Re: [newbie] 3 C's
At 01:35 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 10:37:01 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Must reading, specially for those very new to Linux hear hear! if I see one more person say they had to reinstall because Konq wasn't working properly, I'm gonna scream. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 13:34:53 up 14 days, 19:16, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01 some of us find it fun to reinstall ya know...we learn that way too :D /me runs away vry fast! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] In-Wall home networking question
At 01:33 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hi, I have been having a discussion with the [expert] list but I wanted some input from this list as well. blah blah, SNIP - Paul -- Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] With your current idea you have: Less cost if you plan not to move ever; less hardware problems as its supported by a company; Easier maintenance; Less space taken up; wirings in place for other projects in the future. I say go for it. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS
At 02:46 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:39:30 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong by John R., Jr. Lott Now take it to the OT list or get lost. -- Joehill agreed... its ruining my morning tea to watch this flame fest continue. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Configuration
At 01:29 AM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hey Again, Snip Are there any particular issues with them that I should be aware of? Any help would be much appreciated. A last thought which is only vaguely relevant to the list is: what Windows OS should I run for gaming? I have always run 98SE but have heard XPPro runs better. If I get eaten alive for even asking a Windows question I won't blame you, just curious what your experiences have been. Thanks again! Isaac XP is good if you don't mind learning to turn off some intrusive crap. W98 sucks ...is crashprone. W2K Pro is ok and alittle harder to config than xp. Can this exist on a single HDD: Yes. Its far easier now a days to do so. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]
At 01:55 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 04:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: lord i suffered with this when i started with Bastille...its not intuitive so don't fret. At a command prompt type Interative-Bastille (or just Inter (then hit the TAB key)) and away you go. Be sure to get the GUIed ver (TK or Curses version) its far simpler IMO as well. HTH :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Be careful too - its easy to lock yourself out of a lot of things on your own system with Bastille. I did, a couple of times. -- /\ DarkLord lol no kidding. But it seems it won't work on MDK... wonder why? Anyone Lanman??? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] In-Wall home networking question
At 02:16 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: snip I could go on, but we should do this off-list. Your Leviton solution is a great way to get started, and you can add modules only when you actually need them. No Fuss, No muss! Lanman you're making me jealous... stop it... and cream... damn you... :( Porn should be so good. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another Try
At 11:22 AM 7/8/2003 -0600, you wrote: Okay, I hate giving up. Back to my problem of errors when I try to run KDE or Gnome. Someone I was speaking to suggested it may be due to the fact that I have a laptop and they can have problems with configuration. So if anyone remembers the problems I was having, maybe they will know how to fix it if they know my hardware. I am working with a Compaq 12XL 323. It has an Intel Celeron 633 (although DXDIAG reports an Intel Pentium 633???). It originally came with 64 MB of Ram but I upgraded it to 128 MB. I have a 10 GB hard drive. I am using ~2GB of that to install Mandrake Linux 9.1. The video card is a Trident Cyberblade i1 AGP. It has shared video memory which is currently set to 8 MB. My sound card is a VIA Audio (Wave) card. My monitor has a resolution of 1024x768 (32 bit). Wade IIRC cyberblade isn't well supported tho you can look @ X-Free.org See for yourself if that is the case or not. I am going by memory. All things considered thats where I'd start looking for the cause of the problems. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]
At 09:19 PM 7/8/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 17:05:46 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in another thread: or another packet filter perhaps? Bastille is a better firewall IMO Thank you. The description on the web looks very good. I downloaded and most probably installed it from an RPM i.586. I can see its files in various directories, but one thing I didn't figure out yet is: How do I start it? Typing bastille in root command line as recommended in a manual produces something like command not found... There seem to be some very basic Linux things that I don't know yet - too trivial to be mentioned in any FAQ - but I'll find them out anyway! :-)) -- Cheers Peter lord i suffered with this when i started with Bastille...its not intuitive so don't fret. At a command prompt type Interative-Bastille (or just Inter (then hit the TAB key)) and away you go. Be sure to get the GUIed ver (TK or Curses version) its far simpler IMO as well. HTH :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]
At 08:51 PM 7/8/2003 -0400, you wrote: Femme; Is someone trying to use Bastille on a Mandrake 9.0 or 9.1 system? I thought it woldn't work on those versions of Mandrake. Has there been a change? I still prefer the firewall in Bastille, but I had to devise a work-around in order to get it running a Mandrake 9.x . Please let me know if it works now. Lanman AFAIK you have to uninstall Shorewall first Then you can install Bastille. This is from memory of someone else who did just that in 9.0. I have not tried as yet on 9.1 or 9. No reason to lately...had no time to screw around with linux...sigh... my life went into overdrive. :( That is my understanding of how things stand... if i'm wrong someone will correct me. From what I can see too, shorewall causes more headaches than its been worth for most ppl...wish MDK would reinstate Bastille, tho I believe they can't due to a liscensing issue. :( - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux
At 08:25 PM 7/7/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 21:08:39 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might like to delete your /etc/shorewall folder before reinstalling the firewall. That way you can be sure of starting with a virgin configuration. Thank you Derek, I did that, and now, with shorewall removed, I can access the internet again on Linux. :-) I'll see to installing it again, or another packet filter perhaps? Bastille is a better firewall IMO - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] agp 3.0
At 05:13 PM 7/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:45:10 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an ATI 9700... only way I could get it to install 9.1 was using text mode IIRC. Just for future reference if you boot the installation with vga=normal you will get the nice graphical installation just no fb. 9600Pro, it even after installation I have to use vga=normal or it will not boot. Happily now getting 4200+FPS with the fglrx driver Charles -- hm.. thankee. ;) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] optical mouse
At 10:03 AM 7/6/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 09:51, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: I am pushing cordless mouses of all types these days, the PITA of corded mouses has made me crazy the last time, and fully agree with optical as the better choice in terms of use over time, but have not settled on a particular name brand as best, but i like logitec, for my self. Long as you don't game they're great...if you don't mind using batteries have a larger hand too. This ofc sucks for women (who have small hands) tho usually a good supply of batteries around. (you figure out why :D) If you do game, the Logitech MX700 IIRC is excellent...again small hands need not apply. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up
At 09:35 PM 7/4/2003 +1000, you wrote: snip Just make sure the g/f knows where to find Solitaire (otherwise known as Klondike) and some of the other card games - and that you instruct her on the usage of things like LICQ/KOPETE/GAIM/KMESS/LICQ - and find out which browser she likes the most - so that you can help her tailor a desktop - and then once you've done that, show her how she can change it to suit however she feels; making it personal can have a great impact - especially when it can be made to look NOTHING like Windows whatsoever... ...just a thought... I envy you. :) Hm... solitaire... my g/f plays that...but i don't ever play those silly little games. Why is it a g/f will play it but not you? :D Have fun - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up
At 01:53 PM 7/4/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Friday 04 July 2003 12:11 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Hm... solitaire... my g/f plays that...but i don't ever play those silly little games. Why is it a g/f will play it but not you? :D Have fun - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt So...Femme...what *games* do you play? lol! -- /\ DarkLord \/ heh i couldn't possibly reply on a family oriented list. :D But for comp games mostly FPS's... :) Solitaire pales in comparison... heh - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] par archives
At 09:30 AM 7/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday July 2 2003 05:47 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Yer gonna hate my answer.. Par works with WinRar AFAIK only. its a way of making sure redundancy is built in so that if you miss one RAR archive the PAR's can be used to build a coherent set of archives anyway. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Not true in my experience, the Linux version is CL only, the Winsux version has a GUI, otherwise they're exactly the same. Their website says just the same. My problem was wishful thinking and misunderstanding. Todd and Julian set me on the right course ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Silly me! I misunderstood too :D I thought it was proprietary to WinRar itself. Happy news. :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird XWC Problem
