RE: [Cooker] Re: Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Paul Boal
Before there's any mis-speaking going on, what does ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) have to do with Microsoft's claims to an object oriented OS? Perhaps the technology that was intended for direct comparison to CORBA is COM (Microsoft's Component Object Model). I think the statement these Micro

[Cooker] Fwd: Act on UCITA NOW

2000-03-24 Thread Sam
Not a cooker issue, but it is a concern to all Linux users. You guys at Mnadrake should be posting info about UCITA to all of your users -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Act on UCITA NOW Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:20:39 -0500 From: Skip Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An update on

[Cooker] Re: Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Sam
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote:> > The latest 'Linux is crap because' are : > > > > 1) 'Linux is only capable of blocking'. I thought Unix became non blocking about > > 1980, but I'm not sure. If it did I assume Linux is as well. I know nothing about this. > > > 2) NT / 2000 are completely obj

Re: [Cooker] Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Sam
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > The latest 'Linux is crap because' are : > > > > 1) 'Linux is only capable of blocking'. I thought Unix became non blocking about > > 1980, but I'm not sure. If it did I assume Linux is as well. > > Linux wasn't non-blocking i

FW: [Cooker] libgtop problem (this is very old)

2000-03-24 Thread Thomas M. Beaudry
-Original Message- From: Eugenio Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] libgtop problem (this is very old) Is there a reason we are being ignored? I just want to help Mandrake become the best distro. Anyone fro

Re: [Cooker] Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: | OS wrote: | > | > Hello, | > | > I have to work with a crowd who's basic attitude seems to be 'take me now | > Bill'. They cannot understand why I like to try / use Mozilla despite its | > problems, they cannot understand why I have a colourful screen background

Re: [Cooker] weird monitor blinking problem at login, help please

2000-03-24 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Try re-installing the X font servers (XFree86-fs- something). There's a bug whereby permanent files are installed into /tmp and they cause this symptom. On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Hello All | | I seem to get that again while i have had that before i just reinstalled, | this time i hop

Re: [Cooker] How to contribute some packages to Cooker?

2000-03-24 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
FWIW, I've had the same experience. On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Hello, | did anyone have success with the method described at | http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 ? | | I wrote an e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but did not | get an answer for over a week now. So I'm still i

Re: [Cooker] 2 bugs (or hinderences) when setting up remote lp!!

2000-03-24 Thread Derek Wildstar
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, CPT KIDD wrote: > 2 bugs (or hinderences) when setting up remote lp!! > > 1) Printtool SHOULD recommend to setup a hosts.lpd or hosts.equiv file on the > linux machine with the printer > > 2) When setting up/specifying the printer on the remote computer, you only > ne

[Cooker] 2 bugs (or hinderences) when setting up remote lp!!

2000-03-24 Thread CPT KIDD
2 bugs (or hinderences) when setting up remote lp!! 1) Printtool SHOULD recommend to setup a hosts.lpd or hosts.equiv file on the linux machine with the printer 2) When setting up/specifying the printer on the remote computer, you only need to enter the "printer name" and not the whole str

Re: [Cooker] xanim

2000-03-24 Thread CPT KIDD
does help if you have a valid email address On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:20:52PM -0800, CPT KIDD wrote: > > they are small enough to email. think i can further compress them to around > > 200k or less. w/o compression is going to be large. i'm using the radius >

RE: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread geoffrey lee
hi, > > > > *nods* I have been through this fix , with the configure.. it is two lines > actualy, i just put a * at the end of each checks so it checks > all the files > libqt.* ok. this fix is acceptable since only qt2 has QCString. i will change the patch on my own system. > that worked wel

Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread Lord And Master;)
geoffrey lee wrote: > yo! > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:52 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq > > > > > > geoffrey lee wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > > > > the p

RE: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread geoffrey lee
yo! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq > > > geoffrey lee wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > > > the problem is that the checks for qt look for libqt.s

Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread Lord And Master;)
geoffrey lee wrote: > hi, > > > > > the problem is that the checks for qt look for libqt.so and not > > libqt.2.so so it will fail if there in the same dir, you have to have > > the qt in a seperate dir with a ln to the qt2 libs etc. for the > > configure and automake scripts in licq to work. > >

RE: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread geoffrey lee
hi, > > the problem is that the checks for qt look for libqt.so and not > libqt.2.so so it will fail if there in the same dir, you have to have > the qt in a seperate dir with a ln to the qt2 libs etc. for the > configure and automake scripts in licq to work. i have got licq 0.80 to build on

Re: [Cooker] XFree86 v4.0?

