Re: [newbie] general opinions about file servers and firewalls
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:57:28 + et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my .02$usd.. MUCH better Idea to have a separate box for firewall/router, and keep files on and inside box... Mandrakes mnf 'should' *be the ticket* for that firewall box, and 9.1 or 9.2 is fine for the fileserver. Actually the firewall _is_ IPtables, and is at the kernel level and shorewall is a configuration tool. keep shorewall fully configured on the file server toojust in case, and since there is no real noticeable negative. can't be too safe with your data. ET And for my tupence worth... IPCop is the standalone to have on a seperate box. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Have i been unsubbed ***** Eric?
I have two Newbie and expert accounts. A - with this e-mail address which is set NOMAIL, ie I post on it but receive nothing. I never fetch anything addressed to this account from my ISP. B - with an e-mail address which i never post anywhere with. This i read the list traffic on but the address is secretish and thus spam free. Anyways, i stopped receiving mail from newbie, should i resubscribe? Hmm i'll perhaps have to read your reply on the archives. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:19:34 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm looking at getting a RAID card to put in my box. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and wondered what would be the best card. Here is what I'm looking at so far: Promise SuperTrak 100 or 66, 3WARE DiskSwitch AccelerATA 8 port UDMA100 EIDE RAID Card, or the Promise FastTrak 66 or 100. What I would like to know is: which one is best supported under Linux (i.e. in kernel, with drivers, etc.)? which one is the easiest to install? I would like to eventually do RAID level 5 but I will start with RAID 1 and go from there. I have looked on Google to find support and on the respective Web sites but would like to know if anyone has specific experience. Thanks! Travis Crook Visions Beyond This info from the archives. If it is out of date someone else will have to advise you on that. quote 2001-12-08 9:53:14 So few people know that the promise RAID controller is nothing more than a BIOS extension chip with some proprietary, secret, copyrighted software. Look at the Duke of URL site. He was taken in sufficiently by the totally fake hardware to show how to write a driver from the proprietary RH driver. Or check www.linux-ide.org for a link to a project to support these so called hardware RAIDs. Or look at kernels after 2.4.8-31mdk and you will find support for reading Windows RAID but happily no support for using the vastly inferior software RAIDs in linux. As a matter of fact there is a RAID in linux and it has been around for a while, in software. Feature Promise, HPT, CMD Linux Software RAID RAID styles 0, 1, 0+1 0, 1, 4, 5, 0+1 Extents 1 No limit Volumes No Logical Volumes of several drives Cost in space Yes, drive destrokedDependent on RAIDx Compat with Windows Yes No, but can read after kernel 2.4.9 Basically, some controller manufacturers and board manufacturers are making money selling these RAIDs representing them as something they are arguably _not_. If you want a read hardware IDE RAID supported in ANY OS that runs on a PC, its name is ARCO, and there is a link to it at http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html I am really displeased that so many folks are being taken in by this hype. If my opinion is not enough, then see what Mr. Linux-Ide, Andre Hedrick, the fellow who slaves to keep up with industry drivers, had to say about it. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=450lang=en Sorry to go on a rant, but this one really annoys me. The manufacturers are so jealous of their bogus IP that they won't provide enough info for us to be compatible. Civileme /quote Civileme (whose word was once gospel on this list -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:51:23 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 08:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives and also published a method for reflashing already dead ones. Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/ click Device Driver icon click CD-ROM link The first hit is Emergency download for Physical Dead Drive from Mandrake Linux 9.2 There is a .gif attached that explains how to reflash the drives. There are also firmware upgrades for 9 drive models. WDYT? This is great but the english is so broken that I am not sure exactly what to do. First problem is how to boot into MS-DOS mode? Second problem is what the heck does C:W(with a bar through it)temp mean? I can get the light to come on again on the drive but have no idea how to flash the firmware from the discription. Any help is appreciated. Oh, I am trying to revive this drive using a K6II soyo mobo with win2K loaded. Hi Dennis, It's not a class act is it! The C with the bar is a character mapping error - should be a \. So this is just the DOS prompt, not a command you have to enter. The example assumes that you've downloaded a program called xferlg and stored it in C:\temp It also assumes that a file called q1iglx32 exists in the same directory. Where you get these files is unclear to me, but I have looked around their site to try to find them. The best way to do this is probably to build yourself a DOS boot diskette, and copy the downloaded stuff to it. Your procedure would then look like: A:\ Xferlg q1iglx32 [enter] I presume the CDR-8322B that follows is a response to a prompt issued by xferlg. If you are using W2K, then it's likely that you have NTFS which DOS can't read. Hence the suggestion to do all this using a boot floppy. HTH Brian OK, I got the thing figured out to the extent that the firmware file comes up and looks for the cdrom, which it can not find. what I did was use a win 98 boot disk to get to msdos. then when I got a A prompt I did a C: and into the C drive and then did cd tmp where I had the firmware and executable for my drive and then typed in jv4 JV4LGX52 and the firmware install tried to find the CDROM. It did not so I finally gave up. When I booted the machine and pressed the eject button with the jumper as shown in a horizontal position it gave me a light but it stayed on and would not go off. So I don't know, maybe the thing is really dead or I am doing something else wrong. If anyone gets it to work on a dead drive please post what you did. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Your win98 boot floppy loads CD-ROM drivers? not sure of relevance. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dialup connection
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 04:43:18 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm giving one of my boxes to my sister who lives 200 miles from here. I want to leave 9.2 up with a VMware win2k. I have all working except that she will use a dial up connection. It has been part of my lan/broadband connection. Bottom lineHow do I off the lan connect and configure her modem before I send her the box? I've not had a modem connect for several years and it appears things have changed somewhat. Lee Get a modem into the box (check for compatability), check the coverage of her ISP, and if it covers your place plug it in the phone line, get her ISP account details, (for security she can change the password first) then set it up from mcc. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TO STOP AUTOMATIC STARTX FOR A WHILE - TO STOP X-SERVER FOR A WHILE
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:18:49 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Switch to runlevel 3 and then back to runlevel 5. telinit 3 (do your driver thing) telinit 5 I agree completely with the advise. I do have a query as to why you use telinit instead of init. I quote the man quote TELINIT /sbin/telinit is linked to /sbin/init. It takes a one-character argu- ment and signals init to perform the appropriate action. The following arguments serve as directives to telinit: 0,1,2,3,4,5 or 6 tell init to switch to the specified run level. a,b,c tell init to process only those /etc/inittab file entries having runlevel a,b or c. Q or q tell init to re-examine the /etc/inittab file. S or s tell init to switch to single user mode. U or u tell init to re-execute itself (preserving the state). No re- examining of /etc/inittab file happens. Run level should be one of Ss12345, otherwise request would be silently ignored. telinit can also tell init how long it should wait between sending pro- cesses the SIGTERM and SIGKILL signals. The default is 5 seconds, but this can be changed with the -t sec option. telinit can be invoked only by users with appropriate privileges. The init binary checks if it is init or telinit by looking at its pro- cess id; the real init's process id is always 1. From this it follows that instead of calling telinit one can also just use init instead as a shortcut. /quote The first and last sentences say it all really. In my understanding all systemV, thus all linux versions, use init. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] web radio broadcasts
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:04:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i like to listen to radio web broadcasts at work but some of the stations i prefer only use windows media player format. i've talked to them in the past about adding realplayer accessability and was told it's a matter of cost. If its a matter of cost streaming ogg is free. ;) i can use media player in my vmware session but the volume controls seem to have a lower cutoff than rp in linux. is there a current product usable in mdk 9.1 that will play the format used by media player for the web broadcasts? strictly sound, don't care about video. thanks, joe -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] source rpms
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:25:23 +0200 They basically consist of tarballs of all the sources and patches that are applied, plus a spec file, which is a configuration file that tells rpm how to build and package the program. If you try to install one, these files will be copied to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES and /usr/SRC/RPM/SPECS. and that's where I'll find a normal rpm? Unless you make changes they build the standard RPM's anyways. So if you know how to make changes go ahead else no advantage gained. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Qcad
snip Right now I need to figure out how to get a line more than 1 pixel wide. Makes for hard reading. Lee http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad/manual_reference/layers.html Figure 16, 2/3 of the way down the page. HTH -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:57:04 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This response actually brings up something that has been bugging me of late about some elements of the tech community. I realize that there are a large number of clueless politicians and lawyers out there but tech people have a tendency to be just as clueless about laws and the judicial system as well. Rather than each trying to recognize the strengths of the other and work out realistic compromises, the tech community appears to be retreating with some type of egotistical attitude that politicians and lawyers are helpless to be anything other than completely clueless when it comes to tech matters and that any law is a bad law. snip http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3529203thesection=technologythesubsection=general An exception exists to every generalisation. Of course the greens have about 5% of our vote and this one smokes dak (hence has a hard time getting treated seriously). -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] grub lilo
