from:"Anarky"

mike wrote:

Hi ,

I personally run a wintv-go tv tuner along side a nvidia tnt2 32 meg 
video card running the latest nvidia drivers.

it works absoulutely perfect! in fact, the picture is better in the pc 
than on the tv. Using xawtv it tunes all the channels from
1 -125 on cable .  is very easy to use and setup.

hope this helps.   
where are you located ? it will make a difference as to what's available
I live in Romania, and the model I'm htinking of (/I can afford) is 
Prolink SOHO1394 / IEEE1394 / PAK says here it's a 'prolink video 
capture'  what I'd like to do is plug in my cable and use it like 
that. Haven't found nayhting by prolink in the mandrake hardware 
database 

   also one more question: you didn't tell me if you were able to use 
it to record certain programs at certain times.


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[newbie] urpmi: unable to register rpm file

   Any ideas as to what does it mean when I get this error when trying 
to install a rpm with urmpi?


unable to register rpm file
Everything already installed


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[newbie] source rpms

   can anybody plz tell me what source rpms are about? is there a 
special procedure to installing them?


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Re: [newbie] tv tunning

Anarky wrote:

mike wrote:

Hi ,

I personally run a wintv-go tv tuner along side a nvidia tnt2 32 meg 
video card running the latest nvidia drivers.

it works absoulutely perfect! in fact, the picture is better in the 
pc than on the tv. Using xawtv it tunes all the channels from
1 -125 on cable .  is very easy to use and setup.

hope this helps.   where are you located ? it will make a difference 
as to what's available


I live in Romania, and the model I'm htinking of (/I can afford) is 
Prolink SOHO1394 / IEEE1394 / PAK says here it's a 'prolink video 
capture'  what I'd like to do is plug in my cable and use it like 
that. Haven't found nayhting by prolink in the mandrake hardware 
database 

   also one more question: you didn't tell me if you were able to use 
it to record certain programs at certain times.

turns out that model was not a tv tuner but soemthing else :P
I'm looking for something else .. but I sadly fear that if I am to make 
use of it's onboard compression to mpeg I'm going to have to use windows :(


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Re: [newbie] source rpms

John Richard Smith wrote:

Anarky wrote:

   can anybody plz tell me what source rpms are about? is there a 
special procedure to installing them?

Source code  ,  SRC.rpms are just that.

you have to create a directory
place  package.src.rpmin it,
and in a terminl,
cd directory sources

rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm

If it's a big one and you want the errors messages pumped to a text file,

rpm -rebuild package.src.rpm 2 pathtotextfile.txt

you don't have to make a text file ,just name it and it will create 
the text file where you tell it.



thanks for the explanation.  ... and these files are more 'problem free' 
than tarball instalations (I don't like those .. I get lots of problems 
with those) ?


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Re: [newbie] source rpms

Greg Meyer wrote:

On Friday 07 November 2003 06:50 am, Anarky wrote:
 

   can anybody plz tell me what source rpms are about? is there a
special procedure to installing them?
   

src.rpms are the raw sources that binary rpms are built from.  They are no use 
to you unless you would like to recompile them on your box.  

They basically consist of tarballs of all the sources and patches that are 
applied, plus a spec file, which is a configuration file that tells rpm how 
to build and package the program.  If you try to install one, these files 
will be copied to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and /usr/SRC/RPM/SPECS.
 

and that's where I'll find a normal rpm?


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Re: [newbie] tv tunning

Anarky wrote:

   how's mandrake on tv tuning? I'm considering buying a tv tuner .. 
so I'm wondering if there is hardware support for stuff like this ... 
how well spread is it .. any chance of having a cheapest I can find 
tvtuner work? Any way to check on particular models? Is there software 
to go with tv tuners in mandrake? How good is it? Is it just tv tuning 
.. or does it suport recording at certain hours or something like that ?
   greets  thanks,


well .. I bought it ... it's an Xpert TV-PVR pci (does pvr mean 
something?) ... I can't intal xawtv ... it gives me instalation failed, 
some files are missing ... weird .. though I inserted the cds  stuff 
.. anyway .. I'll be trying it again soon with the 9.2 as soon as it 
becomes available for download. From what you guys are saying I could 
expect it to work ... but one thing I'm afraid of is that it might not 
encode into mpeg 2/4 as are it's hardware capabilities .. and I'd really 
like that ... still ... if it'll work ... well .. I'll brag about it to 
all my windows friends :)


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Re: [newbie] urpmi: unable to register rpm file

Anarky wrote:

   Any ideas as to what does it mean when I get this error when trying 
to install a rpm with urmpi?


unable to register rpm file
Everything already installed

no ideas? the package isn't installed .. nothing to do?


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO

2003-11-06 Per discussione Anarky

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 8:39 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote:
 

I'm just wondering: today is 6'th of november and normal people who
isn't a mandrake member must wait to download a new iso - why it
takes so long ?
Could anybody share your iso in a public ftp !!
   

Pawel, if you have been reading anywhere about Mandrake 9.2 you will 
know of the problems that have been found with LG drives.  The ISOs 
will be made public as soon as new ones are ready that fix that 
problem.

 

   any idea of a rough ETA for that? (I've been planning my new 
Mandrake install for 1moth + now ;) ... didn't install the rc12 just 
because I though it would come out any minute now :P )


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Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Per discussione Anarky

Mark Kirschner wrote:

I think that some statements made in the article are right on. Now, don't shoot me
for saying that. In the time since I started hearing about Linux (summer, '95) until I
really took the plunge and started working with it (about a month or so ago), I have
heard and read frequently about how Linux was sooo much better than any MS
alternative. This, I won't dispute. However, there are some Linux advocates that will,
without fail, push Linux as an all-purpose solution in every situation. Not necessarily
true.

Corporate/enterprise users generally have an established IT and support structure
in place. Computers are often standardized to a common specification or set of
specifications, so it is easier to create, deploy and support a standard desktop image.

Home users do not have this luxury. Many want the computer to simply work. Most
don't want to have to work to get the system to do what they want it to do. The 80s
mentality of a computer user that it's OK to have to know something about the system
is now the minority among computer users. The Macintosh and Windows are largely
responsible for this situation. I am, and most on this list are, part of that minority. My
wife is an example of the majority. I let her work on a laptop that only had Mandrake on
it, and she was not happy. It didn't look like Windows, it didn't behave like Windows
(similar, but not exactly...and she didn't get to the stability and all that, didn't give it
sufficient chance), and I didn't (and still don't) know quite enough to get things to do
just what she wants (give me time, and she will see a Linux system set just as she
wants it, behaving as she should expect). Add to this mentality the often discussed
and disparaged tendency of hardware makers targeting home consumers with budget
hardware designed to defer to Windows and you have a configuration and driver
headache.

If the average home user had the mentality that it's good to know a little bit about how to
configure their computer (beyond adding a theme, setting a screen saver, or arranging
icons), and if the home user would not settle for the consumer grade computers they
can pick up at Costco, Sears, Circuit City, or from Gateway and Dell for cheap, then
the reality of Linux as a viable option on every desktop will be a reality.

No, the guy from Red Hat is not a traitor. He's just being honest with expectations. Of
course, I think most of us here would take less exception if he'd had said many home
users or had similarly qualified his statement about Windows still being a more
appropriate option for some.

Just my two cents.

hih :-) I've just had cofirmed something I had proudly said to my sister
(linux fan, writes articles and stuff for a fresh Linux romanian
magazine ... I might proudly add that she picked up Linux from my
excitement), which is that there's a LOT of awesome people on this list
.. and a really friendly group .. and furthermore very mature people.
About the article:

the many home users of Linux would argue with it .. but still .. this
view is somewhat close to mine: right now Linux still isn't for your
average joe .. but rather more for
a) your more technical minded joe, excited geek, fond of new stuff person
b) somebody who doesn't want to pay money
c) companies that get support
d) the user that has very limited expectation of his pc that can be
easily satisfied with stuff that comes automatically in a distro and
that will use his whole pc just for that .. and has somebody around who
will do the first tour installation for him
e) user d) with pre-installed Linux

with all this said ... I think it's beyond doubt that Linux is a
tough ass sonnof a bitch already .. and is getting more so by the day.
It's already a strong beast ... it's just that it's not a particularly
friendly one ... but once you've mastered it the satisfaction and
benefits can be quite worth it.

Also, I don't generally say the problems I have with Linux to a
windows user, because I think they need to pushed a bit into actually
trying the alternative and not discouraged, but at the same time I
dissagree with the people that say Linux is soo awesome s
easy, and so working. I encourage people to try Linux, help
advice, copy cds ... and so on .. I just warn them together with the
hype advertisement not to expect magic ... and that though there's a
lot of stuff great about it .. if they don't have a strong will and wish
to go on they might find themselves leaving it frustrated. This cuts
down on the people coming back shouting how much Linux stinks and how it
doesn't work and presenting me with hardware or sofware that didn't work
and stuff. I don't need that nor do I feel like getting it. That's why
I've got a somewhat more passive approach to promoting linux: me using
it, saying the good stuff, the moments when I'm happy with it, spreading
info, news copies of cds ... but also

Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-11-02 Per discussione Anarky

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Saturday 01 Nov 2003 9:22 am, Anarky wrote:
 

but most recently I've
been working more in Blender, a little Gimp experience, some
Photoshop .. learning Softimage XSI ... if I can help in any of
those areas (also although I don't do that anymore I might be able
to come up with some help for 3d gfx/2d programming, OpenGl,
Directx, assembly, C++ ..)
   

