Re: [newbie] Personal Security Manager (PSM)

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
that believes only M$ IE 4.0 is secure. Well, I don't really think they believe that, but that's what M$ tells 'em to say ; FWIW, I've never had any problems usin Mozilla on bank and credit card sites, and I like the auto complete of user/ password. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
Duron and usin that till the 2200+ price and availability improves. Any Soyo board is a good one ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
ISO's over a = 56k connection ;) all the above are on your Cd's if not already installed -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
setting for numlock enable/disable. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
) to quickly disappear unless I move the pointer down there. That is after I've removed most of the icons that a default install puts on it, and sized it to 'tiny'. I'm not alone, there's many of us in this cult (any OS) that don't like a bunch of useless cr@p on their screen ;~ -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
deal is actually a lot simpler ... the system just crashes ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
summary is he favors XFS. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
Compupic (free for private use). BUT, besides the fact that you should always avoid introducing closed source proprietary software or drivers, as much as possible, onto your system ... Compupic's a real memory/cpu hog. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
to see if you should turn off other unwanted or unneeded ones. There's a list of services and what they do at mandrakeuser.org -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vs whatever

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
die by #3 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
;) Betch'a Quaylar figured I was just playin' BTW, I believe my great great great grandparents are from Austria. Sort'a kind'a German, French, et al Can't spell it but it sounds somethin like Alsainse-Loraine (This is one'a the best threads we've had in a long time) -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
it by credit card. But, if y'all really just don't want to, then please send a contributon by snail mail. Otherwise you'll probly end up runnin RedHat . maybe even worse, M$ Linux paid for on a $ub$cription basis ;~ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
(Mandrake doesn't make much, the middle men do) is to buy Mandrake in a store like Wal*Mart or Best Buy, or other retail outlet. Otherwise you'll probly end up runnin RedHat . maybe even worse, M$ Linux paid for on a $ub$cription basis. _Seriously_ -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
, not quite tho, still a little too chilly ;) Thought y'all were havin summer Down Under ? Since spring starts here in a few days... y'all fixin to do autumn ? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] cd-rw thoughts?

2002-03-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
there. It's actually easier than usin a GUI. alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0' /path/to/CD.iso All I got'a do is type 'biso' and paste in the iso I want to burn. Quick and simple, no coasters ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it somthing else

2002-03-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
or is it somthing else ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?

2002-03-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
in a week or so) on max overclocked hardware with zip problems for several months .. Well, there are some, but they usually most always boil down to the interface between my keyboard, mouse, and chair ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
see a linear improvement in CPUmark99 scores. IE, since my 1.4 is ~11% oc'd, I see a 11% increase in CPUmarks. Cpumark is a Winblows test, but it runs equally well under Linux with wine. Video card performance should also scale linearly with cpu oc. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17.17mdk

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:12 am, shane wrote: i should know this, but what is the remove switch? anything special to remove a bad kernel? i have about 6 now and only two that are worth keeping :-) On Wednesday 06 March 2002 06:38, Tom Brinkman opened a hailing frequency

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade Problem

2002-02-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
/index.html#ku for a better understanding of what you did wrong. I suggest you read 'em all, but particularly 'Page Four (Troubleshooting)' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] HTP370 raid controller

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
your mind about considerin a win-fake-raid motherboard. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Various questions

2002-02-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 02 February 2002 02:18 pm, marvin wrote: If you do upgrade to 2.2.2, I suggest usin Texstar's rpms. http://www.pclinuxonline.com I used these with 8.1. I'm now usin Mandrake's that come with 8.2 (on 8.2b1). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] /opt and /initrd directories

2002-02-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
, (mkinitrd) Don't remove this directory, it's needed at boot time, in the initrd, to perform the pivot_root. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Harddrack

2002-02-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
properly, paste the error messages into an email and post that to the list. Depending on your hardware, it could be that the detection process is just taking a long time, so be patient. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Various questions

2002-02-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
that come with 8.2 (on 8.2b1). 3) Anyone have a HP OJ R40xi and have scanning successfully working ? I don't have one. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Where to submit bugs?

