFC on translation of http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/urpmi.html
Hi, I have butchered the intro to urpmi into English and have attached both the initial rough translation, and a (very) slightly smoothed version for your wits to pick to pieces. My partner and I are going to spend a year in France in April and I thought it would be fun/useful to translate it, seeing as there is no obvious English version. If there is one (a better one) then I shall write to Guillaume Rousse and/or the urpmi people and get it linked, or offer this as a translation. It has a few ??? points - these are areas where I just couldn't work out what it would be in English (i.e., I didn't understand the French or the concept...). Your help here would be greatly appreciated. I am a long way from being an expert in urpmi so there may actually be some factual errors. In terms of translation - I am not a translator, and do not claim to be, though I enjoy speaking and reading French. I have tried to walk the ever-present line in translation between literalness and sense. There is some humour that I have probably mis-represented, ah well, that was unavoidable!;-). Some of the sentences are very long in the original, and a French scholar would probably raise the eyebrows... I cut only one sentence in two - far be it from me to advise on such matters! Please note that it is a translation into British English, so spellings like connexion and colour, are correct and which is often used where North American English permits only that. Other spelling corrections are warmly received. Thanks for any help, suggests, insults you can manage! Cheers Anton -=-=- ... He knew the tavernes well in every toun. -- Geoffrey Chaucer At every release of an application in LinuxMag, one is faced with the ever-present formula happy Debian users can simply apt-get install whatever, although others will have to run the hasardous gauntlet of a manual installation... (read: serves them right). However, this is completely untrue???. Firstly, Connectiva has put rpm support into apt-get, which has become a standard for this distribution, and also both Mandrake and RedHat offer apt-get as part of their respective offerings. In addition, Mandrake offers its own tool, urpmi, whose functionality is continually expanding, that makes possible the above operation with the same simplicity : urpmi whatever, and the point is made. Presentation Anyone who has worked with packages has already confronted a certain number of issues. Firstly, the name??? : you need a text editor, so you attempt to install vim (you only have 10 fingers after all :-), but what is the exact name of the package? By chance, the local guru takes pity on you, and tells you that it's vim-enhanced you are after. You still need to determine its location : where are you going to dig up the latest version of this packages, compiled for your distribution and platform? After a quarter of an hour of laborious research on rpmfind.net, you finally dig it up, and triumphantly launch rpm with its url argument. Alas, the dependencies checker??? voils the best intentions, as vim-enhanced refuses outright to install while his mate vim-common is not there... There no option but to go looking for this new one, hoping the it too won't have its list of dependencies, and so on and on. So urpmi is programme layer???, running on top of rpm, that solves certain problems, and offers vastly superior ease-of-use. It is a tool essentially developed in perl, like the Mandrake's collection of administration tools, with its own native parts included for performance reasons.. Beginners often use it through the rpmdrake graphical interface, which like all graphical interfaces quickly becomes a handicap when one learns how to manipulate??? the underlying engine. On the command-line, especially with programme-completion1???, it is infinitely more effective. This tool can be used with any distribution that uses rpm packages, even if it means writing the necessary indices??? oneself. All of this presentation??? is based on the current development version of urpmi, 3.2 for your information, and a cooker distribution. Configuration A urpmi package source is called a medium. Media can be remote (accessed by http or ftp) or local (permanent support??? or removable). Remote media need to have a pregenerated index???(list), as urpmi can't download all the packages on the fly to analyse them (sentence???). Others are indexed??? on the fly. You can add a medium using the following command: urpmi.addmedia [options] name url [with relative_path] name is the name you want a medium to be known by. url is the URL of the repository where the packages are kept. This can be of the form http://, ftp://, file://, or even removable://, for a removable medium. relative_path is the path to the index??? file to use, relative to the preceding URL in the case of remote media. There are several types of index??? files: complete indices???, generally named
[newbie] attachments to RFC ...
In this case I think it was justified, and they are .txt files... ;-0 Plus, I forgot to say that any suggested changes can be sent direct to me, or sent to the list, whatever people think is appropriate. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hdlist.cz
Hi, Can anyone tell me what this file is known as. I.e, what would Cooker gurus (Sir Charles, etc) say that they had just updated... Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. -- W. C. Fields, My Little Chickadee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde 3.2
Hi all, Are there going to be any brave souls that attempt some rpms of 3.2 for mdk 9.2, or will we have to wait for 10? Cheers Anton -=-=- ... A beer delayed is a beer denied. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] have I been unsubbed?
