Re: [expert] kde3 won't start since upgrading from kde 2.2.2

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:32:23 -0400 Harold Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > I have tried 5 times to upgrade to kde 3.02 and each time it > won't start kde3 when I choose to login to kde3. > > Can anyone help me solve this problem.. > > I run Mandrake 8.1 > > Harold > >

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r SOLVED

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
GREAT! I've got a collection of TDK coasters myself. Strangely enough I've had good luck with a brand called "sale" (actuall GQ disks) grin. James On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:25:03 -0500 jerry white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > To all that responded thanks > The problem was

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:21:39 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > >On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:29:10 -0400 > >jerry white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > > > >>I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I > >searched>

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, civileme uttered these words of wisdom: >Agree, Mike. > >SuSE could have a much bigger market share and Caldera is now >insignificant, SuSE for its closedness, and Caldera for its abysmal >support, proprietary software, and per-seat licensing. > >I am one of the people bi

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread J. Craig Woods
civileme wrote: > > > I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I > STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and > will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in > business they can't see five minutes into the future, now

Re: [expert] Flash Plugin for galeon

2002-08-12 Thread Damian G
>This was weird I got Oscar's thankyou 10 minutes before I got > your answer to him. Twilight zone time. > > James happens all the time, James. messages not always arrive in the correct order, sometimes i can't read my own posts but i get replies from them... i just had to get used to

Re: [expert] network connections - automatic retry

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On 08 Apr 2002 21:38:22 -0500 Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:08, K Montgomery wrote: > > I have a laptop that runs the netfs service on boot in order > > to mount a remote Samba filesystem. However, being a laptop, > > it's not always conn

Re: [expert] Flash Plugin for galeon

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On 08 Apr 2002 17:41:04 -0300 Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > El lun, 08-04-2002 a las 17:24, Oscar escribió: > > Hi all, > > Where must I put the flash plugin for use it in galeon? > > I downloaded the files from macromedia site and put > > libflashplayer.so and Shockwav

Re: [expert] Linux's equivalent to FreeBSD's 'watch'?

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
There is a watch in Linux ( man watch ) but you are right it's not as "full featured" as the one in BSD. I'd try this though. Grab the FreeBSD source and see if you can build it on Linux (odds are in your favor, but it could beg out.) Just don't install it in a bin directory in your path and it

Re: [expert] Where to get a 2.4 kernel

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
Pesarif, http://ftp1.sourceforge.net It will redirect you according to your location click on Mandrake. The latest they have on this mirror is 8.1 and it has all the rpms and SRPMS. (remember to use http the only way to get to it is via the browser.) One note you have to do the sourceforge

Re: [expert] Where to get a 2.4 kernel

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
Dang forgot to ask one thing. Can I get a link to the driver you're testing? I'd love to put sound on this little Libretto I've got. And this would do it. James On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:18:33 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > The installation CDs contain

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
I'll say thanks even though I don't use an NVIDIA card. It's nice to see this kind of info being shared. So Thanks James On 08 Apr 2002 03:18:40 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > > Hey, get your new NVIDIA RPM's here! Version 2880 for LM82 -- >

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:31:01 -0400 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > Randy Kramer wrote: > > > There are ways to recover deleted files in Linux, especially > > if they are text files. IIUC, it is not fun -- you basically > > read the disk "raw" and then try to r

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
If you ever wanted to learn about File systems now is the time. Because of the way Unix deletes recovery is quite a bit more of a bear. Unix actually deletes the file. Windows just changes the first byte from a character to an available flag. That's why norton recovery will ask you the first l

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 15:04:20 -0500 "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > And for the "Journalists": Which journalists? I think most of > > these online platforms are mere places to get your opinion > > read by some other who will post

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
civileme wrote: > 734003200 is 700Mb remember MB is 2^20 not 10^6 700 Mb is 700*10^6=700,000,000 bits. MB is 10^6 bytes. MiB is 2^20 bytes. 80 min CD's labeled 700 MB are mislabeled and actually hold 700 MiB, 734,003,200 bytes. http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/binprefixes.html http://physics.nis

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Randy Kramer
D. R. Evans wrote: > PS I am doubtless in a substantial minority of readers of this list, but > the only machines to which I have access and which can write CDs all run > only Windows and cannot write the larger discs. Well, perhaps the machines you are using can't write disks larger than 650 MB,

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread civileme
Michael Holt wrote: >I'm not quite sure of the roots of this email, I jumped in late. I have >just read several posts in the thread and would like to add a couple of >words. Even though I love using Mandrake (it's on most of my computers >including my server), if it weren't around, I would choo

