[expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread Helge Hielscher
Am Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:03:22 +1000 schrieb Mark Williamson: I tried using the cdrecord-dvdhack on a late very late model Sony DVD-RW device, but all it did was failed, it just couldn't recognise the media.. later i switched to growiosfs, and used that with Mondo backup, with full success

[expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread Helge Hielscher
Am Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:59:32 -0400 schrieb Byron Poland: You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. Where can I get the RPM? I couldnt find it in http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com Regards, Helge Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
I get a single page shown and it is strangely compressed vertically. Taking out the dot-for-dot cures that, but I can't see any way of getting the other pages. Anne On Monday 18 Aug 2003 10:04 pm, Miark wrote: The GIMP seems to handle everything under the sun. Any luck there? Miark On

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
That's an interesting one. I had seen display on the menu, but it didn't seem to do anything. After reading yours I tried it from cli and you are right - it opens them. The only problem is that it is vertically compressed. In Gimp unselecting dot-for-dot displays it correctly, but I only

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 18 Aug 2003 11:03 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:12, Anne Wilson wrote: Another mail, sent last Friday, that I haven't seen on the lists: I occasionally need to view a multi-page tif - a fax to email document - and embarrassingly have to take it to the awful

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 11:01 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 11:49 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Monday 18 Aug 2003 11:03 pm, Jack Coates wrote: tiff2ps -a2 fax.tif | lpr So multipage TIFF = PS should work. this works great -- program is in the

[expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi all, Mandrake has no hardware requirements for monitor size or resolution. I have a 13 inch monitor which supports only a resolution of 640x480. Some KDE screens give me big problems with this, e.g. Konqueror Search and Panel taskbar configuration. When I file a bug at KDE I get as an answer

[expert] lkcd kernel patch

2003-08-19 Thread a . ranu
hi... i am running kernel version 2.4.19 and the lkcd patch for it is not available at lkcd.sourceforge.net does anyone know where to get it? or can i use the patch for 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 without problems arising later on... thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:10, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 18 Aug 2003 9:03 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:52, Anne Wilson wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet

[expert] brouser gets redirected

2003-08-19 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java, javascript and popups with no luck. Several windows friends using explorer don't have this problem.

Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Rambo
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:02, Mike Rambo wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:07, Jack Coates wrote: About as OT as it comes, sadly... I'm needing to use an RH system, and I find that urpmi has me massively spoiled. Is there anything like it or a port of it for RH7.3? The old rpmfind/google

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:49, Anne Wilson wrote: ... OK - installed it. I wanted to try saving it as a ps, as well as printing it, and the results are very strange. In the saved file, konqueror can display the front page iconised, but KGhostView says there is only 1 page, and it displays

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:47, David Guntner wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process in a way which would leave them sitting in a shell, but since

Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Helge Hielscher wrote: Am Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:59:32 -0400 schrieb Byron Poland: You need to install cdrecord-dvdhack this is what Mandrake has in it's distribution for burning dvd's. Where can I get the RPM? I couldnt find it in http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com Regards, Helge I am seeing it in

Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread David Rankin
What's wrong with: rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/393682/ com/cdrecord-dvdhack-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm.html -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: Helge Hielscher [EMAIL

[expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Felix Miata
I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know of good coverage on using Highpoint motherboard RAID with Mandrake? -- A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 3:02 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:49, Anne Wilson wrote: ... OK - installed it. I wanted to try saving it as a ps, as well as printing it, and the results are very strange. In the saved file, konqueror can display the front page iconised, but

Re: [expert] Experiences with add on large disks IDE controllers

2003-08-19 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Hi, Have you considered this: http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=112familyId=2 We have a bunch of the RM8000 hosting upto 12TB on Mandy. _Thanks Richard --- Peter Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have to put together a system which has 2 or 4 180Gb+

Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions

2003-08-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 22:11, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: apt-get for rpm. Check out www.freshrpms.net. I've used it before, and it's actually better than urpmi (the servers are more reliable and it takes less time to update sources). Jeremy Gregorio Tried it, it's okay. The problem

RE: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Frankie
Actually if you put XP or 2000 (or possibly even 98/ME) on your machine you will very likely have problems also.. Many windows apps will pop up a message to the effect: you must be running 800x600 or above and 16 bit color to use this application. after which the installer will exit. Besides,