At 09:48 AM 7/4/2003 +1200, you wrote: Hi All, Got a strange one for you. This has happened on 2 separate installs (9.1) on the same laptop (an Asus L2400D). I installed XWC (File Manager similar to WinExplorer), and it works for users just fine at first. After using it for a day or so, it stops being able to start. Now when a user tries to start it, it just sends the hard drive into overdrive but never actually starts the program. I have tried to uninstall/reinstall it to no avail. I sometimes have to killX just to get my system back again. Sometimes after the hard drives screams for a few minutes, it just goes back to normal without ever starting XWC. If I start it from a console, there are no error messages but it still never starts and never gives me a prompt back. I can't find a config file to delete or anything either. If I start it as root from a console, it runs fine. It is sooo weird. This just happened on fresh install of 9.1 as well. Any ideas appreciated, Regards, Jason I found XWC buggy as hell switched to Krusader instead. Far better FM that is similar to Explorer. Gentoo is good too but its a lot harder to learn ... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Weird XWC Problem
At 10:53 AM 7/4/2003 +1200, you wrote: Yeah, it is buggy but on my home system, it just works. And Krusader is Klunky =) by comparison IMHO. I prefer XWC and this is the only system that it falls over on. I wish XWC was still being maintained, hell of a FM. Cheers Jason ya totally agree there. try another FM?? I dunno what else to suggest... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
At 12:04 PM 6/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: snip Femme, you may of hit on the solution. I'm not sure whether it will not only write to floppy but also insist on writing to MBR as well. My experience is that once in install lilo you aren't left with a choice, so that even if you elect to create boot floppy which is what your saying, it still wants to write something to MBR when finished. Hmmm, wants trying . John I was in a situation similar to yours some months back John. I tried it on 8.x 9.0 it worked fine. Lilo just needed to write somewhere, it didn't care where...and I had no Lilo on my hard drive afterwards. Worth a shot as I don't think MDK would rewrite lilo code to purposefully screw someone out of dualbooting the way you are wishing to set it up. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality
I want to run an MNF Server and add the ability to have it serve files by ftp or something similar. Has to be simple easy to administer as well as setup. Can this be done with MNF just adding an ftp server program to it? Or will I need to install a full MDK 9.1 just set that up as my server? Main parts will be that it acts / has a built-in firewall; can serve files via ftp or the like; can handle doing light email serving/spam control (of which we get alot...); perhaps very light web page duty (doubtful but who knows?). I've been reading the docs for MNF Don't see any programs in it like that...yet the docs also say you can't pick choose your packages as yet upon installation. WTH? If anyone knows of a distro or something that can substitute for MNF provide what I need let me know... oh its gotta fit on a 2 gb drive. Tia - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] removing dual boot option...have a computer with tons of problems
At 02:13 PM 6/28/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:57 pm, Tsyko wrote: If you boot of the windows cd again go to the dos prompt and type ´fdisk /mbr´ without the quotes and this should take away the lilo partioning... That´s how I have done it in the past. THANK YOU! it works now. i'm happier now :) now i have to diagnose hardware and see what it's power problems are although it could've been software problems. once i figure that out, it's time to try to find an ethernet card for it to hook it up to the router and get it onilne. thanks again! Mike Best little laptop i've ever owned is a Panasonic Toughbook. They live up to their namesake. Trust me...you can pound it all you want it won't break. :D I use a Xircom Cardbus 100+ Modem 56 card. Worth 500$ but uses a normal Cat-5 cable to attach to it for LAN purposes... so no proprietary dongle here. :) Very nice... lets you use standardized cables is very reliable. They've come down in price being a cardbus card so you may want to get one of these as opposed to a NIC with a proprietary interface for your cables. HTH - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
At 11:07 AM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: Snip I'll give it a try, on my next install. However I'm thinking it was between M9.0 and M9.1 when all the options started changing, so I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once one install of M9.1 is completed on the second more options are available I hope so, it has not been the case with my dual boot M9.0 + M9.1, but that of course is one OS each . When and if I finally get my current M9.1 up and running to my own satisfation I'm going to wipe M9.0 once and probably for all, and begin instaling a second M9.1 and update it from cooker. I still have a number of issues to clear up on the first and current M9.1, before I can begin. John well if ya need help i'm sure we'll all be here with bells on waiting to pitch in :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality
At 09:46 PM 6/30/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:19, FemmeFatale wrote: I want to run an MNF Server and add the ability to have it serve files by ftp or something similar. You can't. Bleah (tosses shiny new MNF CD in the trash). guess i'm installing 9.1 as a server. :\ thx - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?
At 04:25 PM 6/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hi list, I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read it, or where they were located. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, snip Found an article on Linux world.com you may want to search their site...but IIRC the package was commercial. You had to pay for it. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
At 09:48 PM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: Snip well if ya need help i'm sure we'll all be here with bells on waiting to pitch in :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Currently my mplayer picture and sound are out of sync on DVD play. John Well i can dance with my bells on but that won't help you with this issue will it? :D DVD I know nothing about. sorry. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality
At 10:06 AM 7/1/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:46, FemmeFatale wrote: You can't. Bleah (tosses shiny new MNF CD in the trash). guess i'm installing 9.1 as a server. :\ thx - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Hey, how's about installing WindowsNT 3.51 as a server? (g) -- B/F wanted wanted to install windows as a server cause we both know it better. I have 3 weeks to get a linux server up running or we'l jsut go with his idea. But NT!? Good lord man i'm not that stupid! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hyper threading
At 01:26 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 26 Jun 2003 21:11:11 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well you could threaten it with winXP. NO! It could suicide on you...I've seen it happen. -- + Joe Hill ROFL ! the nuts strikes again. thx for the giggles Joe. :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version = 2.0.0) is installed... no
At 08:31 AM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: I just asked it to --list-all, and it gives me an error. Maybe it's pkg-config that needs the pygtk2.0-devel package? Anyway, thanks for all the help. I'll try it out tonite after work and report back. Then i'll add it to my growing list of Things you'll probably have to do when installing on a new machine. Thanks! eric Fair warning: AFAIK Pygtk needs a boatload of deps... I mean a HUGE amount of them. Don't know why...its a sore spot with some pythoners I understand too. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
At 10:45 AM 6/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: Well all I can say is that I took particular care on my last M9.1 install to try and find a skip lilo install facility, and if it's there I couldn't find it. Part of the problem lies with the changed layout and method of install of DrakeX itself. We did have a series of active tabs down the lefthand side of the installer window and in most cases it was possible to merely skip onto the next item on the list when install boot loader came up. this is now no longer possible. It insists on you at least entering the install bootloader programme, so I assumed there must be some way of clicking a cancell tab , but as I say I couldn't find one. Someone please inform me ! John Did you try writing this to floppy instead? Thus satisying LILO in essence skipping writing to your MBR? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS
At 07:43 PM 6/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: Did you try writing this to floppy instead? Thus satisying LILO in essence skipping writing to your MBR? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt No I didn't Femme, is that a way to prevent lilo being written then ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Prevents it from being written to the MBR of your hard drive Yes. It will write Lilo to the floppy's MBR tho if you need to copy it from there to a relevant partition change it to reflect new pointers you can. Simple elegant solution IMO. You can do this with a disk-on-key too if need be ofc. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hyper threading
At 03:04 PM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: I have two XP boxes, Two OSx boxes, one OS9 laptop, one OS 8 server, One win2000 laptop, a 4 machine linux cluster, and a playstation 2 on my home Lan, the only issue I've noticed is that my power bills can get pretty expensive. (Luckily half the computers are my roomies) No interbreeding yet. The cluster however talks quietly behind my back about how to destroy my pet fish... I just know it. laff.. u guys are good today... tho it may be just cause i started my torture sessions again.. Ed: watch this space in the coming weeks so you too can again ignore TV! Tune in next time for more adventures with Femme On Morphine! :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multiboot on same drive
