[expert] Re: Shorewall Config

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Fisher
you can give > > Mike Try installing Webmin, then point your browser at https://localhost:1 (Note it must be https...) webmin has a module for Shorewall which allows much better control over the settings. I've personally stopped even attempting to use DrakGW, as it is essentiall

[expert] Re: Menudrake changes don't take

2003-09-27 Thread Alex Fisher
. I much prefer to do modifications manually. BTW, OO.o RC5 has much better KDE integration, and will install the mimetypes automatically. It is supposed to install the menu entries as well, but there are sometimes problems with permissions and the copying fails. The steps I've outlined are essential

[expert] Re: evolution 1.4 printing prob.

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Fisher
this is a real pain :( > > > TIA > Richard > Get rid of Evolution? (or should it be renamed?) -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: Fwd: arrrgghhh

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Fisher
other dms later. I'll suggest it to him. >> > hahah yup. I have another one for you. Make a super duper encrypted file > system with a minimum of 16 characters. So when it is booted or mounted it > requires a password. (naturally) Now, open the control center and go into > moun

[expert] Re: KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Fisher
Club ? >> > I am using Texstar's packages and they work great. Unfortunately, I think > the qa on them is better than those packages available from Club. And where do I get these packages? -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia

[expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Fisher
T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:08:50PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: >> > Several things come to mind: >> > - Have you googled for that card + Linux to see whether this problem >> > has been encountered (and maybe solved) by others? >> >&g

[expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Fisher
T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: >> I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 >> bit ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure >> the card. It is not detected

[expert] SCSI, Scanner... How?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Fisher
of what I need to put in there..). -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-04 Thread Alex Fisher
Alex Fisher wrote: > In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: > > The machine had been idle for a while, went to logout from KDE, no > mouse > > > chipset causing this. > > So far, I've tried 1 trackball,and 2 different

[expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread Alex Fisher
Patricia Fraser wrote: > Hi Alex, > >> In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what >> happened: > > Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using > X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1, with

[expert] Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread Alex Fisher
nce. The machine is my secondary machine, used by my house-mate and her daughter. They need to use the mouse (they have no idea otherwise), so I need to work out the problem fairly urgently. Need more info, please ask... -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia W

[expert] Re: Re: Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-21 Thread Alex Fisher
Daniel Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 06:25, ed tharp wrote: >> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 02:31, Alex Fisher wrote: >> > Daniel Anderson wrote: >> > >> > >> > Any ideas why this redirection is happening or how to fix it? >> > >>

[expert] Re: Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-21 Thread Alex Fisher
en they get a phone bill showing a call to an overseas location, which was charged to them at a rate of roughly $10 (US) per minute... I think bandwidthplace needs to check their servers (and javascript code). -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-20 Thread Alex Fisher
mozilla, galeon doesn't have the problem on this mandrake > box, but does on the others.I've seen this happen before on a windows > box on a different site. Never could figure out how it happens. Well, Netscape 7.1 gets redirected, but Opera 7 and Mozzilla Firebird didn't... >

[expert] RE: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Fisher
ation." after which the installer will exit. > > Besides, what is the big deal? you can pick up a second hand 15 inch > monitor for about 30 dollars AUD.. Where? I've yet to find one under $80 (Australian)... > > Thats not an expensive monitor. > > > > rgds &

[expert] Re: 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

2003-08-17 Thread Alex Fisher
t from the console problem (suspect a mis-configuration of the video section there), the system works perfectly... > > James > >> >> Praedor Atrebates wrote: >> -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Where are the Cooker GPG keys

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Bennee
223F49 2002-03-13 pub 1024D/CABA22AE 2002-05-27 Penguin Liberation Front (PLF Official Keys) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/AD46FD8F 2002-05-27 Are there meant to be others? The link to the keys on the Cooker pages desn't work. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Have a ni

[expert] Re: Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Fisher
Joerg Mertin wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:42, Alex Fisher wrote: >> Rolf Pedersen wrote: > [...] >> Actually, the problem is almost certainly in Shorewall. I had a similar >> problem, which started straight after I tried to confugute Connection >&

[expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-08 Thread Alex Fisher
since (in fact I haven't installed Gnoe since. One or two apps, but then only because there was no alternative for what I needed). > > : LX > > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > chan

[expert] Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]

2003-08-07 Thread Alex Fisher
nt to "fine-tune_ your firewall rules and policies, I recommend installing Webmin, and using that to set up the firewall. It offers much finer control over the ruleset. One of these procedures should work for you (My system... Mandrake 9.1/KDE3.1 on a Celeron 366, 384 MB, with a secon

[expert] Re: Re: Internet blocked by the firewall? [was: Languages and 9.1]

2003-08-07 Thread Alex Fisher
m kernel might help a bit there. As for what I do, apart from giving support to OpenOffice.org users, I also maintain the OpenOffice.org CD-ROM project page, and am producing the "official" standard ISO image (Planned for release to coincide with the release of 1.1 Final later this m

[expert] Equivilent to Debians net-install iso?

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Bennee
e ISO for mandrake (i.e. not just using a existing 1 disk install) that will install a basic kernel and networking leaving it ready to urpmi the rest as required? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because yo

[expert] Installing Mandrake on a Laptop with nothing but wireless network + floppy

2003-03-26 Thread Alex Bennee
Alla Debian style install but using urpmi instead? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ What would Brian Botano do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] mandrake source kernel

2002-12-17 Thread Alex Fudio
>Generally as far as apps needing kernel headers (which should be >libraries which make syscalls and other hw interfaces) the version of >kernel headers (within a stable series) doesn't make too much difference >(the

RE: [expert] mandrake source kernel

2002-12-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:43, Alex Fudio wrote: > It should have been, but we couldn't find it > > I was trying to install some software and this software asked me for the > location of the .h files > > In mandrake 9 they seems to be in /usr/include but according the sof

RE: [expert] mandrake source kernel

2002-12-17 Thread Alex Fudio
It should have been, but we couldn't find it I was trying to install some software and this software asked me for the location of the .h files In mandrake 9 they seems to be in /usr/include but according the software I was trying to install they belonged to a different version of the kernel 2.4.1

[expert] mandrake source kernel

2002-12-13 Thread Alex Fudio
does anybody know where i can download the source code for the kernel for mandrake 9? thank you alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Alex Bennee
m and do a "rpm -bp specfile.spec" and build from the tarball as per normal. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Find command

2002-12-11 Thread Alex Bennee
ript. The print $1 prints the result of the captured bit of text in the () If your comfortable with regex's you can do a fair bit of stuff with variations on the theme ( http://www.bennee.com/~alex/wiki/index.php/One%20Line%20Scripts) -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-06 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:21, Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard > at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out > of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to >

RE: [expert] NFS permissions

2002-12-05 Thread Alex Bennee
> > > > > > > > > > > > /data (rw) > > > > > > > > > > > > Permissions and ownership of the directory are as > > > > > > they were and > > > > > > identical with other exported filesystems. All the

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:45, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:33, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > Can't get the memtest tools to compile under Mandrake, failing to link > > to the maths library for some reason (and the make needs to be run as > >

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-04 Thread Alex Bennee
ly this should solve the problem. My college will find out how well Windows will cope soon. > > James > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 08:50, Alex Bennee wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:05, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > > > bit can cause the machine to lock up com

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-03 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:05, Alex Bennee wrote: > > bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with > X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the > results are consistent in failing. I know i've got a memory problem but the Ctrl-Alt-Ba

Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-03 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:50, James Sparenberg wrote: > Alex, > >Had a box myself that started doing this a couple of months ago. > Turned out I had a bad block (sector? Transistor? not sure of the term) > appear in my memory but it was high up in the list. > Yep, t

[expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?