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Felix Miata wrote: I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know of good coverage on using Highpoint motherboard RAID with Mandrake? Have

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:51 am, Felix Miata wrote: I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know of good coverage on using Highpoint motherboard RAID with

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi Frankie, On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:01:15 +0800, Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about RE: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake: Actually if you put XP or 2000 (or possibly even 98/ME) on your machine you will very likely have problems also.. Many windows apps will pop up a

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Miark
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:08:21 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I being forced to buy a pricy monitor to be able to continue using Linux? I can`t believe that. Long ago when I was using Windows I hardly had such a problem, at least not with M$ programs, but I never want to go back

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 4:38 pm, Miark wrote: Hell, find an active computer nut, and he'll probably give you one in exchange for a pizza. LOL - if he lived nearer I'd even do that - but shipping is too expensive. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread David Rankin
Also, Don't forget to check the obvious! Sometimes the little fans in the router or hub or switch quits and this can give you nightmares trying to figure out what is going on. I have had one die and the hub kept working fine until the traffic load got heavy which would cause the heat load

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 8:22 pm, David Rankin wrote: Also, Don't forget to check the obvious! Sometimes the little fans in the router or hub or switch quits and this can give you nightmares trying to figure out what is going on. I have had one die and the hub kept working fine until the

[expert] booting over 8GB Limit

2003-08-19 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Hi all, A few linux versions ago I remember you had to have your boot partition under 8GB to boot. Since one of my systems is dual boot and linux was installed after winblows, I had to leave the first partition to be for it and only resized it to 7.5GB and set the boot partition right after

[expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-19 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Sorry if this might come up twice in the list, but for some strange reasonI sent the message yesterday and it didn't appear yet in the list. On the other hand the message I sent today appeared in a few mins, so I will suppose the message got lost somehow on the way and post it again. Sorry

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Richard
On Tuesday 19.August.2003 11:08 am, Dick Gevers wrote: Hi all, Mandrake has no hardware requirements for monitor size or resolution. I have a 13 inch monitor which supports only a resolution of 640x480. . . . hardly had such a problem, at least not with M$ programs, but I never want to go

[expert] shorewall and microsoft pocket pc 2002 (ipaq)

2003-08-19 Thread manolis
Hi , I have a problem with my pocket pc 2002 and shorewall config. I have opened the ports (990,5678,5679) and the pocket is working fine with synce for linux! I want to give to the pocket pc internet access through my firewall. I am newbie in linux and had stuck in this point. Here is my

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-19 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Wow, Can go with mindi/mondo (urpmi mind) would take care of it. Or, in my case, buy a cheapo drive $30.00 gives u 40Gb nowadays, and tar cf /dev/hdb/root.tar / for i in /usr /var /opt /home /whateverfilesystem do tar cf /mnt/hdb/$i $i done So if hda dies, all u do is replace it, and boot

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:38 am, Miark wrote: As for being forced to buy a pricy monitor I think you're being overly dramatic. You can buy a new monitor, at the same physical size as your existing monitor, and with much better resolution and image quality for less than $100, shipped. You

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-19 Thread kwan
the backup files do not fit the packages versions. So I was kinda wondering if there is such thing as a backup where to restore the whole system (including OS itself) you'd put the backup CD in and let it restore installer like. So without having to install linux first. This might also prove

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread kwan
Mandrake has no hardware requirements for monitor size or resolution. I have a 13 inch monitor which supports only a resolution of 640x480. . . . hardly had such a problem, at least not with M$ programs, but I never want to go back to Windows, if I can avoid it. A larger video monitor I

[expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and try each nameserver before giving up but the Net::DNS perl module is not

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Bryan Phinney wrote: I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and try each nameserver before giving up but the Net::DNS

Re: [expert] brouser gets redirected

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:39 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java, javascript and popups with no luck.

