Re: cardreader and sound on WS 3.1

2001-08-08 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:13:01 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My experience with this is that this message means that the media was not found. The message is misleading. I just tried mounting the card reader on my system when it was not in the slot and I got your message exactly. P

Re: cardreader and sound on WS 3.1

2001-08-08 Thread Jim Conner
I've noticed that if you use -t vfat with vfat, fat and msdos loaded, it will choose which one it needs. At least I think so. The problem with loop could be the order that it is being loaded in relation to other modules. If you have /usr/bin/play from sox, try play foo.wav and see if you get

Re: CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Jim Conner
I'm running eD2.4 with 2.2.14 kernel. Yes, I know 2.4.7 is current, but I don't have any usb devices and plan on updating the kernel when I update the distro and hardware. :) What problems are you having with the cdrw drive? I ran Sybil for a couple of months and noticed that /dev/cdrom was

Re: CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:55, Mike Andrew orated thus: > I am not at all happy with the SxS stating you *must* use the append line. > > This is NOT true of kernel 2.4.x and I don't believe the kernels are that > different. > > could someone on a 2.2.x kernel (COL 2.4 eg / RH 6.x eg) PLEASE lo

Re: Me, or them?

2001-08-08 Thread Richard Thompson
Thanks, Mike for the assistance - got a direction to head in. Always nice to end a conversation with a little more knowledge than it started it. - Rich Thompson On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:11, you wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2001 04:36, Richard Thompson wrote: > > Aug 6 20:47:27 costello

cardreader and sound on WS 3.1

2001-08-08 Thread Keith Antoine
I have recompiled the kernel with msdos in it both as a module and as part of the kernel, I recompiled 3 times today. When I try to mount :: mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /carddisk I get :: mount: fs type msdos not supported by kernel But as you can see it is selected # File systems # # CONFIG_Q

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
that's why AIA is still in business. :) > Of course no security is worth a damn if one doesn't have good > verified backups. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com __

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
I never knew Acrobat PDF could execute codes to affect system files? god dam.. one more items in my blacklist. Gee.. I love my good old Wordstar 4.0. It would never run macros. > Actually, the way I read this, the script is embedded in the PDF. Not > clear on whether it only works with Acrob

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 01:54:49 -0500 Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > I think so, AFAIK, ms products run pdf's without challenge. I have acrobat 5 > and it opens fully when I click a pdf file. I use pdf's quite a bit and it > concerns me that if this gets more work and wider spread that anyone with > ac

Re: "Mandrake-Linux RPMs"

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
would you mind not to post html? :) Anthony Joshua Brow wrote: > May I share the following with you. I know I am a newbie, but this may > possibly help others. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _

Re: adding codepage

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
guess you are using the latest n greating. in edesktop 2.4, there is only /lib/modules/2.2.14/fs. I did rpm -qf nls_cp950.o no such file. ls /lib/modules/2.2.14/fs also revealed no suck codepage. So my only option to recompile, I guess... hmm. is cp950 in your 2.4 kernel's (or menuconfig) and is

Re: SOLVED [WAS: Re: C++ compiler cannot create executables ]

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
so I should have dragged the whole gcc compiler off the caldera site, rather than just the glibc libs. Net Llama wrote: > Yes. The compiler binary needs to know where the libs it was built for > are located. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: Diald 1.0.1, only fails on first trigger

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
could it be that ip_dynaddr thing? your demand-dialing pppd should be triggered by the dns query (my approach). so your own IP is not an issue. > when the connection is first made > start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported > isp uses dynamic IP numbers (and ppp accounts for that), >

Re: ipop3d in edesktop 2.4

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
oops.. forget that pam one when looking for hints.. sorry. >>which .conf file controls whether root could collect email >>from a remote workstation? /etc/securetty? not likely... > take a look at /etc/pam.d/pop you mean the pop daemon has an alias file? or is it also using sendmail's alias file?