Any hints/tips/HOW-Tos on any of these would be useful in the TWiki 
:-)
 

   I wouldn't know what exactly to write ... and as for the programming 
part I've done it all in windows so I coldn't say anything mandrake 
speciffic.


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[newbie] new blender is out!!!!!!!

2003-11-02 Per discussione Anarky

   yo .. this is a happy happy day! Just found out that Blender 2.30 is 
out!!! yess!!! kewl new look. Hope other stuff has changed too. Also I 
see the site has not only gotten a facelift .. but has gotten more 
organized (or has new materials like movies  standalones) .. soon I'll 
find out what standalones are :) .. and maybe even dare again try some 
Yafray exporting. However .. until then ... new Blender is 
out awesome!!! Some kewl axis locks out !! and other kewl 
new changes besides the kewl new look ;) ... do you think there are too 
many 'kewl' words in this mail? Well .. I can't help it! Blender is KEWL!!!
   blend on, blend well.



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[newbie] Re: new blender is out!!!!!!!

2003-11-02 Per discussione Anarky

Anarky wrote:

   yo .. this is a happy happy day! Just found out that Blender 2.30 
is out!!! yess!!! kewl new look. Hope other stuff has changed too. 
Also I see the site has not only gotten a facelift .. but has gotten 
more organized (or has new materials like movies  standalones) .. 
soon I'll find out what standalones are :) .. and maybe even dare 
again try some Yafray exporting. However .. until then ... new Blender 
is out awesome!!! Some kewl axis locks out !! and other 
kewl new changes besides the kewl new look ;) ... do you think there 
are too many 'kewl' words in this mail? Well .. I can't help it! 
Blender is KEWL!!!
   blend on, blend well.


   now all I'm hoping for is a kewl mandrake rpm to go with it will 
somehow pop up on rpm.pbone.net :)
I never thought I'd be seeing blender 2.30 before I see mandrake 9.2 ;P


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-11-01 Per discussione Anarky

Todd Slater wrote:

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:38:46AM +0200, Anarky wrote:
 

Todd Slater wrote:

   

 

I think you dind't understand my question very well. I'm quite happy 
with editing the setings in the file .. what I mean is ... it would be 
cool if I could specify that quality is 4 for everything but the like 
folder, for which it's 5.
  but don't worry about it. Thanks a LOT. you've helped me hugelly. 
thanks. big satisfaction. Asked Sebastian Trueg (K3b author) and ogg 
works fine with k3b .. so now I'm all set for the big conversion :)
   

Oh, I understand. This one does that, just set the path for high quality
encoding folder. High is 5, regular is 4. If you want to change those
values, there are two places for it in the script--the section for mp3s
without id3 tags and the section for those with id3 tags.
 

thanks :) I've already started working on it from last night .. copied 
the script to 5 names for the 5 types of categories, set for each one 
quality  dir .. and then made a mega script calling each of these :) .. 
so it's been workign hard since last night .. and will be workign for a 
long time now ;) it feels sooo good to know my computer workign hard :)

   The conversions are generally quite cool .. only one thing is a 
problem for me: the output is of the form
some number - song - album - band .. isn't there some way I could get 
rid of the some number part?


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-11-01 Per discussione Anarky

Todd Slater wrote:

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:38:46AM +0200, Anarky wrote:
 

Todd Slater wrote:

   

 

I think you dind't understand my question very well. I'm quite happy 
with editing the setings in the file .. what I mean is ... it would be 
cool if I could specify that quality is 4 for everything but the like 
folder, for which it's 5.
  but don't worry about it. Thanks a LOT. you've helped me hugelly. 
thanks. big satisfaction. Asked Sebastian Trueg (K3b author) and ogg 
works fine with k3b .. so now I'm all set for the big conversion :)
   

Oh, I understand. This one does that, just set the path for high quality
encoding folder. High is 5, regular is 4. If you want to change those
values, there are two places for it in the script--the section for mp3s
without id3 tags and the section for those with id3 tags.
 

thanks. I really appreciate your effort!! If there is any way I could 
help you in any way please say so. If you were a windows user I'd be 
offering you a free version of the screensaver I made with a friend and 
are still planing to somehow market (okay, don't jump on me for it being 
a bad idea everybody's entitled to try) : 
http://www.ixaarii.com/FoE/index.html ... but most recently I've been 
working more in Blender, a little Gimp experience, some Photoshop .. 
learning Softimage XSI ... if I can help in any of those areas (also 
although I don't do that anymore I might be able to come up with some 
help for 3d gfx/2d programming, OpenGl, Directx, assembly, C++ ..).
   ... but aobut this version of the script .. now it's more difficult 
to use because I've got to search (though it was not hard to find) in 
the code .. the stuff with the start variables was quite cool ... but 
maybe this isn't the solution, because I discouvered there is also music 
of the type I don't really appreciate which I'll keep on my hdd ... so 
that I'll use for a lower quality category (3).

  many many thanks for your help,


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Re: [newbie] xmms enque parameters

2003-11-01 Per discussione Anarky

Todd Slater wrote:

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:19:18PM +0200, Anarky wrote:
 

  I made xmms behave like I used winamp in windows by adding open 
with  commands to folders with the parameters xmms -p -e to play and 
enque whole folders in Krusader ... one thing I'm missing though: this 
way I keep adding to the old playlist .. and what I'd like to do is 
reset the playlist. Any ideas?
   

According to man xmms:

-e, --enqueueDon't clear the playlist.

 

that's exactly the problem .. playlists keep piling up .. I wish there 
was a switch to enque while clearing the list :(


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Re: [newbie] md5 checksums for downloaded 9.2 ISOs

Brian Parish wrote:

Does anyone have these or know where to find them?

TIA
Brian
 

 

are you talking about the club member isos or the free isos .. as I 
can't find any isos for non-club though it's mentioned on the download 
page :(


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Re: [newbie] mouse speed

John Richard Smith wrote:

Anarky wrote:

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:41 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

   how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the mouse
ocnfiguration in mcc :-(
  


KDE Control Center - Peripherals - Mouse - Advanced

should give you what you want.
 

do you by any chance know the executable name so I can run it without 
those menus? 


kcmshell mouse

any good ?

that was quite awesome  exciting .. for as long as it lasted ... I was 
even able to configure my mouse for left handedness ... though the weird 
thing is I couldn't really figure out which one was the mouse speed .. 
not the acceleation. However once I logged out the settings are back ... 
and ... nope, I don't really like modifying config files :-(


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:50 pm, Anarky wrote:

 

yes, but that program only does 1 file at a time .. I'm talking about
batch converting everything. I'd be willing maybe to accept the losses :)
   

Umm, it does do more than 1 file at a time. Do:

mp32ogg *.mp3

and it will do the files in the directory its in, one after the other.

 

yes .. but I'd like to have that happen for all the subdirs of the root 
dir :(


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

Todd Slater wrote:

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:50:44PM +0200, Anarky wrote:
 

Todd Slater wrote:
   

Seriously, there could be some limitations depending on your view.

1. You're going lossy to lossy so quality will be degraded
2. You *may* lose ID3 tags
3. Depending on how many mp3's you have, it could take a lng time
Google for mp32ogg and see what you come up with.



