Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:23:58 up 48 days, 15:31, 7 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:26:16 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, _do not_ require hardware acceleration. Sorry, only speaking from personal experience. DVD's or AVI's will not play, at least not full screen anyhow, unless I'm using hardware acceleration, ie. the nvidia driver. Like you always say, YMMV ;-) I stand corrected. Just tested it with the nv driver, and the DVD did play, fullscreen and all. I must have been thinking of trying to play movies with my onboard video chip (crap) before I got my GF. Sorry :-( -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:43:46 up 48 days, 15:50, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.08 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:58:17 up 47 days, 20:05, 7 users, load average: 0.11, 0.16, 0.35 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: I've managed to prune my mail folders from 1500mb down to about 200mb but have yet to get it lower... How easy is the upgrade process from 10.0 to 10.1 without destroying the data?? As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by default AFAIK. This should go for most if not all of your 'data', depending on how you have your disk partitioned. Always back up your data anyway, YMMV, etc., etc. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:40:31 up 41 days, 16:46, 7 users, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.01 +++ We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 18:42:36 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: 80 gig of mp3s ??!! I sense 'eclectic' musical tastes... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:34:59 up 41 days, 17:41, 7 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01 +++ He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:03:17 +0200 Duncan Anderson disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... Ha! Maybe the dubya-fans-us-uber-alles list was over-subscribed and Mandrakeot collected the spillage? Careful now, they're awfully sensitive. Let's not see a friendly joke turn into a flamewar. I've never been a part of that, and never will be. Um, well, okay, there was this *one* time...EG -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:38:56 up 40 days, 21:45, 7 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 +++ Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:41:48 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Everyone is intitled to their own opinion. Even if it is wrong. BWAH! Busted! Check the date foo' ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:12:34 up 39 days, 16:18, 7 users, load average: 0.14, 0.10, 0.02 +++ We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:57:04 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: My guess is that it was a bit of astroturfing by a paid shill. The sig and website are provided merely to add credibility and make it look real. Keep diggin', Greg, maybe you'll strike gold! LOL! I love it Josenildo, keep up the good work. Seems some of the Uber Geeks on the list need some time off... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:16:30 up 39 days, 16:22, 7 users, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.02 +++ Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:19:32 up 39 days, 16:25, 7 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.01 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:51:43 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. You don't need to look at the date, look at the OP. Anyone else I mighta believed it, but not JM, man, no way. That's why I'm surprised a coupla 'old timers' got caught. Heh. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:21:31 up 39 days, 16:27, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 +++ He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] back to Windows
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:47:50 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: This should be fun to follow OTH remember Abbie Hoffman wound up as a Wall Street Stockbroker ...you *do* realize it's another 'April Fools', no? Quote: Articles: Humor Microsoft joins OSDL, frees Linux of liability They spelled 'humour' wrong, but you get the idea ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:17:24 up 39 days, 20:23, 7 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:06:22 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: EPA I'm assuming you mean *ETA*, though I'm sure the *EPA* would be concerned about Aron's 'coasters' filling up the landfills, eh? Anyhow, good to know about April 6th. Gonna start backin' up my home dir tomorrow :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:24:48 up 39 days, 20:30, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:45:48 -0600 Tom disseminated the following: Might be easier to get RC2 now an upgrade it Me run a Cooker box? Despite my bravado regarding Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, I am, shall we say 'fearful', to run Cooker on my one and only desktop. An aging P3 desktop at that :-( -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:10:26 up 39 days, 22:16, 7 users, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.03 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Quicktime video
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:20:30 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? depends on whether yer talking about a stream or a file. If it's a stream, you can snag the mplayer plugin for moz/firefox here: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:48:55 up 37 days, 21:54, 7 users, load average: 0.37, 0.86, 0.86 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:56:59 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: system acting weird again No, KDE is acting normally. Fer fsck's sake, man, yer a rebel, a 'don't take no shit' Southern man (I think), start acting like one and use a different freakin' WM! Sheesh. Have you ever, even *once*, seen someone with complaints like this 'KMail won't open, Konsole won't open (why the *fsck* does one need KDEinit to open a terminal??!!), KWhatever is locking up...' who uses something other than KDE and its conglomeration of bloated 'user friendly' apps? No. It don't happen. You are wasting resources, time, and missing out on a whole lot more fun with all the alternatives out there. Anyhow, that's my anti-KDE rant for the month. Thank you all for coming. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:33:11 up 33 days, 21:38, 7 users, load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:18 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out later, very nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can see a shot of it on my site. http://kymatica.com/software.html -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:28:30 up 27 days, 20:33, 7 users, load average: 0.15, 0.22, 0.45 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:15:52 +0100
Björn Lundin disseminated the following:
What do people use for making music cds from mp3s?
if you like the cli, make wavs with this script,
You do need sox and mpg123.
from there burn the wavs as usual
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/music/tools/mp32wav
#!/bin/bash
# mp32wav
BASENAME=${1%%.mp3}
mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
$BASENAME.wav
LAME has always worked very well in this regard for me, I have these in my
.bashrc
# mp3 functions
function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv $i `echo $i | tr ' '
'_'`;done; }
function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav;
done; }
First one removes spaces in the filenames and converts to LC, second converts to
WAV.
