was wondering a question along these same lines.
ML8.0 and KDE2 is absolutely beautiful, at least for
the length of time I was able to see it. I could use
either xfree 3.x or xfree 4.x with no change to the
following problem.
I too have locking or freezing on 8.0
I have a KA-6100 viachipset
I was wondering if you couldn't make a copy of the etc directory in another
partition and copy it back or would it not be compatible after the upgrade?
You made some great points.
Bambi
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, kf wrote:
I didn't get Pavan's entire post, so I might be off, but I've done one
) release..no mention
of it being in beta. Went back to the site and it is still in their download
section the new version...and is still a free download.
Bambi
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, maiplace wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECT
I think we all feel this way about Civileme!
Thanks Civileme! Wish you all the best!
Bambi
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Pelon wrote:
I feel like the wind just changed directions and
it's time for Mary Poppins to go.
Civileme, if you can hear me out there, I want
you to know how much I
It is free for the registering at the sun site...version 5.2
not in Beta anymore.
Bambi
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Greg Stewart wrote:
Try the SUN website, although I think it's a development package and is not free.
Check freshmeat.net to see if there are any free Java engines (i have no idea--i
Yes you are getting through on the list...hope you got this one.
:)
Bambi
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I haven't seen anything on this list for a few days. It's usually high
volume. Am I getting through?
Brian.
--
This one came through to the list with the hyphen in the email.
Bambi
On Mon, 24 Jul
2000, Bob wrote: I dunno if this will go thru but it seems i can send to
linuxmandrake.com but linux-mandrake.com refuses the email.
At 08:13 PM 7/24/2000 +0200, you wrote:
Dear people,
during some
reply ...
testing 456
:)
Bambi
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
testing123
Forgive me if this is repeated...I have had to re-write it three times, then
kill KMail because it was stuck and wouldn't send.
I wouldn't look for StarOffice to be the Netscrappy browser/email salvation.
It is the most hoggy, bloated and beautiful suite ever.
You must load their desktop
Middleditch wrote:
Fran Parker wrote:
Not everyone wants or needs to take the kind of chances you do.
Not everyone wants or needs to, as you suggest, reinstall due to
running as root and opening yourself up to invasion and loss.
Not everyone wants or needs to take the unnecessary time
That is what I have been trying to say,
obviously unsuccessfully. Thanks!
Bambi
Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 06:16:53PM -0400, Fireman71 wrote:
Hmmm, i run root all the time and will continue to do so. couple of reasons.
I got tired of typing su and sudo about every
My understanding is that this is a UNIX/LINUX thing, not a Mandrake
thing. Other distros would have the same functionality (I use this
word intentionally!)
One needs to understand that Root is not a user! Root is administrator.
Get that one and you will keep your system longer than anyone who
You are absolutely right Civileme!
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
Hoyt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:34 AM
Subject: [expert] RIGHT CLICK--NEW - Folder
Are you folks who are complaining
Exactly!
Bambi
John Aldrich wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:34 AM
Subject: [expert] RIGHT CLICK--NEW - Folder
Are you folks who are complaining
You and your guru is absolutely right Pj!
We have all seen what running without a net under Microsoft means!
Bambi
Pj wrote:
My guru wasn't very polite about /root. He said something to the effect of,
"Stay the he** out of root unless you are making a system change." It was
good advise
Great analogy Michael!
Bambi
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote:
I find it arrogant that Mandrake would deliberatly cripple the
functionality
of programs in order to prohibit certain behavior that they have
decided is
inappropriate. This kind of "I know better than you" unwelcomed
Not everyone wants or needs to take the kind of chances you do.
Not everyone wants or needs to, as you suggest, reinstall due to
running as root and opening yourself up to invasion and loss.
Not everyone wants or needs to take the unnecessary time to do
that...su is not hard!
If everyone wanted
No problem with the All in Wonder Pro
with 7.0 (Air) with corresponding X.
Don't know about the 128.
The only thing I can't get to work yet,
is something that the programmers are
working on as we speak...TV Out, and
DVD. The work on this is coming along
nicely, however it has not progressed
partition. I sure home that will
be OK.
When I was prompted for registration in the program,
I checked that I had already registered when downloaded.
I hope that helps some.
Bambi
maiplace wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Fran Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: John@Aldrich
Hi Luis,
Could it be that the hard drive is borderline and Linux
realizes when Windoze doesn't?
Bambi
Luis Seidel wrote:
Hi, Mandrake experts:
I'm not sure of being an expert myself, although I've installed a number of 7.0
and 7.1 Mandrakes in different machines, but now I'm stuck.
I do not generally have that problem anymore. I upgraded to
the 4.72 128bit netscape and now all runs fine.
Maybe you are using 4.7 that came with Mandrake?
It is Java handicapped :)
Bambi
andy W wrote:
Hi there,
We are currently switching from Windows98
to Linux for all our Internet
Hi Bob and all,
Bob, this is excellent and works really well!
Now if we could get it to initiate kppp ...so you could see
the modem traffic and see throughput without looking
at the log. Haven't put it in the rc file yet...but works really
well from the terminal so far. We are testing it
It is a typo. newest I saw today
was staroffice 5.2...had just gone
back for the adabas 16meg download
today. It installed as easily with the
.bin file (after chmod 777 so_filename)
as the first .bin file from sun.
Boy, before I updated adabas it is one
of the slowest program suites I have
Faster or not is not the issue...skip the VIA chipset!
Been there, done that! I have a VIA chipset and
unless they have made it more multi-OS friendly
than my VIA chipset, skip it! The one I have was
built for Windows and we had a heck of a time
getting it to work with Linux. It is finally
Tell that to my normally easy to install USR Sportser
modem and mobo built-in Yamaha OPL3-SA3
sound card...and the PnP and non-PnP game
we had to play with this mobo :)
Bambi
Dave Lers wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Faster or not is not the issue...skip the VIA chipset
Are the Citroën still in production?
We were blessed with one when I was
a child and it was such a cool car.
My father loved it.
Bambi
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm glad Mandrake has most of their software
repositories in the US, and other countries!!
I
Same here, but it said you could go back to the site and get it.
I did see it, but didn't download it since I thought it would
have everything in the 97.+ meg file...since it was supposed
to be the total install file. Oh, well.
I will go back and get it for later when add another hard drive
to
Hi Traci,
I checked and realplayer was set on automatic, no UDP.
I changed it to use specific transports and looked at it and
it was already set to TCP only. I have left it there, instead
of auto.
Thanks,
Bambi
Traci Collins wrote:
Have you setup RealPlayer to use TCP exclusively? By
Hi Pedro,
I just downloaded the 97.xx meg file for StarOffice
overnight and installed it with no problems.
I registered when I downloaded and no serial number
is needed for the free version downloaded.
Are you having trouble installing it?
In case you are having trouble, you install it as
BTW:
I installed the StarOffice 5.2 that is out on
the sun site and couldn't install everything
...too little space :( But it is a cool program
suite and am enjoying what I could install).
Just wish it would import WP files too.
Bambi
Pedro Cardoso wrote:
Hi!
Anyone can help me with
Hi Wayne,
Here is the message I sent to Pedro, about StarOffice
when I downloaded it last night ... the chmod I understand
makes the file executable, the *bin file is correct, it is the
StarOffice 5.2 setup/install file and after you chmod, you
can execute it.:
I just downloaded the 97.xx meg
Wonder if this is connected somehow to why I can't get a live
stream from Live365.com? It apparently uses 'm3u' and 'pls'
extensions on the live stuff. 'pls' was already in my xmms setup
and I added in netscape the extensions to realplayer and it tries
to open it but won't play anything but
why not try gnorpm from terminal window as root while
connected it will update itself and then you will have rpms
from the net to choose from.
Bambi
Patrick Erler wrote:
hallo Expert!
can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into
rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can
BTW: I use gnorpm from the terminal window as root in KDE.
