RE: [newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better
Hi Loved your email and sense of humour. Can't help you. Oh dear. -- Original Message -- My dear, dear fellows, I have a question which I would very much like answered thoroughly, extensively and possibly off-list to avoid generating excess traffic (this address is also on the Discordian egroup, and the postings of the two mix in a way inspired by Eris herself. The question is: what about audio software? (Yes, what about it?) Audio software. There is no need for me to start raving and ranting about how detestable a turd Microsoft WinThroes are; however, some very decent proggies were written for the platform. Cubase. Fruity Loops. ReBirth. Rubber Duck, which is my absolutely favourite TB-303 emulator. Kindly relate all the information you consider relevant - you would oblige me incredibly. I would really like to find out what noise one can make on a Linux box. Don't point me towards Macs and BeOS - I haven't got a bloody Mac, nor do I need one; BeOS runs black and white and horribly on my video card, and for this reason it, too, hardly deserves any of my attention at the moment; I'll consider it when I become obscenely rich and invest in a new box. So: audio software for Linux, please. All kinds. Http and ftp links to sites with rpms and cvs links a preference, but anything goes. Thanks in anticipation, and may the hodge and the podge be balanced in you all in the name of Eris and Saint Eddie Izzard, amen! Pope Mickey the 23rd, Zee Blue Rat Ov Kaos, Patron Saint Of All Runaway Eggdrops, Messenger of Discord, Offender Of The Faith.
RE: [newbie] Does any body know where i can download manuals for linux
Hi See the linux-mandrake.com site for electronic docs. Regards Ron -- Original Message -- Does any body know where i can download a manual for Mandrake Linux (or any other linux for that matter) Any help would be appreciated Thanks Brett Royles ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE?
Hi A suitable program is at: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ Regards, Ron -- Original Message -- Hi All, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed. How do I get a Windows to see my Linux drives? It really is not that important, but I would like to see them there. TIA! I think there is a package somewhere that allows you to read EXT2 partitions (Linux partitions) from within Windows. Not sure though. You might try finding it at www.tucows.com
RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download
Hi I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and had similar problems. Additional comments: (1) Ditch the Drake partitioner and use the non-free Partition Magic 5.X program instead. The Drake partitioner will not work properly with Quantum Fireball drives containing a FAT16/FAT32 partitions and obviously from the number of complaints on Mandrake lists, there are many other types of drives it will not work on as well. (2) KDE 2.0 is prone to crashes and too resource intensive. (Yes, I installed the final version.) (3) No matter what type of install is attempted, 7.2 will install non-system packages which were de-selected and not install other packages which were selected. (4) KDE2/this-kernel-version causes constant disk activity. (64MB RAM, swap 128MB). CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is totally ineffective to shut down a process gracefully! (5) USERDRAKE is clearly broken as are many others. (6) Many configuration scripts are broken. (7) The installation process needs very much work. There are a number of interesting ideas in 7.2 but they are just that: ideas which have been incompletely implemented. As an avid Mandrake 7.1 user I find this to be sad. Mandrake seems to have lost it's way: The Mandrake-Macmillan monopoly deal, Macmillan's non-support, Macmillan's different releases of 7.2 (Wallmart and so on). It is clear that the present Mandrake Management aim Mandrake at every type of user, anyone who can read their adverts and prod a keyboard, but who is the Mandrake distribution really suitable for? Mandrake Technical side clearly have their ideas which seem to conflict with the Mandrake Moneymen ideas. In short: In my opinion, 7.2 is not ready for novice users/Windows users and possibly too much trouble for even an expert to bother with. You can do a lot better Mandrake, but do you really want to? -- Original Message -- Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool bar at the bottom of the page and no icons at all. The K button is a penguin with Linux written in. Is all this normal with the downloaded 7.2 version? I realy like the look of the desk top in the tutorial. Not sure if I have a complete download or if my CDrom is giving up, cause I had several packages (16 in an attempt at expert/workstation install) that failed to install. Can't tell if that is the CD or the CDrom. Any suggestions are welcome. TIA Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download
