[newbie-it] xanim
Ho installato MKD8.2 powerpack che mi e' arrivato da poco , ma quando cerco di installare kde3 mi chiede xanim . La cosa non mi e' successa con la versione scaricata dal web ( l'installazione di KDE3 e' andata liscia ) e inoltre nonostante abbia scaricato la versione di xanim compressa non riesco a capire come installarla . Qualcuno sa dove posso trovare in corrispondente RPM? saluti, Francesco
Re: [newbie-it] xanim
Alle 15:57, martedì 7 maggio 2002, Francesco Speranza ha scritto: Ho installato MKD8.2 powerpack che mi e' arrivato da poco , ma quando cerco di installare kde3 mi chiede xanim . La cosa non mi e' successa con la versione scaricata dal web ( l'installazione di KDE3 e' andata liscia ) e inoltre nonostante abbia scaricato la versione di xanim compressa non riesco a capire come installarla . Qualcuno sa dove posso trovare in corrispondente RPM? saluti, Francesco Strano, a me è successo il contrario... Un saluto.
[newbie-it] boot
Ciao a tutti, ho installato winzoz 98 (dopo un anno che non lo usavo) sul pezzo finale dell'HD. (Io uso MDK 8.2). Mi è successo questo: Win ha cancellato l'MBR come da manuale ma mi ha anche rovinato il 1 settore di hda6. Domanda: come faccio a ripararlo? e a ripristinare lilo? Ho provato dal Control center ma mi ritorna questo: Installazione di LILO fallita. Si è verificato il seguente errore: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature. Cosa dovrei fare? Se parto dal dischetto va tutto. Grazie, Lux __ Fai i tuoi acquisti su www.kwshopping.it
[newbie-it]
Ciao a tutti, ho installato winzoz 98 (dopo un anno che non lo usavo) sul pezzo finale dell'HD. (Io uso MDK 8.2). Mi è successo questo: Win ha cancellato l'MBR come da manuale ma mi ha anche rovinato il 1 settore di hda6. Domanda: come faccio a ripararlo? e a ripristinare lilo? Ho provato dal Control center ma mi ritorna questo: Installazione di LILO fallita. Si è verificato il seguente errore: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature. Cosa dovrei fare? Se parto dal dischetto va tutto. Grazie, Lux __ Fai i tuoi acquisti su www.kwshopping.it
Re: [newbie-it] Font Windos non supportati
On Sun, 5 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] max wrote: ma i programmi relativi ad Internet non supportano i font di Windows. C'è un modo per rimediare al problema? Non ho (piu') windows sul disco fisso, ma hai gia' provato con DrakFont a recuperare i font con l'apposito pulsante o casomai ad aggiungerli? -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-6mdk Pubblicita' progresso - NO: crossposting / quoting selvaggio / email HTML / messaggi urlati / spazzatura non richiesta / documenti di oscuro formato M$ / siti web non usufruibili / troll che defecano fuori dalla tazza / patenti software di dubbia utilita' ...
Re: [newbie-it] xanim
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Francesco Speranza wrote: nonostante abbia scaricato la versione di xanim compressa non riesco a capire come installarla . Qualcuno sa dove posso trovare in corrispondente RPM? Be', direi sul solito sito rpmfind.net (e mirror europei relativi). Cmq la versione che trovi li' e' xanim-28010-16mdk.i586, non so se e' l'equivalente pacchettizzata del .tgz a tua disposizione ... In ogni caso xanim e' _sempre_ richiesto se installi il pacchetto kdemultimedia-aktion (questo almeno nella 2.2.2, la 3.0 non l'ho ancora provata) -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-6mdk Pubblicita' progresso - Abbasso a tutto cio' che fa sprecare banda inutilmente a chi lo riceve e a tutto cio che non permette di usufruire delle informazioni in modo accessibile ed immediato
[newbie-it] floppy???
