Re: [Cooker] Re: No more fpons

2003-11-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:40, Levi Ramsey wrote: In the US, it's a similar overall ratio, but most of the female enrollment is in the mushy liberal arts... CS and a few of the As a historian, I feel bound to say... watch it, pal ;) -- adamw

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] xmms-sid-0.8.0-0.beta5.3mdk

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:25, Götz Waschk wrote: [Contrib-RPM] -=-=-=- Name: xmms-sid Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.8.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 0.beta5.3mdk Build Date: Wed Nov 5 10:24:20

Re: [Cooker] kernel 23mdk panic

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:49, Tim Sawchuck wrote: There is more power in your music than you know - is this the music hath charms to sooth a savage beast thing going here?!?!? Since I'm on a correcting-colloquialisms kick on this list...:) That's a misquote. The original is: Music hath charms

Re: [Cooker] FHS 2.3 (fwd)

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:56, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: I'd like to take a look at this proposals, but the URLs don't work. Can you put these documents somewhere I can access them? I can't reach the domain either. We didn't need the attachment. Please don't post binaries to this list,

Re: [Cooker] test9.4mdk with ext3 as module

2003-11-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 21:25, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:12:30 +0100 Olivier Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: My mistake, it's a bug in kernel packaging. No depmod is done in %install, so mkinitrd find the first time an empty modules.desc file and

Re: [Cooker] Re: TUX?

2003-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:36, Juan Quintela wrote: adam == Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adam On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:26, Juan Quintela wrote: As the proof is in the pudding, somebody in 2.4 era, created an http adam Quick colloquialism fix - actual phrase is the proof

Re: [Cooker] Re: TUX?

2003-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 01:45, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Sun Nov 02 22:46 +, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:26, Juan Quintela wrote: As the proof is in the pudding, somebody in 2.4 era, created an http Quick colloquialism fix - actual phrase is the proof of the pudding

Re: [Cooker] Shuttle SK41G : First screen of install (F1 / Enter) is not readable.

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:24, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Main board FX41 Video VT8751 [ProSavageDDR P4M266] When booting on the CD1, the first screen ( F1 or Enter ) is not readable. it shows only horizontal blue stripes. The monitor iiyama Pro451 is not the problem, because it occurs

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.6-test8 rpms

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 02:23, Olivier Blin wrote: I really need to browse all kernel config options, the initial config was done by Nanar months ago :) Everybody is free to update it, I made a basic config to make the package, but I am not good with kernel stuff, and my config are

Re: [Cooker] kernel pb with ext3 and kernel -23mdk

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 11:23, arakeis wrote: wtih -18mdk no pb. here are my partitions and fs : /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /home type ext3 (rw)

Re: [Cooker] Re: TUX?

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:26, Juan Quintela wrote: As the proof is in the pudding, somebody in 2.4 era, created an http Quick colloquialism fix - actual phrase is the proof of the pudding is in the eating. :) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] New ISO with updates

2003-11-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 03:14, Robert L Martin wrote: to be honest my french is nonexistant (i used BabelFish to get the french version) I think it gave you presses as in wine presses, not presses as in publishing presses...:) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] When can we finally get X to fall back to XFdrake??

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:37, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:22, Greg Meyer wrote: I think Buchan's point is that if one tries to start X and it fails, XFdrake should be launched automatically to try

Re: [Cooker] When can we finally get X to fall back to XFdrake??

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:49, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:37 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 13:22, Greg Meyer wrote: I think Buchan's point is that if one tries to start X and it fails, XFdrake should be launched

Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 19:41, Han Boetes wrote: mayor problem since linux is not a reboot OS. Well. It's certainly designed to be capable of running more or less perpetually, that's true. That doesn't mean that's how people use it, though. I boot my system at a minimum once a day, because I

Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:29, Han Boetes wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 19:41, Han Boetes wrote: mayor problem since linux is not a reboot OS. ^^^ please quote carefully. This hardly reflects what I said. Uh? It's exactly what you said. You argued that bootup

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: move 9.2 to 9.2b or 9.2.1 and CHANGE the kernel!

