[expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Hi all, Ok, I've got StarOffice installed. I then ran the setup program as a normal user to create my local stuff. It told me that it had integrated itself with KDE and to restart my KDE so that the changes would become available to me. I logged out and back in, but none of the StarOffice

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Staroffice 5.2 does have an html editor. Try File - new - HTML document Personally, I consider Staroffice to be too big heavy to simple HTML editing, but some folks like it. Bluefish is a good option, and it comes with 8.1 Personally, I use vi. Ric David Guntner wrote: Is there a

Re[2]: [expert] xmms killed my Mandrake box

2001-12-16 Thread Onur Kucuk
I had such problems with a few sound chipsets. The one to blame was the kde arts, sound deamon. Just disable it and restart kde. ( Sometimes it used to crash the whole system, sometimes it was saying it overflooded the cpu, somethign like that) Onur Kucuk

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:39, Michel Clasquin wrote: There is also a try-before-you-buy program from IBM, sorry, no URL handy, but it relies on a special IBM version of wine that nukes your regular wine setup. It does have the site design aspects rather than just being a page editor,

[expert] Euro support

2001-12-16 Thread Jesus Roncero
Hi, as it is almost here, I'm getting a little bit concerned about typing it in my mdk8.1. The thing is that it appears pretty good under kmail or konqueror for example, but I am unable to type it pressing ALT-GR - E. It doesn't do anything, although I can copy and paste it from a web page,

Re: [expert] setting sound card

2001-12-16 Thread David McGlone
On Sunday 16 December 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: I would like to know how I can get my sound card setup to be seen by my mandrake 8.1 without typing modprobe es1371 when I happen to boot up my system since I don't always keep it running like most users do. When I do that I also have to keep

Re: Re[2]: [expert] xmms killed my Mandrake box

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I had a similar problem. Doesn't crash my box but I get a horrible sound until I reboot, sometimes it's just a sudden drop in sound quality, but a /etc/rc.d/init.d/sound restart fixes it. I am not using kde though.. anyway I switched to freeamp which seems more stable. Thomas. Want to

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:08, you wrote: David Guntner wrote: Is there a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux? Something along the lines of Frontpage? It doesn't seem that StarOffice (at least, not the 5.2 release) contains such a program. Anyone have a good/favorite one that they'd

Re: [expert] setting sound card

2001-12-16 Thread Harold Hartley
On Sunday 16 December 2001 08:27 am, you wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: I would like to know how I can get my sound card setup to be seen by my mandrake 8.1 without typing modprobe es1371 when I happen to boot up my system since I don't always keep it running like

[expert] gdm keeps trying ...

2001-12-16 Thread Jun Liu
Hi, everyone, I set gdm as my desktop login manager. Everything is fine except that gdm keeps complaining in /var/log/message. It looks like, .. Dec 16 14:57:46 fsbbs gdm[6640]: gdm already running. Aborting! .. Thousands of this kind of messages. Where can I turn it off? Thanks.

Re: [expert] xmms killed my Mandrake box

2001-12-16 Thread Jun Liu
it just happens occasionally with some 'certain' mp3 files. On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:26:46PM -0800, dfox wrote: :On Saturday 15 December 2001 15:00, you wrote: : : I am not sure if xmms is blameful, as I remember, similar situation : happened before with xmms. Or emu10k1 module is right

Re: [expert] Can't compile anything at all

2001-12-16 Thread Jun Liu
what do you mean gcc2.96 is broken? is it possible to 'rpm -i gcc-' again? On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:59:27PM -0600, Expert wrote: :gcc2.96 is Broken. : :How do I install 2.95 with out any :problems? : :tell me please : :Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? :Go to

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:39:17 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:08, you wrote: David Guntner wrote: Is there a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux? Something along the lines of Frontpage? It doesn't seem that StarOffice

[expert] Re[2]: WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Onur Kucuk
MW just my two sense here, but the WYSIWYG editor in Netscape 6.1 writes suprisingly MW descent code. some of the best i've ever seen from this type of an editor. I got MW curious one day and decided to MW do a couple of page with it and was pleasantly surprised at the code it output. MW

[expert] strange kernel stuff.. possible bug..