ciao tutti Ho riparato il floppy..ora scrive e legge bene ma quando vado a credare un disco di boot mi dice -- Formatting /dev/fd0... mount: /dev/fd0 già montato o /tmp/syslinux.mnt.2109.0 occupato done. mount: /dev/fd0 già montato o /tmp/mkbootdisk occupato --- e poi mi appare una finestrella in stile java che mi dice.. - Non è stato possibile chidere normalmente mkbootdisk: 256 --- che c'è che non va? ho dimenticato di fare qualcosa di assolutamente banale? Grazie dell eventuale aiuto. Ciao , Tom P.S. MDK8.2
Re: [newbie-it] boot
On Tue, 7 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Io uso MDK 8.2). Mi è successo questo: Win ha cancellato l'MBR come da manuale ma mi ha anche rovinato il 1 settore di hda6. Domanda: come faccio a ripararlo? In generale se un settore e' danneggiato AFAIK non c'e modo di recuperarlo, l'unica cosa e' farlo marcare come inutilizzabile da un comando apposito (direi tipo badblocks o 'e2fsck -c', che pero' funziona con ext2 su intere partizioni) Ma il problema e': come fai a sapere che hai un settore danneggiato, senza aver utilizzato l'apposito comando? ... e a ripristinare lilo? Ho provato dal Control center ma mi ritorna questo: Installazione di LILO fallita. Si è verificato il seguente errore: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature. Premettendo che non uso lilo, l'errore che segnali 'dovrebbe' essere dovuto solo al fatto che la partizione indicata non e' la prima e quindi non e' quella corretta per installare il bootloader all'avvio [almeno cosi' risulta nella documentazione, pacchetto lilo-doc: The first sector of the specified device does not appear to be a valid boot sector. You might have confused the device name. e nella noterella acclusa: Because different partition programs may display the partitions in a different order, it is possible that what you think is your first partition isn't /dev/hda1, etc. A good method to verify the content of a partition is to try to mount it.] Non capisco perche' tu voglia installarlo in /dev/hda6 e non invece nel MBR. Provato a impostare /dev/hda nel menu apposito o direttamente dare lilo -v? -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-6mdk Pubblicita' progresso - NO, basta, niente piu' pubblicita' :P
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
daRcmaTTeR said onto me: -- snip | |Brian, | |Thats a terrible thing to say. even for Billy-bob. sure the guy is evil |but geeZ. That's rather harsh. Maybe the poor bugger simply doesn't know |any different. poor dumb bugger. | Come on now..Don't get me wrong, I support that guy in NO way. But if there are two things in this world he is not they are: _poor_ or _dumb_. That mother fr knows better. He chooses to run his company the way it is via conscience choices. Let him hang like the criminal he is. Don't say things that could build empathy/sympathy for him. my 0.02 Dave |-- |daRcmaTTeR |-- |Registered Linux User 182496 | -- -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare problem
Joseph Braddock wrote: Surely it would be cheaper to buy a new scanner than to purchase VMware simply to use a windows only scanner. Wouldn't it? Not if you already own VMWare, as it appears the OP does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] in search for a mag:linux france magazine issue january
good morning everyone ; any of you from france ? i'm in search for a mag called 'linux france magazine' , and especially for the issue from january ... they have a big article about e17 [enlightenment 0.17] about how to install it and how to work witch etcher !!! if anyone coult help me in this case , to get me that issue or just a copy of that article , of course i would pay the postalship and everything ... adrian attachment: winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
Marc wrote: A interisting point to ponder is that from what I have heard the crime rate in Kenasaw Georga before passing that local ordance was extremely high compared to the rest of the state of georgia but after that law was in place for 3 months the crime rate had droped to way below average for the state. Has getting rid of most of the firearms in a lot of the UK had that kind of positive effect? Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. *dons the flame retardant suits prepares for the inevitable war* -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks
Charlie wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 05:53 pm, FemmeFatale offered this for consideration: Just do an Export bookmarks To a floppy boot linux, in mozilla do a IMport bookmarks Point to the floppy drive. Done deal. Worked for me fine. And its less complex ;) ~~ Hey neighbour. ;-) I thought knowing where the browser hides it's secrets would be a good idea. Besides, what's complicated about drag and drop? (jk!!) Export (neither for bookmarks or address book) in Mozilla 1.0 RC1 doesn't work for me (nor did import) so I explained where the files should be hiding for anyone else that had the same trouble. Mine are parked on a floppy (as well as in backups on '/archive') via the drag and dropcopy here method. Suspenders and belt, ya know? -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB, Canada Shush, I'm an ignorant country bumpkin! ;) OK OK so i'm trying to keep things super simple for us bumpkins on the list! Sue me. No wait thats the US way. Hm.. K instead, do the Canadian thing apologize to me instead ;) Thx btw, your idea's good. Hm..figures too I deleted it. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD?
Brian Koppe wrote: Sorry for the slew of questions as of late - I'm trying to get as many things working just right in Linux so I can use Windows as little as possible. So, onto the next subject :-p Anyone know of a DVD player for Linux and where I can get it? My box is my primary movie-watching utility and it's a pain to reboot whenever I want to watch something. Thanks! Brian P.S. Be fore-warned, I'll probably come back needing help with installation :-p OH! You wound us with your soon-to-be Questions that we're s looking forward to ! *sarcasm off* :) http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 start there, look for DVD players. Have fun! -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Guns
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).) by John R., Jr. Lott Best Regards, LX Lyvim I love you but... I'm gonna seriously beat whoever next posts on this topic keeps it going! *Kills the thread mercilessly turning it into a disgusting pile of goo* -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?
