Re: [newbie-it] caratteri
Il 02:40, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Grazie per il suggerimento, ma non è cambiato niente :(( sigh! Preso da disperazione ho installato anche OpenOffice, e lì sono brutti (nel senso che sembra che siano come mangiati), anche quelli della barra dei menù, delle finestre, ecc... non solo quelli del corpo testo... Poi ho installato una demo Applix, e lì tutto va alla perfezione... Sto diventando matto (damnit!). Può dipendere dalla mia S3 Trio 3D/2X? Visto che usa (credo) XFree 3.3.6 (e quindi ninte anti-aliasing)? Ciao a tutti e grazie :)) Non so che versione usi (mdk8 o che?) - se hai la mdk8 hai forse installato XFree 3.3.6 perché la S3 non era supportata dal XFree 4.x? Se questo è il caso e se non utilizzi Linux per giochi 3D puoi rimettere XFree 4.x e configurare la scheda come SVGA standard. D'altra parte mi ricordo che con la 7.2 non avevo problemi di visualizzazione sbagliata dei caratteri. Il problema si è avuto con la 8 ma l'ho risolto come ti ho descritto. Inoltre, forse non ho capito bene, l'effetto sgradito te lo fa solo con StarOffice (che è un problema a parte) oppure, ad esempio, con kword e simili? Hai provato ad utilizzare, ad esempio, Gnome ed i suoi applicativi specifici? Ti fa lo stesso effetto? Se si, allora il problema, come dici tu, è di XFree e non ti rimane altro che aggiornarlo. Un'altra domanda: con Xfree 3.3.6 la scheda grafica te la vede come S3 o come una SVGA? Perchè, nel caso potresti, senza cambiare XFree, cercare driver aggiornati per la scheda. Fammi sapere Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
Re: [newbie-it] idle
Qualcuno sa spiegarmi perche' quando il pc non ha da fare nulla, c'e' un processo (apm-idle) che ciuccia il 98% di CPU? Come faccio a disabilitarlo? E soprattutto qual'e' la sua utilita'? Grazie a chi mi scioglie questo dubbio amletico! ciao stefano con l'aiuto di APM la CPU può segnalare al BIOS i periodi di inattività, permettendogli di fare un po' di economia - p. es. riducendo il clock della CPU, spegnendo l'hard disk, la retroilluminazione dello schermo ecc, L'APM è anche responsabile del modo ``system suspend'' (o ``sleep'') e del modo ``suspend to disk'' (o ``hibernation''). io comunque ne ho sentito parlare molto per quanto rigurda i portatili, poi non so', - Stefano Barberis WEB home page: http://sgimida.mi.infn.it/~ste -
Re: [newbie-it] caratteri
Hai provato ad impostare i font Adobe? In genere sono i font urw standard a dare questi problemi P.es., puoi mettere Adobe Helvetica per il sans-serif, Adobe Times per il serif e Adobe Courier per il carattere a spaziatura fissa. Anch'io avevo lo stesso problema e mi sembra che l'ho risolto così. Comunque, sono importanti anche le dimensioni, infatti alcuni caratteri li vedo tarlati se imposto certe dimensioni, se invece cambio, li rivedo bene. Io ho messo dimensione 10 a tutti i caratteri con una risoluzione video 1024x768. Spero di esserti stato d'aiuto. Ciao, Andrea.
Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.
fosse la soluzione migliore, comunque ritengo che lo spazio occupato da questi programmi sia eqivalente, qualche mese fà ho installato una versione ridotta di Red Hat 6.0,-in quel periodo non sapevo bene cosa installavo di Linux, neanche adesso ma ne ho una vaga idea- su un PC con la mia stessa configurazione hardware ed ho utilizzato 120Mb di hard disk, sembrava funzionante (compreso SSL), ma il modem faceva schifo, quindi? sinceramente, temo dovrai essere un po' piu' preciso. cioe' per es. cosa significa il modem faceva schifo? non riuscivi a connetterti? la connessione era lenta? il modem e' brutto? (vabbe', sorry) bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
[newbie-it] Creare una procedura di backup....
Dovrei creare una procedura di backup settimanale (cron.weekly) e/o giornaliera (cron.daily) di una directory /home/progetti/pippo\ 2001 Ho creato in cron.weekly -- backup.pl (come sotto) --- #!/usr/bin/perl #script per il backup della directory Disegni 2001 $data =`date +%d-%m-%Y`; $data = substr($data, 1, 10); printf(Creazione del backup...); system(tar -cPzf /home/backup/pippo2001.tar.gz /home/progetti/pippo\\ 2001/); printf( OK\n); --- Non riesco a renderla funzionante per l'aggiunta della data di creazione in maniera d'avere un file con data sempre diversa es: pippo2001_12-01-2001.tar.gz Per il momento mi sarebbe sufficiente, poi col tempo vorrei fare in modo che ogni volta che fa la procedura, mi andasse a cancellare il backup precedente. Grazie a tutti Luca Minari
Re: [newbie-it] Unable to handle kernel NULL...
Il 02:59, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: --- viger71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ti consiglio di ricompilare il Kernel che ha installato sul sistema operativo e fai attenzione a tutto quello che togli e soprattutto fai caricare i moduli dal kernel di tutte le periferiche che haihai, perché non credo le le utilizzi tutte insieme, aggiungi anche il supportoper le porte USB se c'è qulcosa collegato. Fammi sapere perché ho avuto lo stesso problema che ho risolto x caso, magari tu riesci a capire il problema nei suoi particolari. Ciao. Ok, provero' a dare un'occhiata alla configurazione del kernel che ho compilato e faro' un po' di prove. Ho cercato di ridurlo al minimo... magari ho tagliato via qualcosa di troppo... :P Se riesco a capirci qualcosa ti faccio sapere. Ciao. Steo. Ci conto e in bocca la lupo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.
Il 08:57, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: fosse la soluzione migliore, comunque ritengo che lo spazio occupato da questi programmi sia eqivalente, qualche mese fà ho installato una versione ridotta di Red Hat 6.0,-in quel periodo non sapevo bene cosa installavo di Linux, neanche adesso ma ne ho una vaga idea- su un PC con la mia stessa configurazione hardware ed ho utilizzato 120Mb di hard disk, sembrava funzionante (compreso SSL), ma il modem faceva schifo, quindi? sinceramente, temo dovrai essere un po' piu' preciso. cioe' per es. cosa significa il modem faceva schifo? non riuscivi a connetterti? la connessione era lenta? il modem e' brutto? (vabbe', sorry) bye Tutto quello che hai elencato, più alcuni errori di configurazione. Finalmente ho trovato qualcuno dalla battuta acida come me. Appena mi riparano il vecchio 486(ha sempre avuto problemi con l'alimentatore) ti tengo aggiornato sull'istallazione. Ciao. -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
[newbie-it] font per abiword
CIAO a tutti ! Uso la mandrake 7.2 e vorrei saperecome si devono inserire nuovi font per abiword in modo che siano selezionabili direttamente nella lista di selezione. In quale directory devo inserirli ?? Ciao e grazie !!!
[newbie-it] Connessione manuale con ppp
Ciao ! Sto cercando difare una connessione a mano usando ppp (mi sono documentato sul ppp how-to) il problema è che quando cerco di usare minicom per comunicare con il modem dopo aver inserito la stringa: ATX3DTnumero_di_telefono il computer si connette (non mi richiede la password ela userID, dovrebbe essere giusto visto che ho inserito il tutto nel file pap-secrets) e invia sullo schermo tutti i segni strani che dovrebbero indicare la connessione ... però dopo 4/5 secondi si blocca tutto e mi da il messaggio : NO CARRIER Come mai si blocca ??? (CARRIER significa che non mi ha identificato ??) Ciao e grazie per la risposta !!! Giulio
[newbie-it] Connessione OffLine?
Esiste un modo, o più modi, x impostare la connessione in modalità non in linea? (Uso Mand.8) Grazie e ciao.
