Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer
Anne, why uninstall Xine? Shouldn't I just be able to update it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: [Wine]To su or not to su
h:\ maps to your home drive. Or, mine does. I used winetools-2.1.0-jo to set up wine. See what else is in ~/.wine/dosdevices. -- Charles Curley /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com/ \No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB Does Winetools come with the Mandrake distro CDs? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] To su or not to su
If I try to install a WIndows program with Wine, should I su to root before doing so? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Playing dvd movies on a computer
Anne, is there a way of finding out whether the updated packages are really installed when I do follow the instructions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mozilla vs Konqueror?
What do you prefer when browsing the web? Mozilla or Konqueror? Which one has the higher rate of success when displaying webpages, which one has better plugin suppor? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Using the sources of http://www.zarb.org
Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a cache folder for later use? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux
http://www.zarb.org/~trem/easyurpmi/ Willl this site update my Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux
What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? I've only thought of two: - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD - updating through updating programs - others? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Yet Another RPMDrake question
If I double-click on an RPM that's not listed in RPMDrake, will it be able to install? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Yet Another RPMDrake question
Leaf, are you refering to RPMDrake? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Wine
Does Wine support Visual Studio.NET yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] RPMDrake
After using noclean to keep the files into the directory, how will I be able to access the directory as normal user? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this feature as well? Thank you. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never
remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
You mean typing (--noclean) like so?
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Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Another question: when I su as root, does root priveleges apply only within the terminal or the operating system as a whole? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
--- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote:
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never
remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
You mean typing (--noclean) like so?
No
I mean what I said. Edit the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
and insert the text 'no-clean' between the braces.
Enter #urpmi.cfg in the URL line of konqueror to
learn about the urpmi.cfg
file.
derek
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Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru
Bootdisk.com, download a win98 boot disk. Get your self a blank floppy, execute the image which will write to the floppy, it should have fdisk on it, from the command line type fdisk /mbr That will wipe the mbrStephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote: Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition Magic, so I don't have it lying around to try your suggestion. It would be nice if there was a utility I could use to completely reformat or erase the MBR, especially if it actually worked! None of the ones I downloaded were able to fix it and neither were the anti-virus apps. I'm tempted to replace the m/board in case that's the problem. I'm wondering if it might be the IDE controller or something. It might also explain the drive (CRC errors) I had on the other drive. Maybe fate is trying to tell me that it's finally time for that 4 CPU Tyan board with 4 fast Xeon's and a few Gig's of DDR ram. Jeesh! The things I do just to run a "Solitaire" Game server! Grin!Er...y ou can use a Win98 boot disk and fdisk to set the active partition- so it's not a matter of having PQM (although it's a great tool tohave); fdisk and cfdisk do the same, but they're a bit moredangerous...--stephen kuhnmobile: 0410-728-389illawarra and regional new south wales---GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives100% Microsoft Free and no virusesRegistered Linux User # 267497Windows: Where do you want to go today?MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow?Linux: Are you coming or what?---A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]
Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: using channel 1 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttySHSF0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth pap magic 0x245986a3 pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:22 case pppd[6753]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x11c8cdec pcomp accomp] Oct 9 11:44:25 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:28 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x3 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:31 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x4 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:34 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x5 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:37 case pppd[6753]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x6 user=mylogin password=hidden] Oct 9 11:44:38 case pppd[6753]: Terminating on signal 15. Oct 9 11:44:38 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 User request] Oct 9 11:44:41 case pppd[6753]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 User request] Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Modem hangup Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Connection terminated. Oct 9 11:44:42 case pppd[6753]: Exit. I tried to put your options in /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial, - WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 -- Initializing modem. -- Sending: ATZ ATZ OK -- Sending: ATQ0 X3 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0 OK -- Modem initialized. -- Sending: ATDTproviderno -- Waiting for carrier. ATDTproviderno CONNECT 44000/ARQ -- Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. `` ` `` ` `` ``` ` ` ` `` `` ``` `` `` ` ` ` `` `` `` ``` `` ` ``` ` ` `` ` `` ``` ` ` ``` ``` ` ` -- Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best. -- Starting pppd at Sat Oct 9 12:02:47 2004 -- pid of pppd: 7411 -- pppd: using channel 5 -- Using interface ppp0 -- pppd: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 -- pppd: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xc7194576 pcomp accomp] (... same line 30 times, cut for mail's sake) -- pppd: Modem hangup -- pppd: Connection terminated. -- Disconnecting at Sat Oct 9 12:04:17 2004 -- The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16) -- man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. -- Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information. I tried to put Stupid Mode = yes in /etc/wvdial.conf, the only difference is that it starts PPPD without waiting for the prompt. Don't give up on me now, John, we are getting somewhere, don't you think :) And thanks. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Rye Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?] On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:15:06 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all! I've installed Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition recently. I'm having problems with my modem connection to the Net. Modem dials and connects, pppd terminates 10-20 secs later, saying Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: using channel 2 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x185fd023 pcomp accomp] Oct 6 22:59:59 case last message repeated 9 times Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: Connection terminated
[newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]
Hi, all! I've installed Mandrake 10.1 Community Edition recently. I'm having problems with my modem connection to the Net. Modem dials and connects, pppd terminates 10-20 secs later, saying Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: using channel 2 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Oct 6 22:59:32 case pppd[7104]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x185fd023 pcomp accomp] Oct 6 22:59:59 case last message repeated 9 times Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: Connection terminated. Oct 6 23:00:02 case pppd[7104]: Exit. My /etc/ppp/options: lock noauth noipdefault usepeerdns My Pap-secrets and Chap-secrets seem correct: # Secrets for authentication using PAP # clientserver secret IP addresses 'mylogin' * 'mojpswd' * mylogin * mojpswd I've tries both KPPP and wvdial, changed modem from USR 56K external to some Conexant HSFi V.92 PCI softmodem. Everything is the same. I have not editied any initial scripts manually, everything was created with Internet wizard from drakconf and KPPP. Can anyone help? Thnx. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Onboard Microphone Support for NVIDIA nForce chipset
Hi, I'm running Mandrake 10.0 on an ASUS Mobo (A7N8X-X). I've got about everything working hardware-wise except the microphone. By far, this is the most seemless Linux or BSD installation on this computer. The chipset is NVIDIA nForce 400 (northbridge) and nForce MCP (southbridge). I had downloaded the package from NVIDIA for Linux drivers and installed that, however that created more problems then it solved. The microphone got some heinous output (nothing more then a hiss now and again) but the (onboard) soundcard wasn't working across the few applications I require sound on (xmms, for instance). Currently the sound card is using the snd-intel8x0 driver as reported by the Hardware Browser under Mandrake's Control Center. This driver does fine except the microphone is a lost cause. Does anyone have pointers or solved this problem with nForce onboard mics? TIA, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] problem with Festival and Mandrake 10.0
I compiled and used festival (text to speech) through mandrake 9.2 but when I attemped to install in under Mandrake 10.0, it fails. When I do a make test I get : audsp: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 cannot open shared object file: no such file audio spooler has died unexpectedly. I'm not sure what libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is. There is a libstdc++ and a libc (though not 6.2). While I can get arount the problem I really would like to use the tts option (I use perl). Has anyone gotten Festival to work (with the tts option) under 10.0 I have looked thru the speech tools and festival source but I think the problem is something to do with the audio spooler (where do I find out about the audio spooler). I do like the fact that I can output two audio outputs at the same time (which I can't under 9.2) but I can't seem to find out how that was done.I'm using 2.6.3 (if that makes a difference) . [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguised but elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguised but elderly scientists are then, after all, right. Isaac Asimov Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] amd64 iso???