darklord wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 09:08 pm, you wrote: Ironically? not? I'm running a PIII 550. On an ancient but reliable BX board by Asus. Otherwise I would have tried that while back when it was mentioned on the list by Kaj. *sigh* Sorry thats not it. And I tried again the other day, configuring 3 terms (all E-terms) differently trying a few diff things with the menus. Nada. They all come up transparent no backgrounds or not the backgrounds I set when I turn off the transparency. Femme, which versions did you try? I'm running 9.4 here, I think. I did have to add some png lib just to get it to run, but then I copy my fav backgrounds to /usr/share/Eterm/pix, edit the pixmaps list, and hey-bingo-presto! instant luvly backgrounds. ;-) PS This is aside from that small error message I get when I first open Eterm. -- /\ DarkLord \/ *S* Thx, to be honest I have no clue what version it is. Have to look now, but its what came with 8.2. So...where does this leave me? With a fubared Eterm like yours if I do as you suggest? :) *seems to remember a post about see dictionary under idiot/imbecile you'll find a pic of DarkLord*... hm dare I take your advice now? *grins* -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Locking me out
I was reading a post the other day about the potential 50 yr old newbie and it got me thinking. How about a script to lock me out of my box for random 8 hr periods. It would be just like old times with Windows reinstalling without the work. My wife would love it. Lee -- Registered Linux abuser #223705 The best indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere is that they haven't contacted us. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 03:16, FemmeFatale wrote: Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. *dons the flame retardant suits prepares for the inevitable war* -- Femme No suits needed, I'm just curious. Where did you get your figures from? I'm interested in your sources. Email me off list. :) Thanks! LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. That's not true. The murder rate in Canada was tiny compared to the States' _before_ the restrictive laws came into effect. Canada has less violent crime because Canadians are a less violent people. (I know, I know, you're all shocked :-) Anti-gun laws only seem to work in Canada because there isn't a violent crime problem to begin with. And if you try to apply similar laws in a more violent place such as the States, the crime would run rampant. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. Rediculous. Criminals kill people, and if you take away their guns, they will find dozens of other ways to do it (if not other illegal guns). You give law-abiding citizens the right to arm themselves, and crime drops for two reasons. First because criminals change their mind about going against somebody that might shoot them, and second because if they do try to murder/rape/rob somebody, they'll be stopped! The lower crime rate in Kennesaw, GA is a perfect example of the first point, and as for the second, there are an estimated 2 million crimes that are prevented every year in the States because people have the freedom to protect themselves with a firearm. Miark (an 18-year resident of Canada, and 12-year resident of the States.) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
Hey, You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and see just what was -not- installed. Its pretty informative... even if it does take awhile. ;-) Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) installation... Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT guns
Hi, Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. Rediculous. Criminals kill people, Accidents can kill them, too. And easy access to guns makes it easy to get guns for crimes. I think I agree with Femme. and if you take away their guns, they will find dozens of other ways to do it (if not other illegal guns). True, but why make it easy for them? You give law-abiding citizens the right to arm themselves, Do they not have the right? AFAIK the laws only control access to weapons, so that e.g. mentally ill people don't have access to them. and crime drops for two reasons. First because criminals change their mind about going against somebody that might shoot them, The criminal never knows if the victim is armed or not, be it in a country with less restricitve laws or with more restrictive laws. and second because if they do try to murder/rape/rob somebody, they'll be stopped! There are other ways to stop them - tasers, tear gas... You don't have to shoot them. and as for the second, there are an estimated 2 million crimes that are prevented every year in the States because people have the freedom to protect themselves with a firearm. What country are you comparing the US with? To your first point, what country are we talking about? Are you criticizing some law forbiding anyone to own a gun? BTW: What do you think about the recent shooting in Erfurt, Germany? Do you think it could have been prevented if the 18-yar old guy wuoldn't be allowed to own two guns legally? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
Hey, Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) installation... i dont think you could view all available rpm packages during installation as many are intentionally hidden by the distro packagers to prevent overwhelming the new users who are trying mandrake for the first time. the list of applications that you could see during installation is the same one that you can see during a rpmdrake session. you have to select the flat view to get a complete listing. an example here (if i recall correctly) would be the libwine1 packages. you would never see the libwine1 packages during installation. i chose that as an example because i just upgraded one computer here to LM8.2 and was able to add the libwine1 package when all was running smoothly after installation. i recall this topic was also brought up by civileme a couple months back during the release of 8.1. i may be wrong so take my word with a grain of salt. ;-) You might be right, I had the same problem with kernel-sources, which I could never find in rpmdrake. Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)
shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 14:55, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Will see what I can find in the 'net. skinky There was a thread on that 486 distro either last year or very eary this year try the newbie-archives. Alternatively, redhat is compiled AFAIK to run on 386 or better. Michael ducks for cover after suggesting altenative distro you better bucky! :P seriously, does it matter? i mean try and run XP on a 486, then realize there is a reason we are fooling with linux... depending on what you want the machine to do, either http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/ or http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny/ may be a big help to you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com mandrake, stampede, and enoch are compiled for more recent processors, while most other distros stick with 386. I guess the real difference will come with the hammer-core processors which are x86 compatible unlike IA-64, but have significant enhancements beyond the 64-bit wideness. There a compile for a 16-year-old processor will certainly not compete with one for the actual processor itself. For the Pentium and 686-style procesors, the difference is slight, and sometimes the 686 compile runs slower. Early results compiling exclusively for Athlon show some gains over the pentium compile, but not enough to justify the expense of separate maintenance. The Opteron will likely be a much different story. Civileme There is a version of mandrake (7.0 and it is a beta at that) for 486s. There are also 7.1 versions for SPARC and Alpha processors(also beta versions with no final). The market demand was so slight, none were justified to be continued Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Guns
On Tue, 07 May 2002 01:34:02 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).) by John R., Jr. Lott Best Regards, LX Lyvim I love you but... I'm gonna seriously beat whoever next posts on this topic keeps it going! *Kills the thread mercilessly turning it into a disgusting pile of goo* = Hey Femme, I'm not so certain you can kill this thread just by acting like a little *Hitler* Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you., he really is an idiot. -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Guns
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 03:34, FemmeFatale wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).) by John R., Jr. Lott Best Regards, LX Lyvim I love you but... I'm gonna seriously beat whoever next posts on this topic keeps it going! *Kills the thread mercilessly turning it into a disgusting pile of goo* -- Femme I told you to email me private on the last message that I sent to you on this thread, you know. I'm trying to get you in my private inbox. ;) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to set up e-mail?
