Anne Wilson wrote:
We had a Computer Group in Huddersfield, rather like the LUGs today. We all
carted down our heavyweights and plugged them in on trestle tables, with
adapters on adapters g. On one occasion I actually had the output of
another computer on my ZX81 screen!
Anne
Wow! That
Robert Yu wrote:
Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a
cache folder for later use?
You can download the packages using ftp or something similar, and then,
when they are all sitting in a directory, call up a root shell and go to
the directory and type the
JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800
Aron Smith disseminated the following:
Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-)
If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing
excrement in all directions...
Ha! Maybe the dubya-fans-us-uber-alles
Paul Kaplan wrote:
Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the
system sounds work fine?
TIA
Paul
If you right-click on the xmms console, go Options -Preferences and
then see the first tab, Audio I/O Plugins. At the bottom of the box,
see Output Plugin. Try
SOTL wrote:
Hi All
Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different
computers.
In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100
data files with over 2 GB of data.
In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory
SOTL wrote:
You missed the point.
I was doing NOTHING with the root file system.
I was simply coping data files [5 gb worth] from one directory to another.
OK. I misunderstood. Were the two directories on the same hard disk or what?
cheers
Duncan
SOTL wrote:
There were 3 failures each slightly different all occurred while I was using
MC under very heavy load.
HD Failure # 3
details snipped
At the time of the last failure I had decided to use MC to transfer files as
previous transfer had been by root so root permission was required to
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800
Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote:
| Dear All
|
| I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a
| picture. Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| Paul
May I
aron smith wrote:
On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded
some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to
/home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no
such
Russel Dains wrote:
I have just installed Mandrake 10.1. I am unable to
reboot or shutdown the system from the login screen.
The only available option is to type reboot or halt in
a command line. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.
Another solution is to change your display manager. You
DAN WALKER wrote:
On Friday 25 Mar 2005 13:19, DAN WALKER wrote:
there is one where I am - milton keynes. would it
be
full of bearded men who drive austin allegros? a
b
I shall indeed try it out. Once won't convert me to
bearded life. All that hinding behind hair!
Dan,
Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 02:11, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 22:59, JR wrote:
On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hi folks,
snip
Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress
level?
Pete Moscatt wrote:
When I have a look, I see there are a number of 2.6.8.1-24 available, being ones
like ENTERPRISE, SECURE, SMP and there may even me a few more.
Now which one of these would I typically go for ? :-)
It depends what your requirements are. If you are running Mandrake at
home
Hello
I found this URL to be useful for beginners who have some knowledge, but
need a bit of guidance.
http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
The CLI is not something to be feared.
cheers
Duncan
Want to buy your Pack or Services
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
The CLI is not something to be feared.
cheers
Duncan
Is that not so ? I read somewhere about a command that could wipe out
your whole system if done as root. Something to do with r and rm
SOTL wrote:
I don't know about a comand to wipe a system but I do know a procedure of how
I trash a HD. All I did was use MC to search for test and HD went into orbit.
It is now a good paperweight on my desk. What I was searching for were DBs I
had created call test1, test2 et. What I got was a
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I like to make scripts a bit more bullet proof... I would probably
change it to:
for i in *.mp3 ; do
name=$(basename $i .mp3)
mpg123 -s $name.mp3 | sox -f 44100 -w -s -c 2 - $name.wav
done
This way, it handles files with spaces in the name, and you avoid
having
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
There are some added protections to make doing that even harder now.
When you type rm from the command line, you are actualy running rm
-i thanks to a handy alias. So you would be asked to confirm every
deletion. When you get asked about the first one, hit Ctrl-c, and
aron smith wrote:
On Monday 21 March 2005 07:34 am, Duncan Anderson wrote:
Frank,
When you mention MC, what do you mean? (Midnight Commander?)
cheers
Duncan
MC is a cloneof midnight commander
urpmi mc
How can something be a clone of itself? :-) Surely you mean mc is a
clone of Norton
James Henry Maiewski wrote:
Hello,
In the More proof that I'm not the smartest guy in the world
department, and in the hope that maybe someone out there is where I
was a year or so ago, I want to say that Vim rocks! I had heard it
many times, but since I couldn't just type 'vim foo' and go, I
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
lower case names for local varables - so you don't break things if you
deside to source the code from another script.
Mikkel,
Explain this to me, I don't quite follow your rationale here.
I always use upper case for variable names so they can be clearly seen
as such
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
If you are using a varable in a loop, and its value only has meaning
in that loop, but not in the rest of the script, use a lowercase name.
For example:
for name in *.txt ; do
file $name
done
For small scripts, it is not too important, unless you do something
like .
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Monday 21 March 2005 12:41 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:
Glad to hear it! Learning to use vi never killed anybody.
vim is brilliant.
But what about emacs? :p
I don't think anyone has actually died
JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:18 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following:
What do people use for making music cds from mp3s?
Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out later,
very
nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can see a shot of it on my
Duncan Anderson wrote:
JoeHill wrote:
Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out
later, very
nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can see a shot of it on my site.
http://kymatica.com/software.html
I am having problems accessing that URL.
The site is offline right now
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 19:50, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Friday 18 March 2005 02:46 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Anyway, at least you've got flat rate. It my country, using phone line for
internet will seriously blow one's wallet as the bill is charged based on
minutes :(
Greg Meyer wrote:
IMO, a ML with a good set of
filters and a mail client that does proper message threading can't be beat
and I will very rarely visit a web forum.
Just my 2 cents.
I agree with Greg. In a low bandwidth situation such as mine, a mailing
list works much better. Website based
Mrexecutive wrote:
Hello Duncan,
I tried doing:
chkconfig --add sshd
but its telling me No such file or directory any idea what im doing wrong?
I am logged in as su also :(
Hi
Try specifying the full path:
/sbin/chkconfig -- add sshd
or else, when you use su, do it like this:
su -
The minus
Mrexecutive wrote:
Hello Guys,
I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how
to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up?
Sorry im a newbie!
Go into the Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) and go
into the
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not
think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.)
Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play
Trygve Seljeflot wrote:
Can anybody tell me how to increase the file size limit in MDK 10.1 ?
When copying an dvd.iso image from one machine to another, it stops at 2.0 GB,
61%.
If you type ulimit -f at the command line, what does it say? If it
says UNLIMITED, then your system file size limit
Trygve Seljeflot wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 19:23, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
How are you doing the copy? If you are copying to a Samba share, I think
there is something you have to set in Samba for files larger the 2G. (I
remember reading something about it the other day, but I can not
Trygve Seljeflot wrote:
I'm usin fish in Konqueror, smaller files is no problem.
OK, well I think that uses scp. Try using the command line. At a bash
prompt, try setting the ulimit:
ulimit -f unlimited
Then use scp, or run konqueror from the shell prompt.
I think that should work. (I stand
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Here's to democracy, EU-style :
http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En
In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council
members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change
the Directive on Software
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 06 March 2005 03:11 pm, Michel Leunen wrote:
Rob Blomquist wrote:
You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running
Samba somehow, as Samba uses workgroup names to meet Windows networking
conventions.
The default samba workgroup is
I see that there is a huge selection of software for talking to your
GPRS phone, but what I need to know (related question) is:
What hardware do I need on the PC side in order to communicate with the
cellphone? If I have an oldish Thinkpad with IrDA, will that do?
Alternatively, can I use wlan
Dave Williams wrote:
E575: viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^V4516^@
Hit ENTER or type command to continue
I get the same message when I use shift-ZZ to exit.
This happens in a konsole in KDE, and it also happens if I use
ctrl-alt-F1 and log into a pty session. vi seems to *work* okay,
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
The only reasion I remember is because I had to go through it not too
long ago. I also learned that with udev, it gets interesting moving a
working system to a new drive. udev mounts over the /dev directory, so
you can not access the entries under it. Without the
Eric Huff wrote:
Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just bought an extra hard disk of 80GB for my computer.
Could someone here please tell me how to make it my master disk (I
still have the old one of 20GB), without loosing the information
on my old disk?
I used this:
Martell, Larry wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Julie Sloan wrote:
Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux?
It's worse coming the other way. I started on BSD unix version III running on
a DEC PDP-7 in the late 70's. For the next 26 years I worked
Russ Kepler wrote:
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:
What a pain! Editing text files is particularly
irritating because my fingers operate in vi mode reflexively.
Get vim for Windows. A decent vi emulator, heck, I use it under Mandrake and
on Sun instead
Russ Kepler wrote:
I don't think there's a 'proper' way to learn MS-DOS. My first conputer was
an IBM 360/65 running a timeshare simulator called RAX, heck, the first
programming test I ever took was to see if I could hold a 1401 punchboard at
arms length, so I'm a proper dinosaur.
My
Lee Wiggers wrote:
Laptop now boots with numlock on. Also sets it on with startx.
Annoying with the laptop because the keypad is embedded.
How do I change this?
To change it permanently, remove the numlock package using the package
manager. To keep the package on the system but disabled, go
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
nonfb translates into booting without using the frame buffer. Basicly,
writing to the screen like DOS does, instead of directly into video
memory. (Simplifed explination.) This does not affect the GUI mode,
only the command line mode. Using the frame buffer, you can
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Will try get one or two from
library first, then buy one.
That is very wise, Rosemary. Not wanting to dampen anyone's enthusiasm,
but all Computer books are out of date by the time they are published.
The best up-to-date
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time?
I always leave my UNIX and Linux boxes on all the time (between power
outages), and they love it!
It's OK to switch the display off, if it doesn't do so automatically.
If you prefer downing the box at the end
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
One point that probably should be cleared up - it doesn't matter where
X is started from. You could have started the first X secession from
tty5, and start the second one from tty1, or the first one could be
started by booting into run level 5. You can even start one
Tim wrote:
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
mdkkdm.log:Feb 19 19:21:28 mdkkdm_config[4693] error: Invalid option
value 'All' at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:292
mdkkdm.log: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
unknown.
