Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:54:28 -0800 (PST) luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ecco qua... Io ho risolto impostandomi le variabili di ambiente XINE_CONFIG e LD_LIBRARY_PATH con il percorso per il file xine-config e con il percorso delle librerie di xine: XINE_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/xine-config LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib Dopodiche' ricompilando mi era andato tutto bene. Spero che risolva i tuoi problemi!! Fammi sapere. purtroppo non ha funzionato neanche cos_! qualcuno conosce un'alternativa valida a xine? vi prego non vorrei dover esser costretto ad usare windows proprio per il dvd! Hai gia' provato Videolan? E' un ottima alternativa a Xine (e per certi versi anche migliore) ed utilizza sia Xvideo che le SDL per le accelerazioni video. Puoi trovarlo qui http://www.videolan.org Ciao -- Sebastiano
Fwd: [newbie-it] avi-xmms plugini!!!!!!!!
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [newbie-it] avi-xmms plugini Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:47:00 -0500 From: Matteo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sto cercando di instalare avi-xmms plugin su mandrake8, ma non riesco. quando eseguo ,/configure nel finale mi scrive: the XMMS-config script installed by XMMS could not be found. if XMMS was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in your path, or set the XMMS_CONFIG enviroment variable to the full path to xmms_config. Spero che qualcuno mi possa aiutare. ---
[newbie-it] Problemi con GCombust
Salve a tutti, io ho una Mandrake 8.0, ho sia un HD che un masterizzatore SCSI. Non riesco a configurare GCombust. In preferenze ho settato tutti i percorsi dei programmi, si trovano tutti sotto /usr/bin/. Nella scheda dispositivi non mi riconosce il drive SCSI: quando infatti vado a cliccare su controlla settaggi SCSI mi dice che non riconosce il drive selezionato, ciò non ostante il mio masterizzatore funziona benissimo in lettura. Se provo comunque a fare un CD dati, tutti i file che aggiungo hanno una dimensione di 0MB e lo spazio usato del CD è sempre 0. Cosa mi consigliate? Grazie mille Enrico
R: R: [newbie-it] Infrarossi !!!
Da comando lspci: Communications controller : lucent Winmodem 56K. Da Mandrake control center ho notato che lo identifica ma non ha il file modulo(kernel module:unknown). -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Luigi De Pascale Inviato: mercoledi 19 dicembre 2001 19.07 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] Infrarossi !!! On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, mino wrote: Come faccio a verificare che il mio winmodem funzioni? in fase di installazione mi ha detto di collegarmi al sito www.linmodems.org. Inoltre ho provare a fare una ricerca sul famoso cellulare+infrarossi ma non riesco a trovare nulla. Aspetto vostre notizie Mino Comincerei con lo stabilire che modem hai: lspci che cosa ti risponde? Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: R: R: [newbie-it] Infrarossi !!!
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, mino wrote: Da comando lspci: Communications controller : lucent Winmodem 56K. Da Mandrake control center ho notato che lo identifica ma non ha il file modulo(kernel module:unknown). -Messaggio originale- On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, mino wrote: Come faccio a verificare che il mio winmodem funzioni? in fase di installazione mi ha detto di collegarmi al sito www.linmodems.org. Inoltre ho provare a fare una ricerca sul famoso cellulare+infrarossi ma non riesco a trovare nulla. Aspetto vostre notizie Mino Comincerei con lo stabilire che modem hai: lspci che cosa ti risponde? Ciao Luigi -- Un po' pochino come informazione ma il fatto che lspci lo veda rende ottimisti sulla possibilita' che funzioni. Non e' che da windows ( se lo hai ancora installato ottieni piu' informazioni?). E' normale che ti dica che non sa che modulo usare. Non ci sono i moduli per i winmodem nella distribuzione. Comunque dovrebbe bastarti scaricare i driver in formato rpm per il tuo kernel ed installarli. Li trovi seguento il link lucent dal sito www.linmodems.org Attento, la versione 5.99 non funziona bene. la 6a dovrebbe andare. La 6 b non ho mai provato ma mi sembra di ricordare che qualcuno mi abbia detto che non funziona. Ciao Luigi
[newbie-it] Stampanti e Server
Salve a tutti. Ho appena installato la Mdk 8.1 su un pc. Ho messo su i cups ed ho bisogno di cambiare il formato della carta da letter ad A4. Purtroppo da localhost:631 il configure printer non funziona, dice client-error-not-found. qualcuno sa come sistemare la cosa oppure come settare la carta da un altro posto. Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] Stampanti e Server
Il giorno 13:39, giovedì 20 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Salve a tutti. Ho appena installato la Mdk 8.1 su un pc. Ho messo su i cups ed ho bisogno di cambiare il formato della carta da letter ad A4. Purtroppo da localhost:631 il configure printer non funziona, dice client-error-not-found. qualcuno sa come sistemare la cosa oppure come settare la carta da un altro posto. Luigi Puoi sempre installare KUPS e farlo da lì. Daniele
[newbie-it] Fwd: Re: [Notice] password
Ciao a tutti, qualche giorno fa qualcuno in questa lista (scusate, non ricordo chi) aveva scoperto che Mandrake Linux controlla in realtà solo i primi 8 caratteri delle password degli utenti. Così, avevo scritto alla MandrakeSoft. Questa è la loro risposta... Daniele -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: [Notice] password Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:36:15 +0100 From: Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in these days someone on the mailing list newbie-it discovered that Mandrake Linux checks only first 8 characters of user's account password. And this is not outlined in any of the distro's docs. So, the risk is to create the same password for twoor more users. I wish the next release will really permit longer user's passwords (at least 12-15 characters). there's been a security update for passwd in order to enable it to use more characters through md5 method.
Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat
Does anyone know of a list that is newbie friendly? My wife is the only one allowed to beat me up. I'm very reluctant to ask questions here because of the way people have been treated lately. I have learned a lot lurking between the flames, but it has gotten to the point where you are not fun or funny any more. Good luck, Civileme. You have to put up with 'em. I don't. Lee Wiggers Lee, There are those of us, including civilme, Vincent Danen, myself, and others that do help the newbies on this list without 'flaming' people -- and hopefully providing the newbies with new insights and so forth. Most of us 'experts' have simply seen more of the problems a newbie is likely to face and simply have more ideas as to what to check, re-configure, install, or whatever the case may be. If you feel you'll get flamed on-list, don't hesitate to send an e-mail to me or one of the others directly. If nothing else, we can at least (hopefully) provide suggestions that might point you in the right direction. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X
Ok. Here is the deal. I am working on computer for my friend. Here are the specs: Athlon 1Ghz CUP Via Motherboard 512 MB RAM S3 Savage 4 video (on board) ESS modem (winmodem) I have installed Mandrake 8.1 so many times I can count them all. His pc kit (including cpu, mb, case) came with Red Hat 7.1, so we tried that. Guess what?! The second CD is BLANK! No go on that one. So some one told me about the 'setuptool' command. I installed MDK 8.1 again and used the 'setuptool' option. No go on that one. The Red Hat booklet stressed the fact to use the generic SVGA drivers. So I used the generic drivers under 8.1. No go. Just a flashing screen on boot. I have to get it working. Any ideas Thanks Roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 09:18 pm, Kelly McCormick wrote: Ok, maybe it's just a coincidence, but I have a less than 2 year old Dell Dimension XPS T550 that just crapped out it's second motherboard. It first started having problems after I'd had it about 3 months and decided to try out Mandrake 7.2 within three or four weeks it started having problems booting. To make a long story a little shorter after about a year of reformats, and nursing, and complaining to Dell, I convinced myself and Dell support that it was the mother board. I replaced it, and like magic all problems went away. About a month ago, I decided that my system had been relatively stable for too long and decided to give linux another try. I installed Mandrake 8.1. I have been using it continuously for the last four weeks and was really starting to enjoy it. Unfortunately this morning my system is once again dead. Motherboard again appears to have crapped out. Now personally I have a hard time believing that linux had anything to do with it, but both times I had been running linux nonstop for approx 1 month when the problems first appeared. I would be interested to hear any thoughts any of you may have on this. Nonstop, eh? I bet you slowly toasted the on-board electrolytic capacitors so that they dried out. Try a bigger case fan to keep it a little cooler inside. Of course memtest-x86.bin is on the mandrake CD under images/ and you can dd it or rawrite it to floppy and maybe it will boot and test your memory just to be safe. What are the dead symptoms? Are fans running or nothing at all? If nothing at all, it can be a shorted cap or other short on the mobo or the power supply. If fans run, look for a dead video card or processor or a bad cap. Heat and drought kill more mobos than any software