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have kernel 2.2.19-6.3mdksecure installed and running just fine.. then I wanted to install the newest lm_sensors tarall, I got errors because the source is for the non secure (ie normal) kernel and it didn't match the source because I was running the secure kernel.. So I think to

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Mark Weaver« am 2001-12-16 um 09:45:59 -0500 : Netscape 6.1 is sluggish on older systems so that is one thing to consider. That's right, however Mozilla = 0.9.6 is a LOT faster. I don't get why people are using Netscape anyway... Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

Re: [expert] strange kernel stuff.. possible bug..

2001-12-16 Thread H.McM
Have you tried running the mkinitrd programme to create the new image? H only to discover that there was no initrd-2.2.19-6.3mdk.img in /boot I have these: vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.3mdk vmlinuz-2.2.19-6.3mdksecure and System.map-2.2.19-6.3mdk System.map-2.2.19-6.3mdksecure but only

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:02:48 +0100 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: So sprach »Mark Weaver« am 2001-12-16 um 09:45:59 -0500 : Netscape 6.1 is sluggish on older systems so that is one thing to consider. That's right, however Mozilla = 0.9.6 is a LOT

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:01 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:02:48 +0100 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: So sprach »Mark Weaver« am 2001-12-16 um 09:45:59 -0500 : Netscape 6.1 is sluggish on older systems so that is one thing

Re: [expert] Can't compile anything at all

2001-12-16 Thread Expert
No, because I cannot use gcc 2.96, *must be* gcc2.95 On Sunday 16 December 2001 08:09 am, you wrote: what do you mean gcc2.96 is broken? is it possible to 'rpm -i gcc-' again? On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:59:27PM -0600, Expert wrote: :gcc2.96 is Broken. : :How do I install 2.95 with out

[expert] autodetection in MDK 8.1

2001-12-16 Thread Harold Hartley
I think the autodetection in Mandrake is a bit faulty than it was in previous versions... In Mandrake 8.0 it detected all my hardware just fine and also in 7.0 and 7.1 since I've used Mandrake.. I am using hardware that has always been in linux for some time.. I run a es1371 soundcard and

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:10:03 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:01 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:02:48 +0100 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: So

Re: [expert] Can't compile anything at all

2001-12-16 Thread Jun Liu
I've got gcc-2.95.2 package from rpmfind.net. Did you ever try it? On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:17:55AM -0600, Expert wrote: :No, because I cannot use gcc 2.96, :*must be* gcc2.95 : :On Sunday 16 December 2001 08:09 am, you wrote: : what do you mean gcc2.96 is broken? : is it possible to 'rpm -i

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:41 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:10:03 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: But the original Q was about HTML editors, not browsers. Until now I wrote my own code in Emacs but for a new project I'd

[expert] strange problem with /etc/rc.d/rc file

2001-12-16 Thread mycal62
HI , have a strange problem, on rebooting from win98 I get a strange message during bootup it says for this file : /etc/rc.d/rc :[ missing ] can the rc file be regenerated ? Have tried to install lm_sensors which require adding lines to /etc/rc and /etc/modules.conf and the message

Re: [expert] Install Problem

2001-12-16 Thread Oscar
El dom, 16-12-2001 a las 01:27, Vicious Diablo escribió: Im gettin a serious problem with linux mandrak 8.1's installation. I formated my hard drive, with a FAT32 partition. I booted form the linux installation CD1. I got the firts screen btu whene i press enter the loading bar goes to

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:54:31 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Oh, last time I used Composer was with Netscape 4.7x. At that time the output was a lot of crap. Has it improved since then? That would be a reason for me to switch from Opera to

Re: [expert] CDROM and CDRW

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 01:55:42 -0500 Robert Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I can see both my CDROM and My CD Recorder in harddrake, however I cannot get them to mount. What am I doing wrong? I am in Root. Help! RB how are you trying to mount them? --

RE: [expert] ifup ppp0

2001-12-16 Thread skidley
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Franki wrote: try telling msec to set your security as medium,, that should give you back access. I set msec at 3 and it still didnt work. I even set it to 1 to try and it didnt work. I get ifup ppp0 failed with error 8 and also error 35 sometimes. error 8 just means

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:54:42 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hi all, Ok, I've got StarOffice installed. I then ran the setup program as a normal user to create my local stuff. It told me that it had integrated itself with KDE and to

Re: [expert] setting sound card

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:27:02 -0500 David McGlone [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sunday 16 December 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: I would like to know how I can get my sound card setup to be seen by my mandrake 8.1 without typing modprobe es1371 when I happen to