I'm a standard member. I think I goofed because I can't find the ISO for mandrake 10.0 for the amd64 chip. where do I download it? bob lester Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 11:50:42 PM, you wrote: Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux (v8.0)... Decided to follow the suggestions. This turned out to be a really bad move :-) Anyhow I am now in the situation where I have ended up with: /etc/securetty which is blank (dumb) /etc/ssh/sshd_configwhich disallows root logins (good) I have KDE, X and tightvnc installed but I am not currently using them. I can't 'su' root to execute a command/change to root or login as root either with a remote secure shell or a local shell!! I just get the message: This account is currently not available. So I can't even copy the old securetty~ file back... Do I need to reinstall everything again (would not be fun given the amount of hassle I had setting it all up - especially the driver for the PCI ADSL modem and kernel customisations) and start from scratch?? Is there any other way of getting root access apart from login and su?? Is there anyway to boot from a CD to get root access back?? Or some other solution (possibly mounting the hard disk on another box with Linux installed)?? I usualy keep on of the floppy or CD mini-distributions around for things like this. The other option is to boot by feeding the kernel the option init=/bin/bash. (append=init=/bin/bash) This will boot you directly to the bash shell, bypassing most of the security of the system. You will want to reboot after fixing things. Mikkel Hi Mikkel and Derek, Duh I am so stupid!! Of course should of though of Knoppix!! I was all set to physically take the hard disk out and mount it on another machine... :-) Found my downloaded copy lying 'round didn't work (I hadn't got around to trying it out yet) but thats not a problem with 2mbit D/L ADSL :-) All I had to do was log in as root in Knoppix. Mounted the IDE harddisk as R/W. Changed back the /etc/passwd and /etc/securetty files (I had messed up) to allow access to the root account. Rebooted into MDK 9.2... Sorted!! Root access is working again. Cheers guys. Really appreciate it!! -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:31:22 PM, you wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 20:14, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux (v8.0)... Decided to follow the suggestions. This turned out to be a really bad move :-) Anyhow I am now in the situation where I have ended up with: /etc/securetty which is blank (dumb) /etc/ssh/sshd_configwhich disallows root logins (good) I have KDE, X and tightvnc installed but I am not currently using them. I can't 'su' root to execute a command/change to root or login as root either with a remote secure shell or a local shell!! I just get the message: This account is currently not available. So I can't even copy the old securetty~ file back... Do I need to reinstall everything again (would not be fun given the amount of hassle I had setting it all up - especially the driver for the PCI ADSL modem and kernel customisations) and start from scratch?? Is there any other way of getting root access apart from login and su?? Is there anyway to boot from a CD to get root access back?? Or some other solution (possibly mounting the hard disk on another box with Linux installed)?? I am not sure how to get your system back to how it should be, but for future reference if you want to disable root login, instead of following a RedHat Guide just Open Mandrake Control CentreSecurityLevels and Checks Selecting High (or is it Higher) security level will disable root login. Or alternatively regardless of your security level you can customise your existing level by selecting the 'System options' tab. The 'Direct Root Login' option will enable/disable root login for you. Hope you manage to recover the system without a reinstall. You might be able to set a new root password if you go into run level 1. Try booting into 'failsafe' from your lilo menu. derek Hi Derek, Cheers for the quick response. No I'm buggered... Run level 1/failsafe gives all the same problems. The root account is disabled because it can not be accessed/logged into from any tty device. Can I mount the physical hard disk on a different Linux box and change the securetty file? How would I do this? Would it just show up in the mounts if I plug it into an IDE port or do I need to do else to mount it (e.g. alter fstab on the other machine)? I.e. hate Slackware because its harder to find the relevant configuration files for stuff... Its all a bit bizare because the machine is stable as an internet gateway its not urgent (it still works without root access). But I did want to setup a place holding webserver on it today (hah hah thats not going happen now :-). -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] turning off mailman
looking at syslog, it seems that cron is runing the mailman program which brings in news. I never read new. How do I turn it off? It runs every five minutes and fills up syslog. I looked in the cron (hourly,daily,etc) but couldn't find it. bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao-Tsze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?
Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 3:00:36 AM, you wrote: Hello, I don't have it... This is the message written: Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO document for information on how to install APM. when I click on the linux Laptop Howto I get a error message... I will try with google. Bye Christophe Hi Christophe, You want ACPI compiled into your kernel. (Should be in the stock kernel I think - but I don't use them). You then need to turn on ACPI (MCC - boot options). If you don't turn it on explicitly it won't be there! As I found to my cost trying to get my modem and soundcard to work (needless to say they did when ACPI was turned on). You can then throttle the CPU to all the states it supports, check the battery state (current and previous maximum recharge). Its all buried in the /proc/acpi/ directory which interfaces to the kernel. I tried running my 2.0Ghz P4 at 512Mhz which was quite a laugh :-) My BIOS only allows 1.0Ghz, 1.5Ghz or 2.0Ghz so I thought that was quite cool. I could also see the CPU temperature (found that my fan comes on at 54C and goes off at 46 with hysterious). To throttle you can just type: echo number throttle Or something like that (I am sure you get idea). Its wee while since I played around with it. The KDE version I am/was using didn't support automatic shutdown with low battery charge but the /proc/acpi interface was very accurate (I found) so thats not such a big problem. -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xine to play dvd's
I have a Tyan Motherboard 640 megs of ram 850 AMD GForce 4 Ti 4400 AGP Running Mandrake 9.2 I am basically looking for a good source for Xine and the plugins and stuff I need for playing DVD's. I have gone to over a dozen different sites and downloaded numerous different versions of Xine, CSS, dvdnav, etc and not quite sure which ones I'm suspose to use. If I could be pointed to a website or websites that has the correct files for me to get or confirm that I already have I think I could get it to work no problem. Please and Thankyou Robert Beach Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dvd plugin for xine
I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dvd plugin for xine
I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could just have a good source to download from that works well I could probably figure out how to install it. Please help Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux
Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 6:47:52 PM, you wrote: Example My P3 450 mhz with 120 megs ram running XP Pro would run circles around my wife's Laptop P4 2.3 Gz with 512 megs ram Running XP Home. Hi Ray, My understanding of the Intel processor architecture strategy to push more speed out of there pentium line is to Superpipeline the core to ever increasing degrees (34 stages!! for the latest P4 Prescott architecture) to enable them to reduce the clock cycle. So a P3 running clock for clock is always faster than the P4M because the P4M has a deeper pipeline (cache misses hurt more). It is crazy that a clean architecture like that used in the PowerPC ISA isn't the dominant CPU type on the planet. Just like how Linux plays second fiddle to MS (because of 3rd party support problems). The P4M doesn't have the SSE extensions implemented in hardware. I compile my Linux kernels with the P3 switch for my Laptop (the closest match just now I understand). Also laptops use slow 5400RPM harddisks... When I switch between my P4M laptop and my P4HT Desktop with 15K RPM Ultra SCSI 320 drives it really hurts :-) -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux
Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 12:54:16 PM, you wrote: What I use the 2 old 486 laptop for are simple tasks. If I am working on a computer that has some thing wrong with it, or working with new applications, OS as I am doing now. Instead of printing the instruction or documentation. I display the instruction (text or HTML files) on the laptop wile working on another computer. Saves paper, ink, and time. One of the old 486 has a port replicator that enables me to set up network connection. So having it networked with our new computers all it should have to do is display what I need. Step daughter use the other 486 laptop, as a simple text editor. She likes to sit outside on nice days and work on her home work. Mostly just taking notes wile reading books. Saves it to disk then uses new computer to format text, email it, and or print. I have a Pentium 1 100 MHz desk top I want to use for firewall, router. Install two NIC cards eth0 would connect to DSL modem. Then eth0 bridged to eth1 connected to a hub that provides wired and wireless networking for all of our other computers. I am thinking that after installing Linux and setting up network on this computer it would not need a monitor. As it would be administered remotely by another computer on the network. This hub that I was looking at in one of our local stores, shows the DSL modem connected to it. This hub then provides wired and wireless connection to other computers. With this arrangement I would not need the Pentium 1 100 MHz desk top. But then I believe that this would not provide the security I want. Hi Ray, I couldn't help but butt in and comment that an old pentium-based PC with Slackware, or Mandrake (minus X), or perhaps IP Cop (??) will allow you to have all the security you want/could need. In my experience of hardware routers (Vigor 2600We and IX66) the stateful firewalls, even on an IX66 which is VERY capable, always lack the configuration options I need! I could never get the IX66 to be transparent to my file sharing software, whereas with IPTABLES in Linux I can. This stuff is fast as it is actually built into the kernel and easy to configure as you can set up the filters, etc. from the command line/bash scripts. You can't do as much QOS stuff which is really useful. I can configure my Linux-based DHCP server much more than I could a hardware router (e.g. assign Wins/netbios information for Winblows). Where Linux falls over is drivers for wireless cards - that is a bit of a nightmare (of course some are supported). Why do manufacturers write network hardware drivers for Windblows and not Linux? Try to get Windows to act as server is like trying wade through treacle... :-) I had great fun getting a conexant PCI ADSL modem driver to work with Linux. Its handy though because it means I can do NAT on the Linux box and not have to worry about an external modem doing something stupid (or not being able to find the modem web configuration page)... You can easily configure the Linux box using SSH. Who needs fancy web config pages :-) If you do you could always use IP Cop... Don't bother with hardware routers, a Linux box and cheap hardware SWITCH (netgear are really nice) is a more powerfull combo and its more efficient... -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up
What you are seeing is a linux program called uptime If you open a terminal and type uptime you will see those lines. I see you are using Thunderbird for email, I have no experience with thundebird so maybe someone else can help you here. AFAIK there is no way how to tell TB that your signature file is script ... (Pipes doesn't work too ...) -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File managing??
Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I opened my home folder and I see a lot of files and folders that I don't know... Is there a way to know what to do with them or can I move them around to make my home folder readable? It's on you if your home directory is readable or not ... Remember that all files with '.' at the beginning (like .emacs, .gnus, ...) are configuration files. I don't know what kind of file manager are you using, but you can hide these configuration files and your directory will be much more readable for you. Try to send some file/directory name and we will tell you if you can remove this file/directory or not. -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8
Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... Go to this FTP site ... ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ ... and download this file ... mozilla-firefox-0.8-6mdk.i586.rpm ... than run as root ... rpm -Uvh mozilla-firefox-0.8-6mdk.i586.rpm Now, you can run FireFox by `mozilla-firefox` command. If you need help, you have to provide more info than: not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is it the right place or shall I move it some where else? -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8
Christophe Rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I click on the link bellow I get an error message... This is not a file... No, this is a directory and it works ... ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/ If you want to access firefox rpm file, you have to click on link below ... ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/mozilla-firefox-0.8-6mdk.i586.rpm -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] building a binary from source rpm
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hasn't the 'rebuild' function been moved out of rpm into the 'rpmbuild' package? See man rpmbuild. Yes, it was ... If you want to build binary, source, ... rpm package than you have to use `rpmbuild`, not `rpm` ... -- Robert Vojta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
Monday, February 16, 2004, 3:33:37 AM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:22 am, Robert Walker wrote: Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support statically compiled into the kernel. I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But I get the message: 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 UPS Disconnect! Cannot get information from UPS. in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: UPS Comm Disconnect has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details, graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the UPS... I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel (with even less success). I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the device and config files under this user). The support hardware section says that belkin driver should support my hardware but needs the proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd process couldn't connect to the UPS. Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS hardware... :-) I have read that someone used the Bulldog software to get a Belkin gold to work. It is not a huge program and I think I could send it to you off list. Simple gui and looks easy to use, unfortunately I have a offbrand PowMax UPS and It does not configure. HTH Hi Dennis, It is the Bulldog software I am using. The Belkin driver disk does have Linux Bulldog software on it. The software almost works but not quite as the driver cannot find the UPS device (it seems to find the serial ports OK). I have contacted their tech support to see if they can help. Oh, it was probably your post that I read then. Let me know if you get a report on how to make it work. Thanks, Further to my last post above, after a reboot the bulldog prog now recognizes my POWMAX UPS. Don't know why, but it does, and I was able to configure it with no problem. I am about to pull the plug to see if it works. Will let you all know. Hi Dennis, Still no joy. I tried rebooting and the Sys-5 script starts the upsd daemon fine (which I was manually starting before). However the daemon process still doesn't see the hardware... I doubt Belkin will bother getting back to me either... -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support statically compiled into the kernel. I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But I get the message: 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 UPS Disconnect! Cannot get information from UPS. in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: UPS Comm Disconnect has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details, graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the UPS... I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel (with even less success). I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the device and config files under this user). The support hardware section says that belkin driver should support my hardware but needs the proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd process couldn't connect to the UPS. Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS hardware... :-) -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!
Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support statically compiled into the kernel. I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But I get the message: 1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 UPS Disconnect! Cannot get information from UPS. in the PRO_UPS.LOG file. The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect to the local upsd process but I get the following problem: UPS Comm Disconnect has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details, graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the UPS... I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel (with even less success). I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the device and config files under this user). The support hardware section says that belkin driver should support my hardware but needs the proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd process couldn't connect to the UPS. Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS hardware... :-) I have read that someone used the Bulldog software to get a Belkin gold to work. It is not a huge program and I think I could send it to you off list. Simple gui and looks easy to use, unfortunately I have a offbrand PowMax UPS and It does not configure. HTH Hi Dennis, It is the Bulldog software I am using. The Belkin driver disk does have Linux Bulldog software on it. The software almost works but not quite as the driver cannot find the UPS device (it seems to find the serial ports OK). I have contacted their tech support to see if they can help. -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory
On Friday 06 Feb 2004 11:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Hi Robert, Yes OK then, have done that, Incidentally the replacement is a new straight out of the box 350W, nothing special, as to make, just kept as a spare for just such test purposes. Unforetunately it makes no difference at all. The first cpu was a quite new item in itself and the reason I didn't suspect it. I don't really suspect the PSU. Always open to correction though. I still have instability in high load Mandrake cpu situations. I have to underclock the FSB rate to achieve stability in M9.1, not in W2K though, and so I get ribbed by my family, I'm seen as a Linux geek to everyone around me. Though I noticed one of my daughters has recently started using xcdroast a lot , say's it works great. Oh well, great things from small beginnings, do proceed. You know it's a confidence thing ! But I digress. Yesterday I reseated the heatsink for the 'n'th time. This time I deliberately bent the retaining clip so as to exert more retention thrust onto the cpu, in otherwords the it took more of a push to retain the clip to the cpu. Current results are:- FSB100 == startup/desktop Full CPU load cpu 34C/41C 49C Case25C/30C 35C fan 3624 3668 Vc1.74 1.74 Vh1.25 1.24 Vp3.315 3.37 4.85 4.84 12.3 12.3 -12.40-12.40 -5.07 -5.07 These are not bad temperatures to my mind. The full load(99%) is achieved by running a mencoder job rather than mprime. Seems like clip retention pressure makes a difference But no need to exagerate it ! I am currently unable to attain desktop in FSB133 I get boot messages, ide task - not syncing stack ( loads of number) calltime kernel panic, killing interupts handler-not syncing Food for thought there don't you think ? CPU temp is well within tollerances now and was withing AMD's own tollerances anyway. PSU probably fine. I'm open minded about memory, though it will pass the memtest. I haven't the faintest idea what syncing is about ? Guess that is the next thing to find out about. John Sorry John, I didn't realise that Windows was running OK... (I presume it runs OK at full CPU load.) Have you tried running a different distro (say Koppix from CD)? Is ACPI enabled? Try switching this setting on. What kernel are U using? I presume it is 2.4.x series :-) Is it stock or custom? You might try a custom kernel with ACPI statically linked and APM left out completely (APM can potentially clash - although I think this problem is fixed now in the 2.4.x kernel). Does dmesg have anything useful in it? Maybe you could post it here? Whats lurking in your /proc/ directories (interrupts, pci, etc.)? I am just clutching a straws here but it does sound like the Linux interrupt hander is shagged. So first place to check is ACPI settings I guess... Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 9:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I agree with what Tom is saying. But a CPU that isn't overvolted or overclocked should be OK at an idle temperature of 48C. I would still suspect a PSU issue. Its worth checking by borrowing someone else's just to rule this out. Modern PC components draw massive amounts of current in surges. If your PSU lets the voltage drop slightly too much when this happens (ie not matching the ATX standard of -+5% tolerance) then you get system instability. Just my $0.02. Robert I don't suppose there is a way of testing that in some way. Could I set up a test rig to record power surges in overload use, or something. to hell if it surges and siezes up. as long as I've some stats to analise and present a case, if only to myself. gkrellm does running voltages, but I find reading them near impossible. Sensors does one time reports I can read, but not running voltages. I don't mind condeming equipement, but I don't like, condeming without reason. I've got spare PSU's that's no problem, but what is there to say the replacement is not just as bad ? John Hi John, You said that the problems happened when the system was under a bit of stress (high CPU load). I would trying using some of your spare PSU's under these conditions. You probably won't see the problems in the voltage under any system monitoring software (they may be of too short a duration - if they are occurring at all). You aren't trying to do a double blind placebo trial here You just want a PC that works!! (PS thats one way to define the difference between an engineer and a scientist :-) So just try out the other dodgy PSU's. If they haven't been used to much they should be fine. The cheaper ones do seem to wear out over time :-) Everything in your system depends on stable voltages from the PSU (RAM, MB and CPU) so it is the lowest common denominator for system stability!! Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 3:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: That is so interesting Tom, I had wondered whether most of this attention to make and model would be mostly hype. I currently have an all ally evercool ND15-715CA it has a 70mm fan controlled by bios. I think the airflow seems good. No reason to think it is getting trapped. The only thing about this heatsink that has me questioning it is the power of the retention spring clip itself. Compared to other makes and models I've fitted before, the retention clips are too easy to fit to the cpu. No, I hear you say, so what. Well the heatsink , if you notice carefully, sits in situe on 4 small rubber grommits about 3mm each in diameter.So the heatsink has to be held really firmly against them to make the heatsink BED down flush onto the cpu. If insufficient pressure is exerted by the retention clip there might be a possibility of the heatsink not fitting flush onto the cpu. I know, the heatsink paste ought to take care of it but maybe not enough ? It's only a thought. I already have both the case sides off , don't make much difference though, about -1C is all I get overall on the case temperature. Case airflow is in at the front low down under the harddrives and out either through the PSU, or a vent in the rear of the case undet the PSU. Entirely conventional in layout. I have no means of removing the top. I don't know what else I can do without getting surgical . The computer sits on my bench beside me which means about as good a spot as I will get for general room airflow. So what I'm reading from your experience seems to suggest I ought to be getting better general temperatures than I am getting, but with the one possiblity of the strength of the retention clips , I cannot see what I'm doing differently from you and yet I would feel more comfortable if my cpu temps were held well withing the 40 to 48 range under all load conditions. Hmm. John John I agree with what Tom is saying. But a CPU that isn't overvolted or overclocked should be OK at an idle temperature of 48C. I would still suspect a PSU issue. Its worth checking by borrowing someone else's just to rule this out. Modern PC components draw massive amounts of current in surges. If your PSU lets the voltage drop slightly too much when this happens (ie not matching the ATX standard of -+5% tolerance) then you get system instability. Just my $0.02. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot Windows versions? Here's the rub: all versions of Windows derived from NT have two critical startup files: ntldr and ntdetect.com. These are incompatible between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so I need the boot mechanism to copy in the right versions from backup directories before kicking off the boot process. System Commander does this, and I just learned the hard way that BootMagic (comes with Partition Magic) does *not* gr. Seeing as I have to start all over, I thought I'd try doing it with grub. Thanks. Greg, If I read your question right you want to quad boot your machine? That is an interesting idea :-) Might be difficult to manage booting into the 2 Windows partitions though. (Not sure really). I think you might have to move this question to the expert mailing list if you get stuck :-) It would be difficult for Lilo/Grub to see the windows files you refer to as the Windows partitions wouldn't be mounted by Linux at that point. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Get DJBDNS to compile
Hi I am trying to compile the DJBDNS (aka TinyDNS) package to try out. However I get some linking errors about lack of 'errno'. Isn't that in the standard gcc libraries to translate system call error numbers?? Maybe this package doesn't include the correct libraries for the GNU C compiler?? Barfs at the the linker stage when compiling the daemon-tools package which the main package is dependent on: == Linking ./src/* into ./compile... Compiling everything in ./compile... ./load envdir unix.a byte.a envdir.o(.text+0xd5): In function `main': : undefined reference to `errno' envdir.o(.text+0x1b3): In function `main': : undefined reference to `errno' envdir.o(.text+0x1cd): In function `main': : undefined reference to `errno' unix.a(openreadclose.o)(.text+0x3f): In function `openreadclose': : undefined reference to `errno' unix.a(pathexec_run.o)(.text+0xf2): In function `pathexec_run': : undefined reference to `errno' unix.a(pathexec_run.o)(.text+0x169): more undefined references to `errno' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [envdir] Error 1 Copying commands into ./command... cp: cannot stat `compile/svscan': No such file or directory === I am just following the instructions to the letter and not trying to be clever :-) Any ideas? Maybe I misconfigured my compiled kernel or something? Cheers Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 1:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: CPU temperatures and cooling issues+ memory === I decided to start this thread again. The precious thread had become a bit rambling. Well, My cpu / heatsink and case temperatures are still regarded by the techies at AMD as withing tollerances. I am not happy with the conclusion though. These are:-- Case temp 28C with CPU temp of 49/50C on normal desktop loads. Case temp 28/32C CPU temp of 56.5 on 99% Loads (and siezure) I am not happy with these temps. I would like to see case temps of 28C constant and cpu temps of low 40's rising to middle/upper 40's under full load scenarios. I already have two 8cm case fans ,in at front, out at back. Hi John, I usually throw away the stock coolers and buy a decent one. However I do run my Linux standalone router (AMD Athlon 2000+) with its stock cooler and fan adapter so I can use a higher CFM 8cm fan. You could always use a 6cm-8cm adapter+ 8cm fan to increase the airflow over your heatsink. For an Athlon 1800+ which isn't overclocked you shouldn't really need a new heatsink. However AMD are taking out of their backside if they think that a patch is the way to bond a heatsink to a CPU!! Always use high grade heatsink compound (I always use Artic Silver - but thats just laziness :-). If you do want to spend lots of money Swiftech make very nice copper heatsinks :-) This is unlikely to be the root cause of your problem. Athlon CPUs do run hot. So do P4's for that matter :-) My laptop (P4-M) has a cooling hystersis which switches in at 54C and off at 46C. I built up a Athlon 2500+ based PC for a friend. Even when its not overclocked and with a huge Coolermaster blower-type fan it still runs at 47C idle!! Have you thought of a powersupply issue? The PSU will be under strain when your CPU is drawing a lot of current (mainly to heat your house). The PSU in another PC I built even tripped the MAIN circuit breaker in the flat :-) The powersupply became more and more unstable (PC just died occasionally). That powersupply was rated at 400W so think QUALITY not POWER!! Antec, Q-Tec, Thermaltake, etc. are good. Make sure your RAM is branded: Crucial, PNY, Kingston, Samsung, Panasonic, Corsair, etc. In the first PC I built I used generic DDRAM. I had to replace one the modules within a year because it had died :-( Its hard to tell with yours - like you say it may be outsourced Samsung production. My advice would be to try getting hold/borrowing something like a cheap Q-Tec PSU and/or a crucial DDRAM (PC2100) stick to test what is actually wrong. Then replace these parts (one at a time). Linux has kernel support for avoiding dodgy areas of RAM but I would rather have RAM that works :-) Hope that helps. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 8:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install LILO/GRUB on the MBR but I've read reports of non-windows boot loaders being considered a virus (by XP or the BIOS or Virus software I'm not sure which) and advice to retain the XP boot loader and to place LILO/GRUB on the boot partition. Does anyone know if this is still a consideration? I'd really appreciate it If someone could also tell me whether it's easier/better to create the Linux partitions with Partition Magic before starting the install or to leave the install process to create them for me. Thanks, David. Hi David, I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro and MDK 9.2 on my P4-M laptop. I had Windows XP Pro installed as a single NTFS partition (about 36gig). I just resized the Windows partition using the Mandrake partitioning tool (why use Partition Magic?? :-) and made a second partition (native Linux ext-3). I didn't even bother defraging the Windows partition!! I didn't bother with a shared FAT partition as Linux support for reading from NTFS is excellent or a swap partition (the laptop has 1 gig of RAM). I just installed MDK with a Lilo bootloader and it works great. I also have MDK Linux installed on a PC I use as a router/gateway with a cheapo MSI motherboard. This MB has a virus checker in the BIOS which checks the MBR for nasty viri. Unfortunately it thinks Linux is a virus so I just turned it off (its probably only needed by M$ Winblows users anyway :-). So don't worry about using the MBR... budge over Winblows and make room for a real OS :-) Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Update Files
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Budhi Astiyadi Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Update Files I use Mandraka 9.2 Download Edition. Can anybody tell me where are the Update Files that I download from live update? I want to burn it and install them in other machine that has no internet connection. Thanks before. Hi, You might also try this site, both for updates and other files/applications. http://freshrpms.net/ Rob Smith Linux newbie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/
ON Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:17 AM trufflesdad scribbled: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:02:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me there is no package by that name.. That is correct there is no pkg named gift-plugin. gift-plugin is provided by gift-openft urpmi gift-openft Also try adding a different plf source. Charles -- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.1-1.tmb.8mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Hi Charles Thanks for the reply... I get no package named gift-openft when I do the rpmi call... How do I find out which repository to add to get it Sorry for the hassle but it I am just coming back to Mandrake Google is your friend!!! http://www.google.com/linux?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=gift-openftbtnG=Googl e+Search Rob Smith Linux newbie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Configuring for multiple networks
I've installed Mandrake 9.2 on an IBM ThinkPad laptop computer. This machine
is used both at home and at my work location. In each case, it is connected
to a LAN. My network at home is set up using static IP addresses, with a DSL
router separating the machines from the Internet. At work, I am on a DHCP
network. In addition, a proxy server controls access to the Web.