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 03:54, Stew Benedict wrote: > Actually - I do have a SCSI bus - but nothing on it during that > discussion. Generally, if the usb-storage loads after your normal SCSI > devices, it will be the next available device. (sdb, sdc, sdd ...) Then sda1 won't hold true for ge

CD burning: request for test was Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:07, Jim Conner wrote: > If you need help with the Sony cd burner, I have a Yahama IDE > burner working great in eD2.4, and I'd be glad to help. I do know that the > SxS on CD Burners is very good. Good luck. Not directed at Jim directly but, I am not at all ha

Re: Fw: linux-mandrake 8.0-netscape messenger

2001-08-08 Thread Andrew Mathews
Anthony Joshua Brow wrote: > > attn: Andrew Mathews. > > First, Andrew, thank for your courtesy in replying. > > Second I did as you suggested and the outcome was as follows: > > -rw-- 1 tony tony 0 aug 6 1427 drafts > -rw-- 1 tony tony 0 aug 6 1427 Inbox > -rw-- 1-

Re: "Mandrake-Linux RPMs"

2001-08-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Anthony Joshua Brow wrote: > Ladies/Gents, > > May I share the following with you. I know I am a newbie, but this may possibly help >others. > When I got my Mandrake-Linux. I also got a disk with hundreds of RPMs. Now looking >at the titles I simply have > no idea what all

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Rick, I've been playing since 83. The only rant I've read in this thread is yours. If you push your bed against the wall you cant fall out on the wrong side. Hope you have a better day tomorrow. Ronnie On Wednesday 08 August 2001 14:56, you wrote: > Ronnie > > How long have you been in thi

Re: Me, or them?

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 04:36, Richard Thompson wrote: > Aug 6 20:47:27 costello pppd[7924]: local IP address 216.47.27.128 > Aug 6 20:47:27 costello pppd[7924]: remote IP address 216.47.25.5 My money is on them. And it is _probably_ no more than a simple typo on their part when handling

Re: dmesg fun

2001-08-08 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 20:49, Mike Andrew babbled: > you do have /etc/inittab yes... > si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit no... /etc/rc.d/boot ;) but it doesn't reference dmesg ;( -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/Admi

Re: dmesg fun

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 09 August 2001 04:54, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: > I don't have this on my suse box > > > /etc/rc.d/sysinit.rc (for SuSe and RH) > > nor this you do have /etc/inittab --snip si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit -snip the (dot)rc is transposed depending on what

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-08 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:07:21 -0700 David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On August 8, 2001 06:05 am, Mike Andrew wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 19:13, David Aikema wrote: > > > Well the card seems to work in realplayer, xmms, play, etc > > > basically anything that doesn't use a

Cupsd and my rant

2001-08-08 Thread Shawn Tayler
Sorry about the earlier rant there guys. I think I have fixed the problem. I believe it is related to one or more of the memory leaks in cupsd 1.1.5, replaced it with 1.1.9 but the problem was still present. Went to /var/spool/cups and there were 3800 files of zero length all in a row. a quick

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Jim Conner
Age has nothing to do with it. I'm 36 and frequently I'm afflicted with the CRS(Can't Remember S#!t) disease. This could be something as simple as a someone's name that I've known for years or as complex as what you are doing. If you get it working, I'd like to see an addition to the SxS. A

Re: "Mandrake-Linux RPMs"

2001-08-08 Thread Net Llama
--- Anthony Joshua Brow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ladies/Gents, > > May I share the following with you. I know I am a newbie, but this may > possibly help others. > When I got my Mandrake-Linux. I also got a disk with hundreds of RPMs. > Now looking at the titles I simply have > no idea what

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:53, Jim Conner orated thus: > Would cdrecord -scanbus show this device? Just curious, I don't have one > but a friend of mine has a similar device. > > Jim I had read the previous mails re this and was planning to have a look when I had taken the wife out food shop

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-08 Thread David Aikema
On August 8, 2001 06:05 am, Mike Andrew wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 19:13, David Aikema wrote: > > Well the card seems to work in realplayer, xmms, play, etc > > basically anything that doesn't use artsd > > This is part of the kde package? There's a known bug that causes it to >

"Mandrake-Linux RPMs"

2001-08-08 Thread Anthony Joshua Brow
Ladies/Gents,   May I share the following with you. I know I am a newbie, but this may possibly help others. When I got my Mandrake-Linux. I also got a disk with hundreds of RPMs. Now looking at the titles I simply have no idea what all these programs in the RPMs do. On the net I found a Dut