Watch the line-wrap and the back-ticks :-)
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19:12:09 up 27 days, 21:17, 8 users, load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.02
+++
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respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:48:59 -0600
Mikkel L. Ellertson disseminated the following:
# mp3 functions
function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv $i `echo $i | tr ' '
'_'`;done; }
function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i
.mp3`.wav;
done; }
First one removes spaces in the filenames and converts to LC, second
converts to
WAV.
Watch the line-wrap and the back-ticks :-)
Wouldn't something like:
function mp3dec() { for i in *.mp3 ;
do lame --decode $i `basename \$i\ .mp3`.wav ;
done; }
handle names with spaces in them?
Oh, probably. You would know better than I. I copied these bits of code from the
Deadman.org site IIRC. Personally, I like my MP3 files to be renamed anyhow, for
future CLI functions. Filenames with spaces are a pain in the arse.
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20:36:09 up 27 days, 22:41, 7 users, load average: 0.15, 0.13, 0.26
+++
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and
bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and
oil with hate and fear in our hearts. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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[newbie] Synchronizing PalmOS devices with Linux
Thought this might interest some people: Quote: Smart handheld devices or personal digital assistants (PDA) extend our access to the information on our desktops, from addresses to telephone numbers. Unfortunately, when it comes to vendor support for synchronizing this information with a *nix operating system, the options are limited. In this article, we'll review the various GPL-based suites available for synchronizing PalmOS-based devices with Linux. http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/10/174221 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:41:32 up 25 days, 19:46, 7 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:13:58 up 25 days, 20:18, 7 users, load average: 1.13, 1.19, 0.79 +++ Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:36:40 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: sylpheed2-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Yer doin' this just to tempt me to up to 10.1, admit it...admit it! Aaaarrggghh the pressure...can barely resist... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:04:52 up 23 days, 22:09, 7 users, load average: 1.18, 1.26, 1.27 +++ Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:27:44 -0500 Miark disseminated the following: What's the difference between Sylpheed2 and Sylpheed Claws 1.0.3? GTK2. Perty. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:32:59 up 23 days, 22:37, 7 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.35 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:16 -0700 joe disseminated the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found Did you try 'urpmi urpmi'? ...just kidding :-))) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:16:52 up 18 days, 16:20, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.13, 0.04 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:03:18 -0500 Bob Read disseminated the following: [snip] Bush = US government Graham Graham, your equation is out of balance by roughly: 1 = 200,000,000+ If we're not doing the job properly, then blame us -- not our hired help. That's assuming you actually 'hired' him ;-) As Josef Stalin said, it matters not who casts the ballots, only who counts them. In any case, when was the last time a politician did what he said to get elected, in Canada, the US, Europe, or anywhere else for that matter. For my part, people are people everywhere you go, we're all equally guilty as not when it comes to shenanigans like software patents. One's responsibility for just laws and behaviour doesn't end when they vote. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:02:48 up 17 days, 16:06, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.02 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Some Fun from Groklaw
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050225155855922 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:14:12 up 17 days, 22:18, 7 users, load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.19 +++ We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] The Devil is in the Details
Quote: Microsoft Corp. is acquiring Groove Networks Inc., whose category-leading software helps far-flung business people collaborate, and bestowing the title of chief technical officer on Groove's founder and chief executive, Ray Ozzie. ... The software is a central component in the Bush administration's Homeland Security Information Network, a primary vehicle for U.S. agencies, organizations and corporations to share important but unclassified information about national security threats. Link: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D88OBT880.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down Things that make you go: 'hm'. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:46:15 up 17 days, 22:50, 7 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.07 +++ We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] licq-1.2.6-3mdk.i586.rpm.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:12:29 + Tahir Abdullah disseminated the following: I appreciate any guidance See here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Need more help, write back. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 01:43:52 up 18 days, 3:47, 8 users, load average: 0.61, 0.85, 0.66 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:21:52 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: So friends, that was it : forget about software development in Europe. Kaj Haulrich. I'm not surprised at all, it would have been at this meeting or the next meeting or the next or the next.Politicians can be bought and the EU ones in particular. I'm not surprised there's no Dutch stance either, they've been the ones working in the background pushing MS. Dutch EU politician Bolkestein up front taking care of their rightsHe's right wing BTW and thankfully been pushed offstage as of short. Don't ever forget that the EU is not a democratic organisation, it's built upon the European Steel and Coal Union..a multinational affair.Unification is good but not solely on economic terms. Just a side note, this European Steel and Coal Union is *not* in any sense to be confused with an organization of workers for collective bargaining. It is more accurately described as a 'cartel'. I bring this up because it is only through democratic organization that software developers and users will defeat this cash grab by greedy mercantilist rats. As you and Kaj and others have pointed out, this is not going to happen by marking an 'X' on a ballot next to the name of some grifter who's supposed to 'represent' you. The people do not need to be spoken for, their voice may be heard loud and clear should their will be so. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:00:25 up 14 days, 22:03, 9 users, load average: 0.30, 0.10, 0.03 +++ Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Finally, Denmark gets it right
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:53:40 +0100 Paul disseminated the following: Kaj ... ... that is really really good news, I would be proud too Luckily most of the government here in the netherlands agrees also, that brussels should not push the software patent issue through despite all opposition. A motion to oppose to it has been accepted unanymously last thursday. So that would make 3 against already. :-) All together now...'The times, they are 'a changin'...!' -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:28:53 up 13 days, 11:32, 9 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01 +++ We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are whores for power and oil with hate and fear in our hearts. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi query