Bambi
Patrick Erler wrote:
hallo Expert!
can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into
rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net?
PAT
--
vcard/LDAP/PGP:
actually that is not root per se, it is su
Bambi
Patrick Erler wrote:
hallo Expert!
can someone point me to HTTP or FTP urls which i can enter into
rpmdrake or kpackage, so that i can install packages from the net?
PAT
--
vcard/LDAP/PGP:
Horray!
Thanks Denis!
Bambi
Denis HAVLIK wrote:
Hi, folks
Thx to john ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I have finaly found a way to eliminate
the "dupes", I hope.
It appears that these duplicates have more than on "X-Loop" line, so I am
going to filter this from now on.
I do not even WANT to
Just a thought...maybe it is not airport code...maybe it
has to do with the version of Mandrake 7.0 (Air) you
are using? Maybe that has something to do with it?
Bambi
Guillaume Rousse wrote:
You can alos try mandrake tool userdrake (console or X), but i'm not sure if it
is a autonomous
Your test message came through loud and clear :)
Bambi
Vincent Danen wrote:
Well, it's good to be back... this is also a test message to make
sure everything is working as it should be again... phew
Hi guys!
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net
Freezer Burn
Hi Payne,
Upgrade to Netscape 4.72. I upgraded and it fixed the problem
with Java. I am using the 128-bit. I got it from Netscape's
site, however there is a mandrake i586 rpm as well.
128-bit is in crypto files. Someone else may need to give
the URL for it though. I can't remember it
hing to do with fragmentation. It is run if the system
has crashed or is shut down incorrectly and is also run as
preventative measure every X number of boots
On 12 Jun 2000, at 20:31, Fran Parker wrote:
Far as I know, it does it on its own at a determined number of boots.
You probably have seen it at
You won't get killed here...I agree!
But hopefully Konquerer will be that replacement :)
Bambi
TK Kim wrote:
Neither.
I am kinda sick of Netscape, too. I am probably gonna have to pay for
saying this, but IE5 is a wholelot better browser.
From: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Far as I know, it does it on its own at a determined number of boots.
You probably have seen it at one point or another during boot ...
sometimes it takes longer to boot... You will see it looking at each partition
and verifying everything and doing some maintenance on some files.
Linux takes
Hi, Civileme
I beg to differ with you. IE 5 with only security upgrades
and toys from MS and all the plugins you could want worked great
on my machineincluding a MS Agent toy to read me web pages,
not the Bonzi Buddy (annoying), just a simple MS Agent script
that would open your default
You could try opening a terminal window, log in as su and open
gnorpm (while on the internet) it will update itself to include programs
from certain sites as an alternate location for rpms. That is if I read
it correctly :)
Pretty cool
I use gnorpm all the time in KDE this way.
Bambi
root
I guess I should have put this in for the experts...I am a newbie
but I think maybe this is an expert question since I got no
response in the newbie list.
Thanks for anything helpful with this problem.
Bambi
Fran Parker wrote:
OK, now I am really stumped!
I got DOSEMU to work. I got some
This may not apply, but doesn't 7.1 use another loader other than LILO?
Bambi
Greg DeYoung wrote:
I know this may not be the forum for this question but I posted it on the newbie list
twice, and nobody seems to be able to give me an answer of what is happening. I know
this not a unique
I second that...when free is as nice as gftp...why go elsewhere.
Bambi
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:41 -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
A good GUI based FTP prog. is IglooFTP Pro.
Reminds me a lot of Cute FTP.
I'm using gFTP now for some time. It has a
If you use KDE as one of your GUI interfaces:
I find Find in KDE works great for finding files on any of the partitions I have
including windows partitionssince you can search the entire / of the system.
You choose where you want to limit the search. Great program.
Bambi
"Brash, Matthew"
Thanks Denis...took advantage of the submission under two categories.
This is great to have a voice...who knows whether it will help or not,
but I appreciate the opportunity.
