Well I got Mandrake 9.1 on the PII-400, with 390Mb ram and KDE seems to
run OK
I would like to switch my son from Win2k which worked fine on the box.
Sound needs improving to make him happy though.
I can play mp3's with XMMS but it is very jerky. System notifications do
not go.
Any advice befor
>Should just point out that price is for High Speed Starter only.
>
>If you were to purchase broadband with a local phoneline, it's $69.95
>($29.95 phone, $40 broadband)... modem rental is $17 extra... making it
>quite attractive!
That's correct. Very attractive price.
To bad there's no cable netw
Should just point out that price is for High Speed Starter only.
If you were to purchase broadband with a local phoneline, it's $69.95
($29.95 phone, $40 broadband)... modem rental is $17 extra... making it
quite attractive!
Stay tuned about the modem rental issue.
-d
- Original Message
Hi Robert,
KDE&mdk9.1 uses a ton of resources :-)
especially if logging in as root user.
Try a non root log on.
alternatively if you have another
window manager installed try that.
ie from the command prompt
startx -icewm
Regards
michael
On 4 Apr 2003, at
If you change to the 256kb you will be charged the going rate for 256kb, whatever
that rate is.
>From 1 May the going rate for 256kbps with 10GB cap is 59.95 + 17 for cable
modem rental = $76.95
The 128Kbps will remain at 49.95+17 ($66.95) for now, and will not be offered
to new customers.
Expect
Hi,
I was at the teltraclearn website and fond out that they do not offer 128k
anymore but offer 256k with 5gig cap for the same price(?) They also state
that on the 1st of May the 5 gig cap will be increased to 10 gig. Does that
mean us 128kers will be able to upgrade for free? Or have I got i
If logging in with kde 3.1 for the first time on a low-spec box, give it 10-15
minutes.
kde is bloatware - albeit very pretty bloatware and very user friendly.
>I just installed Mandrake 9.1 onto a low spec (PII 400, ~400Mb Ram)
>machine and the installation seemed to go OK but after rebooting an
Yuri de Groot wrote:
> A safe way to determine which is which is to run the command:
> eject /dev/scd0
> whichever drive pops its drawer open is /dev/scd0.
"cdrecord -scanbus" will also tell you which is which.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 onto a low spec (PII 400, ~400Mb Ram)
machine and the installation seemed to go OK but after rebooting and
setting the first time stuff I have just got a nice background with a
cursor which changes from the wriswatch to an arrow and back.
How long do I wait?
--
Robe
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote:
> This is a good post.
Can we put a link to Nick's post on the CLUG webpage please :)
Tim
(post included for reference:)
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:02:51 +0100
> Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:02:56AM +1200, Jason wro
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Try PCB instead.
> >
> > http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/
>
> I don't think it even comes close to eagle. Last time I looked it was some
> flat-locking athena app which would do the job about as well as xfig.
For the record, I am very happy with Eagle and am not
> Caution, a shameless plug for Gentoo follows.
>
> If he had installed a modern distribution and issued this line:-
>
> emerge celestia
>
> He would have had the whole kit and kaboodle going in the proverbial "10
> minutes", instead of all this unmitigated bother caused by the inadequate
> rpm sys
As far as I know the nokias arnt inexpensive. He just want a normal moden no
NAT or firewall, just a standered generic ADSL modem for use with Jet Start.
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:28, Paul wrote:
> I am posting this on someone elses behalf.
>
> He want a simple/inexpensive ADSL(Jet Start) modem that
Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
Thanks to Chris W for mentioning this program. I just reinstalled it
(gentoo ;-)
I'd forgotten what a great program it is, beautiful renderings of
outerspace/planets etc.
I liked Stellarium, so the concept of a non-earthbound camera really
got me, when I browsed the Cele
see jason's post for a site that allows you to click and load
urpi.addmedia settings.
you point and click and it gives you a nice line you can cut and
then paste into your terminal window to add the media.