At 08:27 PM 6/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: bull (insert visual here) size snip Yes, well, there ought to be an easy way really. Something quick and simple. I would like to do the second M9.1 install and be sure NOT to install a lilo anywhere, but so far I haven't seen any means by which you can skip the lilo install on current M9.1 install discs. Then use the lilo of the first M9.1 install, and it's link with /etc/lilo.conf in the first M9.1 OS, to enter a stanza to boot the second M9.1 OS, but I'm not at all confident that , a) I can skip the second lilo install, b) That the lilo of the first install will not get confused which of the two /etc/lilo.conf scripts now available to it, and end up reading the wrong lilo.conf script, the one from the second M9.1 install. Am I assured this will not happen ? How does Lilo map itself to /etc/lilo.conf, will it find the correct partition to read lilo.conf ? when you have two identicle M9.1 on the same drive ? I just wonder how lilo maps lilo.conf ? I am guessing that it is merely set up to look for an /etc/lilo.conf in / partition, but that would be risky, it might find the /etc/lilo.conf of any old linux OS, so there must be something more to make certain of it. I suppose, when lilo is installed, it maps the partition table and is told to look for a /etc/lilo.conf on /dev/hd(x) where x is the partition in question. So that would be all right then. That makes sure it doesn't pick the wrong one. In which case it's just a question of making sure lilo does not get installed on the second M9.1 install, anyone know for sure how to do that, because so far I haven't noticed how to do it on the current version of drakeX. John Correct me if i'm wrong but LILO will overwrite itself if stuck to the MBR. If i'm not right I'd just write LILO to a floppy for hte one you want it to skip. That way no harm done, Lilo writes to something you can still write the OTHER lilo to your MBR after all. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Western Digital Drives, a patch u may need
if you are exclusively in LINUX use this with FreeDOS (ty Tom Brinkman for sending me to the kernel list archives where I found this wonderful tidbit). http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_admin=1p_faqid=913p_created=1047068027 - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
At 09:06 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: snips Femme: Give me a call when the price drops to $10. That must include the necessary adapters and drivers to upgrade the various offsprings' collection of proprietary and two-guys-and-a-goat POS. (Ever try to find a BIOS upgrade for a TMC motherboard?) Until that glorious day arrives, I'll take very good care of my floppies. -- cmg Well damn... ok you got me there... but still i understood there were diskonkeys that don't need drivers. As for $10..ya i see your point there.. sigh - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to config the lilo?
At 04:06 AM 6/24/2003 +, you wrote: snip FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt ^lazy ;) peace out. tc,hago. Guilty as charged. In my defense I haven't run linux in um... a week or more...been too damn busy to screw around with it. Ty. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 04:09 PM 6/24/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:11, eric huff wrote: Espanol es muy facil comprender facil? :) Spanish English facil lightly, easy, easily, light Facile=French=easy=me oops..that slipped - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
At 09:27 PM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: I had the same alarm bells going off. The ONTRACK disk overlay and Linux have always been incompatible (or so I thought). If your bios has SMART capability, I assume that your mobo is new, so I can't figure out why you would need ONTRACK, except that ONTRACK is installed on your old drive. You must use ONTRACK to remove ONTRACK, if I remember correctly, because a simple dos format won't do the trick. My bet is that the ONTRACK manager is fubaring your installs with modern systems, and your best bet is to use the ONTRACK boot disk to rid your drive of it. Mind you, all this stuff is from memory, because it has been years since I used a disk manager. e. a low level format will fix it too...but most BIOSes dont' allow that anymore. shame. :( - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No CD installer for Unreal Tournament?
At 06:06 AM 6/24/2003 -0400, you wrote: I cannot seem to get the ut linux installer to see the cd in the drive. I once was able to find a version of the installer which just copied the files and created the install dir, then I just copied the required files fromt the cd manually. anyone know where I can find this version of the installer? I've tried Google, Planetunreal, Loki, etc. -- + Joe Hill UT or UT2K3. If the former, ask Ron (aka Darklord). IF the latter i'll email off list a reply. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install results vary
At 12:45 PM 6/25/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 5:37 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 14:22, Roland Hughes wrote: I have done 3-4 install's and everyone was different. I think mandrake is becoming like windows ( I am joking!). Roly It's really funny that last October I tried to point this out to people on the list, but no one believed me... I don't remember that, Stephen. I for one would have agreed with you. It's been so since I started using Mandrake with 8.0. Of course, Femme's experience has probably run through all the possible combinations g Anne heh so far ya... sorta i swear each time I install its a new adventure in errors tracking down weirdness. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 01:46 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: snip Just my mileage :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ you just like bucking the system! :D glad it works for ya though. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Alsa tools RPM for Mdk 9.1
At 12:56 AM 6/21/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 09:39, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:12, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Brian Parish wrote: 9.1 includes alsa, but not the tools. Does anyone know of a compatible rpm for this? The source tarball from the alsa site complains about wrong versions - the usual issues. I've fought the alsa battle too many times in the past - don't want to do it no more. TIA Brian Do you mean alsa-utils? It is in the distro Nope. Utils are OK. There's another set called tools which includes stuff like the multi-channel mixer for the envy24 chipset. Required for full use of the features of some professional cards. A friend tells me that the packages within alsa tools have been individually packaged as rpms. This makes sense as you really only need the mixer app specific to your card. The one I need is envy24control, or maybe just envy24. Haven't found it yet, but I'll have a search for it tomorrow. cheers Brian 5 mins on google: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/Sound.html how to google for this: http://www.google.com/linux?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=%22Envy24%22btnG=Google+Search - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] testing
At 03:09 AM 6/23/2003 -0300, you wrote: ignore me :o/ aw must we!? But you're so cute! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Boot error message
At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that they want to help Grampa. Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and #1 Son. -- cmg Know the feeling g I know they're not fashionable, but I wouldn't be without my LS120. It reads standard floppies as well as the 120MB disks, so it would still do what you want. Oops - I sound as though I work for Imation g Anne Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
At 07:49 AM 6/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: SNIPs some hummingbirds ... you finish the thought... My guess is that Win95B and NT 4.0 have never heard about HDD S.M.A.R.T Capability, and didn't try to write to the Western Digital using it. Whereas Mandrake 9.1 is new and sophisticated enough to know about HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability and was using it to write to a drive that didn't support it. Hence all the problems with Linux files on the Western Digital. Anyone know different? The Other I know nothing about MIDI So i won't address that. But your presumption is correct about the HDD. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 08:56 PM 6/23/2003 +, you wrote: snip But I LIKE my closet! sulking But you're right, It's probably more rewarding to participate in the discussion than to quietly wait for the interesting bits to trickle in. My main problem is that it's a pain in the a** to use this queer language :) Which immediately leads me to another question: How does my name show up in foreign, i.e. non swedish, mail readers? There should be two dots above the o. Sylpheed will probably send this letter as quoted printable because of that letter. Does it matter? Should I spell my name Bjoern? Also, thanks a lot for the tip on ET. I'll have a look into it. -- Björn Shows up as an o with a line over it for me... but i'm in XP. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
At 11:44 AM 6/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Technoslick, SNIPs some puppy dog tails I've been snooping, as time permits. There are SI firewalls available, but I have yet to find an app-aware linux fw. It seems as though the fw's are based on iptables (a kernel function, as I understand it), and iptables does not include the capability of being app-aware. If this is not correct, or if any of you experts have a better picture of this, please let me know. Still learnin... -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK there are no SI FW's available for doing app aware targeting... a proxy MAY be able to be configured to do so...but it is beyond my humble knowledge as to how this would be accomplished. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability
At 02:19 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 08:34 am, sstubbs wrote: Anyone know different? Don't know if it has anything to do with your problems at all, but Civileme used to say to avoid WD drives like the plague... claimed they did not do CRC stuff right, especially at higher DMA/UDMA levels :-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Someone on the OT list was saying that isn't the case anymore... SOmeone care to post a URL to dis/prove this? I have a WD here in my comp now... it was cheap, i'm poor... i'm using the maxtor for linux though. I may experiment after all... on a side note, one partition got toasted by windows jsut this last week... don't know why. Guess which drive it was on? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems
At 11:07 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip I'll send the pics to you offlist and everything will become clear as mud. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ sendy pls to me too! ? :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems, OT Speaking of cable select on HDDs
At 10:17 PM 6/21/2003 -0700, you wrote: CableSelect is a function of the controller, not the hd. Very few controllers use the CS function (I've never owned one, nor even seen one, so I can only take it on face value that they exist). e so wtf.. my manual says you can use it..but it didn't work?... i give up. Thx E! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 11:10 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access linux before windows to give me the dual boot option, correct? Actually, Windows needs to be first, or at least it used to. I don't know about XP. I recall that Windows ignores all partitions above the first one it doesn't recognize, so I always put windows on first, create my shared partition and then put linux on the end of the drive. Snip Others have answered the rest..but YES XP still needs to be first...sadly... Goddamn U M$! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 11:10 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize the data throughput from your hard drives to the burner. Putting them on the same channel could create bottlenecks when you burn a cd. So I would make the disk drives hda and hdb and let the cdrw be hdc. snip I just swapped drives around... should of answered this in my other post...oh well. If you do alot of copying from hard drive to HDD or cd to cd or cd to hdd: put your 100 gigger separate on the primary IDE channel. Put your cd burner on the 2nd IDE channel for faster computer speeds copying from HDD to CDRom. Also stick your other HDD on this channel as its likely you will do more copying from the primary to CDRom than from the 2nd HDD to CDRom...thus preserving read/write speeds allowing better transfers speeds. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Powerfan connection?
At 10:02 AM 6/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake question, but I hope someone here can help me. I'm building a computer for my mother using an Abit NF7-M motherboard. In the manual it says, Attach the connector from the power fan to PWRFAN1 header... The PWRFAN1 header has three prongs. Two of the connectors coming out of the power housing have four holes, none have three. Which (if any) is supposed to connect to PWRFAN1? Do I need an adapter so it can fit the three-prong header? My own computer has an Abit KR7A-133 board. The equivalent passage in it is attach the connector from the power fan to FAN3 header. I just looked and nothing is attached to that header, and the only four-hole connector I see is plugged into the floppy drive. Some friends online suggested that the power fan (ie. I assume the one in the power box housing) is run _by_ the power box, that it doesn't need to connect to the motherboard. Is that true? I notice that it isn't turning now, but that might be because it doesn't need to. Looking at the fan through the grill I can see the wires running from it but can't see where they're going or if they're one of the bundles exiting the unit at the rear. How _do_ I connect that fan, or do I need to do anything at all. Puzzled in Evansville, Dale Huckeby That connector is for an extra fan mounted directly to your computer case...usually 40-120mm in size. They use special 3 wire or 4 wire little connectors. I have an old one that is 2 connectors but I jerry rigged the sucker so it works. Just ignored one pin (which is an pin that gives an extra few volts IIRC that this fan doesn't need being its only 60mm in size...). So in short: if you have a case fan, thats where you connect it to on the mobo. Otherwise ignore it. Some newer powersupplys have a little heat sensor you connect to the mobo ... looks like a 3 pronged connector too. Thats not the same thing. :) HTH? If you need more info email me off list I'll send you pix of what i'm talking about. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tux pics...
At 11:20 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. One is from Penguin Computing (my fav!) One is Tux with a joystick One is Tux with a keyboard Just a thought... :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ sendy! - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 10:58 AM 6/22/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: snip or just post again, adding note; no help in three days to the subject line. it may well be that in with the other mail, your question was just missed, or no-one knew the answer. Asking again, and adding something like can anyone hear or help me might at least get an answer of no, i are 'tupid. *giggles* I can volunteer to post the no, i r tupid responses. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] No response on questions
At 06:48 PM 6/22/2003 +, you wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! Hi A few days ago I posted a question about running Enemy Territory as a regular user, but I haven't got any answer thus far. No offence taken, of course; some questions get answered and others don't. And would you really like me (and others) to post the same questions over and over? I take it that if no one answers, it is because no one knows. Besides, for some months now I have been lurking in the shadows of this list (one of the few things I'm actually good at :-) ), inhaling the wisdom of the non newbies, but without lifting a finger myself to help anyone. So I am hardly in a position to complain. But beware, I may be back! Until then, see you in the shadows Björn Olsson Check its permissions make sure they are set for USER that you now own it using chown as a user. Thats my best answer... :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 08:00 PM 6/22/2003 -0700, you wrote: Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. THis make more sense? Sorry about last post...it was sorta muddled. - Yeah, thanks. So, this would seem that cd copying would be better done with cdroms on diff busses, too, right? This makes it seem silly that the standard setup is to group hard drives together and cdrs/cdrws together... eric yes it is silly but its b/c that was teh way it was done until P3's came on the scene...till then if you separated them you saturated the busses as i understand it. Now its de riguer to do it this way to avoid that because the bus is so much faster as are the cpu's the cache's are big. Back then a 512 cache on your cdrom was big...and no buffer underrun technology existed..so this also prevented that from happening. ya separate cdroms are good...that way on teh fly read/writing is done more efficiently. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?
At 01:57 PM 6/23/2003 +1000, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: snip Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. so for me: Primary HDD DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back forth tween those... so no need to split them up) Secondary CD R/W HDD are on IDE2 (I DO Copy from HDD 1 (Primary) to my CD Writer...alot. Splitting them up allows faster transfer of data because they are not waiting for one another on teh same IDE Port/bus. This way they can transfer don't need to wait for one another to finish unloading off the same Bus.) snip Something to consider - and I may be wrong (I often am!) but I was having trouble with the transfer speed on my shiny new ata133 hard drive a while back when it was connected as master, and the dvd as slave, on the primary IDE cable. I can't remember exactly where I read it - as it was some time ago - that if you connect two drives to the same cable then both drives will be limited by the transfer capabilities of the slower drive, eg master=udma5 - slave=udma2 then both drives will behave as though they were udma2. When I put my dvd drive as slave to my cdrw drive master on the second ide channel I got an incredible improvement in transfer rates for my hard disk. This may or may not be relevant but I just thought to comment on this for consideration and/or comment from the more learned folks on the list. I like to learn and appreciate info from others. Graham Up to a PIII Processor this is relevant. This is no longer the case with improved drives the technology that goes into them these days. Very few mobos these days will suffer like that anymore. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems, OT Speaking of cable select on HDDs
At 04:59 AM 6/21/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:55:46 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and check that your drive jumpers are in the proper positions (looks like it is the master (hda) on the first ide (ide0). Oh man I didn't even look at the jumper - thought default was the master position - actually it's cable select. Thanks for the kick start From my brand spankin' new 9.1 install, Curt commence hijack I understood that newer drives on newer mobos can use cable select with no problems. Well I've had zip luck with this. Ideas? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM
At 04:28 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:38:06 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joes makes me thinks Gun nut. you misunderstand, I have a certain sympathy with the individualist who resists authority, and I recognize that *sometimes* it is necessary to take up arms against the imposition of an immoral authority. For example, I see nothing wrong with what the Zapatistas did in Mexico, or what Che and Fidel did to Batista and his band of criminal thugs in Cuba. Of course the other is offensive. The guy was a fscking Nazi! -- + Joe Hill Works for me. Understood now. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install problems
At 08:21 PM 6/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I got the new disk form Maxtor today and have just made five attempts at
installing 9.1 - the last one using rc2 or 3 - the install was smooth but on
reboot, got this :
EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read
inode block - inode=259114
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!
