Re: [Cooker] Sun Java 1.4 SDK

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory im using 1.4.01 and it is working fine. - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Cooker] Sun Java 1.4 SDK

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
for the java plugin in mozilla. I have a current cooker and java works just fine. If it is complaining about a missing library, just symbolic link to the one you have. - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Cooker] speedtouch

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jun 2002 9:08 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Is not speedtouch-1.0-2, which is in main, a driver for this modem? Yes, but it needs the firmware from the alcatel website. - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing

Re: [Cooker] Sun Java 1.4 SDK

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jun 2002 9:17 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: No joy on IBM's java, though. Try running WebSphere on a cooker box. Won't happen. Neither does InstallAnywhere wrappers. Im using suns java. IBMs is based on JDK 1.3.1 though isnt it? - -- Tom

Re: [Cooker] Sun Java 1.4 SDK

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jun 2002 9:02 pm, srlinuxx wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 02:02 am, Tom Badran wrote: im using 1.4.01 and it is working fine. Can I trouble you for that link? I have been going around and around in circles on that crazy site

Re: [Cooker] Sun Java 1.4 SDK

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 Jun 2002 9:56 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: Yes, but WebSphere doesn't seem to run on anything but IBM's jdk. What is websphere? - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL

[Cooker] urpmi

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Badran
help: 1) Getting the list of available updates 2) Listing all available uninstalled packages 3) 'Reloading' the lists of available pacakges from the sources Ive looked at the man pages and cant seem to find out how to do any of this. Thanks Tom - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department

Re: [Cooker] Java and Mozilla

2002-06-16 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 8:41 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:15:19 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I somehow do not think that Sun will release a special gcc-3.1 Mandrake edition of their JDK. It

Re: [Cooker] Java and Mozilla

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 9:01 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Tom Badran am 2002-06-13 um 08:56:51 +0100 : While we are discussing Java, is there a reason the sun JDK is not already included with mandrake? I know it isnt open source

Re: [Cooker] cooker is cooking ...

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Badran
to get a similar message, caused by the parallel port. It was harmless and did everything worked as normal (printer/zip/homemade p-port hardware). The message stopped eventually, and now i dont have any problems. - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Cooker] video edit software

2002-06-11 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jun 2002 11:12 pm, Tibor Pittich wrote: if i remember right, bc2000 has some copyright problems (or other problems?) and authors promises that rename theirs software and continue developing under another name. heroinewarrior.com

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.0 Wishlist Message Repost

2002-06-07 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 Jun 2002 5:25 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote: 5.) What about a QT/KDE-based MCC? [...] after all KDE is used by many more people then GNOME). I think this should be a QT not KDE as qt apps look good under kde (especially qt3) and

Re: [Cooker] kernel ppSCSI patch

2002-06-06 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Jun 2002 6:18 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: 1. check the current kernel 2. if it not applied send a mail to quintela at mandrakesoft.com . Attaching your patch once more probably does not harm as well (he is busy enough ...) Ok will

[Cooker] kernel ppSCSI patch

2002-06-05 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has this been applied to the cooker kernel yet? It hadnt been last time i checked, but the maintainer (forget your name sorry) said it was on his todo list. Ive personally been using it with a 2.4.18 kernel of my own making, along with the

Re: [Cooker] United Linux

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:07 pm, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: True, but doesn't the concept of having a common base, on which vendors can certify their products once have an advantage? On of the main concerns I'm hearing from enterprise customers

Re: [Cooker] United Linux

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:31 am, Tom Badran wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:07 pm, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: True, but doesn't the concept of having a common base, on which vendors can certify their products once have an advantage

Re: [Cooker] Say when it's safe again . .

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 May 2002 7:33 pm, Robert Fox wrote: I think this is great - but as previously suggested - there should be a method to let people know when it is SAFE to try and install Cooker and when to STAY AWAY. This would save some precious

Re: [Cooker] Present dropped in Mandrake's lap - embedding mcc in kcontrol

2002-05-24 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 24 May 2002 2:08 pm, you wrote: my voice caries somewhere between little and no weight here, but I'd second (or is that third?) this request - it just _works_ (X dialogs appearing inside and outside is seems to be mroe to do with draktools mcc than anything else - something that

[Cooker] gabber is broken

2002-05-24 Thread Tom Badran
Using up to date cooker, gabber no barfs with the following: gabber: relocation error: /usr/lib/libsigc-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv121__vmi_class_type_infoE Hope this helps fix it Tom

Re: [Cooker] urpmq -rd does not list all dependencies

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 19 May 2002 5:24 pm, you wrote: Why would it work with perl if it doesn't work with php? Remember, it's always possible to use PHP pages like ordinary cgi-bin stuff, so http://host/cgi-bin/foo.php works too! Hmmm..., I didn't realize that. Maybe it would work then?, who will

Re: [Cooker] speed improvments

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 19 May 2002 6:49 pm, you wrote: Given the current state of hibernation on laptops (usually involving a Kernel panic due to NULL pointer exceptions) why on Earth would desktop users want to be subjected to that ! Supsending to disk works fine for me.

Re: [Cooker] speed improvments

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 19 May 2002 7:30 pm, you wrote: Supsending to disk works fine for me. Are you currently using this patch? No, my laptop does it. But i had to configure apmd for it to not screw my sound card up.

[Cooker] Package Information

2002-05-02 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In RPM drake (latest cooker, everything is up to date) when i click on a package from the installable list, it will not give me any information in the window for that package. This is true of both cooker and contrib from a variety of mirrors.

[Cooker] Preemtible Kernel

2001-12-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are we likely to have the pre-emtibilty patch applied to the non enterprise/secure kernels? This would boost apparent performence on most desktop systems, and if not applied to the enterprise/secure kernels server administrators would not be

Re: [Cooker] Preemtible Kernel

2001-12-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 Dec 2001 8:01 pm, you wrote: le jeu 13-12-2001 à 15:40, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : I've tested it and never saw any boost. i've read other people reporting no speedups. it's not a speedup pb, it responsivity. In fact, it will

Re: [Cooker] scannerdrake updated -- please test it

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While we are on the subject of scanners, has the ppSCSI patch been integrated into the mdk kernel yet, or are we still waiting? Also, on the parport mailing list, Tim Waugh is looking for a mainatiner of ppSCSI, and he wondered if anyone at

Re: [Cooker] The penguin's gotta go.

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah :) remove the -c Yup - and get a butt-ugly Mandrake Star instead of a butt-ugly penguin!! :{ I feel i have to step in here. I removed the penguin cos i thought it annoyed me. But after a few days, i missed it, so reinstalled in the RPM,

Re: [Cooker] The penguin's gotta go.

2001-11-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 Nov 2001 11:15 pm, you wrote: Tom Badran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah :) remove the -c Yup - and get a butt-ugly Mandrake Star instead of a butt-ugly penguin

[Cooker] koffice

2001-11-11 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a reason that krayon is not include in the koffice packages (as of 8.1)? If not, could this please be included in the next release. If it is already in cooker i am sorry, but im not very up to date with it at the moment. - -- Tom

Re: [Cooker] koffice

2001-11-11 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 Nov 2001 2:22 pm, you wrote: Le Sunday 11 November 2001 14:46, Tom Badran a écrit : Is there a reason that krayon is not include in the koffice packages (as of 8.1)? If not, could this please be included in the next release

Re: [Cooker] Gears crash?

2001-11-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 1:25 pm, you wrote: Nvidia's drivers haven't been very stable lately from what I've seen. I was getting intermittent video crashes all the time until I reverted to 0.9-767, and the problem wasn't limited to Linux. A windows

Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)

2001-11-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why? There are easier ways to do the same: POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 mozilla text/html POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del mozilla (perhaps we should first look if the executable exists?) mimedb would be able to add and remove

Re: [Cooker] does wine in cooker work?

2001-10-28 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 Oct 2001 5:50 am, you wrote: That's the dilema. Codeweaver's preview works pretty well, but still has TONS of loose ends. Cooker's wine is newer, but doesn't seem to work. Ive just tried out transgamings winex and it works reallly

Re: [Cooker] does wine in cooker work?

2001-10-28 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope that Mandrake and Transgaming will give a full list os games that works with their distribustion and stress the possible problems ( in order to avoid disappointment ). Does wine or WineX support IPX ? I need it to play Starcraft Broodwar

Re: [Cooker] ppSCSI patch

2001-10-23 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 still on TODO-list. but chmouel (our kernel guy) is in vacations for the moment, so it will take a bit more time.. Ok, im looking forward to his return. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College -

[Cooker] ppSCSI patch

2001-10-22 Thread Tom Badran
I had a thread going with Yves about this a while back, and wanted to know if anything was confirmed about this patch being included in the mandrake kernel, as it is really important to me and im too stupid to get it to work with mandake kernel sources myslef. -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial

Re: [Cooker] ppSCSI drivers

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what is your scanner ? chmou wdyt of added them ? Its a microtec phantom 636 (close enough, im not near it at mo) and i when i looked on the ppscsi website/sane website it is no listed as supported (at least in alpha - but thats better than

