Re: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script
Hi, you can check to see if you are root, i.e.: `whoami` == root if that returns true, you are good to go. (btw, those are backticks around whoami) HTH, David Charles On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run as root. Is there a way that I can get my script to check to see if it has root priviledges and if not exit out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP
Hi, When you installed XP, you installed it on NTFS, which can NOT be used. sorry. David Charles On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joshua Kurtz wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake on the same partion as Windows XP. According to the help files you can do it with Windows 95/98/ME. At the install prompt when I type Lynx4win(spelling) it runs fine until it trys to access the install files on my hard drive then I get this error I can not access this drive, it is not Fat 32 or Fat16 Try again? [y][n] Any ideas how install it on the same partion as windows Xp without formatting my hard drive and installing windows 98? Any help would be great. Thanks Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] learn C++ for Linux-Mandrake -- Interim Update
Hi,
Could you please tell me what Leo Leo2 are?
Thanks,
David Charles
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Randy Kramer wrote:
An interim update and clarification:
Clarification:
I meant to say (in the original post) that I was looking for an
explanation of a reference in C++, and both the Learn C++ in 21 Days
and the C++ Annotations link gave me good explanations.
I think a key for my learning at this point is to stop trying to read
1200 page books from front to back and start using electronic books
(books on line or on a disk) and their indexes to search for specific
things I need to deal with. (O'Reilly's Perl Bookshelf CD worked well
in this regard a few weeks ago when I was trying to understand the TWiki
program (in Perl). Unfortunately O'Reilly does not have (AFAICT) a C++
Bookshelf CD.)
My goal (for C++) is to contribute to the AbiWord project. For TWiki I
imported the entire program into Leo2 and then started annotating the
code with my newbie level of comments. (See
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiInLeo and maybe skim through
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/LiterateDevelopment. I have made a
reasonable amount of progress in understanding TWiki and Perl, and could
post a more up-to-date (but not final) .leo file -- I've temporarily put
that effort on hold while I try to get to a similar level of
understanding in C++ / AbiWord.)
For AbiWord, I imported some of the code into Leo2, but am not sure I
want to try to import all of it. I've made sort of a personal
breakthrough in my understanding of C++, and think that now I can learn
a lot by using the Doxygen (and maybe the LXR) tool(s) on the
www.abisource.com site to learn much more, but I still want to document
my learning in Leo (or someplace). What I may try to do is incorporate
all the C++ headers into Leo and provide enough additional annotation so
that I understand the function of each non-private member of each class.
Sorry, went on further than I intended.
See below for the update.
Randy Kramer wrote:
Not all the content is part of the Free Ed site. For instance, the Sams
Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, Second Edition, leads you to www.dice.com
(in error) or to some other site with the actual content of the book (I
guess I didn't bookmark that site, and I can't remember the name). I
have trouble getting there, so I'm filing a bug report with
www.dice.com.
I should have mentioned in the previous paragraph that using the book
requires that you register at that site (free) (the site which I can't
remember) and login.
Once I learn the name of that site and how to get there consistently
I'll repost. If you manage to get there consistently, let me know.
(I'm using IE5 on Win95 -- sorry, it's a lot faster and more consistent
than konqueror (which is my preferred browser on Linux).)
The name of the site is www.informit.com. This link works for me:
http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id={83B8BE68-A805-4140-9F48-F2540866AC50}element_id={CB4084E4-F9E6-45AA-BEBE-0B39F802B20D}
(Short enough to memorize, huh? ;-)
www.dice.com wrote back to me and said they no longer own the
ITKnowledge site (is that the www.informit.com site?), so they could not
help me.
Right now I seem to be able to get into the informit site consistently
by following links directly to their site. Maybe that is the trick,
rather than trying to follow links from www.free-ed.com.
If I learn more, I'll post again.