The last attempt with the power pack ended with this these 15 lines:
ide0:reset: success
hda: dma_initr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hda: dma_initr error=0x84 {DriceStatusError Bad CRC} end_request: I/O
error dev 03:01 (hda) sector 1154352
EXT3-fs error (device ide-0 (3,1)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read
inode block - inode=719489, block 1441794
repeats last two lines four more times... then
ide0:reset success
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!
6 keyboard: unknown scancode e0 7a
I've had 9.1 installed successfully on this machine several times.
I understand that kernel panic is usually hardware related but that
doesn't make sense as there's no change in any hardware... except the new
hard disk.
Do one of you gurus have a clue for me?
Thanks in advance
Your new HDD came with a diskette. It has utility on it to low level
format the drive. I'd do that first. Fair warning: If your hard drive is
over 30gb it will take several hours at best...overnight probably...but
that will reset the whole thing if there are any weird blocks on the
platters. IOW It makes it as if it were blank again at factory
default. Thats the first thing i'd do/try.
-
FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt
Good Decisions Your boss Made:
We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that
character from Peanuts.
- Source: Dilbert
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Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 12:38 AM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:20:53 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: a) i live in canada. shite, all this time i thought you were in Britain! the telusplanet should have given it away, yer not out in Alberta are ya? b) Orrin can suck my strap-on I love you. -- + Joe Hill ROFL you already loved me! :) but you're sweety anyway. yes i'm in alberta... home of queers, steers repressive dictatorships. See: Gay marriage issue. Sigh - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 03:03 PM 6/20/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 10:39, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:28 AM 6/20/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:28, Miark wrote: You should get Quake III--it really rocks rocks, using the Winblows CD with the Linux installer. Much less trouble to install than Quake II. Miark So when can I expect the QuakeIII CD to arrive, Miark? it can be on my ftp. I odn't use it anymore. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Oy - she's got an FTP site she dunna use! Great place for side-loading pr0n movies! U wish... lol its a freaking laptop...with little more than a gig left of space. I don't use Q3 anymore... I do use my ftp. :D Sorry luv you're outta luck there heh. Offer stands however... if you want it i'll ISO my copy for you. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$
At 01:28 AM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 19 Jun 2003 22:19:50 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I want the Morningstar! Did you ever see this really crappy movie, ages old, musta been like 197x, called The Sword and the Sorcerer? The guy had this sword with three blades, at the time I thought it was the coolest thing ever. When I played DND, I once had this sword that was all black void with stars in it, anyone remember what that was called? -- + Joe Hill Morning Reaver. IIRC. Yes I saw it. Dont' rememeber the exact name of the sword but thats what comes to mind...mind you i've seen tons of films like it played ADD for years. Never liked DD much..but i played it to placate an old g/f. Shrugs. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 05:26 PM 6/20/2003 +1000, you wrote: I'm still stuck on dialup. 17mb is heaps for me to d/l. Doing urpmi is a touchy topic as I have to figure out what I might possibly want and then set a night aside for it. well best i can do is rar it into 15 mb chunks... which is what i do for modemers... then they d/l resume @ will. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 03:59 AM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: Now that's one hell of a title for a funky progressive CW tune...can I use it? Mike Wafkowski queers, steers repressive dictatorships On the condition you send it to me when its done! absolutely yes! :D Please by all means do :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]OT again, Chess Game: a personal plea/whine/rant/whatever
At 01:50 PM 6/20/2003 +0300, you wrote: snips a dobermans tails length You can indeed. Browse through the Mandrake contribs directory for Go games and clients. Incidentally, my Mandrake experience has been greatly enriched since I added contrib sources to urpmi. Contrib is where you find the funny, quirky or just plain obscure programs. Sometimes you might miss them because they have a boring-looking name; for example, who'd have guessed that tdfsb was a funky 3D file browser that transforms your filesystem into a world reminiscent of Tron or Neuromancer that you can fly around in. I've wasted hours playing with this little program already. Sir Robin sounds awesome :D Ty.. I may bug you offlist if you don't mind about this? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 08:44 AM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:52:10 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ROFL you already loved me! :) but you're sweety anyway. yes i'm in alberta... home of queers, steers repressive dictatorships. See: Gay marriage issue. Sigh ya, I've been following that. I thought we had it bad out here with Harris, he's a boyscout compared to that lunatic Klein. I'm a peaceful man (er, most of the time), but i'd like to put three clips into his groin... you know what, I think it's about time we stopped *asking nicely*. It's about time to hit the streets, bash some pigs, you with me? Lock and Load! -- + Joe Hill I won't get into the local politics here... not the place for it. Suffice to say i made my statement @ the local Gay Pride parade over the weekend. I'd upload pix but i'm sure some would be offended by them. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IMAP trouble (Evolution), OT Thunderbird
At 06:01 PM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: snap! It's not quite ready for prime-time for one simple reason: it can't pass URL's to a browser, so you can't just click a link in your email and have it open in your browser of choice. For me that makes it unusable. Aside from that, though, it's basically Mozilla-mail. It does junk filtering, and really looks a lot like mozilla. Todd Ty :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 05:38 PM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:33:16 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'd upload pix but i'm sure some would be offended by them. send 'em on to me, there ain't nothin' on this earth offends me 'ceptin hate and war and injustice. I'm with the freaks all the way, have been all my life. Now I'm glad I was treated as an outcast in school, I wouldn't want to be those normal people for anything in the world. -- + Joe Hill I'll just post a url when i get them uploaded to my forum - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching
At 11:47 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: Okay, I was wrong. I've removed 3ddesktop, but I _still_ switch desktops by double-pointing to either edge of my screen. Is that some KDE feature I don't know about and maybe turned on my accident? Miark if you mean whizzing the cursor to the edge it goes to the next desktop: Yes. Enlightenment has it too...its under the KDE Options IIRC somewhere... I think i found it by rightclicking the desktop. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!
At 03:21 PM 6/19/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:02, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:57:00 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0612.barr.html can't find a link to download it... Femme's doing it to dick tease to us ... -- pffft not my fault you need viagra honey. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!
At 01:02 AM 6/19/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:57:00 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0612.barr.html can't find a link to download it... -- + Joe Hill grrr best I can / could do was find this: http://www.rtcwonline.com/modules.php?name=Downloads you need to register... but thats free to do. I'd host this for you all but I don't intend to play the game. Frankly I bought the stupid game Never play it. :| Figures huh? Sigh... if you're really super stuck i'll ISO the silly thing put it on ftp. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!