2002-02-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:57 am, Joan Tur wrote: Who can I send info about bugs i've found in 8.2b1? Thanks! Mandrake forum has an article listing various ways http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1606mode=threadorder=0thold=0 -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] kernel

2002-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
patches, and often have already fixed issues with vanilla source kernels. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 and Mandrake 8.2

2002-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:16 pm, Miark wrote: - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nope. I mean I dunno, an' I've been usin 8.2 most all this year ;) Still don't have a clue ; My best guess, is kde2.2.2,.. 2.2.17, maybe 2.2.18 kernel, That would

Re: [newbie] Swap Partititon

2002-01-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
also re-compiled again, trimming out stuff I don't use (ie, smaller, lighter kernel), now it's about as quick as Mandrake's default i586, and I'm to lazy to switch back to the 'regular' Mandrake 2.4.17-6mdk ;~ - Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 and Mandrake 8.2

2002-01-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
problems installin 8.1 on your hardware ... 8.2 might convince you it's probly a user or hardware problem. Conversely, expect the '8.2 sux, I'm goin back to 8.1' posts to start shortly. (Sorry, couldn't resist ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy

Re: [newbie] panel behaviour in KDE

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
. If they're enabled, disable them for a while (several login/outs of KDE), then enable them again and see if that doesn't straighten things out for you. I was sooo glad when KDE added this option 'cause I can't stand those damn irritating distractions ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Problem with plugins

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
for 8.0, you can install the flash files in the directories indicated in the 'about:plugins' entries above, following the instructions in package you d/l'd. Should fix it for ya. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] which kernel should I run LM 8.1

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
for developer discussions, not support or non-development comments. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] boot disk doesn't work

2002-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
-26mdk (duh), which is NOT an .img file. mkinitrd /boot/[initrd image] [new kernel version] mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk.img 2.4.8-26mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Wine Question

2002-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
provides xmessage. I've got X11R6-contrib-3.3.6-18mdk and codeweavers-wine-20011108-5 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] problem with chicken or egg dependencies problem (or so it seems)

2002-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
, at least for GConf, recent are (note that the version numbers match) libGConf1-1.0.7-2mdk GConf-1.0.7-2mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
, keep in mind that due to demand, ACFs now have long waiting lists. WebTV AOL users alone will take years to absorb. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
it in, and it had Linux on it! reinstallzheimers, In Texas we jus' call it 'sometimers' 'course that applies to just about everything Btw, I'm still waiting for my refund from MS. You still holdin your breath too ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 12 January 2002 12:22 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: At 11:39 AM 1/12/02 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? This originated on the SatireWire site several months ago

Re: [newbie] can we play cracked games with the new wine

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
) airplanes ; with no M$ CD in the drive ;~ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] KMail Email Backup

2002-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
, and /home/user/.kde/share/config/kmailrc. I don't bother with savin my address book, I re-create it from my sent mail, reply, and another Kmail folder I made, stor, folders. Good opportunity to clean it out, only takes a minute ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi

Re: [newbie] Re: Linux distro

2002-01-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Tom, Thanks very much! Some followups -- what value did you declare, how did you describe the contents, and, to your knowledge, did your declarations and descriptions cause any problems for the addressee? Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
of the listings should be alias which='type -path' --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
this was probly a security update --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT: OpenBios?

2001-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
also be a major obstacle. To me, their reference to using dosemu to flash is less than confidence inspiring also. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How long to wait???

2001-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
. In these cases it's a good idea to subtract one MB, append = mem=127M 'Couse if onboard video is used, that ram should also be subtracted. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Segmentation+misc. install errors ?

2001-12-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
AMD's failure spec for your proccessor. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
is currently included, but probly won't be as soon as Mozilla reaches version 1.0. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Themes and Window Managers (was Re: [newbie] Unable to install: Kernel Panic)

2001-12-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 10:40 am, Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:19:39 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Penguin Liberation Front http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ Texstar http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3 logo

2001-12-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
in kde2 apps (like kmail) as kde 3 is gonna corrupt some kde2 stuff and configs, even tho you (like I did), put it in /opt. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Themes and Window Managers (was Re: [newbie] Unable to install: Kernel Panic)

2001-12-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
under the Control Center | Look'n Feel options. Like most, I really like Liquid, but I use it with System++ decorations and different colors. --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Can someone explain to me how to.................

2001-12-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Thanks in advance, Mithrilhall ... then holler back, we're here to help (most of the time ;) Merry Christmas, --   Tom Brinkman     Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?