Using the Mandrake Control Center, I created two profiles under Network
Internet. I configured my Home profile while connected to that network and
did the same for the Work profile.
This process has left me with a couple of questions. To begin with, how do
you switch profiles? I have tried booting on the appropriate network,
opening Mandrake Control Center, and then selecting the desired profile from
the dropdown list. This does not appear to function correctly however. I end
up having to reconfigure and then the settings don't always take. Sometimes
I find myself going in and out of both Mandrake Control Center and also X
two or three times before the settings hold.
I have previously had two other distros on this machine. In SuSE 9.0
Professional, you would bring up YaST2 and from there you could configure
SCPM, SuSE's configuration profile manager. After I configured this, I could
control it at a prompt by issuing the command '# scpm switch {profilename}'.
In Fedora Core 1.0, I simply logged in as the root user, changed my IP
setting, subnet mask, and DNS server listing. I could then log in as a
normal user and all acted normally. I guess that I am looking for a method
to accomplish this task as easily in Mandrake.
Thanks,
Rob Smith
Linux newbie
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[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem
Hi all, I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the applications that were formerly listed in my menu, my icons in the taskbar no longer work, and I can't even get to my home directory from the desktop shortcut. To open Konqueror, I have to go to a terminal sessionand type in Konqueror. If I then shut down the terminal session, Konqueroro goes with it. What can I do to get this beast back under control, and my desktop life back to normal? I'm paranoid to update my laptop that I just installed Mandrake on last night (it had Fedora Core) because of this. Rob Smith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.2 - Lost my open windows applets on Gnome panel on my Desktop :-)
Hi I tried to install the SUN Java add-in for web browsers and it went horribly wrong (it think it was meant for an old version of RH... Anyway I managed to lose the open windows buttons on my GNOME panel at the bottom of the screen. I know this is a bit stupid but I am new Linux and still finding my way around :-) Its annoying have to switch between apps using ALT-TAB!! How do I get the Applets back? Is it in one of the .gnome config files in my home directory or something? Cheers Robert = == Registered Linux User : 333230 MDK 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21 Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to win Live At Knebworth DVDs http://www.yahoo.co.uk/robbiewilliams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting CD sources back ( was: Update Doesn't Update)
--- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 10:22 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 7:39 am, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Harrison wrote: | Derek Jennings wrote: | | On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:30 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: | | | | | | Note: Do *not* do what it says about urpmi.removemedia -a | | or else | | you will | | | lose your CD sources. | | Now this is what *I* did! How do I put them back on? Please ignore me - I am in danger of becoming an annoying newbie, and besides I already have broadband, therefore unneccesary!! Paul Well I might as well tell you anyway. Anytime someone asks this question I can never remember the command so I go to the newbie archives and search on urpmi.addmedia Thats how you do it :-) derek There's a lot of info on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi but I'm not sure that repairing that damage is there. Perhaps someone could add it? Why not just go to the Software Media Manager (via the KDE menu or MCC) then choose Add and removable device? Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I am sure this is rehashing old information and also should point out I don't really know what I am doing... But this hack seems to work for MDK 9.2 :-) 1) I copied the CD's to my home directory into directories cdrom1, cdrom2 and cdrom3: cd /home/your home #Insert Disk 1 into CD drive cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* cdrom1 #Insert Disk 2 into CD drive cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* cdrom2 #Insert Disk 3 into CD drive cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* cdrom3) 2) I then used the MDK Software Media Manager to point to them. Just add entries for MDK 9.2 Linux CD1, ... CD2 and ... CD3 (or whatever) and configure the URL/hdlist as follows: CD1: file://home/your home/cdrom1/Mandrake/RPMS ../base/hdlist1.cz CD2: file://home/your home/cdrom2/Mandrake/RPMS2 ../../../cdrom1/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz CD3: file://home/your home/cdrom3/Mandrake/RPMS3 ../../../cdrom1/Mandrake/base/hdlist3.cz I know this is a complete hack (a more elegant solution would be appreciated :-) but it does seem to work. As the indexing lists are all on CD1 this saves you buggering about swapping CDs over :-) Robert = == Registered Linux User : 333230 MDK 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21 Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to win Live At Knebworth DVDs http://www.yahoo.co.uk/robbiewilliams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PartImage with GnuPG
Hello Mandrake group, Could anyone advise me whether it is possible to write a script with such a function: 1. Runs PartImage program. 2. Checks the current date and, depending on weather it is first or second half of the month, sets the name of the output file as either One or Two (or smth similar). 3. Creates an image file of /mnt/windows with the respective name (see point 2 above) putting it to a specified location. 4. Encrypts the resulting file with the specified GnuPG key. Would it also be possible to create a script for a reverse action: 1. Scripts asks for an image file name I want to restore. 2. Asks for the GnuPG password. 3. Restores the image to /mnt/windows Would appreciate any additional comments. -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? (Isaiah 40:26) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Autostart programs in KDE
Hello Mandrake group, I remember in one of the previous releases of Mandrake I could configure certain programs to be started automatically when KDE is started. Where can I find this feature in 9.1 or 9.2? -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? (Isaiah 40:26) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Autostart programs in KDE
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, 9:37:52 AM, Rob Blomquist wrote: RB You can just drop a link to the program in ~/.kde/Autostart Thank you, Rob. Very simple solution and works fine. -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? (Isaiah 40:26) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using SUDO to run various configuration programs
Hello Mandrake group, When I try to run drakconf program, it opens without asking me for a password. Is there a way to disable this option and to tell SUDO *always* ask for a password - for whatever program? -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? (Isaiah 40:26) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IP info conflict
Hello Mandrake group, It seems my dialup and LAN parameters keep modifying each other's configuration. For example, whenever I configure the LAN connection properly, I cannot use dialup anymore because the Gateway and DNS parameters get changed. If I configure dialup with proper values, on the other hand, I cannot use the LAN anymore. Could anynone suggest which files can I modify to permanently save the needed values for both connections? -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? (Isaiah 40:26) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re[2]: [newbie] IP info conflict
On Monday, November 3, 2003, 4:10:05 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ Look here DJ http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=13 Thank you very much! That did it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SUID/SGID permissions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Mandrake group, In one of the security guides, the counsel was given to remove the SUID and SGID permissions from different programs on the Linux box. Did anyone come across a list where such programs are listed? For example, should programs like pppd, kppp traceroute(6), man, cdrecord and alike have that kind of permissions or can it safely be changed? - -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? (Isaiah 40:26) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Using PGP/GnuPG for Internet privacy. iD8DBQE/p0YF0A6ORbwbSgoRAp8mAKCT/UkiEEeoFEwwMmQ9t4jrB4In4wCfbyRj rADsoEhRfGUuF4JCDYMmVL0= =Mhzc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kopete upgrade
As I cannot find a specific Mandrake upgrade for Kopete (so that I can use the MSN plugin post October 15) I tried to compile from source. I downloaded and extracted kopete-0.7.2.tar.bz2 and kopete-0.7.3.tar.gz but when I typed ./configure I got the message configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH What do I do to fix this on Mandrake 9.2? -- Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] External DVD Players
Hi, All I have a Dell Latitude C10. Have installed 9.1,so far working. Now if I can get my external DVD player to work this would be great The player connects via PCMCIA card bus(Addonics). The player itself is a Pocket DVD Rom (Addonics). It is not picked up on install or by probe Any ideas?? or suggestions Robert F. Trettel Thanks smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
RE: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
