[newbie-it] Auguri!
Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a Tutti! A quelli che come me sono sempre capaci di creare nuovi problemi da sottoporre ai veterani, ai veterani stessi che ci sopportano e non si arrabbiano di fronte ai nostri problemucci, a coloro che pur presenti non espongono nessun problema, ma che da dietro le quinte ci osservano (Come bestie rare?) e percorrono con noi la strada del pinguino. A tutti Buon Natale! Ciao Nicola
[newbie-it] vecchio modem
Ciao a tutti, ho un vecchio modem thundercom 28.8 interno e vorrei usarlo x mandare e ricevere fax con hylafax ma nn riesco a capire come fare a farlo vedere alla mia distro (mdk9.0). Il chipset e' il rockwell r6682. PS: ovviamente nn si tratta di un winmodem ma di un vero e proprio modem con tutti i componenti onboard. Un grazie anticipato a chi sapra' aiutarmi!
Re: [newbie-it] vecchio modem
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:10:01 +0100 Paolo Tomiato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho un vecchio modem thundercom 28.8 interno e vorrei usarlo x mandare e ricevere fax con hylafax ma nn riesco a capire come fare a farlo vedere alla mia distro (mdk9.0). Il chipset e' il rockwell r6682. PS: ovviamente nn si tratta di un winmodem ma di un vero e proprio modem con tutti i componenti onboard. Prova a vedere tra gli howto. Io comincerei da questo: http://www.pluto.linux.it/ildp/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html. Ti ho dato l'indirizzo web, anche se dovresti averlo sui CD della Distro. Buon Natale, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!!
On 24 Dec 2002 14:15:57 +0100 Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Auguri a tutti gli iscritti alla lista!! Auguri a tutti. Riciclo un disegno che ho appena ricevuto :-) Andrea attachment: auguri_con_KDE.jpg
Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!
Germano wrote: Il 10:26, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 10:13, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a Tutti! A quelli che come me sono sempre capaci di creare nuovi problemi da sottoporre ai veterani, ai veterani stessi che ci sopportano e non si arrabbiano di fronte ai nostri problemucci, a coloro che pur presenti non espongono nessun problema, ma che da dietro le quinte ci osservano (Come bestie rare?) e percorrono con noi la strada del pinguino. A tutti Buon Natale! Ciao Nicola Si ricambia.. come sopra Ciao, Germano ricambio ed un augurio particolare alla mandrake perchè possa per se stessa, ma per noi anche, superare questo momento di difficoltà finanziaria. francesco
Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!
Alle 18:58, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: Germano wrote: Il 10:26, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 10:13, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a Tutti! A quelli che come me sono sempre capaci di creare nuovi problemi da sottoporre ai veterani, ai veterani stessi che ci sopportano e non si arrabbiano di fronte ai nostri problemucci, a coloro che pur presenti non espongono nessun problema, ma che da dietro le quinte ci osservano (Come bestie rare?) e percorrono con noi la strada del pinguino. A tutti Buon Natale! Ciao Nicola Si ricambia.. come sopra Ciao, Germano ricambio ed un augurio particolare alla mandrake perchè possa per se stessa, ma per noi anche, superare questo momento di difficoltà finanziaria. francesco Auguri a tutti.ora scappo mi aspetta il cenone :)) Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!
Alle 22:05, mercoledì 25 dicembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Alle 18:58, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: Germano wrote: Il 10:26, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 10:13, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a Tutti! A quelli che come me sono sempre capaci di creare nuovi problemi da sottoporre ai veterani, ai veterani stessi che ci sopportano e non si arrabbiano di fronte ai nostri problemucci, a coloro che pur presenti non espongono nessun problema, ma che da dietro le quinte ci osservano (Come bestie rare?) e percorrono con noi la strada del pinguino. A tutti Buon Natale! Ciao Nicola Si ricambia.. come sopra Ciao, Germano ricambio ed un augurio particolare alla mandrake perchè possa per se stessa, ma per noi anche, superare questo momento di difficoltà finanziaria. francesco Auguri a tutti.ora scappo mi aspetta il cenone :)) Ciao , Tom Mi aggiungo alla lista degli auguranti: ** BUON NATALE A TUTTI!!! ** Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
[newbie-it] mandrake update con la 9.0
Innanzitutto Buon Natale a tutta la lista!Mentre ieri funzionava tutto bene (sono riuscito a lanciae l'aggiornamento dato che l'ho installata da un paio di giorni), mentre stasera volevo finire l'aggiornamento ma improvvisamente il mandrake update ha deciso che non riusciva a contattare il mirror( anche se è perfettamente accessibile via web!).Provando a lanciare il programma Software Source Manager mi è apparso un mesaggio che era impossibile aggiornare la sorgente e che sarebbe stata disattivata!Io non riesco a capire il perché( o forse temo di immaginare la brutalità con cui mia sorella ieri notte a deciso di interrompere il download...) come diavolo faccio a ripristinare il programma?Grazie a tutti! Ps. Un grazie speciale ad Arwan perchè grazie ai suoi consigli ora posso usare la mia macchian digitale!__Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow!
Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!
Alle 23:10, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Gaetano ha scritto: A tutti Buon Natale! Ciao Nicola Si ricambia.. Ciao, Germano ricambio ed un augurio particolare alla mandrake perchè possa per se stessa, ma per noi anche, superare questo momento di difficoltà finanziaria. francesco Auguri a tutti.ora scappo mi aspetta il cenone :)) Ciao , Tom Mi aggiungo alla lista degli auguranti: ** BUON NATALE A TUTTI!!! ** Daniele Auguroni di cuore e FELICE NATALE A TUTTI Gaetano Mi aggiungo anche io agli auguri!Ciao gianni
Re: [newbie-it] programma per web-cam
Il mar, 2002-12-24 alle 23:44, gigi pinna ha scritto: Ora vorrei sruttarla in rete, che programmi esistono che mi permettono di chattare o comunque di usare la web-cam? Devo ammettere che non lo sapevo usare neanche col il finestrone... Suggerimenti? Esiste gnome-meeting (è già nei cd), però io non l'ho mai usato. Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] mandrake update con la 9.0
Credo si tratti di un bug della mdk9 io ho avuto lo stesso problema e l'ho risolto via ftp co Gftp scaricando gli rpm in una directory e scegliendo gli aggiornamenti che mi interessano ciao On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:43:15 +0100 gigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Innanzitutto Buon Natale a tutta la lista! Mentre ieri funzionava tutto bene (sono riuscito a lanciae l'aggiornamento dato che l'ho installata da un paio di giorni), mentre stasera volevo finire l'aggiornamento ma improvvisamente il mandrake update ha deciso che non riusciva a contattare il mirror( anche se è perfettamente accessibile via web!). Provando a lanciare il programma Software Source Manager mi è apparso un mesaggio che era impossibile aggiornare la sorgente e che sarebbe stata disattivata! Io non riesco a capire il perché( o forse temo di immaginare la brutalità con cui mia sorella ieri notte a deciso di interrompere il download...) come diavolo faccio a ripristinare il programma? Grazie a tutti! Ps. Un grazie speciale ad Arwan perchè grazie ai suoi consigli ora posso usare la mia macchian digitale! __ Ma quante ne sai? Mettiti alla prova con QuizShow! -- Per favore non mandatemi allegati in Word o PowerPoint. Si veda http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.it.html
Re: [newbie-it] mandrake update con la 9.0
Alle 01:21, mercoledì 25 dicembre 2002, stormy ha scritto: Credo si tratti di un bug della mdk9 io ho avuto lo stesso problema e l'ho risolto via ftp co Gftp scaricando gli rpm in una directory e scegliendo gli aggiornamenti che mi interessano ciao il problema è che con un 56 k scaricare gli aggiornamenti così non è comodissimo... in più facendo così con la 8.2 mi son incasinato con le dipendenze e ho dovuto upgradare il sistema alla 9.0( avevo perso tutto il server x con annessi e connessi...) se è un bug provo a cercare in errata corrige dal sito di mandrake! grazie comunque, se qualcun altro sa come risolverlo mi aiuterebbe un casino! -- Che differenza c'e'... tra una prostituta, una fidanzata e una moglie? Mentre fanno l'amore, la prostituta dice: Questo ti costa 100.000 lire. La fidanzata dice: Oh, come ti amo!. La moglie dice: Beige. Gia', beige. Il soffitto lo dipingero' beige!. -- Da it.hobby.umorismo
Re: [newbie] RAID problems
Ok everyone.. Please disregard.. Many HUGE thanks to Stephen Kuhn for helping me figure this out. Turns out I *almost* got it by myself damnit. Heh. Thanks again Stephen Michael - Original Message - From: Michael Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: [newbie] RAID problems Ok.. I'm stumped... I'm trying to build a raid-0 using a bunch of HD's.. I read the howto at http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ and read a bunch of docs. The array is made of fo 10 disks. I know this may not be the best for performance, but it really doesn't matter. It's just for data warehousing. When I tried to build the array, it scrolled all 10 drives, then gave this error: mkraid: aborted (In addition to the above messages, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat as well for potential clues.) So I did that... syslog says: kernel: md: array md0 already exists! then one second after that error, I get: kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I'm not sure if that particular error has anything to do with it, but I suspect it does. So, then if I do cat /proc/mdstat I get: Personalities : read_ahead not set md0 : inactive unused devices: none So then if I do raidstart --all, I get: /dev/md0: already running. WTF? Is the thing working or not? What do I need to do to mount it to find out? Any help, as always, appreciated. :) Michael 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] cvs client
Found it! Thanks to your hint I checked the Cervisa web page and found that it is included in the kdesdk package. That's why I did't find it with a simple search within rpmdrake. thanks again, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 18:13, Raffaele Belardi wrote: If you can't find Cervisia in your KDE, you can download it and install it either from source or RPM... THAT is an invaluable tool! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 6:43 am, Franki wrote: There is a really nice Sony out that supports both standards.. (and dvd-ram I think) Also a pioneer from memory.. don't know if they support linux though.. but I'd go and check sony's site. There isn't a huge amount of difference between the two.. it was mostly just two different consortiums that came up with different solutions and haven't settled on one yet. The problem comes when you want to play back the discs. Not all dvd players will play all formats - in fact most won't. You have to research just what you can play on your particular player if you want to use anything other than your recording drive. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
On Monday 23 Dec 2002 11:11 pm, civileme wrote: Good to see you. Now I know it's Christmas Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?
Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it. I have tried to install it, just in case it wasn't but the install search proved fruitless. I got the Mdk 9.0 Powerpack with 7 CD's and I'm buggered if I can find a way to install the software off those CD's, that is of course if Mozilla Mail is even on the CD's. I think that the problem is that you have to install the whole Mozilla suite from the cds. It's certainly there - I use the browser regularly, though not the mail, which is installed. Anne mmm, looks like I am going to have to 'upgrade' my system and do individual package selection in order to get the Mail option installed. :(). -- === Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user Using Linux Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1 on a 2.4.3-20mdk#1 kernel === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:15 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it. I have tried to install it, just in case it wasn't but the install search proved fruitless. I got the Mdk 9.0 Powerpack with 7 CD's and I'm buggered if I can find a way to install the software off those CD's, that is of course if Mozilla Mail is even on the CD's. I might be wrong about this but I seem to recall that the netscape mail settings are in a subdirectory of C:\windows\identities\ or thereabouts (for windows 98, anyway) They are in a hidden directory, starting from .mozilla under your /home. If you are using kde, use K Configuration Packaging Install Software. Of course if you didn't use this set of discs originally you will have to add the sources first. Anne Tnx Anne, but I am afraid even when I invoked the 'install software' thingy and searched for it under all packages it still didn't turn up. Time for package by package selection install. :) -- === Hylton Conacher - Registered Linux user # 229959 Licenced Windows user Using Linux Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1 on a 2.4.3-20mdk#1 kernel === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with mount cdrom
Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't work, it desepear. Can anybody help me? My fstab is: /dev/hdd6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdd7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,exec,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks -- == Sérgio F. Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://oigres_palm.blogspot.com = Linux Register #297246 Mandrake-Winme EU QUERO MEU VOTO IMPRESSO http://www.votoseguro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:28, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 08:13, John Richard Smith wrote: Would geforce 3 be capable of doing that ? John zitgotta video/audio in? According to the book of destruction that came with my video card I have a nVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200/500 GPU VGA Card, but on the back there a 3 ports, VGA-out TV-out DVI-out, I have the screen plugged in VGA-out. If none of these will not do, is there any possiblity of using a USB port . I've also have a spare game port which I never use, a spare serial port, and a spare parallel port . One day I want a digital terrestrial/satalite tv card, plenty of spare pci slots to fit one. John USB - nah. Obviously, the video - out is just that - video out. The trick is to get the video data IN and on the HD - or at least captured and converted on the fly. I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert I guessed as much. So does anyone know of a tvcard that can also handle not only European pal, but uk terrestrial digital as well as digital astra satelite ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
I can offer my help for Atlantic Canada Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. While all feedback is important I see a problem in an individual obtaining a beta or rc and reporting issues directly. In some cases it is reported on this or other lists that my scanner/camera/cd rom/package/whatever doesn't work followed by a number of posts which resolve the issue with mine does, you need to do this in these cases the limited time available to Mandrake developers would be misdirected and if the issue was raised without resolution on these lists and then submitted to Mandrake it is possible that the next beta would be out and Mandrake developers would be tempted to ignore it as it referred to a previous release. Poogle, I have a solution/suggestion. One or more persons could take the responsibility to burn and mail out new releases to the 75 or more crashtesters. I would be willing to try to help, if I didn't have to buy the CD's. You figure 75 people, with a three CD distro, that's 225 CD's burned per release. This responsibility could be divided up between two or more peeps with broadband access (like me.) I've got the equivalent of a T1 here, so I can download ISO's in short order. The Burners could each be assigned mailing lists with peeps that are close to their area of residence. In my case, crashtesters on the eastern seaboard of the United States would be my customers. A Burner could be assigned to a sector of Europe, or Australia. You get the idea. A FedEx or UPS account that's owned by Mandrakesoft could take care of the mailing charges. When the CD mailer goes out, it's just assigned to the Mandrake UPS or Fedex account. This would resolve the problem of getting corrected test distros out to the crashtesters in a minimum amount of time. --LX I have broadband and would be willing to help (UK). I haven't downloaded and installed a distro as such, but would have thought it no problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?
El Lun 23 Dic 2002 23:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Did any of you guys have trouble installing transcode? It seems that this is a requirement for dvd::rip and many others but I'm finding that transcode has a lot of requirements that aren't on my system. I'm looking at installing like 20 diffenent things here or maybe more. Is there an easier way? There ought to be a way to tell the installer to go get whatever it thinks it needs and then install everything. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/ Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 8:56am up 1:01, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.09 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.