I am aware of with the exception of some IBM ThinkPads, and we even try to preotect users from that, but a use of lm_sensors/lm_utils can overwrite the PROM controlling the I2C bus on those mothers and there is no way to flash them on board and they are soldered in, so it is a factory return for a new mother. I have had two Dells running for a year or more steadily. They did fail on booting the disks they weresupplied with, which was interesting, because those same disks booted linux without complaint attached to other mothers, and after a month of rest the dells were supplied with whatever trash disks hardware testing happened to have and they recognized them. Even the third Dell from a different user which died in exactly the same way--no recognition of hard drive was OK after a month off and with a different hdd. How that happened is that I took the three back to purchasing and the agent there wanted more detail on what was wrong and sent them to hardware testing after a month. SO you may have that problem... If you have another computer what happens if you swap hard drives between the two? Civileme QA Team Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 11:23 pm, Roy Barton wrote: Ok. Here is the deal. I am working on computer for my friend. Here are the specs: Athlon 1Ghz CUP Via Motherboard 512 MB RAM S3 Savage 4 video (on board) ESS modem (winmodem) I have installed Mandrake 8.1 so many times I can count them all. His pc kit (including cpu, mb, case) came with Red Hat 7.1, so we tried that. Guess what?! The second CD is BLANK! No go on that one. So some one told me about the 'setuptool' command. I installed MDK 8.1 again and used the 'setuptool' option. No go on that one. The Red Hat booklet stressed the fact to use the generic SVGA drivers. So I used the generic drivers under 8.1. No go. Just a flashing screen on boot. I have to get it working. Any ideas Thanks Roy Use expert mode and select XFree 4.1.0 set for the S3 Savage Graphics card--test it... If that doesn't work set for the FBDev (yes, the framebuffer worked during install and is capable of 1024x768x16 on most cards.) Civileme QA Team Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] X]
here is my answer to roy which i have accidentally sent to roy. so civileme was the somebody grin. but i am using 4.1.0 and the probo tip is the only one that enabled me to use 8.1 at home. i am also using a dial-up connection at home so choosing a 100Kb driver sure beats downloading the updated Xfree86 packages. ;-) but as long as it works for you, then it must be good! ciao! Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] X Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:40:39 +0800 From: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy Barton wrote: Ok. Here is the deal. I am working on computer for my friend. Here are the specs: Athlon 1Ghz CUP Via Motherboard 512 MB RAM S3 Savage 4 video (on board) ESS modem (winmodem) I have installed Mandrake 8.1 so many times I can count them all. His pc kit (including cpu, mb, case) came with Red Hat 7.1, so we tried that. Guess what?! The second CD is BLANK! No go on that one. So some one told me about the 'setuptool' command. I installed MDK 8.1 again and used the 'setuptool' option. No go on that one. The Red Hat booklet stressed the fact to use the generic SVGA drivers. So I used the generic drivers under 8.1. No go. Just a flashing screen on boot. I have to get it working. Any ideas Thanks Roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ok so maybe somebody posted about upgrading the Xfree86 packages but i havent and i can still use my mandrake 8.1 at home even if i have an onboard ProSavage chip. The quickest way is to download the updated driver found at www.probo.com/timr/ im not 100% sure at that site but do a search at the mandrakeuser.org/mub site and you will find it there as this has been tackled there over and over again. the instructions are also there so it would be pretty useless to reiterate it here. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat
Hi Ric, PS: Julian; You're good sport. You'll do OK with this stuff! :) Cheers Ric - you too :-) b.t.w. In the past hour or so I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. I was a lot more studious of options, and managed to get the installer accept the partitions I'd created in System Commander (a simple /boot, /, /swap setup for now) and things went OK. My just-updated System Commander 7 saw the install (mind you, I was previously at SC2000, which didn't). Only problem was that my CD-ROM drive refused to see my 2ns and 3rd CDs. I burned 'em myself, and Windows see's them. I think I've seen some mention of this before on the list, that sometimes the faster readers are a bit fussy of home-brew CD-Rs. Anyway, I'm now trying to get Samba to work. A Linux share I created was showing upon the Linux box for a while, but then it all went away. I'm really thinking it's Windows, because when I rebooted my RedHat install to cross-check, the shares from that install aren't working either! All I get when I try to access the Linux box in the browser is an invitation to put in a password for the IPC$ share! I'll keep poking at it ;-) j. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde/mdk objprelink???
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:40:26 +1100, Navin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people Just wondering if Mandrake is planning to compile their rpms the 'prelinked' way in the future. Is it planned for the next version or in the near future? thanks navin the KDE RPMs in Cooker are objprelinked. You can install them onto Mandrake 8.1 (with a little tweaking afterwards) or you can wait for the next Mandrake release. -- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install WinAMP using Wine
On Thursday 20 December 2001 06:08, you wrote: I have installed Wine. And I try to install WinAmp (a Windows base program for playing MP3 file). When I open WinAmp SETUP.EXE with Wine, its oke until error message Can not make C:\Program Files\WinAmp directory What should I do? My computer only have Mandrake OS. use xmms Its awesome.. Terrific audio plugins and visualisations to play with, and it even comes with winamp skins so you can pretend it is winamp Leave wine for the applications where there is no alternative. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hot keys for toggling btw text and graphic modes
Hi All People, What will be the hot keys for toggling between text and graphic modes at starting Linux Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] small installation problem of kde beta3
Hello people I ust tried to install kde3beta1 - installation went fine but when I start startx it just exists back to the prompt. i installed it by urpmi --auto-select *.rpm (in the downloaded directory) any ideas? thanks for your help navin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] small installation problem of kde beta3
Hello people I ust tried to install kde3beta1 - installation went fine but when I start startx it just exists back to the prompt. i installed it by urpmi --auto-select *.rpm (in the downloaded directory) any ideas? thanks for your help navin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some opinion for Mandrake Website
Below are my opinions about Mandrake.com web site: 1. The website size make problem on 800x600 screen. Too width. I should scroll the bar. Possible to make website that have automatic adjusment when running on 800x600 or 1024x768? 2. Try to print any document, you will find the left side not printed. The webmaster should make any adjusment when user try to print some thing on A4 paper, I think only limited user print on A3 paper or using landscape format, aren't you? 3. The bar menu Main Pages - Feature - Screenshots too width. And, hey .. nothing below Security - Contact bar menu. 4. Try to open any related site,i.e Mandrake Campus. You will find different format. Look like no integrated page format between the related site, look like come from different linux product. Sorry, if my opinion too early, but I dream the website will be better, to show the Mandrake Class .. VIP?. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:38 pm, civileme wrote: Does anyone know of a list that is newbie friendly? My wife is the only one allowed to beat me up. I'm very reluctant to ask questions here because of the way people have been treated lately. I have learned a lot lurking between the flames, but it has gotten to the point where you are not fun or funny any more. Good luck, Civileme. You have to put up with 'em. I don't. Lee Wiggers Last year, this was the place and the flames were on the expert list. This year, I would say try the expert list. I may start a list as well, but I am sure to be branded a Nazi for censoring it, and I would, too, because I believe there are adequate avenues for freedom of speech. If I start a list, I will let you know. I would not moderate it but I would insist on courtesy with removal for flames. Actually, this isn't that hot. Try a RH list if you don't believe me. Civileme New List == Really Bad Idea(C). I'm already spending way too much time jumping between these lists, the Forum, MandrakeUser and the other Mandrake related sites. Yeah, things have gotten a little heated up over the past week or so -- something close to a nervous breakdown (not entirely unexpected in view of previous postings by that person), and two minor flame wars involving controversies about the real meaning of RTFM. This kind of stuff happens from time to time and, like a kidney stone, it too shall pass. Hardly sufficient reason to start YALMML. OK, now it's time to install LM8.1. Carroll (who isn't big on early adopting) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2?
