RE: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: + Denis + + I agree that this is a linux list and that there are better + forums for the discussion of the events of 9/11/2001 and as + such I have reframed from making any comments, till now. + + But I find your above comment trivializing the terrorist + attack and the death of what now looks to be more than 6000 + people as being patently offensive. Charles, Your ignorance makes me sick. FYI, I come from a country which suffered in a very filthy war in 90-s, Several percents of the population were killed, and ca 20-30% of the people were forced to flee their homes (most never returned). In fact, war has been so bad that no one has the guts to do a population census yet. Family of my wife has been terorised for years, their possesions were taken away, they were denied right to work (and thus earn a living), and only providence saved her father from death - simply because they refused to go away from a town where they were born and lived all their life. The rest of her family is today either dispersed all over the world (only her parents stayed where they were), or dead. My family was luckier (they lived on a right place for our nationality): they had to go trough a period of dispair and luck of money, but none of them was physically in danger except for my oncel. Still, I never insisted on discussing that in a linux mailing list , simply because this is not appropriate place to do it. Mandrakesoft mailing lists are to an extent open for non-related discussions, but at the moment when people start complaining about never-ending discussions which aren't related to linux I'm required to put an end to it. FYI, I'll take a look at the list tomorrow, and blacklist everyone who is still talking about politics there. You are still welcome to discuss what happened in one of these threads: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1169lang=en http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1170lang=en http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1171lang=en cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlik http://MandrakeForum.com Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) --oOO--(_)--OOo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Charles A Edwards wrote: + I was not discussing the Events on this list. + I was addressing the comment that YOU, a Mandrakesoft + employee, made regrading said events. + + True, I knew nothing of your history so of that then + yes I, by definition am ignorant. + + But being apprised of said history it make your comment + that recent airplane flights which missed their intended + destinations and bumped in WTC and pentagon + even more macabre. Ah, you mean that? Well, a war makes you somewhat cynical, that's the way to keep the sanity. Sorry for that, I do care about people who lost their lives, I just don't have a habit of expressing it very loudly. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlik http://MandrakeForum.com Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) --oOO--(_)--OOo- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MandrakeCampus MandrakeExpert survey + discussion
Hi, Folks Sorry for bothering You, but this is kind of important: As You probably know, Mandrakesoft has reccently started testing two new sites: mandrakeexpert.com (e-support) and mandrakecampus.com (e-learning) As I said, we are still testing them, and we need Your feedback in order to improve them. I wan't bother you with details on this list, but please take a look at the sites, and post your impressions here: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010209120851 In addition, please take some more time and fill this survey: http://testforum.mandrakesoft.com/survey.php?sid=4 thx! Denis -- PS: if you use Netscape, "testforum" will appear in huge letters. Just set up your preferences for UNICODE encoding to "helvetica 12 pt", and the site will look much better. This appears to be a bug in netscape: if you know of some workaround, please tell me.
Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
Folks, don't worry about it. Journalists think that it's fancy to cryticise linux this season, so they do. What Henri said counts, and that's: "Obviously, things need to be simple for users, but I don't think restricting choice is really the answer." yust my .022 euro... cu Denis On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, abe wrote: :~Now, if you just say yes to everything then you are going to get one :~hell of an install! But my favorite passtime with my linux box for the :~first few months was to sit down and try all those programs. Fire em up :~and see what happens. It was great fun and a good way to get :~comfortable with the new environment too. :~ ... :~ :~That article is just more FUD. -- - Dr. Denis Havlik http://MandrakeForum.com Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) --oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie-it] hello .. help me
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, [ks_c_5601-1987] ¿¬Á¦¿ì wrote: This is italian list - why don't you ask in italian? yours Denis - :~Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:15:41 +0900 :~From: "[ks_c_5601-1987] ¿¬Á¦¿ì" [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie-it] hello .. help me :~ :~hello ... :~help me ... :~Setting program is down . fot what reason :~order IDE wait ... - ont patrs :~english insufficiency sorry ... :~pleast ... tell me ... :~happy day ... bye ~ :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Ultra-ATA/100
:~I'm thinking of getting a 30GB IBM 75GXP hard drive. This drive supports :~Ultra-ATA/100. Will this work with the default Mandrake 7.2 kernel or will I :~have to recompile? I *could* just plug the drive into the UATA/66 port, but :~that'd kinda defeat the purpose of getting such a fast drive :-) http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001201075945 http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001006105635 cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Locks up when installing.
Probably your WD drive. Compile a kernel for your machine using 7.0 install, dump it on floppy made with "blank.img", and you'll be fine. cu Denis On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Bill wrote: :~I've tried installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 twice now, and it seems to lock up :~everytime right after it detects my hard drives and cd-rom's. It just sits :~there at a flashing prompt after detecting them. I've even waited for 15 :~minutes to see if it will continue. 7.0 will install fine. I have an AMD :~Athlon 500 Mhz on an FIC SD-11 board. 2 western digital HD's 17Gb and :~30Gb, a 4x4x24 R/RW and a 10x DVD-Rom. It does the same thing if I choose :~the lnx4win install. Anyone know what might be happening and what I can :~try to get around it? :~ :~Thanks, :~Bill :~ :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] list mail
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Zetta Davey wrote: :~To Whom it may Concern: :~I subscribed to the Linux Mandrake Newbie list several months ago, but have never :received any mail. Can you help? Thanks, :~Zetta Subscribe again. Newbie list runs ca. 100 messages again. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Release date for 7.2
:~Have a good look at :~http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2928103525mode=flat. :~This was written by Deno (a Mandrakesoft employee) on Thursday September 28. In :~this he writes, "we have to finish our ISO-images by the end of next week". So :~LM 7.2 could be out any time now. FYI: It still isn't out. :~One interesting point though. If you read the article, you will see that 7.2 :~will contain a *beta* of KDE2. There will be a version 7.21 after KDE2 is :~officially released (currently October 16), so it may be better to wait a few :~extra weeks. Please don't mistake what I say with official announcements. One is sure now: 7.2 will NOT contain beta of KDE2, because we have RC1 of KDE2 in it for several days already. We'll see for the rest. Hint: what I was talking about in the forum is not something Mandrakesoft is eager to do - our goal is to produce a nicely-working distro, not put something with lot of known bugs out. Why don't we just wait for a few more days and see both the KDE2-final and 7.2 final: comparing what we ship with what KDE-team will ship as "official" will be very simple (using diff, and/or testing both on a running system), THEN we can talk about how good (or bad) have we made a job... cu Denis -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] demande info
Hi, Hassan This with registration number is kind of stupid... I have no idea what to do. Anyway, your problem looks really simple, so there are certainly plenty of people on a mailing list who can help you. However, you are looking for answers in a wrong group: there are french mailing lists, you should ask there (debutant and confirme). yours Denis On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, hassan Mhammedi wrote: :~Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:26:06 + :~From: hassan Mhammedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] demande info :~ :~Bonjour :~ :~J'ai acheter le pack Linux pawerPack 7.1, malheureusement j'ai perdu le :~N° :~d'enregistrement pour beneficier du support technique de 100 jours que :~vous :~proposer. :~ :~j'ai un probleme au niveau de la configuration du reseau (la :~configuration addresse IP :~, DNS , ...). Est ce que vous pouver m'aider a resoudre ce probleme. :~ :~ :~ :~materiels pocedes: - routeur cisco 2509 :~ - reseau windows NT4 :~adresse reseau: 212.217.17.0 :~Masque-sous reseau : 255.255.255.192 :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!
