Re: [expert] Forte for Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread James
Raffaele, Your letter is one of those that peeks curiosity. I looked at my box (running 384 megs) and found that the number was 3063 you said you had 128 megs and 1024 ... The ratio seems to be about 8xram in megs don't know what this means or why it's set to this but maybe this will

Re: [expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement

2002-03-15 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: When I plugged the PowerScroll USB mouse into my box a driver was loaded saying that a mouse was found. I didn't find any complaints in the log. After some searching I linked /dev/usbmouse to /dev/mouse. After some more searching I concluded I do not know

[expert] which X server for old trident 9685

2002-03-15 Thread Ashley Moore
hi, i was installing LM 8.1 for a friend and I could'nt get X configured. its an old AMD 233 with Trident VGA card just before i blew away windoZe i peed into device manager and it was listed as: Trident 9685/80/82/9385/82/85-1 PCI any one know which card I should from from the card db and

Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm

2002-03-15 Thread James
On 13 Mar 2002 21:02:50 +0800 Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check ... BillK Bill ran across this link. It lists

[expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
Hi i just made a major bummer i was editing httpd.conf - when saving i used :X insted of :x and i was asked for an encryption key - i then pressed enter (with an emty encryption key) and now the file is pure garbage - how do i unenrypt that file now. ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars

[expert] new SOHO setup - suggestions? (OT?)

2002-03-15 Thread Ashley Moore
Hi guys, after praising Linux and its virtues to a friend i met a couple of months ago, he has asked me to setup a website with 'some sort of redundancy' to host his shop. I have to suggest a 'decent' server (semi-server) class m/c config. I plan to install LM on it obviously. he currently has

Re: [expert] which X server for old trident 9685

2002-03-15 Thread James
On 15 Mar 2002 01:24:30 -0800 Ashley Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i was installing LM 8.1 for a friend and I could'nt get X configured. its an old AMD 233 with Trident VGA card just before i blew away windoZe i peed into device manager and it was listed as: Trident

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread Terry Tremaine
Maybe a real simple solution would be to use httpd.conf~ . It would be a copy of what was there before your error. On Friday 15 March 2002 03:33 am, you wrote: Hi i just made a major bummer i was editing httpd.conf - when saving i used :X insted of :x and i was asked for an encryption key -

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
Nope this file is also garbage Maybe a real simple solution would be to use httpd.conf~ . It would be a copy of what was there before your error. On Friday 15 March 2002 03:33 am, you wrote: Hi i just made a major bummer i was editing httpd.conf - when saving i used :X insted of :x

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Java on Mandrake 8.1]

2002-03-15 Thread Raffaele Belardi
bingo! shows fine with JRE1.4. bye Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Java on Mandrake 8.1 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:58:19 +0100 From: Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just checked that site on

Re: [expert] Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I just checked that site on Win2K (my Linux box is at home). With Mozilla 0.99, JRE 1.3, the Java console reports a couple of *.class not found errors and the applets do not start. When I click on a link, mozilla crashes. So, I guess it is not a Linux-related issue. Even worst than that, the

[expert] DNS General - Dial on DNS - Smoothwall

2002-03-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, Before a get flamed bigtime from the 'Smoothwall' lists I would like to ask a DNS question. I have the lates version of Smoothwall GPL with all patches to date. My dial up is via a modem which has been set to 'Dial on DNS requests' from the network. Now this works ok to a point as

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:14:33 -0500, sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:50:14PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:07:54 -0500, Michael Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some where in the universe on Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:26:54 -0700 Lorne Shantz [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread kwan
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hi i just made a major bummer i was editing httpd.conf - when saving i used :X insted of :x and i was asked for an encryption key - i then pressed enter (with an emty encryption key) and now the file is pure garbage - how do i unenrypt that

Re: [expert] new SOHO setup - suggestions? (OT?)