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-19 Thread Damien
I can confirm this kind of primitive cloning works perfectly. All you have to do during full backup is to omit special directories : - /proc - /tmp - /mnt = tar czf everything_on_hda.tar.gz --exclude /tmp --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt / If your source drive (hda ?) is *very* huge/full, you can

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: I have a Hpt372 on my motherboard and had to turn it off in the BIOS since with standard 9.1, it causes a kernel panic that kills Mandrake. I did recompile the kernel with the Highpoint drivers and got it to the point where it wouldn't

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:22, David Rankin wrote: Also, Don't forget to check the obvious! Sometimes the little fans in the router or hub or switch quits and this can give you nightmares trying to figure out what is going on. I have had one die and the hub kept working fine until the

Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:59, Helge Hielscher wrote: Am Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:03:22 +1000 schrieb Mark Williamson: I tried using the cdrecord-dvdhack on a late very late model Sony DVD-RW device, but all it did was failed, it just couldn't recognise the media.. later i switched to

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Meyer wrote: I have a 372 on my Motherboard, Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra that works fine as a standard ATA controller. RAID can then be achieved with the Linux RAID-tools. Are you sure it is the Highpoint COntroller causing the kernel panic and not the APIC or something. What I want

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:18, Anne Wilson wrote: That's an interesting one. I had seen display on the menu, but it didn't seem to do anything. After reading yours I tried it from cli and you are right - it opens them. The only problem is that it is vertically compressed. In Gimp

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:54, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 3:02 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:49, Anne Wilson wrote: ... OK - installed it. I wanted to try saving it as a ps, as well as printing it, and the results are very strange. In the saved

Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 07:05, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 22:11, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: apt-get for rpm. Check out www.freshrpms.net. I've used it before, and it's actually better than urpmi (the servers are more reliable and it takes less time to update sources).

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a 372 on my Motherboard, Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra that works fine as a standard ATA controller. RAID can then be achieved with the Linux RAID-tools. Are you sure it is the Highpoint COntroller causing the kernel panic and not the

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:08, Dick Gevers wrote: Hi all, Mandrake has no hardware requirements for monitor size or resolution. I have a 13 inch monitor which supports only a resolution of 640x480. Some KDE screens give me big problems with this, e.g. Konqueror Search and Panel taskbar

Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions

2003-08-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:49, James Sparenberg wrote: ...source. by the way, your clock is six months behind. Jack are you shure he isn't just a Jethro Tull fan? (Living in the Past) James aka the sick joke king whoah... talk about a blast from the past. Now them's memories :-) of

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Carlos A. Siso
Anne: I had the same problems and fixed it converting the .ps files to .pdf. Additionally, using the .pdf format allow people on windows workstations to view the fax (with acrobat reader). Try converting the ps files to PDF. I had the same problees El Tuesday 19 August 2003 06:53, Anne Wilson

Re: [expert] brouser gets redirected

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:39, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java, javascript and popups with no luck. Several

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:37, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and

Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:03, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:49, James Sparenberg wrote: ...source. by the way, your clock is six months behind. Jack are you shure he isn't just a Jethro Tull fan? (Living in the Past) James aka the sick joke king whoah...

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:50 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a 372 on my Motherboard, Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra that works fine as a standard ATA controller. RAID can then be achieved with the Linux RAID-tools. Are you sure it is

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:51 am, Felix Miata wrote: I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know of good coverage on using Highpoint motherboard RAID with

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:47, David Guntner wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process in a way

[expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
A friend of mine, who is also using Mandrake Linux 9.1, is one of those happy job hunters who has registered with Monster.com. This includes access to emailed FAXes sent via efax.com, where you can get Windows based software (only) that wants Internet Exploder, er, Explorer, loaded. Etc.,

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Byron Poland
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:12, Anne Wilson wrote: Another mail, sent last Friday, that I haven't seen on the lists: I occasionally need to view a multi-page tif - a fax to email document - and embarrassingly have to take it to the awful windows imaging program to view it. Surely there is

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:05, David Guntner wrote: Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:47, David Guntner wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible

Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-19 Thread Fred Fraley
On Friday 15 August 2003 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x days? I can't find it. Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the pan-users mailing list. If you don't want to get swamped with the list (15-20/day), just post the question and foll

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:13, David Guntner wrote: A friend of mine, who is also using Mandrake Linux 9.1, is one of those happy job hunters who has registered with Monster.com. This includes access to emailed FAXes sent via efax.com, where you can get Windows based software (only) that

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:51, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:13, David Guntner wrote: A friend of mine, who is also using Mandrake Linux 9.1, is one of those happy job hunters who has registered with Monster.com. This includes access to emailed FAXes sent via efax.com,

