Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
Mandrake 9.2 install found the new onboard NIC, and then went on like nothin was amiss. If I had Windoze, I'd still be installing new drivers ;) The latest cooker 2.4.22 kernel has support for the Serial/ATA port, but I don't have a S/ATA drive to try out. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday August 11 2003 02:13 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:26 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) === underlined data is not shown for me. I added it. From the results you posted

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
good performance with a store bought ready made system, or a laptop. If ya can't/won't do it yourself, find a good trustworthy system builder to do it for you. If ya havt'a have a laptop, you're just SOL ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] 9.2 beta2

2003-08-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
kdebase and arts update just a few hours later. No XFree problems have been reported, so most likely X failing for you was/is a hardware and/or configuration problem. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode

2003-08-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday July 31 2003 01:30 pm, Aron Smith wrote: *** Whats Ranger ? http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 2.6-test kernel rpms available?

2003-07-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 29 2003 11:52 am, Jerry Barton wrote: Bottom line: 2.6 will be ready to use sometime early next year. I'd suggest you search and read the '2.6' discussion on the cooker ML archive. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Thanks Tom, I'll read up

Re: [newbie] 2.6-test kernel rpms available?

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
on the cooker ML archive. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Learning Linux on a Pentium ?

2003-07-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
/Mandrake-iso/i586/mandrake70-2.i486.iso (631 MB) ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-iso/i586/md5sums.mandrake70-2.i486 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Other Users Running?

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
09:43 11:05 2.17s 2.01s cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0 tom pts/4 11:130.00s 0.04s 0.01s w -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] C++ Compiler?

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
you did install. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Beta1

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
or on expert first. Most info you need is in the cooker howto (link above). If nothin else you'll gain some insight as to the release process. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Other Users Running?

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday July 23 2003 05:34 pm, Chris wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:14 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Using bash, simply type 'w' (w/o the quotes) EG, [tom /tom] $ w 11:13:22 up 17:07, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.22, 0.22 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT

Re: [newbie] broadband screws up dial up

2003-07-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
serial 56K). IOW, neither dialup or DSL would work if the other was left hooked up at all. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 6:16 pm, Frankie wrote: Try this in /etc/sysconfig/network Add this line: GATEWAYDEV=ppp0

Re: [newbie] interesting facts about kernel2.6

2003-07-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
will be touch an go for a while. 2.6 looks to be a /contrib option in 9.2 ... a test kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Easiest way to upgrade XFree?

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
/Mandrake-iso/i586 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R (SessionAtOnce, SAO is DiskAtOnce, DAO). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] 3 C's

2003-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/learninglinux.html Must reading, specially for those very new to Linux -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
this OT spoutin off by both sides. Take it to the Mandrake OT list where it belongs -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday July 9 2003 04:45 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Take it to the Mandrake OT list where it belongs Where do you sign up for the OT list? http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot It was begun sometime ago by Mark Weaver to give us a place

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
suggest rebuilding from src.rpms with 'rpm --rebuild --prefix=/usr' OTOH, you might just be fixin to really screw things up ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Reporting Missing rpm Dependencies for kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm

2003-07-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
increased IO and cpu voltages. For the most part, those using XP's and fast DDR ram timings, already experience this hardware performance increase without oc'ing. YMMV ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Reporting Missing rpm Dependencies for kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm

2003-07-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
Gentoo optimized for, and runnin on the same hardware. As, or more stable than Gentoo also. IIRC, it was a pclinuxonline project on AMD Athlon hardware, or at least it was covered by them. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] par archives

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
USEnet posters that all you needed was the pars, saved a lot of d/l'g. Wish that were true. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] par archives

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
, but then moved all the par files to a dir by themselves and tried par. I'm glad I now have a better understanding of what par can and can't do thanks to your link. Wish I'd stumbled on that one while Googling yesterday ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] par archives

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Works fine, but I think it's even easier to extract rar's using 'rar e file.part01.rar' on the CL ;) I did much the same with 'par', after building the binary in my home dir, I moved to /usr/bin/ to get it in my path, so I could call it anywhere more easily. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] par archives

2003-07-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
, aka The Skirt Not true in my experience, the Linux version is CL only, the Winsux version has a GUI, otherwise they're exactly the same. Their website says just the same. My problem was wishful thinking and misunderstanding. Todd and Julian set me on the right course ;) -- Tom

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
a good idea. I've since tested Tab on other apps besides 'cdrec' and it doesn't always work. So I guess I've learned somethin new ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] lost login configuration

2003-07-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 1 2003 09:36 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: On Tuesday 01 July 2003 07:56 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I managed to login as root, start kde and setup my user to automatically login to kde so I know it is still functional but I can't find the configuration utility to clean

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
twice doesn't work here! I gotta Esc ! What a strange feature... No you're right, I screwed up. Don't know why I wrote 'Esc twice', it's Esc! that works. Guess I've still got some learnin to do ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] par archives

2003-07-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
', but both tell me that all the .po's are OK, but all the rar's are missing. I've inferred that par files were supposed to contain the whole archived original file, save d/l'g by not needing all the rar parts, no? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] lost login configuration

