Re: [newbie] Rusty Morse.
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 05:31, Keith Powell wrote: Are there any radio amateurs on the list? Yep, AB2RC here After many years of being inactive, I want to get back into amateur radio and brush up my *VERY* rusty Morse. Can anyone recommend a good Morse training program which uses the sound card, please? I want to listen to it with headphones. Preferably one which also has a GUI rather than just using the command line, but I am not all that fussy about this. There are quite a few, try looking on freshmeat.net. Personally I am a digital kind of guy, mostly psk31 -- Alex / AB2RC Yaesu FT100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Why do they call Radio Wireless, between my shack and antennas I must have over 1500 feet of wire! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] can I just go and blow up ol 4hassan.com
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 07:05 pm, et wrote: I have also started to forward all the e-mal i get from them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and so far have not gotten a bounce. I also wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if they are awake. One of my favorite lines in a bugs bunny carrtoon was Hassan Chop! perhaps we should chop 4hassan -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newer kernels and Mandrake distribution
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: hey everybody I'm looking forward to use my USB CD-RW with Mandrake 7.1. I need the latest kernel for that (to have the USB code). Does the Mandrake kernel has The kernel that shipped with 7.1 has some of the usb stuff in it, my USB Zip drive worked great with it. Your cdrw drive might work with it also (try loading usbcore, usb-uhci and usb-storage and see if that does the trick) Currently I am using the 2.2.16-9mdk kernel from cooker and it is working even better with the zip drive. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. I noticed that also. My guess is that they refer to some of the stuff that will be on the full/powerpack versions when they are available -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] About to give up.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you wrote:
I have mine set up as a cron job. Create a .fetchmailrc in your normal user's
home directory that will fetch mail from all your accounts, then set up a cron
job to run as that user at a specifed interval. I get lots of mail so my
interval is 4 minutes. Works great...
I use this script that runs as root, to grab all users mail
*** start ***
#!/bin/bash
run=0
# echo Starting mail download for all users
for i in `cat /etc/passwd |
awk -F : '{ print $1 " " $6}'`; do
if [ $run -eq 0 ]
then
name=$i
run=1
else
home=$i
run=0
if [ -r $home/.fetchmailrc ]
then
echo getting mail for $name
su -l -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -s -t 500" $name
fi
fi
done
end
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Internet Programs
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hey All: I'm wanting suggestions for "Best Of" type of Internet Utilities. I currently use Agent Newsreader, Pegasus Email, Cute Ftp or WsFtp, ICQ, and Netscape Browser in Windows 98 Second Edition (or 98SR2 depending on who you talk to... ;-) ) This is a tall order, because everyone has different preferences. For Agent, which is what I prefer under Windows also, I would either use the latest version of pan or use wine agent. Pan is still very much in development and does not have all of the features that are in Agent. If you use wine, Agent is one of the few programs that work as well under Linux as it did under windows. Under windows I was a Eudora user, and prefer kmail under Linux. I never used Pegasus, so I won't comment on how close kmail compares to it. For Cute Ftp, use either gftp (a gnome program) or Igloo, both are very similar to cute-ftp. Igloo is a bit closer than gftp, but Igloo is a commercial product, while gftp is gpl'd. I never used ICQ under Windows and have not tried any of the available clones for Linux, so no comment here either. There is a Linux version of Netscape. Not as many available plugins however. Many folks seem to have stability problems with it, I found that if I use the navigator only version (no email/news) it works very well. Using the communicator version (with all of the other extras) seems to crash a lot. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] kmail quetion - digest bursting
Does anyone out there know how to burst a digest after it has been recieved into kmail? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Oracle on LINUX
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Guys! Somebody work with Oracle on Linux? I am looking for a package's editor. I know this Email isn`t for this kind of question, but maybe someone can help me. I have been playing around with it, but don't know of a package editor, but take a look a http://www.orasoft.org/ for session monitor, object manager, proc edit, table browser ans sql worksheet. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] POSTFIX problem
On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote: G'day, I have been a Sendmail user uptill now, after installing Mandrake V7.0-2, I find Postfix is now the default MTA, the problem I have with this is all my incomming mail is going to /varspool/postfix/deferred, thus being unavailable for pickup. What am I missing here??? Your system is confused. You probably have both postfix and sendmail installed, and neither plays well with the other. do the following: 1 - backup your deferred mail queue 2 - uninstall postfix 3 - uninstall sendmail 4 - reinstall postfix 5 - restore your backed up mail queue 6 - have a beer and play with your dog... -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] wierd question
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote: I have LM 7. I wonder is there a way during the install that I can tell it to not install postfix because I am incapable of Use the expert and custom options during the install, then you can pick and choose what is installed. Or is there a way I can get Pine or Kmail to look in another folder? for kmail file - settings - network - select acct, - modify What are the comparisons between psotfix and sendmail and why do some prefer one over the other?/ sendmail has a reputation for being difficult to setup and configure, and has way many more options than the average home user needs to deal with postfix is fairly easy to setup, and will perform most of the tasks a home user or small network admin needs right out of the box. Plus the config files are a bit easier to understand. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] LM7.1
On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote: :~Any comment on what "extras" might be included in the 7.1 powerpack edition? WTH are you? Press? Not the press, just a happy Mandrake user, who buys both the cheapbytes cd's and the powerpacks. The cheapbytes cd's since they are usually available right away, the powerpacks to support MandrakeSoft because I like the extras. Think a little: In PP there will be books and some additional software. Some of the software will be along the line of the previous Power-Packs, other will be completely new. If Gael wants to tell you more, that is fine, but I am not going to, because I hate to ruin a surprise. Just curious if there was anything new. The last few had more or less the same stuff in them. Guess I'll just have to wait. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] LM7.1
On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote: :~Denis :~ :~Is there any chance of LM7.1 being releases for Linux-Expo in London next week? no comment Any comment on what "extras" might be included in the 7.1 powerpack edition? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] how to kill a runaway app?
On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote: Hi List, I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace' command a couple of times which has been a saving grace, but I have only had a need to kill a runaway (unresponsive) app, rather than my xserver. My question, is there a way to kill an app and not restart my xserver? Also would this apply to a runaway process as well? The command is kill and there are several ways to do it kill ??? where ??? is the process id kill `/sbin/pidof ???` where ??? is the name of the process (those are backquotes in the command and you do need them) run ktop, then locate and kill the process Thanks, b/web Wade -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] High failure rate tar.gz
On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote: what could I do to recover this file ? can I change some coding with a hex editor or something and make them decode? take a look at the file fragment below I obtained, using the tar test (first line below). = [olly@localhost Lintech]$ tar -tf Grokking-the-GIMP-v1_0_tar.gz Did you download this file under windows? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] The Day That KDE Died
On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote: Well, I had my first big Linux problem today. I had been in this morning looking at some rpm packs and shutdown as usual. After lunch when I booted, lilo went through its checklist with all [OK] and gets to the black screen that you see just before the KDE login screen appears. Then there is a quick flash of color in the center as KDE is trying to start then black screen, flash of color black screen, flash of color black screen, and so on. I had no avenue of escape other than the reset switch. Tha fact that you got this far means that you did not kill Linux, but somehow messed up something for X. If anyone has an idea as to what might have caused my problem or better yet a way to fix it if it happens again let me know. 2 things you can cross off the list are hardware changes and display properties they were all the same. Depends on exactly what you were doing while looking at rpms. Did you install or delete any? If it happens again do the following: boot to the Linux console (enter linux 3 at the lilo prompt) try to start x with the following command string startx xinfo_stdout 2 xinfo_stderr x will probably die on you the same way that it did before, to make things easier now, just swap consoles (ctrl-alt-f2) and login again. Take a look at the xinfo_stdout and xinfo_stderr files in youre home directory. Something in them might give us a clue as to what happened. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] How do you access console mode from within X to change lilo.conf
On Wed, 17 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, How do you access 'Console Mode' from within X windows? In addition, can run xterm or any of itsvariations (xterm,konsole,Eterm,gnome-terminal,kvt) and you have the equilivant of console mode. I review and make modifications from the desktop i.e. checking my RAM. I think the command line is: /sbin/lilo.conf Should this be done from ' root ' ? I have an IDE drive. Should I type in: append=hda=ide_scsi mem=128M if you mean a ide cd writer, then yes, the change should be in /etc/lilo.conf then execute lilo as root Roman -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Where's the experts??