At 08:09 PM 6/19/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 18:04, FemmeFatale wrote: you need to register... but thats free to do. I'd host this for you all but I don't intend to play the game. Frankly I bought the stupid game Never play it. :| Figures huh? Sigh... if you're really super stuck i'll ISO the silly thing put it on ftp. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Ha! Got it. Dig that. Wow. Cool. (In all honesty, I would have dug down and done it all myself, but it's a great exercise as to getting help from helping hands.) Damn does it feel good to be 5 months out of the RedHat crew...(even if the help comes from a Pinko...)(grin) i can honestly say i have no idea what you're talking about. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie]OT again, Chess Game: a personal plea/whine/rant/whatever
I don't usually ask for recommendations unless i'm stuck..and well I am. This will get somewhat personal so bear with me please. I happen to have multiple learning disabilities. yehaw. made school fun. Thats beside the point though. All my life I've enjoyed chess. Problem: my logical skills suck and i have a spatial relations learning disability + ADD. Makes it extremely difficult to concentrate figure out a spatial game like chess. sigh. To top it off, I have a math disability chess is rather math oriented believe it or not...more logic but you get the idea. Anyway to make along story short: I can't beat a 5 year old at the game. Simple as that. However it was suggested to me many years ago by a person who knows alot about LD's my particular problems that chess is a good way to sort of work around my problems. Problem again: Every chess game assumes too much knowledge for me to get down to brass tacks learn it. Its fine for hte game to teach me how a rook moves for example but extending that knowledge beyond that to figuring out how to capture with it safely is hitting another LD in my fucked up brain. :( So i've only frustrated myself by trying various programs over the years to learn the damn game so I can at least play well enough to combat my LD's. In short: I Found one game many many years ago that was not freeware or free software. It was a commercial chess game narrated by some black grandmaster or other for kids. I was under the impression it was the best way for kids to learn. I looked at it very seriously because it offered what I needed. I can't remember what it was called but the grandmasters name was Maurice Something. I hope someone knows that game. If they do can you direct me to a chess teaching program like it that will help me learn the game at my own pace in such a way i won't get frustrated with it? Is that possible or asking too much? I'm not above playing a chess program for kids...it seems that would probably be more to my level. I need the whys where-fores of how to move pieces the why's of the strategy why it works or it doesn't stick in my head. I've struggled with this for many years I think I'm finally ready to try again. On a side note, having all these stupid LD's doesn't make my chosen profession easier either... i'm a jewellers Padawan Learner often spatial relations skills are necessary to do my job. Its time I learned to better myself work around my problems rather than rely on others to do it for me. Ty for reading my rant... sigh... normally by now I'd be in tears over my frustration but i'm resolved to beat this get on with my life... I just need a bit of help. A heartfelt Thank You to all who come forward to reply help. :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts
At 11:03 AM 6/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:35:15 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this worries me, I here a lot of Maxtor's failing on this list... I've noticed that too..think I've seen it on other lists also. Cust serv said This drive's proven to be very solid... right, this will be my third since December and the second was brand new replacing the original within three weeks... and now not 5 months later. . Will there be a time when no sources are available for 9.0? Of course! Go try to find anything for 8.2 right now, knowwhatimean? Being pretty new to Linux (on and off for a couple years) this surprises me, I see a lot of people still running 8.2. Guess it's time to join the Club. thanks for the advise. well i bought a WD For windows ONLY... My maxtor does linux duty. My g'f has a maxtor. No problems with either. But they bought out another company repackaged them as maxtors on the box... maybe thats the problem? That was less than ayear ago I bought mine 2 years ago... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 06:52 PM 6/19/2003 -0400, you wrote: snip Ok, never ran into this before... Ran the id software 1.41 update, copied all the pak files over from a winderz install, run the game, initializes, begins to load, then this: Sys_Error: Sys_LoadDll(ui) failed, no corresponding .so file found in fs_homepath or fs_basepath now, I notice I have a qagame.mp.i386.so, but no ...sp.i386.so. Is this the prob? any ideas? cheers! -- + Joe Hill make a copy of that file in the same dir. Then just rename it to ...sp.i386.so. That should work. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)
At 09:28 AM 6/20/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:28, Miark wrote: You should get Quake III--it really rocks rocks, using the Winblows CD with the Linux installer. Much less trouble to install than Quake II. Miark So when can I expect the QuakeIII CD to arrive, Miark? it can be on my ftp. I odn't use it anymore. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$
At 02:13 AM 6/20/2003 +0300, you wrote: Technoslick wrote: You gotta wonder about journalists that don't have feedback buttons on their articles. License to kill without accountability or remorse. There is a link for feedback at the bottom of the page. I've used it, and I recommend that we all do so. BTW, what is a crunchie? Sir Robin Crunchhead or Crunchy=programmer code cruncher - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]OT again, Chess Game: a personal plea/whine/rant/whatever
At 02:49 AM 6/20/2003 +0300, you wrote: giant snip If you're interested in developing your spatial abilities in an enjoyable way, I recommend Go. The rules are very simple, but the fact that it's based on geometric patterns on a 19x19 board makes gameplay infinitely complex. Back in the 1970s, when chess programs were starting to beat grandmasters, Go programs were still trying to make legal moves and learn basic tactics (around 1978, my brother wrote a Go program that could play legally and not do anything totally stupid on a reduced-size board, and he was very proud of it). Also as a padawan jeweller, I think you'd like the aesthetic aspect of Go- for reasons no one is sure of, the end result of a game played between two masters looks nicer than a game played between amateurs. The first Go-player I met said Sometimes I make a move just because I think a point would look good with one of my stones on it. There are Go programs and Internet clients available for Linux. Sir Robin Were I capable of having kids I'd ask you to have mine luv. :D Oh right you don't do children...oh well.. n/m then. :D Ty I shall look into Go. Heard of it. Never played it. Never seen it. Might be worth trying tho. Merci! Now I wonder if i can play it online somewhere... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......
At 11:20 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 09:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 1:50, FemmeFatale wrote: agreed... i suspect i hold the record for most reinstalls in one day fastest OS crasher in the western hemisphere...lol... and all i do is surf, email, IM um... fubar the system as much as possible. :D prepare to lose that title snip crak600: A word of warning. While I know that you're ex-USMC, that is simply not enough firepower for this battle. Maybe if you had been a battalion... -- cmg Ty for the support Curmudgeon. :D heh... FIRE IN THE HOLE! :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help
At 01:10 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:54:39 +1000 Nathan Coad [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ...me learn to type? ...me I'm being held captive by a gang of Lobsters? ...me get my car out of the ditch? -- + Joe Hill I normally don't respond to these..but this had me giggling pretty good Joe. Ty. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......
