[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories
You know, this should be simple. Nearly everybody does it, right? ;) Yet I am having trouble with mkisofs getting it to replicate a directory sstructure so that I can just continually go from one directory to the other (it is an audio book set of mp3s) without having to jump all over the resulting CD on my mp3 player trying to figure out what chapter to play next. The files (originally) were structured like: disc1/ - Track01.mp3 disk1/ - Track02.mp3 .. disc2/ - Track01.mp3 disc2/ - Track02.mp3 and so forth; typically, 13-15 mp3s per each disc subdirectory. Obviously, what I'd like is to just have the disc1/*, disc2/* etc, so that each file would follow naturally in sequence. My first effort $ mkisofs -J -r -v -o datacd disc*/* failed (using the Linux cookbook example) because it saw each of those track files conflicting with other file names (that is, track01 in disc1 would conflict with track01 in disc5) -- an obvious sign that it was just going to stuff the files in any way it could without following any directory structure. I also went into the directories to rename the files to more sensible names at this point (damn Windowz no shell users) :( . 'rename' is neat btw, if you figure out how to use it. :) After some reading (again in the Linux Cookbook) I tried using the --graft-points option, and this is saner, but still I ended up with all the files in the main / directory of the resulting data iso. But I did manage to make subdirectories on the ISO. But doing so was horrendous, as I seem to have to do: $ mkisofs -r -J -v -V StarWarsIIIbook -o datacd -graft-points disc1/=disc1 disc2/=disc2 disc3/=disc3 disc4/=disc4 disc5/=disc5 disc6/=disc6 disc7/=disc7 disc8/=disc8 disc9/=disc9 disc10/=disc10 disc11/=disc11 disc*/* One would think wildcards would work here, but it doesn't seem to - mkisofs will complain. I can mount the CD and navigate through the directories, they seem reasonable, but ideally I'd like to be able to do this in my settop mp3 player or portable cd/mp3 player without having to jump all over the disc. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] reading Troff document
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:22:23 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, could some kind soul tell me what program I can use to read Troff documents? A friend of mine has a Mac, and they have sent me a couple documents that I have thus far been unable to read. Is Troff a Mac proprietary format? I find it really odd that a Mac user would send a document in any troff like format. troff (text runoff) is an early Unix documentation facility comprising a few related programs. One would basically edit the document with an editor and then use any of a number of roff programs to runoff' a printed copy, hence the name. What you're looking for is groff (gnu's version) which would include a number of packages for the various components. Chances are these are already installed, since it's used a lot for man pages which are written in that format. Also handy would be something to view postscript output, such as gv. Normally something like: $ groff -T ps filename | lpr would print one of these documents out. --Angus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Help Compiling C++ with Emacs
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:39:22 -0500 Ayn Newin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g++ -o total sum1.cpp /bin/bash: line 1: g++: command not found Compilation exited abnormally with code 127 at Fri Feb 25 18:45:40 Emacs runs the compiler in a subshell so it's just like if you did it from another terminal, more or less. So it's not really an emacs vs. c++ issue. What you'll need to do is to urpmi (install) the g++ compiler. ~ Ayn -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Games recommendation
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:08:24 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find many interesting packages once I click on them and read the description. Right atlantik :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Games recommendation
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:18:35 -0500 Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like LBreakout, KBounce, Kolorlines, Gnotski Mahjong. KGoldrunner is like Super Mario Brothers GTali is like Yahtzee. I think some of these mahjongg (and the variants) are pretty good. They're kind of difficult to play you need to concentrate though. I do tend to spend more time these days playing the solitaire from KDE :). Also I like to spend time playing monopoly online with other players - I use the KDE atlantik and/or gtkatlantik. Once in a while try xmille if you like the French card game mille bornes :). Julie -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] How big is a block ?
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:11:57 - Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 blocks ? 1024. There may be some overhead. But you can just allocate 13 and he'll come back to tell you he's got a little bit more than you gave him. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] turbotax?
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? Turbotax Web works just fine. :) I've been using Web-based turbotax methods for the last few years using linux. One caveat though, I had a little difficulty getting the browser (konqueror or mozilla0 to automatically launch acrobat inside the browser window for printing purposes. I managed somehow to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:55:02 +0100 Michaël Van Dorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: install these, I get messages about invalid signatures and even when I ignore those, the installation still doesn't work. You usually can ignore the sigs. But what error messages do you get when you try installing these files? Michael, linux day one Welcome.. ! -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Hardware Questions
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:30:15 -0800 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to use any of the following with Mandrake? Asus p4s533 motherboard p4 1.6 GHz processor geforce ti4200 agp video card Doubtful you would have problems. That's mostly current stuff. My advise would be to first try a live cd distro on it just for testing purposes, such as knoppix or mepis. Then if it boots fine and detects the hardware you could just go ahead and install mandrake on it. Then you'd still end up with a good and useful other distro to try for testing, or for other uses. Amy -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] what to do with non-contiguous files?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:39:46 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be interested in the replys you get on this since I have one part with 21 % non-contiguous files. My understanding was that it 21% is extremely high, but not out of band with some earlier installs I did a long time ago on a seriously (by today's standard) limited drive. There used to be a 'frag' utility that would tell you what percentage of fragmentation overall you had on a particular partition. I saw fragmentation percentages of 40%-50%. Now I took that with a grain of salt, and I might just do that with your 21% percentage. At issue, I gather, with 'frag', was that it counted tertiary indexed files (any sufficiently large file would suffice) and miscounted them as fragmented when they weren't, or weren't as badly fragmented. On an ext2 filesystem, the biggest file you can have without going to a secondary index of pointers to blocks is about 13-14K per the kernel source. This is because there are that many pointers to disk blocks in the inode for a file. If your file is larger than that, you need a block to store pointers to blocks. And if it really is big, more than maybe 256K+14K (a 1k block could store at most 256*4 (sizeof an integer) pointers to disk blocks for a file) you need to go to tertiary indexed blocks, where you have pointers to pointers to blocks. Ordinarly, ext2 filesystems resist fragmentation, and even if a file is X% fragmented, it really doesn't have the same negative meaning as a fragmented file in FAT(32). Besides that, much of the overhead in a DOS system is involved in finding the first block of a file in a filesystem (much more time-consuming than on ext2fs) not in the head moving from point A to point B on the disk to get to other sections of the file. Obviously, ext2 does some things right, to minimize disk access, for the most part, logically related items are grouped together; for instance, various files in the same directory are grouped closer together than those in some other place on the filesystem. In FAT(32) there is little if any guarantee of this. Over time, there is the likelihood that a file FOO in UTILS may be right next to a file BAR in DOCS, and the next logical file in UTILS may be at the other end of the disk. And so ext2 doesn't guarantee that the filesystem will be utterly devoid of fragmentation; for that, you probably want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mandrake for novice users?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:00:04 -0500 David Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. Speaking of various linux distros, one you might want to take a real peek at this one, it's called MEPIS. It's one-disk, debian (testing branch mostly) based, runs off a live CD so you can look at it without installing, and the installer is very clean ans quick. http://www.mepis.com/ -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mandrake for novice users?