2003-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:02, Eric Fernandez wrote: Claudio wrote: Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Since many of us are having BIG problem with the 9.2 tree on the mirror (expecially for the LG-bug), imho it would be safe to REMOVE the actual 9.2 and upload a new 9.2b or similar, with the fixed

Re: Re[4]: [Cooker] You really screwed up this time: Inconsistency between mirrors and packages in ML 9.2

2003-10-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:39, Galileo wrote: BTW i checked this with 9.1 and its the same thing (except for the versions mess). A lot of packages are missing from the first 3 cds. I have seen discussions that there should be a 4th cd, but if we are going to stick with 3 cds then please

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] xine-vcdx-1-0.rc2.1mdk

2003-10-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:18, Götz Waschk wrote: [Contrib-RPM] -=-=-=- Name: xine-vcdxRelocations: (not relocateable) Summary : VCD and SVCD Navigation plugin for xine Description : This is a xine Video CD plugin for the xine media player. Its aim is to add

Re: [Cooker] Re: Mandrake uses Photoshop... What a pity!

2003-10-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 02:20, Liam Quin wrote: If you're paying for a print run of 5,000 pictures of nude politicians, the cost of the colour pallette is relatively small. I don't know where you live, but this idea combined with the corpus of British politicians leaves me with a truly horrific

Re: [Cooker] Mescalero

2003-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:29, Götz Waschk wrote: Stuff like this often depends on the CD-ROM drive, it's best to try several models. I haven't found a CD yet that I couldn't copy. I guess the copy protection sticker often is a placebo, if I can simply rip the CD with cdparanoia. Nope, it's

Re: [Cooker] Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:32, Pierre Jarillon wrote: OOo did five RC which were truely Release Candidate. However OOo is far less complicated as a full distro. Well, yeah. That's the problem. OO.o is far less complicated than a full distro...yet even THEY think five release candidates are

Re: [Cooker] !! 9.2 issues -- help

2003-10-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:38, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: You should read the erratas. Your problem is described and there Quick language point, Guillaume - errata is already plural. The singular is erratum. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk.

2003-10-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:46, Ron Stodden wrote: Buchan Milne wrote: Of course, it would be nice to have it working by default, but Ron always goes overboard on his small niggles in the first two weeks of a release (he could have tested this in the beta series of course ...). Not so. I

Re: [Cooker] errata: kernel-source not on 9.2 CDs?

2003-10-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 04:51, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:03 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: The 3-CD bought edition has exactly the same free software as the 3-CD free edition. The only added stuff is non-free stuff (Nvidia drivers etc); there's still some of main left

Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: Hi, all of you with an nVidia nForce2 or Via KT400 board.. please try this one out... Just booted with ACPI, seems fine! USB is working great (it didn't before), and all the stuff in /proc/acpi seems to work nicely. Thanks a lot Thomas, good

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long]

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:40, Duncan wrote: Robert L Martin posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:15:28 -0400: 3 a trio of SUID ROOT scripts to : a shutdown the system b reboot Xwindows only (user switch) c do a full system reboot || note on systems with

Re: [Cooker] errata: kernel-source not on 9.2 CDs?

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:41, Eric Fernandez wrote: I agree it is a strange move to desynchronise main or Mandrake/RPMS with the 3CD download edition. It would be better to remove some It's been desynchronised for a while. The download edition hasn't contained everything from main for quite a

Re: [Cooker] errata: kernel-source not on 9.2 CDs?

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:41, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:41, Eric Fernandez wrote: I agree it is a strange move to desynchronise main or Mandrake/RPMS with the 3CD download edition. It would be better to remove some It's been desynchronised for a while. The

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia driver messes up console mode (framebuffer?)

2003-10-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 10:41, Juan Quintela wrote: Can people please mail me the output of lspcidrake -v and telling me what versions work/don't work for you? I have found that machines fail with PIII, PIV and athlons, both with NVidia IGP and normal cards. Only pattern found until now

Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] Ideas for RpmDrake [long]

2003-10-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:24, Eric Fernandez wrote: FACORAT Fabrice wrote: not all people have an internet connection and/or a DSL link Why not in a rpm then : screenshots that could be part of documentation. They don't need to be huge or finely detailed. JPG with a high

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.2 update policy

2003-10-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Very soon MSN is no option at all for non Windows users anyway (15th October). And Yahoo is going to block 3rd party softwares too. Then I Heh... they're going to TRY. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] cooker alive and well

2003-10-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:26, Austin wrote: FINALLY! Cooker seems to be re-opened, so I hope we can stop all this political/ bureaucratic/philosophical banter and start developing an operating system again! nonono. Now we can do BOTH, like normal. ;) -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out ...

