[newbie] A factually correct article about Open Source
In contrast to the BBC's error-ridden efforts, an excellent summary. Particularly impressive is the author's understanding that Open Source is far from being just OSS (Open Source Software): http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/start.asp?P_Article=12404 (The OpenCola is no joke - see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCola) Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.thebrix.org.uk/ All Mandrake Linux 9.2 URPMI repositories listed! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] on distributions...
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 10:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Take the free download edition for now, then, and don't feel bad about it. The time will come when you can buy. Meanwhile, do your repayment by spreading the word about Mandrake and by offering any of your experiences that may help others. I agree with Anne there. The best you could is download the the free version scour the web (rpmfind and cooker) for the extra needed packages and spread the word ... or better still: Spread a few CD copies:) There have been big discussions elsewhere about this issue, and the general consensus is that: - MandrakeSoft is based in a relatively expensive location (France) so, by the very fact of being there, has relatively large expenses and has to charge French-style prices; - those who can afford to pay those charges (a lot less than Microsoft or Apple!) should do so; - those who cannot should not feel ashamed but should spread the download versions far and wide. The whole issue of differential pricing has never been tackled to any extent; I suspect that it is a hard problem. If it is not possible to buy anything priced in foreign currency from Romania, there must be a thousand similar peculiarities and it will take a long time to reform the world banking system ;) Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Will any thing change with mandrake
David Sexton wrote: I just want to know what every one thinks, what is going to happen to Mandrake. Since Redhat is no longer going to support and release Redhat and instead have Fedora as a replacement. Douse that mean Mandrake is going to be based off Fedora? It certainly started off being based on RedHat, but that was a _long_ time ago. The two are now so divergent one can hardly describe Mandrake as being based on anything except itself! (This is one of the great strengths of Linux - that a distribution can break from another one and, if the reason for doing so is strong enough, it will carve out its own niche. Then the break might happen again - for example, PCLinuxOS* is based on Mandrake 9.2 :) Alastair * http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)
Ronald wrote: I've been looking at some laptop/notebook stuff, and was just wondering about Dells stuff. My wife says we can swing one around tax time grin. Does it work pretty good with Mandrake? I have never had problems with _older_ Dell machines (Latitudes and Inspirons) and Mandrake, unlike some other laptop brands; 9.2 installed out of the box on my C610. If you had to choose, would you pick Intel Xtreme, ATI mobility, or Nvidias' NForce? (and why?) To be honest, there is little difference in performance and features. What might swing it is the driver support which, in my experience, is (in descending order of quality): NVIDIA ATI Intel Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde3.2 for mdk9.2
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 18:11, LtCdData wrote: anyone got the kde3.2 rpms from ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 to install ok ?? .. so far i have about half installed.. the rest fail for various reasons.. I haven't got them all yet, but the way to do it - assuming you aren't doing this already - is to put them all in a directory then (as root) try urpmi * By some alchemy this sorts out the dependencies, which often don't work out if you try to install bit by bit. Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.thebrix.org.uk/ All Mandrake Linux 9.2 URPMI repositories listed! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] safari browser
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:54:57 -0500, Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:41:01 -0600 Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-07-022-26-OS-KE-SW I've never had a mac so i can't compare there, but i can say that, on my machine at least, Konqueror is markedly faster than mozilla. Maybe the previous mac browsers were bulky and slow? Perhaps someone else here using OS X could give us some input, I'd be interested to learn ;) And perhaps they've found a way to improve on the code and make it faster. IE and Mozilla (and Opera) are pretty sluggish and uninspiring under OS X; you have to spend money on one of iCab (www.icab.de) or OmniWeb (www.omnigroup.com) to get something with a bit of zing. (That said, IE is a very different beast from Windows' IE; it has consistently had different features and presentation). Safari is potentially very impressive, and I'm pretty sure the iCab and Omniweb people will be cursing its existence ;) Apparently - according to the KDE CVS notes - Apple brought _huge_ performance and stability improvements to Konqueror's rendering engine because, for all its faults, it has technically excellent employees; the challenge now is retrofitting them to Konqueror: http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/jan102003.html Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake on Shuttles
To replace my aging second-hand Dell I'm thinking of buying one of these remarkable machines. Down with the huge, hideous box! http://us.shuttle.com/ http://www.enigine.com/ (in particular, the SG Athlon-based model). Has anyone installed Mandrake 9.0 on one of these; if so, how did it go? (As a bonus the enigine Web site illustrates the Microsoft tax - at least £88, or 14 per cent of the cost of the system :) Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on Shuttles
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:23:39 -0500, Sabin, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running ML9.0 on an SV24 with a DVD-rom and Hauppage WinTV card as an entertainment system. I've put 512MB and a 1.1GHz Celeron in it. It's more than adequate for replacing my TV, tuner, CD Player and adding DVD playback to the living room. Excellent ... my Shuttle is intended to be the 'one and only' system, apart from the two work laptops which are obliged to run Win2K, and it looks as though it'll be more than up to the job :) Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake web site
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 November 2002 5:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I really don't find the web site easy. When people give me links I find it is full of information, yet although I've been a club member for 3 or 4 months now I've never found out how to use it. I just seem to find introductory pages and go round in circles. It just isn't intuitive to me. I can find the rpm pages without problem, and the voting pages, but when I tried the forum pages, for instance, I could find no way of signing in, if that's needed, or asking a question. How do I get to all these gems of information that Derek and others find on this site? It's a bit of a mess because (among other things) there are _far_ too many domains registered and, as you point out, the navigation is poorly done; there are plenty of sites with far better navigation which could be stolen from. Also, cookies aren't used, which is a bit of a pain as you have to log in far too often (the box for doing so is generally unobtrusive and in the top right of the screen). All the same, with the limited resources Mandrakesoft has I'd prefer these were channeled towards the distribution rather than the Web site unless outright wrong information is being propagated there ... One way to narrow searches which often works is to use the Google syntax search term site:URL eg kernel site:www.linux-mandrake.com Alastair -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91VCddasIDb/2nMwRAnllAJ4pOgKOPnfk+L53P6Z1rsayh3OAbQCfWYEO UgjmjYO7uErD0dcMYBWD1YM= =MGnq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Opera 7 beta email client ... very interesting!
Apropos a previous discussion, this is only on Windows for the moment, but they've done the near-impossible and produced an email client with new and very powerful handling. The concept is that you receive your email as usual but have both predefined and user-defined views. The email is visible within each view for which the email matches the view criteria, and deleting one instance of the email deletes all instances. So, if you received a signed email from this mailing list from Fred Bloggs, you could see it in folders: Mailing lists: newbie.linux-mandrake.com (automatically derived) Attachments: Signatures (automatically derived) Received: From Fred (user-defined) and any other folders whose view criteria it matched. This, in effect storing each email as a record in a database with the folders as query-views on that database, is a very powerful technique once you get used to it (it is hard to get to grips with at first because the model is so different from the usual filter-the-email-into-one-folder) and I have a funny feeling it will catch on and be widely stolen :) Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: StarCalc 6 vs. MS Excel 2000
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 4:20 pm, Technoslick wrote: I'm 'really' trying to wean myself off of M$ crap, butit isn't easy when the change is fighting you... Help! Post it or put it somewhere (with any sensitive text replaced with gibberish) so that everyone can attack it :) I have to say, having wrestled with this sort of thing myself, that Open Source is not above criticism. StarOffice or OpenOffice.org are no panacea when you're trying to do difficult things; they're a long way from perfect, translations are 90% rather than 100% there in general and, for good measure, they're terribly slow. Alastair -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91AZrdasIDb/2nMwRAobqAKCKNRgJFkbzUL6ZspKLocKZtkLdVwCbBdl+ KRr9L8wz9G0CYO31Lblnelc= =F06I -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
Aaron wrote: my 2 cents the pro audio field is a good example of a group of people making drivers (ALSA) and apps that are beginning to make waves. I ended up giving my pro audio card away because the manufacturer wouldn't even help others make drivers. And this is something that only adds sales for their boards. The bottom line seems to be that we need to look before we leap and check that linux drivers exist before buying, sigh. I heard a rumor that some pro audio companies have prototypes of linux versions of their software ready for roll out if their competition releases a verion. As someone whose Lexmark printer has just run out of ink (and it's only about £30 more to get a decent new printer than replace the cartridges) I've been thinking about this. Realistically, the choice for a cheap inkjet running under Linux is between HP and Epson; Canon drivers are poor and Lexmark terrible or nonexistent. If Linux has 5 per cent of market share in OSs, I'd say that each of those manufacturers has less than 1 per cent Linux customers. Evidently HP (in particular) thinks that providing workable drivers for that fraction of users is worthwhile, but Lexmark (in particular) doesn't. I don't know, and will probably never know, the corporate motivations for these stances, but that they are so different is interesting. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm getting peeved!
