Re: [newbie] USB 2
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:10 am, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hello, I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives this for USB controllers: Identification Vendor: VIA Technologies Description: VT82C586B USB Media class: SERIAL_USB Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 0 PCI device #: 7 PCI function #: 2 Vendor ID: 4358 Device ID: 12344 Sub vendor ID: 2341 Sub device ID: 4660 Misc Module: usb-uhci And this for USB ports: Identification Vendor: Linux 2.6.8.1-12mdk uhci_hcd Description: UHCI Host Controller Media class: Hub Connection Bus: USB Bus PCI #: 2 (*and 1 on the other*) PCI device #: 1 Vendor ID: 0 Device ID: 0 Misc Module: hub Any help greatly appreciated. Don't have an Ipod (think they're kinda silly) but there is this http://ipodlinuxinstl.sourceforge.net/index.shtml Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions
On Friday 08 April 2005 03:53 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome there. the PCLinux lists suffer from a lack of warmth. and MandrakeSoft/Mandriva is too commercial for me. comparing the products though, what do you recommend ? i like email, web, p2p, multimedia and simple but complete. kind regards philippe I have been playing with DSL linux although you will have to compile multimedia in xmms,grip,lame etc. it's only a 50Mb download too :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem
On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:38 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the mouse to move the game display about but it disappears as soon as I move it onto the game area. What is this? Rosemary PS After the install it did say buggy audio file or something. This will be because ALSA is disabled, due to previous problems. Start FZ hit enter to start use your arrow keys - _- to play escape to exit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 02:20 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 06:15:51 +0100 Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a MS wireless optical mouse. It used to be plugged into the PS2 port then I needed the adapter for the notebook, so it's now in USB. Does yours burn holes in your desk? Lee You must have one of those with a military grade laser in 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] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to USB, because it happens even when its power switch is off, but so far not when i disconnect it from electricity. i will visit my electrician friend and see what he can measure :-) Tell him to look for ground loops Take a multimeter set it on voltage with the mouse unplugged measure between the computer and the external drive case to case if there is *ANY* voltage potential between the two you have an improperly wired power supply most likely on the external drive Get this fixed asap it is dangerous kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650, which is probably about $10,000 in today's dollars. I still have mine, still works, dabbled a little in basic with it. I put in the extra memory and two 720k drives. Paid $50 for it used. And the first 386/25. I still have that laying around somewhere, or at least pieces of it--4 MEGS of RAM-whoo hoo--that was one hell of a machine. I actually ran Linux on it, for a while, kernel 1.x something, maybe 1.2, I can't remember exactly. Yup, them were the good ole days. I've got you all beat. I started on a Cosmac Elf with 256 bytes of static ram, a hex keypad and 2-digit 7-segment display! An RCA-1802, the best 8 bit cpu ever built. Composite tv output (40x25), and audio tape storage were also available. My brothers and I soldered the components onto the motherboard ourselves. And I walked to work bare feet in the snow, 5 miles, up hill both ways 8^). Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.) An ASR 33? I would have killed to get one of those back in the old days :-D Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 09:49 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:10, JR wrote: I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor requirements would be skills with MS word and excel. I was thinking of using this as an opportunity to say but I've also started to use OOo more often because I find I am more productive and it does x y z. Can anyone give me a few differences / similarities they might be interested in? I'm not going to get into open source to them at the interview. But if I can quickly mention a few tangible clenchers, I will. The jobs not that good anyway :) Regards, Jarlath Well for one: it can open OOo files;) And almost any other format you throw at it. 2.Vector graphics are handled better albeit rudimentary 3.comparing documents through edit, compare documents is cool...don't know if Word has that or the people I asked just don't know. 4.Its free as in beer, as well! ;) It's better at opening *some* Word files than Word is Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:04 am, jdow wrote:
From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote:
On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote:
| I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4.
|
| Dan
OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like -
$1650, which is probably about $10,000 in today's dollars.
I still have mine, still works, dabbled a little in basic with it. I
put
in the extra memory and two 720k drives. Paid $50 for it used.
And the first 386/25. I still have that laying around somewhere, or
at
least pieces of it--4 MEGS of RAM-whoo hoo--that was one hell of a
machine. I actually ran Linux on it, for a while, kernel 1.x
something,
maybe 1.2, I can't remember exactly. Yup, them were the good ole
days.
I've got you all beat. I started on a Cosmac Elf with 256 bytes of
static
ram, a hex keypad and 2-digit 7-segment display! An RCA-1802, the
best
8
bit cpu ever built. Composite tv output (40x25), and audio tape
storage
were also available. My brothers and I soldered the components onto
the
motherboard ourselves.
And I walked to work bare feet in the snow, 5 miles, up hill both ways
8^).
Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware
sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all
beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.)
An ASR 33? I would have killed to get one of those back in the old days
:-D
Not worth it. Traditionally the earliest amateur computers were built
out of Strowger relays and pinball machine parts. As for earliest micro-
computer I have a friend who still has his 4004 based computer. (And for
what it is worth perhaps the earliest micro-computer multitasking OS
went into the OM-55 satcom modem for the Navy. It was built by Magnavox
in Torrance back when 8080s were about $100-$150 a piece. On the other
paw there may be something even older than that. But COSMAC ELF is a piker.
Trust me on that one. Even my Processor Technology Sol PC is relatively
new on the block compared to the first toys out there. (6502 based
thingies need not apply. And I think the Sol PC design predated the
COSMAC and F8 chips, too.)
(I passed up acquiring a mostly built Altair when its owner died of
pancreatic cancer. I was playing with bigger iron, some nice Hewlett
Packard 8500 consoles based on their 2100S mini-computer. I built
myself a nice interactive circuit analysis program. That was before
They discovered I could commit software as well as design fancy
Radio Frequency electronics. All of which is mooted by the couple
people I know who built pinball machine and Strowger relay based
things.)