2003-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:16, John Drouhard wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 06:36:16 +0200 Olivier Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #Fix encryption plugin mv %buildroot/usr/lib/gaim/encrypt %buildroot/usr/lib/gaim/encrypt.so It seems to be a libtoolize issue. This can easily be fixed

Re: [Cooker] gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out ...

2003-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 22:08, Jos Hulzink wrote: On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 18:16, John Drouhard wrote: So what does everyone think about including gaim 0.70 for 9.2? I see it as a bug fix (fixing yahoo and msn), and this would be a + for newbies. Plus, if we didn't include it, reviews may talk

Re: [Cooker] gaim 0.69 and 0.70 are out ...

2003-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:09, Austin wrote: On 10/04/2003 05:23:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: 9.2 is finalised and gone to duplication. It's way too late. You have to learn to let go, man. :D True, but I think the question was: can it be provided in the online updates That's not how I

Re: [Cooker] http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/

2003-10-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 07:02, Felix Miata wrote: however your initial version turned out way better than i could have hoped for (read, much better than what I could have done) The only problem in mozilla is the the horizontal lines are shown throughout the page. That should be I don't see

Re: [Cooker] http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/

2003-10-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:16, Buchan Milne wrote: some skills, and they could all be leveraged if at least some aspects of Used. USED. Please, please, please, please, please, please, PRETTY please can we not succumb to the horrible corporate-speak use of leverage as a verb? -- adamw

[Cooker] more good news for Mandrake

2003-10-03 Thread Adam Williamson
A big pat on the back for fpons: http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/ To conclude this lengthy and time consuming experiment involving package installations and distribution upgrades, we have two clear winners - Debian and Mandrake. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] more good news for Mandrake

2003-10-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:10, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: A big pat on the back for fpons: http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/ To conclude this lengthy and time consuming experiment involving package installations

[Cooker] security update time...

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Williamson
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] security update time...

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:34, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003, 12:29:37 Uhr MET, schrieb Adam Williamson: http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm Do you mean this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] upload]$ rpm -q openssl openssl-0.9.7b-4.1.92mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] upload

Re: [Cooker] security update time...

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Williamson
The advisory was out 6 hours before you posted ... maybe you should subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Nah, I'm not really massively interested in security - I just saw the vulnerability report and no Mandrake advisory when I was reading the daily news, so I figured I'd mention it. -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] And next ?

2003-09-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:00, Doc Tree wrote: | - What could we do to improve 9.3/10.0 development. 1. START EARLIER. Huh? Earlier than what? Do you want us to go back in time to June and start there? :) other available serial HDs. C. Include the latest stable version of {list including

Re: [Cooker] And next ?

2003-09-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 23:46, Robert L martin wrote: 2 not if you have sub megabit access ON THE MACHINE YOU ARE UPGRADING A network install of a typical setup actually involves less downloading than getting three ISOs. My typical installation size is around 1GB, so running an installation over

Re: [Cooker] And next ?

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 09:19, Warly wrote: It may be a good idea, before cooker opens again, to take these days to have some brainstorm. May you give your opinion on : - What was wrong in 9.2 development process? Similar to 9.1 - RC stage too early so loads of major stuff was fixed while

Re: [Cooker] And next ?

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 09:19, Warly wrote: BTW, I guess this thread is a good place to bring this in. I now think I actually understand the whole Red Hat / Fedora situation - RH are basically cutting the consumer desktop loose as a supported segment, and making it more of a community-supported,

Re: [Cooker] And next ?

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:05, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Dimanche 28 Septembre 2003 13:48, Nora Etukudo a écrit : On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:19:44AM +0200, Warly wrote: - Should we have cooker snapshot ISOs? No. I don't need ISO's at all during development. 'rsync'ing to a local server

Re: [Cooker] And next ?

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 19:39, Felix Miata wrote: 2-Software management should open one panel with 5 options instead of a submenu with 5 options. It should be an integrated suite, if not one simple app. Oh, for crying out loud, PLEASE STOP TROLLING THIS. It's not going to happen, the reasons

Re: [Cooker] bittorrent-3.3-2gpw - please test

2003-09-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 23:09, jokerman64 wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 17:24, Götz Waschk wrote: Can you please post a diff between the kde and the bittorrent versions of the conflicting file? CU i tried to do a diff w/ kompare but couldn't i don't know how else to. diff -au file1

Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] An Idea for next MDK 10...

