[expert] Mdk8.2 trouble avant la lettre:(

2002-01-29 Thread Harm Bathoorn
Hi all, I'm in a bit of a spot here, here's the dreary story: I downloaded the 8.2 beta disk 1 and wanting to download disk 2 decided to tranfer the first .iso image to the pc with the burner in it. I use Gftp for that transfer. I had to make some room on the remote PC and wanted to delete an

Re: [expert] Euro problem, only Spanish locale? -- THE SOLUTION???

2002-01-29 Thread Oscar
El lun, 28-01-2002 a las 11:37, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda escribió: Hi, I begin to be a bit frustrate. I can see the euro symbol. I can copy it, ¤, I have tested with this configuration: SYSFONT=lat0-sun16 LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_MONETARY=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15

[expert] hdlist question

2002-01-29 Thread Ric Tibbetts
It used to be, in times of old, there was a script included with these distributions, called genhdlist. When involked, it would (as you would expect), generate an hdlist file. I cannot seem to find that file anywhere now. In its absense, how do you generate an hdlist? TIA! -- Ric Tibbetts

RE: [expert] Stay away from the cooker 2.4.17 kernels

2002-01-29 Thread Franki
huh? I had supermount working flawlessly with kernel 2.4.11-6 so if supermount doesn't work with 2.4.17-X then its because they broke it again.. my biggest complaint with the newest kernels is the new method of packaging the headers, I prefered them as a headers rpm.. having to upgrade glibc is

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-29 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Read at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html and find all about linux resources included in bash. On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any body know how to find a ' list ' of resources from Linux? --

Re: [expert] Network printer under attack

2002-01-29 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 08:12 AM 1/28/2002 -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote: Jobs are being sent to my printer (HP LaserJet 2100TN with built-in ethernet), which keeps printing until all the paper is gone. At the head of the sheet that gets repeatedly printed is: POST / HTTP/1.1. Here is a tail from my /var/log/cups:

[expert] RealPlayer 8.0 A/V sync problems

2002-01-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Ever since I started using GNU/Linux (2-3 years now), I have had audio/video synchronisation problems in RealPlayer (currently version 8). The sound seems to run fine, but over time the video falls increasingly behind. If I pause then play the clip again, the sync is restored, but progressively

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:51:19 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old computers for schools in the area. A lot

RE: [expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2?

2002-01-29 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
I got the weather plugin to run, however it doesnt update. It is still showing forcasts from 1/19/02. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: John Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]

Re: [expert] floppy access in 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread MadMax99
I certainly DONT know the answer but DOS and ext2 are different filesystems. I would think that you would need two mount points like /mnt/dosfloppy with a matching fstab entry AND a /mnt/ext2floppy with a matching fstab. NEITHER of which would mount on boot. Good luck - Original Message

Re: [expert] Stay away from the cooker 2.4.17 kernels

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I would assume that supermount is still working/workable in the mandrake 2.4.17 kernel. I wouldn't know since I couldn't get any of them to run or boot properly on my laptop (kernel panics or pcmcia/sound problems). Supermount is still one of those patches that mandrake adds but which is

Re: [expert] floppy access in 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
hmmm, a cat /etc/fstab|grep fd0 on my RH7.1 box at work yields /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyauto noauto,owner 0 0 unfortunatly i am not allowed to use floppy disks at work so i cannot actually verify if it works on a windblows formatted floppy or not. but i suppose it will work with a floppy

[expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi People! First, thank you all very much for your attention. So as I said: It's just a commentary ... I beg your pardon if I offend someone, but I can share toughly the answers in two group: who makes programmes (specially open source), and who merely uses them. I'm in

[expert] Advice on Mandrake related to upgrading mobo/processor

2002-01-29 Thread MadMax99
I am planning on purchasing a new mobo/processor shortly and was wondering if I should plan on a re-install or not? My guess would be a re-install would probably be easier given my lack of linux skills ;^) Any info would be appreciated. Also... any known issues with MSI mobo's? Thanks Eric

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread kwan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi Mike, KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not waiting for it. That's what I was thinking. I remember when KDE 2.0 came out it was so much nicer once I got a version of my then current distro (SuSE) that came

