Is it possible to copy music cd's onto the hard drive that you can then play
back without having to load the cd in the cdrom.
Sure...grip comes with LM. This will take tracks off your CD by
calling cdparanoia (also comes with LM) . It will then hand the result to
some program (I downloaded
Seriously - look around your local area - ask your colleagues
It should not matter whether the ISP is "Linux Friendly" data is
data is data and that is all you exchange with the ISP
some isps want specific data such as windows aps that run on the system
Huh? Sure haven't seen that.
While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the
Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're
right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also
right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux.
this maybe true,
In the past month or so at least two people asked about locating
iostream.h under Mandrake. I haven't done any C++ coding and so couldn't
answer their question but it seemed an odd one since, by appearances, LM
installs the standard GNU compilers/libraries. I stuck it on a "check
this out"
On disk 5 of my mandrake deluxe package there is a program named Arkeia
backup utility. I looked on Arkeia's web pages and it appeared as if
this utility will backup to tapes only. Is that correct? Or have I
missed read the info about Arkeia. I wish to backup to a disk drive.
Will this
KDE resets everything to the original installation. KDE is a bit too
much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you
do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good,
Fortunately, if you're smarter than the interface, you can fix it in the
Linux case :-) My
As far as I can tell at this time when I have a printing problem it
has been with the defaults that application has for printing AND
nothing to do with printcap, lpd, lpr, lpc, etc, etc, etc. To say the
I think, as I interpret your msg, that the problem is that you don't have
the filter for
No, I'm the owner of .kderc, .kde/ and its files and subdirectories.
On the other hand, there isn't a straightforward relationship between
the .kde/share/applnk and the menus. There's a .kde/share/applnk/John
subdirectory which is named Gnome in the menus (there's no "John"
It's unclear why
Thanks for sharing Dennis. I'd try two things. First, just put "lp:" in
front of the label "laserjet". I haven't done this with Linux but other
versions of UNIX I've used allow this syntax (multiple labels). If that
doesn't work, just replicate the laserjet definition and call it
"lp"
Larry, I keep getting double messages from you.
I keep getting double msgs of everything :-) I was beginning to think,
however, that this had to do with local filtering of inbound msgs but
maybe not. Are you not getting dupes from anyone else? Lots of people
have complained about that here.
No, so far just you.
Well, thanks for letting me know. I've recently switched to Pine and it
sounds like I've got something set up incorrectly.
Cheers --- Larry
Since you've got an executable in the tarball in my opinion it's not very
important... i just hate to compile a package because if i later don't want
it in my system it's harder to remove ;-)
This is exactly why I prefer tarballs. I open and compile them in a
directory in my local user
There is a real nice program that reminds me a great deal of Allaire's
Homesite and that is a program called Quanta. I can't remember where I
Since I'm a registered, card-carrying fan of Homesite, you've answered the
call Mark. Thanks a bunch. For others who are interested, I just did a
and felt the need to answer this. I guess you could say that I am a Netscape
fan -- I use Netscape 4.75 with Mandrake 7.1 on a DSL (yes I have an
Did you find the 4.73 -4.75 upgrade to be worth the effort?
excellent firewall ;-) ) and only when I am doing about 10,000 things at once
does
It's my feeling that there is some kind of randomizer running within the
list server is responsible for the famous duplicate messages. If it
I haven't heard of such things. Is this done for "fun?"
makes you feel any better, I don't recall getting any of your messages
more than once, but
Gecko engine. Personlly I'm going to by-pass Netscape 6 all togther and
when MoZilla is ready I'm going to use it. It's much nicer than Netscape
4.7x and superior to Netscape 6. They're using the same base code but the
Mark...maybe I've got blinders on but what is "much nicer than Netscape
If you were using Pine as your email client there is a real easy way to
filter out the dupicate messages. But Netscape Messengers filters can't do
this. Procmail can.
I am using Pine Mark; in fact, this is where I see all those dups (though
if the last 8 or so hours is an indication I should
:) yes Larry, as a matter of fact there is life after Nutscrape. It's
called Mozilla. However, until Mozilla is completely finished you might
want to try getting the tarball of Opera 4b. all it is is a binary inside
the tarball. Completely standalone and you can run it from your home dir,
You're right, nice=+19 is lowest priority. I looked up the nice
command in a Unix manual, it said nice -20 is the lowest priority. A
different Unix dialect, perhaps.
