Se si utilizzano prodotti sco e come nel mio caso sviluppo per alcune
aziende software in cobol non ho la compatibilità e quindi non riesco ad
utilizzarli. Con questo modulo che ora è sparito non avevo alcun problema.
Ciao e grazie
Pier Antonio
- Original Message -
From: Di Matteo G
Ciao a tutti e viva linux.
Il mio unico problema, con Mandrake 7.2, è che non riesco a configurare la
connessione Internet con un modem chippato Rockwell installato su COM1.
La configurazione non trova il modem su nessuna porta; devo fare qualcosa di
particolare ?
Ciao! Vorrei esportare le impostazioni di Netscape (impostazioni posta,
bookmarks, addresbook) da un utente a un altro; ho incontrarto alcune
difficoltà; cosa dovrei fare, esattamente?
Corrado
Hiya,
If i put a cdrom in the drive that the computer can read from, ie a
scratched or dirty disk, the computer just keeps trying to read and will
not let me take the cd out of the drive. I cant unmount it or eject it
using the 'eject' command. Any other way to get the bugger out?
Also, why
Hi
I have just downloaded Mandrake Freq 20010619 and installed mozilla
0.9.1 from these CD's. (Uninstalled 0.8.x first)
Now the spell checker in message composition is missing.
I messed around with aspell/pspell to try and get spelling to work in
Evolution, so if mozilla uses that the spelling
Hi Jamie,
No!! We are not fed of you. Afterall, isn't a mailinglist here for you to
ask questions??
To answer your problem, what colour depth are you running Tuxracer from??
Here at school, (I have finished my A-levels and have some spare time :-)) I
am having to run tuxracer in 16bit, because
As far as market share goes, I think you'd have to take FreeBSD out of that list.
FreeBSD is the ISP UNIX. It's a downsized UNIX, but still a step above Linux. I
don't
know of anybody personally that's using FreeBSD as a desktop/workstation (Meanwhile I
do
have a FreeBSD server at home.) and
I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to
get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root
account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being
logged in as root??
I think that this depends a lot on the work that
I agree with Paul. It all depends on what you do with your Linux box.
Myself, I'm an admin amongst many other things. I write scripts, I test
software, as well as fixing other things that don't require root access,
or another kind of access.
Even when I'm doing something that does require
Tim wrote:
Even when I'm doing something that does require root access, I may edit
the file as another user, then as root go in and paste in my edits, or
quickly su to root, do what I have to do and then log off as root.
That latter is how I manage my box also. There's a bunch of xterms open
At this time I see no objective reason for splitting up
Microsoft ... what purpose will it serve? And why is Bill Gates
so dead-set against it? What's the threat? Is it just a
comfort-level thing? A nuisance change that he's concerned
about? Or is it a huge threat to their monopoly? In fact, the
Hello,
Perhaps I can join in the conversation??
Before I switched enitrely over to Linux, I installed Linux from my windows
partition, using the dos based program Ranish Partition Manager.
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
Then I created two partitions, one was the Native Linux
Under the Section 'Modules', type: Load glx
then under the Section 'Device', change nv to nvidia
Then go to http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A and download the
nv_check.sh file. Run it in a terminal (by typing: sh nv_check.sh) to help
identify those mesa files you should
Dear List,
Thank you all for your replies. I must admit, that I was not very clear with
my question. I knew all about the command su and groups and all, but I
just wanted to know, a quick way of getting around the permissions.
I think this would mean either:
everyone is root
or
install
At 09.11 29/06/01, you wrote:
(Of course I must say that for the record, konqueror is still my fav a
You have got to try Opera. That is the creme-de-la-crop web browser for
Linux.
Opera is very good indeed. I use it as my default browser. But I do have
to resort to Netscape for webmail
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a laptop which has a
CD-RW/DVD drive. Does 8.0 have any rpms already in it
or do I have to install them separately? What is the
name of the rpm?
Thanks
Ravi
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I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I
have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with
me not knowing how to setup my access properly.
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001
Hello!
I'd like to restore Gnome to its original settings after intallation;
haow can I do it?
Thanks,
Corrado
I tried to export all Netscape settings (mail, bookmarks, address book,
etc.) to another user, consequently changing directories proprietary;
that worked for Licq and X-Chat, but something's gone wrong with
Netscape; any suggestion on how can I do it?
