Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
new users HOME. Yet we all know it does. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
got it wrong. The man login string appears exactly in a virtual terminal session, except for the missing "." which could be a hack that Mandrake got right. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
e situation, but since they counted at 1000Hz, it triggered after only 49.7 days. The result was a little worse too: the machine crashed. Strangely enough this bug was not discovered until the year 2000. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
to local storage, just clicking on it doesn't work... Doesn't this mean that windows users will get LF/CR fixups when they try to download it? If so only Linux users will be able to view it. I haven't tried it, so I might be talking rubbish. -- Richard Urwin Want

Re: [expert] Moving a partition

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
ic links and reset user and timestamps. use: # cp -a /mnt/usr / -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Bown
it would have helped if Ulogd was used to handled to log enties, syslog gets very full otherwise. thats my two penneth,,,now breakfast Richard On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:24, Jack Coates wrote: > I have three production Shorewall installs, two of which are on 9.2. If > it was broken, I wouldn&#x

Re: [expert] opening ports

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Bown
OK Dan I'll reply to this off list Richard On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:05, Daniel Anderson wrote: > The firewall part of mnf is basicly shorewall with a fancy interface, > there are other services such as intrusion detection and dhcp also. > Anyhow, all drops and rejects are already lo

Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Urwin
> the company sendmail *grin*) > > > > James > > ... > > sendmail? Doesn't that stuff give ya cavities? Try doing it back in the early ninties, without the m4 macros, on a UUCP feed. Sort of like the difference between a modern air powered drill and the old bel

Re: [expert] opening ports

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Bown
Ok, go thru the config files for mnf and set to log everything, its a real pain, but you should then see the incoming packet getting dropped. I'm not familiar with mnf , but OK with bastille and shorewall. But they all have to interface with iptables in the end Richard On Thu, 2003-11-

Re: [expert] opening ports

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Bown
dunno , but you could try tail -f on your firewall logfile and try to connect to live 365, if its rejecting or dropping you should see which port its trying to use. HTH Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:34, Daniel Anderson wrote: > Hi, > Anyone know what ports I need to open on the firew

Re: [expert] Sarg

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Urwin
eck the option, alternatively the MDK packagers failed to specify it correctly. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] club cont & urpmi

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Bown
I was referring to the club contribs as listed on the club download page, all I get is this, this site goes a little further but never downloads [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# urpmi.addmedia -h ftp.physics.auth.gr_devel ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported

[expert] club cont & urpmi

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Bown
Hi has anyone managed to do a urpmi.addmeadia for the club contrib. no problems adding others but this one always fails, just as if there is nothing there ?? TIA Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-11 Thread Richard Fieldsend
Its the German equivalent of plc, limited or whatever. According to Acronym Finder (www.acronymfinder.com) it is a contraction of Aktiengesellschaft, which is a German Stock listed corporation. regards Richard Miark wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:00:43 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:24 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Urwin wrote: > > The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive > > will be identical to the source drive. > > No it won't. Everything from the first sector through the last sec

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
to actually implement that. You mean something like: cp /etc/hosts.base /etc/hosts if (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 192.168.7>/dev/null) then cat /etc/hosts.extra >> /etc/hosts fi (test it first, of course) HTH -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
l to the source drive. If, like most people, you've bought a bigger disk, then that's hard luck. The partition table will show it as the same size as the old disk. I don't know where the actual full size of the disk is calculated so you might be able to add new partitions later, o

Re: [expert] iptables and msn messenger

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Bown
to local for these upd ports AND add 1100 & 1182 to /etc/services on the firewall machine. xinetd is happy with port forward to a subnet, so it should work HTH Richard On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 02:57, Leonardo Sá wrote: > I'm currently running a server who shares a adsl connection (masq

[expert] Sound cards

2003-11-07 Thread Richard Bown
e pointing at /dev/dsp or /dev/audio or /dev/adsp ??? Some advice if anyone else is using this card TIA Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] minor annoyance

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Bown
/boot/initrd.img append="quiet noapic devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only strange that ! Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NTFS file copy permissions

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Urwin
d execute permission for the user that is trying to read the file. HTH, -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] minor annoyance