Hope this helps,
Randy Kramer
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Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
Hi, I DO know that I have seen a Unix version of Internet Explorer, however, I do NOT know if it will run on Linux, and whether or not the source is available. Just go to Microsoft's website, and you should be able to find the information there about IE for Unix. HTH, David Charles On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:07:10 +0100 Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft do not mix. There is no Internet Exploiter for Linux. So your search was accurate. You can have Netscape, Galeon, Mozilla and Opera, and a bunch more. Paul I'm a complete Linux newbie and am just finding my way around. I've searched a newsgroup and several web-archives, along with the Microsoft site, for information about an Internet Explorer version that'll work on Mandrake 7.2. Is there such a thing? I haven't been able to find it on the Microsoft site, and while there are references to IE being used on Linux on some of the web-fora I haven't found any direct links to where I can in fact download it. If anyone could help that'd be great, thanks. Eric -- If you drink to forget Please pay in advance (found in bar in Wisconsin) http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: Conexant on Compaq Presario 12XL509 with mandrake8.1
Hi, Actually, if you have an SMP mobo, but with only 1 cpu, it will still install the SMP kernel... (not that I noticed that much difference in speed). HTH, David Charles On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Well, do you have a smp machine? As far as I know, if you installed on a smp machine, then you have an smp kernel, otherwise you don't... unless you installed it. I have the same install, and I definatly don't have a smp kernel. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Allen H Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2001 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Conexant on Compaq Presario 12XL509 with mandrake 8.1 Did you receive the .inf file I sent you? Did it work? Or are you a totally different person? ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading the installation guide for the olitec drivers with the wrapper for kernel 2.4 and it says that the kernel must be without SMP support or I will receive the NO DIALTONE errorConsidering that that's the error I get this might be the pointdoes anyone know if the normal kernel which comes with Mandrake 8.1(I think it's 2.4.8-26mdk) comes with a SMP support??? Thanks Regards MAurizio __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] external usb hard drive problems
Hi, I have an external USB hard drive made by LaCie, which worked out of the box, was automatically detected during installation, and is set up with scsi emulation. If I boot with the drive turned on, it is accessible as sda1 sda5 (it is partitioned into 2 FAT32 partitions). There are errors when it first tries to mount, saying that the 2 devices do not exist, but then (I think because it only turns on scsi emulation AFTER trying to mount the drives) it tries a few seconds later in the boot sequence and is successful. My problem is as follows: if the drive is NOT turned on at boot time, I can NOT mount either of the partitions on the drive, getting an error message saying that the devices do not exist. The kernel modules for usb scsi emulation are loaded (and I even tried removing and reinserting the modules which I think are needed), but it just does not work. I think (and please tell me if I am wrong or omitting something) the modules that are used are usb-scsi usb-ohci and usb-storage (I think, am not at home and doing this from memory). The other question I have, although not as bad because it still works, is the error message I get when the system boots (that I mentioned at the beginning) where the mounting of the usb drive's partitions fails and then a few seconds later succeeds. Is this because the system tries to mount the scsi drives (sda1 sda5) BEFORE the usb-scsi emulation is loaded? I DO hope that someone can help me. TIA, David Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1
Hi, Actually, a megabyte is 1024 bytes (i.e. 2^10); Also, I have seen several people on the list stating that 1 byte = 10 bits, this is not true; 1 byte = 8 bits. HTH, David Charles On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1003397177-1734-1166 a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example, MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) A megabyte is a thousand bytes? *giggle* Have a cup of coffee! My treat :) Paul =_1003397177-1734-1166 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1003397177-1734-1166-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installs don't run
Hi, I haven't installed acroread, but I can tell you that the problem is (probably) that you should be typing ./INSTALL without the quotes, to make it look for the program in the current directory. HTH, David Charles On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Peter Rymshaw wrote: This has happened to me a number of times, but here is the current instance. I've downloaded a gz copy of the Acrobat reader and successfully decompressed it by using tar xzvf filename. Next, I am supposed to be able build either by typing make, or, in this case, INSTALL. There is no make file but there is a file named INSTALL. But typing make, as you would expect, says there is none; and, typing INSTALL returns no such command. It doesn't recognize INSTALL as an executabe. (There is an asterisk after the name when it is listed.) Although I don't remember the specifics (and it has not always been an install that I've tried) there have been many occassions when simply entering a file name does nothing (nore does single or double clicking in KDE or Gnome. = If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings. -- Dave Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?
