Re: [expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
degradation -- Windoze NT, tell me it ain't so ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 80 GB Harddrive with Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-09 Thread tom brinkman
;) Maxtor's no worse than any other manufacturer, they all fib. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread tom brinkman
if anyone knows of a suite of tools to stress other subsystems of a linux system that don't require one to be an uber geek that could be a useful thing to know Cpuburn loads the whole system to the max http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-01 Thread tom brinkman
://www.civileme.com/ under 'crashtesting...' As far as 'nopentium' goes, I suspect (but don't know) this is already covered (ie, default to 4k pages) in the recent kernels. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Here they come again...and again

2002-06-29 Thread tom brinkman
OTOH, often succumb to what they wanna hear, and are saddled with misconceptions, misinformation and FUD when it comes to a keyboard/mouse . otherwise mostly intelligent persons. Y'allsMMV, but I take some comfort in human nature. After all, I is one ; -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-25 Thread tom brinkman
half, no problems. Right now, I've been usin cooker 8.3 on an XFS partition, but with a separate ext3 /boot partition (Civileme's advice). No problems and it IS faster than RFS. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] audacity install problem Mandrake 8.2

2002-06-22 Thread Tom Badran
package - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[expert] Running scripts on network start

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
a network card (same machine - its a laptop) which uses DHCP to get an IP. What i would like to do is to have the script automatically run when the eth0 interface is brought up. How can this be done easily? Thanks Tom - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Shell script not performing an export

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
echo statements. Any ideas? you are definately using bash and not csh? bash is the default i belive. If you are using csh you need to use setenv VARIABLE VALUE instead of export VARIABLE=VALUE Tom - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber

Re: [expert] Instability: Athlon, mtrr, XFree86, 8.2, KDE3

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
of screw ups if you try to use them with 8.2 which was all compiled with 2.96. Alot of the core libraries are no longer binary compatible so will break a large amount of software if you try to upgrade. - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber

Re: [expert] Replacing a MS SQL Server

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
keys are references, and in postgres are actually done by using the keyword references, so maybe it is the same in mysql. Tom - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] voice chat software with mandrake ?

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
, gnomemeeting does video also. - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Badran
before that i only used it for games. Tom - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Badran
think the best way,,,you probably are not missing much. A work around for aol people seems to be to send from one of the free web based mail systems for anything on a mailing list that does not appreciate junky HTML. Why would someone using AOL be posting a linux mailing list? - -- Tom Badran

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Badran
depends on location? - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [expert] how to shut off modem volume and other modem question

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Badran
your file now looks like: CRUFT '' 'ATZ' 'OK' 'ATM0L0' 'OK' 'ATDTnumber' 'CONNECT' CRUFT - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org

Re: [expert] make a perfect mail server in a non perfect network

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Badran
The packages you want i believe are called postix-* and pop3d-* For me, the pop3 daemon works 'as is' but you will need to modify postix configurations to stop it being an open relay. Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9BxgeXCpWOla2mCcRAsCHAJ9asijpqr+x6N1

Re: [expert] make a perfect mail server in a non perfect network

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jun 2002 10:42 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Tom Badran wrote: The packages you want i believe are called postix-* and pop3d-* I think you mean postfix-* I do indeed, damn useless brain making it read 'postfix' even though

[expert] KDE Menu Button

2002-06-10 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using kde 3.0.1 how can i change the 'k' button for the menu? It used to be automagically taken care of by the various icon themes, but doesnt seem to be anymore. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] problem with Slideshow on LM 8.2?

2002-06-06 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 06 Jun 2002 2:08 pm, Albert E. Whale wrote: Well, yes, you'll have that. But why not use the machine? If the intent of security tools is to keep the 'BAD GUYS tm' out, why are the 'GOOD GUYS tm' unable to use the system as well? Of Course I can login as a lesser user. However,

Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.

