Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long) - and a long reply.....

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Snell
Trevor Farrell wrote: > OK - back to Linux - the current attitude that if something didn't work, > it's because you didn't read the instructions or your hardware is faulty > IS SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE to me any more - If it doesn't work FIRST TIME > it's because its broken, and needs fixing. > Th

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Glyn Millington
If you want good AND stable you need Mutt, sendmail, fetchmail and procmail, all on your Mandrake cd. Not gui though! Glyn M. On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:05:19PM +1000, thus spake Wayne Petherick: > I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail > client. At the

Re: [expert] firewall

2000-04-01 Thread paul
One option would be to go to http://www.pointman.org/pmfirewall and download pmfirewall which is really easy set up and will protect your from common attacks (SMB , IP spoofing, BO, Trin00 etc) using Ip chains, and will masquerade internal connections, if you have several machines on your internal

Re: [expert] Window Managers

2000-04-01 Thread Dennis Robertson
chunnuan chen wrote: > > You need to back up and restore those files under /etc/X11/xdm because > those files seem not to be installed by XFee86-4.0 but needed by kdm for > different window managers. > Chunnuan > > Dennis Robertson wrote: > > > Hello List, > > As a consequence of installing XFr

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Lane Lester
Wayne Petherick said: > I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail > client. I've been waiting until the 1.6 release to recommend this, but since you ask I'll tell you that I'm fairly new with Linux, and I've settled on CSC Mail as my client. No Linux purist

Re: [expert] IDE CD-RW

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Well done, Brian. This is the sort of thing we need collected somewhere - a concise ultra-mini how-to that just tells you what you need to know to do it, without having to sort through pages of info, but still points you to the bigger documents if you need more info. "Brian T. Schellenberger" wro

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Mage Grimau wrote: > I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 > partitions (Win98 & NT tend to screw up each other's > "Program Files" directories when on the same > partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all > happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own > space freq

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: > Hmn. Where to start? > > Okay -- I like that MandrakeSoft took the step of going to an all graphical > install. I've heard people rave about it and I've seen the screenshots, > which are nice (though I myself haven't taken the step of moving up) -- but > I have a few c

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > > Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is > > definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So > > please, fix that kind of misbehaving B&W look 'n' feel and the kind of > > bugs : it's hard to a

Re: [expert] XFree86 version 4 and the SIS 6326 chip

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Dennis Robertson wrote: > > > Dennis Robertson wrote: > > > > > Hello List, > > > Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of > > > XFree86? > > > I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a > > > normal mouse pointer; rather, I have the big wh

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Tom Berkley wrote: > Trevor > > Its a bit difficult for me to relate to your problems. I have two > machines, one a dual celeron and the other a laptop, both installed and > run Mandrake 7.0 (GL edition) without any hassles except for a minor > problem with the pcmcia modem initialization that ha

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 "BUG"?

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:39:05PM -0600, Craig Woods wrote: > -> I just noticed a "buggy" aspect, yes another one, in Netscape. I was > -> wondering if someone has seen it, and maybe has a fix. The "bug" occurs > -> when you delete your email from the trash bin. It is not

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Alan Shoemaker wrote: > TrevorI have mdk 7.0 running (as near as I can tell) > flawlessly on three machines. At first one of the three would > not install 7.0, but 6.1 had installed just fine on it. So I > changed the ide cdrom drive to a new one and that solved the > problem. But on my ma

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Trevor Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Linux Mandrake Expert list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:22 AM > Subject: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long) > > I would have included your message

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > And, FWIW, we have a computer that would NOT install Windows (it > wouldn't recognize the CD-ROM at install time [sound familiar?]), but > Linux went on just fine. Since there is only one Windows distribution, > and this is primarily a game machine, we wound u

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > I have Mandrake 7 and Netscape behaves beatifully. With the > RedHat/Mandrake Netscape wrapper script I've had the most stable > Netscape since the 2.0 days. I mean that puppy is *stable* now. > > And the icons are in all those goofy colors that they are suppo

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Wayne Petherick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 1 Apr 2000 16:05:19 +1000 Wayne, One of the best mailers out there, is the pure-java Polarbar Mailer, which is an ongoing, follow-up developmental project to improve the java Postroad Mailer, which was originally designed and d

