[newbie] help needed with CD burning problems

Hi, I am using K3b (K3b 0.9 under KDE 3.1.3 with Mandrake 9.2) to burn CDs without any problems. However, when I start K3b I get the following message: No support for ATAPI with cdrdao You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not

[newbie] have a good laugh

... and read this: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/05/1414247.shtml?tid=16 -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Knoppix 3.2/STD 0.1b Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] SCO shares fell about 8% :-)))

[New York | Reuters News Service, 8 August 2003] - IBM yesterday fired the latest volley in a war over the freely distributed Linux operating system and the code it's based on, charging in a counter-suit that SCO Group violated licence agreements. SCO shares fell about 8%. read the full story

Re: [newbie] kword crash help sought

that make any sense?! thanks! On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:58, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, When I try to load kword from the command line I get this: QUOTE $ kword Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType

[newbie] kword crash help sought

Hi, When I try to load kword from the command line I get this: QUOTE $ kword Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation ! Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource

[newbie] how to avoid data loss after install of Mandrake 9.1?!

Hi, I have a 19GB hard disk on an old machine running Windows2000. I am really fed up with the W2k and I would like to install Mandrake 9.1. Here is my dilemma: this computer has only one disk (19GB NTFS about half full), I have data on this disk (files) which I would like to preserve and not

[newbie] Mandrake/HP alliance!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/31547.html http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7082970615.html http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2003/0702hprolls.html -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163

Re: [newbie] root filesystem problems

Hi Tom, Thanks for the very thourough answer. I did not have a power failure and my hardware is an old laptop. Next time I will choose ReiserFS. Thanks a lot! Andrei On Sunday June 29 2003 05:29 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would

[newbie] wireless phone causes slow connection?

Hi! I have just purchased a Southwestern Bell wireless phone/modem jack system: the main unit connects to a power outlet and to a phone line and the secondary unit is just plugged in into a power outlet and to the modem of my computer. The reason for buying this was to transform a large walk-in

[newbie] namp/firewall behavoir

Two nmap/firewall questions: 1) I am using the firestarter firewall. When I try to scan a server with nmap I get repeated operation not permitted and my firewall's logs show blocked hits from MY ip. why is this? 2) when I stop the firewall and type nmap -sF -F -O xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on a serveur

Re: [newbie] floppy takes horribly long to open (in mdk9.1)

I have the same problem with Mdk 9.0. My impression is that the supermount causes this. Previous Mdk versions (whithout supermount) did not have this problem. You can disable the supermount through the MCC though. Cheers, Andrei it takes about a minute to open floppy; while opening it,

[newbie] Mdk 9 compatible printers list

Hi, Can anyone point me to a Mdk 9 -compatible printer list? The hardware compatibility list on the Mandrake site is not too helpful and, besides, I cannot take it with me to a local shop. As for the list in the MCC, it includes also printers which are not supported (yet?). Ideally, I would

[newbie] OT - raw newsfeeds for lynx

Hi, I am looking for a website with raw, unedited raw newsheadlines linking to full articles (preferebly in a text only mode or little graphics as I would prefer to use lynx to access it). Ideally, something like a text-only Reuters, AP, AFP or any other major news outlet (in English, French,

[newbie] Xine encryption plugins (sorry long post)

Hi, I am trying to (finally) watch DVDs on my computer. I installed Xine and I got and installed the xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.i586.rpm packaed (from the plf site). This package yields the following information about itself: QUOTE: rpm -qpil xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf.i586.rpm Name:

[newbie] drakefirewall assessment sought

Hi everybody, Does anyone have experience with drakefirewall (the firewall shipped with Mandrake 9)? How does it compare to other products (such as firestarter)? Also, When I try to launch it it says Make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnect before going any

RE: [newbie] port monitor sought

Hi, Thanks for your answers, but I have to say you've got me confused. Damien says that firestarter will report connection attempts (exactly what I need) whereas Rob says that firestarter is a firewall and does not monitor ports. Since I only use dial-up for my computer and I never use it as a

Re: [newbie] worried

Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Anyway the point is I've just upgraded my windows98 to XP and I must admit in all fairness for

Re: [newbie] MandrakeClub Renewal

On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:07 pm, James Dawson wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding renewing my MandrakeClub membership. My finances are rather tight right now so I don't know if I can afford to renew at Silver level but I can't find an option online to renew at Bronze level.

Re: [newbie] Keyboard switcher

Privet, Yes there is - use kxkb from the command line and then ctrl-alt-k and it will switch between the keyboards you have selected in KDE. I use it for Russia-English-French without any problems. Vsego dobrogo! Hello list, It seems I am having problems switching between different

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

Hi, There are many possible answers to your question and most of them will fall into two groups: technology and philosophy. To summarize, Linux gives you much more for the buck (if you can read French look at http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/nouvelles/03-02/07-153502.html and see that even

[newbie] FYI - OPEN SSL touble

Swiss Crack E-Mail Code, but Minimal Impact Seen Thu February 20, 2003 08:45 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Researchers at a Swiss university have cracked the technology used to keep people from eavesdropping on e-mail sent over the Web, but U.S. experts said on Thursday that the impact would likely

Re: [newbie] Koffice/KWord warning?

- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I would like to inquire about a warning message that I get whenever I use KWord. Does anyone else get the following when opening KWord in a terminal? Koffice (lib

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

Hi is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? Gil Hi Gil, Sure there is. Evolution is one, kmail is another. The first one is fancier (more like complete Outlook version, but buggy, at least in the 1.0.8 version) and there is kmail which is a pure mail client, working very

RE: [newbie] console/ascii games?

Hi, Thanks for the links. Overkill is the one I had seen and it is quite a feat to do this in ASCII. Do you know of any online server or, alternatively, of a single-player engine for it? Hi! Here's a couple: OVERKILL (LOL) http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain/0verkill/ QII !

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous re-boots

Hi Anne, I am running OpenOffice on a Pentium 450 laptop with 191 RAM without any problems. I don't think the problem is the power of your machine. Good luck! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user:

[newbie] mkd 9.0 source manager question

Hi, I initially installed Mdk 9.0 from the three CDs of the Mandrake Download Edition. A friend has now given me the full Mdk. 9.0 Power Pack with 7 CDs. I would like to now add to my source manager (in the Mandrake Control Center) the extra CDs, in particular the two commercial applications

[newbie] userdrake mcc run amok

Hi, I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before. When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me that changes made in this module will not be recorded (or some very similiar message). Yesterday, however, things got nastier. I wanted

Re: [newbie] userdrake mcc run amok

. Anne On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 3:20 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before. When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me that changes made in this module will not be recorded (or some very similiar

[newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues

Hi, 1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French letters with accents (such as é or à). I can use the GNOME character map application, but this is really very slow and cumbersome. I know what the ASCII character codes are for all these letters, but I don't know how

Re: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed

Hi again Anne, Thanks for your help. To be honest, I am a little nervous about using linuxconf as I have had problems in the past with linuxconf's configuration not being in sync with the configuration recorded in Mandrake's utilities (or the other way around). Also - the something like in

Re: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed

Hi Anne, I did not use any Removable media dektop link icon since, using WindowsMaker, I don't have icons at all. Is this icon something I find in the Mandrake Control Center of is this something with KDE or some other icon? Cheers, Andrei __

Re: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed

Dear Anne, Thanks for all your efforts. I think I have not been very clear in my wailing.. First, I did not mean to say that my CDRW was a cdrom. I only meant to say that I could not even find a way of accessing the date on a regular CD inserted into my CDRW (which I could do under W2k

[newbie] system monitoring advice needed

Hi, The other day my computer began not loading some programs (OpenOffice 1.0.1), looking for non-existing CD/DVDs in my drive, and acting sluggish. After a while, my system froze. I could not open a console any more, I could not even kill X. I had to reboot. After going over the logs for

Re: [newbie] Printing to PDF from OO

Hi Rob, I had the same problem and could not resolve it. But, for whatever it is worth, Kword makes very good PDF files. That's what I have been using since. Good look! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered

[newbie] what is exactly an inode?

Hi, I have found this defitition of the word inode on the net (http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?99983423203): QUOTE inode: Index or Information Node. This is a structure containg the basic information about a file such as owner, type, access permissions and pointers to the

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake for their fantastic work - not a way of getting

Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming

Nedit is probably the best choice. But I would reccommend getting at least a working exposure to vi or vim which you will find on ANY linux distro. Cheers! Andrei __ Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered Linux user:

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question

Thank you for everyting! Cheers, Andrei gShield doesn't need an RPM.. It comes as a tarball... unzip the tarball and dump everything in it to /etc/firewall Then edit the one config file.. /etc/firewall/gShield.conf (it tells you exactly what to do in there, most answers are 'OPEN' 'CLOSE'

[newbie] registration

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[newbie] encrypted DVDs with Xine or others?

Hi, I got my first computer with a DVD driver. I ran to the local library to rent a movie to test in, lauched Xine and got a message than Xine cannot run encrypted DVDs How can a commercial DVD be encrypted? Does this have something to do with the fact that I heared that US DVDs cannot

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question

Hi Frank, Thanks for your posting! Could you be more specific please? Why is this better than Mandrake's firewall? Does it also use iptable or ipchains? and also, where can I get it (preferably in RPM format)? (rpmfind does not have it) Cheers and thanks, Andrei I suggest you forget

[newbie] Mandrake 9 firewall question

Hi, When I launch my firewall configurator in the Mandrake Control Center, I get the following message: make sure you have configured your Network/Internet access with drakconnet before going any further Well, I have not. I installed Mandrake 9 on a laptop with a modem, so I could not

[newbie] noarc scr mdk rpms

Hi, On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or *src.mdk. How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? Thanks, Andrei _ Add photos

Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

Hi, Ok. But does keeping my laptop with the battery inside CONSTANTILY connected to the power outlet qualify as recharging or not (since the battery does not really discharge the battery to being with, right?). Thanks, Andrei Every time you charge a Li-ion battery you shorten it's life