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:10:17 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between them, but mandrake tends to prefer lilo so I use that now days. Strangely, grub was their choice for non-expert install on my first Mandrake distro 7.1. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:31:34 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:41 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update I had wondered about having two versions running the same kernel. For instance, could I allocate a partition and install the same version as on another partition, make temp mounts for the original /etc /usr and /var and copy across a whole existing install? I'm wondering because it would be really nice to try an upgrade for the experience, without risking losing the existing install in case of problems. I went from new installs for each. /etc needs to be in / for the bootup. I have seperate /usr for each install but a common /var and /home for my 9.0's. If i want to update a package in one only as a test this was the minimum setup. In the past I have always kept the existing stable install and done a new install, but of course it is necessary to start a whole raft of configurations and installs afterwards. ?raft? - I let the newly installed lilo overwrite the old, borrow any vmlinuz and initrd that dont match the new, copy them to /boot, then rewrite the old lilo.conf's to suit. Of course i have to keep a written sheet of my 'a-hem' 15 partitions. They then behave nicely with each other. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update Anyone familiar with Debian will be familiar with the names (read Unstable for Update). Stable: the one firewalled, locked down (for me), and rock steady that i do my day to day stuff with. Can only see its own partitions. Tweak: identical to Stable except for fstab and lilo.conf. I can configure any new things in here and break it if need be. If it gets jiggered completely, in theory i can dd Stable to Tweak, reload fstab and lilo.conf from backups, and start again. I have never tested this option yet though. Update: I got 9.1 well after the initial release date and never got it configured to my satisfaction, although 'some' programs run better on it. Will be wiping it in favour of 9.2 when i get a copy. Who knows, i may replace 9.0 yet. This is as close as i get to bleeding edge. Stable and Tweak share a common /home and /var. I ftp all updates to a directory, URPMI them from the directory to Tweak as soon as, and then to Stable after a week or so. If the update breaks any configs i can figure it out in Tweak first. Try that with windows update, even HFNetCheck(Shavlik Technologies) isn't that flexible for updating. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:00:24 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade tools. Which is the best option and where|can I get information on installing and using this option to keep my|Mandrake distro up to date. | |Thanks, | |-=Thinker urpmi seems to be the method of choice for most Mandrake users - it's simple to use - google for easy urpmi - the first hit will take you step by step through configuring your software sources - then it's a simple as # urpmi --auto-select -a (do urpmi urpmi first to update the urpmi package) to update every software package you have installed - although I think 9.0 sources are drying up. I would add that there are a large number and that you should do the updates in init 3 or console mode as KDE/X tends to bork its updates if running. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:45:56 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:33 pm, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: Balmer may be conveniently throwing in *all* of Red Hat's critical vulnerabilities in its *distribution release*, which amounts to many, many applications, not just the O/S. If he compares O/S to O/S, instead of O/S to total distribution, Red Hat (or any other Linux distro) doesn't look as bad as he suggests. Windows is Windows. I've never seen anything freely given in the O/S that ever could have been called an app. Applet, but not app. As usual, mind games are being played that affect the multitude that don't look with clear eyes. Actually, no one should be surprised by the remarks and I would be highly surprised to find anyone that takes anything said at these types of press conferences seriously. snip Trouble is Bryan, mainstream press quote these statements verbatim and do not quote anything to the contrary alongside it. They are not interested in doing any 'investigitive journalism' nowadays when they can cut and paste from press releases. Joe public get Microsofts version exactly as it gets peddled and dont even think to question it. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] multivolume tar
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can :-) No, you still can't, because it is not tar doing the job anymore, it is either you or some script. The original discussion was about the capabilities of tar itself, not your own ability to provide workarounds for tar. And tar plainly cannot do the job by itself. THanks for the discussion guys, this answers my earlier question. I commend you on your ingeniousness but you should not be fixing the go-cart for the trip to the grocery store while there's a perfectly good Corvette in the driveway. Not my fave analogy, the vet would stay tucked in the garage, and the wifes lexus -- lada would be kept running get the groceries ;) (range from a lexus to a lada) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar CD
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:00 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and then use split. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tar CD Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael I was of the impression that tar would do volumes itself with the -M option. I am just too slow to work out how to impliment the volume size part. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tar CD
Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that memory. Has anybody done anything like this? If not too involved I would like to try it before I buy new. snip Terry If its old RAM more failures will be coming your way. If its new stuff, take it back where you bought the box/sticks. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code ATTN Anne!!!
On 08 Oct 2003 13:59:14 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good, thanks. I've written to the 8 MEPs for the Eastern Region UK. Like you, I found Anne's letter excellent - mine is a straight crib with a few additions. I hope she doesn't mind [Letter follows] Maybe we could do with a min-TWiki to hone our arguments for future use! DougB Now thats a good idea. A Linux/Open Source political issues Twiki page. When these issues hit New Zealand i want my arguments ready and be fully versed. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Pink OT was(Re: [newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD)
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:30:54 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:31:13 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip One of my... ONE OF MY... somehow the rest of this mail got unreadable after that. Pink hair, pink life? -- Michael (not angel/o) hm being stoned has its disadvantages.. being too honest is one. lol ya pink hair, lavender/pink life... I'm openly lesbian. shrugs. Yes one of my lovers. As in Plurality. I'm openly polyamourous too. if you wish to discuss this further, I won't bore the listers here... just email me pvtly. PolyFemme Hell no. To hot for this monogamousey kiwi. Fried my damn brain at the thought of it. Will have shakes for a week. How am i meant to hold my pink handled screwdriver steady now, have to buy a new one i reckon. Still i seem to remember a Femmey boyfriend in there somewhere too about a year back. No wonder you're on farmer-sue-tickles ;-) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 07:46:58 -0600 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:47:11 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trying to make an ISO with K3B... its not working though...I tell it to burn the image (ISO) to K3B's temp dir...and the dir isn't full but it just sits there..no cd activity or anything... I looked in the manual..which doesn't exist btw... and nothing. Don't know what to really google for either... um I be a stoned out puppy so don't hurt Me too much...k? Ty Oh Franki, I'm burning this for you..soits in your best interests to help me :D Ceiling Art, Femme Hope I'm not too late with this message... Here's how I make an ISO from a cd in k3b Open k3b To to tools/copy CD check only create image uncheck remove image I use ~/ISO as my image dir just to be a few less keystrokes to get to but the default dir. should work fine. Click Start CD Copy. Is that how you were trying to do it? Jerry. Two command line and now one GUI option. The cup runneth over. Personnally i like Toms best, although i am not a fan of aliases. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Nigerian Scam on newbie
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:45:26 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2003 02:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2003 03:40 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I just got the Nigerian e-mail scam addressed to the newbie list, so I presume everyone else also recieved it. It filtered to my spam collector but I wonder if there is a way for Mandrake to filter these? Can they use Spamassassin on their mail server? Time to be vewy vewy qwiet and go hunting spammers. Dennis, I just pressed bounce immediately. Sometimes that doesn't work and shortly thereafter I'll get a message undeliverable reply from my smtp server. But this time I haven't got it, so I presume the spammer got the message loud and clear : newbie-list is non-existent. Well, let's see. Kaj Haulrich. I didn't think of that, I will do so from now on, Thanks, LOL, Wouldn't that make thier heads spin. 50 bounces from one address. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCC thinks I have a Sound Card
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:21:27 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 1:11 pm, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:10, Margot wrote: I used to get sound, but I had to reinstall Mandrake some months ago to get the internet connection working, and I think I messed up somewhere as I hadn't a clue what I was doing, because I haven't had any sound since the reinstall. I've been fiddling with this on and off for months, reading hundreds of messages in the archive and tweaking this and that, but no luck yet. Problem has now become urgent, because I've moved furniture around and I now can't listen to CDs on the stereo while sitting at the computer unless I turn it up so loud it upsets the neighbours! Headphone cord not long enough, so I really need to be able to play CDs through the computer! I think I know what the problem is, but I have no idea how to fix it. MCC thinks I have a Sound Card. I haven't. I've got something called Integrated AC97 Audio. How do I get Mandrake to recognise this? Margot The AC97 is a sound system built into the motherboard - not always the greatest, but workable. You might want to open a term, su as root, then try running /usr/sbin/sndconfig to see if it will properly recognise the card - if all else, you might want to consider actually getting a proper sound card and disabling the AC97 in your BIOS...sorry to say... stephen kuhn - owner Result: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# /usr/sbin/sndconfig bash: /usr/sbin/sndconfig: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# Now what? Where did I go wrong? I don't see that I should need to buy a sound card - this thing, whatever it is, used to work - until I reinstalled. Margot If it used to work, it should again. Have you tried running HardDrake? If that doesn't work, to get sndconfig to work you will have to boot into init 3 - at the lilo splash hit Esc, then type linux 3. Login as root and try the command again. Anne A shortcut to get into init 3, su then type init 3. Some insist on using inittab 3 but i dont know why when the shorter one works for me. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem connects OK but apps can't locate hosts
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:07:42 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 07:46 am, Joe Janzen wrote: snip Hi, I've searched the archives and tried some suggestions for similar problems, but without success. Mandrake 9.1 was just installed. I launch KPPP and everything seems to work as the connection is established. However, web browsers fail to load any pages and I can't even ping anything except my own IP that my ISP assigns me dynamically (I've tried IP numbers, not just hostnames, and I've tried both as root and as a regular user). /snip Joe, what does your /etc/resolv.conf say ? Mine looks like this : search opasia.dk local nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 193.162.153.164 nameserver 194.239.134.83 Try to edit yours with the appropriate URL's for your domain. Alternatively I guess you can use my nameservers. Good luck Kaj Haulrich. -- *This mail was sent from a 100 % Microsoft free computer* Turn shorewall off and try again... perhaps. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installing x86 update
Oh if all arguments could be so pointless. Some people prefer top posting, some people prefer bottom posting. May all your concerns be so petty and trivial. Get over it people, go and get a life. Or Filter all people who don't do it your way to the trash. But stop whinging in my ear about it. Banal pointless tripe, cease, desist, stop it, zipit, end this useless harrassment of my inbox. http://keirsey.com/Drummers.html The rest of my reply is at the bottom. On 17 Sep 2003 22:07:01 -0400 rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I don't understand about this. It's certainly understood that most people read downward. However, I'm interested in reading the test of the mail the sender posted. If there is text included from a string (to which the poster is responding), I've most likely already seen it so why would I want to read it again (reading downward). I'm actually after the new text and I'd prefer not to have to scroll down, sometimes a long way, and sometimes only to see something like thanks. :( That's why I prefer top posting and it's what Evolution, at least here, does by default. Rob On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:52, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:13:27 +0300 PhazeMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well.. now i'm posting from KMail and i don't understand why is that different where i'm posting from. I was referring to top-posting, the referrence to the mail client was an aside, a meagre attempt at humour, if you will. The preferred method, on all mailing lists, is to reply to the bottom of the post, not the top, since most people read downward, as opposed to upward, ethnic and cultural variances given. -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got you! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:01:40 +0200 NiTrO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with my on board soundcard on Mandrake 9.1. First, it wouldn't work at all, now I found out that she works, but when I want to hear anything, I need to plug my speakers into the headphone jack :-/ When I do that I get sound with a lot of noise. My soundcard is based on the AC97 codec. Can someone help me with this problem, so I have sound through the output jacket without that noise? greets You can be helped, try turning up the sound in aumixer (i think thats it). For more: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbiem=105507562416728w=2 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reading Shorewall log