Warum? -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphical login
Bill W. wrote: Hi, I have been having issues with the graphical login; ie: it's not working. So I have been booting into cli and using startx to access my gui apps. Then, I installed fonts through MCC font installer and now the startx fails with vnt -n switch not recognized . I think that this may be the root of my problem. In which file is the vnt command located? Perhaps removing that switch will solve my graphical grief. Have you tried GDM instead of KDM? I tried for ages with KDM (very frustrating), as i find it sexier, but just couldn't get the damn thing to load me a desktop. GDM has worked perfectly from day one. Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] real player codecs in plf mplayer?
Hi,
A lot more promising with xine but I still get no bbc. I don't seem to
have an so that I need - further ideas anyone?
Cheers
Anton
I tried a few variants of that URL with mplayer. It just stops as soon
as it tries to connect. I don't see anything in the mplayer output that
tells me invalid file format, so my next best guess is that maybe
there's a problem connecting with the server. So, next best thing to try
is another player with that url - xine here - and I'm getting from bbcr1
now.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ xine
http://www.publicradiofan.com/ram/bbcr4.ram
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.22.
(c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-rc0a)
Found xine library version: 1.0.0 (1-rc0a).
XServer Vendor: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.3, patch level 23mdk).
Release: 4030,
Protocol Version: 11, Revision: 0,
Available Screen(s): 1, using 0
Depth: 24.
XShmQueryVersion: 1.1.
-[ xiTK version 0.10.5 [XMB]]-
-[ xiTK will use XShm ]-
-[ WM type: (EWMH) KWIN {KWin} ]-
Display is not using Xinerama.
main: probing xv video output plugin
main: probing alsa audio output plugin
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
xine_interface: unknown param 10
vo_scale: invalid ratio, using 4:3
vo_scale: unknown aspect ratio (0) in stream = using 4:3
libareal: error: unknown/cook.so.6.0: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory
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Re: [newbie] wma to mp3
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 05:56, anton wrote: IIRC you need to go to WAV first, and then to MP3. I remember a thread about going from OGG to mp3 and the consensus was that even apps that said they went direct actually just had a WAV step that wasn't shown to the user. The above advice is good though, as lossy to lossy will result in lossy^2, which is never a good thing :-0 If you convert a lossy format to wav you will not put back what is already lost, so you are still going lossy to lossy Sorry Anne, did I not use enough words? Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie Request
Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. Yip that's true (people seem to be skim reading my posts...). I must say though, IMHO, you need a damn good reason to be writing to the / or equivalent C:, or whatever, partition of another OS install. It might be necessary some times from one doze to doze, or linux to linux, but then there are no probs. IMHO you should have a partition for binaries and config files (and equivalents...) and that should ONLY be edited/wrote to by the OS that owns them. Can't really think of any reason you would want to do otherwise. Recovering from disasters is going to be almost always better done from a native utility (or at least one designed specifically for that OS), so I am still to hear a reason for writing to the root of a doze installation... Data partitions are different, which is why I think it is a good idea to have FAT32 data partitions, as was originally suggested. Cheers Anton ps, my point if not clear is You SHOULD not write to the NTFS partition where your M$ Windows apps are installed from Linux, or any other non-M$ operating system -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] real player codecs in plf mplayer?
Hi, I am trying to listen to some online radio and thought that I could just type mplayer url, the url being a real audio source. I just get the following. It looks like it will play but then exits with no real error message. I have the plf version. It seems that there are some realplayer codecs in my codecs.conf. Anything real simple I'm missing? TIA Cheers Anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ mplayer http://www.publicradiofan.com/ram/bbcr4.ram MPlayer 1.0pre2-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino 1667 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf Reading config file /home/antonovich/.mplayer/config Reading /home/antonovich/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/antonovich/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio 157 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/antonovich/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/antonovich/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://www.publicradiofan.com/ram/bbcr4.ram Failed to create AF_INET6 socket: Resolving www.publicradiofan.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server www.publicradiofan.com[66.39.20.44]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server: www.publicradiofan.com Cache fill: 0.00% (73 bytes) Exiting... (End of file) -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] real player codecs in plf mplayer?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ rpm -qa | grep real real-codecs-1.2-1plf And real 9 definitely seems to be installed... -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I want to create a dual boot. Anyone kind enough to advise me?