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Berkley
Trev This is more of something that I can contribute to. Its a simple cost trade study. You have a bunch of computers. You want to consider an alternative OS (ie Mandrake 7.0 and say Redhat 6.2 both very good) Take a typical work computer, load each OS on it and try it. You have a problem, resolv

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Dan Westlake
I took a look at it and it looks like it could be nice. Myself I have been using one called Spruce which I like. Spruce can be found at http://spruce.sourceforge.net/ Regards Dan On 01 Apr 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > Wayne Petherick said: > > I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently l

[expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread Pj
It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with information such as what Brian S. provides to the list. I agree and will create a web site for this purpose if anyone is interested. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] ftpd gives "connection refused"

2000-04-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm having trouble getting ftpd from the wu-ftpd rpm to work; I get the "connection refused" message when trying to log in from a mac client that I can ping, or even when trying to run the ftp command from my user account (spboulet). Any help appreciated. -- Stephen Here's my /etc/ftpaccess fil

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Vic wrote: > Whoa, what computer combination hardware did you have > that would only accept Linux? (Hehe cool) > I was trying to install Win98 on my nephews Digital Venturis FX 5166s. It boots from the install disk, does the install, and then refuses to see the CD rom. He's now running Mandra

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
> The sooner Opera for Linux is workable the better - then, and only then, will > Netscape have the competition it needs to make it either shape up or ship out > of the Linux market. Come on Opera!!! There is a new preview up as of 3/30. Looks like progress is being made! http://www.opera.com/

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
TrevorI believe that the vast majority of users want upgrades and the Windows upgrades work often enough to where the majority of the users are mostly satisfied. The Linux upgrades seem to work less often and less well, but since the users want the feature, the folks who control the distros k

Re: [expert] Graphical Login for LM 7.02?

2000-04-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Stephen F. Bosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Andrew Vogel wrote: > > > When I first installed L-M 7.02 over my existing LM install, the new > > graphical login was different -- it had a listing of users a the top of the > > login box, and I could click on the name and then just enter the u

[expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Gary Bunker
I've been burning CDs via Windows for a couple years, and with Linux for about 1 year. I've made Data and Audio CDs, but one thing I would like to be able to do I've been unable to find info regarding. I'd like to take a playlist of MP3s and use it as the input for the recording process. If I r

Re: [expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-04-01 Thread vern
I have a question on how to configure PPP, the MTU number to be specific. I've tried to set it with ifconfig mtu xxx which works dandy for the session (ppp0) in progress but when you restart PPP it reverts back to the old MTU (15+++) numbers! Help! Vern On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I use p

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread vern
I likewise am back on Mdk 6.1 after a few days of trying to get 7.0 to "work". My main problem is the Intel drivers I got won't recognize the 2.2.14mdk?? kernel as a 2.2 kernel the mdk "customized" version pukes, so I am awaiting the chance to try out Red Hat 6.2 and see it the kernel in it is a

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Deim Ágoston
On 1 Apr 00, at 10:13, Dan Westlake wrote: > I took a look at it and it looks like it could be nice. Myself I have been > using one called Spruce which I like. Spruce can be found at > http://spruce.sourceforge.net/ Another choice could be kmail, KDE's native e-mail client. Or try the Linux vers

[expert] Samba Users

2000-04-01 Thread Pavlina
When setting up Samba, is there an option to convert all current linux usernames and passwords to Samba users?  Thank you.

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Michael Holt
Trevor Farrell wrote: Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Trevor Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Linux Mandrake Expert list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:22 AM > Subject: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long) > Yes, Michael, I

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread Deim Ágoston
On 1 Apr 00, at 10:36, Pj wrote: > It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with > information such as what Brian S. provides to the list. > > I agree and will create a web site for this purpose if anyone is > interested. I'm interested. Let"s create it ! Thankx in the name o

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Matt Stegman
The Mozilla project is about making the source code for Mozilla open. Netscape version 4 is, I believe, still closed source. It's the new version, 6 (aka Mozilla) that's open source. -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: > I thought the source code was

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I'd like to take a playlist of MP3s and use it as the input for the > recording process. If I rename all the files in a numeric sequence, I > can use the method shown in the CD-Writing Howto of "for I in *.mp3" > etc. But, how can I send the file listing as

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (short)

2000-04-01 Thread Vic
They should make more computers that way, hehehe. On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Eugene C. Zesch mewed: > Vic wrote: > > > Whoa, what computer combination hardware did you have > > that would only accept Linux? (Hehe cool) > > > > I was trying to install Win98 on my nephews Digital Venturis FX 5166s.