El Mar 24 Dic 2002 01:15, Noah A Hicks escribió: I don't know if anyone is still intrested in this topic but I have the same question as Gandhi. But my problem is slightly different. I change the fonts in GNOME with no trouble. But Galeon and some (most) other GNOME programs don't respond to the change. ie, they stay large and cumbersome. I find this to be a major functionality problem. Could anyone tell me a way to fix it? Thanks a lot. -Noah Open a console a try this: gtkhtml-properties-capplet Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 9:01am up 1:06, 2 users, load average: 0.61, 0.22, 0.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't work, it desepear. Can anybody help me? But we could do with a bit more information. First, you have two cd drives. One is scsi-emulated and one isn't (I have a similar setup). What is each of those drives used for? Is there a cd-rw? or a dvd player? Then, can you tell us a bit more about 'after the files don't work'? With a bit more info there's a fair chance someone can point you in the right direction Anne My fstab is: /dev/hdd6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdd7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,exec,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noaut o,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,um ask=0 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nod ev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:30 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it. I have tried to install it, just in case it wasn't but the install search proved fruitless. I got the Mdk 9.0 Powerpack with 7 CD's and I'm buggered if I can find a way to install the software off those CD's, that is of course if Mozilla Mail is even on the CD's. I think that the problem is that you have to install the whole Mozilla suite from the cds. It's certainly there - I use the browser regularly, though not the mail, which is installed. Anne mmm, looks like I am going to have to 'upgrade' my system and do individual package selection in order to get the Mail option installed. :(). Do you have to? Have you checked the K Configuration Packaging Install Software, with 'all packages in alphabetical order' selected to see if any mozilla packages are listed there as uninstalled? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:40 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:15 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it. I have tried to install it, just in case it wasn't but the install search proved fruitless. I got the Mdk 9.0 Powerpack with 7 CD's and I'm buggered if I can find a way to install the software off those CD's, that is of course if Mozilla Mail is even on the CD's. I might be wrong about this but I seem to recall that the netscape mail settings are in a subdirectory of C:\windows\identities\ or thereabouts (for windows 98, anyway) They are in a hidden directory, starting from .mozilla under your /home. If you are using kde, use K Configuration Packaging Install Software. Of course if you didn't use this set of discs originally you will have to add the sources first. Anne Tnx Anne, but I am afraid even when I invoked the 'install software' thingy and searched for it under all packages it still didn't turn up. Time for package by package selection install. :) Sorry, I hadn't read this when I wrote the other. If it didn't turn up on this list it probably thinks that it is all installed. Have you tried Uninstall Software to remove mozilla and then re-installing? BTW, if you have any settings you want to keep, backup your .mozilla directory under your /home before you do it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom
Supermount it is giving too much problems in Mandrake 9.0; you can see the contents of a cd, but after a while the files couldn't be find anymore. Due to that I had to disable supermount; just as root do: supermount -i disable and then to activate the new fstab: mount -a After that you will need to mount and umount de cds and floppy, but they don't give you any problem. El Martes, 24 de Diciembre de 2002 13:12, Anne Wilson escribió: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't work, it desepear. Can anybody help me? But we could do with a bit more information. First, you have two cd drives. One is scsi-emulated and one isn't (I have a similar setup). What is each of those drives used for? Is there a cd-rw? or a dvd player? Then, can you tell us a bit more about 'after the files don't work'? With a bit more info there's a fair chance someone can point you in the right direction Anne My fstab is: /dev/hdd6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdd7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,exec,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noa ut o,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto, um ask=0 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,n od ev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did any of you guys have trouble installing transcode? It seems that this is a requirement for dvd::rip and many others but I'm finding that transcode has a lot of requirements that aren't on my system. I'm looking at installing like 20 diffenent things here or maybe more. Is there an easier way? There ought to be a way to tell the installer to go get whatever it thinks it needs and then install everything. There is. It is called urpmi, and I post almost daily telling people how to use it. In your case all you need to do is visit http://plf.zarb.org/ Follow the instructions on the front page to 'urpmize your system' and then type urpmi transcode And as if by magic all RPMs necessarywill be installed automatically. Warning: Most of the plf servers are quite slow, so be prepared for a long download. derek On Monday 23 December 2002 05:53 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used Mandrake as my primary operating system for the last few years. Believe it or now I've just now decided to play DVD's on it. I don't know anything about the various formats of avi, mpeg, divx etc. I'd like to be able to stick a DVD in an rip it to a format that I can then burn on a cd that I can also put in my standalone player. From everything I've been reading it looks like I need to burn in the vcd or svcd format. Is there a faq out there that gives an overview of how all this stuff fits together and works? Part 2 of this email is why has Mandrake broken everything that I need to be able to use DVDs? It's been a real pain trying to track down rpms and figure out what I need to make the silly thing work. There are heaps of tools for ripping at: http://apps.kde.com ..as well as freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] resetting the console back to english
Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 9, I picked two languages at the installation process, English/U.S and polish, now the console seems to be working in polish, but I would like it to be English as I am more used to that. I would like to ask for your help as I just don't know which files should I edit and what should I change in them ( I snooped around /etc but I only have wild guesses as to this matter ) Any help would be appreciated :) SG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] what is exactly an inode?
Hi, I have found this defitition of the word inode on the net (http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?99983423203): QUOTE inode: Index or Information Node. This is a structure containg the basic information about a file such as owner, type, access permissions and pointers to the actual data on the disk. Inodes are stored in the per filesystem inode table and are referenced through inode numbers. UNQUOTE This sounds to me as something rather similar to the info contained in the MS FAT table. Is the inode table something similar to the FAT or am I missing something? Also - the inode table is,according to the documentation, at the start of the file system. What does this physically mean - where is it on the disk? I though that the mbr was at the start? And lastly - what is the importance/relevance of the inode table and its info for the understanding of linux? Thanks, Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user: 226850 Registered Linux computer: 183163 _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
Put me in coachUS Florida Lee On Tuesday 24 December 2002 06:51 am, you wrote: I can offer my help for Atlantic Canada Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. While all feedback is important I see a problem in an individual obtaining a beta or rc and reporting issues directly. In some cases it is reported on this or other lists that my scanner/camera/cd rom/package/whatever doesn't work followed by a number of posts which resolve the issue with mine does, you need to do this in these cases the limited time available to Mandrake developers would be misdirected and if the issue was raised without resolution on these lists and then submitted to Mandrake it is possible that the next beta would be out and Mandrake developers would be tempted to ignore it as it referred to a previous release. Poogle, I have a solution/suggestion. One or more persons could take the responsibility to burn and mail out new releases to the 75 or more crashtesters. I would be willing to try to help, if I didn't have to buy the CD's. You figure 75 people, with a three CD distro, that's 225 CD's burned per release. This responsibility could be divided up between two or more peeps with broadband access (like me.) I've got the equivalent of a T1 here, so I can download ISO's in short order. The Burners could each be assigned mailing lists with peeps that are close to their area of residence. In my case, crashtesters on the eastern seaboard of the United States would be my customers. A Burner could be assigned to a sector of Europe, or Australia. You get the idea. A FedEx or UPS account that's owned by Mandrakesoft could take care of the mailing charges. When the CD mailer goes out, it's just assigned to the Mandrake UPS or Fedex account. This would resolve the problem of getting corrected test distros out to the crashtesters in a minimum amount of time. --LX I have broadband and would be willing to help (UK). I haven't downloaded and installed a distro as such, but would have thought it no problem. Anne -- Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD region killer
Dear John McQuillen,Friends, Thank you for your mail on 19 Dec 2002. I did download the tar file (in www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz) and extract the files. When I try to do to make the file, below listed error occure: [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# l COPYING dvd_disc.h dvd_udf.c README.dvd_disc regionset.c dvdbackup.c dvd_file.c dvd_udf.h README.dvd_file dvd_disc.c dvd_file.h Makefile README.dvd_udf [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# make -f Makefile gcc -Wall -g -o dvd_disc_.o -c dvd_disc.c make: gcc: Command not found make: *** [dvd_disc_.o] Error 127 [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# Thank you very much in advance. PDS *Merry Christmas* _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_stopmorespam_3mf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resetting the console back to english
On Monday 23 December 2002 12:39 pm, sg wrote: Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 9, I picked two languages at the installation process, English/U.S and polish, now the console seems to be working in polish, but I would like it to be English as I am more used to that. I would like to ask for your help as I just don't know which files should I edit and what should I change in them ( I snooped around /etc but I only have wild guesses as to this matter ) Any help would be appreciated :) SG In KDE : K -- Control Center -- Personalization -- Country Language -- United States of America. Merry Christmas to all and a warm welcome back to Civileme ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrade?
Well this morning I did an urpmi --auto-select and the list is endless. Guess you're supposed to do this more that once a year. Is it time to bite the bullet and upgrade? to 9.0? and what's the concensus? Can I upgrade, and if new install is necessary, what besides home do I need to archive? TIA RTFM accepted with humility and remorse. Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Generic Security Levels
I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels but can't find anything. What I'd like to know, is exactly what are the differences between Standard, High, Higher, and Paranoid? What different settings are set for High, Higher and Paranoid? Is there any in-depth documentation which details what each generic setting changes on the system? Thanks for any info. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Too much like winblows? What?
