Linux is very, very, very expensive for customers to take care of, he
said. Linux is a cloned operating system - it cloned Unix and now it wants
to clone Windows. It would be nice to get some innovation.
1. Notice he said it was expensive but did not deign to compare prices.
2. chuckle So? ;-)
The point was that they did away with the extra functionality that made
it a really useful tool in it's own right, i.e. the ability to search
ANY documentation.
James Sparenberg wrote:
KHelpCenter is now a part of kdebase. If you click on help in any KDE
app it will open the KHelpCenter. Or
My server shuts down (or perhaps goes to sleep and doesn't wake?) after
being left for a while. This occurs apparently at random. Now I do
have the Diamond Savage card in that machine which has had shutdown
issues as mentioned in errata but the measures mentioned on the sight
have not fixed
Somehow I think he is referring to more 'apparant' innovations than back
room stuff - such as applications and interfaces - more on the consumer
level or what the business customer would see - and I have to say that while
MS is not known for honest practices or using it's own ideas - it certainly
I tried the below
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 06:10, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
Milos Prudek wrote:
Hi,
I was looking forward to use supermount but it does not work very well
in Mandrake 9.0. Details in separate post. So I tried autofs.
Autofs in Mandrake 9.0 mounts drives automatically,
How expensive is USD 10 for standard version which is what most computer users will
need ? Even the commercial version of Linux is cheaper than Windows, and this also
depend on which MS we are talking about .Linux no innovation ?Well, maybe because
there is too much innovation already build in
What we need is to have a rule in the firewall that sends all mail messages
to a spam assassin only server that filters it and then sends it to the mail
servers, webmail and exchange. Webmail is for students but it contains all
email addresses and forwards ones that are exchange accounts to the
h, microsoft apparently thinks its innovative to buy software companies
with software they couldn't write themselves...
strange...
Also, considering neither DOS or a GUI were microsoft ideas.. and that
win2000 and XP contain alot of commands that relate back to unix versions..
and in fact
It is not an SMP machine for sure, the mainboard is Gigabyte 7VXH something
with network interface and sound card. The processor is AMD Athlon 1500+
it seems that many people get that warning io-apic but I cannot understand
why somehow the kernel is getting confused with SMP flags. Do you think
021024 Jim C wrote:
Hmmm... correct me if I am wrong because I am not sure about this
but didn't X-Window exist before the GUI Windows?
yes, long before: it came out of Bell Labs, like most IT innovations.
Apple put it into the consumer market with the Mac,
which M$ then belatedly imitated
Well i checked screen shoots on mandrake site
displaying diffrent screen shots ... but when i
install
mandrake 9 its was totally diffrent ?
wat is the version of KDE in default madrake 9 ? do i
need to install anything else for thats cool new look
of kde ?
also does openoffice come with mandrake
Hi List!
Sorry if my question may concern more about RH 8.0 than MDK 9.0
but I'm trying to antecipate any problem.
I use MDK and no questions about that, however I was not
successful in evangelising others to use MDK so I still have friends using
RH, and now one is having
At 12:47 PM 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Brian York wrote:
Who has experience with spam assassin?
Can it be setup as a passthough server or does it have to be used on the
actual mail server.
Brian,
You might also find bogofilter to be of interest. Its a fast,
On Friday 25 October 2002 08:00 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
RH, and now one is having problem: Using a program in a window terminal
it writes in memory but the window is not reseting memory so it fill the
whole memory (Ram and swap) crashing the process. She read something
On Thursday 24 October 2002 08:24 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
Mcleod, Ian wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:39:36AM +1000 :
Has anyone had any success installing the wlan-ng drivers on Mandrake
9.0? Apparantly they provide much much more functionality than the
default Mandrake 9.0 wireless drivers
hi gary
not sure what is really happening on your system. i
dont have a serial dumb terminal to simulate it. but
maybe i can help you troubleshoot whats causing it.
and i think it has nothing to do with agetty since you
already passed stage after you logged in. the problem
could be some
Thank you very much for your attention.
I asked her about that. She's running gromacs (www.gromacs.org), a
programme for molecular dynamics. I asked for the commands lines she's
executing, but she didn't send me it yet.
