Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP & modem

On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:01 pm, Linux wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:21:24 +1300 > some snippage... > > I've cranked up every setting in sight. I think I'm going to have to > accept that this modem doesn't like Linux and either live with it or get > a new modem. > > Thanks for the comment

[newbie] Got NTP installed, ntpd is running...

...and seemingly communicating with NTP servers (Stratum 2): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joehill>$ntpdate time.chu.nrc.ca 25 Jan 00:29:57 ntpdate[10642]: adjust time server 209.87.233.53 offset 0.034102 sec So, now what? Will my clock be set automagically, or is there something else I need to do

Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 16:13, JoeHill wrote: > "We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft > > By Lesley Richardson, PA News > > Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in two years___ > time, sources confirmed tonight." > > Link: > > http://news.scotsman.com/latest.

Re: [newbie] Interesting Article by Forbes

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:39, David E. Fox wrote: > What's more a crux of this issue ATM is the lawsuit by TiVo against > other parties that make similar technology. From what I understand, they > claim they "invented" the idea of playing a show and recording another > at the same time -- which IMHO

Re: [newbie] java vm machine

Bill, Did you download the JRE or SDK from Sun's web site? Either of these has the virtual machine. Edit ".bash_profile" to add a path for Java: export PATH=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin:$PATH Shawn On Saturday, Jan 24, 2004, at 12:37 US/Central, Bill W. wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to in

[newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

Hi Everyone. I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram. It wouldn't boot from the cd, so I made a floppy. I got a little further, this error message: syslinux 1.67 mandrake linux boot failed I've tried using both disk 1 and 2 to boot from. Anyone have any other tips? BTW, I am

Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP & modem

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:21:24 +1300 John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: some snippage... > > Well, I might dare to say that after changing my /etc/ppp/options > > file to what you have in yours it seems that I am staying connected > > a bit longer, but still not for very long. Also incr

[newbie] java vm machine

Hi Everyone, I am trying to install the Gallery Constructor on my 9.1 (with many upgrades) laptop. I keep getting an error about not finding java vm in my path. I know that I have java installed on the machine but I guess one question is ... is 'virtual machine' included in the standard java ins

Re: [newbie] Transcode

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mprime2212]# mprime -m bash: mprime: command not found Probably way off track, but would # ./mprime -m be the problem? Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakest

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 12:22 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote: > > >> X86 / 9.2 > > >> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to > > >> my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. SNIP > OK That is the atmelwlandrive

Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:02:45 -0500 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: > > http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2448742 > > > > ROFL, we all know the only way to stop spam is to shut down the > Internet. I suppose next he will stop snail mail spam too lol. Man i > even have three signs on m

Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:13:42 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft > Mr Gates admitted spamming Liked that line. -- David E. Fox Thanks

[newbie] McBride: open-source software threatens the U.S. IT industry

"SCO earlier this month sent a letter to the 535 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from company President and CEO Darl McBride, raising concerns about open-source software and its General Public License (GPL), the company confirmed on Wednesday." The letter: http://www.osai

Re: [newbie] Problem booting Mandrake 10 beta 1 (VIA SATA?)

On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:06 am, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > I'm having some problems getting Mandrake 10 beta 1 to work. The > actual installation goes well, and booting *seems* to go well, > until I get these error messages: > > ... > Mounting root filesystem with flags > mount: missing mou

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 11:40 pm, Lexx wrote: > >> X86 / 9.2 > >> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to > >> my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. > >> I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. > >> > >> > >> I get various errors when trying

Re: [newbie] Transcode

Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy job, which do you use ? John ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz extract (it creates it's own d

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

>> X86 / 9.2 >> Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to >> my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. >> I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. >> >> >> I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this >> in text: >> >> "t

Re: [newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 10:27 pm, Lexx wrote: > X86 / 9.2 > Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. > (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. > I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. > > > I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:49:53 + Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what I need to know is how to transfer > this list of applications to the 'user' version of menudrake, so I can > add them to the user menu. hey Margot, if you start menudrake

Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:13:42 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft > > By Lesley Richardson, PA News > > Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in > two years___ time, sources confirmed tonight." > > Link: > > ht

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

Phil Savoie wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:20, Margot wrote: Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu in KDE. I know about the 'menu bug', and I've downloaded all the necessary updates, but some things are still missing. When I go into menudrake as root, the pa

[newbie] Web server on 7.2 useing a p166

I am a novice linux user, and I am running Mandrake 7.2 as an Internet firewall and DHCP server. It is an old Pentium 166. Does anyone out there know if I can also use this machine as a web server? Anyone have a recommendation as to what software I should be use? thanks for your tips in advance

Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

ROFL ! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/24/2004 at 5:13 PM JoeHill wrote: >"We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft > >By Lesley Richardson, PA News > >Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in two >years___ >time, sources confirmed toni

Re: [newbie] Transcode

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:03:36 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the floppy > job, which do you use ? It looks to be the same one I use, pretty much, except it's newer (mprime235.tar.gz). Shouldn't make too much a diff.

