Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)

2003-11-19 Thread John Coates
expects one argument which is a path to a directory to start the search (which can be /var/log or . if your cwd is /var/log), then there are tons of possible arguments. The path must be given first, but the arguments can usually be given in any order (unless you get fancy). John Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 14 November 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry... It's in there by default in KMail since I have multiple email addresses configured. :-) Will try to do better next time. ;-) John Tips for using kmail - Set up two profiles - it doesn't matter that they are using the same

[expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
they made it so difficult to get ISOs of the distro. I basically liked it then, but there were a few advanced features I wasn't so thrilled with, but I'm looking at giving it another shot. Thanks... John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:57, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora

Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:33 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 [...] Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here all in a sudden... Welcome, John! :-) I've actually

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-04 Thread John Wilson
but who knows what tomorrow, and others to bundle their Enterprise stuff so maybe it will work out for them. That seems to leave just Mandrake and SuSE for the desktop and we both know which is better in that enviornment, don't we? :) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread John Wilson
On November 4, 2003 08:12 am, Eric Huff wrote: yup LOL! yup it's something different, or yup that's what LSB means? Now you're scaring me, man! Haywire's main role in life is to scare as many people as he can. Just as his good buddy Earnie Eves. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Mandrake isn't the only CD-killer out there!

2003-11-04 Thread John Wilson
their content zap their firmware. I don't think that's in the ATA standards. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] POP filters in KMail don't work

2003-11-02 Thread john
On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 H:06 pm, Artemio wrote: Hi everybody! I try to use POP filters in KMail but they don't work. What I do is: 1. Create a new POP filter 2. Use match any of the following 3. Set rule any header contains penis 4. Set rule any header contains viagra 5. Set action delete

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread John Wilson
80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Nahhh, young William only wrote a buggy basic and then graduated to alleged operatng systems. :) I think it's Stephen Outofworks ttfn John Want

Re: [expert] where are mozilla,xine stuff in mandrake 9.2?

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
or prosuite? snip! Funny, I had to manually select Xine and Mozilla in package selection in 9.1. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
On October 24, 2003 12:43 am, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wilson wrote: Dunno what Fox was on about but you can no more get a voltage spike from solar flares than you can from making tea. :-) The 6 million customers of the Hydro-Quebec power system

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
is not much further south than the artic circle.. I think although interesting this subject has run its course Actually the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are usually visible well south of the Arctic Circle. When I lived in Ft St John, BC I saw them frequently and regularly in spite

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
patches. They'll simply push them to you. And, for some strange reason, incompetance?, the patch will break more than it fixes. Ahh well, enough anti MS ranting. I need my blood pressure meds again :) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
monsterous snip manor? As to the manor born? (I'm listening to a tiresome hour long worship of Evelyn Waugh on CBC Radio One at the moment. :) ) Actually, I kinda said that near the bottom of my post. All the more reason for no freebie fixes on this :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] sound not working in opengl

2003-10-18 Thread John Drouhard
modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci alias eth0 via-rhine probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options adm1021 ignore=0,0x18,0,0x4c,0,0x4e alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia I use ALSA. Using OSS doesn't work either. Thanks. John Drouhard

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread John Wilson
, you will either need to manually assign IP's to every other NIC on the network or use DHCP server and assign them that way. I'd recommend DHCP. Have fun! ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign

2003-10-17 Thread John Wilson
Mavens to flood them out. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)

2003-10-02 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has

Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)

2003-10-01 Thread John Haywood
in a regular mount command. Alternately, there are packages/source at ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi, called hfsplusutils, which support read-only access, and looks pretty promising (that said, I´d be reading the doco to check before entrusting critical data ) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread John Wilson
On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote: I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda problem with ext2 and ext3. My best guess is that it's a messed

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread John Wilson
John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Change Defalt Desktop App on Hotplug?

2003-09-28 Thread John Layt
scripts? Thanks! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] !!! Install problems on compaq server!!!

2003-09-26 Thread John Haywood
might also check if you can find a SmartStart CD for your machine, and prep it for Linux (long shot, as this is usually more concerned with arrays and partitions , in my experience) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net

[expert] Copied Audio CD's - 70 Minutes of Silence!?!?

2003-09-25 Thread John Layt
using various PLF and Tex packages for most of these. Before trying to hunt it down, has anyone else hit this? Any other suggestions? Cheers! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread John Wilson
and it's abject failure to deliver on that hype it's gonna take a long, long time. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread John Wilson
degree of respect for each others position. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-19 Thread John Wilson
partnership, and I doubt that even Wolfgang can find fault with that idea. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-19 Thread John Wilson
and maintenance and so on. It's a lovely start though :) ttfn John (who might be contributing soon to that page :) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] eud2mbox.pl doesn't like spaces in filenames?

2003-09-19 Thread John Haywood
to demean your efforts, but there is a set of scripts already available to convert Eudora to kmail. http://eudora2unix.sourceforge.net/ BTW this information was gleaned from the tools page of http://kmail.kde.org/ where some extremely useful info/links is available for kmail users hth -- john

Re: [expert] dial-up modems (ignore previous)

2003-09-18 Thread John Layt
RPM's for them in various places, and the MCC network wizard can be coaxed into working with them. Visit www.linmodems.org for all the details. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Verisign hijacks .com and .net DNS space

2003-09-17 Thread John Wilson
, they seem to have opened up an entire can of very messy worns here. I wonder where else than slashdot or the IAB that the flames are lighting brightly tonight? ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-17 Thread John Wilson
contention here on Geal's part, unspoken. That is that people download a package and then share it around. That too could cause the number of packaged boxes to go down even where the high speed situation is a mess like in the US. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-17 Thread John Wilson
and download the ISO and try Mandrake. SuSE users don't have quite the same problems getting going but they have their problems too. Meanwhile, I don't think this will get resolved here, sadly. But perhaps Mandrake is listening. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread John Wilson
. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread John Wilson
, one thing you've done other than complain. At least then I'd have to rethink my opinion that you are freeloading and wasting a lot of email space justifying it. Regards, ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread John Wilson
John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Laptop NFS

2003-09-14 Thread John Haywood
the advantages and drawbacks of either, I´d be most grateful. Also, are there any issues with using the XFS file system and NFS together? cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread John Haywood
in the .kde/Autostart directory. Once I had recreated all my kde settings and left this out, all is well with the menus again!! hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread John Drouhard
the changes to allow this ? tnx greetings, stu You probably havent installed sshd. In a terminal, become root by typing su and then the root password. Then type urpmi openssh-server That will install the ssh server that will allow you to connect to another computer in the LAN via ssh. John

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-24 Thread John McQuillen
PROTECTED] dementis]$ ls -la test/*[^2] -rw-r--r--1 dementis dementis0 Aug 24 08:51 test/1 -rw-r--r--1 dementis dementis0 Aug 24 08:51 test/3 -rw-r--r--1 dementis dementis0 Aug 24 08:51 test/4 Cheers, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-24 Thread John Layt
. Otherwise, just edit the fstab as required. John. Windows is a 32 bit shell for a 16 bit extension to an 8 bit Operating System designed for a 4 bit microchip by a 2 bit company which can't stand one bit of competition. Want to buy

[expert] Creative Inspire 2.1 speakers...

2003-08-21 Thread John McQuillen
the left and right volume faders, the left volume control seems to affect the subwoofer volume more than the right one does (or maybe it is just an aural illusion!). Has anyone else here experienced this issue, and what do I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help, John... Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
). What about Eroaster? Thats a good one. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
in the address field? If the xine plugin isn't there, then that's why it isn't working. Make sure you have RealPlayer9 and xine installed. John Drouhard -- Tue Aug 5 14:11:16 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I

Re: [expert] XMMS plugins

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
only one (besides un-installing the other plug-ins)? Miark It's actually only using the one in the drop down box. The checkbox enables effect plugins in general...not all of them. John Drouhard -- Tue Aug 12 21:21:03 CDT 2003

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. /stefano Larry

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
getting a little confused. Try uninstalling all the w32codecs you have installed, get rid of all the symlinks, and then install everything from scratch. Try installing xine AFTER you install the codecs. I don't know if this makes a difference, but just to be safe. John Drouhard

[expert] rpm database corruption -severe

2003-08-14 Thread John Haywood
here? cheers from a very sad-looking laptop (with all my invoicing waiting on it!) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] kt400 chipset nvidia drivers and ethernet

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:56:55 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:29 pm, John Douhard wrote: I just recently purchased a Soyo Dragon Lite Kt400 motherboard with an Athlon XP 2600+. To my utter disappointment, the NVIDIA drivers don't work! When X usually

[expert] kt400 chipset nvidia drivers and ethernet

2003-08-12 Thread John Douhard
is an AGP 4x card. Does the kernel not have support for this chipset? (W2K works with the internet.) I'm stumped, thanks for any help. John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-05 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:36:48 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 5:08 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences in mozilla

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-04 Thread John Drouhard
quality is incredible. HTH, John Drouhard -- Mon Aug 4 10:41:46 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-04 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:28:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 Aug 2003 4:47 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:39 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that Amazon now offer sound sample from cds - a good move, in my book. However

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-04 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has trouble with the plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other message. Xine is telling me

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2003 08:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:27, John Wilson wrote: not to pick nits in your otherwise correct guidance, but Konqueror is not Mozilla based -- they wrote their own browser more or less from scratch. I seem to remember that they use the rendering

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
{Hangs my head in shame} :-) Thanks! ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
-O6 -c pci-scan.c -I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h Now the insmod on the pci-scan works, but fails on the rtl8139.o ...any thoughts? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net

Re: [expert] reading dvd (again)

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 22:19, dfox wrote: followup of course it helps to link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 uh, er, yeah, that was going to be number 4... or, in devfs land... /dev/dvd - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -- john in sydney

Re: [expert] compiling k3b-0.9-1 source

2003-07-25 Thread John Haywood
suggestion? Angelo texstar has 0.9-1 on his mirrors (you can use http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php for easy urpmi config) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread John Wilson
of, even Mozilla based Konq seems to work better than Galleon or Mozilla itself. That leaves me to believe that it's in the wrappers around the rendering engine rather than part of it. Oh well. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Haywood wrote: [SNIPPY] I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep regex outputfile.txt

[expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread John Haywood
and the second, [^\t].*\rReceived: from .*\r but they both appear to have syntax errors!!! Can anyone help fix these up please - it´s rather urgent. Thanks a lot john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-07 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the partitions from the old drive one at a time with Norton Ghost

[expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-06 Thread John McQuillen
this, or do I have to start again? Thanks in advance for any help, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, found my menus gone! [SNIPT] Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be causing this?. As previously

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
binaries (i386 source rpms) for nasm, which is alluded to on the previous page to compile it: http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html I´m going to give it a go groan, and see if I can rpm it let you know -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
the gogo rpm for gogo 2.39b with all the extensions for various processor types compiled in ...which only goes to go sorry, couldn´t resist! - when you need anything multimedia-ish - especially US-license restricted go to PLF -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk

Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 06:11 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:51, Robert Crawford wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:28, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time

Re: [expert] CPU Temperature monitor

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
, and then maybe tweak the alarms and what´s reported (YMMV) For Graphical front-ends: gkrellm has a sensors module (hint - get texstar´s) ksensors if you´re using kde hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D

[expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-04 Thread John Haywood
the same result if I try editing the menu using menudrake, either as user or root, either the Sys menus or the User menus. Both same - menus well and truly edited!!! There must be a file or combo in ~/.kde which is, or becomes corrupt All ideas welcome!!! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: [expert] XFce4 and menus

2003-07-02 Thread John Drouhard
://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/MenuMaker-0.8.tar.gz When you run mmaker xfce4 inside its directory once you've extracted it, it will create a menu that comes up on the left click of your desktop. I've been using it for awhile. John Drouhard -- Wed Jul 2 11:02:27 CDT 2003

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-07-01 Thread John Wilson
trouble. I understand your problem now. Short of shooting the people in charge of your upgrade and wondering why anyone would waste switching resources, I think you need to keep doing what you're doing. ttfn John (appalled Telco type) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread John Haywood
http://www.chipmunk.nl/DRAM/ amongst the gazillion hits -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-06-30 Thread John Wilson
for a fixed IP for that. ttfn John (Telco God, 3rd Class. :-) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion

2003-06-27 Thread John Haywood
them. Make MandrakeUpdate default behavior to delete the downloads but give an option to save them. it´s odd that urpmi --auto-select --noclean will do exactly this, but the gui front end doesn´t include this option, I agree -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-26 Thread John Haywood
work. my sentiments entirely - and the same conclusion! I pulled my 9000 out and plunked in a Ti4200, used Texstars rpm´s and yohoho! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050

Re: [expert] mdkkdm/kdm login

2003-06-25 Thread John Drouhard
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:19:27 -0600 (CST) J.P. Pasnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !, I'm running into a problem with the logging in via GUI with a fresh install of Mandrake 9.1+updates. Both mdkkdm and kdebase-kdm produce the same results. If I login via the GUI, the system

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-25 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:31 pm, charlie wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:29 pm, John Haywood had this to contribute :- 1. Black backgrounds sometimes print out as black -much waste of ink/toner (hmmm methinks I´ll buy epson shares now!!) Kprinter by default methinks, does not print out

Re: [expert] Menudrake shennanigans

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:18 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:30, John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] go to menudrake as user, add 1 application to Amusements:Cards, save, lose all menus and toolbar customisations. Go to root mode and edit sys menus - no change Copy /usr/share

