Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 12, 2003 12:20 am, Charlie M. wrote: Ignore the typos gang. I'm still about 5 days minus on horizontal time this week. :-) Therefore I'm stuck on stupid lately. Not permanent I hope. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://count

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 11:39 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > Back in version 8 and 9 I had the exact same problem! It is the > > mirror you are using! I don't know why mirror sites continually get > > bad images, but it is true. Try an rsync to another site. > >

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
> Back in version 8 and 9 I had the exact same problem! It is the mirror > you are using! I don't know why mirror sites continually get bad > images, but it is true. Try an rsync to another site. So, does rsync help when it is all one file? -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdkl

Re: [expert] Postfix help

2003-09-11 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Freitag, 12. September 2003 02:27 schrieb Bill Witherspoon: > Hi All, > > I have been using postfix for sometime now, but am definitely not an > *expert*. Anyhow, my problem is that I'm seeing more and more > 'undeliverable' messages from ISPs that won't accept direct connections > from a dynami

[expert] sblive installed and usb audio

2003-09-11 Thread bascule
i've got my logitech quickcam pro 4000 working, after a new kernel compile and stuff, but i can't get the built in microphone to work, if i load the 'audio' module whcih i've read does usb audio stuff then i get a conflict with my sblivem the sblive mixer doesn't show up in kmix or aumix just th

opengl screensave WAS:Re: [expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?

2003-09-11 Thread bascule
thanks for the reminder, it may be that i need to redo the radeon driver setup, though i'm surprised ti works at all if that's the case but i'll see :) bascule On Friday 12 Sep 2003 5:04 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:42 pm, bascule wrote: > > well that makes sense, th

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:07 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > > > > The format of the file is explained in the comments at the top of the > > file itself, and further info is in the "console.perms" man page. I > > would think that to prevent the switch of the v4l

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:02 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: > Charlie M. wrote > > > I posted a link (yesterday? the day before? last week? too often? ;->) > > to Greg Meyer's page that will teach you how, plus I and others have > > posted examples recently. > > > > It ain't a hard thing to do G

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > Glad I could help -- the reason why is one of those Linux things. > Everything is an evolutionary battle between several ways to do things, > and while it may eventually lead to one killer app like ssh, in the > meantime the cooperation t

Re: [expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:42 pm, bascule wrote: > well that makes sense, thanks > now i don't suppose you know why a 2.4.19-35 kernel would run an opengl > screensaver like molasses while an earlier 2.4.19-16 is as smooth as silk? :) > oh well maybe 9.2 will make it go away! > You don't h

Re: [expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?

2003-09-11 Thread bascule
well that makes sense, thanks now i don't suppose you know why a 2.4.19-35 kernel would run an opengl screensaver like molasses while an earlier 2.4.19-16 is as smooth as silk? :) oh well maybe 9.2 will make it go away! bascule On Friday 12 Sep 2003 3:48 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2

[expert] Apache 2

2003-09-11 Thread Joseph Loo
I have started playing around with the apache server. I am using the stock apache 2 that came with mandrake 9.1 with the shorewall running. I tried to connect the localhost with the following: mozilla http://localhost/ mozilla http://192.168.25.10/ None of the commands seems to attach to th

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 19:30, lorne wrote: > ...> > > APPLICATION LEVEL : play, esdplay, sox, &c. > > SOUND DAEMON LEVEL (*d): esd, artsd, nsd -- optional but very nice. > > DRIVER LEVEL (modules): OSS or ALSA, /dev/sound/ entries > > HARDWARE LEVEL (cards): whatever-sound-chip-you've-got > >

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > One thought here. If you open aumix there are a bunch of green squares > and one red square. Now give that in aumix a checkmark next to mute all > means that it isn't muted. I took a gable on this thought and it seems > to be tr

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
Charlie M. wrote I posted a link (yesterday? the day before? last week? too often? ;->) to Greg Meyer's page that will teach you how, plus I and others have posted examples recently. It ain't a hard thing to do Gary. :-) Here's another example, just "fill in the blanks," be sure you have wri

Re: [expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?

2003-09-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:05, bascule wrote: > all the kernel compile howtos i've read refer to the bzimage file that is > created in ../i386/boot/ as the image to boot and indeed that works for me, > however after a compile there is a much larger 'vmlinuz' file in > /usr/src/linux/ what is this,

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:35, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Anyone on this list have one of these boards, and if yes, then have you ever > recorded anything using the "line-in" jack? > > I've got some older (20+ years) cassettes that I'm trying to convert to .ogg > using Gramofile and oggenc. > > I've

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:02 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > lorne wrote: > > On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > >>lorne wrote: > >> > >> > >>Yeah, that can be frustrating. Hmmm, looking at my sources, somehow, > >>although there is at least one 9.1 package, most of w

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:00 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 07:13, lorne wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > > > > libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1 is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk > > > > I used urpmi, which also failed, but... urp

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Avi Schwartz
I am checking all emails going into my mail server and the reason is not because of Linux viruses but because my wife needs to use Windows to access her office via software that is not available for Linux. Also, at work they use Windows so it will be nice if my mail server will not infect her

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** Avi Schwartz Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:51:51 -0500 : > I've been using it for about 3 years now via Amavis as the virus > scanner of all my email. Works great and the current version can be > set to go out and check for updates automatically. In the past you > had to download the virus definiti

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Avi Schwartz
I've been using it for about 3 years now via Amavis as the virus scanner of all my email. Works great and the current version can be set to go out and check for updates automatically. In the past you had to download the virus definition files manually and install them. BTW, Vexira Antivirus a

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:05:55 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I stumbled across anti-virus software from H+BEDV > (a German company) for Linux. It's free for personal use, > and was wondering if anyone here had used it, and if so > what you think about it. > > Miark > > PS You can

[expert] Postfix help

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi All, I have been using postfix for sometime now, but am definitely not an *expert*. Anyhow, my problem is that I'm seeing more and more 'undeliverable' messages from ISPs that won't accept direct connections from a dynamic IP (I'm on a cable modem). I'm trying to setup postfix to relay through

[expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Miark
Today I stumbled across anti-virus software from H+BEDV (a German company) for Linux. It's free for personal use, and was wondering if anyone here had used it, and if so what you think about it. Miark PS You can sign up for a free license at http://www.hbedv.com/private/ Want to buy your Pac

Re: [expert] Questions for the willing (MandrakeSoft)

2003-09-11 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 21.00 08/09/2003, you wrote: It's 2.4.22 based with selected patches from 2.4.23-pre + mandrake specific patches... (current patchset is ~520 patches) as for the 2.6 series, there is a 2.6-test4 kernel in contribs for those who want to try it out ... Could you post the exact link? I haven't fou

[expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?

2003-09-11 Thread bascule
all the kernel compile howtos i've read refer to the bzimage file that is created in ../i386/boot/ as the image to boot and indeed that works for me, however after a compile there is a much larger 'vmlinuz' file in /usr/src/linux/ what is this, i can't help noticing that is the same name as the

[expert] Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-11 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, >> I tried kmenuedit and menudrake in the console. kmenuedit does show any >> entries. But menudrake has the regular application groups and shortcuts >> showing on the left pane. So it is safe to add them to the system menu >> again? I'm doing cautiously as this is my working file server 8( Pl

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 11:52 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;) > > Here it is: > > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/grounding.html > > have fun:

[expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone on this list have one of these boards, and if yes, then have you ever recorded anything using the "line-in" jack? I've got some older (20+ years) cassettes that I'm trying to convert to .ogg using Gramofile and oggenc. I've got a cassette player with separate line (r/l) stereo jacks, tha

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:39:27 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > top requires read permissions in /proc, so if your msec level is set > too high you will only be able to read your own information. You can > also specify the number of processes to show by playing with the toprc > file, though

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-11 Thread kwan
>> Does it show you all running processes?? No matter which way I try it, >> it just shows me a few of my users processes and *postfix* (?!). top requires read permissions in /proc, so if your msec level is set too high you will only be able to read your own information. You can also specify the

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 01:15 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: > > Try this Gary; > > > > Open a terminal, navigate to the directory where the ISOs and .asc > > file are. At the command prompt type this: > > > > md5sum -c 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc > > > > You won't see

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
Try this Gary; Open a terminal, navigate to the directory where the ISOs and .asc file are. At the command prompt type this: md5sum -c 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc You won't see much until it's done a disk but the processor will "grunt." A LOT. HTH Charlie - -- It worked. Except two out of the thr

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-11 Thread Molotov
Hello Le jeu 11/09/2003 à 04:24, J.C. Woods a écrit : > Charlie M. wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: > > > > > >>Hello list > >> > >>Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is > >>about 3D acc

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: "Gary Montalbine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I downloaded 9.2rc2 ISO's into a directory. Downloaded the file > 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc > into the same directory. Tried to do a md5sum --status. Didn't work. Tried > md5sum --check. Didn't work. md5sum with each rc2 CD gives me a > letter/number combinati