 

yes, but that program only does 1 file at a time .. I'm talking about 
batch converting everything. I'd be willing maybe to accept the losses :)
   

OK, here you go. As an added bonus, it keeps ID3 tags. Requires mpg123
to convert to wav, mp3info to read id3 tags, and of course oggenc.
Todd
 



#/bin/bash
# ommtoc one more mp3 to ogg converter
# remember, lossy to lossy = lower quality sound
# this names ogg files to format:
# track# - title - album - artist.ogg
#
# requires mpg123
# requires mp3info
#
# not extensively tested!!
#
# SET UP VARIABLES
#
# top level directory to search (search is recursive)
searchPath=/home/you/mp3s
#
# quality for ogg encoding
quality=3
#
# remove wav file? yes/no
rmWav=yes
#
# remove original mp3? yes/no
rmMp3=no
#
# no more variables!
#
# find all mp3's
find $searchPath -type f -iname '*.mp3'  mp3list
while read mp3
do
	workingPath=`dirname $mp3`
	wavName=`basename $mp3|sed s/\.[mM][pP]3/\.wav/`
	testID3=`mp3info -p %t $mp3`
	if [ -z $testID3 ] ; then
		noID3Name=`basename $mp3|sed s/\.[mM][pP]3/\.ogg/`
		echo Converting '$mp3' to wav...
		mpg123 --wav $workingPath/$wavName $mp3 /dev/null 21
		echo Encoding $wavName to ogg...
		oggenc -q $quality -o $workingPath/$noID3Name $workingPath/$wavName /dev/null 21
		 if [ $rmMp3 = yes ] ; then
			 rm -f $mp3
		 fi
		 if [ $rmWav = yes ] ; then
			 rm -f $workingPath/$wavName
		 fi
	 else
		album=`mp3info -p %l $mp3`
		artist=`mp3info -p %a $mp3`
		genre=`mp3info -p %g $mp3`
		title=`mp3info -p %t $mp3`
		track=`mp3info -p %n $mp3`
		prettyTrack=`printf %02d $track`
		year=`mp3info -p %y $mp3`
		echo Converting '$mp3' to wav...
		mpg123 --wav $workingPath/$wavName $mp3 /dev/null 21
		echo Encoding $wavName to ogg...
		oggenc -q $quality -a $artist -N $prettyTrack -l $album -t $title -G $genre -d $year -n $workingPath/$prettyTrack - %t - %l - %a.ogg $workingPath/$wavName /dev/null 21
		if [ $rmMp3 = yes ] ; then
			rm -f $mp3
		fi
		if [ $rmWav = yes ] ; then
			rm -f $workingPath/$wavName
		fi
	fi
done  mp3list
rm mp3list
echo Done!
 

wow thanks!!! I'm off to trying out to see if this script does 
the recursion too :) thanks a lot!


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:19:45PM +0200, Anarky wrote:
 

  I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by 
converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here who's good 
at scripting that could maybe give me a script that I could run on a 
folder and it would traverse all it's subfolders and transform them into 
oggs if they are mp3s ... or otherwise leave them alone? Then I could 
run this every once in a while .. and assure I'm spreading the ogg format :)
I know a script is not a light thing to ask .. so many many 
pretty pleases with sugar  cream  straberryes on top ... with hopes  
anticipated eternal gratitude, greets.
   

I don't know how to do it, but I have heard that mp3 and ogg each accomplish their compression in part by suppressing information that human hearing can detect.  But, so I have been told, the suppress different information, and if you suppress *both* sets of separately inaudible data, the combination *is* audible.  So if you succeed, give it an ear test before you discard your old mp3's.
 

thanks for the good advice to you and all other friendly people who were 
interested also in the quality loss!!! thanks!


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

Todd Slater wrote:

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:50:44PM +0200, Anarky wrote:
 

Todd Slater wrote:
   

Seriously, there could be some limitations depending on your view.

1. You're going lossy to lossy so quality will be degraded
2. You *may* lose ID3 tags
3. Depending on how many mp3's you have, it could take a lng time
Google for mp32ogg and see what you come up with.



 

yes, but that program only does 1 file at a time .. I'm talking about 
batch converting everything. I'd be willing maybe to accept the losses :)
   

OK, here you go. As an added bonus, it keeps ID3 tags. Requires mpg123
to convert to wav, mp3info to read id3 tags, and of course oggenc.
Todd
 



#/bin/bash
# ommtoc one more mp3 to ogg converter
# remember, lossy to lossy = lower quality sound
# this names ogg files to format:
# track# - title - album - artist.ogg
#
# requires mpg123
# requires mp3info
#
# not extensively tested!!
#
# SET UP VARIABLES
#
# top level directory to search (search is recursive)
searchPath=/home/you/mp3s
#
# quality for ogg encoding
quality=3
#
# remove wav file? yes/no
rmWav=yes
#
# remove original mp3? yes/no
rmMp3=no
#
# no more variables!
#
# find all mp3's
find $searchPath -type f -iname '*.mp3'  mp3list
while read mp3
do
	workingPath=`dirname $mp3`
	wavName=`basename $mp3|sed s/\.[mM][pP]3/\.wav/`
	testID3=`mp3info -p %t $mp3`
	if [ -z $testID3 ] ; then
		noID3Name=`basename $mp3|sed s/\.[mM][pP]3/\.ogg/`
		echo Converting '$mp3' to wav...
		mpg123 --wav $workingPath/$wavName $mp3 /dev/null 21
		echo Encoding $wavName to ogg...
		oggenc -q $quality -o $workingPath/$noID3Name $workingPath/$wavName /dev/null 21
		 if [ $rmMp3 = yes ] ; then
			 rm -f $mp3
		 fi
		 if [ $rmWav = yes ] ; then
			 rm -f $workingPath/$wavName
		 fi
	 else
		album=`mp3info -p %l $mp3`
		artist=`mp3info -p %a $mp3`
		genre=`mp3info -p %g $mp3`
		title=`mp3info -p %t $mp3`
		track=`mp3info -p %n $mp3`
		prettyTrack=`printf %02d $track`
		year=`mp3info -p %y $mp3`
		echo Converting '$mp3' to wav...
		mpg123 --wav $workingPath/$wavName $mp3 /dev/null 21
		echo Encoding $wavName to ogg...
		oggenc -q $quality -a $artist -N $prettyTrack -l $album -t $title -G $genre -d $year -n $workingPath/$prettyTrack - %t - %l - %a.ogg $workingPath/$wavName /dev/null 21
		if [ $rmMp3 = yes ] ; then
			rm -f $mp3
		fi
		if [ $rmWav = yes ] ; then
			rm -f $workingPath/$wavName
		fi
	fi
done  mp3list
rm mp3list
echo Done!
 

   W!!
awesome ... I owe you big time! thanks a LOT!!! this is an awesome. 
It also works recursivelly!!! A big surprise was that on my first mp3 I 
got 5.6mb to 2.8mb compression ... what other ogg qualities are there 
besides 3? Maybe 4? Up to what? Anyplace I could find the full technical 
specs of these qualities? (bitrate  stuff) ? Anyway .. now that i see 
the script is soo cool!!! soo configurable .. and yet so easy to use 
... thanks again .. now that I see all this one of these nights and days 
I think my computer will be working hard ... and the awesome thing is 
that the script can be stopped at any time without problems :) awesome 
(I just hope that if I check delete mp3 that's only done until the ogg 
is done in case I ctrl-c). Thanks a lot!!! I think I'll be promoting the 
ogg format :)


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[newbie] xmms enque parameters

   I made xmms behave like I used winamp in windows by adding open 
with  commands to folders with the parameters xmms -p -e to play and 
enque whole folders in Krusader ... one thing I'm missing though: this 
way I keep adding to the old playlist .. and what I'd like to do is 
reset the playlist. Any ideas?


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Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

Todd Slater wrote:

OK, here you go. As an added bonus, it keeps ID3 tags. Requires mpg123
to convert to wav, mp3info to read id3 tags, and of course oggenc.
 

snip script

   wow .. I'm trully hugelly excited about your script ... it's awesome 
... in order to ease my mind of the quality loss (but still willing to 
risk a little bit in order to promote a free format) I'd like to convert 
the stuff I like at quality 5 ... that's as far as I got with the 
testing .. and that actually produced bigger file sizes for some stuff, 
increase in bitrate. So .. my question would be:

   I've got my mp3 dir organized like this (did it yesterday, verry 
happy about it):


don't like but keep
k
like
oncd
unchecked

but still I'd like to be able to run the script on all the folders 
together .. with a quality of say 3-4 .. but I'd like to have a quality 
of 5 for the like folder ... what do you sugest? Different scripts for 
each folder? Any other possibilities?
   greets, and many many thanks again!! You've done a really big thing 
for my life :)




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[newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-29 Per discussione Anarky

   how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the mouse 
ocnfiguration in mcc :-(


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[newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-10-29 Per discussione Anarky

   I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by 
converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here who's good 
at scripting that could maybe give me a script that I could run on a 
folder and it would traverse all it's subfolders and transform them into 
oggs if they are mp3s ... or otherwise leave them alone? Then I could 
run this every once in a while .. and assure I'm spreading the ogg format :)
 I know a script is not a light thing to ask .. so many many 
pretty pleases with sugar  cream  straberryes on top ... with hopes  
anticipated eternal gratitude, greets.


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Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

Anne Wilson wrote:

Jim Connor has documented this problem on the TWiki page 
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CDroms

If anyone can add the model number, please make adding this a 
priority.

 

   I'm wondering .. does only mandrake have this problem ?? or do other 
distros to? any signs of another version of mandrake without the problem?


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[newbie] downloadable 9.2 LG cdroms

   any idea if the downloadable cd isos have the new non-destructive 
kernel? I'd like ot get them asap .. but at the same time I know i'll be 
spreading the stuff out to friends ... and I don't want to give linux a 
bad name. Sugestions?


