[newbie] Keyboard def problem in LM 7.2
I have just upgraded my wife's computer from LM 7.1 to LM 7.2 I now no longer have the choice of Latin-American keyboard def in the Control Center. Is there anyway I can recycle the LM 7.1 definition file ? Where would I find it, and where should it go ? TIA, Ron, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Wow
On Thursday 14 June 2001 21:33, I was honoured by a missive from Sridhar Dhanapalan that said : If you are trying to make us feel jealous you are doing an excellent job. I'm still chugging along with a Pentium II 350 (albeit with 256MB of RAM). You lucky br ! I am just now fighting with a 66 MHz K6, 96 Mo RAM ;-( Cheers, Ron the Frog, breaking the tenth command on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] What is the kudzu function in LM8
On Friday 15 June 2001 10:20, I was honoured by a missive from Sridhar Dhanapalan that said : Someone should really do something about that mail server. What about a filter rule that send to Trash anything with autoreply in the subject line ? Ron. -- When you come to a fork in the road, take it. (Yogi Berra) --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Re: [expert] how can I tell when computer shutoff due to power failure?
On Thursday 14 June 2001 11:24, I was honoured by a missive from Rusty Carruth that said : brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 MDK8.0 PC's that were shutoff when I came in yesterday morning. I never turn them off and suspect that a power failure was responsible. Is there anyway to tell what time they were shutoff? What about a nice simple high-tech solution: Add as root a cron job that runs every minute and puts the date in a file, by adding to crontab the line: * * * * * date ~/date And a line in your init file (/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit) a line cp ~/date ~/lastdate You should then get at each new boottime a copy, in ~/lastdate, of the last ~/date file written before the crash. And Bob's your Uncle. Only drawback: the _huge_ CPU/HD load caused by the cron job ;-) Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] VMware disk permissions
I'm trying to configure VMware. As root, I can configure it to use the existing HD dos partition to run DOS. As user, i get an error message: Unable to open the /dev/hda device permission device How do I give a user permission to access /dev/hda ? TIA Ron the Frog, emulating on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Any fool can criticize, condemn, complain. And most do. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] kmail configuration or list?
On Thursday 24 May 2001 09:03, I was honoured by a missive from Clarkson, Nick that said : No, it's not just you. Same happens here. I have to cut paste the newbie address into the To... box every time. Workaround: Reply to All, which puts both adresses, sender and list, in the To: box. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Avoid the Gates of Hell ! Run Linux. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Automatic disconection by KPPP
If you are, like me, prone to forgetting that you are connected to the net and want to save a bit on useless conection and phone charges, here is how to configure KPPP to chuck you out after a given time without any IP activity: KPPP = Setup = Accounts = Edit = Dial = Customize pppd arguments... There add a line idle nnn where nnn is the number of seconds without IP activity after which you want pppd to disconnect. (for 5 minutes, nnn = 300) This will save me a fortune ;-) Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything! -- George Bernard Shaw --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] sending control characterss to a printer ?
I'm in the middle of writing a small gawk script that sends the content of a text file to the printer, in character form, to fill in a printed form. Query: is there a way, similar to Basic's LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(41), to send control chars to the printer from gawk ? TIA, Ron the Frog, programming on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Hindsight is an exact science. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Au secours, je suis dans la M..... (was Superblock adresses ?)
I'm in deep S. I have been working on the computer of Her Who Must Be Obeyed, and when re-booting, had a problem: No system; had a closer look, I had mixed up the primary and secondary IDE cables. I unmixed them, rebooted, and now the partition with her home dir wont mount, she's loosing three weeks email and work and my name is Mud ;-( The error message I get is e2fsck: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hdc Then it advises me to try e2fsck -b 8193 device I have tried it, with various block numbers, but to no avail. Any suggestion before I'm sent to spend the night in the doghouse ? -The partition shows up correctly with fdisk -l /dev/hdc -The HD is still configured in the BIOS as it always has been I'm at a loss to understand what happened; anyone who can explain/help will earn my eternal gratitude for at least ten minute. TIA, Ron the Frog, in disgrace on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- There has been of late an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Superblock adresses ?
One of my partitions has a problem; When I run e2fsck, it advises me to run with the -b option, to indicate other superblock locations, and offers 8193 as an example. Are there other locations which could work (8193 does not ;-( TIA, R.Olgiati, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. -- Marx (Groucho) --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Shutdown with power down; how?
