Re: [newbie] splitting a pdf
On Thursday 02 October 2003 08:01 pm, Anarky wrote:
is there any way of splitting a large pdf (say 800pages) into
smaller ones (say 100p) ?
Use pdf2ps to convert the PDF file to a PS (PostScript) file. Then you can use
standard postscript tools like GhostScript (gs) on it.
A simpler method would be to use the print feature in xpdf.
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Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500, Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a
partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any
file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly
(at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back
the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and
recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I
even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the
second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same.
I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However,
I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try.
Thanks,
Linus
Try this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/
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Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake
urpmi works just as well as apt for package management. To configure it, go to
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php and follow the steps.
Mandrake's automated security system is called msec. If you don't like it you
can turn it off. More info at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:31:54 +0300, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I (of course?) am quite excited about Mandrake ... told somebody
about it .. and that person gave me this stuff ... I was wondering what
people think about it:
(from here on it's not my stuff anymore)
-
I like Mandrake a lot. We're currently running 9.0 and 9.1 on a few of
our machines, but we're slowly moving over to Debian based distros. I'll
give you a quick run down of why.
1. We're sick of RPM. We've hard RPM break on a few machines already (I
think the RPM database becomes corrupted if I remember correctly).
Needless to say, it's hard to upgrade your machine when your package
manager goes kaput. APT/debs are SO much easier to deal with anyway.
2. Too much crap! Literally, Mandrake has TOO MUCH crap these days. I
know Debian is hardly innocent, but the dependency train for whatever
reason seems to be much more palatable when using Debian as opposed to
Mandrake. Maybe it's all the package/package-dev combo packs that the
Mandrake/RedHat people like, I'm not entirely sure. It's just too much
honestly. Let me install mySQL and be done with it.
3. The big reason (for me personally), the Mandrake security model is
totally whack. Once upon a time, Mandrake used to just run a nightly
script which would email an audit of your system to the Administrator
letting you know what was wrong. That's all it did, and that was nice.
Now there's a set of different (horribly documented) security models
that have all sorts of (horribly documented) behavior. I don't mind the
security model idea, what I do mind is my system doing things for me
(such as changing file permissions) without being explicitly told when
and why this is going to happen. This has caused major problems for us
on a few occasions and it's simply unacceptable. Maybe we haven't looked
in the right place for the documentation, but I've tried to find it in
the past with little success. I should have to go reading scripts to
find this out.
What I've found is that with Debian I have a much better idea what's
going on inside our systems. There are no surprises, things so far just
straight up work the way we expect them to. We're competent programmers
and system administrators, so this is great for us. If I were a newbie,
I would definitely still recommend Mandrake. Whatever the security
scripts are doing, it IS making the system more secure, but sometimes
you don't want that.
If I wanted Mandrake to do one thing (short of switching to
.debs) to get me back on the Mandrake train: Please explain in
absolutely explicit detail the difference between your security modes.
You *HAVE* to do this during the install process as well. If I'm
rebuilding my firewall, for instance, I don't have the option to go out
to the internet to find out what these things mean. This is a very
important critical decision that should not be taken lightly. The only
way we can properly make that decision is if the knowlege is made
available to us when we need it most.
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Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:55:31 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I may be falling for the rumour mill here, but it does sound a bit
disturbing. The skinny is that Gnome wants to take over the newest fork
of X Windows, Gnome-ifying it to kill KDE and user choice of a desktop
environment.
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7488
Read the second update I appended to that article. It refutes the claim that
GNOME technologies are being integrated into XFree86 code. Since, then, the
XFree86 fork has been revealed to the public:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7501
It is called Xouvert, and it is platform-agnostic just like XFree86.
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Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:05, Miark wrote:
Server's on the third floor, laptop on the first. And the
server's in my office--if I cranked it loud enough to reach
down there, my ears would be ringing :-)
Miark
VNC only covers graphics, not anything else. I think you connect to a sound
server like esound, NAS or arts across a network.
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Re: [newbie] what happened?
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:20:00 +0300, manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I was working on my pc. I had many programs opened. The mandrake 9.1
installation had an uptime of about 5 days. Suddenly the mouse and keyboard
stack and the 2 lights on the keyboard were blinking!
I couldn't do anything except hardware reset.
Is this my first kernel panic?
What really happened?
Where in the log files can I find what made my linux crash?
Any help?
I browsed the syslog file but I didn't found anything about the freeze.
thank you in advance
The blinking keyboard lights are the sign of a kernel panic. AFAIK, there isn't
much you can do about this. Try browsing the files in /var/log and check your
home directory for coredump files (although I don't think kernel panics would
create these). These typically start with the word core.
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Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.
On 16 Aug 2003 15:21:45 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:44, Erylon Hines wrote:
Looks like that's whats been done. Any errors trying to access will have a
lot to do with DNS updates not showing up on our servers for 24 hours or so
(just guessing, but I've seen it before).
However, their solution is pretty half-assed, and I can see all kinds of
holes in their thinking. The next dns worm that's aimed at them will be
getting its address from Google or somewhere similar, and not using the
static address like this one apparantly does. Also, I'm beginning to wonder
if there isn't more to this worm than the spin doctors would have us
believe, because the solution MS may be using seems kind of extreme.
They've sacrificed the update feature for hundreds of thousands of users,
many of whom are going to become infected in the next 24 hours. A fishy
smell, there.
This is a perfect example of a Microsoft fix. Avoid the REAL issue and
do something different.
They're not fixing the initial problem, and they already know that
they're boxs can't stand the heat. They're taking the coward's way out.
I don't think they're realising that they've just fsck'ed millions of
Windows users that don't have a clue about this bug or any of what's
been going on.
I am just waiting to see what kind of press they're going to release to
make themselves look good again - I'm sure it will have heaps of spin in
it...
Which is why we need to get the word out as widely as possible. Allow me to
demonstrate:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7498
Enough said :)
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Re: [newbie] mac os x on mandrake
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:39:39 +0200, Remo Liechti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like
vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name... google
couldnt find anyth.
VMware isn't an emulator, it is a virtualiser. An emulator replicates hardware
from the ground-up. VMware just uses your underlying CPU, which means it is
limited to the capabilities of your CPU architecture.
What architecture do you have? If you have an x86 chip, you will be limited to
x86 operating systems like Windows. AFAIK, there are no emulators good enough to
run Mac OS X on x86. I know that there is software that will allow you to run
Mac OS X in GNU/Linux on a PPC machine (not just Macs), but I can't remember any
off-hand.
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Re: [newbie] i'm looking for a very good WYSIWYG editor other than Mozilla composer
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:05:28AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to get a web presence up and running soon and have a OSWD template
I plan to be using but since i do not know or have the time to learn html
I require a good WYSIWYG html editor to create my web pages. Mozilla
Composer has worked semi-decently though I notice It does not look very
good on a windows based machine. I'd like my page to look good on both
platforms. This is why i'm seeking a new editor.
Mozilla is designed to produce standards-compliant code. Any standards-compliant
browser (Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, etc.) should be able to render it properly,
no matter what platform they are on (A page should look the same in Mozilla for
GNU/Linux as it does in the Windows version). The _browser_ is what matters, not
the OS.
If it doesn't look good, that is the fault of the browser. IE is a big offender
here. IE is still not fully standards-compliant, and Frontpage is deliberately
designed to make shonky code that only works in IE.
With that said, take a look here:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3481
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Re: [newbie] MS to investors: SCO is a good bet!
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:46:06 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/StockPicks/P50807.asp
LOL, they really have no shame.
We've got a writeup about this at PCLinuxOnline:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=7039
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Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.
I got one of these this morning. It's sad to see my Web site's name used in such
a destructive manner. I guess it gives a new, more literal meaning to the term
'viral marketing' :(
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:53:06 -0500, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject:
Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!
It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the
entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly spreading new
virus's. Second suspicious mail I've gotten today. This didn't come in
through the list however as you can see by the headers. Good thing Linux is
immune to these things.
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Received: from smtp1.cwidc.net ([154.33.63.111])
by eagle (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 19o5032123NZFji0
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Received: from [219.52.168.63] (helo=ccc170)
by smtp1.cwidc.net with smtp (Exim 3.20 #4)
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From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry
On 04 Jun 2003 14:44:30 +0100, Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I
believe the cause was using dvdrip to encode something. How do I make
sure, and also find the exact reason dvdrip is doing this? What logfiles
should I be looking at, and what should I be looking for in them?
My system used to hang using dvdrip. I solved the problem by disconnecting my
DVD drive from my Promise IDE interface (built into my ASUS A7V333 motherboard)
and connecting it to my standard IDE controller (VIA). As a welcome side effect,
my drive was much faster afterwards.
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Re: [newbie] OPINION
On 29 May 2003 11:41:14 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seek out sites that have lists or petitions - do something - sign'em.
Get involved. Spread the word. Something - anything. Any type of action
is a hell of a lot better than no action at all.
I have been coordinating the PCLinuxOnline SCO boycott:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/
We have a petition at
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/petition.html
You can find more about the SCO case in our SCO news section
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/news.html
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Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming,
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Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!
I think that was TheDarb's idea. That one gave me a bit of a fright as well :) On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:29:57 -0500, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The really cruel joke was the RedHat chapter 11 poll. Shame on you ;-) Miark On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:09:53 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02 Apr 2003 06:18:46 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 22:09, Damian Gatabria wrote: www.pclinuxonline.com PCLinuxOffline Due to our active boycott of SCO, SCO has filed a temporary court injunction forcing our website offline. Haha! April fools!!! ;p Maybe we should all write to SCO and tell them to just die peacefully... Even better would be to sign our petition: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=4639 Please help to spread the word on this as we would like to get as many signatures as possible. If you have your own Web site you can join the boycott by reading the instructions at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewtopictopic=871forum=35 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Some parameters that control the system's operation are hidden and difficult to fully assess. The metabase is an obvious example. The problem here is that is makes the administrator nervous; in a single-function system he wants to be able to understand all of the configuration-related choices that the system is making on his behalf. -- Microsoft, 'Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows', 2000-22-08 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] GNU/Linux: because I reboot less often than Windows users reinstall. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] [OT] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:40:36 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:43:51 -0500 (EST), Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29632.html (-:imagine what RMS would say about this:-) SCO's actions are NOT good for Linux or open source, and we the community should not stand for it. PCLinuxOnline has decided to respond by boycotting SCO and its products. See our front page [http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] for details. We ask that you spread the word on this boycott -- if enough people listen to the call and boycott their products, hopefully SCO will realise that their actions are doing them more harm than good. PCLinuxOnline now has a petition up to hopefully convince SCO to drop the lawsuit. Please sign it: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=4639 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. -- The Boss, Dilbert pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:43:51 -0500 (EST), Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29632.html (-:imagine what RMS would say about this:-) SCO's actions are NOT good for Linux or open source, and we the community should not stand for it. PCLinuxOnline has decided to respond by boycotting SCO and its products. See our front page [http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] for details. We ask that you spread the word on this boycott -- if enough people listen to the call and boycott their products, hopefully SCO will realise that their actions are doing them more harm than good. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2001-07-12 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:15:01 -0500, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use NT and the downloader that comes with KDE 3.1, but I'd like a download manager that will accept a URL, and give you the option of downloading _everything_ from that URL. Is there anything like that out there? Miark Do you mean you want to be able to feed the downloader a HTML page, and have it download it and all the links embedded on that page? If so, then Downloader for X (NT) can do this. You need to set the depth of recursing variable to the level that you want to go down through the links. To download a whole site, set this to 0 (unlimited). You may also want to toggle the Allow leave this server while recursing via HTTP and Only subdirs for some extra control. The Change links in HTML file to local can be useful here, too. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe--they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information needed a different program to access it. -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
On 01 Mar 2003 21:08:09 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whilst doing my dirty work, er, perusing the technology pages, I just ran across some ditties that good'ole Civilme spat forth around about a month ago...was great seeing them included in an online article...good on ya mate! http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=4547 Hehe... I wrote that article, BTW :) I was preparing to write something about GNU/Linux and viruses when I came across Civileme's post. He basically echoed what I wanted to write, and he worded it much better than I could have done. I figured it'd be better to directly quote a respected member of the community rather than write my own half-arsed (by comparison) response. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. -- Marshall McLuhan, communications expert, 1968 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list
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Re: [newbie] File Management
On 10 Feb 2003 16:43:25 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:28, Russ wrote: I like to know where things are. Example, what files are on the / partition, or the /usr, /var, /home. I just like to know what I am playing with. Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 20:24, Todd Slater wrote: For normal operation, why do you need to know what partition stuff is on? Todd Ok - here's a simple one for ya: / - the root of all the filesystem. DON'T put anything here - it's the top of the hierarchy /bin - basic binary programs/utils for the system (don't use this neither) /sbin - other system binaries (sbin - system binary) /lib - system libraries /usr/bin - the basic binaries for all users to use - you can put programs in here /usr/local/bin - same as above /usr/share - repository of all your programs OTHER dependant bits - except for libraries and includes /usr/lib - program libraries /usr/include - program includes /tmp - temporary crap /var - system variables and other program necessary information (and other cool things like ftp root and web root) /usr/X11R6 - the root for the XWindows system - sometimes things can go under here - but let the programs decide where they want to go so you don't break things. /home - the users home directory root - your personal root directory is here - and whomever else has an account on your machine. Does that make it a bit more, er, graphical? (g) Cheers! It helps to know what the directory names mean, so that you may better understand their functions. To rephrase what Stephen has written above (and to add a few more): bin - binary executable sbin - system binary executable lib - libraries, sort of like DLL files in Windows. include - programme includes share - components shared between apps, excluding libraries and includes tmp - temporary files etc - 'et cetera'. Various config files for the whole system. var - variables X11R6 - The X Window System version 11 release 6. In Mandrake, this means XFree86. local - Stuff intended to run only on the local system. Normally, you won't access this stuff from another system or OS installation. opt - 'Optional' stuff. In some other distros (like SuSE), this is where desktop environments like GNOME and KDE are installed. Mandrake (and Red Hat, Gentoo, etc.) considers these to be part of the core system, so they are installed in /usr instead. root - The root user's home directory. It is stored in / instead of /home to allow a root login even if /home (which is often stored on a separate partition) is inaccessible. home - user data usr - Contrary to popular belief, this does _not_ stand for 'user'. It does, in fact, stand for 'UNIX System Resources'. Most apps go here. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi, and obol. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:03:21 +0100, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client that it's become the Nazi of file-sharing programs. I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) According to the MLDonkey FAQ (http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/faq.html), only the eDonkey and Overnet networks are supported in the official release. To connect to other networks, you need to be using a CVS build. MLDonkey has full client (and some server) support of the eDonkey network. Unfortunately, on Overnet it can only download, which the MLDonkey developers blame on a lack of cooperation on the part of the Overnet developers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] It is particularly easy to cut down the load on the [UNIX] system so that only the minimum number of services is running. This reduced complexity aids stability and transparency. -- Microsoft, 'Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows', 2000-22-08 msg118841/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????
