Re: [newbie-it] Mail
* Emiliano La Licata wrote: Dunque, se uso Kmail come client di posta, crea una dir mail in /home/user/, Qualcuno mi sa dire quale programma o comando fa in modo che la posta vada in /var/spool/mail? Probabilmente ho capito male.. comunque se vuoi che la dir di lavoro di kamil sia /var/spool/mail o usi la tecnica del symlink (~/Mail - /var/spool/mail) oppure entri nel file di configurazione di kmail e gli dici di lavorare sulla dir che vuoi tu. Quindi: $ tuoeditorpreferito ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc . . . [General] ... folders=/var/spool/mail - questa e' la stringa che devi aggiungere all'interno della sezione General Ciao -- syd Slackware 8.1 * k 2.4.18 - msg11456/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
- Original Message - From: Andrea Cecagallina Un'altra alternativa è Knoppix: nel senso che ti puoi fare la distribuzione come vuoi tu... Ah. io ti dico tutto questo in teoria Nel senso che mi sto interessando delle varie cose, ma non è che sia un esperto :) S,i ma Knoppix è un live cd, che con le opportune operazioni può essere installato su un computer, ma girando da cd ha bisogno di un computer con hardware recente, non certo il cdrom 2x mi trovo a disposizione, quinidi reputo anche se da neofita molto meglio fare un'installazione tradizionale fatta bene, ma è farla bene su macchine con risorse limitate che mi risulta difficile. Ad esempio ho provato ad installare la mandrake 9.0 sulla macchina in questione e mi sono ritrovato con alcune sorprese. Ciao Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
- Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Non è un problema di distribuzione, anche se Mandrake è pensata per ambienti molto grafici. Qualunque distro tu decida di provare, - metti molta swap, minimo 48M - non usare kde o gnome, ma un window-manager leggero es. Icewm sceglietene uno in http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ - scordati openoffice pesantissimo e anche koffice (leggero solo se lanciato da kde, che a sua volta è pesante), ma guarda Abiword+gnumeric o siag Le linee fondamentali da seguire sono queste: X è solo un sistema per indirizzare i punti dello schermo Tutti gli oggetti grafici (bottoni, bordi, ...) stanno nelle librerie grafiche. Le più usate sono Gtk, Qt, Motif/Lesstif, Usando le librerie grafiche vengono preparati i Window-Manager e i vari programmi. Ad un livello più alto dei Window-Manager (hanno una forte integrazione tra le applicazioni) ci sono i desktop (KDE, GNOME, CDE, XFCE) che sono ovviamente più pesanti. Se devi stare leggero, devi stare attento a due cose: - non usare i desktop che sono pesantissimi (tranne xfce, che è solo pesante); - non usare contemporaneamente applicazioni e window-manager basati su librerie grafiche diverse: dovresti caricare in ram entrambe le librerie. ciao, Andrea Ciao Andrea, ti scrivo per aggiornarti sull'installazione di mandrake 9 in base ai tuoi suggerimenti, e anche per chiarire qualcosa che mi è sembrato strano e ovviamente qualche altro suggerimento non guasterebbe. Storia di un'ordinaria installazione? Partiamo dall'inizio. Prima di tutto ho creato un disco floppy per fare il boot e procedere con l'installazione da cd, ma ahimè l'installazione si presenta in modalità testo (presumo per la poca ram a disposizione). Arrivo al partizionamento del disco che faccio fare in maniera automatica da mandrake e mi crea due partizioni una da 427Mb ext3 e una da 89Mb swap. L'installazione continua e cosa strana al momento della scelta dei gruppi dei pacchetti mi dice che non c'è abbastanza spazio l'unica scelta e annulare, mi si presenta quindi un altro menù con scritto scegli i pacchetti da installare (penso ad una selezione singola) premo ok e l'installazione iniza senza chiedermi nulla fino alla configurazione di X... si arriva così al termine dell'installazione col messaggio di riavvio del sistema e la rimozione dei floppy o cd. In pratica mi sono ritrovato una serie di files di sistema e scelti dall'installer senza poter intervenire in alcun modo. Domanda: ma è normale la mancata scelta dei pacchetti? Ho scelto di installare XFree86 ver. 4.2 invece della 3.x ho fatto bene? incide sulla pesantezza del sistema. Durante l'installazione sono stati installati dei componenti per la rete, ma non ne ho nessuno come faccio a sapere quali sono e a togliere quelli inutili? Al primo avvio del sistema, X parte in automatico all'avvio come scelto nell'installazione e al login in modalità grafica è presente una finestra xconsole con scritto Console log for localhost.localdomain e non da possibilità di scriverci. E' normale che ci sia? Effettuato il login mi compare il windows manager Mandrake-Twm con uniche applicazioni disponibili xmag, xconsole, xkill, xconfig. Dopo molto tempo ho capito che twm è della stessa famiglia di icewm, molto più scano e fornito assieme a X, e qui mi sono ingeniato a fare l'avvio del sistema in modalità interattiva evitanto di caricare tutto o quasi quello che mi veniva proposto (spero di non aver fatto qualche casino) per guadagnarmi il login testuale e la riga di comando dalla quale ho installato xterm e icevw-light presenti sui cd. In un secondo tempo ho installato icevw e relative dipendenze: mandrake_desk, libimlib, libungif e imlib che non so bene a cosa servono ma era molto chiaro che senza icewm non si sarebbe installato. Mi sono quindi detto se ho installato icevw a cosa mi serve icevw-light? lo tolgo e con mia grande sorpresa al comando rmp -e mi dice che il pacchetto non è installato e nemmeno gli altri che ho installato in seguito, ma ci sono, li uso, perchè mi dice questo?? Mi piacerebbe installare anche qualche programma per la gestione grafica dei pacchetti rpm e un file manager tipo konqueror e magari un programma per la gestione delle periferiche e magari un organizxer il tutto ovviamente leggero cosa mi consigli? E per concludere mi sa tanto che l'hardware non è stato tutto rilevato e configurato correttamente, uno per tutti il famoso lettore cdrom con interfaccia proprietaria su scheda sound blaster16, ma essendo abituato al mandrake control center e tool di configurazione vari non so come fare. Da quello che ho letto negli howto è necessario installare un driver kernel apposito l'sbpcd, ma da qui in poi comincia l'avventura, mi piacerebbe proprio farlo funzionare dato che per installare mandrake ho dovuto fare un collegamento volante con un altro cdrom. Ti ringrazio per la pazienza e a presto Alessandro
Re: [newbie-it] Mail
la dir /var/spool/mail viene usata quando hai un web server attivo, che si collega al pop3 e mette la posta utenti li. Non so bene a cosa può servirti mettere la posta di kmail in /var/spool/mail puoi comunque spostare la cartella /home/utente/Mail in /var/spool/mail e creare un collegamento On Saturday 15 February 2003 15:30, Emiliano La Licata wrote: Ciao a tutti, Dunque, se uso Kmail come client di posta, crea una dir mail in /home/user/, Qualcuno mi sa dire quale programma o comando fa in modo che la posta vada in /var/spool/mail? Grazie
Re: [newbie-it] Ambiente Grafico
At 23.58 15/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: facceli vedere questi errori (e comunque quel modo di uscire non è pulitissimo...) Appena riutilizzo il Pc a casa li copio ed incollo in un file Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti
At 13.03 16/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: S,i ma Knoppix è un live cd, che con le opportune operazioni può essere installato su un computer, ma girando da cd ha bisogno di un computer con hardware recente, non certo il cdrom 2x mi trovo a disposizione, quinidi reputo anche se da neofita molto meglio fare un'installazione tradizionale fatta bene, ma è farla bene su macchine con risorse limitate che mi risulta difficile. Qualche tempo fa si era parlato di minidistribuzioni, cioè quelle destinate a funzionare su macchine non proprio recenti... :) Se cerchi nell'archivio della lista trovi i link principali Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Mail
Alle 19:35, domenica 16 febbraio 2003, mdk666 ha scritto: la dir /var/spool/mail viene usata quando hai un web server attivo, che si collega al pop3 e mette la posta utenti li. Non so bene a cosa può servirti mettere la posta di kmail in /var/spool/mail puoi comunque spostare la cartella /home/utente/Mail in /var/spool/mail e creare un collegamento Ti spiego, sto smanettando con emacs e sto imparando a leggere la posta con Rmail che quando controlla la posta fa una copia delle mail contenute in /var/spool/mail... Ma adesso ho trovato altre istruzioni su Rmail che forse evitano questi passaggi Ciao grazie
Re: [newbie-it] Ambiente Grafico
Alle 15:29, sabato 15 febbraio 2003, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: At 20.25 14/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: 1. modificando /etc/inittab e mettendo initdefault:3 all'avvio entri in runlevel 3; quindi ti logghi in modo testo e con startx avvii l'interfaccia grafica. quando esci da x rientri in modo testo [in questo caso Crtl+Alt+Backspace chiudono x facendoti ritrovate la shell nuda e cruda] Questa deve essere la mia situazione attuale (a parte che lancio l'interfaccia grafica con KDE...) Se non che uscendo da X, mi sembra che dia degli errori; premo Enter e mi rimostra il prompt (il $ tanto per capirci...) sugli AIL trovi tutta la sequenza di init sistem V spiegata bene Ok, dove li posso trovare/scaricare? ildp.pluto.linux.it -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] lettura file html con Konqueror
Uso il mandrake 9.0 e non mi ha creato mai problemi, almeno fino a ieri. Adesso ogni qaulvolta cerco di aprire un file.html con Konqueror (sia in linea che fuori) mi si blocca tutto. Dopo alcuni momenti riprendo il controllo del mouse ritornano le icone che erano scomparse, la finestra del konqueror si chiude senza, ovviamente, che abbia potuto vedere il documento. Onestamente non ho capito cosa è successo. Qualcuno sa darmi dei consigli? Grazie
[newbie-it] problemi di suono
durante l'installazione della distribuzione mandrake linux 9.0, il programma di installazione non rileva la mia scheda sonora ess audiodrive es1868 (ISA). a un certo punto il programma di installazione mi chiede se ho una scheda audio ISA, cliccando su SI il programma installa dei pacchetti e alla fine mi dice di eseguire il comando sndconfig dopo il reboot. ho eseguito sndconfig, ma una volta cliccato ok, non sembra rilevare alcunchè... come posso installare la scheda sonora?
[newbie-it] problemi di scheda video
la mia scheda video s3 trio64v2 (2 Mb) non sembra funzionare a dovere con mandrake linux 9.0... avete qualche suggerimento da darmi per configurarla al meglio?
Re: [newbie-it] problemi di scheda video
Alle 20:19, domenica 16 febbraio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: la mia scheda video s3 trio64v2 (2 Mb) non sembra funzionare a dovere con mandrake linux 9.0... avete qualche suggerimento da darmi per configurarla al meglio? intanto, che errori hai, o che problemi... poi manda le parti significative di xf86config bye miKe -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932
Re: [newbie-it] ADSL
Il sab, 2003-02-15 alle 21:46, CyberPenguin ha scritto: AFAIK nessun attuale ISP garantisce un minimo di larghezza di banda :-( Ho sentito di gente che in adsl, in certi periodi, ha un downstream di circa 30K ... Per la verità leggendo un servizio a riguardo su una rivista, pare invece ci siano... Il canone è *considerevolmente* più alto e la velocità massima teorica è più bassa, ma ovviamente il collegamento è più veloce, essendo garantita una banda minima... Cerco quella rivista e poi postero info più precise. Corrado
[newbie-it] Editing Video
Qualcuno usa Cinelerra o altri programmi di editing video? Avrei bisogno di sapere come sovrappore un logo a un filmato... Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] ADSL
Per la verità leggendo un servizio a riguardo su una rivista, pare invece ci siano... Il canone è *considerevolmente* più alto e la velocità massima teorica è più bassa, ma ovviamente il collegamento è più veloce, essendo garantita una banda minima... Cerco quella rivista e poi postero info più precise. quelle che sono garantite sono velocita' massime di picco PCR,ma nessuno garantisce la banda vera e propria disponibile solo con le cdn Fulvio
[newbie-it] HP photosmart 120
Qualcuno ha la vaga idea di come scaricare da detta macchina digitale le foto su PC con Mandracchio? Fulvio
[newbie-it] blocco kppp
Una domanda su un problema minore (una volta tanto!). Da quando ho la mandrake 9.0 (powerpack acquistato in negozio) mi succede una cosa strana con kppp. Partito il programma, si blocca su inizializzazione modem. Interrompo, rifaccio partire, e tutto va a posto. La questione del 'X3' nella stringa di inizializzazione è a posto. Suggerimenti? grazie! g. -- Guido Milanese Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italy Homepage: http://www.arsantiqua.org GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER
[newbie] KDE 3.1
OK I'm starting a new thread because this is a big problem I downloaded all the rpm's from textar and did what the readme file instructed to do , that is logout login to gnome remove kde and then start to install. after doing that i reboot and login to kde now i don't have my desktop i.e i cant create shortcuts on it nor change wallpaper, the konqueror crush each time i start it, the screensaver doesn't work etc. help please Gil -- = So long, And thanks for all the fish. = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anyone got the Logitech 3000 actually working? I can testify that it works great for me and I did not have to do anything to get it working. Since I did not have to do anything (it worked automatically) I do not have any tips on how to get it working. One tip I have for when you do get it working is that you will probably need to download the pwcx module to get the proper size of picture. My favorite webcam application for Linux is camstream. *** 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] Logitech 3000 questions?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: It looks like the modules that are needed are there: bttv cqcam pwc usb You don't need cqcam. Pwc is the correct module for this cam. I am not saying having cqcam loaded is the cause of your problem, but I would try unloading it just in case. *** 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] Update database