Hi, I apologize; I stand corrected. I got the following from http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su NAME su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs SYNOPSIS su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...] DESCRIPTION Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER. -, -l, --login make the shell a login shell -c, --commmand=COMMAND pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c -f, --fast pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh) -m, --preserve-environment do not reset environment variables -p same as -m -s, --shell=SHELL run SHELL if /etc/shells allows it --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit A mere - implies -l. If USER not given, assume root. From this, I take it that it stands for Substitute User. (I got Super User from a book, and when I remember which one it was, I will post its name here) David Charles On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:40:08 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Hi, su stands for Super User; David Charles == Isn't is switch user? If you su another user and give that user's password, you go to that users account rather than root. If you simply su, I believe root simply acts as the default and that password works. Mike -- No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Machiavelli from _The Art of War_ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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
Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs
Hi, For the internet, stick with RGB; most browsers don't support displaying CMYK images (correctly or at all). Also, most browsers support a very limited colour palette, so even though RGB covers a smaller portion of the colour spectrum, it is MORE than adequate for the amount of colours supported by browsers. HTH, David Charles On 19 Sep 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: Thanks, David. That clears that one up, I've had that question for a long time. How about for graphic design on the internet? Is there a quality or other difference between RGB and CMYK? -Paul Rodríguez On 19 Sep 2001 00:15:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I quite often work with Photoshop (have been for years), and can tell you that a LOT of graphics/printing/publishing professionals use Photoshop. As for Cyan Magenta Yello blacK (CMYK) it is 4 colour seperation process used for making films that are used when printing (not bubble jet/laser jet printing, but printing press printing) high quality images/colour layouts for magazines, colour papers, lithographic reproductions of art, etc. NO professional in ANY publishing/graphics field would EVER use RGB when making films for pre-press/production. RGB (Red Green Black) has major limits pertaining to decent reproduction of the colour spectrum. Anyways, this is just to let you know, that CMYK is NOT just something that never is needed; like I said before, it is the ONLY way to go when producing any works (that are to be taken seriously by professionals). David Charles On 18 Sep 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: =_1000872956-779-48 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MODEM
Hi, sounds to me like there is probably an auction at eBay selling an ISA USR V.Everything, being sold by a guy named Dean (wink) :P Seriously though, with Win98, pretty much ANY modem will do, and if you want to use the same modem when dual booting with LM8, you definitely do NOT need to spend anywhere NEAR USD$170 - USD$250. Just find ANY decent (i.e. NOT winmodem) well-known (i.e. 3com/USR/etc.) PCI modem (easier time with PCI than with ISA/EISA), many of which you can get for WELL UNDER USD$100 (and if you are looking for used items on eBay, then you can probably find a beaut for approx usd$25). Thats just MY USD$0.02... David Charles On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dean Morrell wrote: If you have an available ISA slot, check out USRobotics V.Everything at ebay. These are business class modems that sell for US $170 for internal and US $250 for external. They are great modems. At 12:10 9/17/2001 +1200, you wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions as to a suitable modem for a dual boot setup. Using Windows 98 and Mandrake 8. Thank you Ivor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. -Thomas Jefferson 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] alternatives to windows programs
Hi, I quite often work with Photoshop (have been for years), and can tell you that a LOT of graphics/printing/publishing professionals use Photoshop. As for Cyan Magenta Yello blacK (CMYK) it is 4 colour seperation process used for making films that are used when printing (not bubble jet/laser jet printing, but printing press printing) high quality images/colour layouts for magazines, colour papers, lithographic reproductions of art, etc. NO professional in ANY publishing/graphics field would EVER use RGB when making films for pre-press/production. RGB (Red Green Black) has major limits pertaining to decent reproduction of the colour spectrum. Anyways, this is just to let you know, that CMYK is NOT just something that never is needed; like I said before, it is the ONLY way to go when producing any works (that are to be taken seriously by professionals). David Charles On 18 Sep 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies
Hi, I have a related question; is there no uninstall (not talking about rpms)? A lot of the apps I have installed (./configure;make;make install) have a make uninstall, but that means that you have to untar/gunzip the package again if/when you want to uninstall it; Has there ever been any thoughts on having some kind of flat file/db that stores all of a program's associated files (and if one/many of those files was shared/dl, then kept track of how many apps are associated with them), for the eventuality that someone decides they want to remove the app, and all traces? If there is, where/what is it? and if there isn't, is this not something that would be beneficial for system maintenace? i.e. if you end up removing an app, that when untarred/gunzipped took up 50MB (for example), but are only able to find (for sure) 35-40MB of that app's associated files, and you do this several times (which is typical/reasonable IMO), then you are wasting a LOT of hd space over time, and quite possible causing future dependency issues/conflicts. If there is NOT such an utility, and enough of the distros would be interested or the group that controls the RPM spec, I would be very willing/happy to start coding such an app in perl (or C, but for this, I would think perl is more suited); (n.b. I have NO idea if it would have to have anything to do with the distros/RPM group, so if anyone knows what would be the best way of going about it, please let me know). Thanks, David Charles On 18 Sep 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 04:16, Franki wrote: I think two other things would help,. a gui and console tool that does smart tarball installs and updates the rpm database for that app, and one that can get dependencies for you,, (goes to a mandrake update site list...etc etc. or asks for the CD, or both) preferably the same app. Debian has apt-get, which does exactly this. Rpm still doesn't do it, although rpmdrake (front-end to grpmi, which actually does the work) does a decent job of it. But for packages which Mandrake does not create, rpmdrake will do you no good :-( and a self extracting tarball, (sort of like winzips self extracting file,, a new tarball format that can have a shell or perl script wrapper around the actual tarfile that untars and starts the install for you.. (then updates the RPM databse...downloads dependencies etc etc) even if it was 10% bigger then a standard tarball, people would go for it because of the ease of install and removal and smart installing features, [snip] As a matter of fact, I have seen such a beast. Nessus (www.nessus.org) comes in a self-installing shell script. Just download and run nessus.sh (or whatever it was called), and the script will run, which actually unzips and untars the file, then checks dependencies, configures, compiles, and installs. At the beginning, it asks for the root password, so it can complete the install later on. It is very slick. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Video cards
Hi, I don't know what I am doing different, but I have an nVidia GeForce II on an card made by Asus (I think it is the V7700), and I have ABSOLUTELY no problems with it; in fact, I followed the directions that I found on nVidia's page, and on MUO, and voila, fait accompli! I have nice gfx, can run OpenGL apps beautifully and couldn't be happier with it (which is good, since I bought it very shortly after the GeForce II was released, when it was VERY expensive, and would be FURIOUS if I WAS having difficulties!). Anyways, I was just posting this to let people who are on the market know that the GeForce II DOES work with LM8 (beautifully in fact), and to give hope to those I have seen posting here that they have had difficulties, and have relegated their GeForce II based vid cards to paper weights. As an aside, I did NOT use the drivers that came with LM8, but downloaded them from either nVidia or Asus site (I can't remember). I have both the src.rpm and the rpm, for both the kernel module and the driver, and they are all labelled as being for LM7.2, so what I did is: rpm --rebuild ladida.src.rpm I hope this is helpful/hopeful for someone. David Charles On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: So, with all the discussion about nVidia cards, what is a good card to run? I am going to upgrade cause my little 4mb ATI Rage doesn't even get tux down the hill. I want a midrange card in the $60 to $100 range. Is there any hope? TIA for any suggestions. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] freezes on 3d rendering with my nVidia drivers
Hi, I am just curious: where do you see the nVidia logo? David Charles On 15 Sep 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: I have a Hercules Prophet II MX PCI card, after installing the nVidia drivers (tarred versions) the system comes up fine (showing the little nVidia logo too), but when I try to run a 3d app, even a mesa demo, my system freezes. What's up? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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
Re: [newbie] modem question. not important
Hi, The init strings sent to the modem when you start a connection ALSO set the modem speaker volume. If you are using mdk8 and kde with the kde internet dialer, then if you press on setup, and go to the device tab, you will see a slider for volume level. move it to the right and you should hear the sounds that you grew accustomed to in windows. HTH David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, chris swain wrote: Just an offhand question. I dual boot to windows and when I used to connact through windows my modem made a series of beeps and sounds as it connected. In linux the modem is completely silent, though it contects fine and works better. Any reason for this.? Thanks 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] burning iso
Hi, I haven't used Nero/Windows in a while, but if I recall correctly, go to the file menu and choose burn image, then change the file type to all file types and find the iso image, press OK and choose RAW/2362 format and press OK, then if it says something about size being reported incorrectly let it correct it automatically, then start burning. What you did was burn the FILE that is the iso image, NOT the iso image to the disk. HTH David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, D. Lee Wiggers wrote: Hello list I'm so newbie I don't know if linux is pronounced lin like sin or line like sine. I have been lurking for months and enjoy this list. I installed 8.0 with no problems that haven't been addressed here until today, discounting my own bumbling. Just downloaded Raklet iso's and burnt cdroms, however result is a cdrom with the file mandrakelinux-8.1-raklet-beta3-cd1.i586.iso rather than a cdrom full of files. Where have I erred? I used neroburning (gulp) windows 98 tia Lee Wiggers 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] rm -r Confirmation
Hi, the -i is the opposite of -f (-i = interactive = prompt, -f = never prompt) David Charles On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, ryan_steffes wrote: Found it, ::blush:: RTFM rm -ifr turns out to be what I want. 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] CDRW compatability
Hi, I have a Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A, and since I bought it, it has only reinforced my feelings that they make the BEST quality/most compatible/easiest to install CD-RWs. David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay 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] CDRW compatability
Hi, Sorry, I forgot to mention: I am running LM 8.0/XF86 4 David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A, and since I bought it, it has only reinforced my feelings that they make the BEST quality/most compatible/easiest to install CD-RWs. David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
Hi, Stan: what do you mean by ...drivers are established for linux...? David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stan Lockaby wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who have replied to me on this topic. adrian I am set up with a dual boot - Windoze98, and LM8. I just installed a Plextor 12/10/32 over the weekend. I bought this drive base on input from several people knowledgeable in unix, linux, and windoze. I can tell you that it is a very good, solid drive. I have it set up under W98, but the drivers are established for linux, and I'll tackle the setup in Mandrake in the next few days. Being a recovering windowsaholic, this may or may not go well. I still know very little about linux, and the learning curve is steep for me, but I'm convinced it is a far superior OS, and I will do what it takes to rid myself and my family of the dreaded windows virus. Anyway, my point being that if the setup of the plextor goes well, I will post results... if not, I will post many questions. And not to make light of the current situation here, but while we are all praying, thank God for this list. Peace, Stan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Flash player plugin Mozilla 0.9.3
Hi, I am using LM8.0, and the default plugin dir for mozilla, as installed using rpmdrake, is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin. When I copied libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class into that folder, and tried about:plugins, it showed up; What version Mandrake are you running, and how did you install mozilla (where/from what pkg)? David Charles On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I'm having some trouble installing the flash player plugin in Mozilla 0.9.3. I have copied the files libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class into /usr/local/mozilla0.9.3/plugins but the plugin doesn't show up when I enter about:plugins. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
Hello, I feel terrible about what has happened; I am in Montreal (Canada), and I feel very lucky to live here. I do strongly believe that those responsible for today's tragedy SHOULD be held accountable, but I also believe that, especially in consideration of the safety of [our] democracy, we can NOT toss our morals aside. Without our morals, without our democratic ideals of freedom and safety, there is NOTHING seperating us from the perpetrators of this act. David Charles On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, nathan wainwright wrote: this is only a start people, there is more to come... but yes these bastards made the wronb bear angry and they will pay, be sure of that i know we should not toss our morals aside but for the safety of democracy... we might have to -- nathan From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:07:50 -0400 No Contest there! I agree! But I don't think the US Government thinks for one second that a terrorist gang pulled this one off by themselves. It was too co-ordinated, too organized. There was some serious money, and intel behind this. Don't be surprised to find out that some radical government was behind it. Either that, or I better cut WAY back on those Tom Clancy novels! By the way, I'm not comparing this to college football. Your Government WILL make the right decision, Matt. But, unless they come down hard on these jerks, it could happen again (God Forbid!). I happen to like Americans, and I wouldn't wish this on them or any other country either. But the best way to prevent repetition is to Drop The Hammer the first time. Obviously I mean dropping it only on those actually responsible. The US people have never been happy about Collateral Damage - of that I'm sure, and this time will be no different. But if I remember my history right (correct me if I'm wrong), one of the Japanese admirals commanding the attack on Pearl Harbor said it better than most. Something like - I believe we have awakened a sleeping monster . They had just finished their attack, and he was already thinking about changing his diapers! I think these terrorists should be feeling the same way right about now. I don't think they thought this attack through well enough to ponder the response that will surely follow. Lanman On Wednesday 12 September 2001 11:45 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:42, you wrote: Someone's in for a world of hurt! Right about now, Mass Religious Suicide is going to start looking pretty good to those idiots. You can bet that the U.S. is about to give them a major Wedgie. Then guess who'll be dancing and celebrating on the rooftops?? This isn't a college football rivalry. I hope our government makes the right decisions and minimizes the impact as much as possible as they bring the people who did this to justice. War on an entire nation is not the right response to the actions of a small, extreme group. Matt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