There are a few howto's on the net but usually it is impossible to do. You have to generally know the area (inodes) on the HD that the files were on and you read a hex dump of those inodes to verify and then you cat that information to a file that you want to save it in. I have read a few howtos but i have never tested it and i think this is the only way unless you have a trash program installed before you delete such files. http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/ http://lde.sourceforge.net/ http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Piero Piutti Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.5 ~ KDE 3.1 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:58 pm, you wrote: They are Where in America? On Friday 14 March 2003 01:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Ok - so most y'all already know that I'm fully on with the 9.1rc2 stuff and never reverting back to my previously horrible nature of being a RedHat person. With that understood, here's a poser: After a reboot, and when I first do a login, my KDE desktop has these three wonderfully strange icons that pop outta nowhere - they've got icons as devices, but the rest makes no sense to what I can figger out. The names are: * dynamicProbing * dynamicAdding * dynamicProcessing Now, I happily delete them, but this is getting rather old. Happens with ALL users and even root. Meanwhile, something I've noticed - if I set the system to runlevel 5, more memory is used, churned, burned; if I start in runlevel3 and hand start my Xwindows sessions, I have more speed, more memory and less worries. I started doing this because the other day TWICE the entire system locked up tighter than a drum and I couldn't even telnet into it from another machine due to it's complete and utter lack of response; the CPU fire applet was off the scale...but whilst starting Xwindows by hand, it nary moves a molecule and flies like the dickens... Well right-click on those icons and select properties and find out what you can... Also, look in ~/Desktop and look at the files and dump them at us. That seems dumb enough that I really want to know. You are correct, kdm and gdm and even xdm have an overhead for starting apps and it can be very heavy for the more recent ones who want to offer services an experinced person like yourself does not need (cause you already know to type shutdown -h now in a terminal to quit or -r reboot to a different OS) I made a little convenience program for those who like to start in runlevel 3 and login there then use a window manager it is called Xtart and it is but a few lines of Python code. It should be available under 9.0. urpmi Xtart should fetch it after that, go in on runlevel3, and type Xtart ... then you will be able to choose any WM from a menu (or type 0 twice to bring up X with only a terminal) Using Xtart and appropriate files placed in /etc/X11/wmsession.d you can nominate other programs for WM status. I have used emacs for that, and it is interesting, almost as amusing as emacs for a shell. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO
I would personally install qmail. http://www.qmail.org/top.html Its secure, 10k reward for first problem on it. Also its supposed to be super easy to setup. Sendmail is known as the largest damn program on the face of the earth. But other than that i would use sendmail. I know i am going to have to learn it with my AIX and Solaris studying... Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO Ok, y'all - no flames, no laughs, no jests. The day before yesterday I hosed my PRIMARY linux box - running RH 7.3+. Because the partition table was mucked up beyond recognition, I lost my email, bookmarks, contacts, yadda yadda yadda...you name it, I lost it. Mind included. Resolution to the issue was at first trying to get RH 8.0 on NICELY - didn't work. Actually, the performance was so lousy, and setting up a SIMPLE BLOODY HCF MODEM was so complex, I gave up. It was sickening. Hours gone for nothing. Ok - so now I've installed MDK 9.1rc2 - installation of EVERYTHING (and some) was less than an hour. Even setup my / and other FS's as ReiserFS without a hitch. Changed to the NVidia driver (via source compilation) in no time at all. Had to dig for KPPP, though - cuz it wasn't installed by default and the MCC still don't play nicely for doing simple setups - but that's another story...even got my IP masquerading done rather quickly - few minutes - nice. I have to say that KDE 3.1 is a beaut. MDK 9.1 has quite a bit of polish, quite a bit of performance - quite a lot of getting used to because, remember, I was enslaved to the RH world - but no mo. Nada. Done. Finito. The only issues I have now are that I have to get Postfix (yech) working nicely as it ain't playing nicely - and I'm far from being a Postfix freak - so I'm wondering about blowing Postfix and putting Sendmail on... SO, if y'all got something to tell me - some bits of wisdom or advice, please PLEASE tell me - cuz I've already lost three days of productivity with this and well, I'm really tired now...(grin) BUT, I'm happy it's working like a champ (performance is still mind boggling for me...really - not a joke) -- Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kuhn Media Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO
The SENDMAIL package for MDK is only, ONLY 618k - wow - monstrously huge, ay? Actually, it's relatively simple - just a matter of following the defaults, but then again, someone that lives on Postfix will say the same thing...ditto on Qmail and every other mail package down the line (except, of course, Courier and Cyrus - GADS - that is DEFINITELY rocket science). Either which, I've got to this this fragbot working...so I can TAKE SOME TIME TO TAKE CARE OF MY CUSTOMERS and take care of myself, too...(g) (...nervous twitch in both eyes, slumped over the keyboard, tired, un-showered and un-shaved) Cheers! -- kuhn media australia --- | IT consulting * pc/mac/linux | | stephen kuhn | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ: 5483808 | mobile: 0410.728.389 | phone: 61.2.4272.7194 | | berkeley, new south wales | australia -- OMG, an new SIG Just kidding, kewl. What i am talking about is the complexity of the program. Now the size of the program is a different thread. Then again i have had a lot to drink tonight.No job, umemployment was just declined (another thread), no degree (another thread), jobs suck in Austin (not another thread), etc. Ok, new subject here. Sendmail, the book in the Craig Hunt Series states its another OS by itself (then again i sold the book so i dont remember exactly). I do remember it could contain about 5000 pages in a book or so. That is the reason why i personally dont want to touch it but i know i will need to... Going to bed, TTYL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Updating GTK
is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake 8.2-system, the thing is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although timewise I would have the time to fix that. This is a thing where I find the RPM-system inferior to for example FreeBSD's portsystem. OMG, someone has not read our posts about urpmi try using urmpi to update everything, it will check for dependencies and everything... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vmware 3.2 w/ all scsi system
I have installed vmware 3.2 onto my all scsi system: p3-450mhz 512mb ram 2940u2w scsi card ibm 18g scsi HD pioneer scsi dvdrom I ran the vmware-config.pl script and it seemed to get me going. I created a new vm w/ 176mb ram and 4g space. The HD was setup ok inside the VM, but the cdrom was set to IDE, so i disabled the IDE cdrom and enabled the scsi cdrom with the options below. The devices are setup as: scsi 0:0 virtual disk 4g space scsi 0:2 cdrom /dev/scd0 I turn on the VM and it finds my proc and ram then shows: Mouse enabled ERROR 02B1: Diskette Drive B Error then states F1 to continue or F2 for setup. If i do F1 it states no OS found and states A bootable cdrom/fdd/hd was not detected, please make sure the media is in and restart. When i do F2 there is no info on my scsi deviecsDUH b/c my 2940u2w has its own scsi bios where you have to enable the bootable devices at. They are setup correctly in the scsi bios. I have my Win2k Pro cd in the cdrom drive. I have tried it unmounted AND mounted. I have tried the cdrom option in the configuration info set to /dev/scd0 and /mtn/cdrom (/mnt/cdrom when it was mounted). Nothing has worked. I do not find any information on the net about any of this. Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important for ogle, xine, and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. Go to http://rpm.pbone.net/ and get it there. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit is basically VMWare just by a different company. Also I do know that if I were to upgrade my current v3 win4lin to v4 it is $20 off on their website (www.netraverse.com) since i bought the older version through a reseller of Win4Lin, but you gotta talk to sales to get the discount. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob PS-The link for the ad on Win4Lin discount is at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=441mode=nocomments Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses the Linux kernel to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is because Linux did not support NTFS. Win4Lin does not support the NT based version of Windows right now, only the 9x series. This is not because of the filesystem, but because of the structure of the OS itself. MMM, after looking at it more closely i am finding out that Win4Lin is not what i thought it was. Maybe i just never even went to their site and actually read what it really did and i just assumed it was just another vmware. OK, great. Back to square one. Thanks Again, once a newbie always a newbie. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] USB hard drives? On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! this is a function provided by the bios, and it would not matter what OS is on the drive, as long as the drive could be booted from. The simple answer to bootable HD's on USB isNO. Answer the question yourself...is USB bootable?NO. Only Firewire/1394 (legally only Apple can use the term Firewire, its 1394 for any other OS/architecture) and SCSI are possible external bootable media. Try it yourselfif you have a USB cd-rom boot off a MDK9 cd. Does it work? NO No HD's can be bootable until the bios of the MB's are made that way or the usb cards are made with a bootable bios option. Just like you have to have the option of scsi to be bootable. Also the SCSI cards have a bios on them that give you an option to be bootable. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
The original posters problem might stem from not being 128-bit ecryption installed. I had the same problem the first time i tried linux and a secure site. Personally i have tried and tested Mozilla/Galeon with different websites. I have not had a problem with Galeon anywhere, even bank accounts. Mozilla on the other hand isnt liked by many companies, even though Netscape is based on it. I have emailed several companies and they just remark install Netscape or IE. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC Bios and it has USB support to boot from USB Mass Storage Devices such as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip. Find out more here: http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/ http://www.ami.com/support/docdl.cfm?DLFile=support/doc/amibiosmo bile.pdfFileID=366 MM, interesting. I thought AMI was bought out by LSI. Atleast thats what happened with their raid cards when i worked at Dell Server Support. Good to see they are by themselves. Or are they? I wonder if this AMIBIOS is in any of the new MB's out there. The only thing is AWARD has been THE bios manu out there for years. I dont mind anyone stepping in but has anyone used a MB that has AMI's bios installed? Also, which laptop (manu, model) Do you have that this is installed into? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Hence, TECHNICALLY you're correct, THEORETICALLY, you're not. (g) Can we put booting to a linux install cd in the same catagory? If so, then we theorectically boot from cd...even if we boot to a floppy first. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux and box MDK9 and RH8 are both LSB 1.2 certified. So in that case as long as the appropriate rpm's are installed on the new box then it should work fine. Correct? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ntpd issues
