Re: [newbie] Updates
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:07:50 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:36:40 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: sylpheed2-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Yer doin' this just to tempt me to up to 10.1, admit it...admit it! Aaaarrggghh the pressure...can barely resist... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:04:52 up 23 days, 22:09, 7 users, load average: 1.18, 1.26, 1.27 +++ Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson /me pokes JoeHill with a stick. You know you want to join us. 10.1 is great. Come on now! -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:34:57 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR and Bluetooth. I have used bluetooth quite a lot and the connection to Linux is fine. I can send files, receive files, contacts, etc. However, IIRC, your model does not support bluetooth so the only connection method that I can see would be via cable. Also, Nokia's software is usually freely available though it only works with Windows. You should be able to find a lot of howto's for Linux by Googling. -- Bryan Phinney Indeed, my model does not have bluetooth. I would be using the data cable to connect it up. Do you have a program you use for things like contact book backup, loading pictures on your phone, etc? Part of the reason I'm asking on the list is that I am having trouble getting answers out of Google. I've tried, but my googling skills apparently suck and I can't get anything I can make heads or tails of. Thanks! -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its location as http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/ but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before Mozilla) as an urpmi medium I got five minutes of 0% of 0 at speed 0. What did I do wrong? Do I need to d/l the -0.8 and then upgrade to the -1.0.1 or d/l the -1.0-1 rpm or is there another way? ty -- Julie I'm not sure how you can make the source you're trying to use work, but I can direct you to a better one that I know a good number of people here on the list use. If you're running 10.1, probably the easiest way to get an up to date version of Firefox would be to use Charles Edward's mirror. You can find information and directions on how to set it up on the site: http://www.eslrahc.com/ He also offers RPMs for stuff like gaim, and other popular programs that don't get updated very frequently on the official mirrors. I hope that helps. -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:21:23 -0600, skunge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amy wrote: Hey guys, I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly? I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki. Thanks in advance for any help! Amy I can't speak to Nokia from experience, but I've gotten Samsung and Sanyo phones connected to Mandrake with bitpim (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/). The bitpim site only indicates one Nokia phone model known to work, but states others may work, though they are untested. You'll need a USB cable made for your phone, and it looks like you can get one here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5755884150category=20366 I bought my cable on eBay, and it worked like a charm. The eBay knock-offs are about $50 less than the cable the phone vendors sell. Good luck! I can probably get the data cable I need through work, and only pay a couple to a few dollars more than the cost of the cable you linked + shipping. Maybe even about the same taking my employee discount into consideration. Though, if I hadn't caught the subtext of the coupon Nokia gave me when I registered my phone, I might have bought it from them. They charge $49.95, and I have a coupon for $10 off, but it requires me to spend $50 or more, and that usually doesn't round up five cents. *shrugs* I'll look into the one at work though, thanks. If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Nokia 6800 connection
Hey guys, I want to connect my Nokia 6800 phone to my computer to put my own images on it (the ones that came with it suck, and the ones I can download are over priced for what they are), and I was wondering if anyone's been able to connect a mobile phone to a computer running Mandrake in order to upload pictures and sounds to it? More specifically, has anyone gotten the Nokia 6800 connected correctly? I'm tight on money at the moment, and so I'd like to avoid spending money on a data cable that's going to do me no good. I haven't had much, if any luck, with what I saw on Google, and I didn't see anything about connecting mobile phones in the list's Wiki. Thanks in advance for any help! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Fwd: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
Huh, I really should watch what I'm doing. I thought I was sending this to the list. Bah. Forwarded to the list now. -- Forwarded message -- From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:46:08 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode To: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey guys, I hadn't fixed things as well as I'd thought, so I figured I'd check back in and let everyone know what happened. The mii-tool thing ended up not acting like it made a difference after I'd left my computer sitting overnight, so I gave the ifdown eth1, unplug for 60 seconds, ifup eth1 thing a try. (Note to anyone reading this later for help, my network card is eth1 because I don't use the onboard network card, but the typical network card is usuall eth0). No luck with that, still wasn't behaving as it should. At that point I gave in and decided to shut down my computer. I ended up pulling out the network card, and reseating it after I completely shut off the power to my computer, then turning my computer back on. Everything seem to have reset itself and all the lights came on like they should have. Everything since has been behaving correctly, so I suppose I really can call this fixed. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast -- I have 49 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:38:01 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 03:16, Amy wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:58:43 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command modinfo 3c59x lists the options for that driver, and we can refer to this page for a description http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html To force this driver to be full duplex edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf as root user (Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror file manager) Add the line options 3c59x full_duplex=1 Then reboot derek Do I have to reboot? Shouldn't there be some way to restart the card/settings/whatever without rebooting? I'm spoiled and really really don't want to have to reboot my computer unless it is absolutely required. It feels like it takes too frellin' long to wait for it to shut down and restart itself. *pout* No rebooting is not essential. I just thought for a recent Windows refugee it would be something you were used to doing. ifdown and ifup are sufficient to cause the card to autodetect again, but it will not force reloading of the driver. What you need to do is service network stop rmmod 3c59x modprobe 3c59x service network start derek Part of the reason I left windows was to avoid stupid things like restarting my computer. Ug. That and I liked that my computer doesn't go funny on me just because it's been on for hours and/or days at a time. I ended up getting help from a friend though, which seems to have temporarily fixed the problem. We'll see if it holds whenever I end up having to turn my computer off for whatever reason. Probably the next time will be when I go to take it over to my boyfriend's house, but that will also include the adventure of getting it to work with a wireless adapter since he and his roommate have a wireless network happening. My friend talked me through using mii-tool to figure out what's up. First he had me check what the actual connection was (mii-tool eth1), to make sure it matched what the router was telling me. Then he had me use mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 to set it for full duplex mode. eth0 is the NIC onboard on the motherboard, I use a PCI NIC because my last motherboard had trouble with the onboard NIC. Anyhow, now, my router still doens't have the dull duplex light turned on, but if I do enough with my internet connection, it'll come on long enough to cooperate, and I am indeed back up and running for now. I'll make another post to this thread later if this change doesn't stick and I still have problems. But I should most likely be able to fix it with the other information provided in the thread if this doesn't stick if/when I have to restart next. Thanks for all your help! -- I have 49 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
