Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP ; ERA: prompt dei comandi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:42, domenica 9 marzo 2003, miKe ha scritto: beh le firme dovrebbero passare senza problemi, io la mia la ricevo correttamente, in genere risulta errata quando qualcuno risponde , ma è corretto, anzi, semmai è una prova dell'avvenuta manipolazione della mail se a te i tuoi post appaiono con firma danneggiata prova a spedirti una mail direttamente, senza passare dalla lista, se vuoi possiamo anche fare una prova, mandami la tua pubblica in attach e ti dico come interpreto i tuoi post Quanto allo scaricamento da keyserver continua a non andare, dove hai fatto l'upload? bye miKe Io essendo sotto un proxy non ho neanche mai provato ad scaricare o ad uploadare direttamente dal gpg. In genere mi connetto al keyserver (www.keyserver.net) faccio una ricerca e faccio il copia-incolla della chiave che mi viene mostrata, poi con import la inserisco tra le pubbliche del mio keyring. Ho fatto così anche con la tua! - -- Le ballerine sono coraggiosissime! Quante donne conoscete in grado di gettarsi tra le braccia di un omossessuale sperando che lui le afferri? Rita Rüdner -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+axkSTvJtVxCNwP4RAozPAKCRxh7s5op92r6XvWxN8Z5aWDlqVwCfQAxX Oxrox5nrd7l+s9yvQ6sizPY= =QYrK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:11, domenica 9 marzo 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: La tua continua ad arrivarmi dicendomi chiave errata! boh... i miei post li leggo senza errori... importa un pò questa, in allegato bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+a16lF/9fksDJ4y0RAr44AKCOClsjcj+/aKJ7LElMpP0SE9rmjACfSwS/ hmfNnbVt09F8nPTtzwsiDeY= =DGV9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- public_key.asc Description: application/pgp-keys
Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP
miKe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:11, domenica 9 marzo 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: La tua continua ad arrivarmi dicendomi chiave errata! boh... i miei post li leggo senza errori... importa un pò questa, in allegato bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+a16lF/9fksDJ4y0RAr44AKCOClsjcj+/aKJ7LElMpP0SE9rmjACfSwS/ hmfNnbVt09F8nPTtzwsiDeY= =DGV9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- qualcuno potrebbe gentilmente spiegare in aprole povere cosa sia e a cosa serva la chiave pgp...che tipo di chiavi ci siano come si usano? ... oppure segnalare una documentazione di base in italiano? ringrazio francesco
[newbie-it] setserial and resolv.conf
Ho due domandine : mdk9-conexantHSF l'rpm driver per conexant nel cd international+documentation mi ha creato il device dev/ttySHSF0 e controllo con" setserial dev/ttySHSF0" che tipo di irq I/O e UART ho per la porta poichè modem è riconosciuto ma non compone il numero- l'irq è 0- UART indefinito- port è 0x0001 (+ o - ) digito: setserial /dev/ttySHSF0 port 0xd400 irq 11 UART 16550A e mi risponde "Can not se serial info : invalid argument perche?? Creo un file resolv.conf e digito: domain virgilio.it DNS 212.216.172.62 DNS 212.212.112.112 va bene???
Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP
On Sunday 09 March 2003 7:27 pm, francesco.melo wrote about Re: [newbie-it] chiavi PGP: qualcuno potrebbe gentilmente spiegare in aprole povere cosa sia e a cosa serva la chiave pgp...che tipo di chiavi ci siano come si usano? ... oppure segnalare una documentazione di base in italiano? Il pgp (pretty good privacy) e' un sistema di crittografia a doppia chiave. Per criptare quindi i tuoi files o messaggi avrai bisogno di due chiavi, una pubblica e una privata. La privata la custodirai gelosamente, quella pubblica la renderai disponibile a tutti. Chi vorra' criptare un messagio indirizzato a te, lo criptera' con la tua chiave pubblica, cosi' solo la tua chiave privata potra' decodificarlo. Questo in parole poverissime, puoi trovare info in italiano qui: (ma cercando in google avrai solo l'imbarazzo della scelta) Guida pratica a pgp http://www.pgpi.org/docs/g_pgp952.htm Kryptonite, un libro geniale, free e in italiano http://www.ecn.org/kriptonite/ Cerca anche per gnupg, perche' in linux (ma anche in win alla fine) molti usano questo per ragioni varie. http://www.gnupg.org/ bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia http://www.acidlife.com/mayhem/freefred/ Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://www.marcob.org/go.asp?~freefred/ ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie-it] Seti@Home: prestazioni e programmi correlati
- Original Message - Freefred Riguardo alla compilazione del Ksetispy... ho risolto il problema dell'installazione l'errore era nei parametri del configure quello esatto è configure --prefix=/usr Anche se non ho ben capito la differenza tra questo e il solo configure, anche perchè prima veniva lo stesso installato nella dir /usr/share/ Ora che ho tutto a posto potrei farmi l'rpm? Ho visto che nei CD mandrake c'è l'rpmbuild Qualcuno che abbia provato saprebbe spiegarmi semplicemente come si fa e di cosa ho bisogno? La ricerca è dura e a volte noiosa. cui il Cancer Projet delle United Devices, che ultimamente ha ampliato Eh ma credo di mantenermi appositamente sul frivolo. Temo sempre (ma non ne so abbastanza) la paranoia di dare il tempo del mio pc a una casa farmaceutica, che poi vendera' la cura trovata a chi vorra' e a un prezzo esorbitante. Questo però se andiamo a vedere vale per ogni scoperta scientifica, che può cadere sotto brevetto, diciamo che questo timore non solo tuo del resto è il prezzo da pagare nella speranza di una cura, la cosa che mi da fiducia è il fatto che dietro ci sia l'università di Oxford se non ricordo male. Insomma, se dovessi lasciare il seti, anche se fino a pochi mesi fa non c'era ancora il client per linux, credo che passero' al craccaggio dell' XBox:-) Se ti riferisci a XLinBox ho letto che c'è già qualcuno che fa girare linux sulla scatola di Bill Bye Alessandro
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important for ogle, xine, and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. Go to http://rpm.pbone.net/ and get it there. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files
Damian Gatabria wrote: i am always loggin as root when running rpmdrake-remove (the only way..). the owner was the user (me) and the permission were r-- r-- ---. OK, change the owner:group of the files to root:root and set permissions to 775 .. ( chown root:root files; chmod +775 files) have to make a script that will change the contents of .kde everytime kde is started? Better yet, it would be nice to find the script that does this in the first place, and kill the bastard. changing the permissions helped but i won't give up that easily and still tryig to find out WHERE is that damned script.. i did the following steps: 1. deleted everything from ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk 2. restarted kde 3. seems good. link to openoffice writer (with terrible windowmanager_section icon) is gone 4. so i ran rpmdrake-remove and removed some gnomegames 5. restarted kde 6. ooops. the ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk structure is recreated (does not bother that much) but so is the ooo writer link (well, actually this really sucks) 7. find / -name Open*.desktop didn't help. i found nothing realated to this issue under /usr/share/applnk-mdk so please can anybody tell me how this link can be recreated?? ===the contents of OpenOffice\ Writer.desktop:=== [Desktop Entry] Name=OpenOffice Writer Comment=OpenOffice Writer Exec=oowriter Terminal=false Icon=windowmanager_section.png Type=Application Name[cs]=OpenOffice Writer Name[sk]=OpenOffice Writer cheers, -jozef riha- Things like these are the ones people refer to when they say KDE is unpredictable. Damian Of course if you have security set above standard it could be msec that is changing the file back. Where do you have security set? HTH sorry, i cannot remember.. where can i find out? ... mmm... dunno.. maybe mandrake control center - security can give you a hint. If you use your PC as a workstation, then regular (medium) security is OK and recommended. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Fwd: [viki@bol.net.in: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]]