At 10:32 PM 6/16/2003 -0700, you wrote: we'll see how much damage i can do from here :) If you're anyting like the rest f us, A LOT! :) agreed... i suspect i hold the record for most reinstalls in one day fastest OS crasher in the western hemisphere...lol... and all i do is surf, email, IM um... fubar the system as much as possible. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, gaming... Screw SCO. :D
At 12:34 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:06:58 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: silly MOD IMO...tried to be realistic but you could get insane frags using just grenades. *rolls eyes* Gimme a break. Actually, I've found most people just avoid the GL for that reason, except as a tactical weapon, to fend off an overrun, but that has been a consistent criticism, granted. I mostly just play against the bots for fun now, I haven't played online in ages. I would definitely get back into it if there were some people here jumpin in. Alas, UT2K3 is a bit of a sloth on my poor system. -- + Joe Hill well my current games I play online or offline: WC3 (haven't played in a while admittedly... because... see next game) SystemShock2 (having too much fun being scared witless by this awesome game! Goddamn...it is the scariest thing i've played in many many years!) UT2K3 Jedi Knight 2 (not alot... sigh...) The serious sam series is far too tough... IMO... and just mindless. Too bad. :( hm...oh yes FireArms for Half Life. If you like UT (U. Terror) Try FA. It rocks hard w/out the spamminess of UT the You MUST have team tactics to win on pubs mentality..nor are the players all UBER L33T pricks who kick you for just trying to learn...least not where I play! Come play on Tracys Trailer Park or Eck's: The Slums! :) If you need help with the MOD or whatnot, come to Irc on gamesnet in #clanpop. We'll play...hell you can play this on a PII 200. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
At 09:29 AM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: Tango Echo wrote: Hi, I have this card and I'm using it on Gigabyte GA7VA motherboard and it is working very well. Just be sure to use the new drivers that you can get here: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html ATI is going to release new official driver this month but you can get the latest test version on zhe above URL. I think ATI Radeon 9500 is the best choice right now. It is not expensive and runs fast and it has much better image quality then nVidia solutions. -- Live long and prosper! I can't read ... german...? Nor do I see anything there for his card. Does that site give you 9700 drivers too??? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?
At 11:00 AM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: I can't read ... german...? Nor do I see anything there for his card. Does that site give you 9700 drivers too??? I also don't know how to read german but it is not hard to find the correct driver. Well I forgot to mention these are the unified drivers which are for professional ATI cards and also work for normal cards. And they work on Radeon 8500, 9000 and 9500 here so I guess they should work on 9700 just fine. Here are the direct links to drivers for different XFree86 versions: 4.1.0: http://www.schneider-digital.de/download/ati/glx1_linux_X4.1.zip 4.2.0: http://www.schneider-digital.de/download/ati/glx1_linux_X4.2.zip 4.3.0: http://www.schneider-digital.de/download/ati/glx1_linux_X4.3.zip -- Live long and prosper! Never seen unified drivers...thats what threw me off. Ty. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer
At 08:05 AM 6/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Monday June 16 2003 05:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: snip If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it isn't a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. It just needs to be burnt to a cd as an image, not a data file. .iso are just one type of image file, audio CD's are another, any OS. As has already been suggested, check the md5sum of the iso before, and the CD after burning. If those check, and the CD won't boot, most likely it's a hardware or configuration problem. For those of you who don't use windows... an FYI: Win98 later will see ANY compressed image (.iso, .rar, .zip, .tar,.bzip, .nrg... it goes on) as a COMPRESSED file. W98 should see it as a compressed file. Any OS should recognize an image file (such as .iso) as a compressed archive. They are. .tar's aren't compressed, .tar.gz's are tho. snip my point was that yes the OS is displaying its icons stuff correctly...or so it thinks..but these are minor details that will fry a newbs brain so lets not dwell on them ... my post was more of an FYI for others. And to say, don't worry about the icons themselves. :D -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT, gaming... Screw SCO. :D
At 09:27 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:56:16 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: snip hm...oh yes FireArms for Half Life. If you like UT (U. Terror) Try FA. It rocks hard w/out the spamminess of UT the You MUST have team tactics to win on pubs mentality..nor are the players all UBER L33T pricks who kick you for just trying to learn...least not where I play! Come play on Tracys Trailer Park or Eck's: The Slums! :) If you need help with the MOD or whatnot, come to Irc on gamesnet in #clanpop. We'll play...hell you can play this on a PII 200. :D Sorry, don't have Windows, don't use WineX. For me, it's native or nothing, ie. Id Software basically. -- + Joe Hill there are OTHER ppl on this list you know Joe, :D wasn't meant just for you..heh. but thats fine. :) Too bad ut2k3 doesn't work for you. I wish it did. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS ?
At 09:57 AM 6/17/2003 +0100, you wrote: Snip I would have thought using M$ partitioning tools was the safest way of shrinking a ntfs partition? As for the rest, the free space could be left as such for linux, or, more usefully, a fat32 partition made for data exchange, which is what I was recommending, leaving the rest for linux. snip Anne yes you'd think so... what i found was that in my experimenting M$'s partitioning tools do not follow any sort of logical standard for its allocation tables. Figures huh? It seems to wish to somehow put the tables on sectors parts where most other OSes don't expect them. I assume this is so because windows is programmed to presume it will be the only OS on the system. This results in data corruption if your other OS lands on that sector! GAH! not good... PM avoids this by analyzing existing sectors clusters then landing the new sectors for your partition one sector over from the one M$ would overwrite/use. Smart but it makes windows think later (if you try their GUIed partitioner) that something is wrong. MDK Does the same thing as PM PM then in turn will find an error MDK made try to correct it if you let it! MDK in my experience is the most useful so far in that its partitoning tools seems more intelligent. M$'s partitioning tools don't find that same error after an MDK sector swap session. Dunno why exactly...haven't figured that out...but i'm guessing MDK Is made to imitate Windows or fool it somehow, where PM isn't made to do that for / with windows other OSes involved. PHEW! sorry to ramble just never tried to get all that thought out on paper before. :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......
