RE: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
There are presently 180 9.0-update RPMs.I would have installed about one third, so you must see that I would not be prepared to conduct the enormous amount of research to find out which, and then possibly to discover it is not one but some combination. That's inescapably

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Ron Stodden
Franki wrote: there was one with apache getting loaded with apache 2 updates.. or at least trying... don't know of any other... Thanks, but apache is not installed in any of the Mandrake partitions on either of the two machines involved. -- Ron [Melbourne, Australia] The problems that we

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Ron Stodden
Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun Feb 02, 2003 at 11:01:34AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas? Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Ron Stodden
Vincent Danen wrote: Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You presume too much. Tell us what got clobbered. My 9.0 machines, with all updates applied, are rock solid. Alas! My

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Will Styles
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: J.P. Pasnak wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On February 1, 2003 14:52 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Damian Gatabria wrote: Only thing I'm left wondering is what happened to the cute little mouse arrow that previously had a

[expert] PHP 4.3.0 and GetText support?

2003-02-03 Thread Seppo Järvinen
Just installed PHP 4.3.0 and Apache 1.3.27 and found out that Horde/Imp dies because there is no gettext support in 4.3.0? I confirmed that with PHP 4.2.3 I had php-gettext installed, but not anymore... I'd really like to get the support. -- Seppo Jarvinen , [EMAIL PROTECTED]Never trust

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 8:28 am, Ron Stodden wrote: 3. Mozilla printing just quit with no message.Required rpm -e on all the mozilla RPMs and reinstall. This can happen at any time - it happened to me last week and I had not changed anything so far as I am aware, so it may or may not be

Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread tarvid
On Monday 03 February 2003 03:40 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You presume too much. Tell us what got clobbered. My 9.0

Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 12:27 pm, tarvid wrote: I am convinced that hardware is a factor in many bug reports. If bug reports included motherboard/CPU/diskdrive we might spot a correlation in a matter of weeks. I think this bears more investigation. I have a feeling that motherboard based

RE: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
Then let all go with the new VIA ITX MB's and we will all be fine. FYI, 933mhz embedded proc with everything included (www.viatech.com) is $120 on pricewatch.com...complete system for less than $400. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

[expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output error. Is there some limitation/issue with these packages

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas Sourmail
with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems with nfs and MS formats. I could save as staroffice/openoffice own formats on nfs, but got systematic crashes

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-03 Thread et
On Monday 03 February 2003 01:29 am, James Sparenberg wrote: BTW how is win2000 never tried it (seriously) let me tell you about a OS that bites... I run a SMP box, (p3 1000s) that is sweet with Mandrake SMP, and I used to show people how much slower winME was on the same box, (knowing full

Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 12:45 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Then let all go with the new VIA ITX MB's and we will all be fine. FYI, 933mhz embedded proc with everything included (www.viatech.com) is $120 on pricewatch.com...complete system for less than $400. They look good value for systems that

Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:45 -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: Then let all go with the new VIA ITX MB's and we will all be fine. FYI, 933mhz embedded proc with everything included (www.viatech.com) is $120 on pricewatch.com...complete system for less than $400. I'd really like to see 9.1 dealing

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 08:08 am, Thomas Sourmail wrote: with a beep and a General error input/output error. You are not trying to save on a fat32 partition, are you ? Apart from the fact that soffice won't read those, I had weird problems

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread et
try sending the starimpress presentation to me off list... let's see if the same thing happens here.. I have a starimpress presentation that I must save as a powerpoint presentation. Trying to do so from either staroffice 6.0 or OO 1.0.1 fails with a beep and a General error input/output

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:03 -0500, et wrote: try sending the starimpress presentation to me off list... let's see if the same thing happens here.. Send it to me too, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread et
more likely it may be you are attempting to run at your hard drives faster speeds than the MObo, chipset and drives can stand and they are getting noise and chatter and EMF On Monday 03 February 2003 07:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 12:27 pm, tarvid wrote: I am convinced

[expert] Beta 3 first impressions

2003-02-03 Thread falcaraz
Computer: Pentium III 800 MHz, 256Mb Ram, Nvidia Geforce 4, two hd, installation in hdb13 (rest of hdb for Mandrake 9.0; hda for windows (two partitions) and two additional partitions for linux (/otros and /pelis); hdc=LG CDRW 48x, hdd=dvd hitachi, usb printer (epson stylus color 760), parallel

[expert] Mandrake, Konsole and GNU screen xterm -

2003-02-03 Thread Mick Szucs
Hi All, Anyone else have this problem? If I run 'screen' inside Konsole during an xterm session (either locally or connected via SSH) the Konsole scrollback locks? The only way to move backward through history is through screen's clunky commands. Any ideas to get around this? I've found that

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Damian Gatabria
it doesn't work for me :( i put those lines at the end of my already-existing ~/.Xdefaults, logged out and logged back into kde. but i don't get anything other than the usual dull black cursor with a white outline. using kde3.0.3, mdk9, xfree 4.2.1. what could be wrong? i desparately want a

Re: [expert] Beta 3 first impressions

2003-02-03 Thread W. Kasberg
I had also some of those problems, eg. Timezone,printers,ISDN (but DSL was configured and works).- Upto now I could not install any printer (I have LaserJet6P, HP Deskjet990c and HP OfficeJet V40). They all are recognized, I can configure them but then an error like 'add-printer fails' comes.