2001-12-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
with Intel cpu's. It's also why they only give lip service to providin an OS other than Windoze. It's called WinTel, low quality components and even non-hardware that Windoze can run, sort'a kind'a. So no, Mandrake didn't kill your mobo, Dell and Gates did. .. YMMV --   Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
and upgrading (cooker), so my figures might be somewhat skewed ; Civileme, I believe bases his overview on actual statistics. An I'm sort'a inclined to agree with 'em, even tho I hate to admit that 93% of the screwups are due to the user 'cause that's me ;) --   Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] StarOffice FYI

2001-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:11 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Just picked this link up and knew it would be of interest. Sun Considers Charging for StarOffice http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D1884%2526a%253D19928,00.asp but there's http://www.openoffice.org/ --

Re: [newbie] clipboard

2001-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 14 December 2001 11:57 am, Randy Donohoe wrote: Is there a clipboard feature in the download edition of 8.1? I've looked everywhere but I can't find it. TIA, Randy Donohoe Do you use X-windows, and if so what manager? XFree86 provides 'xclipboard' and KDE (kdebase) provides

Re: [newbie] clipboard

2001-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 14 December 2001 05:43 pm, Randy wrote: Use of copying, cutting and pasting should be automatic, or if your WM provides a FE like klipper, you can click on it's icon on the panel to get the last half dozen items copied to the clipboard. Using KDE, but I can't get it to come

Re: [newbie] linux networking- HTML

2001-12-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 14 December 2001 05:43 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: OK, at least with Evolution I can read html email. But you will notice how many people (rightly) complained. Yes, HTML has been contrary to acceptable Netiquette practices since it was invented, for many reasons. OTOH, Kmail, and

[newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:13 am, Mark Weaver wrote: O gawd! Tom...does that mean if I want to remain a good, faithful american that I have to get rid of my Mandrake computers? for that matter all my Linux computers?? I don't feel so good all of a sudden... ;( Mark Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Pentium 4 mishaps.

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:57 pm, Harm Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:09, you wrote:  I swear: I will never purchase anything from Intel again if there's an AMD option available!!     Easy now Harm, lately AMD is the better choice, granted. Not too long ago Intel

Re: [newbie] ripperX proHi,blems

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 December 2001 09:11 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a long time since I used ripperX, as I've settled on Grip as a better front end. Both are just FE's for cdparanoia and the mp3 encoder of your choice (ought'a be, notlame-3.90

Re: [newbie] Upgrade File Location?

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 December 2001 09:25 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2001 09:31, you wrote: Do you mean MandrakeFreq? Randy Kramer Dennis Myers wrote: Ok, I give up, where is the file that has the upgrades or updates from Mandrake Control Center. I've been to archives,

Re: [newbie] conflict between USR modem and Com 2?

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 December 2001 02:44 pm, Richard Wenninger wrote: cat is short for catolog like the type command in dos, it just shows it I thought cat was for concatenate. I'm with you Richard. BTW, I like using 'less' better Back to the original topic tho. Yes, USR invented

Re: [newbie] Whereis latest kernel?

2001-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 December 2001 08:59 pm, Terry Smith wrote: I know some of you have upgraded to the latest kernel (2.4.13?). Where are you finding the rpm's. I don't see them on the Cooker mirrors. TIA. Terry Smith Your question brings up other cautions. From the list of mirrors

Re: [newbie] Security

2001-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] killing a connection

2001-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
)' will definitely kill 'em. Only caveat is you must be the user that started the process ... or root. -- Tom BrinkmanSouth Texas, USA You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] ripperX proHi,blems

2001-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:28 pm, joe wrote: I can't get ripperX to create mp3 files. I am working backwards and can create the WAV files but when I try to create mp3 direct from the audio cd I end up with a 0K file...even though ripperX reports completing the job satisfactorily... joe

Re: [newbie] Pentium 4 mishaps.

2001-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 December 2001 07:27 pm, Harm Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, Just to share my experiences. I acquired a Pentium4 chipset and ditto motherboard (Intel D845WN). You have my sympathies on both, mostly the mobo I swear: I will never purchase anything from Intel again if there's an AMD

Re: [newbie] install help

2001-12-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
it the correct location for includes. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java- root(kit)

2001-12-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
not aware that M$ products can't be secured, but naively think they are or can be. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22614.html --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
on a daily basis ... whether mitigated or not. Introducing closed source binary only drivers or software into a an open source system leaves you with only a false sense of security. You'll never know what potential security exploits are contained in them. --   Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom

2001-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
argument Just what the error mesg says, you didn't provide an 'argument' (not to be confused with what we do on the list ;) eject /dev/cdrom '/dev/cdrom/' is the missing argument --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
reasons you should NEVER use Windoze to connect at all. In both situations, anybody has root capabilities. Even worse is the idea of d/l'g and installing while connected as root. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
the issue altogether and install everything in one big / . You could do this on hda7 and keep hda5 for storing backups of /home and other stuff. Good setup for a single user desktop. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
does make sense on a multi user or server system. Mostly for security concerns which aren't valid on a single user system. Again, YMMV --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 3D support for SIS 300/305 AGP 16 meg video card?