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 16:52:49 +1200
Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am havi
> M1122 Nokia here at work. Works great. It's a 4 port hub/modem. My
Not such a great suggestion if I am correct with that they haven't been
for sale for a very long time. It would also have been the most
expensive you could get.
> >He want a simple/inexpensive ADSL(Jet Start) modem that works w
Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
yes its much easier to understand a system with only 16 bits of address space (ie not much system to learn), non-relocatable code (easy to disassemble), and a few simple well-defined interfaces.
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:16:51 +1200 (NZST)
"Ryurick M. Hristev" <[EMAIL PROT
Hi there,
Nick Rout wrote:
Chris, which celestia package are you using? They are available for
mandrake. If installed properly from the mandrake rpm using urpmi it
should also install the dependencies.
I grabbed 1.2.5 from rpmfind.net. It was the stable MDK i686 RPM, and
not the latest CVS snap or
a well, it depends on whether you want your linux box to do the
firewalling and NAT, or whether you want a router like the nokia to do
it.
Often the proprietary routers like the nokia have problems with certain
protocols, making stuff like netmeeting (H323) and IPSEC VPN's a real
problem [1].
Nokia M1122 was the Telecom rental ADSL modem back when Telecom rented
modems. They were recalled for a safety issue with the power connector
but, I understand, were otherwise reliable.
It's now well over a year that Nokia no longer manufacture and sell
modems, though. When I shifted my Nokia Ni
I would recommend enscript. Something like:
enscript --pass-through page1.ps page2.ps page3.ps --output=pages1to3.ps
shoudl do it.
--Mike Gauland
David Mann wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
postscript files onto a single page?
The rea
M1122 Nokia here at work. Works great. It's a 4 port hub/modem. My
father had a similar Nokia and it worked great with Linux. I think most
of the Nokias are pretty safe.
Cheers
Jason
Paul wrote:
I am posting this on someone elses behalf.
He want a simple/inexpensive ADSL(Jet Start) modem that
I am posting this on someone elses behalf.
He want a simple/inexpensive ADSL(Jet Start) modem that works with Linux that
can be bought in Christchurch.
Cheers
Paul
i think you have to mount zip drives as scsi devices if i remember
rightly, so wahtever the dev device id for scsi should work (sorry
don't know the technical term for this stuff as a "newbie"
cheers
howard
Original Message
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Subject: RE: Mou
Actually I understand that the latest version of cdrecord has support
for atapi (ide) cdrw's, so we can finally do away with ide-scsi for
cdrw's.
Interestingly the freebsd equivalent of cdrecord has had atapi support
for ages.
So, once all the distro's have caught up, this conversation may be
aca
>So knoppix is using ide-scsi for both cdrom drives, and mandrake is only
>using ide-scsi for the writer.
>
>If you want - you could make that consistant with lilo and adding boot
>parameters.
Other than consistancy at the device level (I can have consistancy at the mount
point level quite easily)
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:01, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> On my mdk system, cdrom is /dev/hdb and cdrw is /dev/scd0,
> but when I boot knoppix, cdrom is /dev/scd0 and cdrw is /dev/scd1.
So knoppix is using ide-scsi for both cdrom drives, and mandrake is only
using ide-scsi for the writer.
If you want -
>symlink /dev/cdrom?? to the correct scsi device. think it might be /dev/sg1
or
/dev/scd0 on my system.
At boot time, the scsi driver thingy assigns the first ide-scsi cdrom drive
as /dev/scd0.
On my mdk system, cdrom is /dev/hdb and cdrw is /dev/scd0,
but when I boot knoppix, cdrom is /dev/scd
yes its much easier to understand a system with only 16 bits of address space (ie not
much system to learn), non-relocatable code (easy to disassemble), and a few simple
well-defined interfaces.
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:16:51 +1200 (NZST)
"Ryurick M. Hristev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Same for
Chris Downie wrote:
Installed Mandrake 9.0 (that's all I have).