2003-09-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:37, Luca Landi wrote: .. my personal guess for new Mandrake 10 (or 9.3?!?!)... - GCC 3.3.2 or better GCC 3.4.x - Linux Kernel 2.6.x - New KDE 3.2.x - New Lib QT 3.2.x - improved ACPI support! (Now is very bad!) Um. MDK doesn't write acpi support. acpi4linux write

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:29, Austin wrote: On 09/24/2003 09:32:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: One, Mandrake don't make much money on boxes. They pay people to make the boxes, they pay to duplicate the CDs, they pay to print the manuals, they pay for distribution, and they have to sell

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:19, Leon Brooks wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:29, Adam Williamson wrote: Or are you just wondering exactly when this will happen, given the delayed release of the 9.1 ISOs? Old habits die hard, don't they? (-: s/9.1/9.2/ D'oh. Where did I put my brown paper bag

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:53, Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: Le mer 24/09/2003 à 12:32, Warly a écrit : Which means that if no major critical bugs are found in the next few days, it will be considered as final. Thanks to all who have participated in 9.21, the mandrake linux distribution is

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:06, Ron Stodden wrote: Distributing the tree instead of the ISO takes negligibly more mirror space and suits everyone, as long as mkcd is included so that CD sets can be made from the tree for giving to second level testers who lack suitable internet access.

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:21, Ron Stodden wrote: Adam, Look at the title of this thread. Subject is 9.2, and this is the cooker mailing list. Yeah, but my point is that MDK have always distributed trees of previous releases to mirrors, so I see no reason why that won't happen with 9.2. Or

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:37, Serge Pluess wrote: I agree that this is a good approach to encourage people to join, but for the comment of the boxed-set, that just seems to be more-or-less a joke. 9.0 and 9.1 boxes never hit the shelves here at the main stores such as Fry's Electronic,

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:36, Robert L martin wrote: If you don't want Mandrakesoft to survive, why do you bother running Mandrake? I for one don't want MandrakeSoft to become another Microsoft I think that one of the guides for the next release should be EVERTHING works. Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:36, Austin wrote: non-linux-user buys his games and his printer cartridges at Best Buy or Future Shop. He doesn't have linux, but he's heard that it's cool, and he has a VISA Gold card in his pocket. This is the type of revenue that would not be tapped any

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:06, Michael Lothian wrote: Last time I checked (I work for a big supermarket chain in the UK) Shops buy things from the people that make them. It's then the shops responsibility to sell them. Heh. How long have you worked there? Ever dealt with newspapers? Or new

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 ISOs has been sent

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:46, Austin wrote: If you're smart enough to be on the cooker list, you're probably smart enough to install it over the network using urpmi anyway, which is totally allowed. The purpose isn't to punish poor students, but to encourage lazy/greedy/ apathetic

Re: [Cooker] ALSA fix

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:01, Eric Fernandez wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: I think it's pretty hard to pick which should be the default. Even if it ought to be ALSA, it's by no means as clear-cut a decision as this particular user's experience indicates. Except if the installer offered

Re: [Cooker] ALSA fix

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:19, Eric Fernandez wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: I don't like it. In most cases, it would be a needless extra step, and could well cause confusion. I think the current ploy of just trying to get the right default for each piece of hardware is correct. Why make

Re: [Cooker] bind's imortal

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 23:42, Oden Eriksson wrote: onsdagen den 24 september 2003 00.08 skrev Luca Berra: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:47:31PM +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote: tisdagen den 23 september 2003 20.10 skrev Oden Eriksson: Hi. Anyone else seing this: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/named

Re: [Cooker] Argh! Third round of patches for OpenSSH (3.7.1p2)!

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 00:34, Leon Brooks wrote: http://lwn.net/Articles/50503/ Hope we've not sent the 9.2 masters to press yet! Would these affect us, necessarily? We didn't update to 3.7, and I wouldn't be surprised if these vulnerabilities were in code different to that for which

Re: [Cooker] Cooperation with RedHat Linux project?

2003-09-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 01:06, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Dimanche 21 Septembre 2003 16:41, David Walser a écrit : http://rhl.redhat.com/ From reading this, it sounds like the possibility of some cooperation between Cooker and the new RHL project is even more possible. RedHat said: We are

Re: [Cooker] So, which is broken?

