Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 4:42 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: BTW, I just added an Advanced POPfile Configuration section to the existing POPfile page. Let me know if it isn't as clear as it could be. It certainly looks clear. I think I should take a look at that as soon as I can spare the time. It

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 2:18 am, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server

[expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that is identified as spam. I have trained the Bayesian filter (supposedly) to identify certain messages as

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts file for it

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:59:06 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: dd is probably all anyone on Linux needs, but doesn't have menus and a pretty face. The M$ware may be able to do conversion if the source and destination don't have matching CHS? I use DFSee

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. Generally they are viagra messages. The one that really galls me is one that uses the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the actual proper spelling. Nonetheless, this shouldn't matter...or so one would

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:27:12 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
try joining the spamassassin user's list and asking about tuning. On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:27, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 6:59 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 6:24 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to make them the same type and size). Assuming

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 11:23 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:59:06 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: dd is probably all anyone on Linux needs, but doesn't have menus and a pretty face. The M$ware may be able to do conversion if the

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Schwartz Avi
On Nov 10, 2003, at 13:27, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that is identified as spam. I have trained the Bayesian

Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:27 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that is identified as spam. I have trained the Bayesian filter (supposedly) to identify

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Sridhar G
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:27 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 6:24 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb dd can copy anything anywhere that there exist sectors to

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Urwin wrote: The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive will be identical to the source drive. No it won't. Everything from the first sector through the last sector # on the old disk will be identical, which is not the same thing. If, like most people,

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 7:08 am, James Sparenberg wrote: partimage you do have that one. It's only a urpmi away. Fine. Is it well documented? Anne Yes, considering that I could use it. And I can top the thick headed list when needed.

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:24 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive will be identical to the source drive. No it won't. Everything from the first sector through the last sector # on the old disk will be identical,

Re: [expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
Norman Zhang escribió: Hi, I followed the steps given in README.RPM 1. mailbox_transport = lmtp:$myhostname (/etc/postfix/main.cf) 2. lmtp cmd=lmtpd listen=lmtp prefork=0 (/etc/cyrus.conf) 3. add lmtp_admins: cyruslmtp at the bottom of /etc/cyrus.conf There's an error in /etc/cyrus.conf. The

[expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I followed the steps given in README.RPM 1. mailbox_transport = lmtp:$myhostname (/etc/postfix/main.cf) 2. lmtp cmd=lmtpd listen=lmtp prefork=0 (/etc/cyrus.conf) 3. add lmtp_admins: cyruslmtp at the bottom of /etc/cyrus.conf 4. useradd cyruslmtp with password testing123 I think I

[expert] Re: Publishing text - OT

2003-11-10 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:05:26PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data What are you referring to here? I have tried inline graphics either with or without text flowing around the graphic. This can be nifty, given a good graphic and proper page placement,

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
Anne Wilson escribió: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to make them the same type and size). Assuming that the old disk is /dev/hda and the new disk is /dev/hdb the following command should work: dd if=/dev/hda

[expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I followed the steps given in README.RPM 1. mailbox_transport = lmtp:$myhostname (/etc/postfix/main.cf) 2. lmtp cmd=lmtpd listen=lmtp prefork=0 (/etc/cyrus.conf) 3. add lmtp_admins: cyruslmtp at the bottom of /etc/cyrus.conf There's an error in /etc/cyrus.conf. The line should be added

Re: [expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
Norman Zhang escribió: Sorry for all the noise. I found that 9.2 is using saslauthd by default. The information is provided in /etc/imapd.conf. sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN I do have /etc/imapd.conf as it came with LM 9.2, but not smtpd.conf. I guess smtpd.conf is indeed

Re: [expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
Norman Zhang escribió: Thanks for the clarification. I guess I will use TLS on top of PLAIN. Well, that won't change anything (I mean, sasl is not involved so using tls won't mean changing sasl configuration). If you want to avoid cyrus-imapd advertising plaintext authentication over an

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: Since the local addressing scheme in place at my company is quite unique I would even be open to doing something like having a script called in rc.local check to see what the network ip block of the local network is and writing out

[expert] movies, jpegs, etc

2003-11-10 Thread Michael Holt
Hey all, M$ has a somewhat new program called 'moviemaker' which you can download for free for winxp. I would like to know if there is something comparible for linux. I was asked if I could help with some video production at my church and they want to use Adobe Premier. As always, I would like

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:24 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive will be identical to the source drive. No it won't. Everything from the first sector through the last sector # on the old disk will be identical,

[expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Norman Zhang
information is provided in /etc/imapd.conf. sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN I do have /etc/imapd.conf as it came with LM 9.2, but not smtpd.conf. I guess smtpd.conf is indeed replaced by main.cf. Well, no, smtpd.conf is the sasl configuration for postfix smtp auth. If