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 10:33 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2 different jobs and functions. locate uses the DB created by updatedb, which is just a small DB of all files on the entire system at the time updatedb was ran. rpm --rebuilddb rebuilds the DB for the RPM's that are installed and everything that is included in rpm files. OK. The original message came in response to a slocate enquiry. I'm trying to update the locate database, then, in this case. Perhaps I should also update the rpm database daily, too, but that's a separate issue. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update database
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be that I have set it as a user and it needs to be root? Anne Yes updatedb needs to be run as root. OK - I'll look into changing that. Another potential problem is if your computer is switched off when the job is due to run. Cron will not run jobs whose time has passed. The solution is to install anacron which will check for missed jobs and run them. I run 24/7 unless I'm away for a few days. BTW: a cron job to run updatedb is already part of the cron.weekly job. So your job should be unneccessary Which makes it even odder, that it should report as being more than 8 days old, doesn't it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:57 am, Gil Katz wrote: OK I'm starting a new thread because this is a big problem I downloaded all the rpm's from textar and did what the readme file instructed to do , that is logout login to gnome remove kde and then start to install. after doing that i reboot and login to kde now i don't have my desktop i.e i cant create shortcuts on it nor change wallpaper, the konqueror crush each time i start it, the screensaver doesn't work etc. help please Gil Did you check the forums at www.pclinuxonline.com, Tex's website, for a solution? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+T3ImGu5uuMFlL5MRAk9KAJ0W6cKUV5yiqS7w4Hbu9YR5NQau/ACeJMWW 3lTmayCjLvtoFQQihfNUf9Q= =CNXr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1 No Anti-aliasing
Hi everyone, I just upgraded to KDE 3.1 which went suprisingly well (Thanks for eberyones advise). One problem though. I now don't have anti aliased fonts. It's turned on in the KDE control center, but it doesn't work. How can I turn it on? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open the gates of despondency - welcome to a day in the average office. -- David Brent (The Office) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:26, g wrote: Sharrea wrote: I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. not true. one of many beauties of linux and unix is that you can mount just anything any where, as long as you have drivers set up for what you are mounting. unlike oos, linux and unix are 'channeling systems'. Thanks for pointing that out, g. Yet another thing to store away in my not-so-good memory with a memo attached 'must also learn more about ...' Sharrea -- Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital video cameras so i'm not sure if that's how it'll be recognized. also look in mandrake control center's hardware / hardware list and see if you can see it listed there (possibly under other/unknown) and see if there's any info about it. then you need to find out what the /dev entry is (i don't remember for the life of me where i've seen how and haven't added hardware in so long i forgot) Anyone? how DO you know what /dev entry hardware uses? not sure what kind of filesystem it'd use but i'd venture a guess that it's vfat if it's a mass storage device that windoze reads. now for my camera i'd (as root) mkdir /mnt/camera modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera Mounting with -t vfat doesn't work (mount: wrong fs type, bad option, badsuperblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems) and -t auto sulks and asks me to specify the file type (same result as when I tried John's solution). It ain't msdos either - any ideas? Sir Robin I may be way outta line here but: if /mnt is not a separate partition, but on your / partition, wouldn't you have to mount using the filesystem that your / partition is (ie. ext2, ext3 or whatever)? I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. Just a thought... Sharrea ahhh, the mount point is not formated, the partition is formated if it is a block device (a drive) but there is no formating the /dev or /proc (etc) partitions. the mount point tells the OS what filesystem module (?driver? for win-types) the kernel should use to read the filesystem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
On Friday 14 Feb 2003 9:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? What's a newbie? grin -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail config for sending
I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. I can not for the life of me figure out what domain is missing. Must be late and need sleep. Any help is appreciated. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. I can not for the life of me figure out what domain is missing. Must be late and need sleep. Any help is appreciated. Dennis M. are you replying or sending? some spam that i bounce gives me this error too. delete the first message in your outbox, or move it to the drafts folder, then try Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Test
getting nowhere -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Is this a relatively new camera ? About a year old. I know people have got it working under Linux via firewire; it's USB that's tricky. Sir Robin I'm purly guessing here , but I suspect your camera , like mine, is not vfat, and the trouble is that the file system is not supported in the kernel. The file system has to be the same as the camera generates, and I'm told Redhat has a kernel that does support this newer type of file system. If this is correct, and I'm not certain of it, we are waiting on newer kernel versions that support our cameras. Just as a reference, my camera is Digital Dream1300 -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. Benjamin. msg119758/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand
--snip- Why terrorism? Is that just something like comunism or evil that you can tack on something you don't like? (Russ) It was terrorism that murdered several innocent American lives, that is why. Note we went after military targets when we retaliated. - The US is using Terrorism, like they used to use Freedom of the seas. If they are bigger and stronger than their target, they will attack (as in Iraq). If they are not, they won't (as in North Korea). I don't like what happen on 9/11, in fact, being a native New Yorker, I hate it, but it does not give us the right to impose our will on other, smaller countries. snip--- Nice expression helping hand like bathroom for toilet or so. You could also say killing hundreds of thousands. (Russ) We have given them plenty of oportunities to comply. They chose not to. Also, I was unaware that Iraq had hundreds of thousands of military personel. Thats got to be one grand army. --- We have also given Russia, China and North Korea the same and they have not. But being the super bullies we are, we pick a smaller country to jump on. If this were really about terrorism, North Korea would be a prime target as would Saudi Arbia, since our own intelligence reports indicate their is a link there. The point is not that Saddham is an bad guy - because he is. But he cannot do anything now. (Russ)-- We are makeing sure of that. No, lets be truthful here. We are making sure that we are first in line for his oil. We claim that he is not disarming, but the UN inspectors who are on the scene claim he is do his part. We are ignoring the evidence and are going in to secure the oil fields. You just cannot go around and point a finger at somebody and kill him. Every country did something wrong and the US is by far not the least among those, but you behave like you are free of guilt. Isn't there something in a book about pointing and throwing and such? (Russ)- I think Powell did a good job of presenting our case before the UN. I think I stated from the beginning that our Government was not perfect. Me thinks you are misapplying that statement from The Book and besides, it condones the death penalty. -- Powell did nothing. He showed a couple of photographs which the UN inspectors said were nothing! They were there, on site, not thousands of feet up in the air. Plus don't forget the last couple of time we used photos to based an attack, lets see, we bombed a milk factory and a pharmaceutical plant. As Americans, who motto is presumed innocent until found guilty shouldn't we be willing to give the inspections a chance? Especially, since our intelligence (CIA, Special Forces, etc) has been less than stellar lately. I just find it hard to believe that anyone can look at two pictures obivously taken from great distance and say I don't care what the inspectors saw, we have these pictures! Are we allowd to attack you if you attack Iraq without UN support? (Russ)- That is up to you. I hope you don't mind if we stick up for our own interests though, like we are doing for terrorism. --- It is this attitude, this we are superior to you so we will do what we want that has caused so much anti american sentiment thru out the world. Some americans are rallying with the president on this, never mind that taxes are going up, that he and Chenney had a hand in the Enron scandal that wiped out so many retirement plans, that our homeless population is growing, that the ederly have to choose between eating cat food or buying medicine or that our children are receiving a sub par education forcing businesses to look out of the country for technical workers. No, never mind all of that, lets attack a third world country and show the world how superior we are. What really interests me is: Does the american PEOPLE (in percents of the total population please) support war? With UN resolution? Or even without and thus violating UN law themselves... (Russ)-- Yes, seems to me I heard the poll numbers like this (don't quote me though) - 80% with UN approval, 60% without. The numbers are about right, but according to CNN they are dropping. It seems that Blix's last report jolted some out of their blind faith in the current administration. Because NO population of any country in Europe does. (well I am not totally sure about Britain). What I have read so far is that about 80% of the people in western Europe are against US war on Iraq, about 70% in eastern Europe. In turkey it is something like 93%! (Russ)--- To each his own. This should scare you. The US is too dependent on world trade. As an American and a Republican (who did not vote for George W. Bush), I find our behavior appalling. First the November
[newbie] Konquerer basic question...
G'day all, as I'm just beginning to look around mandrake I'm trying to come to grips with the basics: In Konquerer, how do you stop a file from launching as soon as you click on it? For example, if I want to click on a bunch of mp3s and then drag them to XMMS, as soon as I click on the first one it launches. Then I have to go back, and then shift-click on the last one, which will then select the ones I want. I want to just select, not launch on first click. Double click to launch would be good, it's the way I'm used to working... -- Merlin Zener piano and synthesizer Pattaya, Thailand. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 13/02/2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...
On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, as I'm just beginning to look around mandrake I'm trying to come to grips with the basics: In Konquerer, how do you stop a file from launching as soon as you click on it? For example, if I want to click on a bunch of mp3s and then drag them to XMMS, as soon as I click on the first one it launches. Then I have to go back, and then shift-click on the last one, which will then select the ones I want. I want to just select, not launch on first click. Double click to launch would be good, it's the way I'm used to working... If that is all you want, go to K/Settings/Control Panel/Index/Peripherals/Mouse, and you can select the click action you want. But I have noticed in KDE 3.1 that a mouse over starts an mp3 or ogg file to start playing. While I like it, I can also see it being annoying. I have no idea where that comes from. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question
et wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital video cameras so i'm not sure if that's how it'll be recognized. also look in mandrake control center's hardware / hardware list and see if you can see it listed there (possibly under other/unknown) and see if there's any info about it. then you need to find out what the /dev entry is (i don't remember for the life of me where i've seen how and haven't added hardware in so long i forgot) Anyone? how DO you know what /dev entry hardware uses? not sure what kind of filesystem it'd use but i'd venture a guess that it's vfat if it's a mass storage device that windoze reads. now for my camera i'd (as root) mkdir /mnt/camera modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera Mounting with -t vfat doesn't work (mount: wrong fs type, bad option, badsuperblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems) and -t auto sulks and asks me to specify the file type (same result as when I tried John's solution). It ain't msdos either - any ideas? Sir Robin I may be way outta line here but: if /mnt is not a separate partition, but on your / partition, wouldn't you have to mount using the filesystem that your / partition is (ie. ext2, ext3 or whatever)? I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. Just a thought... Sharrea ahhh, the mount point is not formated, the partition is formated if it is a block device (a drive) but there is no formating the /dev or /proc (etc) partitions. the mount point tells the OS what filesystem module (?driver? for win-types) the kernel should use to read the filesystem. That's pretty much it (well, it's the mount command, not the mount point, but that's splitting hairs). My problem is that I can't get it to do this. Of course if Windows were as transparent as Linux, I could just look at how Windows does it. Some hope! Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi 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] Konquerer basic question...
