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

2002-01-29 Thread Tom Badran
you've enjoyed this, im here all week. Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP Public @ certserver.pgp.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[expert] palm hotsync

2002-01-28 Thread Tom Badran
have left for 10 mins). Has anyone had any success using IR with a palm device, using the gnome software or jpilot, and could they possiblt help me with this. I have never used an IR device on linux, or any other OS before so dont really know where to begin. Thanks in adv. Tom -- Tom Tomahawk

Re: [expert] Tyan Dual AMD board

2002-01-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] /etc is for miscellaneous files?

2002-01-24 Thread Tom Badran
I read in the Linux Pocketbook that /etc is for miscellaneous files. It's only for config files isn't it? Does anyone know the significance of the name /etc (why not /config?)? Electronic Terminal Configuration (just guessing - i have no idea). -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.2

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Badran
Arnab_Ganguly wrote: Same here! Just got CDROM + Sound up on 8.1 using an Intel 810 board, 8.2 is not on my horizon yet! It should be. It contains all the fixes for the i810 chipset :) Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.2

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Badran
, you should try the new installer and see if it doesnt cause any unforseen problems with that board. For more info on this i would recomend you talk to some of the guys on the cooker list. Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing

Re: [expert] PCI GeForce2 cards

2002-01-21 Thread Tom Eastman
, TE Tom It should work, I believe, hoping that you can disable your onboard vga. If not, and if nvidia drivers uses your onboard as default, you will be able to fix it by adding a line PCI 2:0:0 or something like that to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and you will force it to use

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.2

2002-01-19 Thread Tom Badran
check out the current cooker distribution. There have been some big changes to the mandrake configuration tools, and i believe they also have a scannerdrake tool now. -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP Public

[expert] JDK Look and Feel, Mozilla and Star office

2002-01-19 Thread Tom Badran
in quicker loads for systems with plenty of ram. Is it possible to set this up under linux also? Thanks Guys, Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP Public @ certserver.pgp.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] JDK Look and Feel, Mozilla and Star office

2002-01-19 Thread Tom Badran
ever spoken too who are working on mozilla and open office are linux users, yet the windows versions have extra features. I guess its a shame ive never considered windows a viable desktop platform for myself. Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing

Re: [expert] tdfxfb: what for?

2002-01-19 Thread Tom Badran
of these cards its the module used to have a frame buffer console, instead of a vga one. Although i imagine the standard vesa one would work too. -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP Public @ certserver.pgp.com Want to buy

[expert] PCI GeForce2 cards

2002-01-19 Thread Tom Eastman
drivers from the website? I already have the nVidia drivers working for my current chipset, so I'm hoping I can drop this card in with a minimum of fuss. Any thoughts, recomendations? Thanks, Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Needs advice for upgrading home PC.

2002-01-17 Thread Tom Badran
for dual athlon systems? -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP Public @ certserver.pgp.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 is eating memory

2002-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
to 15mb into /swap, but then over time releases it down to just a few mb. 'Course 'swap -a off' and 'swap -a on' gets it back down to -0- ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
and a kt133a chipset motherboard (Soyo k7vta pro). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
to the topic, I doubt M$'s EEE .wma files will ever be supported. at least anytime soon, on anthing but Windoze. That is after all, the intent of Embrace Extend Extingui$h. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
cloggin up the Net? In any case rpmfind.net has been gettin progressively slower. I try to avoid it other than searching dependencies, and then I go get those from cooker mirrors. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Weird Problems #1: Stuttering Sound

2002-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
). I'm running LM8.1; my AX4BS MB has on-board AC97 support. I also, have AC97 onboard. Try (if you use KDE), Control Center | Sound | Sound server, and on the 'Sound IO' tab, move the 'Audio buffer' slider over to the left (higher cpu usage). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

[expert] Packages missing from instal options in 8.1

2002-01-09 Thread Tom McLaughlin
. Does anyone know what I can do? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
/~redelm/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Licq icons

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Badran
processes running, and no matter what i try, the icons do not change. Anyone had any sucess with this and know what to do? (There is no skin browser like on qt/kde licq). Thanks Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP

Re: [expert] peer to peer netwoking and linux - possible ?

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Badran
plug my laptop into the home network and print straight away, very nice. If you have samba installed, and swat is running, you can find it by opening your web browser and pointing it at localhost:901 Hope this helps Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing

[expert] X Login Manager

2002-01-05 Thread Tom Badran
Currently, X uses kdm as the login manager, however i would like to experiment with gdm/xdm, so could some kind soul please tell me how i can change the default (without uninstalling kde). Thanks Tom -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing

Re: [expert] lmsensors (About an earlier discussion)

2001-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
and I get that same error. Then later in the boot up process I see all my i2c modules getting loaded. Take a look at dmesg and lsmod and see if it's not the same with your system. lm_sensors + gkrellm works fine. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your

Re: [expert] How do I install kde 3.0 beta 1 in 8.0

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:45 am, Syed Irfan wrote: hi Tom from where did you get the texstars rpms ? could you send the url/link ? thanks very much The article is here http://66.69.180.165:8080/article.php?sid=1000 rpms are here ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/Mandrake

Re: [expert] How do I install kde 3.0 beta 1 in 8.0

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
to ? http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/node17.html#SECTION02249000 Mike, have you looked inside the kde3 rpms you have? I'll just bet they're already set to install to /opt. Try 'rpm -qpil kdebase-3.0beta1rpm |less' or use MC. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi

Re: [expert] How do I install kde 3.0 beta 1 in 8.0

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:04 am, mycal62 wrote: Thanks Tom that was helpful. ;-) looked in rpms and they do install to /opt Now last questions (I hope) any order to install? and since rpms go where I want can I use package manager to install them? ( quicker than by hand, less typing

Re: [expert] How do I install kde 3.0 beta 1 in 8.0

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
with kde3 installed to /opt. BUT, I'd suggest you upgrade over (rpm -Uvh) 2.2.1 with 2.2.2. Many bug fixes for kde 2.2.1 are in 2.2.2 --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] C++ errors

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
and the error message I'm getting. #include iostream.h int main() Been a long time, but shouldn't this be int main(); --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How do I install kde 3.0 beta 1 in 8.0

2001-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
graphics. YMMV If you go back to usin kde2 regularly, you'll probly have to fix some stuff. I got tired of it and just --force'd all my kde2.2.2 rpms back in .. that fixed everything ; --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Kernel + urpmi upgrade issue

2001-12-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
-1-1mdk, initscripts-6.40.2-3mdk, iptables-1.2.4-2mdk, lm_sensors-2.6.2-1mdk --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Kernel + urpmi upgrade issue

2001-12-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 28 December 2001 09:16 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 07:58:19 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understood correctly, there was discussion on the cooker list that urpmi should not be used for kernels. Have you tried 'rpm -ivh' ? I have

Re: [expert] Xine and mplayer in mandrake 8.1?

2001-12-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ xine rpms are there as well --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] kppp == memory HOG == swap the crap out of system!

2001-12-26 Thread Tom Badran
. Ill take a look at the source and see if i cant track it down. -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - PGP Public @ certserver.pgp.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] kppp == memory HOG == swap the crap out of system!

2001-12-22 Thread Tom Badran
memory is used, as the whole graph is available in memory. All you have to do is turn this off. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - - PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [expert] How to test the performance of a Video Card

2001-12-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
for (?) --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] soundblaster audigy

2001-12-14 Thread Tom Badran
drivers available, but as creative support there products under linux, i would personally check opensource.creative.com (i think thats it) and you should be able to find out there. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College

Re: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 14 December 2001 06:10 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Time to move past socket 7. I tried putting Mandrake 8.1 on an Amptron with SiS730. Vendor got that board back in short order. Are there any (other) current Athlon/Duron boards to be avoided or preferred for use with Linux? Are there any

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:35 pm, Scott wrote: Ok, I give up, how are you guys putting your uptime in your email messages? You can create a text file and 'chmod -x' it to run any suitable executable, eg, /usr/bin/uptime. I do this with kmail by making my sig executable and placing

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M ... not very encouraging. Is there a generally preferred filesystem when stability is paramount ? I personnally have not had a single problem with ext3 or xfs. I have 2 systems which make extensive use of both. - -- Tom Tomahawk

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:40 am, Tom Badran wrote: M ... not very encouraging. Is there a generally preferred filesystem when stability is paramount ? I personnally have not had a single problem with ext3 or xfs. I have 2 systems which make extensive use of both

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Badran
as ext2. If they used the system calls properly everything would be fine. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Badran
have been coming through DHCP. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] DNS problems

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Badran
. Does ping by ip etc work? - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, get the SO 6 beta -- much nicer! Unless you need the drawing package, as it is buggy as hell. The word processor and spreadsheet are very nice however (and i havent tried the presentation software). - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department

Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 December 2001 08:07 pm, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: The mplayer developers are VERY childish about having to accept that they believe gcc 2.96 is bad. Specially since their juvenile animosity is directed towards RedHat's (older) 2.96, which is different than Mandrake's On one