Find some big directories in /, copy them under /home and set symlinks to them. "/var", "/tmp" or some subdirs of /usr would be fine I guess. cu denis On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Sebastian Varges wrote: :~Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:04:01 +0100 :~From: Sebastian Varges [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] Space problem - help! :~ :~I installed Mandrake as the only OS on my PC with 2GB and used the :~standard settings. Now I have a space problem: there is no space left :~at all in directory '/' but 87% free in /home. I have lots of strange :~errors because of the space problem in '/'. Deleting some application :~did not help much, and I don't want to delete all of them. :~ :~How can I move space from /home to '/'? Shall I use Diskdrake?? But :~how??? I did not find any documentation. :~ :~ :~Thanks a lot :~ :~-- Sebastian :~ -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!
:~Thanks Denis, I should have come up with that myself but I somehow :~thought there must be another way to do this. There are other ways, sure. This way is OK, so why bother. cu D :~ :~Cheers :~ :~-- Sebastian :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ In article :[EMAIL PROTECTED], Denis Havlik :[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :~ :~ Find some big directories in /, copy them under /home and set symlinks to :~ them. "/var", "/tmp" or some subdirs of /usr would be fine I guess. :~ :~ cu :~denis :~ :~ On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Sebastian Varges wrote: :~ :~ :~Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:04:01 +0100 :~ :~From: Sebastian Varges [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ :~Subject: [newbie] Space problem - help! :~ :~ :~ :~I installed Mandrake as the only OS on my PC with 2GB and used the :~ :~standard settings. Now I have a space problem: there is no space left :~ :~at all in directory '/' but 87% free in /home. I have lots of strange :~ :~errors because of the space problem in '/'. Deleting some application :~ :~did not help much, and I don't want to delete all of them. :~ :~ :~ :~How can I move space from /home to '/'? Shall I use Diskdrake?? But :~ :~how??? I did not find any documentation. :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ :~Thanks a lot :~ :~ :~ :~-- Sebastian :~ :~ :~ :~ -- :~ ----- :~ Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik :~ Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) :~ ---oOO--(_)--OOo- :~ The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, :~ paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) :~ :~ :~ -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Instilation of Linux Mandrake for Windows
:~Dear Sir/Madam :~ :~I have a copy of Linux Makedrake 7.1 and I would like to install it as linux :~for windows but when I click on the button when the cd has autorun it says :~that the program runs in real dos mode that this versionof windows does not :~support. I suppose this is because I run Windows me but there must be a way :~round it. Please help as I am desperate to install linux. :~ :~Thanks :~ :~Adam Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Actually there IS a way around it, but I have no idea how good is it, it has not been tested so far, and it requires patching of windows ME. If this did not scare you, take a look at these pages: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2916095850 http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ good luck Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~Mandrakesoft taking over support is good new for all of us, Dennis! The :~MacMillan support did less than nothing for me--it wasted my time and effort. :~ [I had bought the 7.0 Deluxe with e-mail support from Linuxcare.] This kind :~of experience can only hurt Linux Mandrake's reputation and sales. If :~Mandrakesoft can turn this support issue from a liability into an asset. Ufff... You should see the s* we just made ourselves, you would start shouting "give us back the linuxcare" :-( But, as I said, we WILL get this working, and when we have done it, I will not hear any more "your support stinks" letters. :~Personally I believe in supporting good things, and I will purchase Linux :~Mandrake again when I will be able to get what I'm paying for, which includes :~the support should I need it. I'm not still working out of Windows based :~e-mail for nothing. [For those new to newbie let me explain that I'm :~disabled with Multiple Sclerosis Fatigue and I literally haven't had the :~effort available to apply to solving my modem issues myself, even with the :~help of newbie people.] -Gary- OK, folks - here are the facts: 1) Linuxcare is/was not bad, they generally did the job very well, but we had problems in certain cases where feedback simply did not work, so small problems ended up with very unhappy customers. 2) we just took this over from linuxcare few days ago, and we do have problems. As a matter of fact, we screwed it full-time last week, but by now things should be back in normal (I HOPE!) now. If you think that running our support is a simple task, it is not, but we are determined to get it right this time, and I don't see why we shouldn't succeed: we got our security-updates right, 7.2 is full of goodies you have been asking for, overal quality of the product is improving too, so why shouldn't we be able to handle support as well? But i repeat the warning: "taking over" is a big task, and there may be some more troubles ahead of us (yup, we just passed on e big hump last week!), so please don't get too pissed-off. We do what we can, i.e.: - impossible is done at once - wonders take some more time. cu Denis -- ----- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] How can I stop receive the letter ?
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, [big5] ¼B§B©÷ wrote: :~I will go to Japan next week and can't use my computer for 3 month. Who can tell :me how to stop receive the newbie's letters? send "help" to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and read the reply cu Dneis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie]
Probably because you weren't logged in as root. Btw, two tips: 1) AFAIK there is an rpm package of acrobat reader in power-pack 2) No need to be very formal on this mailing list yours Denis On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE wrote: :~Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:21:29 GMT :~From: D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] :~ :~Dear Sir/Madam, :~I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am :~encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, :~however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux :~7.1, then I tried to install Adobe Acrobat Reader that I downloaded from :~Adobe's site. While installing Acrobat Reader, I had an error saying: cannot :~create /usr/local/acrobat4/bin ... I wonder why it is not possible to :~install it. :~I would be very grateful, Sir/Madam, if you could help me with this. :~Looking forward to hearing from you. :~Yours sincerely, :~ :~D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE. :~18 St Clements Road. :~Bournemouth. Dorset. BH1 4DZ. :~United Kingdom. :~Tel. (+44)7748 986242 :~Fax (+44)870 1340578 :~ :~_ :~Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. :~ :~Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at :~http://profiles.msn.com. :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] scheda sonora
Now, please don't get overexcited, and tell the guy that there is an italian mandrake newbie list "newbie-it". I don't speak italian myself... cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] 250 programs ?
:~does anybody know what the extra 250 programs in :~mandrake 7.2 are. if not i think we should all revolt :~and make em tell us. how about making a "diff" of package lists in 7.1 and 7.2 beta? Hardly worth doing a big revolt, no?:-b cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] Spanish co.
Hi Folks, I am really sorry to see such a flamethread over a guy who posted a question in spanish. So what? We are supposed to be a friendly bunch of linuxers, not a bunch of wicked old men who have nothing better to do than flame-ing each other. If you don't understand Spanish, ignore it, if you do answer the guy, and all are happy. If/when spanish questions start popping up very often, spanish people will get a separate list, just as germans, frenchs and italians already have. Relax. Don't be lusers. yours Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux
:~I've checked the books that came with Linux 7.1 and find :~instructions for uninstalling Partition Magic and Boot :~Magic, but nothing on how to take Linux OFF the computer. :~ :~Can someone help me??? I wonder why am I writing these "tips" on forum http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2907023359 Yes, there is a search function, you just have to use it: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/search.php3 :-( Deno -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Rpm designations
:~Can somebody explain the difference in .i386 and .i586 designation in rpms :~Sometimes you have a choice and I'm not sure but I think that this is :~referring to processor class. I have a AMD K-6 II 400 and I think the .i586 :~is ok for that processor? Somebody educate me here. Thanks, Dennis It is reffering to processor class. i586 is fine for K6 cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Version 7.1 Deluxe to install
:~Hi Mandrake Linux Help Desk, Hi, tallD You are on a wrong adress... Still, try the following thing: :~I guess I must be one of a small minority who cannot get version 7.1 Deluxe :~to install on his/her PC. I have made three thorough attempts and all goes :~well until the final step where the X configuration test is done. - ignore this and let the PC reboot without X, then log-in as root and run "XFdrake" program. In case this does not work one can talk further... (But this is still not a technical support, it is a mailing-list for mandrake-linux users) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mandrake Linux.doc
Re: [newbie] Linmodems
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~Subject: [newbie] Linmodems :~ :~Linmodems :~(http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2905114341) BTW: If you want to receive ALL forum headlines in your INBOX, subscribe to "forum" mailing list. This means ca 3-5 mails a day, and it is quite informative... cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] Fwd: HardDrake 0.9.3 released
(forwarded from "forum") From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 1 19:01:08 2000 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:44:39 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HardDrake 0.9.3 released HardDrake 0.9.3 released (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2901094425) Here is what our hardware-guru has to tell you: Alex writes "Mainly a bug-fix release, a boot option configuration box has been added. Improved boot mode. ISDNsn webcams and bridges are now handled. GNOME support is not included in RPMS but available in sources. " So, if you have ISDN-card, webcam or bridge, rush for latest Cooker rpm-s and give it a try. Also, if you have experienced problems with hardware-configuration in the past, give it a try and report what you saw. This is allready 3-rd release of Harddrake announced here, and it is likely to detect/configure much more than the version you will find on 7.1 CD-s! In case You still do not know what is harddrake, please read the What is Harddrake?article. -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] RedAlert
:~ATTENTION: RedAlertjust saw this article...please read. :~involves netscape on linux...security hole. :~ :~http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38087,00.html August 6-th: Article on mandrakeforum http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2806115232 August 7-th: article on wired August 13-th: Kompukits alert. Wau, I did not know it takes THAT long for sympa to deliver a message ;- cu D -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Every criticism is welcome if it is constructive... (Laurence)
Re: [newbie] Pine Config
:~I wasn't aware that there was a way to make that happen without using
:~either of those two other program. To the best of my knowledge there isn't
:~any other way to do it. If there is I would be interested to know.