Todd wrote: Have to agree on the printer choices. I bought into an article i read about 3 years ago on the Lexmark 3200 being a great value for a high quality ink jet printer. So they were on sale at best buy and I bought 2 of them. One for us and one for my roommate's daughter. They are total pieces of crap. Main issues: -Photo quality resolution sucks (puts horizontal lines through the image--even when properly calibrated). -Ink-- Cartridges are expensive (as Alistair already stated) and long-term, if you don't use the ink, it will dry up. I have a laser printer so I only use a color printer for photos. I found that in as little as a couple of months time, the ink will dry up and the cartridges are useless. Under Windows I could print reasonably well. Under Linux I could only ever get 2 of the 3 colours to print. (Not that I used colour much - the thing was mainly used for churning out letters - but it was still annoying). Earlier this year, we bought an HP Photosmart printer and it's fabulous. The photo quality is excellent, and the ink cartridges/pots last a long time and don't dry up on you-- they are expensive, but I haven't had to replace one yet. So as far as printers go, DON'T GET A LEXMARK! You might spend a little more on an HP, but the overall cost over time will be cheaper. My lexmark printers are collecting dust right now. I won't even sell them because I don't want to have to support them to whomever I sell them to. Indeed; my Lexmark went straight in the wheelie bin once the cartridges died! The problem is when people switch from Windows to Linux (or MacOS, or any other OS) and bring with them all sorts of hardware which has assumed Windows but hadn't made that assumption clear. Then they try to use the hardware outside Windows and it doesn't work ... Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE KMail 1.4.3: Unknown Host Error Message
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 10 November 2002 8:09 pm, Daniel P Wheeler wrote: In the Linux Mandrake 9.0 (with Linux kernel 2.4.19-16mdk) shutting-down process the messages Shutting down NMB services [FAILED] Shutting down SMB services [FAILED] Unless there is something really bizarre going on these are nothing to do with kmail; they're to do with Samba (which provides file access to non-Linux clients). Before trying to change settings I would wait a few hours and try again. NTL is _notorious_ for difficulties with email - as an owner of three mailing lists I spend a good few hours a month sorting out problems caused by it (usually misconfigured POP3 servers leading to people not getting mail) :/ Alastair -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9zsHddasIDb/2nMwRAseOAJ9D/JV1cLSurIAQc2fTcNOBbKnmdQCeMZ7V lPOkS8W1ivAZLsENkcPPg1I= =kEq8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evolution
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:12:50 +0200 Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed... That's does only happen with Evolution (now 1.0.8, Mandrake 8.2, but even before with 1.0.5 on 8.1)... Any hint about what's wrong...? As a first step, archive some of it off. Can't remember how as I changed client some time back. Evolution stores a lot of extra data with its emails (XML files and similar); I found that, when I moved to Sylpheed Claws, the saving in hard disk space was over 50 per cent. And SC is much faster ... Alastiar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No sound in LM9
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:46:31 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you underestimate Mandrake and their ability to learn from past errors. While it's true that earlier releases initially had problems, 9.0 has undergone very extensive testing, including three betas, and two or three RCs. And instead of pushing to release bugware on the initial release date of Sept. 13, they chose to put it off until they could hammer out as many bugs as possible. And since it's release a couple weeks ago, how many updates have been made available? I've seen two, maybe three. Don't get me wrong; I'm sure not everything is perfect. But I'm perfectly confident that installing 9.0 on a primary machine is not the Armageddon you describe. And, also, the number of possible hardware combinations is to all effects and purposes infinite; no practical, or even possible, number of beta testers could possibly test any more than an infinitesimal area of the hardware space. The miracle, given the amount of cooperation there generally is from hardware vendors*, is that it works at all! Just to add my 2 pence worth, I have one machine on which paid work is done, ran all betas and release clients (and was a poor beta tester because it's an 18-month-old machine and largely just worked) and am now doing a cooker update every Saturday. Why? Because, by inspection, Mandrakesoft can be trusted to keep things working for what I do. I would never dare replace large chunks of anybody else's operating system each week on a sole machine ;) Alastair * I've just acquired an old Dell laptop (CPi D266XT) with a semi-ruined installation of Windows 95 and want to replace it with Mandrake once I've put 128MB of memory in. I came across a very abrupt statement somewhere from Neomagic (graphics chipset vendors) stating that no drivers would be produced for Linux and there would be no release whatsoever of information to third parties. The miracle is ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:38:30 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn Shane... thx for the info... I hate this... So few OSes... and so little time now :| Sigh whatever happened to Diversity in the Marketshare ? Geez. I think it had the same problem as other non-Microsoft operating systems - the difficulty of keeping up with hardware support - but was closed source so didn't have a large pool of people who knew enough either to write a driver or tell someone else who could write one that a driver was needed. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:57:05 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, BE for some reason went belly up. I don't know why. :| Needless to say I was heartbroken. I was going to use it next. Out of curiousity, is it still available? Palm bought Be and is sitting on the technology; the smart money is that parts of it will be incorporated in PalmOS 6 (not the new version 5, which is really version 1 for a different CPU as Palm and licencees are moving from Motorola to ARM as the CPU vendor of choice for their handhelds). A 'personal edition' of BeOS can be downloaded but is old and isn't being developed any further. There exists an installer which allows BeOS 5 to co-exist with a Linux installation by (basically) installing the OS and a 'partition' inside a huge file; unfortunately, it only recognises ext2-formatted partitions to start with :( http://www.bebits.com/app/2680 The only way to get anywhere at all with BeOS on the desktop seems to be outside Palm, and OpenBeOS is trying: http://www.openbeos.org/ The authors can't be faulted for ambition (first recreate an existing closed source OS as open source, then proceed thereto!) and are certainly having a terrific shot at it. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:01:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? gkrellm gives you a nice network meter (for ppp0 in this instance) and much else. Texstar has RPMs. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org bug
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:08:43 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Bug On my Windows versions oo.o 1.0 1.0.1 the buttons on the toolbar usually load degraded, in other words the image for the button is distorted. Has anyone heard of this before. I am running it on w98 and a nVidia Vanta graphic board. /my bug Linux version is great. Please point me anywhere. First of all, download and install the latest Win98 driver for that card if you don't have it already. Then, if that makes no difference, try newsgroups or mailing lists for nVidia products (eg alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia): the problem is very unlikely to be with OOo. I've seen this sort of problem before with ATI cards and earlier versions of Windows; it was invariably fixed by a driver update. Strangely, it is _always_ toolbar buttons that appear corrupt; never any other widgets. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windblows
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:08:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: ...the last asset, money, is startiong to get tied up between courts, payed off poloticians, dropping economy, and great ventures like the xbox... Excellent commentary on M$, Shane. About the _only_ thing you left out was this beautiful dash of salt: the latest cancer OS by Mandrake has spread to said xbox ;-) Well ... I work on a military project which is specifying a combination of off-the-shelf and bespoke software. I was handed a paper today which studied in great detail (50 pages) the security of Microsoft Office. It was damning and stated it _could never_ be secured and that an alternative was _mandatory_ if anything other than unclassified information were to be on the same PC. The suggested alternative was OOo and the clincher was the availability of the source code; if insecure it could be secured. (This adds an interesting wrinkle to the GPL; if these security fixes increase the security classification of the software the updated source code cannot be redistributed!) So the fortress has already fallen but nobody can hear it fall ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] usb printer probs in 9.0?
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:24:45 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's alarming me, though. Marcia can't get her DeskJet 940 going. I have a 990 which should be the same but I'm waiting for my ordered disks to arrive. I just hope this is sorted before I start my install. A system without printing is no good to me. Well, both appear to be, although not necessarily by the Mandrake setup (not sure what drivers it uses): http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/productssupported.php Alastair (Lexmark Z42 sitting on a top shelf :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Trying to get GNOME panel to look more like KDE
Rob wrote: Anyway, my problem is this: I've been using KDE everytime I've used Linux, but after looking at GNOME, it seems faster, plus it has Ximian Evolution, which I rather like (blows Outlook XP away completely) But in Mandrake 9, GNOME looks weird, there's a blank (ish) panel at the bottom of the screen, and another Mac-stylee panel at the top, how to I get all this stuff to the bottom of the screen (like in Red Hat / Mandrake 8.2) This is being recalled from memory as I'm currently using a Windows NT machine ;) The trick is to use the right mouse button on the existing panels. There's a plethora of options in the pop-up menu that appears; you can remove panels completely, move them around, change their width or add or remove a variety of applets to or from the panel. Probably one of the first things you want to do is add the GNOME Menu to the existing panel at the bottom; that gives you a 'foot' icon which pops up a near-replica of the Mandrake and Actions menus in the top panel. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] preparing to install 9.0
On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 22:26:11 +0500 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings everyone, I have succeeded in downloading the Mdk 9.0 iso's and burning them to cd. :) I did the downloading and burning on a WinXP box, and used md5summer.exe to check the iso's. All seems to have gone OK. I've been using 8.2 for a while, but I would like to ask what is my best option to install 9.0: should I wipe out my 3 partitions and reinstall 9.0 fresh, or can I safely save my /home partition from 8.2 to be used in 9.0? I really don't have any valuable data, but it would be nice to save my preferences. I do want to do it the way that will insure the best install however. Personally, I would back up /home to CD-R or whatever then install 9.0 from scratch by reformatting all existing partitions. Unfortunately backwards compatibility of initialisation files is far from perfect; Mozilla and OpenOffice.org seem to cause particular difficulties. Then, from the backup, you can put back configuration files (eg Mozilla bookmarks, mail directories, and so on). Also, should I go with the recommended installation, or try the expert mode? I'm not too sure about trying anything that requires I be an expert just yet.;) I would try recommended. Expert can pop up some rather obscure options, particularly at the hardware detection stage. I want to install everything that is required to build rpms from source.is that possible? If I choose to install the development package, will that be close to getting me there? Yes, as that installs the development libraries and similar. Missing it out means, quite often, that you eventually have to load them one by one. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake not working
Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (10/03/2002 10:58) Hi! I'm having trouble with rpmdrake, when I try to urpmi packages, the program hangs and when I try and install packages from graphical interface it seems to take forever, although they do eventually install. Can anyone explain the reason for this slowness? And tell me what I need to do to correct it. Please cc me a copy of email reply to my home address.. It's just general slowness of public mirror servers, for which there is no cure; Mandrake 9.0 and Red Hat 8.0 being issued within a week of one another has led to machines all round the world being reduced to iron filings as the CD images download ... slowly ;) An enhancement I'll suggest for 9.1 is that you can specify a server- specific timeout (if the server doesn't respond within N seconds, go on to the next server to get details from) as this timeout is, evidently, hardwired. To see what actually happens without the GUI hiding the details use the command line (as root): urpmi.update -a (to update all package lists from all servers); urpmi.update server (to update the package list from server server); urpmi --auto-select (to update all packages which are updateable). Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9 review (with sensible installation hints)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27377.html The only real problem with it is that the author doesn't understand Mandrakesoft's policy regarding licensing of packages - in download editions, GPL or equivalent or the package is not included. Given that there is _general_ misunderstanding of this, methinks a statement should go right up front on the Mandrakesoft Web site before too many more people grab the wrong end of the stick. The thought of the Gnome menu bar appearing at the _bottom_ of the screen (so the menus pop upwards) fills me with horror, though ;) Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HELP
- Original Message -
From: windwalker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: [newbie] HELP
Here is my problem
Im a home user.. I want to toal replace my win98 OS
It has had nothing but problems since i got it.
All I need is a email client/browser and a way
to get on net.. Along with simple programs.
I have a pentium system {800mhz} two 20gb hard drives
over 500 ram... a printer/ scanner/ and photo program
NOW as a newby will Linux Mandrake be more stable than
win98? easier to fix??
What has brought me to this comtemplation?
First on boot up I have a major problem with windows.. it will boot
then certain files are missing according to prompt
Doing a new install of windows 98 is no good as disk says certain cab
files missing and dll files. Guess the disk is damaged.. So as you see
I need to either get another Windows OS or go for something more stable..
Ive replaced windows no less than 8 times over a few years...
Can anyone give info to me.. the newbe on linux???
I have simple needsas a home user
Certainly any variation on Linux will be more stable than Windows 98; the relative
stability of XP or 2000 is a closer call as both improve over 98 in many ways.