{^_-} Joanne
I would love to look at your jnk box you have had some machines that I used to
drool over in the pages of Computer Shopper (back when it was a freebie)
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Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Monday 04 April 2005 04:47 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650, which is probably about $10,000 in today's dollars. I still have mine, still works, dabbled a little in basic with it. I put in the extra memory and two 720k drives. Paid $50 for it used. And the first 386/25. I still have that laying around somewhere, or at least pieces of it--4 MEGS of RAM-whoo hoo--that was one hell of a machine. I actually ran Linux on it, for a while, kernel 1.x something, maybe 1.2, I can't remember exactly. Yup, them were the good ole days. I've got you all beat. I started on a Cosmac Elf with 256 bytes of static ram, a hex keypad and 2-digit 7-segment display! An RCA-1802, the best 8 bit cpu ever built. Composite tv output (40x25), and audio tape storage were also available. My brothers and I soldered the components onto the motherboard ourselves. And I walked to work bare feet in the snow, 5 miles, up hill both ways 8^). But I had to run 10 miles uphill both ways 'cause that bear was chasing me :-D (first liar hasn't got a chance) ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing
On Sunday 03 April 2005 08:16 am, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some site for free web-publishing? Thanks in advance, If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing
On Sunday 03 April 2005 08:37 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 4:28 PM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Oh you mean hosting there are lots of them http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=free+website+hostingbtnG=Google+Search Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for some site for free web-publishing
On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:52 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 3, 2005 4:44 PM, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for free web-publishing? If you mean blogging http://www.blogger.com/start Sorry, I was not clear enough. I wanted to mean a free site for storing my own web-page. Oh you mean hosting there are lots of them http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=free+website+hostingbtnG=Google+Sea rch Thanks, Aron. With so many choices, is there some recommendations? Get the highest traffic allotment you can you could (if you have DSL static selfhost it through your ISP) Paul 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 10.2
On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:35 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... 80 Gig ?? Me thinks dedicated music server BTW joe seeing as you are a minimalist have you tried DSL linux only 50 Meg on the live CD 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 10.2
On Sunday 03 April 2005 05:30 pm, Elwyn York wrote: On Monday 04 Apr 2005 00:49, Aron Smith wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:35 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... 80 Gig ?? Me thinks dedicated music server BTW joe seeing as you are a minimalist have you tried DSL linux only 50 Meg on the live CD Now that, sir, is a good idea. I just need to get the hardware together. I had planned to utilise the Smeserver I am running but that might be a bit much for it. 333mhz processor, 20gb Hdd, 128mb Ram. No monitor, keyboard attached. Only a power cord and network cable. I'm setting up a mini-itx eden m6000 (600Mhz) fanless boots off a CF card (256Mb) 20G notebook drive adding Streamtuner streamripper and xmms-diskwriter and audacity it's already got rox dillo and firefox on 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] Mandrake 10.2
On Sunday 03 April 2005 06:39 pm, Elwyn York wrote: On Monday 04 Apr 2005 02:34, Aron Smith wrote: I'm setting up a mini-itx eden m6000 (600Mhz) fanless boots off a CF card (256Mb) 20G notebook drive adding Streamtuner streamripper and xmms-diskwriter and audacity it's already got rox dillo and firefox on it Ooh, I wondered who was getting that little lot from Ebay :) I was sorely tempted until I had my bank statement turn up :( Perhaps in a year I can get some new ITX's :) bought mine at fry's but checkout http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/motherboards lots ..well some neat stuff there Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Saturday 02 April 2005 04:22 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 03:57 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Or the 720k drives. Nope a real man used the cassette tape drive. Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:37 pm, Miark wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:05:34 -0800, Aron wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? This was all 10.1 as I have not been able to burn 10.2 successfully due to the size of the iso (699.8 Mb ) cannot be put on a 700 Mb disk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Saturday 02 April 2005 06:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:06 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? This was all 10.1 as I have not been able to burn 10.2 successfully due to the size of the iso (699.8 Mb ) cannot be put on a 700 Mb disk Ah, ok, let me ask : how old is your burner? Seems like some of the older burners had trouble when going past 650mb cause that is what the old CDs were limited to. Or was this one of my weird dreams, must remember medications. It's an el cheapo grneraic CD/RW- DVD 16X drive Seriously this is going to be a problem with a lot of hardware prehaps they should have 4 CDs in the set rather than two. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO
On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:48 pm, Tom wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:35 am, Tom wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrakelinux-10.2rc2]$ What Mandrake version are you currently usin? = 10.0, 10.1, an now 10.2 all use different daemons an methods for removable media. With 10.2 you'll need to burn as root to avoid serious risk of buffer underruns. Do you get output when you just type 'cdrecord -help' ? (cdrecord is installed, right?) Does your drive show up when you type, 'll /dev/hd*' ? Does, $ ll /dev/sg* crw-rw 1 tom cdwriter 21, 0 Apr 2 08:51 /dev/sg0 crw-rw 1 tom cdwriter 21, 1 Apr 2 08:51 /dev/sg1 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ ll /dev/hd* brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 0 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 1 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 2 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 5 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda5 brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 6 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda6 brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 7 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda7 brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 8 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hda8 brw-rw 1 aron cdrom 3, 64 Apr 1 18:46 /dev/hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ == Alright, then with 10.1 (this first part would also be the same for 10.2) 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will show you the scsibus numbers, EG, somethin like 0,0,0 (which should be better than usin /dev/hdb) cd to the directory the isos are in and cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=ATA:0,0,0 -dao MandTab Now I've simplified that quite a bit, actually about bare minimum. You should be able to handle speed=4, use your numbers rather than the example 0,0,0 -dao is a must for .iso's Specially needed so the md5sum of the burned CD will check. With the burned CD in the drive, 'md5sum /dev/hdb' should return (might take a minute or so) the same md5sum as the iso file has. With marginal CD drives, you may need to try it several times before it succeeds. ...show your user name as a member of the cdwriter group? No problem burning other CDs both audio and data am currently using Mdk 10.1 Includin 700mb's ? If you can burn 650's, but not 700 you really need a better burner. Mandrake gave into the 650 crowd a few versions ago, but has since determined it's just not worth the inconvenience to the vast majority with decent burners. If you can't use 700's, get a new burner. Sometimes somone redoes the iso's to 650 an makes them available for FTP. I think the Mdk Club use to also do it. But don't hold your breath ;) I believe if you can run 'cdrecord dev=ATA:0,0,0 -atip' with a blank 700mb CDr in the drive, and it returns succesfully, info about cdrecord, your drive and the manufacturer of the blank Cdr... then you should be able to burn up to 703mb. I don't really know tho, even my (1997) 8432 Plextor could burn the cheapest 700's Your other option would be to d/l, IIRC, 'boot.iso' from a mirror, 'dd' it to a floppy and do an install from the iso's on your HDD. You'll need somebody or a tutorial that's knows more about that than me. I haven't done it in ages, an some changes have been made in the process for 10.2. You might be able to find out from the cooker ML archive or http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki At a minimum you should read the 10.2 Release Notes. When/if you get 10.2 installed (an I'd recommend a fresh install saving your /home) magicdev will no longer be there, supermount is used only for floppy's. gnome-volume-manager in conjunction with HAL and dbus is the entirely user space daemon for handling removable media, like CD drives. As such it can't access certain things reserved to root. IE, as user: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. The only work around is to burn as root, even with a GUI. You'll probly also need to run 'gnome-volume-properties' once as root and under the heading Removable Media, enable the first 3 (of the 4) options (if they aren't already). The error is definitely in the package that png file has a crc error btw thanks now at least I know how to burn without the GUI Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying Guess I'll just have to drag out the old KIM-1 Yes those were the days 1Mhz and 4k of static RAM :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 06:59 am, Anders Lind wrote: What exactly do you mean by troll ? A person that just post an inflammatory email with the only reason to start a fight Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) /anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:20 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... O diums get spanked ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:41 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Me too! Except I'm going to use my Atari Falcon from now on! No, even better, I'm going back to my Atari 800XL! Those were the days! carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO
I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 01:44 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:20:50 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: Eric Raymond a seat on the Microsoft Board of Directors ROFL! Now *that* I'd like to see...an ill-tempered and well-armed anarchist in a room full of pissant corporate bureaucrats (soon to be a room *empty* of said pissants, 'least any live ones). This should be fun to follow OTH remember Abbie Hoffman wound up as a Wall Street Stockbroker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO
On Friday 01 April 2005 03:06 pm, Tom wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? No. Cdr's are good for =703 mb. If you're already usin 10.2, CD's can't be reliably burned as anything but root due to kernel changes. If not then, as user; 'cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=16 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao name of iso' Adjust speed= an dev= to suit your burner OTOH, Warly is already testin the final 2005LE (10.2) iso's. Should be available shortly EPA, 2005, April 6. RC2, updated with cooker mirrors is the same thing, available now. Tryed that (cutnPaste) got cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open 'Mandrakelinux-10.2-CD-1.i586.iso'. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrakelinux-10.2rc2]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Friday 01 April 2005 07:05 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 01 Apr 2005 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strangely, if you look at his website he has taken the trouble to include linux links and he has written about it at some length, although I'm afraid I don't read his language. Look for him in the archives, then look at the date. Anne I couldn't resist the temptation to send my annual joke... Still last year the thread got wilder :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Failed Install
Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for Azureus 2.2.0.2_MOD for Linux
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:23 am, Paul Smith wrote: Azureus http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/search.php?query=Azureus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:04 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: I added udev by urpmi sometime after my initial clean installation because I was after flexibility for my flash drives. I actually followed a Flash USB howto that appeared to work in that particular session but afterward it just got to be confused so I resolved to sort it out for myself. ( I also installed sysfs and a couple of other requirements at the time.) I'm running Mandrake10 Official ~ KDE-3.2.3 ~ Kernel-2.6.3-7 and have stuck with it because I needed to install the OpenGL + nvidia drivers for a little 3D experience. Your reply makes sense and I will look to that shortly, but for now, though I can mount data cds and dvds, ( manually ) as user OK , and read/write the contents, ~ but I am unable to get my audio cd's playing anymore nor does it appear that supermount is actually working, ( I say 'appear' because things might be going on in the background that I'm not privy to yet.) How are you trying to play audio CDs? At one time after I had installed udev I used to place a blank dvd in my writer and k3b would fire up automatically ~ not at present however. Try an audio CD lens cleaner disk sometimes works for me also check if your cd is mounted before you start if so un mount it also I have found that a lot of the cheaper cds some in a pack can be good some bad I believe this is handled by magicdev, but I could be wrong. I have been following your efforts here and gone the way of symlinks in my .rules file and created links to replace things like /mnt/cdrom2 in case my system needs to look for that instead of /mnt/dvd-cd when relating to /udev/hdd or /dev/hdd ( one and same device of course which troubles me a wee bit ~ same device listed twice ~ don't understand this part yet. ie. Why is the /dev directory still about when I have uninstalled devfsd and issued devfs=nomount within lilo? As yet ' the penny ain't dropped ' on this one.) The /dev directory will stay unless you delete it. (I don't recomend that!). The /dev directory entries should still work. They are used during boot, before udev is started, and the udev file system is mounted. With Mandrake 10.1, the udev file system is mounted on top of /dev. This has the affect of hiding the old entries, while still leting commands that expect to find the device nodes in /dev still work. So a question to get me started here ~ how can I check that supermount is working ? eg. is there some way to log it's efforts so as to get some clues for troubleshooting ? ) ps ax | grep supermount mount | grep supermount The first should show you if supermount is running, and the second should show any active supermount mounts. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Quicktime video
anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cd into file
On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but same problem. I don't want to have to do the downloads again. I've not had this problem before. I can see the rpms in konqueror and that is the path it gives. It seems simple but I am stumped. Wondered if it doesn't like the Linux Stuff name? Rosemary just a thought try renaming from /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms to /home/rosemary/Linux_Stuff/rpms sometimes linux/unix takes exception to spaces in filenames Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cd into file
On Sunday 27 March 2005 01:50 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some such. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Guess I've been lucky but I've never had trouble with filenames with spaces under Linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Went back and had another try using Bill's suggestion of tabbing. This worked. But I now have another problem, which I guess is related to the mess my system is in, and the reason I have not been able to boot. Now when trying to urpmi the packages, when it asks for CD1, I hear the CD cranking up, but it just dies out when I press enter. Now I know why people talk about wrestling with linux :-) If you have a high speed connection you can go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to set up your urpmi sources do a urpmi.removemedia -a select your system base contrib updates and plf free and plf nonfree also jpackage follow the instructions then cut and paste into a root window Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kmail will not run
system acting weird again kmail comes up then terminates with fatal error so i started it in a terminal got this message [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ kmail QObject::connect: No such signal KMHeaders::itemAdded(QListViewItem*) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'headers') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'headers quick search line') QObject::disconnect: No such signal KMHeaders::itemAdded(QListViewItem*) kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key kmail: WARNING: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now kmail: ERROR: The resource '_home_aron_.kde_share_apps_kabc_std.vcf' is locked by application ''. kmail: ERROR: Unable to save to resource 'resource-name'. It is locked. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run
On Saturday 26 March 2005 04:44 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:56:59 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: system acting weird again No, KDE is acting normally. Fer fsck's sake, man, yer a rebel, a 'don't take no shit' Southern man (I think), start acting like one and use a different freakin' WM! Sheesh. Have you ever, even *once*, seen someone with complaints like this 'KMail won't open, Konsole won't open (why the *fsck* does one need KDEinit to open a terminal??!!), KWhatever is locking up...' who uses something other than KDE and its conglomeration of bloated 'user friendly' apps? No. It don't happen. You are wasting resources, time, and missing out on a whole lot more fun with all the alternatives out there. Anyhow, that's my anti-KDE rant for the month. Thank you all for coming. Well Joe I tried but my box pays absolutely no attention when I threaten it with a .45... :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run
On Saturday 26 March 2005 03:56 pm, Aron Smith wrote: system acting weird again kmail comes up then terminates with fatal error so i started it in a terminal got this message [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ kmail QObject::connect: No such signal KMHeaders::itemAdded(QListViewItem*) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'headers') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'headers quick search line') QObject::disconnect: No such signal KMHeaders::itemAdded(QListViewItem*) kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. kdecore (KAccel): WARNING: KKeySequence::init( seq ): key[0] is null. [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key kmail: WARNING: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now kmail: ERROR: The resource '_home_aron_.kde_share_apps_kabc_std.vcf' is locked by application ''. kmail: ERROR: Unable to save to resource 'resource-name'. It is locked. Found the problem no disk space left deleted 10,000 old e mails and it works again...till the next time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Friday 25 March 2005 05:19 am, DAN WALKER wrote: there is one where I am - milton keynes. would it be full of bearded men who drive austin allegros? a bit scared of going. Buy a geek a pizza and a beer ,tell them that you are learning about linux and..you will have to shoot them to shut them up if it is a pretty girl doing the asking shooting them won't work --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 Mar 2005 08:13, DAN WALKER wrote: Thats what I currently do. My work will pay for a course, but as we are a school, the budget could be spent on better things like getting a real pet hamster instead of the stuffed glove with sequins as eyes. Where are you, Dan? The suggestion of finding a LUG was a good one. Also, the LUG is likely to be aware of training in your area. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Friday 25 March 2005 08:32 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 25 Mar 2005 16:11, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 05:19 am, DAN WALKER wrote: there is one where I am - milton keynes. would it be full of bearded men who drive austin allegros? a bit scared of going. Buy a geek a pizza and a beer ,tell them that you are learning about linux and..you will have to shoot them to shut them up if it is a pretty girl doing the asking shooting them won't work LOL - too true! Though the girl may prefer chocolate or icecream to pizza. I never meet any geekettes untill I started hanging around this list :-D Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:42 am, Bill Winegarden wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look
inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the
older versions but I can't find it's equivalent.
QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:
rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options]
tia,
Bill W.
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Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a picture. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Gimp or quick and dirty ksnapshot Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture
On Friday 25 March 2005 02:19 pm, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:59:14 -0800, Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a picture. Any suggestions? Gimp or quick and dirty ksnapshot Thanks, Aron. Paul Gimp has a big learning curve(like a vertical cliff) but you can do fantastic things with 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] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
On Friday 25 March 2005 03:38 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 01:27 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:40 pm, Paul wrote: Op Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:35:23 -0800 schreef Aron Smith: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Running 1.0.0. and I have no problems with it. ?? ditto. running 10.0 and no problems on slashdot either. Which leads me to believe that there is something wrong with my system but not much as Konk does not have the same problem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] extracting CD audio files
On Friday 25 March 2005 04:51 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Grip or ripper-x for ripping the CD Audacity for editing the file (you will also need Lame for mp3 encoding) all available via urpmi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 player half capacity
On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:23 am, Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a small mp3 player with 254 mb storage. But I can only use half of it 124 mb. I checked for hydden files or so but with no success. I tried to format the device but also no changes. Did some one have the same problem? Thanks Christophe I have had this problem A lot of the DRMed players wind upkeeping a copy of whatever you put into them in the base memory strangely the MMC cards can be used to full capacity Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 player half capacity
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:39 am, Christophe wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:23 am, Christophe wrote: Hello, I have a small mp3 player with 254 mb storage. But I can only use half of it 124 mb. I checked for hydden files or so but with no success. I tried to format the device but also no changes. Did some one have the same problem? Thanks Christophe I have had this problem A lot of the DRMed players wind upkeeping a copy of whatever you put into them in the base memory strangely the MMC cards can be used to full capacity Sorry but I don't understand what you try to tell me. Thanks Christophe The last two players that I had had a hidden directory on them where the Win$ux Digital Rights Managment software was located this keeps a list of what you download to it when you remove the song the W$ software deletes it is your player on this list? http://tuxmobil.org/player_linux_survey_creative.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Learning Mandrake in the UK
On Thursday 24 March 2005 04:07 pm, DAN WALKER wrote: Are there any good reasonable priced courses, books or similar in the UK that I may attend? I want to learn how to run this thing. I am using it as a web server. I want to know all about setting the security up, making my machine hard to hack etc. It is connected to a 34Mbit connection to the net so someone would love to abuse it. Thanks Dan Do you have rute urpmi rute I read my dead tree copy a lot Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot
On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:40 pm, Paul wrote: Op Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:35:23 -0800 schreef Aron Smith: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Running 1.0.0. and I have no problems with it. ?? That's what I'm running ..strange Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games recommendation
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:54 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 02:11, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 22:59, JR wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, snip Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress level? Thanks :) I love airstrike. Their still working on it but the version released at the moment is playable against another player or the computer. It's based on 'bip' (bi-plane). Try enigma if you like puzzles.and of course sirtet if you like tetris. Thank you all for all the suggestions. I have fun playing all these new games. I especially like alienbuster, however the game ends after killing two bosses :( So short. Also airstrike, a bit difficult, but quite fun. I still have several games to try, alienpool, amphetamine, alephone (notice the alphabet 'a'?) Hehe.. So many games to dig out and try. personally I wish someone would port Redneck Rampage to linux It's stupid it's violent it's funny hit bubba with a crowbar to advance to the next level :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux riskier than Windows study says
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 07:28 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:03, Chris wrote: Ahh, another study funded by MS thats only purpose seems to be to cause FUD. Linux riskier than Windows? Companies face greater risks if they run their Web sites on Linux rather than Windows, a Microsoft-funded study has concluded. http://ct.zdnet.com.com/clicks?c=90480-571387brand=zdnetds=5 Well they would say that wouldn't they? After all, it is the competition. They could say that about Macs but no doubt Apple would turn it around and use it to sell more things including an aadd like that... I can just see the ad bill gates and steve balmer dressed like clowns dissing linux. (all channel 24X7 for 3 months.cost them oh..probably the petty cash Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux riskier than Windows study says
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:04 pm, Chris wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 09:40 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:38, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 07:28 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 03:03, Chris wrote: And I thought I was mad to be going to work this time in the morning, but I am, once again, mistaken :) Elwyn Now that's odd, I originally wrote the msg at 21:03 on 23 March, must have gone through a wormhole or something to suddenly get 6hrs ahead, even my copy on the list shows 21:03. interesting I have had a run of my system clock randomly switching time zones. Not lately tho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] K Mail question
k Mail is opening ok but when you shut it down there is a pop under that tells you KDEInit could not launch kontact-kmail.sh OK so whats wrong? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] K Mail question
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 09:01 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:35, Aron Smith wrote: k Mail is opening ok but when you shut it down there is a pop under that tells you KDEInit could not launch kontact-kmail.sh OK so whats wrong? I have this error too. Haven't succeded with google yet. do you have kontact installed I don't Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] ADSL.