Anyway, my hope is if someone maybe had listen something about it and
listers
not sure if this is related to the 'bug' but the
problem i experience is that after sometime that
mozilla was running properly, it crashes whenever i
try to edit my preferences. it happened twice already
and i still havent figure out why. the quick fix was
to delete the contents of
Hi List,
Here in our lab we still have some windoze boxes and they use
X-Win32 from Starnet to access our Linux boxes (XDMCP). We also have some
clean Linux box too and I would like to use such idea of importing X (with
KDM and so on, like LTSP and X-Wind32 do) for these clean Linux
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:26, Franki wrote:
if it is that hard, how did losers like microsoft get it working in their
OS..???
I mean in 95 it had some issues with floppies constantly being seeked and
stuff, but they ironed it out for
later versions..
Not really. It still happens in 98 and
hi brian
errr, how about setting the MX for your domain to
that 'spamassassin only' server, then use procmail to
send passed (non-spam) mails to the mail servers?
just a thought
dianne
--- Brian York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What we need is to have a rule in the firewall that
sends all mail
I've just bought a pcmcia compactflash adapter and I can't get it to work on
my thinkpad with Mandrake 9. If I put the card in before turning the
computer on it freezes after saying:
Starting PCMCIA: cardmgr [1031]: socket 1: ata/ide fixed disk OK
Starting Portmapper OK
Starting System Logger:
hi lieven
if the workstations have same configurations like
make/model, hard disk, memory, etc ... you can install
linux on one system only, then 'dd' the hard disk to
the other disks. well you will have to collect the
hard disks from all the workstations though.
just adding to your ideas
the repeatable auto-install (e.g. Kickstart clone) sounds more like what
you want, but I have instructions for making a bootable network.img CD
on this page: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 05:41, Lieven Van Acker wrote:
Hi,
is there a way to create an iso9660
man X. you just start X with a --broadcast flag or the IP of the server.
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 07:33, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
Hi List,
Here in our lab we still have some windoze boxes and they use
X-Win32 from Starnet to access our Linux boxes (XDMCP). We also have some
Hi List, hi Steve B. ;-) !
Linux is very, very, very expensive for customers to take care of,
Talking about a home environ he might be right. But in a corporate
environ ? win2k and XP-Pro are there as complicated and difficult to
administrate as LX/UX... The decisive difference is not the
Try without devfs, and manually create the node in /dev (if it does not
create it on boot) see if you can acess it. I have CF adapter working
great on my mdk8.1 laptop
JG
ajax wrote:
I've just bought a pcmcia compactflash adapter and I can't get it to work on
my thinkpad with Mandrake 9. If I
On my machine Mozilla just closes automatically. By selecting those key
sequence. At first I thought I clicked the close button by accident. But I
could repeat that by going through the Preferences... and mozilla quits.
Obviously it is not reproducible on your machine. So the bug is more subtle.
I
I've written before about the relationship between the Democrats and the
Entertainment industry (RIAA, etc) and the havoc they are wreaking with
our digital rights (DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act], CBDTA
[Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act]). For those
of you who are
--- faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well i checked screen shoots on mandrake site
displaying diffrent screen shots ... but when i
install
mandrake 9 its was totally diffrent ?
wat is the version of KDE in default madrake 9 ? do
i
need to install anything else for thats cool new
Thank you for your response. How would I go about doing this?
On Friday 25 October 2002 09:57, J. Grant wrote:
Try without devfs, and manually create the node in /dev (if it does not
create it on boot) see if you can acess it. I have CF adapter working
great on my mdk8.1 laptop
JG
ajax
hmp.
I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list where (besides
some outbreaks of mostly interesting OT threads) such political
_nonsense_ has nothing to search.
Living in Europe I have neither the possibilities nor time, will or
interest who in the States is the alledgedly bad
Open Office is included with MDK9. It was also included with 8.2
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of faisal gillani
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 screen shots
On Friday 25 October 2002 12:49 pm, you wrote:
hmp.
I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list where (besides
some outbreaks of mostly interesting OT threads) such political
_nonsense_ has nothing to search.
Living in Europe I have neither the possibilities nor time, will
God help us.
The poor misguided soul that is so easily led by a slick republican marketing
campaign.
