[newbie-it] floppy
ciao, ML ho fatto casino con il kernel, praticamente mi sono ritrovato floppy, l'icona sul desktop non cè più e dando il comando da shell mi dice questo: $ mount /mnt/floppy mount: impossibile trovare /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab o /etc/mtab anche da root è lo stesso. questo è quanto ho trovato nel file fstab: /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 //pcomp/D /mnt/D smbfs username=% 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 effettivamente non vedo tracce del floppy. gia che ci siamo come posso modificarlo per evitare il supermount? grazie a tutti, ciao, Piter.
[newbie-it] sendmail envelope_from
Rieccomi qui syd, ho ripreso la configurazione di sendmail dopo che la telecom finalmente ha sostituito la linea telefonica aerea guastata. Dopo varie prove con l'ausilio delle tue informazioni riguardo alla ultima versione di sendmail, mi sembra di aver risolto l'errore causato dal comando -f passato a sendmail (questa mail a newbie vuole essere anche una prova di conferma a questo, verifica i miei headers), ma ho dovuto togliere da .muttrc il comando envelope_from perchè mutt non inviava più la posta al mio ISP con l'errore di troppi from per una persona. Sono arrivato a capire questo per deduzione in quanto utilizzando mail da riga di comando, sendmail invece la inviava. Leggendo allora il man muttrc è specificato che envelope_from non deve essere utilizzato in concomitanza al comando -f di sendmail. Envelope_from l'ho inserito nel mio .muttrc perchè era specificato nel tuo file di configurazione, come mai a te non da questi problemi ? Ciao, Giuseppe. -- GNU/Linux Powered Red Hat 9.A (Shrike) Kernel 2.4.20
Re: [newbie-it] ifup e ifdown solo da root?
Il sab, 2003-07-19 alle 00:10, kua79 ha scritto: Prova a fare questa verifica, vai su... Impostazioni di sistema -- Rete (Se non sei Root ti chiederà la Pass) Scusa ma non trovo il percorso che dici. Impostazioni di sistema sarebbe Centro di controllo mandrake? Ho cercato sui centri di controllo di kde e gnome (che non conosco molto bene) ma non trovo nulla che mi permetta le operazioni che dici. biss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] ifup e ifdown solo da root?
* biss ha scritto: Il sab, 2003-07-19 alle 00:10, kua79 ha scritto: Prova a fare questa verifica, vai su... Impostazioni di sistema -- Rete (Se non sei Root ti chiederà la Pass) Scusa ma non trovo il percorso che dici. Impostazioni di sistema sarebbe Centro di controllo mandrake? Ho cercato sui centri di controllo di kde e gnome (che non conosco molto bene) ma non trovo nulla che mi permetta le operazioni che dici. biss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Penso che Davide abbia azzeccato il problema, ovviamente lui usa come me RH e non Mdk, comunque se sei un po avvezzo alla riga di comando potrai evitare di perderti tra le finestre del tuo wm, devi solo modificare il file di configurazione ifcfg-ppp0 che in RH si trova in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. In questa directory apri ifcfg-ppp0 con un editor come pico con i diritti di root: # pico ifcfg.ppp0 modifica o aggiungi la seguente riga USERCTL=yes Ripristina gli eventuali diritti dei file se li hai cambiati con quelli di default perchè non hai bisogno di essere root per avviare ifup e ifdown almeno non con RH (considera che gli script ifup e ifdown in RH sono presenti in etc/sysconfig/netwrk-scripts come link simbolico a /sbin/ifup e /sbin/ifdown con diritti 755 ossia possono essere solo letti ed eseguiti se non si è root ma questo basta per connettere e disconnettere se non si è root mentre per ifcfg-ppp0 i diritti sono 644 ossia il dispositivo ppp0 è reso disponibile a tutti gli user del tuo sistema locale). Una volta che il tutto funziona puoi evitare di specificare la relativa path se la aggiungi in .bash-profile. Allora è sufficiente scrivere da shell solo ifup ppp0 o ifdown ppp0 per connettere e disconnettere il tuo ISP. Potrai semplificare ancora creandoti inoltre due alias a questi comandi da inserire all'inizio in .bashrc. Quindi per connettere da shell pigiando solo il tasto $ u invio dovrai aggiungere in .bashrc la seguente riga: alias u=ifup ppp0 mentre per disconnettere: $ d invio dovrai aggiungere: alias d=ifdown ppp0 Ciao, Giuseppe. -- GNU/Linux Powered Red Hat 9.A (Shrike) Kernel 2.4.20
Re: [newbie] Creating a directory
That didn't work for me. I did figure it out by doing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ datedir=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`; [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ echo tomcat$datedir tomcat20030718215657 You are using the backticks (the shift+tilde) and not the single quote? Using bash? Works here, too. (on my keyboard, though, no shift, just the (` or ~) key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sending mail to the list
This is weird: i used to see that same error, and others did too, so i just made a filter to delete it. Since then though, i switched to sylpheed and only made filters as needed. Now i realize that i no longer get that error. I wonder if someone has a spam filter running that bounces mail back until (s)he or the filter determines it's not spam? Anyway, you oughtta be able to just send it to trash with a filter and be fine... On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:52:48 -0400 crak600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do i not have something set right or is there something wrong with the server? every time i send mail to the list i get a reply with 'NDN' before the subject line. it's returned from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the body contains On Saturday 19 July 2003 12:42 am, you wrote: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) but my messages are getting through to the list. since formatting / and re-installing last night, i'm wondering if maybe i didn't set something up right in kmail or if there is just a server problem. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?
This doesn't really solve the cd problem, but if rpm is the only thing having trouble with it, and you have a high speed connection, you can go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php and add a 'main' source. Then you'll never have to do the Dance Of the CD rpms again... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
The ideas isn't to throw ALL kaazaa users in jail! What they actually plan to do is to prosecute a FEW sharers and jail them (plus fine them into the poorhouse) as examples for all the rest. Errr I don't know if my memory serves me right but didn't one of the movie companies successfully get a conviction on a couple of students who were caught sharing a film on p2p recently? Didn't seem to have much effect. John -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : How about this? I decided to let you recycle your monitor, keyboard, NIC, and speakers, and set this little multimedia rockstar up for you: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB $146.00 2 sticks PC3200 DDR 512 Mb $84.00 Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. $176.00 Seagate Cheetah 73.4Gb SCSI 1RPM $31.00 Samsung 12xDVD/40xCD $45.00 Mitsumi 54x-32x-54x CDRW $158.00 Geforce 4 4400Ti 8xAGP $82.00 Creative SB Audigy2- 6.1 $885.00 Total You will need a SCSI card for this system that is not in this quote. I build up a system with a XP2100, 512 Mb, GeForce 440Mx, and SBLive Card on the A7N8X, and it rocks, and cost me about $550. This is a higher end dream system that I would like to own. But I doubt that my wife would let me buy it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web site displays source instead of HTML
Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Curt Tresenriter wrote: I'm trying to access a web site - an audio archive - but it's only displaying the code. Konq, Galeon,Opera - doesn't matter. I would have suspected the web site itself, but for other folks on the list it is displaying properly , links are accessible etc. So it must be hereright? What could it be? thanks, Curt Give us the URL then we can all have a look - might be able to give you an opinion that's worth something then. Here it is: http://www.angelfire.com/or2/awakingdream/realNeville Hmm, most curious. Opened it in Mozilla and all I got was text - at first glance, the html seemed to be all over the place and it made me wonder if it was due to it's being a poorly written page - two html and body tags for a start. Saved it to my 'puter and then opened it using Konqueror and it displayed as a web page. The link to the rainforest page worked though the rm file (some kind of audio format that realplayer doesn't recognise?) links didn't. Someone on this thread mentioned that it displayed in IE6 yet I don't see any alien code that might appear had it been written with Word or Frontpage. You could e-mail the site to tell them that there's something wrong with the page (and if it isn't browser platform independent then there *is* something wrong with it) or if you are a web designer with spare time on your hands, you could offer to rewrite the page for them. Then again you could take the easy way out and view it using Konqueror. Hope this helps (though I can't see how). -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] web site displays source instead of HTML
Nope: [EMAIL PROTECTED] postfix]# cat /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf | grep DefaultType # DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document DefaultType text/plain Sames as yours. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] web site displays source instead of HTML Frankie, This is getting interesting because the link you provided wrapped in my mail so I didn't get the .txt extension; however, dillo opened it up as if it were HTML. Only after adding the .txt did dillo display the source. Same with firebird. I found in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf (line 121): # DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document # if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions. # If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, text/plain is # a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications # or images, you may want to use application/octet-stream instead to # keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are # text. # DefaultType text/plain Is what I have; I wonder if yours has text/html? Todd On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:38:44 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:57, manolis wrote: Adobe Acrobat can also edit pdf files. As far as I know Xpdf and ghostview are just pdf viewers like acrobat reader. koppermind As I understand it, pdf files are regarded as more secure for archiving, etc. as they can't (readily)be edited. Once converted to pdf they stay that way. However, you could probably use something like gocr to convert to text then edit, before converting back with ghostscript or kword. Graphics would be a problem though. Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:05 pm, Bob Read wrote: Are there any good ways of working (heavily) with Adobe Acrobat in Linux? Bob - I'm not a heavy user of Acrobat, but I have installed the full Acrobat 4.0 under Win4Lin, and it appears to be working well. I opened one existing file and imported a picture, and then opened a .pdf which I had created with Serif PagePlus 8+PDF and highlighted areas of text. The files save OK. If you want me to do anything in particular to test it for you please mail me off-list. BTW - I am using the PagePlus as a combination DTP and pdf creator for Parish Magazines. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web site displays source instead of HTML
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:37 pm, Bob Read wrote: Just add .htm (no quotes) and you get the page. Out of curiosity, I did, but I only got 'the URL is not valid and cannot be loaded'. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compact flash disk reader.
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 12:14 am, manolis wrote: Anyway... Although I didn't figured out what is going on I also want to ask related to the this problem: Any time that I plug in my USB reader it gets another name in the /dev tree for example the first time I pluged it in I get: /dev/sda when I unplugged it and replug it again I get : /dev/sdb etc... etc... I think this is related to my problem... How can I remove the faulty /dev/.. links? This doesn't happen with my USB flash thumb drive that automounts fine , and every time I plug it in I get: /dev/sdb1 Please Help..!! Hi, Manolis. I think that when you use more than one removable device the system sometimes gets confused. I have a similar problem. When it happens to me I just open up the MCC, Hardware List. It should re-detect the device and mount it correctly. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:42, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:57, manolis wrote: Adobe Acrobat can also edit pdf files. As far as I know Xpdf and ghostview are just pdf viewers like acrobat reader. koppermind As I understand it, pdf files are regarded as more secure for archiving, etc. as they can't (readily)be edited. Once converted to pdf they stay that way. However, you could probably use something like gocr to convert to text then edit, before converting back with ghostscript or kword. Graphics would be a problem though. Paul M. Could be right never tried it with graphics __ 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] CD Drive REFUSES to work
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:38 am, David E Fox wrote: I'm really new at this, by the way. I have managed to coaster two CD-Rs so far, and burned OK twice on one verbatim CDRW. Maybe the media make all the difference? $15 for 100 cdrs is a good price, but not for 100 coasters (god I hope not) :(. But then again, back when floppies were all the rage, getting one or two unformattable floppies in a box of ten was a fairly common occurence. The media does make a difference. In general cheaper media need to be burned slower, and preferably not packed full. I would not use faster than 8x, and some suggest that 4x is needed. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 12:11 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I finally took the plunge and installed 9.1. I really like the new look and it seems to function flawlessly..except. In Konq (or any app) whenever I try to access /mnt , it freezes and has to be killed. I checked my fstab and found that there are 2 entries for a single floppy drive. This is my laptop and I replaced the floppy with a cdrw. 9.1 picked that up nicely. So, I commented out the floppy line and the only result I got was, the cdrom icons disappeared off the desktop. I removed my change and I'm back to the packaged fstab. Checking the archives, there doesn't seem to be much on supermount or fstab since 9.1 was released. Here is my fstabperhaps some may have suggestions. /dev/hda6 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask= 0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask =0 0 0 #none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask =0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I really like the supermount, so I would like to hang on to it if possible. Supermount has always worked well on this system. Here are my cd/dvd/fd0 lines for you to compare: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 As you see, they are almost identical to yours, though they each contain 'user' This may be heresy, but I have a gut feeling that fstab doesn't like commented out lines. I had problems in the past with a similar situation and I know others who have. Why not save a copy to fstab.sav then delete the duplicate line? Can't do any harm, and may just help. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : How about this? I decided to let you recycle your monitor, keyboard, NIC, and speakers, and set this little multimedia rockstar up for you: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB $146.00 2 sticks PC3200 DDR 512 Mb $84.00Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. $176.00 Seagate Cheetah 73.4Gb SCSI 1RPM $31.00Samsung 12xDVD/40xCD $45.00Mitsumi 54x-32x-54x CDRW $158.00 Geforce 4 4400Ti 8xAGP $82.00Creative SB Audigy2- 6.1 $885.00 Total You will need a SCSI card for this system that is not in this quote. I build up a system with a XP2100, 512 Mb, GeForce 440Mx, and SBLive Card on the A7N8X, and it rocks, and cost me about $550. This is a higher end dream system that I would like to own. But I doubt that my wife would let me buy it. Rob Rocks Alternatevly go the other way how cheap can you go? We have to use the advantages that we have Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:35, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: The ideas isn't to throw ALL kaazaa users in jail! What they actually plan to do is to prosecute a FEW sharers and jail them (plus fine them into the poorhouse) as examples for all the rest. Errr I don't know if my memory serves me right but didn't one of the movie companies successfully get a conviction on a couple of students who were caught sharing a film on p2p recently? Didn't seem to have much effect. John The case was settled out of court the university paid off an undisclosed sum (cowards) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 22:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:08, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : What about a nice surplus iMac? Welll if thats your dream (Imac sounds more like a nightmare to meG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, In Konq (or any app) whenever I try to access /mnt , it freezes and has to be killed. I checked my fstab and found that there are 2 entries for a single floppy drive. This is my laptop and I replaced the floppy with a cdrw. 9.1 picked that up nicely. So you don't have a Floppy at all ? Or you did have two floppy drives, and now you have one ? Checking the archives, there doesn't seem to be much on supermount or fstab since 9.1 was released. Here is my fstabperhaps some may have suggestions. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 I really like the supermount, so I would like to hang on to it if possible. Bill W. Supermount is very much a work in progress, not much is written up yet. I have never owned a laptop, so experiece with their ide layout is unfamiliar to me. So then, what is the ide layout ? Ide0 = Hardrive(s) Ide1 = cdrom and writer , master and slave in that order ? Or is it, Ide0 = harddrive and writer, configured mater and slave ? Assuming the first layout, Harddrive = /dev/hda cdrom = /dev/hdc writer = /dev/hdb but is it scsi-emulated in /etc/lilo.conf as hdd=ide-scsi ? so, under supermount , cdrom and writer fstab entries look to be correct.. The floppy entry looks correct, if you still have one. If it doesn't work then maybe it's a hardware related issue. first try, cdrecord -scanbus to make sure it's on the bus. Then there are further commands to issue to test the capability of the drives, but I cannot rememebr what they are. Maybe Tom Brinkman can jog our memories. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Chris, Charlie, John, and G - CD-RW drive help
g wrote: crak600 wrote: sorry to post this to the list to get the 4 of you, but i can't seem to access i still would like to set you '/etc/lilo.conf' and '/etc/fstab' files. problems that you stated before are still unclear and above files will shed light on just how you are set up as for automount or supermount. peace out. tc,hago. g Here is my lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=91-2.4.21.0 root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img append= quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=on #append= quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=791 read-only The # line is as how M9.1 created it, but I want both dvd and writer scsi-emulated Here is my fstab Under automount, works fine. /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 As per M9.1 installer supermount, except I changed /dev/hdc to /dev/scd0 to reflect scsi-em. #none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 As per supermount suggestion here on list #none /mnt/cdrom dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/cdrom2 dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Of course I #, and un # , each set of entries and run mount -a to remount them in each trial case. neither of the two supermounts work well, true you can use the command line, but that is about all. There are no properties entries in desktop Icons for each device to access media that way. In addition many apps, including xcdroast, work badly with these supermounts. When I click on xcdroast it takes an eon to load the app to screen. Reading media from dvd and write takes far too long, The read process is slow , much slower than the natural speed of the drives. In short , noone would want to use supermount under these conditions. The only other thought that just may possibly have a bearing here is that I do have both a camera and a smart card reader that appears on the bus, when connected, and always sends all devices connected to the bus , ie dvd,writer, camera and smartcard reader to go walkies around the bus, ending on different addresses on each bootup occassion, so that when I use an app like xcdroast , or cdrecord I have to reset the device setting every time I load it. I don't think this is relevant to the supermount question, but I mention it just the same, as I suspect the whole question of how the system allocates addresses to the bus for each and every device is still a matter for refinement. Yes, it is another issue ,but a related issue and requires attention. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?
Albert Charron wrote: I got exactly the same problem when I set my CD-rom to scsi emulation. I'm also running MDK9.1. I solve the problem so I think it could help if I post the way I solved it. 1- from package source manager, remove ALL entries OK 2- delete ALL the content of /var/lib/urpmi Do you mean all these [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /var/lib/urpmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# ls compssUsers.flat synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86).cz hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86).cz synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86).cz hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86).cz synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86).cz hdlist.International CD (x86).cz [EMAIL PROTECTED] urpmi]# Including , compssUsers.flat ? I guess the rest are what you would be doing in 1- above, though. 3- be sure your fstab is correct (I mean, your writer and dvd are mounting in the proper directory) I'm sure mine are 4- put CD1 into the drive you want to use as URPMI source OK 5- mount your cdrom (mount /mnt/cdrom) yep that's the key to it , you have to speciffically mount the dvd, as, mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom first , then below. 5- from a terminal, use the command urpmi.addmedia -f --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom then, happy URPMI :) Because you removed all entries from package source manager, next time you'll run MandrakeUpdate, you'll have to choose a source (like you did the first time). Hope this will solve your issue like it solved mine! Thanks. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 19:51, aron smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 22:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:08, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : What about a nice surplus iMac? Welll if thats your dream (Imac sounds more like a nightmare to meG You'd be surprised at these little boxes; you can upgrade the video RAM on them (it's an ATI Rage card - just slap 32mb RAM in it) and then pack in 512mb of RAM, they take a standard EIDE hard drive (and CDROM); so sticking an 80gb in there ain't bad (done it for a customer before) - and the PPC MDK 9.1 - mate, you'd be swinging bigtime! Instead of using the crappy little one-button mouse, just stick a hot little Logitech or MS Intellimouse on there and voila! Nice little workstation... ...that is, IF you can find one at an auction or one that fell off the back of a truck... -- Sat Jul 19 20:55:01 EST 2003 20:55:01 up 5 days, 12:58, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.09, 0.02 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * QOTD: Everything I am today I owe to people, whom it is now to late to punish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LAN problem
I changed the configuration of my home network and now am having problems seeing the machines from each other. Formerly, I shared an internet connection from one machine and had a switch to connect the local machines. The ethernet card on the internal network had a fixed IP address as did all the local machines. The local machines used a gateway IP address and a fixed DNS server address (from the ISP). I used Samba and was able to see all the local machines from the linux box (LM9.1). On the Windows side (W2k), the samba shares appeared in Network Neighborhood. Now I have a router on the network which dynamically assigns IP address to the LAN and all the machines are set to DHCP. Initially I made no changes to my Samba setup other than to update the IP addresses of the LAN machines in /etc/samba/lmhosts). I can no longer see the LAN machines from my Linux box (although I can ping them all by IP address or name). From the Windows side, although I can find my samba shares by search for computer and subsequently force a virtual drive mapping, I can no longer see the machines under network neighborhood, nor can I manually create a virtual drive map under connect network drive. I'd like to be able to get at my winboxes from the lin box, and understand the win weirdness. Any ideas what the problem is and how to fix it? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN problem
Paul; If your router is handing off DHCP addresses, and your PC's are using their lmhosts file to find each other, you'll run into problems every time the router hands out new IP addresses. Try logging into the router and disabling the DHCP service, or use IP adresses that are outside of the range of IP's that your DHCP service has reserved. Then update your lmhosts file, and restart or renew your IP addresses on each Windows box. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/19/2003 at 7:09 AM Paul Kaplan wrote: I changed the configuration of my home network and now am having problems seeing the machines from each other. Formerly, I shared an internet connection from one machine and had a switch to connect the local machines. The ethernet card on the internal network had a fixed IP address as did all the local machines. The local machines used a gateway IP address and a fixed DNS server address (from the ISP). I used Samba and was able to see all the local machines from the linux box (LM9.1). On the Windows side (W2k), the samba shares appeared in Network Neighborhood. Now I have a router on the network which dynamically assigns IP address to the LAN and all the machines are set to DHCP. Initially I made no changes to my Samba setup other than to update the IP addresses of the LAN machines in /etc/samba/lmhosts). I can no longer see the LAN machines from my Linux box (although I can ping them all by IP address or name). From the Windows side, although I can find my samba shares by search for computer and subsequently force a virtual drive mapping, I can no longer see the machines under network neighborhood, nor can I manually create a virtual drive map under connect network drive. I'd like to be able to get at my winboxes from the lin box, and understand the win weirdness. Any ideas what the problem is and how to fix it? TIA Paul 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] aiuto !!
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: Meglio di tutto, cominciate da principio, accendete la macchina col disco Mandrake 9.1 'Instal CD1' gia montato. Poi seguite gli istruzioni dell'installazione Easy Instal - deve andare bene tutto senza difficolta ed il Windows 98 deve rimanere accessibile come prima. Una cosa importante! - la divisione del HD (il 'partitioning'). Scegliete keep existing partitions, poi permettete il 'formatting' di /, di /boot e di /var(se li avete) ma *NON* /home. Cosi dovete poter rimpiazzare il tutto del Mandrake 8.2, ritenendo solamente i documenti personali intoccati. Puo darsi che dopo ci siano piccole difficolta, qualche programma non funzionera perfettamente perche la sua configurazione sara cambiata, ma queste saranno piccolezze da risolvere piu tardi. Il Joe si scusa per le barzellette delle prime risposte,e vi prega di scrivere ancora nel caso che incontrate nuovi problemi. Ciao, DougB Your best bet is to boot your computer from the Mandrake 9.1 install CD and follow the easy install process, really. It's *should* be that simple. Mandrake, as you may have discovered when you installed 8.2, will not hurt your 98 install, and in fact will coexist quite peacefully. One thing to take into account is the partitioning. At that stage of the 9.1 install I would suggest choosing keep existing partitions, then format *only* the system partition(s), *not* your /home partition, that way all your personal documents in your /home will be left untouched. There may be some minor issues with config files in your home dir being incompatible with newer software, but those issues can be easily dealt with and will not hurt your system in any way. I hope you did not take our bit of fun as mocking *you*, it was just us being goofy, and we really hope you will write back soon if you need any more assistance. Translate away! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:50 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: John Also Epson Perfection 1240U DougB I know I'm nagging, but PLEASE add it to the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=HardwareCompatibility It's in everyone's interest to build a good database Anne __ Will do. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aiuto !!
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 10:49:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: snip I did post a brief outline below, it should at least get him started. snip It would have helped if I'd read your reply properly. Covered with confusion and apologies!!! Many thanks, DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Still no KdeprintFax
After following several suggestions to activate the fax feature of Open Office. It still doens't work. After the initial disk installation I installed all the updates associated with the 9.1 prior to trying to utalize the KdeprintFax. I don't know if this introduced problems or not. Now I'm wondering if I should reinstall 9.1? Would I have to start by reformating the HD partition? Any suggestions I just want to be able to fax from Open Office. I don't care if it is KdeprintFax, Efax or any other software as long as it works. I did follow Derek's suggestion below and it did get faxing to work from Kword but not Open Office. Derek Jennings wrote: If you are using KDE and CUPS then when you print a dialogue box appears. The drop down 'Name' selects the printer to use. Underneath your real printers there are four 'pseudo' printers :- Mail PDF File Print to File (PDF) Print to File (Postscript) Send to Fax (not Print to fax) If they are not there then it is easy enough to add them. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Select Administrator mode. Right click in the white area, select 'Add special (pseudo) printer' In the pop up configuration box give it a name and in the 'Command Settings' box enter kdeprintfax %in derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how do i setup mandrake to read my shared folder in win2k ?
I can't get a folder or listing for anything in linneighborhood for my win2k box. i have shared 2 folders and setup the domain for the internal network. i have recently installed iptables and ipkungfu and am wondering if a specific port needs to be opened for linneighborhood to see it. if not i'm without a clue how to get it working' i've googled it and didnt' come up with any answers. this worked fine under winxp. - This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail. http://webmail.catholic.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no KdeprintFax
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 1:55 pm, owenb wrote: After following several suggestions to activate the fax feature of Open Office. It still doens't work. After the initial disk installation I installed all the updates associated with the 9.1 prior to trying to utalize the KdeprintFax. I don't know if this introduced problems or not. Now I'm wondering if I should reinstall 9.1? Would I have to start by reformating the HD partition? Any suggestions I just want to be able to fax from Open Office. I don't care if it is KdeprintFax, Efax or any other software as long as it works. I did follow Derek's suggestion below and it did get faxing to work from Kword but not Open Office. Derek Jennings wrote: If you are using KDE and CUPS then when you print a dialogue box appears. The drop down 'Name' selects the printer to use. Underneath your real printers there are four 'pseudo' printers :- Mail PDF File Print to File (PDF) Print to File (Postscript) Send to Fax (not Print to fax) If they are not there then it is easy enough to add them. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Select Administrator mode. Right click in the white area, select 'Add special (pseudo) printer' In the pop up configuration box give it a name and in the 'Command Settings' box enter kdeprintfax %in derek And did you follow my instructions here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/fax_cups.html to add qtcups as a printer to OpenOffice? If you do that, then when you print with OpenOffice qtcups will appear as one of the printers available, and that leads you into exactly the same printer dialogue as Kword. Reinstalling or reformatting will not help. It is just a matter of defining qtcups as an OpenOffice printer. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i setup mandrake to read my shared folder inwin2k ?
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get a folder or listing for anything in linneighborhood for my win2k box. i have shared 2 folders and setup the domain for the internal network. i have recently installed iptables and ipkungfu and am wondering if a specific port needs to be opened for linneighborhood to see it. if not i'm without a clue how to get it working' i've googled it and didnt' come up with any answers. this worked fine under winxp. Ports 137, 138 and 139 need to be opened up; as well, in the settings for SAMBA (/etc/samba/smb.conf) you SHOULD have the same workgroup name; and double check your settings for LinNeighborhood. -- Sat Jul 19 23:00:01 EST 2003 23:00:01 up 5 days, 15:03, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Don't try to have the last word -- you might get it. -- Lazarus Long Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating a directory
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:59:53 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That didn't work for me. I did figure it out by doing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ datedir=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`; [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ echo tomcat$datedir tomcat20030718215657 You are using the backticks (the shift+tilde) and not the single quote? Using bash? Works here, too. (on my keyboard, though, no shift, just the (` or ~) key Yeah, here too :) The tilde requires a shift, not the backtick. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
Anne, thanks for your detailed response. My concern is for a friend of ours who runs a (very successful) one-woman advertising business. She is fed up with the, inherent problems with XP, 2000 etc. And is just digging out from her second virus problem this year. She is now ready to consider Linux, and I want to have as many answers ready for her as possible. (I'm hoping to find someone in the Rhode Island area who has the expertise to make this happen smoothly.) Again, thank you, Bob Anne Wilson wrote: (snip) Bob - I'm not a heavy user of Acrobat, but I have installed the full Acrobat 4.0 under Win4Lin, and it appears to be working well. I opened one existing file and imported a picture, and then opened a .pdf which I had created with Serif PagePlus 8+PDF and highlighted areas of text. The files save OK. If you want me to do anything in particular to test it for you please mail me off-list. BTW - I am using the PagePlus as a combination DTP and pdf creator for Parish Magazines. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i setup mandrake to read my shared folder in win2k ?
i did all those things and still nothing coming up in linneighborhood. it is showing localhost with a penguin and nothing more. and workgroup, not domain, was what i setup in win2k pro. i'd hate to not be able to get this to work. thank you On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get a folder or listing for anything in linneighborhood for my win2k box. i have shared 2 folders and setup the domain for the internal network. i have recently installed iptables and ipkungfu and am wondering if a specific port needs to be opened for linneighborhood to see it. if not i'm without a clue how to get it working' i've googled it and didnt' come up with any answers. this worked fine under winxp. Ports 137, 138 and 139 need to be opened up; as well, in the settings for SAMBA (/etc/samba/smb.conf) you SHOULD have the same workgroup name; and double check your settings for LinNeighborhood. -- Sat Jul 19 23:00:01 EST 2003 - This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail. http://webmail.catholic.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 2:22 pm, Bob Read wrote: Anne, thanks for your detailed response. My concern is for a friend of ours who runs a (very successful) one-woman advertising business. She is fed up with the, inherent problems with XP, 2000 etc. And is just digging out from her second virus problem this year. She is now ready to consider Linux, and I want to have as many answers ready for her as possible. (I'm hoping to find someone in the Rhode Island area who has the expertise to make this happen smoothly.) Again, thank you, Bob Win4Lin requires a windows licence and install disks, and you are running a virtual machine under linux. All peripherals are controlled by the linux drivers, so if it works with linux it works for win4lin. I run windows98, and it's well-nigh crash-proof! Win4Lin is not free, but it's not expensive, and NeTraverse have an excellent support team - I have even had a response on Sunday evening. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 07:46, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:09 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true! and guess who started all this shite... no, take a wild guess... ok, here: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-hobbyists.html :) Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It also made a lot of money for him developing software for programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. -- cmg BTW does anyone know of a linux program that can output G codes generated from a .DFX or .DWG file ? __ 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] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:09 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true! and guess who started all this shite... no, take a wild guess... ok, here: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-hobbyis ts.html :) Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It also made a lot of money for him developing software for programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. -- cmg I can't take this seriously. It was late '70s before Microsoft Basic was around, IIRC, and such 'hobbyist' machines as were around were not only expensive, but had the operating system embedded - and it was into the '80's before it became anything like standard. If you were not building your box - and how many were at that time? - why would you 'steal' the operating system? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2003 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux? On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:15 pm, Bob Read wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: / Win4Lin requires a windows licence and install disks, and you are running a virtual machine under linux. All peripherals are controlled by the linux drivers, so if it works with linux it works for win4lin. I run windows98, and it's well-nigh crash-proof! Win4Lin is not free, but it's not expensive, and NeTraverse have an excellent support team - I have even had a response on Sunday evening. Anne Does running Win98 under Linux (Win4Lin) still provide the virus protection of Linux? I'm not realy clear on that. It sounds good. Bob Yes - you are still running linux, and all the processes of linux. The windows bit is a layer on top. Personally I play safe and never access the Internet from the windows layer, though. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
Basic was the first language I learned.. Back when I was a youngin I was given a Commodore Vic 20 computer. I taught myself basic and wrote my first big program... A space invaders clone.. Much Later on when XT's came out, they started teaching basic on the XT at highschool.. the XT's we had were monocrome, had no hard drive and two 5 1/4 floppies. They had a great star trek game though, you were an O (the enterprise) and you had to enter co-ordinates to blow up the X's, (klingons). I wasted alot of time playing that back then... Big diff from what kids are used to nowdays though.. regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2003 10:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users. On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-ho bbyists.html :) Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It also made a lot of money for him developing software for programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i setup mandrake to read my shared folder inwin2k ?
i was prompted to reboot after changing the workgroup. the sharing was done by right clicking and share this folder with default directory naming conventions. i assume its sharing with full access. both computers are linked through a home broadband router and dhcp. I haven't been in windows in awhile, but if you go to my network places, i think you should be able to see what is sucessfully shared. That might be a first step. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:01, Anne Wilson wrote: Nope, you still have to be carefull! I'm guessing that HarM means that the windows install could still be infected, and I guess that's so, but if you keep all the Internet activity to outside of windows you should be safe. The nice thing is that it is so easy to do. |I run Win4Lin almost full-screen, so that I can just see the status bar below it. I switch back and forth as often as necessary. I can keep my mail program open while I'm working on the windows app, and I feel quite safe. Of course, you still need to use common sense. No use inviting trouble ;-) Anne You're right, that is what I mean. Personally I like using win4lin for testing cross platform apps and some games for the kids. Alas lately I had to revive IExplorer because mozilla doesn't handle the javascripts well, that my (online) bank uses. Frankly Moz never has, where netscape (v4) did:o( And the wonderful Calypso mailer for my (slow)GSM connection aboard ship is another reason. Downloading messages selectively after checking the headers is a real (financial) life saver. I think what linux will do, is stop a virus/trojan using stealthy backdoors to get out and multiply or express itself. Anyway it's easy enough to delete the win folder in the home directory and replace it with a back up or a fresh one, if one thinks it's infected:o) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1
Hi Frank, Again you put a lot of effort in this This is very much appreciated at this end. I will look into this and try to comprehend THANKS Enjoy Johan - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1 At 12:42 PM 7/18/03, Johan Scheepers wrote: This is one comprehensive response - of course all of it way over my head - will need some close study. Sorry - would you maybe know any Howto's or sites or whatever to assist me, please. Johan: It's been about a year since I wrote/modified the script I posted, and it was on a *bsd system, so installation of DBI DBD packages on MDK will be different. In any case, I found these rpm's on the MDK 9.1 cd's: cd1 - perl-DBI-1.32-1mdk.i586.rpm cd1 - perl-Mysql-1.22_19-6mdk.i586.rpm cd3 - perl-DBD-Pg-1.21-2mdk.i586.rpm Don't install both mysql and pg rpm's. Pick the one matching your existing database. Although the perl-mysql rpm does have DBD in its name, the version number matches the (Oct2001) file at cpan.org (the next update was last month): http://search.cpan.org/author/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219/ Now for the dBase part (called xBase to cover other compatible file formats). Here's some doc... http://search.cpan.org/author/JANPAZ/DBD-XBase-0.234/lib/DBD/XBase.pm Download: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JA/JANPAZ/DBD-XBase-0.234.tar.gz After download: tar xfz DBD-XBase-0.234.tar.gz cd DBD-XBase-0.234 perl Makefile.PL make make test make install All these commands except make install can be run as a 'normal' user, you must be 'root' for the last step. At this point, you should be able to run the script I posted. As for howto webpages, I don't have any. A google of perl dbd xbase did come up with an rpm for the dbd:xbase package on first hit. A little further down, there is even one from MDK: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake-devel/contrib/alpha/perl-DBD-XBase-0.232-1mdk.noarch.html Maybe it's a simple as install of 3 rpms? Frank 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] LAN problem
If I want to leave DHCP enabled so as to allow me to bring several computers from work home and connect them to my home LAN and move files around on the LAN, what are my alternatives to lmhosts on both the linux and win side? Paul On Saturday 19 July 2003 08:08 am, Lanman wrote: Paul; If your router is handing off DHCP addresses, and your PC's are using their lmhosts file to find each other, you'll run into problems every time the router hands out new IP addresses. Try logging into the router and disabling the DHCP service, or use IP adresses that are outside of the range of IP's that your DHCP service has reserved. Then update your lmhosts file, and restart or renew your IP addresses on each Windows box. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/19/2003 at 7:09 AM Paul Kaplan wrote: I changed the configuration of my home network and now am having problems seeing the machines from each other. Formerly, I shared an internet connection from one machine and had a switch to connect the local machines. The ethernet card on the internal network had a fixed IP address as did all the local machines. The local machines used a gateway IP address and a fixed DNS server address (from the ISP). I used Samba and was able to see all the local machines from the linux box (LM9.1). On the Windows side (W2k), the samba shares appeared in Network Neighborhood. Now I have a router on the network which dynamically assigns IP address to the LAN and all the machines are set to DHCP. Initially I made no changes to my Samba setup other than to update the IP addresses of the LAN machines in /etc/samba/lmhosts). I can no longer see the LAN machines from my Linux box (although I can ping them all by IP address or name). From the Windows side, although I can find my samba shares by search for computer and subsequently force a virtual drive mapping, I can no longer see the machines under network neighborhood, nor can I manually create a virtual drive map under connect network drive. I'd like to be able to get at my winboxes from the lin box, and understand the win weirdness. Any ideas what the problem is and how to fix it? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake cooker??