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:49 am, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:39 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Dear Julie, Apologies for the Sir! I am certainly contacting your provider and thank you for your tip. Dear Malcolm, Apology not necessary and I in turn apologize for my grumpiness. Must have had a low BAC that day or something. Good luck with connecting to your new linux adventure. :) If they service your area try ispwest http://www.ispwest.com/ Very good tech support and linux friendly too (also a lot cheaper than earthlink) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Invalid signatures on upgrade files
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 12:04 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I was upgrading my copy of Mandrake 10.1 via a download I made of the update directory on ftp.u-strasbg.fr and I get the following error: glibc-devel-2.3.3-23.1.101mdk.I586.rpm: invalid signature (sha1 md5 )(GPG)(MISSING KEY) GPG# 22458a98 NOT OK I am getting a lot of these. I have a bunch of computers to update so I downloaded the entire directory of pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/community/I586/media/main including the files hdlist.cz and synthesis.hdlist.cz and the directory media_info. I downloaded a few of the files again just to make sure there wasn't a problem and they downloaded fine but the error remained. Is this something I should worry about or does this happen on some sites? Thanks for the help Robert Dill Exactly how did you download these files? Unless I am reading the errors reported wrong, you are getting wrong size, bad md5sum as well as GPG signiture error. That says the downloaded file is totaly messed up. Ether that, or you don't have read access to it. Mikkel is there any way to do it via urpmi? That would avoid most of the errors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] CD-ROM problem
my cdrom will not load a data program eg: linux distro it will however find and play music . has anyone ever had this happen to 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] Games recommendation
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 12:55 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 21:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: RPG - Neverwinter Nights 1st person shooters - Ut2004, Quake 3, Rune, Doom3 Military - Medal of Honor: Allied Assault If you want to run Transgamings' Cedega software, you can run the likes of: Diablo2-Lord of Destruction, Starcraft-Brood Wars, Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 (Sith Lords), Dungeon Siege, Elder Scrolls-Morrowind, Star Wars Jedi Knight and Jedi Academy, Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne and even World of Warcraft. Of course these are commercial, and there are plenty of free games to play as others have mentioned. Chromium, Critical Mass, and Armagetron spring to mind right away. Lots of options, and many more games than I've mentioned so get out there and get gaming! :-) Aiyaa.. Those are 'heavy and very serious games'. They have their own stress level to play :) I'm looking for easy games to kill times. Well, I've installed 2 free RPGs, but unfortunately cannot run. The games die :( I guess I'll have to browse from letter 'C' onward later. Using the mcc KDE/GNOME doesnt show the games. try gnome-games play a lot of majhjongg as a stress buster Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Minimal install
What would the minium package needed to get Mandrake up and running so you could use urpmi to complete the installation? could it possibly be as small as i cd? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] One Page Manual
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~squadron/ It's actually two pages Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies
On Monday 21 March 2005 07:34 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: SOTL wrote: I don't know about a comand to wipe a system but I do know a procedure of how I trash a HD. All I did was use MC to search for test and HD went into orbit. It is now a good paperweight on my desk. What I was searching for were DBs I had created call test1, test2 et. What I got was a trashed HD. Frank Frank, When you mention MC, what do you mean? (Midnight Commander?) cheers Duncan MC is a cloneof midnight commander urpmi mc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] audacity
anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] audacity
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:12 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s [EMAIL PROTECTED] mikkel]$ locate libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 Thanks Mikkel Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] audacity
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 10:23 -0500, Mr. Geek wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 20 March 2005 09:16 am, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s $ locate libmp3lame /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.la /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.a Oh, Sure! You can always do it the EASY way if you want to, I suppose! Grin! Didn't work for me :-( Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] audacity
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:57 -0500, Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Aron; If you need to find it quickly, use MCC's Remove Software section of RPMDrake and you can use the Find box to select In File Names option. Type in some of the file name you're looking for and click on the search button. Any package containing your search text (ie; 'libmp3lame') will appear in the list and you can see where your file is installed. found the problem file was in liblame instead of in lame Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] audacity
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 18:59 -0500, Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:57 -0500, Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s Aron; If you need to find it quickly, use MCC's Remove Software section of RPMDrake and you can use the Find box to select In File Names option. Type in some of the file name you're looking for and click on the search button. Any package containing your search text (ie; 'libmp3lame') will appear in the list and you can see where your file is installed. found the problem file was in liblame instead of in lame Audacity will not pick it up you have to set the audacity import field to show all extended libs then choose manualy Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Getting a screen-shot of the current window
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 19:49 +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody please tell me how to get a screen-shot of the current window? Thanks in advance, Paul try ksnapshot Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:02 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes - I want to understand and be able to execute things in the CLI. However it is going to take time for me to learn that. Sorry if I am such a dumb kiwi who is only happy when has sheep backed against the fence. Being a townie I have no idea what you refer to! Q. Where do Ozzies go on vacation? A. The sheep are for Ozzie tourists Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange host name
When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name
On Monday 14 March 2005 02:51 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Maybe you have ntp installed and that is a time server? now that you mention it there is mention of ntp on the start up screen BTW any way to read them after startup? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Syslogd
On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:12 am, Mr. Geek wrote: Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1. Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to start on bootup, but can be started manually), and it starts displaying syslogd and klogd entries or data. I thought that syslogd was supposed to store it's entries in a log file(s), bot on the console. Can someone explain what's happening? I've never seen this before and I don't want to have to shut down the syslog klogd daemons. Just a wild guess ..but are you running logrotate IIRC you should be from what I have read on these lists Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?