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread Eric Huff
I am not sure, but i think the linux program efax is not compatible with efax the company's .efx file. Has anyone been able to open up www.efax.com docs in linux? I tried before to work this out and couldn't... eric On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:51:26 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread Jack Coates
crossover handles these like a champ -- costs some bucks, but it does the job. On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:05, Eric Huff wrote: I am not sure, but i think the linux program efax is not compatible with efax the company's .efx file. Has anyone been able to open up www.efax.com docs in linux? I

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Jim C
There is an interesting article in Linux Magazine's June edition that may pertain to this. The subject is a project called RULE (Run Up-to-date Linux Everywhere). It comes with an XFree86 replacement called Kdrive that may be of interest. Jim C. Dick Gevers wrote: Hi all, Mandrake has no

Re: [expert] booting over 8GB Limit

2003-08-19 Thread Jim C
USB 2.0 external hard drive? Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi all, A few linux versions ago I remember you had to have your boot partition under 8GB to boot. Since one of my systems is dual boot and linux was installed after winblows, I had to leave the first partition to be for it and only resized

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-19 Thread Jim C
I used a USB 2.0 external hard drive with rsync. Had to use rsync because I wanted the file system on the external to be FAT32 for cross compatibility. If the drive were say twice as large I would have just created two partitions and had one of each ReiserFS and FAT32. The resulting

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Phinney wanted us to know: I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name server. Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this

[expert] RE: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Fisher
Frankie wrote: Actually if you put XP or 2000 (or possibly even 98/ME) on your machine you will very likely have problems also.. Many windows apps will pop up a message to the effect: you must be running 800x600 or above and 16 bit color to use this application. after which the installer

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 19, 2003 at 07:31:02PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process in a way which would leave them

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 1:38 am, James Sparenberg wrote: 2. If they try to give you an intelligent sounding answer they are full of it. Hang up... call back and talk to another person. 3. The level at which you can piss them off is directly related to the end of their knowledge. The

Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 2:47 am, Fred Fraley wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x days? I can't find it. Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the pan-users mailing list. If you don't want to get swamped

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: crossover handles these like a champ -- costs some bucks, but it does the job. Ok, so what is crossover, and where does one get it? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 1:41 am, James Sparenberg wrote: just curious here. But couldn't kfax read them? (dunno don't have a dialup modem.) Aren't simple answers always the best? I'd never tried kfax. I had to hunt to find it. I would have expected it to be in the Office section of the

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 2:09 am, Carlos A. Siso wrote: Anne: I had the same problems and fixed it converting the .ps files to .pdf. Additionally, using the .pdf format allow people on windows workstations to view the fax (with acrobat reader). Try converting the ps files to PDF. I had the

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 3:11 am, Byron Poland wrote: In libtiff-progs is the program tiffsplit: from man tiffsplit NAME tiffsplit - split a multi-image TIFF into single-image TIFF files I've used this and tiffcp from the same package to do some pretty big jobs at work where we

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I don't think that will work as you'll need to be root to chroot IIRC. What you could do is write a script that does the chroot and call it via sudo, then do something like /usr/bin/sudo /somescript/chrootuser which does the chroot call as root.

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:17, David Guntner wrote: Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: crossover handles these like a champ -- costs some bucks, but it does the job. Ok, so what is crossover, and where does one get it? --Dave Codeweavers product variant on

Re: [expert] Pan articles expiry

2003-08-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:13, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 2:47 am, Fred Fraley wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there not a way to tell Pan to delete all articles older than x days? I can't find it. Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
Eric Huff grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I am not sure, but i think the linux program efax is not compatible with efax the company's .efx file. Has anyone been able to open up www.efax.com docs in linux? I tried before to work this out and couldn't... Yea, that's pretty much what prompted

[expert] Periodic Backup of files to a W2K fat32 partition

2003-08-19 Thread Rob Lindsay
Hi All, I am still running a dual boot dual drive MDK9.1/W2K computer. Need the windoze for Net2Phone alone at this stage - not quite true - I also use it for Photoshop 5.5 because my Wine Photoshop 5.5 installation while working does not save! I keep all my important files in a folder

[expert] Experiences with add on large disks IDE controllers

2003-08-19 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi All I have to put together a system which has 2 or 4 180Gb+ disks and I guess I am a little concerned that I may end up with a system board which half works with 9.1 and does not properly work with the large disks either. So I am intending to use a system I already have Biostar mobo M7MKA and