The democrats have in fact fought zealously against allowing an expansion of executive
office power contrary to what is claimed below. When you one day awake and can't afford
health coverage
On Thursday 24 October 2002 02:24 am, Martin Fahrendorf wrote:
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Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 21:30 schrieb Aleksey Naumov:
Dear experts,
I am using gcc 3.2 (on ML 9.0) and I get a lot of warnings from cc1:
cc1: warning: changing search
When installing any kernel I now get the following error:
kernel-2.4.19.17mdk
##
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 411: [: too many arguments
mke2fs 1.27ea (14-Mar-2002)
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 411: [: too many arguments
mke2fs 1.27ea (14-Mar-2002)
Line
on the boot menu select failsafe I presume. Unless you have modified it.
Or rebuild your own kernel etc.
Is it a standard CF card? or an IBM microdrive?
does the CF work normally? perhaps its broken
Regards
JG
ajax wrote:
Thank you for your response. How would I go about doing this?
On
Easy ;-)
As far as you say, the ones that will lend their desktops are already
ready as you can do it through Windows+XWin32 so all you need is to
configure the remote-clients. So just start X on remote-clients
with query option:
X -query host (being host the IP/name of the main box)
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Panagiotis Melas wrote:
|It is not an SMP machine for sure, the mainboard is Gigabyte 7VXH something
|with network interface and sound card. The processor is AMD Athlon 1500+
|
|it seems that many people get that warning io-apic but I cannot
This is mainly curiosity but... when I compile kernel sources they go
just fine, but if I change the optimization level -O2 to -O3 in the root
source Makefile it does NOT success in making modules part. The error
that it gives is:
make[2]: Cambiando a directorio
I tried the below
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 06:10, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
Milos Prudek wrote:
Hi,
I was looking forward to use supermount but it does not work very well
in Mandrake 9.0. Details in separate post. So I tried autofs.
Autofs in Mandrake 9.0 mounts drives
Hi Jack,
Thank you very much, I think it is what I need.
On 25 Oct 2002, Jack Coates wrote:
man X. you just start X with a --broadcast flag or the IP of the server.
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 07:33, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
Hi List,
Here in our lab we still have some
Sorry guys, i have to keep this mail intact , so here's my rant.
The notion of free market MONOPOLY is not evil , just as we drink Coke occasionally
althought its not a health drink .But its about softdrinks, not something as important
as a computer operating system where we are in this age of
So we have to support AMD more, afterall AMD is as American as ,Microsuck.Intel is
the Devils advocate.We know who we are .,and dont forget that browsers technology of
M$ is a clone of Mosaic and do M$ pay back to the world ?NO.
Choong
Oliver Thieke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List, hi Steve
Americans ONLY? OK , i will fwd this to my full list of Americans dominated audio
group .Btw, i feel as angry as any sensible American and i know about the RIAA
issue.Yes , its our world too .Tell these fucers Dems
that no wonder why the world hate THEM.
Choong
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In which case remember that this is a world-wide mailing list and, despite
the apparent belief of the US that what they want is the same for all of us,
it's not.
Go and fight out your political battles on an advocacy group.
If you want to ask for support against DMCA or similar by all means
I am starting to question the idea of us all supporting AMD, if transmeta
made a good desktop processor comparable with Athlons or P4's I'd back them
first...
AMD are sucking up to M$ something bigtime, they have jumped on the
Palladium bandwagon just like intel, they renamed their processor
HI!
I wondered why lircd was not starting on my machine, so I read trough the
scripts and saw the following :
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd:
[ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/$HWMOD.o ] \
insmod $HWMOD $DRIVER_OPTS /dev/null
#locate lirc_
Hi! Thank you very much.
I played with VNC before and found out it a litle bit slow. Since
I used LTSP once, such solution is really great.
On 25 Oct 2002, ddc_prueba wrote:
Easy ;-)
As far as you say, the ones that will lend their desktops are already
ready as you can do it
I live in Australia, so I don't count in the US arguement, but Australia
always kiss the US ass.. so what gets passed there will appear over here
sooner or later. (we already have strict gun control (ie you can't have one)
strict online porn and gambling regulations (ie you can't do either unless
The card is a normal CF card. It works in my pocket pc and digital camera.
The adapter works in windows.
When I booted into failsafe, I could mount the card. How do I get it to work
with my regular boot? Do I have to change something in the kernel?
On Friday 25 October 2002 11:31, J. Grant
In fresh Mandrake 9.0 install, WindowMaker starts but immediately shows
the following window:
The application menu could not be loaded. Look at the console output
for a detailed description of the errors.