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:58:50 -0500 David Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my concern about Live CDs: In older machines with slower CD drives, they're awful. It takes about 10 minutes for the distros I've True enough. And larger distros like Knoppix tend to try and cram a great deal of functionalilty into that one cd-rom, and on Knoppix many of the binaries are compressed, which adds to the load time on slower machines. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mandrake for novice users?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:52:17 -0600 Eric Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try plopping a newbie in Debian. Nothing against Debian, I like Debian, all 14 discs of Debian, but a newbie is liable to give up and never touch Linux again for ten years before he even makes it past the base system installation Well, sure enough. But that's if you do a real debian based install -- in many respects an old fashioned way to do things, now that there are a lot of one-disk front ends that are far easier to install (kanotix, knoppix, mepis, etc). They get you up and running fairly quickly, and then yuu apt-get everything you can get your hands on :). Personally speaking, I might never attempt a real debian install, but I had a rather serious foulup with Mandrake 10.1/cooker a month or so ago, and I ended up switching to Mepis. In short, I'm very happy with it. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:42:19 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually windows will not be secure as long as .exe .com and .dll files can automatically run as root, despite microsoft trying to patent the sudo technology, yet disabling such a feature in XP. Thanks for letting me finish your sentence :) The kicker is that these apps all run in an unrestricted environment, and we all know about stuff like Outlook, which is configured to open attachments and run them before the user knows what has happened. But I've been out of the Windows world since 1993, although I do use Windows machines at work sometimes :(. And why are .com files even supported anyway? Those things are holdovers from CP/M, for god's sake. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of this.' It wouldn't be easier just to change clients? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:11:37 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a Barbie-doll PC more childish than a Windows PC ? Not if it runs linux. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mortgage Payment Calculation program?
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:03:14 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure what you need here, but Gnucash has a mortgage calculator. I don't know if it will make an amortization table, but it looks like it will give I've done quick dirty tables in various spreadsheets, which is another option if you're a do it yourselfer. OpenOffice calc does have the functions you need (PMT, PV, FV, etc.) Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:09:19 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, David. Alas... as Lyvim pointed out, she _has_ to use Derive in order to cooperate with her classmates. Oh well :(. And you know what ? - Although only 14 years old, my daughter isn't exactly stupid. She now uses her box for schoolwork (Derive and I would not think so. Derive is a calculus package, if I'm not mistaken. I guess that means she's studying calculus in middle school (in US, 14 yrs old would either be end of 8th or first year of 9th grade / high school). Derive of course can be used for less advanced things too :). Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:29:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thanks for the roses for my daughter. Actually she grew up with Linux, and when she got her brand new WindowsXP computer, her first remark was : good heavens, what a childish system ! (In fact, her Just don't get her one of those barbie-doll computers (hot pink color) :). (duck) Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Trouble installing 10.1
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:11:24 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: down loaded 10.1 RC2 but caint get it to install I get the message Kernal panic No INIT found Hmm. Mayba a corrupt burn? Check out the cooker list. I'm behind on my email reading of late, but managed to get RC1 up and running a few weeks ago - and over the weekend I bittorented RC2 and the md5sums match and etc. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] sp2 may have done something good
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:45:39 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Packard Bell AKA Packard Hell, there is not any harder pain in the ass you can mention than Packard Bell. It's even harder to install Linux on it. Long time ago, I had one of those things. 386sx it was, purchased from Montgomery Wards. I did manage to install linux but that was the early days and I didn't have much in the way of modern hardware -- I needed to get a real monitor and a better video card to run X at anywhere near acceptable levels. It otherwise worked fine even in 4 megs of RAM - this was back in the SLS days :). Of course, even with text terminals and 4 megs of ram (later upgraded to 8 megs -- woohoo) it just kicked a$$ and ran rings around Windows (3.1) and Desqview. For instance, I couldn't run my HST modem at high speed in 3.1 but could in Linux :). On the downside, there were some bad design issues with the thing (f.e., uarts soldered on the motherboard) and early on developed a problem with the floppies. Since it was still under warranty, I opted for factory service, which turned out to be a three month wait. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:26:47 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications then the most common, such as Office. Derive is a very special beast. It might still. I don't think it's going to require a lot of extras, somehow. I mean it's not one of those shoot-em-up games that requires esoteric hardware. It might work in vmware too. But as there is no OSS or TI didn't (yet) port Derive, isn't there something that does run on Linux that is comparable? mupad, macsyma, and the like spring to mind. I'm not qualified (no maths degree) enough to really judge the capabilities and what Derive will do that OSS replacements wouldn't, however. (mupad I think is still OSS or free for personal use; macsyma is in contrib last time I looked. The command line version is lisp-based and clunky as hell, but the X11 version is a little more polished.) Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] KDE 3.3
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:19:04 +1000 John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No official rpms until after the release of 10.1 in the next month or two, they claim to not have the time to do both at once. Got to wonder where all that Club money went to... Well 10.1 is in beta right now, kde 3.2.3 on cooker, of course - but it's probably going to asymptotically approach 3.3 like the previous version did for 10.0 CE :). You might want to wait, because kde like everything else is compiled for the new gcc glibc. I suppose the .src.rpm's could be rebuilt on 10.0 CE, but 10.1 is coming out anyway. Just be warned it's not a straightforward upgrade, you need to uninstall a few kde packages first, such as some -util packges, and Quanta (now in kdewebdev). The kde rpms have become more and more fractionalized over time - by that I mean many things have been divvied up into many different RPMS and there's a lot more of them to install. It also depends on having the XOrg version of X11 installed, which involves uninstalling XFree by brute force on the command line. Alternatively, you From reports I've read, installing X.org is not very difficult. But then it's in 10.1 cooker. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] .Man Page Help!
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:49:37 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now do I have to use Konqueror for this to work, or can I use Firefox? I'm really not growing attached to Konqueror, and I like being able to man:// seems just to be a konqueror-ism. It's still pretty good. For more GUI-like presentation, you might be able to find xman still available. Or, process the manual page into Postcript or PDF and use an external viewer. But even at the console, you can scroll through the document the same way you'd scroll through any other document using the more functionality -- in other words, this is builtin to man. You can page back and forth, skip to a specific keyword or phrase in the page (/word) by using the / forward slash key. It's something I long ago got addicted to. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] .Man Page Help!
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:56:47 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? Postscript files are essentially programs. But they're (usually) programs dedicated to describing the layout of graphics or text on a page. A postscript interpreter may be living in the printer you use, or there's one installed with nearly every linux distribution, called ghostscript. Most programs that produce printer output can output Postscript, which is then interpreted by ghostscript which produces a page image which then can be sent to the printer. gv is a good postscript viewer, but it may not be installed by default. Konqueror handles postscript and pdf files fairly nicely as well. As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know I can do that, but I suspect it won't work for me, since pdfs and I usually don't agree all More complicated pdf files take more time to produce. I remember a transit system map taking ages to render on my ancient system (Pentium I) but now the same file renders in just a few minutes. But I don't foresee that you would have difficulty just viewing pdf files from other sources. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] .Man Page Help!