Thought y'all would find this a bit unnerving...speak up! -Forwarded Message- From: Vikram Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarding without prejudice...It concerns all of us. -- vikram...[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^'^^||root||^^^'''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) ((\\ -- Thus My Computer Chittered : ~~ ... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some things with confidence! Evolution on an ancient earth is as well established as our planet's shape and position. Our continuing struggle to understand how evolution happens (the theory of evolution) does not cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the fact of evolution -- into doubt. -- Stephen Jay Gould, The Verdict on Creationism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2. -- # ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795 -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:10:00 +1100 10:10pm up 7:26, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.17, 0.39 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Are you in a position to test this on 9.1. It needs to be done quickly. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit is basically VMWare just by a different company. Also I do know that if I were to upgrade my current v3 win4lin to v4 it is $20 off on their website (www.netraverse.com) since i bought the older version through a reseller of Win4Lin, but you gotta talk to sales to get the discount. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
Charles Roberts wrote: robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) I have the same problem Robin. Think I will just live with it until 9.1. Charles After extensive googling, I found a hint - someone had the same problem and solved it by completely uninstalling KDE, then reinstalling. Apparently KDE sometimes prefers to be installed rather than upgraded. This was in SuSe, but may also apply in Mandrake. I don't have acess to the computer in question at the moment, but you may care to try it; otherwise I'll see if it works tomorrow. I need to get in to work early so I can either fix it or downgrade before people say Robin's buggered up the computer again! Sir Robin -- The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake. - Wittgenstein 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] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 12:26 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit is basically VMWare just by a different company. Also I do know that if I were to upgrade my current v3 win4lin to v4 it is $20 off on their website (www.netraverse.com) since i bought the older version through a reseller of Win4Lin, but you gotta talk to sales to get the discount. Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob PS-The link for the ad on Win4Lin discount is at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=441mode=nocomments Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 12:52 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob The version I have doesn't. Try emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to find the current situation - you will find them helpful. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] crashing konqueror (in kde 3.1 - texstar)
hello, i upgraded kde 3.0.5a to 3.1 from rpm by TexStart. everything is fine except the fact that konqueror is crashing with sigsev 11 more than often (sometimes right after executing, always after clicking on Home button). thanks for help. cheers, joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:52:49AM -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob I thought that the big difference between VMware and Win4Lin is that Win4Lin does not provide a virtual machine? Am I wrong? -- hendrik PS-The link for the ad on Win4Lin discount is at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=441mode=nocomments 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] No icons in KDE 3.1
well, i had the same problem few minutes ago and i did it!! i am sorry, but really cannot tell you how but suddenly it just worked. i played with Control Center a lot - that's all i can tell. try allow desktop menu, font menu settings.. do not give up cheers, joe robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PITA when searching the archives.) I've just installed KDE 3.1 from Texstar's RPMs. Most everything works OK, except that I have no icons and my wallpapers don't show up. It looks almost like the background is appearing on top of the desktop. Even if I delete .kde and start from scratch, I can't get icons by dragging from the menu, and right-clicking the desktop does nothing. Is there something different about KDE 3.1 I should know about, or something else I should have installed (or alternately, uninstalled)? Sir Robin (who foolishly upgraded KDE just before noticing that Mdk 9.1 is due out soon) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: crashing konqueror (in kde 3.1 - texstar)
Jozef Riha wrote: hello, i upgraded kde 3.0.5a to 3.1 from rpm by TexStart. everything is fine except the fact that konqueror is crashing with sigsev 11 more than often (sometimes right after executing, always after clicking on Home button). thanks for help. cheers, joe addon: executing konq as: konqueror --profile webbrowsing fires it up at least. only konqueror command crashes konqi right after showing the main window. this is console output when running konqueror as a new user (username is hela): bash-2.05b$ konqueror Session management error: Could not open network socket _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root kdecore (KLocale): WARNING: found no definition of PluralForm for cs Session management error: Could not open network socket kdecore (KLocale): WARNING: found no definition of PluralForm for cs kbuildsycoca running... kdecore (KLocale): WARNING: found no definition of PluralForm for cs File kcookiejarrc, id kcookiescfg.upd:kde2.2/b1 File kcookiejarrc, id kcookiescfg.upd:kde3.1/cvs File kdeglobals, id kded.upd:kde3.0 File kdeprintrc, id kdeprintrc.upd:kde-3.1-toolbar File kcmdisplayrc, id kcmdisplayrc.upd:kde3 File dummy, id favicons.upd:kde3 File kdeglobals, id kaccel.upd:kde3.1/r3 File klipperrc, id klipperrc.upd:25082001 File klipperrc, id klipperrc.upd:kde3.1 File konsolerc, id konsole.upd:kde2.2/r1 File konsolerc, id konsole.upd:kde3.0/r1 File ksmserverrc, id ksmserver.upd:kde3 File kwinrc, id kwin.upd:kde3.0r1 File kio_httprc, id kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1 File kioslaverc, id kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1 File kio_httprc, id kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2 File kioslaverc, id kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r3 File kdeglobals, id socks.upd:kde3.0/r1 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:1 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:4 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:5 File kpgprc, id kmail.upd:5 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:6 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:7 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:8 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:9 File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:3.1-update-identities File kmailrc, id kmail.upd:3.1-use-identity-uoids File kmail.eventsrc, id kmail.upd:3.1-new-mail-notification File knewstickerappletrc, id knewsticker.upd:KNewsTicker-0.2 File knewsticker_appletrc, id knewsticker.upd:KNewsTicker-0.2-Rename-KDE3 File kpgprc, id kpgp.upd:preKDE3_a File kpgprc, id kpgp.upd:3.1-1 File noatunrc, id noatun.upd:noatun20 File kickerrc, id kickerrc.upd:kde_3_1_sizeChanges File kdeglobals, id klippershortcuts.upd:04112002 Id 'kde2.2/b1' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.0' was already in done-list! Write ViewMenuBar - false Remove Key 'General'/'ViewToolBar' Id 'kde3' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3' was already in done-list! Running script 'convertShortcuts.pl' Script: Writing entries to /tmp/kde-hela/kconf_updateTV3X5a.tmp Script: Filtered entries written to /tmp/kde-hela/kconf_updateJxmpOa.tmp Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global Keys (FORCED) Removing group Global Shortcuts (FORCED) Removing group Global
[newbie] gnucash
Does anyone know which version og gnucash is going to ship with Mandrake 9.1? They recently produced a new so-called stable release. For all I know, it may be stable, but people compiling it from source are having troubles because, again, it seems to require very recent versions of a lot of other packages, I'd rather not go through the trials of compiling my own if Mandrake is going to come up with one soon! -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:36:52AM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? TIA Actually, it might be nice to be able to access the archives by nntp. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) 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] gnucash
