[newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Microsoft is expected to recommend that the average Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than

[newbie] MDK 10 community edition

2004-05-05 Thread Marc
Just a short question, not to hard I hope. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Eterm -O --trans 90 --shade 20 -s -x --font3 3 -f white --proportional With eterm, I am basically trying to get a full eterm window here, so that when the user clicks on the window, it will load the terminal window, but will

Re: [newbie] System not recognizing correct partition size

2004-05-05 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Terence, fdisk output looks right: /var (hda9) partition is approx. 5600Mb, /var/Music (hda14) is 6200Mb. You left approx. 40Gb of unpartitioned space on the disk, right? df output puzzles me. Like you say, /var/Music is only approx 800Mbyte large. I have no idea why this happened. I would

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:46, David B. Williams wrote: On Monday 03 May 2004 04:11 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 04:06, Alex Brooks wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:54, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 14:45, David B. Williams wrote:

[newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-05 Thread hertas
Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once more X starts normally and then can not next time (next

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 00:42, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I tried copying /etc/shadow to /var/spool/postfix/etc with perms 644 without success. I have seen others talk about how complex getting that to work is, not to mention the security

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Lanman
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Microsoft is expected to recommend that the average Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-05 Thread RichardA
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:27:42 +, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deleted the ~/.openoffice folder which contains my personal OpenOffice configuration. Whenever something gets messed up, one of the first things I normally do is delete the personal config files. Do a ls -a to see all the

[newbie] OpenLDAP

2004-05-05 Thread Marc
I installed OpenLDAP via urpmi using the available rpm on the MDK 10 community cd's. The thing I dont follow now is to my understanding and previous experience, there has always been a slapd.conf file as well as the slapd binary being installed. Maybe I am looking down the wrong path here,

[newbie] Sympa Overload?

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
I've heard some mention of the torrent of mail coming out of Mandrake to do with bugzilla. Could this explain why I'm only seeing about 1/2 to 1/3 of the posts to the Newb and Expert lists? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 10:25:44 up 21 days, 19:26, 8 users, load average: 0.00,

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 09:16:56 +0100 Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following: Microsoft is expected to recommend that the average Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an

[newbie] raid in MDK10

2004-05-05 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, i'm planning to intall ide raid card q-tec 340R! does anyone have this card in his PC? is it working properly or I have to forget about it? any coments about raid+linux! force, my friend, is violence! hugenots

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 01:09 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: You can try the simple bash script I have attached. Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a folder called converted with your re-encoded ogg's at quality 4, and in the comment it puts in the original bitrate.

[newbie] Translation Assistance!

2004-05-05 Thread JRH
Anyone on here Danish? I have a short bit of text that is written in Danish and I need it translating to English! I have tried Babelfish on the Altavista site, but for some reason, it dont want to play with Danish! Many thanks, JRH

[newbie] Help with samba configuration, plz! Urgent!

2004-05-05 Thread Flávio Henrique
Hi all! I have a big problem (or not!?) here... I changed my win2k server for Mandrake 9.2 last night and everything is fine... I got success configuring samba, sharing some folders and files with my win98 clients... ok! but today when the users started to our software the problem: only one

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-05 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:13:14 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll take a look at it. From first glance, the methodology looks like the way I thought it should get done. First convert to wav and then re-encode at the lower quaility level. I took a look at sox, and it might

Re: [newbie] Translation Assistance!

2004-05-05 Thread Alex Brooks
JRH wrote: Anyone on here Danish? I have a short bit of text that is written in Danish and I need it translating to English! I have tried Babelfish on the Altavista site, but for some reason, it dont want to play with Danish! Many thanks, JRH Try

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 11:53 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: BTW, can I ask why you are using ID3 tags, since ogg supports a more robust tagging system that most software players support well. I'm not following. What ID-system are you referring to? I use the standard oggenc tag system, which do

Re: [newbie] Translation Assistance!

