Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Vahur Lokk
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 18:53, you wrote: > As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop > 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest > achievable equivalent. No. The perfomance is not comparable even then. I write this mail on a

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on samemachine?

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 18:48, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > > > As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop > > 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest > > achievable equivalent. > > Civileme, there are few to none occasions in which i

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on samemachine?

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 13:27, et wrote: > I was not speaking about anyone in particular > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:13 pm, flacycads wrote: > > If you are referring to me, my /etc/hosts file is correct (not empty), and > > my hard drives are tweaked with hdparm, and have been since I start

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on samemachine?

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:01, civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:13 pm, flacycads wrote: > > If you are referring to me, my /etc/hosts file is correct (not empty), and > > my hard drives are tweaked with hdparm, and have been since I started Linux > > about 9 months ago. I also only

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:42, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:35 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: > > > > > > > But the issues with > > > > Via are more pronounced. > > > >

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 20:42, David McGlone wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > How do I change my hostname from localhost.localdomain to Buddy? > > I changed /etc/hosts, and hostmdkgiorig, and it was still > localhost.localdomain To change it permanently edit /etc/sysco

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > This is like saying that Linux is faster than Windows because Bluefish > loads faster than DreamWeaver. Put OOo on windows and do that > comparison. I am not saying "windows is faster than Linux". I'm saying "MS Office is faster then OpenOffice" and, yes, the Windows version of OO behaves pre

[expert] New Desknote A907

2003-02-27 Thread rafael_quintanilla
Hi all, I met an ad with this new (sort of) laptop with incredible specs for its low price (695 EUR here in Spain). Does anybody succeed installing MDK or other distros? What's it like compared to ordinary processors (it's got a Transmeta T5600) Cheers, Rafa Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
Strange, is the drve the only drive in your machine? Just curious. I just installed a 250 Gig drive in my wife's machine. Windows ME was unable to correctly partition the drive. I installed ML9.0 on the system Sliced the drive into 4 partitions via Mandrake and placed ML in partition 2. Then

[expert] I want to create a repository in my local hd with hdlist.cz ...

2003-02-27 Thread Baltasar Perez
Hi everyone, I'd like to create a repository in my local hard drive with my own packages. Has anybody know where can i find info about mdk's repository? how i get my own hdlist.cz? i haven't found info about it. i tried to look inside a hdlist.cz file but it's binary. i have no clues. blokkie, in

Re: [expert] Mandy 9.0 Boot problems

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
If I saw those sort of messages, I would be shopping for another drive. Just my $0.02 worth. On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:29 pm, Tru64 User wrote: > A mandrake 9.0 running kernel 2.4-19 decided to > simply, HANG on boot!! > Using a boot disk, comes up fine. Then I run lilo -q, > and it respond

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:14 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > it. Boot alone took 27 minutes! (with swap under 2 minutes) Says a lot > about memory management. > > James Any chance you guys could do some snipping in these long threads? Especia

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:41 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > Does anybody know how I would create a slipstreamed set of installation > disks for 9.0 that included all the security updates. Is it as easy as > copying the new packages to the cd images and removing the older version? > or is there some

Re: [expert] what could be wrong? PHP viewing

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
ok, I'll byte; Where is "dog" to be found? On Monday 24 February 2003 01:38 pm, tarvid wrote: > Check your mime types on the server too. The server renders the php not the > client (konq). > > gives you an excuse to try "dog" to see what you actually received > > Jim Tarvid > > On Monday 24 Februa

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:45 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > --- David McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I change my hostname from localhost.localdomain to Buddy? > > > > I changed /etc/hosts, and hostmdkgiorig, and it was still > > localh

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:48 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: [...] > OpenOffice.org 1.0 takes a full minute. > > Try it yourself. As you very correctly said, thare are some things for > which Linux is faster, and some things for which Windows is fast

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:29 pm, mike wrote: > Adolpho should not have done this, but there is right winged shit on this > list all the time. > > Don't get me started! > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:02 pm, Seth Zirin wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 06:08, et wrote: > > > Very bad form

Re: [expert] Windows Games Platform, was "Enterprise OS, was "Mandrake Out of Control?""