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:35:28 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: I presume this means that a source has become messed up somehow. What do I have to do to get it put right? Well, this may not be the 'best' sol'n, but try removing and adding the source again. I had to do this a little while ago because apparently something had changed on his end. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:28:22 up 12 days, 11:31, 9 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00 +++ Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:50:54 +0100 Kasper Thunoe disseminated the following: Aron Smith disseminated the following: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? BTW, who the hell are all those people on #mandrake?? I didn't recognize one name from the list... got a lot of newbies ;-D XChat is by far the best client. Thats what I think anyways :-) @ Aron Joe: What are your irc nicks? just joehill pour moi, I would assume Aron's is 'buttmuncher' or somesuch... /ducks Anyhow, I was just checkin' it out, I don't have a lot of time to spend on idle chat. Wife, two young'uns, you know the drill. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:19:11 up 10 days, 20:22, 10 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.01 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:44:09 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: it's aron ...what happened to 'smitty'? I always kinda liked that. Has that down-home, hangin' out at the general store, smokin' a big bunch o' bionic chronic kinda thang... Anyhow, you knows I's kiddin' ya, ya big galoot :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:13:32 up 10 days, 21:16, 10 users, load average: 0.15, 0.07, 0.01 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100 Stefan Tulak disseminated the following: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. Shite, I never got that kinda stimulation out of it. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:17:24 up 10 days, 21:20, 10 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.02 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 02:16:07 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Sorry for my bad English.. Holy crap, Kaj, it was just a joke. Sorry if it offended anyone. It wasn't in any way meant to make fun of someone's linguistic abilities, one way or the other. Just a play on words that to one person mean one thing, but can be interpreted so differently by another, of course coming out of a differences in syntactictal formations between languages. Anyhow, sorry again, didn't intend any malice, and I'll be more careful in the future not to exploit such opportunities for my own laffs, okay? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:44:08 up 10 days, 22:47, 10 users, load average: 0.29, 0.82, 0.76 +++ Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:02:45 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? ...just to be original: BitchX Looks kewl in a transparent term, esp if you can toggle the window border and decor (...it's just floating on your desktop...oh so l33t :-))) It's CLI, but it's no more difficult to use than X-Chat for the basic commands, ie. /server, /channel, etc. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:13:49 up 9 days, 21:16, 10 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 +++ Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] GNOME open file manager in same window
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:40:48 +0530 Antony Paul disseminated the following: Thanks I set up it using gconf-editor. Neither gconf nor GConf is in my system. It is really annoying to open multiple windows and to find the windows in the task bar. Which is why you ought to try out ROX: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ Available thru urpmi, easy to configure, much more customizable than Nautilus, and it doesn't chew up your memory and CPU just so you can browse your home dir... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:30:11 up 9 days, 21:33, 10 users, load average: 0.18, 0.18, 0.09 +++ He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IRC Client
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:02:45 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: anybody have a recommendation for a good newbie friendly IRC client? BTW, who the hell are all those people on #mandrake?? I didn't recognize one name from the list... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:52:18 up 9 days, 21:55, 10 users, load average: 0.22, 0.10, 0.03 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sneaking Software Patents in the back door...
Quote: Europe, are you watching? FT.com has the jaw-dropping story about European futures exchanges, brokers and traders preparing for patent infringement claims from Trading Technologies, a US software company, natch, located in Chicago -- where else? -- which has hit on what it appears to view as a pot of gold for itself by obtaining two patents on its MD Trader software product in August of 2004, patents it is now aggressively enforcing. It settled [PDF] two patent infringement cases [PDF] already, under circumstances some are questioning, for some licensing dough, and it is currently suing eSpeed, the electronic arm of Cantor Fitzgerald. eSpeed just had one of its patents ruled invalid in a patent infringement lawsuit it brought in July of 2003, after getting the patent in May, so it's been playing the patent game too. Game? It's like musical chairs. You may also recall eSpeed's Wagner patent. And they say *Linux* needs to grow up. TT has suggested to the four main futures exchanges ___- two in Chicago and two in Europe, Euronext.Liffe and Eurex ___- that they should cross its palm with silver to keep it from launching patent infringement lawsuits against them. Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050223205453141 Just what Capitalists love to do, sit around doing absolutely nothing and watch the money roll in. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:46:08 up 6 days, 19:48, 10 users, load average: 1.35, 1.41, 1.36 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beware, Firefox is a spyware :)
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:48:54 +0700 Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: Not really surprising? :) http://www.techimage.net/files/antispyware.png That is not just dishonest scaremongering, it is potentially libelous. But of course we all know how intensely successful the courts have been at reigning in one of the worst examples of corporate criminality (excepting murderous thugs like Bechtel, Halliburton et al). Best is to just sit back and laugh as M$ leaves skid marks on the bowl. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:45:52 up 5 days, 20:48, 10 users, load average: 0.20, 0.36, 0.72 +++ He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] accessing windows shared drives
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:39:47 -0500 Christopher Taylor disseminated the following: I have recently aquired a pc and have installed Mandrake 10.1. I want to keep my old XP box on the network and use the drives. Within XP I set the drives to be shared. How would I access them through the linux box. One drive is fat32 and the other is NTFS. Having the ntfs drive read-only is acceptable. Thanks. Personally, I use LinNeighbourhood to browse and mount shares, though you must have the Samba client installed. You can use LinNeighbourhood to export a 'mountscript' and then bind that script to a key set or to an icon. In the end, looks something like this: #! /bin/sh # SMB mount script # created by LinNeighborhood smbmount //NODE2/backup /home/joehill/mnt/NODE2/backup/ -o username= Then of course to unmount: #! /bin/sh # SMB mount script # created by LinNeighborhood smbumount /home/joehill/mnt/NODE2/backup/ This way, you don't have to fire up LinNeighbourhood or some other app every time you want to mount a remote share, you just hit a coupla keys and yer in. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:26:31 up 5 days, 21:29, 10 users, load average: 0.14, 0.04, 0.03 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Who can you trust?