At 09:56 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 1:50, FemmeFatale wrote: agreed... i suspect i hold the record for most reinstalls in one day fastest OS crasher in the western hemisphere...lol... and all i do is surf, email, IM um... fubar the system as much as possible. :D prepare to lose that title as i'm completely clueless when it comes to any form of programmingi know how to install programs in windows and that's about it! i didn't have mandrake installed on the computer for more than an hour (and was only actually IN mandrake for maybe 20 minutes) and i got it all screwed up! i'm learningand now that i got AIM up, i don't need to go back to windows as much :) *giggles* let the battle begin! he who can fook his comp up as much as possible wins! now the fun part is unfooking w/out reinstalling... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
At 09:59 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 7:36, g wrote: i am curious, you never mentioned, did you ever run md5 on 1st dl's. no, never ran MD5. i looked into the program and got that uhhh feeling, as in one of those...what do i do with THAT?! i think most of the origonal problems were just user error though. grab MDSummer for windows. works great it allows you to MD5 stuff from an environment you're familiar with. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Multiple boot
At 11:27 PM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi, snips All this is experimenting and on a spare drive so if I have to reinstall everything OK fine - I have the time and thats how I learn. Thanks Johan . May this be a good day for learning This is older but its still relevant... i've attached 3 text files (List Goddesses forgive me...) for you. It was put on this list 2 years ago ... some by a guy named Civilme which may help you understand how to do what it is you wish. I had the same question back then. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:54 pm, Russ wrote: HI All, I actually have 2 questions here: 1. What is the difference between the different distros? They are all Linux aren't they? Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Mandrake start out as Red Hat? 2. If a person wanted to run different flavors on one drive, what would be the best way to partition that drive? Could they all share the swap partition? What about the partition that holds all user data? Thanks Russ swap and /home can be shared. /boot should be shared. keep separate /, /usr /var, and /opt partitions The big trick is to load one first. I suggest mandrake, then on the second one, SKIP the bootloader. You will find various kernels and initrd.img files in /boot. You need to use the boot configurator in Mandrake Control Center to add the other boot. I generally insist that the two do not see each other. That is not hard to do, as Mandrake offers more filesystem options than any other. RH would call most of them invalid filesystems. Yes Mandrake 5.2 was RH on steroids with KDE. Mandrake 5.3, the first commercial version, was very nice and not too much different from the RH code base. 6.0 and on were beginning real divergences, but still about 95% of the RH rpms will install and run on Mandrake GNU/Linux. The biggest difference in distros is the character: 1. Caldera keeps most of its own developed source code closed and charges per-seat license fees. 2. SuSE has closed source installer and configuration programs (YaST similar) and its servers for update are all its own (usually choked). You pay for the most recent version or wait a while for downloads to be made available. 3. RH has adopted Mandrake's cooker philosophy partially in their rawhide, but I think you will note the difference immediately if you ask this question on their mail help lists (have an extinguisher handy). 4. Debian has the most onerous packaging requirements and the strictest submission requirements of all the distros. They are usually seriously out of date with their stable releases and their install is very exacting in terms of steps and the longest around in terms of user time (short of rolling your own). On the Other hand, the precision of their packaging requirements produces a very very silky smooth update experience as long as you don't update the kernel. 5. Slackware is strange in its booting for those used to SystemV, and uses tar.gz tarballs for packaging its programs. It is revered as a geek's linux and some use it in preference to other distros as a matter of ego or demonstrating their prowess. It is a solid distro, because thewy basically all are pretty solid. 6. RedmondLinux and Lycoris are recent arrivals combining Windows lookNfeel (and somewhat windows lack of security) with linux complexity. 7. MandrakeLinux is the major distro supporting Free Software. The distro is ready for download the same day it is being sent for pressing for boxed sets. The boxed sets add support and some features and software packages not totally free software to the basic distro. As you can see, the Support Mailing lists are free and open without a lot of flaming. Friendliness and the extra effort to make things a little easier on the user are the hallmarks of Mandrake YES the base is the GNU/linux operating system--the linux kernel with the GNU software utilities--in all those cases. FreeBSD is one distro based on another fairly stable op system similar in command structure, but with a license that allows commercial exploitation of the base. Distros differ in features and packages. Mandrake has over 2000 programs within just the free version. I hope that answers your questions at least a little--there are ways programs are packaged as binaries that differ, (dpkg, rpm, tarball) and ways that the commerce is regulated (free software-proprietary software), among the distros. Mandrake is the one that is made by a few staff and many volunteers, at least in terms of packaging the programs that go within it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Anne, To your last question...yes. The vmlinuz file is the kernel. You now have two specific kernel
Re: [newbie] NTFS ?
At 05:55 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:30:43 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smart but it makes windows think later (if you try their GUIed partitioner) that something is wrong. Just a comment/warning here. I have, without problem, on various systems used PM, SysCom, or diskdrake to partition numerous hds. The important note to remember is that though they all do the same job each will do so 'slightly' different manner. You may use any tool avaiable to format an existing partition but, unless you wish to repartition the entire drive use Only 1 partitioning program and use this program Every time on this hd. Any other program will see errors on the drive. Worse yet is that if you let it 'fix' these errors you are screwed. Charles Ty Charles...you're saying what I was trying to get across. heh Much obliged. :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......
At 06:05 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 15:41, FemmeFatale wrote: *giggles* let the battle begin! he who can fook his comp up as much as possible wins! now the fun part is unfooking w/out reinstalling... if the rules involve that (fixing w/out re-installing) then you win. i'm not going to compete lol Grasshoppers not been paying attention obviously... i've fubarred my system so badly i had no choice but to reinstall... believe me I tried...for like days.! :D - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
At 08:01 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: grab MDSummer for windows. works great it allows you to MD5 stuff from an environment you're familiar with. Where do you find that? -- Brant Fitzsimmons google for it is the simplest thing..if you come up blank just email me offlist - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems
At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: SNIP Anyone with any suggestions would be appreciated. As it is, as much as I HATE to do it, I am going to try to download Redhat ISO's in the hopes that they support higher end hardware a little better. I don't know what else to do after 2 days of trying to get Mandrake to work. I have time this week (Finally! after a week of Leather Gay Pride events..) so I will mess with my own setup Post here to let you know... i haven't followed this thread at all so i don't know if what i can/will do will help. I have an ATI card, a gig of RAM...so we are sorta in the same boat I gather...cept for video. I'll keep you posted. :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
At 11:32 AM 6/16/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Technoslick, Sunday, June 15, 2003, 7:31:07 AM, you wrote: snipped the parrots wings I found this on the net, as a starter: When Microsoft developed NetMeeting 3.0 they chose to use the existing h.323 video conferencing protocol. This protocol happens to be completely incompatible with standard NAT(network address translation) - the technology used for most internet sharing devices. Unlike most TCP/IP applications, NetMeeting uses DYNAMIC PORTS instead of STATIC PORTS.snip So - it does not seem to be generally useful, and introduced a new batch of security problems. Too bad. It sounded good. :-) -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rikona has hit it. ICQ does this as well it seems as if you look on the net ICQ tries to use / request (I joke not) 64,000 *yes THOUSAND* Ports! jesus... no wonder IT security guys hate ICQ. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS ?
At 10:27 PM 6/16/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips some grass smokes I don't know xp - never used it - but w2k had a partitioning tool built in IIRC. If it's still there in windows, see if you can create your fat32 partition there. Anne NOO DO NOT EVER USE M$ partitioning tools! EVER! esp. not for linux stuff ... that POS SUCKS! use PM if you must (get pm8 if you can or 7)... yes and you can resize your NTFS with that... for now if you're new to partitioning, DO NOT use MDK's ability to do so you will likely fubar your system. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTFS ?
At 10:02 PM 6/16/2003 +, you wrote: snips some leaves You won't be able to install linux on an NTFS partition - linux can read NTFS but writing is unreliable. You'll need to use some partioning tool to resize your NTFS partition so linux can be installed. I used partition magic pro - it can create Linux Ext2 partitions. Just make sure you back up your data first. Nathan PM sucks for EXT2 Partitioning...if you must, make a blank set of partitions for linux let MDK write the filesystem. PM's partitioning scheme isn't very good or efficient. Fair warning: PM will etll you later your partitions are corrupt if you follow my method. IGNORE IT! DO NOT let it fix this problem it perceives or you will lose your linux info. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
At 06:50 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: In trying to setup a full chat session with a friend (that is, peer-to-peer, not using the ICQ servers), she was able to statically open 1024 and away we went. For a full chat session, that's probably all that's needed, but you are also doing file-sharing this way? What ports are you opening? port 5000 or 8000? My Linksys is a BEFSR41. Four fully Switched ports, Cable Modem or DSL capable. If I can figure out how to get Linux to use the Port Triggering, I'll let you know. T I can't get the damn router to do port triggering nevermind the OS itself. i've got: Use the following ports to listen for incoming connections: FROM: 20001 TO: 20019 yes i do filesharing. I jsut then opened that range on the router. Done. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?
At 07:40 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:32:07 -0500 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Maybe we could redraw it , change the eagle to a buzzard wearing glasses with a bill gates kinda face, with the microshaft logo on each wing and change the mouse to a penguin with a Gatling gun or maybe just draw the mouse wearing a Linux T shirt I think I could get my hands on a pic of Tux holding the Quake 3 rocket launcher. Tux giving the finger would be the coup de grace though, I would kill for that one. I have the one of him with the RL. And one of him sucking a drinkbox with M$ Sucks on its side. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems
At 07:42 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:01:56 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: after a week of Leather Gay Pride events Those are always a heap of fun. We have a pretty big one in Toronto every year. Ever been? -- Unfortunately in all the years I lived there, no. :( Sigh - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