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:28, walt wrote: I plan on supporting Mandrake in every way that I can. I love this distro. I have tried others, including debian and have always come back to this one. Someone on another forum said they wouldn't use mandrake because it looked too much like windows for him. I personally think that if they want to get people to use linux, looking like windows is the way to go. People tend to use what looks familiar to them. I really hope that the Mandrake team gets it together to continue putting out a quality product. Walt What really confuses me is the fact that you cannot make windows look like anything but windows, yet Mandrake (linux) can be made to look like anything you want (with Enlightenment) or it can look like winblows (KDE) but better. So where in the hell are these people getting off at? My statement here is that people that say Linux looks too much like winblows have not gained an understanding of the capabilities of Linux to be ANYTHING. In Enlightenment, the GUI changes with the theme. If you want a winblows theme, you just download one, and volia! the system is a winblows clone. Or you can go into KDE. Or you can download an Enlightenment theme that's totally alien to anything out there, and when you select that theme under E, your system becomes alien. Simple. One major reason I run E is because after several years I got absolutely sick of seeing nothing but square title bars. With E you have the ability to create title bars of any shape or color or texture you want. That's just one freedom that's supplied by Enlightenment. E's whole overall theme (if there is one) is freedom itself; freedom of the GUI. Since Linux requires you to understand what it's capabilities are before you can use them (duh, that applies to anything) the people that say it looks too much like winblows tend to annoy me. It seems that some people are so limited in their personal scope that they NEED a LACK of choice in order to function or exist. And that's all I'm going to say on this. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lower Atlantic Seaboard Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Midwest US Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- Upper Atlantic Seaboard What exactly is left of the crashtest team? How was it organized? What was the format for the bug reports? How do we integrate the crash burners with the crashtesters? Is it too early to be thinking about this? Should the question really be, where's the money? Should we concentrate on raising fundage for Mandrake from Lugs and christmas presents first? Would praying help? Where's the beef? Can somebody else weigh in on this? Darklord? Civileme? LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Totally OT: Merry Christmas
To those familiar with our folklore - enjoy To those not so familiar - apologies 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (as if written by a technical writer for a firm that does US government contracting) 'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas. The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated caller. With his ungulate motive power travelling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by his or her respective cognomen - Now Dasher, now Dancer... et al. - guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities. As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved - with utmost celerity and via a downward leap - entry by way of the smoke passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue from oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in a commodious cloth receptacle. His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the latter that of the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water. Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical container. He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese, jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was groundless. Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the aforementioned articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an abrupt about-face, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected his egress by renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of burden, and proceeded to
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:28 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am too newbie to have been of the old crashtest team, but have two systems here with very different hardware, so I'm happy to join this - so long as I get the usual kind of support from my co-users :) CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lower Atlantic Seaboard Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Midwest US Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Upper Atlantic Seaboard What exactly is left of the crashtest team? How was it organized? What was the format for the bug reports? How do we integrate the crash burners with the crashtesters? Is it too early to be thinking about this? Should the question really be, where's the money? Should we concentrate on raising fundage for Mandrake from Lugs and christmas presents first? We have to get them through this crisis somehow. My grandson is about to get an extra Christmas present. His Mandrake install is scheduled for later this week, so a club membership should be welcome to him. Would praying help? Whatever your god - and don't forget suitable libations Where's the beef? Can somebody else weigh in on this? Darklord? Civileme? LX Suddenly morale seems a little higher. Let's fight for it. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resetting the console back to english
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:22, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 12:39 pm, sg wrote: Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 9, I picked two languages at the installation process, English/U.S and polish, now the console seems to be working in polish, but I would like it to be English as I am more used to that. I would like to ask for your help as I just don't know which files should I edit and what should I change in them ( I snooped around /etc but I only have wild guesses as to this matter ) Any help would be appreciated :) SG In KDE : K -- Control Center -- Personalization -- Country Language -- United States of America. Merry Christmas to all and a warm welcome back to Civileme ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark Kaj, Kaj! I knew you couldn't stay away!! ;) Welcome back, my friend. And a Danish merry christmas to you. Man, it's like a family homecoming or something here LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk 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] Too much like winblows? What?
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Since Linux requires you to understand what it's capabilities are before you can use them (duh, that applies to anything) the people that say it looks too much like winblows tend to annoy me. It seems that some people are so limited in their personal scope that they NEED a LACK of choice in order to function or exist. But the comforting this is that you can have something familiar to help you get things done while you are learning. If you don't need that, well, as LX says, you can or ... or ... or Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD region killer
One word - firmware On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:43, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 13:10, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear John McQuillen,Friends, Thank you for your mail on 19 Dec 2002. I did download the tar file (in www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz) and extract the files. When I try to do to make the file, below listed error occure: [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# l COPYING dvd_disc.h dvd_udf.c README.dvd_disc regionset.c dvdbackup.c dvd_file.c dvd_udf.h README.dvd_file dvd_disc.c dvd_file.h Makefile README.dvd_udf [root@localhost dvd_disc_2215_css]# make -f Makefile gcc -Wall -g -o dvd_disc_.o -c dvd_disc.c make: gcc: Command not found Looks like you don't have the compiler installed. Just install gcc (as root/su:urpmi gcc) and it should work. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MNF Login
I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No session found : Cookies not found I am using the correct user and password (I know this for a fact, I reinstalled twice!). It is currently installed in VMWare, with a single interface. Any help is greatly appreciated! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally OT: Merry Christmas
Anne...this was absolutely priceless. I can't wait to pass this around. (wiping eyes) On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:29, Anne Wilson wrote: To those familiar with our folklore - enjoy To those not so familiar - apologies 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (as if written by a technical writer for a firm that does US government contracting) 'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the honorific title of St. Nicholas. The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated caller. With his ungulate motive power travelling at what may possibly have been more vertiginous velocity than patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by his or her respective cognomen - Now Dasher, now Dancer... et al. - guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the 32 cloven pedal extremities. As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location, and was performing a 180-degree pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved - with utmost celerity and via a downward leap - entry by way of the smoke passage. He was clad entirely in animal pelts soiled by the ebony residue from oxidations of carboniferous fuels which had accumulated on the walls thereof. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed largely to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in a commodious cloth receptacle. His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenance were engorged with blood which suffused the subcutaneous layers, the former approximating the coloration of Albion's floral emblem, the latter that of the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and supralabials resembled nothing so much as a common loop knot, and their ambient hirsute facial adornment appeared like small, tabular and columnar crystals of frozen water. Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he waxed audibly mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region undulated in the manner of impectinated fruit syrup in a hemispherical container. He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese, jocund, multigenarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was groundless. Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced filling the aforementioned appended hosiery with various of the aforementioned articles of merchandise extracted from his aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an abrupt about-face, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave-taking, and forthwith effected his egress by renegotiating (in reverse)
Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:08 pm, Anthony Abby wrote: I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels but can't find anything. What I'd like to know, is exactly what are the differences between Standard, High, Higher, and Paranoid? What different settings are set for High, Higher and Paranoid? Is there any in-depth documentation which details what each generic setting changes on the system? Thanks for any info. Anthony Anthony, please take a look at : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html where you will find an in-depth explanation of msec. (and thank you, Lyvim for your warm welcome !) Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:08 pm, Anthony Abby wrote: I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels but can't find anything. What I'd like to know, is exactly what are the differences between Standard, High, Higher, and Paranoid? What different settings are set for High, Higher and Paranoid? Is there any in-depth documentation which details what each generic setting changes on the system? Thanks for any info. Anthony Try looking at Mandrake Secure http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ There is also lots of info in the manuals http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/90/en/Server_Conf_Guide.html/server-theory.html To see the differences between the levels just look in the 'Network and System Options' Tabs. As you change the security level, the default settings for each of the individual tests change. You can of course use these Tabs to customise your security level. You will almost certainly regret setting security any higher than 'standard or higher' . (It will be so secure, you will be unable to do apparently innocent activities) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels
Anthony, please take a look at : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html where you will find an in-depth explanation of msec. Thanks very much! Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:28, walt wrote: I plan on supporting Mandrake in every way that I can. I love this distro. I have tried others, including debian and have always come back to this one. Someone on another forum said they wouldn't use mandrake because it looked too much like windows for him. I personally think that if they want to get people to use linux, looking like windows is the way to go. People tend to use what looks familiar to them. I really hope that the Mandrake team gets it together to continue putting out a quality product. Walt What really confuses me is the fact that you cannot make windows look like anything but windows, yet Mandrake (linux) can be made to look like anything you want (with Enlightenment) or it can look like winblows (KDE) but better. So where in the hell are these people getting off at? My statement here is that people that say Linux looks too much like winblows have not gained an understanding of the capabilities of Linux to be ANYTHING. In Enlightenment, the GUI changes with the theme. If you want a winblows theme, you just download one, and volia! the system is a winblows clone. Or you can go into KDE. Or you can download an Enlightenment theme that's totally alien to anything out there, and when you select that theme under E, your system becomes alien. Simple. One major reason I run E is because after several years I got absolutely sick of seeing nothing but square title bars. With E you have the ability to create title bars of any shape or color or texture you want. That's just one freedom that's supplied by Enlightenment. E's whole overall theme (if there is one) is freedom itself; freedom of the GUI. Since Linux requires you to understand what it's capabilities are before you can use them (duh, that applies to anything) the people that say it looks too much like winblows tend to annoy me. It seems that some people are so limited in their personal scope that they NEED a LACK of choice in order to function or exist. Quite. You can also make KDE look and function very unlike Windows if you so desire. The themes that come bundled are designed to look very like other OSs (not just Windows, BTW) but there's stuff around that can make your desktop look decidedly weird. I generally stick to a standard, vaguely Windows-like look, since my wife and I use the same user account (that's togetherness for you!), but in the old days of KDE1 my desktop was pretty off-the-wall. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MNF Login