Quote: Intellectual property attorney and open source advocate Larry Rosen has issued a call to action to the free and open source software communities on what is yet another battle against reasonable and non-discriminatory patent standards. The offending body this time is the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a consortium of big tech companies including Dell, IBM, Oracle, and Novell; big end users like General Motors, Xerox, and the American Bar Association; and universities and government agencies. Link: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/22/2027219 IBM? Novell? Committed to F/OSS my ass, the bottom line always comes first with the corps. Note the lawyers are in there like a fly on shite too, lot's of potential litigation there, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:59:45 up 2 days, 23:02, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:30:15 +0200 Paul disseminated the following: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html Didn't the US authorities do something because they cut out Netscape, and the European authorities because they cut out RealAudio? Some people never learn. Don't worry, they're only shooting themselves in the foot with this one. It's going to piss more people off than any who would say 'oh, well, back to Windows'. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:42:05 up 48 days, 3:24, 7 users, load average: 0.26, 0.18, 0.06 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:52:22 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. Well Joe, first and foremost : EUrabia will never be united. On the contrary, it is decaying rapidly. Exactly like its predecessor, the Soviet Union. Hey, no argument there. All authoritarian regimes are doomed to failure, according to the SNAFU principle, dare I post it again: http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html 'United' doesn't have to mean under the current EU model, though. I meant it in a more general sense. Thirdly, the present Patent issue is just delayed, not removed. No matter what the various parliaments (including the EU Parliament) decides, the Politburo doesn't care one bit. Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia etc.. still owns the Commissars, the Eurocrats and politicians. Again, no argument, but it at least shows that there is enough vocal opposition amongst 'the people' to snap some of these autocrats out of their blissful reverie. That in and of itself, you are correct, is not enough though. The best way to defeat authority, in the end, is simply to ignore it. Let MS patent everything they want, the hackers that started this F/OSS thang will, as they always have, simply route around the obstacles, and the users will keep on comin' on over to a better deal. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:43:19 up 45 days, 7:25, 8 users, load average: 1.10, 1.23, 1.27 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:34:13 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: And *he * says that the OT list is opinionated. No, no, I said it was a 'shithole'. Don't misquote me ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:58:55 up 45 days, 9:40, 8 users, load average: 0.57, 0.17, 0.13 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] US Patents coming to a place near you...
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:12:31 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Anyway, the EU doesn't have a head (=brain) Apparently some of them do: Quote: The Commission regrets very much that the software patent will not be on the agenda. It has been removed, Commission spokesman Olivier Drewes told a news conference. Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050211133435297 'Course, the US of Microsoft wasn't all too happy about that: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050215071109231 It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:19:01 up 44 days, 8:00, 8 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.01 +++ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power -- Benito Mussolini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] You probably already know this
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:56 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: In 10.1 if you hit the left Win$ux key you will bring up the Srar menu in KDE Heh. Soon people won't even be able to tell whether they're using Win or Lin. 'Cept for the crashin' and burnin' and viruses and worms and spyware and... Never mind. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:28:05 up 44 days, 9:09, 8 users, load average: 0.32, 0.12, 0.06 +++ Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-Claws
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:41:53 + Lee Wiggers disseminated the following: Any thoughts? Let Fetchmail do the work of Popping in the background, then import the mail from your local spool? Little more involved than Bjorn's suggestion, but I just really like Fetchmail. :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:21:00 up 42 days, 23:02, 8 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.00 +++ The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RIP Microsoft
Quote: But when was the last time you thought about Microsoft, except in frustration or anger? Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655page=3 We can only hope... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:56:22 up 43 days, 9:37, 8 users, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.06 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:21:32 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. It's already installed but what are you using as file manager because I don't like much the XFCE one. ROX! Homepage: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ It's available thru urpmi (though I prefer to install it as a user in my home dir instead, easier to tweak), along with a lot of goodies to go with it. It's the best file manager on the planet. See the 'Software Index for a list of the available software that makes ROX, er, rock :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:23:35 up 42 days, 5:05, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.20, 0.18 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:03:02 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. Nomex nitie? Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:50:57 up 41 days, 9:32, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.06 +++ Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:18:25 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. Er, yer talkin 'bout ARON here mate. Limited creativity. He's stuck in a rut. And a rut ain't nuthin but a grave with both ends kicked out. Just tryin' to impart some good ol' Canuck wisdom on them thar 'mericans, as per usual. Futile effort, I know, but there's a fine line between hope and delusion, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:53:36 up 41 days, 9:34, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.06 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:05:06 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: What's going wrong here? You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Use Firefox to go here: http://www.eslrahc.com/ add Charles as a source and urpmi xfce Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. I'm pleased to see that 10.2 is going to come with XFCE4! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:09:56 up 41 days, 9:51, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.05 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:57:07 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? My wife has a red line where her left breast used to be. Ya. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:15:36 up 41 days, 9:56, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.07 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:17:10 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: My wife has a red line where her left breast used to be. Ya. Holy mufuckin' shite, that was meant to be offlist, please disregard. *Please* -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:26:16 up 41 days, 10:07, 6 users, load average: 0.22, 0.05, 0.03 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:33:19 +0200 Marek Pawinski disseminated the following: What command must be given to subscribe to the list ? Well, it's not a 'command', but you'd get about the same results. Just put the barrel of a gun in your mouth and... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:36:08 up 40 days, 8:17, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.23, 0.11 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:31:46 + Paul Smith disseminated the following: Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: So, either wget -r . http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ or wget -r . ftp://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ ...whichever suits your purpose. Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget? urpmi gwget or gwget2 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:33:08 up 40 days, 8:14, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.20, 0.08 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:50:19 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:58:28 up 40 days, 9:39, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.11 +++ There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -- Buddha Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Task Manager
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:03:34 -0800 Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores disseminated the following: As a old Windows user, I find really useful the Windows' Task Manager utility, where I can close applications, check resources, etc. I actually don't know if there is a similar application already developed, but I'm willing to make one, based on the /proc files and kernel stuff. However, this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... Um, 'top'? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:22:44 up 37 days, 9:03, 7 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.06 +++ Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Task Manager
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:28:00 -0500 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: I like gnome-system-monitor although I am sure there are others as well. Like the ROX app 'System': http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/System ...and I just did a 'urpmq --fuzzy rox', and it's available through urpmi as 'rox-system'. Lot's of other goodies in there too :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:14:03 up 37 days, 10:54, 7 users, load average: 0.35, 0.09, 0.03 +++ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Gandhi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USA ISP's complicit in spam: SpamHaus
Quote: MCI is the only American, and indeed only Western network, where this spam support activity is 'not against our policy,' the Spamhaus report said. Spamhaus maintains that MCI's 'protected speech' excuses for servicing known spam gangs and proxy spamware distribution sites are dishonest and non-sensical in the face of the Internet's spam epidemic. Link: http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3469091 Spamhaus article: http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=158 Once again, profit wins out over ethics. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:43:21 up 34 days, 8:23, 8 users, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.06 +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:22:48 -0600 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: eric, I don't feel it was a big problem, I only received the out of office reply one time. Not worth unsubbing him. IMHO Ya, weird, me too. I wonder if it only sends one automated reply to each address. If so, thank $DEITY, that would be one hell of a flood of unnecessary mails. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 10:05:59 up 30 days, 22:46, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP refresh command?
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:44:50 -0500 Stuart R. Fuller disseminated the following: So, ifconfig eth0 up will cause the DHCP client process to request a new address? It *should* receive a new address in a short time anyhow, as soon as you plug it into a network with a server broadcasting DHCP. However, this would just give it a kickstart, as soon as the network device comes 'up' it will receive the DHCP broadcast and say 'ya, I need an address and gateway and all that'. IIANM. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 13:29:36 up 31 days, 2:09, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.11, 0.12 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:28:57 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Don't bother looking here : http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=104575catId=100276tid=18p=1 And here I thought the Aussies were bright :-( This is one of my favourite parts: We___d also like to see inbuilt antivirus software in all operating systems ___ the tested operating systems don___t currently include a virus checker. ...and this would serve *what* purpose on a Desktop Linux or Mac system? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:57:59 up 31 days, 7:38, 6 users, load average: 0.82, 0.71, 0.35 +++ Behind every great fortune is a crime. -- Balzac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:47:43 -0800 jdow disseminated the following: And here I thought the Aussies were bright :-( Stephen and Franki : don't you have asylums down under ? Kaj Haulrich. The criteria were somewhat weak. But given that it was a journalist who did the tests and installs it is fair to consider him to be more of a talking head mentality than a technoid mentality. That is fair, too. He was performing his tests for Aunt Tilly not for the average highly computer literate technoid such as we are or are approaching as a state of being. ...none of which excuses a journalist from misinforming people. As you point out, the author make an egregious error in not properly comparing the different OS's from a security standpoint. If one wants to merely journalise ones own experiences for anecdotal interest, that's one thing, but to put on the appearance that they had actually done some research, and have clearly not done so, is disingenuous. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:17:04 up 31 days, 7:57, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.14 +++ It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth... -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IP refresh command?
