[expert] More Balmer Madness!!!

2001-08-25 Thread Sevatio
Hey, take a break from that hard work and checkout this video of our Lordship Steve Balmer at another awe-inspiring presentation for the MS-Zombies. He definitely puts power into the word *DORK*. It's a video in WMV format from Consumption Junction. Curiosity: Do Zombies get fired for

RE: [expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-25 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ron Stodden Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 2:23 AM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: Re: [expert] Bad CD? Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Eh, wrong. ISO images themselves are in a raw format, which is only

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
It still appears you are missing something. You should have: XFree86-4.0.3 XFree86-server-4.0.3 XFree86-100dpi-fonts XFree86-75dpi-fonts XFree86-libs-4.0.3 --- MAYBE want XFree86-xfs-4.0.3 (I see some posts indicating that this is optional but not having it will certainly remove some

[expert] kde 2.2tex and speed

2001-08-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been using kde 2.2 tex rpms for about a week now (no problems or instabilities) which are supposed to be prelinked for speed optimization. Frankly, I don't really notice a difference. Konqueror starts within 6 seconds, as does most of the other apps I start but this isn't really

Re: [expert] kde 2.2tex and speed

2001-08-25 Thread Bill
On Saturday 25 August 2001 08:31 am, you wrote: I have been using kde 2.2 tex rpms for about a week now (no problems or instabilities) which are supposed to be prelinked for speed optimization. Frankly, I don't really notice a difference. Konqueror starts within 6 seconds, as does most of

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
I looked into XFdrake, a shell script. It appears that it makes a call to Xconfgurator, but if I try to run Xconfigurator, I get the exact same result as trying to execute XFdrake. Praedor Tempus wrote: On Friday 24 August 2001 11:41 pm, Felix Miata wrote: No man of info entries for this

Re: [expert] Konquer question

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
David Boles wrote: My Bank, Bank of America, INSISTS on Netscape or IE for a browser to access online banking. I can get Mozilla to report itself that way and it works. But Konqueror insists on reporting itself as Konqueror 5 not matter how I set the user agent. Can anyone please tell me

[expert] Resolution of rsh failure

2001-08-25 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
Last week I was trying to troubleshoot and fix a problem where my LM8f1 machine would not allow my LM72 client to rsh/ssh to the machine as ROOT. Other users could gain access with no problem. My thanks to all why offered suggestions. However, the only way I've found to enable rsh for root was to

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread Praedor
I am rather confused by the fact that you are getting an error message because the configurator is looking for files in /mnt/usr... Huh? /mnt/usr? Unless you have a really odd setup, there shouldn't even be a /mnt/usr, just /, /usr, etc. You could try editing the

[expert] Network Scanning Tools

2001-08-25 Thread Albert E. Whale
With all of the Nat'd IP Addresses involved in Running an ISP, I am curious about what packages other administrators have used to monitoring/query the objects on the network. I am particularly interested in identifying who is on the network at a Particular point in time, whether they are using a

Re: [expert] backspace in vi

2001-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:57, Abraham Mandac wrote: Hi. How do I make the backspace key work in vi? Is this the correct command to issue: :set backspace= If so, what are the legal arguments? Do you mean that you want Backspace to delete

Re: [expert] Konquer question

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Sprout
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, David Boles wrote: Can anyone please tell me what I am doing incorrectly? If you go to settings, Configure Konqueror and user agent, you can specify site/domain specific information, so you should be able to feed your bank whatever it wants to hear.