Re: [expert] Attn: Vincent - sudo article at mandrakesecure.net

2002-08-12 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Thu Aug 08, 2002 at 12:23:10PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: > > > > Sounds good. I'll be eagerly awaiting it. Like I said, I need to have > > password authentication turned on because some of my friends just flat-out > > aren't up to anything

[expert] kde3 won't start since upgrading from kde 2.2.2

2002-08-12 Thread Harold Hartley
I have tried 5 times to upgrade to kde 3.02 and each time it won't start kde3 when I choose to login to kde3. Can anyone help me solve this problem.. I run Mandrake 8.1 Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Correct procedure for upgrading alsa in 8.2

2002-08-12 Thread Brian Parish
Hi, I have been trying to get alsa rc2 installed on my 8.2 system using kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk. It seems that the standard alsa configure;make install creates all the modules successfully, but modprobe continues to find the old modules that came as part of the kernel install. If I remove a

[expert] header test - read if you must

2002-08-12 Thread daRcmaTTeR
:) -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground!" Mark Weaver (c) 2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r SOLVED

2002-08-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday August 12 2002 01:25 pm, jerry white wrote: > To all that responded thanks > The problem was brand of disk With TDK disks wouldnot fit > with Memorex I was able to burn. > I have 9,0beta installed now happily using it. 'Brand' is a misnomer when it comes to cdr's. They're rarely if

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Steven Spears
I had no problems with Gnome-Toatser on a LiteOn 32x12x40. Everything went swimmingly. On Monday 12 August 2002 02:21 pm, civileme wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:29:10 -0400 > > > >jerry white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > >>I am new to the list

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Holt
I'm not quite sure of the roots of this email, I jumped in late. I have just read several posts in the thread and would like to add a couple of words. Even though I love using Mandrake (it's on most of my computers including my server), if it weren't around, I would choose another version. Yes,

Re: [expert] unresolved symbols linux abi lm 8.2

2002-08-12 Thread kwan
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, [iso-8859-1] Carlos Cifuentes wrote: > Hello. > > I have lm 8.2 an i need to install linux abi for > binaries a.out > > Steps > cat linux-abi-2.4.18-0.patch | patch -p1 > > make mrproper > make menuconfig (binaries modules) y guardo > configuracion > make dep > m

[expert] unresolved symbols linux abi lm 8.2

2002-08-12 Thread Carlos Cifuentes
Hello. I have lm 8.2 an i need to install linux abi for binaries a.out Steps cat linux-abi-2.4.18-0.patch | patch -p1 make mrproper make menuconfig (binaries modules) y guardo configuracion make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install In this process, i have an error: depm

Re: [expert] vpn solution

2002-08-12 Thread civileme
Dodd, David J wrote: >Has anyone used the links cable /DELL VPNS router with Linux or SUN? I >called linksys and they only support windoz... If not has anyone used a >VPN solution to secure a wireless access point? I have a linksys >wireless access point and want to secure it further with a VP

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread civileme
James Sparenberg wrote: >On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:29:10 -0400 >jerry white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > >>I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched >>th archives and found nothing. >>I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out >>ok. But

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread civileme
jerry white wrote: > Michael Viron wrote: > >> You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. >> > > But I DO have 700 meg cds @x24 speed > the size of cd1 is 700.9 megs so by time write info on disk leaves off > 900kb of files > same true for cd2 > >> >> >> Michael >> >> -- >> Michael

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, jerry white uttered these words of wisdom: >I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th >archives and found nothing. >I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out ok. >But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me theres not enoug

Re: [expert] Iptables and Quake3... (fairly long post)

2002-08-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 12 August 2002 02:23 pm, you wrote: > I'm posting this here, because I figured it was a bit above the newbie > level. If wrong, I apologise... Sorry, forgot to post Quake3's error output: --- Common Initialization Complete --- Opening IP socket: localhost:27960 Hostname: darkforce.com

[expert] Iptables and Quake3... (fairly long post)

2002-08-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm posting this here, because I figured it was a bit above the newbie level. If wrong, I apologise... I ran BastilleChooser, I added a rule to iptables, and I'm not able to get Quake 3, v1.31 to find my other 2 Linux comps. (or them find me). I've got Mandrake v8.2. Networking is up: eth0

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r SOLVED

2002-08-12 Thread jerry white
To all that responded thanks The problem was brand of disk With TDK disks wouldnot  fit with Memorex I was able to burn. I have 9,0beta installed now happily using it. Jerry White Todd Franklin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">I have an Acer 12x8x32 burner and have had no problems burning the iso