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Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 LG cdroms

HaywireMac wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:32:47 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
 

I strongly suggest that you wait a few more days.  People are working 
on it, so it shouldn't be long before we know what the situation is.
   

the publicly avail ISO's aren't on the mirrors for another few days
anyway, no?
 

yeah, I couldn't find them .. but I assumed they were tehre .. my mistake :)


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Re: [newbie] downloadable 9.2 LG cdroms

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Monday 27 Oct 2003 9:24 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

   any idea if the downloadable cd isos have the new
non-destructive kernel? I'd like ot get them asap .. but at the
same time I know i'll be spreading the stuff out to friends ... and
I don't want to give linux a bad name. Sugestions?
   

I strongly suggest that you wait a few more days.  People are working 
on it, so it shouldn't be long before we know what the situation is.

 

kool. Can't wait for a non-bashable Mandrake again :) I was afraid that 
since it was a final release they wouldn't put the changes in the isos 
until a next release, or only as a patch. Hopefully they fix it without 
stickign to version numbering/freezing stuff ... but really ... is this 
problem Mandrake only? Any idea how come? Aren't all the linxes pretty 
much using the same kernels?


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[newbie] multimedia kernel

2003-10-19 Per discussione Anarky

   very soon now the 9.2 isos will be available for download for free  
I'll have a fresh new install ... my question is: I'm very tempted that 
from scratch I should start installing  configuring on the multimedia 
kernell ... now thing is ... I'm wondering what kind of improovements I 
could be expecting .. and if they're worth the risk of using the 
non-standard kernel (risc in stability I mean). Will application startup 
be faster? Or anythign like that? Somehow when reading on it I got the 
impression that the differences were only going to be felt if you do a 
lot of sound something ... like playing games or something ... do you 
think it will improove my regular desktop  interactivity  startup 
times on stuff like Thunderbird, k3b, krusader ... ?


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Re: [newbie] multimedia kernel

2003-10-19 Per discussione Anarky

Tom Brinkman wrote:

On Sunday October 19 2003 05:31 am, Anarky wrote:
 

   very soon now the 9.2 isos will be available for download for
free  I'll have a fresh new install ... my question is: I'm very
tempted that from scratch I should start installing  configuring
on the multimedia kernell ... now thing is ... I'm wondering what
kind of improovements I could be expecting .. and if they're
worth the risk of using the non-standard kernel (risc in
stability I mean). Will application startup be faster? Or
anythign like that? Somehow when reading on it I got the
impression that the differences were only going to be felt if you
do a lot of sound something ... like playing games or something
... do you think it will improove my regular desktop 
interactivity  startup times on stuff like Thunderbird, k3b,
krusader ... ?
   

   I used several of the mm kernels. You won't see any difference 
unless you use your Linux box as a recording/editing sound studio. 
They do have the preempt and low latency patches, but then again so 
do all the other current desktop kernels.  The curent tmb kernels 
contain some additional patches which may be useful 
2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk
 

so you're saying that I won't see any gains by using the multimedia 
kernel on the 9.2 cds than by using the normal kernel if I use my 
computer normally (not always sound ... even if maybe listening to mp3s) 
? Only sound related stuff gets improoved?, not also user interactivity 
and more processor power going to the app that was just started?


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Re: [newbie] sensitive materials

2003-10-18 Per discussione Anarky

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Friday 17 October 2003 09:35 am, Anarky wrote:
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   

I think there is a version of rar for linux...
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
 

yes .. I know about that one ... but it's commercial software .. and I'm
hoping it can all be solved with free only software :)
   

Hmm, I'm using rar for Linux, and AFAIK its free.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]# rpm -qa | grep rar
rar-2.90-2
unrar-3.20-1plf
Looks like you need to hit the PLF site! :-)

 

i'm using it too ... but im thinking that's not nice ... seems to be 
unregistered and wanting to .. or soemthing.


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Re: [newbie] sensitive materials - gpg

Dick Gevers wrote:

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Hello Anarky,

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:20:47 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
[newbie] sensitive materials:
 

  what do u do in linux if you've got some senisitve materials and you 
want to put them in some kind of passworded files? In windows I would 
often put them in a rar with password .. what do I do in Linux? Maybe 
some solution that could be read from windows too?
   

The only safe way do that is to encrypt it to oneself. GnuPG is installed on
Mandrake by default and is the best tool I know for it.
 

is there by any chance any X app for encrypting or something like that? 
like something called xgpg or something?


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Re: [newbie] sensitive materials

Kaj Haulrich wrote:

I'm wondering too : why all the hassle ? - Linux is safe in 
itself. You have your own /home/anarky directory, and you are 
the only one with permission to go there (aside from root, who 
will be yourself, right ?).

On the other hand, if you mean you'll leave your PC open while 
doing something else and prevent others to snoop around, why not 
just put your sensitive stuff in /root/sensitive or something 
like that. Then only root (you) has access.

 

linux might be safe ... but it's a good practice IMO to backup all your 
data on cds, especially when you're in big aniticipation for a fresh new 
install of Mandrake 9.2  and cds aren't at all safe ... what do I 
do? I'd love an X solution (non console based)


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Re: [newbie] sensitive materials

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I think there is a version of rar for linux... 
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

 

yes .. I know about that one ... but it's commercial software .. and I'm 
hoping it can all be solved with free only software :)


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Re: [newbie] Blender - ing

2003-10-14 Per discussione Anarky

Tango Echo wrote:

--- Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

John Richard Smith wrote:

   

I installed blender on M9.0 and took a close look
 

... and there is a long list on the
 

elysiun forums in the 
tutorials sticky topic in blender general
category, I think ... and 
anyway, in case you're interested, here are some
bookmarks of mine:
   

What do you and others suggest for Wings 3D tutorials?
Just the ones that are on the Wings homepage?
 

   Yes, I guess so. Don't know of such a big user comunity there yet. I 
did one from there too :) ... or ... no ... I think I found this guys 
site with Wings3d links. Google around ... but yes .. I guess the tuts 
there are best.
Also .. if you wanna be left staring with awe ... search for videos of 
Martin Krol working in Mirai (I think wings3d has this program as one of 
it's inspirations :) ).


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[newbie] sensitive materials

2003-10-13 Per discussione Anarky

   what do u do in linux if you've got some senisitve materials and you 
want to put them in some kind of passworded files? In windows I would 
often put them in a rar with password .. what do I do in Linux? Maybe 
some solution that could be read from windows too?
   thanks,


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[newbie] filesystem sense

2003-10-13 Per discussione Anarky

Michael Adams wrote:

Late post, sorry.

The system loads the kernal and all its modules then runs init using the
info it finds in /etc/inittab. This file is text and mostly human
readable. As with most config files comment lines start with #.
Once the system has read which mode (0 to 6) it is meant to start into
then it goes to the relevant folder and reads each file in numeric
order.
- Thus if it is starting in graphics mode (5), it looks into
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ and runs these files in order. Each is a
shell script and mainly they each run further scripts found in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/
Pay particular attention to the last one in the directory.
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local Read this one if you wish to add to the
startup.
Also note that /etc/rc5.d/ is a link to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ (windows
refugees read shortcut) and /etc/init.d/ is a link to
/etc/rc.d/init.d/. These are not there for your convenience really but
for backwards compatability.
All taken together they equate to autoexec.bat and win.ini but allow
more flexibility. You could if you wish have several new rcX.d
directories which allow you to start / stop / restart in different
modes. You only need to append the new ones to /etc/inittab in the
apropriate place, create (or copy) the rc7.d directory and edit. To
switch from one mode to another type init X with X being the mode
you wish to switch too. The more useful ones are 
0 = shutdown
1 = single user startup
3 = command line startup
5 = normal graphics startup
6 = reboot

Most of the tricks performed by webmin and other config GUI tools
rewrite these startup scripts. 

Also in a terminal type:-
man man
man init
man dmesg
Purists will probably have a far more thorough explanation but these are
the main startup script files. Things that get loaded into the kernal
during its boot phase enter into the realm of FM, and i don't pretend to
understand this fully (read/var/log/dmesg to see what happens then).
 

   this might seem quite unrelated .. but I can't feel that I get the 
logic of these placings yet ... eg ... what does rc.d stand for? how did 
it ocme to that? Also, maybe you know of some good (==non formal  
intuitive in my case) introductory doc on why things are aranged the way 
they are in Linux ... eg. .. de standard directory structure. This is 
soemthing I got used pretty hard with when coming to Linux ... and even 
now I don't really get the stuff ... like the sense of why /etc/rc.d ... 
I mean explanations like /etc is meant for configuration stuff  
also I'm still quite confused with where I should install stuff ... is 
it /usr/local ... or is it /usr/share/local ... and so on ...


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Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D / 3d artwork / Blender

2003-10-11 Per discussione Anarky

John Richard Smith wrote:



modelling, animation, texturing, workflow  rendering. 


