I have just upgraded my wife's computer from LM 7.1 to LM 7.2
I now no longer have the choice of Latin-American keyboard def in the Control
Center.
Is there anyway I can recycle the LM 7.1 definition file ?
Where would I find it, and where should it go ?
TIA,
Ron, on the banks of the
On Thursday 14 June 2001 21:33, I was honoured by a missive from Sridhar
Dhanapalan that said :
If you are trying to make us feel jealous you are doing an excellent
job. I'm still chugging along with a Pentium II 350 (albeit with 256MB
of RAM).
You lucky br !
I am just now fighting
On Friday 15 June 2001 10:20, I was honoured by a missive from Sridhar
Dhanapalan that said :
Someone should really do something about that mail server.
What about a filter rule that send to Trash anything with autoreply in the
subject line ?
Ron.
--
When you come to a
On Thursday 14 June 2001 11:24, I was honoured by a missive from Rusty
Carruth that said :
brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 2 MDK8.0 PC's that were shutoff when I came in yesterday morning.
I never turn them off and suspect that a power failure was responsible.
Is there anyway to
I'm trying to configure VMware.
As root, I can configure it to use the existing HD dos partition to run DOS.
As user, i get an error message:
Unable to open the /dev/hda device permission device
How do I give a user permission to access /dev/hda ?
TIA
Ron the Frog, emulating on the banks of
On Thursday 24 May 2001 09:03, I was honoured by a missive from Clarkson,
Nick that said :
No, it's not just you. Same happens here. I have to cut paste the newbie
address into the To... box every time.
Workaround: Reply to All, which puts both adresses, sender and list, in the
To: box.
If you are, like me, prone to forgetting that you are connected to the net
and want to save a bit on useless conection and phone charges, here is how to
configure KPPP to chuck you out after a given time without any IP activity:
KPPP = Setup = Accounts = Edit = Dial = Customize pppd
I'm in the middle of writing a small gawk script that sends the content of a
text file to the printer, in character form, to fill in a printed form.
Query: is there a way, similar to Basic's LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(41), to send
control chars to the printer from gawk ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog,
I'm in deep S.
I have been working on the computer of Her Who Must Be Obeyed, and when
re-booting, had a problem: No system; had a closer look, I had mixed up the
primary and secondary IDE cables.
I unmixed them, rebooted, and now the partition with her home dir wont mount,
she's loosing
One of my partitions has a problem;
When I run e2fsck, it advises me to run with the -b option, to indicate other
superblock locations, and offers 8193 as an example.
Are there other locations which could work (8193 does not ;-(
TIA,
R.Olgiati, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:24, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from
you that said :
While I am on the subject, where can I change permissions to allow non root
users to shutdown from a terminal. (I am the only user.)
One way I found was to cp halt and reboot from /sbin to /bin, and
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 21:02, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from
you that said :
doesn't anyone READ the instructions anymore? God only knows what they'd
do with a map somewhere out in the wilderness with little gas left. call
the map maker for directions?
They'll just whip out
On Thursday 22 March 2001 19:48, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from
you that said :
Xpp works fine -- until I shut down the workstation. When I start it
again and try to print it responds with "Can't connect to CUPS server."
If I su to root and type "service cups start" it works again
I now have and all-singing-all dancing new motherboard, with all mod cons and
a CPU that monitors its own temperature.
Of course, the software for doing this runs only under Windoze.
Anyone know of a Linux prog that does the same ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the slowly cooling banks of the
I have changed my motherboard, and CUPS now runs (on the old one, the CUPS
server would not run ;-(
So I can now print; thanks to all who sent help.
The flip side of it all is that now its my Ethernet card that wont work.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the balmy banks of the Paraguay River.
This is a problem that is potentially embarassing for Mandrake, and I'm
surprised not to have heard from them when I first posted it:
LM 7.1 installs without any problem, and while installing it I can create the
partitions I need with either fdisk or diskdrake without any trouble.
When I
I have just been installing Linux Mandrake on a new computer.