Can someone help me decipher this single log excerpt? The bits i understand i have filled in. I was getting this exactly every half minute. I have scanned the online shorewall docs but did not see how a newbie can read the logs. I have also found that Port 500 is for ISAKMP which means nothing to me.(Computing Dictionary Definition: Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol) Is this identifiable as a particular worm/virus from this info? I have not found one with this sig (googling). Which one identifies the port hit on my firewall (SPT=) or (DPT=)? I know they are the same in this instance. Why a seperate source port and destination port (SPT= DPT=)? Why two length (LEN=) statements? ###The log entry (my comments start with //) ##I have split it into readable chunks. Sep 13 17:02:24 solid kernel: // Date time host log-source Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 // Does net2all mean to all boxes behind the firewall? OUT= MAC= // OUT=??? MAC= ethernet card adresses SRC=203.79.82.168 DST=203.79.67.151 // SRC=Someone else on my ISP. DST=My machine (I confirmed this) LEN=29 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=58 ID=31755 // ??? PROTO=UDP // UDP i sort of understand is an alternative to TCP SPT=500 DPT=500 LEN=9 // Source Port, Destination Port, LEN ??? #End log entry -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Virus
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:03:42 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello robin, Sunday, September 7, 2003, 1:17:15 PM, you wrote: r There is also the factor that the average Linux sysadmin is a lot r more savvy than a point-and-click NT sysadmin. And both are almost infinitely more savvy than the new XP user, sitting on the net with no firewall, no AV program, M$ security defaults (wide open), opening that (supposedly) luscious porn pix he just got in an email, clicking on all those unbelievable offers from those kooky web sites, and... well, you get the idea. Ahem, i tutor these people at SeniorNet. They get sold a box with a firewall, virus-checker and windows update. They wouldn't know it has a firewall, run the virus checker regularly but dont know about the update button, and wonder if the windows update reminder is a virus. I myself have only just learned about the joys/pains of system restore which may or may not have been turned on by the retailer. Many of the virus calls i get are solved with Ad-Aware or Sy-Bot Search Destroy. But it takes 2 hours to show them how to update windows and there virus checker database before i leave the house -- Michael Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:24:28 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 02:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: Well, I see Charlie already gave you a best answer. The only thing I'd add, is there's no sense in havin a 64bit desktop, till most all the apps you use are ported to 64bit. Same deal as dual processors (SMP). I might take a bit of this last one up with you Tom, that be there Winblows thinking... about SMP anyway. I promise there is a marked difference between an SMP machine doing anything in MDK-Linux, and the same machine with out 2 cpus. in Winblows, including W2kp, and XP, if they ain't special SMP aware apps, there ain't no value, but in MDK, everything (when really loading up the box) is faster SMP. the visual difference is roughly the same as going from 128 meg ram to 256 meg ram, as UP vs SMP OK, we've got an argument Ed! ;) I talk to people all the time (Winblows users), they use their computers (if you can call ready made laptops computers) to email, use as typewriter, or surf the web. And they think they need broadband an faster computers. Most of 'em hunt'n peck like I do on a keyboard, an consult with their mouse. When they ask me for advice, I tell'm I don't do Windoze, an I don't do laptops. Not one believes that M$ is their biggest problem. I don't push the issue. Not even after they say I think my computer has a virus. I just offer free Mandrake CD's and support as my only solution. But I digress ... Twin 1 Ghz processors does not a 2 GHz system make. It's still a 1GHz system. Same speed, just more lanes on the highway. If they're open to traffic (software). Anything above 600 Mhz, single processor is good for compiling kernels, specially 'make modules'. That's about it. BTW, with the lastest kernels a few weeks ago, my 1.4 Athlon, oc'd to 1.5Ghz, plain old sdram, would take a stock Mdk config an 'make modules' in 40+ minutes. Now with an XP 3000+ oc'd to 2.3Ghz, DDR 400 sdram @ DDR 427, it doesn't even take 20 minutes. If it was dual cpu, it'd most likely still take close to 20 minutes. It surely wouldn't get done in 10. BFD anyhow, everything else is hardly at all noticeably quicker. My typin is slower I think. An what makes you think addin ram makes a system faster? If the ram amount was adequate to the task to begin with, addin more just means it might be able to do more at the same speed without VM (/swap). 'Cept for Windoze, then the system gets slower ; Or in all truth, a Linux industrial strength multi processor server is slower too with a bunch of ram, if it's used close to capacity. SMP has little merit on the desktop. For loaded down servers, a dual processor system surely wouldn't even cut it. Then bunches are called for. Just not on a desktop, ever. So it's not about how fast, it's more a situation of how much. Sure multiple proccesors can do more in a given length of time, given lots'a ram... but for a desktop, No. Desktop: UP, run it hard an put it up wet. Overclocking will produce much more than SMP. They only use one motor on winning race cars. The multi motor cars are called 'crowd pleasers', but they're not fast, just showy. Reminds me of the little aluminium 4litre toyota V8 that was being shoved against a tank transfer box and way supercharged. 2000 horse power into 4WD. I read about this combo more than once. Please note folks, these were demonstration hot-rods and not really fit for the road. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alarm
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:19:51 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 09:03 pm, Anarky wrote: Todd Slater wrote: while there have been many posts .. I only know of Korganizer yet .. and that sounds like big programm, not a speciffic one ... and as for wife: [EMAIL PROTECTED] void]# urpmi wife no package named wife Check your sources, mate! My own wife version required ./configure, manually finding dependencies and installing and then about 15 make commands to get installed. Still trying to get the configuration worked out but usually, if it stays stable, I don't like to mess with it too much Divorced wife. All of the above problems with ongoing dependency issues! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds (follow-up)
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:28:59 +0300 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:08, robin wrote: Inhabitant of Zion wrote: ... please somebody explain to what's that part about Linus Torvalds ... I thought he was the founder of Linux ... and suporter of free software .. stuff lik that ... I can't be sure but as others have expressed it may be something to do with the name (i.e GNU/Linux vs Linux). If you look at some stuff in Linux it gives Linux as the registered trademark of Linus Torwhateveritishecallshimself. Maybe there is some conditions in his registering of the trademark that prevents anybody from taking the Linux kernel,tweaking it, and calling the resulting OS GNUx. I'm pretty sure that is the case, just as, shortly after the publication of Gibson's Neuroancer (which coined the term cyberspace) someone with foresight trademarked cyberspace, specifically so that no other company could do so (and therefore sue anyone who didn't write it as cyberspace (TM)). Linus' aim was largely to prevent the product being hijacked by big companies with big lawyers, though it's possible that he also wanted to retain some influence over what, after all, was his brainchild. Sir Robin http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=0220 makes interesting reading. Letter to linux Journal querying why IDG books had a trademark symbol (November, 1966) Paul M. And here, the result of litigation about the linux trademark. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2559 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SCO reversal
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:53:56 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said it had no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court. So it's going to sue non-commercial users, ? John I think the reply was from someone in Sydney that has drunk too much Fosters. It doesn't gel with the rest of the PR. I think its a c-ck-up! A retraction / reversal wouldn't be handled this way. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Paraniod - start worrying
The question wasn't whether there was a virus/worm/trojan problem similar to Windoze, the OP was asking if there was any indication of a worm infecting linux, which there clearly is. t Sorry, as the original poster, i was presenting what i saw as an oddity, no more. I watch the given website for upcoming virus threats and this was posted as an upgraded one. I warned paranoids to hide under the blanket with my unclear heading. I beleive the perceived threat is a tool that could be misused to enable DOS attacks from linux. As to the number and range of linux effecting threats: http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslistfind.html?rub4=001findWhere=findTxt=linuxx=30y=14 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Paraniod - start worrying
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:26:17 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:54 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Any paranoids out there? Start worrying! http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100558.htm The rest of us will read this, shrug, and carry on as per normal aware that slim threats do exist on linux. No flames for scare mongering please. I thought it was an acceptable oddity, no more! I read it and shrugged, but went looking for it anyway. Not found. One of the IT guys at work who only knows windows told me that the worms had some effect on linux, I said I don't think so and he replied that Symantec had shown one of them effecting linux. So I went looking and all that came up was the drdos, which is old and is part of the chkrootkit test. I can't convince him that it was not a problem cause Symantec said it was. Oh well, you can lead a horse to water... Anyone seen any other indications that somebody thinks one of the virus or worms was getting into linux? Yes worms have an effect on linux. The slow down the network. Beat their heads against the firewalls and fill your logs with dross. I think from reading this that this tool is seen as a threat because it can be used for DOS attacks. Not because it affects linux, although the host may be slowed sending out packets ;) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette
snip Does the turntable have a pre-amp? Not sure who you are asking but on my setup it is just a technics turntable, no preamp. That did not come out right. There is no built in preamp in the turntable, the preamp is in the tapedeck. HTH In my (possibly wrong) understanding of turntable output the signal is 1.77-56.2mV. Typical line in input values expected are in the 0.1-5.6V range. I therefore suspect that your turntable has its own pre-amp on board. If so you could theoretically plug from turntable straight to soundcard with the right cable. This would bypass added noise which gets amplified exponentially. It would probably be easy to add a dedicated preamp dnd make do without the tapedeck that also adds the possibilty of putting a equalizer and or digital signal processing equipment in line. At that point you may be able to clean up the old recordings to make them sound better than new, get rid of background hiss and pops etc. The DSP can work wonders for some of the old 1930s to 1960s radio shows. Get a good signal into a line in jack on a good sound card and you can do all the digital cleaning up once it is a WAV file, without loosing the original. Many computer magazines have published oodles of howtos on the subject. Many WAV editiors have filters up to the task. This can be readgusted without having to play the LP over again. A DSP may in itself amplify noise at the expense of signal as much as it cleans it up. Graphic equalisers are known for this. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Overclock!
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:22:03 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind my usual advice on this list is that hardware needs to be eliminated from any problems, specially if it's a ready made, in the first place. OC'd or not. OTOH, if it's there, RUN IT!! Windoze reviews: the current darlings are the nforce an newer KT 400a/600 chipset boards runnin AMD XP's. P4's are bitin the dust, still no decent chipsets to run on. OTOH, are these winsux reviews applicable to Linux? As far as chipsets go yes an no. nforce* chipset boards have several unresolved issues with Linux, gcc, an GNU. Forget anything SiS. As far as Winblows reviews on hardware sites, disregard, IMO, is usually the better idea. They have little to do with a real OS. So, just a report. I changed out a tired an old oc'd 1.4 Athlon (1.553g) on a Soyo KT133a chipset with sdram, for an XP 3000+ with Kingston DDR400 on an Aopen AK77-400 Max with a KT400a chipset. Didn't really wanna but the ancient (8 years!) ram was startin to fsck'up on the old mobo. Run hard, put up wet. Might'a been the cpu L caches anyhow... Pulled the case out from under the table, changed out the motherboard/ram/cpu. What'a heck, tryin boot. .. No problemo, harddisk recognized a differnet NIC (now onboard), different AC97, now 5.1 surround, and 9.2 cooker went about it's business. No disruption for aDSL or sound. HDD's love the new board /cpu/ram/ controllers. So went to testin and clockin. The Kingston ram was a convienice. I got it bundled with the cpu/mobo. It was a variable, even a concern since it's only sold by Mwave as Cas 3 DDR ram. After several weeks testin tho, the ram has performed flawlessly at Cas2.5, Ras/Cas 2, pre-Charge 2, at 2-bank, now DDR427. Way over it's specs. Ram is what'll do, an I'm not sure I've found the top of this Kingston yet. Still, I wish I'd gone to the trouble of gettin Crucial or Corsair. Currently (as I type), the XP is at 2301mhz (13x177, 354 FSB, PCI 35.2mhz) and rock steady. I keep inchin it up. Might go a bit or more further. I haven't tried reducin the multiplier and goin to a 200+ FSB yet. I reckon I'm better off stay'in with oc'd 166@ 177 since the PCI is only out'a spec @ 35.2mhz, an the AGP is just over 70mhz. Some view this mistakenly as overclocked. It's not. It's just out'a spec. Damn nVidia card was complain, but recent cooker updates to XFree86 cooled that off. (XFree86-4.3-19mdk) I know y'all believe memtest86 is _THE_ test, an I confess I run it first too. But it's a weak test. It sort'a sux. Better is mprime's #17, the torture test. Harder still, the acid test is, cpuburn's 'burnK7'. One or two passes with memtest is a breeze, run mprime's torture test thru test #1800 or so, run burnK7 for 25 minutes . then you know your hardware is stable. So far I am with an XP core at 2301, CL2.5-2-2-2 DDR427. So I gott'a XP Whatever (3600+?) that RUNS like a scalded ape. Glibc compiles are a lot shorter ;) No Winsux ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas So what were you needing your newbie help with Tom? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:06:11 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:04 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:44:44 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Cool. Is there a way to do this to albums also? I could put the cassette deck on record and run the RCA plugs from tape deck monitor to the line-in on the sound card, just wonder if there is a better way... :) You can do it with albums by connecting the output from a turntable to the input on a cassette recorder snip Make that the phono input of a stereo capable of handling phono input. Some cassete recorders have phono inputs. An auxilliary input won't do. Also if memory serves there were two types of phono output at one stage (crystal and ceramic???) which used different output levels. Sheesh, i'm just telling everyone how ancient i yam. Actually on mine it is from the turntable to the tapedecks line in and then from the tape deck line out to the sound card phono jack. Works like a champ with gramofile. The tape deck does the preamp and filter and it sounds pretty good in .wav . YMMV Does the turntable have a pre-amp? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:44:44 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Cool. Is there a way to do this to albums also? I could put the cassette deck on record and run the RCA plugs from tape deck monitor to the line-in on the sound card, just wonder if there is a better way... :) You can do it with albums by connecting the output from a turntable to the input on a cassette recorder snip Make that the phono input of a stereo capable of handling phono input. Some cassete recorders have phono inputs. An auxilliary input won't do. Also if memory serves there were two types of phono output at one stage (crystal and ceramic???) which used different output levels. Sheesh, i'm just telling everyone how ancient i yam. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Paraniod - start worrying
Any paranoids out there? Start worrying! http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100558.htm The rest of us will read this, shrug, and carry on as per normal aware that slim threats do exist on linux. No flames for scare mongering please. I thought it was an acceptable oddity, no more! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Blaster worm
On 20 Aug 2003 17:21:00 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:21, Dennis Myers wrote: Wow, I have been getting email with the blaster worm attached by the bucket full. snip Blaster scans IP addresses and then uses a built-in tftp server to transmit itself to another machine; it can't do it on linux - because it can't run on linux. Windows only. snip It isn't blaster. Blaster does not spread by e-mail. Try this one http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm This e-mail virus is classed high risk. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is there like an unified toool like this with some gui? Yes. http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ Wouldn't this be accumulating losses exponentially? Like 5% loss in original mp3. Convert to wav then 5% loss from wav to ogg = total loss of 25%. Of course i may be blowing smoke. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:22:04 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There s a simple solution to adverts actually from known sites. This will not block everything concerning adverts, but it will block everything from these advert sites. Edit your /etc/hosts file as root, and add lines like: 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com This was actually the topic of the original email i sent... And now i really love this thread. Excuse me while i venture into su (somewhere underhood) and try not to break my computer again. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp
On 30 Jul 2003 14:32:10 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to design a logo with Gimp and I need to insert a simple straight horizontal line. How do I do this? Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * A straight line is a bezier with no flex. May take a little experimenting. Or zoom in majorly and follow the squares. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives
Dennis i have 4 on one disk. I call them: Windows - 98se Stable - mdk9.0 Tweak - mdk9.0 Update - mdk9.1 XFS partitions throughout the mdk stuff, with shared /home for s and t, one swap for all. 15 partitions total. I play with 9.1 but still don't like it except some apps that work better. I tweak the system in tweak and if i am happy with a change i put it in stable which is my working install. Thus i got the firewall up in tweak to my satisfaction before setting it up in stable etc. You have to format all partitions on the first install. There is provision to set other boot partitions during the expert install IIRC. But once you have them installed it still pays to check /etc/lilo.conf and fstab. With different kernals you must copy the different vmlinuz-XX and initrd- files to each /boot/. In my case i had to copy them from update/boot/ - stable/boot/ tweak/boot/, and from stable/boot/ to update/boot/. The last lilo you write out is the working one, but if each is not setup with the full partition map from day one, then the reboot options in kdm are splatted. I went in after install three and saved stable lilo as the real one. It actually was a lot easier than it sounds. Just sit down and map your partitions first. For two disks is should be much easier. On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:24:46 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed two MLinux on two seperate HDs on the same comp and figured out how to get lilo to read them both at boot? I am trying to do it so that I can beta test and yet run the regular system when I am not running tests. Any hints or manual suggestions are appreciated, I have not found anything to help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:10:09 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq)? For popups that is probably true, assuming you are using moz or konq. But this was for ads that don't popup. Some sites i go to have flashy ads that make page scrolling jumpy just because the animation is running. Also, it's nicer to read pages w/o the ads cluttering it up. eric I actually wondered about blocking requests from HTML to servers other than the page originator. This would break some sites, but i wonder how many of those sites i want to see anyways. It would work something like this. I follow a link HTTP page request (server details noted) page comes in HTTP page delivery browser renders HTML HTML code requests a graphic/etc HTTP request to noted server approved -HTTP request to any other server dropped My guess is it could only be implimented on the browser itself. Be one hell of a security feature though, less than half the cookies, and speed up surfing no end. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GMO foods
