David E. Fox wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my
computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version.
Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux?
Turbotax Web
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:43:31 -0700
David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:02:07 -0700
David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's building now (found one dependency, needed texinfo) but may
take a while. 1ghz athlon here. :)
(later)
It built (you need gobs of
Can anyone get Cinelerra to run? I'm running Mandrake 10. Everytime I
try to run Cinelerra I get
Cinelerra 1.1.8 Fri Dec 26 06:06:47 EST 2003 (C)2003 Heroine Virtual
Ltd.
Cinelerra is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it
as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has
anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's?
Do they work?
I had a similar problem (actually several problems). I recently
upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 and changed my mobo/processor. I wasn't sure
what was causing the problem as everything worked fine with 9.1 and the
old mobo. Anyway, the only way I got my system to work was to upgrade
the kernel to 2.6
I cannot record with streamer since I upgraded my mobo and processor. I
now have an ASUS A7V8X-X with an Athlon XP 2500+ (runs nice). I have
Mandrake 9.2 on it.
Here's the problem, I run the following command
streamer -f mjpeg -t 120 -s 720x480 -r 29.97 -o movie.avi -F stereo -n
ntsc
lav2wav +p
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:51:06 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:22, Gilligan wrote:
Logging in as root and doing ls -? does show all files and the correct
sizes. 90% of files have a setting of
-rwxr--r--
Can't remember exactly what
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:51:06 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:22, Gilligan wrote:
Logging in as root and doing ls -? does show all files and the correct
sizes. 90% of files have a setting of
-rwxr--r--
Can't remember exactly what
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:53:49 +1000
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500, Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a
partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB
I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a
partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any file
manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly (at least
it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:17:11 +0530
L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:45 am, Linus Drouhard wrote:
I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how
to record off my video capture card and encode to an mpg file.
Dvdauthor help amounts to a very
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:06:55 -0400
ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:47, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:45 am, Linus Drouhard wrote:
I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how to
record off my video capture card and encode
I've got a small problem. I haven't completely given up on Windows (unfortunately)
because I can't find a total video editing/dvd burning solution for Linux. Anyway, I
have a partition that I've formatted as fat32. It's about 52 GB. However, I couldn't
access the partition in Linux, except
I've figured out over the course of hmm..., several months, how to record
off my video capture card and encode to an mpg file. Dvdauthor help amounts to a
very short readme that says you got these options but never explains them. Can
anyone tell me how to process the an mpg video so that I
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:28:30 -0300
Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus Drouhard escribió:
Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the /
and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and
reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my
to 4.7GB. Now I can't blank the disk to try
again.
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:28:20 -0500
Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, but it didn't work. I uninstalled alpha13, eroaster, k3b and reinstalled
xcdroast-alpha14. Same thing. Hard reboot when running first time as root
Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / and /usr
partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and reinstalled xcdroast. The only
thing I didn't erase was my home directory. I couldn't find anything in it that
related to xcdroast.
I suspect that I've
I'm running 9.1 and have been trying to figure out how to burn DVD's (I have a Sony
DRU500A). Eveything I've read says that xcdroast is the best program to burn DVDs
with. I installed it and ran it as root the first time (as you must) and it caused a
hard reboot. Tried it again. Same
Stephen,
I have the same problem with the Nvidia drivers. The only thing that works ok
is xawtv capturing direct off the video capture card with the device called out as
xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0
Everthing else, EVERY other player gives me blue garbage or a smear on the screen.
in the yellow screen gives me a floating menu
of display icons or sort items. Clicking on either of these does nothing. Thanks.
Linus
On 19 Jun 2003 14:54:38 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:35, Linus Drouhard wrote:
I tried Cinelerra and couldn't get any
On 18 Jun 2003 09:57:17 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 04:46, fifner the dragon wrote:
Hi,
is there anyone who can recomend a good video editing program like final cut or
premiere?
Thanks in advance,
Fifner
Cinelerra and Linux Video Studio
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:02, Derek wrote:
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:20 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote:
Hi all,
I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except
the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through
MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find
Hi all,
I just upgraded to 9.1, and everything seems to work very well except
the software manager. I tried setting up sources with urpmi and through
MCC. I can set up the mirrors, find the packages I want to install.
Everything works until I get an error that the signature is not
I have a couple of the great old IBM keyboards that my brother in-law
picked up for me for $5 apiece at a thrift shop. They had boxes of
them.
Linus
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
speaking of keyboards...
I had the same problem with Kmail in KDE 3.0. Sendmail worked for
awhile then quit as well. I'm now using Evolution since I couldn't get
Kmail to work properly. I'd love to know what's going on.
Linus
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:50, et wrote:
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers
I had a similar issue with my mouse attached to the PS2 port. Couldn't get it
to work in MDK 9 at all. Put the adapter on and plugged into USB and it
works fine. I have no ideas why. My son has similar computer (different
mouse) and his works through USB port.
Linus
On Monday 20 January
I've been trying to set up on the fly copying on my computer. I've followed
the various threads on this subject. X-CDRoast gives me an error saying that
only pure audio CD's can be copied. I believe that's what I'm trying.