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Bown
o text mode. the other machines went from 2.4.22-10 to 2.4.22-21 and all is normal with them. Just a bit strange thats all, it dos'nt effect the operation of this machine, just curious as to why. Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

Re: [expert] pop filters in evolution

2003-11-03 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks I'll have a look at that one Richard On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:35, Robert Goshko wrote: > Richard Bown wrote: > > HI > > been watching the thread on kmail, has anyone successfully got the > > filters in evolution to work on the message body. > > the filter

[expert] pop filters in evolution

2003-11-03 Thread Richard Bown
amount from aol.com. At the moment all mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes straight in the bin, not an ideal situation ( but I suppose any user that chooses an anti linux isp is not liable to send mail to me) any ideas what to use for a subject filter for that ?? TIA Richard -- Richard Bown <[EM

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 CAN'T CREATE BOOT DISK

2003-11-03 Thread Richard Bown
Hi, just double checked on this machine and ran out of disk space. On this machine I have a win4lin kernel so ther's an addition patch. What fitted on a 1.44 floppy was 2.4.22-21 off a virgin install of 9.2. So perhaps its very marginal on space, or maybe modules HTH Richard On Mon, 2003-

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 CAN'T CREATE BOOT DISK

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
Whoops, ignorance is bliss, did'nt read the errata just made one today from MCC, and it booted OK. Did I miss something Richard On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 22:25, sionii wrote: > As the errata states it is impossible to create a boot floppy as there is > not sufficient room on a 1.44 MB f

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
dd's comment about garbage data is very close to hitting the nail on the head. How many blocks of data are allocated to the mbr ? is it the same for all OS's ? what would happen if one OS used a very slightly different size mbr ? I dont know, but some one on this list should Richard --

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:40, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Bown wanted us to know: > > >I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come > >I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine tha

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:15, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:01 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi > > got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) ) > > Hey, hey, great news!! Thanks for sticking with it, your friend won't be > sor

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
. ! mobo to stay clear off Richard > > -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] kppp

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Urwin
you checked that it's using tone dialing rather than pulse dialing? Pulse dialing would cause the modem to click, and it may not work on modern exchanges. modem strings: ATDT - tone ATDP - pulse ATD - use default configuration -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote: > Thanks Thomas > > I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, > and post the data to the group as well as yourself. > > > I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine > with 2 HDs

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Bown
attempt to list the contents .Why should you get permission denied messages. this dos'nt happen with win2000 which is also ntfs . it dos'nt explain why on install you can get a failure to write the partition table to the mbr. I smell a rat , a great big seattle type rat Richard On Su

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 05:42 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after > > > > winxp has

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
tition table. Now that was before micryuk started using ntfs (apart from NT). Guess what xp reported that drive as ntfs and not fat Richard > > On Star Date Saturday 01 November 2003 11:11 am, James Sparenberg sent this > sub-space message. > > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 1

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:11, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:58, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi all > > Run up against winxp again, I'm sure they are playing foul. > > My friend recently had his PC stolen after all the hard work getting > > everythi

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > > > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails to > > get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. > > So disconnec

[expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Bown
kage, ? a system that wont load is disastrous. any ideas how I can get that crap off the mbr so I can load mdk 9.2 ???. I also think Mandrake needs to combat this .. Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] corrupted xmms in 9.0 --> 9.2???

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Urwin
user. # chown -R username.username directory (That is your username twice; once as the username and once as the group that only you belong to.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Urwin
concerting. The screen does reappear in a > few seconds, but I don't see any reason for a blanking. I get that here, on 9.1 -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I need to Port Foward 443 internally

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Bown
ce name in /etc/services HTH Richard On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 20:21, Albert Whale wrote: > Does anyone have a simple approach to forward the 443 port to an > internal machine? -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Remote ssh access with not access ports under 1024

2003-10-26 Thread Richard Bown
Hi I dont know of any standard ports But why not edit /etc/services on their machines and change the port used for ssh from 22 to say 4567..or what ever Just an idea I use for some other services, cant see any reason why it should'nt work with ssh as well Richard On Sun, 2003-10-26 at

