Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)

2003-11-19 Thread John Coates
/log), then there are tons of possible arguments. The path must be given first, but the arguments can usually be given in any order (unless you get fancy). John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 14 November 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Sorry... It's in there by default in KMail since I have multiple > > email addresses configured. :-) Will try to do better next time. > > ;-) John > > Tips for using kmail - > > Set up two profiles - it

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

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:33 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > > I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 > > [...] > > Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here all in a > sudden

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:57, John Aldrich wrote: > > I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is > > effectively discontinuing the full-fledged "hobbyist" version of RedHat > >

[expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
last time I think I used it was back around Mandrake 5 or 6, before they made it so difficult to get ISOs of the distro. I basically liked it then, but there were a few "advanced" features I wasn't so thrilled with, but I'm looking at giving it another shot. Thanks..

Re: [expert] Mandrake isn't the only CD-killer out there!

2003-11-04 Thread John Wilson
s that put out drives that when told to flush their content zap their firmware. I don't think that's in the ATA standards. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread John Wilson
On November 4, 2003 08:12 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > > yup > > > > LOL! yup it's something different, or yup that's what LSB means? > > Now you're scaring me, man! Haywire's main role in life is to scare as many people as he can. Just as his good

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-04 Thread John Wilson
ht have downloaded/purchased boxed sets/etc for a test drive before jumping in. OTOH, they have deals with IBM, our friends today but who knows what tomorrow, and others to bundle their Enterprise stuff so maybe it will work out for them. That seems to leave just Mandrake and SuSE for the deskt

Re: [expert] POP filters in KMail don't work

2003-11-02 Thread john
On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 H:06 pm, Artemio wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I try to use POP filters in KMail but they don't work. > > What I do is: > > 1. Create a new POP filter > 2. Use "match any of the following" > 3. Set rule contains "penis" > 4. Set rule contains "viagra" > 5. Set action "delete fr

Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread John Wilson
> > > > wobo Nahhh, young William only wrote a buggy basic and then graduated to alleged operatng systems. :) I think it's Stephen Outofworks ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
sual? > > Yes, but at 1400Z the radio aurora is not much further south than the > artic circle.. > I think although interesting this subject has run its course Actually the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) are usually visible well south of the Arctic Circle. When I lived in Ft St John,

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
On October 24, 2003 12:43 am, KevinO wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Wilson wrote: > > Dunno what Fox was on about but you can no more get a voltage spike from > > solar flares than you can from making tea. :-) > > The 6 million custo

Re: [expert] where are mozilla,xine stuff in mandrake 9.2?

2003-10-23 Thread John Wilson
> installation of power pack or prosuite? Funny, I had to manually select Xine and Mozilla in package selection in 9.1. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-23 Thread John Wilson
cular display of the Northern Lights, assuming it's a clear night. Sadly, I won't see much. Too much light from the city and far too many large mountains in the way. :) For those of us in the telecom biz it means we get to cover a monsterous number of sins of ommission and commissio

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
t;. > "manor"? As to "the manor born"? (I'm listening to a tiresome hour long worship of Evelyn Waugh on CBC Radio One at the moment. :) ) Actually, I kinda said that near the bottom of my post. All the more reason for no freebie fixes on this :-) ttfn John Wa

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
ter use Pegasus. Also, while Microsoft may be populated by greedy, drooling monopolists they aren't THAT stupid to email patches. They'll simply push them to you. And, for some strange reason, incompetance?, the patch will break more than it fixes. Ahh well, enough an

[expert] sound not working in opengl

2003-10-18 Thread John Drouhard
modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci alias eth0 via-rhine probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options adm1021 ignore=0,0x18,0,0x4c,0,0x4e alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia I use ALSA. Using OSS doesn't work either. Thanks. John Dro

Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign

2003-10-17 Thread John Wilson
er me, though: The posting to the suse-kde list was in > early February! > -- cmg Don't worry..SUSE just got an 8 month head start. Time for the Mandrake Mavens to flood them out. ttfn John 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 John Wilson
o run into a problem. For some reason the wizard wants to use 192.168.1.xxx. Check your scripts :) Also, you will either need to manually assign IP's to every other NIC on the network or use DHCP server and assign them that way. I'd recommend DHCP. Have fun! ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)

2003-10-02 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02 pm, John Haywood wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > > Hello > > > > On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs > > volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9

Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)

2003-10-01 Thread John Haywood
specify a filesystem type in a regular mount command. Alternately, there are packages/source at ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi, called hfsplusutils, which support read-only access, and looks pretty promising (that said, I´d be reading the doco to check before entrusting critical data ) --

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread John Wilson
On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote: > > I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem > > except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda > > problem with ext2 and ext3. My

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread John Wilson
at Mozilla was trying to write as it ran wild and I had to kill it cause that's when this mess appears. It also happens with Galleon, btw. I've also had to go the route James has which is why my day to day browser is Konq now. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Change Defalt Desktop App on Hotplug?

2003-09-28 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:24, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:04, John Layt wrote: > > I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I can't seem to find it. > > When I hotplug my scanner, the XSane icon automatically appears on the > > desktop.

[expert] Change Defalt Desktop App on Hotplug?

2003-09-28 Thread John Layt
lug? Init scripts? Thanks! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] !!! Install problems on compaq server!!!

2003-09-26 Thread John Haywood
otsa SNIP] http://www.cpqlinux.com/memory.html - look down the bottom of the page You might also check if you can find a SmartStart CD for your machine, and prep it for Linux (long shot, as this is usually more concerned with arrays and partitions , in my experience) -- john in sydney Man

[expert] Copied Audio CD's - 70 Minutes of Silence!?!?

2003-09-25 Thread John Layt
K3B / cdrecord / cdrao / whatever. I'm using various PLF and Tex packages for most of these. Before trying to hunt it down, has anyone else hit this? Any other suggestions? Cheers! John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread John Wilson
at aim in mind and, with respect to the idea of boxes on shelves, agree to disagree with some degree of respect for each others position. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread John Wilson
ng marketing decision was made with respect to this part of the world. And that, too, is just the way it is. Perhaps one day we'll be comfortable with the notion of doing most or all our purchasing on line. But given the overhype of the internet on this market and it's abject failure to deliver on that hype it's gonna take a long, long time. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] eud2mbox.pl doesn't like spaces in filenames?

2003-09-19 Thread John Haywood
ail users hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How users can help Mandrake (semi hijack)

2003-09-19 Thread John Wilson
of small buisnesses think of saving first, but also on stablilty, performance, ease of use and maintenance and so on. It's a lovely start though :) ttfn John (who might be contributing soon to that page :) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-19 Thread John Wilson
ought that fscked peice of junk called XP. That would be a natural partnership, and I doubt that even Wolfgang can find fault with that idea. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dial-up modems (ignore previous)

2003-09-18 Thread John Layt
ake RPM's for them in various places, and the MCC network wizard can be coaxed into working with them. Visit www.linmodems.org for all the details. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-17 Thread John Wilson
suddenly realizes what a pain in the ass it is to configure. Then they either give up or they'll listen and download the ISO and try Mandrake. SuSE users don't have quite the same problems getting going but they have their problems too. Meanwhile, I don't think this will get reso

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread John Wilson
w there's a joke and a half) on the shelves at a computer store! There could be one additional contention here on Geal's part, unspoken. That is that people download a package and then share it around. That too could cause the number of packaged boxes to go down even where the high

Re: [expert] Verisign hijacks .com and .net DNS space

2003-09-16 Thread John Wilson
noodle.org as time permits. > > ... Gee, they seem to have opened up an entire can of very messy worns here. I wonder where else than slashdot or the IAB that the flames are lighting brightly tonight? ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread John Wilson
just dropped the ball in North America. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread John Wilson
ctfully still disagree with you. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread John Wilson
. Just "freeloading" can be had > with much less effort... ;-) > > Regards, > > Thomas Justifying it can be take a lot of effort, too. Perhaps I'd feel better if you could tell me one patch you contributed to a CVS, one contribution you made to a project

[expert] Laptop & NFS

2003-09-14 Thread John Haywood
out the advantages and drawbacks of either, I´d be most grateful. Also, are there any issues with using the XFS file system and NFS together? cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread John Haywood
le .kde folder and start again. In my case, I was using xscreensaver as my screensaver (duh!) by disabling the inbuilt kde saver, (cause the random module never worked for me) by making a link in the .kde/Autostart directory. Once I had recreated all my kde settings and left this out, all is well w