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
or kdm fail. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 06:48 pm, Miark wrote: Tab doesn't work when the app follows man. Try 'man cdrecTab' and nuthin' will happen. Miark H it does here. Maybe because I'm runnin 9.2 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:47:51 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once, twice

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 1 2003 10:03 am, N. B. Day wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: Big snip - everybody agrees the odds are terrible Tom Brinkman: In Texas it use to be about 1:16million. Lately they've changed the lotto from pick 6 out of 50, match all 6 ... to pick 5

Re: [newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
/en/cookerdevel.php3 Caution tho, kernel won't be a problem, but do not try'n mix other cooker packages with older releases. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] quicktime

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
haven't tried it with other browsers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] neat trick: man completion

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
possibilities :-0 Once, twice w/wo the ! key, what'a y'all goin on about? the Tab key is used for auto completion, no? Well, OK, Esc twice works too, but why not just hit Tab once? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] root filesystem problems

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
, to somethin simple like ide cable(s) that need re-seating or replacing. IOW's the reason can be many and/or varied, but boil down to user (including choices), or hardware. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
set all the time. Specially if they would'a won the one time you forgot to play 'em ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 04:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 30 Jun 2003 8:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 30 2003 11:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I saw you got an answer, now don't bet on it like I infer you're fixin too ;) A knowledge, even intuitively, of random

Re: [newbie] Command error

2003-06-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
/anne/TreePad/ /Data/Backup/TreePad/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Command error

2003-06-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday June 25 2003 08:15 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt /Data/Backup/TreePad/ cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt

Re: [newbie] What software is used to burn, or extract the content of, .bin/.cue files

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 11:40 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Espanol es muy facil comprender Uno mas cerveza? Betch'a understand that, probly some swear words and insults too ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 05:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 23 2003 02:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk installed Every time I shut down I get error message, /etc/rc0.d/k971_ ?line 73 error, too few arguments. here

Re: [newbie] What software is used to burn, or extract the content of, .bin/.cue files

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
is fatally flawed, wouldn't go near it). I haven't used simplecdrx yet, tho I burned several CD's todays usin 'bdcd' and 'bacd' on the CL. Doesn't get any simpler or better than that ;p -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
is only from PCI's theoretical 133mb/sec, to 200mb/sec. Real world sustained transfers are at best half the theoretical rate, usually much less than half. The PCI bus has other duties besides handling all ide connections. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
a space, ie, i=`expr $modules` -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
better. You can use all of 'em with SMART disabled in bios. One is hddtemp, hddtemp-0.3-0.beta4.2mdk (that's cooker, but I believe it's available for older Mandrake versions). Reads HDD temp from SMART capable drives, without SMART bios B$ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
mplayer and it's supporting Mandrake rpms. You didn't say what you wanna play, but it won't hurt to get everything. Then you can play anything ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Configuring Ethenet LAN card

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
by replying but just changing the subject. Not very well tolerated, akin to usin html, an most won't help you. Also you need to say what Mandrake version and what hardware (card an system), any other pertinent info. So try again ;) Next time with your own post -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 05:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jun 2003 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ Surely it's

Re: [newbie] sensors

2003-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 23 2003 04:46 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's NBFD, just ignore it. One I haven't seen before. Google thought it was the New Boston Fire Department, but http://www.kelseypub.com/irc/abbrev.shtml put me straight. Like

Re: [newbie] hard drive partition sizes

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
. When I mentioned a few minor gremlins (sorry, don't remember what they were), that's when civileme advised to use a separate /boot and make it ext2 or 3, when using journaling FS's. You might consider doin the same next time you install. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] hard drive partition sizes

2003-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
is used. Most people would only need about a 20mb /boot. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Issues with RAM

2003-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
usin the regular kernel and limiting ram to 860. OTOH, I doubt you'll ever need more than 512 anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2003-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Actually I'm surprised you got as far as you did with it set to CS -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] hard drive partition sizes

2003-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
installed. Reboot. Even tho there might be nothin wrong with the kernel, this will fix /boot and get the links properly pointing again. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] video editing

2003-06-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
the edges. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
or not. You'll be better off runnin cooker, then messin up your system with them ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
-to-idiot-proof instructions (as does its help files) on burning images (.iso's the like) to CD. Use that. Roxio I don't Never will use so don't ask me about it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
are another, any OS. As has already been suggested, check the md5sum of the iso before, and the CD after burning. If those check, and the CD won't boot, most likely it's a hardware or configuration problem. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
. A lot of this due to improperly packaged rpms, not urpmi. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
with the kernel, and then uninstalled shorewall. You should be able to 'rpm -ivh --nodeps 2.4.21-0.18mmTab' or use --force. I use guarddog, and soon after shorewall was installed it made my DSL connection blocked up jelly tight, can't go anywhere. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
kstars. If it's not on your CD's you can get it from a 9.1 mirror. Match your kde 3.x.x version tho, if you've upgraded kde. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[7]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
for long command lines. Probly be a good idea to read the various Bash how-to's. Also do a Google on 'linux bash', there's many good tutorials on the Net. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 08:47 am, Chris wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:06 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: to find out if your board uses a contact probe, or reads a cpu pin. Try runnin 'sensors-detect' again after lookin in bios and writing down the values you see there for voltages, fans