Rebooted, got LILO, selected Linux, got a nice Mandrake screen with the following:
mount: error 22 mounting ext2 flags kernel panic: No init found.
Try passing in it= option to kernel.
I have not had this before.
I guess it has somethi
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:38:50 +0100 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I used to be a zealot, but I never had the opportunity to settle into one
> > single system ... the only time I've only had a single OS was with my ZX81
> > ... I really should
Installed Mandrake 9.0 (that's all I have).
Rebooted, got LILO, selected Linux, got a nice Mandrake screen with the following:
mount: error 22 mounting ext2 flags kernel panic: No init found.
Try passing in it= option to kernel.
I have not had this before.
I guess it has something to do with the
well i am installing win2k in vmware via the win2k.iso I made from the cd.
dd of=/dev/cdrom of=win2k.iso worked fine, no errors at the end either.
then set up vmware with a virtual cdrom based on the iso, set to boot from cdrom and
Bil's your uncle!
Now I may be able to work in linux and have
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:38:50 +0100
Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used to be a zealot, but I never had the opportunity to settle into
> one single system ... the only time I've only had a single OS was with
> my ZX81 ... I really should get that working again sometime ...
I still hav
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:34:44AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> I meant Jim's not mine LOL
:-) I think you manage to get things across well, too :-)
I used to be a zealot, but I never had the opportunity to settle into
one single system ... the only time I've only had a single OS was with
my ZX81 ..
I meant Jim's not mine LOL
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:25:20 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a good post.
--
"All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file
for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and
symlink it to the libgc perl humo
This is a good post.
many of the problems (like Chris W's with celestia) occur because of
library versions and their (mis)naming. An rpm or deb binary is compiled
against the distro's standard libraries for that version. Thereofre if
you try and install celsetia.rpm compiled for Man 9 on a Mna 8 s
Well said. I was making a broad generalisation and I did say "for the
most part". The exceptions and caveats you have rightly elucidated below.
Cheers
Jason
Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:02:56AM +1200, Jason wrote:
Chris, with all due respect, you are wrong IMHO. URPMI works G
i didnt have to alter fstab either, but because it looks at /dev/cdrom
and /dev/cdrom1 i needed to point the symlink /dev/cdrom & /dev/cdrom1 to the
scsi devices.
once this was changed, all was good
Quoting "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On my RedHat installation I did n
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:02:56AM +1200, Jason wrote:
> Chris, with all due respect, you are wrong IMHO. URPMI works GREAT and I
> have yet had it to fail for me...
> ...
> BTW, there are basically 3 ways to install software in Linux, APT, RPM
> and from Source. All have their benefits but with
On my RedHat installation I did not need to alter fstab but on Gentoo I had
to mount /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1
Regards, Robert
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 8:30 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: ide-scsi
do what Robert Fisher has suggested, but also beware that because the cdrom
device is now connected via the virtual scsi bus, you will have to point the
symlink /dev/cdrom?? to the correct scsi device. think it might be /dev/sg1 or
something. else mounting that cdrom through fstab wont work.
p
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Ross Drummond wrote:
> I am a bit nervous about editing lilo.conf. Will the append line take the
> third argument 'hdd=ide-scsi' without trashing my system and will it fix my
> cd burner problems?
Yes (assuming that your CD drive is hdd:)
You'll need to re-run lilo from the c
David Mann wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
postscript files onto a single page?
The reason I ask is that I get my CAD package (Eagle) to generate .ps
files for printing via GSView. I'd like to be able to:
a) put several copies of the same PC
Chris, with all due respect, you are wrong IMHO. URPMI works GREAT and I
have yet had it to fail for me...
As for the "coherent list" and HOW to set up URPMI sources, go here:
http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/
Choose your version, select the TYPE of source and location, hit send
and the command lin
I got mine from the e-caf in the arts centre, upstairs, $15 for 3 CDs.