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:46:43 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as much as I'd love to have someone else to fix it all for me, I've got two things in the way of that. 1) I know no one local who uses where are you geographically? Secondly what type of hw do you have? Try www.linux.org/groups - you might find a linux user group near your area. (Mars excluded at the moment) :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] 10.1 rc1 mini cd install
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:24:07 -0700 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a place to enter the path to the hdlist.cz? Like.. LOCATION: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS PATH TO HDLIST: ../base/hdlist.cz Typically: urpmi.addmedia location - put the big ftp link here with path to hdlist should work. Or more easly, use www.easyurpmi.org or the nanardon site to automatically generate the addmedia command lines. All you need to do there is to choose the distribution, pick a mirror, and then just cut and paste the commands to a console. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Hard Drive Question
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:23:11 -0400 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 thru 12 ? People's mount schemes are based on their personal needs experience. I think these schemes have been debated back and forth for some time now :). But essentially you can name the partition anything you want, with the following caveats: 1) You can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive, so this basically means that partition 4 is an extended partition containing the rest of the available partitions. That's why yuo don't see a 'part4' listed, it's the extended partition. 2) the names chosen should be meaningful, because they are mounted onto the main tree (in other words, / ) by the mount command. In other words, sver on partition 7 (using his example) there are files starting with home - every file underneath home is located on that partition. When he mounts home, all directory requests /home/somethingorother just get routed to that particular partition. The main reasons for doing this is flexibility and to have more space available. And, you don't need a swap partition on each drive, but balancing them across multiple drives may prove beneficial. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] W32.Netsky - Linux really better protected than windows?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:31:40 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Save the attachment to your drive; un-tar/un-gzip it; cd into the virus directory; type sudo ./configure make make install; then run sudo /usr/bin/virus - sit back and watch your system fry. pedant viruses should really be installed in /usr/local... /pedant stephen kuhn - proprietor -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Cannot ping Mandrake 10
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:51:55 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to use a higher security level and tweak it to enable certain types of access. E.g., I don't really care about not having ping, but would like to have ssh. I see a couple of Hmm. I think this is a firewall issue, not a security (i.e., security level issue). I would think that you would want to ping outside, so I'm not sure why having a higher security level (btw, I've always run it at normal level) because it would make sense to be able to ping other hosts, but not necessarily allow your system to be able to be ping'ed from outside your domain. Brenda Bell Henniker (the only one on earth) brrr. or maybe i'm a bit premature. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Won't play MIDI
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:39:00 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979 Thanks Jose! I will check it out... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Won't play MIDI
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:39:00 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Dom, 2004-07-11 às 23:53, David E. Fox escreveu: Let me know how it goes. I've done it before with 9.2 and it worked. I'm about to do it again on 10.0 No go (at least for the first part) -- there is just nothing coming out of the speakers. Other sounds work. I tried Test Sound in KDE config menu under Sound - OK on Test Sound but nothing on Test Midi. I may try the other possible method listed in that file next, probably tomorrow or another day. Should you get this working in 10.0, please advise. One point - the content of my /etc/modules.conf ATM looks like: probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias agpgart via-agp alias eth0 tulip above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 enable=1 I'm confused slightly on these settings. When my box boots up, I definitely see the Using Alsa driver emu10k1 message. Now IIRC, the snd part means I'm using the ALSA, right? The line above tells me I'm using oss though, if I interpret it correctly. I did fiddle with the settings a couple of times, and through a number of reboots later got it to finally spit out Using ALSA driver but I'm thinking that the particular driver was always there -- because when I launch kmix I get a large number of sliders (with the other driver I only get a few, and a missing /dev/sequencer. (Trying to cat a midi to /dev/sequencer results in a no space left on device message). The second part mentions kmidi, which I do not seem to have. But if I run urpmi kmidi I get everything already installed - but no output if I do urpmf /usr/bin/kmidi. Seems perhaps I'll need to rerun urpmi. I did that, still no kmidi, that package seems to not be part of 10.0. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] rosegarden - no sound
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:11:44 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's named WaveTable? I think the problem is that rosegarden isn't connected to the WaveTable synthesizer with aconnect. I don't Well, it's supposed to have a wavetable sequencer, but timidity++ seems to be able to handle it now - it's almost working. I at least have been able to get bleeps out of the soundcard port. Right now, I have timidity++ and timidity-instruments rpm's installed, and rosegarden is connected up to port 128 (i.e., setting for software device in rosegarden) but I can't change instruments. So, I get a piano playing for instance Bach's suite for unaccompanied cello. ;) I'm also getting a series of odd percussive type noises happening from time to time coming out of the soundcard. I figure those might be to speed artifacts. It's not 100% but I don't think I'll be able to do any better than this without checking for possible kernel problems. No matter what I do in Rosegarden, I can't seem to connect it with the onboard wavetable. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] rosegarden - no sound
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:11:44 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And 65:0 is a WaveTable port to which the output of Rosegarden should be connected. OK. So I try connecting it and something isn't working right. Rosegarden is port 128, and port 65 is the kernel connection to the onboard wavetable on my SB Live, right? [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ aconnect -o client 64: 'Rawmidi 0 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)' [type=kernel] 0 'EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)' client 65: 'Emu10k1 WaveTable' [type=kernel] 0 'Emu10k1 Port 0 ' 1 'Emu10k1 Port 1 ' 2 'Emu10k1 Port 2 ' 3 'Emu10k1 Port 3 ' client 128: 'Rosegarden sequencer' [type=user] 0 'Rosegarden ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ aconnect 128:1 65:1 Connection failed (Invalid argument) [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ aconnect 129:0 65:1 Connection failed (Invalid argument) [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ aconnect 128:0 65:0 Connection is already subscribed We see from that the only thing it's taking is a connection from port 128 (i.e. rosegarden) to port 65 (the Wavetable) -- despite that, there is no sound output at all. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Lasme probs
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:30:28 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone gotten lame to work with the 2.6 kernal? lame runs fine here with an older 2.6.x-tmb kernel. What are the issues? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] .bashrc
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:22:29 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from that same console/shell window just type in bash. that starts another subshell. probably easiest to just do source .bashrc. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] rosegarden - no sound
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:49:30 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does 'aconnect -o' say? And have you unmuted and raised the volume of something like synth in alsamixer? [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ aconnect -o client 64: 'Rawmidi 0 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)' [type=kernel] 0 'EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)' client 65: 'Emu10k1 WaveTable' [type=kernel] 0 'Emu10k1 Port 0 ' 1 'Emu10k1 Port 1 ' 2 'Emu10k1 Port 2 ' 3 'Emu10k1 Port 3 ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ I don't see anything that's related to synth in alsamixer nor in kmix. -Frans (puzzled) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:12:13 -0700 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping that you guys might be able to recommend some mirrors for me to try? I'm located in the SF bay area, CA, USA, so if possible, I'm also in the SF Bay area, but I've mostly used European mirrors, especially in the early evening. I get better results, usually, with those (although uninett.no has been busy lately) than I do with the domestic mirrors. I have 1.5 kbps DSL and I can get ca. 160 kbps downloads from some of those European mirrors. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:44:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect you problem has more to do with cooker than the mirrors. It takes a chef to use cooker. OK. In that case, I am pretty good when it comes to whipping up a box of macaroni cheese. :) Regards; Hoyt -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Purchase enquiry