On Sunday 09 March 2003 22:11, Hendrik Boom wrote: Does anyone know which version og gnucash is going to ship with Mandrake 9.1? GnuCash 1.8.1. See http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 March 2003 07:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 12:26 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit is basically VMWare just by a different company. Also I do know that if I were to upgrade my current v3 win4lin to v4 it is $20 off on their website (www.netraverse.com) since i bought the older version through a reseller of Win4Lin, but you gotta talk to sales to get the discount. Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses the Linux kernel to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is because Linux did not support NTFS. Win4Lin does not support the NT based version of Windows right now, only the 9x series. This is not because of the filesystem, but because of the structure of the OS itself. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:31:26PM +0100, Paul wrote: Greetings everyone, I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. When I check the backed up information, I see: -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz Weird, since the backup1 file (made today) should be bigger than the one that rolled over to backup2 from yesterday; I installed OpenOffice 1.0.2. When listing the contents of the backup1 file (tar -tzf backup1.tar.gz), tar lists part of the file and then tells me gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I run Mandrake 8.2 with [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 The command I use to make the backup-file is tar -czf backup1.tar.gz -X ~/div/dont_do ~/* where ~/div/dontdo contains the extensions of some files I do not want backed up. Am I hitting some kind of limit with tar files? Would be strange, at work we tar files that grow into the 1Gb size (running HP-UX though). Paul If you can't beat the limit, use the tar options for a multivolume archive. It took me a long time to figure out that in additionn to these options, you can specify the --file option multipe times to tell tar which multiple file manes to use for the pieces of the tarfile. And the multivolume option does *not* allow you to compress while tarring. Here's a command I use to back up a WIndows C partition: tar --one-file-system --multi-volume --tape-length=200 -c --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-1.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-2.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-3.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-4.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-5.tar /mnt/win_c -- hendrik -- If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. -William Penn http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Syncing time using cron job
If /etc/ntp.conf is not present are you sure the ntp RPM is installed? A cron job to set time is easy to set up just use webmin to run a command like /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ntp2d.mcc.ac.uk at regular intervals. If you are going to use a cron job it is vital that the ntpd service is NOT running, or else the job fails. If you want to run the continuous daemon, then start the ntpd service. I used to put the server name in /etc/ntp.conf , but recently I have been using the Time Server Wizard in Mandrake ControlCentreServers. You need to install the drakwizard RPM in order to see the server menu. The time server wizard will put the names of two time servers in /etc/ntp/step-tickers I am not sure how this differs from putting the server name in /etc/ntp.conf, but both methods seem to work. HTH derek On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:35 am, Chris wrote: Derek. I've got my time synched with the time server in Colorado using the webminhardwaresystem time. I'd like to setup a cronjob to continuously do this instead of running to webmin daily. Below you mention /etc/ntp.conf, I can't find any such file. I'm on a dsl connection, running mdk 9.0. Thanks for any advice. * From: Derek Jennings * Subject: Re: [newbie] clock help * Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:32:28 -0800 On Thursday 31 Oct 2002 9:05 pm, windwalker wrote: I Installed mandrake. NOW I have to reset taskbar clock twice daily !! its gaining three hours a day.. It didnt do that when I only had win 98 on box any thoughts on how to correct? Mike You can always lock your computer to an atomic clock. It is quite easy. Just install the ntp RPM . You then have two choices of how to set the clock. As a continuously running daemon process, or as a job executed periodically either as a cron job, or whenever you dial up (assuming you are modem connected) To run as a job the command /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s rolex.usg.edu should be inserted in a file called /etc/ip-up.local if you are using dialup to set time every time you dial. Alternatively put the command in a cron job to execute at predefined times. (Cron jobs can be defined using Mandrake ControlCentreSystemProgrammesScheduling, or with Webmin) To run as a continuous daemon put server rolex.usg.edu at the top of file /etc/ntp.conf and then start the ntpd service in Mandrake Control Centre or from the command line service ntpd start There are plenty of other time servers you can use. You can find a list here:- http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gnucash
On Sunday March 9 2003 08:11 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: Does anyone know which version og gnucash is going to ship with Mandrake 9.1? They recently produced a new so-called stable release. For all I know, it may be stable, but people compiling it from source are having troubles because, again, it seems to require very recent versions of a lot of other packages, I'd rather not go through the trials of compiling my own if Mandrake is going to come up with one soon! -- hendrik GnuCash 1.8.1 I don't use it, it was installed by default -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] USB Wireless 128-bit WEP Encryption
Hi, Using 9.1RC2 and Linksys USB WPC11 wireless. The AP requires the use of 128-bit encryption. I have the exact same elements working with Windows XP pro on the same hardware components. Without encryption everything works with the following ifcfg-eth0 file: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=mytest WIRELESS_CHANNEL=6 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_RTS=2432 WIRELESS_FRAG=2346 iwconfig shows the following concerning encryption: Encryption key:off But when I try the following ifcfg-eth0 which should enable 128-bit encryption, everything is setup correctly except for the encryption. DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=mytest WIRELESS_CHANNEL=6 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=DC50-B65D-7ECE-BBEE-FF2D-3594-1A WIRELESS_IWCONFIG=key restricted key on WIRELESS_RTS=2432 WIRELESS_FRAG=2346 iwconfig shows the following concerning encryption: Encryption key:--00 Encryption mode:restricted Encryption mode:open It looks as if the values are not set or correctly mapped. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or where to search; I have already covered the Mandrake and Atmel sites, and google has been of little help. I'll be happy to provide whatever other information you need. Thanks Michel Lamarche Communications Bienvivre, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:23 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:52:49AM -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob I thought that the big difference between VMware and Win4Lin is that Win4Lin does not provide a virtual machine? Am I wrong? VMware will let you really run any OS, inside a VM form most any other OS, win4lin will imiatate a M$window partion under linux. -- hendrik PS-The link for the ad on Win4Lin discount is at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=441mode=nocomments 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] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses the Linux kernel to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is because Linux did not support NTFS. Win4Lin does not support the NT based version of Windows right now, only the 9x series. This is not because of the filesystem, but because of the structure of the OS itself. MMM, after looking at it more closely i am finding out that Win4Lin is not what i thought it was. Maybe i just never even went to their site and actually read what it really did and i just assumed it was just another vmware. OK, great. Back to square one. Thanks Again, once a newbie always a newbie. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything
On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:46 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Actually Konqueror web browser has had this capability as far back as 7.2 that I know of and maybe before that. It's very handy. And new in the KDE 3.1 is KGet, a download manager for Konqueror that extends its ability even more. If you are running 3.1, try it. 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
[newbie] USB hard drives?
Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 This email was composed on a 100% Microsoft-free PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hard drives?
I am interested in this answer (on the Linux side) but I would also like to know, did she say how she did this on the Window$ side? I have a friend trying to do that now (specifically, trying to backup his HD onto a USB drive and have the USB bootable) but he is not having too much luck at it. Russ - Original Message - From: Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:49 AM Subject: [newbie] USB hard drives? Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:10 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses the Linux kernel to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is because Linux did not support NTFS. Win4Lin does not support the NT based version of Windows right now, only the 9x series. This is not because of the filesystem, but because of the structure of the OS itself. MMM, after looking at it more closely i am finding out that Win4Lin is not what i thought it was. Maybe i just never even went to their site and actually read what it really did and i just assumed it was just another vmware. OK, great. Back to square one. Thanks It is much like vmware in that it runs a copy of windows, it is better than vmware in that it uses the linux filesystem, which allows you to access the windows directory from Linux (which is very handy for wine users), but it is weaker in that it does not emulate an entire machine allowing any OS to be run. It is specifically for the 9x series of Windows, and if that is all you need, it is much cheaper than vmware. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! this is a function provided by the bios, and it would not matter what OS is on the drive, as long as the drive could be booted from. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Simple, what weed am i smokin'. I do not understand f a about what you wrote, except i recognise a full stop at the end of every sentence. Seeing as you have just become the authority on the matter could you slow this down to about half speed. Then poke it on a web space and post a link to it. Else, give it to me direct, at half speed. I will post it on a website for you. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way round this? Recently I also opted in for Online banking here in Holland. I was worried about the possible Window$-only thing, so I searched and searched, but there was no mention of it. I always reccon that if there is no mention, I could always get my money back for it... However, Mozilla / Phoenix both run it very well... so I would say to use Mozilla, as it is the most developed browser out there adhearing to the rules of the internet `laws` (yes including IE). Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
At 03:57 PM 3/9/03, Azrael wrote: Alternatively, you can use Mozilla or Phoenix, install uabar from uabar.mozdev.org and get the browser to pretend to be IE on win98. Interesting observation - this page only presents sidebar and headings when accessed with IE5 on Win98. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:08 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way round this? Recently I also opted in for Online banking here in Holland. I was worried about the possible Window$-only thing, so I searched and searched, but there was no mention of it. I always reccon that if there is no mention, I could always get my money back for it... However, Mozilla / Phoenix both run it very well... so I would say to use Mozilla, as it is the most developed browser out there adhearing to the rules of the internet `laws` (yes including IE). Greetings Ralph and of coarse the user agent can be set to report damn near any browser you want to tell the server it is looking at, and if they think IE is secure. what bank was that. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?
In reply to Benjamin's mail, d.d. Sun, 9 Mar 2003 04:03:45 +0100: [...] file size (blocks, -f) 10 That means the system won't allow you to write files bigger than 100.000KB. One obvious way to change it is to use ulimit itself, although non-root users are limited in the ways changing the limits. From the top of my head, I am not sure where to change the system wide defaults. /etc/security/limits.conf might be one place to look at. Hi Benjamin and Hendrik, Ulimit -a shows exactly what you predicted. Thank you for the tip. I have already figured out how to go about the problem, namely by making several files, somewhat along the line of what Hendrik said. So thanks to you both! Paul -- I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -Oscar Wilde http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:32, Greg Meyer wrote: You can access any Win98 file system from Linux without any add on. So I don't see how it is better than VMWare. Vmware running Windows as guest with Linux as host does not allow Linux to access the Windows filesystem when vmware is not running, and only through network sharing when it is. It is installed in one big file. Besides, it's 1/3 the price. I come from a Windows world. Initially, I installed Linux in a dual boot system. Later on, I started to like Mandrake and being most of my work done under Windows, I bought VMware. Because I didn't want lo lose my Linux setup, I created a Linux guest booting from a raw disk, in my case the partition where Mandrake was installed. I am just reading the manual and it said that you can do the same using VMware for Linux. From page 75, in the section Setting up a New Virtual Machine on a Linux Host, you can read: To use an existing operating system on a physical hard disk (a raw disk), read Configuring a Dual-Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine on page 237. To install your guest operating system directly on an existing IDE disk partition, read the reference note Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine on page 265 Of course, if instead of using the raw disk method you select the virtual disk one, then you need to have VMware running to access file in Windows. Saludos -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 03:49, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! There was just talk of this on the RH lists - and apparently it IS possible to do. Being that the USB HD is, in fact, an HD, it should be possible as long as the modules for the USB are loaded prior to the kernel searching for a root to mount. -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:50:01 +1100 8:50am up 18:06, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 0.28, 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. -- Hans Liepmann Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:40 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Because I didn't want lo lose my Linux setup, I created a Linux guest booting from a raw disk, in my case the partition where Mandrake was installed. I am just reading the manual and it said that you can do the same using VMware for Linux. From page 75, in the section Setting up a New Virtual Machine on a Linux Host, you can read: To use an existing operating system on a physical hard disk (a raw disk), read Configuring a Dual-Boot Computer for Use with a Virtual Machine on page 237. To install your guest operating system directly on an existing IDE disk partition, read the reference note Installing an Operating System onto a Raw Partition from a Virtual Machine on page 265 Of course, if instead of using the raw disk method you select the virtual disk one, then you need to have VMware running to access file in Windows. Saludos Thank you for clarifying Adolfo, I stand corrected. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 23:36, robin wrote: After extensive googling, I found a hint - someone had the same problem and solved it by completely uninstalling KDE, then reinstalling. Apparently KDE sometimes prefers to be installed rather than upgraded. This was in SuSe, but may also apply in Mandrake. I don't have acess to the computer in question at the moment, but you may care to try it; otherwise I'll see if it works tomorrow. I need to get in to work early so I can either fix it or downgrade before people say Robin's buggered up the computer again! Sir Robin Can't they say that anyways? With or without it actually BEING buggered up? Just to take the piss outta ya? Or don't your students muck with you or poke fun at you in a lovinly respectable way? -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:55:00 +1100 8:55am up 18:11, 5 users, load average: 0.45, 0.23, 0.21 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Bart: I had a fight with Milhouse. Homer: That four-eyes with the big nose? You don't need friends like that. Lisa: How Zen. -- Homer Simpson Homer Defined Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:51, Margot wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my bank accounts. When I tried to download the internet banking software, I couldn't. Here is a selection of the technical support from the internet banking website: you must use Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer you cannot use Netscape Navigator because it does not provide the same security technology as Microsoft's Internet Explorer we are hoping to enable Apple Macintosh owners to use the service shortly IE is more secure than Netscape Navigator? Dang - I think I just wet my pants. No mention of Linux at all! You'll find that it's going to be a slow move to get financial organisations, or other commercial organisations to become linux friendly. It IS happening, though, but it's slow as a herd of two-legged turtles crossing a plain of peanut butter. Is there a way round this? Uninstall all linux products and switch to Windows. (ONLY JOKING) -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:00:01 +1100 9:00am up 18:16, 5 users, load average: 0.07, 0.18, 0.19 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
On Sunday 09 March 2003 08:51 pm, Margot wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my bank accounts. When I tried to download the internet banking software, I couldn't. Here is a selection of the technical support from the internet banking website: you must use Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer you cannot use Netscape Navigator because it does not provide the same security technology as Microsoft's Internet Explorer we are hoping to enable Apple Macintosh owners to use the service shortly No mention of Linux at all! Is there a way round this? Margot When I used to be on the Opera windoze email list I must have heard about this same problem a thousand times. For some reason banks are some of the worst offenders when it comes to non standards complynt web pages. Most but not all of the banks that claim that their website will only work with microshaft products are just plain full of sh%#. A lot of them have websites setup to where a BS message is displayed anytime a browser other than internet exployter is detected. On some of them you can use a browser like Opera where you can set Opera to identify it self as internet exployter and everything will work just fine. Other banking websites probe deeper and look beyond the sinple browser ID and still will not work. In most of these instances about all the bank has to do is change 1 simple line of code for their websites to work with other browsers. There are actually a small small percentage of them that do rely on active x controls or some kind of microshaft crap. Bottom line is that a bank is supposed to be secure However your bank is telling you that you must use the most insecure browser around and have it working on a operating system that is 1 big security hole. This dont sound to me like good proceedure for a bank! If I was you I would give them a call Monday and inform them of this. I would try to speal to their webmaster or whatever fool is setting up their internet banking services. If I did not get positive results I would try to talk to someone a bit higher up the chain of command at the bank. Chances are that the management at the bank dont know a whole lot about computers and have no Idea about the security problems that they are imposing on themselvs and their customers. If I did not get positive results after this I would change banks and explain to one of the bank officers that if they are this lax with security that you do not trust them with your financhal affairs and will be taking your business elswhere and that you will be shure to inform friends and family about the security issues with their bank. If you would like lots of detailed info about this subject try serching the archives of the Opera , windoze , email list. One of the Opera employes Axel Siebert has gone into great detail on this subject quite a number of times. Good Luck -- Marc KM5KW Powered by Mandrake Linux 9.0 and Kmail. This is a 100%Windows and microsoft free computer For a superior OS, virus and crash resistant go to http://www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VNC and 2 cards
I have vnc server installed in a box with 2 NIC cards: one for the Internet and one for the LAN. Is there any way to tell vnc to answer only to one of the card and not to the other? TIA -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
My bank used to have the same disclaimer ... IE only. All that happened was that the page did not display as THEY intended in my Galeon browser. All the parts of their presentation were there, just spread around in a more or less haphazard manner ... something to do with the way ActiveX does HTML tables, I think. When I found the login input form/box and used it, all the stuff operated as it should. Everything other than the initial index page displayed just like it used to when using IE. I complained to the bank that not everyone in the world uses IE and that there are many other browsers around ... and that in their own best interests, their pages should display equally well in any browser. That means sticking to the HTML standards ... not just programming for ActiveX and IE. In the last few weeks, they've made changes. What used to be done with ActiveX is now done with Java applets and Shockwave/Flash presentations (you even have an option to skip them if you like, and get to the meat of the issue.) When you complain to your bank, you might also mention that the combination of IE, WORD, Outlook, and ActiveX, is known as VTP ... the Virus Transport Protocol. Harv On Sunday 09 March 2003 14:51, Margot wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my bank accounts. When I tried to download the internet banking software, I couldn't. Here is a selection of the technical support from the internet banking website: you must use Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer you cannot use Netscape Navigator because it does not provide the same security technology as Microsoft's Internet Explorer we are hoping to enable Apple Macintosh owners to use the service shortly No mention of Linux at all! Is there a way round this? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Family Tree 4.0
Has anyone had any experience installing / running Legacy Family Tree 4.0 genealogy software Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] USB hard drives? On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! this is a function provided by the bios, and it would not matter what OS is on the drive, as long as the drive could be booted from. The simple answer to bootable HD's on USB isNO. Answer the question yourself...is USB bootable?NO. Only Firewire/1394 (legally only Apple can use the term Firewire, its 1394 for any other OS/architecture) and SCSI are possible external bootable media. Try it yourselfif you have a USB cd-rom boot off a MDK9 cd. Does it work? NO No HD's can be bootable until the bios of the MB's are made that way or the usb cards are made with a bootable bios option. Just like you have to have the option of scsi to be bootable. Also the SCSI cards have a bios on them that give you an option to be bootable. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LT Win Modem on Notebook Computer
Dear all, I am using a notebook computer and I installed Mandrake 9.0. The problems I am having is that my notebook cannnot get on internet. My notebook has a LT Win Modem and I have installed a driver (ltmodem-kv_2.4.19_16mdk-8.26a9-1.i586.rpm) for the linux, but my notebook cannnot get on internet. Could you teach me how I can get on internet using the modem? My modem number is 1456VQL19R1. Thank you for your help. P.S. I really do not want to use Windows Regards, Kishi __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
The original posters problem might stem from not being 128-bit ecryption installed. I had the same problem the first time i tried linux and a secure site. Personally i have tried and tested Mozilla/Galeon with different websites. I have not had a problem with Galeon anywhere, even bank accounts. Mozilla on the other hand isnt liked by many companies, even though Netscape is based on it. I have emailed several companies and they just remark install Netscape or IE. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:27 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have vnc server installed in a box with 2 NIC cards: one for the Internet and one for the LAN. Is there any way to tell vnc to answer only to one of the card and not to the other? TIA vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best way I can think of is to have iptables configured properly and even if vncserver is listening on the public port, no one would be able to tell. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:43, Greg Meyer wrote: vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best way I can think of is to have iptables configured properly and even if vncserver is listening on the public port, no one would be able to tell. That's what I am doing using Internet Security. It is my daughters box at home and they use WindowsXP. That's the machine that is hooked to the Internet. Well, I'll keep praying and lighting candles. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:27, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have vnc server installed in a box with 2 NIC cards: one for the Internet and one for the LAN. Is there any way to tell vnc to answer only to one of the card and not to the other? TIA With the Xvnc options you can specify the TCP/IP ports to answer on. -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:50:01 +1100 9:50am up 19:06, 5 users, load average: 1.02, 0.46, 0.73 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- J.D. Watson, The Double Helix Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LT Win Modem on Notebook Computer