Hi, How does mdk cooker work Do I need iso downloads?? Install mdk9.1 and upgrade?? I have some drive space and would like to tinker. Please some pointers. Enjoy Johan . May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sending mail to the list
On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:08 am, Eric Huff wrote: This is weird: i used to see that same error, and others did too, so i just made a filter to delete it. Since then though, i switched to sylpheed and only made filters as needed. Now i realize that i no longer get that error. I wonder if someone has a spam filter running that bounces mail back until (s)he or the filter determines it's not spam? Anyway, you oughtta be able to just send it to trash with a filter and be fine... i'll experiment with filters if it doesn't stop sending me those errors. thanks! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
Actually, the perps settled out of court, and it cost them thousands of bucks! As for the latest, there is a thread going on Slashdot right now (hope the link works-if not just go to htp://slashdot.org and check out the RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers section). http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/19/1249214.shtml?tid=126tid=141tid=188tid=95 Errr I don't know if my memory serves me right but didn't one of the movie companies successfully get a conviction on a couple of students who were caught sharing a film on p2p recently? Didn't seem to have much effect. John The case was settled out of court the university paid off an undisclosed sum (cowards) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Saturday 19 July 2003 11:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:09 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true! and guess who started all this shite... no, take a wild guess... ok, here: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-hobbyis ts.html :) Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It also made a lot of money for him developing software for programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. -- cmg I can't take this seriously. It was late '70s before Microsoft Basic was around, IIRC, and such 'hobbyist' machines as were around were not only expensive, but had the operating system embedded - and it was into the '80's before it became anything like standard. If you were not building your box - and how many were at that time? - why would you 'steal' the operating system? Anne Anne: Actually, there was a market for MS Basic and similar software in the early days. Gates didn't get into the operating system business until IBM showed up on his front step with a blank purchase order in hand. His Basic was used on a both CP/M and non-CP/M machines. The latter computers usually had cassette interfaces -- the most famous being the Radio Shack TRS80 -- but some had floppies, too. IIRC, the base model TRS80 came with a simple Basic in ROM, but there was also an extended version that was loaded from cassettes. (You had to have 16K RAM to do that. Cost about $150 or so.) Liberating software for your buddies was tricky since there were virtually no standards; each manufacturer came up with his own nifty format which was supposed to make the disks (or tapes) inaccessable to any other hardware. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Saturday 19 July 2003 09:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 11:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:09 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true! and guess who started all this shite... no, take a wild guess... ok, here: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-hobbyis ts.html :) Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It also made a lot of money for him developing software for programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. -- cmg I can't take this seriously. It was late '70s before Microsoft Basic was around, IIRC, and such 'hobbyist' machines as were around were not only expensive, but had the operating system embedded - and it was into the '80's before it became anything like standard. If you were not building your box - and how many were at that time? - why would you 'steal' the operating system? Anne Anne: Actually, there was a market for MS Basic and similar software in the early days. Gates didn't get into the operating system business until IBM showed up on his front step with a blank purchase order in hand. His Basic was used on a both CP/M and non-CP/M machines. The latter computers usually had cassette interfaces -- the most famous being the Radio Shack TRS80 -- but some had floppies, too. IIRC, the base model TRS80 came with a simple Basic in ROM, but there was also an extended version that was loaded from cassettes. (You had to have 16K RAM to do that. Cost about $150 or so.) Liberating software for your buddies was tricky since there were virtually no standards; each manufacturer came up with his own nifty format which was supposed to make the disks (or tapes) inaccessable to any other hardware. -- cmg I remberer unpacking my brand new Kim-1 and then proceeding to 1 round up a power supply 2. finding out what hex was 3 labouusly coping hex code into kim and trying to boot 4 thru 500 checking my errors later I added 4k of static Ram so I could load Tom Pitmans itty-bitty basic believe me when the trash-80 came along it was a huge leap forward Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:40:44 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB Or you could get yourself a TbredB 1700+ for $45 and clock it to 2400+ at 333fsb. That processor comes multiplier unlocked and is the easiest overclock that ever existed. I'm also looking for a new processor and motherboard. What if I got a 2400+, how much could I overclock that? I want to have good performance for games and office apps. $84.00 Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. Or if you want total compatibility without messing around, a KT400 board is fully supported and the lan and sound will both work. I was thinking along the lines of a Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 or Soyo Dragon Lite. What are the main differences between these two? /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx John Drouhard -- Sat Jul 19 12:04:33 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Saturday 19 July 2003 06:40 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB Or you could get yourself a TbredB 1700+ for $45 and clock it to 2400+ at 333fsb. That processor comes multiplier unlocked and is the easiest overclock that ever existed. $146.00 2 sticks PC3200 DDR 512 Mb If you go KT400, PC 3200 RAM is a waste because the board actually runs faster with the cpu and ram in sync at 333fsb, so PC2700 RAM will do. Also, remember that the Mandrake kernel will have problems with memeory above 864, so you'll have to use the enterprise kernel, although 512MB RAM is probably more than enough unless you do a lot of video editing. $84.00 Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. Or if you want total compatibility without messing around, a KT400 board is fully supported and the lan and sound will both work. The dual channel DDR on the nforce2 boards gives you a bit of a performance boost, about the same as going from SDR to DDR RAM, but if compatibility is your game, it's not worth it because you have to install the nVidia binary drivers to get full funtionality. Not a problem unless you can't get on the net to download them because the LAN doesn't work or if you are a pureist that will not use closed source drivers. Buying a A7V8X using the KT400 chipset saves $20 over the A7N8X, but for the advantages of the A7N8X I would say its wasted money. The onboard dual NICs and soundcard make it worth the money, as someone always seems to build an open source driver that works. Look at WinModems. My apologies, my price was for PC2700 ram, my text was not updated. Overclocking always causes the chip to suffer, espeically in a 1700 to 2400 jump. I use it only as a last resort, I would not build a new computer overclocked. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, aron smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : How about this? I decided to let you recycle your monitor, keyboard, NIC, and speakers, and set this little multimedia rockstar up for you: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB $146.00 2 sticks PC3200 DDR 512 Mb $84.00 Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. $176.00 Seagate Cheetah 73.4Gb SCSI 1RPM $31.00 Samsung 12xDVD/40xCD $45.00 Mitsumi 54x-32x-54x CDRW $158.00 Geforce 4 4400Ti 8xAGP $82.00 Creative SB Audigy2- 6.1 $885.00 Total You will need a SCSI card for this system that is not in this quote. I build up a system with a XP2100, 512 Mb, GeForce 440Mx, and SBLive Card on the A7N8X, and it rocks, and cost me about $550. This is a higher end dream system that I would like to own. But I doubt that my wife would let me buy it. Rob Rocks Alternatevly go the other way how cheap can you go? We have to use the advantages that we have Swap out the components in my specing for the components in my machine, and you will drop down in the $500 to 600 range. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:24:30 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, aron smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 09:08 am, aron smith wrote: what would be the best system that one could put together for under $1,000.00 USD Rules of the game 1 Commercially available Hardware (no surplus SGI 2 It has to run Mandraike : How about this? I decided to let you recycle your monitor, keyboard, NIC, and speakers, and set this little multimedia rockstar up for you: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB $146.00 2 sticks PC3200 DDR 512 Mb $84.00Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. $176.00 Seagate Cheetah 73.4Gb SCSI 1RPM $31.00Samsung 12xDVD/40xCD $45.00Mitsumi 54x-32x-54x CDRW $158.00 Geforce 4 4400Ti 8xAGP $82.00Creative SB Audigy2- 6.1 $885.00 Total You will need a SCSI card for this system that is not in this quote. I build up a system with a XP2100, 512 Mb, GeForce 440Mx, and SBLive Card on the A7N8X, and it rocks, and cost me about $550. This is a higher end dream system that I would like to own. But I doubt that my wife would let me buy it. Rob Rocks Alternatevly go the other way how cheap can you go? We have to use the advantages that we have Swap out the components in my specing for the components in my machine, and you will drop down in the $500 to 600 range. Very Good but you people can do better than that lets add another rule It is a system that you are setting up for a computer Illerate friend. : ain't I evil -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
well yes, but if you are on an internal network.. you might want to limit your filesharing as well.. Many virus's now will copy themselves to any network share that the infected computer had access to. rgds Franki http://htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux? I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN problem
On Saturday 19 July 2003 12:09 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: If I want to leave DHCP enabled so as to allow me to bring several computers from work home and connect them to my home LAN and move files around on the LAN, what are my alternatives to lmhosts on both the linux and win side? Paul Paul, (sorry) I missed the first part of this thread. What is the problem? I've got a DLink model DL-604 router, for cable-modem service that I have 3 comps hooked to. It does DHCP, handing out the IPs to the machines, but I've still got the IPs locked under Linux, and Windows just grabs them. I can ping by IP or hostname on all 3, and copy files via NFS or Samba, depending on which OS my sons are (dual) booted into. I don't dual boot but they do because of a few games. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dream system(simi OT)
On Saturday 19 July 2003 01:08 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:40:44 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 02:55 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: $163.00 AMD Athlon XP2800 333 MHz FSB Or you could get yourself a TbredB 1700+ for $45 and clock it to 2400+ at 333fsb. That processor comes multiplier unlocked and is the easiest overclock that ever existed. I'm also looking for a new processor and motherboard. What if I got a 2400+, how much could I overclock that? I want to have good performance for games and office apps. The 1700+ is a particularly good overclocker, so I don't think you'd get the same kind of percentage increase with a 2400+, but check out the forums at overclockers.com for more info on that. $84.00 Asus A7N8X Mobo (has onboard LAN and Sound not supported by Mandrake yet) otherwise its a totally rockin' board. Or if you want total compatibility without messing around, a KT400 board is fully supported and the lan and sound will both work. I was thinking along the lines of a Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 or Soyo Dragon Lite. What are the main differences between these two? I run the Soyo Dragon Ultra Black edition. It works flawlessly in Linux, and will take the Barton core processors. The only thing that does not work is the Highpoint RAID controller which is a windows only thing. It works fine as an additional IDE controller though. I think the difference betwen the Ultra and the light is an onboard nic and the extra Highpoint controller. The nforce2 boards are nice, but if you are a purist and don't like closed source drivers, you won;t get full function -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tar: how to extract first specific file then stop?