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:02 am, Michael Adams wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:52, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:55, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > ... > > > > > >>Actually, I have XP running at home on a PII-333 > > >>My kids use it as their game machi

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:34 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:37, Greg Meyer wrote: > ... > > > I agree with you wholeheartedly, however the point I was trying to make > > was that as we all sit around here and discuss these thi

[expert] High Memory Usage Explanation

2003-02-27 Thread Tru64 User
Mem: 2063808K av, 2048376K used, OR Mem: 900940K av, 820660K used I am a bit confused with the output of "top" and asking for further explanation. Reading its manpage did not clear this out for me. Without any users but me, logged in, doing nothing, Mandy 9.0 (2.4-19mdk)& Mandy 8.2 (2.4-18md

Re: [expert] High Memory Usage Explanation

2003-02-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 09:03, Tru64 User wrote: > Mem: 2063808K av, 2048376K used, OR > Mem: 900940K av, 820660K used > > I am a bit confused with the output of "top" and > asking for further explanation. Reading its manpage > did not clear this out for me. > Without any users but me, logged

RE: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on samemachine?

2003-02-27 Thread logic7
try mandrake 7.2. I still get a lot of mileage out of it. It's the version that they got right. I only wish the releases after it were as good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vahur Lokk Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:00 AM To: [EMAIL PRO

[expert] 9.1 Bugreport

2003-02-27 Thread Bryce Conner
I tried reporting this to Bugzilla and ironically it wouldn't let me because there is some bug. I have installed 9.1-rc1 on several boxes now and run into the following problems during install: 1) on an ASUS P3V4X P-3 800MHz Adaptec SCSI card, 9.1 GB SCSI drive on 2 out of 3 installs, both

RE: [expert] email component

2003-02-27 Thread Carter Harris
Last week I posted a message concerning the best way to develop a web page on mandrake/apache that would include database access and emailing from the application. Several people were very kind to reply with advice. Most people recommended php. I installed it on my server from the distro and cod

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread flacycads
Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is no problem with higher versions of windows. The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setting in System.ini to 512MB or slightly less, and the Conservati

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 1:50 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:48 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > [...] > > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 takes a full minute. > > > > Try it yourself. As you very correctly said, thare are some th

[expert] kmail with local mboxes.

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
How can I stop kmail from moving the mailbox from /var/spool/mail/user to home directory ? I do have additional folders in /home/mail where procmail delivers a lot of filtered stuff, but my main inbox I want to always remain in /var/spool/mail/ thanx in adance Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:59 am, flacycads wrote: > Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with > winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is no > problem with higher versions of windows. > > The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setti

[expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread et
just got a very nice deal to build a box (in the next couple of months, quality is much more important than fast delivery) to run a sound recording studio. I would love to hear suggestions. Budget is to be less than $10,000.00 USD delivered, not including (professional) software. or sound car

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:10 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: > Hello all, > > Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? I was going to take a shot at setting up a box and trying to build the srpms for KDE3.1 on 8.2, but I see t

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. Get at least 2gb of ram, the

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:08, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:39 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > I had, but I recently undefined it because everything from contrib fails > > due to glibc incompatibilities. :-P > > Were you trying

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread flacycads
et, Win 2k or XP should handle the extra ram OK, while ME or lower won't, and needs the file edits I mentioned to avoid boot problems. Those dual booting with Linux can find out more about windows registry hacks and system file edits by visiting the great axcel216 website for in-depth info, and

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > et, > Win 2k or XP should handle the extra ram OK, while ME or lower won't, and > needs the file edits I mentioned to avoid boot problems. Those dual booting > with Linux can find out more about windows registry hacks and system file > edits by visitin

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread tarvid
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: > I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and > use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). > Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized > for sse2 then get pentium4. I

RE: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread logic7
SCSI is no longer needed for audio recording, a good ATA100/133 drive should be fine. If you're using Cubase or Logic, don't worry about quad processors, both apps can only utilize 2 processors at best (and even then, the performance isn't what it should be). A dual Athlon or P3/P4 will be fine if