Probably any internet cafe can d/l & burn for a fee, but Paul from
the e-caf is a member of this list so let's support his business :-)
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:41, Daniel Fone wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering, where/who can
Thanks to Chris W for mentioning this program. I just reinstalled it
(gentoo ;-)
I'd forgotten what a great program it is, beautiful renderings of
outerspace/planets etc.
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
Well 3 of us installed KDE 3 on Herb's RedHat 8.0 machine and spruced it up
for him. Got his various removable media mounted with icons on his desktop
and generally improved his setup (IMHO)
Hopefully we did not confuse him too much.
We did stress that he should no
Also there are Mandrake source rpms which should compile easily. The
instructions to compile from a source rpm package are in the Maximum RPM
book, which is available online. Serch for "Maximum RPM" on google.
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:41, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Chris Wilkinson w
Chris, which celestia package are you using? They are available for
mandrake. If installed properly from the mandrake rpm using urpmi it
should also install the dependencies.
Or have you already been down that route and the mandrake celestia rpm
is broken?
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/
I had a similar problem when I used RedHat.
I needed to append the line in Grub for the device which did not get
detected eg
hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
then Bingo it was seen by X-CD-Roast
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 01:26, Ross Drummond wrote:
> I have just installed a BTC CD-RW drive.
>
> Mandrake
I have just installed a BTC CD-RW drive.
Mandrake xcdroast | eroaster do not detect the CD-RW drive.
Here are the results of my digging so far;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ross]# eject /dev/hdd
# result tray of the CD-RW opens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ross]# lsmod |grep scsi
ide-scsi8212 0
scsi
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:02, Ken McAllister wrote:
> John Williams wrote a couple of weeks ago
>
> >2. The OO address book does not seem to me to have flexible address
> > fields. Is there a way to add another address line, for example?
>
> Ken McAllister asks: Sorry if this is something I should hav
>I'm fairly sure that Zip drives use some sort of
>SCSI interface.
>However that is the extent of my knowledge.
fat formatted zip disks are formatted as partition number 4.
Parallel port zip drives appear as a scsi device and so mount as something
like /dev/sda4
The zip drive in question was an
On Thu, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> Then when it got to "Logging onto network", it spat the dummy, some kind of
> error with ppp.
Check /etc/ppp/options. As I understand it Mandy doesn't add these options.
user yuri(or whatever 'username' is for pap)
defaultroute
/dev/modem
cheers
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> I'm fairly sure that Zip drives use some sort of
> SCSI interface.
Externel parallell port iomega zip drives require the
ppa module to be loaded before the lp (printer) module.
The ppa modules will detect the drive and use scsi emulation
to communicate w
> The psutils wont work correctly unless the inter-page lines in the postscript
> are correct.
As Julian(?) suggested, a ps2pdf and pdf2ps could fix that. It's
scriptable too. A bit of gawk would should do the same trick. A bug
report to eagle would probably fix the issue in the future.
> Try PC
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:09, you wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:10, David Mann wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
> > > postscript files onto a single page?
> >
> > psnup from the psutils package writt
Hi there,
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
http://sclnz.com/libstdc++.so.5.0.3
Thanks, downloaded it and it works,
There is a twist to this story. I now have...
libstdc++.so.5.0.0 (already installed, from glibc_2.2.5)
libstdc++.so.5.0.3 (from glibc_2.3, grabbed from Rex, thanks dude)
libstdc++.so.5 was
> The psutils don't seem to like Eagle's ps files. I tried using psnup but
> no matter how many "copies" I tried to make, I kept ending up with only
> one.
All fo the psutils are very sensitive to the exact content of the
postscript file(s). Sometimes you just luck out.
I suggest you contact e
On Thursday 03 April 2003 22:09, you wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:10, David Mann wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
> > > postscript files onto a single page?
> >
> > psnup from the psutils package
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:35, Slosh wrote:
> alternatively won't apt-get download glibc and update it when necessary AND
> check for any dependancies which aren't met and download those?... could be
> an easier option for a newbie...
> --Slosh (Pot calling the kettle black)
:-)
Quite possibly, I've j
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:10, David Mann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
> > postscript files onto a single page?
>
> psnup from the psutils package written by Angus Duggan.
>
> http://knackered.knackered.
Hi guys,
I was wondering, where/who can I get Mandrake 9.1 from and for how much???
Thanks,
Daneil
--
"UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a
shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus." -Peter H. Coffin
alternatively won't apt-get download glibc and update it when necessary AND
check for any dependancies which aren't met and download those?... could be
an easier option for a newbie...
--Slosh (Pot calling the kettle black)
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:10, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
> postscript files onto a single page?
latex's picture format is postscript
see http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/documentation.shtml for documentation on
how to use lat
I'm fairly sure that Zip drives use some sort of
SCSI interface.
However that is the extent of my knowledge.
Regards,
Zane
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:43, Nick Rout wrote:
> make it /dev/hdb1 perhaps?
>
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:29:52 +1200
> Craig George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi a
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 20:40, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> Thanks, downloaded it and it works, but now that lib asks me to
> provide 'libc.so.6' from glibc 2.3 (glibc 2.25 is installed ver).
> glibc source is a 12MB download from gnu.org, followed by cranial
> splitting compile/make/install BS...I'm a ne
> > /dev/hdb/mnt/zipvfatnoauto,user 0 0
> and I'd change the vfat on this line to 'auto'
This, IIRC, would then set itself to msdos, no good when you really want
vfat.
Volker
--
Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:42, you wrote:
> > /dev/hdb /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
>
> and I'd change the vfat on this line to 'auto'
Yes, I also had to change this in fstab to auto... thanks
/dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
and actually mount it a
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:53, you wrote:
> Wow, speedy response all thank you..
> I have got it mounted..
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
>
> I have no idea where the 4 in /dev/hdb4 comes from but I presume it has
> something to do with the device type?
It's the partition number.
--
C. S.
Wow, speedy response all thank you..
I have got it mounted..
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
I have no idea where the 4 in /dev/hdb4 comes from but I presume it has
something to do with the device type?
Thanks for the help
Craig
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:29, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have droppe
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:29, Craig George wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have dropped MDK9.0 and have installed Debian 3.0 (I know the stuff is a
> bit older, but it is a good way to learn more about how things run in Linux
> IMHO as everything isn't done for you.
> Anyway I have got it installed ok and I am s
make it /dev/hdb1 perhaps?
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:29:52 +1200
Craig George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have dropped MDK9.0 and have installed Debian 3.0 (I know the stuff is a
> bit older, but it is a good way to learn more about how things run in Linux
> IMHO as everything isn'
Hi there,
Rex Johnston wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:06, Tim Wright wrote:
I can put my libstdc++.so.5.0.3 on the web for you to download, but it
comes from gcc version 3.2.3 (debian prerelease), and is 600K.
Does anyone have gcc version 3.2.2 installed, and running the same
architecture as Chr
Hi all,
I have dropped MDK9.0 and have installed Debian 3.0 (I know the stuff is a
bit older, but it is a good way to learn more about how things run in Linux
IMHO as everything isn't done for you.
Anyway I have got it installed ok and I am setting up my 'mounts'.
I have got my DVD, CDRW, Floppy
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:10, David Mann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
> postscript files onto a single page?
psnup from the psutils package written by Angus Duggan.
http://knackered.knackered.org/angus/psutils/index.html
> The reason I a
Hi all,
Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
postscript files onto a single page?
The reason I ask is that I get my CAD package (Eagle) to generate .ps
files for printing via GSView. I'd like to be able to:
a) put several copies of the same PCB layout onto a si
Thanks, I should have read the Portage Manual more closely.
In the world file you can pin a package to a certain level by editing as
such:-
app-office/gnucash becomes for example...
=app-office/gnucash-1.8.2
then emerge -up world did not show gnucash going back to older version.
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