Re: [expert] Samba Users

2000-04-01 Thread Matt Stegman
I believe the default settings for Samba include authenticating against the operating system's users. Check the smb.conf man page for a more complete explanation, but the section "NOTE ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION" basically boils down to saying that all username/password authentication is

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread vern
If you are lucky enough to have the "right hardware" that may happen to be correct. I, on the other hand had "windoze crippled" hardware that I didn't know was "windows crippled" and had to patch, work around, or replace. So the "learning curve" is double if you fall into that catagory. I must

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Lane Lester
Deim Ágoston said: > the Linux version of Pegasus Mail. I'm not aware that there is such a version. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [expert] ftpd gives "connection refused"

2000-04-01 Thread _=+Richard+=_
  Stephen Boulet wrote: I'm having trouble getting ftpd from the wu-ftpd rpm to work; I get the "connection refused" message when trying to log in from a mac client that I can ping, or even when trying to run the ftp command from my user account (spboulet). Any help appreciated. -- Stephen Here's

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Civileme
vern wrote: > > I likewise am back on Mdk 6.1 after a few days of trying > to get 7.0 to "work". My main problem is the Intel drivers > I got won't recognize the 2.2.14mdk?? kernel as a 2.2 kernel > the mdk "customized" version pukes, so I am awaiting the > chance to try out Red Hat 6.2 and see

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Netscape isn't Mozilla, and Mozilla isn't netscape. Thats the whole reason it's takeing forever and a day, instead of opening the netscape code they started from scratch.. On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Matt Stegman wrote: > The Mozilla project is about making the source code for Mozilla > open. Netscap

Re: [expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Set it up in etc/ppp/options, and it will effect all ppp sessions. On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, vern wrote: > I have a question on how to configure PPP, the MTU > number to be specific. I've tried to set it with ifconfig mtu xxx > which works dandy for the session (ppp0) in progress but when > you rest

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (SBLive)

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Ok I'll bite, just exactly what kind of problems are you haveing with the SB live. I've got two different sblive's both work flawlessly.

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Aslong as the slashes are the right direction something like, cdrecord `cat playlist.m3u` Should do it. On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Gary Bunker wrote: > I've been burning CDs via Windows for a couple years, and with Linux > for about 1 year. I've made Data and Audio CDs, but one thing I would > like

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Hey! Axalon! I thought you were dead! What's up? Jeam-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 14:47:29 -0700 (MST) > From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ex

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (SBLive)

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > Ok I'll bite, just exactly what kind of problems are you haveing with the > SB live. I've got two different sblive's both work flawlessly. Ok not flawlessly, i still don't always remeber which volume control effects which channel, but that doesn'

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Pj
There is no Linux version of Pegasus. However the owner is willing to work privately toward such goal. Pj

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long) (Upgrades)

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
The more custom a system is the less likely an upgrade will work, this goes for Linux, Microsoft and pretty much everybody else. If Murphy wrote laws of OS's this would probably be #1. With extreamly customizable OS such as linux you can see it's apt to work even less often, and then there is als

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Deim Ágoston
On 1 Apr 00, at 14:14, Matt Stegman wrote: Hey people ! Why don't we stop this topic right now and discuss other topics like system administration ? It was (and still is) very interesting but it's more philosphy and bug reporting than [expert]. But no one is responsible for this. Everyone has

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Monte Milanuk
Well, another one that is on the horizon that I am looking forward to, is XPine. Basically it is an endeavor to take the pine mail program, add a GUI over the top, and remain environment agnostic, i.e. it will look/run the same under KDE or GNOME. Like I said, it uses the normal pine underneath,

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (short)

2000-04-01 Thread Civileme
Want one that won't work with windows Try this Soyo 7IWM/L Celeron 466 64M RAM Seagate Barracuda Unstable under 95, 98, 98SE and just plain weird. RUns fine under FreeBSD3.3 Civileme