Corrado
In a message dated 6/29/2001 9:57:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Start Gnome holding down the Ctrl Shift keys simultaneously...that's it!
Mike
Hello!
I'd like to restore Gnome to its original settings after intallation;
haow can I do it?
Thanks,
Corrado
Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the wheel mouse during
the install and disappears off the screen for about 60 seconds, during which
time you have to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up?
I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I
have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with
me not knowing how to setup my access properly.
What are all these pressing things then, that you constantly need root
access for? If I have to
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a laptop which has a
CD-RW/DVD drive. Does 8.0 have any rpms already in it
or do I have to install them separately? What is the
name of the rpm?
Depending on your install, Xcdroast, Gcombust, GToaster or one of these
should already be installed. If you can't
I'm spending most of my time installing the system, installing RPMs, and
configuring files I can't figure out how to install an RPM as myself, is
that possible?
-Original Message-
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:08 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Friday 29 June 2001 10:05, Mark Johnson wrote:
Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the
wheel mouse during the install and disappears off the
screen for about 60 seconds, during which time you have
to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up?
/me thinks you're
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:47 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote:
Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the wheel mouse during
the install and disappears off the screen for about 60 seconds, during which
time you have to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up?
Yup. As
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:38:39 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote:
I'm spending most of my time installing the system, installing RPMs, and
configuring files I can't figure out how to install an RPM as myself, is
that possible?
This is also security related. Root is the only one on a system
Must be a bug in the cdrecord version on the Mandrake 8.0 cds. I went to
rpmfind.net and downloaded the latest version of cdrecord (1.10-1),
uninstalled the original version and installed the new version.
Now my cdburner works fine!
On Thursday 28 June 2001 11:59 pm, you wrote:
I just installed the kernel and the GLX and this is what happened, I got
the following message, what I'm wondering is if I should be concerned about
this, as well, I'm wondering what I should change in my XF86Config-4 file,
but that I'll paste
Hi, and sorry for the long email.
Let me start with a summary:
1) I've had the computer reboot into console without any error
messages and then I couldn't log on!!!
I tried as root and as a user on tty1, tty2, tty4, tty6 and then I
gave up, resorted to the sysrq sequence and I had no
I have my machine set up to dual boot NT and Linux Mandrake 8.0 (2
seperate hard drives).
While trying to configure my eval version of VMWare, I saw you could access
your NT drive (hda) for the guest OS.
What configuration choices do I want to use? My choices listed are below,
with the
Hello,
I connect to the internet using a modem, and I also connect to our local network via
ethernet. When I was installing LM-8 I did not want to set up the modem at the time,
so I let the installer set up my ethernet card as internet connection. Later after the
install was compleat, and I
Dan,
If your computer has one processor, then you want the uni processor RPM.
Only if you have a dual-processor will you want the SMP.
Miark
- Original Message -
From: Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
I found your post very interesting. Here is my 2 cents if you don't mind an
outside opinion.
First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was
on the bottom and looking like it wanted a bullet to put it out of its
misery. My first PC was a HP7170 Pavilion. I was amazed
In short, I agreee.
-Original Message-
From: PENA FAMILY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] curious
I enjoy Linux and I have spent hours learning and playing with it, but
frankly and with all due
I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on the
car analogy is like this
Windows is the average car which the vast majority drives and get from point
A to point B. There are lemons depending on everything from quality and
price but they get the larger slice of
Travel GZ wrote:
Hi,
Now that I see it is possible to burn CDs using
Mandrake, is it possible with version 8 to burn using
a USB burner?
Hi,
check out this site:
http://www.linux-usb.org/
-Frans
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:58:00 -0700 when PENA FAMILY wrote:
I wonder do those who prefer command line will ever move
to a GUI or do they just stay in a command line enviroment within a UNIX
platform since thats all they want?
Oh, I run a GUI. It's called XFCE. But when you're used to, for
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca
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i _am_ jealous of your new machine 1.4gig. i can hear more than one Tim
Taylor grunt right now!
sounds sweet!
moose.
On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:48, you wrote:
Rita:
I
Daho,
There are quite a few reasons to choose some type of *nix box over windows
2000.