Hmmm...I wonder if some experiments are in order. Could be that in Linux
things are a bit different. Why don't you set it to
I just downloaded Opera 4b and installed it without a problem. It loads
well and fast. After going through some pages, I think there is definitely
a future for Opera with Linux :)
I would agree Paul. I still can't figure out why the rpms I download fail
but the tarfile installed without
Well, there's Galeon, gnome browser which needs GTK and Mozilla M17+ to run. The
only other option I can see if waiting for KDE2 and give Konqueror a try. I am
pretty sure that Opera will be a pay for program.
My understanding (without any personal knowledge) is that Mozilla has its
own
When I registered, I had a response within 48 hours. That's not bad
considering the hundreds of emails they must receive from around the
world. I don't know if any one out there has ever worked in a technical
support environment. I'm sure after a few days work, you'd give 'em a
little break.
I think most of the "true" linux experts use the text browsers which coming from
the gui world I find inadequate. I tried linux opera. It is very fast and
looks terrific but still has problems. So I will wait for later versions.
You may be right but it would seem to my poorly informed
I'm right there with you, Jay. I've used Opera since 3.4
something...don't remember what #exactly, but it was before 3.5 came
out. And though I do understand it will have its detractors because of
the open source thing, as well as the price tag thing (I heard $39
clams will be the ransom of
I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're
braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted.
-- Carroll (not a Netscape fan)
Carrol, no bravery is required. The one really nice thing is that it
simply loads your Netscape bookmarks into a
I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something
when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours
online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout hours of use, it
is really weird to here of all the slating.
This is
:-) I find using Lynx to be a ball as it's SOOOo quick. But all too
much of the web is "lost" in the translation from what I can see.
Use Lynx for informational sites, with lots of text. That's what it is
great for :)
Paul...could you give me an example of such a site? I'm not
Very strange, Larry also had that. And I popped the RPM in the system,
nothing complained. It works.
Okay, the beta effects are there, it can collapse when changing a
setting... (grin)
Can you tell us what version of rpm you're running? My LM7.1
distribution has 3.0.4.
Cheers --- Larry
least a 200Mhz machine and 64Mb of RAM you might try a stable Mozilla
build. You have to watch and pick one from a good day (not to hard, look
at Mozzilla Zine for help w/ this) but if you do so it runs very stable
and somewhat quickly. Depending on the day you choose stabilty and speed
Are
Support is useless. Learn it for yourself. The ability to look up
information, ask for help, and work through problems are things don't
don't expire in 6 months. :)
That's worthy of sticking on my wall. Thanks.
Cheers --- Larry
Well for starters I don't use it for e-mail. I prefer Pine or Kmail for that.
As I said, many of my problems with Netscape went away when I stopped
using it for mail.
with a Cyric MII 300Mhz processor yet I have had no problems what so ever.
The version of netscape I am using is the one
I now know that various distributions deal with support in different ways.
Slackware has email and web support. Red Hat has telephone support. However,
I find Mandrake to be the best distribution for my needs. If Macmillan
simply did not say they were offering "guaranteed 24-hour
My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a
low level format?
What does "my system" mean? Windows, Linux? Via what method?
I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it.
How are you trying to do this? What do you mean by
Make sure you do not try to install an i686 (pentium II) on an i586
(pentium) machine. Or a i586 on a 486 machine.
Alpha and PPC are not for intel platforms either.
In the case of Opera there is only one RPM file (type?) and trying to open
it reports the error described. I'm beginning to
Well, can anyone help out a real new newbie. L-M 7.0 went in over L-M 6.0 OK but I
cannot get EITHER video or sound accepted. Could not in 6.0 either and hoped 7.0
would improve things. Shortly my foot will solve the problem because I have spent
three weeks just getting L-M into the
Now we all know that all software has bugs. So what differentiates between
suppliers is not the interface but the support!
As this spools up into a beat up Mandrake support thread, you might be
interested to know that Mandrake has taken control over support from
Macmillan as they realized
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0 0 * * *root/etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh
My question is, what does this "security.sh" script do? It's a real
pain in the ass, it effectively disables my computer for about 10
It looks through
The problem is that I registered the product and as install support is
advertised I expected to get a reply at the least. $40 dollars or not they
I've registered a lot of software in my time but I've never expected a
response. What do you want them to say? Presumably, if you have a
I'm using StarOffice (SO) in my LM 7.1. But my SO was running slow (but not
too slow). So, I want to change SO to WP8. Anyone here using WP8 ? If yes,
please share me about your experience, and then, is WP8 freeware program ?
Thanks for your help.
I'm using WP Office, which comes with WP9.
Well I am running Mandrake 7.1 I downloaded the rpm version of the
"statically linked" Opera version for Linux from their website. It
installed without a wimper in Mandrake.
Hmmm...curiouser and curiouser. I tried again last night with the same
result.