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:24, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from you that said : While I am on the subject, where can I change permissions to allow non root users to shutdown from a terminal. (I am the only user.) One way I found was to cp halt and reboot from /sbin to /bin, and the to chmod +s /bin/halt and /bin/reboot I dont know if the introduces security problems, but it certainly allows EVERYONE to halt or reboot. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the rainy banks of the Paraguay River. -- Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disapointed. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] REMOVE ME (OT)
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 21:02, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from you that said : doesn't anyone READ the instructions anymore? God only knows what they'd do with a map somewhere out in the wilderness with little gas left. call the map maker for directions? They'll just whip out the cellphone, and call 911 ;-) Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River (where we have cell-phones, but no 911 service) BTW, seems my random sig-file generator is on topic this hour ! -- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't start
On Thursday 22 March 2001 19:48, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from you that said : Xpp works fine -- until I shut down the workstation. When I start it again and try to print it responds with "Can't connect to CUPS server." If I su to root and type "service cups start" it works again -- until I shut down the workstation. Then I am right back to "Can't connect to CUPS server." I looked through the archives of both the newbie and expert mailing lists and found a number of messages related to CUPS and the "Can't connect..." response but none of them really matched this situation. Any suggestions? Check that CUPS is activeted at startup time ? (Configuration==Draxconf==Startup services Make sure the box for cups is checked. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Software for monitoring cpu temperature ?
I now have and all-singing-all dancing new motherboard, with all mod cons and a CPU that monitors its own temperature. Of course, the software for doing this runs only under Windoze. Anyone know of a Linux prog that does the same ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the slowly cooling banks of the Paraguay River. -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] More printing problems (solved)
I have changed my motherboard, and CUPS now runs (on the old one, the CUPS server would not run ;-( So I can now print; thanks to all who sent help. The flip side of it all is that now its my Ethernet card that wont work. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the balmy banks of the Paraguay River. -- Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. -- Josh Billings --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Partition problem - - Help me, O Ye Sky-Gods of Mandrake !
This is a problem that is potentially embarassing for Mandrake, and I'm surprised not to have heard from them when I first posted it: LM 7.1 installs without any problem, and while installing it I can create the partitions I need with either fdisk or diskdrake without any trouble. When I boot-up my LM 7.2 cd, it works very well except that under 7.2, neither fdisk nor diskdrake can see the partition table of the hard disk. Is this a known "feature" ? Do you need more details on the machine setup ? Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. -- Josh Billings --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Partitioning problem
I have just been installing Linux Mandrake on a new computer. The interesting bit was that LM 7.2 would not install, it seems that it could not read of write the partition table, whether with diskdrake of fdisk. So I installed LM 7.1, with no trouble. Anyone met this problem ? Is there a solution ? (I'd like to upgrade to 7.2 later ;-) TIA, Ron the Frog, on the balmy banks of the Paraguay Riverr. -- Insanity is hereditary: You get it from your kids. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Partitioning problem
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 16:39, Dennis Myers wrote: I have just been installing Linux Mandrake on a new computer. The interesting bit was that LM 7.2 would not install, it seems that it could not read of write the partition table, whether with diskdrake of fdisk. So I installed LM 7.1, with no trouble. Anyone met this problem ? Is there a solution ? (I'd like to upgrade to 7.2 later ;-) I have not seen the problem on my systems or the list, but I would bet a dollar that now that you have 7.1 on the disk you can go back and do an install with 7.2 and keep the same partitions just don't reformat the /home partition if you now have anything you want to save. It is possible on the first try with a brand new harddrive it must be formatted and you may be able to do that with the install disk and do F1 instead of "enter" and then do a format , but I am not sure of the exact command line to use for that, hopefully someone on the list will know. I had to do this I think, but it was so long ago that I have forgotten. Anyway, the 7.2 over the 7.1 should work now. Good Luck, Does not work, I already tried: After partitioning in the LM 7.1 install, I restarted the 7.2 and there was nothing in either fdisk or diskdrake; went back to 7.1 and all the partitions I had created before were there;-( I'm begining to feel a lack of gruntleness Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the balmy banks of the Paraguay Riverr. -- Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disapointed. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Disk usage
On Sunday 11 March 2001 19:12, Neville Cobb wrote: The URL for Xdiskusage is http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/ The page contain a binary which can be run by a user if you change the execute permissions on the file once you download it. Ta, I'll give it a try. Ron. -- Death to all fanatics. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Curiosity
On Monday 12 March 2001 00:47, Derek Rayne wrote: Warning: The following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net When I got fed up with getting the same message from Netscape each time it strated, I added the three domain names above to the "127.0.0.1 localhost" line in the /etc/hosts file. Never been bothered since ;-) Cheers, Ron the Frog, on thhe banks of the Paraguay River. -- Death to all fanatics. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] 24 hrs -- not just for the military
On Monday 12 March 2001 10:16, Shane Roppel wrote: Yes, this is true, and even known to me. But, the military did create the 24hrs clock system. Nope; i was created by the railways companies in England, who found a need for it long before the military did. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the balmy banks of the Paraguay River. -- One of the functions of myth in the twentieth century is to glorify the leaders who betray our ideals. -- James Bacque --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Disk usage
Hi all, I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-directory of a given directory, the total amount of disk-space used up by that sub-directory and all its sub-sub-directories. Is there a way to do this with du , Or any other way ? I dont need/want the breakdown with all the sub-sub-directories listed, only the total for each first-level sub-dir. TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] foolish question
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:17, Emilio Correa wrote: Hi, I lost the task bar in KDE, How can I restore it? It should come back when you run "kpanel"; right-click on the desktop, go to the menu-item "run command" and put kpanel in the space provided. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Procrastinate now --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] More printing problems.