On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern Nothing in the archives since Thursday morning either. The list must have died. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Problem mounting CDRW
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I have 1 cdrom and 1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I have been unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated This happened to me also. seems like Mandrake decided the burner was a burner and set it up as such, but did not load the ide-scsi module on boot try 'insmod ide-scsi ' as root then try mounting the drive as /dev/scd0 and see if that works -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, I have been trying to set up my telnet connection. I can ping my hostname and localhost. However, when I try to telnet, using telnet localhost, I get the following message: connection closed by foreign host I have checked the /etc/hosts.allow file and allowed access to everyone. Does anyone have any possible solutions for this? Most likely, you installed the telnet cliend and not the telnet server. They were split into 2 separate rpm's a few releases ago. Check your distro disk, and install telnet-server -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote: You were right I did not have the telnet server installed - I installed this but am still getting the same message. Do you know if there is a website with some information on trouble shooting networks with mandrake? Now you need to uncomment the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf, then restart inetd -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Mainframe Emulation Program
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know of a mainframe (3270) emulator for Linux? Nothing special, just tcp/ip connectivity... x3270 is a fairly good terminal emulator. It should be on your Mandrake install disk. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] python
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote: check the man page, there should be a way to extract the version info from the command line ie. 'python -V' just type python, to put into interactive mode and read the first line. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] compiling in c
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, you wrote: ummm when compiling c programs.i remember you need an output and input file Actually, you don't need the name of the output file, if not given, the output will be a.out for example "cc -o hello hello.c" i forgot what the -o stood for...but i did that in all my linux programming classes. -o is for output stathis gotsis wrote: when i compile a real simple program in c ,ie hello.c i write :cc hello.c but then i get an error message stdio:no such file or directory,i find this strange because i have that library.can you help?thanks in advance. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] compiling in c
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, you wrote: when i compile a real simple program in c ,ie hello.c i write :cc hello.c but then i get an error message stdio:no such file or directory,i find this strange because i have that library.can you help?thanks in advance. if you look at your source, you will probably see #include stdio change it to #include stdio.h and it should work. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Killing X
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: As we all know, X crashes every once in a while, causing us to have to kill it. However, I was wondering if there was a way to kill X without being root. The reason is that my brother had X crash on him, and you can't kill it while being a user, it says "Operation not premitted", and I don't want to give him the root password. So is there a way to kill X as a regular user? Or if there isn't, then what exactly would someone do to get back to a working GUI? use sudo. have your brother's userid in sudoers pointing to a script which contains a single line "killall X". Set the execution to nopasswd. this way, your brother will have root privs to execute one script, which has the ability to kill X. Ummm... I take it this means that Cntrl-Alt-BackSpace didn't work? Usually it would, but what if X decided to crash and take out your keyboard on the way. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie]
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi, I recently installed linux mandrake and am able to login as root as well as the user I created. The line I get: [username@localhost username]$ How do I get from here to KDE or Gnome interfaces? startx -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Kmail
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: Evening all, finaly got around to trying some of the OTHER features and ran into Kmail. Does any one know how to get this thing to automagically go out and check for new mail every 10 - 15 minutes. I have'nt found any thing in the Settings YET but I'll keep looking. Personally I have fetchmail run as a cron job every 10 minutes, then just fire off kmail and check the local mail spool. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] need confirmation,quickly
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, you wrote: I just bought a Viking 56k External Modem / windows version model#RFM5SKEXT V.90 k56 flexit says it's 100% compatible with win98/95/NT/3.11/DOS. will this modem work under linux? Most likely it will. it is external and mentioned 3.11 Dos. Sometimes the "windows version" just refers to the software which is included in the box. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Postfix or Sendmail?
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hello As a newbie I did worse thing possible: rm -rf /etc. As a result I have to install linux again (Have I?). The previous installation was RedHat 6.1 and now I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0. Ok, here are my questions: About the only worse thing to do is "rm -rf /" b) It seems that Mandrake is shipped with Postfix. How difficult is it to configure it? I had loads of headaches to get sendamail working. I hope postfix is different. Any suggestions to get a smooth installation? postfix is pretty easy to set up. In fact the config files supplied in the rpm should work as is. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] check this site out
