On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the
> root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root
> password Freaky security
>
> Also, If you sta
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(10/16/2002 22:49)
>using a shell is "expert" is it? heh, give me lots of money for expert
>services and I will cut and paste you the bash manual pages.
Yes.
With the command line being de-emphasised by Microsoft*, more and
more people over time will be
On 10 Oct 2002 at 17:01, Franki wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just thought I'd ask,
> just how much bandwidth does Seti at home use???
>
> I have 4 boxes here that could be working on it, but I pay for bandwidth
> over a certain limit.. so I don't want to chew up my bandwidth
> (obviously :-)
Wel
On 10 Oct 2002 at 11:29, hans privat wrote:
> hi,
> are all the files there needed ?
Someone else will have to answer that ... I note that the RPM has, as
dependencies, large chunks of KDE*. This is a bit surprising given
that it's only artwork (the 'real' bluecurve is a lot more than
artwork
On 09 Oct 2002 12:40:59 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that bluecurve is much more than a theme. It's an actual
> way to break kde and gnome at the same time. As for the look well if
> people ever get over the anger at RH then it might be doable as a
> theme.
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:03:04 -0500 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is an important point to consider, however. If one is intending to be a
> commercial vendor of software, one of the MAIN considerations has to be
> useability/ease-of-use. Ease of code maintenance or code effi
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:29:45 -0500 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Redhat is right in this issue. A user, particularly a new user, should get a
> consistent look and feel from ALL their apps by default. That is a basic UI
> design DO. Different look, feel, behavior for each app is
"J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(10/02/2002 13:43)
>Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux
>then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them.
To be more accurate ... you're stuffed, statistically speaking ;)
HDs will 'just work' wi
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:42:08 +0100 "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much! This solved the ugly menu part of the problem! But my
> > main document rendering is still unusable... No matter which font I choose
> > the characters still clutter on top of each other...
>
>
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:34:05 +0100 Azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> topic: alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem on Mandrake 9.0
>
> I decided to start all over again.
>
> Installed Mdk9.0 from scratch, totally formatting over the old one.
> The installation recognised my USB mouse and it worked
On 01 Oct 2002 13:58:25 +0100 Andy Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am concerned though that I will lose the 'Applications' Menu,
> 'Actions' Menu and that task switcher thingy and not be able to get them
> back!?! Will they reappear on my menu at the bottom?
A new panel will appear blank,
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:06:31 -0400 PlugHead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, if anyone has an external USB CD-RW working, I'd love to see what's in
> your modules.conf...
As someone with such a device (iomega zipCD 650) which "just worked" here it
is: it looks remarkably similar to yours in t
On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Okay, I give up...
>
> I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing
> that is driving me crazy.
>
> In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left
> corner, no matte
On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other
> apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following
> problems trying to install some image processing software that I use.
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:54:42 +0100 bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i like being able to choose what os to reboot into from the shutdown
> dialogue, prompts a question though, is there a win utilty that will tell
> lilo what to reboot into? being a dual booter i sometimes need to reboot
>
On 26 Sep 2002 20:30:26 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't
> know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header..
> never from the same address...
I think this is the outpourings of a very old
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:29:59 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Installed Dolphin and GNOME2. Everything works wonderful except one
> annoyance:
>
> No matter how long I keep my finger on a key, it does not repeat. This
> makes scrolling through a text very annoying!
>
> I went
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 06:50, Gerard wrote:
> hi I was wondering if maybe you can support vendor
> specific external hardwares for Mandrake Linux 9,
> paritularly those products of Logitec. I have an
> external HD and a CD-R/DVD ROM.
You might be surprised as big advances have been made between
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:37, Alastair Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 07:29, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
>
> > 1. The boot disk creation code doesn't create a bootable boot disk! This is both
>from the
> > installer, and also from mkbootdisk. The floppy loads just abou
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 07:29, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> 1. The boot disk creation code doesn't create a bootable boot disk! This is both
>from the
> installer, and also from mkbootdisk. The floppy loads just about all the way, then
>says it failed.
> It never tries to access the hard disk. It
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 16:38, Lorne wrote:
> Thanks for the informative reply. I hope they get the word and put a little
> effort into setting up a mechanism to get input from their users. Even if
> they don't read every report. Just let us poor smucks "think" they are. :)
What is really needed
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 22:45, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 13:40 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > Bummmer, Guess this means I don't spend the $10 US on a new
> > copy...Unless I can find DOS 6 somewhere. I guess I need to start
> > looking...