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I am using a notebook computer and I installed Mandrake 9.0. The problems I am having is that my notebook cannnot get on internet. My notebook has a LT Win Modem and I have installed a driver (ltmodem-kv_2.4.19_16mdk-8.26a9-1.i586.rpm) for the linux, but my notebook cannnot get on internet. Could you teach me how I can get on internet using the modem? My modem number is 1456VQL19R1. Thank you for your help. P.S. I really do not want to use Windows Regards, Kishi Part of the issue lies with what utility you're using to do the connection. Inherently, there are some issues with KPPP - yet another reason why I personally don't use it - it tends to have time-out problems that I've not been sufficiently been able to overcome - so I use Xwvdialer with wvdial instead. Have you tried using minicom to make sure that you can actually communicate to the modem or get a modem response? -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:55:00 +1100 9:55am up 19:11, 5 users, load average: 0.49, 0.27, 0.56 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Oh, I get it!! The BEACH goes on, huh, SONNY?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:34, Robert Wideman wrote: The simple answer to bootable HD's on USB isNO. Answer the question yourself...is USB bootable?NO. Only Firewire/1394 (legally only Apple can use the term Firewire, its 1394 for any other OS/architecture) and SCSI are possible external bootable media. Try it yourselfif you have a USB cd-rom boot off a MDK9 cd. Does it work? NO No HD's can be bootable until the bios of the MB's are made that way or the usb cards are made with a bootable bios option. Just like you have to have the option of scsi to be bootable. Also the SCSI cards have a bios on them that give you an option to be bootable. Rob And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:05:00 +1100 10:05am up 19:21, 5 users, load average: 0.74, 0.51, 0.53 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- *Glingleglingleglingle.* (Hogfather) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC Bios and it has USB support to boot from USB Mass Storage Devices such as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip. Find out more here: http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/ http://www.ami.com/support/docdl.cfm?DLFile=support/doc/amibiosmo bile.pdfFileID=366 MM, interesting. I thought AMI was bought out by LSI. Atleast thats what happened with their raid cards when i worked at Dell Server Support. Good to see they are by themselves. Or are they? I wonder if this AMIBIOS is in any of the new MB's out there. The only thing is AWARD has been THE bios manu out there for years. I dont mind anyone stepping in but has anyone used a MB that has AMI's bios installed? Also, which laptop (manu, model) Do you have that this is installed into? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 17:34, Robert Wideman wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] USB hard drives? On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! this is a function provided by the bios, and it would not matter what OS is on the drive, as long as the drive could be booted from. The simple answer to bootable HD's on USB isNO. Answer the question yourself...is USB bootable?NO. Only Firewire/1394 (legally only Apple can use the term Firewire, its 1394 for any other OS/architecture) and SCSI are possible external bootable media. Try it yourselfif you have a USB cd-rom boot off a MDK9 cd. Does it work? NO No HD's can be bootable until the bios of the MB's are made that way or the usb cards are made with a bootable bios option. Just like you have to have the option of scsi to be bootable. Also the SCSI cards have a bios on them that give you an option to be bootable. Rob __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC Bios and it has USB support to boot from USB Mass Storage Devices such as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip. Find out more here: http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/ http://www.ami.com/support/docdl.cfm?DLFile=support/doc/amibiosmobile.pdfFileID=366 -- Brian Craft Registered Linux User # 210286 Linux Registered machine: 97873 Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 ICQ id: 129672292 AIM: linuxgeek67 Linux..the OS of Choice! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:51 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:43, Greg Meyer wrote: vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best way I can think of is to have iptables configured properly and even if vncserver is listening on the public port, no one would be able to tell. That's what I am doing using Internet Security. It is my daughters box at home and they use WindowsXP. That's the machine that is hooked to the Internet. Well, I'll keep praying and lighting candles. You might be interested in running vnc through an ssh tunnel. That's what I do and it works great. You basically create an ssh session that forwards the port on the vncserver to the local machine, and then connect vncviewer to localhost. The default vnc ports can then be blocked on the server. If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
couldn't you just use the firewall to block the port on the interface/card you don't want it on??? rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:27 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have vnc server installed in a box with 2 NIC cards: one for the Internet and one for the LAN. Is there any way to tell vnc to answer only to one of the card and not to the other? TIA vnc is pretty insecure, so I doubt it. The best way I can think of is to have iptables configured properly and even if vncserver is listening on the public port, no one would be able to tell. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, Greg Meyer wrote: You might be interested in running vnc through an ssh tunnel. That's what I do and it works great. You basically create an ssh session that forwards the port on the vncserver to the local machine, and then connect vncviewer to localhost. The default vnc ports can then be blocked on the server. If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. I am just reading vnc documentation about it. However, the problem seems to be finding a free ssh server for Windows. Thanks a lot, Greg. -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager: www.tun-tun.com (# 609-6213) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:47 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, Greg Meyer wrote: You might be interested in running vnc through an ssh tunnel. That's what I do and it works great. You basically create an ssh session that forwards the port on the vncserver to the local machine, and then connect vncviewer to localhost. The default vnc ports can then be blocked on the server. If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. I am just reading vnc documentation about it. However, the problem seems to be finding a free ssh server for Windows. You could actually use something like PuTTy and have her make the connection to your ssh server, just reverse the port forwarding so you forward the remote port to the host (or vice versa, I don't remeber the precise direction). This way you don't even have to leave any ports open on her box. Her initiating the session will open a port through her firewall for you to use. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:20, Franki wrote: couldn't you just use the firewall to block the port on the interface/card you don't want it on??? rgds Franki If we can call XP Internet Security a firewall, that's just what I am doing. -- 7:53pm up 11:20, 4 users, load average: 0.36, 0.15, 0.14 Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:53:04 -0400 __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //mobile: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 10:31, Robert Wideman wrote: And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Hence, TECHNICALLY you're correct, THEORETICALLY, you're not. (g) -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:55:00 +1100 10:55am up 20:11, 5 users, load average: 0.59, 0.37, 0.41 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Hence, TECHNICALLY you're correct, THEORETICALLY, you're not. (g) Can we put booting to a linux install cd in the same catagory? If so, then we theorectically boot from cd...even if we boot to a floppy first. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 20:05, Greg Meyer wrote: You could actually use something like PuTTy and have her make the connection to your ssh server, just reverse the port forwarding so you forward the remote port to the host (or vice versa, I don't remeber the precise direction). This way you don't even have to leave any ports open on her box. Her initiating the session will open a port through her firewall for you to use. Sound interesting. Right now I am reading about vnc/ssh so I can connect to their computer from the Internet to help them whenever I am not at home. It is not that it is pretty usual. Just in some cases when the older one has problem using AutoCad. I am the one needing more of vnc. We are now in the middle of developing a PHP application and I like to test it at home using Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon and IE Explorer. What I do is to connect to their XP box using vnc, fire IE and browse the application that is sitting in my Linux laptop. Having vnc loaded 100% of the time make me nervous. That's why I was looking for a way to make vnc just listen to the LAN card. Saludos -- 8:15pm up 11:43, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.09, 0.12 Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:15:50 -0400 __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //mobile: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 20:27, Robert Wideman wrote: If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob A great link. Thanks, Rob. -- 8:36pm up 12:04, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.02 Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:36:33 -0400 __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //mobile: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 + Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my bank accounts. When I tried to download the internet banking software, I couldn't. Here is a selection of the technical support from the internet banking website: you must use Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer you cannot use Netscape Navigator because it does not provide the same security technology as Microsoft's Internet Explorer we are hoping to enable Apple Macintosh owners to use the service shortly No mention of Linux at all! Is there a way round this? Margot Margot, While you're at it, ask the bank what server operating system is uses to store your financial data. And if it is a M$ server, find out about what service packs are installed. You would want to know this because if the bank stores your financial data on an M$ server with a recent SP, chances are it (the bank) agreed to a EULA that gave M$ rights to do stuff to that sever behind the scenes. This would clearly be a violation of all laws relating to security of financial data that banks must abide by. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Lexmarrk X75 Printer Driver
Hello Folks: I am not able to figure out how I can install the printer driver to my Linux 9.0. Can someone give me guidiance? Thanks! YPK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:25, Robert Wideman wrote: Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC Bios and it has USB support to boot from USB Mass Storage Devices such as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip. Find out more here: http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/ http://www.ami.com/support/docdl.cfm?DLFile=support/doc/amibiosmo bile.pdfFileID=366 MM, interesting. I thought AMI was bought out by LSI. Atleast thats what happened with their raid cards when i worked at Dell Server Support. Good to see they are by themselves. Or are they? I wonder if this AMIBIOS is in any of the new MB's out there. The only thing is AWARD has been THE bios manu out there for years. I dont mind anyone stepping in but has anyone used a MB that has AMI's bios installed? Also, which laptop (manu, model) Do you have that this is installed into? Rob __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com The laptop is called the Desknote A928 found at either of the two links below. A lot of resellers are using this and just putting their logo sticker on it. I bought mine from Valex Computers ( http://www.valexpc.com/Index.htm ). http://www.desknote.net/a928.html http://www.ecsusa.com/products/a928.html -- Brian Craft Registered Linux User # 210286 Linux Registered machine: 97873 Yahoo Instant Messenger ID: bcraft67 ICQ id: 129672292 AIM: linuxgeek67 Linux..the OS of Choice! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
Margot wrote: Now that I've got the internet connection working, I'm trying to get everything running through the Mandrake machine, aiming to abandon the Win98 machine as soon as possible. Everything works OK so far, except one of my bank accounts. When I tried to download the internet banking software, I couldn't. Here is a selection of the technical support from the internet banking website: you must use Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4 and Microsoft Internet Explorer you cannot use Netscape Navigator because it does not provide the same security technology as Microsoft's Internet Explorer we are hoping to enable Apple Macintosh owners to use the service shortly No mention of Linux at all! Is there a way round this? Frankly, you should consider switching banks. Internet Explorer's implementation of SSl is horrible and wide open. This has been verified many times. It was demonstrated Live on the Screen Savers, as well. Or you could use the User agents in Opera or Konqueror to emulate IE. Finally you could purchase Codeweaver's Office product and run IE in their Wine. I would switch banks... -- Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE user Don't make me come down there -God Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] help with undeliverable mail on localhost a little long.
List,
My system keeps dumping undeliverable system mail to a folder
/var/spool/clientmqueue. It eventually fills up my /var partition and
brings my pc to a crawl. I was able to write a perl script to delete the
'lost' mail for now, but I would like to repair it permanently. I have
sendmail installed on my system, but am not sure if it is configured to
receive from the localhost or something is broken. Probably the latter.
As far as I can tell my problems began when I tried to setup
Bastille-1.2.0-5mdk. After restarting my machine I was unable to login
using gdm. I'd type in my username press enter and gdm would jump pass
the password field and kick me back to the username prompt. I couldn't
find a way to undo within Bastille so I copied the file gdm used to
authenticate users and I was then able to login.
During this same time I tried to remove Bastille and then upgrade to
Bastille-2.0.4-1.0i386.5rpm, but rpmdrake would always reinstall the
older version. Rpmdrake would list the newer package as an installable
package, but install the older version instead. At this same time the
system started the dumping of undeliverable email and filling up my /var
partition.
I have enclosed two files, one is an example of the 'lost' email and
another is a recent sampling of my syslog.
Thanks,
Terry
System: Mandrake Linux 8.2 (Bluebird)
Kernel Version: 2.4.18-6mdk
Machine:i686
/root/.cron_jobs/htmlfax.sh: /tmp/.fax/fax_script.*: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/.fax/fax_script.*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/.fax/fax_test.*': No such file or directory
/root/.cron_jobs/htmlfax.sh: /tmp/.fax/fax_script.*: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/.fax/fax_script.*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/.fax/fax_test.*': No such file or directory
V6
T1046220900
K1046220902
N1
P30203
MDeferred: Connection refused by localhost
Fbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
${daemon_flags}c u
Sroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MDeferred: Connection refused by localhost
C:root
rRFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RPFD:root
H?P?Return-Path: g
H??Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
by chloe.myroom.myhouse.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id h1Q0t0kJ004064
for root; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:55:00 -0500
H?D?Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:55:00 -0500
H?x?Full-Name: CronDaemon
H?M?Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H??From: root (Cron Daemon)
H??To: root
H??Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root/.cron_jobs/htmlfax.sh
H??X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
H??X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root
H??X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
H??X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root
.