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 12:39 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: > I downloaded 9.2rc2 ISO's into a directory. Downloaded the file > 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc > into the same directory. Tried to do a md5sum --status. Didn't work. > Tried md5sum --check. Didn't work. md5su

[expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
I downloaded 9.2rc2 ISO's into a directory. Downloaded the file 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc into the same directory. Tried to do a md5sum --status. Didn't work. Tried md5sum --check. Didn't work. md5sum with each rc2 CD gives me a letter/number combination. However I have nothing to check it against. I thi

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:29 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > can I ask if 'onto the > > scanner database' implies that you have actually had it working? I > > have a CanoScan FS2710 which is recognised, but I get a 100% freeze > >

Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-11 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Praedor Tempus wrote: Don't know if it's "just me" but...I installed the the Club 3.1.3 rpms on my desktop, and the texstar rpms on my laptop. The texstar KDE 3.1.3 system is gawd-awful slow on my laptop, much slower than the original KDE that came with 9.1, at least with regards to initial start

Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
Don't know if it's "just me" but...I installed the the Club 3.1.3 rpms on my desktop, and the texstar rpms on my laptop. The texstar KDE 3.1.3 system is gawd-awful slow on my laptop, much slower than the original KDE that came with 9.1, at least with regards to initial startup. Takes a LNG ti

Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-11 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Alex Fisher wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for MDK 9.1 or is it still "unstable" ? In case of "yes", which is the most stable source : TexStar or the Mdk Club ? I am using Texstar's

[expert] Re: Re: USB key drives and linux

2003-09-11 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: > > Try in the kcontrol program LookNFeel-Behavior-Devices and see if > that is checked and if this kind of device is checked to run. It's > possible that texstars system has different defaults than MDK's > > James > Jepp, thank you, all devices but harddrives

Re: [expert] Adding a header to KMail

2003-09-11 Thread deedee
On 9/11/2003 6:18:12 AM EDT, A V Flinsch wrote: >On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:12 pm, deedee wrote: >> I'd like to add an "Approved: " header to messages approving bounced >> posts to a mailing list that is managed with Majordomo. >> >> Is that possible with KMail? Anyone know how to do it? >>

[expert] I see...

2003-09-11 Thread Bill
I see Microsnot screwed the pooch again and hasnt fixed there friggin os! I just got a notice from f-prot that Three new vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows were identified by Microsoft on 10 September 2003. I dont think we need to worry about getting people to change over to Linux if M

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: Yeah, that can be frustrating. Hmmm, looking at my sources, somehow, although there is at least one 9.1 package, most of what I am seeing are 9.0 contrib/ packages. I don't know how that happened but, if you

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 07:13, lorne wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1 is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk > > I used urpmi, which also failed, but... urpmf then showed me that the > only versions of libwx_gtk Mandrake has ar

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 2:41 pm, Patricia Fraser wrote: > Hi Rolf, > > > Not having used midi much, I can only say there was a Mandrake > > Club article that explained how to set up midi in 9.1 and, when I > > followed it, I was able to play some midi streams. Here is that > > article: > > http://

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > lorne wrote: > Yeah, that can be frustrating. Hmmm, looking at my sources, somehow, > although there is at least one 9.1 package, most of what I am seeing are > 9.0 contrib/ packages. I don't know how that happened but, if you want,

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > > can I ask if 'onto the > scanner database' implies that you have actually had it working? I > have a CanoScan FS2710 which is recognised, but I get a 100% freeze > when I try to use it. > > Anne Yes, I was able to use it in Xsane-Gimp to

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1 is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk I used urpmi, which also failed, but... urpmf then showed me that the only versions of libwx_gtk Mandrake has are 2.4.*, which is why it failed. OOH!. Just learned som

Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Thanks, Anne, Ronald and Pierre. On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:27, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > > > I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with > > My /etc/modules.conf contains this line: > probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x ide-scsi > That's slightly different from the line I w

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Rolf, > Not having used midi much, I can only say there was a Mandrake Club > article that explained how to set up midi in 9.1 and, when I followed > it, I was able to play some midi streams. Here is that article: > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979&mode=nocomments Hah! that wor

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David E. Fox wrote: Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker I concur - audacity is good for mp3/wav editing - provided you have enough spare disk space. If you don't, don't try to save the project as a

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
lorne wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:05 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: What I'm trying to say is that I get >no package named hackaudacity. It isn't in most contrib sites. It must ONLY be at mandrake. ?? Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did