You can use IMAP server with pine:
inbox-path={host}/INBOX
(POP is not supported)
For news, something like:
news-collections=*{newshost/nntp}[],
But since pine has a nice configuration editor (press: M S C to get
there), with nice contex-sensitive help, it should not be too difficult to
figure out this kind of details...
cu
Denis
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[newbie] RE: Unsubscribe prbolems
:~DENIS WHERE ARE YOU, no response form you other than the automated slave? Sleep+day off(*), is this a good answer? And why the heck are you filling lists with your questions? cu Denis (*) Actually, I should not be here until tomorrow. -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
[newbie] test
just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-) -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] test
HAHA, schurken!;- I got you - before I leave, I will ban both of you from all the lists to prevent your subversive actions while I am away ,- Beg on your knies and I will let you come back one day. Maybe. Big brother is watching you Denis - On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, bascule wrote: :~YOU ARE NOW DEFENCELESS, THIS LIST WILL BE ASSIMILATED, RESISTANCE IS :~FUTILE :~ :~basculus of borg :~ :~Christopher Molnar wrote: :~ :~ Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! :~ :~ On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: :~ :~ just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-) :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] Pine !! Pls help...
I think Paul is right. I did not find anything similar in pine conf. file, and I know it rather well .-) :~I doubt that he used a feature INSIDE Pine. If he did, it is something :~that's beyond me. My best guess is that he has a directory in his PATH :~that is read before /usr/bin is read and did this: :~ :~#!/bin/sh :~# Load Pine: :~/usr/bin/pine :~# Do the desired bla's: :~echo :~echo bla...bla...bla... :~echo bla..bla..bla..bla :~echo :~echo- Linus Pauling - :~# End of bla's :~ :~(Give or take a few bla's) :~ :~That would give the desired effect. I could stick a script called pine in :~my ~/bin directory (which is accessed before /usr/bin) and I am sure it :~would go great. :~ :~Paul :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] 1.4 GB overkill for /boot?
:~When I installed LM 7.1 I let it set the three LM partition sizes (/, /boot, :~and swap). Of the 5 GB available, it assigned about 1.4 GB to the /boot :~partition. Now I've heard that you only need 10 MB for /boot. Am I wasteing :~1.4 GB? Thanks. AFAIK, there is no need for a /boot in 7.1 anymore since 1024 cyl limit does not exist anymore. So best size for it should be 0. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] Free Software........
:~Corel PHOTO-PAINT® for Linux® This is definitively not "free software". Here is Licence agreement: http://linux.corel.com/products/pp9/eula.htm -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] installing an Intel i810 video card under Mandrake 7.0
:~I am running a Dell L400c computer as a test pc, it has an onboard video :~card using a Intel i810 chipset. I went to the Dell site, they have a :~RedHat 6.2 driver. This doesn't work on Mandrake 7.0, does anybody know how :~to get it to work? Take LM 7.1, it works with i810 -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
:~A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I :~liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port :~it to Linux :~I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. :~This is the answer that I received. :~Now what would you answer to them??/ :~I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that :~they do not know. :~I would appreciate any ideas!!! :~ Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. :~ :~ To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to :~ port? :~ :~ And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our :~ site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and :~ desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. I am not sure what they have on the site, but they are right: their site clearly states that they are "Trekkies who use Windows", so what did you expect? What would be our reaction to "hey, why don't you just port XYZ to windows?" question? Right, it would be: do it yourself, we could not care less. cu Denis
Re: [newbie] What happened to Menu Editor for Panel in MDK7.1
:~I recently installed MDK7.1. I was trying to edit the KDE panel by :~selecting Panel-Edit Menus. However, I get a message that the menu :~editor is not installed(OOPS). Does any one know where the menu editor :~exists? Apparently 7.1 did not install it. It used to be in 7.0. Sorry, menu editor will not work in 7.1. Look here for explanation: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2609155255 -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com begin:vcard n:;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Penguin Powered Email x-mozilla-cpt:;-10912 fn:Roman - Registered Linux User #179293 end:vcard
[newbie] test
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Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!
:~Hi Dr Caracciolo! The Reiser Filesystem handles improper system shutdowns :~far better than does the (current) standard Ext2 filesystem.The improper :~shutdowns, which of course can be caused by a myrid of things like power :~outages or inexperienced Linux users' response to a crashed program or ... And we have no experience with it yet, it is oficially still "beta", and we do not like surprises, so ext2 is still the default filesystem. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail
Ah, fine - so I do not have to vorry about it :-)) :~I got at least that many and sent them all back as attachments to the :~postmaster that sent it. :~ :~I guess they figured out there problem. :~ :~I never received another one. :~ :~Bambi :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Off topic longest time mail reject I have ever had
:~ Never in five years have I had a mail lost this long..the US :~postal service is faster than E-mail? I did not want to send the whole :~reject to the list, but in the header was addresses of daemon in the :~UK...the MDK machine is in the UK? I thought France. Nope. our mail server is in the US AFAIK. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Install problem: Can't find package xfree- rpm
:~I am unable to complete the Linux Mandrake 7.1 installation. :~When I reach the X Configuration I am prompted that the RPM package "xfree- " can't :be found. :~I have tried both Automated and Customized installation with the same result. :~Installing all the XFree packages did not help. :~Installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0 had no problems. :~My configuration is: AMD 700MHz CPU, 128MB SD-RAM, 16GB HD, Diamond Viper II :(Savage2000) graphics card. :~Any help is appreciated! Have you checked the md5sum of your ISO-image? Tried installing on another computer? cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7
:~ distros, If it says version 2.0 somewhere on the card in white :~lettering :~ then it requires the latest tulip driver which you may have to compile :~ yourself. Did have that working in that way but it is no longer in a :~box :~ right now. RRP And we absolutely need the output of lspcidrake! cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
[newbie] Promise UDMA-66 problems solved?