2000-03-24 Thread rdunlap
Hey guy, just a couple of observations from another newbie. (at least as far as linux goes) there has been a great effort to document the basics and in no small measure even the more esoterical aspects of the project in motion known as linux. i word it that way because there isn't always a set in

Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread Lord And Master;)
geoffrey lee wrote: > Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > > > "Lord And Master;)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > what problems maybe I can help? > > > > the /usr/lib/libqt.so stuff, configure of licq search (via nm) the > > symbols of qt2 but /usr/lib/libqt.so come from qt1.4 by default on > > man

Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread Lord And Master;)
"Sergio P. Korlowsky" wrote: > "Lord And Master;)" wrote: > > > I have noticed that cooker is still using licq version 75.3a version > > 80.0 is out and has many many new features, and they have aslo fixed the > > spec file so it compiles correctly now (with out munkieing with the > > configure s

Re: [Cooker] offtopic message

2000-03-24 Thread dcalford
I may be wrong but I think you may have spelled it wrong. I think the base word is "apaciguar" which means "To appease" "apasiguate" looks to be the verb form of the noun, literally meaning "to appease you". Hope this helps Dalton Halfline wrote: > Does anyone know what apasiguate means? > (

[Cooker] How to contribute some packages to Cooker?

2000-03-24 Thread Jürgen Zimmermann
Hello, did anyone have success with the method described at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 ? I wrote an e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but did not get an answer for over a week now. So I'm still in "step one"... So long, Juergen

[Cooker] How to make an ISO-Image of current cooker?

2000-03-24 Thread Jürgen Zimmermann
Hello, how do I make an installable ISO-Image of cooker? Are the instructions from http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 still correct? I remember some time, were I had to generate a dependency list (gendepslist) and a hdlist. Is this still correct, of does cooker not need those files

[Cooker] Kernel 2.3.99-pre3 released

2000-03-24 Thread Nitin Raja Bhatia
Hi all, linux-2.3.99-pre3 is out now... so maybe i will have better luck compiling .. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.3/linux-2.3.99-pre3.tar.gz -- Nitin Raja Bhatia: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /\ |ICQ: 3417925 | "Where I want to

Re: [Cooker] Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have to work with a crowd who's basic attitude seems to be 'take me now > Bill'. They cannot understand why I like to try / use Mozilla despite its > problems, they cannot understand why I have a colourful screen background and > the worst sin of all

Re: [Cooker] Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Francis GALIEGUE
OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By non blocking I meant the blocking of synchronous calls to the OS., thereby > effectively freezing other OS calls while the OS believes it is blocked. > As I stated in my previous mail, yes, there are locks, but they're here in order to prevent races. You won'

Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread geoffrey lee
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Lord And Master;)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > what problems maybe I can help? > > the /usr/lib/libqt.so stuff, configure of licq search (via nm) the > symbols of qt2 but /usr/lib/libqt.so come from qt1.4 by default on > mandrake (this should be a AUTOMAKE fix

Re: [Cooker] cooker and licq

2000-03-24 Thread geoffrey lee
"Lord And Master;)" wrote: > > I have noticed that cooker is still using licq version 75.3a version > 80.0 is out and has many many new features, and they have aslo fixed the yes it is out. i am waiting for the neew gtk + licq (currently the old one doe not compile with 0.80 but i have hacked th

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] hackkernel-2.3.99pre3-1.0mdk

2000-03-24 Thread Warly
> * Sun Feb 06 2000 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.3.42-1.0mdk > > - 2.3.42 > - New release numbering scheme Your forget your changelog boy. -- Warly

Re: [Cooker] Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread OS
By non blocking I meant the blocking of synchronous calls to the OS., thereby effectively freezing other OS calls while the OS believes it is blocked. Surely OO is more than fad of the day. However it sounds like Linux is more or less OO by the mere fact that it is comprised of so many packages (

[Cooker] XFree86 4.0-4mdk

2000-03-24 Thread OS
Hello, I have tried XFree86 4.0-4mdk and I have had a few problems. I use a laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility Pro. 1) The emulation of 3 mouse buttons no longer works. This is awkward with only two mouse buttons since there is no universal keyboard method in Linux for cut and paste between apps