Re: [Cooker] ppSCSI drivers

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 can you send me (privatly) your sane.d/xxx.conf (replace xx by what needed..), i will add in my ScannerDB in order to support it. for the kernel, chmou is in vacations for the moment, so we will see after.. I havent got the scanner to work yet,

[Cooker] ppSCSI drivers

2001-10-19 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What are the chances of getting these to come with the kernel. I have recently discovered that my parallel port scanner works with these drivers, and this would be a great bonus to me as i recently have removed all traces of windows from my

Re: [Cooker] quake3 on cooker since devfs

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which client version are you using? FYI im using the latest beta (1.29h i believe) and not the stable release. Maybe you should look through the changelogs and see if there are any changes for devfs - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of

Re: [Cooker] What Euro?

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = Use non american products to get good products ... Like Mandrake :) - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - -- PGP Public key available from

Re: [Cooker] /initrd

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For post-8.1, my idea was to use a /lib/initrd directory so that people will not notice it and remove it by error. Yes, a good idea. Would this still work if /usr is on a seperate partition (and different filesystem - like NFS maybe) to / ?

Re: [Cooker] avi-xmms

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 so it contains lame parts. And we prefer to provide ogg encoders/decoders. I use ogg vorbis for all my music :) Anyway it compiles with RC1. I have 0.6.2000***31 and it refuses to generate configure script because AC_SDL_PATH and AM_QT_PATH

Re: [Cooker] quake3 on cooker since devfs

2001-09-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Let me reask the question in positive form. Does anybody have quake3 working on cooker? Works great on RC1. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - -- PGP

Re: [Cooker] opengl broken in rc1

2001-09-23 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 23 September 2001 5:57 am, you wrote: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 23 September 2001 5:05 am, you wrote: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Voodoo 3 2000 card (AGP), it worked great in 8, but now none of my games (heretic 2, quake 3, tuxracer etc.) work

[Cooker] 2.4.10 out

2001-09-23 Thread Tom Badran
you get the idea :) -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College

[Cooker] Error with mixer devices

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Badran
I have just installed RC1, and everything is looking sweet, however i have one odd problem. I have a soundblaster live card which has always worked really well under linux. However in RC1 the mixers are wrong, the sound mixer in KDE has two tabs, on is Creative SBLive, but say that it is an

[Cooker] opengl broken in rc1

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Badran
Voodoo 3 2000 card (AGP), it worked great in 8, but now none of my games (heretic 2, quake 3, tuxracer etc.) work at all. There are no error messages, they just lock. I did an expert install and specified X with 3d, so i cant figure the problem, any ideas? Just in case it is an install error,

Re: [Cooker] opengl broken in rc1

2001-09-22 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 23 September 2001 5:05 am, you wrote: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Voodoo 3 2000 card (AGP), it worked great in 8, but now none of my games (heretic 2, quake 3, tuxracer etc.) work at all. There are no error messages, they just lock. I did an expert install and specified

Re: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems

2001-09-20 Thread Tom Badran
superuser aka root su for superuser with su you don't become an other user. You mainly change uid and gid. Almost nothing else but su username changes you to any user on the sytem, hence the command is abbreviated switch user, and not super user -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of

Re: [Cooker] X taking up a lot of memmory

2001-09-19 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 9:19 pm, you wrote: I x 4.1.0 running the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce 3. I dont' know if it was the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 beta 3 or the update up the nvidia drivers( i upated them both the same day). Why does X take up on average 250megs of my 512

Re: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems

2001-09-19 Thread Tom Badran
NO! Just because I don't choose to use what you consider are safe or good practices shouldn't force me to go back to Windows!!! Plenty of people logging into KDE as root isn't the same as plenty of developers logging into KDE as root. If you feel that you can use it safely enough, then

Re: [Cooker] Fucking stupid wizard

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 11:28 am, you wrote: I agree, but much like a toothache, that's difficult to do. I would suggest that the mailing list folks bounce messages containg foul language. I agree, most of us are old enough to know better, but it doesnt mean we want to read that sort

[Cooker] A few games that would be a nice include

2001-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
As mandrake already comes with a few games, i thought it might be nice to add these two as they both compile and work nicely on my mandrake-freq machine: crossfire - Multiplayer RPG (maybe client only due to space but server is only a few megs) - easy to find on google, i think it is 2nd or

Re: [Cooker] A few games that would be a nice include

2001-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 17 September 2001 6:51 pm, you wrote: Ainsi parlait Tom Badran : As mandrake already comes with a few games, i thought it might be nice to add these two as they both compile and work nicely on my mandrake-freq machine: crossfire - Multiplayer RPG (maybe client only due