The interesting bit was that LM 7.2 would not install, it seems that it could
not read of write the partition table, whether with diskdrake of fdisk.
So I installed LM 7.1, with no trouble.
Anyone met this problem ?
Is there a
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 16:39, Dennis Myers wrote:
I have just been installing Linux Mandrake on a new computer.
The interesting bit was that LM 7.2 would not install, it seems that it
could not read of write the partition table, whether with diskdrake of
fdisk.
So I installed
On Sunday 11 March 2001 19:12, Neville Cobb wrote:
The URL for Xdiskusage is http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/
The page contain a binary which can be run by a user if you change the
execute permissions on the file once you download it.
Ta,
I'll give it a try.
Ron.
--
On Monday 12 March 2001 00:47, Derek Rayne wrote:
Warning: The following hosts are unknown:
home.netscape.com
home6.netscape.com
internic.net
When I got fed up with getting the same message from Netscape each time it
strated, I added the three domain names
On Monday 12 March 2001 10:16, Shane Roppel wrote:
Yes, this is true, and even known to me. But, the military did create the
24hrs clock system.
Nope; i was created by the railways companies in England, who found a need
for it long before the military did.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the
Hi all,
I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-directory of a given
directory, the total amount of disk-space used up by that sub-directory and
all its sub-sub-directories.
Is there a way to do this with du ,
Or any other way ?
I dont need/want the breakdown with all the
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:17, Emilio Correa wrote:
Hi, I lost the task bar in KDE, How can I restore it?
It should come back when you run "kpanel"; right-click on the desktop, go to
the menu-item "run command" and put kpanel in the space provided.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of
HEEEPPP!!
I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am slowly going mad.
I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2; the test-page
prints, and I print wothout problem from KWord or KSpread.
The printer as installed is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf
If I
I am (trying to) configure the printer fro SO 5.2 but have not so far even
managed to print a test page.
I found a printer in the list offered by SO, but dont know what to indicate
as the print command (lpr -Plp ?) for printing under Cups.
Any idea ?
TIA,
Ron, on the bbanks of the Paraguay
My timezone (Paraguay) has changed this morning from Summer Time to Winter
Time.
Only problem is that it is not supposed to change for at lease another month.
Where could I report the discrepancy ?
I hink the problem is in the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/america/Asuncion, but
its written in
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Alexander Arzberger wrote:
I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change
Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome
Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do this!?
Is Gnome really faster ?
(as I have an antique and slow machine, I'd be
I have a cron job that (should) run every morning at 01.00 to run slocate,
to update the locate database.
For now two days, I have found my machine impossible to use, when I begin
at 06.00; constant HD activity, and everything taking ages to happen.
So I ctrl-alt-f1ed to the console, did a ps
I have read in vain man supermount and man fstab, and find no mention of
how to use supermount in /etc/fstab.
Can it be used to auto-mount the devices on a w**95 box through Samba ?
Up to now, I have had to open Konsole, su and mount, and would like to
simplify local network access.
Tahnks for
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Lewis Bishop wrote:
Someone mentioned to me that unknown hard disk activity could be due to
locate building it's index? Could this be it? Can anyone clarify?
If you have a cron job that rebuilds the locate database, it DOES take a
long time to run ;-)
Just make sure it
Hi, all!
I've just had a most horrible morning, with KDE locking up on me, kernel
panics when re-booting, and all kinds of strange happenings, and I was
thinking of doing a complete re-install.
It turned out to be a hardware problem ! I looked into the box, and the CPU
cooling fan had failed.
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Its sounds as though you may have to recompile the kernel to support
this. I just checked my kernel configuration (kernel 2.2.15-4) and NFS is
already compiled in as a module.
Well, I'll just wait till I upgrade to 7.2 ;-)
Thanks,
Ron the Frog, on
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Goldenpi wrote:
1. Microsoft isn't loseing any money if your selling a product thats const
hundreds of $ and noone can afford it anyway.
So its all right to steal something you cannot afford, because you would
not have bought it anyway ?
You morals stink.
2. Even if it
I am running Mandrake 7.1.