Re: [newbie-it] idle
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:57:01 +0200 Stefano Barberis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: l'unica cosa che fa il ciclo idle =E8 quella di eseguire un comando HLT (Halt) quando il sistema =E8 inattivo per risparmiare i circuiti della cpu (praticamente ne spegne le parti che non stanno facendo nulla. Serve a mantenere bassa la temp. della cpu e a risparmiare corrente elettrica. Non rallenta gli altri processi. Sicuri Cioe' io dovrei essere tranquillo che un processo che il top mi da al 98%, in verita' mi sta congelando la cpu per risparmiare energia e soprattutto per raffredarlo??? ciao e... grazie ancora!! ste Secondo me hai ragione: c' e' qualcosa che non va. E' vero che le istruzioni HLT vengono inviate durante il ciclo idle ma indipendentemente dal fatto che l' apm sia attivo o meno. Hai controllato fra i servizi all' avvio se c' e' qualcosa che abbia a che fare con l' apm (o acpi)? Oppure l' hai attivato nella compilazione del kernel? Anch' io l' ho attivato per ottenere lo spegnimento automatico del pc e non mi da alcun problema, al limite prova a mettere apm=off sulla riga che carica il kernel nel file di conf del tuo bootmanager. Ciao -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel
Finalmente è uscita anche a Viareggio la rivista Linux Magazine e così mi sono trovato finalmente quei 25M si sorgenti del kernel (2.4.5) per fare la mia prima compilazione. Ho trovato molto comoda la possibilità di lavorarci sopra senza toccare l'installazione originale. Ora infatti nel boot tra le varie voci linux, floppy, windo$ ecc. ho anche MyKern che sarebbe appunto il mio esperimento. Peccato che non funzioni. La cosa più grave è che non trova i driver nvidia e quindi non parte x. Dovrei includere in questa email anche il log iniziale, ma non l'ho trovato. Se qualcuno mi suggerisce dove sia... Comunque, i dubbi più grossi sono questi: -dove devo mettermi a compilare? i vari HowTo indicano di mettersi direttamente in /usr/src mentre il README dice di non farlo. -devo poi spostare moduli, files, directory? Devo rinstallare i drive nVIDIA? -nel README c'è anche l'indicazione di compilarlo: Make sure you have gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) available. gcc 2.95.2 may also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer supported*. che possono fare i poveri utenti di Mandrake 8.0? Un'ultima domanda per Fabio, che aveva scritto che le attuali versioni del kernel funzionano bene con la scheda SCSI Adaptec 2904CD: funzionerà anche con il kernel 2.4.5 o devo upgradare fino al 2.4.7? Ho visto che è uscito un RPM del kernel 2.4.7 per la Mandrake, l'avete provato. Potrebbe essere comodo usarlo, ma per me è veramente ostico scaricare tutti quei 20M. Se mi aiutate torno alla carica con la compilazione! a presto, Tommaso
Re: [newbie-it] caratteri
Il 15:19, mercoledì 08 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Va da sè che uso la MDK 8.0 :)) Cmq i problemi li ho risolti con tutto il sistema tranne che con StarOffice, con il quale i caratteri continuano ad essere uno schifo... Te l'avevo detto che StarOffice è un problema a parte. :-) Anche a me si visualizzano che è un quasi schifo. Io ho installato, comunque, i font true type di windows e utilizzandoli in StarOffice ottengo dei risultati leggermente migliori. Se voglio digitare del testo e vedere i caratteri in maniera decente, devo mettere una visualizzazione di Soffice al 109%... Ma perchè con la 7.2 non lo faceva??? Bella domanda!! Me la sono posta anche io :-) Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux User: 203143 Linux Machine: 103048
RE: [newbie] can't startx
Sheez all these complex answers to a simple problem... Type service xfs restart THEN try startx -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Errant Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] can't startx Hi all, I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing the startx command as Root from console, it returns the following: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed' Can someone help me fix this, and explain how it might have happened? Thanx a bunch, E
[newbie] Kernel 2.4.7. is out as RPM
Find it at http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker//cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS//kernel-2.4.7-7mdk.i586.html (Europe) or http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker//cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS//kernel-2.4.7-9mdk.i586.html (US) Paul
RE: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
Title: Message The only thing that would cause this, is if Linux activated UDMA/66 (or 100) on a UDMA capable drive that was only working at UDMA/33 or below under winblows. Certain drives, onceset to UDMA/66 continue to attempt to operate in this mode, even through a power off. WD Seagate have a utility to ENABLE/DISABLE this. If your motherboard is UDMA/66 capable, you might want to make SURE that you have an 80 conductor UDMA IDE cable. These are denser than the normal cable(s) running to CD-ROMS, etc. If the OS, Linux, or utility put the drive into UDMA/33/66/100 mode and you do not have a 80 conductor cable, you'll end up with a lot of errors.. -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Greg TaylorSent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:01 AMTo: Linux-NewbieSubject: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem?
Re: [newbie] YahooMessenger
Yeah, I tried it out. I didn't have any trouble. What is the specifics of your problem? -s On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:18 am, you wrote: Hello! I found a version of YahooMessenger for Linux, at: http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html And Instructions were: To install the Linux version of Messenger: 1.. Save the file ymessenger-0.93.0-1.i386.rpm to your machine. 2.. Log in as root, and type rpm -i ymessenger-0.93.0-1.i386.rpm to install the application. 3.. Type ymessenger from a prompt to launch the application. But when I did ... or try to do so... it didn't work... Said something extra was needed. Has anyone tried to install it... and succeded? I have a downloaded vesion of LM-8.0. Thanks. ADrian. Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:00 am, you wrote: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem? I have read somewhere, but can't remember where, That if you are going to install Windows on a partition then you should format that partition with the dos version of fdisk as supplied with windows or with the disk installation floppy. I believe the linux version of fdisk formats a dos partition slightly differently. Hope this helps, Robin
Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:18:41 -0400 Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: TH This really comes down to what do they want to do with the machines. TH Are these going to be desktops for users? Are these going to be TH servers? Are these going to be used to teach a class on Linux? Big snip to preserve bandwidth TH Slackware wasn't anything impressive honestly. It's install was a lot TH like FreeBSD, but nothing special. I honestly didn't leave it TH installed TH long enough since I had to use that machine as a test server for TH RedHAT TH for our current project. TH TH But where you'll find a fair comparison of the distros to let you know TH which one you should choose for what, good luck! I've looked. All of TH them have been out dated, and biased. But something like this should TH be TH researched AFTER they know what they want to do with the machines. TH TH Hope that helps a little. TH tdh Nice tidy summation, Tim. You hit most of the major Linux and *BSD distros in a fairly unimpassioned, relatively _nuetral_ manner. I once read of Slackware (on another list I believe) that i wa not really a distro, at all, just a tarball of someone's hard drive ;o) Mike -- If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. -- Albert Schweitzer _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] mars_nwe
Hi! All, I've heard of a program called MARS_NWE which is a clone Novell Netware. Has anyone ever tried to install it in Linux-Mandrake? If so, can anyone give me some guide on how to install it in Linux-Mandrake? Thanks Jhun
[newbie] uninstall nautilus
Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. TIA kalimank --- ¿Te desesperan las chapuzas caseras? No lo dudes y entra en Bricoespacio.com Aprenderás todo tipo de trucos, para hacerte la vida más fácil. ¡Pincha aquí! http://www.bricoespacio.com
Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus
Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different file mangler, or a different window mangler. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. TIA kalimank --- ¿Te desesperan las chapuzas caseras? No lo dudes y entra en Bricoespacio.com Aprenderás todo tipo de trucos, para hacerte la vida más fácil. ¡Pincha aquí! http://www.bricoespacio.com
[newbie] please remove me from mail list
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of etharp Sent: 08 August 2001 12:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different file mangler, or a different window mangler. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. TIA kalimank --- ¿Te desesperan las chapuzas caseras? No lo dudes y entra en Bricoespacio.com Aprenderás todo tipo de trucos, para hacerte la vida más fácil. ¡Pincha aquí! http://www.bricoespacio.com
Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy
I don't know anything about MandrakeFreq 2, but if it is Linux, you should check the file /etc/fstab to check the perms of the line for /mnt/cdrom. A quick check to see if it is the problem would be to: 1. su to root 2. umount /mnt/cdrom 3. mount /dev/device /mnt/cdrom (note: to find out what device [hda,hdc,etc.] your cdrom is, type dmesg and scrollthrough until you see your cdrom info) 4. cd /mnt/cdrom ---you should have access If this solves your problem you will want to edit your /etc/fstab file. Read the manpage on fstab for additional options like auto, users, and supermount. The same thing can be done for the floppy drive. Hope this helps From: Oder Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:51:28 -0300 I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in advance. Oder _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0
Honestly Mike... I think it started out that way. You'd have to find a serious Slacker to confirm that though. I think most people still install it via FTP, but basically the install is a FreeBSD install. It installs everything from source, I think it may use RPMs, but as I said, I didn't have it installed long enough as I needed that hardware to build a test machine. (Work calls, and the play things get wiped out! :0( OH well, huh?) I think it's a good idea that people who consider themselves advanced users, install and play with as many distros as possible. This is more feasable for me since I have the hardware to do so. I have a machine that I could wipe out once a week and install something new if I felt the need to do so. But it helps verse the user in how other distros work. That's one reason why I've tried so many *nix distros. Heck, I've even installed Linux in VMware! Couldn't get it to load Xwindows, but dang it I tried! But I try and keep an unbiased look at things like this. When recommending to a client what OS they should use for an install, ya get pretty good at that. I like Mandrake for a workstation. I spend all day making sure things work and stay working on servers, or fixing things on other workstations, I don't want to spend part of that day fixing my workstation as well! Now that I've installed Mandrake so many times, it takes me 2 hours to install and configure my machine, and then I don't have to do anything but check the logs. :0) tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 7:37am up 6 days, 18:32, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:18:41 -0400 | Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: | | Nice tidy summation, Tim. You hit most of the major Linux and *BSD | distros in a fairly unimpassioned, relatively _nuetral_ manner. I once | read of Slackware (on another list I believe) that i wa not really a | distro, at all, just a tarball of someone's hard drive ;o) | Mike | | -- | If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his | reverence for all of life. | -- Albert Schweitzer | | _ | Do You Yahoo!? | Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com | --
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
Last time I said this, a lot of people yelled at me, but download a utility from the drive manufacturer and do a low-level format. jim Quoting Greg Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem? Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] please remove me from mail list
Reiner Stucky wrote: snip Hi, please follow the instructions at this URL: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Note the email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Frans
Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager
Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email accidentally. I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in the preferences in my version (1.0.3-3mdk) from Mandrake Freq2. I am currently using gnome with sawfish and would like more control of my desktop environment through these applications. -Paul Rodríguez On 07 Aug 2001 11:02:48 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: open the nautilus browser in the last menu from left to right (is a drawing like a diamond) then... go to preferences and disable the option Choose Nautilus to draw my desktop... or something like that - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:23, Paul wrote: It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:40:40 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I vaguely recall an option for this existing in Nautilus' preferences. I recall it is nautilus --nodesktop. Just tried it: that's it. Paul The problem here is that when you start GNOME, Nautilus will load automatically to manage the desktop. There is no opportunity to enter the --nodesktop flag. The flag will only work if Nautilus is not already loaded (and hence not managing the desktop). To control how Nautilus behaves at GNOME startup, you need to change the preferences setting. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:50, paul rodrguez wrote: I chose to have nautilus run as my desktop manager during the initial setup of my LM 8 freq2 gnome system. Now it seems neither gnome nor nautilus are fully in control of my desktop, the icons appear as blank files and i can't change the background image. I would like to take off nautilus' control of the desktop, how can I set this? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. Jacqueline Bisset http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy
Yes. The directory must exist (command mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom3) Were you able to unlock your CDROM? BTW, don't do the supermount option--there is an exploit against it. Hope that helps. From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:22:30 -0400 Don, Thanks for posting this, perhaps you could help me with almost the same problem. I have a cdrom, (slave ide channel 1) and a cd/DVD (slave ide channel 2) and a usb cd writer. I know it is seen as /dev/scd0, and can burn in Gcombust. the problem is I would like to be able to mount and read the files on a cd in that drive as well. when I try mount /mnt/cdrom3 /dev/scd0 it seems as if it is mounting but the last line is; mount: mount point mnt/cdrom3 does not exist should I mkdir /mnt/cdrom3? On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:33, you had thoughts to the concept of: I don't know anything about MandrakeFreq 2, but if it is Linux, you should check the file /etc/fstab to check the perms of the line for /mnt/cdrom. A quick check to see if it is the problem would be to: 1. su to root 2. umount /mnt/cdrom 3. mount /dev/device /mnt/cdrom (note: to find out what device [hda,hdc,etc.] your cdrom is, type dmesg and scrollthrough until you see your cdrom info) 4. cd /mnt/cdrom ---you should have access If this solves your problem you will want to edit your /etc/fstab file. Read the manpage on fstab for additional options like auto, users, and supermount. The same thing can be done for the floppy drive. Hope this helps From: Oder Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:51:28 -0300 I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in advance. Oder _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy
I have a CD-RW also, but have not set it up (I'm concentrating on locking my box down--SECURITY). How is the program Gcombust? From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:22:30 -0400 Don, Thanks for posting this, perhaps you could help me with almost the same problem. I have a cdrom, (slave ide channel 1) and a cd/DVD (slave ide channel 2) and a usb cd writer. I know it is seen as /dev/scd0, and can burn in Gcombust. the problem is I would like to be able to mount and read the files on a cd in that drive as well. when I try mount /mnt/cdrom3 /dev/scd0 it seems as if it is mounting but the last line is; mount: mount point mnt/cdrom3 does not exist should I mkdir /mnt/cdrom3? On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:33, you had thoughts to the concept of: I don't know anything about MandrakeFreq 2, but if it is Linux, you should check the file /etc/fstab to check the perms of the line for /mnt/cdrom. A quick check to see if it is the problem would be to: 1. su to root 2. umount /mnt/cdrom 3. mount /dev/device /mnt/cdrom (note: to find out what device [hda,hdc,etc.] your cdrom is, type dmesg and scrollthrough until you see your cdrom info) 4. cd /mnt/cdrom ---you should have access If this solves your problem you will want to edit your /etc/fstab file. Read the manpage on fstab for additional options like auto, users, and supermount. The same thing can be done for the floppy drive. Hope this helps From: Oder Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:51:28 -0300 I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in advance. Oder _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
I would suggest you get a Windows98 boot disc with fdisk and delpart First you boot form floppy, then you make delpart to loose everything on your hard drive, you use fdisk to create new partitions you reboot your machine with your floppy inside... then you format your hard drives format c:/s and you should be able to install Winblows... Once I had other problem I could not do anything with the hard drive (I was even not able to boot from floppy...)... so the only way to get hdd again working was make a clone. I asked a friend of mine to make a clone of WindowsNT using Northon Goust... and then I could insall winblows without any problem... If this doesn't work... I think you need to change your hard drive X - A - W - K - Original Message - From: Greg Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:16 AM Subject: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem? -- Jest niezly ... i liscik napisze OnetKomunikator [ http://ok.onet.pl/instaluj.html ]
[newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 interesting. note the sixth paragraph. it would be nice if they mentioned linux a little sooner. - -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- Subject: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:04:10 +1000 From: Pc's for Kids Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charlie Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] WINDOW OF HOPE FOR KIDS Australian charity Pc's for Kids, which is the focus of International awareness was forced to suspend operations because of actions by Microsoft Legal department, has started building the first of many computers destined for underprivileged kids. Mr. Bayes issued a statement saying; Our kids need us, the International public and Australians vowed us to continue our work assisting Children Bridge the Digital Divide. Our members voted to take a stand for the advancement of kids and not let this issue with Microsoft dampen many a child's dream of obtaining their own computer. Microsoft and Pc's for Kids become the focus of worldwide attention when the Software giant told the charity not to use its software unless it is legal. The standoff lasting well over a month has raised many questions of the philanthropic efforts of Microsoft's Co-Founder Mr. William Gates and Microsoft intentions of not granting a simple Refurbishment License to the charity. Lets face it Microsoft, if you do not support the old redundant software of Dos 6.22 and Win 3.11 together with Windows 95 then why not make it Public Domain so the older computer equipment can be used. You state that kids need the latest technology but what happens to the tons of waste IT equipment - send it to landfill Mr. Bayes said. Pc's for Kids Inc, which is based in Geelong Victoria Australia will ship the first of 50 refurbished machines to children next week, thanks to the generosity of the IT public who have scrounged around to locate their old Win 95 certificates. We will give each system Windows 95 and load a full version of Sun Micro-Systems Star Office which was donated by Sun to pass onto our less fortunate children Bayes stated. Mr. Bayes also is pleased at the support offered by the Linux community, We have just completed training with Linux in Melbourne and are looking at offering children the choice of both. The learning of Linux will take some time to perfect so in the meantime we will keep sending out systems with donated Windows, Apple has issued a letter supporting our efforts and fully agree that children need assistance with any means of computer technology, we will be sending to Tonga another 20 refurbished Apple units early next month Mr. Bayes is now appealing to the public and IT sector to keep the dream alive by locating the old software so this charity can continue it works. We need over 1,000 copies for the next 12-months so please dig deep and help us place a smile on a child's face - Remember your old systems and software will assist our disadvantaged kids all over the world Mr. Bayes said. Visit Pc's for Kid's www.pcsforkids.org and post an email with your pledge. Press Release Issued By: Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 (24-Hours Contact) Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: 61 (3) 52444146 Fax: 61 (3) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcsforkids.org Wednesday, August 08, 2001 - --- - -- - --- Oh come now. At least pretend to be scared. The media spent millions trying to psyche you up for this - User Friendly, 08/01/01 on the Code Red virus scare -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO3FI4H+bkeP849+WEQIhFgCg/3zuBIU54D6VuuFWbS97NGJ5d4IAn1tJ cMAtFXGdwdTHVPS520X279PK =lp6b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] uninstall nautilus
Place Nautilus into expert mode (click the black diamond) and then enter the preferences. There should be an option to disable Nautilus from managing the desktop. You can then use GMC to manage your desktop if you wish, or have no manager at all (and use another file manager). On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:58, etharp wrote: Hmmm, seems to me that you don't _NEED_ to uninstall Nautilus, just select a different file mangler, or a different window mangler. On Wednesday 08 August 2001 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Somebody knows how to uninstall Nautilus from Gnome desktop? It seems merged into Gnome!?!? I want a lighter file manager. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] unknown sender
Hi. I just recieved an exe file from an 'unknown' sender. How is this done, does anyone know? I cannot reply to him as the machine recognises no address. I can only assume it is a virus. but the lack of an address is puzzling. I am using kmail
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc
I think (well, I hope) it'll only be a matter of time before they begin shipping more GNU/Linux systems than Windos ones. It'll take a while before PC's for Kids is used to GNU/Linux and the open source philosophy. They cannot distribute a Windos PC without a certificate, and these would be in short supply. They already give StarOffice, which is available for GNU/Linux as well. Hopefully children will become aware about the technical and usability edge that GNU/Linux offers and they will opt for that instead. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:12, Charlie Oriez wrote: interesting. note the sixth paragraph. it would be nice if they mentioned linux a little sooner. -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- Subject: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:04:10 +1000 From: Pc's for Kids Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charlie Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] WINDOW OF HOPE FOR KIDS Australian charity Pc's for Kids, which is the focus of International awareness was forced to suspend operations because of actions by Microsoft Legal department, has started building the first of many computers destined for underprivileged kids. Mr. Bayes issued a statement saying; Our kids need us, the International public and Australians vowed us to continue our work assisting Children Bridge the Digital Divide. Our members voted to take a stand for the advancement of kids and not let this issue with Microsoft dampen many a child's dream of obtaining their own computer. Microsoft and Pc's for Kids become the focus of worldwide attention when the Software giant told the charity not to use its software unless it is legal. The standoff lasting well over a month has raised many questions of the philanthropic efforts of Microsoft's Co-Founder Mr. William Gates and Microsoft intentions of not granting a simple Refurbishment License to the charity. Lets face it Microsoft, if you do not support the old redundant software of Dos 6.22 and Win 3.11 together with Windows 95 then why not make it Public Domain so the older computer equipment can be used. You state that kids need the latest technology but what happens to the tons of waste IT equipment - send it to landfill Mr. Bayes said. Pc's for Kids Inc, which is based in Geelong Victoria Australia will ship the first of 50 refurbished machines to children next week, thanks to the generosity of the IT public who have scrounged around to locate their old Win 95 certificates. We will give each system Windows 95 and load a full version of Sun Micro-Systems Star Office which was donated by Sun to pass onto our less fortunate children Bayes stated. Mr. Bayes also is pleased at the support offered by the Linux community, We have just completed training with Linux in Melbourne and are looking at offering children the choice of both. The learning of Linux will take some time to perfect so in the meantime we will keep sending out systems with donated Windows, Apple has issued a letter supporting our efforts and fully agree that children need assistance with any means of computer technology, we will be sending to Tonga another 20 refurbished Apple units early next month Mr. Bayes is now appealing to the public and IT sector to keep the dream alive by locating the old software so this charity can continue it works. We need over 1,000 copies for the next 12-months so please dig deep and help us place a smile on a child's face - Remember your old systems and software will assist our disadvantaged kids all over the world Mr. Bayes said. Visit Pc's for Kid's www.pcsforkids.org and post an email with your pledge. Press Release Issued By: Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 (24-Hours Contact) Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: 61 (3) 52444146 Fax: 61 (3) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcsforkids.org Wednesday, August 08, 2001 --- -- --- Oh come now. At least pretend to be scared. The media spent millions trying to psyche you up for this - User Friendly, 08/01/01 on the Code Red virus scare -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's
Matt wrote: Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a nightmare. I couldn't agree more. I have had similar sad sagas more times than I care to recall. For example, I tried to install the latest Gnucash, which I've heard has many improvements over the version that came with my Mandrake 8. When I tried to install the rpm package, I got a HUGE list of dependencies I'd need. There was no way I was going to try to find them, install them keeping my fingers crossed that something else wouldn't break in the process, and see if the silly thing would work. Especially since I don't even know if I'd like Gnucash. I *must* have an easy-to-use checkbook manager on my system, and my trial of the Gnucash that came with the distro was not exactly a roaring success. It made a mess of its import of my Quicken data, which is Requirement No. 1 for any checkbook manager I might consider. I hope they get their act together on package installations. It's got to work better than it does now. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager
I had a little problem understanding the instructions posted to the list, until I realized that you must change the preferences to advanced and then click preferances. The advanced option is the triangle that one post spoke of. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 paul rodríguez wrote: Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email accidentally. I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in the preferences in my version (1.0.3-3mdk) from Mandrake Freq2. I am currently using gnome with sawfish and would like more control of my desktop environment through these applications. -Paul Rodríguez On 07 Aug 2001 11:02:48 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: open the nautilus browser in the last menu from left to right (is a drawing like a diamond) then... go to preferences and disable the option Choose Nautilus to draw my desktop... or something like that - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:23, Paul wrote: It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:40:40 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I vaguely recall an option for this existing in Nautilus' preferences. I recall it is nautilus --nodesktop. Just tried it: that's it. Paul The problem here is that when you start GNOME, Nautilus will load automatically to manage the desktop. There is no opportunity to enter the --nodesktop flag. The flag will only work if Nautilus is not already loaded (and hence not managing the desktop). To control how Nautilus behaves at GNOME startup, you need to change the preferences setting. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:50, paul rodrguez wrote: I chose to have nautilus run as my desktop manager during the initial setup of my LM 8 freq2 gnome system. Now it seems neither gnome nor nautilus are fully in control of my desktop, the icons appear as blank files and i can't change the background image. I would like to take off nautilus' control of the desktop, how can I set this? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. Jacqueline Bisset http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
Yes, if you're going to use Diskdrake to set up your HD, you CANNOT go back in and resize it with Partition Magic. They are different enough to result in mysterious data loss over a period of time and eventually, you'll end up losing everything. I had this experience over several machines and this is the response I received from Powerquest Partition Magic's tech-support. Sevatio Original Message On 8/8/01, 6:28:51 AM, Robin Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:00 am, you wrote: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem? I have read somewhere, but can't remember where, That if you are going to install Windows on a partition then you should format that partition with the dos version of fdisk as supplied with windows or with the disk installation floppy. I believe the linux version of fdisk formats a dos partition slightly differently. Hope this helps, Robin
Re: [newbie] ipchains vs. iptables
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:20, jen wrote: L's and G's, This is my first time setting up InteractiveBastille and I must admit, It is a little nerve-racking to not know exactly what your doing. While I do undertand the premises of services, ports and basic TCP/IP-acks-denies and so-forth, I do not understand why most of these questions advise me that if I use Iptables, I should not worry about most of these settings. I did choose the I want to spend an hour learning my system option But half of the questions tell me I don't need to worry if I'm using iptables. Would someone be kind enough to tell me smiles or tell me where I might go to better understand the differences in the kernels. I never have dealt with anything other than 2.4.X (mandrake 8.0) as always, thanks in advance. j OK the difference in ipchains and iptables besides some obvious syntax in the rules is that iptables is _stateful_ while ipchains is not. And it looks like we got there with it just in time for people to start using it. What does stateful mean? It means that sending a packet changes the state of the engine handling packets. There are many ways to crack a TCP connection or to put intruder packets into a system. Most of them require the attacking system to have raw socket capability. With raw sockets, a machine can claim its packets are from any IP address and are of any protocol. It can also malform the packets sent for various purposes, as is done with the famed tear drop, bonk, ping of death: and nestea attacks to knock a computer off the internet.. Until recently, the easily compromised systems did not have raw socket capability, but now, this October, there will be WinXP with full raw socket capability and the famous nonexistent Microsoft security. Script kiddies will be recruiting new soldiers by compromising these systems, and their attacks will be extraordinarily potent. The windows machines recruited in the past could basically send pings and huge UDP packets to attack other machines, but now they can come in saying, Hi, I'm the packet from your best friend's machine, right in the middle of a trusted dialogue. Or, here is the nameservice information you requested, (return address is in fact that of your nameserver). With ipchains, you have NO defense against such rogue packets--they come through and try to do whatever it is they came to accomplish (not very much on a linux system, but if you are using your linux to protect a network of windows machines...) With iptables, the answer is, I beg your pardon, there was no dialogue? or Sorry, I have all answers I was looking for from nameservices In either case the rogue packet is dropped on the floor. With kernel 2.4.3 there is an iptables hole regarding ftp packets at the moment. We are testing a kernel udate which should plug this hole. Civileme * Thank You...this is good information and will help me know where to look for more info. Aren't you supposed to be on Vacation? va·ca·tion (v-kshn, v-) n. A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee. A holiday. A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities. Archaic. The act or an instance of vacating. Thanks again! = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include knowledge.h void ignorance (it offers no value) */A freely given answer can offer enlightment to those who ask valid questions __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] unknown sender
Did it look anything like this? Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks But a reply does not bring up an email address in the TO: field? If so it is virus attempt. Albiet harmless to Linux. I believe the address part of the code is simple HTML which strips the senders info. One thing you can do however is to take a look at the long headers on the email and you can find out what domain it was sent from. In fact, a computer name and ip address should be there as well. For example, This is from an email sent from my home coputer: Received: from quantum (user-uivefem.dsl.mindspring.com [165.247.xx.xxx]) by hall.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA09183 HTH. Jen --- chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just recieved an exe file from an 'unknown' sender. How is this done, does anyone know? I cannot reply to him as the machine recognises no address. I can only assume it is a virus. but the lack of an address is puzzling. I am using kmail = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include knowledge.h void ignorance (it offers no value) */A freely given answer can offer enlightment to those who ask valid questions __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Hello!! From Linux!!! :o) Could install YahooMessenger
Hello List!! I'm writing this joyful message from my Linux HyperCool machine!! Until now I was still using OutLook Express, but now, this is from Mozilla Mail. I had sent a previousm ail telling I coul not install YahooMessenger... But I could finally intall it. The problem I had was about "dependencies"... and maybe it got solved when I installed the Application from the prompt (text mode) as a SuperUser... Wooow Have a Great Day!! Adrin... :-) Being free and legal feels great!
[newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted the message? I'm using StarOffice5.2 for my mailclient and it annoyingly defaults at sending back to the person that posted the message instead of going to the list. I was just wondering if this was normal with other mail-clients. Sevatio
Re: [newbie] Franki: Fetchmai/Yahoo
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:33:44 -0400 when Michael Scottaline wrote: account for this pop feature by going through the 'options' in webmail. After its all setup, you can go ahead and setup up two account in kmail, two profiles (if you want) and send/check away... === Does the 1.2v of kmail allow two smtp accounts. I used to run an older version (1.0.28) and while it would allow multiple pop accounts, it could only be configured for one smtp server. Sylpheed, of course, does not have this limitation ;o) I hope someone else can answer that. I don't use KMail. As stated to the obvious ;) Paul -- Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape sideways. -J. McCabe http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Help please !
I can't remember the exact program for doing this... But what you could do (if you find a better answer) is to run your installation CD's again. This time choose UPGRADE. You don't have to install any programs but eventually, it walks you through the Video setup part. Sevatio Original Message On 8/8/01, 9:18:40 AM, Gonzalix le Druide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Help please !: Hi All!! Please help me: I installed LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Video Card Trident 975 agp 4 Mb. I've probed Xconfigurator, xf86cfg and xf86config. I was trying to find some command XFree86Setup or something like that I don't remember. I installed already XFree 3.3.6, but it doesn't work anyway. I will appreciate any ideas. G le D ---
Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [not resolved]
I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set the background (it couldn't before), I still get two sets of icons overlapping each other, one with pretty pictures, the other with default, no icon to display ugly ones). Anybody know what is going on, is this gnome/sawfish and nautilus both doing there job at the same time or something else. Soryy to bother, thanks for the help, everyone! -Paul Rodríguez On 08 Aug 2001 12:42:37 -0400, paul rodríguez wrote: The preferences are set to advanced but there is still no option in my Nautilus preferences to stop managing the desktop. But I did find a work-arround! Yes! I went to /home/user/.nautilus and deleted the file called first-time-flag this is a file which let Nautilus know that the program had been executed before. The next time I opened Nautilus, it gave me the startup dialog again. Yay! Thanks, everyone! -Paul Rodríguez On 08 Aug 2001 10:49:03 -0400, Charles A. Punch wrote: I had a little problem understanding the instructions posted to the list, until I realized that you must change the preferences to advanced and then click preferances. The advanced option is the triangle that one post spoke of. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 paul rodríguez wrote: Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email accidentally. I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in the preferences in my version (1.0.3-3mdk) from Mandrake Freq2. I am currently using gnome with sawfish and would like more control of my desktop environment through these applications. -Paul Rodríguez On 07 Aug 2001 11:02:48 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: open the nautilus browser in the last menu from left to right (is a drawing like a diamond) then... go to preferences and disable the option Choose Nautilus to draw my desktop... or something like that - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:23, Paul wrote: It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:40:40 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I vaguely recall an option for this existing in Nautilus' preferences. I recall it is nautilus --nodesktop. Just tried it: that's it. Paul The problem here is that when you start GNOME, Nautilus will load automatically to manage the desktop. There is no opportunity to enter the --nodesktop flag. The flag will only work if Nautilus is not already loaded (and hence not managing the desktop). To control how Nautilus behaves at GNOME startup, you need to change the preferences setting. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:50, paul rodrguez wrote: I chose to have nautilus run as my desktop manager during the initial setup of my LM 8 freq2 gnome system. Now it seems neither gnome nor nautilus are fully in control of my desktop, the icons appear as blank files and i can't change the background image. I would like to take off nautilus' control of the desktop, how can I set this? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. Jacqueline Bisset http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
It's not just star office. I set up a rule in kmail to fix this, but I don't know if star office has a rules config. If so, just make a rule that states anything with newbie in the subject or from newbie, set reply to as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:36 am, you wrote: When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted the message? I'm using StarOffice5.2 for my mailclient and it annoyingly defaults at sending back to the person that posted the message instead of going to the list. I was just wondering if this was normal with other mail-clients. Sevatio
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
I'm not 100% sure I understand your problem correctly, but no where in this text do you mention running DOS fdisk command to resetup DOS partitions for windows support. I'm not that familiar with the linux form of fdisk but at least in the GUI disk convertors while they do a great job for linux partitions and may offer to set up fat 32 for dos, well it never worked for DOS for me. Try the DOS fdisk first and then format from the DOS disk as well, then give loading winders a try again. If this still doesn't work it's my opinion that you need to try the low level format or write test using the hard drive manufacturers utility. All data will be lost using any of these methods however. Don't mess with the low level format however until you have exhausted all other possibilities as it has been a subject on this list, that has in my opinion not been determined yet, whether or not it potentially can harm the drive. (I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem?)
[newbie] Re: [Help] Nautilus deskop [resolved
Finally! Thank you, sir! Thinks makes sense now. All this time, the desktop option in preferences did not appear, it didn't occur to me untill I read your post that the icon in my gnome panel (default of Mandrake 8.0 f2) was set to run nautilus --no-desktop. Now this makes sense and all problems solved. -Paul Rodríguez On 08 Aug 2001 19:13:08 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: On 08 Aug 2001 09:12:27 -0400, paul rodríguez wrote: Thank you for the clarification, Mario. I agree that all those distinctions are somewhat stupid from a users' point of view :o) Running nautilus --no-desktop does not solve my problem as I set nautilus up during its initial use to manage my desktop during setup. Stange, my understanding always was that --no-desktop should prohibit use of the desktop, regardless of what the preferences are set to. I believe this not working is a bug. There is no option to reverse this choice in Nautilus' preferences. [Thinks ... starts nautilus ... looks in preferences ... scratches head ... thinks ... restarts nautilusEureka!!!] You're right, there is no option if you specify --no-desktop on the nautilus command line. However, if you run it without the option, there it is right in the Windows Desktop Section of Preferences. I run nautilus 1.0.4 (but I'm fairly shure it has been there for a long time), my User Level is Advanced. Kind regards, M. -- I did not vote for the Austrian government _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc
What is needed are volunteers to install and show these kids the ways of Linux. Their minds are like a sponge and will in very short time understand this. Being that they may not have the distractions that money bring, they would ended up with a lot of time to learn on their own. Then they'll show it to their friends and so on and so on. We just need to start the avalanche whenever and wherever we can. We can't underestimate their abilities and intelligence. Sevatio Original Message On 8/8/01, 7:33:24 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc: I think (well, I hope) it'll only be a matter of time before they begin shipping more GNU/Linux systems than Windos ones. It'll take a while before PC's for Kids is used to GNU/Linux and the open source philosophy. They cannot distribute a Windos PC without a certificate, and these would be in short supply. They already give StarOffice, which is available for GNU/Linux as well. Hopefully children will become aware about the technical and usability edge that GNU/Linux offers and they will opt for that instead. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:12, Charlie Oriez wrote: interesting. note the sixth paragraph. it would be nice if they mentioned linux a little sooner. -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- Subject: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:04:10 +1000 From: Pc's for Kids Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charlie Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] WINDOW OF HOPE FOR KIDS Australian charity Pc's for Kids, which is the focus of International awareness was forced to suspend operations because of actions by Microsoft Legal department, has started building the first of many computers destined for underprivileged kids. Mr. Bayes issued a statement saying; Our kids need us, the International public and Australians vowed us to continue our work assisting Children Bridge the Digital Divide. Our members voted to take a stand for the advancement of kids and not let this issue with Microsoft dampen many a child's dream of obtaining their own computer. Microsoft and Pc's for Kids become the focus of worldwide attention when the Software giant told the charity not to use its software unless it is legal. The standoff lasting well over a month has raised many questions of the philanthropic efforts of Microsoft's Co-Founder Mr. William Gates and Microsoft intentions of not granting a simple Refurbishment License to the charity. Lets face it Microsoft, if you do not support the old redundant software of Dos 6.22 and Win 3.11 together with Windows 95 then why not make it Public Domain so the older computer equipment can be used. You state that kids need the latest technology but what happens to the tons of waste IT equipment - send it to landfill Mr. Bayes said. Pc's for Kids Inc, which is based in Geelong Victoria Australia will ship the first of 50 refurbished machines to children next week, thanks to the generosity of the IT public who have scrounged around to locate their old Win 95 certificates. We will give each system Windows 95 and load a full version of Sun Micro-Systems Star Office which was donated by Sun to pass onto our less fortunate children Bayes stated. Mr. Bayes also is pleased at the support offered by the Linux community, We have just completed training with Linux in Melbourne and are looking at offering children the choice of both. The learning of Linux will take some time to perfect so in the meantime we will keep sending out systems with donated Windows, Apple has issued a letter supporting our efforts and fully agree that children need assistance with any means of computer technology, we will be sending to Tonga another 20 refurbished Apple units early next month Mr. Bayes is now appealing to the public and IT sector to keep the dream alive by locating the old software so this charity can continue it works. We need over 1,000 copies for the next 12-months so please dig deep and help us place a smile on a child's face - Remember your old systems and software will assist our disadvantaged kids all over the world Mr. Bayes said. Visit Pc's for Kid's www.pcsforkids.org and post an email with your pledge. Press Release Issued By: Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 (24-Hours Contact) Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: 61 (3) 52444146 Fax: 61 (3) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcsforkids.org Wednesday, August 08, 2001 --- -- --- Oh come now. At least pretend to be scared. The media spent millions trying to psyche you up for this - User Friendly, 08/01/01 on the Code Red virus scare -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We
Re: [Help] Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [resolved]
Ok, really resolved now. Playing arround with Nautilus and deleting the /home/user/.nautilus/first-time-flag and then restarting the computer finally brought that preferences option back. I wonder why it was not there, but ever since I first installed my system it was missing, (and not because of the advanced setting), little bug is all I guess. Worked out now. Thank you very much to everyone who responded, you helped me see where the problem was and made it very easy to fix. I appreciate all the responses very much. -Paul Rodríguez On 08 Aug 2001 10:22:32 -0600, John Fleck wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:07:23AM -0400, paul rodríguez wrote: Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email accidentally. I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in the preferences in my version (1.0.3-3mdk) from Mandrake Freq2. I am currently using gnome with sawfish and would like more control of my desktop environment through these applications. Paul - On my Nautilus 1.0.4 open the preferences-edit preferences menu. In the left pane click on Windows Desktop. The first option at the top is Use Nautilus to Draw the Desktop. Uncheck that. Sorry if this is what you've already tried and the 1.0.3 setup is different, but I'm pretty sure this option has been there a while. Cheers, -- John Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] (h), http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [Help] Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [not resolved]
On 08 Aug 2001 12:51:14 -0400, paul rodríguez wrote: I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set the background (it couldn't before), I still get two sets of icons overlapping each other, one with pretty pictures, the other with default, no icon to display ugly ones). Anybody know what is going on, is this gnome/sawfish and nautilus both doing there job at the same time or something else. Probably gmc (the old but still included gnome filemanager) and nautilus. Start gnome control center. (It's in menu System/Settings if you're using Ximian Gnome) Goto Session properties Startup (Section Session, probably last one in left panel) Go to tab Startup programs and click on Browse currently running programs (at bottom) If you have both nautilus and gmc programs listed here, we have found the problem. If you want only nautilus, mark everything with gmc in the name and click Remove (top right) Now save the session (original gnome has a Save session now somewhere in the menus. IIRC Ximian gnome doesn't have it in the Ximian menu: Then do this: in Session properties Startup see if Automatically save changes to session is turned on in the Session Options tab. Turn on if it's not. Now say OK in Control Center and exit gnome. If you find this all too complicated: it is. Alternatively, you can simply do it from a terminal: look at 'man save-session' and follow the instructions. It's a really easy manpage) On login, the problem should be solved if it is what I suspect. Otherwise, just ask me further Kind regards, M.
Re: [newbie] unknown sender
It was Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:35:01 +0800 when chris wrote: Hi. I just recieved an exe file from an 'unknown' sender. How is this done, does anyone know? I cannot reply to him as the machine recognises no address. I can only assume it is a virus. but the lack of an address is puzzling. I am using kmail It is not difficult to generate an unknown sender. As long as the pop3 server accepts mails with no from address, that's all you need. Better to remove the file, indeed. Can't you tell from the headers in the mail where it came from? The popserver should have added something to it (unless it's someone's own box doing the sending). Paul -- Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape sideways. -J. McCabe http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
RE: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
This is true of any 2 partitioning programs. Always use only 1 for creating, resizing and moving. I prefer using either PM or SystemCommader, but not on the same machine. Unlike fdisk or DiskDrake PM and SC can handle all partition types. The only time I use Diskdrake is to change the file type on pre-existing Linux partitions and I never use fdisk. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sevatio Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:46 AM To: Robin Ballantine; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux Yes, if you're going to use Diskdrake to set up your HD, you CANNOT go back in and resize it with Partition Magic. They are different enough to result in mysterious data loss over a period of time and eventually, you'll end up losing everything. I had this experience over several machines and this is the response I received from Powerquest Partition Magic's tech-support. Sevatio Original Message On 8/8/01, 6:28:51 AM, Robin Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:00 am, you wrote: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem? I have read somewhere, but can't remember where, That if you are going to install Windows on a partition then you should format that partition with the dos version of fdisk as supplied with windows or with the disk installation floppy. I believe the linux version of fdisk formats a dos partition slightly differently. Hope this helps, Robin
[newbie] KMail HTML
Hi All, I seem to be having a bit of a problem with KMail 2.1.2 Even after ticking the box that says prefer plain text to html it still seems to render html in emails I receive. Can't figure out why. I am using: LM 8.0 KDE 2.1.1 with the 2.1.2 updates Kernel 2.4.3-20mdk wwwoffle proxy server Any help or suggestions welcome. Robin
Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:36 pm, you wrote: When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted the message? I'm using StarOffice5.2 for my mailclient and it annoyingly defaults at sending back to the person that posted the message instead of going to the list. I was just wondering if this was normal with other mail-clients. Sevatio You also need to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc box so that it gets posted to the mailing list as well. Robin.
[newbie] upgrading LM ver via Wev dwnld???