In Konqueror, as in other file managers, selecting multiple files, requires that you hold down the CTRL or Control key before selecting the first file, and holding it down until you've finished selecting files. Changing your mouse behavior so that it requires a double-click will also accomplish the same thing, but you'll lose single-click features. Lanman On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:26, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, as I'm just beginning to look around mandrake I'm trying to come to grips with the basics: In Konquerer, how do you stop a file from launching as soon as you click on it? For example, if I want to click on a bunch of mp3s and then drag them to XMMS, as soon as I click on the first one it launches. Then I have to go back, and then shift-click on the last one, which will then select the ones I want. I want to just select, not launch on first click. Double click to launch would be good, it's the way I'm used to working... If that is all you want, go to K/Settings/Control Panel/Index/Peripherals/Mouse, and you can select the click action you want. But I have noticed in KDE 3.1 that a mouse over starts an mp3 or ogg file to start playing. While I like it, I can also see it being annoying. I have no idea where that comes from. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: *snip* But I have noticed in KDE 3.1 that a mouse over starts an mp3 or ogg file to start playing. While I like it, I can also see it being annoying. I have no idea where that comes from. Open the KDE Control Center, go to LookNFeel - Behavior, and uncheck previews for sound files. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question
John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Is this a relatively new camera ? About a year old. I know people have got it working under Linux via firewire; it's USB that's tricky. Sir Robin I'm purly guessing here , but I suspect your camera , like mine, is not vfat, and the trouble is that the file system is not supported in the kernel. The file system has to be the same as the camera generates, and I'm told Redhat has a kernel that does support this newer type of file system. If this is correct, and I'm not certain of it, we are waiting on newer kernel versions that support our cameras. Just as a reference, my camera is Digital Dream1300 I suspect you're right. I've tried every non-absurd filesystem option, and got a filesystem type error every time (except for -t supermount, which got me a segfault). This is presumbaly why under Win98 you need to install Sony's own USB drivers, not the native ones. Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi 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] This is getting way out of hand
Hi Jose, I did not start this thread nor do I intend to continue with it on this list since this is not what this list is for. I simply felt compelled to respond. I get tired of American bashing. Anyway, I do disagree with you, but I would like to comment on a couple of your points on the way out. - Original Message - It is this attitude, this we are superior to you so we will do what we want ...snip (Russ)- That statement is bull. We were attacked and the threat is there. Arrogance is a world wide problem and crosses boundries. Americans do not have a corner on the market for feeling superior. -- Say what you will, but even with the Bimbo scandal, Clinton did a better job at handling our world affairs. (Russ) You've got to be kidding. The mad bomber ah. I did not agree with him on that either. He was wrong. An embarrasment to us all. As I said, all govenments make mistakes, ours lasted 8 years. -- Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === I thought he was talking about my life story Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:29 am, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. Benjamin. Yep you need a security rig that requires you to use a keyed lock to remove the case cover, unless you are encrypting filesystems. You can avert the problem with winXP or with rescue disks by putting a boot password in the BIOS, if the BIOS permits it, and then all you have to worry about is that someone will pop the case cover, move a jumper next to the battery to clear CMOS, then boot on anyway, using the rescue disk. Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ML 9.0 and KDE3.1 confict
Reinstalling, things got so messed up that even the mouse was going nuts. I had this kind of problem with KDE a version or two back too. I just have to wait and get my KDE with a ML distro. : P -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. The greatest linux rescue cd i have found to be at ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd Yes it is a Redhat disk. Noone knows about this cd. I know about it b/c at Dell Server Support the RH guys told us about this for just in case purposes. It has everything you need on it. Have fun. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
tell us more Please Civileme wrote: Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde 3.1; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 ~~ If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update database
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be that I have set it as a user and it needs to be root? Anne Yes updatedb needs to be run as root. OK - I'll look into changing that. Another potential problem is if your computer is switched off when the job is due to run. Cron will not run jobs whose time has passed. The solution is to install anacron which will check for missed jobs and run them. I run 24/7 unless I'm away for a few days. BTW: a cron job to run updatedb is already part of the cron.weekly job. So your job should be unneccessary Which makes it even odder, that it should report as being more than 8 days old, doesn't it? Anne a possible reason for cron.weekly apparently not doing your updatedb is if another part of the job is failing and causing the remainder to abort. If you enter a line MAILTO=your_email_addy into /etc/crontab then any jobs which fail will cause an email to be sent to you. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
Hi, Another thing that is possible with windows xp home edition, is that if you boot into safe mode , you can change all the user passwords to whatever you want you don't even need to know the old password, you just change it.It dosen't work with winxp pro though. Richard G. Registered Linux User: 256848 On Sunday 16 February 2003 18:26, Robert Wideman wrote: On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. The greatest linux rescue cd i have found to be at ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd Yes it is a Redhat disk. Noone knows about this cd. I know about it b/c at Dell Server Support the RH guys told us about this for just in case purposes. It has everything you need on it. Have fun. Rob - __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === I thought he was talking about my life story Why so depressed, Ed ? - You got here, eh ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 5:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) What's more we got another test earlier Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update database
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 6:37 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be that I have set it as a user and it needs to be root? Anne Yes updatedb needs to be run as root. OK - I'll look into changing that. Another potential problem is if your computer is switched off when the job is due to run. Cron will not run jobs whose time has passed. The solution is to install anacron which will check for missed jobs and run them. I run 24/7 unless I'm away for a few days. BTW: a cron job to run updatedb is already part of the cron.weekly job. So your job should be unneccessary Which makes it even odder, that it should report as being more than 8 days old, doesn't it? Anne a possible reason for cron.weekly apparently not doing your updatedb is if another part of the job is failing and causing the remainder to abort. If you enter a line MAILTO=your_email_addy into /etc/crontab then any jobs which fail will cause an email to be sent to you. Thanks Derek - done that, now I'll wait to see what happens. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:26 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. The greatest linux rescue cd i have found to be at ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd Yes it is a Redhat disk. Noone knows about this cd. I know about it b/c at Dell Server Support the RH guys told us about this for just in case purposes. It has everything you need on it. Have fun. Rob You can use Knoppix as well. Very easy to get hands on. Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 4:49 pm, Lanman wrote: In Konqueror, as in other file managers, selecting multiple files, requires that you hold down the CTRL or Control key before selecting the first file, and holding it down until you've finished selecting files. Changing your mouse behavior so that it requires a double-click will also accomplish the same thing, but you'll lose single-click features. I find it most convenient to right-click the first file of the group I want, then I can ctrl-click or shift-click, depending on whether the group is consecutive or not. It works for me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) I thought he was talking about my life story Why so depressed, Ed ? - You got here, eh ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === ahh all toungue in cheek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:56 pm, et wrote: ahh all toungue in cheek Ed, that's where emoticons come in handy ;-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
You can use Knoppix as well. Very easy to get hands on. True, havent tried it yet. Have seen it in Linuxformat the last couple of issues. Isnt there another bootable distro given out by LF lately? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Test