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:32:36 -0500 Hugh Crissman disseminated the following: I have searched high and low but can't find the command to refresh my dhcp configured ip address. Often I find myself moving from one network to the next and I don't want to reboot my laptop every time I want to acquire a new ip on the new network. What shell command will do this for me? 'ifconfig down', then 'ifconfig up' should do it. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:32:16 up 30 days, 4:12, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:24:27 -0500 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: Don't the list rules require that Mr. Lane send a case of good stuff to each of who received an out-of-office message? Case? I'm thinkin' Zip-Loc bag, but that's just me... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 12:51:28 up 29 days, 1:31, 7 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] interesting news story
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:40:16 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software http://tinyurl.com/5hezf Now why would those poor starving people want to miss out on this?: http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/28.html#a209 It's not going to matter. MS Windows is going to get pirated no matter what MS does, and it only strengthens the F/OSS stance. ...I think you missed the best part of the article, mate: So we're not talking about people who were trying to rip off Microsoft. Instead, an awful lot of people who paid their money for Windows in good faith are going to discover that somebody along the line - a distributor, a reseller, an OEM -- cheated them. They are just as much victims of the counterfeiters as Microsoft. More actually, because they were in less of a position to defend themselves. Perhaps we should call them Windows' Genuinely Disadvantaged. *That's* what's going to drive people to F/OSS, the fact that not only do they have to contend with malicious script kiddies and the headaches *they* cause, but now MS itself is going to be giving 'honest' people headaches more than their OS already does (if that's possible). But wait, it get's better: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160791 MS hasn't got a foot left to shoot off, they're up to a messy stump on both legs. Either that or Ballmer is some kind of millipede...hm :-))) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:54:32 up 29 days, 6:34, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.22, 0.27 +++ Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:26:09 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: It's just me too... Oh jeez, just what this list needs. Posts about the World Social Forum and Zip-Loc baggies...heh, we're gonna get along just fine :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:56:34 up 29 days, 7:36, 8 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.01 +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Chris Lane
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:03:08 + Margot disseminated the following: A decent sized case will contain several bags...enough for all of us ;-) A *case* of *bags*?! Are you quite mad? I'd never leave the house! Waitaminnit... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:09:15 up 29 days, 7:49, 8 users, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.03 +++ It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth... -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] interesting news story
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:10:42 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software http://tinyurl.com/5hezf More related to this on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4471963 Quote: The government of Brazil says it will switch 300,000 government computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to open source software like Linux. Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil's president to discuss the change. Brazil is dropping all proprietary software. Heh, ol' Billy's feeling the heat :- -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:12:43 up 29 days, 7:52, 8 users, load average: 0.43, 0.19, 0.06 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Isn't ~/.bash_profile sourced only at login ?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:52:19 -0500 RickSisler disseminated the following: Any idea's ? Change the script so that it is only run if fetchmail is *not* already running. Here's the one I use: ps ax ~/tmp/bashterm grep fetchmail ~/tmp/bashterm /dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then fetchmail fi This is in my .bashrc under '#exec on startup', though, and don't ask me how it works, I, as usual, copied and pasted it from somewhere. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:44:16 up 28 days, 7:24, 8 users, load average: 0.28, 0.17, 0.07 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Isn't ~/.bash_profile sourced only at login ?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:52:19 -0500 RickSisler disseminated the following: I thought the ~/.bash_profile was sourced only at login Every term you open is considered a 'login'. That's why you see '7 users' when you have 7 terms open, even though only you are logged in. Or is it '8 users'? Whatever. You get the idea. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:48:30 up 28 days, 7:28, 8 users, load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.07 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] To Chris Lane
Hey, bud, when you get back in your office, could you remember to *never* set an out-of-office auto-reply for an account you use on a mailing list? Many thanks! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:59:12 up 28 days, 7:39, 8 users, load average: 0.19, 0.08, 0.06 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] interesting news story
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:10:42 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: Activists Urge Free Open-Source Software http://tinyurl.com/5hezf Now why would those poor starving people want to miss out on this?: http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/28.html#a209 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:32:10 up 28 days, 9:12, 7 users, load average: 0.14, 0.22, 0.09 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Removing KDE removes...everything?
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:56:35 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: I thought to myself, 'hey, I don't use KDE, why don't I just remove it?'. Well, according to MCC, that means uninstalling most of my system, including seemingly most of Gnome and it's associated lib's as well. WTF? ...just in case anyone was confused, this *is* actually a question, not just a shot at KDE, though I have to say I'd be really annoyed to find that Mandrake had so integrated everything with KDE that I can't have a working system without it :-\ Anyone have any info on this? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:09:23 up 25 days, 7:49, 9 users, load average: 0.49, 0.16, 0.05 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Removing KDE removes...everything?
I thought to myself, 'hey, I don't use KDE, why don't I just remove it?'. Well, according to MCC, that means uninstalling most of my system, including seemingly most of Gnome and it's associated lib's as well. WTF? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:54:03 up 24 days, 10:33, 8 users, load average: 1.44, 1.49, 0.94 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] turn off computer?