Could you kindly define for this rank newbie 3d modeler, what each of 
the 5 subject headings mean.

okie :P

Modelling,   I guess making a 3d outline.

well ... this is about making the shape of things ... say you want to 
make a dog ... there's ways and ways of approaching it ... you might 
start of a cube, extrude (you can think of it as stretching the cube) 
until you get where you want, or work with curved surfaces ... that you 
define ... or starting from points which you move around ... in short .. 
various techniques of modelling.
blender is pretty well rounded .. but many people still use Wings3d as 
it's meant ONLY for modelling, and it's quite strong in the modelling 
(haven't used it too much to be able to say much)

Animation, speaks for itself.

yep, kinda ... but this also can be done in many ways ... in more basic 
ways (keyframes) .. and in more advanced ways (mixing different actions 
in the animation mixer). Blender is kewl here. Also it can use animation 
to make modelling stuff .. which is really cool (eg. you have a stair .. 
that you animate as moving in a spiral .. than you materialize it 
along the way .. and taaadaa .. you've got a spiral stairway)

Texturing ,  I suppose this is about colouring in the 3d outline ?

it's about putting picures on pollygons ... say you make a wall ... now 
that you're done with modelling it .. you might put a picture of bricks 
along it .. and you've got a brick wall ;-)

Workflow,  ?

this is about how fast you can work ... how easy it is to go to bigger  
bigger projects ... basically productivity ... this is a very stroing 
point of Blender ... it's soo strong that it's quite scary for the 
beginners (full of shortucts, tricks  workarounds that are awesome for 
the swimmer .. but scary for the first timer who's getting his toes 
wet (not to mention the at first strange look  buttons  stuff) )

rendering , ?

well ... this is about how good your stuff comes out ... it's like ... 
you can make an awful model  stuff but still have it look quite good 
... for example you might make just a couple of cubes  scatter them 
around ... and put in a light somewhere ... this boring thing might at 
some point with a good rendering look quite great if you make one of the 
cubes reflective, another trasparent .. and the others cast interesting 
shadows on their siblings ... like I said ... this atm isn't Blender's 
strongest point ... but you can still get great results ... and there 
ARE ways to get awesome results (tricks  exports) ... and also real 
hopes (I hear starting from 2.30 (now it's 2.28) things will become even 
easier and more standard to export  render ... and even in 2.29 I 
understand there'll be serious improovements in the area)

   greets,

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Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-10 Per discussione Anarky

Tango Echo wrote:

Ok, so I admit it, I know nothing about 3D modeling.
However, it is an interest of mine that I've always
wanted to explore.  

My doubts in Blender weren't that it was free, but
rather the quality of the screen shots I was seeing -
they appeared to be rather low quality.
you might not find them as obviously .. but there are quite a lot of 
really AWESOME rednerings done with Blender ... however you'll have to 
find them on your own .. I've gathered quite a couple of them on my hdd  
.. but that doesn't help much, does it ? :)
Many of them were picked up from finished projects on www.elysiun.com 
... and prize winner galleries ... and stuff...

I was very
impressed by the screenshots on Wings 3D. However if
Im understanding this correctly, Wings is just the
modeler and Blender is the actual component that
renders the picture. Thus the actual quality of
picture would come from the render component.  I saw a
few poeple on that forum say they were using Lightwave
for renders.
Tell me I'm missing something, that Blender can render
images at least close to what Lightwave can do?
   well, I'm not particularly familiar with the rendering capabilities 
of Lightwave to be able to say ... but I should tell you something: as 
you find out more about 3d artwork and working with it you'll discouver 
that there's quite a couple of things that make out a good 3d program, 
maybe the mosti important layers of these being: modelling, animation, 
texturing, workflow  rendering. Now this last one is not not Blender's 
strongest point (though you can do tricks and in more complicated ways 
get good results) ... a hole which is now filled in by raytracers such 
as Yafray which Blender can export to via scripts.
So, in short: with knowledge you can probably render awesome stuff in 
Blender too .. even on it's own .. but many use external renderers at 
this time (though things are expected to change).

 Also,
how does one integrate Wings into Blender and why
isn't Wings in the Mandrake packages?
 

   you can export/convert from wings to blender ... and as for the 
second ... I don't know ... I guess they're waiting for it to gain more 
ground. Btw, there are many cool softwares which aren't in Mandrake 
right away from install .. try stuff ... eg. one promissing tool you 
might find is K3D ... and also maybe Moonlight.

   greets,


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Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Per discussione Anarky

Tango Echo wrote:

Hi all,

Was browsing digitalblasphemy earlier... I've seen
references before but never actually entered the site.
The artist claims he uses Lightwave 3D and World
Builder for some projects.  Ok, that's $3,000 I don't
have right now.  Does any know of a similar product
for Linux? A high quality 3d modeling program?  I've
heard of blender, but haven't really checked it out...
 

don't be misslead ... Blender is a very complex  powerfull tool ... you 
wouldn't believe how powerfull. I wouldn't believe it either at first 
... I thought it was just this free programm ... but as you learn more 
you'll be quite shocked. Really. I remember a discussion on the Blender 
mailing list about how people seem to take free stuff as not-so-good 
software ... while (at least in the case of blender) .. it is so 
great ... that if you packaged it seriously, not everything in one pack 
.. but separate stuff for say scripts, a tutorial cd  all .. you could 
truthfully sell it for a high (and honest) value. Give it a serious try 
... seriously ... when you've used all the tools it has once ... I'm 
quite sure you'll realize how strong it is (I know I NEVER knew of a lot 
of stuff it could do until I had done quite a lot of tutorials ... then 
also I remember one in which the author was saying exactly something 
like this ... something like the only animation tools on the topic of 
the tutorial that he knew were done as good as blender were in Maya and 
Softimage who got it right).
   in short ... Blender is worth a lot of dough ... and yet it's for 
free .. it's only weak spot that is worth noting were the radiosity 
rendering that was lacking .. but that is being patched right now from 
like 3 direction (export to povray, export to yafray (raytracer made 
especially for blender or something like that, and next version of 
blender)  oh, and one more thing ... a lot of Blender artists find 
it usefull to couple the power of Blender with the modelling ease of Wings3d


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Re: [newbie] a mega (mandrake) distro

2003-10-07 Per discussione Anarky

Greg Meyer wrote:

On Monday 06 October 2003 06:47 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

you know something that i would really LOOVE to see? A 10cd 
distribution Linux (preferably made out of Mandrake)...
   

 

 if anybdoy feels the same way as me ... where could we pitch this 
idea with people with enough knowledge  power to actually do this?
   

It's called ProSuite and you can pre-order your copy now at the MandrakeStore.
 

I meant a free one, and it could be free with all the free software around.


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Re: [newbie] a mega (mandrake) distro

2003-10-07 Per discussione Anarky

Anarky wrote:

   you know something that i would really LOOVE to see? A 10cd 
distribution Linux (preferably made out of Mandrake)  ... that would 
be something awesome ! Then i'd download it and share it with 
everybody I know ... and everybody would go .. wowww ... 10cds .. 
imagine the amount of data .. adn the funny thing is that it's 
possible .. theoretically ... since afaik the people who are good at 
making stuff would only have to add software upon software to 
constitute this mega distro ... and there's loads of software around 
... and imagine the re-selling possibilities, and thus the marketing 
possibilities of such a distro ... why? for at least 2 reasons:

1) for people quantity == much work put into it, thus quality product

2) but more importantly .. it would really be a LOT of software .. in 
all areas imaginable .. and what linux lacks in certain software areas 
(some hardware support, some games, professional music software ...) 
it could be replaced by the sheer excitement of discouvering so many 
types of programs for so many types of things ... it would fill people 
with awe (or at least my computer enthusiast friends) ... even those 
who'd normally think ... linux ??? why?? you can't do anything with it 
(eg. you can't share software with your friends on it most of the 
time ... that meaning windows software) ... because now you could 
obviously do a lot of stuff with 10 cds worth of data  lots of 
software  heck on 10 cds you could have so many free games that 
even the hardcore gamer might be caught by one of those even if it's 
not his wanted *** windows title.

 if anybdoy feels the same way as me ... where could we pitch this 
idea with people with enough knowledge  power to actually do this?


what I actually ment here is something like a set of cds of additional 
software ... not comercial .. but simply a collected bunch of software 
freely available on the web in mandrake rpms. I would love to download 
such huge software packs and discouver in them all sorts of weird 
software people have cooked up ... like who knows what kind of time 
tracking tool, or free music making software, or 3d (especially) 
software like k3d, blender, povray, yafray ...  possibly a disk made by 
users for users.


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Re: [newbie] 9.2 for non-members

2003-10-06 Per discussione Anarky

Charlie M. wrote:

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October 6, 2003 04:01 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

   any idea how much later the isos will be available for non members?
   

Read the announcement here:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdkisos.php3

aka: You're guess is as good as anyone's. g

Apparently the official line 2 weeks after the pre-sold orders are shipped 
which looks to be around the last week of October. Takes a while for final 
testing and for manufacture of the disks.

