Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Ric, I don't like friends that ever says yes to me; if he think I have a not good idea, a good friends must say "not my friend, your aren't right; this you try to do is not good" And frankly, American have made lots of good think, but also lot of bad ones and this, the war against Irak it se

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Good answer Sridhar! El Viernes, 14 de Marzo de 2003 02:26, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:00:14 -0800, Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remem

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 12:38:37PM +1300, Damon Lynch wrote: > The list maintainer has in the past indicated he has very little if any > tolerance for off topic postings. Furthermore, an off topic list has > already been created: > > http://edificationweb.com/mailman/listinfo/mdk-offtopic_edifica

Re: [expert] Multi-profile Linux

2003-03-13 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:48:46PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > How have any of you solved this? I agree with your experience: Mandrake does not provide nice support for roaming with your laptop (perhaps Starbucks is not widespread enough in France :-) ). What makes it even more depressing

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
It is the latest as of a couple of days. It boots up ok and is quick in text mode. When running kde it starts loading ok, brings up the kde box and goes through those items and then it disappears. All that is left is the blue screen, its just stops there, 20 mins later still only blue screen. (All

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Cahill
On March 13, 2003 06:15 pm, Miark wrote: > Yikes! Have you tried holy water?! > > Miark > I did try staring at it, so that I could shame it to work OK...but alas, one should never engage in a staring contest with an LED light. -- Matt Cahill m dash cahill at rogers dot com

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:00:14 -0800, Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > return, and support

[expert] Static routes in Mandrake 9

2003-03-13 Thread k_schricker
I have a host to which I want to configure a static route. I did this with the "other routes to host" button in linuxconf, which created the appropriate entry in /etc/sysconfig/static-routes. However the route doesn't show up on reboot. It appears this file is no longer read in Mandrake 9. (I c

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread aortiz
you tell him, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > >I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > > >I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > >their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > >return, and support the Fr

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Brian... On Thursday 13 March 2003 02:20 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: > We have a wierd printer problem also. Sometime overnight, every > night, all our printers spit out a CUPS Printer Test Page. We have > scoured all cron files, check

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-13 Thread g
Damon, Miark, rules, regulations, what ever name you may want to apply it, just like horses will never fly, and every one knows where horse flies lay, it can never be enforced when some one responds to what some one believes should not happen. a post is just that, a post. you do not like, delete

[expert] OT Linux user from Taipei familiar with available hardware

2003-03-13 Thread tarvid
I'd like to make contact with a Linux person who knows the hardware market in Taipei to act as a purchasing agent on a small scale. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread mike
This is not the place, but perhaps the best way to support the US is to oppose it's evil tyrant-to-be. On Thursday 13 March 2003 02:52 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > >My two posts are totally dis-related. > >

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Support for what?: miles of inocent dead?, more prissioners to Guantanamo without any human righs?, more test of big destructive bombs?... The President of the Governement of Spain is in favour of the war, but I am free to refuse him; are you actually free? in fact you are in the country of

Re: [expert] Php-nuke & postfix not working

2003-03-13 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joan Tur wrote on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:35:28PM +0100 : > > syslog after having ordered php-nuke to send the password to a user: > - - > Mar 13 23:26:54 quiniserver postfix/pickup[2999]: 8EE2BD789: uid=71 > from= > Mar 13 23:26:54 quiniserver p

Offlist: Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everybody. I'm pleading with you to stop this thread. I've been very tolerant of it up to this point, but I'm tiring of it. I don't like the things my country is doing either, but THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO TALK ABOUT IT. Please cease contributin

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-13 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 13:01, Miark wrote: > Many people are too selfish to stick to just rules. What else do you have > in mind? The signature rule is the kind way, Todd kicking people off is the rough way. That combination should be sufficient, yes? Hopefully there will be a lot more of the f

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Damon, Many people are too selfish to stick to just rules. What else do you have in mind? Miark On 14 Mar 2003 12:38:37 +1300 Damon Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The list maintainer has in the past indicated he has very little if any > tolerance for off topic postings. Furthermore, an

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

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ya know people, There used to be a time with Linux, that what you get was really bare bones. It was the kernel, some gnu utilities, and a basic installer. Then "we the Linux community" would scurry about, and find the bits that we liked, and wanted, and we spent some time, getting to know them,

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, I wasn't going to do this. But after all the "Warm & Wonderful" responses that have been posted here, I just can't resist any longer. Do I support & believe in the War? Hell no! I firmly believe the Mr. Bush, and his family are wrong on this one, and need to focus on more pressing matters.

[expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-13 Thread Damon Lynch
The list maintainer has in the past indicated he has very little if any tolerance for off topic postings. Furthermore, an off topic list has already been created: http://edificationweb.com/mailman/listinfo/mdk-offtopic_edificationweb.com But obviously people still feel the need to use this list

Re: [expert] SNMP MIBs

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:25, Pierre Fortin wrote: ... > Next, I got the same thing you do with mib2c... I'm not a perl type; but > tried: > perl -MCPAN -e 'install SNMP' > which failed... similar problem on my 8.2 box... > > But... if you're just looking to read the MIBs, you should have enough

Re: [expert] SNMP MIBs

2003-03-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 13 Mar 2003 13:54:11 -0800 Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geez, I kinda feel like I should mark this OT since it's just a problem > about Linux and my computer... > > I'm trying to use a new MIB with ucd-snmp on Mandrake 9.0. I've started > doing some reading, whoever named this Simp

[expert] Lost symlinks from /usr/lib

2003-03-13 Thread Alfredo Cole
Hi: I'm using LM 9.0, and while installing a basic interpreter for my son to practice, the installation script changed all the symlinks from /usr/lib into hard links. I could reinstall, but I have a lot of things already working properly, and would like to leave that option as a last result. Could

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Yikes! Have you tried holy water?! Miark On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:50:31 +1030 "Brian Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a wierd printer problem also. Sometime overnight, every > night, all our printers spit out a CUPS Printer Test Page. We have > scoured all cron files, checked al

RE: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Franki
Chill out guys.. To the Americans, it probably does feel like the world is not supporting them.. however if Sadam and/or Co blows the tower up the tower in paris or something.. you'd be wishing they did something earlier. I personally think Sadam is an Asshole that needs to be removed one way or

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread et
On Thursday 13 March 2003 05:54 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > This might be the DHCP problem that was talked about today at some length. > Is it 9.1 RC2? If so, you'll want to wait for 9.1 final or update the DHCP > packages from cooker. I'm not sure which ones, but a reading of the > arc

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:19, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > > my son's just loaded mdk 9.1 on his machine and finds kde runs very slow, much > slower than 9.0. The machine is a celeron 400 with 96mb ram. > I wont find out more till I get home. Are there any ideas that he could try in > the mean ti

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 14:20, Brian Schroeder wrote: > We have a wierd printer problem also. Sometime overnight, every > night, all our printers spit out a CUPS Printer Test Page. We have > scoured all cron files, checked all print queues, and examined > everything else we can think of - to no ava

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:19 pm, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > > my son's just loaded mdk 9.1 on his machine and finds kde runs very slow, > much slower than 9.0. The machine is a celeron 400 with 96mb ram. > I wont find out more till I get home. Are there any ideas that he could try > in the

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/deworming.html On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 05:01, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > any way to stop getting over run with this crud. > The start of each line has been removed to protect the guilty. > > Thanks > Gary. > > xxx.xxx.com [ip-of-host] - - [09/Mar/2003:15:10:58 +

RE: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
This might be the DHCP problem that was talked about today at some length. Is it 9.1 RC2? If so, you'll want to wait for 9.1 final or update the DHCP packages from cooker. I'm not sure which ones, but a reading of the archives will get you where you need to be. Look for HOSTNAME in your search. D

[expert] MS crud

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, any way to stop getting over run with this crud. The start of each line has been removed to protect the guilty. Thanks Gary. xxx.xxx.com [ip-of-host] - - [09/Mar/2003:15:10:58 +1100] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 300 1100] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 298 1100]

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Is lilo installed on hdb? Boot from floppy with hdb removed. linux root=/dev/hdc? ? being partition number. run lilo and reboot to see if it boots from hard drive. Gary. On Monday 10 March 2003 09:34 pm, Mark Watts wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Ok, answers to ques

[expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-13 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, my son's just loaded mdk 9.1 on his machine and finds kde runs very slow, much slower than 9.0. The machine is a celeron 400 with 96mb ram. I wont find out more till I get home. Are there any ideas that he could try in the mean time? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from M

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread et
On Thursday 13 March 2003 02:00 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > return, and support the French again. > >

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Brian Schroeder
We have a wierd printer problem also. Sometime overnight, every night, all our printers spit out a CUPS Printer Test Page. We have scoured all cron files, checked all print queues, and examined everything else we can think of - to no avail. Brian. From: Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Mertin
Ric Tibbetts wrote: [...] Thank you for the suggestion. But I did my time. 6 years in the Air Force, during the Vietnam era. I didn't agree with that one either, but I still supported my country, and did my bit. Waou ... I didn't thing Brean-Washing was that advanced in the US. In that case - You'r

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Mate, I would like to remember you - that what you constitution is meant to give you (gave you in the past) - the US does not give to other countries, notably the Irak, and Europe: Freedom of Speach and Decision! In this regard - I am German Citizen, due to my father's Job - born in Turky,

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 9:46 pm, Joerg Mertin wrote: > Hi Anne, > > actually - when I do an operating System backup - there are only 2 > things I do backup. Thank you Joerg. Printed out and stored for reference Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

[expert] SNMP MIBs

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
Geez, I kinda feel like I should mark this OT since it's just a problem about Linux and my computer... I'm trying to use a new MIB with ucd-snmp on Mandrake 9.0. I've started doing some reading, whoever named this Simple Network Management Protocol must have been thinking "Simple in comparision to

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Anne, actually - when I do an operating System backup - there are only 2 things I do backup. From my Home partition "/home/smurphy" I perform as user root a: tar zcvf backup_etc.tar.gz /etc tar zcvf bac,up_mail.tar.gz /var/spool/mail This backups the entire /etc directory. All configuration f

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-13 Thread Todd Lyons
Vox wrote on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:24:53PM -0600 : > > > 1.2.1 on my Mandrake 9.0 box (compiled by Mandrake developers). One > > thing is that the upgrade to the version of urpmi/gurpmi in there was > > bad. urpmi still worked, but it /dev/null'ed all stdout so you couldn't > > tell what it wa

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Cahill wrote on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:41:07PM -0500 : > > We're having a really weird situation at our office with our > Mandrake 9.0 box printing three pages of ipp code every so often > (ie hourly). We're printing to a Lexmark E3

Re: [expert] Php-nuke & postfix not working

2003-03-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe the following details may help: /etc/hosts: - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 quiniserver.quini quiniserver - - syslog after having ordere

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Teng-fong, This discussion is not about Iraq. It's how making a political choice affects one's use of Linux Mandrake. Miark On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:13:04 +0100 "Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miark wrote: > > >Ric, > > > >[deleted] > > > >The French gov't may be on a crusade to

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Cahill
Thursday, March 13, 2003, 12:41:07 PM, you wrote: MC> Hey folks, MC> We're having a really weird situation at our office with our MC> Mandrake 9.0 box printing three pages of ipp code every so often MC> (ie hourly). We're printing to a Lexmark E320, via a DLink MC> DP-101P+

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Miark wrote: Ric, [deleted] The French gov't may be on a crusade to obstruct America's plans, but Mandrake's cause is to provide computing freedom, and that's a just cause. If you want to boycott France, withhold vacation and wine dollars. But I'd ask you not to cut of your nose to spite your fa

Re: [expert] Videoconferencing and OpenMCU

2003-03-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:14:46 +0100 Oscar Santacreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I need to setup a videoconference server, and I would like to use > openmcu. I have downloaded the software from http://www.openh323.org, > and I tried to run it in the server (linux mandrake 8.1) > But when

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Ric and others, This is a message that was just posted to Cooker. I'm posting it here because it's directly relevant to this discussion: Miark Date: 13 Mar 2003 15:59:06 -0400 From: Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
I hate political threads on Mandrake lists, and I disagree with Ric's choice. Nevertheless, this political decision affects how he uses Linux Mandrake, and I feel that makes it a valid thread for the list. Just my 2 cents (painful as it is). Miark On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:08:52 + Anne Wilso

[expert] Php-nuke & postfix not working

2003-03-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've installed Mdk9, php-nuke 6, mysql, php4, postfix and apache. It seems to work fine, but no automatic message sent from php-nuke arrives. Postfix seems to work (I've started kmail, configured it to use localhost:25 and sent successfully

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Ric, I myself disagree with France's actions in the Security Councel and have a personality inclined to boycotting. Nevertheless, the Linux cause--and Mandrake specifically--is far more important than the expression of political disagreement. Remember how Perot split the Republican vote and allowe

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:25:02PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 8:08 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:32:09PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 6:57 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > FWIW: > > I have 9.1rc2 installed, and with the excepti

Re: Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:02:22PM -0600, Joe Braddock wrote: > > ---Original Message--- > From: Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 03/13/03 01:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +, Eric Fernandez wr

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 8:08 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:32:09PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 6:57 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > FWIW: > I have 9.1rc2 installed, and with the exception of the hostname issue, > am happy with it. This is the first version

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:01:04PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 11:00, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > > their firends are, and support them, then

Re: [expert] New list Moderator (was) 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:49:33PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > All you's guys! I'm appointing myself a moderator and I'm also > appointing Et, as my leu-ten-ant. > > My first action as moderator is to demand that Ric drink some guiness > until he's sh^t-faced and all the tension drains out. Boyc

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:59:03PM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday March 13 2003 12:57 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > Do not report RC2 here, but on cooker list (or bugzilla). DHCP > > > has been debugged since RC2, update to latest cooker. > > > I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:08:52PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 7:52 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > Ric you have been reading the lists long enough to know that we have > asked/reques

Re: [expert] New list Moderator (was) 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, everyone... The following OT message is presented for your edification: On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > All you's guys! I'm appointing myself a moderator and I'm also > appointing Et, as my leu-ten-ant. > My f

Re: [expert] New list Moderator (was) 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread E . Fernandez
Quoting Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All you's guys! I'm appointing myself a moderator and I'm also > appointing Et, as my leu-ten-ant. > > My first action as moderator is to demand that Ric drink some guiness > until he's sh^t-faced and all the tension drains out. Boycotting the > list

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 7:52 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: Ric you have been reading the lists long enough to know that we have asked/requested/begged that these topics be moved to an OT list. This list is not f

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:32:09PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 6:57 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:51:08PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > ya know what? I've had so many problems with MDL since 9.0, that I'm > > just goin

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 11:00, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > return, and support the French again. > > Unti

Re: Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Joe Braddock
---Original Message--- From: Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03/13/03 01:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > > >My two posts are totally dis-related. > > >

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday March 13 2003 12:57 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > Do not report RC2 here, but on cooker list (or bugzilla). DHCP > > has been debugged since RC2, update to latest cooker. > I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Which is why I asked > the question, and not filed a bug report. This

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread E . Fernandez
Ric, By the way, I apologize for bad words (like "pathetic"...) I should have thought that some people are not necessarily aware of cooker, RC, and bugzilla. I think we just both overreacted. Here in UK time is 8 pm and I am a little tired. Honestly I hope to see you again on that list. Eric Want

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:34:10PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > > >My two posts are totally dis-related. > > > So you ask for help/advice about 9.1RC2, and five minutes later you > decide to declare publicly that you want to boycott Mandrake ? This > sounds very logic

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Thursday 13 March 2003 20:00, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > return, and support the French again. > > Un

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 6:57 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:51:08PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > ya know what? I've had so many problems with MDL since 9.0, that I'm > just going to take it off, and re-install RedHat. It runs. > Ric, I don't know wha

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:08:37PM -0600, Paul Cox wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:06 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
I'm personally boycotting US dollars .. and hope every warm-blood animal on Earth do the same as me. Forward this to your friends and if they can't receive emails, tell them in words. When everybody starts to release US dollars, US economy will collapse and inflation will start. It's

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: My two posts are totally dis-related. So you ask for help/advice about 9.1RC2, and five minutes later you decide to declare publicly that you want to boycott Mandrake ? This sounds very logical... Everybody is free to do what he thinks is just. Personnaly I still buy some a

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread francesco.melo
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will return, and support the French again. Until then, you can kiss "my" American dollars

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:16:24PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > >I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > > >I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > >their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > >re

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:10:08PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > > >I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Which is why I asked the > >question, and not filed a bug report. This is not at all uncommon on > >this list. > > > >But thank you for being yet another, sel

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread J.P. Pasnak
Ric Tibbetts said: > I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. > > I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who > their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will > return, and support the French again. > > Until then, you can kiss "my" Amer

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:08:37PM -0600, Paul Cox wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:06 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > > All; > > I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't > > let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange > > thing. In the past,

Re: Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Joe Braddock
Ric, I'm not sure why this upset you, but I don't think anyone was trying to moderate your question. I'm also posting this, not so much as a reply to your message but for others on the list who may not understand why this keeps coming up. Simply put, though, the proper place for beta questions

[expert] Videoconferencing and OpenMCU

2003-03-13 Thread Oscar Santacreu
Hi all, I need to setup a videoconference server, and I would like to use openmcu. I have downloaded the software from http://www.openh323.org, and I tried to run it in the server (linux mandrake 8.1) But when I connect to server using gnomemeeting, in the server I can read these messages: ==

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will return, and support the French again. Until then, you can kiss "my" American dollars

Re[2]: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Cahill
Thursday, March 13, 2003, 1:57:49 PM, you wrote: RT> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:51:08PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: >> > Do not report RC2 here, but on cooker list (or bugzilla). DHCP >> has been debugged since RC2, update to latest cooker. RT> I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Whic

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:06 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > All; > I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't > let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange > thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the > hostname in /etc/sysc

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Which is why I asked the question, and not filed a bug report. This is not at all uncommon on this list. But thank you for being yet another, self appointed list moderator. It's good to know there are so many out there willing to int

Re: [expert] Apache - ScriptAlias Invalid command

2003-03-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 06:38, Rick -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: > Thanks, I got it to work by editing the /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf > file. > Is there a Mandrake equivalent to linuxconf to edit these files? > > Gilligan I haven't used it personally.. being a pre-gui user of apache, but there i

[expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will return, and support the French again. Until then, you can kiss "my" American dollars good-bye. Ric Wan

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:51:08PM +, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > >All; > >I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't > >let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange > >thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working in

[expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working in 9.1rc2. The worksta

[expert] 9.1rc2 not prompting for lilo install location

2003-03-13 Thread Tru64 User
Have u noticed, or did I err, (I dont think so though), went thru it twice, same thing) that Mandy 9.1rc2 does not prompt for where to install lilo? I quickly assumed hda and overwrote my windoze bootsect. _Thanks Richard = __ Do you Yahoo!

[expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Cahill
Hey folks, We're having a really weird situation at our office with our Mandrake 9.0 box printing three pages of ipp code every so often (ie hourly). We're printing to a Lexmark E320, via a DLink DP-101P+ print server, however I don't think either of those are the culprits

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:16, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:18 am, Paul Cox wrote: > > On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 am, Robert Barry wrote: > > > I'm using the pdf printer in Samba. Mandrake has a > > > pdf printer setup already in the Samba. > > > > > > It works great for any

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:18 am, Paul Cox wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 am, Robert Barry wrote: > > I'm using the pdf printer in Samba. Mandrake has a > > pdf printer setup already in the Samba. > > > > It works great for any windows users on our network. > > They just select the pdf

Re: [expert] Dumb Question: Mandrake's notebook installation

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
STFW. http://www.linux-laptop.net/, search for "linux model-of-computer", look at the laptops used by resellers like emperorlinux and qlitech, look for linux support for the various hardware items. As a general rule of thumb, the newer the laptop model the less likely it will work without problems

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Emerson de Mello
Yes... In the MDK9 any application that uses the KDE's print system, will be able to print directly for pdf. Another option: The majority of the applications is apt to print for archive PS. It would be enough to convert of PS for PDF. $ ps2pdf file.ps Emerson BRAZIL --- Anne Wilson <[

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 am, Robert Barry wrote: > I'm using the pdf printer in Samba. Mandrake has a > pdf printer setup already in the Samba. > > It works great for any windows users on our network. > They just select the pdf printer and print and the pdf > file is put in their home fold

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Although I don't use it, I can print to PDF from any K app on my box--probably Gnome too. Miark On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 05:39:10 -0800 Eko Budiharto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there anyone of you know PDF writer for linux? > Thank you. > -- > Eko Budiharto > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Develop

Re: [expert] Dumb Question: Mandrake's notebook installation

2003-03-13 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Oh yea, that will put a damper on things real quick. I didn't see that you hade a $1200.00 cap. Sorry.. :-) Ralph Gonzalo Avaria wrote: I would love to buy a Toshiba, but those are US$2000-3000 notebooks and i only can pay US$1200 max. So... i think that one is discarded. :(( Thanks an

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Robert Barry
Hi, I'm using the pdf printer in Samba. Mandrake has a pdf printer setup already in the Samba. It works great for any windows users on our network. They just select the pdf printer and print and the pdf file is put in their home folder. Robert --- Eko Budiharto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is

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