I have seen on the web all the different versions of LM and all the RPMS each one contains. I was wondering if anyone knows how to upgrade from one version of LM to any other version of LM, by downloading the RPMS from the web? What apps/rpms do you have to download and install? Thanks, Donnie _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
RE: [newbie] rpm catch22's
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Judith Miner Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's Matt wrote: Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a nightmare. I couldn't agree more. I have had similar sad sagas more times than I care to recall. For example, I tried to install the latest Gnucash, which I've heard has many improvements over the version that came with my Mandrake 8. When I tried to install the rpm package, I got a HUGE list of dependencies I'd need. There was no way I was going to try to find them, install them keeping my fingers crossed that something else wouldn't break in the process, and see if the silly thing would work. Especially since I don't even know if I'd like Gnucash. I *must* have an easy-to-use checkbook manager on my system, and my trial of the Gnucash that came with the distro was not exactly a roaring success. It made a mess of its import of my Quicken data, which is Requirement No. 1 for any checkbook manager I might consider. I hope they get their act together on package installations. It's got to work better than it does now. --Judy Miner If you are interested in upgrading apps beyond those carried in the Security updates add a Cooker source to your Software Mgr. This will auto download and install any depends that might be needed. In the case of GnuCash you will get a glibc warning. Do a force on it since glibc-dev is alao being upgraded. This in not a cure all procedure. Some apps will upgrade simply with no depends, but other will have 15 or more and then you can still end up with conflicts and have to abort the install. The only way for the for the package installation to become simpler is for Linux to stop evolving, for all pkgs except for applications to become frozen, that there be only 1 kernel in use, and that all distributions be the same. Is it just me or does this sound like the way someone esle does things. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
Re: [newbie] Wildcards - selecting almost *
It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:30:13 +1000 when George Petri wrote: Is there a way, in bash, to specify all files EXCEPT one or two? e.g. I want to: cp /home/george/* (except for untouchable.txt) /somewhere_else I could think of a bash script that either uses nono-parameters, or uses a file containing the nono-files that's grepped. Another way... not in my head. Paul -- Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape sideways. -J. McCabe http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
You also need to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc box so that it gets posted to the mailing list as well. Bad idea, I don't want to get few messages two times :(
Re: [newbie] locked cdrom and floppy
Oder Santos wrote: I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in advance. Oder Oderthe locks are a feature of supermount. But supermount is broken in MandrakeFreq (20010619) so you'll need to disable it. It'd be a good idea to backup your /etc/fstab first, just in case you get a kernel that supermount isn't broken in. The command supermount -i enable is flawed and can change entries that don't need changing. Anyway in a console as root type: supermount -i disable After a reboot, supermount will be disabled and the locks will be gone. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
Dear All, I agree about using System Commander. I had my hard disk totally go bad 2 weeks ago and then put in a new one. I almost used fdisk to partition but last minute I decided to try my System Commander. It worked absolutely great. I was very impressed. I am up and running now without a problem and now I do not think I would use anything else for that job. I used fdisk before and I definitely prefer System Commander. Marcia On Wednesday 08 August 2001 13:33, Charles A Edwards wrote: This is true of any 2 partitioning programs. Always use only 1 for creating, resizing and moving. I prefer using either PM or SystemCommader, but not on the same machine. Unlike fdisk or DiskDrake PM and SC can handle all partition types. The only time I use Diskdrake is to change the file type on pre-existing Linux partitions and I never use fdisk. Charles
Re: [newbie] KMail HTML
Robin, The email you've sent is plain text, not HTML, so I'm guessing that the option you've selected only affects outgoing mail. There might not be an option to control whether you see HTML or not. Randy Kramer Robin Ballantine wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having a bit of a problem with KMail 2.1.2 Even after ticking the box that says prefer plain text to html it still seems to render html in emails I receive. Can't figure out why. I am using: LM 8.0 KDE 2.1.1 with the 2.1.2 updates Kernel 2.4.3-20mdk wwwoffle proxy server Any help or suggestions welcome. Robin
Re: [newbie] mars_nwe
Yes I have heard of mars_nwe I am working with it now. But it only emulates NetWare Bindary Server 3.12 ~Brandon - Original Message - From: Jhun Bacala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 6:26 AM Subject: [newbie] mars_nwe Hi! All, I've heard of a program called MARS_NWE which is a clone Novell Netware. Has anyone ever tried to install it in Linux-Mandrake? If so, can anyone give me some guide on how to install it in Linux-Mandrake? Thanks Jhun
Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:16 pm, you wrote: You also need to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc box so that it gets posted to the mailing list as well. Bad idea, I don't want to get few messages two times :( I know you will receive this message twice but that gives you twice the chance of actually noticing a reply to your email, especially if you filter mail to separate folders. In fact I would recommend the use of filters for this as it gives you a much greater chance of picking up a late reply to your posting. Anyhow, you have to at least post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that everyone can benefit from your pearls of wisdom. Almost all messages are quite small (usually 4k) so receiving a reply twice is pretty insignificant. At least you received a reply? :-) Robin
[newbie] 2.4.7-8mdk automount
Hallo! I've installed kernel-2.4.7-8mdk on my LM8... on first startup i saw the message disabling automount. How can i have it working again? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] gtk upgrading via rpmdrake
How safe is it to upgrade my gtk libraries via rpmdrake? Should I choose to force the installations? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
It is a Great bootloader as well. It is what I use on any of my systems that have more than 2 OSes installed. It certainly simplifies the life of adding, changing and removing. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Marcia Waller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:38 PM To: Charles A Edwards; Newbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux Dear All, I agree about using System Commander. I had my hard disk totally go bad 2 weeks ago and then put in a new one. I almost used fdisk to partition but last minute I decided to try my System Commander. It worked absolutely great. I was very impressed. I am up and running now without a problem and now I do not think I would use anything else for that job. I used fdisk before and I definitely prefer System Commander. Marcia On Wednesday 08 August 2001 13:33, Charles A Edwards wrote: This is true of any 2 partitioning programs. Always use only 1 for creating, resizing and moving. I prefer using either PM or SystemCommader, but not on the same machine. Unlike fdisk or DiskDrake PM and SC can handle all partition types. The only time I use Diskdrake is to change the file type on pre-existing Linux partitions and I never use fdisk. Charles
[newbie] MoBo 4 Linux?
Hallo! I'm planning to upgrade from K6-III to Thunderbird... what's the best mobo for you? Is the USB2 support important? What about RDRAM support? 8-? Thanks in advance!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 14:24 pm, you wrote: The latest version of StarOffice is 5.2. You can download it for free from www.sun.com That version also comes with the latest powerpack edition. Unfortunately I've had no luck at all installing Star Office on my system. Something in the Start Office setup locks my PC up completely, I've given up on it for now. I don't yet have a reliable method of backing up and having to power down to get the thing running again is too chancy. Phil.
Re: [newbie] Help please !
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Hi All!! Please help me: I installed LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, Video Card Trident 975 agp 4 Mb. I've probed Xconfigurator, xf86cfg and xf86config. I was trying to find some command XFree86Setup or something like that I don't remember. I installed already XFree 3.3.6, but it doesn't work anyway. I will appreciate any ideas. G le D --- xf86cfg xf86config According to Çivileme: Thr trident card you mention requires Option 'noaccel In the Graphic Device Section of /etc/X11/XF86Config You will need to edit that in as root. :) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] KMail HTML
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 6:50 pm, you wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having a bit of a problem with KMail 2.1.2 Even after ticking the box that says prefer plain text to html it still seems to render html in emails I receive. Can't figure out why. I am using: LM 8.0 KDE 2.1.1 with the 2.1.2 updates Kernel 2.4.3-20mdk wwwoffle proxy server Any help or suggestions welcome. Robin Got it sorted thanks. Took a look at the 'READER' section of Kmailrc in .kde/share/config/kmailrc and changed htmlMail=false to htmlMail=true. Yes I know this is the wrong way round and it also leaves the 'Prefer plain-text to HTML rendering' box unticked in the 'Configure Kmail' box, but it works. Any html mail with links and code now shows as plain text, with my fonts and no silly adverts etc. My system must be either back to front or else there is a bug in 2.1.2 Only hope now I'm not sending out HTML to the list. Perhaps someone could let me know if I am. Robin
[newbie] DHCP...please help
Hello. I am trying to stup/enable a DHCP client on my linux machine. I am running LM8.0 right now. I have a book about setting up an internet server for linux, but all the examples are based off of RH6.2 I could install that, but I would prefer to stay w/ LM8.0. (I have read the debate on ipchains/tables and deffinatly like the way iptables sound.) Now, the book shows the following examples of ipmasq, and DHCP, which is all well and good...if I were using the CDrom from the book. Can anyone tell me where the DCHP and ipmasq files are located (by default) on LM8, and the commands to initialize them? If they're the same as RH, then I should be able to get it w/out an example. I could play around w/ them to figure it out, but cannot find the DCHP files or ipmasq ones. The book's example of installing the DCHP rpm file is this: # rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/dhcp-2.ob1pl6-6.i386.rpm [enter] When I installed Linux-mandrake, I selected the option that was for firewall/router, so I'm pretty sure the DHCP client is already install. If it is not, where should I start looking? -Thanks for all your help, folx. It has been a great asset. -Matt
Re: [newbie] Modem Config!
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote: Thanks for the information. Been playing around in KDE systems control looking at everything listed. I went through each device in the list but I'm still not sure which one to use. If it's located under Communication Controllers, it is listed as an unknown device. It still gives the I/O Area and Interrupt though. That's it. Under Connectors is listed Com1 and Com2 only! Com3 will show up once you associate your modem to it. ??? -s
Re: [newbie] Modem Config!
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, when you type your ioport portion of the setserial command, place an 0x (that's a zero) in front of it. For example here's mine: setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xb800 irq 5 -s hope all this works for ya.
Re: [newbie] ./ ?????