Are both the client and GUI set to use the same port? IIRC, the default port is 4001. If the GUI is running on another system, might there be a firewall blocking communication? If they are both on the same system, do you have loopback networking running? To check, type '/sbin/ifconfig lo' in a root console and see if it says something like UP LOOPBACK RUNNING. On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:25:29 +, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 12:03 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks for the advice. See the only problem I have with eDonkey is that I am having a problem trying to get the GUI to be able to connect to the core. I can load load both manually but can't seem to get both to talk. I am pulling my hair out. On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client that it's become the Nazi of file-sharing programs. I'm not trying to start yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you ;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-) Greetings Ralph -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others. -- Linus Torvalds msg118842/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] File Management
On 10 Feb 2003 15:04:06 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what is on each. I hate to say it (especially here) but I like how windows explorer works. The left column gives you a list of all drives, floppies, CD's and what not. Makes it easy to navigate your file system. Is there a file manager for Linux that does this as well? This would help me keep all these things straight. Thanks Russ This is the nature of the *nix file system structure. Every partition and/or drive is mounted as part of the file system. This allows you to have many drives, but a single file structure. To my knowledge, there are heaps and heaps of different file managers, but nothing that will ever show anything like a drive. If you've done a default installation side-by-side with a Windows installation, you will find your Windows partition under /mnt/ The true beauty of the file system was designed from the beginning (more than 30 years ago) to be able to have a single file system. If you open up a console window, you can type: sfdisk --list ...to get a listing of the partitions You can type: mount ...to view the drive mountings. If you're in KDE, you can type kwikdisk ...to show how drives are mounted and allow you to mount/unmount from your system tray. Remember that you're going to have to rethink/relearn how the file system works. In the reality of it, the MSDOS manner of drive labelling is actually more clunky and less logical...only 26 drives? H...strange...(grin) Peace! I agree 100%. A user should not have to even _think_ about physical devices. Everything should be transparent in a single hierarchy. The beauty of the UNIX way is that you can mount _any_ device (not just local partitions) at any point in the hierarchy, providing unparallelled power and flexibility. This may not be very evident on a single system with only a few partitions, but it becomes very obvious when multiple partitions and networked machines are involved. Russ, if you want to learn Linux/UNIX you will have to realise that it is a very different system than Windows, and that everything exists for a very good reason. You will have to 'unlearn' a lot of the (bad) habits and terms you learnt from Windows in order to properly adjust. Don't worry, it's isn't as hard as it sounds. I was in the same situation as you, back in 1999. I had been using DOS/Windows since 1985, and it seemed to make perfect sense to me. After I switched to GNU/Linux, I finally realised how stupid things can be in the DOS/Windows world. If you open your mind, you can learn all kinds of new and neat stuff :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds msg118930/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] GLX gears (wanna see BAD?)
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:07:25 -0700, Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:38 pm, et wrote: a post a few days ago got me to thinking, I would like to see what scores different video cards and chipsets and mem give on glx gears my Geforce 4, Nvidia drivers from the club, dual P3 1000, 512 mem 4721 frames in 5.000 seconds = 944.200 FPS 4738 frames in 5.000 seconds = 947.600 FPS 4556 frames in 5.000 seconds = 911.200 FPS _This is *bad.*_ g 689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 137.800 FPS 600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 120.000 FPS 500 frames in 5.0 seconds = 100.000 FPS 700 frames in 5.0 seconds = 140.000 FPS 600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 120.000 FPS Hardware: Creative Graphics Blaster (NVidia) 16 MB Pentium 3 (just one ;-) 500 MHz 768 MB SDRAM ABit BX6 Rev. 2 (440 BX chipset) Ya fee better now Ed? LMAO Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada When comparing glxgears stats, make sure you're all running the same screen resolution and colour depth, and maximise the glxgears window. Things like these can make a big difference to performance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] GNU make is possibly the only example of overkill to rival GNU emacs -- Linus Torvalds msg118165/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Lost about swap
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:27:51 +1300, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, don't have a link but have read it in several places before...though with lots of RAM being the norm nowadays, getting away with less is a real possibility. I double it because HD space is cheap and running out of swap on a running system is *not* something you want to have happen, ever. It creates quite the headache. Regards, Jason Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:28, Jason Greenwood wrote: As a rule of thumb, you want your swap partition to be double the size of the amount of ram you have eg 512MB RAM make swap 1+ Gb. Cheers Jason Before getting out of Window$ and into GNU/Linux, I read somewhere that the more memory you have the less swap space you need and this makes sense to me. AFAIK, swap space has to do with the processor paging memory to disk to make room for other processes that might be in need of it. Being equal the request of memory, the system with more ram will need less swap space. Yesterday was the first time that I saw my system using swap space, but I was doing a lot of crap like compiling, database programming, testing OO and MyODBC, mail, etc, without taking care of processes that I didn't need any longer. Right now I have an 80 Mb swap partition and have had no problem but I would like to read more about the technical foundations for the rule of thumb that you mentioned. Any link or reference will be truly appreciated. Swap = 2x RAM has been a common equation for a long time now. In fact, 2.4 kernels prior to 2.4.10 required this to be met for proper VM functionality. When it comes down to it, you need enough RAM and swap to cover everything you want to do with your computer. Many of today's computers boast more RAM than you'll ever need, given the current state of GNU/Linux, so you can afford to relax things a little. For example, I have 1GB RAM, which is far more than I'll ever need. I have configured a swap size of 1GB (i.e. swap = RAM), but my system never needs to use it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do. -- Linus Torvalds msg117982/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Creating pdf
This always works for me: 1. Open the HTML file in a Web browser. 2. Go to the print menu, but print to a Postscript file instead of a printer. 2. Run ps2pdf on the resultant ps file. On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:26:20 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had cracked this one. I took an html file, and opened it, I think, in Ghostview (I can't see any other front-end for Ghostscript, so I guess it must have been this). I wrote it as a ps file, then did ps2pdf filename. At least, that is the way I think I did it. It worked, and I was left with a suitably small test pdf file. So then I went to what I really wanted to convert. I can't get any html file to open in Ghostview, getting error messages as attached. Can enyone help, please? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Gartner recommends that enterprises... immediately investigate alternatives to [Microsoft] IIS, including moving Web applications to Web server software from other vendors, such as iPlanet and Apache... [which] have much better security records than IIS. ... Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten, thoroughly and publicly tested, new release of IIS. -- John Pescatore, Information Security Strategies, Gartner Group, 2001-09-19 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating pdf
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:52:58 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 2:42 pm, you wrote: This always works for me: 1. Open the HTML file in a Web browser. 2. Go to the print menu, but print to a Postscript file instead of a printer. 2. Run ps2pdf on the resultant ps file. Whilst thinking about it I checked the properties of the ps file and found that it had been created in Mozilla, which sent me on the track you outline. I now have a ps version of the file I want to convert, but I must be doing something wrong. This is the output, now. [anne@anne-linux Desktop]$ ps2pdf13 GnumericMan.ps GnumericMan.pdf Error: /syntaxerror in -file- Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1049/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:68/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 1 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.5: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 [anne@anne-linux Desktop]$ Can you set me right, please? Anne I'm not sure about this. Have you tried the standard ps2pdf tool (i.e. not ps2pdf13)? Also, try making all filenames in lower case, without any spaces (some tools are fussy about that). Is the file you're converting complex in any way (e.g. containing lots of images or tables)? Test ps2pdf out on a very simple HTML file, then when you're sure it's working you can move on to heavier stuff. Are you using the version of GhostScript that comes with Mandrake? I'm asking because your error message contains ESP Ghostscript. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:10:38 -0700, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My b/f is a windows MCSE. Fine. In windows you run as root anyway. Even on 2k I run as an Admin. Now he says he sees no diff from that to running as Root in linux. I can't give him any better argument for not doing so other than its insecure (he doesn't care about that on a home compy) that you can reall botch Xwindow. Botching that doesn't faze him either cause he'll just reinstall anyway. Help?? Convince him? pls? Thx ...Yet more proof that MCSEs are useless qualifications. I believe that EVERYBODY should be careful about security. Very few people care today, and this has led us into a world full of insecure Microsoft-based systems. Why is it that _every_ major destructive worm since the 1988 Morris worm has come from MS systems? If people cared about security, there'd be far fewer worms and denial of service (DoS) attacks, and the Internet would be _much_ faster as a result. In the past six months, we've seen at least two major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet's core 13 DNS systems, almost bringing down the Internet as a whole. Generally they are performed when a cracker (whether it be a live person, script or worm) cracks into many systems and assumes control over them. Due to the insecurity of MS systems it is very easy to usurp thousands of machines with simple automated scripts, which can be found anywhere on the Internet and can be used by even the most inexperienced kiddie. Once dominated, these machines can all be directed to simultaneously attack one target, forcing it to fold under the load. This wasn't too much of a problem in the Win9x days, since those OSs didn't have a well-developed TCP/IP stack. WinXP, however, has the use of full raw sockets (explained at http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm). Raw sockets make it possible to spoof IP addresses (among other things), which is especially useful in DoS attacks (AFAIK, it has no beneficial real-world application). *NIX (including Linux) has had this capability for a long time, but it was never a problem since only the root user can use them (and as you know, responsible *NIX users don't login as root). Windows XP, however, runs as root all the time by default. Today, we have a situation where there are literally millions (and growing) of unprotected raw sockets-enabled systems out there, sitting in homes and businesses. They are simply ammunition for crackers/kiddies/worms. Your b/f should be doing his part towards preventing this sort of thing. It may seem insignificant on an individual level, but if everybody did just a few simple things like not running as root we'd all be better off. He may not care about the integrity of his own data, but does he know that he's contributing towards the continued insecurity, instability and slowness of the Internet as a whole? People don't seem to realise that the Internet is like an ecosystem. Since everything is interconnected, even the slightest change can have catastrophic results. Usually whenever I try to convince an 'ordinary user' of the importance of system security, I get the response, nobody is going to want to break into my computer. Nothing could be more wrong. In today's world of automated scripts/worms and DDoS attacks, _every_ computer is at grave risk. A successful DDoS attack depends on how many systems are doing the attacking (they are like troops in a battle), so it is only natural that they try to subvert as many as they can. It is often very difficult for a computer user to realise how bad it truly is out there, and how much they are at risk. I get them to install a simple intrusion detection system (IDS) and watch the results. In Windows, install ZoneAlarm, and in the control panel watch as the number of unrequested connection attempts tick up. In Linux, Install Firestarter and configure a simple firewall, and watch the IPs scroll by in the GUI. If you want to go further you could install Tripwire, Snort or Prelude, but for a non-expert this would be overkill. ZoneAlarm/Firestarter should be sufficient to scare the pants off most people. Of course, there's also the old saying (modified slightly to fit the circumstances), ten out of ten *NIX users can't be wrong. There must be a reason why *NIX admins and users only use the root account sparingly, isn't there? If your b/f is so correct in his belief, then why isn't anybody else (save for the few people who don't know any better) doing it? If he were right, you'd think that after over thirty years of UNIX existing somebody would've thought of it by now. There's a reason for all this, and just because he doesn't understand what that is doesn't mean that he is right. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing. -- Microsoft exec Craig Mundie, 2002-02-20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http
Re: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?
On 01 Feb 2003 10:54:23 +0100, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a tool to manipulate SQL databases, generate reports, etc. like MS ACCESS. ACCESS compatibility (.mdb files) is not needed, just a fast, user friendly GUI. Regards... Bela StarOffice comes with a good (albeit closed source) database. OpenOffice.org (with is 99% of StarOffice) includes a database GUI, but no backend. The following link shows how to link OpenOffice.org with MySQL. The end result is far more powerful than MS Access. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2460 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] As history shows a lot of ActiveX components are buggy and new version is released. The interesting part is the buggy version is still really signed and available in one form or another. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2002-02-14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:30:24 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:51 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:34 pm, et wrote: snip consider yopa. it is a new distro for th desktop, and while I have not yet had a chance to check it out, it comes highly recomended by folks I have learned to trust. On this list, I think it was YAMA, Sridhar Dhanapalani, that thought this was a good distro, and every other bit of advice he gave was right on the money. /snip et, I'm pretty sure the name is Yoper. BTW : where is Sridhar these days ? Miss him too. Kaj Haulrich === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === yep, sorry about that... I see him on PClinuxonline more these days Hiya all, Sorry for not being around more often. I really love the Mandrake mailing lists, but nowadays most of my time is taken up by PCLinuxOnline and other concerns. I'm still on the list, however, and I try to read it as much as I can. I personally haven't tried Yoper, but I have read a lot of good things about it. I think it would be worth a shot if you would like a change of scenery. I myself am a huge fan of Mandrake and Gentoo, with Debian being a good fallback. I tried installing Xandros (a desktop-oriented Debian-based distro), but it refused to boot on my machine. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] I don't think it's right and I think it causes people to make decisions which are not even in their best interest. A, we're not evil. B, we're not an empire. -- Steve Ballmer, objecting to Microsoft being called The Evil Empire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database
Microsoft Apologist (and ZDNet editor) David Berlind took it down a while ago. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:33:58 +1300, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the ZDNet database moved or is it just down for two days now? -- Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer hardware from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -- Ed Curry, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to US Defence Secretary William Coen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity
On 28 Nov 2002 15:26:37 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote: Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was totally painless, and DVDs are definitely the way to go. Then up came the user interface and what a nasty shock that was! I had seen complaints on the list about Nautilus and MetaCity but I had not imagined how bad Gnome 2 was. A giant leap backwards. All the freedom and functionality that I had been enjoying for six years suddenly gone. Simply put, I cannot live with that interface. My needs are few, but I insist on having control over my own desktop. The Gnome developers have completely lost the plot. For people who must have a Windows style environment KDE was designed for them. I would never use it, have never liked Windows. This is what I found: Double-clicks all over the place - I HATE doubleclicking. No sloppy-focus aka focus-follows-mouse. User cannot place images on the root window without going through Nautilus/MetaCity. They get hidden by the window manager's own backgrounds. Now, for years I have been compiling a collection of scanned calendar images (landscapes) and astronomical vistas which I have been able to use as wallpaper at whim, using my own little menu program. I resent being forced to jump through hoops to do something simple - it is so Redmond don't you agree. The font rendering leaves a lot to be desired. This is the first time fonts have ever been a problem, always crisp and clear in both RedHat and Mandrake. No doubt one can improve them. Icons all over the desktop. I dislike floating icons and usually remove them immediately, preferring to invoke applications from the panel (with a single click!). And, this is the worst bit. The icons are all owned by root! A user cannot edit the preferences, or delete the icon. For pity's sake, what are the Gnome developers smoking? There appears to be no way to specify the number of workspaces; I normally have 6, the default is 4. I suspect that there is somewhere that this can be done, as root no doubt. What this means is that Mandrake has lost a customer, and others will vote with their feet as well unless Mandrake or somebody influential applies pressure on the Gnomes to change their heading. By my calculation they are at least 90 degrees off course. I shall buy the 8.2 Power Pack, as a last gesture of support for Mandrake. But that is the end, finish, no more. Sorry for the rant - hope I have not offended anyone. -- Len Lawrence Just to let ya know, GNOME is REMOVABLE - I did it. I HATE Gnome2, so I removed it altogether, then dug out my trusty GNOME 1.4 and installed it instead. MetaCity is NOT worth even mentioning, let alone using. Sawfish is better by far. BTW, Gnome is trying to correct the errors of their ways... But overall, the KDE side of MDK ain't all that bad...and you do get Enlightenment, WindowMaker and the ability to put more on... GNOME is not the problem, you just need to know how to configure it. Nobody is forcing you to use Metacity. In fact, Sawfish is still the official WM of the GNOME Project, at least for the time being. I use Sawfish instead of Metacity in GNOME. Nautilus' management of the desktop can be turned off in its preferences, leaving you with a bare desktop. You don't need to be root to alter any GNOME settings. So with that said, what exactly is wrong with GNOME2 that pushed you back to GNOME1? I have found GNOME2 to be leagues ahead of its predecessor. It is not quite as functional yet, but no doubt it will get there soon. It is already much faster and easier to use. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bluecurve to mandrake
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:07:50 +1300, Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 3:59 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I just copied from rh to mandrake /usr/share/icons/Bluecurve to mandrake. But control center is not recognising it. Where as kde_xp theme icons are recognised. why? I downloaded bluecurve-artwork-0.39-4tex.i586.rpm from Texstar's ftp site. I see it is no longer listed there, however there is freecurve-artwork-0.47-1tex.i586.rpm which could be the same theme renamed. I just downloaded it to see but it conflicts with the bluecurve files. Red Hat have copyrighted the name Bluecurve, so Tex had to rename it to something else. This became Freecurve. There is no difference but naming. Also take a look at the LightHouseBlue theme: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3556 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama] 50,000 monkeys at 50,000 typewriters can't be wrong. -- Wil Wheaton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?
I use ntpdate, which I think is in the ntp or xntp package (I can't check right now). The command I use is: # ntpdate -b -s time.esec.com.au hwclock --systohc On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:28:44 -0400, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under Mandrake 7.2 I used rdate to synchronize my local clock to an accurate clock over the network, as follows: rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu hwclock --systohc rdate is apparently not installed by default in Mandrake 9.0, and apropos doesn't list any commands for time synching -- any suggestions? Thanks, Randy Kramer -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I feel that open, competitive markets, free thought and democracy all flourish only when we defend the medium itself as being independent. That may mean constraints that carriers cannot also supply software, that suppliers of generic software should be constrained from competing in markets which that software gives access to. -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems
Did you check the md5sums of the ISO files before burning the CDs? On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:55:41 -0400, walt frampus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written about a problem with downloading and using the install disk for md 9.0. Still having that problem. Right now I am downloading it from mandrake 8.2. The others have been in windows XP. I am really trying to give linux a fair chance. 9.0 looks very promising to me. I need to be able to use my dvd rom tho. I have a AMD k7 duron 1.2 procesor, g-force vid card. Mandrake 8.2 installed with no problems. Might just have to wait for the official release to come out. Was going to buy it anyway but wanted to install it now. I get the opening screen and hit enter and get a black screen. Have hit f1 and tried the other install methods with no luck. Any ideas guys? Walt -- Sridhar Dhanapalan As history shows a lot of ActiveX components are buggy and new version is released. The interesting part is the buggy version is still really signed and available in one form or another. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2002-02-14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mldonkey problems
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:52:48 -0600, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several questions regarding the latest mldonkey beta found on PLF. 1.The rpm has set up mldonkey as a service, how can I disable this? 2. Why are there different settings when I start Mldonkey manually than when it starts as a service? (ie directories set to different places when it starts as a service) MLDonkey gets its config settings from the current working directory. If you're starting MLDonkey manually, make sure you're in the directory that contains your config files. 2. Recently I have been unable to download anything even when I am connected and have found 1000+ sources for a particular file. Previously It was setting my cable modem on fire. Any ideas? If you have a firewall, open TCP and UDP ports 4661-4666 and 13842. 3. Now I am having problems connecting to any servers other than mldonkey servers. Perhaps I have been banned by lugdunum servers for creating too much traffic, but all of them? I have installed guarddog and iptables so that i could open ports or even disable my firewall entirely. I think lugdunum servers block MLDonkey by default. I think their logic is that MLDonkey is a threat to the eDonkey network since it can connect to multiple servers simultaneously. This is not necessarily the case More info can be found at the Linux eDonkey forum: http://forums.edonkey2000.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?forum=21 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Before you complain to us about how this stupid game won't just install and run the way you're used to, please bear in mind that we have been seeing a strong correlation between use of abusive or indecent language in complaints, and use of the MS Windows platform. -- From the Freeciv FAQ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Wow, I'm being quoted :) I should elaborate a little upon what I wrote in August (quoted below). As I noted before, ReiserFS is very reliable. I believe SuSE use it by default. Just be sure to mount it with the notail parameter if you want to use it for /boot or if you want maximum performance at the expense of a little space efficiency (but ReiserFS would still be just as efficient as ext3 or XFS). XFS is better for large files, since it was originally developed by SGI for multimedia processing. Ext3 is better for mission-critical environments (if you use full data journalling) if speed isn't too important, and its database speeds aren't too bad either. On my main system, I use ext3 for /boot and /, and ReiserFS for /usr, /tmp, and /var. Ext3 and ReiserFS can be resized both positively and negatively, which makes them great candidates for EVMS (which is like software RAID and LVM combined, but better). On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:36:41 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. Sridhar wrote this in August: On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:12:43 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ext2 partitions are now ext3 - I couldn't fathom the Control Centre route, but the command line couldn't have been simpler. For future reference - i.e. when I move on to Mandrake 9 - I get the impression that there are a number of problems with some of the file systems, with Reiser being probably the least problem. Is this right? I am not aware of any problems with Mandrake 9.0 specifically. I have read that XFS doesn't like certain kernel optimisations like preempt and low-latency, but Mandrake won't be including those anyway. I like to compile my own kernels with these patches included (they can make a big difference to system performance), so I avoid XFS. Otherwise, XFS appears to be a very reliable and fast filesystem. For most normal operations, ext3 is the slowest, even with only metadata journalling enabled (unlike the other journalling FSs, ext3 can journal_all_ of your data, which is safer but much slower). Its strengths are in database transaction speeds and its forward and backward compatibility with ext2. I personally think ReiserFS is the best for home systems. It is reasonably fast, being exceptionally speedy with small (sub-100K) files. It has had problems in the past, but they seem to have been ironed out in the more recent releases. JFS is very space-inefficient (each file takes about double the space), but is arguably the fastest FS. It also has problems with fragmentation, so you need to periodically defrag it (just like with Windows and FAT/NTFS). Of these filesystems, ReiserFS is probably the most complex (using features like B-trees, etc.). It is also the only journalling FS that has been designed from scratch, the others being the continuation of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. -- HTH Roman -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows. -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2001-07-12 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:45:45 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 22:50, Jim Fazio wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. I believe in reliability in case of crash or power failure, so I use ext3. Civileme likes XFS for it's performance and multimedia abilities. The last thing I read from Sridhar, I think he was messing with Reiser. Not sure what Dfox is doing these days. ;) There are advantages and disadvantages to all the jfs's. Ext3 is rock solid, with a slight performance hit. But it gives you very good recovery, almost trouble free if your hardware is pristine, and it is the only filesystem that offers data journaling mode. The others are metadata journaling filesystems; ext3 does both. XFS can handle terabyte sized files (I think) but cannot support the full set of file attributes that ext3 can. Reiser is reputed by most to be fast, by others to be trouble free, and yet others have had problems. I'm not sure about full file attribute support in Reiser. I suspect most of the reported Reiser problems were with early versions of reiserfs (whic, like much UNIX-speak, I initially mis-read - as REI-serfs!). I managed to completely mangle a Reiser box after a crash by injudicious use of the associated FS tools, but to be fair, the package did come up with one of those big cheery warnings along the lines of This is experimental software and using it can result in your computer being reduced to a heap of melted silicon or whatever. I think recent versions of reiserfs are pretty stable. Having said that, I may try ext3 when I get round to installing 9.0. I have a box at work with ext2, which I definitely don't want (given the frequency of power failures here) so I'll test it on that. I've been following the writings of Daniel Robbins, leader of the Gentoo Project and author of the Filesystems Guides at IBM DeveloperWorks. He wrote that ReiserFS has had problems in the past, but in the last few kernel releases it has been very solid. The Gentoo documentation has also been changed to reflect this. If you plan to use LVM, or better yet EVMS, ReiserFS is a good choice. It is both fast (particularly for smaller files) and reliable, and ReiserFS filesystems can be grown and shrunken. XFS can only be grown, and since it is not an official part of the 2.4 series kernels it can interfere with some kernel performance patches, like the low-latency and kernel preempt patches. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... _no_ major software project that has been successful in a general marketplace (as opposed to niches) has ever gone through those nice lifecycles they tell you about in CompSci classes. Have you _ever_ heard of a project that actually started off with trying to figure out what it should do, a rigorous design phase, and a implementation phase? -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: 9.0 on edonkey (was: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
