Please disable your "Return Receipt" function for all mails to this
mailing-list. TIA
Morten S. Mortensen wrote:
Hi all,
Got a "Blue&White" G3 with a 6 Gb hard disk. Just got it to run Mandrake PPC 9.1.
[snipped]
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HaywireMac wrote:
Anyhow, it does turn out we have a case of mismatched terminology here,
the *charged particles* in the solar wind can take days to reach the
Earth, whereas, of course, the actual EM radiation only takes minutes.
Actually, the "charged particles" that Fox (?) tried to talk abou
KevinO wrote:
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Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
"By tomorrow" means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun
would take days to reach the Earth instead of 8 minutes :-D
It is not the electromagnetic radiation that causes the major probl
"By tomorrow" means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun
would take days to reach the Earth instead of 8 minutes :-D
John Wilson wrote:
On October 23, 2003 07:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
I just heard on Fox news that a pseudo-solar flare has erupted on the
sun, and we now have a m
SATA hard drives are hitting the markets already. Normally the Bios
should be able to emulate the same behaviour as if they're simple ATAPI
devices, but who can be so sure? Is Linux ready for it? Anyone who has
got a SATA HD is welcomed to talk about his testimony :-)
Want to buy your Pa
Miark wrote:
"Samba 3.0 contains the first OSS implementation of Windows NT Primary
and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently
migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping
their existing user and group account databases. This enables
significan
Personal opinion/experience: they possibly forgot to mention that this
result applies only to non phonetic Indo-European languages, of which
English seems to be the only example. It seems like they need to
ricefty tiher reescarh :-)
It's so isentnreitg
===
Aoccdrnig to a rschee
Miark wrote:
Ric,
[deleted]
The French gov't may be on a crusade to obstruct America's plans, but
Mandrake's cause is to provide computing freedom, and that's a just cause.
If you want to boycott France, withhold vacation and wine dollars. But I'd
ask you not to cut of your nose to spite your fa
I'm personally boycotting US dollars .. and hope every
warm-blood animal on Earth do the same as me. Forward this to your
friends and if they can't receive emails, tell them in words. When
everybody starts to release US dollars, US economy will collapse and
inflation will start. It's
Message too long :( I try to answer a little part of it and hope I
can give you some idea.
AFAIK, Linux filesystem is in Unicode. But here you're dealing with
web, and that would depend on how the browser and the server (if there's
any) implement Unicode.
Pupeno wrote:
> I'm writting som
I have to apologize to that user who discovered the problem in
Community Newsletter. He was right in that the email header was incorrect.
Here below is a copy of the mail as displayed on my screen. Every ?
corresponds to an "Unbreakable Space" which is 0xA0 inside the mail (use
a binary edit
re the sender has
> missed out the relevent headers (like this one) it assumes its utf8
> which means all the !"£$%^&*( comes out as
>
> JG
>
> Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
> > I didn't have any problem with the newsletter either. On the other
> > hand, t
I didn't have any problem with the newsletter either. On the other
hand, the newsletter is in English, so whether the message's header
indicates UTF-8 or US-ASCII or anything else, the result should be the same.
What email programme do you use? Maybe your programme associates
wrong
Chuck Shirley wrote:
>On Sunday 03 March 2002 13:25, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
>
>>The examples in this page use the archaic method of using special
>>font (Symbol font in this case), but one shouldn't use this method anymore.
>>
>...
>
>Nevertheless, out of
bascule wrote:
>can someone tell me if it is possible to configure konqueror to display the
>following url properly:
>http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/viewmath.html
>
The examples in this page use the archaic method of using special
font (Symbol font in this case), but one shouldn't us
Recently there're several posts about displaying or printing
other characters (Euro sign and Japanese). In those posts I see that
*archaic* charsets (ISO-8859-15) are still used. Know that Unicode was
supported in the kernel in the very first versions (round 1994 or 1995
if I'm not mi
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
>On Monday 12 November 2001 17:13, you wrote:
>
>>Oh, OK.