I suspect a mispost error originating between the keyboard and seat. LOL On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:03:20 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a tad off-topic?? Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/28/2003 at 9:02 AM Cornerstone Community Farm wrote: In general, we know far too little about them. (i'm far from an expert on this topic)(but DO farm organically) I do know they are not allowed on certified organic farms in the US. They are approved in the U.S. by the FDA (food drug admin.). BUT... they also approve of certain level of pesticides in people, and that is mostly guess work and a BIG gamble...There is too much we do not know. WE CAN work on drought resistant varieties thru more traditional methods of of plant breeding... In my personal belief, I'm much more inclined to argue for use of NON hybrid's, chiefly because one can use the seeds harvested to plant next years crop...IMO a great help for poor countries as they do not have to import expensive hybrids. In the circles I travel in, there is a growing movement to heirloom varities. This year I'm growing a heirloom tomato, called stripey...it is yellow with stripes, as supposed to be of SUPERIOR taste...(I'll let you know in a couple of weeks:) Of course, taste will VARY GREATLY, depending on the soil and climate in a given year. Keith -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cannot log in as root in 9.1
If you feel you need a gui program as root. Open a terminal as a user, type su, enter the root password, then type the name of the program konqueror etc. On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:46:31 -0500 Cornerstone Community Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generally, DO NOT log in as root. For admin tasks, go to a root terminal. When you run Mandrake Control Center or other GUI admin type functions you will be prompted for root password. On Monday 28 July 2003 11:12 am, fifner the dragon wrote: Hi all, I have my mandrake 9.1 setup to automaticly log user in at startup. When I logout user I get a small box giving me three alternatives: halt, reboot and a user icon. I might be blind or stupid or both, but I cannot find a way to log in as root. How do I login as root? Thanks in advance, Fifner -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:49:33 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:35:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I misunderstand you, this is just what Mozilla offers. I used to use it in Netscape, but now I find that using that disables on-line banking and too many other useful sites are broken. I've compromised and use the blocks on a site-by-site basis. I have also run into that problem, gratefully Opera7 offers the option Open requested pop-up windows only which is the best of both worlds. Charles Not pop-up ads, the thread was about in-line banner style ads. I also block pop-up ads. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:35:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 Jul 2003 6:47 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:10:09 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq)? For popups that is probably true, assuming you are using moz or konq. But this was for ads that don't popup. Some sites i go to have flashy ads that make page scrolling jumpy just because the animation is running. Also, it's nicer to read pages w/o the ads cluttering it up. eric I actually wondered about blocking requests from HTML to servers other than the page originator. This would break some sites, but i wonder how many of those sites i want to see anyways. It would work something like this. I follow a link HTTP page request (server details noted) page comes in HTTP page delivery browser renders HTML HTML code requests a graphic/etc HTTP request to noted server approved -HTTP request to any other server dropped My guess is it could only be implimented on the browser itself. Be one hell of a security feature though, less than half the cookies, and speed up surfing no end. Unless I misunderstand you, this is just what Mozilla offers. I used to use it in Netscape, but now I find that using that disables on-line banking and too many other useful sites are broken. I've compromised and use the blocks on a site-by-site basis. Anne Anne, what version of Moz offers this? and where is it switched on/off? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:30 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:26 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: least Yamaha seem to be using this specific file connotation, whether .mid are MIDI files and they're quite standardised - if the keyboard is General MIDI then the files should be easy to play and edit. and the sound quality is good. So it's not a cheapskate size reduction MIDI files only record the notes. Bit of an oversimplification, this may be useful. http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/miditutr.htm this one seems a good description http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/midiform.htm The final playback quality is NOT guaranteed. It depends on your waveset, you might notice they sound different on computer and keyboard. I'm still looking for something that will both display and allow me to edit, and in the end convert to an ordinary .wav file format to write to CD, and in linux if at all possible. To play, use timidity or various frontends like kmidi or kmid. To edit in Linux, use sequencers such as MuSE. Timidity can save MIDIs to wave files. In Windows, programs like Cake Walk can edit. Regards, _nasturtium -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] modem sharing vs ICS
Investigate IPCop as a standalone. - It will load fine on an old 486. - It does dial on demand - the manual can be downloaded as a pdf and is pretty comprehensive. http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome manual http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/IPCopDocumentationv01 On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:59:34 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen articles and how to for internet connection sharing. Any pointers for modem of one machine being shared by other linux m/cs in a network. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:09:44 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on rejecting it. it says please incert CD2 in /dev/scd0cdrom2, which is wrong, though it may not matter, as my dvd is mounted /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom, I guess its just a generic message. but it will not accept the relevent CD in either /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom or /dev/scd1 /mntcdrom2, so cannot use it to update. Anyone had the same problem ? It sounds similar to what happens after upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1, the urpmi sources are not updated, and must be. I have removable://mnt/dvd/Mandrake/RPMS with synthesis.hdlist1rpms.cz removable://mnt/dvd/Mandrake/RPMS2 with synthesis.hdlist2rpms.cz removable://mnt/dvd/Mandrake/RPMS3 with synthesis.hdlist3rpms.cz One place to change it is in MCC-Software Management-Software Sources Management. -- Richard Urwin I had the same thing happen. During the install my DVD (/dev/hdc) was not SCSI emulated, but my CD-RW (/dev/hdd) was. I edited /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to include SCSI emulation for the DVD. The CD-RW was /dev/scd0 and the DVD became /dev/scd1. Thus the original install which had been from /dev/hdc was now pointing to /dev/scd0 or visa-versa... I am confused... urpmi was confused... in the end it hurt my head to much and i stopped trying to work it out. Sounds like the same thing. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
I also recomend throwing disk 1 in the CD-ROM before you urpmi anything. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:27:57 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake control Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ownership thing
This is a desirable security feature. But as mentioned if you $ cp source foo $ rm source $ mv foo source user now owns source. On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:12, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file that is not owned by him only gets that operation is not permitted You're right, interesting. I know that a user cannot create a file in a user directory other than their own unless you have some group thing set up. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/greg] $ touch testfile touch: cannot touch `testfile': Permission denied I also know that a user can manipulate a file in their own home directory even without ownership. In other words, if a file owned by root exists in my home, I can delete it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ ls -l testfile -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 7 13:42 testfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ rm testfile rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `testfile'? y [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ ls testfile ls: testfile: No such file or directory Anybody know the answer to this? Generally, you only need write access to the directory for any changes that are stored in the directory tables. So you can rename and delete files that you cannot write to. There was a workaround that you could do in 1980s Unices in that /etc was owned by Engineer, so if you lost the root password you could just mv the entire passwd file and create a new one. (Oops!) Since the owner and group are stored in the same tables I would expect that changing them would be possible. From playing around here it would seem that you cannot chgrp to or from a group that you are not in. By extension it would seem that chown works the same way. Strangely enough the documentation for chown makes no mention of this behavior. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCO V Linux - now i understand it.