I went to runlevel 3, and successfully launched WindowMaker using
startx. The same
Dear Friends,
I finally bought a Creative Blaster 4 Titanium 4200 with the Nvidia Geforce4
Ti chip. Thanks to the comments in this list and the expert one the
installation was very easy.
First I edited initab to put the text mode star; then I installed the two rpm
nvidia files and also the nvtv
On Friday 25 October 2002 12:55 pm, Franki wrote:
I am starting to question the idea of us all supporting AMD, if transmeta
made a good desktop processor comparable with Athlons or P4's I'd back them
first...
AMD are sucking up to M$ something bigtime, they have jumped on the
Palladium
Hi List !
I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list
It still is...
where such political _nonsense_ has nothing to search.
TCPA, DRM and Palladium is NO nonsense. It will not appear
next Year. But maybe it's the roadmap for the next decade.
The wintel empire and the
I had that problem on one of the 3 Mandrake 9.0 installs that I performed. If
I recall correctly the fix was very simple. As root cd to /etc/alternatives
then execute the following command:
ln -s /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 lib_cpp
The console errors that your looking for (which is where I found
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:59, David Rankin wrote:
God help us.
The poor misguided soul that is so easily led by a slick republican marketing
campaign.
The democrats have in fact fought zealously against allowing an expansion of
executive
office power contrary to what is claimed below.
On Friday 25 October 2002 02:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry guys, i have to keep this mail intact , so here's my rant.
The notion of free market MONOPOLY is not evil , just as we drink Coke
occasionally althought its not a health drink .But its about softdrinks,
not something as
I find this post kind of ridiculous. Why bring partisan politics onto
this list? Both the republicans and democrats have shown their poor
stances on these topics. Sure a Democrat controlled Senate and a
Republican controlled House passed the DMCA. This current republican
administration has
Well,
The problem with Quake III (and also doom) was the configuration in 24 bits; I
put it at 16 color bits and now both are runing fine.
Just need some help to the nvtv output; I will try the options in the
nvidia.pdf file about linux installation I downloaded some days ago.
--
Francisco
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:48, Daryl Johnson wrote:
In which case remember that this is a world-wide mailing list and, despite
the apparent belief of the US that what they want is the same for all of us,
it's not.
It's not a matter of what they want, because most of us Americans are
not
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:38, Les Henderson wrote:
both republicans and democrats are seeking to grab more power for
themselves. any statements to the contrary simply show a poor
understanding of how politics currently works in this country.
IMO the simplistic statement both republicans and
Mcleod, Ian wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:10:19PM +1000 :
so the prism2-utils package installs the wlan-ng driver? Do I need to
un-install anything else so kismet and other cool applications will work?
I've heard the default Mandrake PRISM2 driver is obsolete and does not allow
much
On 25 Oct 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
IMO the simplistic statement both republicans and democrats are seeking
to grab more power reveals a poor understanding of how politics
currently works in this country. The princess of Elaboration is on my
side, not yours. I have yet to see a coherent
First of all, shame on you for not taking this to a gromacs mailing
list.
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:24:37PM -0200 :
I asked her about that. She's running gromacs (www.gromacs.org), a
programme for molecular dynamics. I asked for the commands lines she's
Lieven Van Acker wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:37:38PM +0200 :
the repeatable auto-install (e.g. Kickstart clone) sounds more like what
you want, but I have instructions for making a bootable network.img CD
on this page: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88
Very nice indeed, but the guy
Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:15:18PM -0400 :
I've written before about the relationship between the Democrats and the
Entertainment industry (RIAA, etc) and the havoc they are wreaking with
our digital rights (DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act], CBDTA
[Consumer Broadband
ddc_prueba wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:06:02PM +0200 :
This is mainly curiosity but... when I compile kernel sources they go
just fine, but if I change the optimization level -O2 to -O3 in the root
source Makefile it does NOT success in making modules part. The error
Can anyone explain
Anyone know which driver to use with a Netgear ME102?
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Todd Lyons wrote:
Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:15:18PM -0400 :
I've written before about the relationship between the Democrats and the
Entertainment industry (RIAA, etc) and the havoc they are wreaking with
our digital rights (DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act],
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:00:39 +0200, Oliver Thieke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
And what about M$ ? Which innovations do they provide ? Declaring
the web browser as a vital OS' component ? They just get it half-way
right on the third attempt... And what about their innovations ?
+ C#:
J. Craig Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Todd Lyons wrote:
I agree that this is worthy of being talked about...
but not here.