Anybody know approximately (or better) when Mandrake 8.2 will be out? I'm getting eager to upgrade from 7.2, but had significant difficulty with 8.0 and Traktopel Beta 3, I'm hoping that 8.2 might be the charm. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2?
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:59:42 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know approximately (or better) when Mandrake 8.2 will be out? I'm getting eager to upgrade from 7.2, but had significant difficulty with 8.0 and Traktopel Beta 3, I'm hoping that 8.2 might be the charm. April But do not look for any version to be a cure all. Any will have some problems/bugs but the more versions you use and learn from the easier the next is for you to adapt and configure to your system. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hot keys for toggling btw text and graphic modes
I don't know if there are hot keys exactly, but generally whether you start in text or graphic mode depends on which run level is used. The run level can be thought of as a level of operation. Here are the default run levels for Mandrake: 0 - power down the machine 1 - single user mode 2 - multi-user mode w/o networking 3 - mult-user mode WITH networking 4 - (not used) 5 - multi-user mode with networking and graphical environment 6 - reboot the machine I'm guessing you want to be able to choose between runlevels 3 and 5. If you're using the lilo boot loader, you could hit Escape when the lilo screen comes up, then type the name of the lilo entry you want to boot followed by the appropriate runlevel number (linux 3 or linux 5). If you wanted to, you could create two entries in lilo -- one that starts Linux in text mode, and one that starts in graphic mode. But that's another e-mail. :) - Kathy Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, What will be the hot keys for toggling between text and graphic modes at starting Linux Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Introducing SPAS 8.0 - software to perform statistical analysis on questions from dumb users. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. - 2 Timothy 1:7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user but only 6 months using Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: 1. Change screen resolution directly in X Windows, rather Ctrl Alt +/- If I want to change my screen resolution, I should: a. Go to Mandrake Control Panel b. Access the Desktop then click on Screen Resolution c. Click the screen resolution that I want 2. Integrated Control Panel. Any setting should be access via Control Panel. ANY SETTING! 3. No more stupid name xyx -123-.RPM. Just use install.exe. Paket name will be like this: a. \mnt\cdrom\startoffice\install.exe b. \mnt\cdrom\kde3.0\install.exe c. \mnt\cdrom\koffice2.0\install.exe Example for StarOffice: Below is the example to install StartOffice with NEW Mandrake generation: a. Insert cdrom, go to \mnt\cdrom\StartOffice\install.exe b. When I access install.exe the installation will: c. Automatic detect whether I already have previously program d. If Yes, the istallation offer me upgrade. If no, just make new installation 4. Worsktation is NOT Server! Why you (Mandrake expert) doesn't understand this simple term? Why put any server capability in the Worstation? Better (the world already proved this) if you have separate product development for SERVER and Workstation. So, will be Mandrake Server 3.1 and Mandrake Workstation 9.0. Why shoul be separate? a. Worsktation is NOT Server! b. The speed growth of both is different. Workstation grow faster than Server c. More fancy stuf in WS. Server usually SIMPLE but STABLE d. Easy to developt STABLE and TESTED and FIELD PROVED product because we will have segmented user who TESTING the product. Example: a secretaty who use KOffice never understant the SERVER problem but she know what the LASTED problem she found with KOffice! (But the Net Admin doesn't know this WS problem, he do Server control) e. Why should I download stupid .iso 640 MB including the Server program? I was wasting my time to download 640 MB ISO file only for Mandrake 8.3, I just want to use Workstation program. f. Easy migration from Windows to Mandrake. As we know, the big challenge is how to prove that migration to Mandrake is as easy as Windows? But, I already do small survey to our Secretary, Administration Staff and our Finance Staff ... the result: Windows easier than Mandrake! BUT our Net Admin say: Mandrake is better. Hey ... our Net Admin still use MS Word to make office report! g. Good product mean: usually very DIFFICULT to developt but EASIER to use! Do you know how much time require to make Microsoft? I don't know. h. Text VS GUI Let the Net Admin using Text file configuration, but the Secretary using GUI interface to make any adjusment. I mean should be any different way to use for make any configuration depent on the purpose. i. Do you think I will add RAID 5 in my Workstation. And install Apache too? FTP Server? j. Server is NOT Workstation! That's not ALL, I still THINKING what I want for New Mandrake, but sorry, I can't do the revision because I have very limited Linux knowledge. I am JUST A USER not the CREATOR. Sorry, if my opinion TOO IDEAL??? Thanks all Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
can you or someone get me off this mailing list please!
Re: [newbie] Approximate Schedule for Mandrake 8.2?
Charles A Edwards wrote: April Charles, Thanks! But do not look for any version to be a cure all. Any will have some problems/bugs but the more versions you use and learn from the easier the next is for you to adapt and configure to your system. Yeah, but ... Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanners Printers
Dear Kal, Thank you for your info. I will check into HP's also. I thought I would only go with Epson however I may change my mind. Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia On Tuesday 18 December 2001 14:27, you wrote: Well Marcia, I don't know about scanners, but I own a HP 930c printer. It performs fine, is (relatively) silent and prints beautyful photos on photopaper. I use the CUPS printing system in LM 8.1. Another reason to choose a HP-printer is that Hewlett-Packard supports linux and supply their own drivers for linux, free to download (in case you don't want to use CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)). Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I've got a strange one
On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:10, Julian Opificius wrote: In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure products than England's cricket team is able to withstand the bowling of Australia's bowlers. -- John Leyden, MS firewall is holier than the Pope, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-08-20. Ouch! The deepest cut of all ! He's right, of course :-( Right now, you could substitute South Africa for England as well wailing_and_gnashing_of_teeth.mp3 -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lilypond
Dear All, Has anyone used Lilypond with the denemo frontend yet? I would like to set this up but I do not quite understand how. Would someone be able to coach me through it? Thanks very much. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
On Thursday 20 December 2001 11:10, you wrote: I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user but only 6 months using Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: Just as correct typing is important when using computer commands, some folks might be surprised to learn of the length of time you have been using windows since as I recall, windows 3.0 was developed in 1990, and at the time verry few folks had a color computer, or one that could run winder$. it also appears to those of us whom might have used Linux a few weeks (long enough to get connected to the Internet, and get an e-mail program running anyway) might feel as if you have some windows (read; Micro$oft influenced) preconceptions as to what an OS should do. Please try and keep an open mind, and hopefully you might relaise that the open source movement allows a great number of choices as to how something should be done, and the result is that while it may not work the way YOU wanted, it does work in a way that most folks who use it seem to want. try leaving M$winders preconceptions at the login prompt. if you would like help to leave the M$lookout virus transport agent, I bet this list would be THE place to get help. (your mail headers show that your letter was written: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600) 1. Change screen resolution directly in X Windows, rather Ctrl Alt +/- If I want to change my screen resolution, I should: a. Go to Mandrake Control Panel b. Access the Desktop then click on Screen Resolution c. Click the screen resolution that I want Gosh, I thought you could go thru all those steps if you wanted. Kmenu configuration Other Mandrake Control Center (which may well be on your desktop, but since you want the steps as opposed to a hot key) log in as root (this is to give added security, keeps users from screwing with stuff they should not), Hardware Display. 2. Integrated Control Panel. Any setting should be access via Control Panel. ANY SETTING! Too many possible choice of environments for that, I would not want to have to set up icewm, if I never intend to use it. but in truth linuxconf was that long ago, and I bet still works good. 3. No more stupid name xyx -123-.RPM. Just use install.exe. Paket name will be like this: a. \mnt\cdrom\startoffice\install.exe b. \mnt\cdrom\kde3.0\install.exe c. \mnt\cdrom\koffice2.0\install.exe gee I don't think that I want a diffent folder but the same program name. and did you ever hear of a reall cool utility for *ix systems called autocomplete ? instead of typing the whole name out you type the first couple of letters and hit TAB. the system will try and complete the command. if there are more than one choice, you will be giving the choices, and can type in a few more letters (and tab) until only one choice remains. you might get a bunch O' flame for this, since this is a _Very_ M$-centric view of how things should work. If you drove a GM product all your life and got into a 1966 ford, you might consider the key to be upside down since the teeth of the key fit opposite, but it would be hard to tell that to the guy that had only had fords up to that point. Example for StarOffice: Below is the example to install StartOffice with NEW Mandrake generation: a. Insert cdrom, go to \mnt\cdrom\StartOffice\install.exe b. When I access install.exe the installation will: c. Automatic detect whether I already have previously program d. If Yes, the istallation offer me upgrade. If no, just make new installation Star office, while included with Mandrake, is not a Mandrake product, and Mandrake (or anyone else for that matter) can not demand how SUN decides to make their product run. the best that can be hoped for wold be a program that reads the info from the program to be installed, decides where to install it from that info, decides either it is already installed, and if any other software is required to run the program. instead of naming it install.exe as you demand, it is called RPM and the GUM for that included with mandrake is called software manager. it is in the same mandrake control center as the display but where you click Hardware Display click System software manager. or if you have installed everything correctly (and haven't botched it up by trying different stuff, like me) you should be able to click on any file with a .RPM extension, and get the software manger to start right away. you can even search for a certain program name. 4. Worsktation is NOT Server! Mine is. Game box too. Lots of choices is one of the reasons people change to linux. may I ask what made you decide to try? one of the things it seems to me, is that Linux is kinda heading in this direction, specialized distros for certian applications,