Hi In short, we have some workarounds, but we need a lot of people to test this workarounds, berfore finaly announcing "Yes, we got it!". More details on http://linuxpole.com/ ;- Other topics: * Mandrake 7.1: 2 Steps forward .. 4 steps back ?:-o * Do you like this forum? * Software for my hardware, please? * Do people ever read the documentation? ... cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading to 7/1
:~My question re: 7.1 (which I have preordered) would be, am I going :~to be able to upgrade from 7.0 without destroying my whole setup? :~Are there any particular problems that occur in doing this? Bigest problem is time and memory. Do not even try it with less than 64 MB RAM, and expect the upgrade to take something like 3 hours. :~Dear Brother Davis, :~ :~You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of :Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor i :~n the France Bordeaux Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period :of 24 months. :~ :~You should report to the Missionary Training Center at Provo, Utah on July 5, 2000. : You will prepare to preach the gospel in t :~he French language. Cute. I did not know we have some priests on this list. Well, as long as it does not say "Dear brother Denis, you are called...", it is OK with me. .-) cheers Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux (Solved)
OK? Obviously sent to "newbie", and obviously arrived. cu Denis On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: :~Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:01:08 -0700 :~From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux (Solved) :~ :~Daciavery creative :-) :~ :~Alan :~ :~ :~Dacia and AzureRose wrote: :~ :~ I tried this and couldn't get it to work. I couldn't :~ even get into my linux partition because my boot disk :~ wouldn't work and the new one I made didn't work :~ either. What I ended up doing was booting from the :~ installation CD and choosing exactly the same :~ installation path I had before. I chose Upgrade :~ instead of install. I can now access linux, LILO is :~ working again and bootmagic actually finds a bootable :~ linux partition too. The only bummer is that my mouse :~ wheel doesn't work now but that is relatively easy to :~ cure. :~ :~ Not the right way to do it but definately a way ;-) :~ :~ Dacia :~ :~ --- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~ Daciaonce you're booted with the rescue system :~ and mounted :~ your / directory you need to use the chroot :~ (something like :~ 'chroot /mnt/myroot' where /mnt/myroot is the :~ temporary :~ mountpoint for your / directory) command to change :~ the current :~ system to using your root directory as / (wherever :~ you've :~ mounted it). Then reinstall lilo with a /sbin/lilo :~ command. :~ :~ Alan :~ :~ :~ Dacia and AzureRose wrote: :~ :~ Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at :~ all. :~ I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows :~ me to :~ read/write my linux file system but the system has :~ not :~ loaded linux from my hard drive in that case. It :~ is a :~ live linux file system loaded from the rescue :~ cdrom to :~ RAM. A ramdisk. :~ :~ Aparently the MBR has been over written by win98 :~ so I :~ need to reinstall LILO but I don't know how to do :~ that. I can't find any descriptions of how to do :~ that :~ anywhere and I don't want to re-install because :~ this :~ seems like a completely recoverable situation. :~ :~ Dacia :~ --- Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~Once you get your Linux file system up, as root, :~type "lilo". :~ :~ Hello, I had to re-install windows this :~ evening. :~I :~ had been using LILO to choose OS. Windows is :~ on :~ primary master (hda), Linux is on primary :~ slave :~(hdb). :~ LILO was set to use hda as the bootable :~partition. :~ Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot :~ disk :~and :~ partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux :~partition :~ either. I made the classic newbie move here. :~ :~ I have full read write access to my linux file :~system :~ thanks to a rescue CDrom. I just need to know :~which :~ files to change so that I can get LILO going :~again. :~ Does anyone know what those would be? I'm at :~ a :~loss. :~ :~ I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as :~ the :~ bootable which didn't work. I also tried hdb1 :~which :~ is my /boot partition. No go. hdb5 is linux :~swap, :~ hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home. It seems that :~ the :~ windows installation proces overwrote the MBR :~ of :~hdb :~ because partition magic reports a small :~ extended :~dos :~ partition on that drive where there formerly :~ were :~ none. :~ :~ :~ Its 2:30 am and thats what I know. Thanks for :~ any :~ help folks. :~ :~ :~ Dacia :~ :~ :~ :~ __ :~ Do You Yahoo!? :~ Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! :~ http://photos.yahoo.com :~-- :~Anthony Huereca :~http://m3000.1wh.com :~Computers are not intelligent. They only think :~ they :~are. :~ :~ :~ __ :~ Do You Yahoo!? :~ Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! :~ http://photos.yahoo.com :~ :~ :~ __ :~ Do You Yahoo!? :~ Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! :~ http://photos.yahoo.com :~ -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] I can't believe it
:~ KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could :~ possibly be your problem. Capitalization is irrelevant when :~ it comes to email addresses. This message is addressed in all :~ lowercase. :~ :~I think Kompukit is on to something. My posts weren't appearing on the :~list either, but when I used the capital N they do appear. :~ :~Now I see my screensaver post finally made it to the list, two days :~after I posted it with a small n. sympa thinks it is another list of same priority but with only a few messages - so you get messages to "Newbie" processed faster. Until everyone starts using Newbie, then "newbie" will become faster :-) -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] boot partition?
:~Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows :~98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo? nowhere. Use GRUB, it is much nicer. -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, nonic 10 wrote: :~Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:01:57 -0700 :~From: nonic 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded :~ :~your mum is a bitch and is a fuckin wanker :~ :~go such motherfucker!!! :~ Thx for the nice contribution. You are unsubscribed. I do not mind 4-lettred words, but violence will not be tolerated on this list. yours Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] subscribing to digest?
:~how do you digestify this list? i tried the digest option on mandrake.com, :~and it said the list didn't exist! thanks by sending "SET newbie DIGEST" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?
:~Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM website says :~to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? someone :~said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be safer than :~Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 19! :~ :~Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Actually, so far we had no problems reported about ReserFS. It looks rock-solid, but with FS-s you cannot tell until you have used it for a really long time. ReiserFS is surely much more stable than XFree v.4 netscape, or KDE, but you would not let any of those take care of your data, right?.-b cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?
:~ Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is another kind of :~demand dialing too. Either that or a cron job to dial, run fetchmail, run sendmail-q and close the connection. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] NT and Linux
:~How can I have Linux and NT 4.0 Server on the same machine and have Linux :~show up on the NT start menu instead of using the Linux boot manager? Can :~it be done? I am getting ready to do a clean install of both operating :~systems. Yes. Install NT, then install linux (do not let is install LILO or GRUB in MBR, and make a floppy for booting during install). Then read the mini-howto on NT+Linux. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
[newbie] ANNOUNCE: Monday @ http://linuxpole.com
Monday topics at http://linuxpole.com - - Blind Mandrake-Linux? (Bambi): what do we need to make sight-impaired people feel at home? - Simple server (Laurent Saint-Michel): would you buy a package which does only a few server tasks - but does them really good, and install, config maintainance are "very easy"? WDYT? Say it at linuxpole! cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Add Upgrade Icon to Virtual Desktop
:~Oh know. What I was recommending was an auto upgrade feature for Linux :~Mandrake. I know it's a tall order but it's worth looking into for :~future releases. In fact, I don't think that any one has this feature. :~Or, at least, I haven't seen it , yet. Are you listening Mandrakesoft? More than that. -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Fueled by Penguin Power x-mozilla-cpt:;3296 fn:Roman - Registered Linux User #179293 end:vcard
Re: [newbie] How to please your IT department: (fwd)
:~Ah, did you get this, or did you find the site of the Bastard Operator :~from Hell? *grin* No, I got it in e-mail. BO is really a good reading, though ;- I do not remember where the original site is, but this is OK too: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bofh/index.html cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Fortran Compiler
:~Hi, all -- :~ :~Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux? (Yes, I know C is :more flexible -- and Mandrake already :~includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others created). included with the distro (g77). If you need later version of fortran than fortran77, you will have to buy it, I am afraid :-( -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] Denis et al: Q about procmail
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: :~I use a Python script called Getmail to pull mail from the server, which :~drops the mail directly in my maildir system. :~Does Procmail only work with Fetchmail and the likes, or does it also :~operate on mail that is in the maildir already? :~ It can do both. Take a look at "Dry run testing" section here: http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips-body.html#dry_run_testing cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- wisit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
[newbie] ANNOUNCE: Sunday topics on http://linuxpole.com
Hi, folks - Sunday lecture at (http://linuxpole.com): - * Newbie Light - What do you think of Civilemes proposal? * WHY THE HECK DO WE WANT WIN MODEMS ANYWAY? (now, if this does not start flame wars...) And if you missed my saturdays post: * Security announcements and timeliness (by Steve Fox) * Menu system (by Damien) Join the discussion. And if you have a topic to add, click on "add story" at the bottom of the page. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- wisit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Microcom Deskporte 28.8P/33.6P parallel connected
:~ * Thanks for your list, very informative. Have been reading for a couple of :~ weeks but no :~ mention of parallel connected modems :~ :~Mostly because parallel modems are even rarer than serial printers. They exist, :~but it has been about 15 years since I have seen one. Yup. I have never seen one, and we do not have any at Mandrakesoft, so do not expect much support for that beast. However, I have used Paralel-port nulmodem cable to connect two computers in the past, and it worked OK, so i guess there must be some metod to use that beast. You will have to read the HOWTOS, I am afraid. :-( cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- wisit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
[newbie] ANNOUNCE: curent topics @ http://linuxpole.com/ (fwd)
Below are currently discussed toppics on "linuxpole.com" (our experimental public forum): Policy: Guns versus Butter Install: Automated Install Install: Upgrade - what should it do? Doc: What makes a documentation "good" or bad? More to come... cu Denis -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list? (SOLUTION)
Hi, all (especially bascule) Your e-mail: :~Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:41:13 +0100 :~From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list? was a bit too long for me, but I will try to explain why one should publicly thank for a solution of his problem, and how. [WHY?] -- There are two reasons for "thx it solved my problem" messages: 1) Feels good for one who solved the problem. 2) Makes searching the list-archive easier [HOW?] -- If you want to be really usefull member of our little family, try to formulate these "thx a lot" messages in the way I formulated this message: 1) Change subject line from "Cannot mount CD" into "Cannot mount CD (SOLUTION)" 2) Start the mail with "Hi, Steve" (or whoverer it was who solved your problem), followed by: Your solution to my "Cannot mount CD" problem worked perfectly. 3)Include headers of Steve-s e-mail, so that the one who searches later has all the info about the mail you are refering to. 4) Give a SHORT summary of what the problem was, and what was a solution. [RESUME] - Thus, when someone else searches the archive for "cannot mount CD", he will find an e-mail with "SOLVED" in subject. Your short description should be enough to make it clear if his problem is the same as yours was, and name+email of the one who proposed the solution serves as a reference to Steve-s e-mail with solution. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)
Re: [newbie] Disconnect when on holiday!