Re: [expert] PHP 4.3.0 and GetText support?

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Check the php.net site. If this is included in their version it's a MDK bug, if not Then it may have been left out by oversite, or it may have a bug they can't/haven't fixed. Seems to me though that if they left it out they should have included a work around for the problem. James On Mon,

[expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-03 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Its a trivial question, but i cant find the answer, could someone tell me how to hide . prefixed dirs in samba please? I remember seeing an option in smb.conf but I can see it in the mdk9 version. Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-03 Thread civileme
On Monday 03 February 2003 04:13 am, et wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 01:29 am, James Sparenberg wrote: BTW how is win2000 never tried it (seriously) let me tell you about a OS that bites... I run a SMP box, (p3 1000s) that is sweet with Mandrake SMP, and I used to show people how

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Pradeor, Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I don't know why it did this. I've never been able to repeat it. It

[expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. I need help fast. Anyone with

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 5:53 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Its a trivial question, but i cant find the answer, could someone tell me how to hide . prefixed dirs in samba please? I remember seeing an option in smb.conf but I can see it in the mdk9 version. If you mean you don't want them seen on

RE: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Rob, Beautiful little board isn't it. I've got one I'm repairing (actually it's chassis I broke a wheel.) I installed it in a 1/10th scale car body . It's solid low noise and does anything you want except maybe hardcore gaming. LOVE IT! James On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 04:45, Robert Wideman

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:56 -0900, civileme wrote: I had a mandrake box with me, with a 40x12x48 CDRW and a very pedestrian SiS 630 chipset with a 1G Celeron and 256M Memory. I started burning a CD, then added an edit of a big text file (with OpenOffice) and configuring the machine to

Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Wobo, I've had it in the previos form. (800mhz version) for about 6 months. Not even a hiccup. Just gotta view the 9.0 errata for the install trick Only hiccup I've had is that the cdrom drive I bought doesn't like XP disks (I tried everything) Which to me just means it's a quality

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Pradeor, Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread et
ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. On Monday 03 February 2003 01:20 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800,

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. Hell's

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 03:37:37PM +0800, Franki wrote: there was one with apache getting loaded with apache 2 updates.. or at least trying... don't know of any other... apache2 is not in updates. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ lynx -source

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 13:45 -0500, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem. Just what I expected: On Monday 03 February 2003

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:46 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 February 2003 01:45 pm, et wrote: ok, here is the kick in the crotch I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 07:28:18PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas? Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You presume too much.

Re: [expert] PHP 4.3.0 and GetText support?

2003-02-03 Thread Seppo Järvinen
From php-4.3.0 config line (phpinfo()) --enable-gettext=/usr , but it misses --with-gettext, and there is no external module (yet). On 3 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: Check the php.net site. If this is included in their version it's a MDK bug, if not Then it may have been left out

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 07:40:27PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You presume too much. Tell us what got clobbered. My 9.0 machines, with all

[expert] ProFTPd

2003-02-03 Thread Jorris Graad
Hi, Now, I'm trying to build ftp server with ProFTPd. I want my ftp server only can be accessed by anonymous user from my local network. My ftp server has 10.0.0.1 as IP add. Please help me configuring it. thanks in advance, Ivo. _

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Seth Zirin
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 09:59, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: I REALLY need some fast help with a simple statistics question but I am not real strong on statistics. I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. I need help

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for the help...NOT. In any case, the OT DOES provide warning that it isn't ON TOPIC and you can read at your own risk. It sure beats the other OT thread on the list the other day. Be thankful. On Monday 03 February 2003 03:44 pm, Seth

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seth will be pleased to know I did acquire an answer by aid from this list, no less, which led me to a website which led me to a PERSON who was able to help me out with my specific situation. Thanks to those who did offer aid in various forms. On

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:51:40PM -0500 : Thank you for the help...NOT. In any case, the OT DOES provide warning that it isn't ON TOPIC and you can read at your own risk. It's also a flag to list owners that the

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread tarvid
I have a question regarding Fisher's exact: is it a legitimate test to run on a particular set of data I have. No statistical test is legitimate in the hands of the inexperienced. No statistical test is legimate in the hands of the experienced when they have an agenda. Mark Twain said

[expert]

2003-02-03 Thread hihorsenews
Hello expert, I have MDK 9.0 installed on hda, and Xandros on hdb. The Xandros boot loader detects MDK partition fine, and give me choice of which too boot. My question is, if i want to upgrade to a 9.x, how can i do it, without disturbing my boot loader? I tried to do it, with this

[expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
I installed Netscape 7 as root, creating a profile in the process. If I navigate to the appropriate directory to start Nscp7 as root I get the profile manager and can access that profile. If I start Nscp7 as a user it shares my Mozilla profile. This has caused me problems. Trouble is, I