Re: [newbie] Galeon install
On Thursday 20 December 2001 05:49, Terry C wrote: I think this may have come up in the recent past but I coulnd't find it in the list archives sooo.. I am trying to install Galeon 1.0.1 but I get this message error: failed dependencies: mozilla = 0.9.6 is needed by galeon-1.0.1-1mdk. The problem is that I have already installed mozilla 0.9.6. I had this problem once. In kpackage I could see that mysteriously, moz 0.96 had been installed without overwriting 0.94, so there were now effectively TWO mozillas onboard and when I tried to install galeon, it only saw the first, earlier, one. This is not supposed to be possible unless you ask for it explicitly, but it happened anyway (there were two Galeons too - it was really messy in there). The answer in my case was to do, logged in as root, this command in a terminal: rpm -e mozilla TWICE. In fact, keep doing it until you get an error message saying that mozilla is not installed. After that, a rpm --rebuilddb is probably a good thing. Now you can install Mozilla (try this: rpm -Uvh /var/cache/grpmi/mozilla[TAB]- if there still is a copy of mozilla in the cache, and there should be, it will pick it up) cleanly and then install galeon on top of it. PS. you'll probably also need gnome-vfs -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you or someone get me off this mailing list please! You have to do it yourself. See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install WinAMP using Wine
On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:08, you wrote: I have installed Wine. And I try to install WinAmp (a Windows base program for playing MP3 file). When I open WinAmp SETUP.EXE with Wine, its oke until error message Can not make C:\Program Files\WinAmp directory What should I do? Why exactly do you want to run winamp? There are plenty of mp3 players for Linux. XMMS will even run with winamp 2.xx skins. Perhaps if you told us what you are trying to do here we can tell you how to do it in Linux. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smbfs windows directory
Gerald Waugh wrote: I am attempting to mount a windows drive mount -t smbfs -o username=uname,password=pass jerry//C /mnt/jerry I can access the drive using smbclient Gerald, See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaMount and try using smbmount instead of mount. (Maybe mount can work, I've been successful with smbmount.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:10 am, you wrote: I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user augh, that's the problem!! but only 6 months using Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: 1. Change screen resolution directly in X Windows, rather Ctrl Alt +/- If I want to change my screen resolution, I should: a. Go to Mandrake Control Panel b. Access the Desktop then click on Screen Resolution c. Click the screen resolution that I want You can, check under 'Display' 2. Integrated Control Panel. Any setting should be access via Control Panel. ANY SETTING! They just about are, especially since you can open a terminal too right in it. Have you looked around in Mandrake Control Center? 3. No more stupid name xyx -123-.RPM. Just use install.exe. Paket name will be like this: a. \mnt\cdrom\startoffice\install.exe b. \mnt\cdrom\kde3.0\install.exe c. \mnt\cdrom\koffice2.0\install.exe some are just about as easy, like: install.sh. But you might as well forget it for the rest. The majority will always have to indicate architecture, package type and version. 4. Worsktation is NOT Server! No, but alot people who buy mandrake like having all of these things available. You never know when you might want to fire up a web or mail server from home. I appreciate all that stuff being there, even if I don't use it right now. And the people purchasing it for their servers, like to have a little eye candy once in a while. They aren't going to make a seperate distro for each. If you checked other distros, you will find the same, as is the tradition of linux distributions. Just install what you want. Did you bother to check out the individual package list during install? That's not ALL, I still THINKING what I want for New Mandrake, but sorry, I can't do the revision because I have very limited Linux knowledge. I am JUST A USER not the CREATOR. Sorry, if my opinion TOO IDEAL??? Thanks all what's ideal to you, isn't ideal for everyone. Why don't you check out: http://www.redmondlinux.org/ I don't usually try to sway people towards another distro, but in this case I think it might be appropriate. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Some opinion for Mandrake Website
On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:54, you wrote: Below are my opinions about Mandrake.com web site: 1. The website size make problem on 800x600 screen. Too width. I should scroll the bar. Possible to make website that have automatic adjusment when running on 800x600 or 1024x768? 2. Try to print any document, you will find the left side not printed. The webmaster should make any adjusment when user try to print some thing on A4 paper, I think only limited user print on A3 paper or using landscape format, aren't you? 3. The bar menu Main Pages - Feature - Screenshots too width. And, hey .. nothing below Security - Contact bar menu. 4. Try to open any related site,i.e Mandrake Campus. You will find different format. Look like no integrated page format between the related site, look like come from different linux product. Sorry, if my opinion too early, but I dream the website will be better, to show the Mandrake Class .. VIP?. well Windy, differnt websites appear differnt in diffenent web browsers. just as you might find M$ websites might even refuse to load on a browser that is NOT Internet explorer, so might Mandrake's website look better in a browser loaded thru Linux.. while I agree that the theme would be better with a unfied (php?) design, these things (as most websites) or constitly changing and so might show some (I consider to be slight) differences. I also noticed that hotmail and M$ support are not the same either. did you Give Uncle Billy a jingle and let him know you would like the repaired? (the following message from Ed's keyboard: SLAP -damn Ed, you said you were going to work on not being so damn sarcastic Windy is a nice person, leave her alone. /end keyboard speaking) The keyboard is correct, I am a ba$tard some times, and my wife even said I can admit it. But really, ditch the M$ virus transport Lookout agent, and connect to the net in a non-virus supporting enviroment. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install WinAMP using Wine
On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:08, Wendy wrote: I have installed Wine. And I try to install WinAmp (a Windows base program for playing MP3 file). What's wrong with xmms? *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] FTP help please
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:51:52 -0800 Mithrilhall2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered these words to ponder: # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. Usereric Grouperic I've sent along a copy of my config file. I spotted the problem in yours. you've got the server's user and group set incorrectly. check how i've got them set in mine. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 11:05am up 18:35, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.26, 0.19 proftpd.conf Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sharing a PPPoE connection
I am using an Ameritech ADSL connection to access the internet from a Mandrake 7.1 machine. However, it does not want to connect correctly. It tells me I need to reconfigure the connection and try again. Can anyone point me to a good set of docs on how to setup a PPPoE connection manually rather than by using drakconf? Thanks, Glenn Cannon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smbfs windows directory
On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:50 am, you wrote: Sorry for a lame question, but I did search for an answer I am attempting to mount a windows drive mount -t smbfs -o username=uname,password=pass jerry//C /mnt/jerry I can access the drive using smbclient Try this... mount -t smbfs -ousername=uname //jerry/C /mnt/jerry it will prompt you for the password. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:01 am, s wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:10 am, you wrote: I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user augh, that's the problem!! but only 6 months using Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: 1. Change screen resolution directly in X Windows, rather Ctrl Alt +/- If I want to change my screen resolution, I should: a. Go to Mandrake Control Panel b. Access the Desktop then click on Screen Resolution c. Click the screen resolution that I want You can, check under 'Display' 2. Integrated Control Panel. Any setting should be access via Control Panel. ANY SETTING! They just about are, especially since you can open a terminal too right in it. Have you looked around in Mandrake Control Center? 3. No more stupid name xyx -123-.RPM. Just use install.exe. Paket name will be like this: a. \mnt\cdrom\startoffice\install.exe b. \mnt\cdrom\kde3.0\install.exe c. \mnt\cdrom\koffice2.0\install.exe some are just about as easy, like: install.sh. But you might as well forget it for the rest. The majority will always have to indicate architecture, package type and version. 4. Worsktation is NOT Server! No, but alot people who buy mandrake like having all of these things available. You never know when you might want to fire up a web or mail server from home. I appreciate all that stuff being there, even if I don't use it right now. And the people purchasing it for their servers, like to have a little eye candy once in a while. They aren't going to make a seperate distro for each. If you checked other distros, you will find the same, as is the tradition of linux distributions. Just install what you want. Did you bother to check out the individual package list during install? That's not ALL, I still THINKING what I want for New Mandrake, but sorry, I can't do the revision because I have very limited Linux knowledge. I am JUST A USER not the CREATOR. Sorry, if my opinion TOO IDEAL??? Thanks all what's ideal to you, isn't ideal for everyone. Why don't you check out: http://www.redmondlinux.org/ I don't usually try to sway people towards another distro, but in this case I think it might be appropriate. -s S is correct. Redmond doesn't have a monopoly on ergonomics or on quality, and you are asking for the familiar, not the ideal. Things are the way they are for a good and sufficient reason (I am surprised you didn't ask for a virus checker, but that is one of the reasons; we don't even need one because the system is designed to defeat such exploits) Still keep thinking, and while you do, explore the desktops available (there are 11 and they offer different feature/speed tradeoffs) and see that there are many ways to skin a cat. When you tjink of a feature that would just be great, like an automated backup and single-click restore on config files so people can approach changing their systems without fear, then post and we will be listening. .exe won't cut it for a system with 3000 base packages each of which can and does contain one or more programs and each of which may need to call other programs. PeanutLinux is more what you are looking for, just 99Mb and only one desktop, but even there you have rpms and dependencies because programs are generally a compendium of small modules(which are standalone programs) instead of a huge monolith that obfuscates almost everything and is very hard to maintain. http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:10:25 +0700 Wendy Nexcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered these words to ponder: I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user but only 6 months using Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: 1. Change screen resolution directly in X Windows, rather Ctrl Alt +/- If I want to change my screen resolution, I should: a. Go to Mandrake Control Panel b. Access the Desktop then click on Screen Resolution c. Click the screen resolution that I want 2. Integrated Control Panel. Any setting should be access via Control Panel. ANY SETTING! 3. No more stupid name xyx -123-.RPM. Just use install.exe. Paket name will be like this: a. \mnt\cdrom\startoffice\install.exe b. \mnt\cdrom\kde3.0\install.exe c. \mnt\cdrom\koffice2.0\install.exe [snipped-for-sanity-sake] Wendy, This is Linux. not windows. it will never be windows and I seriously doubt it will ever do anything like windows. Some things you may find similar; some things you may find better; and yes, some things you may not like at all. However, Mandrake, or any Linux system will Never do the .exe thingy and RPMS are forever. don't like rpms? use tarballs and do it the old fashioned way... the *nix way. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 1:05pm up 20:35, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.20, 0.41 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gnomeConf not found???!!! what a fuck!!!!
Hi folks I have an amazing and awesome problem! When I try to compile and install any Gnome app, in the ./configure step it appears me an uncredible msg that says gnomeConf.sh not found that is created in the gnome-libs installation I have Gnome installed, so I have Gnome-Libs Installed I don't understand anything now! Thanks in advance Nicolas Gómez Montevideo, URUGUAY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing a PPPoE connection
From: Glenn Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sharing a PPPoE connection Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:41:22 -0500 I am using an Ameritech ADSL connection to access the internet from a Mandrake 7.1 machine. However, it does not want to connect correctly. It tells me I need to reconfigure the connection and try again. Can anyone point me to a good set of docs on how to setup a PPPoE connection manually rather than by using drakconf? Thanks, Glenn Cannon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com roaringpenguin.com Download and install the software (hopefully you have a way of doing that--its not large). Its much easier/reliable than that bundled w/ 7.1, I struggled w/ it for days before switching. RP took me 10 minutes. Andy Flatt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] emails
On Thursday 20 December 2001 20:27, chris swain wrote: | Hi all. I use Kmail for my mail program and mandrake 7.2. Ive been having | some strange problems where I have sent an email and it doesnt arrive | until several days later. The last incident I sent the mail on the | 16th and he recieved it on the 20th. chris, its possible that its a problem with your isp. I had the same problem about 6 weeks ago but it only lasted a few days then all was back to normal. The only thing I could put it down to was that my isp was having problems. Hopefully your problem will aslo solve itself soon! skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake 8.1 and mandrake-update
hiho all i just booted mandrake 8.1 again - after about 2 months of using windows2k i felt like giving mandrake 8.1 again a try. when i booted up 8.1 the first time after installing i was really pleased by the new kde 2.2 and all the apps it came with. just a few minutes ago i thought about applying all the security and bugfix updates - and i tried mandrake-update. mandrake-update, it didnt work with 7.2 and 8.0 (at least for me) - i had thought that meanwhile mandrake would have managed to get it working - but no. i created a new source for the downloads - chose a server and i got a list of all the updates that were available. so far so good - but : 1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ? on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with scrolling arrows next to it. its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time, so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time. this is really annoying. 2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for the packages - after a while it replies an error occured while fetching package x a) why cant it tell WHICH error ?? b) i made sure to use the correct server - i tried logging manually in the server - and i checked the proper directory - i also checked whether the regarding file was definitely on the server - and it was ! despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS ! 3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads partially - leaving me with a grey main-window and its not possible to close it any more - so i have to kill it every time by opening a console - suing to root and then killing it by pid (if i want to kill it with the pid monitoring program under X i certainly get u are not permitted to kill this app - why cant it ask for the superuser-password allowing me to kill it out of X ?? - instead it forces me every time to open a console and killing it as superuser - this is time-consuming, complicated and frustrating !) now please dont tell me things like download the rpm file manually and install it using command line rpm because i know how to handle rpm command line - but why use it if there is a X-utility that does it with a few clicks ? i know people are proud of being able to use console - and i am too - but if there is the possibility to safe time and make things easier and faster - why not use it ? another thing i hate about the desktop-linux is that there is no browser that can view websites properly. regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows. has anybody of u been able to get mandrake-update working - or to get a browser that shows smooth good looking fonts ? dont misunderstand me - i like linux - and i am using a linux server that handles mail-dns-samba-antivir-ftp-telnet and so on. but this is console - and it works well... but what does not work - in my eyes - is the X-part of linuxso - are u experiencing the same problems i do - or is it just my lack of ability to get things working smooth under X ? should i use gnome rather than KDE ? - are apps working better under gnome ?? i mean - regarding desktop-functions/programs windows is far superior to linux. i currently run win2k and it runs perfectly stable - all programs are running without any problems - under linux i am running into endless loops, requiring me a high amount of time to - for example - simply install a program (everybody of u knows : dependencies that require dependencies that requireetc.) i can understand that this is frustrating newbies that use linux first time - as it does me - and i am using linux now for about 1.5 years. (although i was using more console than X) so - please dont flame - we´re on the same side ;) i am just really sick of non-working apps under X that *should* make life easyier - but dont do. all suggestions/advices/opinions are welcome ;) --quaylar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] gateway/router help
I'm trying to set up a p200mmx 32mb ram as my gateway/router/firewall. I'm having some problems. I'm using mdk8.1. I have one network card connected to my cable modem and one to my hub. The p200 can connect to the internet and can connect to my laptop. My laptop can connect to thep200 but can't get to the internet (can't ping ip addresses nor urls). I've tried to follow instructions on ip-tables but I seem to be missing something. I've also tried using the connection sharing through the mandrake control center but it tells me that it can't set up DHCP server package. I've checked and that is installed. I get the internet ip through dhcp. My internal ips are static. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks
Re: [newbie] gateway/router help
you cann't have static IPs and use dhcp. dhcp is Dynamic and allocates IP# On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:16, you wrote: I'm trying to set up a p200mmx 32mb ram as my gateway/router/firewall. I'm having some problems. I'm using mdk8.1. I have one network card connected to my cable modem and one to my hub. The p200 can connect to the internet and can connect to my laptop. My laptop can connect to the p200 but can't get to the internet (can't ping ip addresses nor urls). I've tried to follow instructions on ip-tables but I seem to be missing something. I've also tried using the connection sharing through the mandrake control center but it tells me that it can't set up DHCP server package. I've checked and that is installed. I get the internet ip through dhcp. My internal ips are static. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