http://www.arie.org/doh/ -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
On Wed, 28 May 2003 05:53:27 -0700 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John If you want to stop it (from memory). # cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ # mv XXXkudzu ~XXXkudzu The files in this dir are all run at init5 startup. The are run in numerical order, 1 - 99. The S prefix means it is a service (assumption). Not sure what the K prefix means other than they are setup executables which run then exit having finished their task. This is where so much of the personal configurability of Linux exists. You can chop and change these dirs to suit yourself. I have a dialup so i delete some services from here and start them from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local instead. That way they are only running when i am on the net. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Corporate 2.1
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:18, Darin wrote: Does anyone know where Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1 can be downloaded from? I don't see it in any of the lists on the Mandrake site. You have to buy it mate. Corporate product you know. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/corporate-server http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkworld/index.php?PAGE=tab_0/menu_0.phpid_art=267LANG_=en#GOTO_267 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - Sun drops linux
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp Mandrake, don't wait for them to contact you! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:34, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 06:50 am, Luke Stutters wrote: Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. MAny times FindFast is the culprit here. As you are changing your disk, It is trying to reindex it. Remove findfast from your startup menu. Restart in Windows safemode. then do your scandisk and defrag. make sure your screenblanker is set to none and power management options are all set to never as well. Depending on your motherboard safemode will be available from [F1], [F8] or perhaps another keypress during boot up at the same time as Bios Setup is an option. It works for me. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip -- Ladies, Gentleman, and script kiddies. Done it! Retreading old ground, I discovered the exact prescription to allow ghostscript to locate the new fonts for postscript files. Since gv was unable to render them either, I figured that it was purely a ghostscript problem - nothing to do with CUPS. GS finds the font resources in the ghostscript and Type1 directories under /usr/share/fonts/defaults. Indexing is performed through a Fontmap file in ./ghostscript, but in Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 this is a bad link, pointing to lib/Fontmap.GS in the ghostscript installation directories. This was probably the case with 8.1 also, and may be carried into 9.1. The link references the wrong (older) version of Ghostscript. Anyway, I repaired that link and carried out the following operations (using Verdana-BoldItalic as an example): cd /usr/share/fonts/msfonts # Generate Type1 fonts from TrueType ./ttf2pt1 -e verdanaz.ttf verdanaz # Copy the font metric file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript # Copy the ASCII font file to ghostscript cp verdanaz.pfa /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript cd /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must match exactly the name held in the font files and it is this which should appear in the postscript file itself with the findfont directive. Your document generator should handle this automatically if given the correct name. e.g. /Verdana-BoldItalic findfont 14 scalefont ISOEncode setfont The line %%DocumentNeededResources: font Verdana-BoldItalic appears in the document header. I feel a bit of a fool for taking so long to find such a simple solution to this problem. Time to get a life I think. Simple, what weed am i smokin'. I do not understand f a about what you wrote, except i recognise a full stop at the end of every sentence. Seeing as you have just become the authority on the matter could you slow this down to about half speed. Then poke it on a web space and post a link to it. Else, give it to me direct, at half speed. I will post it on a website for you. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Low volume sound
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at around 60%, so I've hitched it up. We'll see if it cures the slider problem. Anne I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew what's doing this. Anne This isn't on of those save current settings when exiting kde things is it? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:36, Adolfo Bello wrote: Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? TIA If it is a specific thread just read the archives. If you specifically want it in e-mail form for inclusion in a folder, then copy and paste from browser to e-mail. Then mail them to yourself. I myself am constantly fighting to minimise the mail folder contents. Archives are listed here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 04:15, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it cannot be deleted (I tried '/' '/etc' '/home'). But still, I think that some time ago I tried to delete a root file from my home, and had to su to manage. On everybody else's system its' the same? i just tried it on my system and the same thing happens. Hadn't noticed before that I could delete a root-owned file if it was in my home directory. very curious... Why would you want something in your home directory that you couldn't delete? I'm not being obtuse - is there any reason you can think of that would make root place a file in your home directory but not want you to be able to delete it? Anne Just as an extra measure of security--something to protect me from myself :) Sometimes I do iso images in my ~/ as root. I'd prefer to switch to root to delete these. Todd Then disabling your write permission is your alternative. That way you need not invoke nasty old tricksy root, my precious. (Sorry, Tolkien overload) $ chmod -w my_file_name This ensures no-one can write or erase the file. Usually i would use octal but in this instance this syntax is shorter. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how to list sources for urpmi
man urpmi. man 8 urpmi.update. I cant see where to output the list of sources to read. Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:38, David E. Fox wrote: What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not free space.) Like another poster said, 1440 1K blocks. On the other hand, that assumes you don't put a filesystem on it, which would take up some portion of the available space. My impression was it was a 2Mb RAW disk and when the filesystem (DOS) is written to it. 1.44MB remains. Do you create the volumed tarball direct to floppy's or on the hard drive first? Either. But you can send the tar right to the floppy, without creating a file system first. You just need to visualize the floppy disk as a short, flattened tape :). # tar -cvf /dev/fd0 /path/to/data Your saying that it will just say put in next floppy like winzip does? Doh, if this works, then the previous question is redundant. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 06:16, Michael Adams wrote: 1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place them in an 'extraction' directory. Can i do it? How? (if i get it wrong i could write over existing files) I like using the facilities within Konqueror as a file manager for handling TAR/GZ files - then I can just drag/drop files where I want them - irregardless of paths. Yeah, me too, but konq won't see .hiddenfiles in a tar. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 03:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 9:18 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system I may be niaive, but how can they offer you updates for the software you have installed, without looking to see what is one your computer? Anne 'Windows Update (win98)' is meant to go and see what's available. then the utility on your machine sorts what you have, and thus what to download. I don't update my 98 at all. Just install my legacy progs and NEVER conect it to the net. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tar questions, ta
1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place them in an 'extraction' directory. Can i do it? How? (if i get it wrong i could write over existing files) 2. Speaking Volumes:-) What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not free space.) Do you create the volumed tarball direct to floppy's or on the hard drive first? What number of blocks would fit on a UDP? formatted CD-RW disk? tar -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Graphics formats
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 10:04 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 11:19]: Though I suppose that if I want to make progressive saves while working on a picture, then it would be well worth it, but then make the final save in jpg format again? Yep, that would be my recommendation. Quite often I'll do something in The GIMP, saving my working copy as an .xcf ... then when I need to actually use it, I'll create a .jpg or .png from the .xcf. I've not come across .xcf. Is this a non-M$ version of a bitmapfile? Anne GIMPS native format. Similar to .psp (Paint Shop Pro) in that it remembers layers. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:48, civileme wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 04:35 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:26 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: GACK! *clue* You can have MORE than one swapfile! make the other partition a SECOND swapfile.. done.. Not done. Make sure you have an entry for the second swapfile in /etc/fstab. Two swapfiles on same disk? Well that is about as useful as... No, something needs to break up the blankness on the male chest... If you make two swaps, put one on each disk, then they will stripe like a RAID0. If you have two swaps on the same disk you need to assign priorities for use orelse they will attempt to stripe with a lot of unnecessary head-stepping and will be the slowest swap you ever saw. Civileme I also do not see the point in a 5GB swap. This was his /home on a 10GB drive. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ta-Ta for now
If i have done it right, i should not get any e-mails from this list until this time next week. Not even this one. Have fun all. So there is no point in replying to, or even sending this email ;-) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sendmail question person, look at this, OT Thread hijack... mail server @ home?
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:29, Robert Wideman wrote: I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the reason for that? My roommate wants to. Dont know why. We have 23 computers between me and him. I changed from administration to programming about a month ago and have gone down to 4, 1 windows, 1 linux, 1 Linux-From-Scratch test box, 1 Darwin (Mac OS-X) x86 test box. The windows and linux boxes are for desktop/programming. Now my rommate on the other hand cant handle having less than 6 computers up at all times. All windows computers too. Linux doesnt have the same type of load balancing as windows, it has 1 computer to dish out work...like a cluster which is not what he wants. G Linux on that one. Mail servers in the house, only needed if i am going to host my own website, then i need my own email server. But i am not doing that, he is. I can NOT stand email servers. Oh well Rob I was going to say big families as a reply to Femmes query... but big families of computers? ;-) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:45:43PM +, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 10:30 pm, T E wrote: Hi all, As you see, I am looking for a decent HOWTO for the Sendmail included with Mandrake 8.2. If possible, both a quick setup HOWTO and a detailed version would be greatly appreciated as I'm trying to get this going ASAP but would like to know more later... Thanks in advance!! Although Sendmail is included in 9.0 , Postfix is Mandrakes's preferred Mail server. (It is a drop in replacement for Sendmail) So unless you have a preference for Sendmail you might find Postfix convenient to install. How drop-in is it? Does it use the same configuration files? If it does, I imagine it can't be much of an improvement! -- hendrik It's all summed up on the homepage. Short 'n' sweet. http://www.postfix.org/ -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] webmin
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:55, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 01:47, et wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:39 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 8:49 am, Gil Katz wrote: Hi when i try to enter to webmin i only get the user password when i enter root and the password nothing happens and i get again the login window. any idea Gil Does the user password let you in? If so, there's a screen for Webmin users. Make sure that root is on the list, and try again. When you're sure it's working properly you can remove the user if you want to. Anne No when using the user i get login failed Gil Sounds to me like a corrupt installation. Wait a few hours to see if anyone else has any ideas. If nothing comes, uninstall and start again. Are you using the Mandrake install from the cds? Anne Hi i tried to reinstall but got the same results. i got the CDś that i downloaded from the internet. any ideaś Gil I am kinda late getting in here, but how are we trying to start webmin? (in a browser, https://127.0.0.1:1? I try https://localhost:1 when i try to connect in the first time i get that i don't have certificate is that mean anything? Gil Konqueror or Mozilla or Which? For Konq in 8.2 - check in Settings Configure Konqueror Crypto (Down Left column), Peer SSL Certificates (Tab) Check Webmin Software is in the list Click on it, Should read Cache... Permanently, Policy Accept Otherwise: Does Apache have to be running to make Webmin work? End of Newbie ideas :-( -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer HTTPS = DNS fail
Does somebody recognize a strange error a friend is having while making HTTPS attempts to connect to his bank with IE (Never thought i'd be asking this one here). IE returns an Error Page with no number (like 404) The page advises it could be caused by - site temporarily unavailable - slow connection - incorrect address - site doesn't exist (Sounds 404ish doesn't it) He was previously connecting OK to this site. It does still exist. All Security settings are checked on in Tools Internet Options Advanced tab Security (SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, PCT 1.0). I did see a momentary request for http://https://web.site.name, Which may be the problem, or it may be an attempt to re-lookup after the initial failure. My second course of action is to reload win98 for him as neither the bank nor his ISP could help. Loading Mandrake for him is not an option as he is on a course which requires Word and Outlook Express (AAARGH again). -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Leave this l i s t ?