The main problem with Linux is detecting and supporting hardware; manufacturers have
very divergent approaches. Some provide their own Linux drivers; others are unhelpful
and leave third parties to do their best. That said, things are much better than they
were even two years ago, when a perfectly ordinary HP CD-RW drive just wouldn't work
with an ancient version of SuSE (6.3); with Mandrake 9.0 everything attached to my
Dell, as well as everything inside it, was detected properly, although my Lexmark Z42
printer only prints in black and white.
I recommend, first, that you look at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
to see whether your printer and scanner are supported.
As for handling photos, there are a number of packages which you get free with
Mandrake, such as
The GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
gPhoto http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/
Both of these are excellent; fully up to commercial quality.
Alastair
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Re: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time
- Original Message - From: magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 1901 9:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time Hi all, Digging thru Webmin I came across a page to enter the host/address of a time server. I have searched google and found only ONE UK public server on IP 199.165.76.11 but if I use it and request webmin to sync the time my system clock is reset to the year 1969. Now... have I lost the plot on this or am I simply doing something wrong? An easier way than installing daemons and goodness what knows else is to install xntp (you'll find a package via rpmfind) and then, as root, type ntpdate ntp0.strath.ac.uk That NTP server, and its University of Strathclyde sister at ntp1.strath.ac.uk, have rarely let me down :) There are other ones, such as ntpx.ncl.ac.uk (x=0,1,2 or 3 - University of Newcastle) and ntp2x.mcc.ac.uk (x=a,b,c or d - University of Manchester). Unfortunately most of the lists of NTP servers are out of date, but these ones all work. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Keeping accurate system time
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:11:07 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Alastair. Installed it from mdk8.2 CD3, and it worked fine on main machine. Any suggestions on how to get the other 5 networked boxs to sync their time with the main box? Set up a ntpdate as an identical cron job on each box? Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking MS-Exchange (MAPI) email in Linux?
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:30:09 -0400 Ralph M. Los [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sothe answer I'm seeing here is that there IS NO GNU-licensed freeware Exchange Connector? D'oh! I guess I'm stuck with my WinXP partition on my laptop then :( MAPI is yet another proprietary protocol ... Ask your IS people if they support POP3 or IMAP4 access via the Exchange server (they may already do, but don't let on about it) ... Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Re: Connecting with Customers
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:09:04 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wow, maybe MS feels pressure from linux. got a mail today. my responce is included. childish of me i know, but i am a bad person down deep... Interestingly, I got a copy at work and it was automatically classified as spam (by the server copy of spamassassin) :) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hoto use tab browsing in Konqueror
On 30 Sep 2002 22:32:08 -0500 Jim Fazio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I thought that I had read that the new Konqueror was going to have tabbed browsing in fact I have seen a picture in the Konqueror manual that shows that the CVS is capable of tabbed browsing, but nowhere can I see how to use it. My question: How do you use tabs in Konqueror? (i.e. not open a new window, but open in a new tab) It's not there yet - the tabs are in Konqueror version 3.1, which is currently a beta (or, as KDE likes to call it, 'experimental') and not part of Mandrake 9.0, which ships with Konqueror version 3.0.3. There are two other browsers provided - galeon and mozilla - which provide tabs, and very useful they are! Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:53:52 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also ran usbview - on a hunch, and it said that it oculdn't find /proc/bus/usb/devices and suggested I make sure I had usb support compiled into my kernel. I'm using the default mdk9.0 kernel, so it's probably just that usb modules or something haven't been loaded. Not sure how to do this. Once I can get the speedtouch actually recognised, I'll try the ideas to get it working.. as to how to get it recognised... seems I need help still :) I'm running out of inspiration ... but is the ST your only USB device? On the face of it it sounds as though the installation didn't find it and decided there was no USB _at all_ for some reason! If it is it might be worth getting a loan of another USB device, plugging it in, and reinstalling in the hope that the installation might detect it, and install USB support as well. Then plug in the ST and run harddrake2 which - this time - would surely find it. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrading
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:44:40 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ordered the 9.0 Power Pack the other night, when it comes in what is the best way to upgrade? Install over the old 8.2 or backup my /home partition, clean off the drive, install 9.0 and then restore my home partiton. Also, does anyone know if 9.0 supports the HP Scanjet 4400c or will I still have to keep my windows drive active for scanning. Wipe completely then reinstall - backward compatibility of configurations is not a strong point when people upgrade their packages, and I had a number of glitches when I didn't wipe (particularly with Mozilla). On the scanner, it appears not, unless the 4100 beta sane driver happens to work with the 4400: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Was Mandrake 9.0 ready for release?
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:24:14 -0700 Mark Berkwitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too many problems. 1) I use a MS Intelli-mouse and just like in 8.2 if I select a wheel mouse the cursor goes nuts. 2) Whether I select cable or network my browser won't work. If I start with 2 nics and later try to reconfig with just one in the box it still won't access the internet. 3) While using Mandrake Control Center 9.0 to reconfig the network I notice I can change the monitor from generic to exactly what I have, a Princeton Ultra 92. After I set it as that the Xserver crashes. And I don't know what will happen next. I'm sorry to say this but I'm either going back to RH 7.3 or wait until I can get RH 8.0 and give that a try. I used to love Mandrake. Everything (sound and internet connectivity) just seemed to work right after installation. I suppose I should have downloaded one of the Betas and complained then. On 1 I feel you used the standard (not expert) install. For some reason mice are tricky to auto-detect, and the expert install allows you to select a type and then test it*. Given that there's a problem, I also suggest you use the USB to PS/2 converter to plug the mouse into the PS/2 port; there were some oddities with USB mice in the beta testing. (Methinks this test should be included in the standard install; I suggested it was, but it didn't happen). Can't help with 2. On 3, you can use xf86config to set the monitor back to a generic default. Is anything added by using a non-generic setting? (Not here - 'flat panel 1280x1024' does the job although there are loads of iiyama-specific settings). Alastair * interestingly, the test results in moving the pointer round a box and the 'cursor going nuts' for a few seconds until it behaves itself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:06 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? Did the appropriate piece in the Mandrake Configuration Centre ask you for username, password, country etc.? Skipped the network setup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:56:06 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.0 and skipped the network setup. I then booted into mandrake and placed mgmt.o into /usr/share/speedtouch Then I went to configure network settings. I tried to configure alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem. It requested cd 1 and installed files, and then completed. However the connection wouldn't work. Now as mandrake has a specific option to install the alcatel speedtouch adsl modem, I assume that this works fairly well.. and that therefore it is something I am missing. What should I do to get my adsl connection working? whoops - slip and Send was pressed too soon! Did the appropriate piece in the Mandrake Configuration Centre ask you for username, password, country etc.? If all that's been entered the best thing to do is just to ignore all the Mandrake flapdoodle and do two things: i. put mgmt.o in your home directory ii. make a 2-line script, say adsl, there thus: modem_run -m -f mgmt.o pppd call adsl iii. make it executable (chmod a+x adsl) then run it (./adsl). After about 20 seconds the beans will be in a row and the connection will be live. As you can guess from the way this was written I've never bothered with the Control Centre stuff; this method is much more direct. (If the username, password etc. haven't been entered the best thing to do is to run drakconnect as root, which will run a wizard similar to that during installation which will - eventually - prompt for them. Then go back to 'put mgmt.o ...' and continue from there). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200 Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in word97 format.) Alas the current Mandrake installation will not work with that hardware; according to the 9.0 details page* 64MB is minimal and 128MB recommended. There seem to be two choices: If you can, somehow, add more memory (preferably up to 192MB or 256MB - there is no such thing as too much memory), use Mandrake 9.0 and OOo, which will input and output in Word format. If you can't, the best solution is probably Mandrake 7.0 (still on the mirrors) and AbiWord, which is not bad and has as minimum requirement a 486 with 16MB (!), but has two big disadvantages; i. no support for tables (probably fatal for a thesis); ii. no Word output (but it can do Rich Text Format [RTF], which any version of Word can interpret without losing formatting). As it turns out I managed to get an old IBM Thinkpad, with a Pentium 233 and 160MB memory, and OOo working quite well with Mandrake 8.2 for thesis-writing. Alastair * http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/90 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:52 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried doing what you suggest, but upon running the 'adsl' file I get a message saying that it couldn't find my adsl modem, and to try to see if it is shown under '/proc/something or other/devices' (can't recall the exact path) and that location doesn't exist for me to check under. The speedtouch was recognised under mdk8.2 so I am wondering why it isn't recognised in 9.0 (if indeed that is what the problem is..). Very odd, as I had no problems (and never had any with any of the betas or RCs). Next three suggestions: i. do lspcidrake -v as root. Do you see a line like [root@localhost thebrix]# unknown: Alcatel|USB ADSL Modem (Speed Touch) [] (vendor:06b9 device:4061) anywhere in the output? (Paste the output here so that everyone can crawl over it!) ii. run harddrake2 as root; this will re-detect all the hardware (and not show the ST in the popup window - this is a known bug :) iii. if i turns up nothing, or the ./adsl script, run as root, still doesn't work after ii, what is the ST connected to? A hub? If so, move things around so that it's connected to a main motherboard port then run harddrake2 then the ./adsl script as root and see what happens. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] resizing photos
On 30 Sep 2002 17:16:24 -0400 Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resize a bunch of photos at the same time? I have a folder with 42 photos from my digital camera and would like to make them 1/3 the size to put on the web in as few strokes as possible. Ok, at least in an easy and reproducable way. ImageMagick - the mogrify command therein - will do it: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html Something like mogrify -resize 33%x33% *.jpg would appear to work. (Of course this will _replace_ all the existing .jpg files with their smaller mogrifications, so back them up first!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] standard edition vs download edition?