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:50:52 -0400 Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fans and said well I could use a CD/DVD player and I was just wondering about the above unit. Anybody heard of them? How could I find out who makes that drive? Any additional comments welcome. For what it's worth, I've had very good use from a Toshiba SD-1312 combo DVD/CD-RW drive. Terry -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] rosegarden - no sound
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:01:11 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Playmidi -v says the -a option is for output to awe32 wave synth. If you have that card you have to load a soundfont with asfxload or sfxload from the awesfx rpm. These programs have manpages. I got the rpm, saw a sample sf2 file in /etc/midi, laoded it (I think) but still no output. According to lsmod the midi stuff seems to be enabled. I don't have an AWE32 - I've got a SB Live value. I don't remember needing this before in 9.2 and I'm pretty sure I had midi playback working in 9.2. (One clue is that playmidi by itself gives no devices fuond, playmidi -a seems to go through the motions of playing sounds, but nothing comes out the speakers. And I don't have a Gravis Ultrasound, I know that.) lsmod: Module Size Used by sound 83116 0 udf97796 1 vfat 14976 0 fat46656 1 vfat nls_iso8859_1 4224 1 isofs 35000 0 loop 14856 0 mga 104876 46 via_agp 7680 1 agpgart31656 2 via_agp sg 38808 0 sr_mod 17444 0 binfmt_misc10504 1 lp 12488 0 parport_pc 35500 1 parport42216 2 lp,parport_pc md5 4224 1 ipv6 248896 16 snd_seq_midi8480 0 snd_emu10k1_synth 7296 1 snd_emux_synth 38016 2 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 7552 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 8064 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_oss32640 1 snd_seq_midi_event 8192 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss snd_seq53776 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_o ss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss52644 0 snd_mixer_oss 18304 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_emu10k187428 3 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi24864 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm97188 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 25860 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_seq_device 8200 7 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_e mu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 58628 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 12164 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem4736 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9504 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd54628 18 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_ev ent,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,s nd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep soundcore 10208 3 sound,snd af_packet 22152 0 hid54144 0 raw 9120 1 ide_floppy 18816 0 ide_tape 52816 0 ide_cd 40452 2 cdrom 37536 2 sr_mod,ide_cd floppy 60500 0 tulip 46112 0 st 38680 0 supermount 38676 2 uhci_hcd 32016 0 usbcore 107740 4 hid,uhci_hcd rtc13112 0 reiserfs 251508 4 sd_mod 16800 0 aic7xxx 202448 0 scsi_mod 116280 5 sg,sr_mod,st,sd_mod,aic7xxx -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:54:01 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Me, too. If I want to urpmi something from the install disks I don't have to shove them in the drive. Sweet. I wasn't aware one could install from just the images located somewhere on the drive, and I imagine that the installer is smart enough to mount the ISO on a loop device if presented with an iso, but I never tried that. I did a number of HD and ftp installs though, just not recently. Now, post-install, having the ISOs themselves available somewhere, and loopback mounted, yes of course. That's how I got by without a CDRW and only one available disk in the 9.x days ;) - just loopback mount the other ISOs off of /mnt/cdrom somewhere, and then make urpmi point to those mount points as sources. e. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Video Editing and Video Capture software
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:53:33 -0300 Ary Kaplan Nakamura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new in Linux and on this email list I need a Video Editing software and a Video Capture software Try cinelerra, it's supposed to be very nice for video editing. I haven't really used it a whole lot. There exists a version on plf (plf.zarb.org) for Mandrake but it doesn't seem to work at the moment (see other messages with cinelerra in the subject line) but there does exist a i386 RPM for it. It may have difficulty reading some types of files. I'm attempting to roll my own version from the source code but can't ATM get it to cooperate with the current avifile development library :(, so that probably means no avi support :( :( Supposedly, kino will capbure from your device - but you didn't mention what device you were indending to use. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] New box No Joy
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:09:29 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, Antec cases come with either a bunch of fans in all the right places (included fans installed right in front of the hard I do like my case - blue special from Central Computer. This (1000 mhz) box is over three years old now, has never had a heating problem, thanks in part to the couple of large case fans it's got. Lanman -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Cinelerra
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:20:05 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have attempted to build 1.2.0 and it is my sincere belief, Yes there was a gunman in the grassy knoll, that cinelerra-1.2.0 contains There is a config file, but it's hidden in the top-level directory. :) Perhaps I did not choose some of the options correctly. I am not sure how to set them all for a Mandrake system. It does seem to do things a tad bit nonstandardly, for instance it seems to get compiler settings from files inside the source directories (gcc `cat somethingorother` more options) but that shouldn't be a big thing. The one assembler diagnostic, along the lines of NOT SUPPORTED is not supported is something I'm not sure how to deal with at the moment. It does seem to require nasm rather than gnu 'as' but I think I have that. I will probably try another go at it this weekend to see if I can flush out the avifile-devel dependency issue (I had some avifile headers in /usr/local/include, but that was for a rev that's fairly obsolete, a couple of Mandrake versions ago :). I doubt such a conspiracy exists, however. It's fully open source, the source is on sourceforge. Yes, it's plf for somewhat obvious reasons but anyone can get the source code and compile it, at least in theory. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] automatic batch editing of files
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:40:04 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: head: +2: No such file or directory I'm getting the same behavior here in 10.0. It seems a more careful reading of the manual page (man head) is needed. Under -n it says that if you negate the # of lines you get all but the last # of lines in the file, rather than the last # lines of the file. You probably then want to use 'head' for the first 17 lines and 'tail' for the last 17. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] automatic batch editing of files
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:31:44 -0400 Bill Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but in your original post you said remove. None of the suggestions you received removed the lines; they just copied them to a different file. True, but he could just mv the edited file back to the original. This is kinda like in the status line of some browers where it says Transfering data from http://www.mydomain.com;. It's Sure, 'move' vs. 'copy' it's just that the semantics are different. It reminds me of assembly courses I took in the 80s where the instructor was quick to point out that a MOV instruction didn't go out and physically move the bits from point A to point B, but did a copy. Here, have some left over oxide from my hard disk :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] burning an iso
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:46:15 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reason k3b burned (10 and onlyb one cd now it won't burn any i have 10.0 official and ned to put it on cd so I can set up my new box HELP! Aron, I don't trust k3b. Use cdrecord: cdrecord -v -eject -device=ATA:1,0,0 -data -dao cdimage.iso (Hint: from my experience, -dao goes with -data, -pad with -audio). You may need to adjust the device settings. If you are up give me a call. I have 10.0s on CD but they aren't official more like CE. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Can I install my own program on my web host
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:49:10 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually trying to give my user form where they put the coefficient of a transfer function. Then my script will interact with ocatve. Octave then will plot the Bode Plot and hand it back as jpg to me. Aha. A bit more complicated that I thought ;). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Cinelerra