JIE mail-list wrote:
I want to create a gzip'ed tar archive of all my dot files for backup
purposes but I can't figure out how to select only the dot files
without also getting everything else in the folder.
$ tar -cvf backup.tar.gz .*
This seems to get everything in the folder; not good.
Tim wrote:
I noticed a few days ago somebody mentioned deleting log files tmp
files, is this necessary? If so what else should i be doing?
If i don't will it have an adverse affect on my system?
The reason i ask is i,ve noticed Firefox Thunderbird are taking
longer to load, only a few
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
While I agree that an external serial modem is the best solution for a
desktop, I'm not sure that it is a realistic solution for a laptop.
I differ. A lot of people carry around a bag for a laptop, especially
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Hello listers,
Sorry to have so many questions. I noticed that keys aren't producing the
letters/symbols that I am used to. e.g. @ is not in it's usual place as
indicated on the keyboard, seems to have swapped with . There are others
also. I think I must have
Hi Rosemary
Various people have mad useful suggestions to you regarding your modem
setup.
The way I normally set up an external serial modem is the following:
Use Mandrake Control Centre to add a network connection. Ignore the
error about no internet connection.
Run kppp and go into the
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:27, mike wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp
but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download
manager says thunderbird was downloaed. What has
Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 10:33, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06:32, Vathsala Devi wrote:
Dear All Mandrake Users,
I am using Mandrake Linux 9.1 to do my Master degree research project
with University of Malaya, Malaysia...
My problem is, I
There should be no problem. The lady in question is a computer newbie.
She will most likely want to use email and word-processing initially, so
there should be absolutely no issue, since all such programs are
standard on Mandrake at no extra charge.
Most importantly, she will not have to
Hi Randy
What version of the kernel are you running?
regards
Duncan
Randy Paries wrote:
Hello,
I just finished building a new Box and have been letting it just run
to burn in.
After running 5 days it crashed, and this was in the error log::
Randy Paries wrote:
2.6.8.1-12mdksmp
Thanks
For what it's worth, the bug error was generated by a failure of the
page_remove_rmap function call. This function attempts to remove a
page of memory's pte mapping. What caused it is whatever caused the
value of page to be invalid. What caused
Edward Wijaya wrote:
I've tried this command:
export PATH:$PATH:/usr/share/firefox
but won't work (gives not valid identifier error).
How can I enable it?
Thanks so much beforehand.
Regards,
Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE
Hello Edward
You need to type the following:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/firefox
Greetings
I have been trying to attach a usb modem to a Thinkpad T22. The modem is
a Microcom USB 56K Travel/S. I have looked in the Twiki and found
nothing. usbview shows an unknown device.
I am very familiar with serial modems, but as far as these new-fangled
usb beasties are concerned, I am
Thanks Paul
I have downloaded the driver. It compiled cleanly and everything looks
great. As soon as some other downloads are completed I shall unplug my
Xircom PCMCIA modem and try the Microport. The URL you provided was spot on.
cheers
Duncan
paul wrote:
The linux USB site says it works, see:
Danesh Daroui wrote:
I tried to install it on a PIII 933 MHz with 192 MB RAM and 30 GB
harddisk. This is not a our server and it is just an old system to test.
Danesh,
I wouldn't give up so soon. I run 10.1CE on a P3 500MHz machine with
256Mb of RAM, and on a P3 900Mhz machine with 128Mb RAM
Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Thanks folks,
I've just got wake up (4.00 am now), and ready to install the bunch of RPMs
that I've downloaded last night.
About the gftp.. I didn't know that it has comparison ability. It's cool. I
think I'll use it.
Have fun. I do that sort of thing all the time. We
Keith Powell wrote:
A very basic question, please.
How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and
add myself to another group.
You can look at /etc/group to see which groups you belong to.
Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users
and groups
Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hi,
I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut
dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always
crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is
version 10 more stable ?
I have had no problems with Mandrake
Graham Watkins wrote:
Hi Guys,
First off, apologies for posting from a Windows box. I'm slowly
rebuilding a system after a major hardware catastrophe (see earlier
post).
After looking at a few options for data recovery from a linux system,
I finally opted for the System Rescue CDROM at
Hiya
Is there a way to restart the network without rebooting?
Vegard
Try service network restart from a root prompt.
cheers
Duncan
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Hi everyone
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote:
I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60
and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks
at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware
compatibility on the
Why has nobody mentioned man. The full manual set for the operating
system can be accessed by using man. The only exceptions are KDE type
programs which use the KDE help system, etc.
regards
Duncan
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Hello Graham
Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard
drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr
home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk
an access it through a new Mandrake
Rodolfo,
All you need is to create an entry in /etc/fstab. Give it a different
mount point. Copy the entry for /home and change it so that the device
entry is correct and the mount point is different. Make sure that you
create the directory to use as a mount point.
The easier way is to run
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