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: Just for information why isn't it possible to simply decline to open large attachments (not that I make a habit of sending them) , I open very few attachments of any kind on security principle unless I know where they come from. Opening the attachment is different from downloading it. I have a cron job set to kickoff fetchmail every so often and download all messages in all accounts. Since this email account is only used for a few mailing lists, I did not set a size limit in the .fetchmailrc file. Placing on the web, I wouldn't know where and have forgotten how I obtained it in the first place except I think it was one of the anti-microsoft sites. If I read the above correctly, you did not post it to a web site, since you did not know who to give credit to. If you did not know what restrictions were placed on copying and distribution by the original author/artist/performer, why would you think that email was any different from a website posting? Of course I am utterly spoilt using a 2mb bandwidth and can well remember Some of us live in internet hell no cable modems, no dsl, just a plain old modem over crappy telephone lines, which get a 26400 connection at best. (Although the telco says dsl is coming soon). the frustrations of slow downloads however in this kind of scenario there is, like sex violence on TV, an easy solution, its called the off switch or in computerese the mouse click - lo and behold the problem is gone. Not quite the same. Content is not the same as size. I often choose what to download based upon the size of the file. This was forced upon me. While I could have set my configuration file to block the download, I chose not to, based on the fact that this email address is mostly used for a few mailing lists where folks are usually well behaved. Sometimes size does matter... Please feel free to enlighten me further if there is some aspect of this I have misunderstood since my one object was to lighten up peoples lives a little (not stir up the hornets nest--- well one hornet anyway,again that's not directed at you of course) Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the clip. I even downloaded an updated mp3 player so my wife could listen to it on her windows machine. I would have just prefered to choose to download it, rather than having it sent to me without warning. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] BIOS, sound, and modem
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have some problems with setting up my sound card and modem, somebody emailed back and said that you have to turn off PnP in the Bios settings. I have a newer computer HP Pavilion and when it boots up it doesn't give you and option to enter into bios so How do I get into BIOS? I have a HP Pavilion running windows. You need to hit the F1 key while booting to get into the bios setup -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Error on rpm -e
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote: All, When I try to uninstall any RPM packages I have on my machine I get a "XXX package not installed". Is this typical? DO you have to run the uninstall from the directory where the package is installed? You do not have to uninstall from the same directory, but you do have to do it as root. Did you install the packages from a binary rpm? What kind of messages does "rpm -qa" return, it should list all of the packages that you have installed. Is it possible that you clobbered some of the files in /var/lib/rpm/ ? Wayne -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast, Australia *** *** -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Can someone PLEASE do a ls -l /usr/bin/esd for me
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: -rwxrw root audio is what I have And mpg123 works??? Id like to keep it like that, but I have to chmod o+rx it, otherwise mpg123 gives me permission denied errors :\ leave it as -rwxr-x--- 1 root 81 31628 Dec 9 11:42 /usr/bin/esd then execute "esd " as root then try using mpg1234 as a user.. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Renaming from upper case to lower case?
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Is there a way to rename files under linux from upper case to lower case all
at once? I need to rename about 300+ files from upper to lower and don't
want to do it manually everytime.
Thanks!
Not directly, but there are as about as many scripts to do it as there are
script writers
try this
#!/usr/bin/python
#
# python script to rename files to lower case
#
import string
import sys,os
file_names=sys.argv
nfiles=0
for file in file_names:
if nfiles 0:
new_file=string.lower(file)
print "Renaming ",file, new_file
x=os.system("mv "+file+" "+new_file)
nfiles=nfiles+1
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote: I too have a CD-ROM a CD-burner, and Mandrake 7 recognises both, but does not allow a mount on the burner - it complains of an invalid format or bad disk or something like that. I had both reading under my old Mandrake 6 install, but the ver7 install assignes the burner to an ide-scsi device I think that might be the problem. I was having this problem also. It seems that I could mount as root after a fresh boot, but not as a user. Once the drive was mounted by root, other users could mount also. Seems that the ide-scsi module was not being loaded. Try doing an "insmod ide-scsi" right after booting, then see if you can mount the disk as user. If that works create an initrd and add it to lilo Any ideas??? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: Why is it that I can telnet to my box as an unprivilidged user, but not as root? Security. Try logging in as a regular user then su -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] Linux World
Anyone out there going to Linux World tomorrow? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] RPMs
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote: with the same name from different companies (mandrake, suse, red hat, etc.) -- does it make any difference in the world which one I download and install? I Try to get either a Mandrake or a RedHat rpm, as the config files and whatnot will be in the same places. I have never had a problem with using a rpm for either of those distro's. Personally, I have never been able to get a Suse built rpm to work under Mandrake. If something other than mdk or redhat is all that is available, try getting the src rpm and rebuilding. assume i386 means you need at least a 386 machine, and 586 at least pentium, but noarch? noarch means that no special architecture is needed, the rpm is possibly something like a python or perl script or some sort of documentation. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] seti@home