Re: [expert] Draksync Problems

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Badran
of the public keys etc. which scp doesnt enforce normally. Seems odd, because i never had this problem in mdk 7.1, but i was never syncing then, just one way copying. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - - PGP Key

Re: [expert] XFree 4.xx and Trident Ciberblade

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Badran
on the xfree86 mailing lists, as someone might have a patch for the problem, or they may not even know about it, and it could be a very simple fix. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - - PGP Key available from

Re: [expert] Draksync Problems [extra]

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Badran
self manually previously, or were you using a virgin ssh / draksync setup. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - - PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
these files off the cooker mirrors http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
with no problems. In 6 months now, I've had no problems burning CD's with Linux. All of these operations involve large cross ide (ide0 ide1) and RFS fat32 transfers. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 06 December 2001 09:32 am, Franki wrote: Hi Tom, Got a few questions for you if I may... Why did you have to upgrade initscripts and iptables to go with 2.4.16-1??? I have that kernel, initscripts-6.27-10.4 and iptables-1.2.4-2 Should I upgrade them?? it all seems to be fine

[expert] Draksync Problems

2001-12-05 Thread Tom Badran
? Thanks Tom - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
, no negative ones. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Scanners! Help!

2001-12-02 Thread Tom Badran
since mandrake 8.0 and kgcc doesnt seem to work at all. If anyone has binary versions of these linked against a stock 8.1 kernel could they possibly post them. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.16 (was 'printing')

2001-12-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 02 December 2001 04:36 pm, richard wrote: Hi Tom I've downloaded 2.4.26 from cooker,, where are the kernel headers for this, and the mdk souce On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 17:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2001 10:04 am, richard wrote: if not whats the safest known

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Dec 2001 1:29 pm, you wrote: Is there a way to make several hard drives look like one big drive? Something like spanning over several drives. I belive that is what LVM is for - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing

Re: [expert] how do I?

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
check any info before you rely on it, as some could be (and probably is) slightly wrong. Tom - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
groups since I started usin Mandrake 6.0. Same with RedHat and Slack before that. Some things just don't change --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ~user websites not working

2001-11-30 Thread Tom Badran
do it - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
in to the vga port (or at my uni they do) they work fine, we have lectures were the lecturers plug their linux laptops in and they just work. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from

Re: [expert] Please help me get rid of windoze!

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
heard very good things about vga-tv converters (although they are about £100 as far as i know) - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [expert] A7V266, A7A266 and A7M266 + Winbond

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
with the system other than years of wear'n tear. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
system for my music than windows. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - - PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
). Guess who, forever, will not buy a product from them again. And to think i was just about to spend about £600 with them, they should be pretty pissed at microsoft. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - - PGP Key

Re: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q4/011126/index.html I'd strongly suggest you try to get a board and power supply for it that is on AMD's recommended list http://www.amd.com/us-en/ --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
for that sort of thing? - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Eastman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:31:19PM -0500, Leif Madsen wrote: I'm pretty sure he is talking about recording from a mixing board and recording into seperate tracks (such as Cakewalk, Pro Tools etc...) This is my problem as well.. as soon as Linux has an equivalent to Cool Edit Professional I

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
engine for a game, and as far as writing music goes, ive always been a big fan of mod trackers, like soundtraker and the amiga one whos name ive completely forgotten. Just a thought, Tom - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
2 hours anyway ;) ) - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
machine that can ray trace in real time, and it was a big f'off supercomputer attached to a 42 foot (yes feet, not inches) widescreen projection system. What i would give to play doom on that baby :) - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
, logical (boolean) operations, conditional statements (ifs), funtion calls and pointers. And thats it. Buy a book though, there is nothing worse than trying to read programming manuals from a monitor. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College

[expert] SNF

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Badran
anywhere (and it takes 3-5days to download an ISO image). - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Eastman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:35:30PM -0500, George Jones (IT) wrote: I'd rather stab myself in the eyes with a blunt, rusty screwdriver than use MacOS. I have 2 macs at home. The powermac, my 3 year old uses and the 040 (840av) has BSD on it, but currently resides in a closet in my basement.

[expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Eastman
Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I was too chicken to try XFS even though it looked like it was better in a lot of ways. Can anyone tell me what their experiences have been with XFS, now that

Re: [expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
for mozilla 9.6 (to avoid the libpng3 deps) and galeon-1.0-1. Works fine, I believe you're problem is a mismatch between mozilla and galeon versions. Konqueror is still a better browser tho ; --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Fortunately, nutscrape 4.78 still will Konqueror is still my browser of choice ; ...BUT my banking sites complain with Moz, Konq, and Galeon that I don't have cookies enabled, even tho I do --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] xconfig

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Badran
the dependancies for this ?... ie an rpm ?? make menuconfig and make config both work fine, so does gcc2.96 for compiling the modules. it would be nice to hget everything working again You need tcl/tk for make xconfig i believe - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College

Re: [expert] xconfig

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 Nov 2001 10:06 pm, you wrote: Thanks Tom, just a case of determining which package to replace ? tcltk-8.3.3-9.1 mdk ???...I'm not sure You shouldnt have to replace anything, just look in the package manager for the tcl/tk packages

Re: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
have one ;) --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
/mnt/floppy supermount auto,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850, noauto 0 0 I needed this so I could do a 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
this is sor'ta kind'a a naive notion ... you just haven't found out what you broke yet ;) --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] https sites not working fine...

2001-11-25 Thread Tom Badran
as your bank might be blocking other browsers. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: [expert] Nec 7700A CDRW

2001-11-21 Thread Tom Badran
you use? If command line what are EXACTLY the options that you used? - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] damn shockwave

2001-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
and setup automagically by 8.1's install on my system. Didn't need to do a thing. Still some pages, not too many, still pop up that damn 'shockwave page popup' --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA On Tuesday 20 November 2001 06:49 am, you wrote: I just don't get it. I

Re: [expert] Kernel and PCMCIA

2001-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
before using the latest cooker kernels. While 2.4.13-2mdk had few issues, -3 thru -7mdk had many problems, devfs, and pcmcia among them IIRC. I believe it's fixed in -8mdk, but you should check. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Badran
output to c++ classes. However if you want to run the stable version, it will not run on the 1.4 jdk from sun, you need the 1.3.x version. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from

Re: [expert] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Badran
time :) - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7

Re: [expert] cups again

2001-11-18 Thread Tom Badran
set it up using the bjc250 / bjc600 driver.. This works in colour and black and white and gives really good results. I think i might have also told it to print at 360dpi. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key

Re: [expert] Troubles compiling kernel

2001-11-18 Thread Tom Badran
is supported out of the box on mandrake (7.0-8.1 at least) as i have a machine with one in and it has always been autodetected. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] Licq and the new ICQ protocol

2001-11-18 Thread Tom Badran
-- According to my system and RPM I've got a version than the version number of libsigc++-1.0.0. So, what am i missing here? The libXXX-devel package - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from

Re: [expert] Still Star office 6 install problems - YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS

2001-11-17 Thread Tom Badran
the panel to run along the bottom results in both the installer and program working flawlessy (and it is a nice office suite btw). I could not, and still can not believe this. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP

Re: [expert] Still Star office 6 install problems - YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS

2001-11-17 Thread Tom Badran
doesnt exhibit itslef in openoffice however. And yes, of course i reported the problem :) - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College - --- PGP Key available from certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[expert] Licq and the new ICQ protocol

2001-11-16 Thread Tom Eastman
Ever since the new ICQ version came out with its new protocol licq has gone totally unreliable and flaky. Does anyone know of an ICQ clone that is compatible with the new protocol? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cooker?

2001-11-16 Thread Tom Eastman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:32:41PM -0600, Timothy R.Butler wrote: I know I can do this via FTP, although it appears that Mandrake Package Manager can connect to Cooker for me too. However, when I attempt this by selecting a cooker mirror in the source selection, it chugs along downloading

Re: [expert] Licq and the new ICQ protocol - WORKAROUND!

2001-11-16 Thread Tom Eastman
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:59:37PM -0200, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: In LICQ choose to send your messges trough the server. I only don't remember if it is a global choice or if you have to do this for each name in your ICQ list. Sadly this won't work, since the 12th (the release of ICQ

Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?

2001-11-15 Thread Tom Eastman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:58:37PM -0600, SleepyFolkz wrote: I have 2 computers I run currently, one is running Mandrake Linux 8.1 and has all the guts. Another is running MS Windows 2000. The bare windows 2000 machine is only in existance because they don't make CakeWalk Pro Audio 9 for

Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?

2001-11-15 Thread Tom Eastman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:55:22PM -0800, ltiu wrote: How many people in this email list are actually using Linux exclusively for their desktop computing needs? I need windows for some hardware. My scanner HP5300c needs windows. I use Nero in windows for CD-writing mainly because I haven't

[expert] Still Star office 6 install problems

2001-11-15 Thread Tom Badran
and the exact size so i can check if it really is a download problem. Thanks for help Tom - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU

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