If i do a command like this tar -xv home/huff/a/home.htm -f /mnt/cdrom2/cudaback.tar it will find the file in an early directory, but then keep looking. Since i know there is only one home/huff/a/home.htm, is there any way to make it stop after the first hit? thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't install packages using CD writer
Hi! I'm trying to install packages(drakwizard smbwizard) from the installation CD#1 on my computer(which has the OS Mandrake Linux 9.1) but when I press install in the rpmdrake 9.1 window, a message pops out sayin' Insert the CD in the cd writer and also the tray of my CD Writer(Hewlett Packard 8100 series) comes out. So, after inserting the tray of my cdwriter with the CD on it, when I press OK the computer freezes. Mouse and keyboard doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there if any a workaround? Thank you. --AD _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Attn: Lanman: In-Wall Home Networking
Hi, Lanman I missed your response to my question about in-wall home networking and Leviton products. Please email me personally if you can, I'd like to ask you some questions. Thanks. - Paul __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPMS
Hello All, I've just to reinstall(after a fall out with some Nvidia Drivers).The problem I'm having is,when aclick on a RPM that I have download from the net,I get the open with box come up.If I set the install up thought Mandrake Control Centre,it worksish(I have to have the program name in there),but if I need to install any RPM which is needed by the program I'm installing,it does not work ie dependences Thank you for any help given. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:01, Anne Wilson wrote: Nope, you still have to be carefull! I'm guessing that HarM means that the windows install could still be infected, and I guess that's so, but if you keep all the Internet activity to outside of windows you should be safe. The nice thing is that it is so easy to do. |I run Win4Lin almost full-screen, so that I can just see the status bar below it. I switch back and forth as often as necessary. I can keep my mail program open while I'm working on the windows app, and I feel quite safe. Of course, you still need to use common sense. No use inviting trouble ;-) Anne You're right, that is what I mean. Personally I like using win4lin for testing cross platform apps and some games for the kids. Alas lately I had to revive IExplorer because mozilla doesn't handle the javascripts well, that my (online) bank uses. Frankly Moz never has, where netscape (v4) did:o( And the wonderful Calypso mailer for my (slow)GSM connection aboard ship is another reason. Downloading messages selectively after checking the headers is a real (financial) life saver. I think what linux will do, is stop a virus/trojan using stealthy backdoors to get out and multiply or express itself. Anyway it's easy enough to delete the win folder in the home directory and replace it with a back up or a fresh one, if one thinks it's infected:o) Even better - if you do a tar of the win directory when you know all is installed and working well, it's as good as doing a partition image, so you can reinstall to exactly where you were very quickly. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 5:47 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 11:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2003 10:01 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:31:09 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: You guys should really read this its outragious - if its true! and guess who started all this shite... no, take a wild guess... ok, here: http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/open-letter-to-hob byis ts.html :) Wow, APL! I'd forgotten all about that one. I never learned the language myself, but I had a buddy that did. It turned him into a genuine fanatic -- worse than the Hare Krishna kids in airports. It also made a lot of money for him developing software for programming NC machines that would run on the original IBM 5100 desktop computer (circa 1975). He's still doing that part time. -- cmg I can't take this seriously. It was late '70s before Microsoft Basic was around, IIRC, and such 'hobbyist' machines as were around were not only expensive, but had the operating system embedded - and it was into the '80's before it became anything like standard. If you were not building your box - and how many were at that time? - why would you 'steal' the operating system? Anne Anne: Actually, there was a market for MS Basic and similar software in the early days. Gates didn't get into the operating system business until IBM showed up on his front step with a blank purchase order in hand. His Basic was used on a both CP/M and non-CP/M machines. The latter computers usually had cassette interfaces -- the most famous being the Radio Shack TRS80 -- but some had floppies, too. IIRC, the base model TRS80 came with a simple Basic in ROM, but there was also an extended version that was loaded from cassettes. (You had to have 16K RAM to do that. Cost about $150 or so.) Liberating software for your buddies was tricky since there were virtually no standards; each manufacturer came up with his own nifty format which was supposed to make the disks (or tapes) inaccessable to any other hardware. -- cmg Yup - I had a ZX-81 and then a Sinclair Spectrum. I bought the Extended Basic, which included the ability to program text/graphics to windows (!). As I said, there was no piracy there - we bought the box with basic in rom, and bought additional extended basic if we were interested in programming. I didn't know anyone else at that time that had the same interest, so there was never a question of piracy. I learned by typing in programs listed in magazines, finding that they didn't work, then working throught the logic to find out why and correcting them. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] martian source in syslog
Hi Recently I got a satellite internet connection which uses a PCI Telemann Skymedia 200DPA card. It was working fine until a few days ago when suddenly all packets received via this card are dropped by the kernel with the 'martian source' messages in syslog: Jul 20 09:22:40 tbird kernel: martian source 203.109.204.173 from 210.55.24.8, on dev sm200d Jul 20 09:22:40 tbird kernel: ll header: ff:55:01:bc:90:00:00:90:bc:01:55:ff:08:00 So obviously the kernel does not know where to route the packets to. No settings were changed and my firewall rules are the same as when the connection was working. Besides, this also happens with no firewall running. I still use a dialup 56K modem to upload (dynamic IP), so only download via satellite. When the sat. card's driver is loaded this what ifconfig shows for these two devices: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:203.109.204.173 P-t-P:192.168.251.44 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:66 (66.0 b) TX bytes:87 (87.0 b) sm200dLink encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:BC:01:55:FF inet addr:192.168.19.53 Bcast:192.168.19.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Does anyone know how I tell the kernel that this device is supposed to receive packets from the internet? I've spent two days fiddling with problem and I'm at a loss as to what to try next... and I've not much hair left to pull out ;) ANY help would be very much appreciated. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:14 pm, Frankie wrote: Basic was the first language I learned.. Back when I was a youngin I was given a Commodore Vic 20 computer. I taught myself basic and wrote my first big program... A space invaders clone.. Much Later on when XT's came out, they started teaching basic on the XT at highschool.. the XT's we had were monocrome, had no hard drive and two 5 1/4 floppies. They had a great star trek game though, you were an O (the enterprise) and you had to enter co-ordinates to blow up the X's, (klingons). I wasted alot of time playing that back then... Big diff from what kids are used to nowdays though.. The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very quickly and soon became useless, so you had to have a backup tape. Also, I had the 16KB (Yes, KB!) memory pack, strapped on the back with insultating tape to stop wobble. You would work all evening on a bit of programming, then at 23:30 you would have a 'white-out' and it was all lost. That's how I learned the value of backups g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] playing dvd's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think I need some tips to boost up dvd playing since a message says 'there are too many packets etc when I try to play some dvd's. But it happens only with some dvd's, not with all. I have Mplayer here on 9.1. TIA JM -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Gbfd4eVBtrgQWDsRAg0MAKCLbsWGbyX3qvZKZ9TQPA8rztfOAQCdHbSL hZa3ISc1I+eFAbeqpFugxZ8= =n3Zr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
On Saturday 19 July 2003 23:08, Anne Wilson wrote: Even better - if you do a tar of the win directory when you know all is installed and working well, it's as good as doing a partition image, so you can reinstall to exactly where you were very quickly. Anne Yeah, on top of that if you make a habit of saving important stuff in the mydata folder you don't loose anything out of there either:o) If it weren't for my gps navigation programs (vector maps!) I wouldn't dream of double booting. Actually windows is quite good at that.It'll even run those programs happily on a 486. I had a compaq pressario dedicated to do just that(despite the small screen), but I lent it to a collegea and never seen it since. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Still no KdeprintFax
Thanks Derek, It seems to be working after I corrected my blunder. I printed qtcups--stdin instead of qtcups --stdin Owen Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 1:55 pm, owenb wrote: After following several suggestions to activate the fax feature of Open Office. It still doens't work. After the initial disk installation I installed all the updates associated with the 9.1 prior to trying to utalize the KdeprintFax. I don't know if this introduced problems or not. Now I'm wondering if I should reinstall 9.1? Would I have to start by reformating the HD partition? Any suggestions I just want to be able to fax from Open Office. I don't care if it is KdeprintFax, Efax or any other software as long as it works. I did follow Derek's suggestion below and it did get faxing to work from Kword but not Open Office. Derek Jennings wrote: If you are using KDE and CUPS then when you print a dialogue box appears. The drop down 'Name' selects the printer to use. Underneath your real printers there are four 'pseudo' printers :- Mail PDF File Print to File (PDF) Print to File (Postscript) Send to Fax (not Print to fax) If they are not there then it is easy enough to add them. Open KDE ControlCentrePeripheralsPrinters Select Administrator mode. Right click in the white area, select 'Add special (pseudo) printer' In the pop up configuration box give it a name and in the 'Command Settings' box enter kdeprintfax %in derek And did you follow my instructions here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/fax_cups.html to add qtcups as a printer to OpenOffice? If you do that, then when you print with OpenOffice qtcups will appear as one of the printers available, and that leads you into exactly the same printer dialogue as Kword. Reinstalling or reformatting will not help. It is just a matter of defining qtcups as an OpenOffice printer. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Compact flash disk reader.
On Saturday 19 July 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 12:14 am, manolis wrote: Anyway... Although I didn't figured out what is going on I also want to ask related to the this problem: Any time that I plug in my USB reader it gets another name in the /dev tree for example the first time I pluged it in I get: /dev/sda when I unplugged it and replug it again I get : /dev/sdb etc... etc... I think this is related to my problem... How can I remove the faulty /dev/.. links? This doesn't happen with my USB flash thumb drive that automounts fine , and every time I plug it in I get: /dev/sdb1 Please Help..!! Hi, Manolis. I think that when you use more than one removable device the system sometimes gets confused. I have a similar problem. When it happens to me I just open up the MCC, Hardware List. It should re-detect the device and mount it correctly. Anne Hello, If this doesn't seem obviouslywrong, I wnder if you are umounting the /dev/sda1 before unplugging it? There was another USB/Flash question regarding supermount. I just have a simple '/dev/sda1 /mnt/fubar auto auto,user,noauto,ro 0 0' line in fstab and I get a nifty icon (in 9.1) on the desktop after boot (even when there is no disk in the reader. All I have to do is put a disk in and click the icon... voila! I think its great, and I don't have to deal with any super-dooper anything. For what my opinion is worth, -Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very quickly and soon became useless, so you had to have a backup tape. Also, I had the 16KB (Yes, KB!) memory pack, strapped on the back with insultating tape to stop wobble. You would work all evening on a bit of programming, then at 23:30 you would have a 'white-out' and it was all lost. That's how I learned the value of backups g Those were the days! We had the same thing. Then, dad bought the Timex Sinclair 2068, and a disk drive controller from Oliger. No case, just a PCBA that plugged into the back of the computer. We were cruisin then: 5 1/4 floppies were so much better than tape! Imagine the day when bootup took .5 seconds and the entire state of a machine (and i mean every byte of ram) could be saved/loaded at the touch of a button in 10 seconds. Also a great feature when you were trying to get farther along in a game. Dad and i used to program that thing together. Ahhh, Anne, thanks for the nostalgia again. For my dad, it's not just nostalgia: he still uses that computer every once-in-ahile. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem sharing vs ICS
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:51, L.V.Gandhi wrote: snip What I want is when pc1 is not connected to internet, pc2 should be able to dial modem connected to ttsy0 of pc1 and connect to internet. Is it possible? if so how. There's linecontrol which runs linesrv on the server (ie. pc1) and klcc on the client (ie. pc2). klcc is the KDE client software or there's wlc for windoze. Works well, but I don't know how to turn off the volume on the modem so I have to listen to the dialing/connecting noises and then it hums rather loudly whilst connected (external modem). http://linecontrol.sourceforge.net/ Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 22:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:14 pm, Frankie wrote: Basic was the first language I learned.. Back when I was a youngin I was given a Commodore Vic 20 computer. I taught myself basic and wrote my first big program... A space invaders clone.. snip The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very quickly and soon became useless, so you had to have a backup tape. Also, I had the 16KB (Yes, KB!) memory pack, strapped on the back with insultating tape to stop wobble. You would work all evening on a bit of programming, then at 23:30 you would have a 'white-out' and it was all lost. That's how I learned the value of backups g Anne ZX81 - I got the DIY kit, had to solder together myself. Could do some incredible things in 1K of memory, (e.g. space invaders) until I could afford the 16K add-on. I've still got it, and an add-on board with EPROM with kernel - can't remeber what it did. Have to sort it out. Then moved onto the Tandy Color Computer using MS-Basic, but preferred to run OS-9 from disk. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Broken KDE
Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
Hi, Thanks Anne and John. First offto answer John...there is no floppy drive at all in my laptop. I took it out of the drive bay and added the cdrw. Also, hard drive is hda, cdrom is hdb and cdrw is hdc. Next, Anne, it seems that there is another difference between your fstab lines and mine. Yours read iocharset=iso8859-15 while mine read iocharset=iso8859-1 I'm usually not worried about trying the different options but I'd like to see if, collectively, any of these differences make sense. Also, for John, my lilo.conf does have the scsi emulation turned on thus append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet Any ideas? Thanks for everything so far. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 19 July 2003 07:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, In Konq (or any app) whenever I try to access /mnt , it freezes and has to be killed. I checked my fstab and found that there are 2 entries for a single floppy drive. This is my laptop and I replaced the floppy with a cdrw. 9.1 picked that up nicely. So you don't have a Floppy at all ? Or you did have two floppy drives, and now you have one ? Checking the archives, there doesn't seem to be much on supermount or fstab since 9.1 was released. Here is my fstabperhaps some may have suggestions. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 I really like the supermount, so I would like to hang on to it if possible. Bill W. Supermount is very much a work in progress, not much is written up yet. I have never owned a laptop, so experiece with their ide layout is unfamiliar to me. So then, what is the ide layout ? Ide0 = Hardrive(s) Ide1 = cdrom and writer , master and slave in that order ? Or is it, Ide0 = harddrive and writer, configured mater and slave ? Assuming the first layout, Harddrive = /dev/hda cdrom = /dev/hdc writer = /dev/hdb but is it scsi-emulated in /etc/lilo.conf as hdd=ide-scsi ? so, under supermount , cdrom and writer fstab entries look to be correct.. The floppy entry looks correct, if you still have one. If it doesn't work then maybe it's a hardware related issue. first try, cdrecord -scanbus to make sure it's on the bus. Then there are further commands to issue to test the capability of the drives, but I cannot rememebr what they are. Maybe Tom Brinkman can jog our memories. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broken KDE
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:30, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Drew I'm not sure what you mean by KDE being broken - do you mean you can't use kpackage to install rpms? Also, what version mdk? I'm still using mdk9.0 and kpackage is broken here. Installing rpms from the command line should still work regardless of the environment being used. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broken KDE
I don't use kde, but it seems when other people have trouble, a common solution is to rename the .kde dir and let kde start over. hopefully the mail filters, etc, in the .kde dir can be copied... I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i setup mandrake to read my shared folder inwin2k ?
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 00:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was prompted to reboot after changing the workgroup. the sharing was done by right clicking and share this folder with default directory naming conventions. i assume its sharing with full access. both computers are linked through a home broadband router and dhcp. If you're still not able to properly share via reboot and after you've double checked all configurations, I would start to think that the fact you're using DHCP for connectivity INSIDE your network could be the culprit. You should be able to setup the machines inside your network with static IP addresses, using the IP address of the router as your gateway for your internet connectivity. The settings for Samba sharing allow you to make drastic changes to the TCP/IP addresses that access the machine, but it can become quite complex in it's configuration; easiest way might be to give the static IP addressing scheme a go. -- Sun Jul 20 09:55:01 EST 2003 09:55:01 up 6 days, 1:58, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.10, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If you continually give you will continually have. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broken KDE
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:30, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Drew You could login to Gnome, rename the ~/home/yournamehere/.kde directory, then login to KDE again - this will recreate all of the default KDE setups/configurations/themes for you - that way you can discern what exactly went wrong in the first place... -- Sun Jul 20 10:05:01 EST 2003 10:05:01 up 6 days, 2:08, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.06 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end. -- Mark Twain Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broken KDE
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 12:30 am, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Drew Open KDEControlCentreComponentsFileAssociations Type rpm in the 'Find filename pattern' box select the '-x-rpm' file type that appears The 'Application Preference order' should have 'Software Installer' at the top of the list. If it is not there add it. Use /usr/bin/gurpmi as the command. Also check you have the gurpmi RPM installed. (rpm -q gurpmi in a terminal) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
Anne Wilson wrote: The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very do you still have your zx-81? ria, i still have 7 of them in working condition and i am looking for more software. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
COCO forever! MRW - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users. On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 22:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:14 pm, Frankie wrote: Basic was the first language I learned.. Back when I was a youngin I was given a Commodore Vic 20 computer. I taught myself basic and wrote my first big program... A space invaders clone.. snip The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very quickly and soon became useless, so you had to have a backup tape. Also, I had the 16KB (Yes, KB!) memory pack, strapped on the back with insultating tape to stop wobble. You would work all evening on a bit of programming, then at 23:30 you would have a 'white-out' and it was all lost. That's how I learned the value of backups g Anne ZX81 - I got the DIY kit, had to solder together myself. Could do some incredible things in 1K of memory, (e.g. space invaders) until I could afford the 16K add-on. I've still got it, and an add-on board with EPROM with kernel - can't remeber what it did. Have to sort it out. Then moved onto the Tandy Color Computer using MS-Basic, but preferred to run OS-9 from disk. Paul M Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.501 / Virus Database: 299 - Release Date: 7/15/2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPMS
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:56:48 +0100 drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hello All, I've just to reinstall(after a fall out with some Nvidia Drivers).The problem I'm having is,when aclick on a RPM that I have download from the net,I get the open with box come up.If I set the install up thought Mandrake Control Centre,it worksish(I have to have the program name in there),but if I need to install any RPM which is needed by the program I'm installing,it does not work ie dependences Thank you for any help given. urpmi is your friend! 1. Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php 2. then as root, urpmi [program you want to install] saves you searching the net for packages you want or need, and resolves dependancies automatically. at the console, type 'man urpmi' for much, much more info! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install packages using CD writer
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:54:28 -0400 Rana D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there if any a workaround? well, a 'workaround' is to copy the contents of the installation CDs to /usr/src/mdkcd1, etc. then change the path in the MCC to your HD instead of the CDs. this is not a solution, obviously, you should not experience this problem. try in a terminal as root: urpmi drakwizard and report back! schnell! raus! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. -- B. Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 6:33 pm, JoeHill wrote: No problems now, finally got my head around it thanks to all for the help. It was dead easy, in the end. 1. Install imap package. 2. Configure users on server 3. Configure fetchmail Done. Took me the whole day, of course, and about 3 billion test mails, but that's why me is on the newb list I guess... I think you should write a howto in detail. I will be happy to receive it. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broken KDE
On Saturday 19 July 2003 05:10 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:30, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Drew You could login to Gnome, rename the ~/home/yournamehere/.kde directory, then login to KDE again - this will recreate all of the default KDE setups/configurations/themes for you - that way you can discern what exactly went wrong in the first place... Actually, easier is to drop to a virtual terminal or console and issue the command mv .kde .kdebackup and .kde will dissappear, and be renamed as .kdebackup. mv is equivalent to move in WinSnooze, and mv is used to rename files and directories. Basically, I only say this to set you all free from the graphical desktop, and let you in on the power of the commandline. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Broken KDE
On Saturday 19 July 2003 04:30 pm, drew wrote: Hello All, I've broken KDE somehow,I've lost the ability to install RPM's from it.Everything works OK in Gnome. Has anyone got any idea how to fix it? Try running Kpackage from a console terminal, just type kpackage at the prompt and press enter. Most KDE programs will issue complaints in the terminal that only go to the bit bucket when it is run from the Kmenu. Then try to install an rpm from kpackage. If there are complaints, see if you can figure it out, otherwise tell us here what's up. You could also install the rpm using the command: rpm -ivh thefilenamehere.rpm. If its a program that you are upgrading, then try rpm -Uvh thefilenamehere.rpm Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake cooker??