That's wonderful! I've posted an article about this at PCLinuxOnline.com (http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3408). Sridhar (AKA Yama) On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:47:24 +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sorry about cross-posting, but I thought this might be of interest and benefit for all and I had no desire to repeat myself. On Wed 2002-09-25 at 21:27:56 -0300, Damian G wrote: Guys! 9.0 is released. Really? ;-) ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service which allows multisource transfers? how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!! ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o) Done for edonkey: ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso|728334336|71c10521b12a2188946a3fc fa69cbb0d| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso|73358|7c613cc7b3b5e321e8977446 ad5e2d23| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso|478511104|ec961e029a269b9e04f9475 623c3788e| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-md5sums.txt|188|4de4a5e9eafd52812a5816b0c3fe14f0| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-README.txt|2050|4cbd3435f96ca26cb91ab376fc4abcd2| (each URL should be a single line, i.e. 5 lines all together) I verified the md5sums to be sure my download was correct. Note that the md5sums file above is somewhat redundant, because edonkey has its own checksum mechanism. And if you want to test if the files are authentic, you will have to use the md5sums from the Mandrake site anyhow (if you do not trust my files, well, you do not trust my md5sum file either). Anyhow, I added it just for completeness. Mind, that I have a ADSL line with 128KBit upload, this means only about 10KB in average. That is about 3 days for the 3 ISOs. But at least you now have the exact files to look for and I hope that this will encourage others do the same and publish their downloads. Since it is the first time that I try to publish files (other than simply putting them in my shared folders), I am not sure that I did not miss anything. Let me know, if it works - or not. Bye, Benjamin. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Microsoft? Is that a kind of a toilet paper? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File conversion
Glad to see you've gotten chcase to run. I still don't know what the problem was -- it looks like a bug in the shell. As I mentioned in an earlier mail, chcase converts to lower case by default, so you don't need to use any options. Just run $ chcase * (note the asterisk at the end) to convert all files in the current working directory to lower case. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You have no privacy. Get over it. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File conversion
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:18:08 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote, Yes. By default, it changes all filenames to lower case. So # chcase * will probably do what you want. Many thanks Sridhar, Can I run my results past you again. I copied the perl text to a text file called chcase and inserted it in /usr/local/bin, as follows, root]# cd /usr/local/bin bin]# ls chcasedivxPlayer* fsgrab*lexmarkz53@ mplayer* compupic@ divxPlayer.bin* gmplayer@ lxsetconf@ cvs_mplayer* e2recover* gxset* mencoder* bin]# cd root]# chmod 755 chcase chmod: failed to get attributes of `chcase': No such file or directory I do not understand ? what attributes ? That's strange. Are you still in the directory that contains the chcase file? root]# # chmod 755 chcase The # signifies a root prompt. You are not meant to type it. If you do, it will ignore the command. root]# It didn't seem to mind this.so, root]# cd /root/Desktop/mont mont]# ls DSCI0001.JPG DSCI0004.JPG DSCI0007.JPG DSCI0010.JPG DSCI0013.JPG DSCI0002.JPG DSCI0005.JPG DSCI0008.JPG DSCI0011.JPG DSCI0014.JPG DSCI0003.JPG DSCI0006.JPG DSCI0009.JPG DSCI0012.JPG All present and correct. mont]# chcase bash: /usr/local/bin/chcase: Permission denied So I went to directory mont and gave all the permissions,but, mont]# chcase bash: /usr/local/bin/chcase: Permission denied still permission denied I guess it is something to do with the way the first, chmod 755 chcase was rejected, while,# chmod 755 chcase was accepted , could this be correct do you think.Note the inclusion of the # Any further ideas ? Make sure chcase is owned by root: # chown root:root /usr/local/bin/chcase Then check its permissions: # ls -la /usr/local/bin/chcase Leave the # out when typing these (as I have explained above). You should get something like: -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3921 Sep 25 2002 /usr/local/bin/chcase* Make sure the permissions are -rwxr-xr-x (as above), and that the owner and group are root. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I was never a big thinker. One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File conversion
I've got two possible solutions. The first is a Perl script I found somewhere
(attached) which is designed to change the case of filenames. The second is the
'rename' command, which is part of the util-linux Mandrake package (type 'man
rename' for details).
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:52:44 +0100, Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It works fine on my 8.2, try using `ls` instead of * (Use the single
quote from the key next to the one).
-Original Message-
From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:16 AM
To: Anuerin G. Diaz; NEWBIE 1
Subject: Re: [newbie] File conversion
Anuerin G. Diaz wrote:
hi john,
sorry for replying direct but i cant post to the list. ;-)
here is one post from the local LUG here in the Philippines which
seems to be what you want...
[quote]
Because FAT is not case sensitive and most, if not all, UNIX
filesystems
are. A short script I got from a list of tips as a newbie might help:
$ for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`; done;
This renames every file in the current directory to all lowercase
filenames. I've added double-quotes around the back-ticked converter
to allow it to handle filenames with embedded spaces as well.
[/quote]
ciao!
John Richard Smith wrote:
For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
as a composite.
I've hit a snag.
Winblows names it's files in higher case.
Montage(the programme, part of image magic) seems only willing
to work with lowercase named files. There are too many to manually
retype.
How can I convert windblows named *.JPG files to *.jpg named
files on the command line ?
John
Here is some of my first efforts,
]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/digitalcam/set002
set002]# $ for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`; done;
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
set002]# $ for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`;
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
set002]# $ for i in *; mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`; done;bash:
syntax error near unexpected token `;'
set002]# $ for i in * do mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`; done;
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
As a bash script newbie I'm obviously doing something
quite wrong here. Any idea what it is, as I think this
will work when I learn how to prpoperly execute it.
Incidentally, I note there is a pipe so it's a two
part operation inwhich the standard output of the first part is fed
directly into the standard input of the second
element.
John
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
We like to think of ourselves as the Microsoft of the energy world
-- Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron
eval 'exec perl $0 ${1+$@}'
if 0;
# don't modify below here
#-
$ver = '1.2';
# chcase 1.2
# Changes case of filenames
# http://www.blemished.net/chcase.html
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# 1.2 - June 22, 2000
# Added -n since escape characters don't work on all terminals
# Added -l to rename follow symbolic links
# Allowed options to be put together eg: chcase -rdou ...
# 1.1 - Feb 29, 2000
# Added ability to supply perl expressions
# 1.0 - Jan 26, 2000
# Initial Release
sub ERR {
print \nchcase $ver\n;
if (shift) {
printEOT;
EXAMPLES:
chcase My.DOC *.JPG FileName.txt
= these specific files are changed to lower case
chcase -rd '*'
= all files and sub dirs to lower case, start in current dir, recurse
chcase -s pics '*.jpg' '*.gif'
= rename .jpg and .gif files in pics dir to lower case
chcase -rous /tmp/junk 'a??b*.txt'
= starting from /tmp/junk and recursing, change files matching this
mask to all upper case, overwrite if file exists
chcase -x 's/99dec/jan2000/' -x 's/ /_/g' '*.doc'
= renames *.doc files replacing 99dec with jan2000,
and replacing all spaces with underscores
chcase -x 'tr/a-zA-Z0-9.//cd' -x 's/jpg/jpg/i' '*'
= removes all non-alphanumeric characters except for '.' and
changes the pattern jpg to lower case if it isn't already
chcase -r
= displays directory structure
EOT
} else {
printEOT;
USAGE:
chcase [-erdouqnl] [-s dir] [-x 'perl exp'] 'mask'
-e : Print EXAMPLES - very helpful!
-r : Rename recursively
-d : Also rename subdirectories
-o : Overwrite if file exists
-u : Change to upper case (default is lower)
-q : Quiet mode (no output)
-n : No escape characters (for bold output)
-l : Rename follow symbolic links (default is not to)
-s dir : Specify starting directory
-x 'perl exp' : Perl expression to operate on filename
usually s/// or tr/// (yes you need the quotes)
case of filename not changed when this option used
you
Re: [newbie] galeon and opera
I recently upgraded to Mozilla 1.1 and Galeon 1.2.6 (which now supports Mozilla 1.1.x and 1.2.x). On my system, they are about as fast as Opera. Mozilla 1.2a is supposed to be even faster, but I don't feel like using an alpha-release. On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:46:32 -0400, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find Opera fastest for most pages. It also loads much faster and is less memory intensive. On the other hand, Galeon (1.25) does a better job of rendering certain pages that are Internet Exploder optimized...Java too, especially forms (Mozilla 1.x does the best job here.) Lastly, Konqueror is convenient if you are also using it as a file manager. I find that I end up using multiple browsers. Just my $0.02. Paul On Sunday 22 September 2002 9:20 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinion about the relative qualities of galeon 1.0.3 and opera 6 regarding speed etc. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I don't think it's right and I think it causes people to make decisions which are not even in their best interest. A, we're not evil. B, we're not an empire. -- Steve Ballmer, objecting to Microsoft being called The Evil Empire Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools
Get MLDonkey (http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/mldonkey/). It's a much better client and GUI than the official ones. It's much faster and it allows you to connect to multiple servers. Once that's set up, go over to TheDonkeyNetwork (http://www.thedonkeynetwork.com/) for more info and to get some serverlists. On 18 Sep 2002 09:13:32 +0200, J.M. cogels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The serverlist can be found here: http://www-werkstatt.de/ocb/serverlist.html.gz or here: http://homepage.swissonline.net/ocbMaurice/TDN/dpnnmgtcvq/serverlist.html.gz The client can be downloaded from http://www.edonkey2000.com/files/ed2k_linux_gui_0.1alpha.tar.gz FAQ's are here: http://users.aber.ac.uk/tpm01/ed2k_tools/faq.html Regards, Joost Op wo 18-09-2002, om 09:02 schreef J.M. cogels: You can try eDonkey, www.edonkey2000.com I've tried the GUI on both Mandrake 9 beta 4 and RC-2, and it works fine. First time connecting is a bit slow though, you may have to add some servers in the beginning. You can find a list at www.sharereactor.com. After that, it works fine. eDonkey is especially usefull for downloading large files, like ISO's or movies or something. Don't forget to read the info on the eDonkey website about how to get the GUI connected to the core, you have to set a username and password for that. Good luck. Regards, Joost Op di 17-09-2002, om 21:58 schreef iggy: hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth. 9.0 rc2 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3
I don't think any have been released yet, but many companies have expressed interest in releasing consumer OGG players. Unlike with MP3, they don't have to pay royalties to anyone, and OGG is a much better format anyway (in compression and sound quality). On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:12:47 +0530, L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are very cheap mp3 cd players available in the market. Any idea about ogg players? On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 11:29 am, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menu at the top of the screen
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:41:21 +0200, Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17.17 07/09/2002, you wrote: The panel is part of GNOME, not the WM. A Menu Panel can be created via the menu that pops up when you right-click a blank area of a panel. This works in both GNOME 1 and GNOME 2. Maybe I was not clear enough, I meant the menu bar, where File Edit, stay. I'd like to have it on the top of the screen, I don't want a bar with file Edit ... for every window. Oh, I see now. Try this: http://lfh.hkcampus.net/~lfh-lck/programs/finder/. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Menu at the top of the screen
The panel is part of GNOME, not the WM. A Menu Panel can be created via the menu
that pops up when you right-click a blank area of a panel. This works in both
GNOME 1 and GNOME 2.
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 16:39:02 +0200, Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to have menus placed at the top of the screen (like MAc OS) to
save space and for personal taste.