[expert] ATI Radeon 9800Pro with 64bit AMD Opteron

2003-11-10 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Has anyone tried ATI Radeon 9800Pro with 64bit AMD Opteron? I saw the AMD64 RC1 is out now, but there was no mention. I want to setup a high-powered GNU/Linux graphics workstation. Tips appreciated JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Luca Olivetti
Norman Zhang escribió: After putting lmtp_admins: cyruslmtp into /etc/imapd.conf, now I can receive mail. Setting smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes would mean all clients sending mail to Postfix will be authenticated via sasl, including Exchange or other peoples' servers too? No, that would be

[expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, mail. Setting smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes would mean all clients sending mail to Postfix will be authenticated via sasl, including Exchange or other peoples' servers too? Please ignore my question. smtp_sasl_auth_enable keyword tells postfix to attempt to authenticate on all outbound

Re: [expert] Twiki (semi-hijack)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: [referring to POPfile v0.20.1, vs. v0.19.1] Are there any big advantages in upgrading the version? From what I gather from the relevant announcements, the use of BerkeleyDB instead of flat-file storage greatly improves the processing speed, and there

Re: [expert] cyclades under devfs

2003-11-10 Thread Alexandre Jacarandá
Whatever GNU/Linux you are using, it's good to look on /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg . This both files will give you some hints if you compiled on kernel or module to have access to your card. --- Alexandre Gonçalves Jacarandá Consultor de Tecnologia

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread et
On Monday 10 November 2003 10:37 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Anne Wilson escribió: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to make them the same type and size). Assuming that the old disk is /dev/hda and the new disk is

[expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module. How can I configure it, either manually or with drakconf? BTW, the installer did not detect the card, and did not load the draksound for it. I have a home LAN,

Re: [expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module. How can I configure it, either manually or with drakconf? BTW, the installer did not detect the card, and

[expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd

2003-11-10 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, Sorry for all the noise. I found that 9.2 is using saslauthd by default. The information is provided in /etc/imapd.conf. sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN I do have /etc/imapd.conf as it came with LM 9.2, but not smtpd.conf. I guess smtpd.conf is indeed replaced by

Re: [expert] Re: Kmail po3-filters

2003-11-10 Thread Jarmo
On Monday 10 November 2003 18:26, Björn Lundin wrote: In KMail Config, network-part, your receive-account, did you check 'Filter messages if they are greater than x bytes'? That is how you enable pop-filters. /Björn AH...No...Didn'n know about that at all...Have tried to read all

[expert] [dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com: hijack cont.]

2003-11-10 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Update of what is happening to David, forwarded to the list as per his request. David, I'd like to see those requests from your logs. Blue skies... Todd - - Forwarded message from David E. Fox - Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003

Re: [expert] Inspiron 3200 sound-Mandrake 9.0

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 10 November 2003 8:10 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:21, Rob Blomquist wrote: I see on the web, that the sound card for this machine is said to be the Crystal 4237B and it is said to work with the CS4232 module. How can I configure it, either manually or with

Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
I downloaded flash player 6 from macromedia download site and install it on mandrake 9.2. It used to work on mandrake 9.0 with mozilla 1.1 but not 9.2 with mozilla 1.4. Anyone get this work? Thanks, Make sure it didn't put the libs in either /usr/lib/netscape/plugin or

Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 10 November 2003 4:29 am, Greg Meyer wrote: The best way to get flashplayer working on Mandrake is to get the Mandrake RPMS from Club Commercial Downloads. Everything goes in the right place and it works in all browsers. Is there a urpmi source for the Club Commercial site? I would

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-10 Thread Mof
The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I noticed something odd in lilo.conf : append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5

Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:45, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, M$ has a somewhat new program called 'moviemaker' which you can download for free for winxp. I would like to know if there is something comparible for linux. I was asked if I could help with some video production at my church and

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I noticed something odd in lilo.conf : append=quiet

[expert] MDK 9.2 lilo problem after install of updated kernel 2.4.22-21

2003-11-10 Thread gczerw
I did a completely fresh install of 9.2 and installed lilo with no problem. However after rebooting, logging in and installing all of the upgrades successfully, I then downloaded the updated kernel and did an rpm -ivh kernel2.4.22-21*.rpm. The kernel installed, but gave me an error when updating

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to huh ?? (page times out) sorry, a power line snapped on our street and power's been out for thirteen hours. That page explains why setting your reply-to on a

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to

Re: [expert] Bizarre postfix problem cant send mail

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
A lot of answers were written, you might want to go through the mail archives. My strong, nay, vehement suggestion at this point is to format that box's disk drives and start over, then ask specific questions. Portsentry is good. It is also non-free in the OSI sense since Psionic's purchase by

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:22, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:28, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend and

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:20, stefmit wrote: ... ftp? why not use IPX too as long as we're talking dead tech. Perhaps because this is what those other boxes have ... i.e. this IS what I have to deal with ... Sorry, I was a bit short. I've never had a good experience with Draksync, had it

[expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
Am I alone in noticing the insanity. As if SCO wasn't bad enough. Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Now the CEO of RedHat (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick with Windows as Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Maybe I should send the SOB a copy of

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
oh yeah, and if ftpmirror doesn't do it for you, man ncftpput or ncftpget (depending on direction of course). For bonus points, here's incremental support once you've sync'ed the tree: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/tools/backups -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their desktop offering in the server room. They've chosen a method that cuts off the nose to spite the face, but I still

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Am I alone in noticing the insanity. As if SCO wasn't bad enough. Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Now the CEO of RedHat (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick with Windows as Linux

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Mof
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use anyway ? And if acpi is the prefered, how do I load up the right modules ? Mof. This order of commands should

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3721 days James Sparenberg wrote: Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Uhm...for their own code, yes, they can...it won't be the GPL any more, but it's their own license. Depending on the changes, it may or may not still be Free Software and/or Open

Re: [expert] Bizarre postfix problem cant send mail

2003-11-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 7:10 am, Jack Coates wrote: A lot of answers were written, you might want to go through the mail archives. My strong, nay, vehement suggestion at this point is to format that box's disk drives and start over, then ask specific questions. Portsentry is good. It is also

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively small subpopulation. I use it exclusively but then I have been playing with linux for

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their desktop offering in the server room. They've chosen a

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Luca Olivetti
Jack Coates wrote: worst case scenario is a hated albatross cousin to RH server, best case scenario is that they've spawned their own new competitor. http://www.caosity.org Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
reply-to still a problem. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use anyway ? And if acpi is the prefered, how

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I myself would not automatically say, Use linux instead! It's just as good as windoze with regards to desktop use. In many cases it IS as good, if not better, than doze. No viruses, more stable, etc, but it does come at a cost of increased

Re: [expert] Missing menus in window managers

2003-11-09 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:42, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Edit /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, and where it has title=, make it title=Style (actually *any* word will fix it). Then re-run update-menus -v as root. This is a known combo-bug (new techie term!) caused by Fluxbox and RPM. You might check

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Terry Smith
I'm not sure I'm in total agreement. The computing community is not made up of only two types of users: experts (many of whom use linux) and complete neophytes (who, for the sake of argument, use Windows). There is, in fact, a wide spectrum of folks - some of whom want an appliance, those who are

[expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Anne Wilson
Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the new drive. We have had workmen in the house for over 2

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 10:41 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:24 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively small subpopulation. Hmm, I disagree. My 10 and 12 year old (not to mention

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:54 am, Jack Coates wrote: That's good strategy in the proprietary world, but the open source community around both distributions has to buy into the idea for it to work in this case. Well, it is new but I think that once the community realizes that RH is

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:41:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 11:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:24 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively small subpopulation.

[expert] fetchmail not working on 9.2

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Noble
I installed 9.2 all the patches and fetchmail does not work. I can go back to 9.0 and fetchmail works. Has anybody gotten fetchmail to work on 9.2, if so what is the trick? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 10:41, Anne Wilson wrote: Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the new

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 09 November 2003 9:26 am, Dan Gordon wrote: snip Not likely, hard drives are a sealed unit and if dust did get in then it would be a defective drive. I have had two drives go in the last 6 months the way you describe, they just dont make

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Noble
Anne, Usually when a drive starts to make noise, it is caused by the bearings. I have had drives last for years while making noise. But if this is a new drive (less than a year) you will probably be able to get it replaced. But since you will have to deal with the manufacturer of the drive

Re: [expert] providing an SSL and non SSL way of accessing each domains www and cgi-bin.