Thanks for the quick response civil! Nonstop, eh? Err, ok, I guess I meant exclusively although the system does get a LOT of usage, I do sleep once in a while! ;) I bet you slowly toasted the on-board electrolytic capacitors so that they dried out. Try a bigger case fan to keep it a little cooler inside. I'm sure this couldn't hurt, but the marathon Quake3 sessions that I used to put this box through under windoze never seemed to cause a problem. Since replacing the first MB the heaviest workout this thing has seen is running mozilla, and windoze98 before I installed Mandrake. Of course memtest-x86.bin is on the mandrake CD under images/ and you can dd it or rawrite it to floppy and maybe it will boot and test your memory just to be safe. Bootup never makes it to accessing the floppy, not an option. What are the dead symptoms? Are fans running or nothing at all? If nothing at all, it can be a shorted cap or other short on the mobo or the power supply. If fans run, look for a dead video card or processor or a bad cap. At powerup, fans are on, power is getting to both hard drives, dvd, and cdrom. Can't tell if floppy drive has power. Monitor powers up but stays black most of the time, once in a while will make it to dell splash screen . Keyboard and mouse both show signs of life, but nothing else. Indicator lights on back say that the bios, memory, pci/isa bus, and video card all failed. SNIP- and after a month of rest the dells were supplied with whatever trash disks hardware testing happened to have and they recognized them. Even the third Dell from a different user which died in exactly the same way--no recognition of hard drive was OK after a month off and with a different hdd. How that happened is that I took the three back to purchasing and the agent there wanted more detail on what was wrong and sent them to hardware testing after a month. That's strange, noticed something similar the first time I had this problem, system would boot up after letting it sit powered down for a full day or two, but would soon go into a self rebooting loop and eventually not boot. I'm afraid I'm not patient enough to try waiting a month though. lol SO you may have that problem... If you have another computer what happens if you swap hard drives between the two? Hard drives are fine, checked that, they are simply not even being accessed at power up. Civileme QA Team I guess what I'm looking for is any possible reason why mandrake would put more stress on my MB than windoze? I can't afford to keep replacing the MB after the warranty on this thing runs out, and every time I try running linux on it I end up with MB problems. I'd hate to be stuck in windoze hell because of this. One thing that seems like a potential suspect is the power management feature. I never use this in win98 since it just resulted in a locked up system, but have been using it in mandrake. (for those occasions when I do sleep) When my monitor goes into standby mode, the indicator light on the front is supposed to turn from green to amber, instead it blinks back and forth between the two. Also I have seen one of the monitors adjustment screens pop up briefly on a few occasions. Doesn't stay long enough to tell which one. Is it possible that power management is actually constantly turning the monitor off and on and so burning up something on the MB? Or am I just grasping at straws here? Thanks in advance, Kelly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gateway/router help
can you please tell me how to get off this mailing group. there is to much mail coming to me
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 and mandrake-update
1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ? on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with scrolling arrows next to it. its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time, so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time. this is really annoying. True the default window size is small, but if you grab that little grey box at the bottom right of the window you can drag it out and resize it. 2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for the packages - after a while it replies an error occured while fetching package x Yes that seems to happen. Some mirrors seem to be considerably worse than others. sourceforge for example has always given me trouble in that respect. Since I switched to sunite.se, I have had no trouble. despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS ! 3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads partially - leaving me with a grey main-window I find just getting a few files at a time has more chance of success than a mega upgrade. another thing i hate about the desktop-linux is that there is no browser that can view websites properly. regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows. Well my fonts look terrific, on my desktop and in all my browsers, Konqeuror, Opera, and Galeon, and I wonder why yours does not. One thing might be worth checking. If you open kde Control CenterLookNFeelFonts Open up the drop down list of fonts. If you do not see adobe-helvetica, and mdk-helvetica in that list, then you may be suffering from a KDE 'bug' I had myself recently. The symptoms would be really ugly fonts, and the font appearance would improve if I disabled alti-aliasing in kde. The fix is simply to delete the file ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals Next time I logged in the file got created again, and my fonts became beautiful with every font appearing in the list. has anybody of u been able to get mandrake-update working - or to get a browser that shows smooth good looking fonts ? Yes and yes dont misunderstand me - i like linux - and i am using a linux server that handles mail-dns-samba-antivir-ftp-telnet and so on. but this is console - and it works well... but what does not work - in my eyes - is the X-part of linuxso - are u experiencing the same problems i do - or is it just my lack of ability to get things working smooth under X ? Could it be a video card deficiency? My fonts look great in all 3 of my computers, one with Geforce256, one with Geforce2MX, and the 3rd a crummy old laptop with heaven knows what graphics chip. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smbfs windows directory
On Thursday 20 December 2001 13:24, Randy Kramer wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: I am attempting to mount a windows drive mount -t smbfs -o username=uname,password=pass jerry//C /mnt/jerry I can access the drive using smbclient Gerald, See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaMount and try using smbmount instead of mount. (Maybe mount can work, I've been successful with smbmount.) Thanks Randy, ] this worked smbmount //jerry/C /mnt/jerry -o password='passeord' -- -Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smbfs windows directory
On Thursday 20 December 2001 14:50, Richard Wenninger wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:50 am, you wrote: Sorry for a lame question, but I did search for an answer I am attempting to mount a windows drive mount -t smbfs -o username=uname,password=pass jerry//C /mnt/jerry I can access the drive using smbclient Try this... mount -t smbfs -ousername=uname //jerry/C /mnt/jerry it will prompt you for the password. Hey, you guys are fantastic. This worked also smbmount //jerry/C /mnt/jerry -o password='my_password' Two correct answers, and both completely different. Ahhh the wonders of Linux. -- -Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
At 01:08 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: thingy and RPMS are forever. Nothing is forever. :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 11:17, Kelly McCormick wrote: Thanks for the quick response civil! Nonstop, eh? Err, ok, I guess I meant exclusively although the system does get a LOT of usage, I do sleep once in a while! ;) I bet you slowly toasted the on-board electrolytic capacitors so that they dried out. Try a bigger case fan to keep it a little cooler inside. I'm sure this couldn't hurt, but the marathon Quake3 sessions that I used to put this box through under windoze never seemed to cause a problem. Since replacing the first MB the heaviest workout this thing has seen is running mozilla, and windoze98 before I installed Mandrake. Of course memtest-x86.bin is on the mandrake CD under images/ and you can dd it or rawrite it to floppy and maybe it will boot and test your memory just to be safe. Bootup never makes it to accessing the floppy, not an option. What are the dead symptoms? Are fans running or nothing at all? If nothing at all, it can be a shorted cap or other short on the mobo or the power supply. If fans run, look for a dead video card or processor or a bad cap. At powerup, fans are on, power is getting to both hard drives, dvd, and cdrom. Can't tell if floppy drive has power. Monitor powers up but stays black most of the time, once in a while will make it to dell splash screen . Keyboard and mouse both show signs of life, but nothing else. Indicator lights on back say that the bios, memory, pci/isa bus, and video card all failed. SNIP- and after a month of rest the dells were supplied with whatever trash disks hardware testing happened to have and they recognized them. Even the third Dell from a different user which died in exactly the same way--no recognition of hard drive was OK after a month off and with a different hdd. How that happened is that I took the three back to purchasing and the agent there wanted more detail on what was wrong and sent them to hardware testing after a month. That's strange, noticed something similar the first time I had this problem, system would boot up after letting it sit powered down for a full day or two, but would soon go into a self rebooting loop and eventually not boot. I'm afraid I'm not patient enough to try waiting a month though. lol SO you may have that problem... If you have another computer what happens if you swap hard drives between the two? Hard drives are fine, checked that, they are simply not even being accessed at power up. Civileme QA Team I guess what I'm looking for is any possible reason why mandrake would put more stress on my MB than windoze? I can't afford to keep replacing the MB after the warranty on this thing runs out, and every time I try running linux on it I end up with MB problems. I'd hate to be stuck in windoze hell because of this. One thing that seems like a potential suspect is the power management feature. I never use this in win98 since it just resulted in a locked up system, but have been using it in mandrake. (for those occasions when I do sleep) When my monitor goes into standby mode, the indicator light on the front is supposed to turn from green to amber, instead it blinks back and forth between the two. Also I have seen one of the monitors adjustment screens pop up briefly on a few occasions. Doesn't stay long enough to tell which one. Is it possible that power management is actually constantly turning the monitor off and on and so burning up something on the MB? Or am I just grasping at straws here? Thanks in advance, Kelly =_1008884634-11608-820 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ummm, I think that is a straw. It is likely a BIOS bug... Try disconnecting everything but floppy and then downloading the most recent BIOS from DELL and seeing if you can flash it, assuming you have access to a computer to do those things (That's a use [finally] for internet cafes besides good coffee). The Dells we had would _never_ recognize the original drives again, and we were using Optiplex GX-110, which is supposed to be one of their better products. We do have to remember that Dell is under the same stress as the others for cost-sensitivity and therefore is forced to cut corners to stay alive. I know the floppies on those models are so cheap, they cannot even report the size of mounted media. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] smbfs windows directory