Hey guys! I noticed recently that my linksys router isn't showing the connection between my computer and the router as being functional in full duplex mode. This occurred after last friday when my Dad was having a new heater and air conditioning unit put in, the guys doing the installation accidentally turned off the power to the outlet my computer was hooked to. Since I wasn't home at the time, and my dad didn't realize this was going to happen (even if he did, I don't know that he would have been able to shut my computer down), my computer was turned off without shutting down correctly. The problem with the full duplex mode showed up after this occurred. I'm hoping it's just a setting was frelled, and that this can be fixed without replacing the network card in my computer, but my wandering through preferences hasn't lead me to find anything that might control the duplex mode. If anyone can point me towards where I might be able to fix this (or at least confirm that it is indeed my hardware that's the problem), I would most appreciate it. And in case anyone asks, I have reconnected the network cable on both ends, and I have plugged into various ports on the router to make sure it wasn't just the little light on the router that died. Thanks in advance! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:34:13 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selection of half/full duplex is autodetected by the card itself. If it was working before, and now it isnt, then that would suggest something physical, a dodgy connector maybe, or a hardware fault. It is possible to force half or full duplex in most Linux drivers. It is just a matter of putting an option line in /etc/modprobe.conf If you let us know which driver you are using I can show you how to do that. derek I'm not sure which driver I'm using, it was auto detected when I did the install. How do I check? -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:55:30 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:45, Amy wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 23:34:13 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selection of half/full duplex is autodetected by the card itself. If it was working before, and now it isnt, then that would suggest something physical, a dodgy connector maybe, or a hardware fault. It is possible to force half or full duplex in most Linux drivers. It is just a matter of putting an option line in /etc/modprobe.conf If you let us know which driver you are using I can show you how to do that. derek I'm not sure which driver I'm using, it was auto detected when I did the install. How do I check? Mandrake ControlCentreNetworkManageConnections select your Interface and the 'Options Tab' The driver name is listed under 'Module name' derek Module name: 3c59x -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:58:43 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command modinfo 3c59x lists the options for that driver, and we can refer to this page for a description http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html To force this driver to be full duplex edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf as root user (Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror file manager) Add the line options 3c59x full_duplex=1 Then reboot derek Do I have to reboot? Shouldn't there be some way to restart the card/settings/whatever without rebooting? I'm spoiled and really really don't want to have to reboot my computer unless it is absolutely required. It feels like it takes too frellin' long to wait for it to shut down and restart itself. *pout* -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:54:39 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amy wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:58:43 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command modinfo 3c59x lists the options for that driver, and we can refer to this page for a description http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html To force this driver to be full duplex edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf as root user (Alt+F2 and type 'kdesu konqueror' in the box to get a root copy of konqueror file manager) Add the line options 3c59x full_duplex=1 Then reboot derek Do I have to reboot? Shouldn't there be some way to restart the card/settings/whatever without rebooting? I'm spoiled and really really don't want to have to reboot my computer unless it is absolutely required. It feels like it takes too frellin' long to wait for it to shut down and restart itself. *pout* You should not have to force the card. One thing you could try, as root: ifdown eth0 unplug the ethernet cable, wait 60 seconds, and plug it back in ifup eth0 The card and the router should talk to each other, and decide to go back to full duplex. Even if they do not, it may not be worth doing a reboot to get full duplex back. If you are not doing a lot of file transfer between systems, then chances are you will not notice the difference between full duplex and half duplex. As for you Internet connection, you definitely will not notice a difference. Mikkel Well, I did the file edit that derek told me to, but I haven't restarted yet. Should I undo that before I try your recommendation? And I have noticed a little bit of a difference. Some things time out funny, my Gmail indicator logs itself out occasionally, small annoying things like that. All this stuff started happening about the same time I noticed the light was out. -- I have 48 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
Hi everyone! I'm pondering spending money I technically should be saving (for a possible cross country move) on a DVD drive for my computer. Just a simple DVD reader, I don't need to burn DVDs, really. And since I only use Mandrake, that's all it really needs to work with. I haven't heard many horror stories about DVD and CD drives not being linux/mandrake friendly, but I figured being paranoid and asking suggestions first would be the best way to go anyways. I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. Thanks in advance! Amy -- I have 49 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Lexar Jumpdrive
Hey guys! I have a little 128 mb jumpdrive, it used to automount it's happy little ass when I plugged it in, but that was when I still was running the cooker install. (A Newbie running cooker? *gasp* Blame my friend, I eventually got frustrated even though he never had any problems and downgraded to 10.1, we'll leave it at that.) I just plugged my little purple guy into the front usb ports on my happy little computer, and the drive didn't mount it's happy little self for me like I was used to. Now, since I've started using Mandrake (and linux in general) I've never had to manually mount something, and I haven't the first frellin' clue how to do this. I tried to be a good girl, and looked at the man pages, but I can't make heads or tails enough to know what to type in the console to make my happy little jumpdrive mount, and let me get the pictures I copied off my mom's iLamp onto my own little computer. So I guess the long and short of it, I want to know what I should do to get my jumpdrive to mount, and long term, if anyone can shine a little light onto why the automount used to work, but doesn't know, I'd greatly appreciate it! I have a suspicion about something, but I can't remember what the file is that I need to open to see if my suspicion is correct. I'll corner my friend about it tomorrow, and see if he has any ideas, but meanwhile, if any of you can help, that would be great! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Lexar Jumpdrive
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:52:59 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 Feb 2005 08:55, Amy wrote: So I guess the long and short of it, I want to know what I should do to get my jumpdrive to mount, and long term, if anyone can shine a little light onto why the automount used to work, but doesn't know, I'd greatly appreciate it! I have a suspicion about something, but I can't remember what the file is that I need to open to see if my suspicion is correct. I'll corner my friend about it tomorrow, and see if he has any ideas, but meanwhile, if any of you can help, that would be great! Try running MCC Hardware Hardware with it plugged in. Locate the drive and Run Config Tool. Note where it is being mounted, then select Options. Don't forget to look at the Advanced tag (and you may have to scroll to see everything). HTH Anne I'm not entirely sure what I did, but it's auto mounting again. I went in and looked through the config tool settings and stuff, and I think I unchecked something that disabled auto mount, so I think we're good again. ^_^ Thanks! Amy -- I have 50 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:09:57 +1300, Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Those things are gettng harder and harder to give away. I know someone who might be interested if there's one going spare ... cheers Rosemary Let me know if the original 10 offered are gone, I've got more than I can ever give out, and will be more than happy to share. ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses in there) -- stephen kuhn /me wanders into the IRC channel, and looks around. ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hardward Compatability Question
Hey guys! My boyfriend's house has a wireless network, and everyone over there runs windows. I want to be able to have my computer hop on their network to connect to the internet if I drag my computer over there, and I was looking at the wireless B usb adapter from linksys. I can get it from work on clearance, and 10% off, plus a $10 mail in rebate. Information on the adapter is available here: http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33scid=36prid=435 The question is, has anyone tried this guy... or do I need to attempt to google up help for it if I want to take a blind stab and see if I can get it to work? If at all possible, I would appreciate quick answers since I'm headed to another store in my district that should have it in stock (my store is out of stock) tonight to pick something else up for a customer. If I have to take a blind stab, I'll probably try anyways, since I can return it within 30 days if it doesn't work... I'd just be happier if I knew it should work before I try. I am still very much a newbie, so trying to get something like this installed will be an uphill battle for me knowing it will work, so I'm kind of afraid of going it blind. Thanks in Advance! Amy -- ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardward Compatability Question
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:46:53 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yep I've used that one. It works fine in Linux. It uses the Atmel chip set. The driver required depends on whether you get a v2.6, or v2.8 version. It should work in Mdk 10.1 without any issue. Take a look at the Atmel page on my website for details. BTW the Linksys 54Mbps 102.11g device is not much more expensive and also works well in Linux, but it does require compiling the latest version of the drivers. derek Hi Derek, Thanks for your help. I'll probably still go with the wireless B, just because money is a touch tight right now, and between mail in rebate and my employee discount, it'll be much more friendly for my wallet to go with the wireless B. Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Problem with Menudrake.