HEEEPPP!! I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am slowly going mad. I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2; the test-page prints, and I print wothout problem from KWord or KSpread. The printer as installed is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf If I open http://localhost:631/ and go to the Manage Printer page, it tells me there are no printers installed. If I install one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as the Manage Printers page is concerned. If I open Kups from the console, the status bar of Kups keeps telling me Cannot connect to CUPS server; check your options. If I add one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer installed as far as Kups is concerned.In the course of the installation, Kups repeatedly tells me I have no printer connected to // port #1 qtcups does not see any of the printers listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf xpp gives me short shrift, with the terse warning "No printer found, aborting" Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. I have checked in the DraxConf startup services, and both cups and lpr are checked. Any ideas ? TIA, Desperate, on the shores of the Paraguay River. -- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Printing from Staroffice 5.2 under CUPS ?
I am (trying to) configure the printer fro SO 5.2 but have not so far even managed to print a test page. I found a printer in the list offered by SO, but dont know what to indicate as the print command (lpr -Plp ?) for printing under Cups. Any idea ? TIA, Ron, on the bbanks of the Paraguay River. -- Never run out of Altitude, Air-speed and Ideas at the same time. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Timezone problem
My timezone (Paraguay) has changed this morning from Summer Time to Winter Time. Only problem is that it is not supposed to change for at lease another month. Where could I report the discrepancy ? I hink the problem is in the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/america/Asuncion, but its written in illegible, and I dont know how to modify it ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: Re:[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Alexander Arzberger wrote: I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do this!? Is Gnome really faster ? (as I have an antique and slow machine, I'd be interested to switch to the fastest DE) TIA, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Cron has gone mad !
I have a cron job that (should) run every morning at 01.00 to run slocate, to update the locate database. For now two days, I have found my machine impossible to use, when I begin at 06.00; constant HD activity, and everything taking ages to happen. So I ctrl-alt-f1ed to the console, did a ps -a and found I have about fifty or sixty pids for crond and slocate ! no wonder it was busy. Any idea where this may come from ? All worked well up to three days ago, the time/date is corect, and I'm running out of ideas. TIA, Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Profund and/or witty statement goes here. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Supermount Samba FS ?
I have read in vain man supermount and man fstab, and find no mention of how to use supermount in /etc/fstab. Can it be used to auto-mount the devices on a w**95 box through Samba ? Up to now, I have had to open Konsole, su and mount, and would like to simplify local network access. Tahnks for any pointers, Cheers, Ron the Frog, sweating on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
RE: [newbie] Bizarre cron job--or what?
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Lewis Bishop wrote: Someone mentioned to me that unknown hard disk activity could be due to locate building it's index? Could this be it? Can anyone clarify? If you have a cron job that rebuilds the locate database, it DOES take a long time to run ;-) Just make sure it is run at a time when you are seldom at your screen. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] A reminder (a word of warning)
Hi, all! I've just had a most horrible morning, with KDE locking up on me, kernel panics when re-booting, and all kinds of strange happenings, and I was thinking of doing a complete re-install. It turned out to be a hardware problem ! I looked into the box, and the CPU cooling fan had failed. So, before you get in a muddle over Linux acting strangely, look at your CPU fan ! Cheers, Ron the Frog, sweltering on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] NFS installation under Mandrake 7.1
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Its sounds as though you may have to recompile the kernel to support this. I just checked my kernel configuration (kernel 2.2.15-4) and NFS is already compiled in as a module. Well, I'll just wait till I upgrade to 7.2 ;-) Thanks, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- That which Man altereth not for the better, Time, the great Innovator, altereth for the worse. -- Francis Bacon --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Windows
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Goldenpi wrote: 1. Microsoft isn't loseing any money if your selling a product thats const hundreds of $ and noone can afford it anyway. So its all right to steal something you cannot afford, because you would not have bought it anyway ? You morals stink. 2. Even if it does cosy m$ money, they already have too much. Remember that on that reasoning, to all those who have less than you do, YOU have too much money, and its all right to steal from you. Let us have your adress, so we can get some poorer people to put in practice the theory you advocate. 'nuff said, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] NFS installation under Mandrake 7.1
I am running Mandrake 7.1. I wish to use NFS to share files between two Linux boxes. NFS does not appear in /proc/filesystems. Do I have to recompile the kernel, or can it be added as a module ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] choice of computer - fix contacts
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, Treat unreliable connections with Stabilant22. Given that I had the problem on two motherboards, and they went away when I removed the cache RAM stick, I have been tempted to blame the RAM itself ;-) But I'll see if I can find Stabilan here in Darkest Paraguay. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] VMWare: Is 96 M memory really sufficient ?
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, duncan wrote: Have been assured that it will run slw if win 98 Can be speeded up if you run win 98 lite and is quicker if you run NT or 2000. What aboput Windows 3.1 ? What I need to run are some old legacy apps ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, sweltering on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Password
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a little bug in lillo and grub you have to add the line in lillo mem: 128mb i think thats how it goes im sure someone will correct me, for some reason lillo and grub will not detect over 64mb so this line was added to help correct the reporting feature to the linux kernel on bootup, when i get my new laptop i will also have to implement this because of the added ram. once you implement this into your config things should run alot smoother for you Could not find anything on the syntax to use in the grub man page. Do you know where I could find more specific on the syntax to use for Grub ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: Re: [newbie] choice of computer (solved)
My thanks to all who helped, Frankenstein has woken up again and is working; Took the MB that supported 4 banks of memory, put on it the fastest CPU, and apart from a flaky cache RAM-stick and having to juggle PCI boards around to get them to work, no problem. I can now wade through 1200 emails that have accumulated in between time ;-( Thanks again to all for the kind advice. Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Networking linux boxes
Just when I have finally mastered Samba to network my Linux box with the family's Windoze machines, my son has decided to migrate to Linux. How do I remain networked with him ? NFS ? Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River -- The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] choice of computer, other query !
Thanks to the kind and useful advice gratefully received from many listers, I'm about to do a complete brain transplant; I'll be back online as soon as Frankenstein wakes up again ;-) Thanks again, Ron the Frog, soaked under heavy storm on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy ? Who knows ? Who cares ? --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] choice of computer, other query !
Another question, now that I'm commited to completely reassemble my desktop. I have two HDs, one CD reader and a CD ROM writer. Which is the best plan ? Put both HDs on the same channel, and the CDs on the other, or put the HDs as masters on each channel, and the CDs as slaves ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] choice of computer
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Can you use the 110 bogomip machine and swap its RAM with the 99.9 bogomip one? What are the actual megahertz ratings and brands of the CPUs and motherboards? I cannot, because the 110 bm motherboard seems to have a fault, doe not recognize memory sticks in the second bank, so is limited to 64 M And I cannot swap the processors as I do not have the doc for the other motherboard, so dont know how to set the jumpers for the faster cpu ;-( Thanks for the advice, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Justice is incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] RPMLIB ?
Downloaded and tried to install wine 2909 I There isan unsatisfied dependency: rpmlib == 3.0.3-1 Searched both rpmfind.net and linux-mandrake.com for rpmlib, seems there is no such thing. Where should I look ? TIA, Ron the Frog, puzzeld on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- To YOU I'm an atheist; to GOD, I'm the Loyal Opposition. -- Woody Allen --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Linux question
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, TiGereYe wrote: In otherwords...i would like to get a very simple installation and then i can build on it with the softare that i need...can mandrake do that? if not then is there a distro that does that but at the same time supports rpm's? Install in "Expert" mode, you can then choose one by one the packages you install. cheers, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Individualists unite ! --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Problem with WINE
Sending again, first try seems to have fallen down a hole ;-( - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I have installed wine under Mandrake 7.1 when I run "wine sol" in Konsole, I get to play the Win95 solitaire game But when I come out of the game, I get in Konsole 30-odd screens of error messages:. "err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c005 flags 0 addr 0x408e371f " followed by "Segmentation fault [root@CerroCora /root]# err:win32:EnterCriticalSection Critical section 0x40600e2c wait timed" and another 40-screen s worth of error lines as above. Should I worry ? BTW, can anyone let me know if there is a specialized list for wine ? TIA, Ron the Frog, soaked under a storm on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: Re: [[newbie] wp8]
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Paul wrote: I went to www.download.com, found the Linux section and searched for 'wordperfect'. And there it was. Ta, Ron. -- The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] wp8
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Pungki wrote: I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes, please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ? WP8 is NOT freeware. I have been trying to use it, and have had no luck: I bought Corel Linux for the included WP8, but the *** thing wont install under a Mandrake installation, can only install it as part of a complete Corel Linux install. And I found thet the Corel Linux install is rather crippled when compared to Mandrake 7.1. (lots of options missing, they dont want you toupgrade/add from anywhere but their own site, and the .deb file for WP8 is not recognized as such buy either Kpackage or even Debian's own DPKG) I contacted them a number of times for help installing it, and they were most reluctant to answer, and did not give me any valid advice. All in all, a complete loss of time. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James M. Barrie --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: Re: [[newbie] wp8]
On Mon, 17 Nov 2036, Michael Scottaline wrote: I use both and find both useful. For me SO does a better job of importing complex M$ Word docs and keeping the formatting straight. WP8 is free for download, and unlike its more recent update runs natively w/o wine. Did youmanage to find a download in a usable (=.rpm ;-) form ? If so, please let us know where ! TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Salvor Hardin --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Where are the time-zone config files ?
Sorry I explained my problem badly: I dont need to change the time-zone itself, but its definition file, since the date when we go to summer time here in Paraguay seems to have changed. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should be able to access it with drakconfig or you might be able to do it from the many system settings available in kde -- Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Where are the time-zone config files ?
We moved to Summer time last week-end, and since then my system clock (set to GMT) gives me the wrong time. I suspect the Paraguayan govt changed the time at a different date this time. Anyone know where to find the time-zone def files to correct this ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance - manual's ftp site
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, iagoba wrote: Lot of people asked me to give them that file , the file is very big, bigger than i thought, more than 4 MB, if someone more want it, the ftp site that u can download it is Thanks a lot, downloading now ! Ron. -- There is no time like the pleasant. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] ipchains / pmfirewall problem, and Re: OT American politics
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, if it were as simple as that to get away from U.S. politics. -Gary- In a message dated 9/30/2000 2:27:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm thinking about moving to Canada. I moved to the depth of Darkest Paraguay, and I still receive all kinds of US-politics related rubbish. The flip side of easy communications I suppose. Now, to come back on topic, I have installe pmfirewall. Since then, the only way I can get an answer to ping 192.168.1.2 (other machine on my LAN) is to do an ipchains -F; otherwise ping does not receive any packets. Which port I have blocked by mistake ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River Going to Summer Time tommorrow, newspaper advised us today to set our clocks and watches forward by 24 hours.. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Paul wrote: Just run /boot/grub/install.sh as root and Grub is back in town :) Thanks, Ron. -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. -- Publius Vergilius Maro --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me know if anyone is interested in the entire article =) Yes please, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: Oh ok, I wonder, is there a way I can create a "rescue" disc in case I want to replace grub with Lilo in case it does not co-operate? I have the opposite problem: how can I re-install GRUB ? It came as standard with my Mandrake 7.1 install, but was replaced by LILO when I modified my boot procedure with Drakboot. TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Children are natural mimic who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Gullibility Virus Spreading over the Internet!, was Re: [newbie] Fwd: possible virus
*** WARNING, CAUTION, DANGER, AND BEWARE! Gullibility Virus Spreading over the Internet! *** WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Institute for the Investigation of Irregular Internet Phenomena announced today that many Internet users are becoming infected by a new virus that causes them to believe without question every groundless story, legend, and dire warning that shows up in their inbox or on their browser. The Gullibility Virus, as it is called, apparently makes people believe and forward copies of silly hoaxes relating to cookie recipes, email viruses, taxes on modems, and get-rich-quick schemes. "These are not just readers of tabloids or people who buy lottery tickets based on fortune cookie numbers," a spokesman said. "Most are otherwise normal people, who would laugh at the same stories if told to them by a stranger on a streetcorner." However, once these same people become infected with the Gullibility Virus, they believe anything they read on the Internet. "My immunity to tall tales and bizarre claims is all gone," reported one weeping victim. "I believe every warning message and sick child story my friends forward to me, even though most of the messages are anonymous." Another victim, now in remission, added, "When I first heard about Good Times, I just accepted it without question. After all, there were dozens of other recipients on the mail header, so I thought the virus must be true." It was a long time, the victim said, before she could stand up at a Hoaxees Anonymous meeting and state, "My name is Jane, and I've been hoaxed." Now, however, she is spreading the word. "Challenge and check whatever you read," she says. Internet users are urged to examine themselves for symptoms of the virus, which include the following: * the willingness to believe improbable stories without thinking * the urge to forward multiple copies of such stories to others * a lack of desire to take three minutes to check to see if a story is true T. C. is an example of someone recently infected. He told one reporter, "I read on the Net that the major ingredient in almost all shampoos makes your hair fall out, so I've stopped using shampoo." When told about the Gullibility Virus, T. C. said he would stop reading email, so that he would not become infected. Anyone with symptoms like these is urged to seek help immediately. Experts recommend that at the first feelings of gullibility, Internet users rush to their favorite search engine and look up the item tempting them to thoughtless credence. Most hoaxes, legends, and tall tales have been widely discussed and exposed by the Internet community. Courses in critical thinking are also widely available, and there is online help from many sources, including * Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability at http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html * Symantec Anti Virus Research Center at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html * McAfee Associates Virus Hoax List at http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.html * Dr. Solomons Hoax Page at http://www.drsolomons.com/vircen/hoax.html * The Urban Legends Web Site at http://www.urbanlegends.com * Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com * Datafellows Hoax Warnings at http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm * Computer Virus Myths home page at http://www.kumite.com/myths * IBM - antivirus online hype alerts at http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/ * NCSA/ICSA Main Menu http://www.ncsa.com/services/consortia/anti-virus/alerthoax.html Hoaxes and myths on the Internet: * Evaluating Internet Research Sources at http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm * Evaluation of Information Sources at http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm * Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources at http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM * Don't Spread that Hoax! http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/index.html Lastly, as a public service, Internet users can help stamp out the Gullibility Virus by sending copies of this message to anyone who forwards them a hoax. On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Gavin wrote: To the House of Mandrake, I'm sending you this message from Japan which was sent to me by my brother in Az. This letter has nothing to do with mandrake, but for some of you who still use windows, Please take heed in this letter and don't let it happen to you, as of now I don't know if it will affect linux or not but I'm sending it anyway.. snip -- The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] StarOffice and other wordprocessors
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote: I think if you go to www.download.cnet.com Could you please confirm the url ? I get en error ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Setting the time
Did you tell it to store the time as GMT ? That could explain it ! Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Philip Ferguson wrote: Hello. I have a quick one for whoever is interested. How do I set the time? I know I set my time zone correctly when I installed Linux, but for some reason my clock is off by 3 hours. -- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Grub - Lilo
When I installed Mandrake 7.1, the boot manager installed by default was (I think) Grub, which I like. When I tried to oinstall Corel linux on another partition, I found myself stuck with (a badly installed version of) Lilo. How can I go back to Grub ? TIA, Ron the Frog, celebrating Spring on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. ( 38 C in the shade today ;-) -- There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] kedit and kless by default ?
When I ran M7.0, the default action when clicking on a text file was to open it with kedit. With M7.1, the default is open it with kless. (How) can one change this back to kedit ? (the line formatting of kless is atricious ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrew Koepke wrote: I've go a USR Courier V-everything internal modem. I had some problems with setting it up, but finally got them resolved. In KPPP, the highest volume setting doesn't work because the modem doesn't recognize the command for setting that volume. However, the lower volume level works fine. In KPP == Setup == Modem == Modem Commands Change the value in the bottom-most right-ost field from M1L4 to M1L3 Had the same problem with my old USR, did not recognize L4. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Sound configuration problem
After completely re-installing my system, I cannot get the sound to work; guess I dont remember what I did the first time to get it functioning ;-( Plug and Pray Sound Blaster AWE card. When I try to start kmix, I am told "kmix:Could not open mixer, Perhaps you do not have permission to access the mixer device; log in as root and do achmod a+ar /dev/mixer to allow access" -I have done that -I have pnpdumped and edited /etc/isapnp -I have added sound in /etc/modules -I have read (several times) the Sound-howto and Soundblaster-AWE-howto I _KNOW_ I have forgotten something, but what ? Any idea before I tear out my few remaining hair ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Procrastinate now --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mark Thurston wrote: I have a US Robotics 56K Sportster modem, it is about 3 years old so it is not a winmodem. This seems to me to be a hasty generalization; I think that winmodems existed before 1997; Any comment ? Ron the Frog, swelteing under the winter sun on the banks of the Paraguay River -- Procrastinate now --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Sound configuration problem
John Rye, Paul and Boynblack wrote: sndconfig as root from console. I knew it ! I HAD forgotten something ! Many thanks from the sunny banks of the Paraguay River, Ron the Frog. -- If someone annoys you, just turn the other cheek. Nothing gets the message across like a good mooning. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pardon me, I misplaced your real name), How did you configure your voicemodem? Since yours and mine are very similar, I would expect your solution to work for me too. My modem is a 3Com / USRobotics, 56K, ISA (I forgot it was ISA, previously I wrongly stated it was PCI), PnP, and a faxmodem. "PnP aware o/s" was disabled in CMOS prior to any LinuxMandrake installs. Linux Mandrake's "isapnp" misdetects the modem's interrupt (the modem operates on COM2 in Windoze (no change in modem operating status or operation when going from motherboard CMOS PnP ON to OFF)). I went into the isapnp file to verify just what the errors related to, and I confirmed the boot errors I was getting were from this modem interrupt problem. Even under these conditions, using minitel I sent an ATDT to the modem and got a dial tone. I configured it by -placing the jumpers to select the COM port and IRQ as used by the modem I was replacing. -booting W with the USR CDRom in the player -letting it install a slew of modem-related software -Saying Yes when it wanted to sdetect new hardware It then started playing with itself for some time, while displaying something like: "Now configuring the modem, this wil take a few minutes" When it was finished, I tried connecting from W and it worked; logged off, rebooted Linux, tried to connect and it worked straight away. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the rainy banks of the Paraguay River. -- The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] https not implemented yet ?