Gerald Waugh wrote: Thanks Randy, ] this worked smbmount //jerry/C /mnt/jerry -o password='passeord' You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version, OT now
On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:15, you wrote: At 01:08 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: thingy and RPMS are forever. Nothing is forever. :-D wow how zen like of you... deep. the temporaryness of it all... I love it... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
Can you say Ground Fault? If you are finding that you have to keep replacing electronic components associated with a computer, and have external devices plugged in, the FIRST thing you should look for is a ground fault. It is likely that this is shorting out your motherboards over the course of a few days/weeks it takes to degrade the CAPs via the ground fault assault. Make sure that ALL of the devices plugged into your computer are in turn plugged into the SAME power strip with proper plug polarity observed. If you have a LAN, TV-TUNER, Printer, etc. which connects elsewhere also be sure that it's not to blame. A 9-20 volt fault leakage may not burn your computer out in a day, but it will over time causing exactly the type of problem you are seeing... I.E. a few weeks of use the a new motherboard. Just a though. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of tester Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard? On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 11:17, Kelly McCormick wrote: Thanks for the quick response civil! Nonstop, eh? Err, ok, I guess I meant exclusively although the system does get a LOT of usage, I do sleep once in a while! ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gateway/router help
Thanks for the reply, Isn't it possible to use dhcp for the internet and static for the internal network? - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gateway/router help you cann't have static IPs and use dhcp. dhcp is Dynamic and allocates IP# On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:16, you wrote: I'm trying to set up a p200mmx 32mb ram as my gateway/router/firewall. I'm having some problems. I'm using mdk8.1. I have one network card connected to my cable modem and one to my hub. The p200 can connect to the internet and can connect to my laptop. My laptop can connect to the p200 but can't get to the internet (can't ping ip addresses nor urls). I've tried to follow instructions on ip-tables but I seem to be missing something. I've also tried using the connection sharing through the mandrake control center but it tells me that it can't set up DHCP server package. I've checked and that is installed. I get the internet ip through dhcp. My internal ips are static. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adsl problems
hi folks !!! i've got an adsl conection in my Mandrake 8.1. I get conected but cannot navigate Can you help-me? i'm loosing my hair over that !please help-me thankss ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:18 am, Kelly McCormick wrote: Ok, maybe it's just a coincidence, but I have a less than 2 year old Dell Dimension XPS T550 that just crapped out it's second motherboard. It first started having problems after I'd had it about 3 months and decided to try out Mandrake 7.2 within three or four weeks it started having problems booting. To make a long story a little shorter after about a year of reformats, and nursing, and complaining to Dell, I convinced myself and Dell support that it was the mother board. I replaced it, and like magic all problems went away. About a month ago, I decided that my system had been relatively stable for too long and decided to give linux another try. I installed Mandrake 8.1. I have been using it continuously for the last four weeks and was really starting to enjoy it. Unfortunately this morning my system is once again dead. Motherboard again appears to have crapped out. Now personally I have a hard time believing that linux had anything to do with it, but both times I had been running linux nonstop for approx 1 month when the problems first appeared. I would be interested to hear any thoughts any of you may have on this. Problem is mostly Dell. They buy so many mobo's from Intel that they have the hammer to tell Intel just how to make 'em. Hence they're not really Intel mobo's, but 'oem spec only' mobo's. Many corners are cut, often features/hardware found in even low end retail boards, or Intel's 'regular' boards, are left off, and/or are of reduced quality (one good example is capacitors, both number and quality). A quality bios is not to be found. Probly a Phoenix oem spec only bios is used. Retail Intel mobo's OTOH, while low performers and lack configurability, are mostly bulletproof when it comes to reliability and stabiltility. This isn't really just a Dell problem (ie, cruddy motherboards, bios, et al). All large ready made vendors do the same thing, and it's not limited to just the mobo. All the components in ready made systems are 'oem spec only', aka 'proprietary'. As the audience for cheap (even if they aren't) ready made PC's increases, the quality of ready mades drops even further. This has all been goin on longer than the 'less than two years' since your Dell was assembled. That said, your mobo problems probly result from the inferior spec mobo's and power supplies that Dell uses. Dell is also not renowned for payin much attention to case and heatsink cooling either. To save a buck or so, most Dell models don't even have fans on heatsinks that need one, or even heatsinks on some components that normally should have one, much less also with a fan (eg, video card). Have you ever heard Intel advertise that they make mobo's for Dell? I believe they tryin hide the fact. I suspect it's also why Dell has been reluctant to move to AMD cpu's. The oem spec only boards they use will only marginally work with Intel cpu's. It's also why they only give lip service to providin an OS other than Windoze. It's called WinTel, low quality components and even non-hardware that Windoze can run, sort'a kind'a. So no, Mandrake didn't kill your mobo, Dell and Gates did. .. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:41, you wrote: Can you say Ground Fault? I agree w/Jose, most likely problem. I have never seen (does not mean it don't happen) the MB toast from Linux, but it is worth noteing, in my opinion anyway, that you well can toast the monitor by driving it beyond it's specs. it will toast a few weeks after the change. ( I did two in four weeks time). An additional question, where you using the same (exact, not same model and make but the same physical box and serial number) hard drives with both MB? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 and mandrake-update
At 21:47 20.12.2001 +, you wrote: hi derek, 1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ? on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with scrolling arrows next to it. its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time, so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time. this is really annoying. True the default window size is small, but if you grab that little grey box at the bottom right of the window you can drag it out and resize it. i can drag the overall window ? - but not the small list of packages ? hmmi will give this a try 2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for the packages - after a while it replies an error occured while fetching package x Yes that seems to happen. Some mirrors seem to be considerably worse than others. sourceforge for example has always given me trouble in that respect. Since I switched to sunite.se, I have had no trouble. yes i thought of that too and tried mirrors in austria, germany, france and the sunsite mirror u spoke of. the only package which i was able to download was the mozilla upgrade - nothing else worked. despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS ! 3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads partially - leaving me with a grey main-window I find just getting a few files at a time has more chance of success than a mega upgrade. u r right - but i didnt do a mega-upgrade. for example i tried to upgrade samba-client and server - and mandrake-update came up with a bunch of about 8 packages which the samba packages were depending on. i also tried to select just single packages - which didnt work tooi think the mandrake-update app is simply not ready for use... another thing i hate about the desktop-linux is that there is no browser that can view websites properly. regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows. Well my fonts look terrific, on my desktop and in all my browsers, Konqeuror, Opera, and Galeon, and I wonder why yours does not. One thing might be worth checking. If you open kde Control CenterLookNFeelFonts Open up the drop down list of fonts. If you do not see adobe-helvetica, and mdk-helvetica in that list, then you may be suffering from a KDE 'bug' I had myself recently. The symptoms would be really ugly fonts, and the font appearance would improve if I disabled alti-aliasing in kde. hmmi do have the adobe-helvetica and some other fonts - and i selected them in my browser but still some of my fonts are so sharp edged if u know what i mean... (i remember this KDE-Bug, i had to install a fonts package when i was dealing with this problem in version 7.1 i think) but i could try to disable anti-aliasing - didnt find this option yet - where is it ? The fix is simply to delete the file ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals Next time I logged in the file got created again, and my fonts became beautiful with every font appearing in the list. has anybody of u been able to get mandrake-update working - or to get a browser that shows smooth good looking fonts ? Yes and yes dont misunderstand me - i like linux - and i am using a linux server that handles mail-dns-samba-antivir-ftp-telnet and so on. but this is console - and it works well... but what does not work - in my eyes - is the X-part of linuxso - are u experiencing the same problems i do - or is it just my lack of ability to get things working smooth under X ? Could it be a video card deficiency? My fonts look great in all 3 of my computers, one with Geforce256, one with Geforce2MX, and the 3rd a crummy old laptop with heaven knows what graphics chip. hmm-.i use a geforce2 pro - and it was recognized by the mandrake-installer with no probs... HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Just to let you know