BTW, the errors I got were
WP8 is indeed free, works great, is fast, and has all the features you can
dream of :)
Depends on who's doing the dreaming Paul :-) WP running under Wine is no
dream come true.
Cheers --- Larry
I disagree. The fonts look awful (why can't WP just use the fonts
provided by the OS? I've got my truetype fonts working now and they
I agree with everything you've said. I wonder, however, if you're not
describing the downloadable version as, while I found the font selection
to be abyssmal
What will happen with WP8 now that Microsoft bought Corel last week?
They didn't "buy" Corel, they bought some of its stock. As for WP8, Corel's
selling WP9 so maybe that's an answer to your question, though I doubt it.
Cheers --- Larry
When I get to specifying the partitions, I select auto-allocate and
everything looks okay (does not alter hda) but when I click done I get:
"Partition table of drive hda(which is my win2k partion) is going to be
written to disk!" .
I think you're getting confused by the difference
Yesterday, I downloaded the Beta3.iso image from the Mandrake ftp
site. When I go burn it to the CD. It doesnt read the data and
expands the folders and files to the CD. it just copy the iso image as
What is "it"? If CD Creator you need to go into the advanced options and tell
it you
a recommend list of daemons to remove. I deleted the ones they
recommended (using DrakConf). Then I restarted my system.
I don't believe you deleted any files. My interpretation of this statement is
that you went into Startup Services and deselected these daemons. All this
does is affect
My hard drive was partitioned 2 gigs for windows and 4 gigs for linux. I was running
mandrake pkg 6.5. I was loading 7.1 and really messed up. The drive now shows 2 gig
windows and 4 gigs free space.
I cannot reclaim the free space so I can get my linux back in. Tried fdisk and other
I have set PATH in .bashrc; however, it is reset later so that my
changes get overwritten. Where does this happen, and what can I do? I
know that .bashrc is being run because I put an echo in which I see.
as you may have missed, the last thing .bashrc does is check if there is
an
so when one does the upgrade option with mandrake, when it's finished all of your
exiting installed programs will still work? and all of your user preferences will
still exist? and all the little tweaks and changes you have made will still be
there?? this sounds simply too good to be
In windows I used the Opera3 browser. All my url's are stored there.
Does anybody know how I convert the Opera3.add win bookmark file into
Netscape 4.73 linux mandrake 7.1 I've had no success but then I hardly
know what I am doing in Linux.
I don't know anything about the format of Opera
There are some nice screen shots on http://www.opera.com
Thanks. I'm probably bad at interpreting such thing but I don't find
screen shots of software interfaces to reveal much about the
program. When I see how quickly and well Opera is capable of viewing
websites, how it handles bookmarks
As a newbie to Linux and a happy user of Mandrake 7.1 I too am waiting
eagerly for the new Mandrake. However as a newbie am already concerned
about what I would need to do to upgrade to it.
Why are you in such a hurry? Just something to think about. Most
seasoned Unix users tend to move
I'm happily chugging along on MDK7.1. My computers have never run so well
on any other OS... :)
Shame on you Paul. You must be doing actual work on your computer
:-) Like you, I'm pretty happy with 7.1 myself. My principal interest in
7.2 is to see KDE2.0 but I'll put it on a non-work
I'm running 7.0, and would be grateful for better USB support, so I for one
am really looking forward to upgrading.
Wasn't 7.1 supposed to provide better USB support than 7.0?
Cheers --- Larry
I´d like to know how to change the conf. of Lilo. I mean how I
could do to set Windows 98 as the preferable O.S. if it could be
Load lilo.conf into your favorite editor and change the line that says
default=linux to use the label (probably windows) used for your windows
boot. You can
Here's a thought: I found an old (1998) copy of my Netscape bookmarks on
my windows d: drive that I'd forgotten about. I made a bookmark to that
Carol, why do you do that rather than just importing them into
Netscape? An interesting workaround in any case.
Cheers --- Larry
What do you do if after typing in ./install.sh the command line returns
permission denied? Why would one not have permission as root? Excuse me
for jumping in here, but I had the same problem, and the sys won't let
me change back. Dennis
Dennis, you're trying to execute a text file that
Mark Hillary.
Please if you think I am wrong please relpy.
Since you askedthought you might like to know that your name has just
been added to my kill file, not because of your political views (I don't
give a darn what they are) but because you don't have enough sense not to
spout them
Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your
machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP
assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP
assignment?
Greg, can you recommend a good book on doing small
I bought and installed Mandrake 7.1 this weekend. I cannot find how to do an Auto
Update. Where would this be located.
