Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?

with ./hdlist.cz Do you know how to add both the RPMS and the Contrib directories of a Texstar mirror to the MandrakeUpdate program available in MDK 9.0 ? -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] apt sources

I just installed texstar's apt and synaptic. I like the concept, but the iblio.org server is so sl o o o o w .. Can anyone point me to an alternative site or two? TIA -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] seeking xine plugins

On Friday 13 December 2002 02:27, Azrael wrote: looking for xine plugins: Divx audio (wma) Windows media video 8 Penguin Liberation Front http://www.zoreil.com/mirrors/www.plf.org/9.0 -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Is it possible to speed up the boot?

On Saturday 07 December 2002 18:15, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I wonder whether at boot time services are started one after the other or two or three at time. Unless you have a multi-processor box, all programs are started one after another ... -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???

On Friday 15 November 2002 02:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: In your mailer, instead of leaving 'reply to' blank, you entered your email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This overides auto replies comin to the list. You're not the only one, on this list or many other lists doin this. Tryin to stop

[expert] orphaned packages?

OK, call me anally retentive if you must but ... Debian has a utility called deborphan that sniffs out packages (usually libraries) that no longer have anything else depending on them and that can be removed. AFAIK it doesn't actually delete them, it just tells you what they are. Is there a

Re: [expert] databases for linux

On Thursday 21 February 2002 00:27, you wrote: I'm having a helluva time trying to get xmbase-grok to work correctly. I first tried the 1.5 source install. Try version 1.4.3 Runs fine over here on lesstif -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http

[expert] weird error message - followup

the error msg? Yes, I know I could just leave things commented out (I run a higher security level anyway), but I'm trying to learn something here g TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from

Re: [expert] databases for linux

://www.bitrot.de/grok.html Simple to set up (rpms available at rpmfind.net), saves its data files as plain text, and it goes like hell! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users

Re: [expert] databases for linux

after 10 000 records or so. It was never made with that in mind. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy

[expert] weird error message

looked through /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile, but I can't find anything that looks suspect. I know, I know, it really is just a minor annoyance. But those little niggles get on one's nerves after a while. Any ideas on where else to look? TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL

Re: [expert] weird error message

. Is your /bin/sh still pointing to /bin/bash? Check Have you changed your login shell? Nope. But I did upgrade the initscripts-xx.rpm from cooker recently -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from

Re: [expert] POP3 Problems

her with a new kernel. What? You gotta problem with that? g -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson

Re: [expert] fetchmail -- almost, i can smell it

accounts, sendmail seems to be working, but what file does sendmail put my incoming mail in? My email program wants to know I have no clue. I am guessing it's someplace in /var but I have looked all over no joy. Well, mine ends up in /var/spool/mail/username YMMV -- Michel Clasquin, D

Re: [expert] Sites with up to date apt *.cooker files?

, maybe apt should be moved from RPMS2 to RPMS, at least for cooker??) Not much point in that if they aren't going to maintain the .cooker files, is there? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from

Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake

to install your windows app (or try to), then you run it with wine --managed appname.exe So how do you install them in the first place? well, install.exe is an appname too, right? Don't bother trying to install MS Office, btw. Start with something more modest. Like notepad.exe -- Michel

Re: [expert] South Africa takes the plunge...

becoming law yet. One important unmentioned factor may be that Apple's market share is negligible in this country (given current exchange rates, I can buy TWO Athlon systems from the local mom 'n pop store for the price of an iMac), which gives Microsoft a 99.99% monopoly. -- Michel Clasquin, D

[expert] ticks and other invertebrates (was: Shell Script Question)

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 22:52, Bryan B Whitehead wrote: ` - backtick ' - tick . - flea (prone) , - flea (jumping) ~ -worm g -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC

Re: [expert] Shell Script Question

Linux box but set the $curdttm variable to a value of $'echo $blank |date +%Y%m%d-%H%M'. I know someone out there will have another way to do this. Does this help? curdttm=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M` echo $curdttm 20020205-2231 note use of backticks rather than single quotes -- Michel Clasquin, D

[expert] old wordperfect?

A month or two ago, someone mentioned that it was still possible to download and compile the old character-mode WordPerfect for Unix. If anyone has some URL's for this, I'd appreciate it. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com

[expert] I want my BKSPC back!

[Well, it looks like the newbie list is stumped, so let's try the big guns] Hi gang All of a sardine my backspace key behaves like a delete key - ie it deletes to the right rather than to the left. Please tell me where to fix this - It's driving me insane! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil

[expert] anyone else see this?

? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] anyone else see this?

configuration. Tres weird. An unrelated reboot cleared things up, but now there's this huge rectangular shadow whenever xscreensaver is active. Looks like there will be an XFree bugfix soon... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

XWindows. FYI, here is a bunch of BeOS fans trying to recreate their OS on top of the Linux kernel: http://blueos.free.fr/ If I understand what they are trying to do, this will eventually involve dumping X -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http

Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste

! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cooker

the following: rpm -Uvh arts* libarts* kde* -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] MDK 8.1 vs Redhat 7.2

of fattened calf. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate

aquaintance with the cooker. Try a different cooker site: ftp.ciril.fr works well for me at the moment, but last week ftp.sunet.se was better. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free

Re: [expert] daemon scripts

I want to know how to kill a thread without having to manually call 'top' and search for the pid then running kill on that pid. Have you tried killall appname? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:39, Michel Clasquin wrote: There is also a try-before-you-buy program from IBM, sorry, no URL handy, but it relies on a special IBM version of wine that nukes your regular wine setup. It does have the site design aspects rather than just being a page editor