Try checking the permissions. Are the permissions so that you could execute it? They would look something like this. [timh@yoda timh]$ ls -la `which mutt` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 426528 May 27 16:42 /usr/local/bin/mutt As you can see, the x means it's executable. Try also sh command. That may help. But I'd check the permissions to start out with. Hope that helps. -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 11:36pm up 7 days, 10:31, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 | When I type ./COMMAND whatever that command may be, it doesnt always work. | Sometmes it says it can not execute the binary file, other times it says I | can find the file. I cant do it as root or a normal user. | | ~Lance | --
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8
To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux). I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio format. I'll try what you said, ALSA was checked to start, but not running. Right now I'm burning a CD and don't want to kill that to reboot. thanks for your help...now to why my printer has gotten really slow...for another post... On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:31, etharp wrote: let me get this straight, you ARE using Mandrake 8.0. you do not think you have Kmix on your system. how did you check to see if kmix was installed? do you have the available hard drive space to install it? do not install more sound drivers (as far I rememrber, alsa and OSS conflict, and you may already have some conflicting sound problems). in fact, in this case, the answer may be as likely to uninstall a sound service as to install one. this is a partial quote from a report by someone whom knows ALOT more about this stuff than I do. Mandrake Control Center = System = Services and unchecked at boot for alsa once I noticed that it was checked at boot and wasn't running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA not autodetect) then logged out an rebooted. Sound was afterwards fine. On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard wrote: Ok, I made sure that PNP was turned off in BIOS (already was off). I tried to find Kmix, don't have it. I did get CD Player to work. But I cannot get XMMS to work. It still scrolls the MP3 title and sits there. It (xmms) freezes whenever I try to stop it. In fact, just about any of the sound applications freeze when I try to exit them. None (but CD Player) work. Could there be a setting somewhere that has been accidentally switched, effectively killing my card? I'm ready to try ALSA, but after spending several long nights with WINE (and then disappointed at the results) several more nights with SANE (didn't get that to work right and gave up, at least for now) and now ALSA, I want something to go easy. The mini-howto on ALSA is 29 pages and its for kernel 2.2, not the 2.4.3 that comes with Mandrake 8.0. I'm not sure I want to tackle that now. Please help a newbie in distress. On Sunday 05 August 2001 5:21, etharp wrote: run Kmix and make sure the levels are respectable to hear (half way) and that in BIOS, plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF. On Sunday 05 August 2001 14:05, Linus Drouhard wrote: I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the configuration routine. I think that the first test was the word Hello but I got a Hel sounded like it cutoff. The midi track played fine. Anyway, I tried configuring it through Harddrake, couldn't fine isapnp.config, or something like that. I tried using it anyway. CD-player spins away, but no sound. Running an MP3 through XMMS (and other MP3 players) doesn't work either. The title scrolls by, but the song won't play. If I slide the progress bar, I get snippets of sound, 1/2 second or so long. Any help would be appreciated in setting this classic soundcard up. Thanks, Linus ASUS P5A AMD K6-II 400 @420 128 MB Ram Nvidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB Realtek NIC
Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: Hi Try ctrl+alt+F keys Peace Amien On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 alf+F2 to 9 won't work so I am stuck with just one screen. How can I make them available? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Whoa!!! Leave it to a newbie to randomly try out the advice on this list!! I tried out the cntrl+ALT+ F 1,2,3,4,5, etc keys together while in X. lemme tell you, the results were not what I expected. C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its booting) Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What different from my system that this doesn't work?? And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X??
Re: [newbie] ./ ?????
It was Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:54:32 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I type ./COMMAND whatever that command may be, it doesnt always work. Sometmes it says it can not execute the binary file, other times it says I can find the file. I cant do it as root or a normal user. If COMMAND doesn't work, first check with ls -l COMMAND if the x permissions are on. The eXecute permissions. If they're not, then do chmod +x COMMAND to get them on. Paul -- All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making. -Ordway Tead http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?
On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:40, jennifer wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: Hi Try ctrl+alt+F keys Peace Amien On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 alf+F2 to 9 won't work so I am stuck with just one screen. How can I make them available? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Whoa!!! Leave it to a newbie to randomly try out the advice on this list!! I tried out the cntrl+ALT+ F 1,2,3,4,5, etc keys together while in X. lemme tell you, the results were not what I expected. C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its booting) Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What different from my system that this doesn't work?? And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X?? I forgot to include A+C+F8 That brings seems to start the postfix deamon.
Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager [not resolved]
Before Nauiltus came along, GMC controlled the GNOME desktop. Perhaps you can turn off GMC's control of the desktop in GMC's settings. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:51, paul rodríguez wrote: I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set the background (it couldn't before), I still get two sets of icons overlapping each other, one with pretty pictures, the other with default, no icon to display ugly ones). Anybody know what is going on, is this gnome/sawfish and nautilus both doing there job at the same time or something else. Soryy to bother, thanks for the help, everyone! -Paul Rodríguez On 08 Aug 2001 12:42:37 -0400, paul rodríguez wrote: The preferences are set to advanced but there is still no option in my Nautilus preferences to stop managing the desktop. But I did find a work-arround! Yes! I went to /home/user/.nautilus and deleted the file called first-time-flag this is a file which let Nautilus know that the program had been executed before. The next time I opened Nautilus, it gave me the startup dialog again. Yay! Thanks, everyone! -Paul Rodríguez On 08 Aug 2001 10:49:03 -0400, Charles A. Punch wrote: I had a little problem understanding the instructions posted to the list, until I realized that you must change the preferences to advanced and then click preferances. The advanced option is the triangle that one post spoke of. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 paul rodríguez wrote: Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email accidentally. I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in the preferences in my version (1.0.3-3mdk) from Mandrake Freq2. I am currently using gnome with sawfish and would like more control of my desktop environment through these applications. -Paul Rodríguez On 07 Aug 2001 11:02:48 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: open the nautilus browser in the last menu from left to right (is a drawing like a diamond) then... go to preferences and disable the option Choose Nautilus to draw my desktop... or something like that - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:23, Paul wrote: It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:40:40 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I vaguely recall an option for this existing in Nautilus' preferences. I recall it is nautilus --nodesktop. Just tried it: that's it. Paul The problem here is that when you start GNOME, Nautilus will load automatically to manage the desktop. There is no opportunity to enter the --nodesktop flag. The flag will only work if Nautilus is not already loaded (and hence not managing the desktop). To control how Nautilus behaves at GNOME startup, you need to change the preferences setting. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:50, paul rodrguez wrote: I chose to have nautilus run as my desktop manager during the initial setup of my LM 8 freq2 gnome system. Now it seems neither gnome nor nautilus are fully in control of my desktop, the icons appear as blank files and i can't change the background image. I would like to take off nautilus' control of the desktop, how can I set this? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson -- Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. Jacqueline Bisset http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.2 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Hello!! From Linux!!! :o) Could install YahooMessenger
That's wonderful, but please don't post in HTML. Below is a text-only version of your message. As you can see, it looks just fine that way. With HTML, a message's size can grow exponentially, leading to longer downloads for all of us. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 01:15, Adrian Ivanov Correa Moreno wrote: Hello List!! I'm writing this joyful message from my Linux HyperCool machine!! Until now I was still using OutLook Express, but now, this is from *Mozilla Mail*. I had sent a previousm ail telling I coul not install YahooMessenger... But I could finally intall it. The problem I had was about dependencies... and maybe it got solved when I installed the Application from the prompt (text mode) as a SuperUser... Wooow Have a Great Day!! *Adrián...* :-) Being free and legal feels great! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] How to upgrade LM?
You'd be much better off doing a clean install. Package names and file locations can change a lot between distro versions, and installing RPMs from a newer distro can really mess things up. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:27, Donnie Green wrote: I have seen on the web all the different versions of LM and all the RPMS each one contains. I was wondering if anyone knows how to upgrade from one version of LM to any other version of LM, by downloading the RPMS from the web? What apps/rpms do you have to download and install? Thanks Donnie -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc
Some time ago I posted a link to an article which said that the owner of everythinglinux.com.au offered to give free GNU/Linux distribution CDs and free installation on machines. I'm sure if some LUGs got involved things could happen even faster. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:00, Sevatio wrote: What is needed are volunteers to install and show these kids the ways of Linux. Their minds are like a sponge and will in very short time understand this. Being that they may not have the distractions that money bring, they would ended up with a lot of time to learn on their own. Then they'll show it to their friends and so on and so on. We just need to start the avalanche whenever and wherever we can. We can't underestimate their abilities and intelligence. Sevatio Original Message On 8/8/01, 7:33:24 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Fwd: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc: I think (well, I hope) it'll only be a matter of time before they begin shipping more GNU/Linux systems than Windos ones. It'll take a while before PC's for Kids is used to GNU/Linux and the open source philosophy. They cannot distribute a Windos PC without a certificate, and these would be in short supply. They already give StarOffice, which is available for GNU/Linux as well. Hopefully children will become aware about the technical and usability edge that GNU/Linux offers and they will opt for that instead. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:12, Charlie Oriez wrote: interesting. note the sixth paragraph. it would be nice if they mentioned linux a little sooner. -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- Subject: Latest press Pc's for Kids Inc Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:04:10 +1000 From: Pc's for Kids Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charlie Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] WINDOW OF HOPE FOR KIDS Australian charity Pc's for Kids, which is the focus of International awareness was forced to suspend operations because of actions by Microsoft Legal department, has started building the first of many computers destined for underprivileged kids. Mr. Bayes issued a statement saying; Our kids need us, the International public and Australians vowed us to continue our work assisting Children Bridge the Digital Divide. Our members voted to take a stand for the advancement of kids and not let this issue with Microsoft dampen many a child's dream of obtaining their own computer. Microsoft and Pc's for Kids become the focus of worldwide attention when the Software giant told the charity not to use its software unless it is legal. The standoff lasting well over a month has raised many questions of the philanthropic efforts of Microsoft's Co-Founder Mr. William Gates and Microsoft intentions of not granting a simple Refurbishment License to the charity. Lets face it Microsoft, if you do not support the old redundant software of Dos 6.22 and Win 3.11 together with Windows 95 then why not make it Public Domain so the older computer equipment can be used. You state that kids need the latest technology but what happens to the tons of waste IT equipment - send it to landfill Mr. Bayes said. Pc's for Kids Inc, which is based in Geelong Victoria Australia will ship the first of 50 refurbished machines to children next week, thanks to the generosity of the IT public who have scrounged around to locate their old Win 95 certificates. We will give each system Windows 95 and load a full version of Sun Micro-Systems Star Office which was donated by Sun to pass onto our less fortunate children Bayes stated. Mr. Bayes also is pleased at the support offered by the Linux community, We have just completed training with Linux in Melbourne and are looking at offering children the choice of both. The learning of Linux will take some time to perfect so in the meantime we will keep sending out systems with donated Windows, Apple has issued a letter supporting our efforts and fully agree that children need assistance with any means of computer technology, we will be sending to Tonga another 20 refurbished Apple units early next month Mr. Bayes is now appealing to the public and IT sector to keep the dream alive by locating the old software so this charity can continue it works. We need over 1,000 copies for the next 12-months so please dig deep and help us place a smile on a child's face - Remember your old systems and software will assist our disadvantaged kids all over the world Mr. Bayes said. Visit Pc's for Kid's www.pcsforkids.org and post an email with your pledge. Press Release Issued By: Colin Bayes President / Founder (0402) 149719 (24-Hours Contact) Pc's for Kids Inc Ph: 61 (3) 52444146 Fax: 61 (3) 52436026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pcsforkids.org Wednesday,