If you did a normal, X-windows configuration it's sitting right on your
desktop as one of those Mandrake star icons.
Cheers --- Larry
Anybody know how to save mail and bookmarks and transfer to another
system or restore them after reinstall?
-Paul R
Make a copy of /home/user*/.netscape and /home/user*/nsmail ...
I sure gave this guy the wrong answer :-) Didn't understand (my fault not
his) what he was asking until
Shah, Steve. Linux Administration, A Beginner's Guide: Osbourne/McGraw Hill.
Berkley, Calif. 2000.
By no means "A Beginner's Guide", but well written, easy to understand, and
very comprehensive. The networking section is at the end of the book, but
everything in the text is useful.
Okay, in Mandrake 7.1, I am tying to compile a text editor, why? just
cause.
Where'd you get that text editor code? Sounds to me that the makefile
isn't thinking "Linux file system"
When I run make it keep telling me that it cannot find"Xm.h"..in
the ~X11R6/lib dirI have
i keep noticing every time i do a full installation, not everything is
installed from what little i have gotten to play with i find stuff like
gcc, make, and i wide variety of other development programs werent
installed, even though i
Not sure I can help you much but just for reference,
Anybody know how to save mail and bookmarks and transfer to another
system or restore them after reinstall?
Netscape bookmarks are stored in bookmarks.html and addressbook(s) with
.na extensions. What system do you want to move them too? If it's
another Netscape installation (or Explorer)
It seems like by leveraging perl or python and the rpmfind.net mechanism we
could build an infrastructure to capture all this know-how and create "guru"
utilities that formally gather and try all the diagnostics gleaned from
Simple text parsers are easy...idea parsers (find the how to
however, and KDE seems to have lost the theme manager. Will it come back in
Noticed this too and just decided it was temporarily disabled. It's pretty
unlikely that it'll be removed for good as they've supported that functionality
so much.
FYI CDs of 7.2 beta 3 are available from
How 'bout just using the Mandrake sites existing digests...don't they already
have tons of info in text format, easy to search by keyword? Just a thought.
Keyword searches are generally not sufficient to yield up true answers to
questions. All the do is generate a bunch of stuff you can
It's possible that the media itself is not rated for 8x writes. I've bought
cheap cd-rom blanks that claimed 6x speeds for writes, but it's a crapshoot
as to when it works. I just lower the write speed to the next lower speed,
and it usually works fine.
Lots of hardware have a hard
Any idea if there is a place on the web to see what Linux Format is
about? There is No Linux Mag here in Holland, and I hate that. Perhaps I
can get a subscription from the UK?
Try www.linuxformat.co.uk
It's a pricey mag here in Canada but I picked up a copy recently and was very
FYI, here's another article about Corel. It purports that the reason for
this bail out is so Microsoft could offer WordPerfect as open-source to
compete against the release of Star Office on the 13th, apparently to
This is nothing more than a wild-ass speculation just like the ones I and
the odd thing is, the
win_c
win_d
are still in /mnt also. if i go into them, they are empty.
what up with this?? can i simply delete these as root? or is there some other
solution?
Yes, and this demonstrates a problem with configuration via GUI tools; you are
one step
Here's 'fstab' line for my Windoze drive. I moved it out of
'/mnt/', to a dir named '/c'. I can read/write/exe anything on that
Not a bad idea Tom. I just did:
ln -s /mnt/windows win
with the link in my home directory. Seems to work. Any reason not to do it
that way? One of
Was at the local computer bookstore this morning and picked up a little book
produced by O'Reilly. There are several things that are significant about this
little book (56pages). First, it's FREE! Second, it's titled "Open Source
Bibliography" and while it lists a lot of O'Reilly products,
turns StarOffice into something decent. Wordperfect was buggy, like all
commercial software. They should have made it opensource. A shame RedHat
couldn't buy Corel. They do have some useful software I'd like to see
opensourced.
What would you do with it? Large chunks of Word Perfect
Well, we all should go down and buy their products. I'm thinking about buying
the wordperfect suite. The one thing I wouldnt buy from them is Corel Linux.
No thanks. If they'd actually ported their suite to Linux I'd be the first in
line but I don't need Franken-Windows applications
This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact
that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you
boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy?
Ssshhdon't tell my WD153 that Linux doesn't like it. So far
hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux
goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution
of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't
believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at
Do I need to adjust something or does it just take a long time for
applications to startup using a window manager (KDE/GNOME). I've got my
swap set for 256MB. I figured I have a pretty strong machine (PII400/128MB)
Your machine is definitely not at fault.
Also, is this just a bad habit
Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a
newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the
patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also
install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin.
I've did
Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a
newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the
patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also
install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin.
Are you sure
I finally realized the problem with the ramdisk error. If you download
with Netscape ftp it does not download as a binary file. The iso file is
bad. You have to use ftp an ftp program that can download as a binary.
Re-burn the disk with the binary iso file and it will work.
This explains
I recently downloaded Star Office 5.2, and it is in a *.bin format. How do
I open, run, or install this file?
If you don't have the default directory in your Path you need to execute
./starofficefilename.bin
Cheers --- Larry
Hi. Not sure about the NT shared directory, but you can hide a file or
directory in 'Nix by putting a "." in front of it. For example:
My_directory
would be seen by all, where
..My_directory
I'm reminded of the way moose hide behind a tree...with their entire bodies
I realize I'm imposing on this list but I desparately need to obtain about 3
cheap Linux friendly network cards to share my home dsl line.
Gee Clif - relative to a lot of the stuff that gets posted here, this seem bang
on-topic. Wish I could answer the question but I can't. I'll have to
I seem to remember that both less and more are reliant on the line count
which is set in the config files somewhere - can't remember where that
setting is - termcap??
John...at first blush it seems more dynamic than that. I just opened a xindow
and did an ls -al /usr/bin | less
make -f makefile_clm_config.h
The Message of Linux:
makefile_clm_config.h: the file or directory doesn't exist
no rule to make target "makefile_clm_config.h". Stop.
What's wrong?
It would seem from the document you've provided (great idea), the name of the
makefile is
Would someone on the list be kind enough to walk me through the necessary
steps for uninstalling Redhat from my PC, yet keeping the existing
partition for Linux intact (I'm also using Windows 95) in preparation for a
It's easy...don't worry about it. Just run the Mandrake install and
you suggested running Xconfigurator from the command
line to change my settings.
Thanks, tried that, unfortunately when I ran
Xconfigurator my monitor goes dark immediately (just
Sorry but my msg was a followup to Paul's and he suggested that you install a
low-res X installation
I've downloaded and compiled this kernel instead of 2.2.15 that comes
with Mandrake 7.1, and answerd yes to the "supermount removable media
support" question. On startup it says it's disabling supermount and so
it is; instead of filesystem type supermount i see iso9660 in
/etc/fstab
I set a seperate home partition, and I set it to 500mi. It sounded like a
good idea at the time. Now, can I shrink it to 50mi
If you have no data and/or have no programs of your own that you run from your
home directory, I suppose you could. I guess I would wonder what you use your
I read that Netscape is quite a memory hog (worst after X ). In my reading
it was suggested that I try w3m instead but with no mention of what w3m is
or where to find it.
Anyone know?
It's somewhat worse than a memory hog, it's got memory leaks, meaning that if
you load it, use it,
Dear Anyone, I would like to make sure my Kudzu works at bootup to detect my
ethernet card. How do I make sure that it does this? Thank you. Marcia
typing 'dmesg' will show you all boot stuff. In it you should be able to find
your ethernet card listed. Presuming it's on eth0, something
Dear Anyone, Thank you for your help. I just created a big problem for
myself, I think. I went into linuxconf startup services and activated autofs
for some strange reason. I do not know what it does, but afterwards I could
no longer use my mouse. Is there anything I can do now? Your
Tried your suggestion, but cannot change the settings
for my video card on my BIOS (I presume that's what
you meant?!) It defaults to detecting the PCI video
card and default cannot be changed.
No, he was referring to changing it using Xconfigurator
Type Xconfigurator from the
I'd like to get mysql up and running...so I can use it for
a webring DB...can someone suggest a real good tutorial
on getting it running...and setup
preferably, step by step...and really not hard.?
If it were me I'd run out and buy one of the two O'Reilly Press books on MySQL,
most
How do you change the settings for X under the command line? I have no clue.
I have been looking in all the available folders but did not find a single
reference to X. I also tried to write xconf, Xconf, xconfigurator and so on
to no avail.
Take a look at /usr/X11R6. Xconfigurator
The manual that comes with ever installation of MySQL is probably the best
documentation that I've ever seen for this application.
Mark, are you referring to "info MySQL" here?
Cheers --- Larry
3- Just run "make" and the package will be compiled: I don't know run " make
". Is this a function of Linux or an application? Where this? In the files
that it download, there is a "makefile". Is this the file that I should run?
As execute files in Linux?
"make" is a utility that
I just wanted to know if there is a way to change a dir and all sub dir to give
rights to everyone.(I have a public folder in a samba network and the rights are all
screwed up)
Sure...as root just type
chmod -R 777 /directorypath/name
Cheers --- Larry
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