On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O.k., Mikkel, you convinced me (however I don't dislike learning to compile packages from source, in fact in future I'm thinking of getting into Linux From Scratch) Will be intrested in how you come out on this Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
On Friday 11 March 2005 07:59 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their respective camera lists, but since it's not being seen on the USB port, nothing is able to connect to the camera. If it helps, Hotplug is installed and running, and my USB mouse has been running for months without a hitch. What's the best way to mount a USB device, in which standard folder, and other than the standard USB Kernel modules, is there anything else needed? FYI, I'm running Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk. Are you sure it is not being seen? I have not looked up the camera, but most newer cameras show up as a storage device. Hotplug may have already mounted it as /mnt/camera or /mnt/removable. What does the output of lsusb show? Mikkel Mikkel; Thanks for getting back to me. Here's the output from lsusb; Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Logitech Corp. Optical Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : I tried the mouse on some of the other USB ports and it came back without a hitch on those ports as well. Would I have to activate anything on the camera to enable USB connections? That's about the only other thing that would make any sense, unless the USB cable is bad, but the camera is only a few months old, and was working on some Windows PC's without any problems, even with this USB cable. Thanks for any help you can offer. I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.) I would double check the cable connections, and if you can, try a different cable. Even if Linux didn't identify the camera properly, it should still show up in the output of lsusb. Here is the output on my system with two unsupported cameras. Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05cb:1483 PowerVision Technologies, Inc. Trust CombiScan 19200 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1046:9967 Winbond Electronics Corp. [hex] W9967CF/W9968CF WebCam IC Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Mikkel The Camera has to be on so that the usb port on the camera is active Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] licq-1.2.6-3mdk.i586.rpm.
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:12 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote: Hi All Yesterday I registerd to this mailing list with a E-Mail address but today I got so many mails that I decided to change a new Mail Box for this. I got a response to someone for my following problem but I accidently deleted the response Could anybody please send those valuable words again. I am really sorry for this but now this will never happen again My problem is this: When I want to install a package gtk_licq-0.51-11mdk on my Mandrake-9.2. This package depends on another package called licq-1.2.6-3mdk.i586.rpm. I tried to find this package and found one on http:rpmfind.net but that was corrupted or having some problem and I could not download it. Could anyone please tell me from where can I get this package and is there any other solution e.g. to use a newer version of licq-1.2.7-3mdk.i586.rpm because I found this and tried to use this by RENAMING it but could not succeeded. I appreciate any guidance Thanks Tahir open your web browser go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ follow the instructions for setting up your sources open a terminal su .rootpassword cut and paste the result into your root terminal enter wait while system updates next you want to type urpmi gtk_licq-0.51-11mdk urpmi will handle the dependency's _ Credit card. Apply now. 60 sec response. Must be over 18. AU only: http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/clk;11046970;10638934;f?http://www.anz.com/aus /promo/first0105ninemsn/default.asp 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 database blocked
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:56 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote: Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. a reboot will fix this (inelegent and there is probably a better way) The second problem is whenever I send mail from my hotmail. It goes twice How can I fix it? best solution is to not use hotmail but leaving the reply to field blank usually works I appreciate any guidance. Thanks Tahir _ Hotmail's great for sending photos. Click here to find out more: http://www.imagine-msn.com/Hotmail/Post/Communicate/SendEmail.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 07:52 am, rikona wrote: Hello Philippe, Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 10:49:37 PM, Philippe wrote: This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? PL unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated PL by people with sectarian views proud of using foul language. More Like Fowel language PL the rapid advancement of corporate-fascist take-over PL is obviously originating in the US and Europe. and this post once you pull the relevent core isn't ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Where to find a package licq-1.2.6-3mdk.i586.rpm?