Re: [expert] Advice on Mandrake related to upgrading mobo/processor

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
Give it a shot...you may be suprised. I have changed mobo/processor before and not had to reinstall linux (though I did have to reinstall windoze). If you are moving from an intel to an amd, then you might have to...I don't recall if I had to when I went from celery to athlon. It doesn't

[expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am connecting via dhcp to a local network. Since my ip address CAN be different on any given day I have been assuming that it would be pointless to try to run a mailserver. It would serve me alone, no one else on the network, but my intent would be to be able to create my own email

RE: [expert] umax astra 600s scanner scsi card not seen

2002-01-29 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
I did a modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x240 ncr_irq=5 dtc_3181e=1 for the module, and my ultra 1220s works fine. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] umax

[expert] Error in format of /etc/services in 8.1 and 8.2?

2002-01-29 Thread Gavin Porter
Hello, I am using Mandrake 8.1 with the default RPM, setup-2.2.0-12mdk, installed providing /etc/services. The changelog on the RPM in the cooker suggests that the /etc/services file has probably not changed in 8.2 Below is are extracts from the start of the file: 0/tcp

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 08:57 am, you wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi Mike, KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not waiting for it. That's what I was thinking. I remember when KDE 2.0 came out it was so much nicer once I

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mike Leone
To save words, I haven't been specific in some points. I mean, if you satisfied with good closed-driver (or software solution) why do you use GNU/Linux (most much better solution for a lot of applications). Use Because I chose to. That's my right, just as it's your right. Win2k so! (I use it,

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Mike Leone wrote: I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't like their cards, I'll throw it away and buy another. If I wish to use their cards, and their software (closed or not), that's my choice. And no one - nVidia nor GNU - should try and force me into doing what I chose not to do. hmmm, if

Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:42:26PM -0500, daRcmaTTeR said: no, as a matter of fact I didn't. As far as I know that isn't necessary when adding a new rule to the firewall. of course I could be wrong in my understanding too. It's happened before. ;) i'll give it a try and see what happens.

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi everyone, I see that LM 8.2 Beta is out, and I was just wondering if anyone here knows if the final release will be delayed long enough for KDE 3.0 to be included? It seems ashame for a new release to come out without this new,

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-) [I used to love DOS batch files!] As I have heard and felt Linux contains a miriade/pletora of commands and I would like to find sources/resources for a better understanding of this

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi Mike, KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not waiting for it. That's what I was thinking. I remember when KDE 2.0 came out it was so much nicer once I got a version of my then current distro (SuSE) that came with KDE 2 rather

[expert] email filtering [spamassassin x spamfilter]

2002-01-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Spamassassin... anybody using? I've tried it with the .procmailrc and .forward files recommended but I saw no results! Any recommendation? I've been using spamfilter (http://nl.linux.org) and it's quite good! But I've been told that spamassassim give us better control over what's to considered

[expert] Sound problems

2002-01-29 Thread Robert Goshko
Greetings all, I had my sound working under Mandrake 8.1, and now when I log into KDE, everything comes up, and then I get a message: sound server fatal error cpu overload, aborting I have not been able to fix the problem. HardDrake can see my sound card, ESS Technology,

[expert] 2.4.17 kernel aha152x, adaptec scsi host scsi driver problem

2002-01-29 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
I have been trying to solve a problem with Linux finding my Adaptec scsi host card for several weeks now without success. I am aware of the fact that there has been a problem with the 2.4 kernel (I can find the card using modprobe and the 2.2 kernel in Mandrake 7.1). I have tried to install a

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Leone, Thank you for your attention. So, all about I wrote is just a matter of philosophy and it really is. But, look, we use here in our Lab many closed OS (IRIX, AIX, MAC OX, SUNOS, WINblows). They are a good solution for some applications. Too expensive I must

Re: [expert] email filtering [spamassassin x spamfilter]

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I use ricochet. Me like. It's simple and I simply build kmail filters as they appear required - and then pipe the spam through ricochet. It automatically analyzes the spam email headers, determines if the sending email is likely faked or not, determines the correct abuse address to send to,

