There is also drakbackup included on your CDs in the drakxtools RPM
It will do incremental backups of your folders and system config using ftp or
nfs
There is a bug in the daemon mode in 8.2 which is hopefully fixed in 9.0
(9.0 also supports backup to CD)
derek
On Monday 09 Sep 2002 3:49
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 05:34, Ralph Slooten wrote:
Creates, you mean like encodes to? Again, try MPlayer. Mplayer contains a
program called mencoder, which can be used to encode to several formats,
including ripping DVD to DivX. I am actually writing a guide for Linux
users (Mainly LM users) to
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 1:43 am, you wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 03:23, Peregrinf wrote:
On 7 Sep 2002, at 19:53, Michael Adams wrote:
I agree, GIMP may not be fully intuitive to a confirmed PSP user. GIMP
can do 95%+ of what PSP can, but PSP can only do 80-90% of what GIMP
can.
Michael Adams wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 03:23, Peregrinf wrote:
On 7 Sep 2002, at 19:53, Michael Adams wrote:
I agree, GIMP may not be fully intuitive to a confirmed PSP user. GIMP
can do 95%+ of what PSP can, but PSP can only do 80-90% of what GIMP
can.
--
Michael
The fact
Roger Sherman wrote:
Is there a linux equivalent of this program?
No, nor is there one for Corel Ventura, the DTP program that I use for
books and magazines. The only reason I can run Linux as my main OS is
because I have VMware, which allows me to run Windows 2000 =inside=
Linux.
Is there any way to have kmail automagically add addresses to the book when I
reply to an email? I know, I'm getting lazy, but I just spent an hour
looking for someone I should have added.
Lee
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Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
Want to buy
On Monday 09 Sep 2002 4:23 pm, you wrote:
On 7 Sep 2002, at 9:58, ed tharp wrote:
ehh,, if you use the default kde desktop, on the bottom menu bar, go to
the little house that opens your default home folder, click on and open
that folder, under view preview, images, you wont be needing
OK friends. Time for a rant. rant Recently, after every Mandrake
install, I have chosen Gnome/Sawfish, as per usual, and have found
Nautilus taking over the desktop. Now this is something I am not
prepared to tolerate. Straight into Gnome control centre and kill the
bastard (beat my head
I have mdk 8.2 with devfsd running. I have a parallel port scanner umax 2000p.
For making it work, I need parport active. I have a parport0- device in /dev/
and no entry in /etc/modules conf. When I try to make parport0 dev in /dev I
get error message as
[root@localhost dev]# MAKEDEV parport
Michael Notforyou wrote:
I just decided to play with gdm to see if it had improved. (Back at
MDK7, I tried it, and I couldn't figure out how to log in.)
So:
$ gdm
Only root wants to run gdm
$ su
Password:
# gdm
Up pops a curses-style window, telling me that gdm couldn't connect to
Michael Notforyou wrote:
I just decided to play with gdm to see if it had improved. (Back at
MDK7, I tried it, and I couldn't figure out how to log in.)
So:
$ gdm
Only root wants to run gdm
$ su
Password:
# gdm
Up pops a curses-style window, telling me that gdm couldn't connect to
i had an idea to overcome my problem, but i need a few advices...i
thought to install lilo (and so the boot sector) on the linux partition,
just to avoid that defrag can touch it. and i think it should work
correctly...in that case, my question is: do you think that i have to
run fdisk /mbr on
On Tuesday September 10 2002 12:52 am, Miark wrote:
Still with me? M$ and HDD manufacturers are the original
liars. Not only do 80 gig drives not hold 80 gigabytes (ie, 1
million bytes is not a megabyte), and don't have the full
advertised available buffer amount, they also aren't
For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not
the betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse
initializes and the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives,
it will hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing
happens.
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On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the
huddled masses, saying:
I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG
format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are
smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket
Yeah, I think that we have ALL had these problems. 2 Weekends ago I posted
this same question on Saturday Morning (it was accepted by the
smtp.mandrax.org straight away, so the problem wasn't that the mandrake
server wasn't accepting), and it finally arrived I believe on Wednesday or
something on
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Damian G wrote:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote:
Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with
this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or
It appears people have
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote:
I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG
format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are
smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players
to support the format and MP3 would be dead.
Ron.
I agree 152% with you here. I have
On Tuesday September 10 2002 06:56 am, Lee wrote:
Is there any way to have kmail automagically add addresses to the
book when I reply to an email? I know, I'm getting lazy, but I just
spent an hour looking for someone I should have added.