On Mon, 6 May 2002 17:36:34 +0800, Gobind Rudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks, any suggestions for the best way to set up e-mail for dial-up home use? I'm used to Mercury (Win32) which will send and fetch mail. Is there a simple Linux equivalent? I'm not familiar with this app, sorry. At the moment, I'm trying getmail, but it complains that my Sylpheed mailbox is not a maildir or an mbox. I've tried setting it up to deliver to ~/Mail/ or to ~/Mail/inbox/ (with and without the trailing slashes), but neither works. The Sylpheed folder tree shows the mailbox as Mailbox (MH). Maybe that's why getmail won't or can't deliver? That's right, Sylpheed uses MH format. I don't know about the main Sylpheed branch, but Sylpheed Claws can read from (but not write to) MBox mail directories. I'm not familiar with Getmail. Is it like Fetchmail? Is there a simple SMTP server I can use for sending mail without going through a relay or an ISP. With several e-mail accounts per member of the household, direct SMTP delivery is about the only feasible way to send (even if it's only a few pieces each time) while fetching POP mail. Sendmail, perhaps? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan OS/2 is the platform of the '90s. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio issues...
On Mon, 06 May 2002 21:32:32 -0500, Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have KDE3.0 set up to automatically preview files. When I leave the mouse over an mp3 file, it plays until I move the mouse away. However, after I have done that, I can't play mp3's in XMMS - I get this message: Couldn't open audio Plaese check that: 1. You have the correct output plugin selected 2. No other program is blocking the soundcard 3. Your soundcard is configured properly The thing is, if I haven't heard a preview, then the mp3's open just fine with XMMS. Any thoughts? KDE uses ARTS for sound. When you try to play a sound file with a KDE app, ARTS will grab the sound hardware for itself. After the app has finished ARTS will continue to hold on for a preset period of time. I believe the default timeout is one minute, and that it can be changed in the KDE Control Centre. I don't use KDE often, so I could be wrong in some parts. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I wrote code that works. I didn't test it, but the discussion is closed. It might have syntactic problems, but it does work. Better than any kernel extension ever would. End of story. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare problem
On 06 May 2002 22:53:24 -0500, Jim Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have any VMware experts here? I am trying to install Windows 98 under VMWare 3.1 on my Mandrake 8.2 computer in order to operate my blankedy-blank Windows-only scanner. When I start my Win98 session I get the following error: Cannot open /dev/parport0: Permission denied Device parallel0 will start disconnected I issued a 'chmod 666 /dev/parport0' to eliminate permissions as being a problem, and I get the following error: Parallel port /dev/parport0 is used by another program (such as another instance of VMware Workstation) or driver (such as lp). Device parallel0 will start disconnected. This is odd as I don't have anything using the parallel port at this time. Whats odd is that it was working with the same configuration with VMware 3.0 under Mandrake 8.1. I have the parallel port configured as follows: Type: Device Path: /dev/parport0 Bidirectional: Checked Start Connected: Checked Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem might be? Try adding yourself to the lp group, and also try turning off the CUPS daemon (run service cups stop as root). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it! -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is there such an option during the graphical installation? IIRC there is something like unfold whole tree, but I don't remember, either. :-( to find out when i get home and re-install my mandrake (maybe ill triple boot it with gentoo as i hear good remarks about it). Good luck! Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:39, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey, You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and see just what was -not- installed. Its pretty informative... even if it does take awhile. ;-) Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) installation... Bye Roman Good grief, I thought I was the only one. ;) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Mon, 6 May 2002 22:32:21 -0400, darklord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: A interisting point to ponder is that from what I have heard the crime rate in Kenasaw Georga before passing that local ordance was extremely high compared to the rest of the state of georgia but after that law was in place for 3 months the crime rate had droped to way below average for the state. Has getting rid of most of the firearms in a lot of the UK had that kind of positive effect? You're on the right track here - taking guns away does NOT lower crime rates. Just the opposite, in fact. Britain and Australia (FWIH) are in the same boat... ;-( How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually looked at the official statistics or simply some biased interpretation by the National Redneck Association [sorry, couldn't resist ;)]? The Australian Bureau of Statistics (a government body, but their methodology is well-documented and sound) has shown time and time again that reducing the number of weapons _reduces_ crime. Some years back (IIRC, it was 1996) we had a big (by Australian standards) gun massacre in the state of Tasmania. After that, the government initiated a gun buyback and confiscation scheme, and crime rates dropped. The City of Sydney introduced restrictions on knives a few years ago; that also reduced the crime rate. But as British PM Benjamin Disraeli once said, There are lies, damn lies and statistics. By this he meant that statistics can be easily twisted to argue whatever you want. Microsoft does this all the time, as does MozillaQuest. One famous example of this concerned the pesticides Aldrin and Dieldrin (A/D). American and British scientists both had the same information on hand. Nevertheless, the American scientists ruled them to be carcinogenic whilst the British scientists declared them to be safe. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set
On Mon, 6 May 2002 23:28:34 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP I would have to whole-heartedly agree with you. I enjoy dry british humor as much as the next guy, but these guys just don't get it. Hey don't get at us Brits The author was Thomas C Green who is an American. If you read his posts over the last year he really fancies himself as being smarter than all the people he deals with, and loves to humiliate people. (Check out his posts about Steve Gibson) Green has only been into Linux for less than twelve months but has already made the transition in his own mind from Newbie to a leading expert. When reading the Reg check out the byline. Anything by Green will be 'caustic' and nasty about just about anything. I much prefer John Lettuce's reporting since he does most of the Microsoft bashing. (And he _is_ a Brit) I agree. But John Lettuce has yet to put his money-where-his-mouth-is and dump Windows. Andrew Orlowski uses MacOS, Thomas C. Greene uses GNU/Linux (and WinXP supposedly on the side), but John persists with Windows. I guess using it so much makes him want to curse Microsoft, hence his articles :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I wrote code that works. I didn't test it, but the discussion is closed. It might have syntactic problems, but it does work. Better than any kernel extension ever would. End of story. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: setting a 10/100 NIC 's speed