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:35:13 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the work. I haven't had a chance to try the downgrade path yet. I won't waste my time compiling the latest version until an even later version comes out. Compilation, at least in this case, did not help. I still got the same aborted message when running the resulting binary. I wrote the packager (Austin Acton) and he says that he is aware of the problem, wixhed me luck on compiling, and is intent on producing a new plf rpm within a week if all goes well - so I'd wait a little while, and then raid plf's cupboards :). Oh, and I was not successful in compiling the source of the newer version. The source needs avifile-devel it seems, and ATM I can't get that package installed due to a dependency file that urpmi can't find. I figure that will sort itself out. I also got one or two obscure assembler messages that ATM I'm not sure what to do. In short, the binary I'm using works, is a slightly newer (1.2.0) version, but it's only available AFAICT as a i386 binary rpm, so it likely wouldn't use the MMX stuff :(. http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/heroines/cinelerra-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm if you're interested :) You'll need an XFree compatibility library, but it'll let yuo know that. Linus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Boot Floppy
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:34 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This program will make a boot disk that can let old machines boot any bootable cd (worked for me on old pentium): http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe Doesn't help much if the 10.0 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy :(. There should be a way to make a stripped down kernel (like take out a lot of extra module support) for just this purpose. Failing that, I much preferred some of the older CDs because you could use them as a boot disk as well as a rescue disk. For instance, you could simply type linux single root=/dev/hdaX (or something like that) at the linux prompt, when booting from CD. That functionality seems to be missing from Mandrake. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Can I install my own program on my web host
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:18:20 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be this question is to be asked here but I am asking to know if it is feasible. Can I install program like Octave on my directory in my web host? Well, installing that should be as simple as typing urpmi octave if you have sources defined properly. I believe it is in contrib. There are some similar programs in contrib as well -- for instance macsyma, but that's old and rather clunky compared to something like Mathematica. Of course, you get what you pay for. Of course, I lack sufficient skill to make much use of the software (not math expert) but macsyma seemed rather capable when I tried it out, despite the clunkiness, which is much nicer if you use the X interface rather than the command line. I'm not sure how web host enters into this. Are you trying to have some kind of Web interfacing to Octave? Or, are you just trying to install the program somewhere else? If the latter, it is possible, provided you have permission somewhere to write the package to. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] automatic batch editing of files
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:14:04 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each file and then save each with a .txt suffix. Where do I start with this? Since the # of lines you want to remove are known, I'd suggest using the script, but use 'head' and or 'tail'. Those are designed for this purpose. sed will work too, but is more generalized. But, automation via a for loop is what you're looking at doing. i.e. 'head -17 file.htm' would print all but the first 17 lines of the file. magnet -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] sound mixer for kde ISA card
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:29:12 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's kmix may work. I went through this recently for a friend who had one of those Mozart sound system cards. We were able to get the sound card configuration working fine using sndconfig (after selecting some Compaq configuration, for some reason) and I think we tried kmix. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:28:16 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this respect 'deb', and 'rpm' are in my (inexpert) opinion broadly similar. What really matters is the quality of the *packager* (How I couldn't have said it better myself. That really is the crux of the issue. packages, and some people do prefer to use it. For example Texstar's PCLOS distro http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html?PHPSESSID=e68771a03160a6f32ebec0e27ea7f988 Hmm. I'll take a look at it. Texstar has been obviously recommended for instance with their KDE packages and such. derek -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Cinelerra
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:02:07 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's building now (found one dependency, needed texinfo) but may take a while. 1ghz athlon here. :) (later) It built (you need gobs of RAM, as once I saw gcc taking up ~100 megs on one source file). I installed the binary rpm that it built, but I'm getting the same behavior as with PLFs binary rpm. ;( I guess downgrading is an option here. I will probably take a look see at 1.1.6 src from the 9.2 plf repository, see what that dses or file a bug with the plf maintainer later today. Right now I'm off to work. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] cd mount problem
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:56:19 -0400 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using dvdrip to copy a dvd and during the burn phase I get: * ERROR: Cannot open SCSI device '1,0,0' cannot open /dev/sg. If you're using 10.0 (which seems likely) you want to use the ATA device for the cdrom, not the scsi device. You'll want to prefix your device with ATA: (i.e., cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0). try cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATA, see what it reports. It should report your manufacturer under 1,0,0. mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom (gives ...) mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: Wrong medium type Well, if it's a blank cd, mounting it is not going to work. There has to be an ISO 9660 filesystem on it (or another type of filesystem, but ISO 9660 is the most common.) Mike -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] CD problem
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:30:55 +0100 Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone please explain to me why I can't open a mounted CD using Konqueror. I use KDE and Mandrake 10 official. If you mean you're trying to read directly from /dev using konqueror, I don't see how that would work. There are (strictly speaking) no files in a /dev, it's just a sequence of bytes. Now, if you mount the device under /mnt/cdrom, and then open konqueror and view what's in /mnt/cdrom, then that's different. Microsoft Free missed a comma there somewhere :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Can't preview files in KDE 3.2
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:06:41 +0200 José Troncoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, it looks as if it's got something to do with file permissions, so I checked the kde3 libraries but all files there are executable by all users. I don't think it's permission related, as konqueror does let me open the file in an application, like xine. But what is missing is the behavior knoqueror used to have, wherein you could hover the mouse over the file and the thing would just start the .mp3 or what have you. Jose Troncoso -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Email Client
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:08:33 -0400 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't go for these new-fangled clients - it's elm for me ;-) There's one thing to say about elm - it's *fast*. I've used it on and off for years, and my fingers have developed memories for its keys. But for most stuff nowadays, I prefer using sylpheed, declawed :). I tried sylpheed claws and I didn't like it all that much. Sir Robin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:00:39 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have a 56Kb Modem to use to get the updates. Well, a package manager per se is really a database front end, and the database is either going to be what's in /var/lib/rpm, or the equivalent in an apt-get based system, or what have you. Other distributions have package management systems -- for instance, apt in debian and derived distributions, emerge for gentoo, packman for arch, and so forth. I've heard for instance that apt is superior to what we have (urpmi) but I am skeptical. It boils down to whether or not you have good repositories, more than whether or not your system is apt based or urpmi based, at least in my humble opinion :). One person in particular has been thinking along the lines of apt-get Mandrake as he puts it, saying that apt is better than urpmi. I'm not so sure, but it's intriguing. I tried apt once on Mandrake a while ago, and wasn't really impressed with the results. But I think my experience was because there wasn't a good source list set up. He also mentioned something called synaptics - I am not sure of the exact spelling, since a google search gave me mostly results for some touchpad device. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Cinelerra