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:54:59 +0500 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I want to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0, and I want to know if the standard edition from Mdk for $30 USD is the same as the download edition, content wise? I can remember reading somewhere that in Mdk 8.2, there was a difference in the content of the standard cd's from Mdk, and the download version. That the download version actually was more complete. Was that just an anomaly w/8.2? I really want to support Mdk, and $30 is certainly little enough to pay for the cd's. I was wondering about the content though. I'm on a dialup, and downloading large packages is a real pain. ;-) There's been quite a lot of discussion about this on [cooker]. I believe that the 'standard edition' is the download edition plus some commercial demos or similar; the last CD of the download edition is 150MB short because the demos were deliberately left out to save about 10 per cent of total bandwidth per download. I don't know what the demos are, but they could well be things like Hancom Office. From what I've read 9.0 has been carefully set up so that the download edition and the 'standard edition' are interchangeable (less maintenance, and if urpmi asks for CD 2, you can use either CD 2 without confusion setting in). Apparently this was not the case with 8.2. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PNY compactflash cardreader works in 9.0
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:36:07 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yessiree, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, the PNY card reader for my Kodak DC3400 camera works like a charm. I use konqueror to open up the /mnt partition and there is memory_card. Click on it and a list of my jpegs shows up, and I can move them all to a folder on my hard drive with no problem. That is the last thing I needed window for, and now I don't. Need windows at all, that is. Ho,Ho,Ho. This might be because, in the Release Client phase, I tried to put _two_ solid state memory readers in at the same time and there was a most entertaining display of fireworks (kernel panics etcetera). A few MB of logs and emails later it was fixed, and I find the 9.0 solid state memory support to be ... solid. Far better than 8.2 - no confusion about whether the device is read+write or read-only, for example! Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Credit card charging conventions
On-topic because I'm referring to MandrakeSoft :) I put in an order for a boxed set of 9.0 yesterday (the 7-CD PowerPack), and note that the £50 appears to have been charged to my credit card although the boxed sets are due out third week in October. This sort of thing - taking the money before the goods are _capable_ of being dispatched - is frowned on, although not illegal, in the United Kingdom, and a large proportion of companies say up front that we will not debit your card until the goods are dispatched, and don't. What are the conventions in other counties? (I also note that the Value Added Tax rate in France is 19.6 per cent. It's a mere 17.5 per cent in the United Kingdom). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:10:10 -0500 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if there is a setting in MD 8.2 which limits file size when downloading? I have used Galeon and Gftp, and they both make it up to approx. 102,400,000 bytes then they just crash or exit. I have attempted CD1 and CD2 thru a couple of different mirrors - including this one provided by Michael. Ah, I recognise this one. As root type InteractiveBastille which will try to set various parameters to values which harden your system against intrusion and mishap. Somewhere in the middle of the lengthy wizard there should be an option to enter a limit for the size of an individual file. It is set by default to 100 (MB); change it to 800 and the ISOs will no longer stop after 100MB. Mandrake 9.0 has dropped InteractiveBastille; I wonder why ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup system
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:31:24 + robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. And, in 9.0, there's drakbackup, which is very comprehensive - backing up appropriate system files and directories plus those of no, any, or all users to CD, tape, network or HD. (It even incorporates tricks such as not backing up browser caches ...). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /dev/usbmouse does not exist
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:03:14 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, After a browse through the archives, I need to resort to your knowledge. I tried getting my Logitech Trackman to work as a USB device. Mousedrake complains that /dev/usbmouse does not exist when I select the USB | Wheel option. (/dev/mouse is pointing to /dev/usbmouse then.) When I hook it up through the PS/2 connector it works again (PS/2 Wheel mouse, /dev/mouse - psaux). Does anyone know what it takes to get this to work? I run MDK 8.2 on an AMD 1.2Ghz, 256 Ram with a plain 2.4.18 kernel. The /dev/usbmouse and /dev/psaux problems with some Logitech mice have been ahem notorious in the 9.0 beta cycle. However, they're finally sorted. (As far as I can tell they're to do with mouse support in the 2.4.18 and early 2.4.19 kernels, not with USB per se: so the camera will surely be OK). I'd advise you to stick to using the PS/2 connector until (if) you upgrade. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] USB hard drive
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:54:35 -0400 John Bodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB hard Drive. I can't find where the device is located so I can mount it. When I installed the system (mandrake RC3) it found a SCSI -usb device, so I assume that's what it thinks the drive is, a SCSI device. I don't have any drives under /dev/scsi and none under /dev/usb Any ideas? 0. Do cat /etc/mtab and see if there's anything there that looks like it. (It may be mounted already, and that file contains a list of all the mounted filesystems). 1. Type harddrake2 as root with the USB drive plugged in and switched on; this will detect all the hardware again and (hopefully) display what the drive is called in the window that pops up. 2. If that doesn't find it, unless anyone else has any ideas probably the best solution is to download [eventually] and install 9.0. There was a lot of trouble in RC2 and RC3 with USB and pluggable devices; my external USB CD-RW was most shaky in those builds. It's fine now. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Up running, but still need help
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:59, Steven Kopischke wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on my Compaq Presario 700 laptop in its own partition. My USB-based wireless mouse is working fine and I was even able to load Opera from an rpm download. I am running into a few issues yet that I hope to find help for: 1. My Brother MFC9200C printer isn't recognized by Linux. It is attached 'uh oh' was my immediate thought here, and it's confirmed: http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html#brother Unfortunately, printers being designed on the assumption that they will always be connected to a Windows machine, thus using proprietary functionality therein which is not made public, is a notorious, insoluble problem. My Lexmark Z42 at least prints in black and white, but colour is not possible ... When the black and white cartridge on mine runs out, I intend to buy a new printer. Some manufacturers are more understanding: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:00:22 +0300 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nicely put. I suggest you post it, or better, a link to it, widely (/., kuro5hin, general press etc.). OTOH, I'm still considering buying an Athlon chip in the near future. I don't want Intel, so what other choice is there? It's not high-end, but the VIA C3 is very interesting: http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp It's causing quite a fuss when coupled with the new mini-ITX form factor motherboards: http://www.mini-itx.com/ The reason being that the resultant box is tiny, power consumption is extremely low and _no fans are required_. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some misconceptions regarding TCPA
I note the wrong end of the stick has been grasped on several occasions. The [ukcrypto] mailing list has noted that a mandatory feature of TCPA, the (cross-supplier) hardware architecture on which the (Microsoft) Palladium software architecture is based, is that any hardware security features _must be capable of being turned off in the BIOS_. And a feature of TCPA is that that BIOS will be secure, so nothing can hijack the BIOS. Of course, this might mean that software which requires those features will pop up a dialog box if they're disabled, but alternative operating systems will continue to work no matter their level of support for TCPA. There is a *very* competent person on the list who is a member of one of the TCPA steering committees: he is doing a good job of damping down the more strident rhetoric and half-baked ideas that are being proposed (sounds familiar ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:23:12 -0400 Tommy Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well put. Now to spread the word :) On K5 it's been spread already ... http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/21/152527/963 Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup system
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:31:14 -0700 Schwenk, Jeanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is growing. Can't afford to lose this data. The usual Free Software suspect is amanda: http://www.amanda.org/ There are Mandrake packages in contribs, for example: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/ (amanda-client ... and amanda-server ...). If you want something commercial bru (which I used 12 years ago on SunOS!) is the way to go: http://www.tolisgroup.com/ Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3353 It can be got from the various mirrors; I'm downloading mine from the fast and reliable UK academic network ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586 kindly paid for by the British taxpayer ... er ... um ... myself and others ;) The curious thing is that the ISO files, although dated last night, are still called '...rc3...', but the belief is that Mandrakesoft has done this, as it apparently did with 8.2, in order to damp down a mad rush: the filenames will be changed in time. I also note that the third ISO is 100MB larger than has been in the various betas and RCs; in about nine hours from now I'll find out what's been added. Now to hide under the bed to escape all the complaints from people who wanted their 'pet bug' fixed and find out it wasn't (ouch! - but it had to be said) Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'mgetting pretty pissed off with...
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 01:06, FemmeFatale wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27232.html One of these days when I Can completely stop using windows I will enjoy it very much. Being a non-games-player I stopped a year ago; there was no need to keep a partition to do things. The only software which could conceivably be installed is that which accompanies my new Clie but, on inspection, it's all flapdoodle and most of what it does can be done from the command line. Something rather worrying is The (Sunday) Times being used as a Microsoft mouthpiece. I remember when The Times was almost completely taken over by Microsoft-sponsored coverage of the Windows 95 launch; the row was phenomenal, I suppose because, at that time, The Times was still expected to be (reasonably) objective. (Mind you, the other newspapers were far from blameless: The Guardian published a negative review of Windows 95 by Douglas Adams which was deplorably technically ignorant - as I remember he was a Mac user - and was widely parodied. It didn't try that again). Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:11, Technoslick wrote: I tried the PCLinux On-line link (even logged in as a member) and it came back with an error message that stated that the download area doesn't work. Can you tell me where else you found the real things at? I have looked around some mirror sites (U.S. only) and found all references to the current beta distribution. I ralize that even the new release will have 'concerns', so I am only being anal by saying that I want the full release. Has anyone else jumped on this news and/or has any recommendations or comments on this? The clue is the date of the .iso files. If the date is 23 September, it's the 9.0 release (despite the filename); if it's 17 September, it's RC3. Looking at CD 1, there's a file VERSION which contains Mandrake Linux 9.0 Dolphin-i586 20020923 15:18 Also, the burned CD 1 is named Mandrake9.0-inst-1 on my desktop. If it looks like a dolphin, and reads like a dolphin ... it's a dolphin! Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote: I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been guilty of these. Maybe I'm not the only one :^) It has value up to a point, but is too rigid and is ignorant of people with abilities different to those of the author. It reminds me of the frightful proscriptive grammar textbooks used when education was a little less enlightened. For example, Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language sounds wonderful until someone who is dyslexic wants to ask a question, for example; not everyone's strength is in the written form of a language, and one has to be forgiving. Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] E mail bounces
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 18:11, Poogle wrote: I am trying to reply to an e mail from a friend but I get the following bounce message:- Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: dns; freemail.asda.gr (194.219.142.49) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.0.0 Spaming or open relays not allowed. This comes from my ISP (NTL broadband in the UK) The part that confuses me is the reference to open relays, how can I check this and resolve it if necessary ? I've had endless trouble (as a listmaster) in the past with NTL email subscribers, although I haven't seen this sort of problem for a few months :( The usual meaning of 'open relay' is that someone logged in at a.com is trying to send an email to someone at c.com via a SMTP server at b.com (rather than a.com); this can be used for dubious purposes, as it makes the message appear to come from b.com rather than a.com, and is usually blocked by b.com with the type of message you see being returned. asda.gr seems to think that you, at ntlworld.com, are using asda.gr (rather than ntlworld.com) as the downstream SMTP server. From previous experience, this is because NTL is trying to be clever (for obscure reasons best known to itself) and rewrite email headers ... Unfortunately there's no obvious cure apart from resending until it works; I've had arguments in the past trying to get NTL to just handle email as it is. Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Tar or zip?