I wish to use NFS to share files between two Linux boxes.
NFS does not appear in /proc/filesystems.
Do I have to recompile the kernel, or can it be added as a module ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
Those of you who
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron,
Treat unreliable connections with Stabilant22.
Given that I had the problem on two motherboards, and they went away when I
removed the cache RAM stick, I have been tempted to blame the RAM itself
;-)
But I'll see if I can find Stabilan
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, duncan wrote:
Have been assured that it will run slw if win 98
Can be speeded up if you run win 98 lite and is quicker if you run NT or
2000.
What aboput Windows 3.1 ?
What I need to run are some old legacy apps ;-(
TIA,
Ron the Frog, sweltering on the
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a little bug in lillo and grub you have to add the line in lillo mem: 128mb
i think thats how it goes im sure someone will correct me, for some reason
lillo and grub will not detect over 64mb so this line was added to help
correct the reporting
My thanks to all who helped, Frankenstein has woken up again and is
working;
Took the MB that supported 4 banks of memory, put on it the fastest CPU,
and apart from a flaky cache RAM-stick and having to juggle PCI boards
around to get them to work, no problem.
I can now wade through 1200
Just when I have finally mastered Samba to network my Linux box with the
family's Windoze machines, my son has decided to migrate to Linux.
How do I remain networked with him ?
NFS ?
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River
--
The only thing necessary
Thanks to the kind and useful advice gratefully received from many listers,
I'm about to do a complete brain transplant;
I'll be back online as soon as Frankenstein wakes up again ;-)
Thanks again,
Ron the Frog, soaked under heavy storm on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
Another question, now that I'm commited to completely reassemble my desktop.
I have two HDs, one CD reader and a CD ROM writer.
Which is the best plan ?
Put both HDs on the same channel, and the CDs on the other, or put the HDs
as masters on each channel, and the CDs as slaves ?
TIA,
Ron the
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Can you use the 110 bogomip machine and swap its RAM with the 99.9 bogomip
one? What are the actual megahertz ratings and brands of the CPUs and
motherboards?
I cannot, because the 110 bm motherboard seems to have a fault, doe not
recognize
Downloaded and tried to install wine 2909 I
There isan unsatisfied dependency: rpmlib == 3.0.3-1
Searched both rpmfind.net and linux-mandrake.com for rpmlib, seems there is
no such thing.
Where should I look ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, puzzeld on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, TiGereYe wrote:
In otherwords...i would like to get a very simple installation
and then i can build on it with the softare that i need...can mandrake do
that? if not then is there a distro that does that but at the same time
supports rpm's?
Install in "Expert" mode, you
Sending again, first try seems to have fallen down a hole ;-(
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I have installed wine under Mandrake 7.1
when I run "wine sol" in Konsole, I get to play the Win95 solitaire game
But when I come out of the game, I get in
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Paul wrote:
I went to www.download.com, found the Linux section and searched for
'wordperfect'. And there it was.
Ta,
Ron.
--
The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on.
--- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Pungki wrote:
I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not
too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes,
please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ?
WP8 is NOT freeware.
I have
On Mon, 17 Nov 2036, Michael Scottaline wrote:
I use both and find both useful. For me SO does a better job of importing
complex M$ Word docs and keeping the formatting straight. WP8 is free for
download, and unlike its more recent update runs natively w/o wine.
Did youmanage to find a
Sorry I explained my problem badly:
I dont need to change the time-zone itself, but its definition file, since
the date when we go to summer time here in Paraguay seems to have changed.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We moved to Summer time last week-end, and since then my system clock (set
to GMT) gives me the wrong time.
I suspect the Paraguayan govt changed the time at a different date this
time.
Anyone know where to find the time-zone def files to correct this ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, iagoba wrote:
Lot of people asked me to give them that file , the file is very big,
bigger than i thought, more than 4 MB, if someone more want it, the ftp
site that u can download it is
Thanks a lot, downloading now !
Ron.
--
There is no
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, if it were as simple as that to get away from U.S. politics. -Gary-
In a message dated 9/30/2000 2:27:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm thinking about moving to Canada.