#1. Less of a cost involved for software, including the operating system.
#2. The ability to not have to buy per-user licensing to cover database
connections (since mysql / postgresql are both essentially
I really love Konqueror, stable, fast enough,
but how do I get the java to work?
I can't seem to figure out where to tell it to find java,
although I have /usr/bin/java on my system, it does
not seem to want to load and run any java apps.
Should I install another kind of Java somewhere on here?
I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this way.
I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS. Has
anyone had any luck with getting this logitech to work. Thanks
Will
Hello again everyone
I amSTILL trying to install from hard
drive. After creating a native linux partition and booting with a boot
disk (hd.img), I selected install to own partition (linux native
partition). All goes well for a while and then an error message comes
up:
Error
An error
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, William Hughes wrote:
:)I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this way.
:)I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS. Has
:)anyone had any luck with getting this logitech to work. Thanks
:)
:)
:)Will
:)
I just
On Friday 29 June 2001 20:57, you wrote:
I really love Konqueror, stable, fast enough,
but how do I get the java to work?
I can't seem to figure out where to tell it to find java,
although I have /usr/bin/java on my system, it does
not seem to want to load and run any java apps.
Should I
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:57, tazmun wrote:
Hi Romanator,
I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install
any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion
?.
Yes how do we mount an NTFS partition since I had the same problem. I
tried to
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 06:03, Michael D. Viron wrote:
6) Tar -cvf monthly.backup.tar /home/user/Mail
Just a thought -- you might want to do tar -czvf monthly.backup.tar.gz, as
it'll have better compression.
In fact, tar doesn't compress at all -- it merely archives and concatenates.
That is
Are there any files in your ~/Mail directory? If so, try deleting all files
that end in .index and restart Kmail.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:47, Bill Winegarden wrote:
Hi,
Just woke up this morning and went to retrieve the newbie mail, as well as
my personal and work mail. When I clicked
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:37, Benjamin Sher wrote:
If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in a
virtual Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which
has been adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily.
This reminds me of the double-page
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:45, kp _ wrote:
Hi,
I have Mandrake 8.0 on a PII 350Mhz
So do I -- it works brilliantly here!
Everything was fine during install,
my big problem is that fonts are UGLY
in Star Office I've tried things I
found on mandrake forum( :unscaled in a 'config' file,
I had the same problem with Konqueror (I'll assume that's what you're talking
about). The trick is to associate a file type with an entry that is in your
Mandrake menu. If a menu item does not exist for your programme, use
menudrake to make one.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:37, Mandrake wrote:
I
Have you tried mousedrake?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:10, Willy Sutrisno wrote:
hi,
im using mandrake 8.0 and XFCE is my window manager. I'd like to know
what is the command you put in the kdm, to load XFCE. I have tried xfce,
but it cant work. oh ya, by the way im using xfce 3.8.3
because i
I use MDK 8.0, the mouse was chosen durring setup and works great.
On Friday 29 June 2001 21:07, William Hughes wrote:
I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this
way. I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS.
Has anyone had any luck
Thanks very much for the help. I think I am now going to download the ISO
image and burn some CD's!
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:30 AM
To: Aaron; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
On Friday 29 June 2001 17:35, Mandrake wrote:
what is the command for the imwheel daemon?
imwheel and imwheeld just don't do a dangbusted thing,
no such file or directory
Be sure it's installed. I've had systems before where it simply was not
installed. Once it's installed,
imwheel
On Friday 29 June 2001 17:32, Mandrake wrote:
But winblows crashes
And don't forget this ridiculous plan they have for Windows XP to lock
it to one particular computer. This one should have people switching
to Linux in droves.
***
First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was
Neither did I. My sum total experience using Macs is about 2 hours, back in
the 1980's on a microscopic Mac with a black white screen the size of a
postcard. That was enough for me. Plus the proprietary, overpriced
Anybody ever get a ATI TV wonder to work on
Mandrake? I looked at some of the tv programs some people have listed in
the past and none of them specified the ATI TV Card.
Thanks,
Kevin
As far as market share goes, I think you'd have to take FreeBSD out of
that list.
FreeBSD is the ISP UNIX. It's a downsized UNIX, but still a step
above Linux. I don't
know of anybody personally that's using FreeBSD as a desktop/workstation
(Meanwhile I do
have a FreeBSD server at
Hi,
A small annoyance (aside from my inability to fix it) is that when I boot up
my laptop and log in as a user, the boot 'tune' in KDE is very loud. Is there
any way I can set the volume so that it will not wake my neighbours when I
log in?
Thanks,
Bill W.
What version of QT do you have running? The latest is 2.3.1 -- I suggest you
get that from a Cooker mirror near you (don't worry, if anything it should be
even more stable and usable than the one you have now). Also, try the static
version of Opera.
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:05, Siro Belza
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:48, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Rita:
I would *love to see a product that will give a lot of people a
highly usable alternative to M$, because I dislike their
tactics.
I rebuilt my system this morning. It was a Pentium III-450 oc'd to
600. Now with a different
Mandrake has urpmi and urpme. If you add your user to the urpmi group you
will be able to (un)install RPMs without logging in as root.
There is also sudo, which can be configures to allow a user to access any
root task you wish.
I personaly see these as a bit of a security risk, so I just su
Assuming you are running NT as a guest OS within a GNU/Linux host, it should
be safe to access all the Windows partitions in read/write mode. As a
precaution, I would access the GNU/Linux partitions in read-only
mode, but it shouldn't be any problem if you use read/write mode for them as
well
Bill,
Check out the Control Center, Look 'n Feel, System Notifications. Then in the right
pane, go to KDE System Notifications, KDE is
Starting Up. Uncheck the Play Sound box.
Miark
- Original Message -
From: Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June
Unlike other WinDOS competitors, GNU/Linux will
never die... M$ can't use its code (legally),
and they sure as hell can't buy it out.
The richest man in the world, representing the
most powerful software force in the history of
the planet can't touch Linux. sigh
Brings a tear of joy to
Hi All,
I would like to configure GRUB's bootup menu so
that it will pause more than 3 sec before Linux is
loaded.
In Mandrake 7.2, I could easily do that by
fiddling with menu.lst file in the /boot/grub
directory.
HOWEVER, I am currently running Mandrake 8.0 and
menu.lst is NOT in /boot/grub
I rearranged my home office today to please my better half who is always
complaining about it being cluttered and saying things like This room would
look so much better if only..
This reordering involved moving my LM8.0 computer.
I did a shutdown -h now as root from an xterm and everything
Im getting ready to try to install these drivers as well on MDK 8.0 the card
is the Geforce 2 16 meg. My question is i have seen two sets of drivers on
there website, one is for Mandrake 8.0 one cpu, uni processor kernel and the
other is for Mandrake 8.0 SMP kernel. I think i want the first
It was Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:14:20 +0100 when n6tadam wrote:
The pressing things, are just maintanace scripts that I have written, but
I am having to change the permissions on the logfiles each time.
And before you say it :-), Cron is insufficient to do my logrotation.
Instead, I use a perl
Title: Message
Hi,
Some help needed ,
after instalation of latest mdk freq which based on on mdk8 i have th following
problem:
each of my cdrom and
floppy can be used only once after each rebooting, another time when I try to
read any media from these devices I receive warning that I doen't
Ahh. I took a look at it ealier and didn't see any resize buttons. Then I
pressed unmount.
Thanks,
Kevin
- Original Message -
From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers
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I hope I am not beating a dead horse, but do you have plug and pray aware OS
turned to OFF in bios? and your graphics card really will need to be in
the pci slot shared with the agp slot. you may also want to run the network
card setup (it is probly a DOS program on the diskette that came with
I can't seem to move or resize my / drive. Will I have to create some
special boot disk to do this or something or is their a way to do it?
Thanks,
Kevin
- Original Message -
From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Re:
Either way you do it, getting around those permission is going to be a security risk.
You could provide the passwd in the script but all soembody needs to do is stumble
across
teh script and now they have root access.
Or you could change the permissions in the correct places to allow certain
Thank you thank you thank you thank you
It works nice!
At least on a chat applet I tried.
I'm off to test it on other stuffage.
Thanks again.
On Friday 29 June 2001 07:43 pm, so spoke Dennis M.:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-linux.html and down load the
linux java runtime
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