Good Afternoon!
Just installed MDK 10-Community. Running on the 2.4 kernel.
Every time I try to add update source with the MCC gui, I get the
following error message, regardless which site I choose:
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Unable to add medium, errors reported:
Hi
Y'all may have beat this one into submission in the past ... but I just
got this new machine.
ASUS A7N8X-VM motherboard with integrated NVIDIA nforce2 IGP and MCP
chipsets.
Nothing seemed to work after the initial MDK 9.2 install. I disabled
the onboard LAN adapter in BIOS and
Lanman wrote:
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:31, JoeHill wrote:
Microsoft Corp. was hit Thursday with yet another antitrust lawsuit, this one
accusing the software giant of illegally monopolizing the growing field of
digital music and video.
RealNetworks Inc. said Microsoft illegally tied its
Its getting close to that time of year again.
Anybody found a tax package (US) that runs on Linux?
WINE/Crossover wouldn't run last years versions. I doubt they'll be
able to handle this years stuff. I know there are a few web based
systems out there ... but I'd rather not.
The WIN98
I've installed 9.2 and its up and running. I removed Mozilla 1.4 and
replaced it with Mozilla 1.5. All my bookmarks are still there. Many
of those bookmarks are audio URLs ... .ram, .ra, .slps, etc. Mozilla
1.3/1.4 used to pass them directly to their respective helper aps ...
Realplayer,
Mandrake 9.2 is installed and running well.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that it recognized my 3Com/Homeconnect
Web cameras without even asking for a config file. XAWTV also uses them
without a problem. Gnomemeeting configured itself to use them. Great!
Is there anyway to set up a
When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the
machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ...
and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in,
the delay is only momentary.
Where can I look to see what is going on. Is this normal
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, Harv Nelson wrote:
When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the
machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ...
and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in,
the delay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Friends ,
I dowloaded macromedia flash plug-in from Macromedia's site and installed
it. Eveything seems fine with the installation. Plug - in was installed in
myusername/home/.mozilla/ . But when I enter a site including flash , still
it can not be seen.!! How can I
My 9.2 installation offers an aRts control tool applet in the task
bar. It is slow and clunky
In my 9.1 system there was a cute little volume control button that
resided in the task bar next to the klipper, calendar, and the clock.
It was easy to use and fast ... all it need was a right
Brian Parish wrote:
I have now installed 9.2 on 3 machines, 2 as upgrades and the other as a
full install. The two upgraded machines both have small problems. On
one - a laptop - mozilla won't start. No errors displayed when run in a
console, just waits a while then goes away. On the other
Aronsmith wrote:
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:10, HaywireMac wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:47:56 -0600
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I do. Most all current home desktop users, windoze users should
stay right where they are. Most aren't even aware of 'hardware'
issues on anything
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 02 November 2003 08:29 pm, John Wilson wrote:
As I refuse to download by bittorrent, having heard the wonderful time
people had with it, I was sorta hoping that the ftp mirrors would be up and
running a whole lot earlier than the end of the year.
If you are a
Margot wrote:
HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500
Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week?
This week's topic:
What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him for
a half hour and no legal consequences? EG
Len Lawrence wrote:
Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to
go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no
difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and
the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the
Sharrea Day wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 05:49, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote:
Ditto on that Error 404!!!
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:47, Poogle wrote:
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 H:41 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:26 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
9.2 is out for club
Mark Wrote:
If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?
Its Laziness. Laziness is the FATHER of Invention.
Now ya know. (no dna tests required)
Harv / AI9NL
washburn, WIsconsin
Mark Weaver wrote:
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:41, Todd Slater wrote:
Ralph Slooten wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:58:31 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That alarms me, Charles. Who have I spammed using the built-in
bounce-function in KMail ?
Nobody other than he himself. If ya read the e-mail, he resquests you reply to
the e-mail, and gives
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
Hello all,
The title say's it all, I just killed the good box at home.
I went thru this sort of thing a long while back. My solution was to
use an old 450 mHz machine where everything Windows can be pretty much
isolated. My Mandrake box need never worry about that alien
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 6:22 pm, Frankie wrote:
Has anyone considered getting a $6 dollar domain name from godaddy
like mandake-newbies.com and using godaddy's redirect facility to
redirect to put it to the wiki?? that address is too hard to
remember and I am not always at
Watch an animation of the conversion process of a new Linux user
http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif
Harv
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Hi Kaj,
I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm
trying to run with wine.
Try this WinTools GUI set up aid:
http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/
It will make all the necessary directories and has an Installer of
sorts. There is some additional education on the
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2003 09:40 pm, Harv Nelson wrote:
Hi Kaj,
I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a
program I'm trying to run with wine.
Try this WinTools GUI set up aid:
http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/
It will make all the necessary directories
Paul wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:17, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Yep. I am not kidding. Are these slimeballs a bunch of maggot puke or
what?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/32187.html
SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Posted: 05/08/2003 at
Are you perhaps talking about BPL .. Broadband over Power Lines? The
FCC is about to implement lower part 15 interference standards to
accomodate this piece of money gouging crap.
See
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1
for a full discussion
Harv/AI9NL
Dow Mathis
Frankie wrote:
Lanman said:
And we may make the
stuff for Americans, but it's not as strong as the beer we have
here. It's thinned out for Americans.