[newbie] Linux Driver Install Issues

X86 / 9.2 Trying to install a wireless USB dongle to connect my linux box to my LAN. (CNet 11Mbps WLAN USB adapter) Linux drivers included. I have a EtherExpress PRO/100 card installed. I get various errors when trying to unpack the folder including this in text: "these files are glibc internal

[newbie] Riiiiiight...

"We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft By Lesley Richardson, PA News Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in two years___ time, sources confirmed tonight." Link: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2448742 -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Transcode

On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > I ran the desktop varient of mprime, I couldn't download the > floppy job, which do you use ? > > John ftp://lettuce.edsc.ulst.ac.uk/mirrors/www.mersenne.org/gimps/mprime2212.tar.gz extract (it creates it's own dir) and run 'mprim

Re: [newbie] Transcode

On Friday 23 January 2004 09:44 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 + > > John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump > > immediately in the > > > > same directory as mprime. > > Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardwa

Re: [newbie] Woot! Gimp 2.0 RPM's for Mandrake!

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:28:33 + LtCdData disseminated the following: > where has the layers channels and paths menu moved to.. Kewl! Thanks for asking that question! Check out 'create new dock'... Love it! ***btw, Mr. Data, please clear your 'reply-to' setting, at least for this list.*** --

Re: [newbie] OT - Web host query

El lun, 19-01-2004 a las 09:53, Todd Slater escribió: > Can anybody recommend a reasonably priced Web hosting company? I'm > having a hard time finding one that will let me install a not-so-common > Apache module. Transfer and storage requirements are minimal. I use and recommend Pair Networks

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

Hi Margot, What I have done in the past that works for me is in a terminal window, run menudrake. Let it build/sort the menu then save it. Phil On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:20, Margot wrote: > Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu > in KDE. I know about the '

[newbie] Problem booting Mandrake 10 beta 1 (VIA SATA?)

I'm having some problems getting Mandrake 10 beta 1 to work. The actual installation goes well, and booting *seems* to go well, until I get these error messages: ... Mounting root filesystem with flags mount: missing mount point ... Kernel panic: No init found. ... I have previously tried install

[newbie] user menu items not available

Some of the packages I've installed are not available on the user menu in KDE. I know about the 'menu bug', and I've downloaded all the necessary updates, but some things are still missing. When I go into menudrake as root, the panel for Available Applications contains all the missing packages.

Re: [newbie] Transcode

David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the same directory as mprime. Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more knowledgeable about

Re: [newbie] Transcode

David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:26:31 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just ran mprime on my machine and got a core dump immediately in the same directory as mprime. Ouch. That might indicate shoddy hardware. Tom can chime in, he's more knowledgeable about

Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate

On Friday 23 January 2004 03:19 pm, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to update the Kernel package suggested by > MandrakeUpdate. The installation failed a few times, even using > different sources, stating that the sig file is 0 (zero) size. > > I used a regular FTP client to d/l

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: ->Again, on advice from ppl here, I found out how to set the NIC to a ->static address, but then found that it had killed my net connection. To ->be specific, the modem would dial and connect to the ISP, but no data ->would come down - not ma

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > so I tried that, and this is what I got: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# kedit /etc/hosts > _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > DCOPServer up and running. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Mutex destroy failure: De

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:11:45 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[On 1/24/2004 at 1:04 PM Anne Wilson wrote: >[ >[>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:53, Lanman wrote: >[>> Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way! >[Just >[>> had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you >[

Re: [newbie] Notebook Touch Pad "Middle Button"

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:31:56 -0800 (PST) Job Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Gateway 400sp notebook running Mandrake 9.2. > I would like to configure my touchpad so that I have a > middle/third mouse button. Any suggestions? > > Cheers, > > Job Doesn't pressing left and right butt

[newbie] Notebook Touch Pad "Middle Button"

I have a Gateway 400sp notebook running Mandrake 9.2. I would like to configure my touchpad so that I have a middle/third mouse button. Any suggestions? Cheers, Job __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.ya

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/24/2004 at 5:07 AM Aron Smith wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:42:27 -0500 >"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[HH! Wonder what their on-site tech support response >>[times are like? >>[ >>[Lanman >ONsite 24/7/365 >> Aron; I think that's why their systems are s expensive! OK, Ba

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/24/2004 at 1:04 PM Anne Wilson wrote: >On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:53, Lanman wrote: >> Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way! Just >> had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you >> believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in >> "Nano-Second" rates, not in Mega