Lee
Sort'a r-clk on the email address and
Hi there Damian,
You used the RPM's from that site, and compiled MPlayer yourself, or did
you use a pre-compiled MPlayer? It's just that I'm too lazy to test it all
out due to lack of time. As I said, I am writing a guide how to rip a DVD
(16:9) to DivX using mencoder / libavcodec /
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 6:18 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the
huddled masses, saying:
OK friends. Time for a rant. rant Recently, after every Mandrake
install, I have chosen Gnome/Sawfish, as per usual, and have found
Nautilus taking
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(09/10/2002 16:42)
i wonder if you install with another file manager and uncheck nautilus what
happens?
to answer though, i think naut is the assumed newbie friendly manager in
gnome, and mandrake does try to be newbie friendly. i mean hey, they could
be
LM 8.2+windows
windows is default choose to boot
lilo with text menu
example:
ÀÕÚݵ¹ÎØ boot:
must be
select(choose) to boot:
Thanks
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On Monday September 9 2002 11:28 pm, dfox wrote:
Run (as root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hdx' on it (also try 'hdparm -I'
to=20 read the drive info directly from the drive's firmware), for
example
OK. I'll bite - I have my /dev/hda and /dev/hdb set with 32-bit on
and dma on.
I do an 'hdparm
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 8:53 am, Alastair Scott did speak unto the
huddled masses, saying:
Even stronger, Nautilus is _intrinsic_ to Gnome.
i thought hat was the case.
So, if you miss out one, you miss out the other, and anyone trying to
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On Thursday 05 September 2002 2:46 am, Franki did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
or your could setup NAT on your linux box.
or, since e all love options, if you have old hardware around, i have
mandrake SNF on an old p90 with 2 NICs and
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, shane wrote:
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 6:18 am, Len Lawrence did speak unto the
huddled masses, saying:
OK friends. Time for a rant. rant Recently, after every Mandrake
install, I have chosen Gnome/Sawfish, as per usual, and have found
Nautilus taking over the
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speaking of backup, my wife does a backup of her email/documents from her
work laptop. it runs win2k, and she backs to my linux machine when she
brings the laptop home, where i burn cds for her. short of my opening ftp
for her to backup from
I'm currently running Mandrake 9.0 RC1, after starting with 8.1 and then
downloading/installing 8.2.
How 'bleeding edge' is RC2 compared to RC1? What advantages do I gain from
changing now as opposed to a week from now?
I'm looking at it currently from a perspective of, Eh, wot, I'm
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:41:25 +0200 (CEST)
Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gnome ain't bad ;-) I personally use Fluxbox not really because of
Gnome itself, but one of the main reasons why I started looking for
alternatives is because of the way Mandrake is making Gnome totally
What advantage is there to setting up procmail/sendmail/etc., as opposed to
simply running Kmail, Evolution, or any of a dozen other mail apps?
Thanks,
Larry
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Dear All,
I have LM 8.2 on an Athlon XP 1600+ and 512 megs ram . I have a HP 4300c
scanner that I am using as USB and I wonder if anyone here has that one and
has it working? I would love to get mine to work. It is detected and xsane
put an icon up for it. I do not know if it is truly
kmail requires that you use your ISP's mail server and it will send/receive
all mail from there..
the postfix/sendmail/exim/qmail way is to actually set up your own mail
server..(but you can still tell it to relay mail to your ISP for delivery.)
I always setup my own mail server, its fun, its
Welcome Mr Hercules...
If I might make a suggestion, now would be a good time to set the list up as
text only
since people read this list with god only knows how many different mail
readers, its not a good idea to post
in HTML with background images and the like... it comes out as gibberish to
* Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020910 09:52]:
Oh, and I forgot to tell you:
ctr-alt-F2 goes to console of screen 1
ctr-alt-F8 goes to X environment of screen 1
ctr-alt-F3 goes to console of screen 2
ctr-alt-F9 goes to X environment of screen 2
ctr-alt-F4 goes to console of
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:41:25 +0200 (CEST)
Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gnome ain't bad ;-) I personally use Fluxbox not really because of
Gnome itself, but one of the main reasons why I started looking for
alternatives is because of the way Mandrake is making Gnome totally
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 10:10 am, Charles A Edwards did speak unto the
huddled masses, saying:
In Gnome2 nautilus is the Only gnome file mgr.
KDE, E, blackbox and flux are all sounding better all the time :)
- --
'Tis some script
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Lane P. Lester wrote:
Roger Sherman wrote:
Is there a linux equivalent of this program?
No, nor is there one for Corel Ventura, the DTP program that I use for
books and magazines. The only reason I can run Linux as my main OS is
because I have VMware, which allows me
On Tuesday September 10 2002 12:08 pm, Larry Theden wrote:
I'm currently running Mandrake 9.0 RC1, after starting with 8.1 and
then downloading/installing 8.2.
How 'bleeding edge' is RC2 compared to RC1? What advantages do I
gain from changing now as opposed to a week from now?
I'm
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 04:28 pm, et wrote:
I have LM 8.2 on an Athlon XP 1600+ and 512 megs ram . I have a
HP 4300c scanner that I am using as USB and I wonder if anyone
h, I would bet there is something like how I get my acer 320
Well, those weren't supported back when I had
Roger Sherman wrote:
Is there a linux equivalent of this program?
Not yet, though Scribus looks promising. A lot depends on why you use
Quark (I'm guessing here, as I've never used it). If it's because you
like frame-based layout, then KWrite is fairly functional in this area.