Bambi
Denis HAVLIK wrote:
Below are currently discussed toppics on "linuxpole.com" (our experimental
public forum):
John,
I thought I had read that somewhere. Good to know it is a nice one.
Thanks,
Bambi
"McDonald, John GSM1 (SIMASD)" wrote:
Yes it's called "grub" pretty nice although I have only used it once by
accident.
Mac
-Original Message-
From: Fran Parker [mai
a cold
boot. They can never change the settings again. I hope :) Both Windows and
Linux must abide by the settings they agreed upon. Just like errant children!
Anyway, that's my story.
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
Fran Parker wrote:
I don't get it. I installed the gaim-0.9.18-1.i386.rpm
Nukem 2 ...
I haven't tried Duke Nukem 3D since I can't get
these others to run. I am figuring that there must
be some memory thing or video card thing that I need
to tweak but I haven't hit on it yet.
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
Fran Parker wrote:
I
I don't get it. I installed the gaim-0.9.18-1.i386.rpm
and had none of these troubles.
Sorry,
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
"Alan N." wrote:
Ivan Trail wrote:
Hello.
After the recent discussion on getting Gaim 0.9.18, I tried it out. I can't
get .tar.gz to compile as I don't have
Hi Denis,
Upgrade ... the biggest thing I have always expected from an upgrade
no matter what the OS, is safety and reliability. I don't want to lose
what I have and I want it to reliably upgrade the 'packages' or 'programs'
included with the operating system while maintaining compatibility
me too, went to markos to get it, clicked on the ftp site
where I got i386.rpm which installed and is running fine
as far as I can telljust installed last night and I got
online no problem.
the away is a bit odd on it though otherwise appears
to work well.
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
John
You have a good point about netscrappy :)
But truthfully...running any internet stuff as root is just not wise.
Bambi
Tom Berger wrote:
On Sun, 04 (06/00) at 18:44 +, Fran Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't running netscape as root dangerous?
Bambi
---tom:---
Isn't running
Hey I can't believe it...I can actually help someone else for a change!
Paul gave me this fix for the known bug (as Denis calls it) regarding
.kderc ... fix follows:
as root do a chown user.user for .kderc
e.g.
chown fran.fran .kderc
or
chown bambi.bambi .kderc
Works like a champ!
And thanks
Martin,
Had a feeling it might :)
Bambi
martin hansen wrote:
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
martinto fix your problem (assuming that your login name
is martin):
1) in console mode login as root.
2) type: chown martin.martin /home/martin/.kderc
To Alan and Fran tanks. It solved the
Isn't running netscape as root dangerous?
Bambi
"Michael E. Shea" wrote:
Alex V Flinsch wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote:
I am trying to get dynamip (www.dynamip.com) to work with my linux box
and cable modem connection. Dynamip gives you a
"subdomain.dynamip.com" address
That is amazing!
I love the tidbits you get in this forum.
Bambi
Pj wrote:
Google may be running more Linux servers than anyone else in the world,
with 4,000 machines operating and plans to increase to 6,000.
Pj
Thanks Denis
I appreciate you writing back.
Talking about what has happened to your network
definitely answers some questions. (Also some others
have written and seen the same thing)
I guess it is not as widespread as the sampling from
the list indicated.
Bambi
Denis HAVLIK wrote:
:~I am
Hi Charles,
Thanks for your input between everyone who graciously responded
to my question...I am gaining a much better understanding of why it
can happen that you will lose stuff in a power outage, but it doesn't
necessarily mean you will. Guess we have been the lucky ones,
as well as
I am not sure what you are referring to here.
We had a power outage and I was all worried because
everyone talks about what happens when you don't
cleanly boot out of Linux, but it came back up fine.
It forces a 'scan' of the Linux partitions, but they come
back 'passed'.
My Jim has had the same
Thanks Olly and everyone!
Appreciate the feedback. You are all right...a UPS is the answer
to ensuring that Linux will always exit gracefully.