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/24/2004 at 5:04 AM Aron Smith wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:12:29 -0500 >"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[On 1/24/2004 at 3:05 AM Aron Smith wrote: >>[ >>[>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500 >>[>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[> >>[>>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote: >>[

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:53, Lanman wrote: > Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way! Just > had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you > believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in > "Nano-Second" rates, not in MegaHertz which would be too > slow! Sorry to be rant

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:42:27 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[On 1/24/2004 at 7:35 AM Lanman wrote: >[ >[>On 1/24/2004 at 12:17 PM Anne Wilson wrote: >[> >[>>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote: >[>>> >[>>> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided >[>you >[>>>

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:12:29 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[On 1/24/2004 at 3:05 AM Aron Smith wrote: >[ >[>On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500 >[>"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[> >[>>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote: >[>>[ >[>>[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! P

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

Maybe, Anne - But I'd LOVE to find out the hard way! Just had a look at the specs of the Cray T3E-900. Would you believe 2048 CPU's ? These systems are rated in "Nano-Second" rates, not in MegaHertz which would be too slow! Sorry to be ranting, but you got me started, and now I just have to have on

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:35, Lanman wrote: > > IIRC, Cray2's ( or the current equivalent ) are custom > built for each client, and again, IIRC, they've only built > 3 or 4 of them. NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street each have > one, and those are the only ones I know of. HMMmm, wonder > if they c

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/24/2004 at 7:35 AM Lanman wrote: >On 1/24/2004 at 12:17 PM Anne Wilson wrote: > >>On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote: >>> >>> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided >you >>> with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes >look >>> like 486's. They are eve

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/24/2004 at 12:17 PM Anne Wilson wrote: >On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote: >> >> You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided you >> with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes look >> like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda >> like dreamin

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Saturday 24 January 2004 12:12, Lanman wrote: > > You're kidding, right Aron? Just in case, I've provided you > with a link. These super-computers make IBM mainframes look > like 486's. They are every Tekno-Geek's wet dream. Kinda > like dreaming about owning a Ferrari Enzo. Please tell me > you

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/24/2004 at 3:05 AM Aron Smith wrote: >On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500 >"Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote: >>[ >>[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used >>[child labour or >>[>something... >>[> >>[>http://www.newsforge.com/artic

[newbie] setxkbmap problem

Mandrake comes with some support for Tajik, including a Tajik keyboard that I managed to get to work with the command setxkbmap tj and the right font. However, at my job, with the same setup on a different computer, the keyboard does not work although it is clear that it's loaded. When using this

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:48:35 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote: >[ >[>Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used >[child labour or >[>something... >[> >[>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249249 >[> >[>JoeHill ++ ICQ # 28

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

On Friday 23 January 2004 23:02, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:49, Anne Wilson wrote: > > [...snip] > A big thankyou to all who've replied to this thread, and especially > Bryan and Anne who've taken interest recently. I realize it's been > a long and drawn-out series, so I think i

Re: [newbie] Just in case anyone missed this...

On 1/23/2004 at 7:14 PM JoeHill wrote: >Mandrake makes a profit! Capitalist pigs! Probably used child labour or >something... > >http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/1249249 > >JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** OK, Now that was sarcasm, right? Grin

Re: [newbie] Woot! Gimp 2.0 RPM's for Mandrake!

On Friday 23 Jan 2004 H:48, JoeHill wrote: where has the layers channels and paths menu moved to.. > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:02:55 + > > Anne Wilson disseminated the following: > > > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s >

Re: [newbie] AMD Support

On Saturday 24 January 2004 05:23, Ayoub890 wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Thursday 22 January 2004 22:54, Ayoub890 wrote: > >>jason pearl wrote: > >>>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:19:23 -0800 > >>>Ayoub890 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>[Deleted] > >> > Which is the best web resource for info

Re: [newbie] Audio Recording in Linux

On Saturday 24 January 2004 03:53, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:39:24 -0700 > > Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm running Mandrake 9.2 on an Abit NV7-133R Motherboard using > > the > > nforce chipset. I can't seem to get my sound card to record fro

Re: [newbie] Woot! Gimp 2.0 RPM's for Mandrake!

On Friday 23 January 2004 23:48, JoeHill wrote: > > A lot of things have been moved into different menus, but nothing > you can't get used to, and the new additions to the tools are > really nice. Sounds good Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org y

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:07, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 06:00, Erylon Hines wrote: > > You might find this useful: > > > > http://dennis_caparas.tripod.com/samba_test.html > > Bad Gateway > The following error occurred: > > The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. C

Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 06:00, Erylon Hines wrote: > You might find this useful: > > http://dennis_caparas.tripod.com/samba_test.html > Bad Gateway The following error occurred: The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your system administrator if the problem is.not found by retr