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread flacycads
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:44 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Saddam Hussein is off topic. Discussions of winblows in conjunction or > comparison with Linux are not. > > LX LX, Point taken. I just thought it might not be appropriate to go into a long involved discourse on tweaking windows her

Re: [expert] kernel panic after defrag in WinjMe

2003-02-27 Thread diego
OK, let's go safe first. Before doing ANYTHING more make a partition table copy just in case it gets even worse: 1) Boot a linux (for example th rescue cd you have). 2) Insert a spare floppy disk 3) (As root) dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=64 Fine, so you have now a copy of your hardd

[expert] Cannot compile against QT2

2003-02-27 Thread diego
* I'm using a Mandrake 8.2 and I cannot compile against QT libs, I have tryied some source installation applications like vcdimager and the result is always the same: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (libraries) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- flacycads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:44 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > Saddam Hussein is off topic. Discussions of winblows in conjunction or > > comparison with Linux are not. > > > > LX > > LX, > Point taken. > > I just thought it might not be appropria

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:51 pm, Tom wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:41 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Does anybody know how I would create a slipstreamed set of installation > > disks for 9.0 that included all the security updates. Is it as easy as > > copying the new packages to the c

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread tarvid
On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:56 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Nobody would like to see winblows gone more than me, believe me. But until > it does go, we've got to work with it and continue to use our collective > mental talents here to help replace it with (hopefully) Mandrake Linux. As > we grea

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Jim C
1. The minimal (mandatory) setting for /etc/hosts is: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost More can be added but it must at least be as above because this is one way that your computer finds other computers. This setting enables the system to find itself. Thus, if you change

RE: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread Franki
you should but the CD iso's online for us Mr Civilme that would be a really really handy resource.. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, 28 February 2003 1:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] how to disable a USB device to be used by vmware

2003-02-27 Thread W. Kasberg
I would like to disable (maybe temporary or permanent) '/dev/usb/lp1'. this is the divice of an HP OfficeJet v40 which I don't need in linux (mdk9.0) because I can use it only as printer/scanner and not to fax. I would prefer to use under VMware with Win2k as guest system. By this I could use the

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > One full minute? Are you sure you're not exaggerating a little bit? I > > don't use OO but use Staroffice now and again and it is slow but it > > certainly doesn't take a minute. I haven't timed it yet but I would be > > suprised if it actually took more than 20 to 30 seconds tops. > > > > My

[expert] HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

2003-02-27 Thread Tru64 User
Kernel 2.4.19-7 Mandrake 9.0 Completely unable to enable dma!! No its not kernel options (These are correct). Why? Because I moved drive(therefore same linux install) to similar PC (exactly similar), and I am able to set dma on/off on the fly. Only one this ONE particular node, it wont happen!!

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:56 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Nobody would like to see winblows gone more than me, believe me. But until > > it does go, we've got to work with it and continue to use our collective > > mental talents here to help replace it

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: > I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and > use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). > Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized > for sse2 then get pentium4. I

Re: [expert] New Desknote A907

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
problems I see Chipset is mostly SiS different people have had different levels of luck here. I've had bad others say it works just fine. The battery is separate.(cost and physically) AND expensive. However if you don't need a battery or don't care about carrying around an extra VCR tape size

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on samemachine?

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:59, flacycads wrote: > Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with > winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is no > problem with higher versions of windows. > > The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setting in S

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 05:44, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:45 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > --- David McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I change my hostname from localhost.localdomain to Buddy? > > > > >

Re: [expert] 9.1 Bugreport

2003-02-27 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 01:06, Bryce Conner wrote: > I tried reporting this to Bugzilla and ironically it wouldn't let me > because there is some bug. Warly has been moving the server to a whole new set of Hardware keep trying... He's definitly improving things. > > I have installed 9.1-rc1 on

RE: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on samemachine?