G-Toaster will appear to copy on the fly. Everything looks right. It
On Sunday 05 January 2003 22:33, Todd Slater wrote:
clip
??? I'm assuming you're not running a mail server on Windows. You don't
need to run a mail server if you are using your ISP's mail
servers (probably pop-server.kc.rr.com and smtp-server.kc.rr.com?) Check
your config in K-mail and
Hi all,
I broke K-mail the other day. couldn't send e-mail. Set up Evolution.
couldn't send from that either. Booted in Windows. Outlook Express sent
fine. Dang. Rebooted Linux and set up Sendmail. Made that my default and it
works. I don't know how since it doesn't use any of
can give
would be greatly appreciated.
I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this
spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a
long one yesterday because of that.
Anne
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote:
I print
I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just
set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine.
Linus
On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous
reboot as soon as I
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 05:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:06 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:05 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
To
I have one and my son has one. We're both running 1 GHz Durons. Everything
is working extremely well for us. I've also put together another one with a
950 MHz Duron for a friend, also a success. I've not tried them with any
flavor of Athlon. I read some of the posts on the K7S5A and
Hi all,
I am using Mandrake 9.0 with a Samsung 232B burner. I cannot make this work.
I get various errors that started with OPC Failure. In my attempts at
figuring this out, I think I messed up the permissions. Now I can access the
burner as root only. Even in root I get errors. I've
,
not having printing is a show stopper. Good luck to everyone else still
struggling with printing.
On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:04 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote:
Wrongo! I thought I had it solved as I got a test page. That was all I
got. Everything else gets stuck in queue with usb port busy error
working on this. If you
make any headway, please post. Thanks.
Linus
On Monday 07 October 2002 11:35 pm, Marcia wrote:
On Monday 07 October 2002 09:08 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote:
Ok, I tried the noapic. Same problem. My USB was working before as I
was using a USB mouse. I still get USB port
.
I tried deleting the printer, but then I couldn't get
printerdrake to work.
Any help I can get on how to properly add and
configure my printer is appreciated.
I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the USB
port.
Mike K.
--- Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I have been having problems with printers in general with 9.0. I have a
Stylus 777 (Epson) connected through USB. Sometimes PrinterDrake can find
it, other times not. I've successfully printed two test pages. That's all.
The rest of the time it gets stuck and I get the message usb port
am, Linus Drouhard wrote:
I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through
Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed.
Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled
and printerdrake started and ran just fine
message, my system is NOT fixed. Still broken.
On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:01 pm, Marcia wrote:
Linus Drouhard wrote:
I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through
Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed.
Apparently I turned off too many
Hi all,
I have an Espon Stylus 777 that was working fine until a couple of days ago.
I recently installed Mandrake 9.0. I think that the printer worked under
9.0, but I'm not sure It worked great under 8.2 and it still works fine
with Windows (as much as I hate to admit it).
to only 3 machines on the network...
(pro doesn't have that limit.)
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Drouhard
Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems
I tried that. Her XP box refuses to let me in. I should be ok with the three
computers. Is this three computers networked to the XP machine? (total of 4)
or three computers total?
What did you use to network your XP box? Komba? Samba? something else?
Thanks for the help.
Linus
On
Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my
wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something
about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and
other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I
On Monday 12 August 2002 08:03 pm, Isaac Curtis wrote:
On Monday 12 August 2002 19:32, you wrote:
Isaac Curtis writes:
Apparently some of the software takes this
too seriously, because when I tried using Xmms to play some mp3's, it
got a little carried away. It's playing all my songs
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 12:16 pm, you wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Linus Drouhard wrote:
Hi all,
I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped
me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A).
Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices
Hi all,
I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped me. I
have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). Anyway, I set up
both drives as SCSI devices. Mandrake install automagically set up the CD-RW
and I added the following as to the append line in
Please help with suggestions. My son has a computer with the following specs.
Motherboard: FIC VIA 503+
K-6 III+ 450 running at 500 MHz
Sound Card: Aureal Vortex2
Video card: TNT2 32MB
Network card: Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Card
384 MB Memory
1 generic cd reader
1 Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW
1
snip
The ECS K7S5A is high performance, but before 8.2 was little better than
a boat anchor itself.
With 8.2 you need to do some tweaks:
1. edit /etc/modules.conf and find the line that starts
alias sound-slot-0 pcm-snd-i8x0
and delete it and the line following it.
then put in
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:29 pm, you wrote:
Hi all,
I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a
lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming
a boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A
motherboard.
Hi all,
I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a
lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming a
boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A
motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16,
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 12:58 pm, you wrote:
Tim Cruikshank wrote:
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:17, you wrote:
Hi all,
I recently installed MD 8.2 on my computer. Many things went well, but
I cannot run PrinterDrake or any followon installation from the CD's.
Locks up everytime.
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 03:09 am, you wrote:
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
urpmi cups
urpmi foomatic
Should do it
Civileme
cups was already loaded. It froze on foomatic. What else should I
try/look at? Thanks,
Thanks for the tip. It worked like a champ.