Re: [expert] CD Text

2003-10-25 Thread Richard Bown
as long as the text is name / artist or something like that its can be entered in the ripping submenu of setup HTH On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:59, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2003 02:33, Richard Bown wrote: > > k3b supports this > > Well then how do I pass the da

[expert] Gnome menus

2003-10-25 Thread Richard Bown
thout the bug fix you have to hose the toolbar, and with the bug fix you can keep your toolbar, but the menus get hosed. Has anyone seen this before I raise a bug report on the bug fix ? Any quick way of rebuilding the menus in gnome ?? TIA Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want

Re: [expert] CD Text

2003-10-25 Thread Richard Bown
k3b supports this HTH Richard On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 04:13, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Is it possible to have CD Text burned to a CD so that it is readable by CD > players? My Lite-On CD-RW 52x24x52 is apparently CD Text capable, and my car > stereo is able to read CD Text, but can any

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
ith it. I'm not happy with this solution ,its mucky and dos'nt solve why a prog would compile on a machine running 9.1 and be a pig on 9.2 BTW 9.2 dos'nt down load the upgrades on install Richard On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:16, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Richard Bow

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
than the artic circle.. I think although interesting this subject has run its course -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
I was trying to keep it simple, so it was understandable by those without any RF experience. As for AMSAT most uplinks are now above 430 MHz, and those with downlinks below 430MHz are old/obsolete ie AO10. If you want to take it further , either off list , or on air or if you must echolink Richard

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
ected but not dramatically. As for mobile phones, no effect as these are all short range comms and are all above 800MHz and use either gMSK or WBCDMA. Right time to stop boring the list Richard On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:48, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > KevinO wrote: > > >-BEGIN P

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
t-2003 0848Z > I'll make no comment on power line surges Richard On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:18, KevinO wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > >"By tomorrow" means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun >

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Bown
Print libraries >= 0.25... I would have thought the above list was >= 0.25 gal was installed if you select development on the file select menu in 9.1, this is areal pain in the butt on 9.2 a pointer again please guys Tnx Richard On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 21:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: >

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks for the replies I'l try and load libxml and see if configure runs all the way thru TNX Richard On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 21:44, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I believe that last line is indicating that it is looking for libxm

[expert] GAL

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Bown
ease point me in the right direction TIA Richard checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... found checking for working autoconf... found checking f

[expert] GAL

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Bown
e built at least I stand some chance the build the blasted thing. can someone please point me in the right direction TIA Richard checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking f

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Bown
in total agreement. (-: > > Motion carried! We nuke Redmond! > > er, that *was* the motion, right? where's the minutes... -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive

2003-10-21 Thread Richard
# /sbin/lilo Upon reboot it sets the vfat partition read/writeable by users. I can now read and write to the windows partition as user. No idea if I have actually compromised anything. YMMV. regards, Richard. > -- > Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
I'm getting the same effect, but the one thing that occurs to me is is that you used to have to put the club username and password in. this is no longer asked for, I started to get urpmi.addmedia problems about 8 weeks ago. Any significance ?? Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:22,

Re: [expert] slightly off topicSORTED

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
Need kicking for this one looks like I messed with the permissions when compiling an app... works OK with root access. Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:53, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi, > > using the mdk Gtk packages and on a couple of apps I'm trying to get > going I see this err

[expert] mdk kernel modules

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
Hi all the kernel src 2.4.22.-10 mdk can any one tell me if the module svgalib_helper is supplied with the mdk src, as I need it :( TIA Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] slightly off topic

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
Hi, using the mdk Gtk packages and on a couple of apps I'm trying to get going I see this error message. Can someone point me in the right direction please TIA Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] glfer-0.3.3]$ ./glfer Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified

Re: [expert] 9.2 and GIMP ???

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:14, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:02, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi > > this is minor but damn annoying > > > > After trying to print a jpeg from gimp-1.2.5-6mdk to an Epson C82 > > printer using CUPS, instead of a nic

Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
e and quick. HTH Richard On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:11, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I run into this distressingly often. I try to update mandrake urpmi sources > only to be told that there were problems or errors: > >

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Evolution

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Bown
No I did'nt submit a bug report ,I put it in the comments when it was in club test on the club test page.. maybe I should have raise a bug report. I prefer when raising a bug report to know someone else has seen the effect as well. The version on Cooker 1.4.4-9 prints OK Richard On Tue,

[expert] 9.2 and GIMP ???