2002-12-02 Thread Alex Bennee
is hi-jacking going on? Who's trapping it and killing my system? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] grip

2002-12-02 Thread Alex Bennee
to encode Oggs by default as well. > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your

Re: [expert] traffic control

2002-11-27 Thread Alex Bennee
ute2 package. Do you have any pointers to replacing patches for rebuilding src rpms? I've been meaning to try deviks connbytes patch but I wanted to do it in the context of the MDK RPM's without manually extracting source and patches and building from scratch. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hack

[expert] Reproducing supermount errors at will

2002-11-19 Thread Alex Bennee
dmesg gives no hints. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-12 Thread Alex Bennee
Make sure your urpm sources are correctly set up and do a "urpmi avifile-player" and let it sort it all out for you. Alternatively you can install all 3 packages at once "rpm -i pkg1 pkg2 pkg3" -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and

Re: [expert] Quick fixes for problems in 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Alex Bennee
well. > (Thanks to pclinuxonline.com I found this page.) > > http://www.pythonzero.org/ The anti-alias defaults fixed the occasional half-line fault I was seeing on my display (I guess you could call it smudging). I hope Mandrake tweak the default for 9.1. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-06 Thread Alex Bennee
x27;t want to go through the hassle of manually mounting stuff, after all supermount is meant to be a differentiating feature right? I can supply my drive info if any supermount hackers want to work with me to find a better cure. According to the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@;linu

[expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Bennee
root Which doesn't tell me much. Any ideas? Where does the the sr0 come from, my CD-Burner is a different drive? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:11, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:32, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > Does anyone know if Mandrake are intending to add this patch to their > > 2.4 kernels at a later date? > There are preempt-enabled kernels in testing at Mandrake Club, n

[expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
e found at http://www.bennee.com/~alex/software/patches/ Regards, Alex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Problems with ethernet on startup?

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:48, Mikko Lipasti wrote: > Hello Alex, > > What's the device at the other end of the RJ45 cable? According to > mii-tool manpage, some passive devices (such as one-speed hubs) don't > understand anything about auto-negotiating, which might confus

[expert] Problems with ethernet on startup?

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
or so. Eventually the ethernet shows it is recieving packets. The weird thing is this lock up occurs on both the in-built rtl8139 ethernet and the PCI DP83815 (natsemi.o) so I'm unsure if this is entirely driver related. Any ideas before I just hack the mii-tool resets into the networking scripts? Alex

[expert] How to fully close a sockets which stayed in FIN-WAIT-1 or FIN-WAIT-2 stages?

2002-05-03 Thread Alex Pan
Dear expert, How can I close a socket which entered the FIN-WAIT-1 or FIN-WAIT-2 stages without just waiting until timeout? Alex = __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy

[expert] Dial on demand

2001-10-19 Thread alex
Hi, I've got LM 8.0 installed. What is the best way to organize dial on demand for several linux/win/mac boxes. Thanks Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 5 1/4 floppy drive

2001-09-25 Thread Alex Yung
I know Debian supports the 5 1/4" floppy installation. ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/mirrors/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/images-1.20/ bascule wrote: > > i have just aquired some old kit and thought i'd add it to my network but the > only floppy drive i have for it is an old

Re: [expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-24 Thread Alex Yung
You can verify your newly burned CD by md5sum /dev/scd0 Compare this value with your ISO file. DM wrote: > i get trouble reading CDs that i have written using > speed=4 so, for my ISOs, i stick to speed=2. > > one way to verify is to try to use the same install CD > on a another machine and

[expert] How to unlock console in Mandrake 7.2 SNF?

2001-08-22 Thread Alex Yung
I just installed this version. After reboot, I am not able to login at the text console. It would not accept anything from keyboard but the machine is happily running. The only way I can get to the machine is via a web browser through port 8443 or ssh. This is good only if I have everything co

Re: [expert] remote x

2001-08-07 Thread Alex Yung
Alternatively, you can use VNC which you can have a choice of running VNC client under WinXX or use any WEB browser of your choice. VNC is free and you get the full result as receiving xdmcp from your application server. Herman Jalink wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2001 17:29, Craig Sprout wrote

Re: [expert] persistent cdrecord failure -> "fixed"

2001-08-04 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:46:56PM -0400, mike wrote: | On Saturday 04 August 2001 11:43, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote: | > However, I experimented some more with hdparm, and found that the | > problem goes away when I turn DMA *off* on /dev/hdc (hdparm -d0 | > /dev/hdc). It's highly re

Re: [expert] persistent cdrecord failure -> "fixed"

2001-08-04 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
/dev/hdc (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc). It's highly reproducible; as soon as I turn using_dma on again (which is the default config) it fails 9 out of 10 times. I doubt this is the way things are supposed to work, but if it shuts down my coaster factory, I can live with it :-) -- Alex On Fri, Aug 03,

[expert] How to make Single Network Firewall 7.2 to support the 486 cpu?

2001-07-05 Thread Alex Yung
Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can make the Single Network Firewall 7.2 to support the 486 cpu? Currently, I am using a 486 with Mandrake 7.0 as my gateway/firewall for my home network. I am thinking. It would be a good idea to make the Single Network Firewall 7.2 to support the 486 c

[expert] Is LDAP supported in pine of MDK 7.2?

2000-12-11 Thread Alex Yung
Is LDAP compiled in pine or I have to enable something to make it aware of LDAP? Any pointer? Thanks. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] telnet and ftp services

2000-12-08 Thread Alex Yung
Interestingly, I also came from the Debian camp. Are you sure you installed the packages telnet-server and wu-ftpd or proftpd? That is all I have to do to enable both services. On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bryan Kim wrote: > Hi. I am an experienced Debian user who is having a little trouble with > Mandr

Re: [expert] Hardware vs System Clock

2000-12-08 Thread Alex Yung
Take a look at the file "/etc/sysconfig/clock": The variable UTC should be false in your case since the CMOS clock of your machine is not set to GMT. If you like GUI admin, click [DrakConf] then click [Linuxconf]. Go to the tab [Control] and click [date & time] then uncheck [universal format]. O

[expert] Will there be LM 7.2 for Sparc?

2000-12-08 Thread Alex Yung
I just looked at the cooker tree for sparc. It did not have anything changed since September. Does it mean Mandrake will also drop the Sparc Platform like RedHat? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] SCSI - is it worth it? (aka how to burn a CD)

2000-12-08 Thread Alex Yung
It is not difficult at all. I am using Yamaha 4416S which is their older rewritable SCSI for the past 3 years. These are the commands you need to know: # cdrecord -scanbus # cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,6,0 -data /opt/iso/Mandake71-inst.sparc.iso The first command tells you what your writer's dev

[expert] xscreensaver failed authentication on LM 7.1 (Sparc)

2000-12-07 Thread Alex Yung
I am running LM 7.1b (hydrogen) on my Sparc 5. xscreensave is not able to authenticate my login password. The built-in screen saver of KDE 1.1.2 also failed the password authentication. Does anyone have any pointer on this? Is there another group for the Sun platform of LM? Thanks. Keep i

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Alex Yung
rpm --root $HOME ... allows you to put it anywhere you want. If you intend to do everything as user, you probably should consider adding "--dbpath" option so that you don't mix your system rpm database. Larry Marshall wrote: > > Alexander...maybe it's just my ignorance when it comes to rpms bu

Re: [expert] gdm

2000-11-25 Thread Alex Yung
Did you try "/usr/bin/gdmconfig"? On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Armisis Aieoln wrote: > how do you edit gdm? > i mean i installed helix-gnome, and it took gnome off of the login session > manager selection, now all i get is kde and the others but no gnome or > sawmill... > > dave Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-24 Thread Alex Yung
Thanks Andrew. I was under the impression that installing the kernel source would also include the SPEC file. This is how Debian works. Thanks again. On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Andrew George wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 10:57, you wrote: > > There is nothing wrong with the MDK kernel. I have to reco

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-24 Thread Alex Yung
There is nothing wrong with the MDK kernel. I have to recompile the kernel because of the WinModem in my boss' laptop. If you follow up on the WinModem HOWTO, it suggested the kernel re-compilation. If I want to get myself fire, I would suggest what sprach skidley said. Alexander Skwar wrote:

[expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-24 Thread Alex Yung
I need to recompile the kernel and I would like build it as an rpm file. Does anyone have any suggestion where it is? Thanks. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 on Mandrake 7.1 with RPM

2000-10-05 Thread Alex Willmer
packages really mean it or is there some mistake in the compilationmof those particular rpms? Alex - Original Message - From: "Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 on Mandrake 7.1 w

[expert] XFree 4.0.1 on Mandrake 7.1 with RPM

2000-10-03 Thread Alex Willmer
get rpmlib? Might I already have it? It doesn't appear to be a package in it's own right 2) How safe is it to upgrade initscripts to the cooker version? They must be fairly specific, ie incompatible between mandrake releases. 3) Is what I'm doing a good idea? Alex W

[expert] remove

2000-08-07 Thread Alex Forbin
-- On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 10:12:57expert-request wrote: >Table of content : > > 1. RE: [expert] Mandrake of a 486? > 2. [expert] SCSI CD install problem on UltraSparc > 3. [expert] Root Password problem > 4. Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. > 5. Re: [expert] SCSI CD install problem on Ultr

Re: [expert] HP Pavilion 6470Z

2000-06-14 Thread Alex V Flinsch
ing wit other distros, I have tried Mdk 6.0, 6.1 & 7.0 on it, along with Storm, Debian, and SuSE, all with fairly similar results. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] HP Pavilion 6470Z

2000-06-14 Thread Alex V Flinsch
nstalled on my 4450. Did not get sound/modem to work (Rockwell RipTide combo card -- winmodem crapola) Everything else worked OK though. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] 7.1 menus

2000-06-14 Thread Alex V Flinsch
ntry in /usr/lib/menu the application will show up on the menus. The only problem is that it does not seem to work when the app was installed from something other than an rpm (a tarball for instance). Does the update-menus package require that the menu entry be in the rpm database? Is there a way arou

Re: [expert] Another Mandrake source.

2000-06-12 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: > http://www.lsl.com . The 7.1 is 99 cents plus shipping. The turn around > time is very good. That's where I got mine from. Ordered Thursday afternoon, arrived in Saturday's mail, installed Saturday evening. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm

[expert] 7.1 menus

2000-06-11 Thread Alex V Flinsch
synch up all of the other window managers with the kde menu, or do I hve to edit all of the others by myself (which kind of defeats the purpose of the synched menus...)? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] cron question

2000-06-04 Thread Alex V Flinsch
as root, your open netscape window isn't, and can't be found idea 2 -- do you really need to waste all that memory running netscape to get the url? From the above, you just need to hit some website every few minutes to have your dynamic ip assignment working. And I assume that news.co

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Alex V Flinsch
would be nice if when I installed linux would > either prompt or detect my CPU and install/compile one that is optimized > for my machine. > If you are going down this path, why not recompile everything as it is being installed? The major drawback would be that installation would take f

Re: [expert] Oracle 8i R2 install

2000-05-25 Thread Alex V Flinsch
upgraded to 6.5 without any problems. I had similar problems like yours when upgrading to 7.0 and using the "secure" kernel. Using the normal 2.2.15 kernel worked just fine. Have not had a chance to get into work early (so I can borrow the NT box on the T1 that has a burner so I can dl 8.1.6 /8iR2). -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Why will no one help me???

2000-05-18 Thread Alex V Flinsch
ic ip address cliend, but you still can't get to your webserver at the new ip address. Did you try restarting your webserver? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] SHIT

2000-05-11 Thread Alex V Flinsch
reinstall netscape-common and netscape-navigator. By doing this you will loose some of the communicator features (mail, news, the stupid editor), and gain a more stable browser. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] how can i do?