On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:52 pm, you wrote:
On Monday 25 March 2002 12:04 pm, Linus Drouhard opened a hailing frequency
and transmitted:
Hi all,
I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom
account in Kmail
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:19 pm, you wrote:
Linus Drouhard wrote:
On Monday 25 March 2002 01:16 am, you wrote:
Linus Drouhard wrote:
Hi everyone,
To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since
8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze
On Monday 25 March 2002 01:16 am, you wrote:
Linus Drouhard wrote:
Hi everyone,
To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since
8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one
point.
To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz
Hi everyone,
To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0.
It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point.
To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard,
two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of
Hi all,
I did something during the install of 8.2 that left me with a phantom
account in Kmail. It has no name, but will not allow me to modify or delete
it. Whenever I check mail, it asks for the password for this account, but
since it doesn't exist, I just click cancel and go on.
Hi everyone,
To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since 8.0.
It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one point.
To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at 420 MHz, in an Asus P5A motherboard,
two Maxtor 20 gig hard drives, 160 MB of RAM,
Hi everybody,
We've been having a lot of power troubles recently (ice storm) and as a
consequence, my computer has been abused by power outages and power ups (I
wasn't home to turn it all off). Anyway, now sound is goofy. I can get
sound to work in XMMS if I start it through the
Konq worked for me. I have the nsplugins module loaded.
crashed on me too.
eric l. mcclure
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html
enter a state and city
Press the back arrow to go back to the previous page.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
I can't remember how I cleared the message, but I do remember being extremely
aggravated. I saw the message one time when I was shutting everthing down,
the splash screen shutdown first then the message. I don't remember how I
got to the message to clear it though. Sorry.
Linus
On Sunday
Marcia, hang in there. Printing can be (is) often frustration. I don't
pretend to know all of the answers. I'm just a newbie that has struggled
through this a couple of times. I just know what worked for me. I have an
Epson Stylus 777 (good quality printer, but very expensive cartridges).
snip
Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready
and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately
the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the
printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for
On Thursday 15 November 2001 07:00 am, Renato Tognaccini wrote:
At boot I have the following message:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: Creative ViBRA16X PnP detected
sb: Sound Blaster Vibra16X sb config failed (out of resources?)[-2]
sb: Failed to
Hi everyone.,
I recently purchased an Epson 777 printer based largely on recommendations
from this forum. I like the printer, but do not like the cost of the
replacement cartridges.
Does anyone have any experience with the Jet-Master refills and chip
resetter?
On Friday 21 September 2001 10:47, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
belcoop wrote:
How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed
fine, but how can I make it print?
run spadmin
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Friday 21 September 2001 6:02, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
I'm not sure what I'd tweak...
It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything
as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow.
(snip)
You should be able to fix the slow part by
Hi all,
I just installed Adobe Acrobat 4 Reader and can't get it to run in Netscape
or Konqueror. I set it as a helper app but get the error Couldn't launch
/user/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread I've tried it with the .sh extension and
without. I tried running acroread from bash, but
quickly and beautifully.
Try changing your resolution to something higher. It might just work.
Linus
On Sunday 09 September 2001 08:52 pm, you wrote:
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:37:58 -0500, Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just got a new Espon 777 printer. I cannot get it to print
I just got a new Espon 777 printer. I cannot get it to print in Staroffice.
I've run spadmin, but it does not have printer for the 777. I tried the 700
driver, but it makes everything twice as tall on the paper. And to make it
worse, now I cannot get anything to print out. I seem to have
On Sunday 09 September 2001 8:55, Peter Rymshaw wrote:
New problem.
I am having a rough time downloading, decompressing,
and installing programs. I've pretty much figured out
how to download and then decompress, but then don't
know how to install them. (Is that compiling?) My
current
I've been trying to get my soundcard to work now for weeks, well off and on.
I've been on this list getting help, lots of good suggestions, but nothing
has worked. I started to load ALSA, but the first thing the HOWTO said was
to turn off all the other sound drivers. Number two was to be sure
I can't get midi files to play, except in sndconfig. See other responses
below. I don't know what most of this means. Thanks for your help.
On Friday 10 August 2001 2:36, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
Adams, Jamie wrote:
It seems odd that you are only getting 'snippets' of sound. Is it
.
On Thursday 09 August 2001 23:24, Linus Drouhard wrote:
Disabling ASLA on boot had no effect...still no sound. MP3's won't
run. Any player I try just sits there. I push play it sits there.
Something, maybe unrelated to the sound system itself has got in the
way?? CD's play from
once I noticed that it was checked at boot and wasn't
running anyway. Then I opened KDE Control Center=Sound=Sound Server
and made the default the sound driver (neither ALSA not autodetect) then
logged out an rebooted. Sound was afterwards fine.
On Monday 06 August 2001 23:17, Linus Drouhard
I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and
it would play the sample sounds in the configuration routine. I think that
the first test was the word Hello but I got a Hel sounded like it cutoff.
The midi track played fine.
Anyway, I tried configuring it
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