>
> Hmm, is it against the laws
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:34, Ken Hawkins wrote:
> It sure is interesting to read some of these old war (or is that whore)
> stories. I didn't get "into" computers until about '91. the best i can
> claim is writing DOS batch files to give a color menu display (rather
> than just c:>), and automati
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 18:29, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Thats it! I'm going to have to grab one of these things. I haven't been
> this jazzed about a machine for a long time.
Well, I put my money where my mouth is and will soon be the owner of an
Amiga 1200 with 16MB RAM, 340MB hard drive, CD-ROM and
dh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(09/06/2002 15:29)
>Excellent description, you neglected to mention that except for the
>very (very!) earliest of versions it was/is also a fully pre-emptive,
>multitasking OS.
>The first computer I owned that could draw me away from it as far as
>usability was a
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(09/05/2002 15:24)
>My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!!
>they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the world
>they're not still produced. What caused their downfall?
I'm pretty sure there'll be a fair n
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(09/05/2002 11:55)
>James Sparenberg wrote:
>> Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*)
>>
>> James
>
>I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always
>say they miss them. What was so special about them t
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 14:17, Azrael wrote:
> Gave 9.0 beta 3 a spin last week.. and couldn't get my alcatel
> speedtouch usb adsl modem to work.
>
> I downloaded the mgmt.o from alcatel and put it where it was supposed to
> go.. but couldn't get it to work properly.
>
> Wondered if beta4 had
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote:
> PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every
> version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do
> make sure to put the cron job back in slocate.
slocate is there.
Apparently there was a big dis
y wife to Linux completely in
> turn making my life better. Any suggestions or reccomendations?
Try
http://qtella.sourceforge.net/ (KDE)
http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ (Gnome)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954651.html (for amusement)
Alastair
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thing of a connossieur of changes and edits to Web sites to remove
inconvenient facts from history, I know that if this page changes
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2
you start counting the spoons :)
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with the same problem, such as xephem (Motif) and scid (Tcl/Tk) ...
Alastair
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Integrated Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit"
> network card ?
These I can't comment on because my hardware is slightly older (3C905 Ethernet
card, integrated, and Teac 24xCD-ROM). Generally what's inside the box is
more important than who the OEM is.
Alastair
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://localhost:631/
(and logging in as root after clicking on the Administration button)? This
gives you a rather nice Web interface and allows CUPS printers to be deleted
from there.
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or
> not) and when.
There's another one, caught by a Lithuanian flypaper:
http://dammit.lt/apache-worm/
At the moment (see bugtraq mailing list)* it's being taken apart to see
what it does.
Alastair
* http://online.securityfocus.com/archive
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ated, but you'll be
able to extract much from it. Its value is that it's an MSc thesis (so
it's not just a random journalistic effort; it'll have been reviewed
and defended).
Alastair
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on
non-quantitative issues, unnecessary fears, usage reports, other sites
providing related information, and ends with some conclusions."
Alastair
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quot;open
source" licenses will be added to club downloads section, if we are
allowed to do so.
* Finally, in case someone builds packages with free software which is
legally problematic in USA, but not in the country he lives in, these
packages will have to go to some special repositor
GHz
with 2GB of memory (we bought stocks when memory was being given away
in cornflakes packets), 180GB of RAID storage (hard disks now being
given away ditto) etc. etc.
Alastair
* because of bizarre 'policies' where it's physically hosted ...
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in schools than replacing equipment which
still has much useful life in it, for example.
I suspect that, to the proposers, £600 or £700 for a new machine is
nothing, and that they would be surprised to hear that theirs was the
financial situation of a _small minority_ of people.
Alastair
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eps coming up I've put my copies in:
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm
http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm
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ad the installation package
http://prdownloads.sf.net/kstars/kstars-0.9.kde3.tar.gz
and build it the problem is solved. (And it's worth it - kstars is
excellent :)
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Andrew wrote:
>My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to
>everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens
>when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a
>specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of
>IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, havi
to be cast from a predefined _and
obvious_ mould; this is a bad American habit which needs to be watched
:/
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ed passwords based on the
frequencies of digraphs and trigraphs (in English) interspersed with
_unlikely_ single letters. This produced memorable, speakable passwords
which were also nonsense (and could be trivially altered with symbols
or digits). The following seems to do roughly the same th
? Actually building the application works OK as far as I can
see, but even restarting KDE doesn't put the icon in the Control
Centre.
Alastair
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Co
ck - I used the DOS and Windows
versions and they were first-rate.
http://www.f-prot.com/f-prot/products/fplin.html
(It costs businesses $300 per server per annum but is free for personal
use!)