On Saturday 19 July 2003 12:10 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, How does mdk cooker work Do I need iso downloads?? Install mdk9.1 and upgrade?? I have some drive space and would like to tinker. Please some pointers. Enjoy Johan . May this be a good day for learning You'll want to read the cooker HOWTO, but I believe the installation routine is broken right now, so you have to install 9.1 and URPMI to Cooker. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install Problem
Just finished installing 8.1. Atr the end of the install process I was asked to reboot. When I did, after recognizing all the hardware and before getting into the OS, my screen started producing line after line of '40's, nonstop. What is happening?
[newbie] Backing up the important stuff for an upgrade.
I am currently using Mandrake 9.0. I am looking to upgrade my system to either Mandrake 9.1 or Redhat 9.0 (I haven't decided yet). In either case, I would like to backup all my work and reinstall from scratch. I mainly use this machine for coding and checking mail so I only use Evolution, Netscape, and Quanta. What exactly do I need to back up, and how should I go about backing it up so that either Mandrake or Red Hat will be able to utilize my old files? Thanks in advance, Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat on Linux?
You can mount non-Win4Lin directories as drives in Win4Lin so that files are available to both Win4Lin, Linux, and/or dual-boot systems. I do that so that my data drive is available to Linux, Win4Lin, and XP which I dual-boot to on occasion to play games. (Win4Lin makes a default drive D: Mydata that is just a folder in your Linux home directory called mydata.) If you ran some virus code in Win4Lin that wiped drives or destroyed data randomly, your data from on the mounted filesystems would be at risk. But yes, the best thing to do to minimize such risk is perform all e-mail and Internet activity on the Linux side. Miark On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:57:38 -0400, Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. Then if we kept all email, browsers, address books etc. out of the Windows layer, then we should be fairly immune? Bob Frankie wrote: No... A virus is just a program like any other.. If you are running win98 inside linux, and windows runs a virus, it can do anything it could do if windows was running on its own. The only difference is that it can't trash your linux install. can still trash the windows install though.. As I said, a virus is a program, and if a program couldn't run in win4lin windows it would be useless... regards Franki http://htmlfixit.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Backing up the important stuff for an upgrade.
On 19 Jul 2003 22:25:35 -0400 ThinKer [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ***please oh please clear your reply-to address in your mail client. otherwise, replies don't go to the list, and then no one has a chance to say waitaminnit, don't listen to joe! he's an idiot!*** I am currently using Mandrake 9.0. I am looking to upgrade my system to either Mandrake 9.1 or Redhat 9.0 (I haven't decided yet). In either case, I would like to backup all my work and reinstall from scratch. I mainly use this machine for coding and checking mail so I only use Evolution, Netscape, and Quanta. When you install Mandrake, you have the option of use existing partitions, and then you can choose to only format the system partition, /. I am not sure if Red Hat will do that, and of course I must say I would strongly recommend avoiding Red Hat like the plague. Ask Stephen, he's a Red Hat Refugee! What exactly do I need to back up, and how should I go about backing it up so that either Mandrake or Red Hat will be able to utilize my old files? by leaving the /home partition intact, either Red Hat or Mandrake will have access to them. Of course, some of the config files and such may be out or sync, but you can just delete any that cause you probs. As always, it would be a good idea to backup your home dir to cdrom or something, just in case. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -- A. Camus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:54:02 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Interestingly, my 17-year old granddaughter says that none of the modern games have ever given her the pleasure that she used to get from the Spectrum Frogger, Balloons and so on. I wish I had my old Commodore 64 back. That thing had some great games, like jumpman, David's Midnight Magic (pinball), Lode Runner, Raid on Bungeling Bay, oh, the hours...and I always liked Frogger! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ Sometimes you get an almost irresistible urge to go on living. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
In most Western countries, much of the wealth of middle class people is transferred to lawyers via the likes of lawsuits against a restaurant for serving hot coffee (spilled WHILE driving) AND unconstitutional divorce/custody laws, where sharks (lawyers) must be hired to DEFEND ones right to still be a parent post divorce, rather than a visitor or mere wallet. More people need to REFUSE to use lawyers, learn law, and become the only person in the last 4 years to have a circuit court custody decision overturned in WI. On Friday 18 July 2003 07:21 pm, rikona wrote: Hello JoeHill, Friday, July 18, 2003, 2:19:28 PM, you wrote: J and he's got lawyers! even Orwell, as pessimistic as that novel J was, never saw that one coming. God help us all. Makes sense currently. First, we transfer manufacturing offshore, than we transfer services offshore. What's left? The big money is in suing anybody in sight. Lawyers will prosper. It's no accident we think of them as sharks. Sharks have survived for a long time, while other creatures perished. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Converting .ico to ... ?
Anyone successfully converted highcolour alpha blended icons to a readable image format, .png, etc. I have a complete set of the MMX icons in .ico format, would't mind convertin' em. Cheers! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do i setup mandrake to read my shared folder in win2k ?
yes its definitely shared on the windows side :( i was prompted to reboot after changing the workgroup. the sharing was done by right clicking and share this folder with default directory naming conventions. i assume its sharing with full access. both computers are linked through a home broadband router and dhcp. I haven't been in windows in awhile, but if you go to my network places, i think you should be able to see what is sucessfully shared. That might be a first step. - This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail. http://webmail.catholic.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting .ico to ... ?
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:39:02 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone successfully converted highcolour alpha blended icons to a readable image format, .png, etc. I have a complete set of the MMX icons in .ico format, would't mind convertin' em. Cheers! Gnome has an icon editor , I think giconedit, and KDE has one too. Probably the easiest would be to use ImageMagick's convert, such as convert icon.ico icon.png. Todd -- Name that tune #6: You always told me mama, you don't need no other men; now I really do believe it's true--you already got 9 or 10. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Converting .ico to ... ?
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:51:10 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Probably the easiest would be to use ImageMagick's convert, such as convert icon.ico icon.png. Thanks! Compiling as we speak! and watching the Matrix, and burning a CD and downloading...uh...I plead the fifth on that one...heh god i love this os... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] US propose jail for KaZaA users.
Interestingly, this case is the one always brought up when the subject of lawsuits (in the U.S.) raises its head, and the facts of this case are more interesting than just the anecdotal mention would suggest. Why the corporation was found to be culpable was because their coffee was served too hot. Why it was served so hot is the interesting part. More cups of coffee can be brewed from a pound of ground when the water is set to 180 degrees (F) than when set to 140 deg (F). Managers of the restaurant franchises actually complained that the coffee was being brewed too hot, because the cups would soften when the coffee was poured, and they were worried that their employees were being exposed to an unsafe condition. Documents showed that letters had been exchanged between local managers and upper management, and essentially, the upper managers had vetoed lowering the brew temps of the coffeee because it would effect the bottom line -- profits on the sale of coffee would be lower. When the customer was severely burned (badly enough to require skin grafts) and subsequently sued, the documents were discovered, and the jury found the upper management was at fault because they knew, and in fact had been warned on numerous occasions, that the restaurant's policy of brewing coffee at 180 degrees (F) was creating an unsafe condition. On Saturday 19 July 2003 09:00 pm, Keith wrote: In most Western countries, much of the wealth of middle class people is transferred to lawyers via the likes of lawsuits against a restaurant for serving hot coffee (spilled WHILE driving) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