 

   that I knew of too :)

but still .. if they'll relese them by the end of october ... awesome 
... i was just saying how much cooler Mandrake is than SuSE in it's 
marketing approach in that it offers it's newest version even to the 
non-members, unlike SuSE who keeps the free legal people in the dark 
(ok, so unless you can afford a ftp install) ... I hope Mandrake doesn't 
go that way too :-(
   then it would be just another service that's available just if you 
pay :( ... not that I have anything against the idea in general .. but 
I'm kinda into linux for an os for everybody ideology too :P


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[newbie] 9.2 for non-members

2003-10-06 Per discussione Anarky

   any idea how much later the isos will be available for non members?


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[newbie] a mega (mandrake) distro

2003-10-06 Per discussione Anarky

   you know something that i would really LOOVE to see? A 10cd 
distribution Linux (preferably made out of Mandrake)  ... that would be 
something awesome ! Then i'd download it and share it with everybody I 
know ... and everybody would go .. wowww ... 10cds .. imagine the 
amount of data .. adn the funny thing is that it's possible .. 
theoretically ... since afaik the people who are good at making stuff 
would only have to add software upon software to constitute this mega 
distro ... and there's loads of software around ... and imagine the 
re-selling possibilities, and thus the marketing possibilities of such a 
distro ... why? for at least 2 reasons:

1) for people quantity == much work put into it, thus quality product

2) but more importantly .. it would really be a LOT of software .. in 
all areas imaginable .. and what linux lacks in certain software areas 
(some hardware support, some games, professional music software ...) it 
could be replaced by the sheer excitement of discouvering so many types 
of programs for so many types of things ... it would fill people with 
awe (or at least my computer enthusiast friends) ... even those who'd 
normally think ... linux ??? why?? you can't do anything with it (eg. 
you can't share software with your friends on it most of the time ... 
that meaning windows software) ... because now you could obviously do a 
lot of stuff with 10 cds worth of data  lots of software  heck on 
10 cds you could have so many free games that even the hardcore gamer 
might be caught by one of those even if it's not his wanted *** windows 
title.

 if anybdoy feels the same way as me ... where could we pitch this 
idea with people with enough knowledge  power to actually do this?


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[newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Per discussione Anarky

  is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows 
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the 
windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot, 
win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like 
reboot win and be the equivalent of that.
   thanks with anticipation


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[newbie] splitting a pdf

2003-10-02 Per discussione Anarky

   is there any way of splitting a large pdf (say 800pages) into 
smaller ones (say 100p) ?


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Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Per discussione Anarky

Björn Olsson wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300  Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 

  is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows 
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the 
windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot, 
win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like 
reboot win and be the equivalent of that.
   thanks with anticipation

   

I use rebootin windows as root. See man rebootin.

 

wow .. thanks ... but there's a problem ... I wanted to be able to 
reboot with a simple fast command from my user .. so I made a script, 
put it in /usr/bin that would do /usr/sbin/rebootin w2k ... however .. 
it only works as root, when I run it as my user i get:

Can't detect your bootloader

   is there something I need to do ?



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[newbie] deleting loads of small files

2003-09-27 Per discussione Anarky

   any way to give some kind of command to delete all files smaller 
than a specified size in a certain path recursivelly?


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Re: [newbie] deleting loads of small files

2003-09-27 Per discussione Anarky

Richard Urwin wrote:

On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:10 am, Anarky wrote:
 

   any way to give some kind of command to delete all files smaller
than a specified size in a certain path recursivelly?
   

A quick man find shows that find can do the job. I wouldn't like to give you 
the exact command as I haven't used it yet.
 

ok, so with this I can find them .. but how do I then delete them?


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Re: [newbie] deleting loads of small files

2003-09-27 Per discussione Anarky

Richard Urwin wrote:

On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 12:14 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

Richard Urwin wrote:
   

On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 11:10 am, Anarky wrote:
 

  any way to give some kind of command to delete all files smaller
than a specified size in a certain path recursivelly?
   

A quick man find shows that find can do the job. I wouldn't like to give
you the exact command as I haven't used it yet.
 

ok, so with this I can find them .. but how do I then delete them?
   

from man find:
  ACTIONS
  -exec command ;
 Execute  command;  true  if 0 status is returned.  All following
 arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until
 an  argument  consisting of `;' is encountered.  The string `{}'
 is replaced by the current file name being processed  everywhere
 it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments
 where it is alone, as in some versions of find.  Both  of  these
 constructions might need to be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to
 protect them from expansion by the shell.  The command  is  exe-
 cuted in the starting directory.
So your find command might include
   -exec rm \{\} \;
If it were me I'd try
   -exec echo \{\} \;
first.
 

thanks ! I didn't notice that .. I was searching for something like rm 
on find


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Re: [newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-24 Per discussione Anarky

Scott wrote:

Actually it's probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on your system.

 

this is what I have in there .. what / where do I have to add to set it 
to 85? (I don't know my monitor type .. so I selected soemthing generic)

---
Section Monitor
   Identifier monitor1
   VendorName Generic
   ModelName 1024x768 @ 70 Hz
   HorizSync 31.5-57.0
   VertRefresh 50-70
   # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
   # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
   ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344   480  488  494  
563 -hsync -vsync

   # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
   # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
   ModeLine 768x576 50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630
   # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
   ModeLine 768x576 63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection


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[newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-23 Per discussione Anarky

   I'm in 1024*768 ... but in Linux I dont' know how to change the 
refresh rate to 85 :-(


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Re: [newbie] techsmith codec

2003-09-23 Per discussione Anarky

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:40 am, Anarky wrote:
 

   any idea if there is any way of playing back avis with techsmith
codec in Linux?
   

Does it have to be that codec? I mean, AVI playback is easily possible with 
Mplayer, Xine, etc, etc
 

I know .. generally that's enough ... but I needed that codec to see 
certain 3d modelling video tutoarias ... and today due to that I've 
started rebooting in windows ... and then I've noticed that I work MUCH 
faster with opening movies inside archives in windows with Windows 
Commander than I do in Linux ... and I'm afraid that due to this lack of 
productivity I might be drawn back to windows :-( ... sooo sooo sad


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[newbie] 9.2 release date

2003-09-22 Per discussione Anarky

   hmmm .. I thought it was going to be released on 22nd ... but it's 
23rd .. and nothing :(


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Re: [newbie] LOL! Microsoft buys ads for MDK 9.2?

2003-09-15 Per discussione Anarky

HaywireMac wrote:

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:45:41 +0200
Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
 

A very ealy or very late April-fools joke? Why else would they
obviosly spell their names MundrakeSoft and MicroSCOff?
   

you musta missed the humour topic... ;-)

 

I too missed it at first ... but ..  my heart is pounding ... please 
tell me in Black  White that was just a (very weird) joke ... plz ... I 
like Mandrake ... and wouldn't like to be finding myself leaving for 
moral reasons ...


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Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

Richard Urwin wrote:

I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here 
before.

The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html

(HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My 
bad.)

IIRC someone recently noted that 2.6test2 was in MDK contribs. Only one 
machine here, don't want to mess it up. Like the cat who ate the cheese 
I will wait for the mouse with baited breath.

 

:-))

   so hwo hard do you think would having a 2.6 kernel starting from a 
9.2 rc2 or a 9.2 be ? on my 9.1 even when I tried just the mutlimedia 
kernel X wouldn't start anymore :(


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Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

Richard Urwin wrote:

I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here 
before.

The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html

(HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My 
bad.)

IIRC someone recently noted that 2.6test2 was in MDK contribs. Only one 
machine here, don't want to mess it up. Like the cat who ate the cheese 
I will wait for the mouse with baited breath.
 

also ... will 9.2 come with this kernel? what kernel if not?


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Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

ed tharp wrote:

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 08:47, Anarky wrote:
 

Richard Urwin wrote:

   

I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here 
before.

The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html

(HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My 
bad.)

IIRC someone recently noted that 2.6test2 was in MDK contribs. Only one 
machine here, don't want to mess it up. Like the cat who ate the cheese 
I will wait for the mouse with baited breath.



 

:-))

   so hwo hard do you think would having a 2.6 kernel starting from a 
9.2 rc2 or a 9.2 be ? on my 9.1 even when I tried just the mutlimedia 
kernel X wouldn't start anymore :(

   

do you have a Nvidia or other high end (ati 8000 or higher)Video card
and had installed the PROPRIETARY drivers for good 3d? then you should
of run the installer again when you had new Kernels. as it stated in the
page where you got the drivers the first time. 

 

thnx


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Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:50 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

Richard Urwin wrote:
   

I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here
before.
The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html

(HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My
bad.)
IIRC someone recently noted that 2.6test2 was in MDK contribs. Only one
machine here, don't want to mess it up. Like the cat who ate the cheese
I will wait for the mouse with baited breath.
 

also ... will 9.2 come with this kernel? what kernel if not?
   

9.2 will come with all these kernels
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MdkKernel92
 

thanks! (seems 2.6 isn't available there ... me surprised .. I knew 
Mandrake to incorporate all the newest stuff).