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Bown
in CUPs and print a test page.working Thats the first time I've ever seen that.. OK it may be a coincidence that 9.2 is involved as the other factor is the new kernel 2.4.22 has anyone seen similar ??? Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Se

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Evolution

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Bown
I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 the same as the vast majority will do. If you print from 1.4 on a 9.1 system you get the same stupid font, and only able to type about 4 words before forcing on to a new line. Richard On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:25, Mike Carter wrote: > I am using it right now and it

[expert] 9.2 and Evolution

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Bown
re: evolution from my previous mail the version of evolution ver 1.4.4 thats distributed is BUST. the version on cooker 1.4.4-9 is OK and needs to be moved to 9.2 upgrades ASAP. Richard still miffed -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] help for cups

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Bown
Have you tried using the www cups config tool, and also XPP . These work well, also check port 631 is not blocked on your LAN by a firewall HTH Richard On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:28, stephlub wrote: > I know it's not the newbie list but I really need help to have a cups server > up

[expert] 9.2 upgrade and shorewall

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Bown
m the PC ( VOIP) This with the problem with WM's , this is not a releasable distro. The problems are so so visible . Away from the PC before I burst a blood vessle Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Urwin
orld a little better for all of us. In the longer term she could probably handle Linux, but the lack of an MS Publisher clone is holding her back. Any answers for that? Thanks for any advice, -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
the matter Richard On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 22:42, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:08, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi > > There is definitely a problem when upgrading 9.1 to 9.2 when gnome is > > the wm > > unfortunately you have to lose the .gnome* files in your

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
on the menus, I also lost mozilla1.4 after using it. put a icon on the toolbar OK , but how to put it back on the menu Ans I still have input sound probs, apart from that no other complaints about 9.2 Richard On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:28, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
Oh well I'll reply to myself After formating my home partition, and a new install of 9.2 all seems to well, I hav'nt found yet whether or not I still have sound probs. What I have got probs with is urpmi addmedia, the mirrors are getting so heavily hammered I cant down load the lists

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Richard
t to make sure it's installed. This is with 9.1 download edition. It's a severe lack if you have problems on the first start up. Richard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-18 Thread Richard Bown
x27;nt been on the wacky backy.. so its now reinstall after ftping files to another machine and hope lightning wont strike twice in the same place.The MD5 checksums were ok on the downloads. Anyone seen similar?. Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Ser

[expert] off line request

2003-10-18 Thread Richard Bown
Hi would any tcl/tk guru be willing to help me off line with just 1 line of code, thanks Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Urwin
gging into a know-good port on the hub or > switch? TCPDump is useful for debugging this sort of thing, -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Bown
ules, but worth checking if you did start it if icmp type 8 is allowed. see /etc/shorewall/rules. Also worth checking in resolv.conf that there is a valid DNS server, the default from the wizard is localhost. Apart from that as Kwan said your down to the physical connection to the LAN HTH Richard

[expert] wine

2003-10-16 Thread Richard Bown
tting wine properly configured would be very helpful. When I eventually get these progs all working I will put a mini-howto on twiki for ham s/w on mdk9.1~2. Nothing original just correlate all the foul ups I've made and the easiest way to get certain apps running. TIA Richard -- Richard Bown &l

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-16 Thread Richard Bown
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 02:38, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:30, Richard Bown wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:28, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > > > Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, > > > > its for very low level radio sigs that are below

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-16 Thread Richard Bown
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 02:29, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 08:28, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python > > python-2.3-3mdk > > > > So yes its there > > I can duplicate this on my cooker box if

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
rk or going to bed.. Tnx Richard > > You can grab the src rpm from another distro and rebuild. If you run into > rpm macro errors, take a look in the /usr/lib/rpm/macros file to make sure > that the macro exists. If it doesn't, the easiest thing is usually to > extract the macros