When I try to connect to an https (secure conection) url with the KFM browser, I get an error message that "The requested action get https://securesomethingorother.html is not implemented yet." How can I access such sites ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Insanity is hereditary: You get it from your kids. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] DVD player
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I don't think it currently can be done, legally that is. This is because the developers of any DVD player must pay royalties to the DVD copyright owners (I can't remember what the consortium's name is). This rules out the possibility of a legal open source DVD player. AFAIK, DeCSS is the only programme capable of playing DVDs in Linux. This is why DeCSS was banned by the US courts, and why it received so much attention from sites like Wired and ZDnet. Just be warned that it is illegal to own or use it. Maybe it is in some backwards former Colonies VBG, but certainly not everywhere; I just received the source of DeCSS printed in a Brazilian magazine. Sites that link to it are violating US law (e.g. 2600.com were ordered to remove all links to it and I think they were sued), so you'll probably have a hard time finding it. So what ! Thank God US law does not yet rule the whole world (although at times it sees to want to do so ;-( You should be able to find the code; if not, I can scan and send you the magazine article. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie
All this rubbish just to send a "subscribe" message to the wrong adress ?
I understand why you want to move to Linux ;-)
Try sending in "text only", and to the adress
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with "subscribe newbie" in the body of the message.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River.
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Re: [newbie] Which portsentry should I run
Thanks for the advice, Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River -- Those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Jason Ashman wrote: But, very few winmodems have linux drivers available. I suggest checking the manufacturer's website or any other Linux driver site and see if a driver is available. If not, fork up the bucks and get an external modem. It is a safe assumption to say that the majority of internal modems are winmodems. I just got and installed a UsRobotics / 3Com internal modem, 56K voicefax, which runs fine under Linux; but I had to boot W once to configure it. I'd say that unless your internal modem has jumpers to configure the IRQ and IO adress, you will be out of luck ;-( Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- A fanatic is a person who does what he knows God would do, were God apprised of all the facts of the case. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Which portsentry should I run
I have just installed portsentry; the doc tells of various ways to run it,
portsentry -tcp (basic port-bound TCP mode)
portsentry -udp (basic port-bound UDP mode)
portsentry -stcp (Stealth TCP scan detection)
portsentry -atcp (Advanced TCP stealth scan detection)
portsentry -sudp ("Stealth" UDP scan detection)
portsentry -audp (Advanced "Stealth" UDP scan detection)
but are rather vague on which is suitable for what situation; --
Any pointer of where could I find more info ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the cold banks of the Paraguay River.
God, I wish ignorance was painful.
-- James Knox
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[newbie] Off topic and Networking OS2Warp box
First, the off topic: *** MORE OF AN AD THAN A SIGN, but... A billboard seen next to the highway, travelling from Johannesburg International Airport into town. An Ad for BMW showing a photo of a BMW 328i convertible with the roof and all the windows down. The caption reads: Our hardware runs better without WINDOWS!!! Editor's note: I can actually verify this one. If you want to see the billboard, go here: http://bs16.freewebsites.com/Pix/carwithoutwindows.jpg *** Now, the real query: One of the users on the home network (ne2000 - thinnet) wants to migrate from W*** to OS2Warp (good lad). Will he still be able to access the network ? (or in other words, is there a way to network an OS2 box with a Linux/SMB network ? ) TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Monday is the root of all evil --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
RE: [newbie] actiontec pci pro
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Homoky, Mark MJ SSI-ISEC-34 wrote: Is the pppd setup properly? Check to see that you have passed it the option for "noauth" - otherwise it will fail as it doesn't receive the correct authentication from your ISPs server (which shouldn't be happening). Adding this option will turn off the authentication reception it is expecting and should allow you to use the system normally. How do you pass that option ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- There are three kinds of men: Those that learn by reading, The few who learn by observation, And the rest of them who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] PPP daemon dies unexpectedly
I keep getting these; my log files shows the following: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 local IP address 209.117.51.112 remote IP address 209.117.123.122 Hangup (SIGHUP) Modem hangup Connection terminated. Connect time 0.9 minutes. Sent 1905 bytes, received 2574 bytes. Exit. I'm intrigued by the sixth line "Hangup (SIGHUP)"; does this mean my machine has hung up, or that the remote server has ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls ... If thou art in the bathtub, it tolls for thee. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] Directcc is great.
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Goldenpi wrote: One of the network programs I find useful under windows is direct cable connection, which allows me to run file shareing between my two windows computers. Now I would like to network linux and windows, but I have no network cards, just a long serial cable. Linux doesn't have anything like directcc, is there a way to set it up? Samba server, and Slip connection ? -- As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] question on sort utility
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone has any problems with the sort utility ? I just tried to sort a file of about 3,100,000 lines and discovered after the sort that about 1100 lines had been duplicated in the output file. The sort utility under linux also does not behave the same as the solaris version [although the solaris version is also peculiar in other ways]. Try to use sort with the -u option; this should supress multiple identical lines in the output. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Linux clip-art ?
Hi all, I'd like to add a penguin to my web page. Could anyone point me toward a site where I could download such clip-art ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay Ruver. -- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Network / Sambe problem ?
I did a complete re-install of Samba, and it now works as a charm: But I dont know why ! Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. -- Samuel Butler --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] kpackage buggers-up my panel config.