They will either be on the install CD or in the 'Contrib' folder if an online 
mirror ( How to add a Contrib source to urpmi has been posted many times)

You can install as many kernels as you please. There will be an entry for each 
of them in your lilo screen.

HTH

derek

 



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Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

Richard Urwin wrote:

It seems only 2.4 comes with 9.2
So what is involved in installing a 2.6 kernel? Would someone like to 
give us frightened newbies a quick rundown on how it's done? Will it 
lead to dependency hell etc.? or is it as easy as installing it from 
rpm? or is it a matter of building from source but everything will 
work?

There's stuff in 2.6 that I don't want to wait until 10.0 for.
 

   I feel very similaly .. 2.4 multimedia kernel might contain some 
stuff .. but I'm not sure ... I'm a begginer too ... I don't expect it 
too be VERY hard .. it's just that .. well .. I have a download problem 
... so I can't use urpmi all that much ... however I can download 
unlimited from other places nt from my computer .. so I'm wondering ... 
any way I could obtain an exact list of dependencies of what I'd need 
starting out with 9.2 to install a 2.6 kernel?


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[newbie] 9.2 already out?

2003-09-13 Per discussione Anarky

Dennis Myers wrote:

On Saturday 13 September 2003 03:40 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
 

From other threads on here, I get the impression that if I install 9.2
RC2, I can eventually just use urpmi to update it so that it is
essentially the full release, no?
   

Yes you can, but from the rc2 release  you will update about 150 rpms. I know 
cause I just did it using Tom B.s instructions. On slow cable it took about 3 
hours. On fast cable a lot less. HTH
 

   do you mean that 9.2 is already out???


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[newbie] nvidiactl permissions

2003-09-11 Per discussione Anarky

   this is now the second day I'm getting these kind of errors (now 
when running k3d):

Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions
are too resticitive.  Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps
to correct.
   I went to the faq there .. fixed it .. even ended up with my 
computer not starting up anymore .. because I only deleted on of the 
dri appearances .. not both ... anway .. now it's back again .. and I 
wasn't using k3d anymore ... I'm starting to get the impression that my 
Linux is cracking ... everybody says this only happening to windowses 
... but it is happening ... my X starts and logins are now takig longer 
... sometimes everything is slowed to a crawl ... today I found all my 
custom made tricking file associations in kcontrol have dissapeared ... 
yesterday I installed, uninstalled  reinstalled Firebird a couple of 
times on account of it not receiving input anymore ... things are going 
down the drain ... I think I'll try 9.2 rc2 ... or whatever ... linux 
people generally don't admit the fact that linux has problems .. and 
they blame it on poor configuration ... well, I've did my best now for 
quite a while .. and things are falling apart ... yes .. I am a linux 
person too ... but though I might seem shiny  happy to the outside I am 
turning a bit bitter ;-(
  


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Re: [newbie] nvidiactl permissions

2003-09-11 Per discussione Anarky

Serge wrote:

to get 3d back you have to type as toor in a shell:

chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia*
chown root /dev/nvidia*
 

thanks .. yes, I know that ... but why does it happen again? .. what can 
I do to stop it happening again?


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[newbie] umx (unreal music) support

2003-09-11 Per discussione Anarky

   in windows I had ModPlug as  a reliable module player (Winamp I 
found out in personal experience that a little song I made was totally 
distorted) .. I know XMMS has module suport .. but some of the best 
music in the world for me (and trully incredible for modules) was the 
Unreal music ( UT,  Deus Ex) ... any idea how I could play these umx 
files?


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[newbie] partitioning bootable cd ... ?

2003-09-10 Per discussione Anarky

   there are soo many distros out there ... any idea if by chance there
is one which could serve as a partition management tool a la Partition
Magic that's on a bootable cd so I could insert it and use it for
resizing fat32ntfs partitions losslessly on windows users' hdds... I'd
love it if there was a free/linux solution ... formating is not a 
solution for the fresh linux user who wouldn't want to lose all his 
windows stuff just because he's trying out this new thing called Linux ...



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Re: [newbie] palm

2003-09-09 Per discussione Anarky

RichardA wrote:

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:17:52 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

so this will also add a .txt file? and how do I get the software
inside the palm to read it?
   

http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/

Process the text file on Linux with makeztxt, then upload the
reader, zlib and your pdb file.
 

thnkx .. not as cool gui sounding stuff as in windows .. but I'm glad 
there is an alternative.


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receipt [was Re: [newbie] locking the screen]

2003-09-08 Per discussione Anarky

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

please remove the receipt option from your emails. everybody in the list
is getting the thingy everytime your post to the list. is annoying
 

   I'm sorry to have bothered everybody like that .. had a problem with 
emails with a friend .. and I was starting to have the impression that 
nobody (except the list) is getting my mails .. so I set ask receipt for 
everybody ... again, sorry ... but I was quite freaked out .. and I had 
to make sure. Hopefully in Thunderbird .2 they'll have 'receipt for 
everybody but ...
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[newbie] preparing a hdd for a linux install

2003-09-08 Per discussione Anarky

   I was wondering if you know of some bootable linux cds/floppys which 
could be used for preparing a windows hdd for a Linux install? I know 
9.2 had resizing of NTFS (don't know about fat32) .. but still if I 
wanted to install 9.1 at someobody's place it'd be weird if I'd insert 
the 9.2 cd, get to the resizing of the partition ... then suddenly 
reboot when that's about done ... and then insert the 9.1 cds. What do u do?
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Re: [newbie] palm

2003-09-07 Per discussione Anarky

HaywireMac wrote:

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:32:41 +0300
Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
 

thansk for all the details .. could you be so speciffic also in after 
getting all this how I would move a text file into my palm please? 
thanks with anticipation
   

open J-Pilot, go to File -- Install -- and browse to the file you want
to install, whether it's a doc, game, or app.
**warning** do a backup 1st, or at least a sync, so that if the app or
game causes a fatal error on your device and you have to do a hard
reset, J-Pilot can restore all the stuff b4 that.
 

so this will also add a .txt file? and how do I get the software inside 
the palm to read it?


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Re: [newbie] gamix libasound

2003-09-07 Per discussione Anarky

Stephen Kuhn wrote:

ldconfig just makes sure that the library path cache is proper - it
doesn't load drivers - it makes sure, though, that libraries are where
they're supposed to be - so  you might want to now try to reconfigure
the package(configure/make/make install)
 

still gets stuck:

checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for ALSA CFLAGS...
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -lasound
checking for libasound headers version = 0.5.0... found.
checking for snd_cards in -lasound... no
configure: error: No linkable libasound was found.


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[newbie] ricoche ftp ?



  there's something magical I'd like to do ... normally I'd think this 
is impossible ... but then again Linux is the master of magic. Here's 
the trick:
I have a limited quota for download ... and yet I'd like to be able to 
download bigger stuff (like the Mandrake iso's) ... there would be a way 
like this:

I have an external ssh account, I could download the stuff there ... 
then send it to a small ftp box (10Mb) ... after I've packed it in small 
pieces ... and then from my home download from this ftp account (which 
doesn't count against my download quota). Is this possible in Linux? Is 
there a way to give a linux command to send a file in a dir to a ftp 
account ... if there was I could make a script to send every say 
10minutes each file in turn in a folder ... now this ... providing .. 
that I can find a way to at the other side (home) have something that 
continuously checks the ftp account, downloads  deletes ... is this 
possible? How?

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[newbie] mandrake (newbie) - something else (later)

Joeb wrote:


I hear this argument all the time that Mandrake is great for newbies 
but once you have more experience, you'll want insert distro here.  
As far as I can tell, there is nothing in Mandrake that keeps someone 
from delving deeper into the workings of Linux.  It is true that 
Mandrake has a lot of GUI tools and wizards, but the cli is still 
there.  Out of curiousity, what exactly can you do in slackware by 
hand that you can't do in Mandrake by hand?

Joeb


hi hi .. I stumbled upon this line of reasoning myself as I was thinking 
about maybe moving to some other distro when I'll know more ... but 
indeed .. why not an expert Mandrake user? ... so I'm thinking to moving 
to another distro in the hopes that it'll handle my sound card better 
... but what if it'll simply force me to do more low level configuring  
than it'll work .. why not simply get to the low level configuring on 
mandrake ? :-) ... ok, so one might reason that a distro that is 
oriented completelly for low level configuring would be better suited .. 
but then again .. isn't it cool to have a distro which might very well 
do everythign automatically .. thus ridding you of many of the problems 
.. and low-leveling on just what you want ?