Re: Fw: linux-mandrake 8.0-netscape messenger

2001-08-08 Thread Anthony Joshua Brow
Thank you to Michael Scottaline and Lee as well for you replies. As indicated I have managed to get "the netscape browser part" to work only. In regards to the settings for email I have been in and out of the "Preference" section of the Communicator several times, following the graphic instruction

Re: Fw: linux-mandrake 8.0-netscape messenger

2001-08-08 Thread Anthony Joshua Brow
attn: Andrew Mathews. First, Andrew, thank for your courtesy in replying. Second I did as you suggested and the outcome was as follows: -rw-- 1 tony tony 0 aug 6 1427 drafts -rw-- 1 tony tony 0 aug 6 1427 Inbox -rw-- 1--sent -rw---1---

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
That was my point exactly. We all trust pdf files implicitly and open them without a thought of potential harm to our systems. If pdf's can carry executeable code its only a matter of time before linux also becomes a victim of these sort of virii. The fact that right now it seems to be limited

Re: Me, or them?

2001-08-08 Thread Richard Thompson
Thanks for the reply - a little more information. I use kppp. Both accounts are dynamically assigned dial-up accounts. This particular machine is a workstation and is connected via modem to the ISP w/o an intermediary device. I even rebooted the machine and came back to the same "locked" up

Re: dmesg fun

2001-08-08 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 02:35, Mike Andrew babbled: > short answer = 7 danke > > long answer = > > /etc/initlog.conf and I don't have this on my suse box > > /etc/rc.d/sysinit.rc (for SuSe and RH) nor this -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hu

Re: /tmp full

2001-08-08 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 10:44, Michael Scottaline babbled: > How about "cd /tmp > du cd /tmp && du -sh . is abeauty for this one -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/Admin: http://linux.nf/ Brainbench Linux Administration Ce

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Glenn Williams
The article reference that was posted here (yesterday?) said it does ^^not^^ work in Acrobat Reader - only in the full Acrobat program. FWIW Regards, Glenn On Wednesday 08 August 2001 09:00 am, Stuart Biggerstaff observed: > Actually, the way I read this, the script is embedded in the PDF. >

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Mike Andrew wrote: > how did you know it is sda1? Because you have no other scsi in your noteook? > Lucky guess? /var/log/messages? > > > Regardless, that's one hell of an easy way to use this device, right? > Actually - I do have a SCSI bus - but nothing on it during th

Re: /tmp full

2001-08-08 Thread Lee
Mark Heinrich wrote: > I am unable to start KDE because my /tmp is full. I deleted the files that > I thought I could and there are only two or three left but I am still > getting an error that my /tmp is full. How can I see how much space /tmp > has allocated and how much is free? How can I i

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
Not so far...but the ability of PDFs and Acrobat to do something like this means we can't look at PDFs as innocuous. I mean most people have felt nearly as safe opening a PDF to see what it is as a text file. At 10:13 AM 8/8/01 -0500, Jim Conner wrote: >The way I read this is that it needs Acr

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:08:17AM -0400, Steve Thompson - UG wrote: >i don't quite understand this logic. i can see where you don't want to >reload if you get a virus, BUT if i get a linux virus and it deletes >everything in my home. i'm gonna lose everything that is important. i can >reload my

Re: SOLVED [WAS: Re: C++ compiler cannot create executables ]

2001-08-08 Thread Net Llama
Yes. The compiler binary needs to know where the libs it was built for are located. --- Linuxism Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I upgrade edesktop 2.4's glibc without > updating the gcc compiler, > will I got the same error? > > Net Llama wrote: > > User error strikes again. Turns out t

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Jim Conner
The way I read this is that it needs Acrobat full it will not work with Acrobat Reader. Since Acrobat full isn't ported to Linux, we are immune. Also, it will need MS Outlook and a way to run a vbs script. Only Windows systems that have Acrobat full and MS Outlook installed will be vulnerabl

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Jim Conner
Would cdrecord -scanbus show this device? Just curious, I don't have one but a friend of mine has a similar device. Jim On Wednesday August 08, 2001 6:41 am, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Keith Antoine wrote: > > I have a usb compactflash card reader which I have used in windows