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I am using this list first time. I got a problem that I want to install a package gtk_licq-0.51-11mdk on my Mandrake-9.2. This package depends on another package called licq-1.2.6-3mdk.i586.rpm. I tried to find this package and found one on http:rpmfind.net but that was corrupted or having some problem and I could not download it. Could anyone please tell me from where can I get this package and is there any other solution e.g. to use a newer version of licq-1.2.7-3mdk.i586.rpm because I found this and tried to use this by RENAMING it but could not succeeded. I appreciate any guidance Thanks urpmi is the way to go 1. point your browser to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ follow the directions to set up sources cut and paste into a roo terminal hit enter If you have cable or dsl otherwise it can take a long time finaly type urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select -a when it finishes type updatedb update-menus Tahir Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mac and Linux
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:28 am, Paul Greene wrote: If it's a Mac program written for Mac OSX, it should be pretty easy to run on Linux because Mac OSX is Unix under the hood (well, Unix-like; the guts of OSX is a version of BSD). A lot of Mac OSX programs have Linux equivalents; others that come in source code format can usually be compiled under Linux. For pre-OSX Macs, uh, well, I think you're probably out of luck, unless someone has written some emulator software somewhere that'll do the trick. PG M.Schild wrote: Hi, someone just sent me this question. I, (of course) couldn´t answer but no doubt one of you will. Could you please ask one of your buddies that run Linux if Mac programs can be run from a pc that uses Linux? I think that there is a version of linux fo macs http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] When the Computer is winning
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Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before
On Sunday 06 March 2005 01:23 am, Al wrote: - Original Message - From: Randall D. Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before On Sunday 06 March 2005 12:01 am, Aron Smith wrote: I have 2 systems both running Mdk 10.1 there is one monitor connected with a KVM switch. tonight it started flipping from one computer to the other on a 4 sec cycle any body seen this before? Check your KVM switch. Many KVM switches have a key combination to put it in auto scan mode, which allows you to cycle through each PC with a delay which you can usually set. It sounds like you might have inadvertently found the key combination needed for that... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Acquire Technology, LLC Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.acquire-technology.com I also have a KVM switch. I use CTRL CTRL F2 to switch between computers. CTRL CTRL F1 sets auto scan and it switches every 4 seconds for me too. To switch off auto-scan, I just have to hit CTRL CTRL HTH Al Thanks this problem combined with the drastic slowdown in my area by my ISP had me thinking the worst live ands learn :-| Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before
On Sunday 06 March 2005 04:20 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 20:23, Al wrote: I also have a KVM switch. I use CTRL CTRL F2 to switch between computers. CTRL CTRL F1 sets auto scan and it switches every 4 seconds for me too. To switch off auto-scan, I just have to hit CTRL CTRL HTH Al I have a strange feeling that Mr. Aron and Mr. Bourbon shook hands way too many times and he inadvertently mucked up the key-combos...it HAS happened before - but for something completely different... Don't drink Burbon ..too sweet prefer Tequilia Patrone Silver -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- Individualists unite! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before
On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:27 am, Dennis Duffner wrote: At 12:01 AM 3/6/2005, you wrote: I have 2 systems both running Mdk 10.1 there is one monitor connected with a KVM switch. tonight it started flipping from one computer to the other on a 4 sec cycle any body seen this before? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I use a KVM switch and I'll ask the obvious. Are the buttons on the switch okay and not stuck? Also, do you use the scrl-lock,scrl-lock-# method of changing screens? There may be an issue with the keyboard. Yes and I have noticed that the keyboard is due for replacement again (oh well I got 7 months out of this one) Dennis Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #362232 Not yet M$ free-but getting closer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] I'never seen this before
I have 2 systems both running Mdk 10.1 there is one monitor connected with a KVM switch. tonight it started flipping from one computer to the other on a 4 sec cycle any body seen this before? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Thursday 03 March 2005 03:22 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:50:54 +0100 Kasper Thunoe disseminated the following: Aron Smith disseminated the following: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? BTW, who the hell are all those people on #mandrake?? I didn't recognize one name from the list... got a lot of newbies ;-D XChat is by far the best client. Thats what I think anyways :-) @ Aron Joe: What are your irc nicks? just joehill pour moi, I would assume Aron's is 'buttmuncher' or somesuch... it's aron /ducks Anyhow, I was just checkin' it out, I don't have a lot of time to spend on idle chat. Wife, two young'uns, you know the drill. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:16 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:44:09 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: it's aron ...what happened to 'smitty'? I always kinda liked that. Has that down-home, hangin' out at the general store, smokin' a big bunch o' bionic chronic kinda thang... Anyhow, you knows I's kiddin' ya, ya big galoot :-) Actualy it's evilaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:18 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. must be 10.1 interactive p0rn edition ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:18, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. Very funny comment indeed, Joe :-( I Know it may come as an incomprehensible shock to most Americans here, but not everyone living on this tiny planet received the divine blessing of being brought up in the English/US/Redneck tongue. Of course that's a big mistake by the Lord. I'll admit that for sure. And I can't for the sake of me understand why he didn't let Mr. Gutenberg print the Bible in English rather than in Latin/Greek/Hebrew/Whatever ??? That aside, I feel ashamed when a non-rap-redneck-speaking newcomer (NRRSN for the Americans) to this list formulates his joy of becoming a member of the free community, and he is received by ridiculing comments about misspelling and mis-syntaxing. A few years ago this list was friendlier. Sorry for my bad English.. Kaji ..If you give this bunch a bad pun they, will give you even worse puns in return Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:12 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 02:57, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:16 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:18, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. Very funny comment indeed, Joe :-( I Know it may come as an incomprehensible shock to most Americans here, but not everyone living on this tiny planet received the divine blessing of being brought up in the English/US/Redneck tongue. Of course that's a big mistake by the Lord. I'll admit that for sure. And I can't for the sake of me understand why he didn't let Mr. Gutenberg print the Bible in English rather than in Latin/Greek/Hebrew/Whatever ??? That aside, I feel ashamed when a non-rap-redneck-speaking newcomer (NRRSN for the Americans) to this list formulates his joy of becoming a member of the free community, and he is received by ridiculing comments about misspelling and mis-syntaxing. A few years ago this list was friendlier. Sorry for my bad English.. Kaji ..If you give this bunch a bad pun they, will give you even worse puns in return Huh...? Pun a deliberate misuse of the language for (so-called) humor proper response to a pin is groan Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues - apology
On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:36 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: you all do know that as root urpmi rute will install rute,, adn just typing 'rute' in a cli will start rute --- Actually typing rute in cli didn't start rute for me. Though I haven't urpmi'ed it yet. Wl that *could* be the reason ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:40 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Which brings up the question on every perverts mind - I wonder if someone is building an XXX-rated distro of Linux yet? LinuXXX? Sinux? Hmmm. porno on linuxall the filth you want for your eyes, but none for your hard drive (virus's, ad/spy/malware). I hope Micro$oft doesn't hear about this, they might spread rumours that because linux doesn't support adware it therefore encourages browsing for porn. M$ has referred to Linux as a cancer before, might it now be 'the cancer that causes the moral decline of society'? ;) What ever you call it...it's gotta have joystick support Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:39 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 19:16, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:17 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 11:02 pm, Aron Smith wrote: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? Best one I know in the repository is xchat, but if you are feeling a little adventurous and you use kde, building konversation from cvs might be fun. It has a lot of cool features. The .15.1 version that comes with Mandrake is a little long in the tooth right now, so if you want to stick with stable, I'd recommend xchat over the others. Thanks gang for the recomendations have d/l ed ksirc now to figgure out how to use it Oops - Ksirc Handbook is what I read Yeppers reading it now ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 04:53 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:02:45 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? BTW, who the hell are all those people on #mandrake?? I didn't recognize one name from the list... got a lot of newbies ;-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] printer - yext not printing as preview shows