Is it possible with Gnome? I remember I saw it some months ago, but I don't
remember where and how to set up the WM.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
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downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your
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Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:00:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i got 2 linux books from the library lol.. Dated about 2000 I believe... The book talks about Redhat 4. something so i guess its kinda old. Anyways I was wondering what is better, Gnome or KDE for Windows Manager. Let me know ur comments :) Red Hat 4? That book is _way_ out of date. Ignore anything it says about graphical interfaces. You should install both so that you can use apps from both environments. KDE apps will work in GNOME and vice-versa. With both installed, you can try them and see for yourself. Any X is better than Y argument is bound to be very subjective. I strongly suggest that you install Mandrake 9.0 (to be released next month). The versions of GNOME and KDE included in Mandrake 9.0 are _far_ better than the ones in 8.2. Also remember that there are dozens of other environments out there, including Enlightenment and XFce, to name only a few. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:02:58 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question about swap file sizes. Now I have another concern. I have an 80GB hard drive with one partition containing windows XP and formatted NTFS. I plan to use Partitionmagic 7.0 to shrink this partition to 40GB thus leaving me 40GB to install LM 8.2. However the PM manual containds dire warnings about a linux bootable partition needing to be below the 1024 cylinder (8GB) boundary. Is this still a problem with LM 8.2 and if so what would be the best way round it. Note my previous nmachine only had a 8GB disk and so I had no problems with Win 98 and LM 8.0. The PM documentation is outdated by a couple of years. LILO and GRUB can boot Linux from just about anywhere on the disc. You can safely install Mandrake 8.2 [or better yet, wait for 9.0, which should be out in under a month :) ] to wherever you want. AFAIK, Windows still has this 1024 cylinder limit. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm needed. It's because I enjoy it, and because I happen to believe that I'm better than most at it. Not necessarily better than everybody else around there, but good enough, and with the social ties to make me unbeatable right now. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] really really out of topic
It was a while ago, so I can't remember exactly where I got it. At a guess, it was probably The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk) or The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net). On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:52:46 +0800, Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested Sridhar, where did you hear about XP throttling bandwidth down to save some for talking to M$ servers?? thats something that people should know about. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] really really out of topic On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:15 +0800, Sean Goh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, so what's the deal with saying that the video card has 32mb of ram when it needs to use the system RAM??? Simple: you probably don't have a real video card. In fact, you probably have some kind of embedded graphics chip on your motherboard (or integrated into your CPU chipset). These things are cheap-'n'-nasty, and are often included in low-cost (i.e. cheap) PCs. They don't have any memory of their own; instead they leech off your system RAM. That way, the system vendor can say our machine has 64MB of RAM, when the fact is that you lose much of that to the video chipset. The same thing is happening to hard drives nowadays. Many machines preinstalled with WinXP have several gigabytes set aside for system recovery and backups (the 'rollback' feature). Many don't even come with a Windows CD, instead relying on this hidden partition. If you accidentally wipe that data, you're screwed. The vendor can still say our drives are 30GB when you can only use 20GB of that. I hear that Windows XP does a similar thing with network bandwidth, reserving 10-20% for itself so it can communicate with MS servers behind your back. I don't know what it uses that bandwidth for, but it's enough to put me off MS products for good (not that I liked them before). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 03:38:53 -0400, Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 7.2 Power Pack and it doesn't come on the CD. The only version I can find online is in debian format. Can L-M do .deb? If not, where can I find this program? KMail is driving me up the freaking wall and everyone's telling me this is the direction I need to go, I just need help finding the thing! You'd be better off by upgrading your Mandrake -- 7.2 is now two years old. In the GNU/Linux world, that's an eternity. 9.0 is due out in the middle of next month. If you can't download an ISO (free), you can buy CDs from many stores for a low price (both online and offline). If you don't want to upgrade Mandrake, the best way to get Evolution is to get Ximian GNOME from ximian.com. Evolution needs a lot of packages that aren't in Mandrake 7.2, so you'll have to install a lot to get Evolution going. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan OS/2 is the platform of the '90s. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 05:09:52 +1200, Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IBM drives made in the year or so have had major reliability problems. In fact, IBM are trying to get out of the business by selling most (70%) of their hard drive unit to Hitachi. Quantum Bigfoots have had reliability problems as well. I am on my third 12GB Bigfoot TX after the first two died on me. Fortunately, this one seems to be doing very well. The Seagate Barracuda IV is, I believe, a reliable drive. I have 2 80GB models in one machine and I've had no trouble. Yes, in the last six months I've read many complaints and horror stories about IBM drives so it came as no surprise to me when my IBM drive died. I've had no problem with my old Quantum tho (touch wood). I've only had the Seagate approx. 4 months and so far so good - jeez its so quiet I keep checking the light to see if its doing anything! Yeah, I do the same for my two Seagate drives. I have them configured into a RAID0, so every read or write operation is done to both drives at once. Even with both drives going, I can't hear them over the system fans. What are your hard drive BIOS settings? Both drives set to Auto Detection in BIOS which shows: Seagate (/dev/hda) CHS=28733/16/255 Size=600025 MB Quantum (/dev/hdb) CHS=13446/15/63 Size=6506 MB Is LBA turned on? How do you turn LBA on? I have lba32 (without the quotes) in lilo.conf if thats what you mean. There should be an LBA option in the BIOS. What you should do is go to the Seagate and IBM Web sites and download their drive diagnostic utilities. They will hopefully be able to analyse the drives and tell you what's wrong. I went to the Seagate web site but their diagnostic utility only runs in Windoze which I'm pleased to say does not exist on this PC. My 2nd PC will have Mandrake and Windoze when my new hard drive arrives - I've just ordered an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV. The Seagate diagnostic utility downloads as a Windows executable that is used to make a boot disc. You can make the boot disc on any Windows machine, and it should work on any system. IIRC, the IBM Feature tool works in the same way. In addition, the IBM Feature Tool can turn off Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) on the Seagate drive, giving you better drive performance (hdparm can do this as well, but I'm not sure if that setting remains after a reboot) . I'll check that out. Is the drive still so quiet when AAM is turned off? My ears can't tell the difference either way. Also, may I ask what your model and settings are for your 80GB Seagate drives so that I might have some idea when my new one arrives? According to hdparm: model = ST380021A CHS = 16383/16/63 LBA is on -- Sridhar Dhanapalan An ordinary frog goes ribbit, ribbit and a budfrog goes bud ,,, Weis... Er, but a winfrog goes reboot, reboot, reboot -- Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux
On 20 Aug 2002 18:15:46 -0600, Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What alternatives to Outlook exist for shared calendars, contacts, tasks, etc.? It has to run in both Windows and Linux, and has to be in Spanish. I've successfully switched our city government from MS Office to OpenOffice as a first step in migrating it to Linux later. Now we have a new city manager who wants either Outlook or something with similar groupware features for our LAN. He's cautiously open minded about open source and Linux, so even though the easy thing to do is buy a few copies of Outlook I'd much rather impress him with something open source (that will also work under Linux, thus making it easier to later dump Windows). I couldn't find anything on Freshmeat. Twig and phpgroupware, which come on the Mandrake CDs, are interesting cross platform groupware. Any other ideas? Go to http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Search and run a search for bynari. You'll get a bunch of results. Bynari can be found at http://www.bynari.net/. I personally think that your best bet is Ximian Evolution (http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/). It is GPL, and is designed to fit in with the GNOME desktop environment. It can connect with an Exchange 2000 server via Ximian Connector (http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/). Evolution is designed to look and act like MS Outlook (without the security holes or spyware, of course), so the learning curve for existing Outlook users is not steep. Evolution is already included in Mandrake Linux, and also in Ximian GNOME (http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_gnome/). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nine out of ten voices in my head can't be wrong, can they? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] really really out of topic
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:08:15 +0800, Sean Goh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, so what's the deal with saying that the video card has 32mb of ram when it needs to use the system RAM??? Simple: you probably don't have a real video card. In fact, you probably have some kind of embedded graphics chip on your motherboard (or integrated into your CPU chipset). These things are cheap-'n'-nasty, and are often included in low-cost (i.e. cheap) PCs. They don't have any memory of their own; instead they leech off your system RAM. That way, the system vendor can say our machine has 64MB of RAM, when the fact is that you lose much of that to the video chipset. The same thing is happening to hard drives nowadays. Many machines preinstalled with WinXP have several gigabytes set aside for system recovery and backups (the 'rollback' feature). Many don't even come with a Windows CD, instead relying on this hidden partition. If you accidentally wipe that data, you're screwed. The vendor can still say our drives are 30GB when you can only use 20GB of that. I hear that Windows XP does a similar thing with network bandwidth, reserving 10-20% for itself so it can communicate with MS servers behind your back. I don't know what it uses that bandwidth for, but it's enough to put me off MS products for good (not that I liked them before). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- informal Xerox PARC slogan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD subtitles
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:00:01 -0300, Carlos Arigos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help here: I just have extracted somes vobs to HD (vobcopy) , but I can't figure how to extract subtitles. Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ and learn to use Mencoder, the MPlayer encoder. The manual tells you how to extract subtitles. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We will get the source code up on the Web - anybody who specifically wants a copy can just ask. -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:29:21 -0400, Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just successfully created a cdrw backup disk using Gcombust on LM8.2. After it was written I went to open it and I got a message that I did not have access rights to /mnt/cdrom. I have written a disk successfully before without this problem. How can I change the permissions on this disk so that I may open it? How did this happen in the first place? I cannot open it on my other computer either. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am the only user on this computer so would like full permissions for myself as user. I am not sure how to do this. In /etc/fstab, look for /mnt/cdrom line. In the fourth field (fields are tab or space delimited), you should see a set of options. Add ,user to the end. This will allow a user to mount /mnt/cdrom. Reboot, and hopefully everything should be fine. If that doesn't work, open userdrake and add yourself to the cdrom group. Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, then file permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that the files on the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user permissions to access them. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. -- Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] File system choices
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:12:43 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ext2 partitions are now ext3 - I couldn't fathom the Control Centre route, but the command line couldn't have been simpler. For future reference - i.e. when I move on to Mandrake 9 - I get the impression that there are a number of problems with some of the file systems, with Reiser being probably the least problem. Is this right? I am not aware of any problems with Mandrake 9.0 specifically. I have read that XFS doesn't like certain kernel optimisations like preempt and low-latency, but Mandrake won't be including those anyway. I like to compile my own kernels with these patches included (they can make a big difference to system performance), so I avoid XFS. Otherwise, XFS appears to be a very reliable and fast filesystem. For most normal operations, ext3 is the slowest, even with only metadata journalling enabled (unlike the other journalling FSs, ext3 can journal _all_ of your data, which is safer but much slower). Its strengths are in database transaction speeds and its forward and backward compatibility with ext2. I personally think ReiserFS is the best for home systems. It is reasonably fast, being exceptionally speedy with small (sub-100K) files. It has had problems in the past, but they seem to have been ironed out in the more recent releases. JFS is very space-inefficient (each file takes about double the space), but is arguably the fastest FS. It also has problems with fragmentation, so you need to periodically defrag it (just like with Windows and FAT/NTFS). Of these filesystems, ReiserFS is probably the most complex (using features like B-trees, etc.). It is also the only journalling FS that has been designed from scratch, the others being the continuation of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:24:30 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Scott wrote: This might be an odd request, but I am looking for a program to take a rather large, over 1 gig mp3 file and split it into one hour chunks. I am a DJ at a radio station and I record my show each night and then go back and review it, but would also like to be able to put an hour on CD if I want to save it. Any ideas? Thanks, -Scott Oops, there's also mp3splt: http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ ... and http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/. It'd designed mainly for MPEG video but the site says mpgtx can currently split and join MPEG 1 video files and most MPEG audio files. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Help me out, and I won't ever call netfilter a heap of stinking dung again. Do we have a deal? -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wine
On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:37:00 -0400, Felix Underhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but you can get the cvs version of WineX, which is free. Also, I think D.Olsen posted a link to his website which has an article on how to get the cvs version working. This is true. I'm running the CVS version of WineX at this moment with no problems. This should be the website: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/winex.php . I couldn't have done it without his help (also has a great nvidia drivers installation section). WineX is released under the APL (Aladdin Public License), which makes it free (and open source) for non-commercial use. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Groups
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT), Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get a list of groups available on Linux? Group info is stored in the /etc/group file. If you prefer a GUI, there's Mandrake's userdrake tool, available in the Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Help Microsoft stamp out software piracy. Give GNU/Linux to a friend today. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:00:21 -0600, Brent Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was wondering how to mount hda1 so i can access my win xp files even though i hate win xp. # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c where /mnt/win_c is the directory where you want to make the mount. You may need to add the '-t [FILESYSTEM]' parameter as well. So if /dev/hda1 is FAT, add '-t vfat', and if it's NTFS, add '-t ntfs'. NTFS support is read-only. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? -- Mohandas Gandhi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:54:02 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I wonder, can non-club members download those RPMs, too? Absolutely. During the 'testing' period they are on the club server, and afterwards they go in 'Unsupported' on the ftp mirrors. In any case the people who package them normally put them up on a public server anyway. Any package with 'legal issues' ends up on PLF. Could you please point me to an URL? Can't seem to find anything for mplayer. I checked ftp.cesnet.cz, fr2.rpmfind.net, ftp.ciril.fr, spirit.profinet.sk and hq.alert.sk. The main PLF repository is here: http://plf.zarb.org Mandrake Unsupported (made by volunteers) and Contribs (made by Mandrake employees but unsupported) packages can be found at any Mandrake FTP mirror. A list of such mirrors can be found at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Also, go to http://www.pclinuxonline.com and scroll down towards the bottom of the page. In the left column there should be a section called RPMS Debs. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. -- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: [newbie] Civilme petition.