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Gary Bunker
I guess I was less than clear. I want to make a CD that I can play anywhere, not an archive of MP3 files. I'm very familiar with putting data CDs together in Linux (as well as that other OS), and I've made several audio CDs in Linux now, but I either have to explicitly spell out each track on th

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Deim Ágoston
On 1 Apr 00, at 14:58, Lane Lester wrote: > Deim Ágoston said: > > the Linux version of Pegasus Mail. > > I'm not aware that there is such a version. OK, OK ! I've just heard that the writer of the application is developping the linux version and something is out on the net. But I can't remem

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Gary Bunker wrote: > I guess I was less than clear. I want to make a CD that I can play > anywhere, not an archive of MP3 files. I'm very familiar with putting > data CDs together in Linux (as well as that other OS), and I've made > several audio CDs in Linux now, but I eith

[expert] OT: Yellow Dog Linux adds Klingon support

2000-04-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
The latest improvement to Yellow Dog Linux. http://lwn.net/daily/yd-klingon.html FULL KLINGON SUPPORT!!

[expert] Mail clients

2000-04-01 Thread Wayne Petherick
Thanks for all the excellent responses to my question about good mail clients. Ih ave checked out the others suggested, and am looking into these. I think the problem I am having is that the ones I really like are still in development and as such have bugs, and lots of em. Wayne ***

Re: [expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-04-01 Thread vern
Thank you! will do! Vern On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Set it up in etc/ppp/options, and it will effect all ppp sessions. > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, vern wrote: > > > I have a question on how to configure PPP, the MTU > > number to be specific. I've tried to set it with ifconfig mtu xxx > >

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread vern
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > vern wrote: > > > > I likewise am back on Mdk 6.1 after a few days of trying > > to get 7.0 to "work". My main problem is the Intel drivers > > I got won't recognize the 2.2.14mdk?? kernel as a 2.2 kernel > > the mdk "customized" version pukes, so I am awaiting

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Pj wrote: > It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with > information such as what Brian S. provides to the list. > > I agree and will create a web site for this purpose if anyone is > interested. > > Pj > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, yes, Yes, please do, Pj!

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Tom Berkley wrote: > Trev > > This is more of something that I can contribute to. Its a simple cost > trade study. You have a bunch of computers. You want to consider an > alternative OS (ie Mandrake 7.0 and say Redhat 6.2 both very good) > Take a typical work computer, load each OS on it and try

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Pj
I just read--I think it's in the faq's page on Pegasus Mail the Author states he is not developing it for Linux, but would consider working with a private party or serious group effort to get it developed. Pj =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Deim_Ágoston?= wrote: > > On 1 Apr 00, at 14:58, Lane Lester wrote

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > I thought the source code was public for Netscape. Isn't that what the > Mozilla project is about? > Sorta. Mozilla (as I understand it) was BASED on Netscape code, but has been completely rewritten now. Netscape and Mozilla split off awhile back and changes

Re: [expert] Mail clients

2000-04-01 Thread Dana J. Laude
Actually, I'm trying out Spruce right now, and so far it seems ok. Then again, I just noticed on Freshmeat that 0.6.2 was just released after I grabbed 0.6.1. ;) Dana On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: > Thanks for all the excellent responses to my question about good mail > clients.

Re: [expert] ftpd gives "connection refused"

2000-04-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Unfortunately, this didn't help. :( Any other suggestions? -- Stephen On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Stephen Boulet wrote: > > > I'm having trouble getting ftpd from the wu-ftpd rpm to work; I get the > > "connection refused" message when trying to log in from a mac client that I can >

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread vern
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > vern wrote: > > > > I likewise am back on Mdk 6.1 after a few days of trying > > to get 7.0 to "work". My main problem is the Intel drivers > > I got won't recognize the 2.2.14mdk?? kernel as a 2.2 kernel > > the mdk "customized" version pukes, so I am awaiting

Re: [expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-04-01 Thread vern
Well I tried etc/ppp/options and all that was there was a lock file. I mislead you on the KPPP vs. PPP name (newbie brain freeze) I haven't configure PPP, I have just set up KPPP. I did some noising around and found: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ifcfg-pppX this contained all the conection inf

RE: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Bill Shirley
One time I had problems installing Windows 98 from my CD-ROM that was a slave on IDE channel two. Changed the CD-ROM to master on that channel (there wasn't any master on channel two) and everything went ok. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Be

Re: [expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, vern wrote: > Well I tried etc/ppp/options and all that was there was a lock file. Right you have to add a new line. > I mislead you on the KPPP vs. PPP name (newbie brain freeze) It does not matter it still uses ppp theres only one way, via the ppp package, governed by tha

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Gary Bunker
That was my immediate assumption, but it gives me the error "cat playlist.m3u no such file" although I can see the file and can "cat" it normally. So, there must be some other magic... On 1 Apr, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > Ahhh!!! > > for I in `cat playlist.m3u`; do mpg123 --cdr -s "$I" | cdrec

[expert] OT - Spruce

2000-04-01 Thread Wayne Petherick
To those using Spruce, I was wondering whether you could answer a question for me. When I go to COMPOSE or REPLY or FORWARD the compose window that comes up locks Spruce and I have to Nuke the window to get it to close. Do you know why this would be happening? It is a good mail client and I

Re: [expert] ftpd gives "connection refused"

2000-04-01 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
first check wu-ftpd rpm -V wu-ftpd Then inetd rpm -V netkit-base for any major problems now make sure ftp is enabled in inetd.conf grep ftp /etc/inetd.conf|grep -v -q \#ftp Should return blank now make sure inetd is running /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd status if it's not working by now, check the

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > the Linux version of Pegasus Mail. > HUH??? There's a Linux version? Kewl. Where can I get it? John

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
It was a sort of "pieces parts" machine, actually, but Windows could not recognize the CD-ROM at install time. Linux could. (The box was originally from Metro Computers Inc. but it got hit by lightning and we scrounged some parts from other machines we had and bought the other parts necessary t

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > The sooner Opera for Linux is workable the better - then, and only then, will > Netscape have the competition it needs to make it either shape up or ship out > of the Linux market. Come on Opera!!! > Yeah...personally I'm pinning my hopes on Mozilla, as it at l

Re: [expert] 3 button mouse, apollo printer

2000-04-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I also bought a new printer. It's an Apollo P-1200. It's basically a HP with a > cool casing and relabeled as Apollo. I specified every HP model in printtool > but none works. Anyone heard of this printer? Does it work in linux? > I looked at getting one of these

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Gary Bunker
OK, that was a brainiac move on my part. Didn't realize the importance of the apostrophe direction in your post. HOWEVER, upon doing it correctly, I end up with a different problem. If the files listed in the M3U playlist include spaces, it chokes. Without spaces, no problem. So, still no ele

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Matt Stegman
You've probably got the quotes backward: use backquotes (on the tilde key with most keyboards), not the single quote (on the same key as the double quote). -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Gary Bunker wrote: > That was my immediate assumption, but it gives me the error "cat

Re: [expert] Signature

2000-04-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Hey all! > This may not be an 'expert' question, and if it weren't for the > beer, I'd probably feel pretty silly to ask - but here goes: > > I've seen that quite a few of you use sort of a 'signature' at the end > of your message; sometimes it looks like an

[expert] Error message

2000-04-01 Thread Wayne Petherick
After installing the glib version 1.2.7 I am still getting the wollowing error message while trying to run the config on spruce 0.6.2. Could anyone tell me what it means and how I get around it? *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. S

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail > client. At the mo I am using kmail under Gnome and am looking for something a > little more !)attractive, 2)functional. I have tried Mahogany, Eucalyptus, > XFMail, XCMail, postilio

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-04-01 Thread Mage Grimau
--- Trevor Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mage Grimau wrote: > > > I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 > > partitions (Win98 & NT tend to screw up each > other's > > "Program Files" directories when on the same > > partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're > all > >

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread Mage Grimau
I think it's a great idea - I'm new to this linux stuff and sometinmes I just want a quickie "get started" answer. All the online help I can find takes a long time to find and has a bit of "as you know" stuff in it that I "don't" know. --- Pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been mentioned that

Re: [expert] OT - Spruce

2000-04-01 Thread Dana J. Laude
Actually, I discovered this exact error after my first reply. ;) I'll try grabbing the 0.6.2 version and see how that works. I also noticed that if you have it running on the desktop and say, have Netscape going, and click on that, then go back to Spruce, you'll get a odd blank section. (yep, I e

Re: [expert] OT - Spruce

2000-04-01 Thread Steve Fox
Wayne Petherick wrote: > > To those using Spruce, I was wondering whether you could answer a > question for me. When I go to COMPOSE or REPLY or FORWARD the compose > window that comes up locks Spruce and I have to Nuke the window to get > it to close. Do you know why this would be happening?