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:34, Anne Wilson wrote: I need to send a collection of fonts (about a dozen in all) to a windows user. I thought a zip file would be the easiest way., but I'm not sure how to get a zip file in linux (Mdk 8.2). I thought I would temporarily copy the files into a separate directory so that I can zip all the files in the directory. Could someone please point me at the way? I think she has Winzip 8, so if I'm stuck, she could probably unzip a tar file. The easiest way is to install zip. unzip is already installed but, for some inscrutable reason, unzip isn't (on 9.0RC3). So urpmi zip then zip name of zip file.zip list of files will do the job. Do I take it, then, that (once I have installed zip), I use zip font.zip list_of_files_separated_by_spaces ? Yes. Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Tar or zip?
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:34, Anne Wilson wrote: I need to send a collection of fonts (about a dozen in all) to a windows user. I thought a zip file would be the easiest way., but I'm not sure how to get a zip file in linux (Mdk 8.2). I thought I would temporarily copy the files into a separate directory so that I can zip all the files in the directory. Could someone please point me at the way? I think she has Winzip 8, so if I'm stuck, she could probably unzip a tar file. The easiest way is to install zip. unzip is already installed but, for some inscrutable reason, unzip isn't (on 9.0RC3). So urpmi zip then zip name of zip file.zip list of files will do the job. WinZip will expand .tar.gz files, but painfully - in two steps and with a clunky user interface ... Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:36, Franki wrote: I don't think the answer would be yes... By a strange coincidence a very interesting post from Thor Larholm (of the IE list) regarding Mozilla appeared on [bugtraq]. I reproduce it in full; it would seem that the yes can't be very confident (of course, we will never know what Microsoft finds, and fixes, internally): On September 9th I wrote the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- START -- I noticed that you have published a list ( http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html ) of security issues that have been fixed in Mozilla 1.0.1 I would recommend posting this list to the Bugtraq mailinglist, [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that the secinfo industry and the public in general becomes aware of these. This would help raise the awareness of your security efforts, as well as urge users of older versions to upgrade and provide hints to other software products that embed Gecko, or other parts of Mozilla, that they should consider getting fresh sources for their projects. In case you feel that this is not a necessary action, I would like to personally make the list aware of these security fixes in a matter of 5 working days. -- END -- At first I received a reply from Asa Dotzler, which among others mentioned that the list was far from comprehensive and It would be much better if someone (mitch) updated the real page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html; So I forwarded and wrote to Mitch: May I recommend updating the official list of known vulnerabilities in Mozilla to include the vulnerabilities that have been fixed, such as XMLHTTP and the many on Asas list? And received a short reply last thursday: Yes, that page will be updated soon. Thanks for letting me know. Since nothing has happened, I thought I would pass this on to the list. This is a short list of issues fixed between the 1.0 and 1.0.1 version of Mozilla. As Asa mentioned, this list was just put together from some queries on Bugzilla. Undoubtedly, there will be many more vulnerabilities that have been fixed, and it would be a welcome change to let the public know about these. BUG ID Product Component Summary 88183 Browser Plug-ins navigator.plugins leaks path names 104472 Browser Security execution of scripts in the file: protocol from XUL using cgi 125583 Browser Security Disable automatic XLinks in Mail 135267 Browser Security Reading files cross-host using styles 144228 MailNews Security Malicious email breaks POP server connection 146094 Browser Networking Stealing third-party cookies through a proxy 147754 Browser Security XMLSerializer needs same-origin check 148256 Browser XML flawfinder warnings in XML Extras 148269 NSS Libraries flawfinder warnings in mozilla/security 148520 Browser Password Manager window.prompt is returning a saved password instead of prompting. 149777 Browser Security Node cloned from external, untrusted document and appended to chrome document. 149943 Browser Security Princeton-like exploit may be possible 150339 Browser Internationalization huge font crashes X Windows 151933 Browser XML xml:base should not allow setting chrome URLs 152697 Browser Networking no limit on the size of a HTTP header 152725 Browser Cookies Possible cookie stealing using javascript: URLs 154030 Browser Security HTML directory indexer doesn't html-escape url 154240 PSM Client Libraries No warning when redirecting https-http-https at http protocol level 154930 Browser Security document.domain abused to access hosts behind firewall 155222 Browser Security Heap corruption in PNG library 157202 Browser Security Exploitable (?) heap overrun in PNG 157652 Browser JavaScript Engine Crash, possible heap corruption in JS Array.prototype.sort 157845 Browser DOM Events Crash involving document.open() 157989 Browser ImageLib Possible heap corruption with 0-width GIF 161721 Browser Installer install in onkeypress for space key bypasses warning dialog To put it shortly, I do appreciate the efforts put forth by the Mozilla.org team, I just wish they could be more communicative instead of hiding the fact that Mozilla, like most any other software product, has had and will have a long number of security vulnerabilities. Undoubtedly, this gives a different view on the security of Mozilla than one would get by reading the official list of vulnerabilities (listing just 1 vulnerability). Again, the above was just an incomplete list of security issues that were fixed between the minor version change 1.0 to 1.0.1, I have no idea about the amount of issues that remain or that has been fixed so far. Regards Thor Larholm, Security Researcher PivX Solutions, LLC Are You Secure? http://www.PivX.com; signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie]ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLin ux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:14, John Richard Smith wrote: I notice that MandrakeLinux-9.0rc2 went from the websites this morning, and seems to be replaced by, Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-1.i586.iso Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso this is another beta ? not the finished article ? RC2 had big problems with removable storage devices and similar (extremely wobbly detecting of my Clie), and also with USB hubs (occasionally both of my hubs were dead on booting, and I was not the only person with this problem) so the new RC3 is prudent; the kernel has moved from 2.4.19-7mdk to 2.4.19-13mdk at least in the interim. I had to reinstall RC2 from scratch in order to begin to install RC3 (so that RC2 would recognise my external USB CD writer; harddrake2 under RC2 refused to 'see' it) :) Once all three ISOs are downloaded and the CDs are written I shall plaster every removable storage device I have on (USB CD writer; USB PalmOS handheld; USB solid state card reader) and see what happens when I install RC3 ... Alastair PS This reminds me horribly of Windows 2000, when several hardware devices I had at the time had no acceptable drivers for months and I had to revert to Windows 98 :( signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE REGISTER?
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:05, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote: Hello all, Just I have installed by first time the mandrake 8.0 and I would like to register this but I get this software thought a magazine and does not had included the Serial Number. What I can do to get one Serial Number or How I can register the software? Unlike Windows or MacOS, with Linux software there's usually no such thing as registration and there certainly isn't any with Mandrake Linux. In fact, Linux is based on a _completely different_ philosophy from other operating systems, as you'll see here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.es.html One of the best things about Open Source / Free Software is that, even when the software costs money, you just pay it. There are no registration codes, serial numbers or other things to lose :) Should you decide that you want to reward MandrakeSoft for their efforts there are at least two things you can do: i. buy a boxed set from http://new.mandrakestore.com/ ii. join the Mandrake Club http://www.mandrakeclub.com/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Getting to Gnome 2
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 01:30, Todd Slater wrote: Is there a painless way to move up to Gnome 2? I'm currently running 8.2. If you don't want to move to 9.0, the Mandrake Club has RPMs for 8.2. It's not quite painless - slight sting in the wallet region - but the packager has done an excellent job. (Unlike KDE, the installation of a new version of Gnome is a bit of a shambles, with packages everywhere). If you are _really_ daring you could try Garnome, which builds Gnome 2 from scratch via some cunningly-devised scripts. I could never get it to work 100 per cent, though: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 12:49, Franki wrote: I would word that better, makes you sound like a fanatic.. perhaps something along these lines. You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (tm) Before you proceed onto the site, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't tell you of the Security flaws inherent in Internet Explorer, so far more then 20 different methods of stealing your data or damaging your computers OS have been found and documented for people using Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Microsoft is encouraging the use of their proprietry methods which should it proceed as they plan, would result in an internet that is reliant upon you buying Microsoft products whenever they decide you should. As an alternative that is truely open in standards and totally free, pleaes consider Mozilla. mozilla.org The page which lists the N vulnerabilities (N=19 at the time of writing) is: http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/ Rather than '... 20 different methods ...', I would say 'So far dozens of security flaws in Internet Explorer have been found which allow a malicious person to take control of your computer, steal data therein or damage its operating system; almost 20 of those flaws are currently unpatched' with the last 2 words linking to the URL above. Last paragraph: Alternative browsers include Mozilla or Opera (Linux), Mozilla, Galeon or Opera (Linux) and Onmiweb*, Chimera** or iCab*** (MacOS). [People could argue forever about what 'open standards' mean, so I'd leave it out. Note that Opera and Mozilla are also available on MacOS but are considered 'clunky': also, that IE is a totally different beast on MacOS, being developed separately from IE for Windows and containing valuable facilities that are not in _any_ other browser]. * http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/ ** http://chimera.mozdev.org/ *** http://www.icab.de/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Damian G wrote: As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. There are a couple of preloading applications around for OOo: http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/ (Gnome) http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs (KDE) http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/ (both) Hancom Office is fast though ugly: http://en.hancom.com/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] OT help writing my deny IE page
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:42, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Alastair: Wait a couple of days, and you'll get your 20. -- cmg I was internally debating this timescale and thought it was probably right. Although nothing has turned up relating to IE specifically there've been 4 alerts on the [bugtraq] list today concerning Microsoft products. Including this (at face value) absolutely horrendous one: Windows NT/2000/XP do not check execution rights correctly before allowing 16-bit executables to load. This makes it possible to load and execute 16-bit files without execute permission. For example, the command line COMMAND /c 16BitApp.exe will always run the application 16BitApp.exe regardless of execute permission. So someone could bring in CRASH.EXE on a floppy disk and subvert access control lists and all the other expensive-consultant-set-up Windows paraphernalia :) Suppose Linux was: - occupying 95% of the market; - widely disliked. Would such elementary holes be opened up with the same regularity as is happening with Microsoft products? I have the uneasy feeling that the answer would be yes. Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Fwd: [Cooker] rc3