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi! Which file do I have to download on my PC with Mandrake 7 for SETIATHOME? setiathome-2.0.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar is the one that you want. Don't download any of the 1.xx versions as they will be unable to work with any of the newer workunits Zsolt -- Alex (200+ seti wu's run so far under mandrake)
[newbie] ftape problems
I have an older colorado 250mb qic80 tape drive and cannot seem to get it working under linux (works fine under w98, was working fine on the win3.1 box I swiped it from, it is on the supported hardware list). when i do an insmod, nothing happens [root@linux1 alex]# insmod ftape [root@linux1 alex]# mt rewind /dev/tape: No such file or directory [root@linux1 alex]# mt -f /dev/ftape rewind /dev/ftape: No such device [root@linux1 alex]# ls -la /dev/ftape lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jan 9 16:09 /dev/ftape - rft0 [root@linux1 alex]# ls -la /dev/rft0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jan 9 17:24 /dev/rft0 - qft0 [root@linux1 alex]# ls -la /dev/qft0 crw---1 root root 27, 0 Jan 9 17:24 /dev/qft0 [root@linux1 alex]# modprobe -c # This file was generated by: modprobe -c (2.1.121) path[misc]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[video]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[fc4]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[sound]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[ipv6]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[cdrom]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[block]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[net]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk path[misc]=/lib/modules/default path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/default path[video]=/lib/modules/default path[fc4]=/lib/modules/default path[sound]=/lib/modules/default path[ipv6]=/lib/modules/default path[ipv4]=/lib/modules/default path[cdrom]=/lib/modules/default path[block]=/lib/modules/default path[scsi]=/lib/modules/default path[net]=/lib/modules/default path[fs]=/lib/modules/default path[misc]=/lib/modules path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules path[video]=/lib/modules path[fc4]=/lib/modules path[sound]=/lib/modules path[ipv6]=/lib/modules path[ipv4]=/lib/modules path[cdrom]=/lib/modules path[block]=/lib/modules path[scsi]=/lib/modules path[net]=/lib/modules path[fs]=/lib/modules # Aliases alias eth0 tulip alias midi awe_wave alias sound sb alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias binfmt-2 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-0107 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-204 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-263 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-264 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-267 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-387 binfmt_aout alias binfmt-332 iBCS alias binfmt-310 binfmt_java alias block-major-1 rd alias block-major-2 floppy alias block-major-3 ide-probe alias block-major-7 loop alias block-major-8 sd_mod alias block-major-11 sr_mod alias block-major-13 xd alias block-major-15 cdu31a alias block-major-16 gscd alias block-major-17 optcd alias block-major-18 sjcd alias block-major-20 mcdx alias block-major-22 ide-probe alias block-major-23 mcd alias block-major-24 sonycd535 alias block-major-25 sbpcd alias block-major-26 sbpcd alias block-major-27 sbpcd alias block-major-29 aztcd alias block-major-32 cm206 alias block-major-33 ide-probe alias block-major-34 ide-probe alias char-major-4 serial alias char-major-5 serial alias char-major-6 lp alias char-major-9 st alias char-major-10 misc alias char-major-10-0 busmouse alias char-major-10-1 psaux alias char-major-10-2 msbusmouse alias char-major-10-3 atixlmouse alias char-major-10-4 amigamouse alias char-major-10-5 atarimouse alias char-major-10-130 wdt alias char-major-10-131 wdt alias char-major-10-135 off alias char-major-10-139 openprom alias char-major-14 sound alias char-major-19 cyclades alias char-major-20 cyclades alias char-major-21 sg alias char-major-27 ftape alias char-major-34 scc alias char-major-35 tclmidi alias char-major-36 netlink alias char-major-37 ide-tape alias char-major-48 riscom8 alias char-major-49 riscom8 alias char-major-63 kdebug alias dos msdos alias dummy0 dummy alias dummy1 dummy alias eth0 off alias iso9660 isofs alias md-personality-1 linear I have tried including ftape directly in the kernel, but that gives the same results on a mt command. Any ideas on how can I get ftape to work? I would imagine something needs to be done in /dev, but what is it? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Office Question.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Mark Fitzgerald wrote: jeff wrote: I'm in the process of installing Star Office, for Mandrake 6.1 Package. I's askingme for Company/Campus Key. Jeff Did you get StarOffice with Mandrake 6.1? (With Mandrake Power Pack .. that is?) If so, select - media key and put in the number you recieved with Mandrake 6.1 PP. Go on from there. Mark -- Mark Fitzgerald (0-0) Campobello Island, NB, Canada Yes I have the 6.1 PP but I guess I lost the number. When Stardivision was purchased by Sun, they did away with the need for the reg number, they also created a patch to remove the need for the reg number for installation. You can get it at ftp://ftp.stardivision.de/pub/support/so51/unxlnxi/regpatch -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] LinuxWorld
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know if MandrakeSoft is going to have a pavilion at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City this February? Both the LinuxWorld and Mandrake websites say they will be there. I just got my tickets in the mail today, anyone else on the list going? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] C programming environment
On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Payne Stanifer wrote: i was wondering what you all thought was the best C/C++ programming environment (compiler,linker,etc.). I was looking for something fairly I was using Code Crusader for a while, which was/is pretty neat. . .then i picked up a copy of CodeWarrior for RedHat. That's also very neat. As far as error reporting, CodeWarrior is a bit better about it. . . Code Crusader is pretty nice and free, I have not tried Code Warrior. I am currently using Code Forge and really like it, easily worth the $50 for the home user package, the free version works well also. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] link light