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread John Drouhard
llow you to connect to another computer in the LAN via ssh. John Drouhard > -- Tue Sep 2 21:53:06 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Mac

Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer

2003-08-24 Thread John Layt
er required when it writes the entries. Otherwise, just edit the fstab as required. John. Windows is a 32 bit shell for a 16 bit extension to an 8 bit Operating System designed for a 4 bit microchip by a 2 bit company which can't sta

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-24 Thread John McQuillen
mentis]$ touch test/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dementis]$ touch test/3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dementis]$ touch test/4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dementis]$ ls -la test/*[^2] -rw-r--r--1 dementis dementis0 Aug 24 08:51 test/1 -rw-r--r--1 dementis dementis0 Aug 24 08:51 test/3 -rw-r--r--1

[expert] Creative Inspire 2.1 speakers...

2003-08-21 Thread John McQuillen
left and right volume faders, the left volume control seems to affect the subwoofer volume more than the right one does (or maybe it is just an aural illusion!). Has anyone else here experienced this issue, and what do I need to do to fix it? Thanks for any help, John... Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] kt400 chipset nvidia drivers and ethernet

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:56:55 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:29 pm, John Douhard wrote: > > I just recently purchased a Soyo Dragon Lite Kt400 motherboard with > > an Athlon XP 2600+. To my utter disappointment, the NVIDIA drivers &

[expert] rpm database corruption -severe

2003-08-14 Thread John Haywood
? cheers from a very sad-looking laptop (with all my invoicing waiting on it!) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it make any difference that my plugins are ".so" files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. > /stefano > > Lar

Re: [expert] XMMS plugins

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
> folks know any to use only one (besides un-installing the other > plug-ins)? > > Miark > > It's actually only using the one in the drop down box. The checkbox enables effect plugins in general...not all of them. John

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
error details, I get a message that the demuxer > failed to start, but that it did find a demuxer plugin. Now I'm getting a little confused. Try uninstalling all the w32codecs you have installed, get rid of all the symlinks, and then install everything from scratch. Try installing

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 Versus 9.0

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:49:08 -0400 "Lawson, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > correction > > Really how do I get in to expert mode in drakxconnect. I know how to > in harddrake Type drakconnect in the terminal as root. At the first screen, there should be a c

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
say when you type about:plugins in the address field? If the xine plugin isn't there, then that's why it isn't working. Make sure you have RealPlayer9 and xine installed. John Drouhard -- Tue Aug 5 14:11:16 CDT 2003 - They told m

Re: [expert] Re: cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread John Drouhard
it's shit IMO. I tried gcombust some time back (Mandrake 8.2 IIRC), > and found it not as easy as Xcdroast to use. I haven't used it 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). What about Eroaster? Thats a good one. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] kt400 chipset nvidia drivers and ethernet

2003-08-12 Thread John Douhard
ch is an AGP 4x card. Does the kernel not have support for this chipset? (W2K works with the internet.) I'm stumped, thanks for any help. John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 & 9.1

2003-08-10 Thread John Drouhard
nfigure towards the top. Then check the button next to Force No APIC. Reboot check to see if it works. John Drouhard > -- > "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself > under control."Proverbs 29:11 NIV > > Team OS/2

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-05 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:36:48 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 5:08 am, John Drouhard wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: > > > I followed John Brouhard

Re: [expert] playing .ra files (2)

2003-08-04 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:42:04 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: > I followed John Brouhard's suggestion and checked edit/preferences > in mozilla. Now it does bring up xine, but has trouble with the > plugin rpm from brazil that I got from his other message. >

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-04 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:28:15 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 04 Aug 2003 4:47 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:40:39 +0100 > > > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I note that Amazon now offer sound

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-04 Thread John Drouhard
media player, and real media player file support. Plus, the sound quality is incredible. HTH, John Drouhard -- Mon Aug 4 10:41:46 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:32 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 21:57, John Haywood wrote: > > gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c > > -I/usr/src/linux/include -include > > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h > > > > and fo

Re: [expert] reading dvd (again)

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 22:19, dfox wrote: > > followup > > > > of course it helps to link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 > > uh, er, yeah, that was going to be number 4... or, in devfs land... /dev/dvd -> scsi/host0/bus0

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
__KERNEL__ -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c pci-scan.c -I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h Now the insmod on the pci-scan works, but fails on the rtl8139.o ...any thoughts? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version:

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
darwin/projects/webcore/index.html {Hangs my head in shame} :-) Thanks! ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2003 08:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:27, John Wilson wrote: > > not to pick nits in your otherwise correct guidance, but Konqueror is > not Mozilla based -- they wrote their own browser more or less from > scratch. I seem to remember th

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread John Wilson
wget, ftp, Opera or anything else you can think of, even Mozilla based Konq seems to work better than Galleon or Mozilla itself. That leaves me to believe that it's in the wrappers around the rendering engine rather than part of it. Oh well. :-) ttfn John Want to buy your P

Re: [expert] compiling k3b-0.9-1 source

2003-07-25 Thread John Haywood
; Am I the only one? Any suggestion? > > Angelo texstar has 0.9-1 on his mirrors (you can use http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php for easy urpmi config) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > John Haywood wrote: [SNIPPY] > >I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. > >The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going > > to have problems with cat |

[expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread John Haywood
^\t].*\rReceived: from .*\r but they both appear to have syntax errors!!! Can anyone help fix these up please - it´s rather urgent. Thanks a lot john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-07 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I > created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new > drive, then cloned the partitions from the old drive one at a tim

[expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-06 Thread John McQuillen
, or do I have to start again? Thanks in advance for any help, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU Temperature monitor

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
takes care of this run sensors, and then maybe tweak the alarms and what´s reported (YMMV) For Graphical front-ends: gkrellm has a sensors module (hint - get texstar´s) ksensors if you´re using kde hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key availab

Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 06:11 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:51, Robert Crawford wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:28, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: > > > > I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamb

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
And as always - hit send button, followed by the results of a pbone search PLF has the gogo rpm for gogo 2.39b with all the extensions for various processor types compiled in ...which only goes to go - when you need anything multimedia-ish - especially US-license restricted go to PLF -- john

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
e there are the latest binaries (i386 & source rpms) for nasm, which is alluded to on the previous page to compile it: http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html I´m going to give it a go , and see if I can rpm it let you know -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel vers

Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: > > I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, > > found my menus gone! [SNIPT] > > Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be

[expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-04 Thread John Haywood
same result if I try editing the menu using menudrake, either as user or root, either the Sys menus or the User menus. Both same - menus well and truly edited!!! There must be a file or combo in ~/.kde which is, or becomes corrupt All ideas welcome!!! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1

Re: [expert] XFce4 and menus

2003-07-02 Thread John Drouhard
ed to this program: http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/MenuMaker-0.8.tar.gz When you run "mmaker xfce4" inside its directory once you've extracted it, it will create a menu that comes up on the left click of your desktop. I've been using it for awhile. John Drou

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-07-01 Thread John Wilson
eeds to learn to splice a cable. That sort of thing, even when we were a monopoly, would have landed someone in serious trouble. I understand your problem now. Short of shooting the "people" in charge of your upgrade and wondering why anyone would waste switching resources, I thi

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-06-30 Thread John Wilson
h respect to your web site. If you're hosting a web site on a dynamically allocated IP address you're asking, no begging, for trouble. Buck up for a fixed IP for that. ttfn John (Telco God, 3rd Class. :-) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread John Haywood
.cfm?articleID=179 http://www.chipmunk.nl/DRAM/ amongst the gazillion hits -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion

2003-06-27 Thread John Haywood
hem in their cache directory until I elect to dump them. Make > MandrakeUpdate default behavior to delete the downloads but give an option > to save them. it´s odd that urpmi --auto-select --noclean will do exactly this, but the gui front end doesn´t include this option, I agree --

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-26 Thread John Haywood
luck > and 50% vo0doo to make work. my sentiments entirely - and the same conclusion! I pulled my 9000 out and plunked in a Ti4200, used Texstars rpm´s and yohoho! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A90

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-25 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:31 pm, charlie wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:29 pm, John Haywood had this to contribute :- > > > 1. Black backgrounds sometimes print out as black -much waste of > > ink/toner (hmmm methinks I´ll buy epson shares now!!) > > Kprinter by default

Re: [expert] mdkkdm/kdm login

2003-06-25 Thread John Drouhard
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:19:27 -0600 (CST) "J.P. Pasnak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > !, > > I'm running into a problem with the logging in via GUI with a fresh > install of Mandrake 9.1+updates. Both mdkkdm and kdebase-kdm produce > the same results. > > If I login via the GUI, the