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
temp down some, or clean the cpu's fan/heatsink. I'm lazy, I just run the A/C a little lower ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
with java, Mandrake rpm, j2re-1.4.1_01-5mdk, install it, nothin else needs to be done. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Start up: hijacked to sigs

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
right away, discarded that reply, and then hi-lited the text, then clicked reply. NBFD. And Charles as always is correct. I had forgotten the internet standard is 'dash, dash, space' proceeding a sig. My only defense is Kmail does it correctly for me ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
-to for creating a swap file. Not as efficient as a /swap partition tho. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[5]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday June 12 2003 01:27 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:54:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 'kill -9' all the relevant pid's. (alias wpid='ps aux | grep') or my favourite, kill `pidof appname`... you gotta do it as root, but it will kill all instances

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
separated from the mesg body by the hyphens, then it's your email client that has a bad design. Kmail properly and automatically adds the hyphens before the sig. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: Re[5]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
back to top, and it's still there. Any idea why? Usually I start with a 'killall app-name' If that doesn't get it done I run 'wpid app-name' to get the pid(s) and then 'kill -9' all the relevant pid's. (alias wpid='ps aux | grep') -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
footer attached yet! I win! yaaahoo! Tm was wroong... Yeah, I guess I was, I forgot about the mandrake footer -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] windowmaker dock app to lock workstation?

2003-06-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 07:46 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Sorry Tom you are a Texan no social climbing allowed On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 17:18, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday June 10 2003 06:52 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Okie dokie we can take up a collection for your lobotoby then you can be a smart

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 9 2003 04:33 pm, Cody Harris wrote: Hows this? X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 | | Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--=_1055194127-2727-823 Which means it Windoze RTF, and not plain text. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 07:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 05:11 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It'll probly never go to 64 even if it set higher. Set aperature to 4mb and it effectively disables sidebanding. Often that cures many AGP problems. Tom, I went and googlized

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 02:26 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:20:01 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--=_1055194127-2727-823 Which means it Windoze RTF

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
start buggin 'em, instead of just acceptin closed source drivers, we'd likely get better support. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] windowmaker dock app to lock workstation?

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
: Joe I'm gonna start putting you in stephens folder eg. smart_assed _aussie alas, I will never measure up, I'm Canadian... :( -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
releases. One of the rare times cooker is suitable in this regard. Latest is 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk on cooker /contrib (RPM2) mirrors. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
and it effectively disables sidebanding. Often that cures many AGP problems. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mini ITX form factor

2003-06-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
due to dated design and inadequate L caches. It's really only the old Cyrix cpu with VIA's name tacked on. You might wanna do a lot more checking before goin for one of these systems, specially for multimedia use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
, mate. Alright you, where's the real Stephen an what did you do to 'em? You can't post logical stuff to this list an try'n pretend you're Stephen. I'm wise to ya bub ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] lm-sensors

2003-06-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
modprobe eeprom modprobe via686a -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CAUTION with linuxconf

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
about moving linuxconf to /contribs (ie, no longer supported), or dropping it altogether. I agree with your assessment of linuxconf Robin, and rikona's warning. Mandrake's drake* tools are much more capable and safer to use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [newbie] lm-sensors

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
, it's almost a given the motherboard/bios doesn't support it. All lm_sensors does is read the monitoring the bios is doin from the i2c bus on the motherboard. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

2003-06-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
an reseated. Run memtest86 overnite to possibly eliminate the ram. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2003-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
/dev/hd?' where ? is the drive letter for your cdrom. Also post your /etc/fstab line for your cdrom. Please copy'n paste both, so we can avoid typos. It might be a good idea to attach /var/log/dmesg (about 8k so it shouldn't ruffle too many feathers ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
them and their issues on the cooker list. A search of the cooker archive is my best idea. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav

2003-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
it, and configure it where to write the wav's to. FWIW, I created /home/tom/wav/ and write the wav's to there. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
for all the features, particularly integrated, that various boards offer. For that you'll havt'a ask around, here or on Google. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
record. Stayin just behind the bleeding edge is a lot cheaper. BIOS versions are more likely to have been updated and matured. Same for Linux drivers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
, unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf I think archiver can use unrar too,I just prefer File Roller for this task. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
thing to look up the process and remember that goofy phrase ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] testing mozilla mail for HTML.

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
of the list. You'll be able to check the results a lot quicker ;) Usually within seconds. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
challenge left is to find _all_ the parts ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
/dev/hd?' that it doesn't already show 'using_dma' as =1 (on). Bottom line is CD drives are notoriously slow, no matter the spin rate advertised. CD-RW's make better readers than plain CDrom drives. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
a great how-to, and many disdain CL burning anyhow. So I decline. Many others have similar, probly better ideas. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
$oft, and help out the folks at kernel.org with some better cooperation. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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