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
Praedor wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 08:19 am, Felix Miata wrote: On Friday 24 August 2001 11:41 pm, Felix Miata wrote: No man of info entries for this in Mandrake 8. What is it for? When I execute it, nothing happens for a few seconds, then a SCSI parity error flashes on

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
Praedor wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 08:19 am, Felix Miata wrote: I looked into XFdrake, a shell script. It appears that it makes a call to Xconfgurator, but if I try to run Xconfigurator, I get the exact same result as trying to execute XFdrake. [...] Warning: server SVGA is

Re: [expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-25 Thread Michael Leone
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice is correct, not wrong, as you claim. It is prudent and good practice, NOT to mix the two operating systems, either in practice or conceptually, surely? No. I use whatever OS I NEED to, or WANT to, to accomplish what I want/ned. In my case, I

Re: [expert] XFdrake

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 12:43, Praedor wrote: I did a looksee at my system's Xconfigurator.pm file. I have Mandrake 8.x+ (almost Cooker). It resides in /usr/lib/libDrakX. I scanned through it and see nowhere within it any mention of a /mnt/usr anything. It has several lines directed to

[expert] locale and Mandrake Freq 3

2001-08-25 Thread uli
Since I have updated to LM 8.0 Freq 3 I have problems with locale: /etc/sysconfig/i18n looks like this: SYSFONT=lat0-sun16 LC_MONETARY=de_DE LC_CTYPE=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE:de LC_TIME=de_DE LC_NUMERIC=de_DE LC_COLLATE=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=de_DE LANG=de SYSFONTACM=iso15 But when I start e.g. g++, I

Re: [expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 14:06, Michael Leone wrote: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice is correct, not wrong, as you claim. It is prudent and good practice, NOT to mix the two operating systems, either in practice or conceptually, surely? No. I use whatever OS I NEED to,

Re: [expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-25 Thread Michael Leone
On Sat, 2001-08-25 at 20:58, civileme wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 14:06, Michael Leone wrote: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice is correct, not wrong, as you claim. It is prudent and good practice, NOT to mix the two operating systems, either in practice or

Re: [expert] backspace in vi

2001-08-25 Thread Craig Sprout
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Abraham Mandac wrote: If so, what are the legal arguments? In your .vimrc file, add the line set bs=2 That's all you need! +---+ | Craig Sprout | Never ascribe to malice that | | Billings, MT

[expert] HELP (civileme)

2001-08-25 Thread J. Craig Woods
Sorry to be so blatant. But you may be the only one, other than Chmouel (whom we see little of), I know of for this issue. I have posted this before with no results. It may be unknown to most. You (Mandrakesoft) have done an excellent job with even your beta releases. MandrakeFreg-3 is more

Re: [expert] locale and Mandrake Freq 3

2001-08-25 Thread jipe
uli wrote: Since I have updated to LM 8.0 Freq 3 I have problems with locale: /etc/sysconfig/i18n looks like this: SYSFONT=lat0-sun16 LC_MONETARY=de_DE LC_CTYPE=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE:de LC_TIME=de_DE LC_NUMERIC=de_DE LC_COLLATE=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=de_DE LANG=de SYSFONTACM=iso15 But when I

[expert] How best to upgrade to X 4.1.0 on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-08-25 Thread Michael Leone
Hello. Currently, I'm running XFree86 v4.0.3-1, that I installed to go along with my KDE 2.1.1. I'd like to upgrade to the latest v4.1.0, but am unsure of the best way to go. Should I just get the SRC RPM from Cooker, and rebuild? Will that give me all the parts that I have now?

[expert] Can't connect to some websites with kernel 2.4.x!!!

2001-08-25 Thread Juergen Hammelmann
Hello, there is a strange problem: Now I have installed kernel 2.4.8-11mdk, after 2.4.7-13mdk and earlier versions of 2.4.x, and I can't connect to www.adac.de and www.g-o.de, the connection is refused. This happens with and without a local firewall!!! With kernel 2.2.19 and the same

Re: [expert] HELP (civileme)

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: With us in beta, my research time for such questions is coming out of my sleep, so please feel free to out-research me with the POSIX folks and the unicode consortium. Does this have anything to do with why your posts are coming to us out of the future? Subject:

[expert] IPChains

2001-08-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
I recently set up a testbox and I haven't been successfully able to set an ipchains based firewall up such that our trusted boxes can communicate with the test box (all connections, both ways, all protocols) with every other computer being denied. For example, I want to be able to remotely login

Re: [expert] IPChains

2001-08-25 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:24 pm, you wrote: I recently set up a testbox and I haven't been successfully able to set an ipchains based firewall up such that our trusted boxes can communicate with the test box (all connections, both ways, all protocols) with every other computer being

Re: [expert] Can't connect to some websites with kernel 2.4.x!!!