2002-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 15 Mar 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: Hi guys, Hi Ashley, I have a SOHO setup, so I can try to help... after praising Linux and its virtues to a friend i met a couple of months ago, he has asked me to setup a website with 'some sort of redundancy' to host his shop. Better get a handle on

RE: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-15 Thread Baines, Dominic
As I said before I mean no disrespect to anyone but please please take this thread off the expert@mandrake list... this is not a discussion suitable for this list and there are better forums for it. Regards, Dominic Baines -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread sshelder
I am so glad I am not the only one to do this. Except I did this to the hosts.allow file. I would like to know how to unencrypt as well. It really is annoying that they use the X to encrypt and the x to save and exit. I have caught myself more than once doing this and the first time I did

Re: [expert] which X server for old trident 9685

2002-03-15 Thread J. Craig Woods
James wrote: just before i blew away windoZe i peed into device manager and it was Therein is the problem. Never do this, it is extremely bad for the device manager... -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Forte for Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread Bill Davidson
Now I'm curious. How did you find that out? Bill On Friday 15 March 2002 03:49 am, James wrote: Raffaele, Your letter is one of those that peeks curiosity. I looked at my box (running 384 megs) and found that the number was 3063 you said you had 128 megs and 1024 ... The ratio seems to

Re: [expert] Curious Dmesg line.

2002-03-15 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
James wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:11:24 +0100 Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: All, I'm getting the following line in dmesg EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Now the reason I'm curious is because all of my partitions (except

Re: [expert] Forte for Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread Raffaele Belardi
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max raffaele - italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm curious. How did you find that out? Bill On Friday 15 March 2002 03:49 am, James wrote: Raffaele, Your letter is one of those that peeks curiosity. I looked at my box (running 384 megs) and found

Re: [expert] which X server for old trident 9685

2002-03-15 Thread Ashley Moore
sorry about the horrible typo :)* for those who need a clarification its 'peeked' !!! On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 06:21, J. Craig Woods wrote: James wrote: just before i blew away windoZe i peed into device manager and it was Therein is the problem. Never do this, it is extremely bad

[expert] USB Storage Devices

2002-03-15 Thread Dalton Calford
I have a external hard-drive that plugs into my USB port. USB View correctly identifies it. Does anyone know how to mount the drive (diskdrake does not see it) best regards Dalton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] GNU coding style

2002-03-15 Thread ngn
Hello I'd be very interested to find any place where I can find the style of coding of most GPL projects. Also, Although I'mm a programmer I have so much free time that I'd be interested to spend it on help in some GPL'ed project. Thanks in advance Nicolas Gomez Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] installing L.M. 8.1 over a windows lan computer

2002-03-15 Thread evaristo250
Hi, got to install L.M. 8.1 over windows lan computer with no cd.I tried with network.img boot floppy but can't find the network. Seam to me I got to install samba support. Can you help me? TIA Evaristo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 01:26, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IIRC, he tried to expand Mandrakesoft into areas like e-learning and support, and this came at the expense of their core GNU/Linux distribution business. Since Mandrakesoft was (and still is) still a small, heavily indebted and

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-15 Thread J. Craig Woods
The thread from hell. It takes a lickin but keeps on tickin Keep up the great job boys and girls -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 15 March 2002 01:00 am, you wrote: Hi Does www.sodaplay.com work for you? It crashes my mozilla even though other java sites work ok It's working in Konqueror for me, Kinda fun.. JG Raffaele Belardi wrote: I had problems running a fairly big applet in the Forte for Java

Re: [expert] which X server for old trident 9685

2002-03-15 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 15 March 2002 02:24 am, you wrote: hi, i was installing LM 8.1 for a friend and I could'nt get X configured. its an old AMD 233 with Trident VGA card just before i blew away windoZe i peed into device manager and it was listed as: Trident 9685/80/82/9385/82/85-1 PCI any one

Re: [expert] USB Storage Devices

2002-03-15 Thread Sven Heinicke
I just got my USB LS-240 working with SCSI drivers, load the kernel modules: sd_mod 9756 2 usb-storage19932 1 scsi_mod 79560 2 [sd_mod usb-storage] and if you have no other scsi devices it should be at: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disk

[expert] Two mouses on 'X'...how?

