Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:28, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 09:13, Margot wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: Does he still start lists with zero? Sir Robin and wears old computer parts... :-) I've never heard of this, but I'm all in favour of recycling. I've got a couple of old 386's lurking under the bed, and a selection of keyboards and mouses (mice?). What sort of clothes do you think I could make? Margot The interview is great. I've just read it. To me, it's inevitable to look at Mr Stallman and not to imagine a kind of computer Jesus Christ ! :-) (I don't mean to disrespect anybody's faith ! Please !) Margot, you're right. The plural of 'mouse' (i.e., the object you were referring to) is 'mouses'. In my part of the world we refer to more than 1 pointing device as rodents :) Although I'm not a native speaker, I've read lots of texts on Linguistics. I recommend the book The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. It's a wonderful read and not so full of difficult terminologies. Perhaps thats just what we should do here too. Cheers Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have have had one or more experience with one way or another. I repeat - with one exception, around 3 years ago (when I was defeated and temporarily gave up linux), I have used HP printers without any problems whatsoever. Mandrake has found them in every version from 8.0. IIRC HP show clearly on their website which models are supported. That's how I chose my present one. Anne Anne, I have to second what you say. I just bought and installed a HP Deskjet 3325 on my Debian Woody system. No drivers for it in the Woody debs so I just downloaded the open source drivers tarball from sourceforge, compiled and installed the driver. Then installed the printer using cups without any problem at all. This printer cost me all of $AUD 49-00 which is around $USD 30-00 this week. HP IMO support OSS so I believe we OSS users s/be supporting them. A further advantage for HP, along with Lexmark, is that they use oil based inks which makes for better smear resistance off the printer. My 2 bits. Bob Parker. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2rc2 and MD5sums
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:01, Aron Smith wrote: Have been trying to get 9.2rc2 up on a spare box . however the MD5sum that whe website has does not match the sum generated by [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ cd distros [EMAIL PROTECTED] distros]$ md5sum MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD1.i586.iso 9725a5942d84390c691d78f95084b5ee MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD1.i586.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED] distros]$ iD8DBQE99hnZ54mK4HB3H/MRApCJAJ0TTvtWk4a5GScLj52rGjz3e5onVQCfSNsQ 5JdJS66zBlHBYG14xzGthp4= So what am I doing wrong? Is it the iso that you downloaded on hard disk that fails or is it what you burned on cd? Bob Parker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:54, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:19, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 05:41, bob parker wrote: Hi, I'm considering installing 9.1 but I want to use Apache with PHP. I heard that there are compatability problems with PHP and Apache V2. What version of Apache comes with 9.1? And if it is V2, does anyone have success with PHP? Thanks Bob Parker I have had php and v2 apache with no problems other than normal configuration problems (what doc root, permissions etc) 9.1 comes with both versions, they can be installed side by side, and you can start which ever one you like. Thanks confident to install it now. Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache
Hi, I'm considering installing 9.1 but I want to use Apache with PHP. I heard that there are compatability problems with PHP and Apache V2. What version of Apache comes with 9.1? And if it is V2, does anyone have success with PHP? Thanks Bob Parker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:48, Cody Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Haywiremac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable? On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:10:07 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have to use Xfree version 3 because 4 makes a lot of verticle bars and the colour gets messed up ya, that's what I got too with my old Trio64V2. I picked up an old PCI It seems to work OK if i use 640*480*8, which is not using the card accell right? Anyways, i was messing around and kinda fudged things up, and now it doesn't work at all (not even term). I'll take a look into the Beta, where can i get it? card at the junk shop, can't remember the name now. That might be a lot easier than upgrading to the newest XFree. I got some info on their list that the next version is going to have more support for S3 cards. *Or* you could try installing the new MDK 9.2 beta, I think it has a more recent version of XFree...Tom would know more about that than me, but check it out on the MDK site. I just joined the list am late in this thread so I may be off beam but I think there is a problem for S3 Trio with some of the XFree versions. I believe v4.0 and 4.2 are ok, but 4.1 and 4.3 are broken. There are binary drivers available on the S3 site - google get it. HTH Bob Parker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kppp
LM 7.2 using KDE desktop - default install. When I activate the interent icon i get the following error in KPPP - the KDE Crash Handler Short Description The application KPPP (kppp) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) etc This shortcut has the following properties Access Permissions Class Read Write Exec Special User xx x Groupx Others x Ownership User: bob Group: bob Execute Program Name /usr/bin/kppp everything else empty/unchecked Application Name:Internet Connection Comment: Internet Connection File types: application/x-rpm I don't know what that last line is about but removing/reinstating it makes no difference to anything, nor does changing the permissions above. Help appreciated. ps I am working around by using DrakConf and connecting as root. -- Bob Parker PO Box 1468 CAIRNS QLD 4870
Re: [newbie] Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter
Stephen, On Wednesday 21 March 2001 01:41, you wrote: Hi all people, I have a CDROM and a CDWriter installed running Mandrake 7.2.. Using KDE I create an icon for CDROM with following steps; right click on KDE desktop Create New CDRom device Device in Device drop-down list - select /mnt/cdrom in Mount Point - select /mnt/cdrom File System Type : Supermount then click OK There is a known issue with CDRoms and burners, point your browser to: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/ then select Tutorial and follow the link to 'getting a CD burner working' I did not yet succeed with the burner but I can now view the contents of any cd in it. Good luck Bob Parker
Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon
On Thursday 15 March 2001 04:28, you wrote: I appreciate the help your link although turned out to be a dead end with an error message about the site no longer existing. I was hoping, what my last sentence meant, to download any patch up or Linux driver for my modem. The modem is less than a month old and would hate to replace it just to log on to the net through Linux. Please advise me directly if you are running KDE, if so I will give you the step by step that I followed last week on my new installation. I doubt that you will need to buy another modem, but I did need to buy a new video card. The longer I use Linux the more impressed I am so persist! It's not easy to learn, but once learned it is easy to use. Cheers -- Bob Parker
Re: [newbie] I got it working
On Thursday 15 March 2001 04:15, you wrote: I am not clear on this DNS. Do you mean I have to type in the configuration window the Domain Name Server as in this example. If you are setting up kppp (or is it Kppp?) you will need to comple the primary and secondary DNS entries. The numbers you use don't matter because the DNS's are assigned dynamically anyway. I just used 123.456.789 and 123.456.790 and it all workde from there. Cheers -- Bob Parker
Re: [newbie] MS Outlook
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 10:53, you wrote: there is K mail, a good email client. check if it is in yoru linux box, if not just let me know it too for further informations. I'll second that. I'm quite happy with KMail. But your original query was about importing the collection you had in Outlook. I don't know of any program that will do that but i'm very new too. What you could do in Outlook is Edit - Select All, Edit Copy then paste the result into Notepad. Then in Linux you can view your Notepad texts using your choice of text editor via /mnt/windows/whatever folder you used for your texts Cheers -- Bob Parker
[newbie] Re: KMail Problems
Finally saw what I'd cacked up in the Config so thanks to all who replied. I'm now happily checking out my mail in KMail, browsing in Konqueror and not a banner ad in sight Regards to all -- Bob Parker PO Box 1468 CAIRNS QLD 4870