Hanan Shargi wrote: Hi All, I have posted last week asking if there is a way I can set the 10/100 NIC's speed to 10, and some one suggested that it is easer to set the hub's speed instead. I tried netconf, harddrake, Mandrake control center, I couldnt find anyplace hat lets you set the NIC's speed ?! I checked the hub and its auto detecting, ther's no way I can set its speed. Does anybody else have other suggestion ? Just in case I'm looking at the wrong direction, I'm trying to lower the card's speed coz my ISP guy told me that the reason my linux box is getting disconnected from the DSL every now and then is becoz, my NIC is trying to connect at 100 speed while the internal networking in the wall ( which conects me to their DSL ) can only handle 10 ! I'm kind of getting specticle here, but my W2K box ( whcih have a seperate IP ) is not getting disconnected after I set the speed of the NIC to 10 - ANy suggestions Appreciated. - Hanan AL-Shargi Find a cheap 10M hub and put it between your wall connection and computer. If you cannot find one, I have one that uses 110V 60Hz power. If that will work for you, email me privately. Civileme Yeh, the card cannot detect the difference between CAT3 and CAT5 but it can see a slow hub or switch. 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] Follow-up question about bookmarks...
On Mon, 06 May 2002 18:10:28 -0500, Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much, that really helped :-D Now, does anyone know how to import IE bookmarks? Thanks Can IE export its bookmarks to an HTML file? If so, then do that and import the file in Konqueror. If not, then you should be able to find converters at http://freshmeat.net. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan GNU make is possibly the only example of overkill to rival GNU emacs -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT over reacting
Roman Korcek wrote: Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is there such an option during the graphical installation? IIRC there is something like unfold whole tree, but I don't remember, either. :-( to find out when i get home and re-install my mandrake (maybe ill triple boot it with gentoo as i hear good remarks about it). Good luck! Roman In one of Mandrake's least ergonomic moments, the switch to flat list was chosen to be the little icon of 2 light blue arrows chasing each other at the bottom of the tree list. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually looked at the official statistics or simply some biased interpretation by the National Redneck Association [sorry, couldn't resist ;)]? The Australian Bureau of Statistics (a government body, but their methodology is well-documented and sound) has shown time and time again that reducing the number of weapons _reduces_ crime. Some years back (IIRC, it was 1996) we had a big (by Australian standards) gun massacre in the state of Tasmania. After that, the government initiated a gun buyback and confiscation scheme, and crime rates dropped. The City of Sydney introduced restrictions on knives a few years ago; that also reduced the crime rate. Well, I've been looking carefully at everything, and my personal end consensus is that I happen to side with Eric Raymond on these issues. And that's way before I knew his position. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
EhI forgot to include this in the last post. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html LX On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:43, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: How do you know that? Have you lived in Australia or Britain? Have you actually looked at the official statistics or simply some biased interpretation by the National Redneck Association [sorry, couldn't resist ;)]? The Australian Bureau of Statistics (a government body, but their methodology is well-documented and sound) has shown time and time again that reducing the number of weapons _reduces_ crime. Some years back (IIRC, it was 1996) we had a big (by Australian standards) gun massacre in the state of Tasmania. After that, the government initiated a gun buyback and confiscation scheme, and crime rates dropped. The City of Sydney introduced restrictions on knives a few years ago; that also reduced the crime rate. But as British PM Benjamin Disraeli once said, There are lies, damn lies and statistics. By this he meant that statistics can be easily twisted to argue whatever you want. Microsoft does this all the time, as does MozillaQuest. One famous example of this concerned the pesticides Aldrin and Dieldrin (A/D). American and British scientists both had the same information on hand. Nevertheless, the American scientists ruled them to be carcinogenic whilst the British scientists declared them to be safe. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with Eudora
I have configured a mail server with the latest avatar of Mandrake and the sendmail is running fine. However when I want to see my mails from a Windows machine using Eudora, the server is refusing the connection and mails are not sent or received by the windows client. The same machine works well when using a email client in the console itself! Is there any problem with its sendmail? Pl help or give the address of some one who can help. -- S.Ganesan Principal Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-625237 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KMAIL ADDRESSBOOK RESTORATION
I don't have any problem creating kmail addressbook.csv files from netscape.ldif original :- RESTORE FROM NETSCAPE ADDRESSBOOK.LDF Put up KMail File - addressbook , this creates a new addressbook.kab file - cancell File - import - KMail+kab importfilters Vxx - change:import foldersfromOE5 to Netscape LDIF then: |import| tab - select importfile from whereever - OK, takes a little while . all complete. However when it comes to restoring KMail addressbook.cvs files it's a different story:- RESTORE FROM KMAIL ADDRESSBOOK.CVS File - addressbook - File - import list - choose source file addressbook.cvs OK , takes a few minutes. Result addressbook full of white lines. I did something wrong, but what ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Guns
On Tue, 7 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Yes, however those ideas have already been taken into account when doing an analysis of the crime rates in various disarmed countries. Once more I recommend the following from Amazon: See the book: More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).) by John R., Jr. Lott Best Regards, LX Lyvim I love you but... I'm gonna seriously beat whoever next posts on this topic keeps it going! *Kills the thread mercilessly turning it into a disgusting pile of goo* I'm sorry... grin did I miss something? -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 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] How to print
Hello Using Mandrake 8.2 and HP LaserJet 1000 but cannot print at all. This printer is attached to USB port and Mandrake recognized both USB port and HP LaserJet 1000. I have some output results of those commands: $ rpm -q usbutils $ uname -a $ lspcidrake -v | egrep -i 'usb' $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices $ cat /etc/modules.conf # lsmod # usbview It is a two-pages text that I can send to the list if moderator says this is ok or try to send it private to anyone who wants to. Whenever I try to print, Mandrake creates a job queue that remains in hold and nothing happens. This printer only works fine using MS Windows. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Cesar Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] OT guns
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi, Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. Rediculous. Criminals kill people, Accidents can kill them, too. And easy access to guns makes it easy to get guns for crimes. I think I agree with Femme. O Pa-lease! if you totally take away the lawful access to guns the CRIMINALs will still get them. Now you've got unarmed good guys and well armed bad guys! oops...now whats the next logical thing to happen. O! I know...the sheep are now even Easier to overwhelm, capture, and do what ever. get the picture? Kenesaw has the right idea and the numbers to back it up. liberals! stop yer hearts from bleeding and get a clue. Ok...I'm done. that just gets my shorts in a wad and I promise I ain't a gonna respond to another post in this thread, honest! -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 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] mandrake-offtopic newsgroup
Following my original email it seems rather a lot of people want discussion of gun culture, United States constitutional issues, the wickednesses of Microsoft and so on elsewhere, so I've set it up as a diversion for such threads. You subscribe by sending a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and its home page is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mandrake-offtopic/ Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?
On 7 May 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 03:16, FemmeFatale wrote: Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. *dons the flame retardant suits prepares for the inevitable war* -- Femme no...no...no... Femme! it's not the gun that kills the people. come on! you know better then that. The poor dumb gun can't stand up and puke bullets at people unless some butthole first HOLDS the gun in his/her hand and PULLS the trigger! THATS what kills people. It's the butthole holding the gun. Geez! -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 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] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
Title: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove? -Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:46 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove? What ms considers to be illegal is the following: I buy a machine with preinstalled windows I uninstall windows and install a real os I sell/give the version of windows that came with the machine to someone else What ms wants is that when I sell or give away the machine, I must also hand the original version of windows to whoever gets the machine also. That makes more sense, but not much more. Winblows, even on pre-installed computers, costs something, and that cost is passed on to the final consumer. So despite its cost being buried in a sticker price, you pay for Winsux on a pre-installed computer. In my way of thinking, if I pay for it, I have the right to sell it-- even separately, if I choose. Miark I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove engine transmission, seats and what ever else is salvageable and sell them individually. They were part of an integral package to begin with, but I still can sell off the pieces. Heck, I could sell of the pieces two days after I bought it brand new, and put some other engine in it. What makes Windows so special? M$ is as arrogant as any company ever in existance. My $.02 Dennis M. The difference is: In the case of software, you're not "buying" the software. You purchase a license to "use" the software on (in this case) a single desktop. If you read the EULA you will see that you do not have the right to transfer that license to anyone else. I don't support M$, but before these tirades get going, people should read the license agreement, and understand it. If you don't like/agree with the EULA, don't agree to it, and don't use the software. You DO have the option to return the OS to M$ "unused". You'll have to fight for it, but refunds are issued in cases where the OS was removed from new computers "unused". That means, you can't even boot the computer new out of the box. If you do, you've used the software, and cannot return it. But it clear: You are not buying the software. That would be far more expensive (well into the millions). You're only buying a license to "use" the software. Ric
Re: [newbie] help with ./configure
Whenever you find ./configure stops saying it needs a file just open Mandrake Software Manager and search for an rpm of that name. If one is not found then press the 'search by file' button and search again. Once you have found the correct RPM install the '-devel' version of that RPM. The devel RPM's contain the headers that ./configure is looking for which will get compiled into the application you are building. Look carefully at the output from ./configure Some applications will still build if they do not find the applications they are looking for, but will be lacking some functionality. Just about every library you are going to need is already on your CD's. Scouring the net is rarely necessary. By the way setupterm is on your libncurses5-devel-5.2-23mdk RPM Also BitchX-1.0-0.c17.13mdk is already on your install CD's and BitchX-1.0-0.c18.1mdk is available on Cooker. You can download an RPM here http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=BitchX derek On Tuesday 07 May 2002 6:08 am, Head wrote: ok i got gcc installed, now it wants setupterm or tgetnet, and it says it can't find it, i did some searching on google for setupterm and it said it was in libtermcap, and its already installed, but cant find it, where can i find it? Im trying to install BitchX, i've downloaded it and un-tar'd it, and then the instructions say to run ./configure --with-plugins it says checking for gcc. no checking for cc. no checking for cl no configure: error: no acceptible C compiler found in $PATH so i guess my question is where do i get gcc, cc, or cl? TIA David __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well if you have any download distro since 7.1, you should have BitchX right on the CDs. But to answer your question, you need to install the development package, and that isn't just the compiler. It includes the files that say -devel in them if you are interested in compiling apps in their categories. Headers are very important, and the newer gcc compilers do not add standard headers to source code by default, so you may run into a problem with some older source which assumes that. urpmi gcc is a good start. Civileme __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM's missing of Powerpacks?