[newbie] asf (?) audiostream file

Hi, I was trying to listen to a radio station on-line (which I could do without any problems using MS Explorer 5 under MS W98) but neither Galeon, nor Mozilla nor Konqueror could directly play it. All I could was download the file to my HD after which I tried to use xmms to listen to it, but

[newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9

Re: [newbie] Flash 6.0beta rpm

Hi Angus, Thanks for the link! But who/what exactly is this tex? Cheers, Andrei Greetings, I can recall someone on the list looking for an rpm package to install Flash. Well, I see that Tex has released an rpm of the latest 6.0beta plugin for Mozilla 1.1. It would be available for Galeon

[newbie] flash RPMs for Mdk 9.0 sought

Hi, Could anyone please help me locate RPMs to install Flash for either Galeon, Konqueror or Mozilla for my Mandrake 9.0? Thank you --- Registered Linux user 226850 _ Add photos to your

[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

Thanks for the info. This answers my question very well. Cheers, Andrei Ok to save you some time the only differences are in the file system. Linux can use the ext2, ext3, JFS, ResierFS or XFS file systems. All except ext2 are journaling. Mac OS X can use the HFS+ (which is the recommended

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

okay, i'm curious .. WHICH linus t book? Just for fun cheers, _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open

[newbie] lilo versus fdisk/mbr

Hi! I am unclear about how exactly somebody can remove linux from a multi-boot machine. I am interested in two cases: a) the machine already is multi-boot with, say, Windows98 and Windows2000 installed. When linux is installed, linux places lilo in the mbr and lilo gives give the option to

[newbie] random number in bash

The function $RANDOM return a random number in Bash. But how can I choose to generate a random number between X and Y (say 1 and 35)? I looked at the Advanved Bash Scripting ebook but the script this suggest does not work. Thanks! Andrei

[newbie] the MANDRAKE way to look at $PATH

Dear Michel daRcmaTTeR Take a look at the Bash script (in ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)which loads the profile from each user. It actually takes the info from /etc (I don't remember from which file exactly). I tried removing this script - but the script in /etc is, I think,

[newbie] bash scripting for beginners

Hello, I am looking for a good bash scripting tutorial/manual for BEGINNERS who are new Bash, Linux and scripting. Ideally - a book in PDF format or something in HTML. Please let me know if you know were I could find such an item. Thanks! Andrei

[newbie] editing $PATH

Hello, I would like to add a subdirectory to my $PATH. I triend the export command but it told me that it is not valid. Mandrake seems to offer a shared path to all users taken from bashrc (I am not sure about this). How could I edit ONLY MY PATH (my user path - not my root which I don't

[newbie] Kylix Mandrake 8.0?

I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on my computer. I would like to intall Boreland's Kylix. I have read some of their documentation and it seems that there is a patch for Mandrake 7.2 compilers available on the Borland website. Also - Kylix demands VERY specific versions of compilers

[newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

Frankly - I am rather frustrated with the issues of dependencies. Almost each time I try to install an rpm file, or compile a tar.gz, I get a failed/missing dependencies error. I was told that this is just as in Windows in which programs need dlls. This is simply not true. When a Win32

[newbie] nice command help needed

I understand the basic usage of the nice command. However, I did not find any documentation on the possible uses of this command. For example, I would like to find several examples of what can be achieved with this command, what type of priority should or should not be given to any one

[newbie] religion in Linux?!

Call me curious, or call my plain stupid. But I cannot but help notice stuff such as the names daemons or ncurses or the FreeBSD logo with a little devil on it. Could anyone explain why this is so? Is there some historical reason for this, or is this just a coencidence, or just as in rock

[newbie] HTML editor sought

I am looking for a good (decent) HTML editor for Mandrake 8.0 Is there something similiar to Ultra-Edit or CuteHTML available? Could anyone reccommend something light, simple, but a little more specialised that vi or any other editor?

[newbie] dependencies locator?

I am getting this when I try to install a small rpm package: error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/frm is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 libtinfo.so.5 is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 could anyone help me locate these dependencies or, better, give me the basic principles in locating

[newbie] linux anti viruses for W2K?

I am running two machines at home: a Linux machine under Mandrake 8.0 and a Windows2000Pro. These two talk to each other using Samba (II5 and Apache are also runnning). I am looking for a software (preferably an RPM package) which I could install on my Linux machine and with which I could check

[newbie] Visual Basic 6 for Linux?!?!

I realize that this question might be "anathema" for all Microsoft haters out there. But being I newbie - I get to ask it anyway: is there a way to program for Linux using Visual Basic 6? Or is there a VB6-"like" integrated development environment for Linux? If not - what is the closest

Re: [newbie] LM7.2 and kde2 is not working ...

hi a couple of weeks ago i sent an email about kde2.0 been disfunctional on my installation av LM7.2 . i was recommended to update the kde with mandrake update but i'm still out of luck. are there any configuration files i have to edit after downloading the updates from mandrake update? is

[newbie]

My DrakeConf/PackageManager does not work. Could you help me locate a complete and downloadble list of all the software available on the Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack CDs? Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail