Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Apr 1, 2005 8:33 AM, Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys DO realise that it's April Fools Day, yes? Methinks that you have been had! Big Time! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ya think? -- This message was sent from a GMail account. Please check the To: line on your reply to be sure the reply goes to the list, or use the reply to list option, if your mail client provides one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Apr 1, 2005 1:18 PM, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Congratulations, Josenildo! Two years running! http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg155652.html You'd hope they all have learned to read the date by now... ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ I just forgot my whole philosophy of life!!! ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I dunno, Margot. I didn't see anyone who fell for it last year, falling for it this time 'round. Of course I didn't go through the entire message archive from last year's joke. Mark -- This message was sent from a GMail account. Please check the To: line on your reply to be sure the reply goes to the list, or use the reply to list option, if your mail client provides one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:17:52 -0500, Christopher Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to get back on topic slightly. Gmail does a really good job of keeping the threads together and displaying as a single html page as specified in the original email. Being free and having very few graphics enables it to be quite speedy on almost any connection. My suggestion is to find someone with a gmail account and see about getting an invite. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 I agree with Christopher on the way Gmail handles the threading. It took me a bit to get used to it, but I really prefer it now. I've got 50 invites if anyone's interested. Most people I know don't want to take on another email account, or will be shot if they force family/friends to update their contacts listsagain! If anyone's interested, drop me a note. Mark -- This message was sent from a GMail account. Please check the To: line on your reply to be sure the reply goes to the list, or use the reply to list option, if your mail client provides one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:11:08 -0500, eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine distributed in PDF format aimed at new users. There is a lot of coverage of software, again aimed at the newbie. They are also looking for people to submit articles. The first issue is on the website now. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Thanks for the ling, Eric. Just d/l'd the first issue and scanned through it. Looks good. Mark -- This message was sent from a GMail account. Please check the To: line on your reply to be sure the reply goes to the list, or use the reply to list option, if your mail client provides one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] various issues
Julie Sloan claimed: But I never broke windows so badly I had to reinstall it! Julie -- Um, you need to boot the computer for it to break ;-) I think XP is the first version of Windows I've not broken to the point of re-installing. 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000...can't count the number of times I've reinstalled my work box running them. Never mind my home computer. The only reason I've not toasted XP is I don't push my machine as much as I used to. I test on test machines rather than my own. I don't mess with the home computer, because I want to stay on the wife's good side (no couch to sleep on, if ya know what I mean). Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How do you stop urpmi from cleaning download cache?
the --noclean option works fine, if using it from the command line, but using the supplied gui in the Mandrake Control Center, still removes packages, and there is very limited options for the configuration. Mark On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:36:03 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 01:23, Mark Cooke wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand time, but I cannot find any details on how to do this (probably wrong search terms), but.. Is there a way to stop urpmi from cleaning out the cache of rpm's it has downloaded into: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms I have managed to find the command option --noclean, and I have tried adding it into the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file, as both: noclean urpmi --noclean but this still cleans out any downloads, after using the mandrake control center installer module. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to install Mandrake on my wife's machine and do not fancy downloading all the files again on a 56k modem. Thanks Mark Did you try no-clean ? The manual does not explicitly mention it, but other commands can be negated with 'no-' See man urpmi.cfg derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- A fool lies awake at nights, worrying of this and that; weary is he when morning breaks, and all remains as before. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How do you stop urpmi from cleaning download cache?
Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been asked a thousand time, but I cannot find any details on how to do this (probably wrong search terms), but.. Is there a way to stop urpmi from cleaning out the cache of rpm's it has downloaded into: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms I have managed to find the command option --noclean, and I have tried adding it into the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file, as both: noclean urpmi --noclean but this still cleans out any downloads, after using the mandrake control center installer module. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to install Mandrake on my wife's machine and do not fancy downloading all the files again on a 56k modem. Thanks Mark -- A fool lies awake at nights, worrying of this and that; weary is he when morning breaks, and all remains as before. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1
Yes, I think that's the one. We're living on dialup, so the wireless stuff is in a box somewhere (don't ya love moving!), so now I just have to find the card, and wrestle the laptop away from the wife and get her to look the other way while Mandrake is installed alongside XP. Hmmm...maybe I'll send her birding for a few hours! ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:54 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1 On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:39 pm, Kirschner, Mark wrote: Hello everyone! After too long a time neglecting Mandrake on my laptop, I'm thinking of upgrading to 10.1 (currently running 9.0 on it). With 9.0, I ran into a problem of being unable to get my Aironet 350 card to work unless I flashed the firmware on the card back to a previous revision (sorry, I can't remember current rev, or suggested rev). I was leery at the time to do this, as the card was owned by my employer, and I wasn't in a situation where I could get away with it. Does anyone know if the Cisco Aironet 350 will work under 10.1? I do own the card in question so can flash it back, but I'd prefer to avoid that if necessary. Purchasing a new card is out of the question, as I have just come off 8 months unemployment and moved cities to my new job. Spending money's reserved for eating, not techie toys. Assuming you are talking about the MPI350, yes it will, and with more recent firmware. I can't remember the exact firmware I am using unless I boot back into windows, but I think it is something like 5.30. Under the firmware restriction, the latest you could use was 5.00.03. I am told from the Thinkpad ML that any recent firmware should work properly. BTW, it works great. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1
Hello everyone! After too long a time neglecting Mandrake on my laptop, I'm thinking of upgrading to 10.1 (currently running 9.0 on it). With 9.0, I ran into a problem of being unable to get my Aironet 350 card to work unless I flashed the firmware on the card back to a previous revision (sorry, I can't remember current rev, or suggested rev). I was leery at the time to do this, as the card was owned by my employer, and I wasn't in a situation where I could get away with it. Does anyone know if the Cisco Aironet 350 will work under 10.1? I do own the card in question so can flash it back, but I'd prefer to avoid that if necessary. Purchasing a new card is out of the question, as I have just come off 8 months unemployment and moved cities to my new job. Spending money's reserved for eating, not techie toys. Thanks in advance, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Addendum: FW: Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1
Oh, I did check the Twiki, as well as the hardware compatibility database on the Mandrakesoft site. Also a Google search came up with no help. -Original Message- From: Kirschner, Mark Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:39 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1 Hello everyone! After too long a time neglecting Mandrake on my laptop, I'm thinking of upgrading to 10.1 (currently running 9.0 on it). With 9.0, I ran into a problem of being unable to get my Aironet 350 card to work unless I flashed the firmware on the card back to a previous revision (sorry, I can't remember current rev, or suggested rev). I was leery at the time to do this, as the card was owned by my employer, and I wasn't in a situation where I could get away with it. Does anyone know if the Cisco Aironet 350 will work under 10.1? I do own the card in question so can flash it back, but I'd prefer to avoid that if necessary. Purchasing a new card is out of the question, as I have just come off 8 months unemployment and moved cities to my new job. Spending money's reserved for eating, not techie toys. Thanks in advance, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Web hosting - dynamic IP address
What about any of these? http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/clients.html On Monday 10 January 2005 21:21, amalasingh wrote: Folks, My ISP does not provide a dynamic IP address. I have bought a domain from www.dnsexit.com and trying to use the perl script to update the domain when IP address changes. But it does not work. Could you please give me better scripts for dealing with Dynamic DNS. Cheers Amala Singh. 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 problem
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of them - the one I'm using right now - works without a hitch. I'm sorry, I can only think of the relaying problem already mentioned by Anne. Your ISP would have to use some kind of authentication or they'd be an open relay and open to abuse. Could you set your mail clients to use sendmail? (well postfix but it just works like that) That's what I do on my main box with Kmail. HTH Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 01:42, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? AFAIK Mandrake Move is a run from CD distribution. Regards Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.evilcomputing.co.uk iD8DBQFBkYFzzbPZR6/ZZeERAuZ3AJ4jdxcfIC3G8d1tKBDd+rx8wLf7HQCeIKyH nLh9Uvz5iUJ3l8ySkjxLrzc= =8DGB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Uptime question
On 2004-10-22, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1098487760-1263-160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actually, these boxes can't keep time to save their lives. I'm seeing errors in the logs about NTP being unable to update the clock, etc (I can dig them up if it would help). Everything I've been able to find so far points to a bug in the Kernel that still has not been fixed, but I can't imagine that ALL the Linux boxes out there are suffering from not being able to update their clocks...? As I understand, computers often have two possibilities for keeping time: They can get it from the bios/hardware, or the operating system can handle it itself. Look into using ntpd, which will keep your clock accurate by frequently syncing it with an atomic clock over the internet: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpd.html Your problem may not be Linux specific at all-- there may be something about your hardware/bios/battery that is causing your time problems. Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Dual Boot Dual HDD
On 2004-09-01, SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, when I tried to go the update route with Mandrake10, lilo showed me boot options for partitions that had no OS on them, ie the FAT partitions. Yet when I did a clean install I didn't strike this problem? I also had a similar experience when helping a friend upgrade to Mandrake 10. With 9.2, he was happily dual booting with Windows 95 (98?). After upgrading to 10.0, selecting the windows option produces a black screen with a blinking cursor. However, if I go to BIOS and tell it to boot off of the Windows drive first, Windows boots fine and appears to be undisturbed. I believe he tried switched to grub and got the same result. Is there any way to make lilo or grub boot Windows again? It's on a second drive all by itself. Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/Tech/linux_switch/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Maelstrom and other games cause freezes after 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade
et wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 22:20, Mark Stosberg wrote: Hello, I'm helping my friend Kurt Ritchie who recently switched to Linux. ( His Linux switch story is here: http://mark.stosberg.com/Tech/linux_switch/ritchie.html ). I recently gave him my 10.0 CD set as I anticipate the new release coming out. So here's the 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade problem I'm trying to troubleshoot: Launching some games, like Maelstrom, now completely freezes the machine, when it didn't before. The cursor quit moving, and the keyboard completely quit responding. (Pressing Caps Lock doesn't even turn on the Cap Lock light). I tried capturing the output of the launch in a file: Maelstrom 21 file.txt After the necessary hard reboot, my file.txt isn't created. I tried using both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels with the same result. What else could cause something like this? There is one thing that is a little unusual about the machine: It was 200Mhz processor that I used a special upgrade kit to allow to take a 700Mhz processor. That has worked great, and has not been responsible for any problems that I've aware of. I checked the ChangeLog for Maelstrom and didn't see anything unusual around the 9.2 - 10.0 releases. Considering that other games have the problem, I imagine it's something more general. If you have ideas about the general direction I could look in, that would be appreciated! Thanks! Mark what video card? NVidia? download matching kernel source (to what ever kernel you are booting) and the respective NVidia *.run installer from NVidia to update the video to match the updated kernel might want the open GL files etc I found out the Video card is an NVidia Riva 128. This video card does not need special Nvidia drivers or kernel modules, and should be supported by the default nv_drv driver for X. Since I don't recall fussing with Nvidia drivers where I did the 9.2 install, this makes sense. Are there other things I could be looking for that might cause this kind of freeze? Thanks again! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Looking for frontend for mplayer
On 2004-10-05, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 22:53, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a nice frontend for mplayer. Any ideas? You may be interested in kmplayer: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/search.php?query=kmplayersubmit=Search+... Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: OpenGroupware
On 2004-09-18, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1095510134-12666-5096 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone had any luck getting OpenGroupware to work? You'll probably get better support for OpenGroupware if you ask for help on an OpenGroupware list: http://www.opengroupware.org/en/users/lists/index.html Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Maelstrom and other games cause freezes after 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade
Hello, I'm helping my friend Kurt Ritchie who recently switched to Linux. ( His Linux switch story is here: http://mark.stosberg.com/Tech/linux_switch/ritchie.html ). I recently gave him my 10.0 CD set as I anticipate the new release coming out. So here's the 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade problem I'm trying to troubleshoot: Launching some games, like Maelstrom, now completely freezes the machine, when it didn't before. The cursor quit moving, and the keyboard completely quit responding. (Pressing Caps Lock doesn't even turn on the Cap Lock light). I tried capturing the output of the launch in a file: Maelstrom 21 file.txt After the necessary hard reboot, my file.txt isn't created. I tried using both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels with the same result. What else could cause something like this? There is one thing that is a little unusual about the machine: It was 200Mhz processor that I used a special upgrade kit to allow to take a 700Mhz processor. That has worked great, and has not been responsible for any problems that I've aware of. I checked the ChangeLog for Maelstrom and didn't see anything unusual around the 9.2 - 10.0 releases. Considering that other games have the problem, I imagine it's something more general. If you have ideas about the general direction I could look in, that would be appreciated! Thanks! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] CUPS
I had cups printer problems as well. I found using a web browser and pointing to http://localhost:631made installing printers real easy. Make sure cups service is started first in the services controller. Mark -Original Message-From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] CUPS I am trying to install a printer in Mandrake 10 but each time it gets to the point where it installs CUPS it fails and says CUPS could not be installed. I am logged in as ROOT. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve
[newbie] UltraATA 100 IDE
Are UltraATA 100 IDE drives backward-compatible to conventional IDE? I'm running a dual Windows XP / Linux-Mandrake box with an Asus A7V133 motherboard. I've decided to add a second HDD 1) to rip my CD collection to and 2) as backup media for my primary HDD. I'm finding some pretty good deals on 7200RPM, 200GB HDDs in UltraATA 100. My version of LM (7.2 (I know, I know)) doesn't support UltraATA 100, so I'm running the HDD on the conventional IDE bus. I'd rather not upgrade the Linux side right at the moment. Can I continue to use the conventional IDE bus? Thanks. Mark Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Font Size kde
I upgraded from Mandrake 9 to Mandrake 10. I'm runnning kde, and I use Ximian Evolution as my mail program. Since upgrading, the font used in ximian for displaying the list of emails is very small - not too small to read, but annoying nonetheless. I also see this small font in gnumeric and GNOME dictionary. In ximian, gnumeric and GNOME dictionary, this font is also used in the menus of the application ( file, edit, etc.). This leads me to believe that this is a system setting somewhere. The font settings in ximian affect the body of the email, but not the menus or email lists. Changing the font settings in Configure your desktop don't affect these applications either. Any ideas? Mark -- Mark Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Notebook X Problem
I have Mandrake 10 installed on my 760XD. Does anyone know where I can find the hardware graphics setting for X? My current settings are: Graphics Card: Trident Cyber 9325 (Generic) Monitor: 1024x768 @ 60 Hz Resolution: 1024x768 8bpp X starts and runs okay, but when I start an app, the colors get messed-up. Thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Notebook MDK10 Install
I am having problems setting my IBM Thinkpad 760XD video settings for KDE. I found the card model on the net, but when I run the test options, it fails. Any ideas or links to how-to? Mark Ayares Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling
** Reply to message from Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 3 Aug 2004 03:38:20 + Hi Lee Team On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:01:10 +1000 Mark Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Team Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last few weeks. One last item (for the moment) that I need to do is setup my system (which is always on) to reboot once a day. Im doing this to ensure there are no problems while absent from the machine for a couple of weeks. (And will be 10,000km from the machine). The machine will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it executes). Anyone have any idea of how I should go about doing this? Thanks in advance Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orionsolutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 I have to ask. Why do you want to reboot? I will be a long way away from the machine in question, and its a new setup. I have seen it freeze once in the last two weeks and I cant have it doing the same when Im away from it. (Possibly hardware but at this stage Im uncertain). Hence the need to ensure it keeps working by giving it a reboot every 24 hours. I just cant afford to have it go down, even though it probably wont but know murphys law it probably will. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orionsolutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots
Hi Team Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last few weeks. One last item (for the moment) that I need to do is setup my system (which is always on) to reboot once a day. Im doing this to ensure there are no problems while absent from the machine for a couple of weeks. The machine will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it executes). Anyone have any idea of how I should go about doing this? Thanks in advance Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orionsolutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sceduling Automatic Reboots
** Reply to message from Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:35:19 -0400 Hi Charles Didnt know I had hijacked any thread. I didnt realise that this list was a little different to most I use. I simply replyied to someones message about something else, yet changed the subject line, on all other systems I have used this has created a new subject thread, so Im guessing this list does something a little different with how it tracks a new subject. Im not useing a webinterface or message reader, simply an email program. Sorry for the hiccup :-p (And please dont say 'terrorist', Im probably on the FBI's radar now! :-D lol ) On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 22:29:20 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Mark Rogers disseminated the following: Joe, you are falling down on your job as the protector of we innocents on this list who respond to 1 thread only to see it become another. For this you loose 2 SOB points. Mark, Please do not hijack a thread. I you wish to ask a question you are more than welcome to do so. But do it as a 'new' thread not simply by changing the subject in an existing thread. Charles -- YOW!! What should the entire human race DO?? Consume a fifth of CHIVAS REGAL, ski NUDE down MT. EVEREST, and have a wild SEX WEEKEND! -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.5-1.tmb.6mdkenterprise -- Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orionsolutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Automatic Reboot Scheduling
Hi Team Thanks to all those who have given invaluable help over the last few weeks. One last item (for the moment) that I need to do is setup my system (which is always on) to reboot once a day. Im doing this to ensure there are no problems while absent from the machine for a couple of weeks. (And will be 10,000km from the machine). The machine will not be logged on as 'root' and my security limit is set pretty high (i.e. the reboot command needs to be looged in as 'root' before it executes). Anyone have any idea of how I should go about doing this? Thanks in advance Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orionsolutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Install Problems
I am having problems doing a new install of MDK 10 Official. When I select individual components to install. It complains saying it cannot locate the source, do you want to continue. It worked fine on an upgrade of another box. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark Ayares Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Postfix - Mail Sending Relay Problem.
Hi Team Still comming to grips with ML10, have hit two problems, I have setup Postfix to handle 3 domains, all resolving to the one domain. Postfix correctly handles incomming mail to the correct user mail boxes. I can also now download/fetch/get those mail messages from another POP3 compliant mailer on another PC. However my two problems are as follows:- Problem 1) If, from the ML10 PC, using WEBMIN to reply to an email, Postfix tries to send it but fails with the following:- ¨Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=202.76.175.231.orionsolutions.com.au type=A: Host not found¨ This confuses me as the DNS records dont have anything like this, all I can think of is that its resolving the host name into an IP address then appending the domain name onto it. If its doing this which conf file do I need to look in to correct this behavior? Ideas? Problem 2) The PC that downloads POP mail from the ML10 PC Is having trouble sending mail to the ML10 box. Keep in mind that people from the outside world (internet) are currently sending mail to it - just the internal network isnt being recognised. Here is the error message from the system logs:- ¨Jul 10 09:30:10 gw1 postfix/smtpd[16575]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from gw1.orion-solutions.com.au[202.76.175.231]: 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Relay access denied; from=[EMAIL PROTECTED] to=[EMAIL PROTECTED] proto=SMTP helo=192.168.1.3 ¨ ideas? Thanks in advance for any help that can be given :-) Mark Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Help with setting up a POP Server
Hi Team I have gotten a new Mandrake Linux server mostly working, however I am having a little trouble with setting up the POP Server so that I can access the SMTP mail in the Post Office on the machine. As far as I can see both POP2 and POP3 services are running, as is the XINETD service. When attempting to connect to the POP service (using a loggin ID and password of one of the admin users) I get the following message in the logfiles : ¨8 15:27:30 gw1 xinetd[3621]: libwrap refused connection to pop3 (libwrap=ipop3d) from 192.168.1.3¨ Obviously its closing the connection, Im getting the impression that its not even getting to the stage of asking for authentication - just closing the port down. Any ideas? (And thanks in advance.) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Best POP Server?
Hi Team Im new to Linux and Mandrake and need to ask what is the best email Post Office deamon/program that you would recomend? Im looking for something thats easy to setup (i.e. with a GUI), secure, can handle IMAP, and maybe even a web interface for reading emails via the web. Suggestions? Oh, also a url to the suggested system. (Knowing my luck its on the Mandrake 10 disks I have lol ) Thanks in advance Cheers Mark :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DNS Server
Hi Team Im new to Linux and Mandrake and was wondering what you would reccomend for a DNS service (BIND for example), just to host 3 domains we have (and just the main internet accessable systems - i.e. 3 IPs/Names). Prefer to have a GUI if possible, if not a url to a good reference point Thanks in advance Cheers Mark :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DNS Server
** Reply to message from Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 04 Jul 2004 08:18:56 -0500 Mark Rogers wrote: Hi Team Hi Mikkel Im new to Linux and Mandrake and was wondering what you would reccomend for a DNS service (BIND for example), just to host 3 domains we have (and just the main internet accessable systems - i.e. 3 IPs/Names). Prefer to have a GUI if possible, if not a url to a good reference point Thanks in advance Cheers Mark :-) Mark, Are you looking for a name server to provide domain name service for your local network, or one that will provide name service for your domain on the Internet? From the way your question is worded, I want to be sure we are talking about the same thing. What you need for a home network with 3 hosts is vastly different then what you need if you are running a hosting service and have 3 different domains to worry about. I should have been clearer, a DNS to provide naming services for internet based computers looking up our domain names, not for internal network. You say you are new to Linux. Are you new to networking as well, or just to networking on Linux? I want to be sure we are we mean the same thing when we talk about domains, and host names. Not new to networking, just networking on linux. At the moment Im looking for something to get me up and running quickly, so I can later study what script/conf files where altered and where. (Im sully aware that any front end GUI's change up to several configuration/text files to allow linux to do its stuff :-) Just looking for pointers so Im not wasting time simply looking ;-) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Yours Sincerely Mark A Rogers Orion Solutions PO BOX 1492 Wodonga Vic 3689 www.orion-solutions.com.au Phone +61 2 6056 5455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Tranfering Hard Disk from one PC to another
Hi Team Im just getting to know Linux and Mandrake and need to know how Linux/Mandrake handles the following situation:- 1) Lets say I install Mandrake on one PC, and setup web servers (Apache), services etc. 2) Then I move that hard disk to another machine - but this second machine has different m/board, video, network etc. (Im proposing to do it this way to minimise down time on the PC Im moving the hard disk to) Questions: What are the likelyhoods of Mandrake booting to a command line? Booting to a GUI? If it can only boot to a command line/gui what can I do to get it to recognise the new hardware? Would a full reinstall over the top recognise the new hardware and yet leave application setups (like Apache) configured? What whould you suggest is the best way to handle this problem? (And if simply installing on the second PC is the easiest then please tell me that too) :-) Thanks in advance to anyone who answers Cheers Mark :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling FTP
How do I configure my MDK10 box to allow others FTP access? Is FTP part of the inetd service? When ever I try to ftp from another box I get a connection refused reply. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 won't boot
My mdk10 box needed to be reboot yesteday after locking-up. I turned the power switch off and back on; now all I get during boot-up is a screen full of 9s. Any recommendations? Mark Ayares Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Windows boot disk
Hi Guys I'm trying to have a play with vmware but need to create a windows boot disk to load XP. Unfortunately I don't have a windows system to create this boot disk on. Can anyone tell me how tp create one using mandrake 10. Before anyone asks, my wifes a bean counter and to get her to use this PC at home I need to install some fancy accounting stuff onto my linux machine, and I guess vmware is the way, whilst I have an evaluation copy. Thanks as always Mark A -- Most people need some of their problems to help take their mind off some of the others. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] SANE and scanners
Hi Guys I'm having a bit of a problem getting my scanner to work under 10CE. There appear to be two scanners detected and the output of sane-find-scanner is : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]# sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x043d, product=0x002d) at libusb:005:005 found USB scanner (vendor=0x046d, product=0x08f0 [Camera]) at libusb:005:004 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]# scanimage -L device `gt68xx:libusb:005:005' is a Lexmark X73 flatbed scanner It looks like the scanner won't work because of the duplicate entry in libusb. Is it okay to edit this file, although I'm concerned that I may stuff things up properly. FWIW this scanner was detected and worked perfectly under version 9.2, so I can only asume this is a simple problem. Thanks as always. Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Modprobe nvidia
Hi Guys I have to enter 'modprobe nvidia' after each boot to access kde. I'm not sure why my pc stopped booting directly into a graphical mode, but modprobe nvidia works. This is not convenient though, and I remember reading somewhere on the list about someone else having a similar problem, but cannot no find the message. Could one of the guru's please advise me how to fix this, or alternatively what and where I need to add any commands. I think I've just confused the hell out of myself, but as always, thanks. Mark A Poole, Dorset United Kingdom. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] NForce 2 revisited
Hi guys I am starting to get complete freezes with my MDK10 CE install. The only way out is the 3 fingered salute. Judging by some of the posts on this site, as well as various other linux sites, general concensus seems to be that the NForce 2 chipset may be the problem. My motherboard is M7NCD with AMD XP2600 CPU. The motherboard chipset is as mentioned with USB2 only onboard. Could someone please tell me where to start looking for a problem, or if this is a common and re3solved problem, what the fix is. FWIW the freeze seems to happen when the CPU is having to work hard, I have particularly noticed it when trying to install Unreal Tournament 2004. Thanks as always. Mark A -- I am a computer. I am dumber than any human and smarter than any administrator. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] NForce 2 revisited
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:18, Mark Annandale wrote: I am starting to get complete freezes with my MDK10 CE install. The only way out is the 3 fingered salute. Judging by some of the posts on this site, as well as various other linux sites, general concensus seems to be that the NForce 2 chipset may be the problem. My motherboard is M7NCD with AMD XP2600 CPU. The motherboard chipset is as mentioned with USB2 only onboard. May have found the fix for this freezing, by adding 'noapic lapic' to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf seems to done the trick. I hope this can help others. Mark A -- Such a fine first dream! But they laughed at me; they said I had made it up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] test
I received this from you On Sunday 02 May 2004 20:25, John Drouhard wrote: I haven't gotten any messages at all today...was I blacklisted? 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
William Warren stated: the only time you get the error is when trying linux from what i can tell..which as i stated before is not supported by gateway. A point to note here; when Gateway says that third-party software is not supported, it simply means that they will not provide technical support for software they didn't install. Hardware would still be covered under warranty by Gateway. Three months ago, I sent back a Gateway laptop for repair, even stating it had Mandrake Linux installed on it. Such limitations on support are not uncommon with OEMs. Conversely, it's not uncommon for a vendor to deny support for OEM versions of a product. It used to be (not sure it still is now, as I don't call software support, in general) that Microsoft would not support a pre-installed version of their products, referring you instead to the vendor who provided your pre-installed copy. My take on the issue that Marc is having here is that it's either an incompatibility between hardware (very likely since vendors seem to buy in bulk and then assemble components to build a model) or a BIOS strictly designed for Windows. I may, if I get a chance in the next day or so, try to install Mandrake on a newer (model E-6000) Gateway here at the office to see if I see the same problem. Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older machine installsby using "linux ide=nodma" during the install. Mark -Original Message-From: Marcin Michalak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:25 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If installing from net is not good for you for some reason, try to burn the cd again. Marcin - Original Message - From: Steve Turner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.
[newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?
I downloaded 10.0 Community to test on my Gateway 200ARC laptop and am now downloading the AMD64 to test on my Shuttle SN85G4. How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?
Actually .. Maybe I was wrong. I used RPMDrake and searched for kernel .. I installed what looked like the correct kernel source from CD 3. I just compiled the latest Orinoco wireless driver and am rebooting to see if it worked. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community? On Friday 19 March 2004 17:00, Mark G. Spencer wrote: How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark I found the source for 2.6.3-4 on one at one of the cooker mirrors. You're correct, it doesn't seem to be on any of 10.0CE disks. -- 17:06:24 up 1 day, 12:47, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Computer, n.: An electronic entity which performs sequences of useful steps in a totally understandable, rigorously logical manner. If you believe this, see me about a bridge I have for sale in Manhattan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] QT Install
Hello Mandrake, I just installed Mandrake 10. Most went well. I did get 4 errors on install. One was the libqt303.23-15mdk library. I Know I can't run KDE without QT but how do I get the correct version from the website and install from a command prompt? Can I use urpmi and upgrade? -- Cheers Mark 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?
Bob Read asked: Could it be that you are not using identical fonts in Win and Linux? Olivier Esser wrote: Hello everybody, Please excuse me!. I am subscribed to both French and English list and I have use the wrong address! My problem was that a same word document does not open exactly in the same way under openoffice 1.1 under linux and windows. This concerns essentialy the page breaks. How about differences in the printer driver? I know that WordPerfect (way back when) was touchy about even the slightest difference in printer driver. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewal not working...
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 04:26 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:24 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote: And one more... I red the instruction to setup a firewall. I use my machine since the first MDK installation with no firewall. In my case I had just to remove the everything cross and install a package. No problem until I tried to connect to the net or open a website. Nothing works. I go back to the firewall and click in everything and I'm back on the net. What shall I do? Is the firewall not just limiting the access to my machine? Thanks for your help. The firewall is blocking all connections in and out, thereby limiting any internet connection. Only block what you'll never use, or specify ports instead. It happens to be a very good firewall. For instance, I was talking through gAIM once, while playing with the firewall. Suddenly, no communication. Interesting, how well it blocks connections. For a starter you will need port 80 open for the web --Marc but thats only if you're running a web server. If there's aren't any services being run on this machine then it doesn't matter. The firewall has to be at least enabled in some fashion in order for the inet connections to function correctly. Which is why the poster notices functionality when the firewall is turned on, and no functionality when the firewall is turned off. By far the easiest and least troublesome firewall app I've seen and have been using now since Mandrake 8.2 is Bastille. I've seen Shorewall, and a bunch of the others; and have in fact tried them out. I always came back to Bastille. It just works. -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewal not working...
On Thursday 11 March 2004 04:52 am, rhein wrote: Hello, I opened port 80 by typing tcp/80 udp/80 in the advanced panel of the firewall setup. Still no access to the net. I removed all the firewall and I can connect again. What did I wrong? Christophe Christophe, check my reponse to Aron just above this one. It explains a bit more as to whats going on. In brief, if the firewall is turned off, then the inet connections become inoperable. When it is turned on things work. Thats a feature and not a bug. If this is a workstation behind an already configured firewall, then just allow everything. If not, then you'll have to configure some sort of rudamentary firewall. If you've got no services running other then maybe ssh to this machine, then when you turn the firewall on open the ports for the service you're running. Thats really all there is to it. I would suggest reading up on IP Tables a bit so you've got some idea of whats going on as opposed to relying solely a GUI config wizard. If you can find the packages try installing Bastille on your system. Its probably the easiest out there to configure, and once its done you just let it alone. -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ad-Aware
On Saturday 13 March 2004 01:51 pm, David Williams wrote: Is there any thing for Linux like Ad-Aware for Windows? Is there even a need for anything like Ad-Aware for Linux? I love these kinds of questions...they're so cute! In answer to your question, no. There is no need for such software for your linux system. As you learn and grow with Linux you're going to find a whole new world of freedom as well as a place to go and relax without having to worry about everything little thing that is affecting windows users...or should I say afflicting them. -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:04 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community. I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2 partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf). But this is just me firing shots in the dark :) It is quite easy. During installation of 10.0, you will be asked a question of where to install the bootloader. The choices should be 1) on MBR 2) on / (root) partition, or 3) do not install. You want to choose number 2, install to root partition. actually in this situation the best thing to do is simply install the bootloader to a floppy and boot the third Mandrake installation from there. It works flawlessly this way, and also keeps from getting the bootloader stuff already on the hard disk all messed up. Saves on user stress as well. -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...
On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:03 am, anton wrote: 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!! I dunnojust updated my 9.2 workstation here with the community release of 10.0 and KDE 3.2 is blazing! In fact I read some of the reviews written by folks who had done the 10.0 install and was a bit skeptical about the increased speed of 10. No longer...I've seen it with my own eyes, and I'm lovin it! Good job Mandrake! -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove problem
On Friday 26 March 2004 08:47 pm, John Carver wrote: It appears the dcopserver file is not working properly. KDE will not execute its programs because this setup is not running. Any help on this? I'm not sure this was meant to do anything other then allow folks to preview Mandrake and what it looks like. I never got the impression it was meant to do anything else. -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:26:00 -0500 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, That's now the second time that my notebook shuts down because I'm not able to see the level of my battery. Good thing I didn't have to start all over because I saved my work a few minutes before. Is there a way to have the battery indicator under MDK 9.2? (by the way I think the battery goes faster then with XP...??) Also when I'm working the fan is running more often then with XP. Is there something to modify? Thanks Christophe ps: I have a Compaq nx9005 Christophe, I'm only running 9.1, so I'm not sure how relevant it is to your situation. I have the battery indicator on mine. I'm running KDE and found you can set it this way: Click the K menu Click Configuration Click KDE Click PowerControl Click Laptop Battery You should see a check box for Show Battery Monitor. Make sure it's set. You may want to look for something similar. As for life in XP vs, Linux, I don't see much battery life difference between the two on my laptop. Perhaps it has somehting to do with power settings in each? XP may have a more conservative power use profile. Just some thoughts Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake support for Cisco wireless Network Cards
Greg Meyer said: On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:05 pm, Mark Kirschner wrote: Hi all. I've an opportunity to pick up a laptop with a wireless network adapter (Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card). I have been unsuccessful with getting this same card to work under Mandrake 9.1, and the only help I've come across said to downgrade the card firmware. Does anyone know if 9.2 supports this card, or if 10.0 will when released? I'll admit, I've not yet delved into the prospect of researching hardware requirements (between health issues, classwork and a job search, I've had little time lately for research on the issue). 10.0 supports this card as the airo_mpi driver maintained by Fabrice Bellet has been merged into the 2.6.3 kernel. 9.2 does not support it out of the box, but airo_mpi installs easily and works great. It is required that the card firmware remain at an older version. I have not found this to be a problem at all, since I rarely use Windows. I just make sure I am using the Windows driver that matches the firmware. I think it is 5.00.03 of something close. More info here http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/ -- /g Thanks, Greg. I'll keep this information handy for when I get the computer. Windows compatibility is, unfortunately, a concern as this will be the sole computer in the house, and my wife is still firmly attached to Windows XP (attempts to win her to the Linux side failed miserably due to poor planning on my part). To make sure I'm reading you correctly, Greg; 10.0 will support the card natively with no firmware change? But to use airo_mpi and 9.2, I need to step the firmware back? Fortunately, the laptop's got an on-board NIC, so I can connect to our cable modem with a long Cat5, just have to sacrifice mobility for a bit. Thanks again for your response. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake support for Cisco wireless Network Cards
Hi all. I've an opportunity to pick up a laptop with a wireless network adapter (Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card). I have been unsuccessful with getting this same card to work under Mandrake 9.1, and the only help I've come across said to downgrade the card firmware. Does anyone know if 9.2 supports this card, or if 10.0 will when released? I'll admit, I've not yet delved into the prospect of researching hardware requirements (between health issues, classwork and a job search, I've had little time lately for research on the issue). TIA, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:43:49 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OH MY Deity! Sam Adams? Pilsner Urquell ? Where the devil are you Carroll ?? Jeez ! What ever happened to the classy people who drink Sleeman's, or Rickards Red, or Guiness Stout for Pete's sake ! If you keep drinking that stuff, this list will start getting a bad name ! Grin! Hey! Don't be knockin' Pilsner Urquell. Perhaps Ms. Carol desires a bottle straight from Pilsen, and not the import stuff. Ya never know...agree with ya on Sam Adams... Goodnight all ! May you dream of fat, happy penguins all sitting on the face of Bill Gates! ( OOOh! Too much information! Sorry for the mental image that this leaves behind! ) Gee, thanks...Maybe I can go home sick now... Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited
Hi Folks Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to November last year. I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying to install them, lots of dependency problems. Google hasn't been much help either. Please could someone point me at some means of installing 3.2. By the way I'm running version 9.2. Many thanks as always. Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Netatalk
On 2004-02-03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1075812845-2060-87 Does anyone have any experience with netatalk? I'm trying to set up a home network using a linux box as a server with two other macs running os9. As a newbie much of the setup with netatalk docs seems over my head :( Maybe someone could walk me through? Or give me some tips on set up? Could you ask a more specific question? So I assume you started by installing the Mandrake netatalk package and followed the related instructions. At what point did your experience start to differ from what you expected from the documentation? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install trouble - Mdrk9.1 - OF 1.0.5
Hi Guys and Girls, Newbie to Linux on PPC! HELP.. I can't install Mandrake 9.1. I'm on a 7300/200 with OF 1.0.5 I've booted into OF and tried 'boot scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0, \\yaboot I get the error 'bad partition number using 0' 'no bootable HFS partition'. Any ideas or tutorials around? Cheers, Mark. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Howto documentation
Is there an rpm or download location of Mandrake's 9.2 documentation http://mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 I have ordered a 9.2 Powerpack and have yet to receive it. In the meantime I would not mind having the docs for offline reading. (I prefer the html files, over the pdf version). Thanks Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Howto documentation
Is there an rpm or download location of Mandrake's 9.2 documentation http://mandrakelinux.com/en/fdoc.php3 I have ordered a 9.2 Powerpack and have yet to receive it. In the meantime I would not mind having the docs for offline reading. (I prefer the html files, over the pdf version). Thanks Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Preinstall question
I am getting ready to install the download version of Mandrake 9.2 and was hopeing to get some input on how to do it best. I have an ide-dvd-burner, scsi-cd-burner, scsi-cdrom, ide-cdrom and ide-dvd-player. I can install at most 3 of these. Since the dvd-burner does cds also, is there any advantage to keep the older scsi drives and the adaptec 2940 card in the system. The speed of the older drives is not an issue as much as compatablity with the OS. Would pulling the scsi card and drives simplify thing without loosing capablity? Or is scsi better supported and be worth keeping around? Thanks for any ideas. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] bittorrent problems
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick Dempster wrote: Richard Urwin said: On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 10:39 pm, Patrick Dempster wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent I get the following error: ERROR (10:28) - error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations. Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Is there an rc file somewhere that I should set this in? Off the top of my head, try using hyphens- rather than underlines. Nope, doesn't seem to like that that either [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max-upload-rate 100 MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent These errors occurred during execution: [23:47:11] error: option --max-upload-rate not recognized run with no args for parameter explanations After a bit more experimenting it does appear that --max_upload_rate is what it is looking for because it does appear to be parsing it and it is expecting a number. I'm really stumped now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] torrent]$ btdownloadgui.py --max_upload_rate 100k MandrakeLinux-20031231-i586.iso.torrent These errors occurred during execution: [23:47:43] error: wrong format of --max_upload_rate - invalid literal for long(): 100k run with no args for parameter explanations Talk to you soon, Take care, Paddy Paddy, as I recall Tom Brinkman has a pretty fair understanding about how this all works. check for his addy in the list archives and shoot him a message. Or post to his attention either here or on the Mandrake OT list. I'm sure you'll get a response. The Mandrake Off Topic list is here: http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.2 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to secure file with seperate password
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:24, Mark wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bashan wrote: If I have a file I would like to secure with an extra password, how do I do it? what app are you using to create the file? you could just encrypt the file with gpg. Konqueror, all I really want to do is ad another password to the file, just like logging in to my desktop. maybe I'm missing something, but i never heard of doing such a thing with Konq. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.2 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Securing my box
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Aron Smith wrote: So you are saying that my tinfoil hat is on crooked;-) I just picked up a book on linux security nahmaybe its just a little off-center. ;) -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.2 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] creating rpm
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:07 am, Aaron wrote: yes I was root and no rpmbuild... I am going to check the repository and see if I find it there. Aaron urpmi rpmbuild so, it this for building src.rpm's or for creating an rpm? -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.2 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Qwest/MSN DSL combo
BTW, you're not the Mark Kirschner I knew at Fort Meade, MD? No, that would be a different Mark Kirschner. Never been to MD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] menu/rpm bug update
Eric Huff said: There was another update on the menu bug. If interested, i added the 2nd advisory link: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/FiveStarNews eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Thanks for letting us know...pondering spending a rainy day this weekend installing 9.2...we'll see if and how it goes Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Visio-like software for Linux/Mandrake?
Sorry if this is repeat, got a bounce from sympa that the original was Interpreted to contain a command. OK, I'll admit I'm just jumping a step and going right to those who have more time in the trenches w/ Linux. I'm taking a class that requires creation of network diagrams. Recommended software (from the instructor) is Viso for Windows. Well, I don't plan to do any coursework in Windows, so I need to locate a similar software package for Linux. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Bit of humor to lighten things up
Wondered when someone would catch that! Yes, THE same Gates. Only I'm not in the money making side, but the money spending side things. Well, at least for a few more months. The program I am involved with wraps up at the end of 2004, and my department (Technical Support) is starting to scale back staff as the number of libraries we support decreases. Mark Kirschner -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bit of humor to lighten things up On Friday 21 November 2003 04:09 pm, Mark Kirschner wrote: Thought this might lighten things up after all the subscription problems. http://media2.funnyjunk.com/pictures/0011.gif Mark: This gatesfoundation.org in your email address -- is that THE Gates? (We won't tell, honest.) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up
Charlie said: Before we get nuts with GNuPG let's get some software sources set up for you, all right? First since I hate switching CDs: urpmi.removemedia -a Then: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia update_source ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz After that, and since you're using KDE as the desk-top manager: urpmi kgpg enter Charlie, when you list a URL followed by with , are we to append the information following the with to the end of the url? For instance, when you posted for urpmi.addmedia update_source: ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz Do I enter ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/../base/hdlist.cz? Slightly confused (or it's Monday, or both), Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] GnuPG - getting it set up
Charlie said: It seems it's always Monday here in Edmonton Mark. g Why not just open the terminal, su to become super user and copy and paste the command in? Isn't that easier? If you want to type the lines in manually you have to type _exactly_ what I posted to use the sources I showed. That may not be a good idea since you should probably pick a mirror closer to home for your installation. Besides we don't really want everyone pulling from the same mirrors and there are lots to choose from. Or just go here: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon to do things the *really* easy way. The instructions and what's and wherefore's are all on the page. Handy tool that Olivier built, isn't it? (-; Regards; Charlie Thanks, Charlie, I took a quick look at that site just now. I'll use it for my Linux box. Of course I'd copy and paste, where I can. To quote a former college professor or mine, work smarter, not harder. OK, so it's probably not an original saying from him, but it works. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail signatures revisited
Hi Guys I asked this some time ago, and I think Derek kindly offered a solution, however cannot lay my hands on it at the moment. I use 'cat fortune' to add a signature to the end of any email I compose. Is it possible to also use a .sig file as well as fortune, so I end up with the folowing, or similar: -- Mark Annandale Mandrake 9.2 - KMail 1.5.3 -- The sum of the Universe is zero. Thanks as always Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bit of humor to lighten things up
Thought this might lighten things up after all the subscription problems. http://media2.funnyjunk.com/pictures/0011.gif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
mwafkowski said: That article belongs in a rag such as the (US) National Inquirier...come one people. You're really not that bored?! Nope...please note the National Enquirer URL: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ and the URL for the article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.
Hi all, Because I have various flavours of windows installed selected using the NT/XP bootloader. I'd prefer to keep using it and just have one boot loader. Now I know how to add Linux to the NT boot loader, but how do I stop the MDK 9.2 installer from overwriting the boot sector on HDA? Any help gratefully received. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] [OT] found on the forums
Has anybody asked Mandrake? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: 08 November 2003 19:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] found on the forums On Saturday 08 November 2003 01:41 pm, Aronsmith wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.HImandrake.com/cd_distribution.php Mega cool __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com There was a big discussion in the Club forums about whether these guys are really partners of MandrakeSoft or whether they are just being sleazy and trying to make it look like they are. None of there agreements list Mandrakesoft as a actual signatory, although the descriptions represent that they are authorizing all of this. The discussion on the Club started because some guy that was selling the download edition on e-bay got his auctions yanked because himandrake represented themselves to ebay as the owner of the mandrake trademarks and copyrights. If this is a US based partner of MandrakeSoft that is enforcing an exclusive agreement, fine, but they could also be a sleazy outfit that is trying to profit off of Mandrake's good name. I am more inclined to think the latter because I don't see anywhere on the himandrake site where they state they are an official partner, and every place where they might say so, it refers only to himandrake or Heavy Industrial and there are no links to the MandrakeSoft or linux-mandrake websites. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of et Sent: 08 November 2003 20:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 How do I leave NT Boot loader. I don't do a thing, and tell lilo to boot from hda, you will get setup where lilo gives a choice called windows, and that will give you the NTbootloader, at least it works that way for me with win2kpro. of course when you get right down to it, I ain't sure where the NT bootloader sits. Yeah, but that will give me two boot loaders, if I can add Linux to the NT then I only have one Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
OK, I'm about to take the plunge and get my home PC on Linux (got a plan so that I can have my Linux, and the wife can use MS stuff until I can sell her on Linux: Separate hard drives in removable caddies! I have a slight problem though, and maybe the wizards here can steer me in the right direction. My home PC is three years old, with a PCChips system board. Well, I was cheap (near broke) when I got it, and cheaper now. The system board has all the devices on board: video, sound, NIC and modem. I can't find the book that came w/ the system board, so don't know really what model it is (well, I can probably use a part code from the board), but I remember last time I attempted Linux on this box (RH6, gave up out of frustration, and needed a system working faster than I was getting w/ RH), I couldn't find drivers for the devices (PCChips didn't and may still not support Linux). I am hoping I can find a utility that will identify the peripheral components that are in my computer, maybe by chipset so I can try to find appropriate Linux drivers that don't auto-detect at setup. Is there such a beast in existence? Any suggestions for me that can make this go smoothly? Aside from buy a new computer (unless someone wants to send me one free of charge, PC replacement is not in the budget...we kind of like eating you know, and the computer components are crunchy and bland! ;) Thanks for any help here. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?
Derek Jennings said: Things have changed since RH6 The chances of your chipset not being auto detected are very slight. If a driver exists for your hardware (and it almost certainly does) then it will be automatically installed. Linux is a *lot* easier than Windows to install :-) Thanks, Derek, I'll give it a run, this weekend (maybe). Whaddya mean Linux is a lot easier? Windows just takes over the computer and does...OHI see (LOL) easier to take control of your own installation! ;) And I was wondering why on my PC here at work I actually had to think about things when installing! N.B. Day, I will also download Knoppix to a disk and see what that does... maybe a more run-time type version of Linux could help me sell my wife on it. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO
Has anyone has any trouble installing via an ftp mirror? Aside from the need for a broadband connection, is there anything one should worry about? I've done that with Suse in the past, and it is through their list that I have found numerous mandrake FTP mirrors. They've pretty much got the planet covered. Mark - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO Pawel Nozderko wrote: I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it takes so long ? Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !! Do a google search for 9.2 iso's... Thats how I found it.. I found an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. 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] Redhat = traitors???
Ronald J. Hall said: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose Windows instead... Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said on Monday that although Linux is capable of exceeding expectations for corporate users, home users should stick with Windows: 'I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line,' he said... http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003110401326NWDTRH -- I think that some statements made in the article are right on. Now, don't shoot me for saying that. In the time since I started hearing about Linux (summer, '95) until I really took the plunge and started working with it (about a month or so ago), I have heard and read frequently about how Linux was sooo much better than any MS alternative. This, I won't dispute. However, there are some Linux advocates that will, without fail, push Linux as an all-purpose solution in every situation. Not necessarily true. Corporate/enterprise users generally have an established IT and support structure in place. Computers are often standardized to a common specification or set of specifications, so it is easier to create, deploy and support a standard desktop image. Home users do not have this luxury. Many want the computer to simply work. Most don't want to have to work to get the system to do what they want it to do. The 80s mentality of a computer user that it's OK to have to know something about the system is now the minority among computer users. The Macintosh and Windows are largely responsible for this situation. I am, and most on this list are, part of that minority. My wife is an example of the majority. I let her work on a laptop that only had Mandrake on it, and she was not happy. It didn't look like Windows, it didn't behave like Windows (similar, but not exactly...and she didn't get to the stability and all that, didn't give it sufficient chance), and I didn't (and still don't) know quite enough to get things to do just what she wants (give me time, and she will see a Linux system set just as she wants it, behaving as she should expect). Add to this mentality the often discussed and disparaged tendency of hardware makers targeting home consumers with budget hardware designed to defer to Windows and you have a configuration and driver headache. If the average home user had the mentality that it's good to know a little bit about how to configure their computer (beyond adding a theme, setting a screen saver, or arranging icons), and if the home user would not settle for the consumer grade computers they can pick up at Costco, Sears, Circuit City, or from Gateway and Dell for cheap, then the reality of Linux as a viable option on every desktop will be a reality. No, the guy from Red Hat is not a traitor. He's just being honest with expectations. Of course, I think most of us here would take less exception if he'd had said many home users or had similarly qualified his statement about Windows still being a more appropriate option for some. Just my two cents. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 PPC install video issue
I have an old world PowerMac 9600/200 MP running OS8.6 that I'd like to load 9.1 on. I can get through BootX, get it to see the CDROM and get it to load the installer, but the video is scrambled as soon as the installer starts. I've used the force-fbdev and every permuation of force video and no video options using vmlinuz and all.gz in bootX. All the same result. The monitor is an apple multiscan 15AV and I have tried a Sony multiscan 200 as well. I opened the box to see what's inside. Ive got an add on PCI video card that came with the machine instead of an integrated video like that on the 8600s. It is labeled Twin Turbo 128+ on the chip, Twin Turbo 128MA v3.7 on the video BIOS, and has an IBM Palette DAC. Also I've got 8 RAMs welded on, so I'm guessing it's a 4MB memory. Is there a video setting I can specify in the options that will work with this card so I can see straight? Thanks for any help Mark _ Surf and talk on the phone at the same time with broadband Internet access. Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LG CDRoms
HaywireMac said: how were they to know it was junk hardware? Cuz it cost = 20 dollars ;-) Since when was price indicative of quality? Compare price and quality in the software market (specifically desktop OS) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Where to post on reply
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Johan Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:36 AM To: Mandrake-newbie Subject: [newbie] Where to post on reply Hi, Have I missed a new rule about posting on reply (top - middle -bottom)??? I prefer top - why - when I open mail there already visible the reply. Maybe it just of preference. OK some require to post at the question when more then one question. Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 I believe it is preferred here, and even detailed in the list FAQ on Twiki that replies are bottom posted. The reason for this, ostensibly is so that the reader can read the reply in context to the question asked. Shortly after I began to follow this list, there was a series of list nazi posts reminding people to bottom, or at least inline, post their replies to the messages. Of course, some mail programs (blasted outlook) don't let you change the reply option to bottom post. Speaking of personal preference, I prefer the bottom post for general reply, inline for multiple point replies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Where to post on reply
HaywireMac correctly chastised me: Of course, you are also supposed to set your line wrap at less than 72 chars as well ;-) I repeat...blasted outlook (postin' from work, doncha know) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel compile problems
Running MDK9.1. Having a lot of problems recompiling. I need to recompile to get LIRC running, before anybody asks why I need to recompile... Steps I've taken so far: cd /usr/src/linux as root make mrproper make menuconfig switch the character devices setting under 16550 UART from built-in to Module Save the config file make dep, which gives a bunch of stuff then some errors about missing files and directories that used to exist for LIRC, OK, I removed them until the new LIRC source is downloaded. Last line is make: *** [dep-files] Error 2 Then, I run make clean, runs ok. Then, I run make bzImage, which runs for a couple seconds, then enters /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-13mdk/kernel, says No rule to make target modversions.h, needed by sched.o. Stop. Error 2. And that's it. Anyone know what could be causing this? I really need to compile this, if I'm going to get my PVR remote working Thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless LAN support in Mdk 9.2: Cisco Aironet?
Hi folks, hope you can help me out with this. I am running Mdk 9.1 on a Gateway Solo 9500 laptop. I have from my office a Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card. When I installed 9.1 on the laptop, I was unable to get the wireless card working (well, I was told I could flash it back to a previous firmware to make it work, but being a company asset, not my own, I'm leery to mess with it like that). Does anyone know if 9.2 will provide support for the Cisco Aironet card? In previous attempts to get this card working, I downloaded and installed it seems like half a dozen different PCMCIA and Cisco drivers, all to no avail. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Mark Kirschner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie-it] kernel
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[newbie] Procmail mangling my email headers, rendering Netscape Mail/Kmail useless.
Help! I just don't understand what is going on with my mail system. Let me explain. I have two users on my mail server, who access mail remotely, via IMAP I have been reconfiguring my mail lately, to begin incorporating filtering and virus detection. First I need to get the fetchmail/procmail system working correctly. I am doing the following: User mark, has a .fetchmailrc file in /home/mark, which is as follows: poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user xxx pass xxx is mark here nokeep mda '/usr/bin/procmail' This downloads the mail fine, prior to the incorporation of procmail, delivering mail to /var/spool/mail/mark which oddly enough, showed up under Inbox or inbox on my email programs. Still don't understand how it can rename files and such. I am using mbox format, which is a series of text files, one for each folder in the Email program. Procmail, which I just began to setup a couple days ago, which uses the /home/mark/.procmailrc file, which is below: # .procmailrc # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes # This line tells procmail where to look for other programs # it may need to function PATH=/usr/bin;/usr/local/bin # This line tells the location of your mailboxes. $HOME stand for # the users home directory. MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ # Not sure what this does but it's optional DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox # This line tells where to put the logfile LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log/procmail # This line defines the shell for procmail to run commands in SHELL=/bin/sh VERBOSE=yes # now for the formulas in the following format # :0 [flags] [:[lock-file]] # zero or more conditions # one action line # Put mail from MythTv mailing list in mailbox myth #:0: #* ^(From|Cc|To).*mythtv-users #$MAILDIR/mythtv # Lastly, add all remaining to default box :0: $DEFAULT I have the procmail filtering shut off, just to get this working. Procmail delivers the email to the /home/mark/mail/inbox file, but the Netscape and Kmail email MUA's do not show that mail has arrived, and in most instances will not read the file correctly. In the event I move the inbox file to a new file such has oldinbox, Netscape will read the new file, but without delineating the messages, it shows up as ONE big email with a subject of /home/mark/mail/oldinbox The headers of the mbox file appear to be changed by procmail. An old header is shown below: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 2 00:36:47 2003 -0400 X-UIDL: 2460106452283620 Received: by pop5.mx.blanked.net (mbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (with blanked.net's vgrpop Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:35:30) Received: from CLEOHSHUB03.etn.com (fwcout.eaton.com [xxx.104.67.8]) by mx8.mx.blanked.net (8.12.10/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h8PKlEYi040587 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:47:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cleohshub03.etn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id TTF0V7LD; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:43:48 -0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Shirley, Mark R [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: photoshop Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:47:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C383A6.2ED49780 Status: RO X-Status: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 2 00:36:47 2003 -0400 X-UIDL: 2460106452283620 Received: by pop5.mx.blanked.net (mbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (with voyager.net's vgrpop Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:35:30) Received: from CLEOHSHUB03.etn.com (fwcout.eaton.com [xxx.104.67.8]) by mx8.mx.blanked.net (8.12.10/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h8PKlEYi040587 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:47:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cleohshub03.etn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id TTF0V7LD; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:43:48 -0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Shirley, Mark R [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: photoshop Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:47:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C383A6.2ED49780 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 74 m [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 2 00:36:47 2003 -0400 X-UIDL: 2460106452283620 Received: by pop5.mx.blanked.net ( NOW, a new header generated after passing the emails through procmail is shown below: Received: from pop.blanked.net [xxx.93.66.170] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.1) for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail2.mx.blanked.net (mail2.mx.blanked.net [216.93.66.201]) by mx9.mx.voyager.net (8.12.10/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h9BIkVMt057795 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:46:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from blanked.net (d25.as0.chrl.mi.blanked.net [216.93.70.26]) by mail2.mx.voyager.net (8.12.10/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h9BIkTcY058621
Re: [newbie] Was: Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages, NOW: BIG Procmail problems
Well, I decided to make the mail system a little more orderly, and seem to have blundered into more trouble. I got the duplicate messages to stop by moving the cron job to get both user's emails to individual cron jobs run as each user, and a local $HOME .fetchmailrc, .procmailrc, .forward, etc. The trouble is, I have procmail sending forwarding my mail to the /home/user/mail mail directory, where it's supposed to put the mail into an mbox file, (Netscape default I believe) and it's downloading all my email into a big file that Netscape shows as a single email with a path for the subject, like this: /home/mark/mail/quarantine When I look at the structure of the old mbox file, and the procmail produced mbox file, I see that procmail has added some header information, but the From: tag is still there, so shouldn't it be properly handled by Netscape? The main issue I think is that I don't really understand how procmailrc files should work to update my mail files. Does anyone have a working .procmailrc, .forward files that use a standard Netscape/unix mbox format, so that I can copy it and hopefully get this thing working? I have to get this bit working prior to adding spamassassin and virus filtering for the other windows users on the network. Thanks for all the help so far, Mark Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:34 pm, Mark wrote: Ok, I'm running fetchmail --nokeep as a root cron hourly, and my /root/.fetchmailrc is as follows: poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is mark here nokeep poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is pauline here nokeep Try changing the lines to: poll mail.voyager.net with proto APOP user '' there with password '' is 'mark' here and etc. perhaps add a set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log at the beginning and then check the logfile after the cron job and then after running from the command line to see if you get a different set of results messages. You can also change the log mode to level 5 to get a complete history rather than just a summary. You can always remove the logfile if it helps you figure out what the problem is. If I log in as root, and just issue the command fetchmail, it gets and deletes messages. I copied the rc over to /etc/fetchmailrc, and it still does it. I am at a loss to explain this. My previous setup, a copy of MDK 6.0 running on nearly the same hardware, didn't do this. I download all messages for both email accounts to the server, then serve it via IMAP to several computers in the home. You may want to include the command you are using to run fetchmail from the cron job. It is possible that you need to specify the config file when run in that fashion, also that some path or other info is included in the shell script when you su to root but is NOT included when cron runs the job. 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] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages
Ok, I'm running fetchmail --nokeep as a root cron hourly, and my /root/.fetchmailrc is as follows: poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is mark here nokeep poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is pauline here nokeep If I log in as root, and just issue the command fetchmail, it gets and deletes messages. I copied the rc over to /etc/fetchmailrc, and it still does it. I am at a loss to explain this. My previous setup, a copy of MDK 6.0 running on nearly the same hardware, didn't do this. I download all messages for both email accounts to the server, then serve it via IMAP to several computers in the home. Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 12:43 am, Mark wrote: I checked, there was a blank /etc/fetchmailrc. I copied the info over, but I don't think if it was using that config file, it would have gotten ANY email at all. I didn't use fetchmailconf, as it didn't work, so I edited the file manually. I assume that you are still having the problem Can you post a copy of your fetchmailrc file (minus specific ids/passwords) and a copy of the cron command that you are using to call fetchmail? That might help trigger an epiphany for someone here. 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] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages
Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I can tell, the commands should use the same .fetchmailrc file, and the file has NOKEEP option turned on. I am at a loss to explain this. Thanks! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages
I checked, there was a blank /etc/fetchmailrc. I copied the info over, but I don't think if it was using that config file, it would have gotten ANY email at all. I didn't use fetchmailconf, as it didn't work, so I edited the file manually. Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 09:55 pm, Mark wrote: Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I can tell, the commands should use the same .fetchmailrc file, and the file has NOKEEP option turned on. I am at a loss to explain this. Thanks! It is possible that console is using the /etc/fetchmailrc file rather than /root/.fetchmailrc file which is probably what the cron job is using. You might want to check by making sure that both files, if they exist are identical to see if that fixes the problem. You can also specify the exact location of the config file as a parameter to the cron job command or build a script that does it for you. By default, webmin uses a /etc/fetchmailrc location for settings while fetchmailconf uses /root/.fetchmailrc. Not sure which one is used by fetchmail if you don't specify it. 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] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages
according to /var/log/messages, the cron job is opening as root at the right times. Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 09:55 pm, Mark wrote: Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I can tell, the commands should use the same .fetchmailrc file, and the file has NOKEEP option turned on. I am at a loss to explain this. Are you sure the cron job is running as root and using the same config file? 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] Samba vs LinNieghborhood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, I have my MDK 9.1 box connected to our Windows network here at work using Samba. From a windows box I can see my linux box on the network. Using Samba alone should I be able to browse the windows network? Currently I dont seem to be able to. If yes can I log onto the Windows network from my linux box and browse the network? If I can use Samba for that then what is LinNieghborhood used for? Thanks from a newbie. Scott Hi Scott, In order to browse the Windows network you would be using LinNeighborhood and Samba together. LN would use the SambaClient to access the negotiate the connection to the windows network. For this all that is necessary is to have the Samba-client package installed on your machine. LinNeighborhood would do the rest. Do you mean that once we install LinNeighborhood we can do all of that without the need for SWAT and WEBMIN? Thanx, ayoub890 something like that because all you need is the samba client and LinNeighborhood -- Mark If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless, Sharing is what makes them powerful. Registered Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Urgent !!!!! Error after installation reboot. Urgent!!!!!!!!
Budianto Yudi wrote: No i choose standard mouse. well ok... its your computer. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