Dont know about others but i miss about 1/5 of the mailing list emails. If you go read through the archives you will notice that you do NOT get a lot of them. I gifured this out about amonth ago. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 7:02 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Dont know about others but i miss about 1/5 of the mailing list emails. If you go read through the archives you will notice that you do NOT get a lot of them. I gifured this out about amonth ago. Some of the missing ones are caused by people setting the reply-to, so that we inadvertantly reply direct to them, not the list. We then pick it up again from the next post in the thread. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] petroglyph wallpaper
In Mandrake 7.0 there was a wallpaper named petroglyph. It was a reproduction of the southwest American Indians rock painting of a dancing man playing the flute. It is not in Mandrake 9.0. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where can I find a copy of it? tks Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
Civileme = expert everyone else(self included) = newbie As always, the = operator flows to the left. SOO true. Thanks civilme for all the help you give. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] petroglyph wallpaper
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 06:23, Charles Roberts wrote: In Mandrake 7.0 there was a wallpaper named petroglyph. It was a reproduction of the southwest American Indians rock painting of a dancing man playing the flute. It is not in Mandrake 9.0. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where can I find a copy of it? tks Charles If I recall, you should be able to either get someone with a lower version of KDE to send it to you, or search for it on the KDE website(s) - even try the KDE-LOOK sites...I haven't thought of that one for quite some time, but now that you mention it, I did like it quite a bit... I just did a google, as well as going to KDE-LOOK.org, but couldn't find it...someone on the list should have a lower version of KDE and be able to either post it somewhere for ftp or send it...(or so you'd reckon) -- Mon, 17 Feb 2003 06:35:00 +1100 6:35am up 9:54, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.21, 0.25 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- There isn't any problem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update database
Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be that I have set it as a user and it needs to be root? Anne due to complaints that vigorous disk activity was occurring when a system was first booted up (anacron running jobs that were missed because the system was turned off), anacron was not installed by default as of 9.0. install it and it'll begin working. urpmi anacron Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a frequency specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume that the machine is running continuously. Hence, it can be used on machines that aren't running 24 hours a day, to control daily, weekly, and monthly jobs that are usually controlled by cron. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:42 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Oh come one. I like 12 hour shifts. They are easier than 16 hour shifts. HEHE Rob You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a week. They gave me 8 hrs for doing it , to make my 40 hrs a week. I loved being off 5 days in a row. Just hated working -every- weekend... That'd be kinda tough at first, but after a while I think I'd love being off for 5 days in a row myself. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and reads a lot like this : snip Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=80.192.8.112 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=56266 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3147 DPT=1214 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=217.235.136.240 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=53207 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=24207 DPT=1214 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=217.235.136.240 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=53220 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=24207 DPT=1214 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=217.235.136.240 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=53257 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=24207 DPT=1214 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 /snip To me it seems like shorewall is stopping someone - actually a lot - trying to do a portscan on me. Now, when I do a *whois* on all those URL's it seems that I get both decent ISP's as well as more clandestine ones. What's going on ? - Can someone decipher this ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. So Kaj do you use Kazaa? The key in these records is to look at the Destination Port DPT=1214 and then just enter port 1214 into Google. The answer... Kazaa Not a port scan this time. But at least you know Shorewall is working. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like what you're looking for. Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi 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] Shorewall doing its job ?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:06 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and reads a lot like this : snip Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=80.192.8.112 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=56266 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3147 DPT=1214 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 /snip To me it seems like shorewall is stopping someone - actually a lot - trying to do a portscan on me. Now, when I do a *whois* on all those URL's it seems that I get both decent ISP's as well as more clandestine ones. What's going on ? - Can someone decipher this ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. So Kaj do you use Kazaa? The key in these records is to look at the Destination Port DPT=1214 and then just enter port 1214 into Google. The answer... Kazaa Not a port scan this time. But at least you know Shorewall is working. derek Thanks Derek and Charlie ! No, I don't use Kazaa. I'll admit that I've installed gtk-gnutella and fetched a few Mozart.ogg's, but I assume that has nothing to do with Kazaa (right ?). I'm happy to know Shorewall is awake and working, though. But what's the general idea of those *attacks* ? - Maybe Charlie is right : it gives me the option of reporting abuse to the ISP's. - But will they comply ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:31 pm, robin wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like what you're looking for. Sir Robin And to work out how to use xmms visualisations check out this site http://www.trylinuxsd.com/ The visualisations are reached through xmmsOptionsPreferences Enable the check box on the plug in to turn on the visualisation. GeForce is my favourite too... derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
Thanks Just did a little checking and found an rpm that includes the word unsafe and mentions the possibility of some seg fault errors. Is there a safe one somewhere to download? This machine has been running flawlessly on 9.0 and I hate to mess up a good thing. Thanks again! On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:31 pm, robin wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like what you're looking for. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
It is on your CDs. In a root terminal urpmi xmms-more-vis-plugins derek On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:51 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Thanks Just did a little checking and found an rpm that includes the word unsafe and mentions the possibility of some seg fault errors. Is there a safe one somewhere to download? This machine has been running flawlessly on 9.0 and I hate to mess up a good thing. Thanks again! On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:31 pm, robin wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like what you're looking for. Sir Robin -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:18, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim XMMS does - in the visualisations. There's heaps of plugins for visuals as well on the XMMS website... -- Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:40:00 +1100 11:40am up 14:59, 4 users, load average: 0.65, 0.51, 0.28 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Reality is for people who lack imagination. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:18 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim you might check out the visualziation plugins in xmmms, and also search google for blursk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live
Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working under MDK 9? Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I searched the FAQ list but all I could find were references to ISA cards. When You Earnestly Believe You Can Compensate For A Lack Of Skill By Doubling Your Efforts, There's No End To What You Can't Do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:15:00 -0500 Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. 1st thing check your mixer settings to ensure that it is not muted. If that is not the problem. Run draksound and switch to the emu10k1 driver. For some reason there are SBLives which will not work with the audigy driver. Charles -- Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday. - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-6mdk - msg119812/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live
- Original Message - From: Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working under MDK 9? Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I searched the FAQ list but all I could find were references to ISA cards. *** Hi Andrew, the SB Live that Dell ships with the Dimension is not a standard spec SB card, and is therefore not Linux friendly. Check this link: ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/doc/live_faq.html#CardsSupported If your computer is less than 30 days old, and you report the issue to Dell, apparently they will furnish you with a standard SB Live card which is Linux friendly. It seems however that there may be a way to get the Dell card to work w/Linux, and you can check this post: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linuxmessage.id=2833 that has some info in that regard. You will find other info on the SB card from Dell on DellTalk too. Many are experiencing the same problem. HTH. Best regards to you! :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live