2002-03-15 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Hi! I've heard that it's possible to have two pointing devices on 'X'. Especially on KDE, I need two mouses operating but I don't know which file to edit! One mouse ps/2 and the other serial (MS or PC - it's a trackball in reality). Hope you can help me! TIA Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [expert] GNU coding style

2002-03-15 Thread Sven Heinicke
typing: info standards shows the info file for this. ngn wrote: Hello I'd be very interested to find any place where I can find the style of coding of most GPL projects. Also, Although I'mm a programmer I have so much free time that I'd be interested to spend it on help in some

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-15 Thread James
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:00:13 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thread from hell. It takes a lickin but keeps on tickin Keep up the great job boys and girls -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Next we are

Re: [expert] which X server for old trident 9685

2002-03-15 Thread James
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:21:00 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: just before i blew away windoZe i peed into device manager and it was Therein is the problem. Never do this, it is extremely bad for the device manager... ooops maybe that's why the drive went

Re: [expert] Forte for Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread James
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:47:14 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm curious. How did you find that out? I looked into /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max the number was 3063 (I hadn't set anything here and was curious so this is a stock number) Then since my ram was larger and the

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread James
Maybe this is why my mentor in unix insisted I use :wq instead of :x to write and exit? James On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:31:32 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am so glad I am not the only one to do this. Except I did this to the hosts.allow file. I would like to know how to unencrypt

Re: [expert] Two mouses on 'X'...how?

2002-03-15 Thread Hamster
Hi! I've heard that it's possible to have two pointing devices on 'X'. Especially on KDE, I need two mouses operating but I don't know which file to edit! One mouse ps/2 and the other serial (MS or PC - it's a trackball in reality). Yes you can. You need to edit the XF86Config-4 file.

Re: [expert] USB Storage Devices

2002-03-15 Thread Dalton Calford
Thanks for the reply, Unfortunately, the drive does not show up as a scsi device. I have a IDE CD-Burner and it is the /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd and there are no other paths from the /dev/scsi/ tree. If I look under /proc/scsi/ The usb devices are not listed, but, it is listed in

Re: [expert] USB Storage Devices

2002-03-15 Thread Sven Heinicke
can you repory the dmesg output it generated? with my cdwrter on as a ide-scsi it put my LS-240 at /dev/scsi/host1/... My dmesg command tailed: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor:

Re: [expert] Vi

2002-03-15 Thread mike
According to http://www.vim.org/html/editing.html#:X *:X* :XPrompt for an encryption key. The typing is done without showing the actual text, so that someone looking at the display won't see it. The typed key is stored in the 'key' option, which is used to encrypt the file when it is written.

[expert] Joysticks And Joypads

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could anyone on this list reccomend a could quality, 6 or more buttong joypad that uses the USB port, and is obviously well supported under mandrake. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see

[expert] Scheduling Priorites

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can i run a process with a higer prioriy than would normally be assigned to it? I want to be able to run some hardware emulators i use for embedded systems programming with higher priorites than they get, so that i can get them to run at

Re: [expert] Scheduling Priorites

2002-03-15 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 18:07, Tom Badran wrote: How can i run a process with a higer prioriy than would normally be assigned to it? I want to be able to run some hardware emulators i use for embedded systems programming with higher priorites than they get, so that i can get them to run at

Re: [expert] OT: Which OpenSource to use?

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 March 2002 11:22 pm, you wrote: I have a question about Opensource software that has been nagging at me. Is it better to use the OpenSource version of an application or the commercial program based on the OpenSource application. For

Re: [expert] Scheduling Priorites

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Use 'nice' and 'renice'. Now how was i supposed to guess that :) Thanks, did the trick nicely. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] Forte for Java on Mandrake 8.1

2002-03-15 Thread damian
El vie, 15-03-2002 a las 16:52, James escribió: On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:47:14 -0500 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm curious. How did you find that out? I looked into /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max the number was 3063 (I hadn't set anything here and was curious so this is a