[newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets

2004-05-10 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples from the Calendar desklet): - Could not load sensor 'Calendar' An error

Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:40:15 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors (examples

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 10 May 2004 07:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: 'It's your fault. Yeah you, Mr. or Ms. Corporate IT Person. Microsoft says it's your fault, and the fault of your users, that there are so many security problems with Microsoft software. Oh, sure, there are security holes in Microsoft products.

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 10 May 2004 21:32:51 -0400 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,92 802,00.html Joe: Actually, he understates the true cost of MS negligence by not mentioning that the RestOfUs (Linuxers, Mac types,

Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets

2004-05-10 Thread Marv Boyes
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:40:15 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Hello again, everyone. I've recently started using gdesklets (v0.26.1), but have so far only been able to get the SysInfo desklet to work. Whenever I install and try to run a new desklet, I get two errors

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-10 Thread frankieh
JoeHill wrote: 'It's your fault. Yeah you, Mr. or Ms. Corporate IT Person. Microsoft says it's your fault, and the fault of your users, that there are so many security problems with Microsoft software. Oh, sure, there are security holes in Microsoft products. But Microsoft does patch them --

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:32:51PM -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg Wasn't it just a couple of people

[newbie] Red Hat in or out of the Desktop biz?

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
I coulda sworn I was just reading a few weeks ago that Red Hat said they were not giving any support to Linux on the desktop... But now this? If Matthew Szulik is to be believed, the first thing we will see when we start up our computers in the morning will no longer be Micro- soft's familiar

Re: [newbie] Inconsistent success with gdesklets

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:32:45 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: If you read the docs in the archive for any given display, it explains this. Yes, I read that; I also read this: Again in theory this is simple. First you get some desklet, for example a clock desklet. Then you

Re: [newbie] Red Hat in or out of the Desktop biz?

2004-05-10 Thread frankieh
JoeHill wrote: I coulda sworn I was just reading a few weeks ago that Red Hat said they were not giving any support to Linux on the desktop... But now this? If Matthew Szulik is to be believed, the first thing we will see when we start up our computers in the morning will no longer be Micro-

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Peter
Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 16:47, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:50 pm, John wrote: Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

[newbie] vmware-config.pl

2004-05-10 Thread Thujan
Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an error despite I have kernel source too? Is there any solution for that? With mdk 9.2 it worked fine. -- best rgds tt 18:44:30 up 5 min, 0 users, load average: 0.21, 0.43, 0.22 2.6.3-9mdk

Re: [newbie] Tv tuner card help needed

2004-05-10 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Tv tuner card help needed On Sunday 09 May 2004 02:00 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just bought a WINTV USB. I bought it because I was sure

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Peter
Derek, Yes it works fine if I log out, and log dominic in, but i *would* like to just switch session for him. If you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58,

[newbie] Re: writing sms

2004-05-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But

[newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
Stop the presses! Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software. Link:

[newbie] VS: Trying Upgrade 9.1 to 9.2

2004-05-10 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello. I have tried to do the Upgrade of 9.1 to 9.2 by cdrom installing to see if I can getting a better system workinp on my PC Epox P2 amd 256Ram IBM 500MHz and when i have the pc into do some by the ramdisk, version 9.2 saying ramdisk error, but it goes fine with usig the version 9.1 install

Re: [newbie] writing sms

2004-05-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 May 2004 9:35 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd

[newbie] Helix Player

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
Just in the process of snagging an RPM of the Helix Player. Wanted to know if anyone out there in Mandrakeland has had any experience with this thing, good or bad (esp bad...). For some reason, RealPlayer is loading fine now on the Jon Stewart site now (wasn't on my previous install...), but I

RE: [newbie] vmware-config.pl

2004-05-10 Thread Jonas Claesson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thujan Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] vmware-config.pl Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an

[newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......

2004-05-10 Thread JRH
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem to work under 10 official? I upgraded, and for some reason, the files are still in the /usr/share/speedtouch/ folder (speedtouch.sh and mgmt.o), but the modem wont start. If I open up a terminal and cd to the

[newbie] apache making me batty

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache 1.3. I'm trying to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403 forbidden error. ~/public_html is readable by all ~/public_html/index.html is readable by all In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I have: Directory /home/*/public_html

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-10 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 9, 2004 06:49 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:13, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 7, 2004 04:41 am, Derek Jennings a écrit : On Friday 07 May 2004 05:41, Marc Lijour wrote: Would you know what to do in order to make the firmware uploaded automatically as soon

Re: [newbie] pcmcia nic card problem

2004-05-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Marcus Schwab wrote: I installed MDK10.0 over an ftp server using the netorking boot disk, and my 3Com 3CCFE574BT pcmcia nic card worked fine for this. (I have an ADSL connection) But after I installed MDK I can't find the nic in the hardware section, and my networks/internet does not work. And

[newbie] Trying Upgrade 9.1 to 9.2

2004-05-10 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello out there! I have tried to do the Upgrade of 9.1 to 9.2 by cdrom installing to see if I can getting a better system workinp on my PC Epox P2 amd 256Ram IBM 500MHz and when i have the pc into do some by the ramdisk, version 9.2 saying ramdisk error, but it goes fine with usig the version 9.1