Thanks,
Bambi
"Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2000 10:16:28 -0400, Fran wrote:
We sometimes lose power here with electrical storms.
Hi Denis,
What I want...gee I don't know...like everyone I guess...the moon!
But to get it back to reality (I hope), I think that software is great, and
there
is plenty of that ...thank goodness in Linux Mandrake, and what it doesn't
have you can get from somewhere...as long as it is being
I like the fact that a user can not write to the dos partitions personally.
But what I do when I want to write to the dos partitition is go to system,
file manager (super user mode), use root's password and then I can do
whatever
I want to the dos partition without any trouble and from a
hi lorne,
Yes, I installed the WordPerfect 8 for Linux on my Mandrake 7.0 and
it went off without a hitch.
How did you try to install it?
Bambi
lorne schachter wrote:
I'm running Mandrake 7.0 and I'm trying to reinstall WordPerfect from
the tar files downloaded from Corel.
The first
I think Denis strongly recommended NOT using Beta2 and to use Beta3 instead.
I may be wrong.
Bambi
Frederik Dannemare wrote:
[cut]
Well, in "recomended" (now called Authomated) mode installer just tries to
make you happy by putting as much as your HD can take to HD.
so does this mean
This list is great! LinPopUp is a great tool. We have a two-story
house.
and we have four computers; two dual-boot Linux (Mandrake/Win98 - mine
and
RedHat/Win95 - JimmyLee), as well as a separate Win95 box and a WFW box.
We got it running on my computer and the Win95 box messaged me. But I
You tell 'em!
To all you 'experts' out there:
Thank you all so much for being there.
You won't find ingratitude here.
Bambi
John Connell wrote:
You *GO* girl! RIght on!
John
Subject: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie
Hello List,
My comments are not intended to start a thread or a flame.
Hi Denis ... what does that mean...moved to sympa?
Do I have to re-sign up now? Or will I start getting
the Expert ones again now?
Thanks,
Bambi
Denis Havlik wrote:
Expert has been moved to sympa
Hi Denis ...
disregard my last post...duh!
Of course I won't have to re-sign up...I got your message!
Thanks,
Bambi
Denis HAVLIK wrote:
Hi, experts, gurus co. !
I suppose I own you all some explanations...
The situation is such: Mandrakesoft mail-server machine is supposed to
move to
I have installed and uninstalled and removed directories for festival
(after removing what files/
directories it didn't remove), then reinstalled festival with the 8bit
rabl instead of the 16bit rabl.
And I still get the same problem...it suggests relinking several objects
it says are wrong size!
Great. But it certainly doesn't answer your problem.
:)
Bambi
Jimmi wrote:
Do you have the 32 megs of RAM needed for Mandrake Linux?
Bambi
Yeah. I used to have 4*16 Mb but since i had two different types of ram the
ramdrive crashed. i pulled two, and have two left = 32 Mb.
Jimmi
Not that I know of. However, on the Tucows.com site, go to the Linux
software section.
There is a section for KDE, then a category called IRC, where you will
find KVIRC.
This is a very cool program, that I love (especially after I figured out
how to change all the
colors to what I wanted.)
Do you have the 32 megs of RAM needed for Mandrake Linux?
Bambi
Jimmi Wimmersjö wrote:
I've been trying to install mandrake linux for over a week now. After
removing half of my RAM (Different timing caused ramdrive
crash) Changing my processor from CYRIX to AMD i still cant install
it.
problems with it.
Needing the encryption was a great motivator. :)
But I love .rpms and would much prefer to use them...especially if it
is one optimized for Mandrake.
Thanks again,
Bambi
Michael Holt wrote:
Fran Parker wrote:
I am running strong - 128 - bit encryption. (snip) THIS IS NOT AN RPM
I am relatively new to Linux also, but am also not a newbi when it comes to OSs.
I also have been computers DOS 3.3 days and CoCo2 with OS9 before that.
However, I would not be able to normally have a clue on this one, except I heard Leo on
Screensavers mention this problem. He said something
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