2004-05-05 Thread JRH
Nope translate.ru dont play with Danish either! JRH - Original Message - From: Alex Brooks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Translation Assistance! JRH wrote: Anyone on here

Re: [newbie] Help with samba configuration, plz! Urgent!

2004-05-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 16:20, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi all! I have a big problem (or not!?) here... I changed my win2k server for Mandrake 9.2 last night and everything is fine... I got success configuring samba, sharing some folders and files with my win98 clients... ok! but today

Re: [newbie] Help with samba configuration, plz! Urgent!

2004-05-05 Thread Flávio Henrique
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 16:20, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi all! I have a big problem (or not!?) here... I changed my win2k server for Mandrake 9.2 last night and everything is fine... I got success configuring samba, sharing some folders and files with my win98 clients... ok! but today

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:44, JoeHill wrote: If Billy's prediction that hardware will eventually be essentially free doesn't come true, MS are in a whole world of hurt big sh*t-eating grin. (Hey Joe - where ya going with that gun in your hand?) Meanwhile, just as a side-fart, since Friday

Re: [newbie] Translation Assistance!

2004-05-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 16:17, JRH wrote: Anyone on here Danish? I have a short bit of text that is written in Danish and I need it translating to English! I have tried Babelfish on the Altavista site, but for some reason, it dont want to play with Danish! Many thanks, JRH You can

Re: [newbie] Delivery failure notice (ID-00003CB3)

2004-05-05 Thread Alex Brooks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mail Part Delivered --- 220 Welcome to [linux-mandrake.com] Mail type: multipart/related --- text/html RFC 2504 MX [Mail Exchanger] mx.mt2.kl.linux-mandrake.com Exim Status OK. External message is available.

Re: [newbie] Delivery failure notice (ID-00003CB3)

2004-05-05 Thread JRH
Alex, I got the same thing a couple of hours back. Someone is infected.. JRH - Original Message - From: Alex Brooks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Delivery failure notice (ID-3CB3) [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 20:56, Lanman wrote: While I'm currently drooling all over those specifications, I can't see Longhorn being ready to ship for at least 2 years We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop. LongWhore's demands are going to be the winning hand for putting linux on

[newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card

2004-05-05 Thread Steve
Mandrake 10 Community recognized my D-Link 520 Wireless LAN card (it shows up under hardware with the correct driver) but, now what? How do I configure/set it up to work properly? At this time I have no netwrok connection with it. Thanks, Steve

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:33 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop. How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on their desktop is maybe getting their scanner or digital camera to work, we're

Re: [newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card

2004-05-05 Thread Kevin Ferguson
Steve wrote: Mandrake 10 Community recognized my D-Link 520 Wireless LAN card (it shows up under hardware with the correct driver) but, now what? How do I configure/set it up to work properly? At this time I have no netwrok connection with it. Thanks, Steve Hi Steve I've not been able to

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 05:16, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:33 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop. How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on their desktop is maybe getting

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 12:16 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:33 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop. How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on their desktop is maybe

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on their desktop is maybe getting their scanner or digital camera to work, we're already there. With products like Xandros and Libranet out

Re: [newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card

2004-05-05 Thread Steve
Thanks for the info. Steve - Original Message - From: Kevin Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] D-Link Wireless LAN Card Steve wrote: Mandrake 10 Community recognized my D-Link 520 Wireless LAN card (it

Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:24:01 -0600 John Drouhard disseminated the following: Enjoy your new gtk2 sylpheed-claws You been able to get this working of late? For a few days I couldn't even log in to the CVS server, now it won't build because of a missing file, 'intl/Makefile.in'. -- JoeHill RLU

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 02:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on their desktop is maybe getting their scanner or digital camera to work, we're

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 01:09 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: You can try the simple bash script I have attached. Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a folder called converted with your re-encoded ogg's at quality 4, and in the comment it puts in the original bitrate.