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
Actually, the way I read this, the script is embedded in the PDF. Not clear on whether it only works with Acrobat full, or if it works in Reader, but you just have to double-click the link instead of just clicking. At 09:56 AM 8/8/01 +0800, you wrote: >it uses the PDF extension only so that f

Re: /tmp full

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:38:34 -0600 (CST) Ian Marchak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was inspired to comment: > Quoting Mark Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am unable to start KDE because my /tmp is full. I deleted the files > > that > > I thought I could and there are only two or three left but I am

Re: /tmp full

2001-08-08 Thread Kurt Wall
In the last episode, we heard Mark Heinrich say: > I am unable to start KDE because my /tmp is full. I deleted the files that > I thought I could and there are only two or three left but I am still > getting an error that my /tmp is full. How can I see how much space /tmp > has allocated and how

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread David A. Bandel
Steve Thompson - UG wrote: > > i don't quite understand this logic. i can see where you don't want to reload if >you get a > virus, BUT if i get a linux virus and it deletes everything in my home. i'm gonna >lose > everything that is important. i can reload my workstation and setup the firewal

Re: /tmp full

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Mark Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am unable to start KDE because my /tmp is full. I deleted the files > that > I thought I could and there are only two or three left but I am still > getting an error that my /tmp is full. How can I see how much space > /tmp > has allocated and how

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:08:17 -0400 Steve Thompson - UG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps a script that switches you to another user when you surf so that whatever you do then does not effect your 'real' stuff. Then, when you trust your new stuff, take ownership. This could be a real neat featur

/tmp full

2001-08-08 Thread Mark Heinrich
I am unable to start KDE because my /tmp is full. I deleted the files that I thought I could and there are only two or three left but I am still getting an error that my /tmp is full. How can I see how much space /tmp has allocated and how much is free? How can I increase the amount of space /t

Diald 1.0.1, only fails on first trigger

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
having just installed the latest 'n greatest I'm getting, one, single, annoying error when the connection is first made start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported this causes the initial trigger to fail eg ping fails ping works as advertised for ever more. I have installed the

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Steve Thompson - UG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i don't quite understand this logic. i can see where you don't want to > reload if you get a > virus, BUT if i get a linux virus and it deletes everything in my home. > i'm gonna lose > everything that is important. i can reload my workstation a

Re: External CD-RW question

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 21:23, Trevor Stuart wrote: > I have an external HP CD-RW attached to a parallel port. [snip] you're in for a wild ride. this device is supported under the paride (parallel ide) driver as an HP7110 (I think) and requires at least two more modules to run which may or

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2001-08-08 Thread Shawn Tayler
Hi Guys I am having a strange problem with COL3.1, KDE 2.1.1 ,m and CUPSD. I have 256M of RAM on this system and it is swapping to beat the band. It even hangs when xcdroast (It pre5 and I've not updated it yet) is run. Vmsize in KDEguard shows CUPSD with 545653 and rising, went from 300K to

Cupsd has a memory leak? Or just a pig

2001-08-08 Thread N7LQ
I am having a strange problem with COL3.1, KDE 2.1.1 ,m and CUPSD. I have 256M of RAM on this system and it is swapping to beat the band. It even hangs when xcdroast (It pre5 and I've not updated it yet) is run. Vmsize in KDEguard shows CUPSD with 545653 and rising, went from 300K to 500K i

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 22:07, Keith Antoine wrote: > Sorry neither of these are of any help, as I need to know how to find out > how to ascertain the /dev/xxx that I need to mount the imagemate card tail /var/log/messages after you have hotplugged the device. The last few lines will contai

Re: sound in WS 3.1 and printer

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 22:13, Keith Antoine wrote: > Umm, apart from the card reader I cannot get sound as user but its present > in root. I set the S bit and also put in group and user but still no sound, > so i am missing something else. BTW I assumed it was using /dev/dsp. rm /etc/X11/xdm

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 23:11, Stew Benedict wrote: > Now if I look at: > > [root@powerbook-cooker root]# cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 >Host scsi0: usb-storage >Vendor: SanDisk Corporation > Product: ImageMate CompactFlash USB > Serial Number: None > Protocol: Transpa

Re: adding codepage

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 19:53, Linuxism Chang wrote: > oh no.. it's really not there edesktop 2.4 > does 2.2.14 kernel have chinese language support > by default? or was it caldera who stripped it out? nothing is by 'default' in a kernel, not even the cpu and machine architecture. Each d

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:36, Mike Andrew orated thus: > > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:43, Keith Antoine wrote: > > > I have a usb compactflash card reader which I have used in windows > and I > > > have just recompiled a kernel (2.4.7) which a

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Steve Thompson - UG
i don't quite understand this logic. i can see where you don't want to reload if you get a virus, BUT if i get a linux virus and it deletes everything in my home. i'm gonna lose everything that is important. i can reload my workstation and setup the firewalls and such. i dont want to lose my im

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 19:13, David Aikema wrote: > Well the card seems to work in realplayer, xmms, play, etc > basically anything that doesn't use artsd This is part of the kde package? There's a known bug that causes it to permanently hold onto the /dev it is fixed in the new kd

Re: Fw: linux-mandrake 8.0-netscape messenger

2001-08-08 Thread Lee
Anthony Joshua Brow wrote:   G'day Ladies/Gents, Ref above, are there any Mandrake -Linux users among you ?As a newbie I 'am having trouble to get the 'messenger' for emails installed. When I click on the email grafic on the bottom of the Netscape windowthe machine tells me : "Default in box fo

Re: External CD-RW question

2001-08-08 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Trevor: Point your browser to: http://www.linux.nf/stepbystep.htm and in the index on the left side of the page you will find a listing for "CD Burners." I also suggest you bookmark this site. It's an excellent resource. I don't know about drives connected to the parallel port.

Re: sound in WS 3.1 and printer

2001-08-08 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:43:19 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: >Umm, apart from the card reader I cannot get sound as user but its present in >root. I set the S bit and also put in group and user but still no sound, so i >am missing something else. BTW I assumed it was using /dev/dsp. An interesting

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Ronnie Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think so, AFAIK, ms products run pdf's without challenge. I have > acrobat 5 > and it opens fully when I click a pdf file. I use pdf's quite a bit and > it > concerns me that if this gets more work and wider spread that anyone > with > acrobat

Re: Me, or them?

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:14:18 +1130 > Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: > > MA> > MA> setup->(account)->edit->Gateway "assign ip address to gateway" is > MA> first port > MA> of call. > =

Re: adobe pdf virus

2001-08-08 Thread Tim Wunder
According to what I just read, http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5095366,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 it only affects the full version, not Acrobat Reader. But it's interesting that "Using PDF bypasses the filters in newer versions of Outlook that ordinarily screen out VBScript files".

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Keith Antoine wrote: > I have a usb compactflash card reader which I have used in windows and I have > just recompiled a kernel (2.4.7) which also sees it in linux. > > usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=2 > usb.c: USB device number 3 default language

Re: sound in WS 3.1 and printer

2001-08-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Keith Antoine wrote: > Lastly I need to do a batch exchange in linux from jpegs to .tiff images and > cannot see anything simple to do this. Gimp is real complicated like Photoshop > and I cannot see anything esle that a batch. I assume that ImageMagik will > but the docs a

Re: sound in WS 3.1 and printer

2001-08-08 Thread David A. Bandel
Keith Antoine wrote: > > Umm, apart from the card reader I cannot get sound as user but its present in > root. I set the S bit and also put in group and user but still no sound, so i > am missing something else. BTW I assumed it was using /dev/dsp. check your permissions (this is a simple permis

Re: ipop3d in edesktop 2.4

2001-08-08 Thread David A. Bandel
Linuxism Chang wrote: > > what's the name of daemon? any homepage for that product? > > which .conf file controls whether root could collect email > from a remote workstation? /etc/securetty? not likely... take a look at /etc/pam.d/pop > > I want to download the meail for root from my Window$

Re: Me, or them?