I have been using FreeBSD for about a year now, and I love it. I wanted to see what the major diffrences between BSD and Linux for my self. I am impressed by the graphic install, though, I am used to the text install of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. I will admit that it is easier to install, but the FreeBSD install gives a little more control over what and where you install everything, but that is a problem with those who do not understand what is going on. Iam impressed to Mandrakes ability to have an easy installer. I do think that Mandrake is a contender for the Desktop OS if people will rid them selves of ignorance and open their eyes. Bob Bomar
Re: [newbie] gateway/router help
sure, but the internet connection sharing in Mandrake is wanting to setup DHCP for the client boxes. My guess is that they did that to be as compativle with windos internet sharing as possible. On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:57, you wrote: Thanks for the reply, Isn't it possible to use dhcp for the internet and static for the internal network? - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gateway/router help you cann't have static IPs and use dhcp. dhcp is Dynamic and allocates IP# On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:16, you wrote: I'm trying to set up a p200mmx 32mb ram as my gateway/router/firewall. I'm having some problems. I'm using mdk8.1. I have one network card connected to my cable modem and one to my hub. The p200 can connect to the internet and can connect to my laptop. My laptop can connect to the p200 but can't get to the internet (can't ping ip addresses nor urls). I've tried to follow instructions on ip-tables but I seem to be missing something. I've also tried using the connection sharing through the mandrake control center but it tells me that it can't set up DHCP server package. I've checked and that is installed. I get the internet ip through dhcp. My internal ips are static. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Just to let you know
On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 06:27 PM, Bob B. Bomar wrote: I have been using FreeBSD for about a year now, and I love it. I wanted to see what the major diffrences between BSD and Linux for my self. I am impressed by the graphic install, though, I am used to the text install of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. I will admit that it is easier to install, but the FreeBSD install gives a little more control over what and where you install everything, but that is a problem with those who do not understand what is going on. Iam impressed to Mandrakes ability to have an easy installer. I do think that Mandrake is a contender for the Desktop OS if people will rid them selves of ignorance and open their eyes. Bob Bomar As you can see in this particular random sig of mine, I run FreeBSD too. Its a great OS. Mandrake is the only distro of Linux that I could find that gave me the same level of conveience. -- Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Mandrake Linux and Windows XP Pro are my OS's. I am GEEK, hear me roar. --
Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 03:11 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: civileme wrote: Hmmm, where did this 80/15/5 rule come from? My experience is that 93% of the time my computer has a problem, the problem has its hands on my keyboard. Civileme, The 80/15/5 rule hails from the venerable Tom Brinkman of Texas. But I'll by yours too. Tom's is a bit more forgiving on the user though. Mark but you then quoted me wrong. My (rough) formula is 85% user mistakes, 15% hardware hiccups, and 5% software bugs. 'Course you must consider that I'm hopelessly addicted to overclocking and upgrading (cooker), so my figures might be somewhat skewed ; Civileme, I believe bases his overview on actual statistics. An I'm sort'a inclined to agree with 'em, even tho I hate to admit that 93% of the screwups are due to the user 'cause that's me ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SemiOT:-Was only a matter of time...
Micrsoft Admits XP Security Flaw By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Microsoft Corp. acknowledged several serious flaws Thursday in its newest version of Windows, billed as the most secure ever, that allow hackers to steal or destroy a victim's data files across the Internet or implant rogue computer software. It urged consumers to quickly install a free fix it offered. A Microsoft official said the risk to consumers was unprecedented because the glitches allow hackers to seize control of all Windows XP (news - web sites) operating system software without requiring a computer user to do anything except connect to the Internet. ... The Windows XP problems affect a little-used feature that eventually will allow consumers to control high-tech household appliances using their computers. Called ``universal plug and play,'' the feature is activated by design in every copy of Windows XP Ah well, the price of controlling a toaster or solar curtains seems to be high these days. Now with XP zombie soldiers sporting full rawsocket capabilities, script kiddies will be able to make all our lives miserable, probably until IAPs and ISPs replace all their routers with stateful firewalls, so they can detect and block spoofed IPs and strange TCP packets. Please recall nasty little comedies like this before you ask linux to be more like windows. Linux is the wayy it is to avoid these types of problems, or to make them quickly discovered and fized. The home edition of XP makes every user privileged, and therefore the exploit works well there where it would not if only one user had admin access. Of course I have been known to use my computer for an alarm clock with VigMeUp and some horrid electronic music, but I have never used it to start my microwave or cook a steak! My coffeepot has its own CPU; so does my thermostat and my VCR. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] adsl problems
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:14, Rodrigo Monteiro wrote: hi folks !!! i've got an adsl conection in my Mandrake 8.1. I get conected but cannot navigate Can you help-me? i'm loosing my hair over that !please help-me thankss Talk to your ISP and make sure the IP addresses of his nameservers are entered into the ADSL configuration. His DHCP isn't giving them to you for some weird reason. Civileme ___ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ =_1008890139-11608-836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] convert outlook express address books to Kmail format.
Now import gives option of kab version 1 only. No other option found. On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:31, Ed Tharp wrote: in kmail mail client window (default when first opened) file import chose the format, ? On Tuesday 18 December 2001 21:11, you wrote: Though some posts were there for converting mail to Kmail, how to convert outlook express address books to Kmail format. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] convert outlook express address books to Kmail format.
How to import from kspread into KAB? I didn't find an option in Kmail import. On Wednesday 19 December 2001 17:30, Derek Jennings wrote: Well I've never used it, but I notice that kab (KAddress Book has the ability to import from a kspread spreadsheet, and of course kspread can import from Excel. SO the the question comes down to can Outlook export into Excel? Well I don't know since I have never used Outlook. (I have never had an email virus either. Coincidence? maybe) derek On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:11, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Though some posts were there for converting mail to Kmail, how to convert outlook express address books to Kmail format. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
Hi Ron, Thanks but someone else was able to give the jumper settings for COM 2 IRQ 10. Thanks for responding I really appreciate it Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled Frank McKenna wrote: If anyone has a manual and can tell me what the jumper settings are it would really be appreciated. TIA Frank McKenna Frank, I've got a Diamond Supra 56k internal ISA modem lying around somewhere. (I used it in my first MB which had ISA slots - my current machine does not - so I went with an external modem) I'm sure I've still got the manual (its a fold out variety). What did you want to know about the jumper settings? I'll try and look it up... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3beta1
Hello i`m thinking of experimenting a little with kde3beta has anyone tried it? the only thing i don`t want to loose are my mails (especially the ones from this lovely list lol) im now using kmail on kde2.2.2. Are all the mail directory structures and kmail.rc files the same (means kde2.2.2 configs and dirs compatible with kde3beta) ? If yes let me know it. Thanx Florian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] my adsl/router problems fixed. Thanks
I had similar problem as some other users. Was able to connect to Bellsouth DSL service with just my NIC card, but when I added new Linksys Router, I couldn't get online. Thanks to users who pointed out that I should set default gateway to the Router's ip address 192.168.1.1 also, I set my PC's IP address to 192.168.1.2 (instead of leaving it at 10.0.0.1 or something) as someone elso suggested. Then plugged in the domain name server IP's. Back online! thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