2003-11-09 Thread Franki
Brian V Bonini wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 13:44, Franki wrote: I think you are not understanding what I mean.. Right now, I have the cert bound to my secure.my-domain.com subdomain.. I don't need the cert to work with any other domains... I just want to create a way whereby I can give my

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Franki schrieb am Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:58:46 +0800: Perth has dozens of small business servers (biggest company has 40 employees) All of them are mandrake, non are 9.2 (yet) but that might change sometime soon when I am happy with it. (servers are 7.2 mostly, but some 8.1/8.2/9.0 machines

Re: [expert] Missing menus in window managers

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:07:43 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:42, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Edit /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, and where it has title=, make it title=Style (actually *any* word will fix it). Then re-run

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, bascule wrote: is there a way to get xtart to start a session on another screen, a-la 'startx -- :1' Yes, by using Hans Updyke's modified Xtart script, myXtart: http://www.dimensional.com/~hansup/linux/xtart/ It works just like the regular Xtart, but it will determine the

Re: [expert] Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-09 Thread Linux
Yes, the volume is turned up in aumix, alsamixer and kmix. I ran the sound configuration tool. That doesn't help. Thanks anyway. Adrian On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:13:54 + Alexis L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: Indeed, I have the same audio chip set, and after a few hours

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
I would LOVE to be able to do this in OpenOffice. I would LOVE for the document on the screen to appear as it does when I print it out (Lyx gives no indication of what the output will actually look like). LyX and LaTeX not WYSIWYG editors and actually make it a point in their documentation.

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 3:57 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 10:41 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 5:06 pm, Michael Noble wrote: Anne, Usually when a drive starts to make noise, it is caused by the bearings. I have had drives last for years while making noise. But if this is a new drive (less than a year) you will probably be able to get it replaced. But since you

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 09 November 2003 03:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Basically I interpret what he said as, Thanks to your devotion over the last 8 years we have a solid product, now fsck off and don't bother us anymore. Your work, time and effort we didn't pay for, has been of tremendous value to

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 10:04, Bill Mullen wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, bascule wrote: is there a way to get xtart to start a session on another screen, a-la 'startx -- :1' Yes, by using Hans Updyke's modified Xtart script, myXtart: http://www.dimensional.com/~hansup/linux/xtart/ Or go

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3721 days Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively small subpopulation. I

[expert] 9.2 and Gramofile

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am getting back to trying to record some tapes to mp3, and I am finding that Gramofile is being weird. Basically, when I choose the output file, and start recording, I get a blank screen. I am not sure if I am going to get a recording, but I sure have no recording screen. Has anybody else

[expert] Problems grabbing Standard Audio Input (was 9.2 and Gramofile)

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
So I hunted around, and found that a program had crashed, leaving /dev/dsp occupied, so I killed it off, and tried again. Now Gramofile acts like it should, giving me the recording screen. But still, I have some sort of problem with picking up the standard input with anything: gramofile,

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread Salane KIng
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:22 am, bascule wrote: is there a way to get xtart to start a session on another screen, a-la 'startx -- :1' bascule Edit /etc/X11/xdm/xservers change at the bottom from this: :0 local /bin/nice -n -10 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 to this: :0 local /bin/nice -n

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Yes, I know lyx is not WYSIWYG and that it is advertised as the ridiculous WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean). In point of fact, it is the result of being stuck working with Latex via a GUI. It does a lot to remove the need of learning an entire programing language (LaTex) just to

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Fine. Do they all have root password available so they can do updates, reconfigure, build and install? These are things that are essentially handfed to windoze users. You click on an install button and app X is installed. Done. On linux this requires root. Simple enough if you are used

[expert] [OT] Publishing text (was: (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?)

2003-11-09 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:36:23PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data [...] There is NOTHING like Word/Wordperfect + EndNote in linux - Lyx contains it all in one package but you give up WYSIWYG and the ease that comes with that. Well, on the other hand:

[expert] Re: (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:42:04PM -0800, Jack Coates wrote: [...] RH is trying to build two truly separate distributions, a server and a desktop, with different source trees, different package revisions, different config tools... [...] Errr... While I don't like the direction RH is going

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Gramofile

2003-11-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 09 November 2003 2:04 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am getting back to trying to record some tapes to mp3, and I am finding that Gramofile is being weird. Basically, when I choose the output file, and start recording, I get a blank screen. I am not sure if I am going to get a

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Phil G.
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:49:57 -0500, Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fine. I'm not disagreeing. But I have a couple observations. Now that Christmas ads are in full force, I noticed there is no reason for me to look at the software ads. Pre-linux I was always buying something,

Re: [expert] [OT] Publishing text (was: (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?)

2003-11-09 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know what this means. I write a paragraph in OO, in Lyx, and in Abiword. Same paragraph. I then print it. It looks identical regardless of what I used to generate it. The text is whatever quality the printer can produce. There is

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:49, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Fine. Do they all have root password available so they can do updates, reconfigure, build and install? These are things that are essentially handfed to windoze users. You click on an install button and app X is installed. Done. On

[expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-09 Thread Greg Meyer
I have a laptop that connects to my office e-mail server as an IMAP client. Sometimes I am outside the firewall, and in this case, I can connect to the server using the server's fqdn. When I am inside the firewall, I can connect to the server by making an entry in my /etc/hosts file for it

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