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-10 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 9, 2004 11:46 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar a écrit : On May 8, 2004 22:26, Marc Lijour wrote: How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? ... I just downloaded the rpm file from source forge, then did: urpmi fxload-2002_04_11-1.i386.rpm I use fxload-2002_04_11-2mdk

Re: [newbie] apache making me batty

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache 1.3. I'm trying to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403 forbidden error. ~/public_html is readable by all ~/public_html/index.html is readable by all In

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-10 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 10, 2004 04:34 pm, Marc Lijour a écrit : Le May 9, 2004 11:46 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar a écrit : On May 8, 2004 22:26, Marc Lijour wrote: How do you manage to have your fxload called each time you boot? ... I just downloaded the rpm file from source forge, then did: urpmi

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's ability to win its case, so they've decided to

[newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.

2004-05-10 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello Joe Hill I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. By starting: # startX I got this Using Xauth... Writing Xauth... Using

Re: [newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.

2004-05-10 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello Joe Hill. I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. No log by name Xfree86.0.log in /var/log/. after I have run

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:47:22PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Microsoft Palladium: The world is a fearful place (because we allowed it to be by introducing vulnerable designs followed by clueless security initiatives) so let us fix it for you. --Cringely How bout this. Microsoft security: because

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 10 May 2004 11:27 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 12:35, JoeHill wrote: 'Royal Bank of Canada has notified SCO it has elected to convert 10,000 shares of SCO's Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock it currently holds into a total of 740,740 shares of SCO's common

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-10 Thread robin
Lanman wrote: JoeHill wrote: Stop the presses! Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's ability to win its case, so they've

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread Avi Schwartz
On May 10, 2004, at 16:18, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:00 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: 'According to Stacey Quandt, principal analyst of Quandt, 'RBC probably went into the deal as an investment, and now they appear to have lost confidence in SCO's

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:40:10 -0500 Avi Schwartz disseminated the following: And SCO aka Caldera used to be a perfectly respectable 'nix company. Wasn't the RBC investment part of the $50M SCO received from BayStar on Oct 16, 2003, 7 months into the SCO lawsuit? I bet they thought, just

Re: [newbie] vmware-config.pl

2004-05-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 01:51, Thujan wrote: Hi, I can not finnish vmware-config.pl in mdk 10C with 2.6.3-9mdk, script returns with an error despite I have kernel source too? Is there any solution for that? With mdk 9.2 it worked fine. install the kernel sources via mcc and you and then

Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......

2004-05-10 Thread Owain Sutton
This is only for 10CEbut the only way that I found worked was with mgmt.o on floppy, letting Drak copy it to wherever it wanted. JRH wrote: Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem to work under 10 official? I upgraded, and for some reason, the files

[newbie] CD sound only from Totem

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
Hey all, Weird problem, I can play CD's no problem in Totem (not my favourite), but not GnomeCD, GRip, or ROX-CD. All are set to use /dev/hdd as the CD reader (actually my DVD drive). There does not appear in any of them to be a way to set it to use ALSA or OSS, so I'm not sure if that is the

[newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
'It's your fault. Yeah you, Mr. or Ms. Corporate IT Person. Microsoft says it's your fault, and the fault of your users, that there are so many security problems with Microsoft software. Oh, sure, there are security holes in Microsoft products. But Microsoft does patch them -- eventually. And

Re: [newbie] Helix Player

2004-05-10 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:08:10 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: but I can't get Air America [1] to come in, though it did just a few days ago. I'm thinkin' they may have changed their format, If by some chance they have gotten a sponsor they will have changed the format the

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread bascule
to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner is not root and the group audio then do: chown root.audio * (assuming you are in the /dev/sound directory,

[newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was fast, and that running off a cd. Todd -- Any

Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 20:26, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 19:00, JRH wrote: snipI was never able to have the same modem working under Linux. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to buy an ethernet modem (which is not expensive). With ethernet modems, you will not have any

[newbie] writing sms

2004-05-10 Thread Thujan
Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than phone itself. I have used this same phone as gprs-modem with pppd and it works fine. But writing sms needs some program

[newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread Peter
Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied',

SV: [newbie] Error by starting X up after a liveupdate.

2004-05-10 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
I have have got some problem with the X when I trying to run command startX Can you describe the errors? Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for line that begin with [EE] for possible reasons for the failure. after I have run liveupdate and udpated the Xfree86 on my 2 pc's with version 9.1,

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 09:36, Peter wrote: Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing

[newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0

2004-05-10 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard, which worked fine in 9.x and 8.x I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate sound. If I manually create the /dev/dsp

Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 10:56, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard, which worked fine in 9.x and 8.x I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread bascule
i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the

Re: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz.

2004-05-10 Thread Flávio Henrique
Bill, I would like to thank you again... well, I would run ls -ld /share/docs before doing 'chmod -R 750 /share/docs' to see if the permissions had been changed. Also, I you should use 2770 as the permissions. 2xxx sets the sticky bit which means all files/directories created in this