2000-04-21 Thread Alex V Flinsch
time you get a new dynamic ip address send it off to them. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion

2000-04-12 Thread Alex V Flinsch
d pays > the bills. Could be worse. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] A few questions

2000-04-09 Thread Alex V Flinsch
t. Is there any other way to reset the modem. I have seen this happen also, sometimes pppd, does not seem to know that kppp died. Try doing a kill -9 `pidof pppd` as root and see if that kills it, and allows the modem to be reset If you have an external modem, you could try powering it off then b

Re: [expert] MP3 playlist to CD-R

2000-04-01 Thread Alex V Flinsch
can I send the file listing as written in the M3U file > to that set of commands? > I just did a mp3 cd containing about 13 "recular" cd's. All I did was rip and encode, then edited the m3u files to have /mnt/cdrom/mp3/whatever instead of /home/alex/mp3/whatever then threw th

Re: [expert] News reader?

2000-03-26 Thread Alex V Flinsch
nt something closer to agent try the latest version of pan (0.80 Beta1) you can get it at http://www.superpimp.org -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Re: OT [games]

2000-03-23 Thread Alex V Flinsch
ge, check http://www.happypenguin.org and look there -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Penguin removal - OT!

2000-03-14 Thread Alex V Flinsch
from hell. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Does Mandrake have false or misleading advertisement?

2000-03-14 Thread Alex V Flinsch
Library". > > f**kers, may be that's why they didn't included the HOW-TO's as an > rpm... Actually they did, but it is on the contribs disk. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Does Mandrake have false or misleading advertisement?

2000-03-14 Thread Alex V Flinsch
they located? Beats me, I can't find them anywhere either. Wish I could, as I have a few of the books in real paper format and the PDF versions are easier to read while at the computer. On the other hand you can't easily take the PDF versions to the bath or bedroom with you. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Penguin removal

2000-03-13 Thread Alex V Flinsch
see_on_the_screen > etc/issue echo "" >> /etc/issue > p.s., after YGGDDRSL P&P, Slackware, RH and Debian I have found Mandrake to > be the best distro for a robust machine. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] Program Compatibility

2000-03-12 Thread Alex V Flinsch
t you might lose any "KDE dependent" features (like drag and drop). I'm writing this using kmail and running with icewm right now. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads?

2000-03-09 Thread Alex V Flinsch
). If you want the commercial app demos, many of them are available from the individual vendors, the only thing the powerpack does is save you the download time. The biggest gripe I have with 7.0, is that the howto's are on the contrib disk 3, rather than on the main install disk, like thay have been in the past. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

RE: [expert] Oracle Mandrake

2000-03-04 Thread Alex V Flinsch
nstaller docs say to use 1.16. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex V Flinsch > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 7:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Binkley > Subject: Re: [expert] Oracle Mandrake > > >

Re: [expert] Oracle Mandrake

2000-03-03 Thread Alex V Flinsch
was a minor fix (seems Oracle does not like the smp-secure kernel, but will work with one of the others that is installed with 7.0) -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] cdrecord problem with Mdk 7.0

2000-02-29 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:44:35PM +, M Thompson wrote: | Alex, | | You sound knowledgeable about CD burning...maybe you could lend some advice. | | I recently got a CD-RW drive, but I haven't yet burned a CD in Linux. | | Does the command "mkisofs -J -r | cdrecord -v fs=8m ..

Re: [expert] setiathome

2000-02-29 Thread Alex V Flinsch
cd's also cange window > managers > to blackbox and run genome toaster from there works great for me. I really don't want my genome toasted :) -- Alex 315 Seti WU's processed. (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] cdrecord problem with Mdk 7.0

2000-02-29 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
g a real SCSI drive, or using SCSI emulation by loading the ide-scsi kernel module. -- Alex

[expert] cdrecord problem with Mdk 7.0

2000-02-28 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
again. Has anybody else seen this? -- Alex

Re: [expert] Freakin' Netscape...

2000-02-26 Thread Alex V Flinsch
-communicator Personally I find that just installing navigator (the browser only) is quite a bit more stable than installing communicator (browser/email/newsreader/html editor). Besides there are other options for the rest of the software that makes up communicator. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] No email delivery

2000-02-24 Thread Alex V Flinsch
2 7 - start postfix -- /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix stop and see if that helps -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

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