2003-02-27 Thread logic7
"Well, you guys are probably a lot richer than me :o) my system: Pentium II 400 MHZ, 192 MB RAM. It's less than a whole minute only if i'm doing nothing else (i.e. there's nothing else fighting with OO over the CPU..) but it's still ~45 seconds. Damian" Not really, my 1.1GHz Duron only cost m

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:56 pm, civileme wrote: > I dunno what slipstream means either, but, I will hazard a guess about > updating the CDs-- make directories, replace packages ./gendepslist to > make a new hdlist.cz, then install once and make

Re: [expert] Cannot compile against QT2

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:50 pm, diego wrote: > >rpm -qa | grep -i qt > > qt2-designer-2.3.1-29mdk > libqt2-devel-2.3.1-29mdk > unixODBC-gui-qt-2.2.0-1mdk > libqt3-3.0.2-2mdk > libqt2-2.3.1-29mdk > qtrans-0.1.1-7mdk I was going to say you need l

Re: [expert] New Desknote A907

2003-02-27 Thread Terry Mathews
Not really. It's a bit over $100, in line with LiIons of other laptops. Also, has much longer run time than most comparable batteries. Not great, but it's doable and you end up with a good machine for far less than a true notebook would cost you. Terry > The battery is separate.(cost and physical

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Guy Zelck
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:10 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: Hello all, Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? I was going to take a shot at setting up a box and trying to build the srpms for KDE3.1 on 8.2

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Guy Zelck
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:10 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: If you want the newest software, run the new versions, And change every 6 months, no thanks! Now that we finally got all our 3rd party s.w.

[expert] gftp & ssh2 - problems connecting.

2003-02-27 Thread Sevatio
I'm using LM8.2 & 9.0. I'm trying to use gftp to securely connect via ssh2 but I keep getting the message below. Is there something more to this? The gftp in my Redhat box works fine in ssh2 mode but what's wrong with Mandrake's gftp? 3: Protocol Initialization Error: Message size 1936943199

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:23, James Sparenberg wrote: > I would take it your an emacs user? *grin*... ok... then for the less > command line oriented open it up kate or nedit then. This suggestion only works when the user has not already screwed up the host name :-) I helped someone a few days ag

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 01:08 pm, Jim C wrote: > HOSTNAME=dude.mcgnarly.net > DOMAINNAME=dude.mcgnarly.net Hmm, my DOMAINNAME here doesn't have the full hostname, only the last bit. My HOSTNAME is "darkforce.ky.org" so its "ky.org" under DOMAINNAME. Is that wrong, should I change it? Thank

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:56 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Nobody would like to see winblows gone more than me, believe me. > LX Or me! -- /\

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread flacycads
James, Thanks for the info on Linux memory usage- that's really good stuff to know. And I do agree, Mandrake is very good right out of the box- it's definitely the best distro I've used so far, and I find it ridiculous when people talk about Mandrake's "bloated OS." Their kernel is certainly not

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:03 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: > > > >I was going to take a shot at setting up a box and trying to build the > > srpms for KDE3.1 on 8.2, but I see that noone has even voted for this on > > the Club website, so I am going to s

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 02:40 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Another thing is gaming. WineX has done invaluable and irreplaceable work > when it comes to bringing Linux into the mainstream gaming world, but there > is still a ways to go. Baldur's Gate 2 is a good example. In order to > network a

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:56 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: > > > >Sounds to me like you are a candidate for Debian stable, slow and steady, > > no real upgrades for years. Of course they are on KDE 2.2.2 still, so > > that won't do. > > You haven't even

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 February 2003 20:40, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > WineX goes a long way to getting us users completely under Linux, and in > the process saving the developers thousands of dollars of development time. > It helps bridge the chasm between the win world and us, giving us even > more opportuni

Re: [expert] gftp & ssh2 - problems connecting.

2003-02-27 Thread Gustavo Alberto Homem
> I'm using LM8.2 & 9.0. I'm trying to use gftp to securely connect via > ssh2 but I keep getting the message below. Is there something more to > this? The gftp in my Redhat box works fine in ssh2 mode but what's > wrong with Mandrake's gftp? > > 3: Protocol Initialization > Error: Message siz

Re: [expert] Cannot compile against QT2

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 6:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:50 pm, diego wrote: > > >rpm -qa | grep -i qt > > > > qt2-designer-2.3.1-29mdk > > libqt2-devel-2.3.1-29mdk > > unixODBC-gui-qt-2.2.0-1mdk > > libqt3-3.0.2-2mdk > > libqt2-2.3.1-29mdk > > qtrans-0.1.1-7mdk > > I was go

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 February 2003 21:45, logic7 wrote: > I hold mdk7.2 as my personal benchmark for speed > and stability and, IMO, no other version after that can stand up to it. I > have noticed, tho, that this is not limited to just Mandrake. RedHat has > the same problem, each successive version is

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Jim C
This would depend on whether or not DOMAINNAME is a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of which I am not certian. Mine works fine though so perhaps it is. Jim C. HOSTNAME=dude.mcgnarly.net DOMAINNAME=dude.mcgnarly.net Hmm, my DOMAINNAME here doesn't have the full hostname, only the last bit.

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread Jim C
I'm not entirely sure but this might be the sort or thing a MOSIX cluster would be good for. Jim C. et wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5

[expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-02-27 Thread Daniel Axtell
Is there a simple way to be notified automatically notified of incoming email? I'm using kmail (by default), and tried to play around with korn, which doesn't seem to do anything. Is there an easy way to do this? thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-02-27 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Friday 28 February 2003 00:06, Daniel Axtell wrote: > Is there a simple way to be notified automatically notified of incoming > email? I'm using kmail (by default), and tried to play around with korn, > which doesn't seem to do anything. Is there an easy way to do this? > > thanks, > > Dan you

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-02-27 Thread Jack Coates
gkrellm works for me. Korn looks like it's supposed to do what you want. On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:06, Daniel Axtell wrote: > Is there a simple way to be notified automatically notified of incoming email? > I'm using kmail (by default), and tried to play around with korn, which > doesn't seem to

[expert] Multiple RAID devices

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anybody here ever tried to setup multiple RAID devices on a single RAID controller? A good example is a box with an Adaptec I2O card with 5 drives in the machine in RAID array 0, then an external box with an additional 7 drives that are in another

Re: Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:36:14AM -0500 : > > However, my experience on several dual boot boxes with different versions of > windows and Linux has always been that overall computer performance is > significantly better when booted

Re: [expert] Multiple RAID devices

2003-02-27 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Friday 28 February 2003 00:22, Todd Lyons wrote: > Has anybody else: > 1) Ever attempted anything like this? > 2) Ever seen this? > 3) Got a reasonable explanation for this? A bad termination at the raid5 drives could cause such bad behavior I guess. if the extern box is not plugged in the ref

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vahur Lokk wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:00:15AM +0200 : > No. The perfomance is not comparable even then. I write this mail on a > 166Mhz/48MbRAM Compaq Deskpro that was capable of giving me snappy perfomance > running MSO97 and Win95. It runs n

Re: [expert] Defragging

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:55:25PM -0800 : > > Reiserfs should never be defragged--the elaborate tree structure it > > sets up is > I once heard that fragmentation is impossible in reiserfs. No, not impossible. Things like /var/

Re: [expert] Multiple RAID devices

2003-02-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:22, Todd Lyons wrote: ... > > No need to say "the motherboard of the first system". That's a no > brainer. What I want to know is _why_! ... open the box up and make sure you don't have one of these: http://idiotica.co.uk/images/news/archive/stripe2.jpg or worse yet, one

[expert] change hw time from local to utc

2003-02-27 Thread Mark Chou
I have a dual-boot MDK/Win2K box. I've recently upgraded to another computer, so I no longer need the Win2K portion on the older box. Of course time in CMOS was set to local time. Since the older box is now linux only, I'd like to have it be a local ntp for my small network. How do I safely cha

Re: [expert] Multiple RAID devices

2003-02-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:35, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 00:22, Todd Lyons wrote: > > Has anybody else: > > 1) Ever attempted anything like this? > > 2) Ever seen this? > > 3) Got a reasonable explanation for this? > > A bad termination at the raid5 drives could cause such

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
Aaron Matteson wrote on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:35:59AM -0800 : > > > But the issues with > > > Via are more pronounced. > > What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? > Mainly stability issues, ranging from the IDE controller to the actual > chipset. The most prevalent of the symptoms is data c

Re: [expert] usbstorage

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 t_gecks wrote on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:24:43PM +0100 : > Hello, > > I tried to plug a Archos Jukebox to my MDK 8.2 box today. everything > worked fine, the usb-storage module was automagically loaded, but no > device appeared in /dev/scsi/host1/bu

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:16:46AM +1100 : > >My understanding of the purpose of contribs is for 3rd parties to >contribute applications, which may be non-GPL, which are then >distributed as unsupported cont

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread J. Grant
Hi Civilme, Thanks for the reply. well first of all, if you can split ide drives to one per channel, that would be more efficient. ONly one device per channel on IDE may be active, and two disks on the same channel really slows down disk-to-disk operations ok, I will give this a go soon. Nex

Re: [expert] change hw time from local to utc

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:47 pm, Mark Chou wrote: > I have a dual-boot MDK/Win2K box. I've recently upgraded to another > computer, so I no longer need the Win2K portion on the older box. Of > course time in CMOS was set to local time. Since t

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Browne
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:19:24 +, you wrote: >in the hpt bios I noticed some strange config. WD80GB can be set upto >UDMA2 only. DTLA 60GB can be set upto UDMA5 max, DTLA 10GB can be set >upto UDMA2 max. So it seems strange that the WD can not go upto a >faster speed as its ata100 hpt etc.

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread bascule
as an addendum to the below, if you're not that familiar with scsi remember that you won't get the full use of u160 or above bandwith if you use a scsi adapter in an ordinary 33mhz 32 bit pci slot, 32bitsx33mhz=132mb/s of course that's a peak performance not a sustained one but if you can't achi

[expert] modprobe yenta_socket freezes

2003-02-27 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Mandrake 9.0 on old Toshiba 480CDT. Install CDs had no trouble loading pcmcia service, finds the ethernet NIC fine and looked sweet. On reboot, however, freezes loading pcmcia. Go to interactive mode and find when running /etc/init.d/pcmcia start (with set -x on so I can see where it dies) it fr

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread bascule
hey tom, greg is referring to the practice of taking an install disk for an os or prog and also the subsequent updates for said os/prog and combining them so that one creates an install disk that installs the os/prog with the updates already applied, when service pack 1 for winxp came out there

Re: [expert] more msec woes

2003-02-27 Thread .
So is no-one else having this problem? I now have a second machine with the same problem. While the other machine was freshly loaded, this one has been loaded for a while, and just recently broke. Both with an msec level of 2. A third machine with an msec level of 3 is OK. I suspect that m

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Steve Browne wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:19:24 +, you wrote: in the hpt bios I noticed some strange config. WD80GB can be set upto UDMA2 only. DTLA 60GB can be set upto UDMA5 max, DTLA 10GB can be set upto UDMA2 max. So it seems strange that the WD can not go upto a faster speed as its

Re: [expert] gftp & ssh2 - problems connecting.

2003-02-27 Thread Jayce D. Dowell
Well, I had this problem, too. I was able to resolve it by first updateing openssh-* to the latest version, and then going to the gFTP site and downloading the latest tarball and compiling it. After that, everything worked out for me. Hope this helps. Jayce Dowell On Thursday 27 February

Re: [expert] Multiple RAID devices

2003-02-27 Thread Todd Lyons
Todd Lyons wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:22:42PM -0800 : > > An even stranger twist, this same external drive box works just fine > when connected to a different machine with the same Adaptec I2O > controller but only 3 drives as the RAID array 0. The system boots up > just fine in that config

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > That's strange, I have just the opposite experience. > > Agreeing with you that 7.2 was an exceptionally good release (and can > hardly wait for 9.2 - it's the odd numbers I bet) I found that 8.2 and > higher gave much better performance on low end P166's. > > AFAIK this was mostly due to Xfree

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:06:09 -0500 Daniel Axtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >Is there a simple way to be notified automatically notified of incoming >email? I'm using kmail (by default), and tried to play around with korn, >which doesn't seem to do anything. Is there an easy way to

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread civileme
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:19 pm, J. Grant wrote: > Hi Civilme, > > Thanks for the reply. > > > well first of all, if you can split ide drives to one per channel, that > > would be more efficient. ONly one device per channel on IDE may be > > active, and two disks on the same channel really s

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