Lucky you. -- Original Message -- What a load of BS. i downloaded the two iso cds from the mandrake site and instlaled them on my system and it works fine. no hiccups and no problems. everything i wanted installed and it runs better faster, and picks up more of my hardware then 7.1 ever did. - Original Message - From: "ron peake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download Hi I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and had similar problems. Additional comments: (1) Ditch the Drake partitioner and use the non-free Partition Magic 5.X program instead. The Drake partitioner will not work properly with Quantum Fireball drives containing a FAT16/FAT32 partitions and obviously from the number of complaints on Mandrake lists, there are many other types of drives it will not work on as well. (2) KDE 2.0 is prone to crashes and too resource intensive. (Yes, I installed the final version.) (3) No matter what type of install is attempted, 7.2 will install non-system packages which were de-selected and not install other packages which were selected. (4) KDE2/this-kernel-version causes constant disk activity. (64MB RAM, swap 128MB). CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is totally ineffective to shut down a process gracefully! (5) USERDRAKE is clearly broken as are many others. (6) Many configuration scripts are broken. (7) The installation process needs very much work. There are a number of interesting ideas in 7.2 but they are just that: ideas which have been incompletely implemented. As an avid Mandrake 7.1 user I find this to be sad. Mandrake seems to have lost it's way: The Mandrake-Macmillan monopoly deal, Macmillan's non-support, Macmillan's different releases of 7.2 (Wallmart and so on). It is clear that the present Mandrake Management aim Mandrake at every type of user, anyone who can read their adverts and prod a keyboard, but who is the Mandrake distribution really suitable for? Mandrake Technical side clearly have their ideas which seem to conflict with the Mandrake Moneymen ideas. In short: In my opinion, 7.2 is not ready for novice users/Windows users and possibly too much trouble for even an expert to bother with. You can do a lot better Mandrake, but do you really want to? -- Original Message -- Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool bar at the bottom of the page and no icons at all. The K button is a penguin with Linux written in. Is all this normal with the downloaded 7.2 version? I realy like the look of the desk top in the tutorial. Not sure if I have a complete download or if my CDrom is giving up, cause I had several packages (16 in an attempt at expert/workstation install) that failed to install. Can't tell if that is the CD or the CDrom. Any suggestions are welcome. TIA Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..
Hello In my experience diskdrake cannot do non-destructive partitioning. Somebody at Mandrake and/or Macmillan obviously agrees because PM and BM are included in one of the Macmillan 7.1 offerings. Ron John Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So Diskdrake can do a non destructive partitioning? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: An added note on PM. If you let the Mandrake installation create your Linux partitions then PM will see them all as 1 Type 85 partition and you will not be make any changes to the partitions using PM. You will instead need to use DiskDrake Charles - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size.. JohnThe Partition Magic CD (or the included CD that comes with some Linux distros that have PM included with their boxed set distro) comes with the ability to transfer the PM programs to a pair of floppies that boot and run the PM programs with an included version of DR DOS. You can then use PM on a Linux system by booting the system with these DR DOS/PM floppies. Alan John Catral wrote: Partition Magic has a Linux version?? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! Can I safely resize a partition in Linux? What software should I use then? I need to resize my partition (/home) so that I can use a virtual disk with VMWare. Thanks in advance =) Partition Magic is what I like best. I am not sure if DiskDrake wil retain the info on the disks.. Paul -- John M Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7113128 http://i.am/JohnCatral Registered Linux User #183190 -- John M Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7113128 http://i.am/JohnCatral Registered Linux User #183190 --
Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]
Hi Denis I thank heavens that I live in Finland and still have a choice from whom I can buy Mandrake-Linux! Regards, Ron On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Pre-ordering does not mean much, does it? Soon you will be able to buy 7.1 all over the place. BTW, McMillan now has exclusive rights on all english-speaking countries, so there will be no separate "Mandrake" and McMillan" products to confuse you anymore AFAIK. cu Denis :~What do the people at MandrakeSoft or MacMillan suggest? :~ :~"Whoops! I meant Michael, sorry Paul. :~ :~Paulwith or without docs you can pre-order 7.1 at: :~ :~http://www.LLand.com/products/ :~ :~Alan" :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk
Hi Dick I have experienced the same problem and in my case it resulted from letting Mandrake's Diskdrake 'fiddle' with the partitions created by Partition Magic. The only solution that I found was to let Nortons DiskDoctor fix the partition tables, then resize the partitions again using Partition Magic 4,01. Mandrake Sofware suggested in January or February of this year to use a later version of their Diskdrake program instead of the one which was in release 7,0. But in my PC, there was no improvement. So from my experience, Mandrake's program is still unable to alter vfat or even linux partitions safely, in a way which allows other operating systems such as DOS/Windows to also use them. Ron
Re: [newbie] Netware Client for Linux?
Hi Caldera Open Systems has a bindery-based client for Linux. Another version based on NDS is in the works but not yet available. Regards, Ron On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: Has anyone out there come across a Netware (Novell) client for Linux? Specifically a graphics driven one? Thanks Peter Smith = Peter Smith Group Technical Manager Milieutech plc c/o Unidata Australia (www.unidata.com.au) 40 Ladner St O'Conner West Australia 6163 Tel: + 61 89 3688600 Australian Mobile: +61(0)412271064 Fax: + 61 89 331 8611 VoiceMail/Personal Fax +61 892607641 __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] HELP
Hi For a start, you need to have a 3dFX card plus the latest 3DFX GLIDE for Linux installed. On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: could somebody please tell me how ot play unreal tournament in mandrake 7.0 i have the patch but cant use it Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] other free isp's
Hi And in Finland there are www.nic.fi, www.sirkus.com, www.keltainen.com and far too expensive local calls. Ron On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, you wrote: It's probably best putting your location (ie-your country) on postings like this. From my-admittedly short-knowledge of folks on this list, we come from a very wide variety of countries. In the UK we are over-run with free ISP's..heres one I'm using a bit http://www.uklinux.net/ Cheers Andy - Original Message - From: yeah right To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] other free isp's are there any other free isp's for linux i know any that you don't software for but everyone i have found needs software except for freewwweb which doesn't work in my area
Re: [newbie] Refreshment
Hi You need to change the type of monitor. If you have Mandrake 7.0 start up DrakConf as 'Root' user and select the Xconfigurator program. Regards, Ron On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote: How can I increase the refreshment from 70Hz to 85Hz of my screen? I try with XF86Setup without succed! Christian Fais ce que veux [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] HELP!! THE INSTALLATION DON'T WORK
Hi Check that you are using the correct com port. Ron On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hey!! Thank you... The installation work using the text mode The only fault now is the moden. I have a Motorola V90 56K and the installation work fine, but when I try initiate the message "moden is busy"appear... what happen? Regards = Antonio Luiz Oliveira de Noronha Nucleo de Estudos em Química Medicinal - NEQUIM Chemistry Departament - DQ Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG Belo Horizonte, MG __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] startup error
Hello Ken No you should not be worried if there are no error messages after the disk checking completes. Linux does not expect to be shutdown often. Regards, ron On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0, it is installed on /dev/hdb1. Every once in a while I get the following error when starting up. "/dev/hdb1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced." It then goes on and loads fine. It also operates fine. Should I be concerned about this? Ken Harbit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
Hello Jamey
In my opinion you are absolutely correct. I hope that you find
a more mature list.
Regards,
Ron
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I personaly bought linux- mandrake 6.5 about 2 weeks ago, and now I have a
pretty good idea what im doing. Sure i had to have some help and i greatly
appreciate those of you who helped me and didnt state rude remarks about
how stupid or retarded i was for trying a new OS, And i was over my head
with it, Youve got to start somewhere over/under in/out. The point of this
message was Thanks to all who helped without being a smart butt. And I didnt
want to unsubscribe because i was over my head in linux, it was because i am
tired of reading mail making fun of people who dont know what they are
doing, giving no help to them. I thought this was a "NEWBIE" mailing list
not one for those fortunate people who know linux in/out to make fun of us
newbies! I am sorry if i have offended anyone in any of the emails i have
posted.