For those who have asked. Nice to see extra time taken to get things _right_. It looked as though RC2 was going to be the last one before the spotted handkerchief was dropped, but a number of kernel problems turned up. I have no burning desire to find more showstoppers; I'm completely flaked out after four betas and soon-to-be-three Release Clients ;) Alastair -Forwarded Message- From: Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] rc3 Date: 18 Sep 2002 22:30:33 +0200 Soon on mirrors: 729313280 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-CD1.i586.iso 734199808 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-CD2.i586.iso 417058816 MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-CD3.i586.iso This must be nearly the 9.0 final. 9.0 should be finalized by the end of the week. 2 or 3 days for marketting to finish the official announce, and it should be released next week. Find critical bugs if you are enjoying this testing period and want more. -- Warly signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 08:13, Patrik Marxer wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I have heard - even more unpopular than Saddam Hussein. Interestingly, my Government commissioned one of its innumerable private polls on this issue; the results were, very unusually, never released, and the general suspicion was that this was because they were extremely unfavourable to the current President. A problem which the USA has (but might not realise it has) is that its presidents are frequently perceived to be intellectually weak; Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W Bush are good recent examples. Prima facie this cannot be true - it would be extremely unlikely that such a person could get to the top and stay there - but the _perception_ that it is true is dangerous. (Certainly, in the United Kingdom, nobody would consider even the less successful Prime Ministers of recent times, such as Jim Callaghan and John Major, to be stupid; in fact, both went from the bottom to the top by their own efforts, and history is being kinder to the first as time passes). Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 06:16, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Ter 17 Set 2002 01:42, Dennis Myers escreveu: That was before G.W.Bush! I'm Brazilian and I've lived during our so called military period (they were rulling the country for over 30 years!) None of those military dictators scares me more than G.W.Bush! As his motto: Or we agree with him or we are against him! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he ever said that; what he actually said was 'either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists'. The myth is propagated (unfortunately) by the title of this extraordinary series of BBC radio programmes, which are crucial listening. _Everyone_ bar the President and Vice-President contributes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/withus.shtml Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] html to pdf
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:12, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I should have been more precise... The method you suggest is definetly correct, but I would like a tool which follows the links recursively: for example, index.html contains link to chapter1.html and chapter2.html. I'd like a tool which generates a single pdf file containing index.html, chapter1.html and capter2.html (in this order :-)). I'm asking too much, am I? Yes, unfortunately. Adobe Web Capture (the official Adobe tool) is needed to traverse Web sites and produce single PDFs. The irony is that there _is_ a Linux tool which will do this traversal, and with far more control over what it picks up, than Web Capture ... but it produces the wrong file format. It's Plucker: http://www.plkr.org/ All joking apart, for grabbing Web pages and reading them offline without having to print out reams of text, Plucker plus a decent handheld is the way to go. Sitescooper does the same thing and could convert to PDF but is famously difficult to set up (haven't tried it): http://www.sitescooper.org/ Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:21, iggy wrote: hi, all! does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available? Here's the (complex) answer which, I believe, is correct :) If you subscribe to cooker (as per emails passim here) and keep updating your machine regularly up until the release date (possibly this Thursday) you'll have the same packages as 9.0 minus, possibly, some artwork or other similarly inconsequential features. No official flag will pop up saying 'you now have 9.0', though. Then, if you keep going with those cooker updates, the machine will continue to be updated with 'unstable' packages which lie between 9.0 and, presumably, an eventual 9.1 beta 1. Several of the Mandrakesoft employees have said that they'll be doing things 'post 9.0' which need to be done but were not urgent enough to go in 9.0. I'll be looking for Gnome 2.0.2, for example, which has been released just too late to go into 9.0. I'm not sure whether to go this route, or reformat the machine _completely_, download the ISOs and write the CDs, then install 9.0 from scratch and only do 'stable' Mandrake updates as they come along, not 'unstable' cooker updates. After all, rather a lot of wrong turns must've accumulated on my hard disk given that this machine has had 8.2 plus 4 betas and 2 Release Candidates installed for 9.0; probably better to go back to a clean system. On the other hand, _contributing_ to the distribution, in a modest way by turning up all sorts of user interface problems and seeing them solved on the spot (try that with Microsoft or Apple), has nurtured a fine feeling in my breast :) Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:58, iggy wrote: was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? Well, _the_ Gnutella KDE client is qtella: http://qtella.sourceforge.net/ You can get an RPM file for 9.0 from: ftp://plf.zarb.org/cooker along with a trainload of other applications considered too legally shaky to be distributed by Mandrakesoft ;) There is no KaZaa Linux clone that I know of; development of an official one started but, some time ago, it dropped dead ... Alastair signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] bloody Nautilus!
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/10/2002 16:42) i wonder if you install with another file manager and uncheck nautilus what happens? to answer though, i think naut is the assumed newbie friendly manager in gnome, and mandrake does try to be newbie friendly. i mean hey, they could be gentoo and boot you to commandline with no gui installed and expect you to do everything the hardway. :-D Even stronger, Nautilus is _intrinsic_ to Gnome. So, if you miss out one, you miss out the other, and anyone trying to issue a KDE-only distribution would doubtless be shot down by the 'more choice' brigade ;) I never really see what the terrible objections to Nautilus are; it's a perfectly acceptable file manager which is slickly presented. And, say what you like about Microsoft, it's got that very important aspect of computing done and dusted: one of the biggest barriers to the man on the Clapham omnibus* accepting Linux is that most GUI applications are anything but slick ... Alastair * couldn't resist that wonderfully colourful expression; the USian equivalent is John Doe :) This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] offsite backup
William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/09/2002 12:40) Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash I think this might do the trick: http://www.storix.com/ (personal edition) If you don't want something quite so grandiose, what I have done to crack the problem in my case is write a small bash script which: - folds all the files and directories to be archived into a .tar.bz2 file; - encrypts that file using GnuPG; - ftp's the encrypted file to my own server. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0 RC 1 coming closer - observations
Interesting things are happening when you rsync cooker :) Assuming no need to back out what's being added: 1. Mozilla 1.1 will be in the final release; 2. OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 ditto and the package is excellent - it solved all the problems I had tried to work out for myself using the generic OOo installations and, despite bashing at the MandrakeSoft version for hours, I could only find two or three minor problems; 3. It looks as though the infamous 'purple and yellow' colour set is being replaced as my Gnome icons were unexpectedly updated today and very impressive they look; 4. Somebody has finally managed to work out how to support USB PalmOS handhelds 'out of the box', the fiddling around required to get them to connect and sync being a problem ever since such handhelds started appearing; 5. The Control Centre has loads more options, and drakconf2 is detecting just about everything I have; 6. I really think this will be the best Mandrake release yet. Although bugs are still being knocked out, and there are the inevitable problems with arcane setups, I'm impressed with what's going on. The only real demerit is the firewalling; InteractiveBastille is deprecated and MandrakeSoft is using a combination of msec, shorewall and iptables plus its own front end as part of the Control Centre, which I dislike and which could well completely confuse new users. However, there's still time to fix this. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 16:15, Charlie M. wrote: People should either whitelist their subscribed mailing list addresses, or learn to set the damned things up before inflicting this crap on the rest of us. It makes almost as much sense as one of those imbecilic content footnotes. If you are not the intended recipient yada yada and so forth. If it's in my inbox it's because some dipstick _sent the message_ to me; so it's the sender's freakin' problem, not mine. The wording of every one I've seen strikes me as the product of an individual with severe intellectual challenges operating from within an emotional void with no reality in view. 99 times out of 100 the sender of the email has no way of avoiding the disclaimer as it is tacked on by a mail server, usually the property of a company trying to protect its back. (Such as my company; as, for several months, its disclaimer contained a grammatical error despite repeated requests to reword it I tried to send as little email from there as possible!) That said, 'an individual with severe intellectual challenges operating from within an emotional void with no reality in view.' sounds like 'lawyer' to me ;) Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI database locked
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 18:01, David Johnson wrote: I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no clues. Does anyone have any idea how to remove the lock from the urpmi database? A reboot does it; there is probably a less brutal method, but I like what I know! Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 08:36, Mark Berkwitt wrote: What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com? The icon appears on my desktop, etc after installation. It, and a number of other mandrake*.com sites such as mandrakecampus.com, were 'rationalised' some time ago. At least so far there are no such icons in 9.0 beta, although there is a so far unexplained 'Discover Mandrake Custom Services' application which opens up a wizard with, on the first screen: 'At this step you are supposed to have an account on MandrakeOnline. This assistant will help you to upload your configuration (packages, hardware configuration) to a centralised dataase in order to keep you informed about security updates and useful upgrades'. Thanks, but no thanks (there is a Quit button ...). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kmail with nested folders - Evolution?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm considering moving, and there appears to be a problemette with Evolution's import. Although it can import a 'single file' mbox, it cannot import a folder hierarchy containing multiple mbox files, as my installation of kmail has. (Entering /home/thebrix/Mail into the Evolution import box, although not explicitly prevented or warned against, results in nothing happening when the import is triggered). Or am I missing some devious trick whereby nested folders can be imported? I can't find anything on google so far, and the thought of importing 100+ mbox files one by one is apalling. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ZO82dasIDb/2nMwRAsLFAJ9aAVtKqePMn+i4pxGo8f4Bk5gE/wCeO5hr PeO5n9J6OXtud16Z4CiX2so= =ef+W -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] a question of monitors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 20 August 2002 4:18 pm, s wrote: My spouse brought home an old 1992 Packard Bell monitor from a friend and I wanted to hook it up to my server and give that monitor to my son. So I hook it up and it works! Buu, I sat down to check my email and my workstation's monitor's (a hitachi cm611) picture was vibrating/giggling. So, try to degauss it without results, but then unplugged the packard bell and my hitachi went back to normal behavior. Why can't I use the old monitor that must sit about 8 inches from my hitachi? And do you suppose there is some rigging I can do to 'shield' my hitachi and be able to use the packard bell? (ok, I admit I tried aluminum foil. teehee blushing Didn't work, but it does keep those aliens away.) Given the failed experiment with tinfoil it looks as though the Packard Hell is giving out a strong magnetic field as well as a strong electronic field. In that case the cheapest solution would be to throw it away and buy a decent modern monitor; magnetic shielding is difficult to get right, hence expensive. (In fact, even the instrument used to _measure_ a magnetic field - a gaussmeter - is relatively expensive). As the PH dates from well before NEC took the company over (and improved manufacturing and build quality, not before time) it could well be that it lacks shielding of any sort ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9YmMZdasIDb/2nMwRAjByAJ4rVNnZW0IRquvRzTQST3CeC/CIMgCfTZZS T3Dz8RdgazmvpCfe+s0ldNQ= =fXIo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] read a pixel!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri 16 August 2002 8:40 am, Damian G wrote: i need a suggestion on programming languages. this is how it goes. i need to build a program that can tell me the RGB value of a given pixel inside of an image file. that is, load a graphic from file, and reading color values from it regardless of whether it's showing on the screen or not. i've tried kylix Open edition, but it fails to do it ( probably buggy libs ) as it loads and displays a graphic correctly on the form but when i try to read a pixel from it... the RGB value i get is wrong ( i think it's getting converted to 8-bit palette ) while the same code does run correctly on windoze's Delphi 5, ( so much for cross-plattform programming ) i hate having to reboot my computer ( or even loading a virtual machine ) just for the sole purpose of barfing fome clumsy lines of code -besides i'd like the linux binary- , so i've decided that i need to learn something other than pascal for killing time... can anyone recommend me a programming language that allows me to do this pixel-reading stuff and is as simple as possible? ( i will have to learn C sometime, but for the moment i think is a bit overkill... is there a choice? ) Python will do very nicely; it's installed by default and the command line is 'just there'. I strongly recommend it as a grievously underestimated language. A good place to get started is at O'Reilly: http://www.onlamp.com/python/ You'll need to include a graphics manipulation library. I haven't used it in anger, but the Python Image Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm certainly does what you need, according to the online manual (see the getpixel method)! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9XLDXdasIDb/2nMwRAiQSAJsFeQs/nIrpUwyllGJ7ib8HB74g4QCdELLj PN47BOPxA1Kkj1FiNWaa0sM= =I/Ju -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MK 9.0 Beta 2 Installation Error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu 15 August 2002 6:04 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2002 5:49 pm, Travis Crook wrote: I fixed the install problem. It was a bad burn. Now I have a different problem. I ran the install and all is well up until it runs the bootloader configuration. It starts the configuration and then just hangs. Any ideas why? Not really, but since Beta3 is now out, it may not be worth spending too much time over. Good thing CDs are cheap ;-) Lucky I read this before reinstalling 9.0 beta 2 (due to breaking about 36 things following experiments :) Was beta 3 announced anywhere? Certainly not on the [cooker] mailing list, and linux-mandrake.com still says beta 2 ... Concerning (poor) Linux marketing, I note a serious missed opportunity. Apparently the SSL bug in Konqueror was fixed in an hour and a half. That should've been shouted from the rooftops, particularly as Microsoft hasn't done anything visible yet (last MS security update 7 August) ... Instead kde.org is out of date, with the Applications list broken (? - not updated this month) :( Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9W+VPdasIDb/2nMwRAm1RAJ0TVgTaWopy6hyC2v6bybXYw9bLIgCfSydE US+qzuv9MbX/WD5v9a1GpZw= =sbzs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cooker updates - wget or curl?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 13 August 2002 7:52 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Has anyone updating to Cooker daily, noticed if updates are faster when urpmi uses either wget or curl as the back end? When I first installed my 9.0 I noticed that it was getting two packages, and then doing a relogin The continuous logging out and logging in was taking as long as the actual downloads. Then I realized that curl had not been installed by default and I was using wget for the downloads. Now I am using curl it no longer pauses between packages, but on the other hand sometimes it seems to take ages to log in. Strangely, I don't see any significant difference between the two (with Cooker at mirror.ac.uk and using ADSL). I actually prefer --wget as it provides _far_ more information (curl, bizarrely, doesn't say what package is downloading although it provides loads of other data ...). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WV1MdasIDb/2nMwRAn9oAJ99shij0l/lMGvLDrOjdx1rBtBKggCff69P IMQJlqonkqgllTlGuTRfPps= =Bhea -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous logout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 13 August 2002 7:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I've just had the most unnervin exeperience. I had two directories, KMail and several documents open under OpenOffice, copying and pasting away, when suddenly the screen blacked briefly then brought up the login screen. I shall now have to sort out which documents might have been affected by this - I certainly hadn't saved them for a while, so there'll be lost work at least. Let's hope there isn't file corruption too. Anyone any idea what might have happened? Very hard to tell although the usual caveats about hardware (in particular, the seating of DIMMs) come to mind. There could also have been a minor (mains) power glitch. If it's any consolation, this happening _repeatedly_ (in both Win2K and WinXP) was why I gave up Windows. The machine was gone over with a fine-tooth comb, to the extent of someone who knew their stuff applying a HP oscilloscope to the components and collecting and examining data, and we could never find out what was wrong. The possibility of work vanishing without warning was too much, and it was either 'ditch the machine or change to a completely different OS'. Thereafter, needless to say, M8.2 ran perfectly on the same hardware. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WV+idasIDb/2nMwRAgDTAJ0epIplrW6crijPHHgmXz8Ibd6TKACghkjf xSL9Y9Yw8uMQa3JYibjqbpA= =AnvE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fifth Open Source office suite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this, but Gobe Productive is going Open Source 'within the next 90-120 days' (the gap presumably being to get the source code cleaned up :) http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520 http://www.gobe.com/ I've used it before on Windows, and it's _very_ nice - which is no surprise as it has been developed by former AppleWorks programmers. (The four existing suites are StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Hancom Office). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WWGMdasIDb/2nMwRAkM3AJ9hJ+a7gkl5zt7vYoCeqF1vAhY3fgCgiDtq fatNzaIRG9gfmZgTw6t5big= =XBB5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] oops, konq security
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon 12 August 2002 3:41 pm, shane wrote: http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25935.html still more proof that while linux may be 1000 times more secure than windows, nothing is perfect. Well, when I try konqueror 3.0.2 nothing (apart from the gearwheel turning ad infinitum) happens with privoxy 2.9.20 on; with it off I get a warning stating 'The IP address of the host www.thoughtcrime.org does not match the one the certificate was issued to' which is what I would expect if something was being passed off as something else in the certificate chain. galeon 1.2.5 gives an error -8183 irrespective of the state of privoxy. Yet I appear to be using the same version of KDE and konqueror as the author (but with an up-to-date Cooker). Time to go through to the kitchen and pick up the salt cellar marked 'in case of The Register use pinches herein' :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9V8xndasIDb/2nMwRAiObAJ0csXG2FvjMU1278vpsTi4p0vppXgCfZcSd oNfCRipwhraJV/FOBdwmjAk= =aRQB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing RPMs on 9.0 Beta 2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun 11 August 2002 6:07 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I have a stupid question .. :-) I have noticed that rpmdrake has been completely redone, and am now thorougly confused about manually installing packages that I download from the internet. Before, all I would have to do is tell Mozilla or Netscape to run /usr/bin/rpminst, but now that doesn't work. I tried to add a local directory using the new Edit Software Sources tool, but can't figure out the syntax of what I need to add to properly configure it as a source. The first two boxes are simple enough (a name, and the path of the directory), but the third box is confusing me (Relative path to synthesis/hdlist). What the heck is that?? Ok, now that I've thoroughly confused everyone g, here are my questions: 1. Is there a way to run the rpm installer program like I used to from Mozilla or Netscape (a la /usr/bin/rpminst)? 2. How do I properly add a local directory as a source to rpmdrake? Not a stupid question. 0. The hdlist, typically, looks like ../base/hdlist.cz in the appropriate box. Essentially, on a server, the RPMs are held in a RPMS directory (somewhere in the ftp tree) and the hdlist - which tells the Mandrake package manipulation software what the RPMs are - is a text file, usually hdlist.cz, in a base directory at the same level of the tree. 1. This will probably be sorted out before the final build. (Personally, I wouldn't do it - I'd prefer to have a close look at what I was downloading before installing it, just I always download a .tar.bz2 file rather than trying to open it straight off with something). 2. Do Configuration | Packaging | Edit Software Sources from the KDE menu, then press Add then, on the window that appears, type in a name (anything) and then the path (file:// and then the path; an example from here is file:///home/thebrix/files/packages). Don't bother with the 'Relative path to synthesis/hdlist'. In fact, I think that box should die horribly; it seems unlikely, unless you're trying to do something eccentric like mirror the entire Cooker on your local hard drive, that it will ever be needed. Interestingly, I think MandrakeSoft is doing the right thing with the packager; the 8.2 one is a sprawling monster as it tries to do everything and has controls all over the places. The 9.0 beta one is getting there, but needs refinements; as one of those fearsome UI people who pick holes in things I've posted some suggestions to the [cooker] mailing list. (My simplest one is dead easy - a window with four buttons which runs each of the existing applications; that would placate the people who want a single packaging application). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Vp7ZdasIDb/2nMwRAl/oAJ9awxnbbEklph7cu8RmeeBVnIZdBACfTWiE u+omhOyHlr7ZUdB4E/iukPo= =Gr4s -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't take the mailto addy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 12:41 am, D. Olson wrote: If I click a link in Galeon, KMail starts up a new message, but it doesn't take the email address from the mailto: part of the link. Anyone know off hand how to do this? In the appropriate box (do Settings | Preferences, then Handlers, then Programs), type kmail %t in the Mail Handler box. BTW putting Please see the Galeon Manual for a full listing of available expansion characters right up front in the interface is _really_ lazy design; the expansion characters, as well as %t, are: %t To %c Cc %b Bcc %k Reference %w News Host %n News Group %p Priority %a Attachment %e Reference %h Html %y Body %s Subject %r Reply %o Follow up %u Whole URL Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9VNXcdasIDb/2nMwRAndBAJ4zsXpul9YbtUdyljgHxZ08ENrqIgCfUiIA iVLqfnniwsoaBLhWYbEoD2I= =aL2x -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 840c + Mdk9.0 beta2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 4:17 pm, frame wrote: How to get this working? Drakconf-printer just hangs. The kups frontend seems to be ok, but doesn't print any testpage. Tried to access printer directly: echo ... /dev/usb/lp0 - works. Any suggestions? After eventually fruitful hacking around I think there's a big problem with some printer drivers and 9.0 beta 2, although it's difficult to see exactly what the problem is. I had a similar problem (nothing happening on print from a GUI) and worse (lpr didn't work; lpq showed nothing in the queue) with my USB Lexmark Z42, which worked perfectly with 8.2. When I ran printerdrake, first of all a new version of CUPS (4.2.2-pre 4) downloaded without warning (presumably because I'd set up a download source for Mandrake Cooker?); after about half an hour of playing with the options I got nowhere. So I changed the driver from: Lexmark Z42, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre4 [English] to Lexmark Z42, Foomatic + drv_z42 and out came a perfect test page! So, if the HP has a similar Foomatic driver option, switch to that and try again. (You change the driver from the KDE Control Centre | System | Printing Manager; select the printer, then the Properties tab, then the Driver icon, then Change ... and, I hope, a list of options appears). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9VTrMdasIDb/2nMwRAoJ+AJ45dUdQdvkmjVKuXg1HKcpF2uA2xQCfZHPO iaWvg3RQ9/2ZmekyJsgJfi0= =6/91 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ok I installed 9.0beta2, now what? :-)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 Aug 2002 12:29 am, Charlie M. wrote: I'll find a way to update the sucker. I like it so far. Bad cut and paste by me - the URL above should've been ftp://newton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS I have unlimited but contended 512KB/sec up, 256KB/sec down so it's a slow business but gets there. I find you have to do urpmi.update cooker before urpmi --auto-select otherwise the 14MB+ file _isn't_ downloaded each time and things get confused (the hdlist.cz file locally held being different from the contents of cooker). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9U4PXdasIDb/2nMwRAgmjAJ4i1/FfrceZNIotJ+1ejVjLoOvb3ACfeaFV kczURxf3cMnZhPJnbHu4UnU= =HIyo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Low-profile graphics cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Dell Optiplex GX150. It's a good machine - quiet, fast, uses only 145W at full tilt with the flat panel, runs Mandrake effortlessly - but its sole weakness is the onboard i815 graphics chipset, which has no dedicated RAM and is prone to artifacts such as black bars suddenly appearing on and vanishing from the screen. I'd like to put in a proper video card, but the case is small and only admits low-profile cards. Q: can anyone recommend such cards? Matrox definitely do them (some flavours of the G450 and G550) but, in general, the descriptions of other manufacturers' cards are so poor, and often self-contradictory, it's difficult to find out what Radeon-based and nVidia-based cards are low-profile. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9U67TdasIDb/2nMwRAo7lAJsEI/u14ffH2Zeu99ai9jjktoN2wACcD2IA H4+KJ4Ww0umd691MHiWSlMI= =grV7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low-profile graphics cards
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On Friday 09 Aug 2002 9:37 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
On Friday 09 August 2002 06:00 am, Alastair Scott wrote:
snip
Please ignore my previous reply.
I pasted something in the wrong box and hit send without looking at it.
What I wanted to reply to you was the only way I've ever found to get an
answre to this exact question (it has come up before for me) was to open
the bleedin' boxes and measure them. Even that was no help in one specific
case since the lay-out of the components on the PCB cause the card not to
seat in the slot correctly. The only low profile cards I know of for sure
are the Matrox and older Vantas.
Would an e-mail to NVidia and ATI be useful?
On further investigation the whole issue is difficult, mainly because of the
problem you note but also because there's not even standard terminology
('half-height', 'low-profile' and various other expressions are used).
There are a _lot_ of groups.google.com posts on this issue, but almost no
answers, which is strange given that Dell and Gateway, among others, sell
machines with compact cases.
Then, from ancestral memories of HCI work I did some time ago, I had a
brainwave - ask a computer shop in the City of London. Trading floors are
jammed with IT equipment and have all sorts of space-saving paraphernalia
(small cases, flat panels) so are bound to specialise, or at least know of,
compatible equipment.
To try next week, as well as contacting ATi and nVidia direct.
(The fallback is the G550, but £100 to add a graphics card to a PC 'free as in
beer' which is usable, if not brilliant, as it is is a bit much ...).
Alastair
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Re: [newbie] Ok I installed 9.0beta2, now what? :-)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 Aug 2002 7:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: I finally got around to burning those disks and installing the beta last night/early this morning. So far I'm liking what I see except for the fact that: 1) the machine wouldn't boot from hda5 (error something like VFS unable to load root at 03:05 or some such) after the install so I had to boot from the floppy I made; Write it up and post it to the [cooker] mailing list! 2) is there a way to update this thing? I went looking for mirrors to download the latest version of urpmi and rpmdrake and none seem to have anything except the ISOs. I'm trying to do it manually 'cause Mandrake Update doesn't seem to exist and the software manager won't add a source either from GUI or using urpmi.addmedia and so on. Updating is not obvious and, as you'll see later, is problematic because of the nature of the beta process. The first thing to do is to type from a root prompt: edit-urpm-sources.pl This puts you into a GUI so you don't have to remember the urpmi syntax. I then press Add (source) and put into the boxes (after selecting 'FTP server'): Name: cooker URL: ftp://newton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMSwton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS Relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz Unfortunately there are two big problems every time you do a urpmi - --auto-select: i. hdlist.cz is 14MB+ and probably has to be downloaded every time; ii. because cooker is constantly changing, with RPMs added every day, you're in for huge downloads; first time I was asked to download 917MB of files! I fled after ii and am going to keep testing with respect to the baseline; I strongly suspect that the only people who're keeping fully up to date with cooker have company or university connections with massive bandwidth. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9UthNdasIDb/2nMwRAhq+AJ0YzKQ0b/6vRwdZDYa6/Ef/6Qc4bgCfYrT4 2fr1qFMurMUW21pjrb79Xfg= =lszs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Netscape 6.2 from CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 Aug 2002 9:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 02 Aug 2002 11:46 pm, you wrote: You might want to consider the mozilla browser 1.0 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/stable.html I'm running it on linux, windows 2000 and windows 98. I removed Netscape 6.2 from the windows machines and quit using Konqueror on linux once I had played with mozilla for a few weeks. It is, IMHO, superior. Does this install automatically (on Win98) like Netscape? I have twice suffered 1.5 hours download time of Ntxp 6.2 and got corrupted installations. I would really like to try mozilla if I can download it on this box and burn it to a CD for use elsewhere. It would have the added advantage that I would be able to help my friends over the phone since I assume it would be very similar to the linux version. Yes, it has an installer very similar to the Linux version (!) In other words, unpack, run a binary file and wizards prompt you for one of Minimal, Full or Custom installation ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9TP5/XzGCRjP1DsMRAqvOAJ9LYqpx6y2Bdnfp2LaOZccWk/xQAACfZfkl TXDD5gqcZ03MyVFIS4Eo9bw= =Srey -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Up2Date
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 Aug 2002 11:51 am, K. Spress Jr wrote: is there a similiar program in mandrake that will update my entire cpu. like in redhat 7.2 Yes ... after logging in as root, urpmi --auto-select --update does it. (Assuming you have a ftp site for updates configured in Software Manager; if you've already run the SM you will have). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9TRVBXzGCRjP1DsMRAuoNAJ4ixdCatukE3ryuFNZjyCUwRseEZwCfaq4F 4hlr9d6W8TiBvTzYcNq2EUg= =Prxf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] automatic printing of email?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 Aug 2002 6:40 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: i know this is gonna sound odd, but ... for one application, i need emails to automatically print immediately upon receipt, with no human intervention. any ideas how this could be accomplished? is there a program that will do that? can it be scripted? Very easily with kmail :) Set up a filter with Filter Criterium match any header contains Filter Actions pipe through lpr Advanced Options uncheck 'If this filter matches stop processing here' then move it to the top of the list of Available Filters. This catches every incoming email (all emails have '' somewhere in their header), prints it then continues to execute whatever other filters you have. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9StibXzGCRjP1DsMRAnlkAJwIPtjk2GgBZd3hoozBBA4xwV6w0gCfTEJC RoSFfzQbnXA3dVUt2rnHW4Y= =yvg/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quicken and Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 Aug 2002 9:28 pm, Lane P. Lester wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 03:01 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Gnucash Kapital and Moneydance seem to be the best alternatives. I made the mistake of buying Kapital before I tried Gnucash. I have never been able to get Kapital to work on my system, a complete waste of money. I'm very pleased with Gnucash now, having moved to it from the recently-orphaned Moneydance. Or (lateral thinking) manage your money on a PalmOS machine, if you have one, rather than a desktop. I find this easier and less prone to mistakes as the PalmOS machine is right there and doesn't have to be booted :) There are many excellent money managers for PalmOS; I use PocketMoney http://www.catamount.com/PocketMoneyPalm.html but MyCheckbook is freeware, and nice: http://www.thequickster.com/products/index.htm#mycheckbook PocketQuicken is popular but IMO too expensive: http://www.landware.com/pocketquicken/index.asp Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Su2VXzGCRjP1DsMRAiexAJ9a52u/S/9mrOR3SeWv+0jvhiF9LACfbA6G ZVdLifP0Q/P49iBjdqfm8mg= =9vDb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Congress hacking P2P to stop music piracy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 Jul 2002 8:32 pm, shane wrote: i would think that the daily destruction of servers used to carry out these laws would be the duty of every good citizen. were is copy of civil disobedience? Even more effective, although very personal, would be the complete ostracism from the rest of the IT industry of those doing the hacking (an unbelievable suggestion no matter how it is done, ignoring due process which even a constitutionless country like England has as a fundamental principle of law!) Certainly in the IT industry there are big pretensions about 'software engineering', but no _professional_ engineer, who signs up to a code of ethics on gaining his or her membership, would even consider doing what is proposed and, in fact, would be obliged to try to stop it happening. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE9RaD1XzGCRjP1DsMRAk8SAJ0WEJq9MAWrdhzIZvFxlYgzeN1CjQCYxov1 fqntx9E6Uq6aDK6Em9ZL8Q== =WlRC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 Jul 2002 9:17 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: This may sound a simple question but what if anything can computer owners do, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg , to protect their equipement from bad weather. Here in Milton Keynes, England we have just had the mother and father of a thunder storm, which caused a momentary cut in power, and naturally crashed all the running computers. Some rebooted OK , that is after lengthy file system checks, but one refused even after this, it got as far as loading USB interface (USB ohci) , and hung. I'm back in , but not after some nifty failsafe rebooting. Without going to UPS (rather over the top in the United Kingdom where there's a National Grid and electricity just works) I found that a Belkin power strip, which gives you surge protection for four plugs and a phone socket - albeit redundant now with ADSL - is well worth the £25 or so you pay for it. It's one of those: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?IWAction=LoadMerchant_Id=Section_Id=482 It turned out to be a worthwhile investment after a previous disaster when lightning blew the motherboard and HD on my old machine. Hmmm ... the sky over South London is looking rather turbulent, and the thermometer was reading 32C earlier. The M F is evidently the multicoloured blob between Norwich and Birmingham in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/radar.shtml Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9RaWRXzGCRjP1DsMRAgxmAJ450G1oRgvSIA6yInC+tzybW5j//ACaAqYq XQas46GA+lweJ0yOo2N3wX0= =bC+G -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 1:45 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I admire your persistence to save the home an' hearth ;) First, IMO, current 9.0 KDE3.0.2 is much better than any of the available 'KDE3.x' upgrades for 8.x. As is Gnome2, so why try'n save the old 8.x shi.. err I mean stuff ? The 'stuff' that's moved from old to new is just .rc files and similar (kmailrc and so on); there's many hours of configuration in those. Certainly not any of the desktop icon themes, for example! Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Q51oXzGCRjP1DsMRAiBvAJ42eNJUMSZhFIHiquRI3mr4yiLMYACfYeY9 mnnckG60dF1YCa3HVIHHNPI= =Juwz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