I've already posted an article about this at PCLinuxOnline: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2886 I suggest that you make your feelings heard by posting a comment about it. If you still want a petition, I can post an article about it. Sridhar (AKA Yama) On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:57:22 +0800, frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone fancy starting a Save Civilme petition Seems a big shame that the guy who fronts to the users more then any other Mandrake employee is gettting kicked.. Nuts for mandrake really.. since Civilme and Vincent are the two main reasons these mailing lists are held in such high esteem. And these mailing lists are what got Mandrake where they are now... (the good stuff I mean.) He is the face (figuratively speaking) that most of associate to mandrake.. I don't even know the CEO's name, and I don't really want to since he probably doesn't write code. :-) (and he is probably just a Suit.) Lets face it, with Linux it's the knowledge we value, and for that Civilme is valuable indeed. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tek1 Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 - DON'T LEAVE US??? you will be truly missed civileme. you have provided the user community with so much help and been pivitol in the acceptance of mandrake as one of the best linux distributions. it's mandrakesoft's loss to let you go, but hopefully they can bring you back quickly, as soon as things improve for them. regardless of what happens, i'm certain that great opportunities await you. again, thank you for all your wonderful assistance. On Monday 29 July 2002 06:09 pm, you wrote: --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Information Revolution will be fought on the command line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] screen resolution
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:01:59 -0400, Joe Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have M8.2 installed and KDE running, I am frustrated by my inability to find a screen resolution setting. I need 600 by 800. I am aware of the fact that this can be set during M8 installation. I have seen the config dialog during earlier unsuccessful installs but it did not come up at all during the successful installation now running. However, I'm loathe to do another installation just for the vague possibility I may see it again. Isn't there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Yep, there is. You can find it in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: CENSORSHIP: 1984-reduced.......?
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:59:53 -0700, shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 July 2002 04:07 am, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: http://www.peek-a-booty.org Off-topic (so you should have marked it OT, naughty, naughty John!) is it just me, or is this a windows only product posted to a linux list? A GNU/Linux port is in the works. Hacktivismo (the developers of Peek-a-Booty) have said that they prefer GNU/Linux and that they love the GPL. The reason for the Windows version being out first is simply that there are far more Windows users out there. Peek-a-Booty uses P2P technology, so it is important that there be many nodes. I hear that the code is cross-platform, but is more optimised for GNU/Linux. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan HTML needs a rant tag. -- Eric S. Raymond Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New Hobby
I think the aim is to weaken Microsoft rather than to strengthen GNU/Linux. Microsoft loses over $US125 per XBox sold, and they hope to recoup those costs through the sale of games. Despite this, MS have lost billions on the XBox already. If you can buy an XBox, put GNU/Linux on it and run any software you want, there would be no reason to buy games from MS and they'd lose even more money. XBox sales will probably go up since software can now be run freely on it, which will make things even worse for MS. With MS severely weakened, it will be easier for alternate technologies and companies to mount a decent challenge to MS in _all_ its markets (not just OSs). The XBox is MS's greatest weak spot. Exploiting it is IMHO the best way to topple the giant. On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:35:02 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, See http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ Also not that someone will dump $100,000 into the project each time the porting team completes each of two tasks. You'd think there are better place to dump $200,000 into the Linux community. Odd. Miark Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Can you confirm that with a link? This is as close as i got:- http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3388837,00.html -- Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:41:46 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm back after exams (which I all passed miraculously...) and meanwhile Gnome 2.0 has been released. Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points to Cooker which contains many gnome-* files, however, which ones are 2.0 ones? Some of them are new, some are from March. Which ones do I need? With KDE3 one knew he had to download all the kde*3-* files, but there is nothing like that for Gnome, some RPMs are 2.something, some are 0.96... GNOME 2.0 RPMs built specifically for Mandrake 8.2 are currently being made by MandrakeClub volunteers. If I were you, I'd wait until those are released (you don't need to be a member of the Club). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language -- The Microsoft Timeline http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/timeline.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes Selector
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:14:41 +0200, Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Gnome 2.0 through Mandrake Cooker; all seems gone smooth, but only default theme is shown... I do have gtk-themes installed, but they're not listed in the selection box: is just a little bug or something changed, since Gnome 1.4? GTK2 themes are different from GTK1 themes. To change GTK1 themes in GNOME2, try this: http://www.muhri.net/nav.php3?node=gts -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. -- Bill Gates (from the Foreword to the OS/2 Programmers' Guide) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time, ink and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British spelling? They're not wasted. The 'u' moderates the sound of the 'o' so that it is not too hard. The 'o' is emphasised more in the word 'or' than in the word 'colour'. In that way, the 'u' is actually phonetic in (British) English. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all. -- Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:19:59 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time, ink and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British spelling? They're not wasted. The 'u' moderates the sound of the 'o' so that it is not too hard. The 'o' is emphasised more in the word 'or' than in the word 'colour'. In that way, the 'u' is actually phonetic in (British) English. OK, if I follow your line of reasoning, does that mean that we'd need separate spell checkers to account for each regional dialect? Or are we all supposed to sound like BBC announcers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnews readers? Ideally we wouldn't need separate spell checkers [or should that be 'chequers' :) ]. I notice that you ducked the gh == eff thing. Or is night supposed to be pronounced nift? And a happy Fourth of July to you, sir. (Hmmm... why is it fourth and not forth? Sounds the same to me.) I wasn't ducking. English is quite an odd language and I agree with you. A lot of the problems stem from written usage. Literature might become very confusing if we replaced 'there', 'their' and 'they're' with a simple 'there'. Many others stem from pronunciation. As somebody who pronounces words in the traditional 'British' manner, British spellings make sense to me. Similarly, American spellings might make more sense to an American. Wouldn't it be great if we could just drop English and speak Esperanto instead :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Hey, that is an implementation issue, not a design issue, so that's the point where I don't care all that much any more. I'd not be all that likely to use this feature (I still do zcat file.tar.gz | tar xvf - instead of using tar zxvf file.tar.gz, because I'm an old-fashioned old fogey. I don't need my tar-files auto-mounted for me). -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:57:49 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:55 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70 games is not what I call working. Locking up systems is not maybe you should look into your setup? i mean ymmv, but i have 9 of 10 working and most better than they did in win2k... How's about some benchmarks then? I'd like to see which games you are running, as well as the fps, if you can get it (some don't let you). Here's one of mine: Alice = WineX - 24 fps (tops) Windows - 70+ fps For more benchmarks, go and look at these (yes, they're from Tom's Hardware...): http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image001.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image002.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image003.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image004.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image005.gif http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/images/image006.gif Oh, and by the way, if you can't install a game like Baldur's Gate 2, why does it get a rating of 4/5? That's pretty dumb. And yes, I got it to actually run ONCE. It installed fine. Then I tested it again after a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, and whammo. Doesn't work now, and it starts asking me for mythical CDs... Yes, I'd give THAT a 4 out of 5 rating... Yes, games tend to be slower in WineX than in Windows. It should be remembered, though, that Winex is a relatively new product. WINE may have been around for a long time, but WineX's extensions are very new. DirectX is closed source, and so WineX is the work of reverse-engineering, which is very difficult to achieve. I'm sure that it will get better in the future. As WineX develops, Transgaming will be able to make more deals and partnerships with other games companies to make their games compatible with WineX. Some deals have already been made, like the agreement with EA to make a GNU/Linux version of 'The Sims'. In the future, games will be compatible with both Windows and WineX out of the box, with no special GNU/Linux-only modifications. I do, however, share your concerns that WineX may kill the native GNU/Linux gaming industry. OS/2 once advertised itself as A better Windows than Windows, in reference to its Win16 and Win32 compatibility. Developers took advantage of that by making applications in Win16/32 so that they would run in both Windows and OS/2, thereby killing the market for native OS/2 apps. The GNU/Linux market is too small to sustain a commercial gaming market. Even Loki, which simply ported games from Windows to GNU/Linux instead of making their own, couldn't stay in business. IMHO, the best solution is to adopt the model used in Quake 2/3: use open standards to ensure that a game works in other OSs with little modification. In Quake's case, all that is required to make the game run work in GNU/Linux is to change a few megabytes of binaries. Environments like OpenGL and SDL are designed to do just that. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... I will claim that nobody else designed Linux any more than I did, and I doubt I'll have many people disagreeing. It grew. It grew with a lot of mutations - and because the mutations were less than random, they were faster and more directed than alpha-particles in DNA. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:51:32 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same deal: I'm trying to get an ISO image onto my gateway machine, and I decided to finally do it with a CD. Okay, so I burned the CD and put it in the gateway machine, and tried copying it. File size limit exceeded What? The partition has 1.3GB available, and there is no quota for the user. What's this all about?! Open /etc/security/limits.conf in an editor. There should be a section that looks something like this: # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb * hardfsize 10 Comment out the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam. No windows, no gates. Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?
It's been a while since I did this so I'm not too sure. Try logging out then logging back in. If that doesn't work, do a reboot (the simplest way). On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:55:46 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent--how do I put the change into effect? Miark Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:51:32 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same deal: I'm trying to get an ISO image onto my gateway machine, and I decided to finally do it with a CD. Okay, so I burned the CD and put it in the gateway machine, and tried copying it. File size limit exceeded What? The partition has 1.3GB available, and there is no quota for the user. What's this all about?! Open /etc/security/limits.conf in an editor. There should be a section that looks something like this: # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb * hardfsize 10 Comment out the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:51:37 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you though, in not liking the lindows idea. I've never used it, but I keep hearing that it forces you to run as root. I hope this doesn't catch on. IMHO, they're taking one of the greatest security features and throwing it away. Running as a root makes your system much more vulnerable to virii, it would seem. If that was true, yes, you would be more open to viruses (virii isn't a word), but since Lindows has made it clear that users log in using usernames and passwords, I think that they have fixed this hole. Virii is most definitely a word. Unless I read their FAQ wrong... For what I have read, I don't think there is any login whatsoever. Even if there was, that doesn't change the fact that everything is running as root, which is just as insecure as using Windows. No amount of firewalling can change this. Their Click-n-Run scheme is also a potential security vulnerability, since software is being downloaded and installed as root. It is similar in concept to Ximian's Red Carpet and MandrakeUpdate, but I am not convinced that it is as secure. When you are downloading and executing code from the Internet, security is of paramount importance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure products than England's cricket team is able to withstand the bowling of Australia's bowlers. -- John Leyden, MS firewall is holier than the Pope, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-08-20. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling quota
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:40:55 -0500 (CDT), Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to enable userquota on my /home partition. I added the following script to a file in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory: # Check quota and then turn quota on. if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotacheck ] then echo Checking quotas. This may take some time. /usr/sbin/quotacheck -avug echo Done. fi if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaon ] then echo Turning on quota. /usr/sbin/quotaon -avug fi I get the following error: Jul 1 23:10:49 localhost quotaon: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6: Invalid argument Jul 1 23:10:49 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas: failed Jul 1 23:10:50 localhost quotaon: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6: Invalid argument I get this Invalid argument error even when I try to enable userquotas using webmin. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here ? Is your /home partition ReiserFS? ReiserFS needs to be patched to support quotas. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no problem. This time, I guess it decided to actually write over the MBR. I know, if I have a Linux boot disk then I could use it and type LILO and it'll rebuild LILO and all should be good.but I have no such boot disk :( I just never thought I'd need it! So, anyone know of any way to get LILO back?? One of my friends directed me to a boot disk available on the internet, but somehow it was too big for a floppy :-\ Do you have a Mandrake CD? If so, just boot with it and type 'rescue' at the LILO prompt. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... the main beneficiaries of mergers in the computer industry have been competitors -- Ben Rosen, Chairman of Compaq Computer Corp., 1991. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows Games
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 17:13:36 -0400, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: IIRC, Hyperion Software released Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for Linux, then after dismal sales, said they would not release any more - but would still continue to port games to the Amiga - because they sold more games on the Amiga than Linux... I'm curious -- I don't usually follow the game market at all -- approximately when did that occur? (I mean, like a year ago, two years ago, last week??) I remember reading about that. A Hyperion guy said it in an interview on some Web site (I can't remember which one). IIRC, the interview wasn't done very long ago; maybe earlier this year or late last year. Some of the stats are misleading, though. John Carmack (of id Software fame) said last year that he was disappointed at the sales of the GNU/Linux version of Quake 3. But why would anyone buy the GNU/Linux version when you can get the Windows version for the same price (sometimes cheaper) and download the GNU/Linux binaries off the Internet? That way, you can have the game working in both OSs. If you want to do a GNU/Linux port of any software (not just games), a publisher should package it together with the Windows version. In the case of Quake 3, the GNU/Linux binaries are only a couple of megs, so why not? I believe that Sun, Hancom and Gobe are doing just that with their respective office suites. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan We love Linux, and the most wonderful thing about Linux is that it's a problem for Microsoft. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xpdf versus KGhostView for viewing all text in PDF file?