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:00:09 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: 1. Is the recommended procedure to turn computers off at least nightly or keep them on all the time? I turn mine off to save power, but there is little or no need to do it for stability. Once you've stopped using your machine for some time, and the drives have spun down and the monitor goes into powersave mode, how much are you really saving? I've always been curious about that one. 2. Should I install some type of firewall for security reasons? I do not have any secret formula for Coca Cola or things like that on my system, but do have credit card and other financial info, If yes, what do you recommend? You will get a lot of answers here, but i just use a Linksys router with a built in firewall. I would second that. Linksys routers have always been my fav for such 'appliances', easy to configure, hackable, and they run Linux :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:13:07 up 20 days, 6:52, 7 users, load average: 1.35, 1.40, 1.31 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] I just love it
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:26:32 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: The instructions say to 1: in windows download this file to a floppy 2: in linux type these commands 2a: mcopy scanmodem.gz. ;should be a:mcopy a:.gz. I assumed it meant in a run box and it did not complain 2b: gunzip scanmodem.gz ;they never say where, run box or shell 3a: chmod +x scanmodem ;same thing 4a: ./scanmodem ;again where When talking to dummies or unknown they should say where to enter the commands or if it is all one line in a run box. HHEELLPP! Sheesh. Does anybody know how this is done after the file has been downloaded to a floppy? I would assume that you would run this 'scanmodem' script from the directory it is in (hence the './'), same goes for the 'chmod +x scanmodem'. In general, you would run commands on a given file while *in* the directory containing the file, and I would doubt very much they are talking about a 'run box', the instructions assume you are at a command prompt. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:00:00 up 18 days, 2:38, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. -- Archbishop Helder Camara Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:51:51 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch disseminated the following: Also, to Mr. JoeHill: pekwm is a tad minimal for my taste. I do like at least a little butter on my biscuit! ...you add the butter at your discretion, instead of having it dumped over your head from a cauldron :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:08:08 up 18 days, 2:47, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 +++ True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth. -- The SNAFU Principle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:53:12 -0500 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following: ...and seeing if that makes it work properly... Thanks, that worked like a charm - for the current session. I converted that command line to an executable shell script as a stop gap measure while I search for the best way to incorporate that into the startxfce4 script which I can't seem to find for some reason. Why not just do something like this: #!/bin/bash startxfce4 xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 ...save as your ~/.xinitrc, then 'startx' or alias it to just 'x'. Or do you start from a graphical login? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:25:48 up 18 days, 5:04, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++ Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:56:40 -0500 Kenneth Rhodes disseminated the following: For some reason I always like prefer to log into the console/comand line. Ditto here. It just makes it so much freakin' easier to configure the way X behaves at startup, as we've discovered here today :-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:17:18 up 18 days, 5:56, 6 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 +++ Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. -- John Maynard Keynes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:08:53 -0800 Owen disseminated the following: Sometimes, when I'm in an application (doesn't matter which one) I'll click on a button and the next window that opens will be cropped, I've run into the same problem with my 19inch monitor. I have gone the same route as you and had to compromise with screen resolution and font size. Some of the menus still disappear below the screen. I'm not very computer literate but it seems a solution would be a customized screen resolution menu. I wonder if a video card would offer a solution. If you find an answer please let me in on it. Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, it'll fit right in ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:08:50 up 17 days, 6:47, 6 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.02 +++ The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. -- William Gibson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:02:33 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS battery *falls* out, or use the *claw* to *rip* the battery out? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:39:12 up 17 days, 8:18, 6 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.01 +++ Rule $19.99 (Brad `Squid' Shapcott): The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:53:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, it'll fit right in ;-) And here I assumed Joe was going to give his down pat answer: USE PEKWM! Well, it kinda goes without sayin' dunnit? Must say tho, that XFCE4 4.2 is lookin' mighty nice too. Hell, with Charles' RPM's, I haven't the foggiest notion why anyone isn't tripping over themselves to get away from KDE. Guess I was wrong today. 1st time for everything... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:42:58 up 17 days, 8:21, 6 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.00 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:46:18 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS battery *falls* out, or use the *claw* to *rip* the battery out? Whichever is the fastest course, Joe. C'mon. Use LOGIC, mate. Well, I thought you might have some anecdotal experience which might save me the experimentation in that regard... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:49:46 up 17 days, 8:28, 6 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00 +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'
Quote: Bill Gates is an intelligent man [wha?] who has done a great deal of good in the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie this should matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the opponents of American intellectual property law a communist movement he was encouraging a mistake that could impoverish the entire world. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1387447,00.html -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:22:21 up 8 days, 22:00, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.10 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:26:02 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: Quote: Bill Gates is an intelligent man [wha?] who has done a great deal of good in the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie this should matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the opponents of American intellectual property law a communist movement he was encouraging a mistake that could impoverish the entire world. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1387447,00.html ...and IBM cuts them off at the knees: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/10619848.htm?1c Does everyone at IBM call each other 'comrade'? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:30:51 up 9 days, 7:08, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.10, 0.03 +++ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power -- Benito Mussolini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] starting fetchmail on boot
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:39:13 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: I'm sure this is a very simple question, but I have to ask it. After a restart I have to enter the below command to get fetchmail to start polling my isp, where do I put this command to automate the process? [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ fetchmail -m procmail Fetchmail can be installed as a system service, ie. it starts at boot: urpmi fetchmail-daemon -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:46:48 up 8 days, 4:24, 7 users, load average: 0.23, 0.55, 0.73 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus Christ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is this possible?