[expert] LM 8.1: running rexec

2001-12-16 Thread D. R. Evans
I installed the rexec from the LM 8.1 distro, changed the configuration so that disable = no (instead of disable = yes), but I cannot connect to it from a remote system, even when I try to do so manually. Does anyone have rexec working with LM 8.1? and, if so, are there any suggestions as to

Re: [expert] Can't compile anything at all

2001-12-16 Thread dfox
On Sunday 16 December 2001 08:17, you wrote: No, because I cannot use gcc 2.96, *must be* gcc2.95 You can downgrade your compiler to gcc 2.95.3, but I don't think that's the solution to the problem. What are you trying to compile, and why is it failing? BTW if it's MPlayer you can get around

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread dfox
On Sunday 16 December 2001 00:54, you wrote: And from a shell window, if I type office52/soffice from my home directory, I get a box that comes up called StarOffice 5.2 Repair, saying I've had that problem as well - nothing I've tried will get me around it, so I ended up running SO as root to

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Mark Weaver grabbed a keyboard and wrote: These are typical symptoms of a Star Office install that didn't happen correctly. the best thing you can do at this point is uninstall it, clean things up in your home directory and try the install again. in case you didn't do this the last time

Re: [expert] LM 8.1: running rexec

2001-12-16 Thread D. R. Evans
Never mind. I didn't realise that I needed to stop the xinet daemon. Doc On 16 Dec 01, at 11:53, D. R. Evans wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1008528840-733-534 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I installed

Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix

2001-12-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark Weaver, I just realized that I gave you some flaky info... Have you got this in your main.cf?: header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks ^^ If you are using pcre; I haven't tried that variation... Even though pcre is in the main.cf examples, any attempt to

Re: [expert] CDROM and CDRW

2001-12-16 Thread Lee Roberts
What have you done to get them to mount? And what kind of error messages are you getting? i.e. what are the results of your attempts to mount the drives? At 01:55 AM 12/16/2001 -0500, Robert Boggs wrote: I can see both my CDROM and My CD Recorder in harddrake, however I cannot get them to

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Kyle McDonald
David Guntner wrote: I logged out and then back in to restart my KDE session. I don't see any StarOffice stuff on any of my K menu items. I opened a shell window and typed: office52/soffice I think this is your problem. I run StarOffivr all the time on Solaris. We never start it

Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Pierre Fortin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Other handy spam restrictors seem to be (from my main.cf): smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_client permit_mynetworks check_relay_domains smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_unknown_hostname

Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Ira Bargon III
Where can you obtain Netscape 6.1. I havent seen it at netscape.com for linux at all. Thanks, Ira On Sunday 16 December 2001 09:45, you wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:39:17 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Saturday 15 December 2001 23:08, you

Re: [expert] setting sound card

2001-12-16 Thread Harold Hartley
I solved the problem that I had written before.. I just reinstalled my whole system and now everything is working fine now.. Harold On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:18 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:27:02 -0500 David McGlone [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder:

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Lee Roberts
At 12:00 PM 12/16/2001 -0800, David Guntner wrote: directory. When it was done with that, it told me that there was No Java Runtime Environment was found which can be used by StarOffice (even though I have it installed in /usr/local/java/jre1.3.1_01). (BTW, if I try clicking on the Browse

[expert] Netscape 6.2 (was WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?)

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Ira Bargon III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Where can you obtain Netscape 6.1. I havent seen it at netscape.com for linux at all. From my Linux box, I started Netscape up and went to Netscape's home page. Clicked on the Download button. That page displayed the download page, correctly

Re: [expert] Euro support

2001-12-16 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Bloody Euro! I have followed the instructions in Mandrake to enable Euro support and nothing works. When I press ALT-GR + e I get ?. This is what they say you may have under Mandrake 8.1 and you can fix it by selecting ISO-8859-15 at kcontrol. Well I did it and is now when I get '?' before

Re: [expert] Netscape 6.2 (was WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?)

2001-12-16 Thread Lee Roberts
I don't know about Netscape 6.1, but I know 6.0 had a lot of problems and I've heard some people complain about 6.1. I'm running NS 6.2 on both Linux and Windows with some minor problems with linking to web sites from Eudora Pro (i.e. 2 NS windows opening for the same web site or one NS window

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Lee Roberts grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Goes to show that the SO installation script lacks a lot to be desired. It's good to know that I'm not the only one having this trouble. It seemed like a straightforward install but Also, I'm not sure if installing SO caused me to have

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 13:45:07 -0700 Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:00 PM 12/16/2001 -0800, David Guntner wrote: directory. When it was done with that, it told me that there was No Java Runtime Environment was found which can be used by StarOffice (even though I have it

Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:10:50 -0500 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Mark Weaver, I just realized that I gave you some flaky info... Have you got this in your main.cf?: header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks ^^

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 13:25:59 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Lee Roberts grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Goes to show that the SO installation script lacks a lot to be desired. It's good to know that I'm not the only one having this trouble.

RE: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-16 Thread Lee Roberts
At 08:48 AM 12/15/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: Mine has a Athlon XP 1800+ Does the XP mean that it's optimized for Windows XP? :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel

2001-12-16 Thread Fedneg
On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 06:17, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: What devices do you have attached to each channel and at what speed(s)? Also do you have an NVIDIA or 3DFX video card on your system and/or a SBLIVE card? There were some problems vis-à-vis the SBLive and the VIA chipset. Improper

Re: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-16 Thread Jason Guidry
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:06:21 -0700 Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the XP mean that it's optimized for Windows XP? :-D nice. actually, i think AMD is trying to piggyback MS on this one. If you recall, they tried to steal some of intel's thunder by releasing their notebook

[expert] HCL

2001-12-16 Thread Lee Roberts
What's the deal at the Mandrake website - no hardware is coming up as compatible with 7.2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Euro support

2001-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 22:02 +0100, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: I have a Spanish locale, probably the solution on Mandrake web page is just for the French locale. No. It seems that it is program dependent. Take the Mandrake website: I see the EURO sign in Netscape and Konqerer and

Re: [expert] strange problem with /etc/rc.d/rc file

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Viron
sounds like you are missing a ']' somewhere in the file. Check to make sure all '[' are closed by a ']' character. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 11:13 AM 12/16/2001 -0600, you wrote:

Re: [expert] Tildeless user accounts

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Viron
It would look something like: RedirectMatch Permanent /(.*)$ /~$1 (I think, since I'm not a regex expert). If you want to go that route, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:43 PM

[expert] CNR cards

2001-12-16 Thread Lee Roberts
Never heard of them. What are they? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Do you mean Windows Xtra Painfull ? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List Subject: RE: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 16 December 2001 02:25 pm, you wrote: Lee Roberts grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Goes to show that the SO installation script lacks a lot to be desired. It's good to know that I'm not the only one having this trouble. It seemed like a straightforward install but

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Mark Weaver grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David, try this. I've been where you are right now with Star Office and it can be a real BIG pain in the arse to get around. destroy the entire SO dir in your home directory including the .sversionrc file. next, run this command in a terminal

[expert] Quarantined?

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Anyone know what's up with the attached message? It doesn't include the message that it is complaining about, so I have no idea *what* it is complaining about. However, I don't think I've been going on a cussing spree lately. :-) Can who-ever is in charge of this list please look into it

Re: [expert] Quarantined?

2001-12-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:29:40 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what's up with the attached message? It doesn't include the message that it is complaining about, so I have no idea *what* it is complaining about. However, I don't think I've been going on a cussing

Re: [expert] Quarantined?

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Charles A Edwards grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:29:40 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what's up with the attached message? It doesn't include the message that it is complaining about, so I have no idea *what* it is complaining about.

[expert] Firewall for larger network?

2001-12-16 Thread Michael Seymour
I have played around with SNF and found it to be adequate for a small network and I currently use it at home; however, I will be looking for a larger firewall over the next few months for my work environment. We have 3 e-mail servers and 3 web servers with unique IP addresses so I will

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:19:42 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Mark Weaver grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David, try this. I've been where you are right now with Star Office and it can be a real BIG pain in the arse to get around. destroy

Re: [expert] Quarantined?

2001-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:44:55 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:29:40 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what's up with the attached message? It doesn't include the message that it is

Re: [expert] Quarantined?

2001-12-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:26:58 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you will look at where the message is from: From: WorkgroupMail MailScan Plug-in@akamail.com Your mail service is the one that blocked the message not this list. Charles On the contrary

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
I installed OpenOffice-641 on MDK 8.1 and I think that the second step is to run /usr/local/Office52/program/setup as normal user and not the soffice program. BWT, OpenOffice is running very slowly and eating up all my memory. I do have a 126 megabyte RAM Pentium III and the performance of OO is

RE: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
it has another added benefit as well, I have mozilla 0.9.4 on linux and 0.9.6+ on windows, they are pretty damn similiar.. and I really love cross platform consistancy... both work great. though I would like to upgrade to 0.9.6 on 8.1 without breaking anything.,.. but if its not possible, its

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
Mark Weaver grabbed a keyboard and wrote: well David, that sucks in plain words. I've got Star Office 6.0 that I can place on my FTP server if you don't mind allowing it to take a day or so to download. It's up to you. If you want to write me back and I'll stick it on the server for you

RE: [expert] ifup ppp0

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
if it were me, I'd install and use wvdial, its fast, and better, its intelligent, if the connect script is doing something unusual, wvdial will likely fix it.. for instance, my ISP uses two different router types, and the connect script is different for each.. so what works on one, won't work

RE: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
apparently then you probably have the nasty via bug in your bios, 2.2 kernels didn't seem to suffer from the problem. so swapping back fixed your problem.. good stuff.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fedneg Sent: Monday,

RE: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
I think its marketing... they had to do something to get around intels exorbitant claims for the P4 so they created the XP and the new rating scheme... the 1800+ is ahead of the P4 in most respects, so they didn't go overboard and claim it was something its not.. here is my cat/proc/cpuinfo

Re: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-16 Thread Terry Mathews
Repeat after me: BogoMIPS are bogus... BogoMIPS are bogus... BogoMIPS are bogus. They are only useful in the context of one system. If your system is running at X BogoMIPS, and then you tweak a setting and now it's at X+Y BogoMIPS, your system is running faster. You can't use BogoMIPS as a

Re: [expert] *running* StarOffice??

2001-12-16 Thread Joseph Braddock
I'm actually running the StarOffice 6.0 beta and have not noticed any speed or memory problems. Works like a charm. Joe On Sunday 16 December 2001 10:54 pm, you wrote: I installed OpenOffice-641 on MDK 8.1 and I think that the second step is to run /usr/local/Office52/program/setup as

[expert] fdisk?? Partition not mounted, linux unusable...

2001-12-16 Thread Anguo
Dear Experts, I tried to get help on the following topic on the newbie list but my question seems to advanced for the group. I also did some research on google, read some howtos and some mailing list archives but so far, the more I read, the more I am confused. :-( Since the matter involves

RE: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
yeah, I know, but I have had that install of linux on 5 different mainboard with 5 different CPU's and its proven a good indicator, not anywhere near as useful as a real benchmark but a good indication of the speed on that system.. I wasn't giving it as any indication of its speed compared to

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Dec 15, 2001 at 10:07:37AM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: One possible solution may be running the script by a cron job every 5 minutes during 'mail writing hours'. bah... you don't want to do that. Here... this is the easy way to do it. In your mutt config file use:

Re: [expert] CNR cards

2001-12-16 Thread Larry Sword
Lee Roberts wrote: Never heard of them. What are they? www.whatis.com Communication and Networking Riser Communication and Networking Riser (CNR), which was developed by Intel, is an open industry standard for a scalable riser card, which is a hardware device that plugs into a motherboard

[expert] Where is printerdrake database located?

2001-12-16 Thread David Guntner
When running printerdrake to set up a printer, it eventually gives you a list of printers that it knows about. I've got a new printer that it doesn't know about, but I've been able to use linuxprinters.org to create a PPD file for the printer. Putting it in /usr/share/cups/model doesn't seem

RE: [expert] fdisk?? Partition not mounted, linux unusable...

2001-12-16 Thread Franki
Frist, you shouldn't post in html, it annoys people who may not answer in response to that.. and its more annoying because my reply is now probably html as well. anyway, what exactly is the problem when you try to boot? if you can't get it sussed, boot from the mandrake CD, and do an

RE: [expert] System freezes when copying in second ide channel

2001-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Though look at his configuration! He has the drives EACH existing with a CD-ROM drive... HDA = First hard drive HDB = CD-ROM HDC = Second hard drive HDD = CD/DVD Ugh bad setup!!! Linux is also initializing the IDE0 chain at UDMA100 yet he has a DVD on it Both drives are set up this

Re: [expert] Euro support

2001-12-16 Thread J Grant
Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Bloody Euro! I have followed the instructions in Mandrake to enable Euro support and nothing works. When I press ALT-GR + e I get ?. This is what they say you may have under Mandrake 8.1 and you can fix it by selecting ISO-8859-15 at kcontrol.