2002-06-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
concluded this latest report was nothin but hype. As Civileme said (my paraphase), don't run as root, and be aware that the closed source binary only apps and drivers you might use on a Linux system should be your greater concern. They do taint your kernel, Mandrake patched or not. -- Tom

Re: [expert] IDE bus speed boot parameter

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
kernel, any hdparm settings were ignored. ata/100 drives still ran at ata/33. I found installing a newer kernel instantly fixes the situation. I'm usin 2.4.18-13 and no hdparm or lilo settings. My ata/100 drives run at udma5, ata/100, hdparm -t returns 40+mb/sec. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Since #9 I128 Rev0 X-driver is fubar, will Aopen GeForce2 MX400, 64MB, PCI work

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
hot -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] GTK Themes

2002-05-28 Thread Tom Badran
the gtkrc and all the pictures into ~/.gimp/ but there must be a better way. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE880TeXCpWOla2mCcRAvx4AJ9g38+uuTtrnGdbVfm+dUSV59M1PwCeLl7w 2bOlKXOBCztl1QUh8EjAwhE= =XdmW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1

2002-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 27 May 2002 11:54 am, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: If you still have freezes the next thing I'd try is renaming XF86Config-4 to somethin like XF86Config-4-nvidia, and enable the original XF86Config-4 to use the nv driver. You don't need to uninstall

Re: [expert] Xlib: Connectio to 10.x.x.x:0.0 refused by server

2002-05-27 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 2:27 am, Brian Parish wrote: While the doctor is in, do you have any idea why I can ssh -X to my server and run any GUI app EXCEPT DrakConf? Drackconfi rigged by msec to only work on local machine ? (guess) Tom -BEGIN

Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1

2002-05-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
to uninstall the nvidia GLX and kernel packages. Just see if the freezes stop when you use the open source driver. If they do, then the nvidia binaries are the problem. Are you usin ones that were built against the kernel you're usin 'em with? -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus

Re: [expert] Wlan HowTo

2002-05-24 Thread Tom Badran
with the standard 8.2. Perhaps you should try using the pcmcia-cs package (and kernel) from cooker Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Mozilla/Kmail

2002-05-24 Thread Tom Badran
How can i make mozilla use kmai for mailto: links, and, if possible, how can i also make kmail use mozilla rather than konqueror for hyperlinks? Thanks Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wlan HowTo

2002-05-23 Thread Tom Badran
everything properly. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OpenOffice and libstdc++.so.4

2002-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
a freetype2 fix the cooker version doesn't (for legal reasons). http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OpenOffice and libstdc++.so.4

2002-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
ftp OOo installs on 8.2 without complaint. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM8.2: setting up CVS (cant'create temporary directory /root/tmp/cvs-serv4880)

2002-05-20 Thread Tom Badran
) as you have to do almost no setup, and it uses your standard system accounts, not a seperate set in pserver. If you have cvs and ssh-server installed, you dont have to do any more setup (except creating the repositry). Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] kde3 upgrade?

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
3.1. They're in the process of doin so right now. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
), they haven't been worth buyin since. Also, search for Civileme's WD reports on the list archives. Problems with Linux support, CRC shortcuts/errors, etc. IOW's win-hardware. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Rebuild kernel error

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
to when you reboot. It won't change whatever is your current default. make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install make install -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
of marketing and price points, all brands of drives. 'Course then again, backing up to CDr's is fairly cheap ; -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] root partition and ext3

2002-05-17 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 17 May 2002 10:15 pm, you wrote: After successful transfer of all partitions to ext3, using tune2fs -j /dev/hda?, I thought everything was OK, also for the root partition. But its NOT! While having ext2 compiled into the kernel and ext3 as a module, as with kernel-2.4.18.16, the

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Not neccesarilly the ram's fault, but the motherboard's implementation of it. Y'allsMMV ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 10:26 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002 18:02:12 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And ... I believe it's not quite time to upgrade an AMD system till the Thorobreds come out. Are the Thoroughbreds really that good? From what I have read

Re: [expert] errors on snf installation

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Badran
. This is because the module is failing to load (see above). I had problems with this card on pre 2.4.x kernels so check which SNF uses (i assume it is a 2.2.x kernel). Also check that PNP OS is turned off in the bios, as this could be easily causing the problem. Hope this helps Tom -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Genius ColorPage-Vivid 4 USB scanner

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Badran
(for mine anyway). You can easily find out which backend is correct from the sane website. Then, you should have no problems. Hope this helps Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE84OwCXCpWOla2mCcRAomiAJ4hxiDWgOHER/TwH1URDRaakPn/pQCbB5Pb eAppBruKAZD6WsmCEi9iqnA

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
to settle on the rest of the cuttin' edge hardware. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
with file size limits too. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 11 May 2002 04:55 am, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Thank you Tom, That was the kind of answer that I hoped for. I just took a quick look at the README file, and cut out all the many words. I then made a file from where I copied the lines by using my mouse. I did not dare to include

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
the contrary. Reasonable, prudent oc'ing will actually improve stability, reliability, and specially FPU ;) Just make sure you don't up the FSB too much ( 138mhz), and that the PCI bus stays under 35mhz. Call it tweaking ;) -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [expert] Portsentry on LM8.2?