On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:15 pm, Andrew Robert wrote: Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working under MDK 9? Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I searched the FAQ list but all I could find were references to ISA cards. If it isn't already, install sndconfig and then in a console type sndconfig. This will take take you into a dos like install of the sound card, hopefully. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:40 pm, mycal62 wrote: tell us more Please Civileme wrote: Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme It's not Mandrake. It is a 32M DiskOnChip in a standard Dual-In-Line Pack frequently used in BIOS storage though the BIOS is usually a 2M EEPROM. Using some of the prebuilt stuff from www.linuxbios.org, and adding in a few things, I have built a ROM image of linux kernel 2.4 compiled for a specific Board, with FramebufferX, Python, ROX, and PointlessWM. I am working on a / image for HD that will load the rest of the system. What about the BIOS? Well there isn't anything but linux and you need a password to boot, and it is hardwired in the DOC in an /etc/passwd (non-shadowed) file which is overtaken when / is mounted from disk. The DiskOnChip is available here and there if you look hard for about $75 in single quantities including shipping. Boards with DIP Bioses are getting harder to find, though, and you MUST compile the kernel for the board. Furthermore there is an extra-scary step in flashing the DOC, because you have to lever up the BIOS chip you booted with to make the kernel image and swap in the DiskOnChip--Yes, the BIOS EEPROM IS _REALLY_ hot-swappable, but if you make a mistake you fry many things including possibly yourself. As for a rescue CD--well none is necessary so the linuxbios is set up NEVER to boot from CD or from floppy, only from itself, and then to seek a loadable full linux system. On the first board I used, which was unfortunately a real cheapie, I booted linux with framebuffer X in about 5 seconds. Now the second board is being readied, and I have to wait til I have a job for funds to complete the project, (need DDR and Processor and case, cause the last one was sold) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing dictionary
How does one install a dictionary, like for evolustion, OO, abiword and the like? -- Jason Guidry www.gmaestro.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a matter of perspective, and It becomes a relative thing as well. When I first tried Linux RH 5.2 ( I think ) I would say I was an absolute Newbie. Now after several years can I say I am an Expert? Most definitely NOT, but I don't feel I am a true Newbie either. In all seriousness the difference between a newbie, at least on this list, and a _true_ expert is relative to the comparison between most of us here on the list and Civileme. Civileme = expert everyone else(self included) = newbie As always, the = operator flows to the left. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending
I had the same problem with Kmail in KDE 3.0. Sendmail worked for awhile then quit as well. I'm now using Evolution since I couldn't get Kmail to work properly. I'd love to know what's going on. Linus On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:50, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. I can not for the life of me figure out what domain is missing. Must be late and need sleep. Any help is appreciated. Dennis M. are you replying or sending? some spam that i bounce gives me this error too. delete the first message in your outbox, or move it to the drafts folder, then try 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] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:17 pm, civileme wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:40 pm, mycal62 wrote: tell us more Please Civileme wrote: Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme It's not Mandrake. It is a 32M DiskOnChip in a standard Dual-In-Line Pack frequently used in BIOS storage though the BIOS is usually a 2M EEPROM. Using some of the prebuilt stuff from www.linuxbios.org, and adding in a few things, I have built a ROM image of linux kernel 2.4 compiled for a specific Board, with FramebufferX, Python, ROX, and PointlessWM. I am working on a / image for HD that will load the rest of the system. What about the BIOS? Well there isn't anything but linux and you need a password to boot, and it is hardwired in the DOC in an /etc/passwd (non-shadowed) file which is overtaken when / is mounted from disk. The DiskOnChip is available here and there if you look hard for about $75 in single quantities including shipping. Boards with DIP Bioses are getting harder to find, though, and you MUST compile the kernel for the board. Furthermore there is an extra-scary step in flashing the DOC, because you have to lever up the BIOS chip you booted with to make the kernel image and swap in the DiskOnChip--Yes, the BIOS EEPROM IS _REALLY_ hot-swappable, but if you make a mistake you fry many things including possibly yourself. As for a rescue CD--well none is necessary so the linuxbios is set up NEVER to boot from CD or from floppy, only from itself, and then to seek a loadable full linux system. On the first board I used, which was unfortunately a real cheapie, I booted linux with framebuffer X in about 5 seconds. Now the second board is being readied, and I have to wait til I have a job for funds to complete the project, (need DDR and Processor and case, cause the last one was sold) Civileme Civileme: Please quantify funds. While I'm certainly not in a position where I could underwrite this project, I could make a small contribution, and I bet that some other listers would also be willing to contribute. Disclaimer: Hot swapping BIOS chips is NOT something I'm ever apt to do, but I'm curious to see where this could lead. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and reads a lot like this : snip Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=80.192.8.112 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=56266 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3147 DPT=1214 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=217.235.136.240 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=53207 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=24207 DPT=1214 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=217.235.136.240 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=53220 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=24207 DPT=1214 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:ba:c6:65:6a:00:08:a4:cb:f0:38:08:00 SRC=217.235.136.240 DST=80.198.60.128 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=117 ID=53257 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=24207 DPT=1214 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 /snip To me it seems like shorewall is stopping someone - actually a lot - trying to do a portscan on me. Now, when I do a *whois* on all those URL's it seems that I get both decent ISP's as well as more clandestine ones. What's going on ? - Can someone decipher this ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === Most likely that is a portscan with decoys. Shorewall is good enough to catch a SYN scan apparently, with a little help from kernel 2.4/iptables... I don't much like the scanner with the WINDOW numbers it is putting out ... Way too big for most communications except an upload/download and too small to block a man-in-middle.. TCP is a 3-way handshake which can be desynched by a clever attacker,,, but that is another story. You might try listening at other IP addresses in your subnet to see if this joker is scanning your whole subnet--but the DPTis always 1214? I am showing some similar SYN/RST stuff but hitting ports 443, 1080, 1433, 2852 2852 is a port used by some popular windows trojans 1433 is MSSQL so that's probably slammer 1080 is socks proxy (yep another WINexploit port) 443 might be respectable or it might be slapper 1214 is KaZaa file sharing but the Lirva Virus is trying to spread via KaZaa as well as by many other methods (and Lirva is NASTY in its payload, deactivating antivirus scanners and emailing all the passwords windows stores to one of two hardwired addresses in Kazakhstan,) I think you probably encountered a Lirva scan as it has been internet active lately, choking many mailservers with crap, courtesy of Windows, Outlook, MSIE, mIRC, ICQ (windows client) IIS, and KaZaa. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, you wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark I use the Quickcam Express with the Linux driver and it works ok.I would say the performance is mediocre to good. For the price I think it is a good value.I am not sure what the top cameras are for Linux so I am not sure what level of performance is possible at this time.Here is the instructions to the driver installation page. http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ -- Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Linux user #298896 Homepage http://micronuke.tripod.com/ 11:43pm up 1 day, 23:40, 1 user, load average: 1.46, 1.31, 1.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:25 PM To: MDK Newbie list Subject: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with MySQL and i just installed it
I just installed a crap load of rpms (maybe like 20) to get Mysql installed and updated via rpmdrake. Its running and everything BUT rpm doesnt show it do be installed, nor in rpmdrake. MySQL 3.23.52 was installed at the same time as gmysql too. [root@rwideman2 myproj]# rpm -qa|grep mysql libqt3-mysql-3.1.1-8mdk libmysql10-devel-3.23.52-1.3mdk gmysql-0.3.4-2mdk libmysql10-3.23.52-1.3mdk [root@rwideman2 myproj]# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 3.23.52 Any thoughts?? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:49 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob Thanks Rob - I was searching with linux webcam :-) Anyways, I seem to be getting a semi-respectable picture now, although I've not tried connecting to anyone just yet... -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, Miark wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Hmm, don't know about the express, but I just paid $63 for a used (supposed to be like new) Logitech 3000 Pro...from Amazon.com -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Camstream?