- Original Message -
From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] unsubscribe
These people are probably not as 'switched' on as you state. They
bought into Linux chique and now find themselves in over their heads.
-Original Message-
From: Des Wass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: December 31, 1999 12:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
This is purely just a passing thoughtbut maybe list listserver could
do
with a tag line pointing people to the website to unsibscribe or
explaining how
to unsubscribe.
While some complain it too hard to unsubscribe and that they don't have
time, I
find it frustrating to be deleting mail from people who are obviously
switched on enough to try learning this wonderful OS, yet don't give a
rats
about how simple a mailing list works.
Maybe something like:
###
To unsubscribe: Please go to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
###
Just my 2c worth.
(There's a typo on the header for Developer's BTW, if anyone is
listening...)
On 31/12/99, Singer XJ Wang said:
Because you are a DUMB retard who subscriibed and does not know how to
UNSCRIBE. go to mandrake web page and READ THE FUCKING MANUAL
-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 7:45 AM
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Subject: [newbie] unsubscribe
UNSUBSCRIBE Please!!
How can this be so hard?
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Re: [newbie] Updating netscape ver. 4.7
Hello Howard You can also use KPACKAGE which comes with KDE instead of the REDHAT package manager. When you start the program it will check your disk for all installed packages and list them for you. Select the packages to be uninstalled one at a time with your mouse and select the UNINSTALL option button in the KPACKAGE program screen. There are 2 versions of Netscape 4.7, Communicator (browser plus more programs) and the browser only version. The difference in size may be a consideration if downloading by modem at your own expense. The 'netscape-common-4.70-1mdk' package is used by both versions of Netscape and you will need to install it first. Regards, Ron Howard Lee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I had to uninstall the older version of Netscape communicator (4.6) before I could install the new version. Suggest you use the REDHAT package manager to uninstall. Regards, Ron Howard Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi guys, I tried to update my netscape to ver. 4.7 (by clicking on update icon on the desktop), and it fetched the package but when it tried to installed it, it said "compat-libs" is needed by netscape-common-4.70-1mdk". Where can I get this compat-libs? Thanks. Howard Ilmainen Internet @ http://www.nic.fi/ Ron, Thanks for the help. Where can I get this REDHAT package manager? Sorry I'm new to Linux. I'm using Mandrake Linux by the way. Thanks! Howard
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake boot problem
Hi Gerry Exactly the same thing happened to me. The magazine states that this is a 'cut-down' distribution to fit on the CD and I guess that something was left out. I bought a 'Cheap-Bytes' Mandrake 6.1 CD and the installation on the same PC went without a problem. Did you try to install it from Windows incidentally according to the pictures? But it makes no difference if you boot from DOS and run \DOSUTILS\AUTOBOOT from the cdrom. Regards, Ron FreeNet wrote: I've installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 from PC Answers CD-Rom. After booting I get the "local host:login" prompt but cannot log in. I've tried root password to no vail. Is there a special login password? Regards Gerry Cook
Re: [newbie] please reply to this address ONLY
Hello If that is the only error message that you get with Netscape do not worry about it. The program maybe expects 16 bit colour and you have set the system up at another colour depth. Regards, Ron Drake VonKarloff wrote: Hello all~ I'm new here, and new to Mandrake, but don't have the time to keep checkin all the messages or delete them all. I just need a quick (hopefully) answer for the following problem: I installed Linux Mandrake (yes, a REAL new newbie) and have had one major problem: My Netscape comes up with a 'color setting not correct' message. It says to check something; I don't have the EXACT words here at the moment (I'm on a different machine), but I CAN look them up IF anyone has any clue as to what to do. I also have a second problem with my e-mail configuration in the Netscape Messenger client due to this same problem; every time I click 'check mail', it comes up with the 'color setting' message as it does in Navigator/Communicator. Please help if you can. thanks all! ~Dan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