I moved to the depth of Darkest Paraguay,
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Paul wrote:
Just run /boot/grub/install.sh as root and Grub is back in town :)
Thanks,
Ron.
--
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
-- Publius Vergilius Maro
---
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let me know if anyone is interested in the entire article =)
Yes please,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
Always remember that you are unique.
Just like everyone else.
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
Oh ok, I wonder, is there a way I can create a "rescue" disc
in case I want to replace grub with Lilo in case it does not
co-operate?
I have the opposite problem: how can I re-install GRUB ?
It came as standard with my Mandrake 7.1 install, but was replaced by
***
WARNING, CAUTION, DANGER, AND BEWARE!
Gullibility Virus Spreading over the Internet!
***
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Institute for the Investigation of Irregular
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote:
I think if you go to www.download.cnet.com
Could you please confirm the url ? I get en error ;-(
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on.
Did you tell it to store the time as GMT ?
That could explain it !
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Philip Ferguson wrote: Hello.
I have a quick one for whoever is interested. How do I set the time? I
know I set my time zone
When I installed Mandrake 7.1, the boot manager installed by default was (I
think) Grub, which I like.
When I tried to oinstall Corel linux on another partition, I found myself
stuck with (a badly installed version of) Lilo.
How can I go back to Grub ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, celebrating Spring on
When I ran M7.0, the default action when clicking on a text file was to
open it with kedit.
With M7.1, the default is open it with kless.
(How) can one change this back to kedit ? (the line formatting of kless is
atricious ;-(
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrew Koepke wrote:
I've go a USR Courier V-everything internal modem. I had some problems with
setting it up, but finally got them resolved. In KPPP, the highest volume
setting doesn't work because the modem doesn't recognize the command for
setting that volume.
After completely re-installing my system, I cannot get the sound to work;
guess I dont remember what I did the first time to get it functioning ;-(
Plug and Pray Sound Blaster AWE card.
When I try to start kmix, I am told
"kmix:Could not open mixer,
Perhaps you do not have permission to
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Mark Thurston wrote:
I have a US Robotics 56K Sportster modem, it is about 3 years old so it is not a
winmodem.
This seems to me to be a hasty generalization;
I think that winmodems existed before 1997;
Any comment ?
Ron the Frog, swelteing under the winter sun on
John Rye, Paul and Boynblack wrote:
sndconfig as root from console.
I knew it ! I HAD forgotten something !
Many thanks from the sunny banks of the Paraguay River,
Ron the Frog.
--
If someone annoys you, just turn the other cheek.
Nothing gets the message
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (pardon me, I misplaced your real name),
How did you configure your voicemodem? Since yours and mine are very
similar, I would expect your solution to work for me too. My modem is a 3Com
/ USRobotics, 56K, ISA (I forgot
When I try to connect to an https (secure conection) url with the KFM
browser, I get an error message that
"The requested action
get https://securesomethingorother.html
is not implemented yet."
How can I access such sites ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
I don't think it currently can be done, legally that is. This is because the
developers of any DVD player must pay royalties to the DVD copyright owners
(I can't remember what the consortium's name is). This rules out the
possibility of a
All this rubbish just to send a "subscribe" message to the wrong adress ?
I understand why you want to move to Linux ;-)
Try sending in "text only", and to the adress
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "subscribe newbie" in the body of the message.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the
Thanks for the advice,
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River
--
Those of you who think you know everything
are very annoying to those of us who do.
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On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Jason Ashman wrote:
But, very few winmodems have linux drivers available. I suggest checking the
manufacturer's website or any other Linux driver site and see if a driver is
available. If not, fork up the bucks and get an external modem. It is a safe
assumption to say
I have just installed portsentry; the doc tells of various ways to run it,
portsentry -tcp (basic port-bound TCP mode)
portsentry -udp (basic port-bound UDP mode)
portsentry -stcp (Stealth TCP scan detection)
portsentry -atcp (Advanced TCP stealth scan detection)
portsentry -sudp ("Stealth" UDP
First, the off topic:
***
MORE OF AN AD THAN A SIGN, but...