2) The Windows boot manager is dumb and will overwrite your LILO mbr. To get back into Linux to reinstall LILO, you should create a boot disk (making sure you can actually boot from it), install windows and let it overwrite the mbr, and then boot from the floppy and then by going to drakboot and adding a windows choice to the LILO boot menu. IIRC then there is an option on disk one (just leave it in the cd drive) to reinstall LILO. So you could just install doze and then pop disk one in, reinstall lilo and forget the nightmare of trying to make a boot disk (for 9.1, I admit it is no prob, but 9.2...arrrggghhh, anyway, that has already been caned enough...) Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wma to mp3
Aaron wrote: I was surprised to find that Audacity did not have that ability. Don't be suprised wma and mp3 are lossy compression methods and it is highly unrecommended to go from compressed to compressed format. I do remember an application that does this but results will vary and if you can find a cd audio file or a wave its the best. Also see if Sox will do the conversion. Aaron IIRC you need to go to WAV first, and then to MP3. I remember a thread about going from OGG to mp3 and the consensus was that even apps that said they went direct actually just had a WAV step that wasn't shown to the user. The above advice is good though, as lossy to lossy will result in lossy^2, which is never a good thing :-0 Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samsung says: CD Writers don't work under Linux.
Almost no CD writer available in the market is compatible with Linux/Unix. The only recommended operating systems for using CD writers are Windows 95/98/2000/XP and NT. The recording programs do not support most of the other operating systems. In other words: under Linux/Unix etc. CD writers will work like a normal CD-ROM drive. Is the quote still there? I can't see it... what is the faq? Cheers Anton ps Worried Samsung people? -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime2212]# mprime -m bash: mprime: command not found Probably way off track, but would # ./mprime -m be the problem? Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Computer Options
Hmm... Judging from your name Colin, I suppose you live in Ireland. Cripes! If we (being about 1/2 irish... me granma's a Leckie) all stayed in Ireland where would all the humour in the world be?! There are probably about 20x the number of O'Connors in the US (potato famines and those things...) as there are in Ireland, so I'd wager he's actually an American (well?). In fact there may even be more in Australia and Canada also. Unfortunately we Europeans don't have Wal-Mart, Unfortunately? Hmmm. I'm hopefully going to live in Europe soon, and I can assure you that its absence is not an issue I am having problems dealing with!-) Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall KDE
You need some KDE libraries in order to be able to run some applications writtten for KDE. Check the box in Remove Software and see what messages come up - it will give you a list of programs which will also be reomved because of dependencies. Do give it a try - I am sure you will see something that you would miss. I tried it once, and ended up having to reinstall everything when I realised how cool KDE is! Even if there is nothing there now, you may find that there is an app that you want to install, and that relies on a KDE app, which will (may) entail you reinstalling everything again. I know it increases the complexity of the system, but if you can spare the 30-100meg I would leave it. Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transcode
ig you guys like gui you can use DVDRip.. i use it and it works great. Looks like a gui for transcode is that correct ? Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from my chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets me round to it... mencoder is heaps faster, and probably better quality than transcode. It is under heavy development also, with transcode only just ticking over. If you want gui though, you won't find anything else that holds a candle to dvd::rip. It kicks butt. Only vidomi is easier to use IMHO, and that is doze only. There are a couple of annoying things that dvd::rip does (or rather doesn't) do, but they are probably things that only I like when ripping, so I wouldn't sweat it. For me there isn't much of a choice but... In short, if you don't have a love affair with the CL, then dvd::rip is you choice. Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO goes after Google
http://www.forbes.com/markets/bonds/newswire/2004/01/09/rtr1205268.html Isn't it a bit worrying that 6000 companies have actually given SCO money? Won't that just give them the guts to go for more? How could you be so milk-livered! Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)
Hm. Didn't change Mozilla configs for quite some time, but maybe it's (when in the Mailer window): Edit (the menu) - Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings. After you have chosen the name of the server on the left, there is a field Reply-to address (which is empty in my case) on the right. I really am not as much of a dunce as some of my questions would suggest. Strange. Thanks heaps Anton ps maybe I should try doing some of this stuff a little fresher/more coffeed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)