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Ron Stodden
Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 07:40:27PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: Interestingly, a reinstall did not fix anything, like it does with Windows 98 (but _NOT_ always) - which is a serious requirements or design problem with the Mandrake installer. The installer goes with the

[expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-03 Thread Ron Stodden
What is KDE doing all this for when I run kpackage in a terminal? This situation existed long before my recently-reported system clobbering. [root@small ron]# kpackage _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-03 Thread et
so, ron, is there any change in te error mesages if you use su - instead of su? is that the only message, and does kpackage work? does it start at all? On Monday 03 February 2003 06:24 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: What is KDE doing all this for when I run kpackage in a terminal? This situation

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-03 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:24:03AM +1100 : What is KDE doing all this for when I run kpackage in a terminal? This situation existed long before my recently-reported system clobbering. [root@small ron]# kpackage

[expert] drakbackup

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Holt
Hey all, I've been trying to use drakbackup with both cdr's and rw's but I get FATAL: Does not appear to be recordable media! with both. I'm able to burn a disk with cdrecord - just drakbackup fails. Any suggestions? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA

Re: [expert]

2003-02-03 Thread civileme
On Monday 03 February 2003 01:00 pm, hihorsenews wrote: Hello expert, I have MDK 9.0 installed on hda, and Xandros on hdb. The Xandros boot loader detects MDK partition fine, and give me choice of which too boot. My question is, if i want to upgrade to a 9.x, how can i do it,

Re: [expert] OT Important! (to me) Any statisticians in the list?

2003-02-03 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 03 February 2003 04:06 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:51:40PM -0500 Thank you for the help...NOT. In any case, the OT DOES provide warning that it isn't ON TOPIC and you can read at

[expert] drakbackup

2003-02-03 Thread civileme
Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 DO NOT USE CDRW media

[expert] MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
What are the options of doing this? MDK9 with Apache 2 with Load Balancing I have 4-Win2k boxes doing this now with IIS but i want to convert it to Linux/BSD or some form there of. Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Holt
5:42pm, civileme mused: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking,

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:54, Ron Stodden wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 07:40:27PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: Interestingly, a reinstall did not fix anything, like it does with Windows 98 (but _NOT_ always) - which is a serious requirements or design problem with the

[expert] getting RPM headers

2003-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
can anyone tell me how to read the headers of the RPMs in Cooker Contrib without having to download the RPMs themselves read them locally? otherwise, how can you tell what the various programs are useful for? if i do have a local RPM, but it's not in the URPMI database, is there any way to read

[expert] KDE and Gnome, working together following RH8

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
Slashdot posting KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines GNU is Not UnixPosted by timothy on Monday February 03, @02:35PM from the which-is-smart dept. An anonymous reader submits Competing infrastructures may foster improvement in each desktop, but the Gnome and KDE hackers still know how

[expert] Be a leader, not a follower. OT too, kinda,,,

2003-02-03 Thread et
I would like to thank Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] who posted this last weekend, and now has it working for even those of us on Earthlink-mindspring Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is

Re: Disk corruption - was Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 03 February 2003 05:27 am, tarvid wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 03:40 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: Sure, but everything tested out fine with the secteam, with QA, and with me. Without knowing the symtomd (nevermind the packages), how can we fix it? You

Re: [expert] Staroffice/openoffice problem

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Anne .. whith me being blind in one eye and unable to see from the other do you happen to have the url. I do use Asian fonts on occasion and have had trouble. Thanks. James On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:55, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:46 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Netscape Profiles

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
Anne just a thought here that might work mv .mozilla to mozilla (removing the leading dot) so you don't lose anything. Then start NS7 first. Since it won't have a . file to access it will have to create it's own. Then start mozilla it should read the .netscape7 file and import the profile

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-03 Thread civileme
On Monday 03 February 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Holt wrote: 5:42pm, civileme mused: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Feb 04, 2003 at 09:54:32AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: Interestingly, a reinstall did not fix anything, like it does with Windows 98 (but _NOT_ always) - which is a serious requirements or design problem with the Mandrake installer. The installer goes with the packages it's

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Feb 03, 2003 at 08:44:59PM -0800, Jack Coates wrote: [...] My point is that Win 98 does this. Plainly, or fortuitously, it was an important requirement and goal of installer implementation. That may be the intention, but a reinstall of Windows over the same partition has

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-03 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:07, civileme wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Holt wrote: 5:42pm, civileme mused: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a

[expert] Chkrootkit - wted deletions

2003-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Here's what happened when I ran chkrootkit on my main system: === quote === # chkrootkit output snipped eth0 is not promisc Checking `wted'... 3 deletion(s) between Tue Oct 22 22:40:28 2002 and Fri Oct 26 22:48:32 1990 7 deletion(s) between Sat Jan 12 23:20:01 1918 and Sat Jan 4 08:39:44

Re: [expert] drakbackup

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Holt
9:07pm, civileme mused: Umm, I just moved the Acer Drive to my son's computer (he uses the unmentionable system in its latest incarnation) and it behaves the same--choking on CDRW disks, so I imagine it is unresolved hardware issues with the druive hardware and the brand of media (one