Check out this post on Mandrake user http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=366 This guy says that he has found 318 RPMs present on the Mandrake 8.2 download edition which are missing from the Powerpack. One of them is slocate which I recall Kaj saying last week he could not locate on his CD's If you do find RPMs missing, you can of course download them from www.rpmfind.net derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?
On Tue, 7 May 2002, David wrote: daRcmaTTeR said onto me: -- snip | |Brian, | |Thats a terrible thing to say. even for Billy-bob. sure the guy is evil |but geeZ. That's rather harsh. Maybe the poor bugger simply doesn't know |any different. poor dumb bugger. | Come on now..Don't get me wrong, I support that guy in NO way. But if there are two things in this world he is not they are: _poor_ or _dumb_. That mother fr knows better. He chooses to run his company the way it is via conscience choices. Let him hang like the criminal he is. Don't say things that could build empathy/sympathy for him. my 0.02 Dave Hi hear what your'e saying Dave, but the kind of dumbness I'm refering to, (serious-blind-stupidity-and-disregard-for-ethics) has little to do with intellect and everything to do with the person in question. He's been a thief mostof his adult life and in a way doesn't know anything else. ergo, he is quite ignorant, un-discerning, and poor. (poor as in impoverished. totally lacking any ethical wealth what-so-ever). make sense? still...well, I'm sure you get the point. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
daRcmaTTeR said onto me: -- |On Tue, 7 May 2002, David wrote: | | | | daRcmaTTeR said onto me: | -- | snip | | | |Brian, | | | |Thats a terrible thing to say. even for Billy-bob. sure the guy is evil | |but geeZ. That's rather harsh. Maybe the poor bugger simply doesn't know | |any different. poor dumb bugger. | | | | Come on now..Don't get me wrong, I support that guy in NO way. But if there are | two things in this world he is not they are: _poor_ or _dumb_. | | That mother fr knows better. He chooses to run his company the way it is via | conscience choices. Let him hang like the criminal he is. Don't say things that | could build empathy/sympathy for him. | | my 0.02 | Dave | |Hi hear what your'e saying Dave, but the kind of dumbness I'm refering to, |(serious-blind-stupidity-and-disregard-for-ethics) has little to do with |intellect and everything to do with the person in question. He's been a |thief mostof his adult life and in a way doesn't know anything else. ergo, |he is quite ignorant, un-discerning, and poor. (poor as in impoverished. |totally lacking any ethical wealth what-so-ever). | |make sense? still...well, I'm sure you get the point. | |-- |daRcmaTTeR |-- |Registered Linux User 182496 | | | Yeah, I know what was meant. I was just possibly the only soul on this list that hadn't posted to this thread and felt left out. ;) -- -- °°° David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Mandrake 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Sylpheed 0.7.4claws Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.davidlsteiner.com °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
On Monday 06 May 2002 07:19 pm, Brian Koppe wrote: Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! :) You can use either 586 or 686. Type 'arch' in a term, your Tbird should return tom/$ arch i686 -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 02:14, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess the real difference will come with the hammer-core processors which are x86 compatible unlike IA-64, but have significant enhancements beyond the 64-bit wideness. There a compile for a 16-year-old processor will certainly not compete with one for the actual processor itself. For the Pentium and 686-style procesors, the difference is slight, and sometimes the 686 compile runs slower. Early results compiling exclusively for Athlon show some gains over the pentium compile, but not enough to justify the expense of separate maintenance. The Opteron will likely be a much different story. i know i am hoping the opteron will meet the hype. might actually upgrade the creaking old 400. has AMD released them for testing to anyone? i have no idea how that works/what the time table is, but i have wondered. anyone know? -- Give me ambiguity or give me something else. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 00:26, David opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Come on now..Don't get me wrong, I support that guy in NO way. But if there are two things in this world he is not they are: _poor_ or _dumb_. i won't argue the dumb part, but i will point out that in his book billyg says that the next big advancement in computers will come when we find a fast easy way to factor prime numbers. ...left as an exercise for the reader. -- 1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by interdimentional teleportation. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Guns
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 00:34, FemmeFatale opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I'm gonna seriously beat whoever next posts on this topic keeps it going! my wife is out of town for meetings, i haven't been beat by a women in age monweekday a few hours anyway. :) -- you can have peace or freedom, but never count on both at once -heinlein shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 03:30 am, Roman Korcek offered this for consideration: Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is there such an option during the graphical installation? IIRC there is something like unfold whole tree, but I don't remember, either. :-( to find out when i get home and re-install my mandrake (maybe ill triple boot it with gentoo as i hear good remarks about it). Good luck! Roman ~ You can click the button (looks like a little z I believe but has a tool tip to tell you if it's the one you want) to toggle between threaded (? tree?) and flat list during graphical installation at the 'choose packages to install' dialogue. But the kernel source should appear under the 'development' heading even in the tree view. If you choose development as a category during install, kernel source, and other RPMs needed to install packages from source, should be installed without further prompting in any case. I think so anyway. It's been a few days since I helped someone install the OS so I really don't trust my memory _that_ much! -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB, Canada Mandrake 8.2 user 244963 at http://counter.li.org 8:40am up 17:09, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