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FWIW, I think a good argument cxan be made that Mandrake's decision to require larger CDs is a bit of a false economy. It is bound to cause some non-negligible percentage of people problems (as we have already seen). It isn't obvious (to me, anywa

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Larry Sword
Gcombust seem to default to 74 min @ 650 MB. Once you have gcombust open go to the "Data Files" section and on the left side panel set the size to 80 min 703 MB. Larry jerry white wrote: > I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th > archives and found nothing. > I

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
jerry white wrote: > I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I > searched th archives and found nothing. > I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked > out ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me > theres not enough room on disk. > What am I missing and h

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 19:25:46 -0400 sda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:48:55PM -0800, civileme wrote: > > sda wrote: > > > > > > > > > >I don't think anybody is worried about people giving it away > > >sans the Mandrake specific tools [if they were c

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:15:25 -0400 sda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:47:40PM -0700, KevinO wrote: > > sda wrote: > > > RS has no problem with this at all, free > > >as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. The heart of > > >GNU/Linux is still

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On 08 Apr 2002 00:45:02 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 10:59, sda wrote: > > > Oh so if one criticizes MandrakeSoft they're FUD throwers? > > Comeon, if you cannot accept criticism wisely you're nothing > > but a fool. > > > > Did you

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Robert Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > I'm not an expert, but doesn't Mandrake only have to > provide the source for all the modifications Mandrake > did. Can Mandrake NOT provide the ISOs for free? And > does Mandrake need to pro

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Martin
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 13:13, jerry white wrote: > Michael Viron wrote: > > >You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. > > > > But I DO have 700 meg cds @x24 speed > the size of cd1 is 700.9 megs so by time write info on disk leaves off > 900kb of files > same true for cd2 What sor

Re: [expert] /bin/su Segmentation fault

2002-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
> On Sunday 11 August 2002 11:25 pm, you wrote: > > Not sure what has happened, but I seemed to have a new > > problem after upgrading to the newest kernel put out > > by Mandrake to fix security holes. > ou, oh, not supposed to ever "upgrade" the kernel, allways install a new > kernel. I do kno

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Todd Franklin
I have an Acer 12x8x32 burner and have had no problems burning the iso images with eroaster. Michael Viron wrote: >You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. > >Michael > >-- >Michael Viron >Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations >General Education Onli

[expert] vpn solution

2002-08-12 Thread Dodd, David J
Has anyone used the links cable /DELL VPNS router with Linux or SUN? I called linksys and they only support windoz... If not has anyone used a VPN solution to secure a wireless access point? I have a linksys wireless access point and want to secure it further with a VPN. thanks dave Want t

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:29:10 -0400 jerry white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched > th archives and found nothing. > I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out > ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Felix Miata
jerry white wrote: > Michael Viron wrote: > >You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. > But I DO have 700 meg cds @x24 speed > the size of cd1 is 700.9 megs so by time write info on disk leaves off > 900kb of files > same true for cd2 Have you tried plain old command line cdre

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread jerry white
Michael Viron wrote: >You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. > But I DO have 700 meg cds @x24 speed the size of cd1 is 700.9 megs so by time write info on disk leaves off 900kb of files same true for cd2 > > >Michael > >-- >Michael Viron >Project Manager / Primary Developer / M

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Viron
You need to purchase 700 MB cds in order to burn them. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 07:29 AM 8/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I

[expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread jerry white
I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searched th archives and found nothing. I have downloaded all 3 isos did m5sum on them all checked out ok. But when Itry to burn cd 1 or 2 gcombust tells Me theres not enough room on disk. What am I missing and how can I burn good copies if

Re: [expert] /bin/su Segmentation fault

2002-08-12 Thread et
On Sunday 11 August 2002 11:25 pm, you wrote: > Not sure what has happened, but I seemed to have a new > problem after upgrading to the newest kernel put out > by Mandrake to fix security holes. ou, oh, not supposed to ever "upgrade" the kernel, allways install a new kernel. > Regular users ca

Re: [expert] Fwd: memory leak

2002-08-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:32:33 -0700 gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: >OK, here are the results of free and top. I can see that a lot of >memory is cached. So you're saying that the cached memory is actually >available? > > > free -m > total used free

Re: [expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2

2002-08-12 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Sunday 11 August 2002 21:49, Dale Huckeby wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote: > >> On to your problem > No, my luck was excellent, thanks to your help. Ten or fifteen minutes >to fix the file, twenty minutes to burn the cd. And I never had to leave >the command line. I t