I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it was. I changed the line that stated server ntpd server name to the IP of the Cisco router and restarted NTPD and i am getting no server suitable for syncronization found in /var/log/messages. MCC does NOT allow me to type in a different NTP server than what is listed thereit only lets me choose from the drop down menu. I do NOT want to select one of those, I want to type in the IP of my NTP server on my Cisco router. How do i change this on MDK9? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD movies On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org I've been using a DVD player called Ogle...can't remember where I got it, but I'm sure a quick googling will take care of that. I like it better than mplayer for DVDs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read
I was taking a friend home Wednesday evening when on the radio was a commercial type thing that reported a Sophomore in Lake Travis High School was in a drunk driving accident. He had 2 friends with him who were killed instantly when they hit another car head on, the driver of the other vehicle was killed as well. The only surviving person was the student that was drunk, due to the burns from the accident, he has no nose and ears, nor does he have ANY use of his hands, has NO hair, and his face was completely destroyed. 40 surgeries to this student has not helped over the years. My friend whom I was taking home stated that she went to high school with him and knows him personally. After the ad was over we had kept talking about it and she stated that the student drunk driver was 5 times over the legal Texas limit for alcohol consumption. She also stated that for killing 3 people while being 5 times over the legal limit got him 7 years...ONLY 7 YEARS...in Huntsville (Texas' state prison just north of Houston). Another story. I recently had a temporary bar job. The first day there was a story going that the bar owner told us that needs to be taken to heart. One of the regulars to the bar left one night and was in a car wreck. I do not know the damage of what happened but he was in the hospital for 1.5 weeks. Legally it was the bars job to take his keys away. After that night I have seen several times where the bartenders do take the keys away until the customer is sober. The moral of these true stories is I do not care if you drink...but give up your keys if you drove. Be responsible, be an adult. If you drink you take on these responsibilities automatically. Robert Wideman PS-Please pass this on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [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. See the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file to see the media sites/locations. Or just check the Sources Manager and click edit on the one you want to delete and you will see what it is named there. If you get that far you might as well delete it from there as well instead of clicking edit just click delete. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] user mode linux question
Are you talking about a chroot environment? Have you used UML? It sure doesnt sound like it. Its a virtual machine (OS) inside file. Just like VMWare but better (depending on what your doing). Its built into the kernel and it has its own filesystem and everything. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] iptables stopped
Firewalling/packet filtering/NAT is compiled into the Linux Kernel, it is not a service. You don't start it, you just configure it for operation. The iptables package that you installed is only a user-space configuration utility - again not a service. I would not worry if iptables does not show correctly in the mcc service section. There are web sites that can test your system for firewalling capabilities, for example www.pcflank.com. You might try one of those with iptables enabled and disabled. If you have IPTables installed as an rpm then it is a service. It should not be a server. It should be DLed (the source) along with the kernel source and recompiled. Unless you have DLed the sources like this and reconfigured everything yourself then it is installed as an rpm/server like he states. Uninstall iptables/ipchains and then DLed/install the sources. Its much better and you can see the list of rules/chains with iptables -L. If nothing is listed then nothing is loadedthis doesnt matter how you have it installed. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES manually
iptables-save and iptables-restore Also, put your rules into a script like /etc/rc.firewall and just add that to the end of rc.local adn it will start every time. Also there are lots of tutorials out there. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:40 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] IPTABLES manually I drop Nimda and Code Red infected computers with iptables, but if I have to reboot, or if I use a gui like Firestarter, it starts fresh and I lose those IPs from my rules. If you have built a firewall manually with iptables, how do you get it back when you reboot? I figure a script would do but I'm curious how other people handle it. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] user mode linux question
Please be a bit more patient with people on this list. I still haven't gotten over the id10t error statement that you made to someone on this list a while ago. Dood that was a IT Industry joke. Get over it. I do ID-10-T issues all the time. I even do PEPKAC issues myself. I just get over it b/c it is life. With all due respect, if you can't deal with newbies on their level, stick to the expert list. If you cant tell i help out a lot with everybody else on this list. I am a newbie in some areas. I was asking if he had ever done it. If he hadnt messed with it then i wouldnt expect him to try to help. I dont help out on issues that i dont know about. If you dont want me to help out then i wont. I get info out of this list just like you do. This email was done with all due respect as well. Also i do not do emails very well. I type what comes off my head just like i would speak in person and it doesnt do the others well b/c they dont know how to take my sarcasm. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?
Actually Stephen is correct. Of all the iptables GUI or configurator applications Shorewall was the worst. It took me 30 mins after the first time of installing MDK9 was i able to figure out what the hell was going on with my box...not able to get out of the local box. I remember that Shorewall was a firewall using IP Tables. I listed the current rules of iptables "iptables -L" and it listed a crap load of them by default from shorewall. I disabled shorewall and i was able to connect just normal. So on your understanding of what Stephen stated that it was "dont use linux" is totally misunderstood. Reread his message. It stated "dont use shorewall"did it say anything about dont use "linux"...NO IT DID NOT. You asked what the solution washe simply stated "dont use shorewall". I agree with Stephen. Dont use Shorewallnot linux just shorewall. Rob -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Bela MarkusSent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:57 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?Hi Stephen,you advice is not very constructive. Sounds like: dont use LINUX, do not use LINUX, etc.Doesn't matter is it SHOREWALL or else, the key is the IPTABLES, oll others just cosmetics. Now I see, original subject was misleading. The right would be " IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect".Best regards... BelaStephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:11, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, I spent nights without any success to configure SHOREWALL in 9.0 to run Direct Connect (DC++ exactly) to run in active mode. Is there a solution out there? Regards... Bela, HA5DI Yes. Don't use SHOREWALL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software which is basic and easy to use (in most cases). To the question of Is there cause to worry? YES, WHY DO YOU THINK HE POSTED THIS INFO??? Its all about users privacy and truth from companies. If i knew that MS was doing this then it would have been ok b/c i would have agreed to it if i kept using it. I have been wondering where the little banner that information isnt being passed onto MS went...into their EULA which you have to read before updating your OS which is made insucure by the company for the FUCKING DOLLAR that they so have to have. This is one thing that i have hated ever since moving to Austin, TXGOD DAMN CORPORATIONS LYING TO EVERYONE. Corporations are about the fucking buck, nothing about the user/employee. It is about saving their ass in the short term and what will get them ahead of everyone else. That is why i like MDK so much is that they are a true company that is still giving their OS for free and we can decide to purchase if we want to. MDK might have money in the bank, BUT they keep trying to save their ass by letting the public know they are on the verge of losing it. Who is it that keeps MDK up and running IT IS US, the USERS of purchase and LOVE what they are doing for the OSS community who actually respect what they do. Ok, i am on a tangent. Then again i am just getting over being drunk from the nite out on the town. Have fun Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:19 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For those that still have to use M$ Windows for some reason - any reason; just what do YOU think M$ knows when you connect to the Windows Update site? http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/index.html All very interesting in a look what I can do way. But not very Open Source. Have you paid the E1.99? Is there cause to worry? What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system when in fact they really are. M$ has consistently gone back on their promises of privacy for end-users - even so far as changing the entire structure of their licensing agreements and out-dating their original EULA's. Sad to think that you trust someone like M$ and the original EULA that you bought a package with and less than two years later the EULA is NIL and your privacy is OPENED to them. It's very sad and very Big Brother - and the public is completely unaware of the true lack of privacy they have - they've been lulled into a false trust of a monopolistic and meglomaniacal company. I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... Sorry to rant, but it's truly driving me further away from MS products. -- Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:10:01 +1100 8:10pm up 4 days, 10:13, 4 users, load average: 1.30, 1.01, 0.57 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] basic concept question
I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley
and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs
within Mandrake.
Not just MDK, all any linux distro out there.
Never mind the fact that I can't make it
start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before
asking here], I thought I'd ask for the overview that perhaps
I'm missing...
Yes, your missing something. I have wine setup on my box, just installed an
app perfectly.
My config file is listed below all of this info here.
I apologise if this is a really stupid question, but like several
things when confronted with a totally new OS, if you're starting
off with the wrong assumptions you'll just waste a lot of time.
Can you run a windoze session *in* Linux?
Yes, www.vmware.com
Like: you can run a DOS session in a window in windoze, and I've
heard you can emulate a PC on a Mac.
No.
If so, can you make the two virtual machines talk to each other?
Yes, its called virtual networking, read up on it on www.vmware.com or
whatever software your running, user-mode-linux.com is another but it wont
run windows apps, only a linux virtual server. Also there is virtual
server, dont know the info just saw it in the latest Euro Linux Magazine at
the latest BN shelf in TX...it has SECURITY written all over it. There are
tons others like win4lin and the main company that does wine has another
version as well. Another called Cross-over Office.
For example, Mandrake can't see files on the NTFS partition
which Win2K is on, but if I had Windows running I could network
across to it from Mandrake, just like it was on my laptop?
Yes, www.vmware.com
Rob
Here is the ~/.wine/config file, I only listed what i have changed/edited in
the file.
[Drive X]
Path=/home/rwideman (Unix path for drive root)
Type=hd (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and
'network')
Label=my disk (drive label, at most 11 characters)
Filesystem=win95 (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat',
'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
Here is the /etc/wine/config file, i only listed what i have changed/edited
in the file.
[Drive A]
Path = /mnt/floppy
Type = floppy
Label = Floppy
Filesystem = win95
Device = /dev/fd0
[Drive C]
Path = /mnt/windows
Type = hd
Label = Windows
Filesystem = win95
[Drive D]
Path = /mnt/cdrom
Type = cdrom
Label = CD-Rom
Filesystem = win95
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
Device = /dev/cdrom
[Drive E]
Path = /tmp/winetmp-${USER}
Type = hd
Label = Tmp Drive
Filesystem = win95
[Drive F]
Path = ${HOME}
Type = network
Label = Home
Filesystem = win95
[wine]
Windows = c:\\windows
System = c:\\windows\\system
Temp = e:\\
Path = c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\
Profile = c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator
GraphicsDriver = x11drv
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;ShowDirSymlinks = 1
ShellLinker = wineshelllink
# wineconf
[Version]
; Windows version to imitate
(win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31) },
Windows = win98
; DOS version to imitate
;DOS = 6.22
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RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
That's the main reason that this machine is now 100% Linux. I've paid for all my previous Windows installs, but XP was a step too far. I decided to get off the wagon and get onto one going in a direction I agreed with. For those of you who dual boot, for GOD sakes, buy a $60 computer off ebay and save your self the hassle of rebooting and get the $50 belkin switch for 2 computers to one keyboard/mouse/monitor. My god. The only MS Windows I have ever paid for was the Win95 that came on my first computer, Compaq 7180...p100 w/ 8mb ramwhich was preinstalled before all this preinstall shit came about. Ever since then i have gotten it free from the companies that i work for. Actually I have gotten everything since Win98 free from MS themselves. Other than the Compaq box, I paid $40 for Office XP Pro that came with an $80 mouse (retail is was $80) and Office XP and a shirt came for freethis was 1.5 years ago when i worked for Dell Linux Server Support..HA. Win98, Win98Se, Office 2000, Win2kall free from MS directly, or through CompUSA whom i actually got it from through MS via retail Not-For-Resale kits. Thank god I am in the computer industry. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
Forgot to say thanks for this info Stephen. Rob I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software which is basic and easy to use (in most cases). To the question of Is there cause to worry? YES, WHY DO YOU THINK HE POSTED THIS INFO??? Its all about users privacy and truth from companies. If i knew that MS was doing this then it would have been ok b/c i would have agreed to it if i kept using it. I have been wondering where the little banner that information isnt being passed onto MS went...into their EULA which you have to read before updating your OS which is made insucure by the company for the FUCKING DOLLAR that they so have to have. This is one thing that i have hated ever since moving to Austin, TXGOD DAMN CORPORATIONS LYING TO EVERYONE. Corporations are about the fucking buck, nothing about the user/employee. It is about saving their ass in the short term and what will get them ahead of everyone else. That is why i like MDK so much is that they are a true company that is still giving their OS for free and we can decide to purchase if we want to. MDK might have money in the bank, BUT they keep trying to save their ass by letting the public know they are on the verge of losing it. Who is it that keeps MDK up and running IT IS US, the USERS of purchase and LOVE what they are doing for the OSS community who actually respect what they do. Ok, i am on a tangent. Then again i am just getting over being drunk from the nite out on the town. Have fun Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:19 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For those that still have to use M$ Windows for some reason - any reason; just what do YOU think M$ knows when you connect to the Windows Update site? http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/index.html All very interesting in a look what I can do way. But not very Open Source. Have you paid the E1.99? Is there cause to worry? What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system when in fact they really are. M$ has consistently gone back on their promises of privacy for end-users - even so far as changing the entire structure of their licensing agreements and out-dating their original EULA's. Sad to think that you trust someone like M$ and the original EULA that you bought a package with and less than two years later the EULA is NIL and your privacy is OPENED to them. It's very sad and very Big Brother - and the public is completely unaware of the true lack of privacy they have - they've been lulled into a false trust of a monopolistic and meglomaniacal company. I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... Sorry to rant, but it's truly driving me further away from MS products. -- Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:10:01 +1100 8:10pm up 4 days, 10:13, 4 users, load average: 1.30, 1.01, 0.57 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PortSentry2
as well as using PortSentry2 for further monitoring. I know this company that used to make Port Sentry is here in Austin TX. The company psionic.com. Is it bought out by cisco now? Thats all that the website has on it. Also the searches on google pull up mailing list items and directs it to parts of psionic.com which also are redirected to cisco. Where did you get PS2 from? I knew that it was in development but didnt know it was out yet (or was that the other software they made?). Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter
First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Also DL the latest updates from Sun for SO6. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOfficenav= pub-patches Is the site to DL the updates. Roc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. Literally. I have 10 computers (4 are my roomates, and this is half of the computers we own) that are on all the time, 24/7. It might increase the electric bill about $20-30 BUT it beats dealing with computer problems all the time and spending $50+ a month on replacing hardware. Also, the turning on and turn off everydaywould you like to be turned off and then turned on everyday? Wait, i woudl but thats a different story Turned on, meaning...by the electro shocks like they use to survive people with in the ER??? Thats how the computer hardware feels. The more you turn it off/on the more you wear the parts out. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name to numbers. In your case that step is failing. Check your DNS server setting. Or just edit /etc/hosts. Lots quicker and is the first place that is checked for name-IP conversion. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs and 2 linux boxes. i first used the internet connection wizard in mcc, which didn't work. went to www.shorewall.net, and the quickstart guide suggested the two interface config. instead of using it wholesale, i compared the config files, found a few differences, opened up the ports i needed, restarted shorewall, and it worked. the entire process took me around 15 mins, included reading the stuff at www.shorewall.net. i think the essential diff was mdk 9.0 tried to 3 zones in their shorewall config, while the two interface version of the quickstart guide used 2 zones. (if you dun understand what i'm saying, just spend a couple of mins with www.shorewall.net) i'm no expert, and i'm sure the mdk developers had a good reason to do what they did, but this setup worked easily for me. others trying to configure shorewall can also search the archives for a couple of extremely well written I do not doubt that Shorewall can run nicely once configured properly. I was meaning that my experiences with it (like most) are terrible. Most of my experiences with any firewall configurator sucks. Thats why i say go down to learning the actual rules and ways of iptables since it is directly in charge of it...not any of the GUI configurators. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
This isn't meant as an insult ,so don't take it that way. You sound like others I have heard. Almost apologetic about the fact that some distros made a profit, or intend to. As though they have somehow soiled the O.S. movement with money. Profit is not a dirty word. It is a necessary thing in order to pay wages, build infrastructure, Do R D, build a better company, Do advertising, Secure a future, etc. It wouldn't bother me a bit if Mandrake had $40 billion in the bank, as it were. Provided they earned it honestly, And not through extortion, or other nefarious methods. Or engage in M$ tactics to further themselves among the other distros. If the above came, or comes to pass. I would drop Mandrake faster than I dropped Microsoft. Because Mandrake has an example of what not to do. It isn't right of M$ to do these things, Not because they are M$, But because this behaviour isn't morally justifiable. I totally agree with them making a profit or if they had billions in the bank. I like what they have put out and will continue to do so unless they do move to those tactics... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] /net and /misc
I think there is some confusion. LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would be warned when you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in kpackage. It will also show you the files inside the package. OR just go to command line and give it the ole command rpm -qpR package-name.rpm Easier for me to type than mess with the damn mouse. Plus i type like 100 gwpm. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