Does anybody know how to do this in mozilla 1.5. I just thought that it had to be done manually... # *Keep the Reply-To setting empty* * Please keep you Reply-To field empty when emailing any email list. Somewhere in your mailer's settings there is probably the option to fill in the Reply-To field. If it is filled in, then whenever a fellow listmember replies to your post, the message will go to you directly instead of to the list. For information on the problems this causes www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to cheers anton who just did it manually... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel version
uname -r Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - Mozilla mail q
anton wrote: Hi all, Just upgrading the folks from an old p1 to a new el cheapo Dell and am setting up Mozilla (I decided not to get rid of doze altogether... opened it up to put the HD from their other computer, which I was going to put mdk 9.1 on - nowhere to put the damn thing!!! Not even the proper bracketing for a floppy! )*)^() . Anyway, dad wants to keep all his old mail, and I said it would be no problem copying across his Communicator 4.01 mail files to the new setup. I copied the entire contents of his old HD across but the import wizard won't let one search to the directory where the mail is situated. I tried various different positions but can't work out where I should put it. It just asks me for a profile. Of course the profile only existed properly on the 'doze 95 installation. Any help most appreciated. Cheers Anton I often seem to reply to myself... Anyway, the only solution I came up with was to copy the entire contents of the Mail folder and paste it in the new mail folder I created in Mozilla 1.5. It worked. I wasn't able to get any of the addresses or anything though. Thanks Anton Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Use Kopete. Don't use MSN. Look mate, if I could spend 10 minutes with all my mates and convince them that they really shouldn't be having anything to do with M$ then I would! I would love to be able to convince them that msn is not the best for them - alas, I have fewer billions to spend on deceiving the masses into believing they are not bealzies encarnated... ''@) Cheers Anton I'm not terribly keen on IM, but at the bignning of this semester, I set up Kopete with ICQ, AIM and Yahoo so that my students could talk to me. Since then, I've had a slew of ICQ messages and nothing on the other clients. I didn't bother with MSN - if someone wants to talk to me, they can get themselves a proper IM client. Sir Robin 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] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Hi, My *^((%* Gaim has just decided to stop working AGAIN. This is extremely frustrating. I do nothing, I install nothing, it stops working. I f around (usually uninstalling and reinstalling various other versions) until I finally get it working again. Then a week later it stops working with the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been disconnected. Mon Dec 22 31:21:06 2003 Error reading from server and offers Reconnect or Close as options. This happened with 0.72, 0.73 and 0.74 from a variety of sources (norlug, Charles Edwards from this list, mdk plf). I have also been having similar problems with networking, in the sense that I have to keep rerunning drakconnect to give the doze box my wife uses access to the net. It is set up and configured but for some reason after a few days of normal access it stops working by itself and I have to rerun the wizard every time. I had a missing dhcpd.conf and replaced it once, which seemed to get it working, but then more problems. If anyone has any ideas on what little gremlins might be camped out in my box I would be very interested! Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped working... Still working under mdk though! cheers Anton ps and for those interested, took down my firewall under xp a while ago for about 30 seconds to try and get netmeeting working (just to see if the firewall had anything to do with it) and had two boggies - 30 seconds. gotta love M$. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Very frustrating. Not that I'm considering going back to doze. I found it very amusing to discover that my WinModem has decided that it has been running so well under Linux that it will no longer run under XP! I had it set up and working, again, did nothing, and it just stopped working... Still working under mdk though! cheers i thought it was my router doing it because il get disconnected from my game server also try rebooting your router or cable modem...it seems to work for me tried rebooting my box, which is also my router. No joy. And can you get WinCableModems? Cable/dsl is still expensive here in NZ...and I'm a student (just finished) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I don't like playing this Gaim...
Dang, Maybe just an msn thing this time. Just started working again! ;-) Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hurrah for Henry!
Look out everyone! We're back ;-00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewalls for Linux
hi, If you want to keep an eye on what you firewall is doing then you can always just watch the messages it is putting out. I just learnt this funky new thing today (thanks to the ibm lpi tutorials...and a little extrapolation): tail -f /var/log/messages | grep Shorewall will give you everything that is happening to Shorewall, when it happens. You can just let it run somewhere (on another desktop, or whatever you like) and check it if you are feeling paranoid. Given that you just use the standard setup (control centre gui-styles setup up of the firewall). Sorry no popups, but does one really need them? Cripes, we had a play with Tiny personal firewall (now Kerio) in the networking paper I just finished and I can assure you those popups are a BLOODY nuisance. You will end up turning them off no doubt anyway! Hope this helps. Anton ps you should be able to use the tail thing above for any logging configuration you come up with (ie, if you decide to send you log messages to another place, not /var/log/messages...) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] firebird emulation
Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird emulation
OK, That's embarassing. I spent way too long looking for that not to find it :-( Cheers Anton Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:55:23PM +1300, anton wrote: Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Edit Preferences Tabbed Browsing, Uncheck Load links in the background? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bins
bins? What do you mean there? Binaries? Im lost. Lee Wiggers wrote: Has anyone tried to use bins on 9.2? Maybe someone can tell me what the heck this means: /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Image/M agick/Magick.so: undefined symbol: InitializeMagick TIA Lee 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] gaim not working
Hi all, My gaim just suddenly stopped connecting to msn - has any else had this problem? I tried with 0.73 after it failed on 0.74 but no joy. I am still able to connect from doze so it looks like msn is up... Any ideas? I had it going just before and rebooted - now (and on subsequent reboots) it won't connect. Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
Charlie Mahan wrote: Wy to cold up there. ;=0 Anton -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 27 November 2003 2:42 pm, mike wrote: snip Actually it was suggested to Adam. snip On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:42:01 -0330 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And today, I stick in a music CD, wait awhile, and nothing happens. Red Hat played the CD. OMFG! I would *immediately* uninstall Mandrake, there's obviously something wrong when your OS doesn't read your mind! snip Judgeing from the begining of the CD Player thread I thought Adam asked reasonable questions. I didn't say the question was unreasonable Mike, far from it. I actually answered the question. [OT]: It was posted by others; then restated by myself, that auto run is an option that needs to be turned on in the default KDE CD player (KsCD) in Mandrake whereas apparently Red Hat does this by default. I'd rather choose whether or not to allow the behaviour, but it's a matter of personal choice. Sorry about my confusion as to which thread I was responding to. But since this is listed in the archives as a new thread, even though Adam made reference to another thread, and since the subject of *this* thread is Uninstall I directed my comments to that subject. I did think JoeHill's post might have been construed as a bit 'off-putting.' Possibly. I really didn't think it was meant as a flame though. In fact I had a chuckle over it. The rest of the posts I made in this overly long and seemingly pointless thread were direct responses to Adam's comments and questions. If he or anyone found my remarks offencive; I apologize. BTW if anyone is becoming so sensitive they can't stand to read posts that were never meant as personal attacks let me know. I'll happily walk away from the newbie list again. Not a threat, not even a warning, a statement that I don't need this crap. Since I refuse to be other than myself, the P.C Police can kiss my a$$ets. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:47:27 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.12, 0.13 All most men really want in life is a wife, a house, two kids and a car, a cat, no maybe a dog. Ummm, scratch one of the kids and add a dog. Definitely a dog. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xobdG11CaRuZZSIRAktQAJ9sJKJR1x5sxRBt9rjZX7hpwXqVngCdEL7y aWNDA+H1SiCp5CRKgmK+ASE= =15UB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IBM Tutorials
Hey, Am already well into them. I will be recommending them to every newbie and 'pert I meet. Cheers Anton The Other wrote: 11/27/03 It's probably been mentioned before, but on the IBM developerWorks website, they have some excellent Linux tutorials. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/tutorials.jsp 55 tutorials were listed (if I counted correctly.) Some of them are for the LPI Certification 101 (release 2, 4 tutorials) and 102 (release 2, 4 tutorials) exams. I'll be busy for a while now. .. ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thanks Mandrake+OSS+The Mandrake Lists - Please Read Mandrake