:~Hey, folks - when you go on holiday how about switching off your
:~connection to the mandrake mailing list! As the summer
:~approaches (at least here in the UK and in the northern
:~hemisphere) I can forsee lots of automated replies being
:~circulated if we don't help each other in this way.
Use .procmail for your auto-repliers. Here is my receipt:
# autoreply
:0 Whc: autoreply.lock
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: .*\@havlik.org
* !^X-Loop: .*\@mandrakesoft.com
* !^Precedence: list
| formail -rD 32768 vacation.cache
:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
| (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; \
cat ~/.plan \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
This part:
* !^Precedence: list
ensures that i do not send auto-replies to lists, and
| formail -rD 32768 vacation.cache
:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
Makes sure you get my message only once (until the cache is
filled.). Normally, you would not use so large cache, but I receive a HUGE
load of messages. "~/.plan" is a file containing my message.
It is still a good idea to filter lists before this rule (saves time). For
instance:
# Mandrake mailing lists
:0:
* Precedence: list
* X-Loop:.*\/\[a-z\-]+\@linux\-mandrake.com
{
LIST = $MATCH
:0:
* LIST ?? ()\/[a-z\-]+
{
LIST = $MATCH
:0 c:
* LIST ?? fun
* BH ?? \(sound)\
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:0:
mail/Mandrake/$LIST
}
}
sorts all mandrake mailing lists to their own folders, so that I can read
post directed to me first, and lists when I have time to do it.
cheers
Denis
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Re: [newbie] what does Update look for ?
It looks for security-relevant updates. All the rest goes to cooker. :~ :~Hi, :~In an earlier post from Denis it was suggested that getting the most :~current sounddrake might solve problems with 7.1 and SB Live! cards. :~Shouldn't an app like that show up in the list when I launch the Update :~tool since themost current wasn't included with 7.1 ? On the Harddrake :~site, it has a few package updates, one of which is needed for :~sounddrake. That sd version also needs a newer alsa installed, that will :~be the next adventure. None of these are displayed in the update window, :~so what does update look for ? Or should those packages be displayed and :~my update is not working correctly ? :~ :~thanks, :~philomena :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)
Re: [newbie] Problems With Supermounted CDROM
Take a look at /etc/fstab and maybe also /etc/lilo.conf Fix what is needed there, and run /sbin/lilo if you had to change anything in lilo.conf. cu Denis :~Hello there... This one's a simple for sure, but not for me who deals :~with supermount for the first time. OK, here's the story. :~I've had my CDROM as /dev/hdc , but then I moved it over to /dev/hdd . :~For some reason, kudzu didn't "notice" the CDROM when it was -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)
Re: [newbie] Sound problems (fwd)
Hope this helps. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Forwarded message -- Date: 07 Jun 2000 11:34:01 +0200 From: Alexandre Dussart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound problems (fwd) Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This happend now-and there. Why, actually? Because options to get it works(SB Live!) have been changed bewteen 7.0 and 7.1, and it was too late to adapt sounddrake, the best way is to upgrade to sounddrake 0.8 version(available on harddrake website). -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:38:30 GMT From: John McCrudden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound problems I have a Sound Blaster Live! and it doesn't work in Linux. my Kernel version is 2.2.14. what do i do to get it working because Lothar brings up a message saying "Error in modprobe call"! -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Alexandre
Re: [[newbie] What is this message?]
:~Thats ok...I keep getting Vacation replies when I post to newbie list from :~Dave Naylor??? whomever that is :~ :~The doubtful benefits of someone who set up an autoresponder... :~ And who subscribed with different e-mail adress from one we gives on autoresponder :-( I have no time to find out which adress he used on the list. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RCPT: [newbie] Linux Internet Programs to replace W
:~Confirmation of reading: your message - :~ :~Date:4 Jun 00, 23:01 :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] Linux Internet Programs to replace Win Ones :~ :~Was read at 21:07, 5 Jun 00. Steve, be so kind and fix your e-mail program. We really do not need this kind of messages on the list. thx Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] DISCUSION Upgrade
What do you expect from upgrade? cu Denis -- One topic from a dark side .-) Upgrading a Linux-Mandrake system has been our nightmare for quite some time. François has worked a lot on this for 7.1, and at the end I was actually able to upgrade from RH 6.0 system, and end up with a fully functional Mandrake 7.1 system. Rpm database got quite "poluted", and we ahve to do some dirty hacks for Qt, but at least one gets a working system, which is a good start. Big question is: What should an upgrade actually do? Below are some answers I could think of: 1) CONSERVATIVE: just freshen those packages which can be freshened and leave the rest of the system as it is 2) FORCED: Force instalation of a new "core" system, even if this means downgroading, or breaks some functionality of the already installed system, then go on with freshening the rest of the packages. 3) REPAIR: Like conservative, but try to repair existing packages too, If we find out that some of the files are missing, or that someone fooled with binaries, reinstall the package (even if it means downgrading!) 4) FORCED REPAIR: like 3, but make sure that "core" system is installed in the end, like in 2 5) VANDAL: force install of the core, and upgrade of those packages we provide. The rest can go to hell. ;- 6) SUPER-VANDAL: like 5, but i make sure that all packages older than one year are removed from the system. (ups, I just found another variable for sorting packages!) ... All of the above mentioned can (must) also be combined with possibility to add new non-core packages during upgrade, and maybe even to remove some of the currently installed packages in "custom" and "expert" mode. I am quite sure there are other ways to do upgrade, and that opinions on "what is the best upgrade" will be wildly different. So, what do you think? cu Denis -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Pauls proposed website
:~Do not get me wrong, I would be really happy to see you doing that work, :~but setting up yet another web site is not as eficient as helping the :~existing one. :~ :~Hi Denis, :~I don't want to make that YATS. I am already sending things that I found :~out to Tom at MUO. :~ Well, I am surely not going to stop you from writing any kind of help. If/when I get some time, I will start sending a weekly FAQ to this mailing list - and your page will be a nice source of info. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Sound card support
Problem with aureal sound card is similar to problem with some winmodems - linux driver does exist, but it is binary-only. This means that if it works, fine, if it doues not work there is nothing one can do about it. Therefore it is and remains "unsuported" by us - simply because there is no way for us to support it. cu Denis :~[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~ :~ I have an Aureal SQ2500 Vortex2 card. I am concerned that it will not :~ function with my LINUX mandrake OS. :~ Is it compatible? :~ :~ Thanks, :~ Simon :~ :~Look at http://aureal.linux.com :~It isn't supported by Mandrake, but on this website are the drivers you :~need. :~The 3D-stuff isn't implemented yet... :~ :~ :~Reinder :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Journalized FS for LM 7.1 (ReiserFS)?