PLEASE REMEMBER, I AM A GMAIL USER, SO YOU NEED TO CHECK THAT THE REPLY IS GOING TO THE LIST. Okay, so some of you may remember that I'm trying out Enlightenment right now. I did post about it a week or three ago, asking for recommendations on where to read up on it. At any rate, I'm playing with it now, and I'm starting to get a bit more comfortable with it. I do have one problem at the moment though. For whatever reason I can't edit the menu to get to all my applications. When I try to access menudrake, I get Segmentation fault returned. And before you ask, Menudrake works fine in KDE, and I would assume it works fine in IceWM which is installed but I never use it, so I'm not sure. IceWM comes up as an option in menudrake when one is selecting which environment to edit the menu for, Enlightenment does not though. Thanks in advance! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problem with Menudrake.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:14:14 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e16menuedit is what you want in order to properly edit the Enlightenment menus - mind you, you WILL have to get your hands dirty in doing this exercise - some of the configuration of E is simply NOT easy (heaps of config files/text files/theme files - yadda yadda yadda) - so be prepared... OTOH, if you just want to edit the menus, bounce outta E and into Guh-Nome or some other silly WM, edit said menus and let it do the update-menus for you, bounce outta that wm and back into E and you should have all nice happy warm fuzzy feelings. Hmmm, for whatever reason, the menus aren't updating from what's done in the other WMs. I suppose I'll hunt down e16menuedit, and see if I can get myself comfortable working with that. Thanks much. ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:49:36 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes. You know, I'd reseat the card for sure, and check the cable (again) if I was getting no video at all. I had this problem with my sons comp once. The Nvidia video card, for all intents and purposes, looked like it was solidly seated but a component on the card itself was hitting a capacitor (or somesuch) on the MB, not letting it seat fully. I just had to 'angle' the card slightly and it went on in, just a hairs difference - but enough. Also, before I found the problem, the MB Bios gave a beep that it normally didn't. Just a random thought. :-) Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at that when I go put in the video card a friend is going to give me tonight. I'm supposed to be getting a second monitor as a late christmas present, so it'll be useful to have two video cards available if that's all it takes to fix the card. ^_^ I'll let you guys know if that's all it took to fix the card. :) ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
I'M A GMAIL USER, PLEASE BE SURE YOUR REPLY GOES TO THE LIST. THANKS! Hey everyone! I've got a slight problem here... I went to install the hardware I got from my friend... but the gforce card he gave me doesn't work when I boot from CD and try to start my install. As far as I know, the card is in perfect working order, though I suppose I could test this with a windows boot disk. I'll probably go grab the win98 boot disk and install CD from my car, after sending this email, to confirm that the video card is in working order. My original plan had been to switch over to the onboard video if the gforce card didn't play nice... but I then found out that I did not in fact have onboard video like my friend has told me I had. So I'm kinda stuck. Basically, I was under the impression that drivers included with the install CD would work, but wouldn't be as good as the nvidia ones, however that doesn't seem to be the case? Can anyone give me any suggestions how I can get something working so that I can at least get through the install, or how I could offer the correct drivers for the computer to use during the install process? Until I get this figured out, I'm stuck borrowing my dad's evil XP box whenever I want 'net access. So please, someone save me! I really don't want to have to go through the trouble of removing everything, and putting the old hardware back in, because I'm just going to have to take that all out and put the newer stuff back in once again once someone offers me a solution. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Fwd: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
Forwarding so that this message gets into the archives for this thread since it had useful questions/information in it. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:32:32 -0600 Subject: Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems. To: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:57 am, Amy wrote: I'M A GMAIL USER, PLEASE BE SURE YOUR REPLY GOES TO THE LIST. THANKS! Hey everyone! I've got a slight problem here... I went to install the hardware I got from my friend... but the gforce card he gave me doesn't work when I boot from CD and try to start my install. As far as I know, the card is in perfect working order, though I suppose I could test this with a windows boot disk. I'll probably go grab the win98 boot disk and install CD from my car, after sending this email, to confirm that the video card is in working order. My original plan had been to switch over to the onboard video if the gforce card didn't play nice... but I then found out that I did not in fact have onboard video like my friend has told me I had. So I'm kinda stuck. Basically, I was under the impression that drivers included with the install CD would work, but wouldn't be as good as the nvidia ones, however that doesn't seem to be the case? Can anyone give me any suggestions how I can get something working so that I can at least get through the install, or how I could offer the correct drivers for the computer to use during the install process? Until I get this figured out, I'm stuck borrowing my dad's evil XP box whenever I want 'net access. So please, someone save me! I really don't want to have to go through the trouble of removing everything, and putting the old hardware back in, because I'm just going to have to take that all out and put the newer stuff back in once again once someone offers me a solution. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Do you know what gforce card you have? The Nvidia drivers should work. Is the card an agp slot card or a pci card. If it is an AGP card and you have another pci card of any sort in the slot next to the AGP slot it may cause an IRQ conflict. Move the pci card to a different slot. Hope this is not preaching to the choir, but you never know what may have occurred during the build of the computer, I forget small things like that now and then and then slap myself when I discover what I did. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
Hey everyone, thanks for the responses so far! Dennis, did you realize you sent your reply directly to me, and not the list? I'll forward it to the list for everyone else to read though, so don't worry about it, it'll end up in the archives. The card I have is a gforce ti4200, and it is an AGP card. I was not aware of the issues with having a card in the pci slot right next to the agp slot, but I know that's not the problem... since when I put this motherboard in, there was another pci slot compared to what was on the old motherboard, so I used the pci slots that lined up with the slots on the back of the computer I'd already removed, which left the pci slot next to the agp slot open. I do know that there are nvidia drivers I can try, but I'm at a loss as to ~how~ I can, since I don't have a video output to look at to select anything. Is there a way to offer the nvidia drivers to my computer without needing to see anything on the monitor? Like something I can set up with a boot disk or something? Preferably something I can safely set up from my dad's windows computer (we're not sure how secure his computer is, and haven't had time to fix it yet) because I really really don't want to have to remove all the hardware and put the old stuff back in. Just so you know why I don't want to mess with removing the new hardware and putting the old hardware back in, it is because when I put all the new hardware in last night, that was the first time I did a hardware installation that significant without someone hovering over my shoulder to watch me through the process. I did have a friend on the phone, who was able to help me with a couple of small things I didn't know myself, but he wasn't familiar with the motherboard himself. I would rather not have to pull stuff out and put stuff back in a bajillion times. Also, I haven't had a chance to try the windows boot disk, to make sure that the video card does indeed work, and it is in fact a drivers issue, but I will do that when I get home from work tonight. I didn't have the chance to do it before work today, and had to go to sleep last night. Ug. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:22:56 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, That card should work. Anyone have a problem with a ti card? So, do you have midnight commander or vi or vim installed. Do you get the text screen? Sometimes the kernel source needs to be installed to get Nvidia to work. So if you pop the CD1 disk in and choose upgrade instead of install and let it run through to the end you can check if your card was correctly detected by doing the configure on resolution or monitor can't recall which is shown. Sometimes a missing file will be installed in the update also. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Still can't get your replies to go to the list, can ya? ;) You know, no matter how much people make a fuss about the reply-to setting, technically one should be in the habit of hitting reply-to all for mailing lists, since that's how it was originally suppose to work. However, I'm not going to get into that debate with this crowd, you're all nice, but you're stubborn. ;) Anyhow, I quoted your message this time, so it's included in the archives now. ^_^ Next time you reply, it'll make it to the list, yes? Three's a charm after all. See, the problem is, I don't get ~anything~ in the way of video output... I was hoping it's just a driver issue, but I'm starting to think it's probably not, the more I hear from people. I'm still at work, but when I get hope, I will toss the win98 boot disk in and see if the video card wants to work with that. If it doesn't, then I'll probably just go get a new card, or at least take advantage of the one someone else offered me when I mentioned what was going on. If anyone else has any ideas, or has experience with this particular card, I'd appreciate any thoughts as to what's going on. Thanks! ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:11:39 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:03:59 -0600 Amy disseminated the following: Still can't get your replies to go to the list, can ya? ;) You know, no matter how much people make a fuss about the reply-to setting, technically one should be in the habit of hitting reply-to all for mailing lists, since that's how it was originally suppose to work. However, I'm not going to get into that debate with this crowd, you're all nice, but you're stubborn. ;) You're right, it's everybody else's problem, not GMail. They are completely blameless in this and all of us are to be chided for not conforming to their brilliant standards, faultless security, and responsiveness to their community. I didn't really want to get into this in the middle of a thread where I'm trying to get a problem solved, but since you insist... OFF TOPIC, SKIP IF YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED IN THE REPLY-TO DEBATE. THANKS. While gmail is hardly perfect, and it is in fact still beta, it is correct in it's use of the reply-to field. From what I understand of the standards that are supposed to be followed relating to email, a mailing list should not be using the reply-to field at all. Instead, the responciblity of directing replies to the correct destination lands on the email client and the person using the email client by way of the list-post field, which the newbie list correctly sets. If gmail should be faulted for anything in this mess, it's the lack of adhearing to the theading tags in the emails headers (instead using it's own system of grouping messages by subject line's similarity) and the lack of a reply-all function. The problem for the list as a whole is that people have become used ot mailing lists butchering the headers of the mailing list, so that one can only reply to the list instead of having the option to take the discussion off list as originally intended. It should be where the reply-to is set to the person who sent the message, and the list-post should be set for the mailing list's posting address, and one can either reply to contact the original poster, or reply all and share with the list. Now if you would like to continue this discussion, please either contact me off list, or start a new thread. Thank you. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Made it to the list perfectly find this time. ^_^ I tried the windows boot disk, but it seems that I either didn't connect something correctly (I'll probably poke my nose in later, or ask for help from the person who gave me the hardware) or I'll grab the video card a friend is offering me. I appriciate your attempts to help, but I suspect that either I frelled something up, or this card just doesn't like me at all. Maybe once I have a video card working in there, I'll go back and play with this one. But I think it's probably safe to say there's something wrong with this guy. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Enlightenment