OTOH, if
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 06:54 pm, you wrote:
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 04:28 pm, et wrote:
I have LM 8.2 on an Athlon XP 1600+ and 512 megs ram . I have a
HP 4300c scanner that I am using as USB and I wonder if anyone
h, I would bet there is something like how I get my
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:40:54 -0400
Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Save yourself some waiting time: use IceWM or something similar
Personally I am die-hard enlightenment.
8 desktops, 2 icon boxes and gone panel/gnome-panel thrown in for good
measure.
Charles
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Yow!
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:31:39 -0700
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively:
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 10:10 am, Charles A Edwards did speak unto
the huddled masses, saying:
In Gnome2 nautilus is the Only gnome file mgr.
KDE, E, blackbox
yep, you can use it for spamassasin, in fact one version of amavisd is setup
to not only remove virus's from mail, its also designed to work with
spamassasin to remove spam as well.
Also, one benefit of having your own mail server, particularly if you have
your own domain name, is that you can
There are very cheap mp3 cd players available in the market. Any idea about
ogg players?
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 11:29 am, Ron Bouwhuis wrote:
I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG
format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are
smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 11:00 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
If I understand your statement... yes. Even if the drive is set to
ata/100 (udma5), and all other requirements are good to go, if the
proper 80w cable is not used, the drive will default to ata/33. As to
your arrangement, IME you might
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, robin wrote:
Roger Sherman wrote:
Is there a linux equivalent of this program?
Not yet, though Scribus looks promising. A lot depends on why you use
Quark (I'm guessing here, as I've never used it). If it's because you
like frame-based layout, then KWrite is
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can
be connected to TV
Well, if you have an S video out from your vid card, you can hook that up
to most TVs, I believe...
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 10:20 am, Damian G wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to reset expired passwords, so I boot up with a floppy and
enter,
linux init=/bin/sh -rw
and I get init-2.05#
I tried passwd username and entered new password. But I get the following
error message, PAM_pwdb[22]: user (username/id) update failed; pwdb: another
process has
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 13:45, Franki wrote:
kmail requires that you use your ISP's mail server and it will send/receive
all mail from there..
Right.
the postfix/sendmail/exim/qmail way is to actually set up your own mail
server..(but you can still tell it to relay mail to your ISP for
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:15:38 +0530
L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can
be connected to TV
uhm.. you mean you need a program that plays a movie thru the TV output?
i don't have such video card, so i might be
can windows rsync upload to a linux machine? i do want a lot.
I don't know if that's possible. I haven't done much file transfer
between windows and Linux. I have done anonymous ftp from windows
to linux though. Works just like it's supposed to, although it's
not the best way.
Two other
This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did
work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using
PRMs temd to be conservative sometimes. And mencoder does a ton of
computations. I don't know how long it would take on a reasonably-
powered box with
DivX files can be viewed in PC. But is there any commercial players that can
be connected to TV
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 10:20 am, Damian G wrote:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote:
Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer)
There is actually a port of openssh to windows
http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/
and there is a guide for setting up an encrypted connection between 2
windows machines
http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/sftp_rsa_win2k_howto.html .
Michael Viron
Project Manager / Primary
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 8:08 pm, dfox did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
can windows rsync upload to a linux machine? i do want a lot.
Two other possibilities exist; one would be a Samba connection between
the Windows and
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:12:30 +0200 (CEST)
Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Maybe their reply got sent to /dev/null like all the missing posts ;-)
Didn't think of that one! LOL
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Is there any workaround for programs that need this file. I have read that
Mandrake 8.2 ships with libpng.so.3 and why. But what do I do if a program that
I want to install needs this file. Am i SOL?
Thanks for any info.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
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Having migrated from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 to 9.0 RC1 to (now) RC2, I'm getting
tired of re-configuring Kmail. I move my Mail folder, but where does Kmail
keep settings like filters, folder properties, etc.?
Thanks,
Larry
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:40 pm, Larry Theden wrote:
Having migrated from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 to 9.0 RC1 to (now) RC2,
I'm getting tired of re-configuring Kmail. I move my Mail folder,
but where does Kmail keep settings like filters, folder properties,
etc.?
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, dfox wrote:
This app seems to need a lot of optimization, as the RPM packages did
work slower. and to answer your question: nope. i never encoded using
PRMs temd to be conservative sometimes. And mencoder does a ton of
computations. I don't know how long it would
Depends what program it is. You could download the source of the file you
want to install and compile it from source, or maybe www.rpmfind.net has a
mandrake rpm for you?
It would have been handy to know what file you are talking about there
though ;-) If you tell us we might be able to give
I don't think any have been released yet, but many companies have expressed
interest in releasing consumer OGG players. Unlike with MP3, they don't have to
pay royalties to anyone, and OGG is a much better format anyway (in compression
and sound quality).
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:12:47 +0530,
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:41:21 +0200, Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 17.17 07/09/2002, you wrote:
The panel is part of GNOME, not the WM. A Menu Panel can be created via
the menu
that pops up when you right-click a blank area of a panel. This works in both
GNOME 1 and GNOME 2.
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, shane wrote:
..
OK friends. Time for a rant. rant Recently, after every Mandrake
install, I have chosen Gnome/Sawfish, as per usual, and have found
Nautilus taking over the desktop. Now this is something I am not
prepared to
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