ReiserFS promises a lot, but we will only know how good it REALLY is after 6 months or so... As for the "migration tool, it is called second disk ;- That is, you can format a new partition as raiserFS, move all your data there and that's it. You just need a lot of free space on a disk. :~I've been reading that LM 7.1 will run on the ReiserFS - a journalized file :~system! Does this finally mean no more fear of a messed up file system from :~improper shutdowns after power failures and such? Does this mean the power :~of Linux has finally been combined with the safety net of BeOS? If so, I :~think Bill has a lot more to worry about :~ :~I think, with some craftsmanship, backups and other things, it is possible :~already to implement the ReiserFS on MDK 7x also. What I heard though, is :~that this includes a complete reformatting and setting up of your system :~again (but again, this is hearsay). :~ :~If MDK7.1 indeed comes out with this FS, it would be nice to have a :~migration tool for it to maintain existing system setup. :~ :~Paul :~ :~)0(---)0( :~ :~No matter what scientists say about her, :~she is still our beautiful moon. :~(Anonymous senryu) :~ :~)0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( :~http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 :~Registered Linux User 174403 :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] unsbscribe
check your spelling: UNSUBSCRIBE On 1 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~Date: 1 Jun 2000 18:41:59 -0700 :~From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] unsbscribe :~ :~ :~ :~ :~__ :~Get free Internet service and email at http://www.worldspy.com :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DON'T just say Help! (fwd)
This is clearly stated in "welcome" message. But some people cannot read, I am afraid :-( On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: :~On Wed, 31 May 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: :~ :~Can I make suggestion? - hell, I'm going to. When you post to :~the list could you make the subject line tell us something about :~your problem or news, rather than simply the fact that you need :~help? Almost ALL of us need help, that's why we're here. :~ :~I second this. :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] Is my mail reaching you? (fwd)
Hi, folks. Does anyone know Wade? He has the strangest e-mail adress I ever saw, I wonder how has he managed to reach me - pine refuses to reply to an adress which has two "@" signs, and I am quite sure my procmail filters do not like it either... Wade - if you can read this - having two "@" signs in e-mail adress is a sin. cu Denis -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:37:34 -0700 From: Wade wade@[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is my mail reaching you? Hi Denis, Is my mail getting through to you? It doesn't seem to be getting through to the list? I have been configuring and testing and switching email programs but my tests to my own various email addresses seem to be working. :) Have you seen my posts? Thanks for letting me know if you get this. b/web Wade
Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]
:~Just checking - have I got this right? Macmillan have exclusive
:~rights?
Exclusive rights to Power Packs and similar. GPL-CD-s ala cheapbytes are
just as free as they used to be. OK, maybe i underestimated the amount of
negative energy in the word "monopoly", I will have to explain this
better.
[disclaimer]
I am writing this out-of-the-head, so maybe some facts are wrong, but
since we actually have a McMillan employee at this list, he will correct
me if I got something wrong. .-) I am also in no means authorised to write
this, but I hope noone will mind.
[past]
In the past, US customers were often confused by having to choose two very
similar packages with MandrakeLinux inside. The worse of all war the gaf
with McMillan-s 6.5 package: If you bought Mandrake 6.1 pack, followed
with McMillans 6.5 "upgrade" you were quite pissed off, right? Well, this
is going to change now. On the other hand, McMillan was extremely
successful in selling our distro, which is something we really liked, for
obvious reasons.
[fact in short]
We have a very good partnership with McMillan, but there were some
problems, so we went and made a new deal with them.
[new deal]
1) McMillan has exclusive rights to distribute MandrakeLinux in USA and
other english-speaking countries.
2) McMillan does not mix in non-english speaking countries
3) McMillan does not sell any other distros
4) All "McMillan" packages will clearly state that they have
"Mandrakesoft" product inside.
5) Package numbering is the same for McMillan and non-McMillan
packages.
Probably i forgot something, but these are the most interesting points, I
suppose. As you can see, this deal is far from beeing one-sided - from my
perspective it sounds like a win-win situation, and if both sides show
good will to solve any future problems in a "fair" way, it may end up as
extremely good deal for both sides. Do not think about it as about
"McMillans monopoly", think about it as about "Mandrake has outsorced
sales to a company which has means to push them very hard.", and you will
understand what I think.
cu
Denis
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Re: [newbie] Pauls proposed website
:~Paul :~who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that :~up on a website... :~= Should save his strength and help mandrakeuser.org instead of setting up Yet Another Tips Site, and loosing interest after a few weeks. Do not get me wrong, I would be really happy to see you doing that work, but setting up yet another web site is not as eficient as helping the existing one. just my 2c cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
RE: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.
On 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~ :~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~ :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~ :~excuse was that more people will purchase an upgrade sequenced :~ :~by .5 than would have bought it sequenced if sequenced by only :~ :~.1. Sheesh!! :~ :~ AFAIK this is not allowed by our new contract. And there will :~ be only one :~ pack in english-speaking countries - from McMillan. :~ :~...and this was a decision that was met with ease by both parties. :~ :~I sense some definite hostility towards Macmillan on this thread. I'd like to :publicly say it is a very successful and positive partnership between the two :companies. :~ Actually, the bigest problems we had were exactly 6.1 - 6.5 like stuff. Following both packaging schema we used and the one McMillan used was a big headache for all (at least for me). And having two products from the same company (Mandrakesoft), allmost the same thing inside, but sold under two names and by two different companies (Mandrakesoft-MacMillan) is complete nonsence. New deal sounds much better to me. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Removing a windows partition
:~I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am :~no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the :~partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to :~be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new :~space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option :~as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux :~system data? Thanks. 1) change partition type, format it (diskdrake) 2) bind it into system as /mnt/new (or such) 3) move the data from some existing partition there (/home/ sounds fine, but your mileage may vary) 4) remove old /home, edit /etc/fstab so that your new partition gets mounted on right place and either reboot or just remount the partition to where it should be. voila Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
Re: [newbie] unsubcribe
:~Please take me off the list to recieve these emails. magic word is UNSUBSCRIBE
Re: [newbie] usubscribe
what is this? Cannot spell contest? Hey, I am the champ in bad spelling, don't even try... And correct spelling is: UNSUBSCRIBE cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 950C
:~I had already searched thru that site and there was no mention of this :~printer model. Anywhere else to look ? ask hp, they should know it. We do not have this printer here, sorry. And add the entry to DB once you know it. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Install
:~Denis, :~ :~How about a "Dear Santa, I want it all" selection? I know I can get that :~through the expert install but even this is confusing as there is a server / :~workstation selection (and something else if memory serves me) and this fails :~to make much sense. See what i proposed in "Authomatic Install" letter. -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.