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Seung-woo Nam wrote: The tulip driver included in Mandrake doesn't seem to work very well with any ethernet cards. I myself had the same problem with tulip driver. However, after I compiled and installed tulip driver came on the driver diskette for my ethernet card, it started working fine. I don't know where you get this from. I have Netgear FA310tx cards based on the tulip chipset. These work flawless with the mandrake drivers. From install on. Never a problem. The driver included in the Mandrake distro is an oloder one. Some of the newer "tulip compatible" cards just do not work with it, they do work with the newer version of the driver however. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] linux-mandrake 2.2.13-7mdk kernel
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote: Can someone tell me the difference between the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel and the 2.2.13-7mdk smp kernel smp is for multiprocessor motherboards I am asking because I cannot compile a driver for the smp kernel for my SB live sound card. My linux box is set up with the smp kernel and the emu10k1.o driver is compiled for the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel. I downloaded the latest driver from creatives ftp site. When I modify the Makefile file to enable smpsupport and then "make" the driver, the process errors. Exactly what is the error? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Using QT
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jim Ockers wrote: Okay, thanks for the .bash_profile hints. I have successfully configured and "make"(d) the QT Toolkit. Now trying to run through the "Hello World" tutorial. Checked many times for syntax errors but I still get the following error when I try to compile with "g++ hello.cc": /tmp/ccz3wtnp.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccz3wtnp.o(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `QApplication::QApplication( /tmp/ccz3wtnp.o(.text+0x2b): undefined reference to `QString::QString(char const *)' /tmp/ccz3wtnp.o(.text+0x47): undefined reference to `QPushButton::QPushButton(QString const , QWidget *, char const *)' /tmp/ccz3wtnp.o(.text+0x72): undefined reference to `QPushButton::resize(int, int)' /tmp/ccz3wtnp.o(.text+0x85): undefined reference to `QApplication::setMainWidget(QWidget *)' ..clipped the remainder Any more hints? Thanks, -Jim Ockers that sounds like a missing or incorrect include statement. . .if you dont mind posting or emailing me your code i can sift through it and see if i find anything. . . The undefined reference in the message is pointing back to an object file, more likely the problem is a missing library in your link path. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Mouse freaks
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, you wrote: Sounds more like she has an irq conflict. Sounds like every thing works fine for the mouse until whatever else it is trys to take the irq or address and boom ..crazy mouse Something else is trying to use the same irq or address as the mouse. Dennis John That sounds reasonable, was any new hardware added recently? If so, check irq's with the new item, and see if the conflict is there -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Mouse freaks
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, you wrote: Logitech Mouseman+ PS2 Same in Linux. I'm fixing to re install for the third time since this started having this trouble which was about 4 days ago. I have the same mouse and told Linux that it is a generic ps2 mouse, and have had no problems with it. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Can you recommend a Linux Mandrake book.
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, you wrote: Look at the How-to at www.linux.com , it's a good tutorial on IP Chains and will get you up and running with a basic config. There is a really good step-by-step set of instructions at linuxnewbie.org also I'm looking for a good Linux Mandrake book. I need info on setting up ipchains as firewall protection, samba, plus others. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Want To Lose Weight For The Holidays-New Pill Can Do It -gpav
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote: YES! You can lose weight with FAT ABSORB and still eat what you want! Must be a new product. It seems to absorb your vfat drives. Look at some of Fat Absorb's benefits! · Has no stimulants of any kind. Translation: Means it has no caffine either. It is missing one of the 4 essential foodgroups. · Blocks dietary fat before it reaches your stomach Translation: Tastes so bad, you vomit it back up before you finish swallowing it. · Fat Absorb is ALL NATURAL So is dirt, but you don't see me eating that either. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] modem sharing
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hello, Is it possible for Linux and Windows to share a modem connections? On a dual boot machine - yes, as long as the modem is compatible with both linux and windows Over a lan - doing it right now. if so, how do I do it? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/ipchains.html is what I used to get started -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] OT - uptime
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, you wrote: I know this is off topic(at least some what), if you disprove don't respond and I'll get the hint. But, I am really curious about how many of you leave your personal systems running all the time. I shutdown everynight. I've heard the system isn't designed to be shutdown everynight. If you leave your system running, do you turn your monitor off at night or just leave it on. If you leave it on all the time, how often do you reset your computer (how do you decide when)? Richard My Linux PC, stays up 24x7, mostly since I am running a seti client on it and this way I can get about 3 work units done a day. Monitor stays on, but locked when not using it. Printer is usually off. Windows pc's stay on sometimes and sometimes get shutdown. Depends on who was the last to use it. I reboot when I feel like it, (usually when I really want to do something in windows) -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] how to cd to cd
On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote: this may sound "dumb" but, how do I "see" the contents of my CDROM? in DOS the command is similar to :: C: cd D:\ first mount the cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom then cd /mnt/cdrom -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] eth0 problems HELP!