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:38 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 00:02, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 28 Feb 2005 00:25, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thanks - I tried that but the printer didn't work. Will troll the various forums and do some googling. There must be a simple explanation. Thanks anyway Rosemary Did you check that you had xpp installed? kprinter instead of xpp in that box works equally well, and if you have kde installed you will definitely have that. Anne No I didn't have xpp installed and have now installed it. Still wouldn't print with XPP in the window but did with kprinter. It's a better print out but still a small problem printing say, the Rute Tutorial, where text runs into the next word ocassionally. Printing out the Rute tutorial is about 1000 pages idf you must have a dead tree copy it would be cheaper to buy it http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-2635319-6707917 Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 11:14 am, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:16 pm, Kirschner, Mark wrote: Julie Sloan claimed: But I never broke windows so badly I had to reinstall it! Julie -- Um, you need to boot the computer for it to break ;-) Maybe I never broke it or got so virus'd up I couldn't fix it myself because I didn't use IE or OE. Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe I was lucky in another way, running into people on USENET who told me get a real ISP get a real browser and join cauce. So within three or four months of getting a computer (with cringe advice from Dad, who STILL swears the sun rises and sets on AOHell), I'd moved from AOL to mindspring, from IE to Netsape, was using Eudora-light for a mail reader and FreeAgent for newsgroups, and was reading snopes.com and symantec before forwarding all those warnings. g And preaching to anyone who'd listen that AOL is the kindergarden of the internet - fine, start there, but move on as soon as you are able or you'll never learn anything. Now I'm applying all I've learned into getting a real OS, and it's really frustrating to be back in preschool. Maybe this musing is getting a bit too OT for this list. :) not at all we have all gone through similar times (except for the Ubergeeks that hang out on the cooker list) Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:21 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:01 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:54 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Editing text files is particularly irritating because my fingers operate in vi mode reflexively. I am looking forward to some day soon being able to say the same thing. :) As long as you don't invoke the dreaded emacs you're all right with me. (There's something wrong with an editor that hauls around an eliza in every instance). Ok. Would you please repeat that, more slowly this time, and in newbie English? Thanks. Don't even go there ..they are about to restart the great emacs vs vi war Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] IRC Client
anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:17 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 11:02 pm, Aron Smith wrote: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? Best one I know in the repository is xchat, but if you are feeling a little adventurous and you use kde, building konversation from cvs might be fun. It has a lot of cool features. The .15.1 version that comes with Mandrake is a little long in the tooth right now, so if you want to stick with stable, I'd recommend xchat over the others. Thanks gang for the recomendations have d/l ed ksirc now to figgure out how to use 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] Networking
On Monday 28 February 2005 05:44 am, SOTL wrote: Hi All Please disregard following help request. Issue disappeared when I realized that problem was caused by jarring box with my foot causing HD drive not to be fully connected. Box is test setup with sliding drawers in it so HD may be easily setting on floor by my desk in position where foot may accidentally hit HD drawer. Which is apparently what happened. Raising the box off the floor solves a lot of problems dust dirt etc. Thanks for all previous help. Frank On Sunday 27 February 2005 15:46, SOTL wrote: Hi All Help ! Sorry for screaming but I do feel a bit better now. I added 1 computer to the network so now there are a total of 3 as follows: MSI with name of Reality_Check @ 192.168.2.7 with Mandrake 10.1 HP with name Meatloaf_Night @ 192.168.2.9 with Mandrake 9.2 IBM with name Big_Nate @ 192.168.2.2 with Mandrake 10.1 I do not have the ability to install 10.1 on the HP with out replacing the CD reader with a DVD reader. From any one box I can ping either [or both at the same time] of the other two boxes. For example from the IBM box I can ping MSI by using 192.168.2.7 and/or HP by using 192.168.2.9. I can not ping either of the other boxes by using names. For example I can not ping MSI or HP by using the names Reality_Check or Meatloaf_Night nor can I ping the IBM box from either MSI or HP using Big_Nate. So, numbers work; names do not work. I was able to access the MSI box from both the HP box and the IBM box by using the following: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was not able to access any box by fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the IBM box from either the HP box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory I was not able to access the HP box from either the IBM box or the MSI box using fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory So, one function apparently correctly two did not function as expected. I checked packages for the IBM and HP against the MSI. The MSI and IBM have the following packages installed: kdeutils-kdessh openssh openssh-askpass openssh-askpass-gnome openssh-client openssh-server scanssh sshd-monitor The HP package are somewhat different and due to inadequate notes I may not have the content exactly correct so we will skip that at this time. First Question: Are there other packages that are required to ssh into a box that I do not have listed above? Second Question: If there are no additional packages required why does one work [of sorts] and one not? That above [of sorts] is important as after completing I left work went home did laundry and returned to work to attempt to make the other two boxes work. Firing up all 3 computers the 2 which I was not able to access by fish came up normal and functioned normal. The MSi box which I was able to access by fish came up with video up to 3/4 way through KDE boot at which time it lost video and maybe key and mouse too as they did not appear to be functioning either. I shut the box down by turning power off [bad practice] since I appear to have no control of box. I repeated the above several times with identical results. I attempted to access box by fish and was able to do so. I placed Mandrake 10.1 disk in DVD drive and did an upgrade. Booting box after upgrade I still got blank screen and most possible no mouse and no keyboard. Third Question: How does one go about establishing why, how issue develops and how does one repair? Thanks Frank /etc/hosts is a system file and can only be edited by root user. If you are in KDE hit Alt+F2 and enter 'kdesu konqueror' to get a root copy of konqueror file manager. If your IP address does keep changing, then it may be more convenient to use samba instead of fish. Samba allows you to join a Windows network, and you can pass files between both Windows and Linux computers. Since I would imagine part of my ping issue is that hostname is not set and user name may not be [not sure if user name is same as login user or if this is different user name] lets tackle username and host name first. How do I set them up? The user name is the login name. derek Thanks for the help Frank HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] various issues
On Monday 28 February 2005 06:16 pm, Julie Sloan wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 12:06 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Now, what I would like to see sometime is changing from Windows 98 to XP compaired to changing from 98 to Linux... What about it? I went from 98 to XP last summer, and learned my way around XP while I was waiting for my linux CDs to arrive. Now I make a little pin money troubleshooting XP systems in my neighborhood, but the only time *this* *here* computer boots into Window$ is when I need to print something. That was today, and ...two or three weeks ago, I'd guess. Why into windows to print? Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