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-29 Thread Larry Sword
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: That was not what I meant but, I guess it will do it! ;-) [I used to love DOS batch files!] As I have heard and felt Linux contains a miriade/pletora of commands and I would like to find

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 28 January 2002 10:51 pm, you wrote: Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old computers for schools in the area. A lot of the drives had simular problems (although not as

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mike Leone
- Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished Mike Leone wrote: I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't like their cards, I'll throw

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mike Leone
Listen, I just believe that proprietary software will not disappear, but I strongly believe that GPL will be the majority, no matter if there will be more people thinking like me or like you (and I don't think it's a matter of being right or wrong). I don't think proprietary software will

Re: [expert] Advice on Mandrake related to upgrading mobo/processor

2002-01-29 Thread James
Eric, BACK UP!!! I'm only saying this because backups just saved my buns. I just upgraded the same way. Kudzu tried to recognize all the new hardware, (and probably would have) and then the new mobo itself went south. Two trashed HDDS 4 trash mem sticks and two trips to the store where I

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi cmg, In a Slashdot discussion about 8.2 yesterday, a suggestion was made that Mandrake ship 8.2 with KDE 2.2 as the default and include 3.0 as an option. That's a good idea. There are really two ways you can do this - provide side-by-side installs (i.e. maybe stick 3.0 in /opt/kde), or

Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:35:30 -0500 David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: OK, did you reflush/restart your firewall? I am not an expert, but this is as far as my firewall knowledge goes. Dave. PS. My 139 is closed. no,

[expert] New to Evolution mailer...

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I am trying to setup evolution as an alternative mail client to my primary kmail. I tried sylpheed but it just wouldn't work for what I am doing so I am now trying evolution. It works but with a problem...how does one get it to use a Reply to setting? I am sending via email address 1

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
James wrote: Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old computers for schools in the area. A lot of the drives had simular problems (although not as large a drive) 2 gig drives with

Re: [expert] email filtering [spamassassin x spamfilter]

2002-01-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:54, you wrote: Spamassassin... anybody using? I've tried it with the .procmailrc and .forward files recommended but I saw no results! Any recommendation? Yep I've been using it for 6 months now with excellent results. I scarcely get any spam in my inbox, and

Re: [expert] umax astra 600s scanner scsi card not seen

2002-01-29 Thread mike
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: I did a modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x240 ncr_irq=5 dtc_3181e=1 for the module, and my ultra 1220s works fine. Sorry but that didn't do the trick. gonna buy a aha-2906 and be done with it. Thanks though Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Jan Sacharuk, @To save words, I haven't been specific in some points. I mean, if @you satisfied with good closed-driver (or software solution) why do you @use GNU/Linux (most much better solution for a lot of applications). Use @Win2k so! (I use it, and we have PPC - Apple and IBM -

Re: [expert] prostar 2253 laptop

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:26, William Moshier wrote: snip any ideas on what to do next? ok, I just had similar issues with my laptop install with 8.1. Make sure you try the vgalo option after pressing F1 at the splash screen. if that doesn't work, try text and as a last resort text expert at

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. It's about 2.5 years old. So what should I LL format it with? BIOS? It's been a very long time since I needed to do this; indeed, at one time low-level

Re: [expert] Sound problems

2002-01-29 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 10:26, Praedor Tempus wrote: Hehe. I have an ESS Solo1 and was having the very same problem. In my case, the only way to get it working at all was to build sound support and the ess solo1 (oss) driver into the kernel. THEN I was running into the cup overload

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread Larry Sword
Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. It's about 2.5 years old. So what should I LL format it with? BIOS? It's been a very long time since I needed to do this;

Re: [expert] New to Evolution mailer...