I'M A GMAIL USER, PLEASE BE SURE YOUR REPLY GOES TO THE LIST. THANKS. At the recommendation of a friend, I recently installed Enlightenment since I was curious about using something other than KDE, which is what I've been using since I did my first install of Mandrake back in the spring. I was wondering if anyone on the list has used it and/or does use it... and if so, could I get some recommendations on where to read up on it to get a little more comfortable with it? I've poked my nose in on their website, but I haven't actually jumped into their support documents yet, I'm just curious if there are any other good resources for someone trying to get used to Enlightenment. Right now I'm just looking for information on Enlightenment, so if you were going to reply with suggestions on something else I should try instead, please hold off. If I decide I don't like Enlightenment, I'll probably come back to the list and ask for suggestions on what else to try next while falling back on KDE again. Thanks in Advance, Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hardware Questions
REMEMBER I AM A GMAIL USER, CHECK THAT RESPONSES ARE GOING TO THE LIST. THANKS. Hey guys, a quick question. A friend of mine gave me some hand me down hardware. He's recently upgraded his computer, and knew I was sorely in need of an upgrade, so he offered to give me his old stuff. He's unfortunately a windows user, so I have no idea about linux compatibility of this stuff. I was wondering if anyone had some specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to use any of the following with Mandrake? Asus p4s533 motherboard p4 1.6 GHz processor geforce ti4200 agp video card My friends make it sound like all of it should work fine, I just figured I'd check with you guys on it real quick. Also, if any of that is likely to give me a problem, would you be so kinda as to mention if it'll still work with some fuss? And if so, what sort of fuss would I have to make? One of my friends is making it sound like the video card may be an extra bit of fuss, but if it's not too hard to do, I don't mind. Thanks in advance for the help! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fonts
I'M A GMAIL USERS! PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT ADDRESS YOU REPLY TO. THANKS. Okay, so there's this one font I absolutely loved to death when I was still using windows. Is there any way to make it work with Mandrake? I've still got the file for it from windows, so if there's a way to convert it to work, I'd be very happy to do what's needed for that. Thanks much in advance! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Duplex printing hp deskjet 970cxi
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:05:57 -0700, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Deskjet 970cxi printer with a with a two sided module (looks like a double roller gadjet that fits on the back of the printer). I would like to be able to print on both sides of the paper for book or tablet printing. I found the commands for printing using manual loading of paper. But I would like to utilize the printers automatic feed through the module. I have cups installed and printer works fine. Does anyone have any experience with this printer or two sided printing? Or point me in a direction to look? I have been doing some searching and reading but not much luck yet. Thanks Mike I know when I set up my hp deskjet 6122, in order to get the duplex printing, I had to go find a module/driver/whatever you call it made specifically for the hp printers to get it to work duplex. Google is your friend here. I need to actually find it again, since I recently did a reinstall, and haven't tried to reinstall the driver. If/when I deal with that again, I'll give you links and/or names of what to look for. I do remember having to install the module/driver/whatever from source, I didn't find any nice happy rpms. But it wasn't hard, I managed to do it without one of my friends hand holding me through the process, because the site I found it on was very specific about how to do it. ^_^ Good luck. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)
Okay, so here's what's going on. I had ~thought~ I'd sold my dad on letting me install Mandrake for him instead of windows when we formatted his box to take care of the serious infestation he has going in the thing... however, since I'd gotten him to agree, he's changed his mind *Grumbles* So now I'm stuck with the evil and daunting task of reinstalling windows and securing it so it doesn't get reinfected. Ug. So what I need from you guys? I remember there was a thread where one of the members of our list was struggling with a windows computer for something school related for his daughter. In the process of the discussion, someone mentioned a site that one could download all the windows updates from one spot (SP2 not included, I hope) so I could download it on my mandrake box, and burn it to CD so I don't have to plug my dad's computer into the Internet until I've got updates, firewall/s, anti-virus program/s and Spyware Removal tool/s installed and all the extra dren from HP that's not needed removed. I tried searching the archives, but my search engine skills have never been strong, especially when I'm using anything other than google. So if someone could provide me with a quick link, I'd be grateful. Though, I suppose, the other option is to just not bother, do a clean install as HP instructs, and wait for the box to frell itself again, and drive my dad to switching to Linux (or at least to buy a mac). But as much as I'm sure some of you would rather encourage me to try the latter option, I don't like the idea of all the extra work needed for that, since it'll require the windows install, then the backup process again, then the fresh mandrake install. And since this is an HP box, I'm not sure how much of it is windows only sorts of hardware. All it takes is my dad not being able to use one part of his computer he needs, and he'll throw a fit and just go and buy a new windows machine. Bah. Thanks in Advance, Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio
Okay, thanks so far to everyone for your suggestions. I apparently have at and sox installed, and I think I can make heads and tails of the way to use at, however, I haven't the slightest clue with sox. Anyone want to give me quick and dirty directions on how I would get it to start recording what's coming in through the input on my sound card, using sox? And then be sweet and explain what means what? Thought the explanation isn't as important, I can always figure out what stuff means using the man pages... I just really can't make sense of it without somewhere to start from. Anyhow, if anyone gets back to me on this soon enough I can set it up before I go to work tomorrow, I'll be most appreciative, but if not, I'll keep playing and asking and I can always know what I'm doing for next time. Thanks! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:48:53 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting the start time is easy if you at installed. You've lost me here... if I have what installed? ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio
FYI, I'M USING GMAIL, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THAT REPLIES ARE GOING TO THE LIST, AND NOT DIRECTLY TO ME. THANKS! Okay guys, here's what I'm trying to do. I have Sirius Satellite radio, and they're airing an interview on Friday night I want to catch. The trouble is, I'll be at work for at least another two hours after the interview starts. I could technically catch the interview at the store by tuning our store demo to the channel, and listening while I work, but that runs the risk of customers, or a coworker, changing the channel on me. I would rather just record the interview and listen to it later. I've got the boom box docking station for my receiver hooked up to my computer via the line in on my sound card, I can play the music through my computer happily, in fact I'm listening to Mellow Yellow by Donovan at the moment, on the 60s Vibrations channel via my computer speakers. So, I suppose, the long and short of it is that I need to figure out what program to use to record, and I need to figure out if there's a way to make the recording start at a specific time. If it helps any, I can make the receiver turn itself on at a specific time, so if having sound start can be used to trigger the recording, then I can work with that. I'm not too picky about the file format, though I want something that'll give me the better sound quality with the least amount of space taken. I would assume that I should be looking at recording to .ogg, but I am open to suggestions for other formats. The biggest thing is, I would like an answer by Thursday night, so that I can experiment and make sure it'll work before I am rushing out the door Friday afternoon. Thanks much in advance for any help you guys might be able to give me! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:23:28 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 03:37, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of this.' It wouldn't be easier just to change clients? Possibly, but then everyone has their own reasons for their choice. And long live choice! A good example of why someone would use gmail? I used to use an email address on my domain for the list here, but my free hosting from a friend has gotten about as stable as jello as of late, and outside of the fairly regular downtime, I was also having trouble sending messages to the list, I think something about a domain mismatch or something funny like that. So I switched to gmail because it was the only email address I had that didn't suck (like yahoo and hotmail do). So yeah, some of us have very good reasons to use gmail. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failurea second timeto count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
Just a quick note from a fairly fresh out of windows newbie (well, about 6 months). The reason why I think Mandrake is ready for prime time? I'm currently running a cooker install. My friend serving as my primary tech support walked me through setting up such, and didn't explain it to me. I actually learned what exactly that meant here on the list. I'm very impressed that my computer is running much better, and much happier on an unstable release like cooker, than it was while she was still running windows. Also the fact that most everything I've needed to get rolling, I've been able to mostly figure out using google, or asking you guys here on the list. My friend who's serving as tech support is mostly used for Frell, what did I mess up on my computer this time?! problems where for whatever reason, the computer doesn't continue to work correctly. That's happened maybe twice, at most three times, since I installed mandrake. The first of which was totally my fault, the most recent, we figure was due to cooker doing something funny. Also, the man pages are great. Once I learned how to read them without having to use the console window, I was a very very happy person. ^_^ Thanks to you guys on the list here for the trick of reading them using Konqueror (for those of you not familiar with this trick, you put man:/command into the address bar). I've been running an exclusively Mandrake box since I did the install back in May, and I'm proud to say, my computer is running a bajillion times better than my dad's XP piece of dren. He's infected with everything under the sun, and I think I've got him sold on letting me install Mandrake on his box for him... however, he wants me to get a new job before he'll let me do that for him. I figure if a newbie is more happy with an unstable release of mandrake than a stable release of windows, that's certainly got to say something big. ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failurea second timeto count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Default Browser?