:~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~excuse was that more people will purchase an upgrade sequenced :~by .5 than would have bought it sequenced if sequenced by only :~.1. Sheesh!! AFAIK this is not allowed by our new contract. And there will be only one pack in english-speaking countries - from McMillan. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Colors
Niet te geloven! Ik heb een alter-ego uit Nederlanden! ! .-) Next thing you know I will walk around in clogs... I already have a bike. Denis :~Hi Denis, :~If this is an installer bug...how can it be fixed? :~ :~Thanks, :~Bambi :~ :~Hi, this is Denis2 *grin* :~ :~as root do a chown user.user for .kderc :~ :~e.g. :~chown fran.fran .kderc :~or :~chown bambi.bambi .kderc :~ :~Paul -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
:~That would be "wondermus" 8-) Just out of evil curiosity, what are the :~dangers of installing "server applications"? After you have installed server application, you are supposed to configure it too, in order to restrict the possibility of someone comming onto your system trough "back door". Then, from time to time someone WILL find a security-gap in some of these apps, so you have to stay alert and upgrade quickly. This kind of stuff. cu Denis -- ----- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Paul wrote: :~Would be handy to have some indication in a .DOC file as to what basic :~packages one can expect in let's say 5 steps of the slider. If this is :~possible, of course. Inpossible, I am afraid. Basically, we would try to keep the same functionality all the way, but on minimal install you would get only KDE + aplications we consider "top importance", while on "full install" you would have all kinds of window managers, ten different editors etc. :~ :~2) Is this option clear enough? :~ :~It is for me. Perhaps an extra checkbox for "Internet apps" would be :~handy, but I assume people that use Linux in general want to climb onto :~the Net. This is top priority - they ALWAYS get installed. (in minimal install you would get like ONE graphic enviroment (KDE for now), ONE editor, ONE e-mail prog, ONE newsreader... Probably netscape on top of it until we can get rid of it once for all. cu Denis -- ----- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
:~ 3) What about the three checkboxes? :~ :~Any particular reason for these 3 specific types of software? Did they cause :~more discussion/trouble? These three are just a proposal. I thought that even complete newbie must have some particular whishes which we should let him express, no matter how simple this particular install class may be. 1) "Games" popped up as one example in my mind. because it is a huge group of packages especially if you have Power Pack, and not everyone really wants them, but those who do really do. .-) 2) Server: because we do not want to include these on default (dangerous), yet I could imagine that having a quickdirty way of installing a server may be fine for some people: move the slider to "minimal install", click on "server apps", let go. Configure server apps in post-install and voila, a new server! 3) Disabled: This is new. I was asked by a blind guy if we could include some programs for blind and for people who have problems with hands. This chategory does not exist yet, but if we introduce it, it will do several "inteligent" things at once: 1) change the way programs are choosen. Obvious things to do would be lowering priority of all the fancy grafical stuff and highering the priority of easy to use programs. Probably also highering the priority of "sound" with respect to "view", too. 2) install additional programs which are ONLY usefull to blind people, like progs which can do something with braile terminals. Obviously, if a blind man has to do install by himself, you want to keep things as simple as possible for him, right(*)? I mean, you do not want to hide this option somewhere in the middle of expert install. So, add a checkbutton to "Authomatic" install and be done with it. I repeat - at the moment, this option exists only in my head, but our general opinion here is "well, if we can help them withouth having to change too much, why not?" - If anyone can think of other checkbuttons which would be better than these, no problem, but keep in mind: - Only a few buttons - Simple terms so that everyone can understand them - default is "no" - Should be something what is REALLY important to one class of people, while considered complete junk by others. - things like "software for tv cards" are going to be installed authomatically if we can recognise the card - no checkboxes needed. cu Denis (*) Blind people are not stupid, but they cannot see, and the install IS visually oriented. I suppose they do not apreciate things like trees, pop-up menues and color-coding at all. Things like "click here" (ooops, where is here?), "upper left side", "red button" and all other visually-oriented stuff do not make any sense if you are blind (unless you have a braille terminal, in which case left-right etc. do make sense.) -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]
:~Hi Denis :~ I thank heavens that I live in Finland and still have a choice from whom I :~can buy Mandrake-Linux! I am not so sure. I think McMillan is not allowed to mess around in Europa anymore .-) But it will be basically the same package now AFAIK. cheers Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
[newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
Hi, folks Here is one question concerning "Authomated" mode. Currently (7.1), in this mode you get "everything" except for "dangerous" server-packages installed, if there is enough place on your HD. From your recent posts, I got the impression that having a following screen pop-up during Authomated install would make lot of people happy: +++ ## Choose the number of installed packages X (Y MB) | ## - This is a slider | | ## | MINIMAL "EVERYTHING" INSTALL [ ] Games [ ] Server applications [ ] Handicaped user ## HELP TEXT: Authomatic install will on default provide you with a standard workstation. By moving the slider, you can choose the amount of software you want to install on your system: Even if you choose a minimal version, you will get a simple, but still rather confortable working enviroment. "Everything" installes everything, except for games and server aplications, unless corresponding checkboxes are checked. "handicaped user" installs some hanidicaped-friendly programs, and lowers the priority of wiz-biz graphical programs. Real gamers should obviously check "Games", And checking "Server application" would fire a warning "This can be dangerous, bla, bla... Now the questions are: 1) Is this soemthing you wold like to have, that is - would any of you actually make use of authomated install with this option. 2) Is this option clear enough? 3) What about the three checkboxes? yours Denis
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION RPMDrake
Hi Maybe i should have elaborated on this: During the install, urpmi database is filled with data from all the CD-s you use on install. If you get a future 7.1 PP, at the end of the install, all the CD-s will be in the database (used by urpmi and rpmdrake. cu Denis On Mon, 29 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~:~I would like to see the RPMDrake database already loaded with the :~:~programs we can install from the six CD set. :~ :~done. :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] TIPS TRICKS: procmail
Morning, folks
In case you receive a lot of mail, you must have wondered: "How the hell
can Denis cope with all these mailing lists?"
(The reall question is "How can Chmouel do it?" since he gets much more
mail than I do - his answer is "use gnews". )
Well, I do not use gnews, I use pine, which is tricky on its own, but
today I would like to present you one tool which does wonder
irrespecteably on the mail-program which you use: PROCMAIL
* PROCMAIL is a program that fetches your incoming mail, proccesses it
acording to the rules you set-up in .procmailrc and generally makes your
life much easier.
* DOCUMENTATION: For details on procmail, see following man
pages: procmail, procmailrc and procmailex. There are also some extremely
usefull web pages on procmail, for instance: http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips.html
Generally, procmail can do wonders, but it is also good at sorting your
incoming mail according to any rules you can think of.
Here are some excepts from my .procmailrc:
Lines begining with "#" are comments.
[DENIS]
# Sort incoming Mandrake mailing lists in their folders
:0:
* Precedence: list
* X-Loop:.*\/\[a-z\-]+\@linux\-mandrake.com
{
LIST = $MATCH
:0:
* LIST ?? ()\/[a-z\-]+
{
LIST = $MATCH
:0 c:
* LIST ?? fun
* BH ?? \(sound)\
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:0:
mail/Mandrake/$LIST
}
}
# autoreply
:0 Whc: autoreply.lock
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| formail -rD 32768 vacation.cache
:0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
| (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; \
cat ~/.plan \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
# Long messages (10 bytes) go to their folder.
# Sender gets a autoreply message.
# I have been using this when I had modem connection
# at home and ethernet at the university, to avoid downloading
# huge messages at home.
:0 :
* 10
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* !portmap
{
:0 c
| (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; \
cat ~/.procmail-long ; \
) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
:0
mail/long-letters
}
# carbon copy all the short messages (BODY160 letters) to my handy!
# it works by making a score 160, than -1 for each letter. (score0) means
# "do it" (not used at the moment either, I do not have a handy...)
:0 Bh:
* 160^0
* -1^1 .