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
can use the 8.1 version or get it from rpmfind.net. I got the src.rpm and rebuilt it on 8.2 -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
to be an expected problem. I didn't have any usin ML8.2's gcc 2.96. Please don't take any of my above comments as criticism, only meant as fodder for discussion tom/$ uname -r 2.4.18-13k7 tom/$ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96

Re: [expert] complements to grip

2002-05-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 05 May 2002 08:57 am, jipe wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2002 17:08:39 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (highly recommended), I use normilze (normalize-0.7.3-1mdk) to equalize them, eg 'normailze -m *.wav' if u want to burn a complete album, it's better to use normalize

Re: [expert] complements to grip

2002-05-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
-pad -audio /home/tom/wav/*wav' (the above is all one line with a space between -audio and /home.. I configure Xmms-diskwriter output to /home/tom/wav/ ) Quicker, easier, and better results than usin a GUI, no excessive typing needed if you make some aliases beforehand. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] LM8.2: mkisofs pbm (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk) after Mandrake Update

2002-05-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
everything working again. H Update got this one for me, haven't had any problems mkisofs-1.15-0.a21.1mdk -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM8.2: mkisofs pbm (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk) after Mandrake Update

2002-05-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:28 am, J. Craig Woods wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: H Update got this one for me, haven't had any problems mkisofs-1.15-0.a21.1mdk I suspect that the original poster, on this issue, is right. mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk is dooshed. Why else would the newer

Re: [expert] LM8.2: mkisofs pbm (mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk) after Mandrake Update

2002-05-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
got the mkisofs-1.15-0.a20-1mdk... Tom is probably using a different mirror... which leads to the question of the reliability of the FTP mirrors for updating your distro. This is only a small pbm ;) I think Tom mixed his sources. a20 is the version available in the 8.2 update

Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
it sees certain chipsets/controllers. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
bus. For a 100mhz FSB processor, it's 100/3 to get the PCI clock, for 133mhz FSB, it's 133/4. So the PCI bus is always 33. As the doc says, setting it higher won't hurt, it'll just be ignored. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Sanity (was UDMA/ATA no running at full potential)

2002-04-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:40 am, wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: /usr/src/linux-kernel_version/Documentation/ide.txt The original posted stated he was having trouble getting his harddrive to function at the expected UDMA 100 speed. He made these statements based on his obervations while

Re: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?

2002-04-12 Thread Tom
good drives have 4mb, and it's (ie, 4mb ..all) that's needed. Bottom line is cheap drives will work with linux, ide or scsi, the question is how well, and how long. If you use it a lot, the media will become the cost factor. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

[expert] rpmdrake will not run remotely

2002-04-05 Thread tom
when I ssh into my Mandrake 8.0 intel box from my SPARC Solaris box and run rpmdrake, I get the following error with a quick flash on the screen. Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 945 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid

Re: [expert] Memtest floppy, Was: Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
first test, but cpuburn needs to be run before the system is proven. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] C-Media 8738 won't give six speaker sound - followup

2002-03-27 Thread Tom McLaughlin
with this chipset? Tom On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 00:12, Tom McLaughlin wrote: I have C-Media 8738 sound card built into my IWill KK-266plusR motherboard and have just goten a Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 sourround sound set of speakers for my MDK 8.1 box. Unfortunately when I first tried to use them I only

[expert] C-Media 8738 won't give six speaker sound

2002-03-26 Thread Tom McLaughlin
channels to output sound. Let me note that the setup works perfectly fine in Windows so I'm pretty sure all the wires are connected correctly from the speakers to the machine. Can anyone help me to get all my stuff up and working? Thanks, Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] sensor readings

2002-03-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
= +50°C) CPU Temp: +53.1°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) SBr Temp: +20.9°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) Now I'm not that worried by the CPU fan reading as I can assure you that it's going a bit quicker than that, but the ALARMs are a bit - well...alarming. Tom

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 21 March 2002 02:09 pm, David Guntner wrote: Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: but I betcha cpuburn would'a ;) It may well have. But after what I've read about the program, there's no way in hell I was going to run it without a way to actively monitor my CPU temp

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
cooling and marginal motherboards and power supplies. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
on the top of the screen over to the right side. Just fits on window title bars. Then I have this file in /home/tom/.kde/Autostart #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/kstart --skiptaskbar --ontop --alldesktops /usr/X11R6/bin/gkrellm(last two lines are all one line) I named it 'sensors-start', 'chmod +x'd

[expert] AHA-2940UW under mandrake 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Charvt Tom
Hallo i were try to isntall new mandrake 8.2. I never use other linux at that machine and i got this problem. I have only SCSI devices, so boot comes up, then he try to detect scsi. he identify my 2940 as 7881 and then become black screen, numlock not work, its dead. when i try other drivers

[expert] SSH Tunelling

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Badran
. How can i set this up so that the tunnels are only setup if they need to be? Is there a way to make the ssh command run only if the tunnels do not exist? I read somewhere that you can add tunnels to the .ssh/config file but i have found no documentation detailing this. Thanks Tom -BEGIN

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 13:13, David Guntner wrote: Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Well, I'd suspect overheating too since the ram checks out. Install lm_sensors and gkrellm if they aren't already, and constantly monitor your cpu temp. Those sound useful

[expert] Joysticks And Joypads

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could anyone on this list reccomend a could quality, 6 or more buttong joypad that uses the USB port, and is obviously well supported under mandrake. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see

[expert] Scheduling Priorites

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can i run a process with a higer prioriy than would normally be assigned to it? I want to be able to run some hardware emulators i use for embedded systems programming with higher priorites than they get, so that i can get them to run at

Re: [expert] OT: Which OpenSource to use?

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 March 2002 11:22 pm, you wrote: I have a question about Opensource software that has been nagging at me. Is it better to use the OpenSource version of an application or the commercial program based on the OpenSource application. For

Re: [expert] Scheduling Priorites

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Use 'nice' and 'renice'. Now how was i supposed to guess that :) Thanks, did the trick nicely. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] need xmessage,or xmkmf, or imake,

2002-03-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
should then run without complaint -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] no icons after upgrade to kde 2.2.2 - Urgent

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
. 2001), I don't remember any problems tryin either solution. Hopefully this info is correct, but I'd warn y'all it's from my memory ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Badran
can say is that i hope the company gets through this hard time, and doesnt waste any of the money that it recieves from the good pepole of the community. Good Luck Tom Badran -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] no icons after upgrade to kde 2.2.2 - Urgent

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 07:24 pm, Ashley Moore wrote: well, finally I managed to force kde 2.2.1 manually and things seems to back to normal. I can see the icons now. Tom mentions that I installed 2.2.2 rpms for mdk 8.2, but i cou'ld'nt find 2.2.2 rpms for 8.1. I'll probably build

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.2 and GCC

2002-03-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-02 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 Mar 2002 8:07 pm, you wrote: The ways I've found all seem to include the tr command however and it seems to choke on spaces (which I have in my filenames in my mp3 directory). Could someone tell me how to get around this? Search

Re: [expert] D-Link DFE 530TX Network Card Install Error

2002-03-01 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 01 Mar 2002 8:04 am, you wrote: I've got Mandrake 7.2 running on a Compaq AMD 475 I tried to install a D-Link Ethernet Card DFE-530TX+ and when I run the I have exactly the same card, just do a 'modprobe via-rhine' and all will be well. I did have some issues with older mandrakes,

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts - Thankyou

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After suggestion from one of you guys (forgot the name and have deleted the mail - sorry) i have started to use the dynamic dns of no-ip.com, this is a really great system. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts - Thankyou

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 Feb 2002 5:43 pm, you wrote: Tom Badran grabbed a keyboard and wrote: After suggestion from one of you guys (forgot the name and have deleted the mail - sorry) i have started to use the dynamic dns of no-ip.com, this is a really

[expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Tom Badran
of it for logging in via ssh. The specific connection is ppp0 which auto redials on disconnect. If there is an easier way of doing this please share with me. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal

2002-02-27 Thread Tom Eastman
won't have anyway)? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] need help connection refused ftp server

2002-02-23 Thread Tom Eastman
Be reasonable, you must know that a problem like connection refused could be caused my all manner of problems. It could be a problem with the server, a problem with the client, the firewall (if any), with the network, with IP masquerading... etc. A simple message like connection refused,

[expert] Re: [Cooker] I cannot believe!!! Is it Windows or Linux?

