Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:49, WauloK wrote: Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) Now you can get back into IRC and tell'em how great having TWO resources for Mandrake issues is, eh? (g) YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] New Kernel installation.
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 01:10, Gonzalo Mdk wrote: Hi all, i'm new to this list (I usually use the expert) because i think this Q doesn't qualify for the expert list. I have a laptop (doesn't have a brand, is assembled in a place here in Chile) that has ACPI support, but when i recompile the kernel with acpi support (i have 2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB) it doesnt work. (gives me the following line: No ACPI support in kernel, or incorrect acpi_path (/proc/acpi). So i want to know where can i download a kernel that is for mandrake, like, is there a place for downloading the kernel 2.6.11mdk (or something like that), the newest version, so i can use the WIFI also. Hope you can give me some directions Salu2 Gonzalo Avaria ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk.i586.rpm If you download/install the sources, you should be able to recompile the kernel without much hassle. HTH. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions. - Thomas Jefferson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:26, WauloK wrote: Hi. I'm trying to set up my XF86Config. I've tried entering the data from a Modelines generator website, but it doesn't seem to be using the entered info. If I look at the OSD of the monitor at the moment it says: 44.1kHz / 55.0Hz It's in 1152x864 The Horizontal Freq range: 30 - 70 The Vertical Freq range: 50 - 160 The Modeline I got from the generator is: Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 111.72 1152 1184 1608 1640 864 880 891 908 The website I got the info from says my Pixel clock is 110MHz but the generator suggested 111.72 If I just use the Control Panel to set the resolution to 1024x768 and I start up, it's running at 70Hz. The maximum freq is 85Hz in this mode (confirmed in XP). If I use the default Modelines as Mandrake created when I installed it and run at 1152x864 I get about 70Hz when the maximum is 75Hz. Any cluebats? I had thought that either vern or moonie resolved this issue in ##mandrake this afternoon - reckon not, eh? Have you tried to manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Conf to initiate these changes? YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- An antique that seems too good to be true, probably is. -- Kathy Lee's Dictum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles ctrl-alt-F7 or ctrl-alt-F8 -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:27, Charles Rodgers wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles ctrl-alt-F7 or ctrl-alt-F8 Thanks Stephen, Yes I did try that, but I just get a blank screen. Any more suggestions? Charles As was suggested before, you might want to check to see if the /etc/inittab was modified = runlevel 3 is console login, runlevel 5 is GUI login = if the default is changed to 3, change it to 5 and reboot; as well, if you just want to start X, type: startx -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Nobody takes a bribe. Of course at Christmas if you happen to hold out your hat and somebody happens to put a little something in it, well, that's different. -- New York City Police Commissioner (Ret.) William P. O'Brien, instructions to the force. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:42, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? Thanks in advance, Paul Why not something fun? http://speculativevision.com/arcade/tailgunner/tailgunner.html -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone. -- Stanislaw Lem, Cyberiad Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:30, mike wrote: I know this is actually a no...no... but sometimes I get these emails meant for a windows box with attachments like joker.exe or whatever. Anyways I dont open the attachments, but I view the message source just to see what it looks like. I know :-| killed the cat. I did not ever have a problem until today I got 2 of them and each time I viewed them X died with client killed. So I copy them to a file and view them there with an editor. Ok no problem so I open up my browser and do a search on some of particulars like subject and attachments. I whined up at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/ at a developers forum and see a similar message there. I'm scrolling it in mozilla browser and it kills X again. What is happening? is viewing the text document in browser executing some kind of java exploit? Should I report this to Source forge? Or am I compromized, I ran chkrootkit and results were negative (nothing showed up). Thanks Mike Check your mail preferences and make sure that you only view the messages at TEXT instead of HTML = that is where the problem lies. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: Ahh... thanks Steven. Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. Again thanks, Mike Not quite sure in Mozilla Mail - but it's there somewhere. If it was Evolution I could tell you right off the bat... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Use a pun, go to jail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:36, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been asked to remind everyone that there is an IRC channel for Mandrake, on Freenode. It was #mandrake, but is now ##mandrake. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm told it is a good place to try when you need urgent help. Anne Thank you, Anne; and yes, on the Freenode servers, there is ##mandrake, #lfd (LinuxForDummies), #mandrake-offtopic - amongst others. Being an op on ##mandrake I have to say that it IS quite a nice place to find an answer to a question fairly quickly, and the group of folks that populates the channel - ops and users - are more than friendly and more than helpful - and I'm not saying that just because I'm an op there, it's because I've learned quite a bit from just watching (listening) over the past several years. Joining #mandrake will instantly forward you to ##mandrake - so it's not a typo! Hope to see some of y'all drop on by! YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:52, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I am experiencing a very weird thing when I try to make urpmi.update, because I am at work I cannot make an update with the CD's in the drive, anyway, I have commented those rows out and just have Charles site left as a media, but when I do the urpmi.update I get the errormessage: The entry to update is missing (one of eslrahc) but it is present in urpmi.cfg and also there is no problem using the urpmi-command. I am stumped /Anders Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- When you go out to buy, don't show your silver. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange thing when I try to make urpmi.update
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:03, Anders Lind wrote: Why not remove ALL media, then re-add Charles site...?? Thanks Stephen, it could have worked LOL, now I get this error...when Charles have the time, maybe you could help me [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.elsrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz added medium eslrahc retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of eslrahc... http://www.elsrahc.com/10.1/hdlist.cz retrieval of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium eslrahc examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.eslrahc.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium eslrahc unable to update medium eslrahc [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# /Anders Could be that his site is down? Have you tried to manually connect to his site and get the list? (either via web or ftp)? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -- Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Boot manager
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake.com] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2005 16:35 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot manager On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:09, Teilhard Knight wrote: Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. Teilhard. Grub ? If not, acronis do a nice bootmanager (you need windows on to install it though) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake
Is it an actual server or just a desktop machine? Either way, some indication as to what motherboard it contains should point us/you in the right direction for graphics card. Open the side panel off (if feasible) and look for any model numbers on the board. Best of luck! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isak Lyberth Sent: 04 April 2005 22:24 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake I have not found out what card it is, maybe someone else here knows which it is? it is anoying as the installation was the graphical one, and it looked fine. regards H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg.This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way ofadministrating the server. What means do i have?(the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with somenew onboard graphics chipset. It has a PCI Express card which i do notintend to use. I might go looking for a PCI graphics card, but untill ifind one i need to fix things through some other tool, what to use?Regards Isak Use framebuffer i.e. fbdev as a driver...that should work for almost all cardswhat is the card, anyway?If all fails (how did you install?) try using another box and connect with that using ssh (mandrake has X forwarding enabled by default) and start your gui app remotely. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 01-04-2005
RE: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Angus Auld Sent: 04 April 2005 11:10 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively - Original Message - From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Firewall for allowing ports selectively Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:15:01 +0100 Dear All Is there some firewall (working through iptables) able to open selectively a port for a specific program and not to all programs installed? (Shorewall is not suitable for that purpose.) Thanks in advance, Paul ** Paul, shorewall can do what you desire. Go to; mcc security firewall, and click on the advanced radio button on the bottom. That will open up an area where you can specify special ports to open. HTH. Best regards. --Angus * I'm sorry Paul, I didn't read your post carefully enough. Shorewall doesn't have the facility to do as you requirejust as you noted. :-) Best regards. --Angus I do belive this is being discussed in some context in the expert list as well? Might be worth joining to follow the thread. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy server, with some new onboard graphics chipset. It has a PCI Express card which i do not intend to use. I might go looking for a PCI graphics card, but untill i find one i need to fix things through some other tool, what to use? Regards Isak You have several choices here. * Webmin - uses a web browser to administer the box * VNC - You can have an X session running on the server that you can access from a client machine (no matter what OS the client is) * SSH - Tunnel into the machine and perform your duties. I personally prefer to use Webmin and VNC to administer several boxes here - not that they don't have un-supported video cards, but because of the lack of monitors and keyboard (and space). Works like a champ. As well, with doing updates/upgrades, SSH does just nicely. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. -- Chenoeh: Conversations with Leto II Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:50, Derek Jennings wrote: It seems that by disabling Javascript in acroread and applying this patch we can stop acroread spying on us. Of course a better solution is to stop using acroread. I tried out the patch. It seems to work. derek I just don't like anyone spying on me, nor my reading of PDF documents, nor anything else. Just as with DRM, I find it an awful breach of privacy - et al. Xpdf and Gpdf have been useful enough and more than adequate for my tastes - and as Adobe enters the arena of gleaning personal information, that only causes me to build a further dislike of their products and services. IMHO. Oh, and Derek, quit spying on me. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- He may have come up with the recipe, but I came up with the idea of charging $6.95 for it. -- Moe Syzlak Flaming Moe's Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 10:25, Derek Jennings wrote: I gave up spying on you when you started sitting at your terminal naked. Now if only Anne and Margot would stop... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Leela: I love his boyish charm, but I hate his childishness. 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 Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:56, Hugh Dixon wrote:
[JDOW] April Fools has existed since the days of the Roman Empire.
{^_-}
Did the Romans get to Brazil?
Where do you think the Brazilians came from? Rome had been there.
Etruscans had been there. Phoenicians had been there. Egyptians had been
there. The Atlanteans had been there, the Polynesians had been there.
Needless to say, though, I have inside information that Josenildo
actually runs IBM OS/2 Warp4 and he's been pulling everyone's leg from
the beginning of this annual exercise - just to get at Anne.
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Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:35, Simon wrote: I am running the following cron job: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 I get the following message : Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 .. /bin/sh: line 1: mail: command not found Any ideas how to get the mail command to work? TIA, Simon. You want to have absolute paths in that script: /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /usr/bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Rkhunter Check 21 -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Wear Apple/Macintosh garb to show the world that we're not crawling into holes and dying. -- Guy Kawasaki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking the Internet activity
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 05:24, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of seeing the Internet activity, i.e., the number of the connections and the implied programs? Thanks in advance, Paul urpmi iptraf ...also trafshow, etherape, ethereal, nessus... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Morbo: Morbo demands an answer to the following question. If you saw a delicious candy in the hands of a small child. Would you seize and consume it? John Jackson: Unthinkable. Jack Johnson: I wouldn't think of it. Morbo: What about you Mr. Nixon? I remind you. You are under of a truth-o-scope. Nixon: Question is vague. You don't say what kind of candy and whether anyone is watching. In anyway I certainly wouldn't harm the child. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:15, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... If you didn't get the punchline, Joe, I reckon it's time you, er, nevermind. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... Oh, I forgot all about this. Uh, okay, punchline: both classes need the mule Julie, we're dealing with JoeHill here. THAT in itself would require that you explain the joke - from top to bottom - with foot notes, 8x10 full colour glossy photos with notes scribbled on the back of each explaining what each 8x10 full colour glossy photo was... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- We the Users, in order to form a more perfect system, establish priorities, ensure connective tranquility, provide for common repairs, promote preventive maintenance, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our processes, do ordain and establish this Software of The Unixed States of America. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. -- Fran Lebowitz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:20, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 07:02 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? I second that dang. So that would be a Dang Dang. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I exist, therefore I am paid. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 03:07, Julie Sloan wrote: Last time I saw a happy Kiwi he was standing by the fence of a sheep station with all the sheep backed up to the fence...(bad bad bad joke) Shouldn't that be baaa-d baaa-d joke? I stand corrupted. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- 18. where did you say those backup tapes were kept? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 04:23, Julie Sloan wrote: I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some lurker doesn't, there's the link. I may not be pestering y'all with questions for a while. I'm busy reading. Dang. Didn't know they taught reading in Kentucky. (http://linuxfordummies.org) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 09:27, Julie Sloan wrote: Dang. Didn't know they taught reading in Kentucky. (http://linuxfordummies.org) They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken. (Hogfather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] VNC for Mandrake?
Anyone know how to setup a VNC server for mandrake? I have it working on my suse9.2 box, but I just cant seem to fathom it out (suse did provide me with a easy way to install it L ). Running mandrake 10.1 3-cd version. Need vnc access only from local network, and either via a js-based plugin for a webpage (a-la suse) or using tightvnc for windows (or something similar) I did a google for it but could onl pull up limited information that basically made no sense L TIA, Stephen Registered Linux User : 381893 Register now at : http://counter.li.org/ Sent by freemail.servebeer.com Signup for your free 100mb Mail account today! Full pop3/smtp accounts available!!
RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: 17 March 2005 23:13 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake? Stephen Furlong wrote: Anyone know how to setup a VNC server for mandrake? I have it working on my suse9.2 box, but I just cant seem to fathom it out (suse did provide me with a easy way to install it L ). Running mandrake 10.1 3-cd version. Need vnc access only from local network, and either via a js-based plugin for a webpage (a-la suse) or using tightvnc for windows (or something similar) I did a google for it but could onl pull up limited information that basically made no sense L TIA, Stephen You might want to install the tightvnc-server package. (urpmi tightvnc-server) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! [quote] unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium Installation DVD (cdrom1) eject: unable to find or open device for: `/dev/hdd' Please insert the medium named Installation DVD on device [/dev/hdd] Press Enter when ready... medium Installation DVD (cdrom1) is not selected [/quote] Take it removing the dvd-rom drive used to install mandrake wasn't a good idea :( Care to point me in the right direction? Ive dumped the rpm in a folder on the machine, and am currently only able to install via the command-line input in webmin. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: 17 March 2005 23:42 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake? Stephen Furlong wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: 17 March 2005 23:13 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake? Stephen Furlong wrote: Anyone know how to setup a VNC server for mandrake? I have it working on my suse9.2 box, but I just cant seem to fathom it out (suse did provide me with a easy way to install it L ). Running mandrake 10.1 3-cd version. Need vnc access only from local network, and either via a js-based plugin for a webpage (a-la suse) or using tightvnc for windows (or something similar) I did a google for it but could onl pull up limited information that basically made no sense L TIA, Stephen You might want to install the tightvnc-server package. (urpmi tightvnc-server) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! [quote] unable to retrieve pathname for removable medium Installation DVD (cdrom1) eject: unable to find or open device for: `/dev/hdd' Please insert the medium named Installation DVD on device [/dev/hdd] Press Enter when ready... medium Installation DVD (cdrom1) is not selected [/quote] Take it removing the dvd-rom drive used to install mandrake wasn't a good idea :( Care to point me in the right direction? Ive dumped the rpm in a folder on the machine, and am currently only able to install via the command-line input in webmin. TIA rpm -ivh rpm name Also, to stop this problem from happening in the future, you may want to run urpmi.removemedia -a if the CD's are the only media, or run urpmi.removemedia cdrom1, urpmi.removemedia cdrom2, etc to remove the CD-ROM sources. You can use urpmi.addmedia to add in web sources and/or sources on the local network. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- Right, step one done :) rpm -ivh tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## tightvnc-server ## (ignore line breaks) So how do I configure the server now? Had a quick look on tightvnc's webpage, and the suggested vncserver command pulls up a sh: line 1: vncserver: command not found error It is installed, webmin see's it as an installed rmp. Am I missing something simple? Or do I need to write a config file? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake?
Also don't know if this makes any difference, but when I try to start the vnc server, im getting an error saying that Xvnc is stopped. Which is strange since I cant seem to find where to start it :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: 18 March 2005 00:31 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake? On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:03 pm, Stephen Furlong wrote: Right, step one done :) rpm -ivh tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## tightvnc-server ## (ignore line breaks) So how do I configure the server now? Had a quick look on tightvnc's webpage, and the suggested vncserver command pulls up a sh: line 1: vncserver: command not found error Well, line 1 of the vncserver startup script says #!/usr/bin/perl, so I would guess that perl is not installed. 'urpmi perl' Also, you have a choice to run vncserver as a service, or as a user. Run it as a service, so it automatically starts on reboot and is always available, by editing /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and then doing 'service vnc start' The other option is to just run it as user and this is nice if you don't want it running all the time by just typing vncserver as a user. It will use the default desktop or the desktop specified in ~/.desktop, which is what I do because I run flux in my vnc sessions, but KDE as a local user. -- /g - Ok, im assuming ive got perl installed as im semi-working. I can now start the vncserver service, and its running successfully. But wheni go to connect using tightvnc for windows I just get a grey box with the big black X as my mouse pointer. Argh I feel im almost there!!! Woujldnt mind but ill probably only use it 4/5 times in my life! 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 Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson 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 Thanks for that link. Looks just what I need to learn by doing projects. Rosemary One of the greatest means by which to learn is to attack your own linux box. Do things with it. Turn it into a mail server. Turn it into a webserver. A database server. Learn how to create backup scripts. Learn how to play with crontab entries and do things on schedule. Create simple scripts to do simple things. It's all good. Play with different window managers and desktops. Play with themes. Learn about burning different types of CD's. Ripping different kinds of CD's. Using different media players - the list goes on. It's a great learning experience and never be afraid to experiment. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake?
(ignore the top-post, I too am too tired tonite :() Ok basically im more of an intermediate when it comes to linux. I don't mind a bit of command-line work though I am usually just following FAQ's/HOWTO's when doing so, and learning from such experiences. Im really hoping I could get a fully-working VNC into this server, as its how I R-admin my other linux server (a suse box) and it means I get to user linux more whilst still running my windows os (keeps he missus happy, she don't like linux, and the littl'un loves his games lol). So its not a necessity, as I have webmin installed and working fine so I can do most of what I need to do from there (install apps/configure apache/samba, so on and so forth) So its more convenience. Client machine is a winxp pro box, using tightvnc's own windows app. And I think that's about it really. Im just puzzled as it worked straight out of the box with suse, but it isn't with mandrake (a bit off-putting in my eyes, as my suse disks are eying me up atm lol) but im after trying out a different distro to see how stable it is for server applications. Anyhow, TIA to any more replies and thanks for the help so far :) ive at least got my vnc proggie to connect, now I just got to figure out why I cant hit a login screen. Stats of server - Amd t/bird 1.3ghz 128mb ram (ouch I know, but it runs!!) 30gb hdd g-force MX-2 AGP VGA Mandrake 10.1 (downloadable DVD version, not pro version) tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm KDE3 point something (did updates this morning, cant remember which point something it is, but it works locally fine) Ask if you need anything more info wise :) Stephen PS Again, sorry for top-post --- Sent by freemail.servebeer.com Signup for your free 100mb Mail account today! Full pop3/smtp accounts available!! --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson Sent: 18 March 2005 01:03 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake? Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:03 pm, Stephen Furlong wrote: Right, step one done :) rpm -ivh tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## tightvnc-server ## (ignore line breaks) So how do I configure the server now? Had a quick look on tightvnc's webpage, and the suggested vncserver command pulls up a sh: line 1: vncserver: command not found error Well, line 1 of the vncserver startup script says #!/usr/bin/perl, so I would guess that perl is not installed. 'urpmi perl' Also, you have a choice to run vncserver as a service, or as a user. Run it as a service, so it automatically starts on reboot and is always available, by editing /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and then doing 'service vnc start' The other option is to just run it as user and this is nice if you don't want it running all the time by just typing vncserver as a user. It will use the default desktop or the desktop specified in ~/.desktop, which is what I do because I run flux in my vnc sessions, but KDE as a local user. I should also add that if you do not have a window manager installed, you are going to have problems when starting VNC. I am not thinking real well today - I should have asked you what you are trying to do, instead of just helping you do what you are asking. (This is the newbie list, after all...) Do you want to be able to administer this machine remotely, run programs on this machine controlled/displayed on a remote machine, or what? Also, what OS will the other machine be running? Are you comfortable doing things from the command line on the server? Or do you want the GUI interface? As with most things in Linux, there is more then one way to do the same thing, and the best option for you may not be the one you think it is... 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
Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:14, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've installed k3b and would like to have a desktop shortcut as it is not listed in my menus (that I have found yet). I can start it okay from command line, but thought there has to be another way. I found instructions to right click on desktop and enter path in link to application. The problem is that I do not know what the path is. k3b is in /usr/bin so I simply tried entering that which was no good. The example in the insrtuctions doesn't bear any resemblance to me, to my want/need. Thanks Rosemary If you installed via the urpmi sources, then you SHOULD be able to find it under SYSTEM = ARCHIVING = CD BURNING = K3B .and you can literally drag/drop it onto the desktop IF, perchance, it is NOT in your menus, open a term as root, and run: update-menus You MAY have to logout and back in again... HTH -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions, which have been similar throughout the ages. One such condition is a permanent state of alertness to ward off attack. Another is the rule of the autocrat. -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall of Unjust Governments Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:26, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Please ignore my first post. I went back to google and found another set of (easier for me as a newb) instructions. Have my icon, it works, and I am happy. cheers Rosemary Ah, but Grasshopper - are you TRULY happy...? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:46, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Wednesday 16 Mar 2005 22:30, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:26, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Please ignore my first post. I went back to google and found another set of (easier for me as a newb) instructions. Have my icon, it works, and I am happy. cheers Rosemary Ah, but Grasshopper - are you TRULY happy...? Ah well - as Carl Sandburg says ... and sometimes you weep. But I AM happy that I got the icon sorted :-) Rosemary Last time I saw a happy Kiwi he was standing by the fence of a sheep station with all the sheep backed up to the fence...(bad bad bad joke) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Professor Farnsworth: Oh my, that steamed carrot was a bit spicy for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:02, Graham wrote: Stephen you are one sick puppy! keep up the good work - we need your acerbic wit to keep us sane regards Graham Someone's gotta fill in the spots that Aron, ET and Joe miss. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Moe: What did you give your wife for Valentine's Day? Joe: The usual gift -- she ate my heart out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X Compile Error
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 01:31, JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.3c]# I had this last year, and someone helped me out but I cant remember how I did it! Help! Many thanks, James Make sure you have the development libraries installed and you should be right. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:09, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to KookieJar for Windows. Thank you, I use the fortunes database for my random sigs; echo --br echo stephen kuhnbr echo mobile: 0410-728-389br echo illawarra and regional new south wales echo ---br echo GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternativesbr echo 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option.br echo Registered Linux User # 267497br echo ---br fortune -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- People don't change; they only become more so. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I need to know how much traffic i get on a net interface
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 04:45, Ivo Perich wrote: I need to know how much traffic (in bytes) i have on a net interface and the IP's where they came from, something like this: eth0: IPBytes 192.168.1.3 1234134 192.168.1.4 356734 192.168.1.5 1354235 eth1: 10.1.1.3 52345243 10.1.1.4 342433 etc... there is a software that can do this? Thanks, and forgive my poor english. Ivo urpmi iptraf -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick. [so say said sentence sextuply...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] workgroup
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:28, Duncan Anderson wrote: The other newbie way is to install the drakwizard package and then use the Configure Samba wizard from MCC. cheers Duncan Erg...that's WAY too easy...gotta be more cryptic than that...(grin) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an A-item to a B-item. So friends, that was it : forget about software development in Europe. Kaj Haulrich. That is completely ridiculous. Hell is going to break loose and there are going to be heaps of very mad folks. I don't think they'll get away with it. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Lighten up, while you still can, Don't even try to understand, Just find a place to make your stand, And take it easy. -- The Eagles, Take It Easy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well Stephen, the on-line communities here are glowing with rage already and the upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution faces even harder resistance. Kaj Haulrich. I think a BIG STINK is about to hit the world - especially with good ol'Microsoft becoming a larger beast than what was once thought. Bear in mind that once the media gets a hold of Microsoft swaying government/courts again, it's going to be a media circus. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very reassuring to know that it's still there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 20:23, Al wrote: I also have a KVM switch. I use CTRL CTRL F2 to switch between computers. CTRL CTRL F1 sets auto scan and it switches every 4 seconds for me too. To switch off auto-scan, I just have to hit CTRL CTRL HTH Al I have a strange feeling that Mr. Aron and Mr. Bourbon shook hands way too many times and he inadvertently mucked up the key-combos...it HAS happened before - but for something completely different... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Individualists unite! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:28, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 22 February 2005 6:39 pm, Chris wrote: Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a windows version they'd give MS some competition. http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html Kinda looks like MS wants the world to embrace Longhorn, and love that the processor will be checking for only MS Certified Software on their machines. Rob It's only marketing - M$ CAN NEVER stop attacks against them. They can only use F.U.D. to make it appear as though they CAN... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Q: How do you catch a unique rabbit? A: Unique up on it! Q: How do you catch a tame rabbit? A: The tame way! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Xfce4 user login broken
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 06:47, Margot wrote: When I try to login to Xfce4 as user, either from the login manager or by using 'startxfce4' from a terminal, I get a few seconds of the Xfce 'mouse' (or is it meant to be a rat?) logo flashing, and then I just get the blue screen with the Mandrake logo. As normal user, I can log into KDE with no problem - but I'd rather not have to! Doing 'startxfce4' as root works fine - but of course I'm then logged in as root! Because it works as root but not as a normal user, and KDE is not affected, I assume that it is something in my Xfce user config that is broken, not Xfce itself. I'm sure there must be some way to fix this, but I'm not sure where to start. Everything was fine yesterday, but not working when I rebooted this morning. [I blame the cat - attempting sneaky overnight downloads of 'kitty porn' must have corrupted a file somewhere!] Margot, Login as root, cd into your USER home dir, rename the .cache directory, then logoff, and try logging in again with XFce... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. -- Benjamin Disraeli, British PM, on dealing with the Royal Family Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html Er...that's kinda old news mate...you should have been able to see that from the beginningeh? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- One thought driven home is better than three left on base. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:34, rikona wrote: Perhaps, but the number of PO'd people is relatively small, and M$ really doesn't have to worry about them too much. They are extending their political (and media) influence a lot, and that may be more effective in keeping 'the linux enemy' at bay. In another era, the M$ solution would be to send the PO'd people off to the gas chambers. I think we'll be hearing more bad stuff, especially when longhorn arrives. Bend over, and get ready for the long horn. :-)) There is a growing angst towards M$ - and I'm getting to see it on the streets. Many small biz owners and home owners (from 35 and above) are getting sick of the constant cycle of upgrading. I just finished building a brand new system (P4 3.0ghz + 1gb RAM) for a psychologist customer; after all was said and done, the machine happily at his home, he was surprised that XP didn't fly like he expected it to. I explained to him the bloat, the bad construct - which he did understand. He was rather happy with running his biofeedback applications through Win98 which DID fly - but lo and behold, Win98 drivers do not exist for his laptop, office machine and home machine, so it's effectively useless. The folks that build his applications have forced him to upgrade as well. After explaining further about the future - Longhorn - and it's hunger for even MORE higher end hardware and the likes, I showed him my ever present bootable liveCD of Knoppix and Ubuntu - which DID fly quite well. Ah. Even on the laptop, it flew. He likes the idea of running either the new Win4Lin or VMWare - as long as the hardware is accessible. He also likes the fact that no longer would have have to shell out heaps for WinXP and other associated applications. One time one off. He's not the only one. I have a heap of customers that are sick of their machines being down or useless due to bugs/virus/trojans/spyware...the only think keeping them down is their teenagers who are hooked on things like MSN and the likes...