2003-09-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:52, Felix Miata wrote: Yes, I got that answer from irc://freenode/mandrake after someone there read my post here. It fixed it. But, it begs the question, why would the rpm db be corrupted on a week old install? One thing I've noticed that can cause it is ctrl-C'ing

Re: [Cooker] ALSA fix

2003-09-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 00:17, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Perhaps is it useful ? I just receive from [Alsa-user] It is a problem with Mdk 9.1 but Mdk 9.2 is not very different. [Alsa-user] ALSA Fix!!! I finally got it right! Ok I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a Sony PCG-V505BX. My original

Re: [Cooker] Why Is My Update Broken?

2003-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 17:27, Felix Miata wrote: I installed fresh from my sunet cooker rsync about three days ago. Last night (around 02:00 UTC) I freshened my rsync, then did the following: 1-urpmi.addmedia --update cooker-updates file://mnt/nfs/ax5t3/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS with

[Cooker] urpmi update - good news!

2003-09-19 Thread Adam Williamson
so since the mirrors got fixed, I updated one of our 9.1 machines to Cooker (i.e., practically 9.2) via urpmi, and it worked absolutely flawlessly! Admittedly it's a clean machine - no non-mdk packages - but even so, this is impressive and better than 9.0 - 9.1. I just defined cooker sources for

[Cooker] Incredible Shrinking gnome-terminal?

2003-09-18 Thread Adam Williamson
This is a rather odd one...has anyone else noticed their gnome-terminal shrinking in the last month or so? It's a very vague problem I know, but several times I've noticed my terminal window looks a bit small, clicked the drag handles and found it at about 76x20 size, instead of the 80x24 it

Re: [Cooker] RC3 or not?

2003-09-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:28, Radek Vybiral wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Jeudi 18 Septembre 2003 09:51, Frederic Soulier a écrit : Considering the comments I've seen on this issue I guess Mandrake should release a RC3 providing they can postponed final until

RE: [Cooker] RC3 or not?

2003-09-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 22:34, Luis Vicente Castillo Corbella wrote: I totally agree 9.2 solid, stable, innovative, easi for newies ok? Can we arrange for it to make tea and create world peace too? -- adamw

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] suspend-scripts-1.6-2mdk

2003-09-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:15, Frederic Lepied wrote: -=-=-=- Name: suspend-scripts Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.6 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 2mdk Build Date: Wed Sep 17 12:05:45 2003 Install

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.9mm.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-09-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 08:36, Austin wrote: On 09/17/2003 05:33:36 AM, Danny Tholen wrote: Name: kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.9mm.1mdk - fix for alsa usb m-audio (tmb) Mandrake 9.2 is a recoding studio once again! Sadly not, I think...haven't we been told contrib has been forked

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.9mm.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-09-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:45, Eric Fernandez wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 08:36, Austin wrote: On 09/17/2003 05:33:36 AM, Danny Tholen wrote: Name: kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.9mm.1mdk - fix for alsa usb m-audio (tmb) Mandrake 9.2

Re: [Cooker] RC3 or not?

2003-09-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just checking the wiki and final is planned for 22 Sep. Is Mandrakesoft sticking to this date or will we have the honor of a RC3 to make sure nothing got screwed by fixes for RC2? I was pleased by RC2 (at least on the dual

Re: [Cooker] drakfont obsolete ?

2003-09-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:53, Diego Iastrubni wrote: , 16 2003, 01:40,Adam Williamson: On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 22:26, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! As I heard, I can create a special folder in my home and copy some fonts there in. This fonts (ttf too)will be automatically used

Re: [Cooker] Can't releases in september!

2003-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:10, jokerman64 wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 06:05 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 22:53, jokerman64 wrote: Cooker is too buggy to release afinal in september. You guys can't release yet, USB 2 support is still buggy, NVIDIA and AMD X

Re: [Cooker] mozilla-devel not included with RC2

2003-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:48, Ric Johnson wrote: --- Frederic Crozat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:05:01 -0700, Ric Johnson wrote: --- Gtz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 15. September 2003, 04:28:36 Uhr MET, schrieb Ric Johnson: Why? Space

Re: [Cooker] drakfont obsolete ?