2001-08-08 Thread Jerry McBride
Just to add my $.02 here... I had a similar experience with an ISP here in New Jersey. The name is SNIP.NET. Try as I may, I couldn't make a good data exchange with them to save my life. The modems would hand shake, the "tech" at the ISP could see my pings, but I wouldn't get anything from th

Re: gateway to Gateway protocol

2001-08-08 Thread Randy Donohoe
Been using Libranet Debian exclusively for a couple months now. Good distro. www.thedukeofurl.org has a review of it if you want to check it out. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: Zoki (News) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:12 AM Subjec

sound in WS 3.1 and printer

2001-08-08 Thread Keith Antoine
Umm, apart from the card reader I cannot get sound as user but its present in root. I set the S bit and also put in group and user but still no sound, so i am missing something else. BTW I assumed it was using /dev/dsp. Printer is doing the smae too ?? Lastly I need to do a batch exchange in l

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:36, Mike Andrew orated thus: > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:43, Keith Antoine wrote: > > I have a usb compactflash card reader which I have used in windows and I > > have just recompiled a kernel (2.4.7) which also sees it in linux. > > [snip] > > go here > > http:

Re: Me, or them?

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:14:18 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: MA> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 04:43, Richard Thompson wrote: MA> > I've been having a recurring problem accessing the internet on my MA> eD2.4 MA> > box. I dial up and get a network connection just fine - on

Re: Fw: linux-mandrake 8.0-netscape messenger

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:08:19 +1000 "Anthony Joshua Brow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: AB> AB> AB> AB> G'day Ladies/Gents, AB> AB> Ref above, are there any Mandrake -Linux users among you ? AB> As a newbie I 'am having trouble to get the 'messenger' for emails AB> installed. When I c

External CD-RW question

2001-08-08 Thread Trevor Stuart
I have an external HP CD-RW attached to a parallel port. It works under M$ but I'm wanting to move to a linux only environment. So, how do I set this up under linux? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Trevor Stuart ___ http:

ipop3d in edesktop 2.4

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
what's the name of daemon? any homepage for that product? which .conf file controls whether root could collect email from a remote workstation? /etc/securetty? not likely... I want to download the meail for root from my Window$'s mozilla over pop3. It didn't allow me to login as root.

Re: adding codepage

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
oh no.. it's really not there edesktop 2.4 does 2.2.14 kernel have chinese language support by default? or was it caldera who stripped it out? > /lib/modules/<2.4.x>/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp950.o > simply? modprobe nls_cp950 > if it aint there. recompile your kernel. __

Re: SOLVED [WAS: Re: C++ compiler cannot create executables ]

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
If I upgrade edesktop 2.4's glibc without updating the gcc compiler, will I got the same error? Net Llama wrote: > User error strikes again. Turns out that this had nothing to do with > libstdc++.so. I still had the old version of /usr/bin/c++ with the > newer version of the libs. So the older

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-08 Thread David Aikema
On August 8, 2001 01:08 am, Myles Green wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:43:34 -0700 > > David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some reason) typed in rather than doing a C&P. just goes to show that > you're better to copy and paste than hand type things... especially when > you're getting tired.

are these errors related?

2001-08-08 Thread Linuxism Chang
Aug 8 13:34:16 server pppoe[18378]: Bad TCP checksum 87ec Aug 8 13:34:24 server last message repeated 2 times Aug 8 13:49:00 server -- MARK -- Aug 8 14:06:28 server kernel: Packet log: input REJECT ppp0 PROTO=6 200.33.34.3 :111 203.218.124.162:111 L=40 S=0x00 I=50431 F=0x T=242 SYN (#39) A

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-08 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:43:34 -0700 David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tips. I wouldn't have to somehow specify the location > of the > old system.map in the lilo config would I? err... yes, in fact you would. there *should* have been an entry 'map=/System.old' included

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-08 Thread David Aikema
On August 7, 2001 11:30 pm, Myles Green wrote: > David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW, how did you set up your sound? If you haven't done this yet you > > > might want to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to uncomment your sound card > > > > and > > > > Well in /usr/src/linux/Doc...n/sou

Re: usb card reader

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:43, Keith Antoine wrote: > I have a usb compactflash card reader which I have used in windows and I > have just recompiled a kernel (2.4.7) which also sees it in linux. [snip] go here http://jphoto.sourceforge.net go here http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html