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:33:02 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone get Cinelerra to run? I'm running Mandrake 10. Everytime I try to run Cinelerra I get Me neither. 1.1.8-1 from plf. I just installed it with urpmi. I had this thing working before, but never really did anything with it. At that time under 9.2, I only had 256 megs of RAM. I wanted to revisit it a little while ago when I upped the memory to 768 megs, but I did not get very far, so I urpme'd it. In this version I get the opening splash screen, a number of progress bars indicating that things are being loaded, and then just an aborted message, but no indication as to why it was aborted (like no SIGILL, etc.) Running it inside of gdb gives me a sign that the process incurred a signal SIGABRT (abort) and something about not being able to access a particular memory region. ump of assembler code from 0xe3f0 to 0xe430: 0xe3f0: Cannot access memory at address 0xe3f0 (gdb) bt #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfffb72c in ?? () #2 0x0006 in ?? () #3 0x4c15 in ?? () #4 0x40269640 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0x4026b149 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x401ea0f5 in __cxa_call_unexpected () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 Hmm. Maybe a conflict in libstdc++ ? After that, it just aborts, looks like it fell off the stack. #7 0x401ea132 in std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #8 0x401ea2b2 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #9 0x401ea4ef in operator new(unsigned) () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #10 0x401ea5bd in operator new[](unsigned) () from #/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 11 0x084cd065 in #BC_Theme::get_image_data(char*) () 12 0x084cc167 in #BC_Theme::new_image(char*, char*) () 13 0x08254c4a in #Theme::initialize() () 14 0x081cf834 in MWindow::init_theme() () #15 0x081d128e in MWindow::create_objects(int, int) () #16 0x081b746c in main () Next thing to try - maybe - compiling the thing from a source rpm if I can find one. I had to do that f.i. with gimp sometime back (. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Cinelerra
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:33:02 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone get Cinelerra to run? I'm running Mandrake 10. Everytime I try to run Cinelerra I get followup luckily, found a source rpm for it on ftp.club-internet.fr:/pub/linux/plf It's building now (found one dependency, needed texinfo) but may take a while. 1ghz athlon here. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Sound
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:26:00 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done, I downloaded and installed drakxtools-newt. My problem now is: where are the tools the package gives? I know there are thousands of Well, in this case, it should have deposited 'draksound' and some other files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. Teilhard -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked up audigy instead, which resulted in no sound. This means an adjusment (or several) in mcc and/or draksound to get it to use the right driver. Secondly, if you use kmix as I do, and have 10.0 Community, be aware that the volume slider isn't where you'd expect it to be. This threw me at first. You may need to bump up the 3D slider raher the master or pcm sliders. Also, I've had better luck having sound work (on boot!) with Thomas Backlund's kernels, available at http://www.iki.fi or installable via your contrib sources. Teilhard. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Sound
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm. mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf 'program' is very nice, it will tell you what rpm has the file, and you don't necessarily even have to have the file present on the drive. find anything for sound in the Mandrake Control Centre. You'd think it would be there, but it's configured separately through draksound. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mozart Sound System / legacy
(I tried posting to expert, but it hasn't shown up.) I'm trying to assist a new convert to Mandrake get his sound card up and running. It's a Mad16 thing, and as such one has to use sndconfig to get the card to work (ISA). In fact, I used to have one of these cards a few years ago, and it really was a no brainer to get up and running with (then) Mandrake 7.2 (ca. 10/2001). But on his 10CE box, we've hit a snag. Echo Echo Echo... yes, all sounds out of the card are echoing. Any suggestions? thh n ooo uuu :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] defraging
On Wed, 19 May 2004 06:15:07 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's IBM for ya. Nonsense. I've had one of their Deskstars in 24/7 service since 10/2001, and have never had to defrag it :). stephen kuhn - owner -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] XFree86-DRI
On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:16:43 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got Mahjongg 3D working. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I did to get it working. I downloaded the 0.92 release from the author's web site (I Do you have a link? I figured it might be on sourceforge, so I checked, and sure enough, it's there, but I could not get the CVS to work, because I could not determine any module names to check out, and the directions just say to co modulename. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] MP3 Burning
On Fri, 21 May 2004 21:08:20 +0100 Drew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have just got a CD/MP3 Disc player for the car.What I would like to know is if I burn a MP3 CD,using 3KB or some other burning tool,would It should play fine. I've been doing this sometime for my portable Sony Walkman. FWIW, these things are great, they play CDs full of mp3s as well as regular CDs. Add a foursome of rechargeable batteries and you're all set. It gave me a boatload of listening options back last September when I took the train trip to Portland (about 14 hours). And I still carry it around for commuting because I have a longish bus commute to work every day. The player i have supports ISO9660 level 1 or level 2 format,or Joliet or Romeo in the expansion format(whatever this means). That really has to do with the filenames. On my portable, the names of the songs show up, but not on my set-top DVD player (which also plays mp3s). I normally use gcombust for burning these things. I believe that Linux burning programs will use ISO9660 when I burn the disc,am I right. Right. iso9660 is the cdrom filesystem standard. Basically you just put all the mp3s you want to burn in a subdirectory, and then issue 'mkisofs -o cdimage list of files' which builds an iso9660 image with those files. There are some options which enable Rockridge / Joliet / whatever. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] MP3 Burning
On Sat, 22 May 2004 19:14:28 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: format. I have found a Windows program that will create them, but I would like to know how to make them using Linux software. Which portable? I think you may find that mp3 cd format is just an iso9660 with a bunch of mp3 files stored. See my other post. If by any chance you've got a Sony player, I've been happily making and playing mp3 disks for it for nearly a year. Mikkel -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] MDK 10 Official, when?
On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:14:18 -0400 lake-wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree, create Why not get the CE ISO's as many have done, and then urpmi them up to final update status? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Why is my FAT always corrupted
On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it will create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the test run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most robust memory tester, but it is pretty good. The other thing to try is mprime, which is available over at www.mersenne.org. Its claim to fame is that it's probably the most robust and thorough test of computing hardware (processor/ram/cache) around, especially in the torture test (./mprime -m 17). If this test passes, you're practically assured of a rock-solid system. If not, well, caveat emptor ;). ps. a new Mersenne prime has been found per that site. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Option glx missing
Since installing 10.0 Community, I've occasionally gotten messages from xlib saying that the glx extension is missing on display 0:0. Looking for this, I find in /etc/X11 the main configuration file for Xfree86, and furthermore, in the Modules option, a number of load statements, which did not include a glx option. I went in and edited the configuration file, saved, and restarted KDE. When bringing it up, it still emits the error message on some applications. I can get by without it, but it's kind of unnerving, and one package in particular seems to just freeze (celestia), consuming most of the available CPU, with much of its window unpainted. Attached is my current configuration file. I will of course compare it with the previous Cooker install, which did not complain that this thing was missing. I'm running a Matrox Millenium II. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- XF86Config-4 Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] My school board is considering moving to Linux!
On Thu, 13 May 2004 01:06:51 -0400 Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My school board is investigating a Citrix + thin-client solution. Administrative desktop are XP and students win98. They are considering Linux Citrix is available for Linux. I was looking at it for testing purposes in a previous job at Siemens / Entex in San Jose. I've used their Windows front-end to Oracle, and also some related query tools, spreadsheets and the like. We called it Open Uptime, and the database was geared towards order management, inventory (the areas I was responsible for) and customer service/escalation issues. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:01:37 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Too late; I overheard something. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, 9 May 2004 09:56:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, I've used the XMMS diskwriter route to burning audio CD's here ever since the first time I saw you post it some time back... :-) Me too :), and probably longer. I'm very happy with it for two reasons - one, it's very fast, and two, it's the only method, so far that I've found, that'll decode variable-rate mp3s. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes
On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to my music. :-) Speaking of headphone listening, have you done any experimenting with 'sox' and its 'earwax' option? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] mp3gain
On Fri, 7 May 2004 00:43:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got the Linux binary for mp3gain hanging around? The author has no Linux binaries available on his site now, and I get no response to e-mails. Joe, let me know and I'll email the binary to you, if you haven't already gotten one. I did a quick look for it, it seems that it might have been originally done for Windows and/or beos, but there was source patches available for a debian pkg, so that's what I used. A few makefile tweaks later, and out popped a 107k binary. IOW, it's pretty trivial to compile. Now whether or not it'll run is anyone's guess, but it doesn't require any extra things, so an rpm isn't strictly needed. I'm currently trying it out on a number of Suspense radio mp3s I found recently. There's potentally a lot of variation in volume on these types of things and mp3 - wav - normalize is not at least for this the best way to go as I'm burning the mp3s to data CDs, 100+ episodes at a time :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] X server crash
On Sun, 2 May 2004 22:57:49 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video RAM? Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome! The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight window manager at the same screen resolution as KDE is going to use the same amount of video memory. I had an ATI Graphics expression card w/2 megs run in 1152x900x16bpp for years before I got my current Matrox card (with 16 megs). The OPs problem was that 2 megs is simply not enough resolution to run 1024x768 at 32bpp. OTOH, 2 megs was enough for the big iron 370 I first learned programming on at the local community college. But it was kinda painful. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] One for JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest linux Thorn in my side is MP3 players Linux just can't handle the propriety file systems We need an OSS standard for this. Dunno what mp3 has to do with proprietary file systems (ITYM proprietary encoding systems, right?) Well, of course mp3 is encumbered, but I don't have a trouble with playing or encoding them on linux, and don't remember ever having a problem. Plus my set-top box and portable player both support MP3 encoding, and don't support ogg. Of course, if they did, I'd likely convert to ogg in a heartbeat, but since much of what I get is mp3 in the first place, I might as well keep it that way :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] One for JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 17:40:13 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their support for At least in the case of Mandrake, much of that stuff is in plf for obvious reasons, and sooner or later there is going to be suse-specific equivalents of plf stuff. It's only a matter of time. I'm all for open standards, but the problem is that much of the content providers on the Internet have locked into the proprietary technology and this makes things very difficult for us, even should we attempt to make use of it on a GPL platform. (At least this *seems* seamless on a Windows platform -- case in point, my brother's other system (which runs windows) -- I was over there the other day, doing routine maintenance and such, connected to my home Linux box over xvnc. I was looking around for radio stations and such, noticed that the Realplayer was way out of date, and so d/l the newer windows version. Looked pretty slick, but I couldn't get it to open much of anything, so my fallback was to shoutcast.com for the night :). Realistically speaking, Windows isn't any better of a platform for doing certain tasks of a proprietary nature, such as copying or encoding DVDs. It may just seem easier because it's a monolithic program as opposed to a bunch of utilities. But the legal thing still seems to be present, otherwise we wouldn't have to see boatloads of spam supporting something being the only legal dvd copying program around. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] One for JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:04 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this might be the high standard system spec around in 2 years time anyway. Scary thought though that we will have 2 gig of memory and a terabyte of disk space in one machine. Just put in perspective, that's a LOT. :() As I remarked in another message, our community college (circa early eighties) had a mainframe with only 2 megs of core. And the system could only address 16 megabytes, the remainder was virtual memory (i.e., the other 14). The whole campus used it (administration, grades such, plus the computing lab). Now, I have a *video card* with more than that on it, and it's not even considered a lot by modern standards, since it has only 16 megs. Years ago, I had an ST-225 hard disk (20 megs). A little math tells me that for my present situation, I would need the equivalent of 1500 (!) of these all hooked together to get an equivalent amount of storage (30 gig). And 30 gigs is not a whole lot either by today's standards; in fact, it's a little tight right now if I try to do lots of video encoding with it. 2 gigs of RAM isn't out of reach right now -- many people have that on their desktops. I have only 3/4 of a gig :(, which at least for now is more than comfortable. 256 megs *used* to be comfortable, but some tasks, such as slogging through alt.binaries newsgroups using pan, it's simply not enough -- it starts to swap like hell. With 3/4 of a gig, I can finally run it through to completion on a number of larger binaries newsgroups, and it only sucks up 750 megs or so of VM in the process (!). Terabyte-sized hard disks (boy that's a LOT of room) aren't that big of a stretch; long ago I figured they'd be around by 2010, which is only a few years away. Right now (I haven't really checked), 300 gig or so is about the most I've seen on a single drive. And, as I remarked in another thread sometime back, it's not just the OS that is going to require honking gobs of resources, it's the applications and the data sets they use (f.i., the aforementioned pan). If more people are going to use their systems for things that require concurrent access to gobs of data, such as video storage retrieval, or DVD encoding, or simply slogging through Usenet :), obviously their machines are going to have to keep up, regardless of which OS is being used. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Mon, 03 May 2004 02:46:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: If you're going to browse for binaries, don't use PAN; use getbinnews instead. Not a hog at all. Very fast. Steve - great. I got it. Will give it a try. I just wish I had known about it months ago, it could have saved me from a lot of swapping :). stephen kuhn - owner -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Reverse of diff
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:44:13 +0300
robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks promising, but it only works on lines; I need words (sorry,
I should have been more specific when I said strings). What I'm
trying
What you're probably looking for could be done using either awk or perl,
using one of the neat features included in both systems -- associative
arrays. An associative array, basically, is a structure where the index
is any arbitrary text, rather than a numeric index, like most
programming languages. The downside to this method -- it can use gobs of
memory (I tried it on a newsgroup once, just to see how much RAM it
would take), but if you have enough RAM that shouldn't be a concern,
depending of course on the size of your texts. Thus you can query
something like occurences of the text blue with an expression
count(blue). Reading in each word, you can turn on its associated
counter, after which you could then do a similar counting operation on
the second file, and then compare the two word lists.
I happen to have a sample awk script that counts frequencies of words
(the one I tried on a Usenet newsgroup, just for grins). Just make it
executable and run it against a text file. Note that the counting is
done inside the short for loop, which just counts each word that comes
in.
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I guess it could be
modified. The difficulty, I would surmise, is how the data is going to
be presented. You want to do it on a word basis, but say you have two
texts:
text 1
This is a test
text 2
A test this is, of the emergency broadcast system
A word-count based approach would tell me (if we ignore capitalization
and punctuation) that there are common words this, is, a test,
but it would not tell me that the two texts are quite different. If I
use diff, which looks at lines, then I definitely see the two texts have
differences. If, for instance, text 1 read as This is a test of the
emergency broadcast system, then diff would see two distinct lines, but
you would not be able to identify the common substring emergency
broadcast system in the two texts. If I used a pure word-based
approach, I'd end up concluding that the word emergency occured in
both texts, which is not altogether useful.
Two suggestions - get to a CPAN site and look around. There might be
already extant perl scripts that you can use as is or adapt. I don't
grok Perl :(.
Second, Usenet newsgroups comp.unix.questions and/or comp.unix.shell
might garner some good feedback.
hth
- wordfreq
#! /bin/sh
### wordfreq - count number of occurrences of each word in input
### Usage: wordfreq [-i] [files]
##
## wordfreq COUNTS THE NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES OF EACH WORD IN ITS INPUT.
## IF YOU GIVE IT FILES, IT READS FROM THEM; OTHERWISE IT READS stdin.
## THE -i OPTION FOLDS UPPER CASE INTO LOWER CASE (CAPITALIZED LETTERS
## WILL COUNT THE SAME AS LOWER-CASE).
##
## Modified to work with gawk.
## To use awk, replace gawk -- with awk -e
awkscr='{
for (i = 1; i = NF; i++)
num[$i]++
}
END {
for (word in num)
print word, num[word]
}'
# sed EXPRESSION TO TAKE OFF PUNCTUATION BEFORE AND AFTER WORDS
# (ACTUALLY, AT SPACES, BEGINS AND ENDS OF LINES), SO PUNCTUATION WON'T
# TRASH WORD COUNTS:
strippunc='s/[,.-?!)]* / /g
s/[,.-?!)]*$//g
s/ [(]/ /g
s/^[(]//g'
case $1 in
-i) shift
sed
y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
$strippunc
${1+$@} |
gawk -- $awkscr
;;
*) sed $strippunc ${1+$@} | gawk -- $awkscr ;;
esac
end script
Sir Robin
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Re: [newbie] Thanks, re: OK...I need an external modem...any suggestions?