2001-11-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
from a level 3 prompt. I've never had the problem, but I've talked to some people with Crystal chips, and it worked for them. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] do I need AMD Kernel

2001-11-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
compatible. You could recompile the kernel for i686 or Athlon optimizations but you won't recieve any benefits, might even lose some. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
-11mdk.i586.rpm' Just betch'a it'll work flawlessly ;) --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cooker and urpmi probelms

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Everything else is just GNU (hopefully) software, and some pretend files (eg, /proc, /dev) that it interacts with and runs. Sort'a hard to keep your pickup doin 70 mph while you're changin motors ;) --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA On Thursday, November

Re: [newbie] wassup with the texstar files, then?

2001-11-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
runtime with a faster algorithm than is normally used before the start of the program begins, ie, main() [probly more descriptive than accurate] the real story is here http://www.research.att.com/~leonb/objprelink/ --   Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:38 am, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Update to a Mandrake 2.4.13 kernel, upgrade initscripts and iptables (I used the cooker src.rpms), 'supermount -i enable', 'mount -a' Guess I might have to do this - supermount on 8.1 is now giving me IO error

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
hwclock --systohc You'll probly need to install rdate, it's on your CD's. You'll also need to find a public time server in your time zone (Google). --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
products. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA AND, This thing sits behind a linux masq box with a very tight firewall (BASICALLY NO SERVICES OPEN. AND NO ICMP) and it also retrieves its mail from another linux box running postfix that scans all incoming and outgoing mail

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:21 am, Robin Turner wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Would the supermount problems in 8.1 affect a box with only a floppy drive (i.e. no CDROM, backup media etc.)? Should affect any removable media drive, so yes. So what exactly is the problem? Robin

Re: [newbie] mplayer error

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:50 am, skidley wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'seems fine' ...I don't think so you just haven't discovered all that you just broke ... yet ; http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker Ok but everything works fine

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:12 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: The 'old' supermount became incompatible with newer 2.4.x kernels. To the point (IIRC) it was completely broken by 2.4.6. So the Mandrake developers completely rewrote supermount to work with the new

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
they seem ridiculous to me ;) If you use a 2.4.13-11mdk or later kernel you'll also need to upgrade glibc to the latest cooker if you want to install source/headers, as kernel headers are now supplied with glibc (ie, no more kernel-headers rpms). --   Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] mplayer error

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
better, better than 2.95. BUT, in my experience, compiling from src, mplayer sucks (./configure --disable-gcc-checking). Usin a Mandrake rpm, it's great, works better than avifile. http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
on a daily basis ... mostly you'll be weeks, even months and years behind Jeez, in a perfect world, Winblows users wouldn't be allowed to connect. ... there ought'a be a law --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] mplayer error

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
me which packages I would need? 'wprv' is an alias I use in bashrc alias wprv=rpm -q --whatprovides Saves a lot'a typin ; Otherwise, entering any of these deps in rpmfinds search engine will give you BIG clues ; http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ --   Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
, has no place on this list ... an since I rarely comment on such, I'm sign' off on this subject. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] galeon

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
] URL : http://galeon.sourceforge.net Moz 9.6 isn't an' improvement for me. Galeon is a 'not quite ready for prime time' browser IMO. Konq, even Mozilla is way better. __   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] mplayer error

2001-11-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
. What fs (ext2, DOS)are you using? and what does your floppy fstab line look like? --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 I got that line from a Mandrake developers post on the cooker ML, you might wanna try it. There should be a comma after auto, BTW. Supermount is optional, but works flawlessly for me ;) --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Search Files Name

2001-11-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
', (and 'updatedb') locate can find Windoze files too. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?

2001-11-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
the source and header rpms for it in case I might need 'em. --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?

2001-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:31 am, Mitchell, Edmund wrote: So I thought I'd be all Tom Brinkman-like, and get the latest kernel. :) Did an rpm -Uvh --test, and it says iptables = 1.2.4-1 conflicts with the 2.4.13 kernel. Don't use -Uvh to install a kernel, only use -ivh You will need

Re: [newbie] Proper rpm procedure for cross-dependency?

2001-11-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
on the cooker list warrants, try again. Easy to do with rpms ; --   Tom Brinkman            Galveston Bay, USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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