[expert] Free programming language

2001-01-25 Thread SJN
Hi Linuxians, I need a list of free programming language and scripting language available for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free license. If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with where to obtain them. Thanks very much in advance. Joe RLU #18606

Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web

2001-01-25 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and 'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or directly from the web). On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer S

[expert] winmodems

2001-01-25 Thread faisal
so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ? is it that hard ?

[expert] Changing dir permissions.

2001-01-25 Thread Joseph Red
I *thought* I knew how to do this, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's the deal, I have a HD that I use for .mp3. I can't add files to the dir (I generally rip CDs on my win9x laptop & store them on a samba share) Right now I'm booting win9x to copy them over, but I sure hate to boot win for so

Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution

2001-01-25 Thread Ron Stodden
John Wolford wrote: > The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any >other swap > partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could >they share it? I > don't know.) You only need one swap partition per system - all Mandrake i

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!

2001-01-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Seriously, I would do a traditional manual build and see how that goes. Scripts like buildkernel work fine once they are well sorted. But 2.4 is so new and different that there is a very good chance that buildkernel is the source of your problems. BillK Bugger this listserver - the replyto is

Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web

2001-01-25 Thread Kelley Terry
On Thursday 25 January 2001 07:11 pm, Homer Shimpsian wrote: > I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching > since the web was created. > > > Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web > pages in an online manual to enable one to print the

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Yevchak
First off, I think you mean 0.9-6. As for DPMS not working it works with 0.9-5. In the XF86Config-4 file under the section "Device" for your video card there should be the following line: Option "DPMS" Mine is after the line that contains: Driver "nvidia" Richard On Thursday 25 J

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!

2001-01-25 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
** Reply to message from Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:08:45 -0700 According to the kernel README the modules directory structure changed with 2.4.0. If you are still looking for the modules in the old place, you will get errors. Try compiling everything into the kerne

RE: [expert] Lyx doesn't work with CUPS

2001-01-25 Thread b5dave
Praedor, >If I try to print directly from lyx with the lpr command, nothing >happens. The first place to look for CUPS related gotchas & fixes is this series of FAQ's: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/mysearch.php3?author=till A search on "lyx" there narrows it down to FAQ (7). Your problem is doc

[expert] Working very of Innd from the Dist?

2001-01-25 Thread Albert E. Whale
Has anyone found ANY of the Distributions to have a Working very of innd? I've just run through three separate versions of Mandrake's inn software, and none of the distributions run - out of the rpm that is. I've been running inn for over six years. I've always had to build my own versions from

[expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-01-25 Thread David Boles
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card. After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or "DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source. It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care but nVidia's drivers produ

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!

2001-01-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Try doing a make install as well as make modules_install. The kernel will install itself and change all the neccessary links/maps etc except lilo/grub. Note that if you are building multiple kernel configurations from the same source this will cause overwrites - change the extraversion number in

[expert] Lyx doesn't work with CUPS

2001-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
In drafting a document over the last few days, I have found that lyx is incompatible in some way with CUPS. If I try to print directly from lyx with the lpr command, nothing happens. No print job is sent and nothing is printed. If, on the other hand, I preview the document with ghostview and

Re: [expert] Windows media player

2001-01-25 Thread Mike MacCana
xine.sourceforge.net - a DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, DivX ;-), and ASF 1 player for Linux. Still in beta, but worth testing out. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 30

[expert] d/ling docs from the web

2001-01-25 Thread Homer Shimpsian
I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching since the web was created. Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web pages in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker? like this site: http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/ I imagine

[expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!

2001-01-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
Yesterday, out of the blue my laptop running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17-21mdk decided it would no longer support vfat. It had been working fine before and I have done nothing to my system but it would just refuse to recognize vfat. I decided to take the opportunity to download and build the 2.4

Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution

2001-01-25 Thread Mike MacCana
Thanks for the work around, but have you reported the bug to Mandrake so they can fix it? Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 599

[expert] Windows media player

2001-01-25 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Hello experts! Does anybody know of a media player that will handle the new windows media player codecs? Most of the streaming media I listen to uses Real Player and I've got Mozilla calling that just fine ~ now there are just a couple of places that contract with www.streamaudio.com to han

Re: [expert] A test

2001-01-25 Thread Clayton Nielsen
On Thursday 25 January 2001 06:18:36:pm, you wrote: > Hi, > I have had difficulties posting to the list, but I believe to have fixed > my problem and this is a test! > ZP Problem solved! -- Linux Counter - 188953 Linux Machine - 85790

[expert] A sendmail configuration problem and solution

2001-01-25 Thread J. Pedro Sousa do Amaral
Hi, Since my upgrade to Mandrake 7.2 that sendmail could not create its temporary files to /var/spool/mqueue unless I gave other write priviliges (o+w) to that directory. This was the error that I used to get: Can't create transcript file ./xff0PEULm11441: Permission denied queueup: cannot creat

[expert] printing quandry

2001-01-25 Thread Mike White
I have finally had success at printing with LM 7.2, after much work and hair loss. Another problem has me stymied now. When I print a page prints before with the words job name="cupsomatic" in the upper left corner. That page ejects and the page I wanted prints fine. I thought it was a bann

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate [Q]: cache file?

2001-01-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
The earlier versions, particularly the versions with 7.1 suffer badly from that problem - getting worse over time. Often doing a manual "rpm -Uvh problem.rpm" using the rpm that MU downloaded to its cache and rebuilding the rpm database afterwards would fix it (though in some cases the actual rpm

[expert] A test

2001-01-25 Thread J. Pedro Sousa do Amaral
Hi, I have had difficulties posting to the list, but I believe to have fixed my problem and this is a test! ZP -- José Pedro Sousa do Amaral We only can learn from our mistakes. --K. Popper

[expert] Software RAID 5 and data curruption

2001-01-25 Thread jason-snyder
I am sending this again seeing that my last post never showed up on the list. My efforts to set up a software raid in my "spare" time has progressed a little from last time around, but it seems that I have run into a rather significant snag. I am basing my attempt to build a root software raid 5

Re: [expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition

2001-01-25 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I think you should be able to do this: 1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever, 2. init 1 3. mount /dev/hd? /mnt 4. mv /usr /mnt (I'm not 100% sure this will preserve softlinks) 5. umount /mnt 6. umount /usr 7. mount /dev/hd? /usr 8. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the

[expert] Restoring Konqueror bookmarks after a reinstall...

2001-01-25 Thread Michael O'Henly
Hi there... I did some major housekeeping, updating, etc. on my system this morning -- part of which involved installed the new KDE2.1 Beta Two. I backed up my old .kde directory and let the 2.1 beta create a new one. Now I'd like to restore the bookmarks from my old .kde/share/apps/konqueror

[expert] MandrakeUpdate [Q]: cache file?

2001-01-25 Thread Simon Cousins
Hi List, In the absense of a man or info page or significant HTML documentation for MandrakeUpdate, I'm interested to know if any lister knows how to tell it to refresh it's knowledge of what is actually installed. Most of my dozen Mdk 7.2 boxes (fully patched) have erroneous entries in their M

[expert] Disk Formatting

2001-01-25 Thread SoloCDM
Prior to now, I used the following to format a disk. Now it doesn't work. What will work? setfdprm /dev/fd0 1440/1440 fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkfs /dev/fd0 1440 The above is a Linux format. I also need to know a DOS format command/syntax. Note: When you reply to this message, please include

Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution

2001-01-25 Thread Aries
You can share your swap partitions...with out any problems. - Original Message - From: "John Wolford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: [expert] A Proactive Solution > Hello all, > > Here's an experience i had recently. It may h

[expert] A Proactive Solution

2001-01-25 Thread John Wolford
Hello all, Here's an experience i had recently. It may help some of you avoid a similar battle as i had to fight. I was attempting an installation 7.1 or 7.2 (whichever i could get to work first) on a system with 3 drives. There was already a stable install of 7.1 on the system (on hdc), and a

[expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition

2001-01-25 Thread John Wolford
Greetings again, Thanks for all the replies re: How to move /usr to another partition? It's nice to know that what i was working with SHOULD have worked, on principle. Here is a brief summary of the "How to move /usr to another partition?" thread. 1. Resize partition, using Partition Magic or

RE[2]: [expert] RAID

2001-01-25 Thread Rusty Carruth
"D. Stark - eSN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, any SCSI card will do, though some won't do well with hot swap. > Look into each one seprately and make your decision. > > Second, under linux, Mylex cards are the BOMB. They've had some availability > issues lately though I'm slightly con