V6
T1046221200
K1046221202
N1
P30203
MDeferred: Connection refused by localhost
Fbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
${daemon_flags}c u
Sroot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MDeferred: Connection refused by localhost
C:root
rRFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RPFD:root
H?P?Return-Path: g
H??Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
by chloe.myroom.myhouse.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id h1Q100kD004117
for root; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:00:00 -0500
H?D?Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:00:00 -0500
H?x?Full-Name: CronDaemon
H?M?Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H??From: root (Cron Daemon)
H??To: root
H??Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root/.cron_jobs/htmlfax.sh
H??X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
H??X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root
H??X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
H??X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root
.
Mar 3 00:00:00 chloe CROND[14718]: (root) CMD (/root/.cron_jobs/htmlfax.sh)
Mar 3 00:00:02 chloe sendmail[14720]: h23500QQ014720: from=root, size=217, class=0,
nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 3 00:00:02 chloe sendmail[14720]: h23500QQ014720: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0),
delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30203, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1],
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost
Mar 3 00:01:00 chloe CROND[14725]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 3 00:07:08 chloe smbd[14736]: [2003/03/03 00:07:08, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
Mar 3 00:07:08 chloe smbd[14736]: 50163099sp (210.187.110.190) couldn't find
service c
Mar 3 00:08:55 chloe smbd[14737]: [2003/03/03 00:08:55, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
Mar 3 00:08:55 chloe smbd[14737]: alevrius_ (209.242.50.39) couldn't find service c
Mar 3 00:11:30 chloe smbd[14738]: [2003/03/03 00:11:30, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
Mar 3 00:11:30 chloe smbd[14738]: localhost (61.217.66.130) couldn't find service c
Mar 3 00:14:43 chloe smbd[14739]: [2003/03/03 00:14:43, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
Mar 3 00:14:43 chloe smbd[14739]: alevrius_ (211.99.56.95) couldn't find service c
Mar 3 00:21:44 chloe smbd[14740]: [2003/03/03 00:21:44, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
Mar 3 00:21:44 chloe smbd[14740]: localhost (81.83.18.133) couldn't find service c
Mar 3 00:23:02 chloe smbd[14741]: [2003/03/03 00:23:02, 0]
smbd/service.c:make_connection(248)
Mar 3 00:23:02 chloe smbd[14741]: localhost (218.88.242.254) couldn't
Re: [newbie] Lexmarrk X75 Printer Driver
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:44, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello Folks: I am not able to figure out how I can install the printer driver to my Linux 9.0. Can someone give me guidiance? Thanks! YPK Have you tried going through the Mandrake Control Center to add the printer yet? -- Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:25:00 +1100 1:25pm up 22:41, 5 users, load average: 1.24, 0.48, 0.41 -- |____ | 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 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | -- Der Horizont vieler Menschen ist ein Kreis mit Radius Null -- und das nennen sie ihren Standpunkt. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Family Tree 4.0
Owen, Has anyone had any experience installing / running Legacy Family Tree 4.0 genealogy software Have you had a look at GRAMPS? My wife and I both use this program and find it very good. The author is very helpful and always ready to listen to new ideas. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.1 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered Machine #'s 186951, Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === 2:16pm up 15:08, 4 users, load average: 1.06, 1.01, 1.02 -- I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth. -- Kirk, Errand of Mercy, stardate 3198.9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:58:55 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Are you in a position to test this on 9.1. It needs to be done quickly. Sorry Greg. I am not uptodate yet. Waiting for the wrinkles in 9.1 to be ironed out before buyig it. My preferred system is 8.2 at present. -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. yep found those. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap, does not exist in my M9.0 OS Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/Fontmap.GS does not exist. but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in In mine it points to, ./././ghostscript/5.50/Fontmap.GS the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. I should change 5.50 to , what is it, 8.80, I think ? Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts no such directory /usr/share/fonts/9x15.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/bitmap/ /usr/share/fonts/console8x16.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/default/ /usr/share/fonts/elmar_scalable/ /usr/share/fonts/otf/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf/ /usr/share/fonts/afms/ /usr/share/fonts/chinese/ /usr/share/fonts/console8x8.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/elmar/ /usr/share/fonts/fonts.dir /usr/share/fonts/override/ # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap is empty Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Are you working with M9.0 ? No, 8.2, but 9.0 has the broken Fontmap link. The msfonts directory is one I created to store downloaded MS TrueType fonts. I think that my Fontmap was resurrected from Fontmap.GS in the installed Ghostscript tree. And, yes, the 5.50 is the cause of the broken link. It should be 6.53 in Mandrake 8.2, possibly 8.80 in your case. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Len Lawrence -- Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:56:45 +1300
Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Len Lawrence wrote:
all snipped --
Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and
so here is my best try,
-- snip snip snip --
Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old
ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to
locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to
render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem
- nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the
ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults.
Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in
Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in
the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case
with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the
wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link
and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as
an example):
cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts
# Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType
./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz
# Copy the font metric file to ghostscript
cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
# Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript
cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end
section, using tabs as separators, not spaces:
/Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571
The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the
name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the
postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document
generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name.
e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont
The line
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic
appears in the document header.
I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution
to this problem. Time to get a life I think.
Simple, what weed am i smokin'. I do not understand f a about what you wrote,
except i recognise a full stop at the end of every sentence.
Seeing as you have just become the authority on the matter could you slow
this down to about half speed. Then poke it on a web space and post a link to
it. Else, give it to me direct, at half speed. I will post it on a website
for you.
I'll get back to you on this Michael. And believe me, I'm no expert.
Not many people ever have the need to examine PostScript files or look
inside the standard printing interfaces. PostScript itself is a dialect
of Forth, which only programmers need to know about, a stack based language
which I remember vaguely from my lab days testing stepper motors. AFAIK it
deals with two stacks, commands and data and comes with a dictionary of
prewritten commands and definitions. When loaded it becomes the operating
system and can be extended at will. Everything is in Reverse Polish notation,
which makes it a little difficult to read.
Straying off the point a bit here. Will be in touch. Always short of time.
24/7 care for my wife, stuck in a wheelchair with MS.
--
Len Lawrence
--
Never argue with a fool -- people might not be able to tell the difference.
--
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Help - Can't get LAN working
Title: Help - Can't get LAN working Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.0 on a Compaq ML310 server with 512 MB memory, 2.0 Ghz P4 processor. The server has an integrated NC7760 PCI Gigabit network adapter which gets detected alright. I proceed to assign an IP address, subnet mask and other TCP/IP network parameters to it. Sever does not complain but the network does not come up. ie, ping to the local ethernet produces no reply. Could I be missing something?. Anyone with this experience? Looking forward to your assistance. Fred Mungandi Lusaka, Zambia Tel: +260-1-254303 Fax: +260-1-254532 Cell: +260-97-841560 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