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 15:03:38 -0700, Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a pdf document that Xpdf was able to view in full... but KGhostView can only see part of the text and the rest is blank? KGhostView (and GNOME's GGV) use GhostView (GV) to render PDFs. The current GPL version of GV is not without its failings, and I generally find that xpdf does a better job at rendering more complex PDF documents. If you're comfortable using xpdf, there's nothing wrong in continuing to do so. Otherwise, you can get Adobe's official Acrobat Reader from adobe.com or you can get the latest version of GV (released under the Aladdin Public license) from Aladdin Systems. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:31:55 +0900, Pascal Goguey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Yes, the advantage of having /home, /opt, and /etc _DIRECTORIES_, as you write yourself, no doubt about that. But is there any benefit of having these on different _PARTITIONS_? You can't separate /etc because it contains important information that is needed at boot (i.e. /etc/fstab). It needs to be part of the / partition. Separating things into different partitions can give you greater fault-tolerance. If you put everything into one big partition and it gets corrupted, you'll probably lose everything (assuming a fsck doesn't fix it). If your /tmp filesystem gets trashed somehow (e.g. it overflows or is corrupted), and it is separated from the rest of the system, you can easily recover. You may also gain a little extra speed, but not enough to be noticeable. Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. But if you want to install, you don't have to reformat the partition. The installer will install every file (thus replacing all the files having the same name), and it will work exactly as it would on a clean partition, the only difference being that the files that are not use anymore would still remain. as far as the installer installs all the necessary files, I cann't see any reason that could make it less reliable than a clean (i.e. with formatting) install. As for upgrade, you may be right. It depends how the upgrade is done, which files are kept and which ones are overwritten... This is a real problem with RPM-based distros. The Debian distros can upgrade all they want with no problem. In fact, you only need to install Debian once. After that you can upgrade as often as you wish. If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, Only if you reformat. I use Mandrake's default formatting, so in case of installing a new version, I format the partition in order to clean everything, but it's not mandatory. I put everything in one big partition (my HDD is too small to do otherwise). When it comes to upgrading, I boot with a rescue disc and mount my GNU/Linux partition. I delete all directories except /home, reboot, and do a full installation of Mandrake without formatting anything. The installer sees that /home already exists, and it doesn't mess it up. BeOS used a single partition and it was perfectly possible to install without formatting, and without loosing your previous settings. I always wanted to try out BeOS, but by the time I was ready to install it the company was ready to fold :( I guess I'll wait and see how the BeOS clones like OpenBeOS develop before trying those. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it. -- Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of BeOS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:52:54 +0100, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both my banks (smile.co.uk and newcastle.co.uk) use all sorts of Javascript tricks, and I believe most banking sites are similar. Privoxy, I suppose, could be laboriously configured to _not_ filter the tricks that matter, but it's easier simply to turn it off. In N months I've come across no other sites that require Privoxy to be turned off. For some strange reason Privoxy blocks pclinuxonline.com. I had to edit one of the config files to change that. And in other news, Brazil just beat Germany 2-0 to win the World Cup!!! I was going for Germany :( -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Maybe somebody should tell gcc maintainers about programmers that know more than the compiler again. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Privoxy
On 29 Jun 2002 17:30:49 +1000, Michael Biddulph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 13:55, Dennis Myers wrote: I have set up privoxy a couple of times in konqueror and each time I set it I can no longer connect to the internet at all. could not connect to host 127.0.0.1, try again later Disable the proxy server and all works. Yes I have RTFM. According to the manual I should have no problems setting up and using privoxy, but as usual the manual has left something out that is important to my configuration. Anyone had this kind of problem and how does it get fixed? Sometimes I need to have my hand held. TIA I installed and used privoxy for a day or two last week. It worked...sort of. Didn't lose my net connection but it is very fussy as to what sites it will connect to and load. I had to try again for six out of every ten sites I went to. Too annoying to be really useful so I wiped it off. I think it will be really useful when it is developed further, but right now I'll pass on it. I've been using Privoxy for about six months and I've had very few problems. The error given above should not really have anything to do with the proxy. The IP address that is causing the problem, 127.0.0.1, refers to yourself. When you communicate with 127.0.0.1, the network messages are 'looped back' to you, and you communicate with yourself. In your browser proxy settings, there should be a text box titled something like 'No proxy for'. In this box, enter 'localhost' (without the quotes). Save the settings and reactivate Privoxy. Make sure your browser is set to use Privoxy as a proxy. Now everything should work as it should, minus the advertising on Web pages. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. -- Bill Gates, 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists', 1976-02-03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Adding another window manager by hand to login screen
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 10:40:21 +0100, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a completely clear exposition of this - all the usenet posts I've found are of the type look in X, Y and Z or it might be Q. I've downloaded and built Garnome in ~/garnome, and would like to have a 'gnome2' entry in the login screen's dropdown list. So far I've found where it's entered - Configurator | System | Login Manager, Sessions tab - but there's no indication how this entry is linked to anything. (man xdm, which the rather thin KDE 3.0.1 Help points to, is also unhelpful, giving far too much irrelevant information) Open a root console and type chksession -l. It should list all the valid window manager choices that have been entered. If something's missing, find out what you you should run to execute it. For example, GNOME has gnome-session and KDE has startkde. Now visit the /etc/X11/wmsession.d directory. You will see a set of text files, each with a name beginning with a two-digit number followed by the name of the environment (GNOME, KDE, IceWM ...). The structure of these files should be something like this: NAME=IceWM ICON=icewm-wmsession.xpm EXEC=/usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm DESC=Lightweight desktop environment SCRIPT: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/starticewm Create a text file with a name beginning with a number that has not already been used followed by the name of the environment (e.g. 02GNOME). Put the same information as above into the file, but replace the parts after the equal signs and colon to what suits the environment you wish to enter. So you could make a file called 02GNOME with the contents: NAME=Gnome ICON=gnome-logo-icon-transparent.xpm DESC=Gnome Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/startgnome SCRIPT: exec /usr/bin/startgnome Run chksession -l again. This time, you should see your new entry amongst the others. Make sure that you have the new environment installed and that you have set X to start at boot (you can use XFdrake as root to do this). Start/restart X (or reboot), and all should be well. If not, you may need to go through the setup utility for your login manager and add the new entry to it. Alternatively, you can use the Xtart utility if you prefer to load X from the command line (negating the need for a login manager). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0 released
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:49:13 +0100, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ I'm interested and await the Mandrake 8.2 RPMs; the bloat of Nautilus, and other faults, put me off Gnome 1.4, and it seems that much has been improved ... Nautilus can be turned off, as I have outlined in an article at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2561. That may be something to play with until GNOME 2.0 RPMs are made. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Internet cannot be removed from your Desktop. Do you want to delete the Internet now? -- Microsoft Windows 95 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] making space
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:57:12 +1000 (EST), ben harker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have 2 harddrives 1.2G and 540M i wan wondering if i could set up the 540M as the swap file harddrive. because if i install linux on the 1.2G i get about 530M of space to install stuff to. i really need some extra space. or is there any other way to utilize the 540M HDD to clear some space on the 1.2G? The space on your hard drives are far too small to make a multiple-partition setup practicable. I think the best thing is to do as you have planned and use the 540MB drive as a dedicated swap drive. With the 1.2GB drive, make a single GNU/Linux partition (or one for / and one for /boot). Make sure that each drive is on a different IDE channel. Having two drives on the same channel can severely cripple performance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Attachements are evil. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Gnome Panel Level ??
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 03:28:10 -0400 (EDT), gikoreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I know this is off topic, but maybe someone knows what's up with this... I just created a floating panel in Gnome, and added a Desk Guide. Then I played around with the settings of the panel, and when I got to Panel/Properties/Level, I changed it from Default to Below. The panel disappeared, and I have no clue whatsoever if it was deleted, or if it went under (below?) or how I can access it again?. I would just delete it and place a new one, but I can't select it since I can't see it. So my question is how do I know if it's still there (but invisible) and if it is still there how do I select it? And what does Level mean in the first place? The docs don't mention this (at least I haven't found them saying anything about this). 2 options here: - Minimise all of your windows so that the desktop is visible. - Switch to a bare virtual desktop or viewport. You should then be able to see that panel. Also, please remove the 'Reply-To' on your mail. It makes responding to your posts annoying. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I think that throttling writers is fine and good, but as it stands now, the dirty buffer balancing will throttle anybody, not just the writer. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:11:58 +0200, Baka Attila Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been fooling around with Conectiva linux for some days. I had a few problems that made me turn back to mandrake again (gcc won't work, nvidia doesn't recognize my kernel, can't install mplayer or openoffice) as I need a working OS. What I really loved about Conectiva is that With like 2 commands it upgraded the whole system to kde3.0.1 with all dependencies. I also read that Mandrake is apt-rpm compatible. My question is: Does it really work? Are the Mandrake mirrors compatible to apt? Why didn't I hear about this earlier? Mandrake doesn't officially support apt, but it does work. I think you can get it in the Contribs directory of Mandrake mirrors. Mandrake has it's own alternative to apt, called urpm. You can find more by typing 'man urpmi' at a terminal prompt. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that this explains it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I don't know how serious it is, but he obviously thinks it undesirable. He asked me what we could do about it. If the problem only lies with pop-ups and pop-unders, then you can kill them by using a browser like Galeon or Mozilla, or a proxy like Privoxy. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Why is it always Segmentation's fault? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:06:29 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking back, I can only bow my head in self-disgust. But the lesson is a valuable one: Thinking that DOS/Win is any more logical, intuitive, or superior than any other OS is a mental prison. 'Course, when I figured this out, I bucked the whole establishment, learning Linux and the Dvorak keyboard layout :-) Miark P.S. Want added security on your workstation? Learn the Dvorak layout. Nobody will be able to do squat on your machine :-D I'm curious, is the Dvorak layout really any better than QWERTY? It sounds great in theory, but I don't know of anyone who can personally attest to that. Take a look at these articles: http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html They seem to be of the opinion that the Dvorak layout isn't necessary, and is perhaps even flawed. I've been thinking of trying Dvorak out for some time, but these two articles have made me think again. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi, and obol. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound record and playback
Try loading userdrake and adding your 'user' to the audio group. Also, have you configured a Bastille firewall? That can sometimes mess up ESD. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:07:41 +0200, Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ESD is still running. I tried your hint without success (thanks anyway). Then I tried to run xmms and grecord as root, and this time it works, i.e. I am able to play an mp3 from xmms and a recorded wav from grecord without need to close one of the two apps. I had no time to investigate, I just did an 'ls -l' on /dev/sound and noticed that all the devices have 'crw' properties set for owner only (root?), and '---' for others. Could this be the in some relation with the problem I have running as normal user? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, check if ESD is still running. Some apps may kill it by mistake, forcing new apps to fall back to OSS or ALSA for sound. Secondly, try launching your app with 'esddsp' appended at the beginning, e.g.: $ esddsp xmms This should hopefully force the app to use ESD. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:38:01 +0200, Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, yes, it's exactly what I'm using :-) The problem I have (I think) is that there are two applications (sound recorder and xmms) trying to access the sound card and one of them gets trown out with the 'sound device busy' message. Shouldn't ESD sort this out? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm needed. It's because I enjoy it, and because I happen to believe that I'm better than most at it. Not necessarily better than everybody else around there, but good enough, and with the social ties to make me unbeatable right now. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 02:28:31 -0600, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:06:29 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking back, I can only bow my head in self-disgust. But the lesson is a valuable one: Thinking that DOS/Win is any more logical, intuitive, or superior than any other OS is a mental prison. 'Course, when I figured this out, I bucked the whole establishment, learning Linux and the Dvorak keyboard layout :-) Miark P.S. Want added security on your workstation? Learn the Dvorak layout. Nobody will be able to do squat on your machine :-D I'm curious, is the Dvorak layout really any better than QWERTY? It sounds great in theory, but I don't know of anyone who can personally attest to that. Take a look at these articles: http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html They seem to be of the opinion that the Dvorak layout isn't necessary, and is perhaps even flawed. I've been thinking of trying Dvorak out for some time, but these two articles have made me think again. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If I may say: I'm a professionally trained touch typist. If it makes Any difference to you heres a bit of info for your trivia brain. Qwerty keybaords setup was created on purpose to make sure typists COULD NOT reach speeds exceeding 75-85 WPM *words per minute*. Seems counter-intuitive doesn't it? Well heres teh rub: Back in the early 1910's or 20's, typewriters were made with *GASP!* real metal keys that hit *GASP* Paper! *shock faints* ;) As a result, if you went faster than 75 wpm you got the keys stuck to one another...which of course ruined those darned expensive contraptions! So...the QWERTY keyboard layout was born. Until then, keys were laid out haphazardly across. With each different model a different Key layout was around. Some genius got the bright idea to use the Qwerty Method after seeing a similar method in Europe * I believe * used on their typewriters. Thus the trend was born, Underwood Typewriters made the first QWERTY keyboards availabe in the US. One of the links I gave above, http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html, states that typing speed had nothing to do with it: When Sholes built his first model in 1868, the keys were arranged alphabetically in two rows. At the time, Milwaukee was a backwoods town. The crude machine shop tools available there could hardly produce a finely-honed instrument that worked with precision. Yes, the first typewriter was sluggish. Yes, it did clash and jam when someone tried to type with it. But Sholes was able to figure out a way around the problem simply by rearranging the letters. More can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/myths.html. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I care about the fact that our internal design has to be robust. It doesn't have to make everybody happy, but it has to be clean both conceptually and from a pure implementation standpoint. I don't want a hack that works. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:45:15 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP I'd have to argue on the point of intuitive. I just spent 2 minutes trying to paste text from one email to another. It showed in my little clip board in the bottom right but I couldn't paste it using CTRL+V or the paste command in the edit menu. I could however paste it in KEdit. Weird. Why is Ctl-V intuitive? Just because that is how Windows does it does not make it 'intuitive' See my sig below :) Copy/paste functions generally work well within a toolkit. There still are some wrinkles to iron out in GTK/QT interoperability. The developers have been working on it, and things have improved over the past year. We'll just have to wait for it to be finished. In Unix/Linux pasting is done by pressing the centre mouse button/mouse wheel. If you have no centre button click left and right buttons simultaneously. It will paste either the last highlighted text, or the text you select in kicker. It works across almost all Linux applications (OpenOffice is one of the few exceptions), and once you get used to it is much more 'intuitive' than the keyboard contortions you need to make Clt-C, Ctl-V OpenOffice.org can be made to recognise middle clicks as 'paste' if you set it in the Preferences. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The only intuitive interface is a nipple. After that, it's all learned. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT - World Cup broadcasts