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Markus That nows behaves like a torrent, There are still some errors , but it will have to wait until some sanity returns to all the mirrors Richard On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:37, Markus Ueberall wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Richard Bown wrote: > > &

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
7;nt been able to find them on any of the mandrake sites , including cooker. There are a couple of references to svgalibs on LUNI and MDK7.2 and they are dated between 1997 and the last I've seen is 2000. Are the RPMs for PLD linux mdk or RH compatable ?? or is PLD on offshoot of Suse or De

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:26, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:28 am, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python > > python-2.3-3mdk > > > > So yes its there > > Maybe the test file you are trying to

[expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
checking for ./users_hwaredriver.c... (cached) no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for vga.h... no configure: error: Must have svgalib package installed to compile vga.h missing!!! Any ideas how to get round this one ? TIA Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> W

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there Richard On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:30, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:37 am, Richard Bown wrote: > > I'm going nuts ! > > > > I've installed bittorrent exa

[expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
her for bittorrent gui. select either has no effect. trying from the command line with the test package [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# btdownloadcurses.py test mytorrent-richardbown929.torrent Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py", line 7, in ? fro

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Guys now got it working, it may be of interest to non Hams as "gpredict" predicts the orbits of other satellites as well -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Getting a 100% linux compatible scanner

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Urwin
n clause requiring software developers to drop all development of software for IBM's OS/2 operating system. By such means, superior products are driven from the market." ... -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Bown
d rpm -ivh , they both fail to install. There are some tarballs , but I prefer to use RPMs as they are much easier to upgrade. Thanks Richard On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:33, HaywireMac wrote: > On 13 Oct 2003 20:06:41 +0100 > Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > >

[expert] libgal

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Bown
Hi can some please tell me which file to download to install - libgal.so.11 I tried libgal-2.0 but that seems to give libgal.so.21 Tnx Richard Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Urwin
n uninstalled KDE add-on. Unless it's a later version of KDE. Does someone want to go research it? At least three people have asked recently, and its dead easy with Windows, so its a big lossage for Linux. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Getting a 100% linux compatible scanner

2003-10-11 Thread Richard Urwin
u can find a 1660 it gets good reports. The 1670 is not Linux compatible. I swapped my 1670 for a 2400 and I'm well pleased with it, but it's a bit above your price threshold. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Richard Urwin
theory). > > So a Javascript then would not require the browser to have the Java VM > installed? It runs on the server side like PHP? > > Just wanna make sure I get the concept... ;-) No, it executes on the client side, but it is supported by just about every browser. Check out

Re: [expert] This Host Wont Die/Shutdown!!

2003-10-10 Thread Richard Bown
ction. Richard On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 22:50, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Friday 10 October 2003 04:05 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > shutdown -h now, halt, reboot, shutdown -r now, kill > > -9 1, kill -KILL 1, init 6, system still going > > strong

Re: [expert] Backups: not only for HW failures or viruses

2003-10-10 Thread Richard Urwin
'm writing with it. > ... > From now on, backups! I know how you feel. I just had a catastrophic disk failure that wiped / and /home. Now I'm running backups every night to CD-RW. (It's not all bad. Now I have 160GB to play with :-)) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pac

Re: [expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-09 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks all I've sent the compile errors direct to Alex On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 03:42, A V Flinsch wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 04:57 am, Richard Bown wrote: > > > > > There are linux apps to do the same thing ie, echolinux. > > I managed to get the driver co

Re: [expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bown
e and suse style. I could'nt compile the GUI which is xforms based as there were so many link errors. However, I found a gui written in Perl which works , so that application is up and running. Its not Newbie friendly !!. Apologies for the waffle, just trying to explain the position Richard On

[expert] HAM sotfware..VOIP

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bown
lp me port some of the linux Ham s/w to mdk compatibility and produce mdk RPMs ? TIA Richard G8JVM -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Bown
for each floppy or cdrom icon on the desktop nautilus has an active process. Any more thought s please Richard On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:18, Richard Bown wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:08, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 06 Oct 2003 9:16 am, Richard Bown wrote: > > > Hi Al

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