2002-01-29 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 10:16, Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, I am trying to setup evolution as an alternative mail client to my primary kmail. I tried sylpheed but it just wouldn't work for what I am doing so I am now trying evolution. It works but with a problem...how does one get it to use a

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mike Leone
You clearly showed agaisnt M$. However I'm not talking about M$ monopoly issue, I'm talking about their policy of closed-software, which I see, was the main instrument that they used, much more than the monopoly. I don't believe that to be the case. Many companies have closed source software;

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread James
The size of the drives changed but these drives seemed to have bad sectors that were just unrecoverable, (ie even when it did recover size it still tended to lose data on a read) or they were in a couple of cases just unusable due to age and hw problems other than sectors. One drive I remember

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Mike, Do you really think that M$ is right? I never said MS was right; you are extrapolating that from this discussion, which hasn't mentioned MS. To answer your question: No I don't, because what MS did was illegal (proven so in court, twice); they misused their monoply power

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 12:06 pm, James wrote: Praedor, There are a number of services that offer dynamic IP DNS (dydns.org is one) with software available at freshmeat.net that autoupdates the dns for you. I don't use one of them because I have a dns server I control and so far I

Re: [expert] Sound problems

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hehe. I have an ESS Solo1 and was having the very same problem. In my case, the only way to get it working at all was to build sound support and the ess solo1 (oss) driver into the kernel. THEN I was running into the cup overload thing. What I did, by trial and error (I tried just about

[expert] Console Colors

2002-01-29 Thread JSheble
I apologize for posting this on the expret list, but I posted it to the newbie list a couple of days ago and never received an answer. Hopefully somebody here can help out... here is the original message posted to the newbie list: First of all, I'm new to the list. I had been running

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread J. Craig Woods
Praedor Tempus wrote: I am connecting via dhcp to a local network. Since my ip address CAN be different on any given day I have been assuming that it would be pointless to try to run a mailserver. It would serve me alone, no one else on the network, but my intent would be to be able to

[expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Harm Bathoorn
Hello all, Just wanted to scream, sorry about that:) I've been to an IT evening at my children's (primary) school witnessing how the teachers think they can turn my children into braindead M$windows consumers. The principal even came over to ask (he'd heard I was in computers) if I felt

[expert] php on updated mdk7.1

2002-01-29 Thread Mike Rambo
I just installed the updated apache/perl/php packages on my mandrake 7.1 box. I followed the instructions on the support website including the edits to commonhttp.conf to enable php. The apache server itself works and I get the default index page distributed in the package by mandrake. When I

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I installed postfix last night and have since switched my smtp server to local via postfix. This gets me to hostname, which has cornfused me for a while which may play some role here in running a real-life mailserver. I have never really changed my hostname from the default

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread James
Praedor, There are a number of services that offer dynamic IP DNS (dydns.org is one) with software available at freshmeat.net that autoupdates the dns for you. I don't use one of them because I have a dns server I control and so far I haven't had to much changing so updating my own dns is

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Terry Mathews
I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3 to the letter; is something broken? Because, after this open/closed

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 and ISDN

2002-01-29 Thread Haug Bürger
The ISDN support in 8.1 is alpha quality. I thought it shouldn't be an issue to set up an ISDN connection to the internet. I was wrong! The recommend isdn-light is configured that only a user with root password can use the internet, that sucks. The dialing tool net_monitor is buggy, fails to

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mike Leone
I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3 to the letter; is something broken? What is wrong with them is (to

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:27:11 +0100 Harm Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to scream, sorry about that:) I've been to an IT evening at my children's (primary) school witnessing how the teachers think they can turn my children into braindead M$windows consumers.

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread NDPTAL85
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:27:11 +0100 Harm Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to scream, sorry about that:) I've been to an IT evening at my children's (primary) school witnessing how the teachers

RE: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [expert] AAArgh!!! M$madness!!! Hi There, Rather than snarling and carrying on about this M$ thing. Why not give a demonstration of Linux to the school. I'm sure that they would be open to this kind of thing (especially since you work with it ;-) ). Even if you install Linux

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread richard
Dont worry its part of the learning processfor children. its to teach them how to deal with disapointment. you know just as they've typed 3 hours of homework, they get the blue screen, and have to start all over again. It also trains them to be able to cope with traffic police when they

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'mdisturbed!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I run XFS on about 20-30+ linux machines. Never have any problems. Our main reason for using XFS was RFS seems to always have some type of problem. I got sick of it... Also, we cannot backup RFS partitions as there is NO dump/restore for the FS (maybe now they do?) I don't even understand why