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:26:49 -0500 Laura Callier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Thanks so much for all your suggestions as to brands of external modems. This gives me lots of choices when I go searching. I have never shopped on I never shopped on ebay either. ;) Find a reputable dealer, try pricewatch.com, for example. The brand of external modem is pretty much a no-brainer -- Courier HST. This is kind of hard to believe, but searching for that on www.pricewatch.com just now yields one result, from www.ictcompany.com, in Massachusetts. $21.00 and in stock. (Actually, that one link was for a slower speed model, not 56K, which likely explains its low price. But WTH, I just might pick one of them up to use as a fax modem. When I tossed out that internal, I lost the ability to send faxes over the phone line, and internet-based faxing has never worked.) ictcompany.com does have one 56k v.everything for $145. I've not been around modems for sometime, but Courier modems used to go for upwards of $500 years ago. I had a USR sportster internal model (paid at least $200), picked it up in 1995, it worked very nicely. But I have DSL, and my current motherboard has no ISA slots, so I tossed it out :(. Laura -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Slow openoffice
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:56:53 +0300 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Since a few days openoffice hangs when I open saved files... I opened those same files much quicker before. I have about 500 mb of RAM on my machine so I don't think this is the problem. I don't think it's the problem either. I have 3/4 gig now, and I reinstalled ooffice from the 10.0 final CDs last night. I haven't used it in a while, but I brought it up along with a couple of older documents I had floating around (.doc .sxw/sdw) and they loaded fine. On my Athlon, initial load time was maybe 6-10 seconds or so for oowriter. What format are these files in? I red about Abiword on this list... what are the differences with oowrite? I've played with it a bit. It's a lightweight WP, not too shabby, but lacks some features that you might expect to find in a WP. Most people don't need Word :). It works just fine for letters and stuff. koffice is good too, and it's certainly lighter than ooffice, but some of the components have been very flaky, at least for me. For instance, kspread used to have many loading problems, generating a wierd error message I wasn't able to figure out. But at least in 10.0 final, it works. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:58:56 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the beer stays cold, and the House of the Crescent Moon is nearby, and we get little Johnny to hold up coat-hangers for a TV antenna! lol. Anyhow, however did the crescent moon get associated with an outhouse anyway? Is it an Islam thing :)? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] SETI
On Sat, 1 May 2004 17:14:48 +0100 JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. I'm well aware of who they are, and what they do etc. How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth? http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu is their main site, and the client software is available for download (incl. Linux clients of course). Getting set up is rather simple, just follow the prompts. JRH -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Seti on Mandrake 10
On Sat, 1 May 2004 17:36:16 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run Seti also. Background job, using a perl-script called multiseti.pl. It's very good. :) I just run the cl client. 2622 results so far returned, I've just checked. I've run it well mostly continually 24/7 for nearly three years now. I get close to 3 results per day here on this old 1000 mhz clunker :). Really, there are no issues running it on Mandrake 10.0 vs. any other version. Paul -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:09:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it I just (re)installed it in 10.0. I have an Athlon 1000 mhz box, with 768 megs of RAM (I recently upped it from 256). oowriter from command line to full window is maybe 6-8 seconds, although I didn't look very closely. Right now I have a number of opened apps, such as pan (pretty big memory hog, especially after browsing the binaries newsgroups for sometime), and I run inside KDE. Miark -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Happy May Day!
On Sat, 1 May 2004 14:15:23 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Gesundheit. :) Happy May Day to you as well. Here in Northern California there was a report of a gathering of Christians going about their daily defense of marriage protest, something about May Day for Marriage or something. I heard it over KGO this afternoon. I thought it pretty funny; what are these christians doing, usurping a holiday that for most of recent history, has always been associated with Communism? LAFFF Of course, May Day isn't really communistic, sort of a European version of our Labor Day, I suppose. -- JoeHill -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Decent Audio Track Ripper?
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 20:21:06 +0300 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you use grip under KDE without having gnome installed? Sure. Another thing to try is KDE's audiocd;// mode in Konqueror. It'll let you explore the CD as a filesystem, and you can encode or rip on the fly. But speaking from experience, cdparanoia works just fine for me, and then I use lame to encode the tracks. Christophe -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:48:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then progress down thru the directories, EG, (for cooker) ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base That's basically what I did yesterday, after figuring that something must be wrong with the URLs of the media sites I was using, and the Can't cd to mandrake errors. I did reuse uninett, but if it is as you say, not having been updated in a few days, well then I will have to get another mirror location. I've been synching up from 10.0rc1 official more or less, since whenever it was in the beta2 stage :). I'm a bit behind I suppose, as I've just managed to grab the bittorrent for Community - burning the CD's now. There seems to be some confusion with respect to updates for this, it seems, based on another thread on this group... Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] rar compression software
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the *.partNN.rar files - like from part01.rar to part59.rar, but no main.rar file? I have pars, but doing par2 r something.par2 just goes through all the files I have and then displays no repair is necessary. Meanwhile, I still don't have the main rar file, and rar won't extract anything. What to do, other than wait for someone more experienced to post the file and do this all over again? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Re: Follow-Up: About your Internet connection problems
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:00:03 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QUESTION = I took this email and others like it to be a scam Is that correct ??? It's a fair assumption. I'd call it a scam. That address at the end of the email is undoubtedly a Mailbox Etc. type postal drop. i.e., 100 E. San Marcos Blvd. San Marcos, CA 92069 A nice note to the San Marcos DA might be in order. The message, as I understand it, is illegal to send in California. http://mail1.claydream.com/delete?l=MailMed.0-323b843-15de=bagsofch oice%40oldtolley.fsnet.co.uk Another dead giveaway. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] rar compression software
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the latter, unrar with unrar e file.part01.rar Todd - thank you. It was that simple. Really it threw me for a loop. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:59 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at 'man mplex', but I'm not grokkin' it. In fact I'm not even absolutely sure it's mplex I should be using on the .mpv and .mpa. I've had the same thing happen to me when using the mencvcd script. I'm trying now to include the -cdsize option, and hopefully that will make a difference. I didn't manage to get very far on encoding an mp4 file with it - the file in question is 900+megs, far too big to fit on a CD, and 'file' reports it's Apple Quicktime. I'm now trying to use gmencoder on it. mplex is what you want to use. The output of mplex is appropriately sized chunks of the original file. mplex multiplexes the video (mpv) and audio (mpa) components. If you are lucky, you'll get a file that won't be out of sync (audio with respect to video). Currently, that seems to be the main difficulty I'm facing. That, and not having enough intervening disk space to hold all the intermediary copies (avi, mpa, mpv, cd image, etc.) Anyway, if you try: mplex -o movie%d -S 700 movie.mpa movie.mpv you should then get a number of files (movie01 movie02 etc.) which then can be turned into VCD by using vcdimager. Any pointers appreciated. I should have set the CD size at the beginning, but this is the first time I've run into an animated flick that ended up being so huge when encoded :-\ It's not just you - I once ripped an episode of Outer Limits (new) from DVD. A single episode, about 45-50 minutes of video, and the resulting avi file was 1.6 gigs. O my poor hard drive :). gmencoder seems to try and tailor the output to appropriate CD-sized chunks, but that's not all that useful IMHO when the desired output is SVCD or VCD. JoeHill -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Broken Shift Key
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:08:29 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New keyboard time but first turn it upside down and give it a vigorus shaking you won' believe the crap that's gonna fall out. I usually get about a year out of a keyboard.( thank God they are cheap) I used to have limited keyboard life too but luckily this cheap keyboard (Micro) purchased at Central Computer has lasted three years. It's filthy. :) The one I had before didn't even last a week :(. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard 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] Broken Shift Key
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:55:33 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes me think of that one PC magazine editor that used to take his keyboard into the shower with him to clean it out (or so he said - I don't think we There's this guy at my local LUG a few years ago - he said he washed the keyboard in the dishwasher, after taking it apart carefully of course, and then allowing it to dry, it worked... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