Move this discussion elsewhere. This thread is not appropriate for a
technical mailing list.
Todd,
I disagree with your
On Saturday 26 October 2002 00:26, you wrote:
the quick fix was
to delete the contents of ~/.mozilla (make sure your
mails are not in there though).
Quick, but unsafe - as you noted!
Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it
crashes again. (you don't have to
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 22:20, David Guntner wrote:
J. Craig Woods grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Todd,
I disagree with your assessment. [etc]
IMO, you're out of line, Craig. When the administrator of a mailing list
says that a discussion thread is off topic for the list and asks that
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 18:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP
By and large, Democrats were greased more by the entertainment industry
than Republicans. Something on the order of 2/1. I.e., of every dollar
donated to Republicans, two were donated to Democrats.
Ahh, but look at donations from
I'm finishing up testing an RPM build, and having issues. This is the 5th or 6th test
build I've done, all prior have created the .src.rpm and binary .rpm 's fine. Now,
after making changes to the specfile the binary rpm has ceased to be created. The
only change made was to add the
Hi Dianne,
logging out happens for root and other users.
Leaving it at a login prompt and not logging in, it recycles the login
prompt with another.
So if you login and do nothing it logs out after a 15 minutes.
This behavior did not happen in 8.2, its only in 9.
Gary.
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at
On 24 Oct 2002 16:32:18 -0700
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:19, Joseph Braddock wrote:
Has anyone been able to get XFCE working in LM 9.0? The rpm installs fine, but
any type of configuration changes generates an error message about not being able to
create
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 16:44, Todd Lyons wrote:
Lieven Van Acker wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:37:38PM +0200 :
the repeatable auto-install (e.g. Kickstart clone) sounds more like what
you want, but I have instructions for making a bootable network.img CD
on this page:
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 21:36, Joseph Braddock wrote:
snip
Thanks, that did it! I'm not sure exactly what I did to trash it, but it works now.
One more question, is there a way to get the mandrake menus to work with XFCE? It
automatically picks up KDE and Gnome menus, but any alterations to
i get the following erro when i try to spell check in kmail 1.4.3 using kde
3.0.3:
ISpell/Aspell could not be started. Please make sure you have ISpell or Aspell
properly configured and in your PATH.
both of these are in /usr/bin so i don't see how my path is a prob, they are
all -rwxr-xr-x and
i miss this too,
i did some googling and noticing a turbolinux result i checked and
kdebase-3.1-0.beta2.16mdk.i586.rpm has htdig as a requires unlike
kdebase-3.0.3-68mdk.i586.rpm which is what comes with my 9.0, maybe it's
getting put back in?
bascule
On Friday 25 Oct 2002 7:58 am, Jim C
There is still hope as Linux is now a global system of multi-racial and lingual , it
span from Scandinavia's ,Europe and Asia. I would not see the end of true computing
freedom of Linux because Japan's Laser Linux and China's RedFlag Linux is mean for
their population and this will add to the
John Haywood wrote:
Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it
crashes again. (you don't have to move the all the stuff back - cache files
spring to mind)
I suspect the bug will reappear with this. But should we care if it works 8)
Want to buy your Pack or
Yes, you are right but i has been raise up in a third world condition untill now that
we are in good shape nationally speaking but in a nation , your meaning of
infrastructure will encompass telcos and here is why a free choice of OS mean a lot.
So is solar power technology.In my childhood
Hi,
is there a way to create an iso9660 equivalent of the network.img
bootable install disk?
We have quite a number of workstations to install in our school, but a
lot of floppydrives suffer from wear.
This is how I want to rollout:
0. Create a bootable CD from network install floppy image
Udo Rader wrote:
hmp.
I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list where (besides
some outbreaks of mostly interesting OT threads) such political
_nonsense_ has nothing to search.
Living in Europe I have neither the possibilities nor time, will or
interest who in the States is
Hi Jack,
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:43, Jack Coates wrote:
the repeatable auto-install (e.g. Kickstart clone) sounds more like what
you want, but I have instructions for making a bootable network.img CD
on this page: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88
this is really what I needed. I
Thanks Dianne,
I also came to this idea, but it is quite a hassle to disassemble
harddisks from about a 100 workstations and then reassemble them.
I got some feedback from Jack Coates, on how to create a network boot
CD. This is a lot easier to roll-out.
Here's my complete setup:
I have 1
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