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread John Drouhard
choices for kernels are only the 2.4 ones. (There is enterprise, mm, smp, etc). KDE is still version 3.1.2 (at the moment). There is a new userdrake, urpmi, gcc (3.3), gnome (2.3). There are others, but I'm lazy and don't feel like finding them. :-) John Drouh

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
mes to behave is a completely > different story tho. and you have been here? http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html ...and here? http://nwn.bioware.com/support/known.html#23 (this one hints that all may not be well inter Radeon & NWN) -but fixing it is definitely a quest wor

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
blue links are too dark - can´t read them (and I have a Sony E220 w/Ti4200 card, so it´s definitely the page itself If you changed #1 to bog standard plain white, # 2 would resolve itself :) cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on ww

Re: [expert] Menudrake shennanigans

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:18 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:30, John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] > > go to menudrake as user, add 1 application to Amusements:Cards, save, > > lose all menus and toolbar customisations. > > > > Go to root mode and

[expert] Menudrake shennanigans

2003-06-23 Thread John Haywood
? What on earth is overwriting/taking precedence over my home resources? TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-23 Thread John Drouhard
nd to my dismay it started to download the whole thing. No renaming or anything. It left the original one there and I assume it will delete it when it is done syncing. Thanks for your help! John Drouhard -- Mon Jun 23 10:19:22 UTC 2003 --

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-22 Thread John Drouhard
entire cooker dir? (contrib, i586, SRC, PPC) or is the i586 dir enough? And can I set a cron job to automatically resync my local mirror, then run a urpmi.update -a and an urpmi --auto-select? Thanks, John Drouhard -- Sun Jun 22 12:56:32 UTC 2003 -

[expert] cooker installation

2003-06-21 Thread John Drouhard
dir? Or is the i586 directory enough. And, once this is done, how do I go about installing it? I am going to do a fresh install from Mandrake 9.1. Are all the setting and config files from 9.1 okay to use with Cooker? Or should I start over with my /home partition too. Thanks! John Drouhard

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 7000 DRI

2003-06-14 Thread John Haywood
rk under 9.0 (X worked in blissful 3-D, but going back to runlevel 3 gave me a messed-up/blitted console, I could not get the newer drivers to work on 9.1. There was a short thread on this a coupla months back - ´ATI Radeon Drivers´ The other thing I just noticed, is that the latest kernel from MDK

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-14 Thread John Haywood
nit.d/spamd start". Yup, spamd is running - no problem there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]# ps aux|grep -i spamd root 1439 0.0 3.9 8 20508 ? S10:34 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -H The trouble seems to be in the filters. Mine are as fo

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-13 Thread John Haywood
the filter to spamc instead of spamasssassin. Result - no filtering at all Now how have you managed to get the spamc/spamd combo running? Tricks and filter examples, please! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on

Re: [expert] Where's libGL.la? - SOLVED

2003-06-11 Thread John Layt
. current=1 age=0 revision=4363 # Is this an already installed library? installed=yes # Directory that this library needs to be installed in: libdir='/usr/lib' --- END LINE, DO NOT INCLUDE --- Cheers! John. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:16, John Layt wrote: > Hi! > > I'

[expert] Where's libGL.la?

2003-06-11 Thread John Layt
't the nVidia drivers replace the .so with their own version, so shouldn't they provide the .la as well? But that still doesn't explain where the XFree/Mesa one is either. Anyone with any suggestions as to where this is? Cheers! John. Want to buy your Pa

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-10 Thread John McQuillen
> thing can actually handle. > I haven't been following this thread closely, but are you sure that you haven't got an old sound card, network card, or something else that is not handling the 133MHz bus speed? Just guessing, as I have had a similar problem in the past with older

Re: [expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc

2003-06-06 Thread John Haywood
r (on a standard 9.1 box), and if you want to do this, download the spamassassin source rpm and the perl-Razor-Agent source rpm from a cooker near you and rebuild them. You´ll also need the db2 and db2-devel packages to rebuild Razor hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4

Re: [expert] Radeon: Anyone using: Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"with VIA KT400 ??

2003-05-30 Thread John Vickers
-4.3-5mdk, with the radeon driver. The kernel is compiled from 2.4.21-013mdk, patched to move PAGE_OFFSET_RAW from 3Gb to 2Gb. Regards, John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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