[expert] Re: KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Fisher
Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: >> Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for MDK 9.1 or is it still >> "unstable" ? >> In case of "yes", which is the most stable source : TexStar or the Mdk >> Club ? >> > I am using Texstar's packages and t

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:12 pm, many eyes noted that Patricia Fraser wrote: > Hi Anne, > > > Hi, Trish. I'm no expert at this, but I play midi files with kmidi - > > note that with kmid I get nothing at all. Have you tried kmidi? > > I've tried KMidi, KMid, playmidi with the -e switch (since otherw

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 10:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 9:18 am, KevinO wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? > > > If not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine > > > is set up. > > > > It is not th

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi all, Now that I've got alsa working with my CD, I've gone off to search ways to get MIDI working. I have a sneaking fondness for playmidi and have quite a collection of MIDI files; I'd hate to have to give 'em up! Alas! although I've progressed past utter silence and i

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:24:47 -0500 "J.C. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > To the original poster, François, and to Charlie. There is a lot of > confusion about using the Geforce4 MX 440 in Mandrake or, for that > mattter, any other Liunx OS using the 2.4.x kernel. I've got me a GF4 Ti,

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:48:00 +1000 Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > It only shows as many processes as your screen size can hold. Well, I'm at 1280x960, and it sure ain't occupyin' much space, LOL! I even tried to increase the geomety of the root-tail display, all it did was "spread" the s

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-11 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:19 am, many eyes noted that HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:24:32 -0700 (PDT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > > Awesome! That did it - instead of 'nohup -b' I did 'top -b' and it > > does exactly what I was hoping for. > > Does it show you all running processes??

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Anne, > Hi, Trish. I'm no expert at this, but I play midi files with kmidi - > note that with kmid I get nothing at all. Have you tried kmidi? I've tried KMidi, KMid, playmidi with the -e switch (since otherwise it says no playback device) - and they all lock the system completely. (KMail

Re: [expert] Adding a header to KMail

2003-09-11 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:12 pm, deedee wrote: > I'd like to add an "Approved: " header to messages approving bounced > posts to a mailing list that is managed with Majordomo. > > Is that possible with KMail? Anyone know how to do it? > From the KMail menu Settings -> Configure Kmail Sel

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 5:26 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that I've got alsa working with my CD, I've gone off to search > ways to get MIDI working. I have a sneaking fondness for playmidi > and have quite a collection of MIDI files; I'd hate to have to give > 'em up! > Hi, Trish.

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 9:18 am, KevinO wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If > > not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine is > > set up. > > It is not there by default. You create it if you want to override > msec's beha

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 9:18 am, KevinO wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If > > not, that implies that something is missing in the way mine is > > set up. > > It is not there by default. You create it if you want to override > msec's beha

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > This file doesn't exist in mine. Did you have to create it? If not, > that implies that something is missing in the way mine is set up. It is not there by default. You create it if you want to override msec's behavior in some wa

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 10:05 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:33:01 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why > > would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, > > but it wasn't allowed -

Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick

2003-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:07 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > Two comments: > > 1) The problem most people have with msec and permissions isn't > that it somehow doesn't "allow" them to make a change, but that > when the msec cron job runs later, it detects whatever change was > made (by comparing current

OT- was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring

2003-09-11 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > I didn't want to sound over-critical, but if no-one tells you there's > a problem you wouldn't know. I'll pop back and have another look. > Thanks for being cooperative. > Thank you for the constructive advice! The site is badly

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-11 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or even better... He can stop running X (or even installing X) on his server(s) ;-) KevinO John Haywood wrote: > I went through 3 months of constantly losing the Apps menu, and fixing it, > until I found the culprit - or at least enough of the culprit

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-11 Thread Brian Schroeder
Hi Trish, I have a sound card that played midis perfectly in mdk 7.2, but never since. It still does in Windows, on the rare times I use it. When I want to play midis in linux now, I use Timidity. This has both a command line interface, and gui interfaces available. TImidity translates the midi

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-11 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 18:10, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: If you tried it you would know whether or not it's working in a few seconds. If it's not working just hit "Ctrl+c" to kill it. I just tried it, renaming the rc1 iso to rc2. Here's the command (I left '--pro

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 18:10, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > If you tried it you would know whether or not it's working in a few > seconds. If it's not working just hit "Ctrl+c" to kill it. I just tried it, renaming the rc1 iso to rc2. Here's the command (I left '--progress' in just to be saf