Anyone out there had the experience of getting the downloader programme nt to work. I installed abovementioned, just fine, Seems interesting indeed, just one problem , I cannot seem to get it to addopt a file from the net. I suspect I need to add konqueror to the NT downloader somewhere, so that it automatically addopts the file when selected off the net. At the very least there is some what of copy and pasting the URL. Advice would be welcome. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] start apps on log in
Hi, I used to know this.I want to get 'sound mixer' to start whenever I log in. I'm pretty sure I have to put it in rc.d ...I think. Anyway, tell me the syntax and I promise I won't forget again. tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 10:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone out there had the experience of getting the downloader programme nt to work. I installed abovementioned, just fine, Seems interesting indeed, just one problem , I cannot seem to get it to addopt a file from the net. I suspect I need to add konqueror to the NT downloader somewhere, so that it automatically addopts the file when selected off the net. At the very least there is some what of copy and pasting the URL. NT monitors the clipboard, but you need to enable that first. On the tool bar, goto Options | General | Integration | Clipboard, and enable the button there. Then in any browser or file manager, right click on the file or link, and choose somethin like 'copy' or 'copy link'. If you have NT running, it'll pop up a dialog box, then just choose 'OK'. The download will start. You can also get whole dirs from ftp or http sites this way. Some sites don't cooperate tho, so then just choose any file in the dir, and in the dialog box edit it down to .../*.rpm (or whatever). NT will then load all the files in that dir. Take a few minutes to look thru all the items under Options. Most of the defaults are fine, but you should see what all you can configure. Pay attention to the throttle options under 'Main'. Very useful if you've got a d/l going and you want to use your limited bandwith connection for other stuff at the same time. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] start apps on log in
On Tue, 7 May 2002 07:37:50 -0700 Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used to know this.I want to get 'sound mixer' to start whenever I log in. I'm pretty sure I have to put it in rc.d ...I think. Anyway, tell me the syntax and I promise I won't forget again. tia, Bill W. uhmm.. dunno if this will help you, but for soundmixer to start at login i simply logged out with nothing running but tha mixer, and chose save session HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HELP!!!
Boy did I learn my lesson not to play around as root! :-[ Alright, I decided to install some Texstar RPM's last night and some said they needed the latest RPM's from the KDE3 CVS - so, I figured, what the heck, why not install them? So, silly me, I decided to install *some* of the RPM's from KDE3 CVS. After doing that and restarting X, all my icons were gone, my background was gone and ANY clicking on the desktop didn't work - right click, left click, middle click, NOTHING. So, I figured this is probably because I didn't install ALL of the CVS RPM's - so I began to. I got all of them install except for the libqt3 ones now and I CAN'T GET THOSE TO INSTALL. When I get the error message that the newer libqt3 conflicts with the older libqt3-devel, I hit 'force' because the older libqt3-devel is going to be replaced by the newer anyhow. After that though, I get another error that some files from the newer libqt3 conflict with files from the older libqt3-devel. The only option I got was to press 'OK' so I did, but apparently when that type of error comes up it does not install the RPM. So, then I decided to try doing libqt3-devel first - same error only backwards. So, I figured, maybe it'll work if I wipe out those files and then it'll write new ones right? Wrong. I even went so far as to delete the /usr/lib/qt3 directory entirely - I STILL get the errors even though I can no longer get into X because the files really aren't there. So, I can only assume that some reference to those files is somewhere else in hosw Linux handles RPM's and it assumes they are still there and therefore that so is the conflict. I tried rpm -e on the old libqt3 RPM's and that didn't work - it said they weren't installed! I know for a fact they are 1) because they keep causing an error and 2) because I have been using KDE3 for the past 2 weeks! PLEASE HELP! Thank you SO much in advance! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?
Read the book More Guns, Less Crime There was a LOT of research put into that book and it shows, quite well, that what you just claimed is not true. I submit to you the case of Switzerland. Every male in Switzerland is REQUIRED to own a gun - yet they have incredibely low crime there too. There are PLENTY of other things to say about this, but since this *IS* A Linux board I'll simply say read the book. Brian Gun restriction laws in canada mean we have fewer crimes per capita than the US Our murder rates are far lower by city/per capita too. Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. *dons the flame retardant suits prepares for the inevitable war* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fax Ware
Sirs, Has anyone experience of using Fax on Mandrake 8.2. This is something I need, but unsure whether to go for Hylafax, efax, Kfax, Gfax, or Mgetty. Are there major advantages and is setting up a major problem. The advantage of fax over email, is that you know the recipient has down loaded and it is given in safe hard copy. With thanks in anticipation. Malcolm Candlish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getmail (was: best way to set up e-mail?)
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Paul wrote: In reply to daRcmaTTeR's mail, d.d. Tue, 7 May 2002 13:23:51 -0400 (EDT): Getmail??? I've heard good and bad about it. Tried it once but wasn't very impressed. and you're right...it did complain a lot. It has run fine here always... Paul -- If it ain't broke, don't fix it. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.7.5 Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! I don't doubt that. however, I wass seriously unimpressed with it. besides. ..I've spent so much time learning Postfix and Sendmail, both of which I learned to get along with well, it didn't make any sense at all to learn yet another one. Plus, it didn't seem as well endowed as the other two. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