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I leave this l i s t ? I have tried, and tried ... can't find any info. Please help. Thanks. The same way you got on it. Read: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mr. Tom Brinkman - THANKS MATE The beta CD's have arrived - and anyone in NZ or Australia that needs copies of the 3 x CD's - gimme yer details and I'll post'em off to ya mates! (NOTE to NZ'ers) - I can't send beer or better footy players. Look what you Ockers have been sending our way. Smoke http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mbadams/sunrise/sunrise.htm -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question Trust me: I almost got a PhD in installing Windows and Mandrake this week :-) 1.- *First of all*, install Windows 2000/XP. 2.- Create a FAT32 partition to hold data that you want to read/write with Windows and Mandrake. 3.- Install Mandrake. It is this easy. You will get a dual boot system. G'day, Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far: * I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry LOL * I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS partition down to 8G, and labelled it windoze. * I added another 8G partition, made it FAT32 [on a guess - I figured if Linux couldn't see files on a NTFS partition it probably couldn't install in one either:)], labelled it linux * set the remaining 22G [I wonder where the other 2G went???] as FAT32 and labelled it archive. Linux has its own file systems (plural). For your install either - remove the linux partition with windows fdisk and leave it blank for linux to use. or - Go expert mode and remove /mnt/win_c so linux can utilize this space. I fired up windows and moved my data from C: to E: [the newly created archive partition]. So far so good - windoze sees all three partitions. Put in Mandrake 9.0 CD1, went through the languages, kbd/mouse, security - accepted the defaults as they seemed reasonable. Setup Filesystems shows a graphical representation something like this: +-++-+ | /mnt/nt | /mnt/win_c |/mnt/win_d | +-++-+ This **looks** right, but it's not seeing the labels, and it **seems** to be confused: what it calls win_c is actually E and what it calls win_d is actually F [D: is the CDROM]. To be fair, it does say just a guess in the details box when I click on each partition. /mnt/nt etc. are arbitrary labels applied by linux. E: F: are windows conventions only. This is perfectly normal. But: there doesn't seem to be any way [that I can see] to be sure. And even if I was pretty sure that the second partition is the one to put Linux on, I don't see any way on this screen to tell it to do that. Auto Allocate says: not enough space for auto-allocating The wizard gives three options: - erase the entire disk - use the free space on the windoze partition - use the windoze partition for loopback I clicked on toggle to expert mode [with some trepidation, because clearly I'm not - LOL] and found a button to format the partitions, but I chickened out, because I can't be sure which partition is which. And anyhow, the partitions are already formatted FAT32 - do they need to be formatted again to put Linux on them? You are going fine, nervousness is to be expected. Linux will not use your Fat32, It will set it's own partitions in the space where /mnt/win_c (or windows E:) is, once this partition is deleted. I guess I'm looking for some button that says install here... ...asking too much? g Just go for it! When it comes to the format step of the install you can highlight the new partitions to format. Ensure /mnt/nt and /mnt/win_d are unchecked at this stage and you will have no problems. It will also create a special tiny partition called swap that need not be formatted. I also recommend you leave the other disk in place. That way you will be able to read/write it from linux once running. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wine
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 02:06, Philip wrote: I have incountered a problem trying to run wine with my Mandrake 9.0 distro. When I try to run a .exe file by sat typing...wine startup.exe it attempts to load then I am left with a black screen. That's it. I don't seem to get any error messages. Has anyone any idea what might be causing this?? Thanks Aahaa Isn't XP's blue screen of death (BSOD) black. This is perfickerly normal. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:12, magnet wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with the setup boxs so a little more help would be appreciated. In webmin I have clicked on Create Cron Job... Execute cron job as magnet-- username Command... I'm assuming this is the full path to my script? Yes Input to command... Is this where you can pass params to your script if needed? Yes When to execute seems fairly straightforward :) Yes - -- Greg Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh: No such file or directory Any clues what Ive done wrong? Putting ./ infront of a file means in this directory. If drive1 is in root, and if the cd is /drive1/magnet, then ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh means /drive1/magnet/drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh and test.sh wont be found. Try /drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh wothout the dot in front. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how to cron?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script should be stored. I was thinking it would be in /home/bin/my_script.sh ? Next, how do I set up crontab to call this script? Cheers for any pointers if you can help :) There is a setup tool for cron jobs in the Mandrake Control Center. You can also use webmin, which I personally like better. The third option (which I add only for edification and illuminiation) is to hand edit the file /var/spool/cron/user replacing user with the username that you want the job run under. For the hand edit option the official methed is crontab -e. Try man crontab first. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz
On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my mouse pointing into this /mnt? To others, no problema. Do you know the answer? TIA My solution was to move Windoze out of the /mnt directory. 'Course I haven't had winsux installed for months ; Anyhow, let's say your Winblows is now in /mnt/win_c. As root create a /c directory, 'mkdir /c'. Then 'umount' your Windoze partition. Make a bakup copy of /etc/fstab. Then on the line in fstab that contains /mnt/win_c, delete mnt/win_ leaving just, /c Then run 'mount -a'. You're Windoze partition is now mounted on /c. No need to go thru /mnt, and havt'a wait for supermount to figure out you don't have any removable media inserted, or to access it if you do. I doubt your system need's Xkill'ing. It's probly just getting hung on removable media for quite a while. If this is the case, about your only choice is to (as root), 'supermount -i disable' followed immediately with 'mount -a'. Then learn to use Kdiskfree to mount/umount removable media. If you do this, there's no real need to move winsux out of /mnt as I described above. BTW, for the most part, I've rarely had any problems with supermount. Other than it takin a long time to access removable media. This is vastly improved in 9.1, CD access is almost instantaneous on the CL, and much quicker even with Konqueror. Normally Tom, i enjoy your input immensly as very useful. I am respectfully going to take issue with this one though as i beleive there is a better way. This breaks the standard and thus should be frowned upon. |:-( I suspect that the hang is in a file manager like konqueror or similar. In my opinion there is often a generous pause (up to 10 secs here on my machine) when accessing /mnt/ due to my DVD, CD-RW, and floppy seeking a disk. Do all methods cause the hang. Try ls /mnt in a terminal. My solution would be to put a link to the /mnt/windows directory in your ~, if this is a problem. [michael@tirnanog michael]$ ln -s /mnt/windows ~/windows is my own example. Then a clicking on the (apparent) windows directory in /home/michael/ takes me straight into windows without testing the removable media on the way. Each user does this separately. Sorry Tom, i am not wanting to offend a master, just offering what i beleive is a better alternative. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT javascript gurus?
