Re: [expert] RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0

2003-02-15 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 16:22:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Could someone explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of > RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0? First note that usually RAID10 and RAID1+0 mean the same thing. You can see that by the fact that the your reference

Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:50 pm, stefmit wrote: > Could anybody be kind enough as to provide some info/pointers to > what could be better suppported in Mandrake or Linux in general out > of the followings: I understand that Linux users should stay away from DVD-RW right now, as there is no

[expert] Re: [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-15 Thread stefmit
Thx for the quick info. I think I made a mistake in my initial link ... I had it in another tab (where I started from) in my Mozilla ;) Here is the one I was supposed to post: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030207/dvd_burner-01.html As it stands now, it is the Sony you mentioned that se

RE: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
The Sony DRU-500A is the best DVD burner out there at the moment, it does both DVD-RW and DVD+RW. I personally own the Ricoh DVD+RW buner but i do not have it on a linux box. The software is what is concerned with Linux, not the burner... X-CD-Roast is the best, then again there was a huge thread

[expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-15 Thread stefmit
Could anybody be kind enough as to provide some info/pointers to what could be better suppported in Mandrake or Linux in general out of the followings: http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_writers.shtml#The%20Best%20of%20the%20Best! Are there any others higher quality DVD writers, not i

[expert] RAID0/1 or RAID1/0 howto

2003-02-15 Thread gikoreno
Hey everyone: I would like to know if DiskDrake supports RAID0+1 or RAID1+0, and how I can achieve these configurations using DiskDrake. If that can't be done, what's the easiest way I can implement these, since I know the kernel supports at least one of these methods. I did check out the

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:47 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > thanks for all your research, Greg. I realized a little while ago that > it was looking for the qt2 libraries, not the qt3. > > I figure that I have 3 options: > > force the installation of

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
thanks for all your research, Greg. I realized a little while ago that it was looking for the qt2 libraries, not the qt3. I figure that I have 3 options: force the installation of qt2 symlink /usr/lib/qt2/ to /usr/lib/qt3 or compile kcreatecd to use qt3. other than #1, the other three are so

Re: [expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-15 Thread g
g wrote: Michael Noble wrote: harddrake2 does see the scsi contoller, where I am having difficulty is setting up the device files in /dev for the tape drive. i have yet to setup a device file in linux, but many in unix. i will take a look to see what is required in linux. should not be all that

Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?

2003-02-15 Thread Jack Coates
man mpage On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:49, SainTiss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for an application which can handle "resizing" pages of a > pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on > each printer page... > > Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do th

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:35 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am running KDE3.1 on 9.0. sorry for not being explicit. > Rob, I'm looking at the kreatecd website and it looks like it was developed for KDE2. Are you sure you're not being asked for

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:35 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > > QT3.1 is part of KDE 3.1 > > > > What version of MDK are you on? > > I am running KDE3.1 on 9.0. sorry for not being explicit. libqt-3.1.1 should already be installed on your machine

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt > > libraries on my machine. > > > > According rpmdrake to

Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?

2003-02-15 Thread Erik Laxdal
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:49 pm, SainTiss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for an application which can handle "resizing" pages of a > pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on > each printer page... > > Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that.

RE: [expert] RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
go to Adaptec.com. They are the best resource for raid info. Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of gikoreno >> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 3:22 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [expert] RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0 >>

Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 8:49 pm, SainTiss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for an application which can handle "resizing" pages of a > pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on > each printer page... > > Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... > >

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt > libraries on my machine. > > According rpmdrake to install qt3-3.1.1 would have to overhaul my > system, and I can't find

[expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt libraries on my machine. According rpmdrake to install qt3-3.1.1 would have to overhaul my system, and I can't find another version of qt either on a mandrake mirror or on rpmfind to install. Any thoughts? -- Rob Blomquist Kirk

[expert] RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0

2003-02-15 Thread gikoreno
Hey everyone, Could someone explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of RAID10 vs RAID0+1 vs RAID1+0 ? I am about to setup a system that needs high disk IO and also redundancy. Doest Linux support RAID10 or just 0+1 and 1+0? I think I read somewhere that RAID10 was not supported (in th

Re: [expert] ML9.0: patch VIA to enable UDMA100 not installed but yet reporting UDMA100, Cycle time 120 ns???

2003-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 15 2003 01:49 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 11:35 pm, vatbier wrote: > > What is a normal sustained transfer rate for UDMA5 in Linux ( > > what does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" return on your computer)? > > How in Win XP can I test the sustained transfer rate lik

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread civileme
On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:31 am, Charlie wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: > > Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in > > the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that > > way. > > I only know about a

[expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?

2003-02-15 Thread SainTiss
Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle "resizing" pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a

Re: [expert] Archiving Evolution mail

2003-02-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 10:49, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > James, > > I have something like 2 GB of mails on my system and I am managing > them via IMAP. > Evolution (but also Kmail, Mozilla, SquirrelMail, Outlook-on-W2000 > etc, can all access those mails. > > It was tricky with Evolution to dis

[expert] "dump" for reiserfs?