[expert] XFS filesystem, SMP and 2GB memory support

2002-01-29 Thread kayaturk
Hi Guys, Does any one know that, where I can find 2.4 kernels with XFS, SMP and 2GB memory support. The problem is that standard cannot mount XFS file system during boot process thus causing errors. I can also compile the kernel but this system does not belong to me so I do not want to

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread kwan
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, NDPTAL85 wrote: There's no reason to get all bent out of shape because Microsoft software is being used in schools. There's a good argument for it to be used, its what the children will also see in the workplace. I don't see how using Linux will benefit anyone if they

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Tom Badran
There's no reason to get all bent out of shape because Microsoft software is being used in schools. There's a good argument for it to be used, its what the children will also see in the workplace. I don't see how using Linux will benefit anyone if they learn systems they most likely

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Randy Kramer
NDPTAL85 wrote: There's no reason to get all bent out of shape because Microsoft software is being used in schools. There's a good argument for it to be used, its what the children will also see in the workplace. I don't see how using Linux will benefit anyone if they learn systems they most

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Felix Miata
In response to what Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote using: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) instead of a Linux email client: Speaking of M$ madness, following I shall be testing what I learned on Slashdot this morning. begin quoting writer's message: Hi There, Rather than

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread NDPTAL85
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 04:57 PM, Tom Badran wrote: There's no reason to get all bent out of shape because Microsoft software is being used in schools. There's a good argument for it to be used, its what the children will also see in the workplace. I don't see how using Linux

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Harm Bathoorn
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 22:27, you wrote: Dont worry its part of the learning processfor children. its to teach them how to deal with disapointment. you know just as they've typed 3 hours of homework, they get the blue screen, and have to start all over again. It also trains them to

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 17:36 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: begin response Mere demo? Prolly need both a demo of the power to do the same particular activities as provided for with M$ software, then follow with demo of acquisition cost of each item of software, showing the massive waste of

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jan 29, 2002 at 01:14:04PM -0800, Bryan B Whitehead wrote: I run XFS on about 20-30+ linux machines. Never have any problems. Our main reason for using XFS was RFS seems to always have some type of problem. I got sick of it... Also, we cannot backup RFS partitions as there is NO

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread James
I've downloaded the tools straight from the Manufacturer when I've needed to do it. Also my thought is, if the ide drive is hosed anyway, what does it hurt. Another trick is to format it with a dos disk then try again with linux sometimes that helps too. James On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:16:16

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread James
Praedor, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my e-mail on a dynamic dns server. You do need the domain name otherwise it's all the same. Just need to keep on top of the changes if your name server is run by you. (note don't put a nameserver on dynamic that is a headache you never want.) James On Tue, 29

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'mdisturbed!!!

2002-01-29 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 16:13, Vincent Danen wrote: [ ... ] Anyways, I agree with some of the limitations of reiserfs... I don't care too much about the lack of dump/restore... I never use it. NFS over reiserfs works great now... I have no issues with NFS+reiserfs anymore since 8.1.

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 15:35, Mike Leone wrote: I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3 to the letter; is

Re: [expert] Mailserver and dhcp

2002-01-29 Thread J. Craig Woods
Praedor Tempus wrote: I installed postfix last night and have since switched my smtp server to local via postfix. This gets me to hostname, which has cornfused me for a while which may play some role here in running a real-life mailserver. I have never really changed my hostname from

Re: [expert] New to Evolution mailer...

2002-01-29 Thread Lee Roberts
I wish people wouldn't use Evolution until the e-mail from Evolution will display in the body of all e-mail programs instead of as an attachment. It also slows down the trashing of files for some reason since it seems that the attachment has to be loaded (probably my AV software is scanning it

Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:12:48 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:35:30 -0500 David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: OK, did you reflush/restart your firewall?