Would you please tell us which browser/OS you are using to connect to the MMF box. Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No session found : Cookies not found I am using the correct user and password (I know this for a fact, I reinstalled twice!). It is currently installed in VMWare, with a single interface. Any help is greatly appreciated! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 14:08, Anthony Abby wrote: I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels but can't find anything. What I'd like to know, is exactly what are the differences between Standard, High, Higher, and Paranoid? What different settings are set for High, Higher and Paranoid? Is there any in-depth documentation which details what each generic setting changes on the system? Thanks for any info. Anthony The Mandrake security tool is msec. You could start with man msec or http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/prog-msec.html. Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom
Em Ter 24 Dez 2002 10:12, Anne Wilson escreveu: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) Thanks ;-) I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't work, it desepear. Can anybody help me? But we could do with a bit more information. First, you have two cd drives. One is scsi-emulated and one isn't (I have a similar setup). What is each of those drives used for? Is there a cd-rw? or a dvd player? Then, can you tell us a bit more about 'after the files don't work'? I have 2 cdRom's one ís comum cd drive(read only) and another is cd-rw driver, I can acess the cdrom in the begining after(30 seconds) the cdrom is empty, nothing file, If i try open again it is empty. if I reboot I can acess but after it is empty again;-( My cdron is not scsi ??? With a bit more info there's a fair chance someone can point you in the right direction Anne Thanks again -- == Sérgio F. Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://oigres_palm.blogspot.com = Linux Register #297246 Mandrake-Winme EU QUERO MEU VOTO IMPRESSO http://www.votoseguro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom
Em Ter 24 Dez 2002 10:24, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escreveu: Supermount it is giving too much problems in Mandrake 9.0; you can see the contents of a cd, but after a while the files couldn't be find anymore. Due to that I had to disable supermount; just as root do: supermount -i disable and then to activate the new fstab: mount -a After that you will need to mount and umount de cds and floppy, but they don't give you any problem. Thanks Francisco, I will try this sugestion Thanks again ;-) -- == Sérgio F. Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://oigres_palm.blogspot.com = Linux Register #297246 Mandrake-Winme EU QUERO MEU VOTO IMPRESSO http://www.votoseguro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MNF Login
I am using IE 6.0. To make matters more interesting, when I look in my Temp Internet Files dir, there is a cookie there Go figure. Any help is appreciated, Bob -Original Message- From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] MNF Login Would you please tell us which browser/OS you are using to connect to the MMF box. Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No session found : Cookies not found I am using the correct user and password (I know this for a fact, I reinstalled twice!). It is currently installed in VMWare, with a single interface. Any help is greatly appreciated! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] More OO woes
After migrating to another box, I found OO would open for all users but only root could print (see previous post). After trying various remedies unsuccessfully (deleting ~/.openoffice, rerunning setup, trying with a brand new user etc.) I uninstalled the OO rpms and reinstalled it. My reward for trying this Windows-like approach is that now, whether as root or a normal user, OO starts to open, gets as far as the splash screen, then crashes. Running setup produces a slew of error messages saying it can't copy various files in /usr/lib/openoffice/user to ~/.openoffice . (this is using the RPMs that come with 9.0, BTW - funny thing is that they worked fine on the original box). Has anyone had a similar experience? Searching the OO archives didn't produce anything useful. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MNF Login
That is your problem. If your only access is via a a windows box you need to downgrade to IE 5.5 or use a netscape based browser(Netscape 7 works fine for me. IE 6 is significatnly broken (like most M$ products). Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I am using IE 6.0. To make matters more interesting, when I look in my Temp Internet Files dir, there is a cookie there Go figure. Any help is appreciated, Bob -Original Message- From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] MNF Login Would you please tell us which browser/OS you are using to connect to the MMF box. Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No session found : Cookies not found I am using the correct user and password (I know this for a fact, I reinstalled twice!). It is currently installed in VMWare, with a single interface. Any help is greatly appreciated! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought
On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:18 am, jmarcom wrote: I had good luck with Earthlink when I was on dial-up, and still have it for broadband. Following are my notes for dial-up: connection name: Earthlink jmarcom authenticationPAP IP address (provided) Login ELN/jmarcom checkmark no autoconfig host DNS servers Earthlink.net checkmark Assign defaultroute to the gateway Their mail service isn't bad, either. HTH. Earthlink is as bad (or good) as any of them with truly nationwide dialup, (used to be mostly UUnet, now seems mostly level3) and if you give my e-mail address as having refered you, I get a free month of dialup, BTW, they changed the login from a ELN/username to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
I have been experimenting trying to get away from M$ OS/Application control for sometime. I am behind the MD game a little using MD8.1, but was able to get a boxed MD7.2 here [SR129 = US$34] after starting to look at Linux with RH 5.2. The 8.1 came from linuxemporium.co.uk [mea culpa]. I am, however, having difficulty in doing some of the things I want to. Basically I am looking to clone what I have under W2K at home and MacOS 9.2 in the office. MD8.1 does everything I do on W2K and MacOS except some DTP work and Net2Phone [important when you are thousands of miles away from family in Riyadh]. Thought that I might be able to do this with win4lin/Win98SE but W4L seems challenged when asked to record. Are there any ways under Linux of doing PC2Phone? I cope with the DTP on MD using InDesign on W4L. However, that's a cop-out! I'd like to move to a totally MD solution outputting files to PDF so that they are readable on the other platforms. What should I use? Word/Excel/Powerpoint are admirably covered by OpenOffice.org both on MD8.1 and W2K and probably MacOS too. Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. Hope this doesn't have too many threads under the one cover! Rob in Riyadh wishing you a Joyeux Noel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus -- Civileme is back! On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:11:24 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some good news and some urgent news 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that can handle list level traffic. 2. All of you are desperately needed to complete the push to get Mandrakesoft on a self-sustaining level. For the second one, here is the real story: Mandrakesoft started on a shoestring and a hope, originally as a spare-time project for one person. It was immensely popular from inception and soon MADE A PROFIT. Then arrived the venture capitalists They invested monies but wanted an international team of executives to manage the company. Such a team was acquired. Under that team, the expenses went up about 400% without a concomitant increase in revenue. The direction was modified from a linux distributor to an internet education company with a hook to linux. The soundness of that idea was never proven, as the dot.com bubblke burst and investors worldwide went into full retreat. For Mandrakesoft this was a curse and a blessing. The curse was the negative cash position and high burn rate and the blessing was a return to being a linux company. Mandrakesoft has made huge strides in bringing revenue up to meet expenses and in cutting expenses. They tended to trust the word of others which has made their forecasts look overly optimistic several times. But now the break-even point, in the worst-case scenario, is in sight and in a few months. The short term still requires more cash than they have now, to get out that next release. In that next release will be a special piece of software I am contributing. With little to do since my layoff, I have designed a semi-intelligent linux binary installer that can handle most of what you are able to download. It even has hooks to look for things like WineX and to atempt to install windows executables if you have an emulator for them. But if you want to see that next release, consider a club membership or giving club memberships as Christmas gifts or buying stock at approximately the right price. (BTW, MIcrosoft stock which sells at Like $52 /share has 8 billion shares outrstanding on a company that earns $25 billion a year in revenue BEFORE expenses--call that a heavily ewatered stock) Mandrakesoft stock is selling for what the company is probably worth. Remember its assets are PEOPLE and their products. People like Pixel and Gael Duval and Denis Havlik and Guillaume Cottenceau make the product and the company what it is. Mandrake also has a hidden asset in the loyalty of contributors, And they are finally selling the right way--software is free if you want it and rather expensive if you expect extensive support. So anyway, expect to see me return to the lists now that I have an email that will handle it without quota problems and (I hope) without any more crack attacks or DDOSes which is what originally set me to dropping my mailserver and forwarding to a hidden webmail host. Still loyal to MandrakeLinux, Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MNF Login
Ya know, I should have figured. :) As soon as you asked what browser, I switched to Mozilla, and blam, no issues. Thanks! Happy Holidays to all! Bob -Original Message- From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:56 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] MNF Login That is your problem. If your only access is via a a windows box you need to downgrade to IE 5.5 or use a netscape based browser(Netscape 7 works fine for me. IE 6 is significatnly broken (like most M$ products). Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I am using IE 6.0. To make matters more interesting, when I look in my Temp Internet Files dir, there is a cookie there Go figure. Any help is appreciated, Bob -Original Message- From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] MNF Login Would you please tell us which browser/OS you are using to connect to the MMF box. Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No session found : Cookies not found I am using the correct user and password (I know this for a fact, I reinstalled twice!). It is currently installed in VMWare, with a single interface. Any help is greatly appreciated! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crossover - Root Install
On December 23, 2002 10:57 pm, Chris Edwards wrote: I tried to install Crossover as root as per the installation instructions in order to have it available system wide. I even pointed it to my /usr/local/mozilla_1.3/plugins/ directory so that all account could use the plugins. 1. menu entries were not made in the K menu. Menudrake showed the entries in the root K menu - not the system K menu. I then made these entries in the system menu and made sure that user Chris was using a system menu for his K menu. 2. When user Chris selected K menu, Crossover, Setup a dialog box asked him to log in as root to make changes. 3. When user Chris checked his Mozilla plig-ins settings they all had an error message indicating do not load or something to that effect. Any suggestions on how to install crossover for all users? Chris; If you're using v1.3 (alpha) of Mozilla I'm actually surprised that's the only problem you're having. I've been using version 1.2.1 that I installed from mozilla.org and all the plug-ins work as expected in Mozilla and Galeon, exactly the way they did before I installed the latest stable release. You may want to send a bug report to Mozilla about it. It is a test release after all, but I think it's likely someone has probably beaten you to it. :-) http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/ If you want to look that's the URL for bugzilla. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The world is coming to an end. Please log off. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mice Issues and comments (rant?)