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, you wrote: p.s. how do i ping an IP w/o it going on forever? "ping host -c nnn" where nnn is the number of pings to send -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] We need a StarOffice list!
On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: I feel that I am in a quandary. There is no mailing list for StarOffice, or rather there is one with 23 members on it, which I subscribed to. Never got a message from them except for my subscription confirmation. With millions of people using StarOffice, there really should be a mailing list, and the obvious sponsor ought to be Sun. The newsgroups The SO-L list is fairly inactive. Folks just need to post. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [[newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)]
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, you wrote: This is probably outdated by, I'm late getting to my backlog of email. It's been my experience in reading books from Que and Sams that they contain a lot of typos and misleading if not to say incorrect information. Perhaps they have better publishers now, but I don't really care for them. My experience with sams has been highly varied. Some books are great and accurate, others are pure cr*p. There seems to be no middle ground on their publications. just one geek's opinion. just another's -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote: You could try a search for macmillan on the 'net. They may have e-books for your parusal, not sure of it though. Jusat an idea. They used to have a site at http://www.mcp.com but all of the ebooks have moved to http://www.informit.com -- Alex
Re: [newbie] alternative browser?
"Karen M. Heiby" wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative browser for Linux? I don't like Netscape's, KFM, or Star Office's very much. I won't dare go into all the problems, though ;-) if you want lightweight and fairly simple, try grail. Entirely written in python, you can get it from http://www.python.org -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, looks like the driver is bad. There was another message on the list saying that there is a known problem with the shipped driver and the SOHOware card. Check the archives at the Mandrake website for resolution. That fixed it. Thanks -- I owe you a beer, if you are ever in Central NJ, let me know, so I can buy you one -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers are Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2 /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I fixed that else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: On a linux terminal, start a 'ping 192.168.1.2'. Then switch terminals and run did taht and it's pinging away happily tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output [root@localhost alex]# tcpdump -i eth0 | tee tcpdump-output tcpdump: listening on eth0 that is all that happens, no output in tcpdump-output file (empty) but I get this when tcpdump is stopped by a ctl-c 0 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel Then mail a good portion of the tcpdump-output file to the list. One other thing, I seem to remember seeing something in your original log messages about the card being put into 100Tx mode. Is the Windows side also 100Mb? I believe so. Everything runs at 100Mb while both systems are in windows. -- Alex
[newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway)
Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98.
However when both machines are running different os's (Linux/WIn98 or
Win98/Linux) combos (both are dual boot), neither machine can ping the other.
I read the ethernet howto and I think I am more confused than when I started.
All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to ping one another.
This is the setup so far
Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
Everything is connected together with the "SOHOWare 10/100 Network Starter Kit"
(picked up at a computer flea market for $45. It says Linux is supported on the
box, and includes the tulip driver). And the card seems to be recoginized while
booting.
I have included a few files/messages along with this post. I might be just
looking in the wrong place as it's been one heck of a crazy day.
The only thing I can think of is that I need to do something special to
configure the hub. If so, where can I find the information?
/etc/hosts
192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1
192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs
192.168.1.2 linux1 basement
/etc/conf/modules
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound sb
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=6
demsg sez
Linux version 2.2.13-7mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version pgcc-2.91.66
19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Wed Oct 20 22:13:44 EDT 1999
Detected 463917907 Hz processor.
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 462.03 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127688k/131072k available (1072k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1544k data,
60k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb450
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI 44X CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: PHILIPS PCA460RW, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hdb: WDC WD102AA, 9787MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb5 hdb6 hdb7
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: PHILIPS Model: PCA460RW Rev: 1.0f
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)
Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400.
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11.