(GAIM does still have a way to go). I'm hoping that by the time Longborn hits the streets, I'll have a nice comfy permanent job somewhere in a linux/unix environment. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- David Letterman's Things we can be proud of as Americans: * Greatest number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO * Many newspapers feature JUMBLE * Hourly motel rates * Vast majority of Elvis movies made here * Didn't just give up right away during World War II like some countries we could mention * Goatees Van Dykes thought to be worn only by weenies * Our well-behaved golf professionals * Fabulous babes coast to coast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:43, Aron Smith wrote: I'm hoping that by the time Longborn hits the streets, I'll have a nice comfy permanent job somewhere in a linux/unix environment. Spoken like a True Lord of the Drunken Penguins Er...I thought we were The Knights of the Drunken Penguin? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 03:34, et wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:01 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: whack I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. -- cmg maybe we should take a round of thanks on the other lists that so greatly benifit from Mark Weaver's hosting of the OT list but let's do that ON the OT list (too) How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses in there) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. -- Blake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:16, Amy wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses in there) -- stephen kuhn /me wanders into the IRC channel, and looks around. Not much to see this morning, eh? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. -- Vannevar Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:52, JoeHill wrote: Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:57, JoeHill wrote: Just tryin' to impart some good ol' Canuck wisdom on them thar 'mericans, as per usual. Futile effort, I know, but there's a fine line between hope and delusion, eh? You really DO enjoy futility, don't ya kiddo? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma Bombeck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:03, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 Feb 2005 12:53, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 04:50, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:36 pm, Michael Davis wrote: Can somebody give me a link or something to sign up to the Off-topic list? :-/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to bring your asbestos underware ;-) And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Paul is being sarcastic and facetious. Thought you knew that by now, Anne -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. -- D. Gries Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) Beat ya to the punch ya redneck! Ha! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Death rays don't kill people, people kill people!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) Beat ya to the punch ya redneck! Ha! Huh? I read my reply quite some time before I read this reply. Try harder. :-) Mine was written on THE 12TH, yers on the 11th...ha... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 04:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Go be a good lad and take your medication now. :-) Shock treatment won't commence until Monday. (Which, by the way, is SUNDAY in yer neck of the woods. Always a day late and a dollar short over there...) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Only a brain-damaged operating system would support task switching and not make the simple next step of supporting multitasking. -- George McFry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:59, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:50:19 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. Er, yer talkin 'bout ARON here mate. Limited creativity. He's stuck in a rut. And a rut ain't nuthin but a grave with both ends kicked out. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Fry: Ah, the Breakfast Club soundtrack. Man, I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:39, rikona wrote: Hello Hugh, Friday, February 11, 2005, 6:09:21 PM, Hugh wrote: -Original Message- From: Marek Pawinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2005 1:33 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic HD --snip-- What command must be given to subscribe to the list ? HD Any chance of an answer to this question? I cannot see it in my HD mail list (or have I deleted something...) Try sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And BEWARE Rikona on the OT list...dangerous that one is...(and also watch out for this one slick character - ET...he's really freaky) ...oh, and we can't ferget Aron...doh! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- An evil mind is a great comfort. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:55, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Stephen Kühn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2005 2:44 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:39, rikona wrote: Hello Hugh, Friday, February 11, 2005, 6:09:21 PM, Hugh wrote: -Original Message- From: Marek Pawinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2005 1:33 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic HD --snip-- What command must be given to subscribe to the list ? HD Any chance of an answer to this question? I cannot see it in my HD mail list (or have I deleted something...) Try sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And BEWARE Rikona on the OT list...dangerous that one is...(and also watch out for this one slick character - ET...he's really freaky) ...oh, and we can't ferget Aron...doh! Beware anyone not called Stephen? Yeah, he's a silly prick, too. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- HARVARD: Quarterback: Sophomore Dave Strewzinski... likes to pass. And pass he does, with a record 86 attempts (three completions) in 87 plays Though Strewzinksi has so far failed to score any points for the Crimson, his jackrabbit speed has made him the least sacked quarterback in the Ivy league. Wide Receiver: The other directional signal in Harvard's offensive machine is senior Phil Yip, who is very fast. Yip is so fast that he has set a record for being fast. Expect to see Yip elude all pursuers and make it into the endzone five or six times, his average for a game. Yip, nicknamed fumblefingers and you asshole by his teammates, hopes to carry the ball with him at least one of those times. YALE: Defense: On the defensive side, Yale boasts the stingiest line in the Ivies. Primarily responsible are seniors Izzy Shylock Bloomberg and Myron Finklestein, the tightest ends in recent Eli history. Also contributing to the powerful defense is junior tackle Angus MacWhirter, a Scotsman who rounds out the offensive ethnic joke. Look for these three to shut down the opening coin toss. -- Harvard Lampoon 1988 Program Parody, distributed at The Game Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:07, rikona wrote: SK And BEWARE Rikona on the OT list...dangerous that one is... Don't ruin it. We're about to get a new victim... e, subscriber. :-) Dang. Forgot about that. Ok. I'll keep it quiet and not tell anyone. It HAS been a while since a new vic, er, subscriber came on the list but. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? -- Plato Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:06, Hugh Dixon wrote: Naw hes an ozzie same difference except for the sheep Nothing wrong with sheep... Hugh.au Especially when they're chopped up really nicely and slapped on the barbie for a few minutes to char'em up. Yep. Aussies and sheep. Unlike Kiwi's and sheep, but we won't go there. Q: What's the difference between Kiwi sheep and Aussie sheep? A: Kiwi sheep back up to the fence. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. - Dr. Albert Hoffman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: I tend to go emu, local tucker, not that foreign muck... Hugh You live in Victoria, don't you? Didn't know that there was much emu in Victoria...unless I'm mistaken about the location of Listech... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermount noted in January, 1966, I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls. -- Bill Adler, The Washington Wits Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:08, Hugh Dixon wrote: Outer east of Melbourne. Some (other) states have reasonable laws concerning their food preparation. I'm not parochial enough to care which side of the Murray dinner comes from! I gather it (emu) also gets packaged as ostrich and sent over the pacific. God I'm glad I can just walk to the lake and catch my evening tea (prawns, fish, whatever) -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. -- Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] interesting news story
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:34, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:10:42 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software http://tinyurl.com/5hezf Now why would those poor starving people want to miss out on this?: http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/28.html#a209 It's not going to matter. MS Windows is going to get pirated no matter what MS does, and it only strengthens the F/OSS stance. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- God gives burdens; also shoulders Jimmy Carter cited this Jewish saying in his concession speech at the end of the 1980 election. At least he said it was a Jewish saying; I can't find it anywhere. I'm sure he's telling the truth though; why would he lie about a thing like that? -- Arthur Naiman, Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no memory left can't get to kde
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:55, njcross wrote: I've been working with little HD space and I've run out and didn't check before I closed down the computer.Now I can't reach kde so I can delete some files.How do I do this outside kde? Nev If you're using the graphical login, you can always hit CTRL+ALT+F2 and get to a console login - login as root, check the /tmp directory for garbage... Is the /home partition on the same drive/partition as / ? You might even want to remove unnecessary packages - programs that you do not use... How big is the partition that / lives on ? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. -- Gore Vidal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:39, Andy Yankovich wrote: Hi Stephen, Before the file installed a message said it hd bad signatures. I clicked install anyway. (1) should I have not gone ahead with installation? (2) what does bad signatures mean? Andy You'll be right mate. Don't worry about it. You'll get that error every now and again with RPM installations. The error means basically that it is an unverifiable installation package - you can always get the MD5 sums for them, but that's a PITA. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. -- R.G. Ingersoll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] updates
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:46, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 09:18, Dave Needham wrote: i have just done an update through the madrake control center.3 lists security bux fixes normal updates theres a list as long as your arm but which do i need to install or do i need all of them. Start by unselecting bug fixes and normal updates. Install all the security patches - it only offers you ones you need for installed packages. Bug fixes should be next - and you can just choose a few of these if you want, doing the rest later. Normal updates are at your leisure. Anne Actually there are two more lists after the ones that Anne was kind enough to point out to you. Fourth is the Pizza list. Start by selecting the largest pizza listed and choose to install that. Fifth is the Beer list. While waiting for the Pizza list to finish, select the proper beers according to your taste. Make sure you enjoy both the pizza list and beer list as you happily reboot your MDK box and customise it to your liking. Do not mount the pizza over your keyboard - ditto with the beer. That could ruin your keyboard and mouse. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- All right. His story checks out. -- Homer Simpson, checking in the encyclopedia under Bush, George Two Bad Neighbors Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. Greed, Huh? Andy There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail, Netscape-Mail - and actually a slew of other lesser known email clients. Evolution is probably already on your system - and it ain't all that bad - rather like a clone of MS Outlook (Lookout!). -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and is an emerging underachiever. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nav packets...
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. It does not seem to matter what condition the disc is in (i.e. scratched vs. new) or whether I have paused a movie or just let it run. What causes it? How do I prevent it? Thanks! Have you installed all the necessary plug-ins and libs for dealing with DVD's? Like libdvdcss and the likes? Did this work before? What has changed since it last worked? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- On a clear disk you can seek forever. -- P. Denning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nav packets...
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. It does not seem to matter what condition the disc is in (i.e. scratched vs. new) or whether I have paused a movie or just let it run. What causes it? How do I prevent it? Thanks! Have you installed all the necessary plug-ins and libs for dealing with DVD's? Like libdvdcss and the likes? Doing slocate libdvdcss yields the following: /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2.0.7 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so /usr/lib/libdvdcss.la /usr/lib/libdvdcss.a Did this work before? Yes. What has changed since it last worked? Updated video driver (now running NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run from nvidia's Web site). Have installed iptables - but not running any rules local. Reinstalled Unreal Tournament 2004 (still doesn't work :-\ ). Installed Pingus (quite entertaining, but not near long enough!). Thanks! What about trying xine and mplayer - if they work, then it is an issue with totem. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- belief, n: Something you do not believe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:17, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:24 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: huge snip 2) Install thundirbird urpmi mozilla-thunderbird http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1md k.i586.rpm snip Avi When I typed step 2 as root I typed as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi mozilla-thunderbirdhttp://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm I put in a space between urpmi and mozilla and got the following: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' what did I do wrong? Andy Easiest way to do this: 1. Go to: http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1//mozilla-thunderbird-1.0-4.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm ...which will start downloading the RPM. 2.) Once it's saved, go to the place you downloaded it to and double click on it - enter in the root password and let the installation complete. 3.) Wait a few minutes whilst the menus are updated - you might even have to logout and then back in again for the change to take on whatever desktop you're running. Voilá ! You're done! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The glances over cocktails That seemed to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Nav packets...
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:15, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:43, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:58, Travis Crook wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:56, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, Lately when I've watched DVDs using Totem (0.99.9) I get an error that says: An error occured The movie 'Error reading from DVD.' could not be read.. SNIP Thanks! What about trying xine and mplayer - if they work, then it is an issue with totem. I'll give them a try and see what happens. Both mplayer and xine explode in exactly the same place (chapter 24 of The Five Doctors from Doctor Who). :-( Double check that the data surface of the DVD is CLEAN - really clean. use an audio CDROM cleaner to clean out the drive itself (the CDROM in the computer, not the CDROM disk). Attempt it again. You might want to test it with other DVD's that you have to see if you can get past the point at which you're crashing, or finish the movie in it's entirety. Obviously, if you can finish another DVD completely, then something is slightly amiss with your Dr. Who DVD. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Now, you might ask, How do I get one of those complete home tool sets for under $4? An excellent question. Go to one of those really cheap discount stores where they sell plastic furniture in colors visible from the planet Neptune and where they have a food section specializing in cardboard cartons full of Raisinets and malted milk balls manufactured during the Nixon administration. In either the hardware or housewares department, you'll find an item imported from an obscure Oriental country and described as Nine Tools in One, consisting of a little handle with interchangeable ends representing inscrutable Oriental notions of tools that Americans might use around the home. Buy it. This is the kind of tool set professionals use. Not only is it inexpensive, but it also has a great safety feature not found in the so-called quality tools sets: The handle will actually break right off if you accidentally hit yourself or anything else, or expose it to direct sunlight. -- Dave Barry, The Taming of the Screw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: Re Thunderbird, I would llike that program also on my system to make it easier to decide between KMail and Thunderbird. There is Evolution 2.0, Sylpheed-Claws, Balsa, Mozilla-Mail, Netscape-Mail - and actually a slew of other lesser known email clients. Evolution is probably already on your system - and it ain't all that bad - rather like a clone of MS Outlook (Lookout!). stephen kuhn Thanks Stephen, Would you please tell me how do I find Evolution on my system and especially how do I install it? Many thanks, Andy It should already be in your system menus - under Internet = Email; but if it's not, it's very easy to run either urpmi or rpmdrake and install it from your CD's/DVD. Example: (as root) urpmi evolution ...and sit back and wait for instructions. Ditto with rpmdrake. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- It was all very well going about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows. (Colour of Magic) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 missing icons
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:21, Mike Adolf wrote: I was doing the QT designer tutorial, it directed me to browse to locate an icon called tabwidget.png. This icon and others used in the tutorial are not in my installation of 10.1, which includes the development packages. All autoupdates were also run during installation. Is this an oversite on the part of the release makers? Does any body have these icons or know where to get them. Goolging produced a couple of locations such as: /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kommander and $QTDIR/app/qt/tools/designer/examples/colortool/images QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 which I also do not have. Mike Have you tried kfind = tabwidget.png to see if it might be living in a different location? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird mail client
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:43 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 11:29, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:14 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 07:02, Andy Yankovich wrote: It should already be in your system menus - under Internet = Email; but if it's not, it's very easy to run either urpmi or rpmdrake and install it from your CD's/DVD. Example: (as root) urpmi evolution ...and sit back and wait for instructions. stephen kuhn as root I got the following: Some package requested cannot be installed: evolution-2.0.3-1.1.101mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libgnutls.so.11) Continue? (Y/n) Sorry to bug so so often Stephen, but what do i donow? A. Let it resolve the dependencies for you. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- === ALL CSH USERS PLEASE NOTE Set the variable $LOSERS to all the people that you think are losers. This will cause all said losers to have the variable $PEOPLE-WHO-THINK-I-AM-A-LOSER updated in their .login file. Should you attempt to execute a job on a machine with poor response time and a machine on your local net is currently populated by losers, that machine will be freed up for your job through a cold boot process. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 16:32, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan lied: [sorry - anything further I'll post to the OT list] Down the mighty Mississip, into the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, head directly SSW and don't stop till you smack into Windang Island. Else, ship the goats to Knott County, KY and a mate of mine will git'em ready and ship'em over. Huh? I could WALK 'em to Knott county from here. J If you live THAT close to Knott County, then maybe we can arrange for Ronald Hall to come and fix ya up. He lives down yonder towards the bad side of the county border. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Tehee quod she, and clapte the wyndow to. -- Geoffrey Chaucer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] help
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:13, dave needham wrote: hi margot i think it was john or sumone to goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ follow instructions which was copy and paste txt which i did but i found some small print which said urpmi.removemedia -a if you had broadband which i have but i did it last after the txt so im not sure if it worked or not.now i get an error message saying media locked.. Quick fix: remove the media FIRST, then reboot the machine, then re-add from the urpmi website; that will give you fresh sources, and then you can begin updating without the database being locked mate. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:35, Julie Sloan wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 16:31, Julie Sloan wrote:consider Stephen's advice Gonna start from scratch. I've burned just about all of ~/ onto a CD and should probably wait a day before I reinstall, to see if I think of anything else I need to save, besides the mailboxes and addressbooks... I think you've made the right decision g Anne Well, this way I may tear out less of my hair ;) thanks, Julie Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully understand, but linux? Nah. Easier to control. Much more so than men. Ask Margot. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:38, Julie Sloan wrote: Well, after sleeping on the harddrive I am confusing the two ;) Stephen Kühn wrote: Linux causes you to tear out hair? Are you sure you're not confusing linux with men? Men causing you to tear your hair out I can fully understand, but linux? Nah. Easier to control. Much more so than men. Ask Margot. Difference between a hard drive and a man: * Hard drives retain data (memory) and only forget when you format them. Men, on the other hand, do not retain data (memory) at their discretion and whimsy, and will always remember things at the worst possible moment. * Hard drives do not talk back to you or argue * Hard drives do not watch sports and drink beer. * Hard drives turn on when you want them turned on. Men turn on at the worst possible moments. * Hard drives do not snore. * Hard drives do not purchase expensive sports cars * Hard drives do not chase younger women when they reach the middle of their life spans * Hard drives are easily maintained. Men require far too much maintenance. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Am I accompanied by a PARENT or GUARDIAN? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:59, Lanman wrote: Damn Stephen! Did you have to list every one of our flaws? There's honesty and then there's Brutal honesty! Nest thing you know, women will be dating their hard drives, Sigh! Well, maybe I can just increase my support contracts instead! Grin! Way to go! Now the secret's out of the bag! snicker It's Sunday, so since I ain't goin to church, I reckon I should be honest for the day (ONLY for the day, mind you). -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- They don't call me Colonel Homer because I'm some dumb-ass army guy. -- Homer Simpson Colonel Homer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:54, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Difference between a hard drive and a man:snip Thanks for the explanation! BTW, sorry for my earlier top-posting, I'd forgotten it is preferable to bottom-post on this list? Julie It's quite alright. On THIS list, women are allowed to choose top or bottom. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 09:18, Margot wrote: Can I sign up for a 'support contract'? Goats are accepted in lieu of cash, Margot. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Okay, Okay -- I admit it. You didn't change that program that worked just a little while ago; I inserted some random characters into the executable. Please forgive me. You can recover the file by typing in the code over again, since I also removed the source. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 09:42, Julie Sloan wrote: Goats are accepted in lieu of cash, Margot. Pssst, Margot - - my nextdoor neightbors are raising goats and wouldn't miss a couple! J Goat steak, goat stew, goat pie, goat cheese, goat ala mode, goat ala carte, goat burgers, goat kebabs, goat gyros, goat sausages, goat patties, goat casserole...the list goes on. My barbie is primed up and ready. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- When you're married to someone, they take you for granted ... when you're living with someone it's fantastic ... they're so frightened of losing you they've got to keep you satisfied all the time. -- Nell Dunn, Poor Cow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:09, Margot wrote: Nooo! I think we'd better transfer any further 'goat' discussion to the OT list... Speaking of the OT list - what the heck ever happened to those that initially screamed for an OT IRC channel - which exists, but no one on this list ever goes there? (ditto with the MDK channel - both are hosted on the Freenode servers). I spend alot of time in IRC monitoring and ain't never no one from either list there. Hmmm. Strange that. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention: Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:38, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 07:59, Lanman wrote: Damn Stephen! Did you have to list every one of our flaws? There's honesty and then there's Brutal honesty! Nest thing you know, women will be dating their hard drives, Sigh! Well, maybe I can just increase my support contracts instead! Grin! Way to go! Now the secret's out of the bag! snicker It's Sunday, so since I ain't goin to church, I reckon I should be honest for the day (ONLY for the day, mind you). -- stephen kuhn You just HAD to pick today to be honest, didn't ya. Still, I'm guessing that you won't score a lot of brownie points with the big guy for being honest just for one day, so that's a relief! Nice talking at ya again Stephen. Take Care buddy! BTW, did you ever get rid of that tie you had on your website? Or does it have sentimental value? HAD sentimental value. All gone now. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when your friend misdates a check, and you suggest adding a ++ to fix it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:02, Julie Sloan wrote: What about a ReiserFS? Or is that something else, not a type of partition as I thought? thanks, Julie Let's make it as simply put as possible. Create the partitions: /boot (ext3) / (ReiserFS) SWAP /home (ReiserFS) Bear in mind that MS Windows should ALWAYS be installed first on the drive, then GNU/linux afterwards. K.I.S.S. principle. If you cannot have your /home on a separate partition, then don't worry about it - it can live happily on the / partition. Does that make more sense? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The Worst Car Hire Service When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California. He put on a cap and looked forward to watching people's faces as he conducted them round the choice of bumperless, dented junkmobiles. To his lasting surprise there was an insatiable demand for them and he now has 26 thriving branches all over America. People like driving round in the worst cars available, he said. Of course they do. If a driver damages the side of a car and is honest enough to admit it, I tell him, `Forget it'. If they bring a car back late we overlook it. If they've had a crash and it doesn't involve another vehicle we might overlook that too. Where's the ashtray? asked on Los Angeles wife, as she settled into the ripped interior. Honey, said her husband, the whole car's the ash tray. -- Stephen Pile, The Book of Heroic Failures Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:02, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Goat steak, goat stew, goat pie, goat cheese, goat ala mode, goat ala carte, goat burgers, goat kebabs, goat gyros, goat sausages, goat patties, goat casserole...the list goes on. My barbie is primed up and ready. MMMmm. I'm rowing. Expect me sometime in March.. Julie Dunno if anyone's ever rowed from the west coast of the US to the east coast of Australia before...interesting thought, but. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it. -- Alex Schure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:26, Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: My barbie is primed up and ready. MMMmm. I'm rowing. Expect me sometime in March.. Julie Dunno if anyone's ever rowed from the west coast of the US to the east coast of Australia before...interesting thought, but. Hmmm... down Triplett Creek to the Licking River, up the Licking to the Ohio River, the Ohio to the Mississippi, into the Gulf of Mexico, then east to the Atlantic, south and ...would it be quicker to go around the Horn or Good Hope? ... where'd you say you are? At the rate these goats procreate I ought to have three or four by the time I get to Oz... [sorry - anything further I'll post to the OT list] Julie Down the mighty Mississip, into the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, head directly SSW and don't stop till you smack into Windang Island. Else, ship the goats to Knott County, KY and a mate of mine will git'em ready and ship'em over. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat. (Reaper Man) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:49, Julie Sloan wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 02:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: restarting urpmi One of the following packages is needed: 1- masqmail-0.2.18-3mdk.i586 : Offline Mail Transfert Agent (to install) 2- ssmtp-2.60.7-1mdk.i586 : A minimal mail-transfer agent which forwards mail to an SMTP server. (to install) 3- postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 : Postfix Mail Transport Agent (to install) 4- sendmail-8.13.1-1mdk.i586 : A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA) (to install) What is your choice? (1-4) 4 To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going to be installed (1088 MB): You don't need AFAIK any of those packages kmail workks a lot better for most of us Mozilla thunderbird is also very good But it doesn't give me the option to refuse. it asks, What is your choice? (1-4) Julie 4. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:04, Julie Sloan wrote: KMail and Kontact will not open. My addressbook is in KMail. I am using Mozilla now, and that is fine, but I need to get into KMail to get my addresses and contact information! Cannot get into MCC No screensavers Gnome desktop is completely blank (no icons) Soundserver ? crashes on reboot LOL what fun this is Julie MCC won't open? Gnome is broken? That definitely sounds like some problems. Can you run rpmdrake? Does that do anything? Because I'm wondering if perl might be borked. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- he'd twice failed to become Village Idiot through being overqualified. (Maskerade) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 15:38, Julie Sloan wrote: when I run rpmdrake I get this: generous snip IF it were me, at this stage, I would backup what I could, and format the HD and start fresh. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitus (55?-120?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:00, Kenneth Rhodes wrote: I just installed XFCE 4.2 from Charles Edwars RPMS - thanks Charles! I am absolutely thrilled, yet I do have one problem. Under Gnome while browsing web a web page in Firefox and Epiphany too, I do believe, I'd scroll down or up the web page with the mouse wheel. Under the the last couple of XFCE 4.2 release candidates this worked the same as in GNOME. Since installing the XFCE 4.2 official release the mouse wheel now pages through the browser history - that is in XFCE. In GNOME the mouse wheel functions just as before - scrolling up and down the web page. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can change the mouse wheel behavior in XFCE? Thanks in Advance, You can try opening a terminal and typing: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 ...and seeing if that makes it work properly... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- f u cn rd ths, u r prbbly a lsy spllr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:10, JoeHill wrote: Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, it'll fit right in ;-) And here I assumed Joe was going to give his down pat answer: USE PEKWM! Guess I was wrong today. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Hello again, Peabody here... -- Mister Peabody Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:57, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:42, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:02:33 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS battery *falls* out, or use the *claw* to *rip* the battery out? Whichever is the fastest course, Joe. C'mon. Use LOGIC, mate. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I am a deeply superficial person. -- Andy Warhol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:48, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:53:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, it'll fit right in ;-) And here I assumed Joe was going to give his down pat answer: USE PEKWM! Well, it kinda goes without sayin' dunnit? Must say tho, that XFCE4 4.2 is lookin' mighty nice too. Hell, with Charles' RPM's, I haven't the foggiest notion why anyone isn't tripping over themselves to get away from KDE. According to traffic in the #mandrake and #lfd channels (along with the #xfce channel) people ARE tripping over themselves to get XFce - both with Grandmaster Charles' RPM's and the graphical installers. Ha! Guess I was wrong today. 1st time for everything... NOT according to Tina. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- boss, n: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the Middle Ages the words boss and botch were largely synonymous, except that boss, in addition to meaning a supervisor of workers also meant an ornamental stud. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:26, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that is available. ISDN is available as I live within the town, it is competitively priced IF you already rent a second line for the internet. But we only use one phone line so ISDN would approximately double our phone/internet costs (the wife would kill me). Satellite is available (I'm the computer dude at RetraVision and we have it here at work) but the setup and ongoing costs are more than I can justify as a home user. So I've resigned myself to doing my big downloads at work and using email and simple browsing at home.maybe I should run some cat5 from work to home - they're only 700m apart :) I think that Aron's got the right idea (belive it or not, I'm actually agreeing with the old fart for a change) - might be nice to setup some kinda wireless connection between the store and yer house...but don't reckon the folks are RetraVision would view that as being, er, well, ya know, cool. Prolly betta to do yer downloads at work and do the rest at home...might be a good idea to just get a 56k external and leave it at that. Reckon ya got the laptop from RetraVision then, eh? (Not going to say much about what OUR opinion is of RetraVision here in our neck of the woods...we kinda slip them in near the Hardly Normal's slot and the Domayne slot - to be avoided at all costs) ...but that's just us weirdo geeky folks on the coast... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- There's a lot to be said for not saying a lot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is sending remote bash commands across LAN possible?
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 06:03, magnet wrote: Hi all, bit of a problem here with sending console commands across my LAN to my local group of machines. I have 4 identical machines all set up and happy to chat to each other across the lan using Smb4k. They are totally secure and not accessible from the internet.. I only have a monitor/keyboard/mouse on the main computer and I would like to be able to type a single line command into my console and have it execute on any of the other remote machines I choose it to go to. This is all user-level stuff, no su commands at all. Any help you can give is much appreciated magnet :) man rsh -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. -- Snoopy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