>>
>>Hmmm, sounds like a good open source project.
>>
>>
>
>Hey, what about TOP ?
>
Nope
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Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote:
>When swapping starts is because not all programs fit on main memory (RAM)
>[deleted]
>back again in the same problem...)
>
I think you're probably correct in this.
>The thing is, if you have 64MB and you are running 128 MB in apps
>simultaneously (all wit
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>Heh, The point wasn't taken though.
>
>It's sorta silly to try to put the blame on Linux for "regressing".
>
>Yeah he can run command line Linux in 64 megs (even 32 after
>installation). If he really wants to do this, he should have been
>looking for one of the super "lig
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>Eh, I was being facetious, hence the smiley.
>
Sure I know you're facetious, but I'm afraid newbies would take it
too seriously and thus acquired wrong knowledge, so I gave more
explanations.
Fong
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Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>64MB?
>
>Isn't that the MINIMUM size for a video graphics board nowadays... ;)
>
Yes, but that's for zbuffering or whatever 3D rendering used by 3D
chipsets. If you don't do 3D, 64 MB is a waste of money. But well, who
can resist Unreal :) ? And those 64MB are on
ltiu wrote:
>A couple of more things.
>
>on the command line, type:
>
>free
>
>to see how much memory your Linux box uses.
>
>Better yet, you can use a GUI application called:
>
>xosview
>
>Hope thses helped.
>
Nope, with those commands we can't see in what kind of memory a
certain programm
ltiu wrote:
>My experience:
>
>64 MB is minimum for Linux running X (with nothing else). Meaning, it will
>use up 64MB with kernel and X(KDE or GNOME) alone. If you use a lighter
>window manager, maybe your 64MB will go further. If you start other programs,
>like say Netscape or Koffice or a c
Franki wrote:
>if the server receives mail for a user and passes it on, it can rewrite it
>so that it appears to be from someone else.
>
What's the advantage of such address tampering? Any example?
Something like anonymous (spam) emails? Hmm, I don't like it. For me,
I would just see d
George Jones (IT) wrote:
> I'm pulling together a list of gui apps for my own little mandrake
> based installation (P75, 64MB, 540MB HD). I'm looking for apps that do
> not use QT or GTK+ (I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible,
> and I probably wouldn't be installing the libraries an
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>If you bring up KDM, or GDM and your network card is properly
>configured, XDMCP is enabled by default.
>
Is it really necessary to bring up KDM first? Actually, my Linux
box is configured to be a pure server. Users (except me) aren't
supposed to login locally (we
Franki wrote:
>nope, xinetd is basically a more secure replacement for inetd...
>
>I use it for pop3 and stuff... works great, and its also good because you could
> put a line line this:
>
>only_from = 192.168.0.4
>
>in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and it will stop anyone else from connecting to your te
>
>
>- If you are using TCP Wrappers (you should), check whether you are
> allowed to use telnet in hosts.allow and hosts.deny. See this man
> page:
>
> $ man 5 hosts_access
>
Yeah, you're right, it's these hosts.* files which play the trick.
Actually, it was written in hosts.deny the fo
I want also to install XDMCP server so that other users can log
into my Linux box to do their work. But I can't find xdmcp package in
the CD-Rom? Is it already a part of XFree4? If yes, how to configure?
If no, where to find one?
Thanks in advance,
Fong
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I've Mandrake 7.2. I want to run a telnet daemon. telnet related
packages are installed. inet is running properly. In the configuration
file, telnet is assigned a port. But I still can get it to work. For
example, I can't do
telnet localhost
What do I miss? Thanks in advance.
Darryl Gibson wrote:
> I'm stuck with a win printer too, and was wondering if this is a
> feasible work aroound.
>
> I'm going to setup my winbox as a dual boot machine, and use it as a
> firewall, and for the stuff I can't do in Linux yet. Could I also set it
> up as a printserver, and pass prin
> [snipped]
> Now if someone can just tell me how to get
> the 3 games for my kids that use D3D to work:)
For the current version of VMware, D3D (or more generally all 3D
acceleration cards) won't work (cf VMware website). If your games don't use
intensive 3D functions, D3D in software
Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote:
> Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit instructions in the
> installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a
> mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware.