2002-02-23 Thread Tom Eastman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:33:09PM +0100, andre wrote: 1. Did unix exist in 1970? The name maybe. but the os. NO well give or take a year :-) 1st edition of the Unix Time-Sharing System was released on Nov 3, 1971. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything

2002-02-23 Thread Tom Eastman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:17:25PM -0800, Michael Holt wrote: 6:04pm... Expert ran for the door shrieking: FLAMED BY YOU NAZI FROG COCKSUCKERS eh? Nazi frog ___ ?? Dude, do frogs even *have* ..? :-P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.17 and supermount LIVE!

2002-02-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
, since 2.4.16-12, headers are paired to glibc, not the kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Tom, I was wondering about that. Does that mean I should then also upgrade the glibc packages as well? Yes, and also the kernel-source rpm (patch level

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.17 and supermount LIVE!

2002-02-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
. For more info check the archive http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker IIRC, since 2.4.16-12, headers are paired to glibc, not the kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] I Broke Konqueror

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Badran
stopped working completely. I cant get my home directory up at all. I tried starting kfmclient (with the options) from a command line and it gives no errors, but just stops. I have deleted eveythin i can find on konqueror from ~/.kde and still no luck. Any one seen this problem before? Tom - -- Tom

Re: [expert] 586/686

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 February 2002 08:14 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:13:39 -0500, Tom Brinkman Nothin scientific, I used the clock on the microwave (computer's in the kitchen) to test mozilla, and kernel compiles ... ie, ± a minute ;~ i686, or athlon, proved

Re: [expert] 586/686

2002-02-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
interleaving ; You'll probly need to up your IOv a touch and have very good ram/motherboard/PS. Buyin a fancier cpu/ram won't always get it ;) Ready made computers will always be marginal performers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] extenstion RENDER

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Badran
it. I think you can safely ignore this error. Thanks, the error has seemed perfectly benign, it is just somewhat anoying. Tom - -- Tom Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - --- PGP Public key available on request -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [expert] Cryptographic File Systems

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 February 2002 3:50 am, you wrote: Hi, Tom. Thanks for this info, however, the version of diskdrake that I have doesn't seem to show the encryption selection in options. I am running 8.2beta1, and the diskdrake tool is from

Re: [expert] Cryptographic File Systems

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
to upgrade your distro. Tom - -- Tom Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - --- PGP Public key available on request -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
does a few other things, but basically that is the jist of it. I believe there are a few ties with apm to measure system use. - -- Tom Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - --- PGP Public key available on request -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
was refering too. Yet another piece of hardware not supported by windows BTW, linux is the only OS i know that makes idle calls to the CPU. Hence why battery life on linux laptops is about 10-15% than on windows. And im typing this on a laptop so i know what im talking about. - -- Tom Badran Imperial

[expert] extenstion RENDER

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All X apps give me an extention RENDER missing on 0:0 error when started at the console. Im using xfree86 3.3.6 (4.1/2 gives me mouse problems) with a trident cyberblade. Is there a file missing/config option to fix this? Thanks - -- Tom Badran

[expert] Allowing VNC connections

2002-02-06 Thread Tom Badran
the iptables service instead of bastille-firewall, or does the bastille package offer something over the standard iptables based firewall service. Sorry if this is all a bit newbish but i relaliesed today ive never done anything except masquerading with iptables. Thanks Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran

Re: [expert] mkbootdisk problems

2002-02-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
a bootdisk? I've tried: mkbootdisk 2.4.17 mkbootdisk --mkinitrdargs initrd.img 2.4.17 2.4.17 (initrd.img and 2.4.17 are the parameters to pass to mkinitrd) mkbootdisk --mkinitrdargs /dev/fd0/initrd.img 2.4.17 2.4.17 try, mkbootdisk $(uname-r) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Linux, video card, camcorder... suggestions

2002-02-02 Thread Tom Badran
I'm not *too* concerned about video editing under I believe Broadcast 2000 does this, and it is included with mandrake (8.1, not sure about others) as package bcast or similar. -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP

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