Is there a way to get Firefox set as my system default browser? I believe right now, if a program follows a link, it picks up Konqueror by default. I don't know if it makes any difference, but I'm using KDE right now, but am considering switching to Enlightenment... but my friend who serves as primary tech support has not been cornered to hand hold me through the process over the phone. (He's in NYC, I'm in SF bay area) At any rate, any help on getting Firefox as my default browser would be great. ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failurea second timeto count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:41:20 -0800, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:40:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users To: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was able to set it to . No go, we've had that mentioned a couple times. I tried the same thing. While it may show in your preferences that it's set to , when you actually look at the headers of messages you send to the list (hit the more options link at the top of your message) you'll see that gmail is still putting your own email address as the reply-to. I thought the same thing, and I had about half a dozen people reply to me that I'd been wrong, and saw as much for myself when I looked at my own headers. ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
My friend was actually ranting on and on about the whole being lazy and the list messing with the reply-to field, and things of that nature, then eventually threw this link at me explaining why we shouldn't be worrying about it in the first place because we should have the reply-to set for the person, and use the reply to list feature in our clients. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html There's the link if anyone cares to give it a read. Honestly, I'd just like to have it so I'm not yelled at, or lectured over something I can't help. I switch to gmail for the list recently because my domain's been up and down like a seesaw due to an old mail server at my host, or something like that (I'm getting the hosting for free, so I can't really complain, nor do I get detailed reports when something goes wrong), and I can't afford to pay for a host right now. So I'm using what's available and otherwise seems to work. Weee. At any rate,I've mentioned it to Google that I want the option to disable the reply-to, now it's all on you guys to watch when you reply, until Google either gives in, or the list plays the way outlined in the above link. *shrugs* ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail users! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
Hey everyone! I've noticed a lot of people have been complaining about the reply-to address issue with gmail. I think I've fixed it on mine. If gmail users go into settings, there are two options for the reply-to, their gmail address, and a blank field which one is expected to put something in. Well, gmail seems to have accepted me selecting the field without filling it in with anything... if anyone would like to confirm this works correctly (try replying to my message here), we can find out if this is indeed the correct solution to the problem and start sharing it with other gmail users on the list. ^_^ Hope this helps! Amy -- ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net ~~ ^..^ ~~ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
Then I suppose it's time to bug the gmail team. Very weird though, considering it's let me select a blank field for the replyto address. Oh well, I'll bug them about it now. Thanks for checking for me though. ^_^ On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:46:40 -0400, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:43, Amy wrote: Hey everyone! I've noticed a lot of people have been complaining about the reply-to address issue with gmail. I think I've fixed it on mine. If gmail users go into settings, there are two options for the reply-to, their gmail address, and a blank field which one is expected to put something in. Well, gmail seems to have accepted me selecting the field without filling it in with anything... if anyone would like to confirm this works correctly (try replying to my message here), we can find out if this is indeed the correct solution to the problem and start sharing it with other gmail users on the list. ^_^ Hope this helps! Amy not fixed, still goes to Amy -- linux counter #167806 -- ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net ~~ ^..^ ~~ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address
Okay guys, I just submitted a feature request for the option of disabling the reply-to. If those of you using gmail haven't already done so, could you do that too? If we bug them about it enough, maybe they'll fix it! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
Done and Done. ^_^ Thanks for the suggestion! Meanwhile, everyone who missed my comment in the other thread I had going... please make a point to submit a feature request to the gmail team for the option of disabling the reply-to field if you haven't already! And bug your gmail using friends to do so also. ^_^ If we flood them with requests for it, they're bound to submit, yes? ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail users! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ~~ ^..^ ~~ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sp2 may have done something good
Hey everyone! My dad's always asking for help with his computer, and I try to give it to him the best I can. The trouble is, he's running a windows XP box. At least, despite his lack of a virus scanner, he hasn't been killed yet. Probably because he's had it just long enough that he could still connect to to the net on a virgin install without getting killed when he first got it, and since I've wanted my computer hooked up to the net also, we've had his machine behind a linksys router ever since. At any rate, he's been getting on me about finding him an anti-virus program... and I finally got fed up with having to help him on windows, so I really starting making a big issue about how he really should let me switch him to Linux. When I first started suggesting that, he thought his computer was still covered under the extended service plan he'd bought for it, so he was afraid of doing anything like that to it. Bah. However, within the last couple days, a few things happened 1) he's realized the computer is out of it's extended service plan period 2)he's installed sp2 3) his computer's been acting much slower 4) he heard that he should disable the automatic updates on his computer. 5) he still has a constant battle against spy ware from the file share program my brother has installed. Well, much to my surprise, he expressed interest in letting me install Linux just after I asked my friends on Live Journal to suggest a good free anti virus program for him to use. Well, I'm going to install the anti virus program for right now, and figure out the best way to back up his files and my brother's... then go and make sure all the hardware in his computer is cool with Mandrake. It should be because I don't think HP puts anything too weird into their desktop computers, but it doesn't hurt to double check first. So yeah, sp2 may have actually done a good thing. ^_^ Just thought you guys might like to know. Also, I figured I'd give everyone fair warning because I may have to get some extra help when I set up his computer with Mandrake, since while I feel mostly comfortable with the man pages, and how well I have my computer running, who knows what entertaining challenges managing his computer will present. If anyone has any suggestions that'll make the transition easier for my dad once I do this, and anything to make managing his computer easier for me so he can't go in and mess anything up too bad, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm not too worried about my brother, he's smart enough to ask if he doesn't know what he's doing... and will be happy once I set him up with a file share program, and web browser, and show him how to burn CDs, and play music. Anyhow, thanks for all the help you've given me thus far, and thanks in advance for putting up with me as I start off on this adventure of bringing my technologically inept father out of the evil embrace of windows. ^_^ Amy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 04:58, Amy wrote: Just one suggestion dont tell yor father or brother what the root password is. Oh you can bet they won't know that 'til I've moved out and given up giving them tech support. ^_^ I know better than to let them install stuff. Who knows what amazing shit would end up on the computer! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 06:48, Amy wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 04:58, Amy wrote: Just one suggestion dont tell yor father or brother what the root password is. Oh you can bet they won't know that 'til I've moved out and given up giving them tech support. ^_^ I know better than to let them install stuff. Who knows what amazing shit would end up on the computer! It's too bad I can't lock down my client's boxes as it would alleviate so much problem and hassle; at least, though, with my folks (even though they're 10,000km's away) they follow instructions to a T and always consult with me prior to installing or downloading something...HA! Gottem trained... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Well, I'm hoping I'll get my dad trained properly when I switch him. It only took some pressure before he gave in and gave up TV A/V hookup duty to me for all of his TVs. ^_^ It's amazing that the TV related stuff has worked much better since he stopped touching anything but the remotes and whatever is needed on each device to load tapes or DVDs. I'm hoping getting that sort of cooperation from him in regards to the computer won't be too far behind. ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hewlett Packard Scanjet 3500c
Hey everyone! I've been googling to see if I could get my scanner working under Mandrake, and I've getting very very frustrated and disappointed over what Google seems to be telling me. Every single page I've found is either trying to sell me the Scanjet 3500c, review it, or is some other mailing list's archives with someone else asking a variation of the same question I'm about to ask here. Is there any way I can get my HP Scanjet 3500c scanner working? Or would I be better off finding a new home for it with someone who's stupid enough to run windows still, and go hunt for a scanner that will work with Mandrake instead? I hope someone on this list knows what I can do, because I really can't afford to go buy a new scanner right now... but I've got stuff that I would really like to scan. Thanks in advance! Amy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