As a newbie trying linux for the first time, I find it very very frustrating. Nothing is intuitive, and even basic text editors like vi or emacs are difficult to use. I found myself wishing for good old MS-DOS edit. I suggest you install jed then, for your text editor As an experienced Windows user with 12 years under my belt, (Quick, what MS windows release number was out in 1990?) I think I can safely say that linux will never gain full acceptance with the majoity of computer users in it's current state. Nothing is intuitive. no machine in intuitive it has been said only the nipple is intuitive. An in-animate object (like a machine) can only be more or less intutive than something else. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
SNIP Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. Hope this doesn't have too many threads under the one cover! Rob in Riyadh wishing you a Joyeux Noel To answer just one of your questions. If you have an audio cable from your CD to your sound card then just Right click on Xmms OptionsPreferences Configure and enable the CD Audio Player plugin defining the device name and mount point Then to play the CD Right click on xmmsPlay Directory and select the mount point. If you have no audio cable you need the cdread plugin. You can find instructions on using it on my home page. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:17 am, you wrote: What really confuses me is the fact that you cannot make windows look like anything but windows, Hehehehe, thats because there is only so much you can do with dog-ugly! lol -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Just got home from work! Add Me! Me! Me!big grin -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
On December 24, 2002 07:28 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. Inter-lined comments. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign me up! Add me here. City in signature for convenience. UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lower Atlantic Seaboard Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Midwest US Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Upper Atlantic Seaboard What exactly is left of the crashtest team? How was it organized? What was the format for the bug reports? How do we integrate the crash burners with the crashtesters? Is it too early to be thinking about this? Should the question really be, where's the money? Should we concentrate on raising fundage for Mandrake from Lugs and christmas presents first? Would praying help? Quite frankly I won't even go to a meeting of my local Lug. Or be subscribed to their mailing list again. Too insular, too clannish, too much kaffee klatsch/tea party/debating society, too many Liberal (a Party here) political opinions. Far too much of We can't do that (install-fests or anything else it seems) 'cause we'd be _liable!_ From reading the traffic on their mailing list I felt they were all convinced they were special people and couldn't be bothered with 'lowly newbies.' I'll just keep supporting Mandrake to the limit of what I can afford; buying what I can, and shaming friends into subscribing and proselytizing as well. Instead of letting them keep their but it's free! delusions. :-) Where's the beef? Can somebody else weigh in on this? Darklord? Civileme? LX Just in case you couldn't tell I think this is a great idea. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:56 pm, Rob Lindsay wrote: snip Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. /snip Rob, supposing your CD is in the cupholder and it is mounted, right-click somewhere in xmms and select *play directory*. Then browse to /mnt/cdrom or whatever and enjoy. This is somewhat different from other CD-players like Noatun, because normally a music-CD must be unmounted to play. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.
Thanks for the tip Pilaga. Something went wrong when I ran the command however. $ gtkhtml-properties-capplet ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! Does anyone know what is going on here? Is that ID the PID? I saw the word authentication and thought maybe I had to be root but I got the same results in root and I think it was just modifying the root account settings. Thanks -Noah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. May Iask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. I've promised my better half I will not be here tomorrow, but I suspect a certain gentleman form a faraway place may just bring me something that needs some of your help, so who knows. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. While all feedback is important I see a problem in an individual obtaining a beta or rc and reporting issues directly. In some cases it is reported on this or other lists that my scanner/camera/cd rom/package/whatever doesn't work followed by a number of posts which resolve the issue with mine does, you need to do this in these cases the limited time available to Mandrake developers would be misdirected and if the issue was raised without resolution on these lists and then submitted to Mandrake it is possible that the next beta would be out and Mandrake developers would be tempted to ignore it as it referred to a previous release. Poogle, I have a solution/suggestion. One or more persons could take the responsibility to burn and mail out new releases to the 75 or more crashtesters. I would be willing to try to help, if I didn't have to buy the CD's. You figure 75 people, with a three CD distro, that's 225 CD's burned per release. This responsibility could be divided up between two or more peeps with broadband access (like me.) I've got the equivalent of a T1 here, so I can download ISO's in short order. The Burners could each be assigned mailing lists with peeps that are close to their area of residence. In my case, crashtesters on the eastern seaboard of the United States would be my customers. A Burner could be assigned to a sector of Europe, or Australia. You get the idea. A FedEx or UPS account that's owned by Mandrakesoft could take care of the mailing charges. When the CD mailer goes out, it's just assigned to the Mandrake UPS or Fedex account. This would resolve the problem of getting corrected test distros out to the crashtesters in a minimum amount of time. --LX Hmmm, I'll think about this one a little. My first reaction is that it could work, a fellow crashtester burnt CDs for me until I got a fast connection, my only reservation at the moment is the time factor involved. Given the speed of beta releases I often found myself a little behind in the process even though my benefactor was only based 15 miles away, by the time he had got home from work d/l, burnt and mailed the CDs 2-3 days had passed since release - with ver 8.x releases this was in some cases half a beta lag. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: RE: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux
The problem is that CDRecord apparently only supports the DVD-R/-RW formats. While the drive would work under Linux, until CD+R/RW is supported by CDRecord (or an equivalent program) it would work only as a very expensive DVD-ROM. -Original Message- From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:43:22 +0800 Subject: RE: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux There is a really nice Sony out that supports both standards.. (and dvd-ram I think) Also a pioneer from memory.. don't know if they support linux though.. but I'd go and check sony's site. There isn't a huge amount of difference between the two.. it was mostly just two different consortiums that came up with different solutions and haven't settled on one yet. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Tuesday, 24 December 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux On Monday 23 December 2002 11:12 pm, James Dawson wrote: Does anyone know if DVD+RWs are supported under Linux? I've seen some reasonably priced DVD+RW drives recently but the only drives I see listed as being compatible with Linux are DVD-RW drives. Also, DVD-RW drives seem to becoming harder to find lately. And along with that what is the difference? I'm not finding any info to really tell what is different between the + and -. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?