Shameless greaser this chap ;--7 Anton ... not that I haven't mentioned the fact that Redhat put me off Linux for months before discovering MDK... Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, Dunno if anyone from Mandrake is listening but - THANK YOU. - Thank you for being there for my first tentative Linux steps somewhere around MDK 8.0 - Thank you for staying true to OSS ideals - Thank you for being there as I got my head around the CLI (well, sort of, i.e. it doesn't terrify me anymore) and leaving me with a true Linux in the process - Thank you for being there when it looked like you might go out of business - Thank you for becoming so much better since 8.0 - Thank you for installing perfectly on the last 3 laptops I tried, despite the fact I did not verify if the hardware was supported by Linux first - Thank you for supporting almost every single peripheral I have ever attached since 9.1 (including scanners, printers, media readers etc.) - Thank you for taking a menagerie of OSS, choosing the best of breeds and bundling it into an easy to install and configure package - Thank you for not destroying KDE - Thank you for helping the wonderful OSS Community get the credit it so richly deserves - Thank you for making it easier to create Linux converts - Thank you for listening when I actually still had time to be a Cooker - Thank you for hosting lists like expert and newbie where many friends have been made and experts have been quizzed for their knowlege - Thank you for becoming so much more than just another fork of RedHat - Thank you for making ISO's available so I and others can try before we buy (or join the Club) - Thank you for staying true to Desktop Users - Thank you for URPMI - Thank you for the MCC - Thank you for not being totally perfect so I actually appreciate you - Thank you for all the other wonderful things I have forgotten and long since taken for granted with Mandrake. I am an American who has been in New Zealand for over 8 years now and though I don't really celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving anymore, I thought now was an appropriate time to send this to you. Please everyone, feel free to add to my short list as you feel appropriate. Regards, Jason Greenwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] leaving linux again
Just when I lose all hope in Americans I always get a slap back to reality... Why do we see so little of it? I wonder. Anton HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:41:56 +0200 Void lon iXaarii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but my tv tuner didn't work (not even one channel detected) ... Back to Windows for *TV*??!! Well, if it's worth it... ;-) One Nation under God has turned into One Nation under the influence of one drug Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation T.V., it satellite links our United States of unconciousness Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive the methadone metronome pumping out a 150 channels 24 hours a day you can flip through all of them and still there's nothing worth watching T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our Nation reads books daily Why most people think Central America means Kansas Socialism means unamerican and Apartheid is a new headache remedy absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us It shapes our minds the most maybe the mother of our Nation should remind us that we're sitting to close to. . . Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation T.V. is the stomping ground for political candidates Where bears in the woods are chased by Grecian Formula'd bald eagles T.V. is mechanized politic's remote control over the masses co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases watch for the PBS special It's the perpetuation of the two party system where image takes precedence over wisdom Where sound bite politics are served to the fastfood culture Where straight teeth in your mouth are more important than the words that come out of it Race baiting is the way to get selected Willie Horton or Will he not get elected on . . . Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation T.V. is it the reflector or the director? Does it imitate us or do we imitate it Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's twelve years old and we wonder how we've created a Jason generation that learns to laugh rather than abhor the horror T.V. is the place where armchair generals and quarterbacks can experience first hand the excitement of video warfare as the theme song is sung in the background Sugar sweet sitcoms that leave us with a bad actor taste while pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars You saw the video You heard the soundtrack Well now go buy the soft drink Well, the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance) On Television. Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation Back again, New and Improved, we return to our irregularly programmed schedule hidden cleverly between heavy breasted beer and car commericals CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S. Where oxymoronic language like virtually spotless fresh frozen light yet filling and military intelligence have become standard T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined like recession to necessary downturn crude oil on a beach to mousse Civilian death to collateral damages and being killed by your own Army is now called friendly fire T.V. is the place where the pursuit of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple Television, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation On Television . . . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Uninstall
hey guys, go easy, eh! Not everyone on this list has extensive experience... In the words of the great Tree Now, now, young Hobbits, don't be so hasty 8^-2 Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mirrors that work?
hi, Can someone give me a combination of urpmi mirrors that work for 9.2. I have been struggling to find a group that are upto date with each other (or whatever). I keep getting messages about contribs not being up to date or plf, or updates... I have tried many but no combination seems to work properly yet... Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kdm
hi, Could someone tell me what the %^*^% is happening with KDM. It won't log me in at all. It is the one from the updates, and is still not working at all. It also seems to be a step backwards from the 9.1 (KDE) login manager. I am certainly a KDE fan but I just can't get KDM working... I have to keep trying about 10x before it slips me to a terminal so I can startx. Any clues greatly appreciated. Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] England
A hiding? I would hardly consider 15-13 a hiding... when the only thing you can score is penalties it makes it a little more of a margin, but 2 points is any score away from a loss (:-), but it is true. Our lineouts and pitiful goalkicking lost us that game. And have you forgotten what we did to Australia in that same stadium a few months ago in the tri-nations? The thing is that bad captaincy and leadership was the only thing between us and our destiny. We lost that game, nobody won it. We will be a world force again when Mitchell goes. ... Anton Mark Annandale wrote: What Has a hiding by the Poms a couple of months ago, and Australia in the world cup semi's, messed up your brain. The All blacks were a world force, and until they can start winning again will be second best. Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla disappearing on me
Had exactly the same thing on 9.1 (mozilla 1.3). Bloody annoying! A fresh install of 9.2 has so far not shown any problems, though I did install flash and have had it stop responding on a couple of sites (not all flash sites). What happened last time was that I uninstalled 1.3 and installed 1.4 from source. Nothing made me get back my beautiful mozilla ( she being the ugly mozilla that crashed all the time...). Happened with both mail and navigator... This won't help but I would love to know what it is if it happens again! Cheers Anton Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Normally I never have a problem with Mozilla. Now 2 days ago she started to fail me: when I do a google and press `next` at the bottom to go to the 2nd search results page she just stops running and disappears from view. Sometimes it doesn`t happen but then it happens when going to the 3rd or 4th page. When I try to open any site at sourceforge the same happens: as soon as the page is supposed to appear, mozilla fails. When I look at the output of `ps -e` within a second later all instances have already gone. Not even a defunct thread remains. On the other hand I can easily navigate throughout MandrakeClub or open other pages via shortcuts in Google. I was using the version packed with 9.2: mozilla-1.4-13mdk.i586.rpm and uninstalled it and installed -1.4-16.i586.rpm from Cooker: same results. Then I uninstalled that and replaced it with the `unsupported package` mozilla-1.5-0.92mdk.rpm from MandrakeClub: same result. I tried all versions with my usual ~/.mozilla folder and with a new one, that makes no difference. I uninstalled the plugins: no difference. Naturally I accompanied each with the appropriate libnss libnspr packages. The only thing which I know happened when this started was that I accidentally deleted all my cookies. But I reinstalled them from a tarred home directory which was ~2 weeks old. It made no difference. It can`t be the cause, `cause running with a brand new ~/.mozilla directory gives the same result. The browsers with the Mozilla rendering engine Epiphany and Galeon now have the same nasty behaviour. I still have Konqueror, which I don`t like very much and Nautilus, which I don`t want to use. Opera is not a favourite either. I have no clue how to debug this, but I want my Mozilla back. Does anyone have any ideas which could help me in that direction? Thanks beforehand! I am running kernel 2.4.22-21mdk, have sufficient drive space and swap room and ample memory installed. Normally my wm is IceWM, but I get the same results under Gnome and KDE. Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/tVb5wC/zk+cxEdMRAhGPAKCZfwvjMpTL6f4S9L9oAYlYLUP6OQCfd6Ny p2bkpoDHrLVHZIgtGZhzsio= =fOlX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mail client for windows
Jason Greenwood wrote: Why not use Mozilla for Windows? Makes later migration to Linux all the easier. Or maybe Mozilla Thunderbird, as they seem to be going to discontinue Mozilla proper at some stage in the future (in favour of the separate projects). Dad probably would prefer to have just one, and not have to migrate. That said I am not sure Thunderbird is wonderful on keeping backwards compatibility (of stored mail folders, etc) so... I may be wrong though... Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??
guys, I have a similar problem and it is VERY annoying. I have a suspicion it has something to do with the temperature of the cpu - at least in my case. A friend put the thermo tape on and heatsink - he's a careless bastard. The problem seems to happen every time when encoding video - something that really needs cpu grunt. Try transcoding in either windoze or linux and if you have a similar problem then it will surface. The thing is not that linux is less stable, rather that it gets better usage out of the cpu and works it harder. I would be interested to know as now even with the fan on full-bore it happens for me! Bloody annoying! Cheers Anton ps I was told the cure was new thermo tape - haven't had the time to change it but will try in the next couple of weeks... Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hertas, I think this is an Asus problem as I have the same MB as you and am having problems with Mandrake. I have not been able to find the cause yet, but W2k is stable (unusually). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ?? Dear Friends , I have Asus A7n8x-deluxe , 2500 + athlon and Asus FX 5600 vga card. I installed Mandrake 9.2 and I also installed latest original mainboard and vga drivers from Nvidia's site. Everything ( even 3com lan adapter ) works fine. I see no fail message during boot -up. I also installed some styles( aqua ) from www.kde-look.org and normally there seems no any error. But my system crashes randomly ( stops responding , no mouse and no keyboard !! ) . I experienced this while I was scrolling with mouse ( mouse stopped suddenly ) . This happened twice in 3 hours. When I was using Win XP I had the same problem ( The system crashed randomly in 3 hours or sometimes did not crash at all several days. I mean This happened randomly . But after installing latest XP drivers for mobo and VGA I did not experience any crash since 7 days of hardwork on XP. It seems It is OK on XP , but how about on Mandrake 9.2 ??. My rams are Kingston. My power supply unit is 400 W Zalman. Is there any possibility of hardware failure if so how can I understand ?? And if the reason is somehow Mandrake 9.2 ; I heard always that linux is much more stable , so what is this ? And what can I do if such crash happens on Mandrake ? should I wait ? or should I reset the computer ?? since keyboard and mouse does not respond. Thanks.. Hertas. (Embedded image moved to file: pic26299.pcx) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ 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] ctrl-shift c not working in mozilla-based apps
hi, I subscribe to a number of mailing lists and get in excess of 300 per day. The shift-ctrl c is invaluable in getting them all read real quick :-). It was working but since upgrading to 9.2, and then reinstalling 9.2 twice (I have had issues...) I have been unable to use it. It used to work with both mozilla and thunderbird and now with neither. I think the keyboard setting may be the issue. I am not American, and do not like having my default language in US English, as I speak a dialect of British English (NZ). So my default language is Oceania English. The keyboard is US I think though. I think... How do I find out? What is the difference? Could that be the problem? Is it a 9.2 issue and not a language setting issue? Any pointers much appreciated. Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto compilazione del kernel / periferiche
Cabron! Non credo che molta gente capisca Italiano qui... meglio faccia i tui posti nel maldetto Inglese, o trovi un listo dei Italiani... Sono anche newbie, e non so consigliarti (in piu di parlare l'Italiano molto male!) molto. Cheers Anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sono un nuovo utente linux, ma sono alle prime armi ed ho bisogno di qualcuno che mi insegni a sfruttare il sistema al meglio per poter recidere il cordone ombelicale che ancora mi lega alla microsoft e i suoi sistemi operativi. COMINCIAMO CON LE DOMANDE: PREMETTO CHE POSSIEDO LA VERSIONE 9.1 DI MANDRAKE 1)Quali sono gli scopi di questa fatidica compilazione del kernel, e come si effettua? 2)Il sistema al momento dell'installazione non mi ha riconosciuto la scheda audio, problema che con la vecchia versione 8.2 non si era verificato. Naturalmente questa periferica non figura neanche nella lista hardwere di hardrake, come posso fare a fargliela riconoscere??? e se dovessi installare un'altra qualsiasi periferica???.sapete io sto ancora con la vecchia tiriterastart...impostazionipannello di controllo...nuovo hardware...etc.etc 3)Qualche chiarimento sulla chiacchieratissima incompatibilita tra i softmodem e il pinguino?? Esiste un modo per far funzionare tali modem sotto linux?? GRAZIE MAESTRI!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mozzilla mail
Apart from the fact that your windows box would look suspiciously like a linux box if you had a mail folder at that address! :-) (sorry I couldn't actually give you any real help, just a smart*^% you see... :-) You should find it in a hidden folder such as this: /home/dennis/.mozilla/dennis/v4ptz8yv.slt/mailnote the . in front of mozilla. That is a hidden folder in your files. Konqueror shows it if you click on show hidden folders in the View tab. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Extreme *nix user wantabee
Go in main subfolder: and type: ./configure make make install make clean But first read everyhing (readme , install notes , tutorials , how to's , and so on) On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:48:26 -0400, Chris Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first voyage into non-MS waters. Installed Mandrake 7.1 DL'ed NetAtalk from http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/obtaining.html I want to create a Linux file system for out DTP Macs. I TARed it and it created several subfolders. Now what? How to Install this app? Thanks Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: [newbie] Viruses
Chernobyl (a CIH virus) would have to be favourite. It can render a Windos machine totally unbootable, necessitating a format (to remove the virus fully) and a reinstall. Not big deal ; Bill Gates did too .
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