Re: [expert] email filtering [spamassassin x spamfilter]

2002-01-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:24:15 -0700 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I use ricochet. Me like. It's simple and I simply build kmail filters as they appear required - and then pipe the spam through ricochet. It automatically analyzes the spam email

[expert] double list mails

2002-01-29 Thread Mike White
I'm getting duplicate emails from this list but not from other lists I'm on. Anyone else see this? Know what I should do? -- -- Mike White Linux User #193432 Lorena, TX Waco Linux User Group -- Want to buy

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:49:26 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: The size of the drives changed but these drives seemed to have bad sectors that were just unrecoverable, (ie even when it did recover size it still tended to lose data on a read) or they were

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Terry Mathews
Also, I know in my heart that should nVidia decide to stop developing Linux drivers, they will find a way to get the proper information to the DRI program. I imagine that they would require DRI to not distribute source on their card support, and to sign an NDA on some parts of the driver. Not

Re: [expert] Advice on Mandrake related to upgrading mobo/processor

2002-01-29 Thread tester
MadMax99 wrote: I am planning on purchasing a new mobo/processor shortly and was wondering if I should plan on a re-install or not? My guess would be a re-install would probably be easier given my lack of linux skills ;^) Any info would be appreciated. Also... any known issues with MSI

Re: [expert] double list mails

2002-01-29 Thread Mike White
Oh well, I guess I'm not. I only one of this one. On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 21:06, Mike White wrote: I'm getting duplicate emails from this list but not from other lists I'm on. Anyone else see this? Know what I should do? -- -- Mike White Linux User

Re: [expert] double list mails

2002-01-29 Thread Brian Parish
I am getting them too. No idea what to do about it though. Brian On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:06, Mike White wrote: I'm getting duplicate emails from this list but not from other lists I'm on. Anyone else see this? Know what I should do? -- -- Mike White

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mike White
OK, I got two of this one. On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 21:16, Terry Mathews wrote: Also, I know in my heart that should nVidia decide to stop developing Linux drivers, they will find a way to get the proper information to the DRI program. I imagine that they would require DRI to not distribute

Re: [expert] New to Evolution mailer...

2002-01-29 Thread Michael Leone
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 21:48, Lee Roberts wrote: I wish people wouldn't use Evolution until the e-mail from Evolution will display in the body of all e-mail programs instead of as an attachment. It The body shows as an attachment in mailers that are broken (i.e., MS Outlook Express). It does

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Mike Leone wrote: - Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished Mike Leone wrote: I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't

Re: [expert] XFS filesystem, SMP and 2GB memory support

2002-01-29 Thread tester
kayaturk wrote: Hi Guys, Does any one know that, where I can find 2.4 kernels with XFS, SMP and 2GB memory support. The problem is that standard cannot mount XFS file system during boot process thus causing errors. I can also compile the kernel but this system does not belong to me so

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Randy Kramer wrote: I would like Mandrake 8.2 to be the perfected version of 8.0 / 8.1, and would rather not have very much in the way of new stuff that might cause problems. I was not successful in installing Mandrake 8.0, and only partially successful with 8.1. The advantanges of having

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-29 Thread Pen Gwynne
This is a resend from a reply to a thread titled sed or awk or ? There are few ways to do this, but here is one. It is not particularly elegant; just a brute force way of doing it. But it does have the advantage of letting you test whether and how it will work by uncommenting the print

Re: [expert] RealPlayer 8.0 A/V sync problems

2002-01-29 Thread J. Grant
Anyone know any other players for linux that can do video? I found these for audio, but none for video, perhaps that could be a solution for you Sridar? TRPlayer http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=realaudiosection=projectsx=0y=0 http://sourceforge.net/projects/netradio/

Re: [expert] double list mails

2002-01-29 Thread James
Maybe one of the mail servers on the route for some of the members tends to stutter *grin*. On 30 Jan 2002 14:26:00 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting them too. No idea what to do about it though. Brian On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:06, Mike White wrote: I'm getting

[expert] SSH

2002-01-29 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
I have just installed a mandrake server. It is configured with high security level, and sshd is runing. My question is this: where du I put the ipnames of the computers that are to be allowd to connect to the server using ssh. I have put the names in /etc/hosts.allow but this doesnt seam to be