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:14:06 -0500 et disseminated the following: I end up ripping movies to AVI to view on my network... Quality is high, speed is good. Your TV has an ethernet port?! You *are* good... mine does... you never heard of mythTV? open source personal video recording and playback. no need for TVo or a dvd player, just set a box up that will do the recording, and a box to do TV out. L I B... ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 13:51:17 up 6 days, 2:28, 7 users, load average: 0.13, 0.09, 0.07 +++ It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth... -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Rush Limbaugh
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:39:27 -0500 Miark disseminated the following: I heard that capitalist hate-monger do something right today. Two, actually. First, when a caller noted that his browser doesn't get inundated with pop-ups, and when she said she was a Windows user, he recommended she download and use either Firefox or Mozilla. Hey! My Rush Voodoo doll is working! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:16:48 up 5 days, 6:54, 8 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 +++ President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton. -- David Letterman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Rush Limbaugh
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:57:25 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: See if you can get it to say Open Source Well, I had something else in mind... I tried it on Anne Coulter, but apparently even with Voodoo there has to actually be a functioning brain ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:06:09 up 5 days, 8:43, 8 users, load average: 0.13, 0.04, 0.01 +++ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power -- Benito Mussolini Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Is this possible?
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 09:00:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: I end up ripping movies to AVI to view on my network... Quality is high, speed is good. Your TV has an ethernet port?! You *are* good... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:08:55 up 5 days, 8:46, 8 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.01 +++ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:26:56 -0800 Amy disseminated the following: or reply all and share with the list. Just to make sure people are aware, this is in fact *not* the standard way. 'Reply List' is the appropriate method, wherein one copy of the mail is sent to the list. 'Reply All' is a Bad Thing, at least on lists, sending a copy to the list *and* to the OP. A lot of people don't like getting two copies of every post to a list, and can get right peeved about it. As has been discussed at length in other threads, most mailers can be set to override one person's reply-to settings automatically and default to the list instead (and *only* the list). -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:10:21 up 3 days, 21:47, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++ The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] What the Hell are They Thinking?
Quote: Should KDE should port its applications to Windows? A debate has flared up in parts of the KDE community, filling inboxes and blogs with arguments long and short. The question is really whether the KDE community should encourage this, since it is already happening. Link: http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1844249 I always suspected the KDE devel team were in league with The Evil One, now I'm sure of it. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:07:13 up 4 days, 7:44, 7 users, load average: 0.07, 0.13, 0.27 +++ If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:03:59 -0600 Amy disseminated the following: Still can't get your replies to go to the list, can ya? ;) You know, no matter how much people make a fuss about the reply-to setting, technically one should be in the habit of hitting reply-to all for mailing lists, since that's how it was originally suppose to work. However, I'm not going to get into that debate with this crowd, you're all nice, but you're stubborn. ;) You're right, it's everybody else's problem, not GMail. They are completely blameless in this and all of us are to be chided for not conforming to their brilliant standards, faultless security, and responsiveness to their community. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 00:09:02 up 3 days, 12:46, 8 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.02 +++ The struggle between people and capital is now an epic struggle between life and death. -- Vandana Shiva, World Social Forum, January 16, 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? That's opening OO for the first time in weeks. Second time opens in 4 seconds. If I already have an instance open, it opens *immediately*. It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:00:17 up 3:37, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 797.669 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1581.05 BTW, how the heck do I get this info? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:11:26 up 3:48, 4 users, load average: 0.20, 0.15, 0.08 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:19:36 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat /proc/cpuinfo 512MB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 866.726 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1730.15 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 15:42:44 up 4:19, 5 users, load average: 0.69, 0.91, 0.62 +++ Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:26:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+ buffers/cache: 105288 149848 Swap: 506008 284 505724 If i understand free's output correctly (which i may not), there's still 150MB available if needed. Is that correct? Like I say, I'm no hardware guru, all I know is, when I plonk more RAM in *any* machine, it makes a huge diff. I've got a P2 300 that runs WinXP full speed with 392MB. Someone fire up the Tom Brinkman signal ;-) This is mine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:506012 459644 46368 0 41880 264904 -/+ buffers/cache: 152860 353152 Swap: 811240 0 811240 There's so many factors involved, tho, if you look at Randall's stats his OO opens in the same amount of time as mine, and he's got a freakin' monster. Could be the OO version, could be a lot of things. *But*, with RAM bein' so stinkin' cheap, why the hell not, eh? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:08:43 up 6:45, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.06, 0.01 +++ He who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. -- Psalm 15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:46:30 -0600 Randall D. Hobbs disseminated the following: I'm thinking it's about time to build one of those dual Xeon systems for my home PC... Might be nice to play with ;-) If these thoughts start to replace those 'other' thoughts, get help ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:13:52 up 7:50, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 +++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