Alastair
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On Tuesday 28 May 2002 8:38 pm, kwan wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote:
> > As for the second, you have to know it exists: it's remarkable _how
> > different_ the approach to learning how to use Linux is to some
ing out Mandrake CDs :)
Perhaps there should be an 'Conceptual Differences between Windows and
Linux HOWTO' ... ? (If anyone else thinks it should exist I might have
a shot at writing it; there's nothing like a difficult challenge ... !)
Alastair
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he other two an
IDE CD-RW drive only. CD-RW manufacturers are various (Yamaha, Teac,
Lite-On) and lilo.conf is OK in all instances.
On the theme of decadence, here's a new KDE 3-compatible CD burning
frontend which IMO is the best yet:
http://k3b.sourceforge.net/
Alastair
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(but I
haven't found anything so far);
- - retrieve my second PC from behind the sofa, install Mandrake 8.2 from
the CDs and not a byte extra, then build away.
Alastair
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next day.
- From my experience Linux _is_ hard on hardware and tests both ends of
the 'bathtub curve' (imagine age of component along X axis and
probability of failure along Y axis ;)
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orth, my Lexmark Z42 appears not to be bothered by which
USB port it's connected to.
Alastair
* mouse not re-awakening when leaving power-saving mode
** some momentary connectivity outages
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. Press Apply.
Thereafter, clicking on any URL in KDE should launch Mozilla rather than
Konqueror :)
Alastair
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ms and wiping works in different ways. It looks as though
http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
is the closest you'll get.
I used to use BCWipe on Windows, which was good, and there are Linux
flavours of it:
http://www.jetico.com/linux
Alastair
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l-pane file manager (like the old Norton Commander) and has a
'Shred' option which, from the noise the hard disk makes, does
overwrite a file multiply :)
http://krusader.sourceforge.net/
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d bang a couple of
weeks after I switched to Linux ;)
I now have an ATA100 7200rpm 40GB IBM which is working wonderfully well.
Alastair
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groups.google.com is mandatory, though). A disproportionate quantity of
'arrogant and supercilious' people seem to frequent Usenet; I'm
surprised you were attacked on a mailing list as, in my experience,
they're much less problematic.
Alastair
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how many people vowed _never_ to go back after that sort of treatment?
The 'newbie', a word I hate because of its slightly patronising air,
could well be in an influential position 'in real life'; flaming
_anyone_ is potentially a lost sale, or a lot of lost sales ...
Alastai
ype 'kmenuedit' ... it's still there but hidden.
Alastair
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it all very well.
Alastair
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an AGP 2x slot supplied and
I'll be using it soon :)
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GX150's build quality; on opening it up I've rarely
seen a neater presentation, and squeezing everything into a small space
is ingeniously done).
Alastair
PS Never mind the Wal-Mart flap; www.novatech.co.uk build machines
without an OS, and there's a pretty impressive choice of compon
to it);
- - a wonderfully clear and sharp screen (especially with DVI output);
- - no more tired eyes or headaches (in my case);
- - no more degaussing or playing with geometry controls to try to get an
(almost) rectangular picture ;)
Alastair
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(relating to the Speedtouch USB and font support) and
eventually found:
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/
It uses Bugzilla - probably the most impenetrable Web application known
to mortal Man ...
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Want to buy your Pa
#x27;m a countryman of Mr Hume, not a 'limey' :P
(Follow-up set to [mandrake-offtopic])
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hobgoblin of little minds; given consistency a great
soul has nothing to do."
Regarding Microsoft:
"The louder they talk of honour, the faster we count the spoons."
Regarding Linux:
"All life is an experiment, and the more experiments you make the
better."
(disclaimer - f
els you could probably have bought 2 or
3 perfectly good video cards by now for the (notional) cost of the time
expended!
Alastair
PS I use an 'cheap but good' ATI Radeon VE (with DVI output) which
worked first time without any problems.
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stair
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On Sunday 05 May 2002 3:33 am, John Haywood wrote:
> On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote:
> > There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can
> > define quite precisely.
>
> not just KDE3 if I'm right.
>
> > If I press the r
27;
should not happen in restoreState!
An English translation of that would be good ;) The problem is
particularly strange given I have 0.5GB of memory ...
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x27;normal system').
It's possible that the permissions on /tmp have got messed up. After
fiddling around with Bastille and various other things I couldn't start
X, then found that the permissions were wrong; a quick msec 2 reset
them, allowed various temporary files to be writte
ography/fontpack/default.htm
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