Franki:
Yes, we export smaller condoms to the US too.. its only good bussiness
sense,, you have to match the export goods to the expected
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:22 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
I'll give them some money when they pay me for submitting bug
reports back in 1990 for SCO XENIX...or if Darl McBride flies out
here and cuts my lawn...other than
Michael Scottaline wrote:
On 24 Jul 2003 10:24:26 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted:
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 04:16, Gene Barker wrote:
Hi Harv,
I'm not a vegetarian but I do eat most of them except the A veggies.
Thanks for the welcome
Gene Barker
I hate
or should we have the right to own what we create just like
a person that creates a sculpture or paints a picture etc...
Unfortunately, the creator/author of a work is seldom the person to reap the greatest benefit from his creativity/creation. Rather, the distributor of the creative work usually
So, where's everyone else? C'Mon people! Jump in here and say Hi to Gene!
Eh? I dunno ... he's probably a vegetarian ...
Harv
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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When I was younger, I could remember anything ... whether it had happened, or not.
Mark Twain
Lanman wrote:
I'm with Stephen
I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether.
Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much
the same thing?
Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both?
Any other cautions, caveats, evaluations, comments you'd care to give
are much
Where I used to work, we refered to the Windows/Outlook combo as the
VTP ... Virus Transport Protocol.
Harv
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira).
Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I
browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that
To any Hams on the list
I am running an old PK-232 multimode data controler (radio modem, for
the non-hams). I am trying to use minicom to talk to the thing. Has
any one figured out a better way to run a PK-232 with Linux?
I'd like to avoid using WINE and the WIN-9x aps if possible.
Also
Just making a move from K-Mail to Mozilla mail ... does anyone know
where Mozilla's spellchecker is ... or how to add one?
Thanks
Harv
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:39, Mark wrote:
If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father?
I thought you'd all like to know:
If necessity is the mother of invention, then LAZINESS is the father!
Harv
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
My bank used to have the same disclaimer ... IE only.
All that happened was that the page did not display as THEY intended in my
Galeon browser. All the parts of their presentation were there, just spread
around in a more or less haphazard manner ... something to do with the way
ActiveX does
Try this link:
http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
You'll find Linux plugin/players there.
Harv
On Monday 03 March 2003 08:17 pm, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote:
Hello..
Where can i find the shockwave for this program? I have hit a few sites
and requires this plugin to be
I'm running MDK 9.0 and 4.3.1 with an SiS 3D-AGP board. also using a a wheel
mouse that it didn't like for a while ... no idea why. It all seems to be
working now. Only fault I can see are some little sparkles or tiny streaks
at the left side of the screen when I scroll a page. I don't
I also tried to set up connection sharing for ADSL and the shorewall on this
machine (MDK9.0). Pissed Off is just a mild description for my feelings of
frustration. My solution was to purchase a D-Link DI-604.
http://www.dlink.com/products/broadband/di604/
The thing contains an embedded
I downloaded the eval version ... but it made me hunt up a WIN98 machine with
a CD burner, so I could run the .exe download ... just to burn the ISO for
me! All that, so that I could try out a linux based program to back up a
linux only machine (not a dual boot system). Seems like the long
On Friday 28 February 2003 09:09 am, A V Flinsch wrote:
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:24 pm, Larry Williams wrote:
And another
73 DE N1POP
Almost enough of us to start a Mandrake-Hams list
If there are enough of us around, maybe we can get Mandrake to include a bunch
of the ham
Hi
Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups
using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days.
That price makes that media much more attractive than investing in a big tape
drive and tapes..
I've got 5 machines on my little network.
Here is Harv, KG9GA, Washburn, Wisconsin, USA.
Just retired and re-located to this small northern Wisconsin community on the
shore of Lake Superior ( 25 below 0 this morning ... have I made a mistake?
:-).
Hope to figure out how this Linux stuff works and get my rigs set up to run
the
Is there a Mandrake specific vnc... .RPM? Can't seem to locate one anywhere.
I've been trying to get RealVNC to work across my local network without
much success.
Any suggestions?
Harv
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
My mandrake 9.0 machine currently sports a domain name of
kg9ga.shacknet.nu
I'm adding two more machines to the local network, another linux box, and a
windows machine. Where can I change the domain name on this box to
kg9ga-l1.shacknet.nu
Thanks
Harv
Want to buy your Pack or Services
On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:04 am, simo wrote:
hello guys,
is there a way to disable the right click in Icewm or kde ?
10x in adv
In KDE:
Click on the KDE Control Center. Click Look-n-Feel, Then Desktop.
You'll find choices there for configuring your mouse clicks.
Harv
Want to
Hi
When I have encountered problems like this, one program that has helped me is
a little utility called aefdisk. It is available from the usual sources or
www.aefdisk.com
I use it with:
aefdisk /delall
That blows away the mbr and writes a clean new one. If this works, anything
that was
Help
Downloaded ISO's and burned the disks for MDK 9.0. Installed the system.
Applied all the Mandrake supplied updates and security patches. Currently
running KDE 3.05a on the desktop. It all seems to work. A little poking
even got it to find my old printer and my old scanner. My new
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