2003-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 22:26, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! As I heard, I can create a special folder in my home and copy some fonts there in. This fonts (ttf too)will be automatically used by Xfree. Doesn't that obsoletes drakfont completly or at least simplifies it to that step ? No, not

Re: [Cooker] mozilla-devel not included with RC2

2003-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 22:33, Ric Johnson wrote: Generally speaking, it is the 1 or 2 % of the population that gets the 98 or 99% of the work done. Those are the people that Possibly. However, Mandrakesoft make more money selling to 98% of people than selling to 2% of people... -- adamw

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do not succeed. Rpmdrake simply does not find the installed packages. This is RC2. What do you mean? Works for me..

Re: [Cooker] Final in Septembre???

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:16, Simon Oosthoek wrote: Maybe something should be done (put on the Wiki) to have a more measurable quantity to verify for a release? Why? Why should some entirely arbitrarily defined quantities of bugs be a more sensible arbiter of release quality than the judgement

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:49, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I have tried to remove some packages with rpmdrake, but I do

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake- will not fild packages to remove

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 17:15, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Also, why people don't just *read* the big Software Packages Installation up the rpmdrake window is a total mystery to me. Even if they don't at first, they might do it when they see they can't find place for installed packages... eck,

Re: [Cooker] koffice in rc2

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 17:29, Diego Iastrubni wrote: , 14 2003, 14:30,Buchan Milne: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: beta sux. I think i will install the one from my 9.1 urpmi from cooker? contrib? it's not on the disks of rc2. main. Not all of main fits on the

Re: [Cooker] Galeon 1.3.8, trouble rendering characters?

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:36, Frederic Crozat wrote: Okay, further. Changing my encoding to Western European doesn't fix it. Moving ~/.galeon away doesn't fix it. Anything else to try? It's also not a font problem, as I tried a couple of alternatives with the same result. I use the Vera

Re: [Cooker] Can't releases in september!

2003-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 22:53, jokerman64 wrote: Cooker is too buggy to release afinal in september. You guys can't release yet, USB 2 support is still buggy, NVIDIA and AMD X problems haven't been solved yet. And of course we have to wait for XFCE 4, KDE 3.2 (which JUST released an alpha)

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 02:44, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: No, but it would at least act as a disincentive by being a hostage to fortune; if they broke it, the reaction would be all the greater because there would be something concrete to point to and say look, you said this and you lied. This

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 03:46, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Fri Sep 12 21:41 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/wimbledon_2003/photo_galleries/3038554.stm 2nd picture. Oh, right, on the speedometer. I thought the meant the back wall itself. Well, I guess the

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:26, Michael Scherer wrote: and everything in a timeframe of 8 h. Given the fact that mandrake direction does not read slashdot every minutes, this is acceptable. In fact, mandrake listened to their complaints. And this is good. It's not acceptable at all. You seem to

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:29, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:26, Michael Scherer wrote: and everything in a timeframe of 8 h. Given the fact that mandrake direction does not read slashdot every minutes, this is acceptable. In fact, mandrake listened to their complaints

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:38, Buchan Milne wrote: So, it's better to have a public policy on advertising, and break it, than to not have one? Pragmatically, yes. As I said, the fact that there's a known policy limits their possibilities; all they can do is bend the rules. Breaking them

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 21:08, Guillaume Rousse wrote: I can't say I enjoy the situation, but I find whining every time this is clearly demonstrated a bit... naïve ? The whining isn't - or at least isn't purely - self-interested. The point is that better communication would be squarely in the

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:17, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: My point wasn't really about whether it affected us directly. Obviously it won't - given that we use Cooker, I don't know if we'll even ever *see* the offending adverts. The point is I think it's a horrible way of generating revenue

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 09:53, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:17:45AM +0200, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Interesting. People on this list seem only mention how *not* to generate cash. This product is being developed by a company, i.e bills, salaries and taxes need to be

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:02, vbnh fdgfd wrote: Hi, Apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/) have the same fonctionality as URPMI. URPMI is a greet tool but why reinvent the wheel ? Mdk team is not big at this time, why loose time with a redundant software devel ? And Rpmdrake could

Re: [Cooker] um.

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:47, Udo Rader wrote: Am Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:20:05 + schrieb Adam Williamson: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/partners/advertising ... no. I don't understand some peoples negative attitude towards advertizements. A couple of month ago my company (a small

[Cooker] Galeon 1.3.8, trouble rendering characters?

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
Since Galeon went up to 1.3.8, it seems to have trouble rendering a lot of characters it could deal with before...just one example, the UK pound sterling currency sign - £ - is rendered as one of those little boxes with the character code numbers in it, as are a bunch of other signs it's always

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