Snapafun wrote: Amy wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a console window. Is there a more user friendly (read as newbie friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? Thanks in Advance! Amy I'm lazy - so generally I create a postscript file out of it - sometimes a PDF to peruse at my disposal; man top | col -b top.ps The I can ps2pdf the document and just muck around with it as I wish. (like ps2pdf top.ps) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know I can do that, but I suspect it won't work for me, since pdfs and I usually don't agree all that well. I'm sorely in need of an update on my computer's hardware, and I suspect that might help me when dealing with pdfs, but for now, I avoid them when I can. At any rate, thanks for the help! ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com If you are not using the scroll on your mouse because it is not working within Linux then your first learning port of call has to be How to configure my mouse. There are heaps of docs out there, but basically look for something that suits your mouse without being too complicated for now - something that is only 3 button and scroll wheel - leave any other buttons alone until you learn further. You may find that within your GUI control settings, as su, you may only need to have your mouse seen as something different though simular, to the present setup. So go for a look through your MCC [ Mandrake Control Center ] to start with. Regards SnapafunFrank My mouse works fine, it's just that man pages read through the console don't let one use a scroll wheel in a mouse, it makes one use keyboard commands. Amazingly enough, it's a 26-592 Radio Shack mini light up optical scroll mouse that worked out of the package. It's a great mouse, and I would actually recommend it to anyone who doesn't like the size of standard mice or someone looking for something small sized for children's hands. It was a little weird at first, but once I got used to it, standard sized mice seem huge. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:56, Amy wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know I can do that, but I suspect it won't work for me, since pdfs and I usually don't agree all that well. I'm sorely in need of an update on my computer's hardware, and I suspect that might help me when dealing with pdfs, but for now, I avoid them when I can. At any rate, thanks for the help! ^_^ Sorry - that was a first for me: pdf's and you don't agree? Have you been attacked by a raging PDF or something or am I having a flashback here? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor I'm not sure what it is, but pdfs drive me crazy... maybe it's just the programs I've used to access them, but pdfs always seem slow to me. It could also be my hardware, I will be the first to admit I'm in serious need of an upgrade, but I don't have the money for it at the moment. At any rate, I use xpdf to load pdfs (mostly rule books for rpgs I'm involved in online) and get frustrated with how slow they let me move. I know I tried Adobe's reader they released for Linux, but that was worse than xpdf except for printing support. Though there's a chance that I didn't have the printer set up correctly the first time, and I haven't tried to print any pdfs lately. *shrugs* You didn't answer my question about postscript files though... what's so special about them? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
Stephen Kühn wrote: Then again, it might be the situation where (as in the case of my girlfriend) someone else takes care of whatever you need...just a matter of convincing... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Well, as much as I'd love to have someone else to fix it all for me, I've got two things in the way of that. 1) I know no one local who uses linux, and 2) I'm actually trying to pry my dad free of using Windows and would be responsible for keeping his computer working if that happened. So as much as I'd love for it to be Somebody Else's Problem, I really should learn what I'm doing. Besides, I really hate living up to the whole girls can't do shit with their computers stereotype, so I really do need to learn what I'm doing. At least Google seems to help a lot too, I've used that to learn how to fix some other problems I've had so far. ^_^ I think I'll give it a try loading it up through Konqueror as has been suggested a couple times in this thread, and see how that works for me. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a console window. Is there a more user friendly (read as newbie friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? Yes, you can enter man:/command_name or # command_name in Konqueror to read man pages within the browser. But really, learn to love the console. Embrace and hug it, as there is mucho power there that is not in the GUI. Rob Okay, I poked my nose in at the man pages using the man:/command_name approach in Konqueror, and it works just like I need it. Thanks much for the help! ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a console window. Is there a more user friendly (read as newbie friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? Yes, you can enter man:/command_name or # command_name in Konqueror to read man pages within the browser. But really, learn to love the console. Embrace and hug it, as there is mucho power there that is not in the GUI. Rob Oh, the console is great, and I'm getting the hang of using it... however, it's just annoying me I can't use my lazy little scroll wheel in my mouse to go through the document. I'm really not used to using keys on my keyboard to navigate through text documents I'm reading. Now do I have to use Konqueror for this to work, or can I use Firefox? I'm really not growing attached to Konqueror, and I like being able to use my tabs in my Firefox window. ^_^ Thanks much! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:48, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a console window. Is there a more user friendly (read as newbie friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? Thanks in Advance! Amy I'm lazy - so generally I create a postscript file out of it - sometimes a PDF to peruse at my disposal; man top | col -b top.ps The I can ps2pdf the document and just muck around with it as I wish. (like ps2pdf top.ps) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know I can do that, but I suspect it won't work for me, since pdfs and I usually don't agree all that well. I'm sorely in need of an update on my computer's hardware, and I suspect that might help me when dealing with pdfs, but for now, I avoid them when I can. At any rate, thanks for the help! ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] .Man Page Help!
Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely loath reading anything of any length in a console window. Is there a more user friendly (read as newbie friendly) way for one to be able to read the man pages? Thanks in Advance! Amy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Semi-Off Topic: Spam Assassin marks list emails as spam!
I have Spam Assassin installed on the server my friend is hosting my domains on, and due to the high levels of spam I was receiving for a while, I currently have it set at a somewhat low 5.0. Occasionally it'll mark a random email from someone on this list as spam. Is there an easy way to set Spam Assassin so that anything that comes to the domain listed with a to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is white listed? The controls I have access to only allows me to white lists emails based on who they're coming from, not who they're sent to. Anyone have any thoughts? It's not a big deal, really, since I have spam boxes set up and I check them semi regularly and usually get most everything eventually and/or see the original message quoted in replies. However, I figured someone had to have an idea because someone here is bound to use Spam Assassin, no? Thanks in Advance. ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:14:33 -0500 Randall D. Hobbs disseminated the following: I'm not so concerned about the offtopic, but the link you posted seems to automatically enter a vote for Gentoo. If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this link will do it: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1135section=indexaid=7 ...did better than that: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=189893 Ah yes, the ol' lower yourself to their level to make up for the wrong they've done. *shrugs* Oh well, it is ~just~ a /. poll. I'm just annoyed that I ended up voting for a distribution I've never even run! Gotta love stupid human tricks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:25 pm, Amy wrote: Ah yes, the ol' lower yourself to their level to make up for the wrong they've done. *shrugs* Oh well, it is ~just~ a /. poll. I'm just annoyed that I ended up voting for a distribution I've never even run! Gotta love stupid human tricks... Ah yes, but if you're intelligent enough to read the posting then you'll KNOW who you're voting for with my post... I shall repost the relevant information so you can see it yet again: If you want to vote for Mandrake Linux, this link will do it: No flashing or offensively bold text, but I figured it was enough to point out which distribution you were voting for. Sorry if you felt misled, for whatever reason... You know, I could get offended that you're implying I'm stupid because you assume I haven't been reading the posting. Just because I didn't send off a post right away when I read the first message in the thread doesn't mean I didn't read that one before all the other posting happened on the list. I has assumed that maybe I'd done something wrong, because I had thought that this list was safe and friendly and therefore I didn't have to watch out for underhanded idiots who'd drop links that aren't what they say they are. I suppose that makes me the idiot to try to make sure I hadn't done something stupid before crying foul on someone who's posted to a list I'd otherwise gotten a good impression of? And it makes me an idiot because I couldn't read the messages that hadn't been posted yet at the time I read the first message? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:25:54 -0700 Amy disseminated the following: Ah yes, the ol' lower yourself to their level to make up for the wrong they've done. Oh here we go, the voice of reason. Come on, it's just a silly unscientific poll, and no one really gives a rat's ass how the poll comes out anyhow. Thus my Oh well, it is ~just~ a /. poll. comment which followed that one directly. ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Favorite Linux Distro for 2004?