Whenever I install a .RPM with kpackage, I find that my carefully / tastefully crafted kpanel configuration has been returned to the bog-standard original config. I have found a kludge round this, making in /root a copy of /usr/share/applnk/ and copying it back in /usr/share after using kpackage. Is there a better way ? Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- If someone annoys you, just turn the other cheek. Nothing gets the message across like a good mooning. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
[newbie] Kmail / Sendmail question
I have not been able to find wether KMail uses Sendmail to process the incoming and outgoing mail; does anyone know ? I would like to know if putting the domain names of persistent spammers in /etc/hosts.deny will help when using KMail. TIA, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. (Middle of winter, leaves falling off the trees, strawberry season in full swing and 30 C today ;-) .. -- What I tell you three times is true. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] KDE directory
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Mike, It's talking about the .kde directory that is located in your /home directory. Which is normally invisible; check the View = Show hidden files box in KFM, or ls -A in console mode, to see it. I have been had by this before! (dont follow me, I'm lost ;-) Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. -- Josh Billings --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: Now, before you go off on me for not being hardcore enough about linux let me say that I use linux because I enjoy the challenge. Has anyone ever studied the similarities between adventure gaming and installing Linux ? I find the one an excellent surrogate for the other ;-) Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Darren Hall wrote: It would be better if you actually researched something before you went spouting off. You really have done an outstanding job at making yourself look completely incompetant. Could you please elaborate ? Adrian's answer seems "competant" enough, and I can see no glaring errors in it. But I'd like to learn more... Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. - Original Message - From: "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] *delicate cough* somebody said: "Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells, running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long filenames) and a new io.sys. windows 98 is really windows 95 with a few cosmetic changes." nooo. don't make me go balistic. win95 is not an OS. win95 still ran on DOS, M$ just changed the name of many of the DOS files so no one would know it. this was on of the things some of the computer magazines pointed out when win95 came out (along with the fact that IE took an inventory of the software on your computer sent that information to M$ when you logged on the internet). of course, M$ denied this at first, but eventually admitted it was true. it may have a new file system, but it's not an OS - they just did a slightly better job of hiding DOS. i think there were actually more changes made in win98, under the hood. one case in point. PKZIP, the command line version, will run fine in a DOS box under win95, under win98 however it will just crash. PKWare had to come up with a new program to run PKZIP from a command line in win98. that's my opinion and you all know what opinions are like *haha* adrian Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My karma just ran over your dogma. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows
I have (had ?) somewhere on my Gates of Hell box a small utility that allowed you to change the case of all files in a given directory, and could recurse for all sub-dirs. Puts everything in Ucase, Lcase or even Lcase with the first letter in Ucase. chgcse25.zip Contact me off-list if you cannot find it, and I'll upload it to you. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, you wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? In other words, upon trying to transfer these types of files to windows...using copy/paste method...in KFM... it completes the exchange...but when I go look at the files in Windows 98...afterwards, all the files' filenames have been changed to either uppercase or lowercase type... and this being the scenario, I can't then use a windows webserver to view the sites...in windowscause of the link differences. Unless, of course I first edit each and every single filename,AGAIN. and with a huge site this could take a very long time. Please can someone help? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
kpackage trouble
I've been trying to download a number of upgrades from: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/SRPMS/ When I try to open the .RPMs with kpackage (1.3.10) , it tells me that all the files in the package are malformed. I feel cheated ! Any idea ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
Scanner HOWTO ?
Ive been sifting through the docs that came with both Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1, but cannot seem to find anything on how to install a scanner; Any pointers ? Please ? Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River. -- To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
Re: [newbie] Email
Please turn HTML off for posting, it will make you easier to read. On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html Mark Weaver escribioacute;: blockquote TYPE=CITEKmail and Netscape Messenger work real well for this. p-- brMark pnbsp; ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** brnbsp; brnbsp; pOn Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Craig wrote: p Hi I was wondering if anyone knew about a good email program to use that can show HTML emails.nbsp; Thanks in advance. br br Craig br/blockquote I'm using Netscape Messenger and it works fine, but i've tryed sending an html email containing a separating line and a photo to myself and get it with kmail: the line was displayed fine, but the photo appeared as a link in the bottom side... it doesn't work finenbsp; 8-( pre--nbsp; Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de/pre nbsp;/html
Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Steve Weltman wrote: I use IPChains...very effective, and there's a Mandrake GUI that can be used as a front end if the user (like me) is command line shy. How do you call the GUI (or: What is the name of the executable file) ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River -- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
DOSEMU woes
Now the Linux box is working, I am trying to install DOSEMU to use some DOS progs I still need. First surprise, could not find DOSEMU in the Mandrake 7.1 distro, had to go back to the 7.0 to find it. Installed the RPM, and I'm rather surprised that the doc (READMEs, HOWTOs) do not seem in step with whet the RPM has installed; they make reference to various executables (mddexe, dexeconfig, lredir) that I cannot seem to find anywhere. Have I missed somthing ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. -- Marx (Groucho) --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