Can someone tell me where I may find a list of supported TV capture boards? TV capture cards seem to be missing from the Mandrake supported hardware web page. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:15:44 + Subject: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD? Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in is working properly and turned up. I can record plain audio from the line-in, just not audio as part of a video capture. May Iask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. I've promised my better half I will not be here tomorrow, but I suspect a certain gentleman form a faraway place may just bring me something that needs some of your help, so who knows. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:28 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] John[EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lower Atlantic Seaboard Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Midwest US Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Upper Atlantic Seaboard What exactly is left of the crashtest team? Not sure - a handful still post to the list How was it organized? Civileme issued us with tasks, for example when he wrote Xtart he put it on his website and asked us to d/l it, try it and report back my e mail to the crashtesters list, similar things with a program to test (to near destruction in some cases) journaled file systems What was the format for the bug reports? See above How do we integrate the crashburners with the crashtesters? Difficult, it needs co-ordination and predefined objectives by someone who really understands the inner workings of MD, both in terms of the product and the company's intentions Is it too early to be thinking about this? Possibly because of your next question. Should the question really be, where's the money? Should we concentrate on raising fundage for Mandrake from Lugs and christmas presents first? Would praying help? Where's the beef? Can somebody else weigh in on this? Darklord? Civileme? LX Note I've inserted myself into the UK section above hope you don't mind me tampering with your post :-) -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation Help for v7.1
Hi Gang: I'm trying to install Linux 7.1 on an old PC in my office, (128 M of RAM; don't remember how much hard drive space I have butI think it's at least 4G), but it keeps hanging at the point where it's supposed to be configuring the IDE. Any idea why this is happening? Is there a fix? HLP!!! Andre--- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 11:31 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Anne, My camera is a Fuji FinePIx S602Zoom. I have pluged the usb cable of the camera to the second usb port (I have in it attached an scanner, but I just use it time to time); in the USB UHCI Root Hub, using usbview it appears the next: USB Mass Storage Serial Number: Y-364^020902XFJX0015012006 Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 04cb Product Id: 010a Revision Number: 10.00 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: c0 MaxPower Needed: 0mA Interface Number: 0 Name: usb-storage Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 05 Protocol: 00 Number of Endpoints: 3 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 02 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 83 Direction: in Attribute: 3 Type: Int. Max Packet Size: 2 Interval: 1ms I have the next modules loaded: usb, usb-core, ide-scsi, usb-storage next I have created a directory to mount the camera: mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera As soon I plug the camera, I can mount as root the pictures on the camera: mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera And one new directory appears into /mnt/camera with a subdirectory that show the pictures. In every case I use directly an usb port, not a usb-hub. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) My usb-view is very similar, but it appears that it isn't actually recognising the camera as usb-storage. This is what I get: Unknown Device Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 04cb Product Id: 011a Revision Number: 10.00 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: c0 MaxPower Needed: 0mA Interface Number: 0 Name: (none) Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 05 Protocol: 00 Number of Endpoints: 3 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 02 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 83 Direction: in Attribute: 3 Type: Int. Max Packet Size: 8 Interval: 1ms I wonder if there is a problem with having more than 1 usb-storage device plugged in at once? While I'm trying to cover all the options I'll unplug the LS120 drive. I've been reluctant to do that because of previous problems, but I'm sure it will be sortable again. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?
i tried to install dvd::rip 2 days ago on my redhat 8.0 system. if i remember correctly, i had to install gtk-perl, glade, gdk_pixbuf, libdv, libdvdcss, libdvdread, subtitleripper, lame, among other things before the transcode and dvd::rip rpms would install. and in the end, after installing like 10 rpms that i had to track down from various places, dvd::rip didn't work at all. i ended up learning how to do all that stuff from the command line...which i'm realizing is the best way to learn how to do things...=/ -- christopher - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode? Did any of you guys have trouble installing transcode? It seems that this is a requirement for dvd::rip and many others but I'm finding that transcode has a lot of requirements that aren't on my system. I'm looking at installing like 20 diffenent things here or maybe more. Is there an easier way? There ought to be a way to tell the installer to go get whatever it thinks it needs and then install everything. On Monday 23 December 2002 05:53 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used Mandrake as my primary operating system for the last few years. Believe it or now I've just now decided to play DVD's on it. I don't know anything about the various formats of avi, mpeg, divx etc. I'd like to be able to stick a DVD in an rip it to a format that I can then burn on a cd that I can also put in my standalone player. From everything I've been reading it looks like I need to burn in the vcd or svcd format. Is there a faq out there that gives an overview of how all this stuff fits together and works? Part 2 of this email is why has Mandrake broken everything that I need to be able to use DVDs? It's been a real pain trying to track down rpms and figure out what I need to make the silly thing work. There are heaps of tools for ripping at: http://apps.kde.com ..as well as freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net 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] Installation Help for v7.1
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:47:07 -0800 (PST) Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gang: I'm trying to install Linux 7.1 on an old PC in my office, (128 M of RAM; don't remember how much hard drive space I have butI think it's at least 4G), but it keeps hanging at the point where it's supposed to be configuring the IDE. Any idea why this is happening? Is there a fix? HLP!!! Andre--- Is that a Pentium or a 486? Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
To answer just one of your questions. If you have an audio cable from your CD to your sound card then just Right click on Xmms OptionsPreferences Configure and enable the CD Audio Player plugin defining the device name and mount point Then to play the CD Right click on xmmsPlay Directory and select the mount point. If you have no audio cable you need the cdread plugin. You can find instructions on using it on my home page. HTH derek Thanks for the speedy help. Did what you said and it is now working. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:09 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:56 pm, Rob Lindsay wrote: snip Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. /snip Rob, supposing your CD is in the cupholder and it is mounted, right-click somewhere in xmms and select *play directory*. Then browse to /mnt/cdrom or whatever and enjoy. This is somewhat different from other CD-players like Noatun, because normally a music-CD must be unmounted to play. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Thanks Kaj, I had the /dev/scd0 line in the CD Audio Player Config wrong. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) I read this morning that they are going to be forced to change the name, due to a complaint by Phoenix the bios company. Anyone know anything more? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:33 pm, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Em Ter 24 Dez 2002 10:12, Anne Wilson escreveu: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) Thanks ;-) I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't work, it desepear. Can anybody help me? But we could do with a bit more information. First, you have two cd drives. One is scsi-emulated and one isn't (I have a similar setup). What is each of those drives used for? Is there a cd-rw? or a dvd player? Then, can you tell us a bit more about 'after the files don't work'? I have 2 cdRom's one ís comum cd drive(read only) and another is cd-rw driver, I can acess the cdrom in the begining after(30 seconds) the cdrom is empty, nothing file, If i try open again it is empty. if I reboot I can acess but after it is empty again;-( My cdron is not scsi ??? Someone suggested that supermount may be your problem - it works brilliantly on some machines and not at all or with huge problems on others. Use Mandrake Control Centre Mount points to turn it off, and see if that makes any difference. My cd/dvd is not scsi-emulated, and has no problems whatsoever, so you can discount this as a cause. HTH Anne With a bit more info there's a fair chance someone can point you in the right direction Anne Thanks again Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
I cope with the DTP on MD using InDesign on W4L. However, that's a cop-out! I'd like to move to a totally MD solution outputting files to PDF so that they are readable on the other platforms. What should I use? It depends how complex your dtp needs are. If they aren't very, try using KWord, which is frame based, so works on similar lines to a conventional dtp program. It can't handle more complex needs, yet, though. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) Have you seen Dillo ? http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/ -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:04 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) I read this morning that they are going to be forced to change the name, due to a complaint by Phoenix the bios company. Anyone know anything more? Anne I love Phoenix it's a great browser.It has all the features I am looking for.Mozilla is good too.It wouldn't matter to me if they change the name.That's not important to me Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SBLive 5.1 Value