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 5 May 2004 15:27:57 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their support for proprietary formats like RealOne, Flash, etc. and proprietary

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Trevor
On Thu, 6 May 2004 09:11, JoeHill wrote: One notable exception, comes in perfectly with just the basic RealPlayer: http://www.airamericaradio.com/ ...bunch of lefties, must be smarter than the...er...others. :-D But ya, didn't someone point out on here the iRiver player will support OGG

[newbie] Logitech mouseman and 10.0

2004-05-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
I've just installed 10. CE and find that I can no longer scroll windows contents with the wheel. It's a USB cordless plugged in to a USB/PS2 converter which still works fine in 9.2 XF86Config-4 is the same as 9.2 except the Device line in the Input Devices section says /dev/mouse where in 9.2

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Eric S. Dye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, I am wondering if anyone has had problems using the Evolution Mail Program in the new 10.0 Linux. My Evolution crashes on closing it. If anyone else's does, do you know how to alleviate the problem. Thanks for any help given. Eric S.

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 04:11 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2004 15:27:57 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their support for proprietary

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 05 May 2004 17:14:57 -0700 Eric S. Dye disseminated the following: Hi Folks, I am wondering if anyone has had problems using the Evolution Mail Program in the new 10.0 Linux. My Evolution crashes on closing it. If anyone else's does, do you know how to alleviate the problem.

[newbie] Spoiled by 9.1

2004-05-05 Thread rikona
Hello newbie, My intro to mandrake was 9.1. It installed without a hitch and has run fine since, with little trouble. It is great! Given the above, I installed 10.0 official on another box, expecting the same. No go, though. Initially the box booted from the CD and I opted for the basic install,

[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 CE does not properly shutdown

2004-05-05 Thread G-Love
Installed 10.0CE a few days ago and am quite happy. However, I can't get my machine to properly shutdown. It hangs while unloading some USB drivers (unfortunately I don't have the exact message). However I think I've seen some posts about this being an improper USB patch in the 10.0 kernel.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 CE does not properly shutdown

2004-05-05 Thread Paul Kaplan
Since 9.2, I've had a similar problem with the standard kernel. Try using the enterprise or i686-up kernels. They seem to shutdown fine. I haven't bothered to run down the config diffs. Paul On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:01 pm, G-Love wrote: Installed 10.0CE a few days ago and am quite happy.

Re: [newbie] Spoiled by 9.1

2004-05-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:49 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, My intro to mandrake was 9.1. It installed without a hitch and has run fine since, with little trouble. It is great! Given the above, I installed 10.0 official on another box, expecting the same. No go, though. Initially the box

[newbie] monitor configuration gamma and brightness

2004-05-05 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Hi, I need to switch back and forth between Mandrake 10 and Windows. In Windows I use Adobe Gamma to set up my monitor brightness/gamma which produces reasonable accurate color that I need for viewing artwork. However, when I switch to Mandrake the monitor is noticeably differentway too

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-05 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, 5 May 2004 19:01:03 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a nice little script. How are you licensing it? I'd like to give it to a few other people. GPL ;-) Sure Greg, please feel free to give it to all. It's just a script I hacked together to do exactly the same thing as

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-05 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 5, 2004 04:56, Lanman wrote: Tony S. Sykes wrote: ... On the other hand, I can see many of us telling our employers that we'll bite the bullet and accept Longhorn on our systems, just so we can have that kind of horsepower on our desktops, after which we would promptly install Linux,

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade

2004-05-05 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 4, 2004 04:35, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 20:12, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Finally got updates working with 10.0 Official. I see a completely different list of mirrors now in Mandrake Update, so I guess they've finally straightened that mess out. I updated my kernel

[newbie] Got my sound working, sort of

2004-05-05 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
I finally got my sound working under Mandrake 10.0 Official download. I have a Crystal Sound Fusion CS4610/1 sound card. In both CE and Official, this was recognized during installation. But when logging in, I always got a popup error saying that /dev/dsp didn't exist, so sound was being routed