On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:03, Todd Slater wrote: I need to develop a template for a self-correcting javascript quiz. 1. 3 radio button responses per question 2. on submit, validate that all questions have been answered 3. display correct/incorrect feedback in a textbox next to each question 4. display explanation in textarea next to each question I found a snippet I could use to accomplish 2, but I don't have a clue how to proceed on the rest (so far I just have variables set up, waiting for something to process them). If you can help I'd be much obliged. You can respond off-list. Thanks, Todd I thought about offering suggestions as i have done some javascript myself. I am likely to lead you astray as i have to test as i go to understand what i am doing. You will need to learn as you go so have these instead. http://www.programmersheaven.com/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript/Tutorials/?tc=1 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Shorthand
To us Newbs acronyms are a PITA FWIW IMHO On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 17:27, Jerry Barton wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:12:28 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL: Lots of Laughter Never seen this translation in the 10 years i have been on the net. Its more commonly known as Laughing Out Loud, atleast in Texas US. Rob Up here in Utah even in notes passed in jr. high school it was used as either Laugh Out Loud, Lots of Laughs or Lots Of Love, depending on context (it got confusing at times =)~ ). A few i don't see listed as net jargon but still see in chats/email: TTYTT:to tell you the truth GMTA:great minds think alike ;-) Jerry. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A question of image display
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 06:45, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:54 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not display in konqueror , the sliderbar gets about 65% of the way through the process and hangs. These files have no problem being displayed in gimp, and indeed konq has no problem with my digital camera produced jpeg files, only gimp converted from .pnm files are the problem. Anyone got any ideas as to why ? John Can't help with regards to Konq, but do you do editing in Gimp? If not, convert en masse could save you a lot of clicks. Todd Yes, maybe I ought to. I use gimp mainly because these old photos need a lot of repair work, If scanning from a colour negative, the scanner automatically converts the image from the colour negative to a colour positive. Fine. but in so doing you soon take a look at the result and notice straight away how the dyes have faded over the years, the yellow pigment goes first, then red , and the images is week and positively blue hued. Not to worry gimp has the right handy dandy device , in image - colour - auto - equalise, and hey presto thecolours are all back, not perfectly balanced but darn near there, and with the other colour manipulation devices you put the finishing touches, to the colour balance , hue, saturation and size of image. Great. So you see I need to work on the images a lot. Standardised commands are fine with new colour photos where everything is just so. John What purpose are you using the output for John. If it is for the web then 1MB jpeg pics are too large. Try a little more compression at save time, or scaling the image. Lastly i always save in a lossless format as well especially when there may be more changes to make. If it is not for the web then PNG may be a good midway choice. Better for printing, more compression than TIFF's, but less than JPG. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
I am no network whizz so i may be blowing smoke here. But in my understanding if you have a running windows connection a linux connection is usually achievable. This may sound a little crazy but it just seems strange to me that you are attempting to connect to the mail server. Surely you connect via the phone number provided to 'the' computer on the other end, then once connected, your mail proggy talks to mail.eurobell.co.uk. You are paying for an internet connection, not just an e-mail account? Do you have it running in windows? Perhaps some info from your windows account would be usefull for the linux connection. I scanned their web-site and i had trouble locating any 56k connect info at all. This doesn't mean they don't do 56k accounts, they are pushing their broadband access hard though. snip I used the wizard in MCC to set up the connection again, then used the Mozilla wizard to set up my account, but still no luck. As eurobell failed to give a sensible answer to my question about authentication protocol, I tried all the options! This is what I got... As PAP: Failed to connect to server mail.eurobell.co.uk As CHAP: Failed to connect to server mail.eurobell.co.uk snip Margot -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:41, Margot wrote: - Original Message - From: Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) On Wed, January 29 2003 5:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Hi Margot! I haven't followed this whole thread but if I may say, your ISP Is full of shit. ZA has nothing to do with them. It just shields your comp from outside of the LAN computers. IE, Net comps on the other end. Actually, that's not QUITE true, perhaps her ISP uses some transparent proxying that ZA blocks. I have seen cases where firewalls DO cause problems with certain ISPs. Although, that is not her problem, that is the ISP's. Or, perhaps they have a very non-standard way of giving her internet access, perhaps using some sort of virtual networking, automatically set up at their end. If this is the case, then 9 times out of 10, any firewall would break it. I could get quite technical, in the ways it could happen.. But there is no time, nor is this the proper place. However, to help you with your problem, I would suggest that you, at the (EEK!!) command line, su to root, type ipchains -F, then ipchains -L and see what the default policies are.. INPUT and OUTPUT should be allowed.. If they are, then we have another problem, but it's a start. -- Chuck Burns, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Chuck Logged in as user, su to root, went to (EEK!!) command line, tried both ipchains -F and ipchains -L, got the same error message for both: Could not run the specified command. In case there was a permission problem, tried logging in as root and using root console for both commands, and got command not found. Is there somewhere else to look for these default policies? Margot Margot, Regarding ipchains, it was replaced with iptables for mandrake 8.X. Try man iptables to read up on it. Then you will be able to list your tables. I suspect this is not your problem though. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT Oxymorons
Top Oxymorons of all time: * Military Intelligence * Wholesale Discount * President Bush * Microsoft Secure Server * English Cricket Team * American Rugby * Religious Philosophy * Marketing Intelligence * Microsoft Product Activation * Microsoft Security Algorithm * Easy Linux * OS/2 for Dummies * Complicated Macintosh Program * Macintosh Hacker * Honest Politician * Nice car salesman * Simple Installation * Truth in advertising * McAfee or Symantec Professional Antivirus * President Bush (did I say that twice?) * Microsoft Works -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:14, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Yes, it's possible. However, making your own backup copies of copy protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic things. In linux the hardware necessities you can get; the software you cannot. There are only two brands of burner software that I have tested that are capable of creating backup copies of copy protected cd's with the proper hardware. Neither one of them run on Linux. This is a major problem and I wish both of the two burner software firms would port to linux. Either that or an enthusiastic brainiac capable of authoring a new project. Very frustrating. cdrecord seems to be the tool everybody uses, is that what is usuallu recommended? snip As i understand it, all of the GUI's use cdrecord. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 02:36, Richard Gelling wrote: Hi You might want to sign this petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/endtcpa1/petition.html re TCPA Richard G. Registered Linux User: 256848 Signed and forwarded. Sorry, this reads like Microsoft FUD. Does anyone have more facts? Press releases etc. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] vi settings
As a suggestion, if you play with settings, try this. - Open the config file - SaveAs ~this.conf20030121 - SaveAs this.conf - play away to your hearts content commenting your mods using the comment system included in the file. - for any removals comment them out and state why - for any new inclusions comment stating why Where this.conf is the name of the file you are playing with. If you do multiple changes over time the date appended acts as an old version system. If you see a mod six months old or more then the play must have been a success. The ~ forces the old file to be listed after all others. Backup, backup, backup, doesn't just mean using one method. On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:30, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: Hi, As far as I know, vi is either a link to or some version of vim (I don't think the original vi had any :help command). If this is really so, I think the help file is in /usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt. If this is so, try doing :set helpfile=/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt (inside vim). Also, inside vim do :echo $VIMRUNTIME This is a list of directories. Check that /usr/share/vim appears there, and if not, add it (another way would be to create a link from /usr/share/vim to /usr/share/vim/vim61; for some reason vim is not installed according to the usual scheme). If all of this works, you may put all of these settings in the .vimrc file in your home directory, or in the system wide $VIM/vimrc (you can see the value of $VIM by doing :echo $VIM). If vi is not a version of vim just ignore everything I wrote... (you can check this by doing :version inside vi(m). If this *is* vim, this will also tell you where it looks for config files) Moshe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Zane Minninger Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] vi settings I am using vi at the command prompt. I'm not that proficient at it yet but MDK 8.2 had the right directory for the help file. The installation for 9.0 that I just installed gives me an error, can't find help.txt in /home/tv/ETC/help.txt. Where can I change where the program looks for the help file? I looked for a vi.config and such. I found the main vi directory, but I have been know to play with settings and never get it to work again. If anyone knows where or how I can load vi to point to the correct files, I would greatly appreciate it. Its a real pain to open another file manually with such a long directory tree. Zane Minninger -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: OT [newbie] A review with a twist...;-)
snip Most of us won't ever forget where Mandrake originated. I think the trick is for Red Hat-ians (is that a word? g) to remember _why_ the branch happened. snip Red-hatters? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome Search
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like logrotate if the machine is never on at that time? Richard Logrotate won't get run and the log files will just keep growing. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] partition help for testing 9.1
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:31, Jerry Barton wrote: I'm going to try testing the 9.1 beta but. I don't have an empty partition to install to. I DO have a rather large /home partition that i could divide. the question is how, without losing data. The machine is single boot Mdk 9.0. If there's some detailed howto available I'd be ok if pointed to it. I do have quite a considerable amount of data in my /home partition I don't want to lose. TIA Jerry. Just restore home from your last weekly backup once you have repartitioned. Backup, backup, backup again. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install command
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:19, Trevor Rhodes wrote: After a system crash I'm trying to rebuild and am at the stage of getting some commands back I've forgotten. One was very recently on this list. Does anyone remember a command for installing rpms from the command line that included two signs? Thanks for your help. Oh, for those who are going to tell me to look in the archives, I am. I'm just not having a lot of luck. :^) Regards Trevor http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg114411.html I searched urpmi at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ Recommend you bookmark it. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:41, Damian Gatabria wrote: If it's international charachters you are after with accents, change your keyboard to US-International. This would not be for speed typists. It waits for a second key press after letters with the accents. I loaded it by mistake with my 8.2 install and it weirded me out. OT - Damian, How come your default font has overriden my kmails one for this reply? , please disregard that. It's only my uber-|33t-h4X0r-|d|0t-skills in action.. ;oP Seriously, i don't have a clue! Maybe Kmail switches fonts/charsets when it detects certain foreign characters...? Damian Found it... Your using unicode (utf8) encoding and i'm using Western European (iso-8859-1). -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sum nomenclature
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 05:02, John Richard Smith wrote: On, ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrak e-iso/i586 we have, MandrakeLinux-9.1beta1.i586.iso and, md5sums.9.1beta1.asc I just wondered what .asc means ? John Short for ASCII. If you think in windows-speak read .txt. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] mdk 9 slow on 3d games
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 00:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the guillemot has an nvidia chip: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 What the correct linux driver for the chip? And where can i get it? thanks filipe Get the latest NVDIA driver set - that will do ya. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191 Cruise the whole page. Mandrake RPM's are after RedHat ones. Check the README, step 2, some RIVA's are NOT supported. Use the lspci -n method to check yours. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:21, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 00:35, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 11:11, Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a way to input ASCII characters with a simple key combination (as it is on windows) ? Thanks, Sascha Do you mean like creating a macro? I think he means the alt + nº = somechar AFAIK in Linux you can type in every possible char by combining alt, shift keys + the rest of the keyboard.. I've got a spanish keyboard, and at the right of the spacebar i have a key called Alt Gr. When i combine that key with the letters i get: AltGr + q = @ AltGr + w = ł AltGr + e = € AltGr + r = ¶ AltGr + t = ŧ AltGr + a = æ AltGr + s = ß AltGr + d = ð AltGr + f = đ and so on. HTH Damian If it's international charachters you are after with accents, change your keyboard to US-International. This would not be for speed typists. It waits for a second key press after letters with the accents. I loaded it by mistake with my 8.2 install and it weirded me out. OT - Damian, How come your default font has overriden my kmails one for this reply? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