Hi I have a SB Live 5.1 value. During the install , the driver chosen was the alsa driver. Because of the bad quality of the driver, i changed to the OSS driver. First it went ok, had all my channels working except the center one. Then wanted to try again the alsa driver, everything went OK [driver, restarting alsa and mixer settings], but i had no sound at all! Opened everything with alsamixer but still had no sound. Then i came back to OSS with emu10k1 , or even audigy , i got only 2 channels working. Please help!! what can i do else to get my sound card works correctly?? Thanx Serge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 7:20 pm, mike wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:04 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) I read this morning that they are going to be forced to change the name, due to a complaint by Phoenix the bios company. Anyone know anything more? Anne I love Phoenix it's a great browser.It has all the features I am looking for.Mozilla is good too.It wouldn't matter to me if they change the name.That's not important to me Mike I ask because it's important if you are searching for it :) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:20 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 7:20 pm, mike wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:04 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) I read this morning that they are going to be forced to change the name, due to a complaint by Phoenix the bios company. Anyone know anything more? Anne I love Phoenix it's a great browser.It has all the features I am looking for.Mozilla is good too.It wouldn't matter to me if they change the name.That's not important to me Mike I ask because it's important if you are searching for it :) Anne I tried the Dillo website but the links weren't working for me.The description sounds very interesting.I would like to try it. Mike -- http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I noticed that the website icons actually work in Phoenix. Also you could middle-click bookmarks on the toolbar whereas you can't on Mozilla. Although Phoenix is at v0.5, in some ways it seems to already work better than Mozilla. And yes, it's definitely faster than Mozilla. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] adding DVD player
Hi I just installed a new internal DVD player (Toshiba) and can see it in my Mandrake Control Center. It is on it's own cable and set as master. I do not know how to add the DVD to the /dev directory as it is not there and I cannot use my DVD players (Xine and Ogle). Ogle gives me an error message that /dev/dvd is not there. There was an HP CD burner in the slot previously and it was not functioning very well so it was unplugged some time ago and I have been using an external HP CD burner. Not sure if this matters. Is there a simple command to add the DVD? Many thanks in advance. I cannot believe how cheap these players are now. This one was only $45 off the web. Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBLive 5.1 Value
On mandrake 8.2, it worked well , very well I am on mandrake 9.0. i have only 2 channels working [the rear ones to be precise] , no matter what i am listenting to: mp3, cd, dvd. by the way the center does not work at all neither. On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 7:20 pm, Serge wrote: Hi I have a SB Live 5.1 value. During the install , the driver chosen was the alsa driver. Because of the bad quality of the driver, i changed to the OSS driver. First it went ok, had all my channels working except the center one. Then wanted to try again the alsa driver, everything went OK [driver, restarting alsa and mixer settings], but i had no sound at all! Opened everything with alsamixer but still had no sound. Then i came back to OSS with emu10k1 , or even audigy , i got only 2 channels working. Please help!! what can i do else to get my sound card works correctly?? Thanx Serge First - are you on 8.2 or 9.0? or another? How are you trying to use the sound? With a cd, an audio file, a dvd? With many applications you will not get the centre speaker doing anything. In many cases there is no data being sent to it. Do you get the same result when playing, say, an mp3 and playing a cd? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More OO woes
David Williams wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2022 09:40 am, robin wrote: After migrating to another box, I found OO would open for all users but only root could print (see previous post). After trying various remedies unsuccessfully (deleting ~/.openoffice, rerunning setup, trying with a brand new user etc.) I uninstalled the OO rpms and reinstalled it. My reward for trying this Windows-like approach is that now, whether as root or a normal user, OO starts to open, gets as far as the splash screen, then crashes. Running setup produces a slew of error messages saying it can't copy various files in /usr/lib/openoffice/user to ~/.openoffice . (this is using the RPMs that come with 9.0, BTW - funny thing is that they worked fine on the original box). Has anyone had a similar experience? Searching the OO archives didn't produce anything useful. Sir Robin THe only similarity that I had was OO started to do the same thing to me as the second half of your description above. However, I cleaned out anything that I could find that looked like OO stuff and then reinstalled. That cured my problem. Thanks - that got me back with a working OO, but I still can't print as an ordinary user. The print command is the usual lpr thingy, just like all other programs. Time to join the OO mailing list, I suppose - this is too esoteric for me! The annoting thing is that I hardly ever use OO for anything I need to print - I use LyX as my main writing tool, and OO for spreadsheets and to read Word documents people send me, but having something similar to Word on the office Linux box is part of my hearts and minds campaign. To misquote the current US slogan in Iran, Think of Tux as a friend. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 02:56, Rob Lindsay wrote: MD8.1 does everything I do on W2K and MacOS except some DTP work and Net2Phone [important when you are thousands of miles away from family in Riyadh]. Thought that I might be able to do this with win4lin/Win98SE but W4L seems challenged when asked to record. Are there any ways under Linux of doing PC2Phone? GnomeMeeting, LinPhone, Freewebphone (http://www.angelfire.com/biz/WebWatch/) to name a few...there's heaps of 'e out there - just a matter of finding the right one... DTP? Well, any application that runs under linux is able to print to pdf - printing to pdf or ps and converting to pdf is rather normal for linux. I cope with the DTP on MD using InDesign on W4L. However, that's a cop-out! I'd like to move to a totally MD solution outputting files to PDF so that they are readable on the other platforms. What should I use? Scribus, KVivio, Kontour, Kougar, StarOffice, OO - they can do the job. Word/Excel/Powerpoint are admirably covered by OpenOffice.org both on MD8.1 and W2K and probably MacOS too. Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. gcd, kscd, noatun, xmms (you need to configure it to play audio cd's - which is in preferences) Hope this doesn't have too many threads under the one cover! Rob in Riyadh wishing you a Joyeux Noel -- Wed Dec 25 07:15:01 EST 2002 7:15am up 1:36, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.20, 0.15 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. -- Winston Churchill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 02:57, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Preferences. Some people like tea, some people like coffee, some people like turpentine mixed with cyanide...go figure... -- Wed Dec 25 07:20:00 EST 2002 7:20am up 1:41, 4 users, load average: 0.80, 0.31, 0.19 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn He [Vimes]'d never felt really at home with swords, but a cleaver was a different matter. A cleaver had weight. It had purpose. A sword might have a certain nobility about it, unless it was the one belonging for example to Nobby, which relied on rust to hold it together, but what a cleaver had was a tremendous ability to cut things up. (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?
christopher j bottaro wrote: i tried to install dvd::rip 2 days ago on my redhat 8.0 system. if i remember correctly, i had to install gtk-perl, glade, gdk_pixbuf, libdv, libdvdcss, libdvdread, subtitleripper, lame, among other things before the transcode and dvd::rip rpms would install. and in the end, after installing like 10 rpms that i had to track down from various places, dvd::rip didn't work at all. i ended up learning how to do all that stuff from the command line...which i'm realizing is the best way to learn how to do things...=/ That's one thing I like about Linux - when a problem happens, whether I fix it or not, I learn something. When I'm trying to fix something in Windows, often I fix the problem but have no idea how I did it and am none the wiser about that truly occult OS. Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 03:28, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla. Although it is not as small or as fast as Opera, it works with more IE oriented sites like Mozilla. It is gaining a lot of fans. Texstar has RPMs on his download site. It will cost you nothing to try it out :) derek Nothing is smaller or faster than lynx. (g) -- Wed Dec 25 07:25:00 EST 2002 7:25am up 1:46, 4 users, load average: 0.53, 0.26, 0.19 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. -- Margaret Mead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom
Hello all The Francisco's sugestion is fine, now all is very good. Thank very much all and Happy Cristimas and happy new years for all [] Someone suggested that supermount may be your problem - it works brilliantly on some machines and not at all or with huge problems on others. Use Mandrake Control Centre Mount points to turn it off, and see if that makes any difference. My cd/dvd is not scsi-emulated, and has no problems whatsoever, so you can discount this as a cause. HTH Anne With a bit more info there's a fair chance someone can point you in the right direction Anne Thanks again -- == Sérgio F. Lima [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://oigres_palm.blogspot.com = Linux Register #297246 Mandrake-Winme EU QUERO MEU VOTO IMPRESSO http://www.votoseguro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mice Issues and comments (rant?)
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 03:31, ET wrote: (Quick, what MS windows release number was out in 1990?) 1.0 (End of 8-in-1) ...then there was OS/2 and Desqview and Desqview/X and PcShell, and Quickmenu, Xtree, Norton Commander, DrDOS... -- Wed Dec 25 07:25:00 EST 2002 7:25am up 1:46, 4 users, load average: 0.53, 0.26, 0.19 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. -- Margaret Mead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:08, Noah A Hicks wrote: Thanks for the tip Pilaga. Something went wrong when I ran the command however. $ gtkhtml-properties-capplet ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! Does anyone know what is going on here? Is that ID the PID? I saw the word authentication and thought maybe I had to be root but I got the same results in root and I think it was just modifying the root account settings. Thanks -Noah It's actually a problem in between pango, orbit and gtkconf - you might want to blow out your Gnome2 settings and try again...yet another reason I'm sick of Gnome2's antics...still buggy - even after upgrades/sidegrades/fixes/patches... -- Wed Dec 25 07:30:00 EST 2002 7:30am up 1:51, 4 users, load average: 0.57, 0.25, 0.19 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn He's just a politician trying to save both his faces... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