{
:0 c
| (formail -I "Subject: 3922" -I "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" \
-I "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" )| $SENDMAIL -oi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
[SYMPA]
# messages with no-no words bounce back, with a warning message
:O EHBhb:
* BH ?? unsubscribe
* !^From:.*mandrakesoft\.com
| (/usr/bin/formail -r -k ; cat ~/WARNING)\
| $SENDMAIL -oi -t
# messages which have more than 100 kb bounce too.
:O HBbh:
* 102400
| (/usr/bin/formail -r -k; \
echo "\nwe accept only messages shorter than 100kb!\n")\
| $SENDMAIL -oi -t
Hey list.
:~I have been thinking about, if it is possible to sort/split the list in
:~some way. Reason:
:~My mother-language is not english, so it is rather time-consuming for me
:~to read-trough all the mails in this list - and there are many, with the
:~result, that I am forced to run fast trough the mails, only reading the
:~subject - and if not of interest - delete. But - sometimes it happens
:~that I havent been on the net for a couple of days, resulting in more
:~than 100 mails waiting - I then often deletes to many, and thats is
:~anoying when you finds out that a number in the tread is missing.
:~I would suggest som main groups like 'networking' 'mailprograms'
:~'multimedia' 'the Mandrake 7.1 - issue'
:~Just a proposal
:~Mogens Jæger
:~
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Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 950C
The best documentation on printers linux is available here: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi :~Hi, :~ :~I figured I may as well ask again - I'm using a HP Deskjet 950C - just :~about every other Deskjet model number is available in LM7.1 beta3, but :~not this one, I searched for a driver thru Freshmeat, the HP :~site, and a few other places, but don't see any mention of this model. I :~tried a few of the :~other HP drivers in the installation, but no good - print comes out all :~garbled, and just a :~few lines per page. Does anyone have this working, and if so, could you :~point out where you :~found the driver, or how you set it up ? Or, does anyone know if this :~model won't work under Linux ? :~ :~Thanks, :~philomena :~ :~ :~ :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] upgrading questions
:~Paul, :~Does this mean I can go ahead and install the 3 cd's I got with the cheapo :~version of "7.0 complete" without worrying that I will "degrade" my current :~7.02 Should work OK. :~install. And does it mean that I can just throw any distro over mandrake :~and pick and choose as to what I feel are the best of each, rolling it into :~my own custom version? If you really want to make your life miserable. .-) Our upgrade is far from perfect, but I am afraid other distros may be even worse. :~ :~You writ: :~My Linux setup is a long history of upgrades. Started with RedHat 5.0, :~went to RedHat 6.0, dumped Mandrake 6.1 over that, and now I upped it to :~Mandrake 7.02. All the programs that are not on the distribution CD keep :~working correctly, I have not had any problem with anything yet. :~Also setting up the drivers for my AGP videocard (Diamond Speedstar) and :~the settings in XF86Config were left alone. :~ :~Paul :~ -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.
Pre-ordering does not mean much, does it? Soon you will be able to buy 7.1 all over the place. BTW, McMillan now has exclusive rights on all english-speaking countries, so there will be no separate "Mandrake" and McMillan" products to confuse you anymore AFAIK. cu Denis :~What do the people at MandrakeSoft or MacMillan suggest? :~ :~"Whoops! I meant Michael, sorry Paul. :~ :~Paulwith or without docs you can pre-order 7.1 at: :~ :~http://www.LLand.com/products/ :~ :~Alan" :~ -- ----- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] ATTN mandrakesoft -question and wish(es)
:~dear mandrake, :~ :~i read in pc plus magazine (#165-july 2000) here in the uk that; :~'analysts at wall street's JP Morgan have said that it's inevitable that :~linux will break up into a series of totally incompatible versions'. :~ :~i wonder if mandrake see this as a possibility, if so do you see this as :~a bad thing as i know i do, and what input/influence do you have on the :~issue of compatibility. :~ This is my PERSONAL view of things --- 1) Look and feel of distros will differ a lot. 2) Tools used to acomplish administrative jobs may differ too, although some convergence may take place. In particular, some companies will choose to use propriatery tools for administrative tasks, like SuSe already does. 3) Filesystem layout and libraries will be standardised enough to enable you to run any "linux" program on any "linux" distribution withouth problems, although there may be big problems in front of us with different packaging systems (there are now, think rpm-deb, then different ways of dealing with rpm used by us redhat on one and SuSe on other side...). (I hope someone will come with much better packaging tool, which will accept both rpm- and deb- packages for historical reasons and make an end to this nonsense...) cu Denis -- --------- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Order 7.1 in Germany
:~can anybody tell me where to Buy or to pre-order the Linux Mandrake :~PowerPack 7.1 in germany? I am currently proof-reading the german manual. Does this tell you something .-) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] Re: Hi Denis a buddie of mine has a problem can't get through to list
:~Hi Denis, I'm writing for a buddie of mine, he is having :~trouble getting though to the newbie list, I think :~his e mail address changed, and something might be boogered up. As far as the list is concerned, everything looks regular mandrakesoft:~/lists/newbie$ grep kit\@ subscribers email [EMAIL PROTECTED] gecos [EMAIL PROTECTED] And from his mail it sounds as if he is able to send mails sometimes, and sometimes not - this has nothing to do with mailing list - problem must be somewhere else, but I have no idea what it is. (Our mail server COULD be a problem, new server will be in place after the discussion period is finished - noone has time for it now). Sorry :-( cu Denis :~ :~He says :~ :~That I still can't ALWAYS post to the :~newbie list,,, and will he PLEASE fix it for me. :~something is wrong. :~ :~[EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ :~tell him it used to be: :~ :~[EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] please help
:~okay...I guess Denis fixed the problem...after I emailed him Guess again (hint: I did nothing) cu D -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Discussions: Documentation 3
Noone claims our docus are perfect. Otherwise we would stop working on them .-) Seriously: 1) yes, there is a lot of place for improvements 2) we are working on it It is similar to all the rest of the stuff in the linux world: Started small and crappy, improved over the time, and one day it will reach the divine state of beeing perfect. Like TeX. cu Denis :~Another comment on Documentation :) :~ :~Kindly check out www.linux-mandrake.com website at look at the Article ' :~"Latest LINUX-MANDRAKE News in the Press: April 10 2000 - " Perfection, :~Except for the Documentation " ' :~ :~I rest my case :) :~ :~edison :~ :~Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com :~ -- ----- Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION documentation
:~- Manuals are really too poor. Thx for a great sugestion. :~- And the (french) support team has never been able to give a satisfactory :~answer to one of my question, so that I plainly renounced asking them. I got :~them answered by users on the mail lists. (All's well what ends well, but...) Which question? cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Colors
:~BambiI suppose, I've not tried it that way because when :~you create a new user it assigns the ownership to .kderc as :~user.user. The root.root ownership of .kderc only :~occurred when creating new users during the 7.0 installation. Yo. this is an installer bug in 7.0. :~ :~Alan :~ :~ :~Fran Parker wrote: :~ :~ would another solution be to leave it to owner/group :~ as root/root and check the click boxes to allow groups :~ and/or others to write, execute, etc.? :~ :~ Just a thought. :~ :~ Bambi :~ :~ Alan Shoemaker wrote: :~ :~ Glennthe owner.group for your /home/glenn/.kderc file are :~ probably set to root.root and need to be changed to :~ glenn.glenn. This was a bug in the 7.0 iso that got fixed in :~ the 7.0-2 iso. It only happens to user accounts created :~ during the install. :~ :~ Alan :~ :~ Glenn Johnson wrote: :~ :~ Hey all. Got a question. Why, when I log on/into KDE as user 'glenn' as :opposed :~ to 'root'. do the changes to the desktop not work? Example, I tried to change :~ the colors using KDE Control Center, Desktop, Colors, and they did not change. :~ -- Glenn Johnson :~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~ Linux-Mandrake v7.0 :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