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread Pj
I've used several different versions of Netscape mail in Winblows and Netscape mail in Linux with good results, although I have to admit my favorite is version 3.04. Pj John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Trevor Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's > Pj wrote: > > > It's been mentioned that there should be a mini how-to site with > > information such as what Brian

[expert] Dell XPS and L-M 7.0

2000-04-01 Thread WH Bouterse
My latest attempt to bring two converts into the Linux fold has met with another delay. Dell Deminsion XPS T 500 Diamond Viper Tnt 16mg AGP PCI probe "No" blank out and return to screen Same with going ahead with "yes" "error /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ card not found" I thought this card got recogn

Re: [expert] Error message

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Berkley
Wayne If you read up on rpm and how to use it, you will save yourself a lot of time trying to find solutions to this kind of a problem. rpm -qf /usr/bin/gtk-config will tell you that the file is part of gtk+-devel. What this probably means is that besides the glib update you probably need to up

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Civileme
Trevor Farrell wrote: > > Tom Berkley wrote: > > > Trev > > > > This is more of something that I can contribute to. Its a simple cost > > trade study. You have a bunch of computers. You want to consider an > > alternative OS (ie Mandrake 7.0 and say Redhat 6.2 both very good) > > Take a typical

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Civileme
vern wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > vern wrote: > > > > > > I likewise am back on Mdk 6.1 after a few days of trying > > > to get 7.0 to "work". My main problem is the Intel drivers > > > I got won't recognize the 2.2.14mdk?? kernel as a 2.2 kernel > > > the mdk "customized" ver

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
First, using a CDRW under Linux isn't especially difficult; the subtlety is that you have to use "IDE SCSI emulation" if you have an IDE SCSI CDRW. (I don't know if this is true of the HP 8110 or not; if it's external it almost certainly is; if it's external, you need the parallel-port SCSI driv

Re: [expert] Samba Users

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
That all depends on whether the clients use encrypted passwords or not. My prior post on this topic assumes that they do, otherwise, as you said, there's no issue. On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: | I believe the default settings for Samba include authenticating against | the operating system's u

Re: [expert] Samba Users

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: | | When setting up Samba, is there an option to convert all current linux usernames and |passwords to Samba users? Thank you. | Assuming you are talking to Win98/WinNT clients and not win95a or win3.1 clients: [from ENCRYPTION.txt]: cat /etc/passwd | mksmbp

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
There *is* a bug-reporting list (also used for "wish-list" items). Just go to the Mandrake web pages and track down how to report a bug. You need to send it in a particular format, though, so to avoid barraging them with mail from people who click on the link without knowing how to properly for

RE: [expert] ftpd gives "connection refused"

2000-04-01 Thread Tim Wojtaszek
I had to change my host.allow and host.deny fileshave you done that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon Bloodstone Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 6:46 PM To: Stephen Boulet Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ftpd gives "co

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Mini How-To's

2000-04-01 Thread MandrakeBSD
> Why not send them to Tom at www.mandrake-user.org ? > > Hoyt The website doesn't seem to work. Does anyone else have this problem? Regards __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [expert] ftpd gives "connection refused"

2000-04-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks so much for the help. On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: > first check wu-ftpd > > rpm -V wu-ftpd > > Then inetd > rpm -V netkit-base > > for any major problems > > now make sure ftp is enabled in inetd.conf > grep ftp /etc/inetd.conf|grep -v -q \#ftp > Should return blank > > now make s

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Pj
Ago, This list is read by several Mandrake developers. They know our concerns. Pj

Re: [expert] Error message

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, *is* /usr/bin in your path? Do you have development tools (compiler/linker/make) installed? Do other programs compile correctly? On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: | After installing the glib version 1.2.7 I am still getting the wollowing error | message while trying to run the config on spru

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Linux isn't really space-friendly. If you put in quotes it should be ok, though. Simplest is to use your favorite editor to put quotes at the beginning and end of each line. On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote: | OK, that was a brainiac move on my part. Didn't realize the importance | of the apostro

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