read_eeprom:
8000 f8c6 9794
Re: [newbie] 6.1 from Macmillan
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I ask about this a couple of days ago and I am still perplexed about the problems I am having with 6.1 . I have made 3 clean installs now and still have the same exact problems. Are there any known problems with 6.1 from macmillan? These are the problems that I have come across so far: 1 The included version of the kernel source won't pass thru xconfig or menuconfig. I fixed by getting the newer versions from a mandrake ftp site 2 Python-1.5.2 was included (which is a good thing !), but the included version of tkinter (the python/tk interface) was 1.5.1 some of my python modules using tk had a problem with that. I fixed it by getting the updated version of tlkinter from rufus. -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Utilities menu -- Reading the bottom?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear Andrew: Could you put me out of my misery, please :) and show precisely how to move a menu item from one submenu to another? I created the submenu Utilities II, so now I have Utilities I and Utilities II (I always said I was a mathematical genius!). Now, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to actually transfer some of the items from Utilities I to Utilities II. I've tried to left-click and drag an item from Ut 1 to Ut II. Doesn't work. It just adds the item (e.g. kpilot) to the KDE menu rather than to the submenu Ut II. I don't think move works between submenus. Try cut and paste. -- Alex
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:35:24AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Sam: Thank you so much for the info. Just ordered Que's Special Editon Using StarOffice by Michael Koch (for Linux only) the 15,50+ pages version from Macmillan (http://www.mcp.com). Just as a "head's up" to people, MacMillan is also shipping some of their books as .pdf files in their 6.5 Deluxe edition. Here's what they include: Red Hat 6 Unleashed Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Teach Yourself KDE in 24 Hours Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Special Edition Using Linux Special Edition Using StarOffice Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 If you get the "Complete Edition" (about 29 USD) you get Red Hat 6 Unleashed Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Teach Yourself KDE in 24 Hours Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Special Edition Using Linux -- Alex
Re: [newbie] StarOffice mailing list?
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Anybody know if there is a StarOffice mailing list (or newsgroup)? Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net I think you will find it here http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/newsgroups.html hope it helps Jeanette Those are the official newsgroups run by stardivision (now sun). I have an UNofficial mailing list on onelist. go to http://www.onelist.com/community/SO-L for more info... -- Alex
Re: [newbie] cdrw
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am not clear on what a cdrw disk is. I used to write CDW drivers for Kodak, mainly for the PhotoCD Project. I do know that CDs can only be written to once. Furthermore, there is a limitation on the number of times you can write cdrw = cd rewritable. They can be written to and erased more than once (usually about 1000 times) -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I am getting a font error when booting into KDE which is set for auto-load. How can I stop this? All my monitor does is reset itself. Is there a command once I'm at the login: screen to stop the auto-load? I have about 3 seconds before KDE begins to load. BTW, Yes I've searched HOW-TO's on this with no luck. :( Thanks, Valheru At the LILO prompt, type "linux 3" and that should do it. NOTE: This *MUST* be done at the LILO prompt, NOT at the boot-up screen! This will put you in console mode, rather than in X-windows, and hopefully, you can figure out what needs to be fixed while in console mode! That works for a single time. For a more permanant fix edit the line in /etc/inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: or run linuxconf click the boot click the mode tab click "default boot mode" button click "text mode network" click accept and quit then activate the changes when you exit linuxconf (personally I think that it is easier to just edit the /etc/inittab file) -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux magazine
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, you wrote: Just thought I would mention that I found the Premiere issue of Maximum Linux excellent reading. The article on networking was fantastic, especially the part about masquerading. I was able to use it to set up my Mandrake box as a gateway and access the net from my two other computers attached to my ethernet network. The other two machines are running Windows 98(kids and I only looked at the magazine briefly and it didn't seem all that interesting to me. Maybe I will get a copy and see if it really is that interesting. It would be cool if each issue came out with a different Linux distro. You would get to try them all. -- Alex
Re: [newbie] Mouse Problem...any takers? :)
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello, I just bought and installed "the complete Linux Operating System 6.5" which has linux-mandrake 6.1 I believe... My mouse does not work it's a logictech marble trackmanhas the PS/2 plug if I select ps/2 mouse it locks up upon loading X if I try to select it through gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/psaux it locks up everything including my keyboard it also locks up if I try to select a ps2 mouse through XF86Config the only time I can use my keyboard in X is if I select a Serial mouse in the setup I've got an ATI Rage Lt PRO video card it's MACH 64 compatible I think... I'm not sure what other info would be needed here...please help and let me know if you need any more info.. Any help is GREATLY appreciated... H, first turn off html on Outlook Express (or at least use a larger font size, 2 is much too small). Try connecting a regular ps/2 mouse for the install, then swap it for the trackball later and see if that helps. Sometimes the install and configuration gets confused. The ATI Rage card should be a MACH 64. -- Alex
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the arcane registration process. Now if they would fix the Java and the printing it would be great. And some fonts would help. Jeanette I have asked this question before, and will try again. Does anyone know specifically what are the "upgrades' from the original SO5.1 to Sun's 5.1a? AFAIK the only difference is the registration process. It takes a hell of a long time to d/l the package over a 64K satellite link shared by a few people, so I'd prefer to know first before I jump. It took me about 8 hrs to download the windows 5.1 version over a 28.8 modem (64M + 14M patch) -- Alex