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:49:59 -0700 Amy disseminated the following: No flashing or offensively bold text, but I figured it was enough to point out which distribution you were voting for. Sorry if you felt misled, for whatever reason... You know, I could get offended that you're implying I'm stupid because you assume I haven't been reading the posting. Just because I didn't send off a post right away when I read the first message in the thread doesn't mean I didn't read that one before all the other posting happened on the list. I has assumed that maybe I'd done something wrong, because I had thought that this list was safe and friendly and therefore I didn't have to watch out for underhanded idiots who'd drop links that aren't what they say they are. I suppose that makes me the idiot to try to make sure I hadn't done something stupid before crying foul on someone who's posted to a list I'd otherwise gotten a good impression of? And it makes me an idiot because I couldn't read the messages that hadn't been posted yet at the time I read the first message? ...take a deeep breath. He was *apologizing*. Sheesh. I'm sorry if I misread the tone of his whole response, but then I'm used to people who use heavy sarcasm and often when an apology like that follows directly after a correction which is phrased in such a manner as to includes phrases like ...if you're intelligent enough to... the apology is usually a very sarcastic one and means absolutely nothing. So that's how his response read to me. Perhaps I've just been corrupted by too much sarcasm, and if that's the case then I'm in the wrong, and for that I'll apologize. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Web Cams
Okay, one of the things I'd really like to get rolling again now that I've pretty much settled in and adjusted to Mandrake after blowing off windows is my web cam. When I first switched over, I did a google search for drivers for my cheapo Windows cam I picked up with employee discount at Radio Shack (Yes, I work there... unfortunately! Looking to change that when I can!). None that I've found. Anyone know where I can pick up anything for the 25-3006 Radio Shack PC camera? We don't make the cheap P.O.S. anymore, but it seems to work okay on windows, especially for something that I only paid $15 + tax for while it was on sale, with employee discount. And failing getting that working, I'm eying the Logitech camera we recently started carrying at work. Logitech is a fairly well known brand, so I figure I'd probably have an easier time finding drivers for that. If anyone can tell me if they've had any success getting a Logitech QuickCam Messenger webcam to run on Mandrake, I'd appreciate that. Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
*snips down a whole lot* Johan Sch wrote: 1-The way Amy did with the help of a friend,, Amy .. kindly if possible the required rpms to restore urpmi please. I'd love to let you know what rpms are needed to restore it, but I didn't make a list while I was doing it. Basically what I did was poke through one of the mirrors, find the most recent version of urpmi, try to install that, then went to find whatever it asked for when it wouldn't install. However, if I'm not mistaken, the big thing that needed to be updated was perl. I think if you start with grabbing the most recent version of perl, and the most recent version of urpmi, then try to install those two, you should have a pretty good idea on what needs to be updated to get urpmi rolling again. Sorry I couldn't be much more help! Good luck! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself
Thanks to anyone who tried to help me figure it out. I'm just going to cry uncle here. Okay, so I gave in and decided to just filter for Microsoft in the headers of emails from OOzy. So far, so good, it seems. I haven't had anything else crashing me... We'll see how this works out. I can usually pick up on whatever I miss out from those emails based upon the replies people make to the messages, so I should be cool. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped
Johan Sch wrote: Hi list, It happened too me twice today .. urpmi taken permanent vacation after update .. it seems that it just wipes dependencies .. even its own .. after some years of using and trusting it I was let down. Well I have seen this some time ago. Kindly point me to site were I can try to find the mail please. Maybe if it is short kindly explain please. I did a repair by popping cd 1 and upgrade same system .. some side effects .. nvidia must be re-istalled .. urpmi in MCC additional sites wiped .. maybe something else I stiil have not discovered. Thanks I've had that happen to me. Basically what you have to do is go find the rpm packages to install yourself by spelunking through ftp and stuff, and install everything package by package. Annoying, but I managed to do it with the help of my friend, and I'm fairly new to all this stuff. From what I was told, urpmi is a fairly simple program, so it just removes what needs to be removed, then installs the new stuff. But when one of the things it removes is one of it's dependencies, it'll remove itself too because it wasn't told ~not~ to. Good luck on getting that rolling. I haven't had a problem with it again since I had to reinstall it the hard way. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Thunderbird closes itself
Okay, so this was something that's been happening occasionally for the last few days or so... and I think I've found a pattern, but I'm not entirely sure. Maybe someone can give me an idea? To start, I'm running Thunderbird 0.6. I have all the mail from this list viewing threaded. I have found that when I open certain emails from the list, Thunderbird just up and closes itself. I've noticed the following things about all of the emails: They're always the start of a thread, they're always from OOzy. However, I've also noticed that not all emails that are the start of a thread from OOzy make Thunderbird close. Since I can't open these emails at all, I can't see if there's anything about them that could be causing a problem with Thunderbird, so I don't know if there's a solution available to fix it. The two most recent emails which cause this problem for me at the ones titled [newbie][HAB] 40 GB USB Drive and [newbie] What is Cooker?. If any one has any ideas what's causing this problem, and/or has any suggestions on how I can stop it from happening anymore, other than switching mail clients because I love Thunderbird, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself
Well, once I found the view message source option, I poked my nose into the messages that had crashed me, and the ones that hadn't. All of the emails that I still had which crashed me said in the headers that they came from Outlook Express. All of the ones that worked fine for me said they came from Ximian. So I suppose the problem comes down to Outlook Express sucking. Right now, I have the preview pane disabled, I've always had it disabled. I don't like it. I usually read email by opening the first unread message in a pop up window, then deleting to go to the next message. And now that I've discovered how great it is to read the messages in the list threaded I don't want to have to change that to filter out messages from one person who occasionally uses stupid Outlook Express just because their messages ~might~ crash me, depending on which client was the source of the message. I suppose that means one of three things: 1) Suck it up, and deal with it. So what if Thunderbird closes on me once in a while, it runs perfectly fine when I restart it, and it takes but a second to restart it. 2) Convince OOzy to stop using Outlook Express, however there may be a very good reason for the use of said evilness, like accessing email from a computer one is not allowed to install things on. 3) Take over the world and remove all Microsoft products by force. But I haven't gotten around to taking over the world yet, and that would be too much work. Option one seems the best bet for me right now. Please let me know if anyone else has any ideas. Thanks! Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Amy wrote: To start, I'm running Thunderbird 0.6. I have all the mail from this list viewing threaded. I have found that when I open certain emails from the list, Thunderbird just up and closes itself. I've noticed the following things about all of the emails: They're always the start of a thread, they're always from OOzy. However, I've also noticed that not all emails that are the start of a thread from OOzy make Thunderbird close. Funny you should mention that, as I had the same problem today, and on messages from the same party. With the preview pane enabled, clicking on the message would immediately shut down TB. Since I can't open these emails at all, I can't see if there's anything about them that could be causing a problem with Thunderbird, so I don't know if there's a solution available to fix it. The two most recent emails which cause this problem for me at the ones titled [newbie][HAB] 40 GB USB Drive and [newbie] What is Cooker?. I don't recall now which message/thread it was, but it was from today. You can, of course, turn off the preview pane and then select the message and chose View Source ... I didn't have much time, but just for the heck of it I did that before deleting the message and IIRC the only thing that stood out to me in a quick scan of the headers was there was an odd (to me) charset defined there. I didn't have the time to research it further (and noted that none of the respondents in the thread mentioned any problem at the time, so I assumed it was just me :-) If any one has any ideas what's causing this problem, and/or has any suggestions on how I can stop it from happening anymore, other than switching mail clients because I love Thunderbird, I'd greatly appreciate it. Not sure if it's the charset or something else, but you could /try/ filtering on that header and sending those e-mails to an Unsafe folder or something, then view those in the folder with the preview pane off. Maybe? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: I suppose that means one of three things: A whole lot more than three, one would suppose. :-) 1) Suck it up, and deal with it. So what if Thunderbird closes on me once in a while, it runs perfectly fine when I restart it, and it takes but a second to restart it. True; TB seems to be rather resilient in that regard. 2) Convince OOzy to stop using Outlook Express, however there may be a very good reason for the use of said evilness, like accessing email from a computer one is not allowed to install things on. Frankly, I think the notion that Outlook Express /per se/ is at fault is a spurious one, though we all know OE users do hideous things like [ahem] top post ... can you /imagine/?? shudder. Possibly some setting /in/ that person's OE that's causing the incompatibility/crash ... I would think that more likely. People do hideous things no matter what mail client they use, so I figured it'd be more polite to incorrectly finger Microsoft as the guilty party, and wait and see if the user stumbled across something they hadn't noticed that may be the source of the problem. There's also the chance it's something wrong with Thunderbird, however I've so loved this client since I tried it the first time, I didn't want to level such an accusation against it. There's really a lot of places the problem could be coming from. Microsoft's unwillingness to support any sort of standards that includes anyone other than Microsoft, Thunderbird's Technological Preview status, user error, or some random combination of some or all of those factors. I just figured the safe way to go on this list, since I see a lot of M$ bashing already, was to just lay the blame on Microsoft 'til we got someone in the thread who really knew what they're talking about. Between you and I, all it seems is that we're guessing what's happening. And while I may not be able to speak for you about this, I know that I'm very inexperienced here. I've been running Mandrake maybe a month or so, after having lived on windows as long as I've had a computer at home. 3) Take over the world and remove all Microsoft products by force. But I haven't gotten around to taking over the world yet, and that would be too much work. That would make you just as bad as M$ if you did, anyway, so not a good option (for the rest of us ;-) Yes, yes, I know it would. But would anyone really care if the only option was free, open source stuff that worked? Option one seems the best bet for me right now. Please let me know if anyone else has any ideas. Thanks! Well, I'm not anyone else, but assuming you're willing to accept another idea from the same tired ol' source, how about this? ... In TB, under Tools | Options | Fonts, then the Languages section, there is an option to define the character sets (Western, or whatever), and then to apply them to all messages. Now, if it /is/ a matter of some oddball character set being chosen by the sender, wouldn't that eliminate the problem, if TB ignored it and displayed it in the way you chose? Of course, (1) I may be misunderstanding what's going on or (2) how that option actually works, or even (3) the option may not actually work at all [yet], much as the option to ignore all incoming read receipt requests hasn't worked for me. But trying it might be easier than going for world domination. I really don't think it's a character set issue. I think it's something with OE's encoding of the email. Because it seems that the character set it declares it the same between the two clients. If it really is a character set issue, I suspect it's an issue with the information OE is giving not matching up with what Thunderbird considers to be the correct character set. On the note of world domination, that's been on my to-do list for a while... I just don't expect to get to it right away. I have minions and everything already! In fact, one of them is the reason this list has only heard stupid questions from me, such as the email issue here, and what palm sync program I should use. I have a good source of tech support already. ^_^ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Palm sync software
I'm using KDE, so I guess I'll give KPilot a try in the morning, unless someone has any better suggestions and/or reasons why I shouldn't try KPilot. Though, what are KDE PIM applications? Like what's PIM stand for, and what sorts of applications are those? John Layt wrote: Depends on what desktop you use. KDE has KPilot (rpm is kdepim-kpilot) which works either stand-alone or allows you to integrate into KDE PIM applications. Gnome has GPilot (rpm gnome-pilot) and Evolution integration (rpm evolution-pilot). For other desktops, there's JPilot which is purely stand-alone. John. On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:42, Amy wrote: Can anyone recommend a good palm sync program that will work with my Palm m130? Preferably something I can snag through urpmi, because I seem to run into problems every time I try to install something downloaded from somewhere else, and I hate having to bug my friend to walk me through the process of fixing whatever I screwed up. Also, keep in mind, I recently switched from Windows (about a month or so ago), so I'm still very much learning what the heck I'm doing here. Luckily my friend (aka. tech support, poor guy but he volunteered) has been very patient with me, and I seem to be getting my feet here. So, the simpler to set up and use, the better. If it makes any difference, I do need to make sure I can do the following with my sync software: I need to be able to install programs to my palm (I need to update my BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, for those not familiar with the SF bay area) planner due to schedule and rate changes), otherwise about the only thing I need to be able to do is backup the information stored in my palm. Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Palm sync software
Can anyone recommend a good palm sync program that will work with my Palm m130? Preferably something I can snag through urpmi, because I seem to run into problems every time I try to install something downloaded from somewhere else, and I hate having to bug my friend to walk me through the process of fixing whatever I screwed up. Also, keep in mind, I recently switched from Windows (about a month or so ago), so I'm still very much learning what the heck I'm doing here. Luckily my friend (aka. tech support, poor guy but he volunteered) has been very patient with me, and I seem to be getting my feet here. So, the simpler to set up and use, the better. If it makes any difference, I do need to make sure I can do the following with my sync software: I need to be able to install programs to my palm (I need to update my BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, for those not familiar with the SF bay area) planner due to schedule and rate changes), otherwise about the only thing I need to be able to do is backup the information stored in my palm. Thanks in advance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pam_timestamp
my sys logs are flooded with these messages Jun 3 08:55:50 kade pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/var/run/' owner GID != 0 and != 4 Does this have to do with msec security level 3 and 5? How can I fix this? Thanks for any help!! ~ Amy A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP
Thanks Franki, It was the hosts.deny file. Either the pmfirewall module that used to install the firewall with or maybe it was the 'high' security setting I chose during the install, that DENIED localhost. - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rules Address for MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP what are your security levels set at? do the other inetd or xinetd services run? like pop3 or telnet what ports do you see if you portscan the box? do you have a firewall running and if so have you blocked the ftp and ssh ports??? you need to find out what is closing the connection,,, and since both ftp and ssh are affected, whats in your hosts.allow and hosts.deny? not much you can make suggestion wise without seeing the server, so I just ask questions... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Amy Eslinger Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2001 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 and FTP I ran a custom server install on Mandrake 7.2. I am unable to ftp to it or access the server using a secure shell. The sshd and inetd is running. The configuration files look accurate. The ports are open. When I attempt to ssh, I receive the error, connection closed by foreign host. If anyone has any insight, I'd be grateful!! Thanks, Amy
Re: [newbie] BerolFTPD
I am having the same problem. I've tried looking for how-tos, but I've come up dry. Can anyone recommend a good book? AL __ Reply Separator _ Subject: [newbie] BerolFTPD Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at ~INTERNET Date:8/8/99 10:06 AM I have a Linux Mandrake 6.0 box up and running, and I am experimenting with switching over some or all of my NT servers over to Linux. I am having a problem, however, with gaining access to the box VIA FTP. I have set up the user accounts (using linuxconf) with FTP being a supplimentary group, and then set up the group FTP with the users I desire to have FTP access. When I try to FTP into the box, no matter what username and password I use it denies the access. I can, however, log in anon, but I get nothing in the files except for what appears to be about 10 linux system files in theLib directory. Otherwise when I log in anonimously the directorys are blank I have searched the man pages for: ftpd, berol, and berolftpd and I come up blank Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong ? Thanks, Ken ~~~Ken Hodges, President~~~ ACME BrainWorks, Inc. http://www.rabun.net Rabun County, Georgia Where Spring Spends the Summer Business Office Phone: 706-782-9239 24 Hour Tech Support and Signup Phone 1-800-856-4053 ~~