2003-02-15 Thread David E. Fox
I haven't backed up my system for sometime, and I experimented using dump as well as tar for backups. Tar can be used of course but is there a version of dump that will work for reiserfs? I upgraded to dump 0.4b32 on cooker and it now supports ext3 but not reiserfs. Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: > Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in > the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that > way. http://www.mwave.com - -- Greg -

Re: [expert] ML9.0: Fresh install, found one file 2 GB big, "e2fsck-f -c /dev/hda2" returns errors:

2003-02-15 Thread J. Grant
Hi, "[root@mycom root]# e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) /dev/hda2 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes You did not remount your /dev/hda2 read-only, then you said yes when it

Re: [expert] ML9.0: patch VIA to enable UDMA100 not installed but yet reporting UDMA100, Cycle time 120 ns???

2003-02-15 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 February 2003 11:35 pm, vatbier wrote: > What is a normal sustained transfer rate for UDMA5 in Linux ( what does > "hdparm -t /dev/hda" return on your computer)? > How in Win XP can I test the sustained transfer rate like in Linux with >

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Jim C
Perhaps Gateway? Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that way. Want to buy your Pack or Services fr

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-15 Thread engage
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:18 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:16, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:43, James Sparenberg wrote: > > ... > > > > > I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only > > > inits to run level 3 ... then from w

[expert] Avoid American CompuTech - was Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Miark
I looked at the portableez.com site that somebody just mentioned, and I thought I'd throw out a warning regarding another company that sells this notebook: Don't buy anything from http://www.americancomputech.com/ These people are lying and deceiving sons of bitches. I ordered a notebook from th

Re: [expert] Archiving Evolution mail

2003-02-15 Thread Stefano Pogliani
James,     I have something like 2 GB of mails on my system and I am managing them via IMAP. Evolution (but also Kmail, Mozilla, SquirrelMail, Outlook-on-W2000 etc, can all access those mails. It was tricky with Evolution to discover which options where good to get good performances, but now

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Fargher
On Saturday 15 February 2003 2:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: > Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in > the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that > way. Have a look at the ECS notebooks on http://www.portablez.com. I'm seriously consid

Re: [expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-15 Thread g
Michael Noble wrote: tc,hago harddrake2 does see the scsi contoller, where I am having difficulty is setting up the device files in /dev for the tape drive. i have yet to setup a device file in linux, but many in unix. i will take a look to see what is required in linux. should not be all that

Re: [expert] Archiving Evolution mail

2003-02-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 02:02, James Sparenberg wrote: > All, > > Ok I'm hitting a wall here with close to 200,000 e-mails in evolution > I'm at a point where I really need to be able to archive a ton of this > off. BUT I also need access to these without jumping through hoops. > Any suggestions

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 23:18, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:16, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:43, James Sparenberg wrote: > > ... > > > I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only > > > inits to run level 3 ... then from work etc I can

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:13, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 4:35 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > *snip* > > > > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto > *snip* > I read that howto before asking the question. It doesn't tell me how to > disable the local X screen, only ho

Re: [expert] 2.4.19 ping problem

2003-02-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:01:34 -0800 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Relson wrote on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:40:35PM -0500 : > > > > About a month ago, I updated from Mandrake 8.2 to Mandrake 9.0 (with > > kernel going from 2.4.18-6

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: > Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in > the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that > way. check dell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.ma

[expert] More a KDE problem, I think

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
One thing that winds me up is that I can open Konq as a user, then open a super-user window, and they stack up under one icon on the task bar. I can see no indication that they are any different, which means that If I don't close the su one immediately I can forget that it is open. I really do

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: > Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in > the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that > way. I only know about a couple Felix, but then I haven't looked lately. This page was ha

Re: [expert] Archiving Evolution mail

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
cheers(); > Ok I'm hitting a wall here with close to 200,000 e-mails in evolution > I'm at a point where I really need to be able to archive a ton of this > off. BUT I also need access to these without jumping through hoops. > Any suggestions on how to do this? To say the least evo's starting

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-02-15 Thread Guy Van Sanden
The difference betweek kmail and mozilla is that all KDE applications use the KDE printing system (located in the KDE control center). This detected my CUPS server (running FreeBSD) out of the box, without any hassles. Mozilla and other apps (like OpenOffice) use the default Unix commands to print

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-15 Thread Chuck Burns
On Friday 14 February 2003 4:35 pm, Jack Coates wrote: *snip* > > > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto *snip* I read that howto before asking the question. It doesn't tell me how to disable the local X screen, only how to set up the remote one. -- Chuck Burns <[EMAIL PROTECT

[expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Felix Miata
Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in the price? Wal Mart & Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that way. -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

[expert] Archiving Evolution mail

2003-02-15 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Ok I'm hitting a wall here with close to 200,000 e-mails in evolution I'm at a point where I really need to be able to archive a ton of this off. BUT I also need access to these without jumping through hoops. Any suggestions on how to do this? To say the least evo's starting to get very

Re: [expert] ML9.0: patch VIA to enable UDMA100 not installed but yet reporting UDMA100, Cycle time 120 ns???

2003-02-15 Thread vatbier
--- vatbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I found on viaarena.com this patch for ML8.2: > VIA ML8.2 ATA133-100 Patch 686B-8231-8233x-8235 ver 0.91A.gz > contains a patch file mdk8.2-patch-2.4.18-vpide.gz date: 20/9/02 > and a readme.pdf: > VIA ML8.2 ATA133-100 Patch Readme.pdf: > > "hdparm -t

[expert] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book "Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization" by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing