Re: [expert] Corrupt Filesystem

2002-02-19 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Ashley Reynolds wrote: Hi All, I've got a bit of a problem. Recently, I compiled a new kernel and booted it alongside my current one, 2.4.17-1mdk - after booting with the new kernel, /dev/hda1 (a FAT32 partition on my primary hard disk), didn't mount. I figured that I hadn't compiled

Re: [expert] vim and tilde

2002-02-10 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
add this line to your $HOME/.exrc file set nobackup in vim or gvim, try the foll command for more info help backup a word of advice though, if you are doing any sort of coding and are turning off this feature of autobackups, please use some sort of version control, so that you can roll back to

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-05 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
manpage, but I'm already confused. I'm going back to try again tho. Thanks for the help, at least I know where the problem isn't. Skippi On Tue, 05 Feb 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: Hello Skippi, looks like you have a sendmail problem. what happens is fetchmail after downloading

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
some time back i came across this utility from seagate called sgatfmt4 it is a dos based program but it could work with any disk, provided you entered some details of the hdd like no of cylinders etc. mario Mark Weaver wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sesame Galeo wrote: At 19:21 2002-02-03

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Hello Skippi, looks like you have a sendmail problem. what happens is fetchmail after downloading the mail passes it on to an mda like sendmail. to check whether this is infact your problem try the using the --mda /bin/cat, --keep and the --fetchlimit 1 options. if you can then read your first

Re: [expert] low-level format

2002-02-04 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Hello Ken, ditto, Low level formats are not performed on modern IDE drives. Only the manafacturer can do this using specilized eqipment. What is now known as a low level format is simply over writing the data on the disk that to if you use destructive testing. i normally keep low level formats

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-30 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
heck i never got a chance to learn computers in school, and i didn't turn out too bad. on a more serious note, i was rather appalled to see that the syllabus for the diploma in engineering courses here in Goa focus on windows rather than linux. I suppose in a richer country one can argue purely

Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!

2002-01-30 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
James wrote: Would seem to me that the solutions are. 1. Make your voice heard. As a parent your resposibility is your childs education, not the school. The school could be the vehicle you chose to fill your responsiblity but it's not the states duty. Join the PTA, go to school board

Re: [expert] ati versus nvidia graphics adapters

2002-01-30 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
bascule wrote: reading the recent thread on nvidia closed source i have a question: given that for all but the most hard core gamers the difference between the top of the range cards of both manufacturers is probably irrrelevant now that ati have this latest 8500 thingy, what is the status

Re: [expert] floppy access in 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
hmmm, a cat /etc/fstab|grep fd0 on my RH7.1 box at work yields /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyauto noauto,owner 0 0 unfortunatly i am not allowed to use floppy disks at work so i cannot actually verify if it works on a windblows formatted floppy or not. but i suppose it will work with a floppy

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Mike Leone wrote: I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't like their cards, I'll throw it away and buy another. If I wish to use their cards, and their software (closed or not), that's my choice. And no one - nVidia nor GNU - should try and force me into doing what I chose not to do. hmmm, if

Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Mike Leone wrote: - Original Message - From: Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished Mike Leone wrote: I'm a hostage of no one; if I don't

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Randy Kramer wrote: I would like Mandrake 8.2 to be the perfected version of 8.0 / 8.1, and would rather not have very much in the way of new stuff that might cause problems. I was not successful in installing Mandrake 8.0, and only partially successful with 8.1. The advantanges of having

Re: [expert] How to unsubscrib from this mailing?

2002-01-24 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Irwan Setia Anyboday can help? Thanks Hello Irwan, did anybody help you to get suscribed to this list in the first place ? regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-16 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Ric Tibbetts wrote: Each of the current batch of OSs have their strengths weaknesses. It's yeah well some of the OS's have more weaknesses than others. my Rs. 0.02 worth, and trust me a Rupee is way less then a $ :o) Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-28 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Ken Hawkins wrote: Hello Ken, Just to vent: ok. i'm all ears. Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug play. MDK 7.2 was the first version of mandrake that i had too, before it was RedHat 6.x series. Mandrake

Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-(

2001-11-12 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
I would just like to add that some of the users of this list live in different time zones, so it is wishfulll thinking to expect a reply right away. I am not sure about this but i suppose AOL is predominantly used in the USA. that could be the reason for your prompt reply. and David we are all