   ... but truth be told .. though I might sometimes be intimidated by 
a Slackware/Debian person ... I'd still like a linux that was 
auto-magically working ... I'm sad that this is as yet not completelly 
true for Mandrake :-( ... I mean it works for me almost good enough (I 
still don't know how much I've f up the way the sound is supposed to 
come out cleanly by messing in alsamixer with un-intuitive/mixed 
contorls .. trying to enable  calibrate my rear speakers) ... but like 
I said, this friend I helped install 9.2 rc 1 ... not even with 
alsamixer did it work ... so I'm a bit discouraged ... I don't see/know 
any tutorial for mandrake of making those speakers work for a Sb Live 
5.1 :-(


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Re: [newbie] gamix libasound

Stephen Kuhn wrote:

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 23:30, Anarky wrote:
 

I'm trying to do ./configure for gamix ... but I got stuck here:



checking for libasound headers version = 0.5.0... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.

   however 'urpmi libasound' says there's no such package and I can't 
find anythign with rpm.pbone.net either. 'elp?
   

ALSA - you're going to need to install all the ALSA dev bits'n'bobs...
 



ok, so now I got a bit further after installing 
libalsa2-devel-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk.i586.rpm ... now my next error gives:

checking for snd_cards in -lasound... no
configure: error: No linkable libasound was found.
(I highly dislike compiling packages :P )


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Re: [newbie] palm

HaywireMac wrote:

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:42:43 +0300
Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
 

   does anybody have a palm  use it in Linux? I'd be interested if 
there is a way of transfering pdfs ...  reading text novels to read
on the palm?
   

I don't know about .pdf's but if you install J-Pilot, you can install
things like games and text novels. Install c-spot-run to read text
novels.
1. Update software sources here:

	http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php

2. Install J-Pilot, Pilot-Link, and Malsync.

	Open a terminal prompt, and su to root.

	Type urpmi jpilot pilot-link malsync

malsync will also enable you to read web pages from the AvantGo service.

some useful links:

http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/

that one's for a Visor, but they both run Palm OS, so it should get you
going at least.
http://www.32768.com/bill/palmos/cspotrun/

http://www.memoware.com/

http://www.palmgear.com/

https://my.avantgo.com/home/

here they have clear instructions on how to get your Palm OS device to
sync with their web service.
 

thansk for all the details .. could you be so speciffic also in after 
getting all this how I would move a text file into my palm please? 
thanks with anticipation


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[newbie] locking the screen

   is there another way to lock the screen other than xlock? I've left 
Blender rendering an animation ... and I'd want something that simpy 
locks ... nothing to take cpu power.


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Re: [newbie] locking the screen

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Saturday 06 September 2003 01:50 pm, Anarky wrote:
 

   is there another way to lock the screen other than xlock? I've left
Blender rendering an animation ... and I'd want something that simpy
locks ... nothing to take cpu power.
   

If you pick something like the Mandrake slide show (non 3D stuff) it shouldn't 
take much to run. Set it to use the password option, should work.

 

but how do I pick something?


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Re: [newbie] gamix libasound

Stephen Kuhn wrote:

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 02:30, Anarky wrote:

 

ok, so now I got a bit further after installing 
libalsa2-devel-0.9.0-0.14rc7.1mdk.i586.rpm ... now my next error gives:

checking for snd_cards in -lasound... no
configure: error: No linkable libasound was found.
(I highly dislike compiling packages :P )
   

As root, run ldconfig - even reboot - are the ALSA drivers loading
frmo your /etc/modules.conf file?
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# ldconfig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] void]#
   so it seems nothing happens .. how can I tell if the ALSA drivers 
are loading?


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Re: [newbie] locking the screen

Trey Sizemore wrote:

Assuming KDE...

Right-click on desktop - Configure Desktop - Screensaver - select the
one you want and check the box for 'Require Password to stop screen
saver'.
HTH,

 

but I'm not running KDE, I'm running blackbox ... and I don't lock on 
screensaver .. I lock on starting xlock ... I've asigend a shortcut to 
it and when I leave my computer I press the shortcut.


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[newbie] 4 speakers linux

   ... I'm really frustrated :-(

high tendency to be angry at linux  stuff ... no, don't kill me .. I'm 
chilling ... but I was really hoping hard that with Mandrake 9.2 4 
speakers Sb Live would work right ... unfortunatelly it's a big no ... 
by big I mean also that the sound is weird ... probably quite lower 
quality than windows ... the drivers were quite weird .. a lot of 
controls ... kmixer couldn't crack it at all ... alsamixer knew more ... 
but none of them gave voice to the rear speakers (btw, I'm talking about 
the 9.2 rc1 version in which I had put high hopes in ..) ... however a 
lot of them in some way changed the sound of the sound .. giving birth 
to a lot of ambiguity and a lot of way to make the sound even lower 
quality ... ... is Linux never going to go for simple sound? Just a 
'front-back, left-right' set of sliders and a volume ... that's all I 
wanted :( ... I didn't expect all the fancy effects I could do in 
windows ... :-( ... you can tell I'm frustrated ... I guess ... this was 
for a friend's coputer .. she has a Sb Live 5.1  on mine (Sb Live 
Value/1024) the back speakers were just as obscure .. but eventually 
with alsa drivers  somewhere hidden in the alsamixer I managed to turn 
them up/on ... even though it's strange as any volume I turn up in say 
xmms or mplayer actually turns up only on the front speakers ... I'm 
pretty sure some of you guys might have 4 speakers ... or something ... ??


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[newbie] 9.2 rc1 experience

   just did an excited install of 9.2 rc1 ... but not on my computer, 
but somebody else' :

my opinions:

  some interface changes:
- liked the blue startup new
- hated the fact that they insisted on a fade white to blue when they 
set it on so few colours that it doesn't look nice
- freezed every time I wanted to select a certain packaged from the 
detail packages (2 times, that is) .. I think it was something like 
GXedit ..
- still no preview of other styles for other WMs at the initial wizard
- freezed when I tried to install 'alsamixergui' package from the 
package installer (though urpmi alsamixergui worked)
- still no (easy, if any) way to handle 4 speakers for the sound card Sb 
Live 5.1
- still no direct working dialup (modem detected, but still although 
connecting it doesn't look like it's online to browsers)
- first I freaked out the nvidia installer said it had no drivers for 
this kernel .. but it turns out it knew how to compile stuff if it had 
the kernel source
- one time starting MC in an Eterm the F1-F12 keys didn't work .. hat to 
go with Esc-1 



well ... as it seems my initial impressions of 9.2 are far less than I 
had hoped for :-( ... I'm thinking I might not install it just yet on my 
computer ... and stick to 9.1 yet :-( ... actually I was so dissapointed 
by the sound card frustration that I considered going back to windows 
... or searching for other hopefully smarter distros (low chance of 
anybody autodetecting more than Mandrake, right ... maybe SuSe) ... in 
other words .. evil thoughts ... please don't let me fall to the demons :)


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Re: [newbie] cool games?

robin wrote:

Anarky wrote:

   Hi .. I'm trying to gather as many cool games as I can under Linux 
.. I know we can't really compete with comercial windows games .. but 
still I'd like to have as many games as possible that I can be proud 
of in Linux. thus far the Linux games I am proud to have are:

 Transfusion, Chromium, Frozen Bubble, Tux Racer, Clanbomber, 
Armagetron

  Yes I know there are many many many games out there .. but I'm 
looking for non-card games, non-(mainly)mind-games(with poor 
graphics) ... please help me build up my repertoire of cool Linux 
games (let's try to avoid comercial ones).
 


I got addicted to xkobo for a while - very nice nostalgic space 
shoot-em-up.  There's also a nice  game called Vegastrike.  It's a bit 
glitchy on some hardware (e.g. mine), but it has great potential - 
it's basically Elite with better graphics.  And of course there's Doom 
and Quake!

It's a shame Loki died.  I spent many happy hours with their demo of 
Railroad Tycoon.
will somebody plz tell me or point me to an article to the story of this 
Loki thing ... I find it .. looks great .. seems like a Linux publishing 
company .. and then I hear it's dead ... what .. where .. what exactly 
did it do?


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Re: [newbie] have a good laugh

Andrei Raevsky wrote:

... and read this:

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/05/1414247.shtml?tid=16

 

good one :-)


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[newbie] browser save all

  the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer 
but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a 
web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and 
it was very cool that it was all bundled in one file (html, the pics 
...) ... isn't there anything like that anywhere else?


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Re: [newbie] alarm

Heather/Femme wrote:

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:29:55 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:03:02AM +0300, Anarky wrote:
   

Todd Slater wrote:

 

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:57:02PM +0300, Anarky wrote:

   

is there an alarm program I coud use to tell me to do something in
 

an hour, every 5 days or at a certain time (and maybe warn me by
playing an mp3) ?
   

 

 

It's called wife.



   

while there have been many posts .. I only know of Korganizer yet ..
and that sounds like big programm, not a speciffic one ...
and as for wife:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# urpmi wife
no package named wife
  or is it only availble as tar.gz ?

any other options
 

touch wife
finger wife
zip wife
Others?
   

Nice wife
renice wife 
grip wife
tar wife
untar wife
configure wife
make (out with) wife
unzip wife
bind wife

 

rm wife
ln -s wife mistress
cp wife 2ndwife
wife  /dev/null
ls -l wife
... and of course:

man wife
(just make sure you've got enough ram  swap)

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Re: [newbie] browser save all