Bryan, I know you said you liked Camstream best of all for your Logitech 3000, but how did you ever get it installed? I tried the 26 RPM (errored out, multiple dependencies that I never could meet - too many conflicts), I tried v25 src RPM and it also errored out during the rebuild... so What file did you use to install Camstream? Can you point me to a URL that will give me one that will setup correctly with Mandrake v9.0? Thanks much! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a matter of perspective, and It becomes a relative thing as well. When I first tried Linux RH 5.2 ( I think ) I would say I was an absolute Newbie. Now after several years can I say I am an Expert? Most definitely NOT, but I don't feel I am a true Newbie either. I would call myself a User in perpetual training ( I really don't think I'll ever be an expert though because that would take more brains than I have left. ) But then , That's purely from MY perspective, massive grin I Like a saying of Confucius : to know that what you know is what you know, is not knowledge, But to know that what you do not know is what you do not know That is the beginning of understanding somethng like that. I often say the one thing I learned about computers in 1992 that I still use, and is still true, is that what ever you buy today will be obosolete in 3 years, and the same goes with software, (actully I have one program that was written for win95 and I bought in 1995, that I still use almost every day, and that is winfax for win 95, since I have kept my hourly billing on it as a faxed document since 1995 but the OS it ran on is no longer avail, good thing it still runs using other M$products) and I still use pine when I ssh into a shell account, and it has been around (without much change that I can see) Et, Pine does gorgeous threading now-a-days. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] suggestion to mdk developers
when i click on removable media icon selecting unmount or eject but the media is still in use and it cannot be unmounted/ejected the new window apears with information about Device in use. that's just fine but there should be like /sbin/fuser -v /dev/scd0 and it should list processes which are bothering cdrom or it could even give an option to kill these process(es). many times mdk-newbie doesn't have a clue about fuser program and would simply like to get the cd out of the drive. maybe this is more windows like approach, but what's bad about it?? please, write what you think about this and eventually how to let mdk developers know. thanks. cheers, joe riha (mdk 9 user) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fortran compiler
Hi, I want to install a Fortran compiler. Where can I find one of them? Thanks. Laura. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally understand that statement. Rob sounds like looking for fun in all the right places yeah, but how can you show-horn Python in the same phrase with Apache/PERL and SQL? is that legal? -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unkillable process?
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:22:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] what i'm doing: ps ax | grep process su (passwd) kill -s signal pid using all kinds of signals starting with sigterm, sigkill, Those two is all you need. kill -s TERM will ask the process to terminate (the process may refuse), kill -s KILL forcefully tries to kill the process (. If it doesn't terminate after a KILL signal, there is no way to do it. Usually it means that your kernel got a hickup which shouldn't normally happen. There are cases where the kernel cannot remove a process due to its internal state[1], but I only encountered these with either broken kernels (i.e. an update fixed it) or with broken hardware. signals like sigrtmin+2 even were [and man kill does not say]) man 7 signal (that's mentioned in man kill) not wanting to get mucking around too much with something i didn't fully understand i didn't use them ALL but it seems like sigkill should kill just about anything :-/ Correct. If it does not, there is nothing a mere user (or admin) can do about it. I know it's late in the thread but I thought I'd mention that when I get a process that I can't kill from top or using ps then I've always had success doing it from webmin. haven't had one yet that couldn't be killed from webmin. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:59:30 -0800 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:59:30 -0800 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) HTML.. Dennis I am ashamed of you. Give yourself 30 lashes and no sex tonight (with anything) (-; Charles Ya know, if I could I would delete all MS from this computer. Only trouble is then I would get fired and thrown in jail to boot. Seems like at odd times and for unknown reasons Outlook decides to switch over to html by itself. I have turned it off and next thing it's back in there. And Billy calls linux a virus. Ha. Hopefully it is off again. Funny when I check format it says plain text. So let me know if it was me or the one I answered that had the html. grumblemumblegrumblesniff. Dennis M. Dennis, If your network admins are employing the use of Novell and Zenworks then it's likely your workstation is being imaged and when you start it up at the beginning of the day your hard drive is, for all intents and purposes being reimaged as it's starting up. Which could be a good explanation for why Outlook seemingly won't relent in it's HTML mail setting. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 ICQ# 27816299 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list
Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. I've created a mailing list for anyone here on the newbie and expert lists where they can freely talk about all the off topic stuff they have a need for. The link to sign up is below. http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot If you wish to subscibe by sending a message to the list software you can use the email address below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] The format for the command is as follows, while the subject header is meaningless to the list software. In the body of the message place this information as you see it: subscribe your.password plain [EMAIL PROTECTED] your.password = a password of your choice your.email.addy = your email address. Example subscribe command: subscribe password plain [EMAIL PROTECTED] All are welcome. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