Re: [newbie] KMail HTML
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:04, Randy Kramer wrote: Robin Ballantine wrote: Only hope now I'm not sending out HTML to the list. Perhaps someone could let me know if I am. Nope, it's still plain text! Randy Kramer KMail can't send HTML mail; it can only read it. This is the way things should be :-) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] rpm catch22's
These issues have received a lot of press coverage recently. The new version of GNUcash requires a great many packages that are not included in standard distributions. Hopefully MandrakeSoft will include them in 8.1. The main problem with RPM at present is its lack of an automated dependency resolution system. Debian have the wonderful apt-get system, which can easily resolve these sorts of problems. Connectiva (a Brazilian distro) have ported this to RPM, and Mandrake have it in their contribs FTP directories. Mandrake, of course, have their own urpmi system (as used in Software Manager), but from what I have read apt-get looks to be much better. As for chequebook managers, MoneyDance is supposed to be good, although I haven't tried it myself. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:49, Judith Miner wrote: Matt wrote: Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a nightmare. I couldn't agree more. I have had similar sad sagas more times than I care to recall. For example, I tried to install the latest Gnucash, which I've heard has many improvements over the version that came with my Mandrake 8. When I tried to install the rpm package, I got a HUGE list of dependencies I'd need. There was no way I was going to try to find them, install them keeping my fingers crossed that something else wouldn't break in the process, and see if the silly thing would work. Especially since I don't even know if I'd like Gnucash. I *must* have an easy-to-use checkbook manager on my system, and my trial of the Gnucash that came with the distro was not exactly a roaring success. It made a mess of its import of my Quicken data, which is Requirement No. 1 for any checkbook manager I might consider. I hope they get their act together on package installations. It's got to work better than it does now. --Judy Miner -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8
Try running aumix. If the command doesn't exist, install the package of the same name. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:04, Linus Drouhard wrote: To see if I had Kmix, I went to the menus of installed programs. I also checked in the Package Manager, didn't find Kmix at all there. I don't know any other way (remember I'm a total newbie to Linux). I can get CD's to play, just not MP3's. I've not tried any other audio format. I'll try what you said, ALSA was checked to start, but not running. Right now I'm burning a CD and don't want to kill that to reboot. thanks for your help...now to why my printer has gotten really slow...for another post... On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:31, etharp wrote: let me get this straight, you ARE using Mandrake 8.0. you do not think you have Kmix on your system. how did you check to see if kmix was installed? do you have the available hard drive space to install it? do not install more sound drivers (as far I rememrber, alsa and OSS conflict, and you may already have some conflicting sound problems). in fact, in this case, the answer may be as likely to uninstall a sound service as to install one. this is a partial quote from a report by someone whom knows ALOT more about this stuff than I do. Mandrake Control Center = System = Services and unchecked at boot for alsa once I noticed that it was checked at boot and wasn't running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA not autodetect) then logged out an rebooted. Sound was afterwards fine. On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard wrote: Ok, I made sure that PNP was turned off in BIOS (already was off). I tried to find Kmix, don't have it. I did get CD Player to work. But I cannot get XMMS to work. It still scrolls the MP3 title and sits there. It (xmms) freezes whenever I try to stop it. In fact, just about any of the sound applications freeze when I try to exit them. None (but CD Player) work. Could there be a setting somewhere that has been accidentally switched, effectively killing my card? I'm ready to try ALSA, but after spending several long nights with WINE (and then disappointed at the results) several more nights with SANE (didn't get that to work right and gave up, at least for now) and now ALSA, I want something to go easy. The mini-howto on ALSA is 29 pages and its for kernel 2.2, not the 2.4.3 that comes with Mandrake 8.0. I'm not sure I want to tackle that now. Please help a newbie in distress. On Sunday 05 August 2001 5:21, etharp wrote: run Kmix and make sure the levels are respectable to hear (half way) and that in BIOS, plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF. On Sunday 05 August 2001 14:05, Linus Drouhard wrote: I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the configuration routine. I think that the first test was the word Hello but I got a Hel sounded like it cutoff. The midi track played fine. Anyway, I tried configuring it through Harddrake, couldn't fine isapnp.config, or something like that. I tried using it anyway. CD-player spins away, but no sound. Running an MP3 through XMMS (and other MP3 players) doesn't work either. The title scrolls by, but the song won't play. If I slide the progress bar, I get snippets of sound, 1/2 second or so long. Any help would be appreciated in setting this classic soundcard up. Thanks, Linus ASUS P5A AMD K6-II 400 @420 128 MB Ram Nvidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB Realtek NIC -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
Most mail clients have a Reply to all function. Usually if you just click Reply, the mail will only go to one person. On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:36, Sevatio wrote: When you hit the Reply-To option with your Mail-client, does it go back to the Newbie-List or does it go the the person that posted the message? I'm using StarOffice5.2 for my mailclient and it annoyingly defaults at sending back to the person that posted the message instead of going to the list. I was just wondering if this was normal with other mail-clients. Sevatio -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?
That's the predicament. To double or not to double. I think most importantly, the List needs to see the correspondence so that answers are shared among all of us. So, this sounds like it could have been solved at the source by having the mailing-list daemon include the proper headers to avoid this extra work. I know that some other mailing-lists will show the Sender to be Joe Blow but when you hit the Reply-To, it automatically goes back to the Newbie Mailing-List. Any experts out there with Mailing-List Server knowledge? Is this possible? Sevatio Original Message On 8/8/01, 6:38:10 PM, Robin Ballantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 2:16 pm, you wrote: You also need to put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc box so that it gets posted to the mailing list as well. Bad idea, I don't want to get few messages two times :( I know you will receive this message twice but that gives you twice the chance of actually noticing a reply to your email, especially if you filter mail to separate folders. In fact I would recommend the use of filters for this as it gives you a much greater chance of picking up a late reply to your posting. Anyhow, you have to at least post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that everyone can benefit from your pearls of wisdom. Almost all messages are quite small (usually 4k) so receiving a reply twice is pretty insignificant. At least you received a reply? :-) Robin
Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?
C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) These are normal. The crash message in tty2 should not be there I think. But if X works after you hit ctrl-alt-f9 that's fine. C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I know there is a text screen that shows the messages from the Xwindow server. And you found it ;) C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away These are extra sessions where X can live. When you log into tty3, you can start another X session which will live under ctrl-alt-f10, etc. C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its booting) Never saw that, I'll try it someday :) Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What different from my system that this doesn't work?? And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X?? Nope, that is pretty standard. Has nothing to do with PortSentry. Paul
Re: [newbie] splitting up a file on floppys
Sorry about throwing this pile of info at you. I'm a bit short on time right now. But in the follow pasted info, you'll find your answers. I'll leave you the task of trimming it down. -Sevatio 2.18. How do I split a compressed backup into smaller files onto another hard disk? This type of backup is typically done by those who want to split the archive into smaller chunks to fit on a CDR or to avoid the 2GB file size limitation. To do this type of backup you will need Dylan's boot disk, your original A drive to backup and a DOS FAT formatted hard drive to put the backup on. The drive needs to have enough space to hold the backup. It should be noted that if your TiVo has been used much the backup will be exceedingly large and doing a disk to disk image is generally a better idea. If the A drive is from a virgin TiVo this compressed image could be anywhere from 600MB to 20GB. The size will vary even for virgin TiVo's because some have the store demo mode on them and some don't. For the example below we will assume the following drive connections. Original A drive connected to secondary port as the master drive ( /dev/hdc ) DOS/Windows formatted drive connected to Primary port as the master drive ( /dev/hda ). The partition can be either a FAT16 or FAT32 partition. Dylan's bootdisk does support Ext2 partitions also if you wish to use one. Do not connect the DOS/Windows drive to anything but Primary master. Byte swapping is used for all other devices and Linux will not be able to mount DOS partition connected to them. The following are the steps needed to do the backup. 1.Connect the drives as stated above 2.Boot the computer with Dylan's boot disk in the floppy drive 3.Login in as root 4.Type mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt (no quotes) 5.Type dd if=/dev/hdc bs=32k | gzip -9c | split -b 650m - /mnt/tivodisk_ (no quotes). Use dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/hdc bs=32k | gzip -9c | split -b 650m - /mnt/tivodisk_ (no quotes) instead, if the first command gives you an error. 6.In the step above 650m denotes 650 Megabytes. This size file should fit on a CD later for burning. You can make this value whatever best suits your needs. 7.Go relax because this will take awhile. Depending on the speed of the computer, size of the A drive, this could take anywhere from 3 to 24 hours! 8.When finished make sure there were no errors. 9.Type umount /mnt (no quotes) 10.Power down the PC. To restore the backup do the following. Remember that this will erase whatever is on the drive connected to the secondary master port. 1.Connect the drives as stated above 2.Boot the computer with Dylan's boot disk in the floppy drive 3.Login in as root 4.Type mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt (no quotes) 5.Type cat /mnt/tivodisk* | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/hdc obs=32k (no quotes) 6.Go relax because this will take awhile. Depending on the speed of the computer, size of the A drive, this could take anywhere from 3 to 24 hours! 7.Make sure there were no errors reported 8.Type umount /mnt (no quotes) 9.Power down the PC Original Message On 8/8/01, 5:03:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] splitting up a file on floppys: hi all. it seem i remember that somehow linux can split files up on floppys, can someone give me a hint as to what command i would use to do this. do i use TAR to do this (as one would do with PKZIP in windoze)? or is there another command. thanks much. also, this is my first post from AOhelL. if it is in HTML format please yell at me so i can fix it. thanks Adrian