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:00:14 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:26:50 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual the BBC can be relied on http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/ It was a good match :-) As it happens Italy would have gone through even if they lost since Paraguay beat Croatia. Mexico looked quite impressive. derek Thanks, Derek. I've learned that FIFA has sold exclusive broadcast rights to 2002 World Cup to some company that, believe it or not, strictly prohibits the broadcast of real-time commentary via Internet. If only I had bought that world band radio like I always wanted :-( The coverage hear in the US has been pitiful. ESPN and ESPN2 should be ashamed. Or maybe it's the company that's restricting the broadcast rights that's to blame. You can pay $19.95 to see some lame video highlights--yeah, right! The day I have to pay extra to watch the Super Bowl is the day I buy a gun and start a revolution! Coverage is great here in Australia. One free-to-air station (SBS - Special Broadcasting Service) has almost dedicated itself entirely to the World Cup. Best of all, it only shows advertising _between_ games. The high-profile games have been bought by another free-to-air station, Channel 9, which unfortunately messes things up a bit with commercials. I don't mind too much -- it's live and it's all free :) One of the best things is that the time difference between Japan and Sydney is only 30 minutes, so I don't have to stay up to watch games early in the morning as I used to do with previous World Cups. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K - LM
On 14 Jun 2002 13:36:27 -0600, Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a little off topic, so if there's a better forum for my question just point me to it. I have a client with a Windows 2000 LAN. Someday I'll finally convince management to migrate to Linux Mandrake, but today's not the day. Short of changing the OS, however, I've been given carte blanche to improve the system. What should I be doing now to insure that a future migration to LM goes smoothly? I'm thinking of things like using FAT32 wherever possible instead of NTFS, and migrating users from MS Office to OpenOffice. I think you're on the right track. IMHO, this is the best way to switch to from Windows to GNU/Linux: 1. Gradually change to apps and protocols that are available for both systems. 2. Once everyone is used to the changes done in step 1, install GNU/Linux in a dual-boot configuration. 3. People should now use GNU/Linux but can now fall back to Windows if required. 4. Provide training and help and make sure that everyone is okay with GNU/Linux. I think the most appropriate motto here is 'slow and steady'. You seem to be in Step 1 at present. Using FAT and OpenOffice.org (or StarOffice if you want) is a good start. I suggest you change the servers before you tinker with desktop systems. Use Samba for file and print sharing, LDAP for e-mail, et cetera. Once that is settled and everything is in order, you can work on the desktop area. MS apps are highly proprietary; I suggest you don't use them at all. Mozilla is great for Web browsing, e-mail and more. You may even want to consider removing IE completely using 98lite (http://www.98lite.net/) to improve system stability and speed, and to force people onto Mozilla. If you have an intranet, ensure that all its pages are standards-compliant. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try to do anything heretical, like install a device driver of which it disapproves. -- Thomas C. Greene, Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-10-30 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any news of MDK 9.0?
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:29:02 +0200, Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! Does any insider know news of release dates? When will there be an official release containing KDE3 and possibly Gnome 2 by then? I wander if it will be MDK 9.0? :-) General MandrakeSoft policy is to release by the end of October. You can expect Mandrake 9.0 to have GCC 3.1.1, GNOME 2.0 and KDE 3.0 (possibly 3.1). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command. -- Bill Lye Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes
On 13 Jun 2002 13:07:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua James) wrote: Hey, you don't have to reboot to change IPs anymore. grin I wish more of this M$ bashing energy was put into making linux a more viable solution. This is a newbie list. I would think that most of us here don't have the expertise to make linux a more viable solution in any major way. I personally do my own bit by helping people out on lists such as this. Here you have a MCSE (started with MS networking when I was 23) who is completely willing to switch to linux. I earned my MCSE to battle the you're a dumb kid comments and it worked. I back it up with years of experience from the DOS days where you needed to know things such as low-level formatting, IRQ's, etc. So you're better than most other people with MCSEs. That's good :) Most computer concepts and usage comes very easily to me. After stumbling with linux on and off I have to say that Microsoft has a good thing going. They have a total solution that works pretty well. If most of these companies and users had to wait for linux they wouldn't be where they are today. Understand that I REALLY want to switch to linux but you seem to wonder why people just don't get it. Its not easy, its not even close. I have been able to learn more about Windows and creating an entire corporate network in less time than it has taken me to figure how to open a simple MDB file in linux. You can call me names, tell me I'm stupid or ignorant. It won't change the fact that a VERY experience computer user is having trouble with 'the best operating system ever'. I'm not going to call you names. In fact, I'm going to do the opposite. Believe it or not, it is your experience that is holding you back. You have grown accustomed to doing everything the 'Microsoft way', and this hinders your GNU/Linux learning. You need to 'unlearn' some of your MS knowledge before progressing, or you'll never get anywhere. GNU/Linux isn't harder -- it's just different. Your mind has been trained to do things in one way, and that way doesn't necessarily work here. To your mind, Windows may be logical, but that doesn't make other systems illogical. Other systems simply use a different kind of logic, which you must get used to before progressing. I used to think as you do, and back then GNU/Linux made no sense at all to me. Today, I look back at the DOS/Windows systems I used to use and they all seem haphazard and illogical. GNU/Linux is more powerful, and the many extra possibilities that provides makes things look unnecessarily more complex. If you narrow things down to the basics, the GNU/Linux console (or the UNIX console for that matter) isn't any more difficult than DOS. I have to say that since I've joined a few mailing lists I've received more help for free than I have from Microsoft. Hear, hear! :) When I started with my latest stint of linux usage I choose from three packages, RedHat, SuSe, and Mandrake. RedHat lost because I'm somewhat scared they are getting proprietary, but I'd probably use them on the server side. SuSe lost fast because I couldn't even install it on my new Dell, no network card found. I settled on Mandrake, also my neighbors 2nd choice. Here I am, an MCSE that has gotten a clue if you will. Red Hat maintains a freely downloadable GPL distribution, and all their core tools are GPL (e.g. Linuxconf). They do make some proprietary tools, but these are mostly targeted at the enterprise. Mandrake appear to be firmly committed to free software, and everything they make is GPL/LGPL. SuSE make their system tools proprietary, and they don't have freely downloadable ISOs. They are now part of the UnitedLinux group, which not distribute binaries. If any distro is becoming proprietary, I would say it is SuSE, along with the other UnitedLinux members (Caldera, TurboLinux and Conectiva). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I actually think that Linux with the stuff that is going on in 3D, desktops, etc., has a chance to become the first real user-friendly UNIX. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] searchbot
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:07:12 -0700, drwhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: howdy all... I am looking for the linux equiv. to the windows program Copernic its a searchbot, that searches thru google, altavista, yahoo, webcrawler, etc.. from one easy to use 'frontend.' ??? How does Copernic work? Does it send one search term to multiple engines at once and organise the results, or does it simply allow you to pick one engine at a time? If you want the former, you can use a metasearch engine. Here are a few: http://www.metacrawler.com/ http://www.search.com/ http://www.dogpile.com/ http://www.mamma.com/ http://webinfosearch.com/ If you want the latter, try http://bookmarklets.com/moreinfo.phtml. If you use Galeon, you can use its Smart Bookmarks feature to create search boxes on the toolbars, or its My Portal home page. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Using the Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop the first programming language -- The Microsoft Timeline http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/timeline.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:41:21 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:30 pm, Charlie wrote: June 5, 2002 02:04 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:03 pm, darklord wrote: Linux Today is carrying an article on the much discussed think tank report from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution here is one excerpt: A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Well whaddaya know? What a coincidence! snicker Well, look here. http://www.mslinux.org Try this article I posted at PCLinuxOnline.com: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2360 Be sure to read the comments... ___ I had to forward this to a few friends. I just had to! LMAO Thank you. Well, the long-awaited report was released yesterday... for a while. It was originally posted at www.adti.net/html-files/defense/opensource_whitepaper.pdf, but was taken down after a few hours. I'm told that it can still be found on their server at www.adti.net/html-files/defense/old_opensource_whitepaper.pdf. It's crap, pure and simple; it's only interesting as an example of MS FUD at its worst. The most polite term for these guys is whores. A brilliant rebuttal is at www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3 -- well worth a read. Think tank? I think not. Try this one: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=2395 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. -- Bill Gates, 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists', 1976-02-03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts and colours? My point is that HTML mail is simply unnecessary. Do you want /italics/, _underlining_ or *bold* fonts? Do you want a smiley face :-) ? It all can be done in plain text. Plain text is all right as far as it goes, I don't mind using it for say Newbie, or just sending an order to some sales person, but 99% of the world traffic in emails is HTML. Yes it is. No, it isn't. Do yo have any statistics to back that? I'm willing to bet that your figures are off by a long shot. and I for one would not like to have my hands tied behind my back by not being able to use it. Suppose you had to email your curriculum vitae to a prospective employer and you emailer cannot send HTML your document looks silly and gives the imprssion you don't care. It says you are not even prepared to take that little bit of extra time and care to make a nice presentation, or that your emailer is not much, and you ought to do something about it. Make an attachment. It's not hard, and it's exactly the same as using the 'send in plain text and HTML' setting in some mail clients. It is not only that, emails are the absolute front runner by far ,by way of an adversiement for linux. Every day many emails get sent around the world people receive and send in HTML but you can always tell it came from a linux user it's plain text. Huh? I'm sorry, but I am increasingly getting the feeling that you are just making sweeping generalisations without having any real clue as to what you're talking about. Most mail clients, whether they be client or server (e.g. webmail) based, on Windows or another OS (GNU/Linux, Mac, BeOS, etc.), do _not_ allow the creation of HTML mail. Just because someone doesn't use Netscape or LookOut, it doesn't automatically mean they're using Linux. Your presumption is simply wrong. It doesn't say much of a positive message does it. It doesn't say to the world , well here's and example of what I would like to aspire to. It portays Linux users as second best, also runs, not up with the main streem. Now you may want that, absolutely fine, that is your right, ahmen, I for one would champion the right of the individual to do and be whatever they want to be so long as it is not harmful to others as a criminal would be, but most people will willingly accept that sending and receiveing HTML is just fine. I would like that choice to be mine. Then go use Netscape -- it does what you need. Why are you complaining? If you want the choice to have e-mail virii execute automatically then you should also go back to Windows. BTW, did you even _read_ the links I gave earlier, or did you just 'conveniently ignore' them? I've given a million-and-one reasons why HTML mail is not a good thing, yet you still continue with the 'I want flashy shiny buttons with glitter and a pony' rant. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...
The example Paul gave below is for Sawfish, the default GNOME window manager. There, you can associate combinations of keys and mouse clicks to actions. To make a keybinding for any GTK+ (not only GNOME) app, simply highlight a menu option and enter a key combo to assign to it. The newly assigned combo should be displayed next to the menu entry. To remove the binding, simply highlight the entry and press delete. On 12 Jun 2002 00:26:49 -0400, Paul Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should mention as well, that you in the Gnome/Sawfish setup it seems you are using you can configure these in: Gnome Control Panel:Sawfish Window Manager:Shortcuts - Paul Rodriguez New York Linux Scene On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 02:18, FARSHAD wrote: hi any body have a list of usefuly shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ? in windows works with shortcut keys is very quick for example : Alt+F4 (close window) Alt+Tab(switch between windows) however these shortcuts are in Gnome but i want know another shortcuts , if there is a list of this topic , please send for me or give me a url for get list , or if everybody know some tip or shortcut please tell me ... thanks alot beforehand .. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What's this script doing? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep. Hint: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out with your girlfriend. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