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
a Sony E220 w/Ti4200 card, so it´s definitely the page itself If you changed #1 to bog standard plain white, # 2 would resolve itself :) cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
different story tho. and you have been here? http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html ...and here? http://nwn.bioware.com/support/known.html#23 (this one hints that all may not be well inter Radeon NWN) -but fixing it is definitely a quest worth pursuing :) -- john

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread John Drouhard
the 2.4 ones. (There is enterprise, mm, smp, etc). KDE is still version 3.1.2 (at the moment). There is a new userdrake, urpmi, gcc (3.3), gnome (2.3). There are others, but I'm lazy and don't feel like finding them. :-) John Drouhard -- Tue Jun 24 14:34:42 CDT 2003

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-23 Thread John Drouhard
! John Drouhard -- Mon Jun 23 10:19:22 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

[expert] Menudrake shennanigans

2003-06-23 Thread John Haywood
? What on earth is overwriting/taking precedence over my home resources? TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-22 Thread John Drouhard
to automatically resync my local mirror, then run a urpmi.update -a and an urpmi --auto-select? Thanks, John Drouhard -- Sun Jun 22 12:56:32 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User

[expert] cooker installation

2003-06-21 Thread John Drouhard
dir? Or is the i586 directory enough. And, once this is done, how do I go about installing it? I am going to do a fresh install from Mandrake 9.1. Are all the setting and config files from 9.1 okay to use with Cooker? Or should I start over with my /home partition too. Thanks! John Drouhard

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-14 Thread John Haywood
, spamd is running - no problem there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]# ps aux|grep -i spamd root 1439 0.0 3.9 8 20508 ? S10:34 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -H The trouble seems to be in the filters. Mine are as follows: 1. Message size

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 7000 DRI

2003-06-14 Thread John Haywood
I just noticed, is that the latest kernel from MDK seems to include some fixes for the Radeon good luck with it all - I must admit I gave up under 9.1 and bought a Ti4200 - what to do? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-13 Thread John Haywood
the filter to spamc instead of spamasssassin. Result - no filtering at all Now how have you managed to get the spamc/spamd combo running? Tricks and filter examples, please! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available

[expert] Where's libGL.la?

2003-06-11 Thread John Layt
the .so with their own version, so shouldn't they provide the .la as well? But that still doesn't explain where the XFree/Mesa one is either. Anyone with any suggestions as to where this is? Cheers! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-10 Thread John McQuillen
following this thread closely, but are you sure that you haven't got an old sound card, network card, or something else that is not handling the 133MHz bus speed? Just guessing, as I have had a similar problem in the past with older cards. Cheers, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc

2003-06-06 Thread John Haywood
), and if you want to do this, download the spamassassin source rpm and the perl-Razor-Agent source rpm from a cooker near you and rebuild them. You´ll also need the db2 and db2-devel packages to rebuild Razor hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available

Re: [expert] Radeon: Anyone using: Option AGPFastWrite truewith VIA KT400 ??

2003-05-30 Thread John Vickers
-013mdk, patched to move PAGE_OFFSET_RAW from 3Gb to 2Gb. Regards, John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?

2003-05-29 Thread john
On Thursday 29 May 2003 H:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:58 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:30, eric huff wrote: In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel anymore. It does on 9.1 kcontrol at the command

Re: [expert] USB problems

2003-04-05 Thread John Haywood
, lilo -v) Now ACPI did work on the board except for that, but I found a message in dmesg, stating that an unknown something-or-other-to-do-with-APIC had been found, and could I mail the maintainer, so I´m guessing that this board is simply too new -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0

Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

2003-04-01 Thread john
On Monday 31 Mar 2003 H:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 31 Mar 2003 7:08 pm, Brian wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 12:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I've installed the 2.4.21 kernel, and think that with a bit of help it should be possible to get the camera working now. It has been

[expert] Problems with OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk installed from the Mandrake RPM

2003-03-25 Thread John Platts
I installed OpenOffice.org 1.0.1-9mdk from the Mandrake RPM's and I have been able to start the application. The user interface text does not show up, but the application starts? How can I solve this problem? John Platts _ The new

Re: [expert] SMC EZ Card 8041TX NIC and Dell Inspiron 4000 problem (revisited)

2003-03-22 Thread John Haywood
) regards -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-21 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:13 pm, Dave Seff wrote: On this topic, does anybody know of any project that aims to be a drop-in replacement for exchange? Well, you might look at CommuniGate Pro (commercial) with the new plugins. It might not have everything, but it certainly is moving along -- john

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