Yup, but the off-line docs provided give also very clear
Daniel Woods wrote:
> > It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time
> [deleted]
> > the performance went down the crapper REAL fast.
>
> Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ?
> You can download the toolbox from their site.
> These help to speed up performance and a
Anton Graham wrote:
> Submitted 19-Jul-00 by Seak, Teng-Fong:
> > 1) to mount these vfat partitions with full permissions by defaults,
> > or
> > 2) to provide a check box to mount vfat (well, I mean vfat, fat and
> > dos) partitions with full access during Installat
In Mandrake 7.0 and earlier (but I think it's the same in 7.1)
and in other distributions, VFAT partitions are unwrittable for normal
users. Everytime when I reinstall Linux, I've to add "umask=000"
options in /etc/fstab.
When we mount a Vfat partition, most of the time we want to shar
The font server for LM can make use of TTF to provide more fonts
and better quality, that's really a great progression. However,
there's at least one thing to do to improve it.
If my guess is correct, when an application requests a font at a
particular point-size to the font server, ev
I've still got Mandrake 7.0. I've removed the older Voodoo
graphic card from the PC and when I rebooted Linux, WOW, kudzu was
launched to tell me that the Voodoo card was removed and asked me if I
wanted to do such and such, etc. I'm really impressioned.
However, I'm thinking if the m
Lang Zhi wrote:
> Hi.
> How to get xmms or other KDE application to display chinese character
> big5 or GB properly.
>
> I followed the intruction at linux mandrake i18n page where i edited my
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n, and set the LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB2312
> etc..
>
> but it doestn't work
> all i get is f
Gavin Clark wrote:
> how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from
> the command line.
>
> I can do it easily from kfm and other GUI file browsers.
>
> but
>
> #rmdir won't work because the dir isn't empty
>
> and
>
> #rm -r puts me in "do you really want to do this?"
> Seagate is good for certain chipsets, but I have observed signal reflections on
> i810, VIA MVP3, and MVP4, Intel 430 TX, and ALi Aladdin V under Pentium code. The
> problem is highly pronounced with TX chipsets, resulting in corrupt data that
> appears to write OK and is totally unreadable whe
> >I just downloaded the new 7.1 and installed on my computer
> on the second hard drive.
> [deleted]
> >
> > I configured a 5GB partition as the Linux partition in the first slot of the second
> [deleted]
> > first letter of LILO "L" then a constant stream of 01 01 01 01 01 01 and it just
> > con
Take a look at http://www.windowmaker.org/
Ralph wrote:
> Hi,
> Can some please explain to me how to install dock apps in window maker.
> I cxant figure where they go or wher to install them.
"Seak, Teng-Fong" wrote:
> Pj wrote:
>
> > One of the advantages to having an external modem is the ability to
> > reset it without rebooting. You might try turning the modem off and
> > letting it rest for a couple of minutes. I was told you can di
James Little wrote:
> I recently destroyed my Linux and had to reinstall(I like to mess with
> [deleted]
> to use glide and they run fine. What gives?
How about putting the shared library in the same directory as Quake II's
executable (or some subdirectory)? Or trying to play it while you
Pj wrote:
> One of the advantages to having an external modem is the ability to
> reset it without rebooting. You might try turning the modem off and
> letting it rest for a couple of minutes. I was told you can dial from a
> terminal screen, but unfortunately I don't know how to do it.
Is
Open Motif has been available for some time already, but
strangely there's no mention/discussion about it in the list or web
site.
Will any OpenMotif rpm package be available for the next
Mandrake? Will dynamically linked Netscape be used by default from
now on? Will more Motif applic
I know Mandrake 7.1 is about to come out, but I hope Mandrake's
developers are still taking this into consideration.
1) During the graphical installation, we can choose amongst several
languages as interface language. However, when Chinese (Big5) is
chosen, the characters aren't displayed
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