2001-08-25 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Enter the line echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn in file /etc/rc.d/rc.local It is then possible after a reboot. -- Bjarne Thomsen Juergen Hammelmann wrote: Hello, there is a strange problem: Now I have installed kernel 2.4.8-11mdk, after 2.4.7-13mdk and earlier versions of 2.4.x,

Re: [expert] HELP (civileme)

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 15:32, J. Craig Woods wrote: Sorry to be so blatant. But you may be the only one, other than Chmouel (whom we see little of), I know of for this issue. I have posted this before with no results. It may be unknown to most. You (Mandrakesoft) have done an excellent

[expert] compiling avi-xmms

2001-08-25 Thread David E. Fox
Today I tried compiling the avi-xmms plugin (version 1.2.2)... Anyhow, I got what was needed (SDL, already had avifile, compiled SDL installed it, recompiled avifile (0.53.5) and installee it, aned then went to configure compile avi-xmms, only to find that it stopped when looking for some

Re: [expert] IPChains

2001-08-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
Mandrake 7.2, kernel 2.2.19, with which iptables isn't possible. Michael At 07:20 PM 08/25/2001 -0500, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:24 pm, you wrote: I recently set up a testbox and I haven't been successfully able to set an ipchains based firewall up such that our

Re: [expert] Date/Time/TZ

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 18:53, Felix Miata wrote: Does this have anything to do with why your posts are coming to us out of the future? Subject: Re: [expert] HELP (civileme) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:08:55 -0400 From:

Re: [expert] Date/Time/TZ

2001-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:07, Felix Miata wrote: civileme wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 18:53, Felix Miata wrote: Does this have anything to do with why your posts are coming to us out of the future? Subject: Re: [expert] HELP

Re: [expert] HELP (civileme)

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Saturday 25 August 2001 18:53, Felix Miata wrote: civileme wrote: With us in beta, my research time for such questions is coming out of my sleep, so please feel free to out-research me with the POSIX folks and the unicode consortium. Does this have anything to do with why your posts

Re: [expert] Date/Time/TZ

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:07, Felix Miata wrote: civileme wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 18:53, Felix Miata wrote: Does this have anything to do with why your posts are coming to us out of the future? Subject: Re: [expert] HELP (civileme) Date:

Re: [expert] HELP (civileme)

2001-08-25 Thread Ah Pook
8/25/2001 5:41:28 PM, civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 18:53, Felix Miata wrote: civileme wrote: With us in beta, my research time for such questions is coming out of my sleep, so please feel free to out-research me with the POSIX folks and the unicode

[expert] Root filesystem on NFS kernel option?

2001-08-25 Thread dave
I'm working on building a few diskless workstations and have run across a small problem. In the past I have been able to compile in for the root to mount over NFS. It seems that this option is disabled in the current release of mandrake 8.0(kernel 2.4.3-20) The option exists under

Re: [expert] Root filesystem on NFS kernel option?

2001-08-25 Thread civileme
On Sunday 26 August 2001 05:00, dave wrote: I'm working on building a few diskless workstations and have run across a small problem. In the past I have been able to compile in for the root to mount over NFS. It seems that this option is disabled in the current release of mandrake 8.0(kernel

Re: [expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Michael Leone wrote: I've made many Linucx CDs of various distros using ISO images under Windows, using NT and Win2K, and Adaptec EasyCD Creator and Nero, and never had a failed CD. YMMV. (I've made Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, OpenBSD, Corel, others) How do you check that a just-burned CD is