A billboard seen next to the highway, travelling from
Johannesburg International Airport into town. An Ad for BMW
showing a photo of a BMW 328i convertible with the roof and all
the windows down.
The caption reads: Our
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Homoky, Mark MJ SSI-ISEC-34 wrote:
Is the pppd setup properly? Check to see that you have passed it the option
for "noauth" - otherwise it will fail as it doesn't receive the correct
authentication from your ISPs server (which shouldn't be happening). Adding
this option
I keep getting these; my log files shows the following:
pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1
local IP address 209.117.51.112
remote IP address 209.117.123.122
Hangup (SIGHUP)
Modem hangup
Connection terminated.
Connect time 0.9 minutes.
Sent 1905
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Goldenpi wrote:
One of the network programs I find useful under windows is direct cable
connection, which allows me to run file shareing between my two windows
computers. Now I would like to network linux and windows, but I have no
network cards, just a long serial cable.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone has any problems with the sort utility ? I just tried to
sort a file of about 3,100,000 lines and discovered after the sort that
about 1100 lines had been duplicated in the output file. The sort utility
under linux also does not
Hi all,
I'd like to add a penguin to my web page.
Could anyone point me toward a site where I could download such clip-art ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay Ruver.
--
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
I did a complete re-install of Samba, and it now works as a charm:
But I dont know why !
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
--
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities
will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly
Whenever I install a .RPM with kpackage, I find that my carefully /
tastefully crafted kpanel configuration has been returned to the
bog-standard original config.
I have found a kludge round this, making in /root a copy of
/usr/share/applnk/ and copying it back in /usr/share after using
I have not been able to find wether KMail uses Sendmail to process the
incoming and outgoing mail; does anyone know ?
I would like to know if putting the domain names of persistent spammers
in /etc/hosts.deny will help when using KMail.
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Mike,
It's talking about the .kde directory that is located in your /home
directory.
Which is normally invisible;
check the View = Show hidden files box in KFM, or
ls -A in console mode, to see it.
I have been had by this before! (dont follow me,
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Now, before you go off on me for not being hardcore
enough about linux let me say that I use linux because
I enjoy the challenge.
Has anyone ever studied the similarities between adventure gaming and
installing Linux ?
I find the one an excellent surrogate
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Darren Hall wrote:
It would be better if you actually researched something before you went
spouting off. You really have done an outstanding job at making yourself
look completely incompetant.
Could you please elaborate ?
Adrian's answer seems "competant" enough, and I
I have (had ?) somewhere on my Gates of Hell box a small utility that
allowed you to change the case of all files in a given directory, and could
recurse for all sub-dirs. Puts everything in Ucase, Lcase or even Lcase
with the first letter in Ucase.
chgcse25.zip
Contact me off-list if you
I've been trying to download a number of upgrades from:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/SRPMS/
When I try to open the .RPMs with kpackage (1.3.10) , it tells me that all
the files in the package are malformed.
I feel cheated !
Any idea ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the
Ive been sifting through the docs that came with both Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1,
but cannot seem to find anything on how to install a scanner;
Any pointers ?
Please ?
Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River.
--
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
Please turn HTML off for posting, it will make you easier to read.
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote:
!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"
html
Mark Weaver escribioacute;:
blockquote TYPE=CITEKmail and Netscape Messenger work real well for this.
p--
brMark
pnbsp; **
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Steve Weltman wrote:
I use IPChains...very effective, and there's a Mandrake GUI that can be used
as a front end if the user (like me) is command line shy.
How do you call the GUI (or: What is the name of the executable file) ?
TIA,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the
Now the Linux box is working, I am trying to install DOSEMU to use some DOS
progs I still need.
First surprise, could not find DOSEMU in the Mandrake 7.1 distro, had to go
back to the 7.0 to find it.
Installed the RPM, and I'm rather surprised that the doc (READMEs, HOWTOs)
do not seem in step
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