[expert] Laptop NFS

2003-09-14 Thread John Haywood
I´ve just set up my file server to do NFS to make life easier in keeping track of data (I use Linux/windows, Mac laptop boxes all together at home), and I have one last point where there seem to be conflicting views: The server is not always available (have to shut it down at night or nobody

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:36:57 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As described on the MDK page, I don't have a problem with this. Anything that keeps MDK going and doesn't make it too annoying is OK by me. I can always remove the bookmarks folder and change the screensaver. If that

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the retailer, so all awaits its return after 1 - 2 wk . Let

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 8:57 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:36:57 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As described on the MDK page, I don't have a problem with this. Anything that keeps MDK going and doesn't make it too annoying is OK by me. I can always remove

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 12:32 am, diego wrote: El sáb, 13-09-2003 a las 22:45, Anne Wilson escribió: I thought of scsi2, but it's very expensive, so it would have to be worth a lot more. I planned a 7200 120GB disk. It would have very little on apart from the needs of the job. Have you

Re: [expert] kmail frustration

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 11:21 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:00, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 00:03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 8:00 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ignore that. It was the connection between chair and keyboard again. Anne

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 01:18 schrieb ed tharp: I wonder if the my current 1.1Ghz Duron main machine i get around 7 frames per second, a 1400 Athlon gets around 14 frames per second is capture? sounds like crap to me you need 28 frames a sec capture to have halfway decent video,

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:23 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: OK - sound isn't a problem then. So, video card and capture? There are two issues here - vhs and the current camcorder's analogue signal, for which I have been advised to use a

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 10:30 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 01:18 schrieb ed tharp: I wonder if the my current 1.1Ghz Duron main machine i get around 7 frames per second, a 1400 Athlon gets around 14 frames per second is capture? sounds like crap to me you

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:19, Anne Wilson wrote: What I would be less happy with is repeated 'reminders', or pop-ups, as Lee said, but there's no indication that this is likely to happen. I must confess one thing that has really stunned me is that some reactions in the Linux coummunity have

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 01:36, lorne wrote: On Saturday 13 September 2003 08:26 am, lorne wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 10:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:05, lorne wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 01:11 pm, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Been useing it for about 4

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Damon Lynch schrieb am Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:08:55 +1200: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:19, Anne Wilson wrote: What I would be less happy with is repeated 'reminders', or pop-ups, as Lee said, but there's no indication that this is likely to happen. I must confess one thing that has really

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 12:09 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Damon Lynch schrieb am Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:08:55 +1200: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:19, Anne Wilson wrote: What I would be less happy with is repeated 'reminders', or pop-ups, as Lee said, but there's no indication that this is likely to

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:23 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: OK - sound isn't a problem then. So, video card and capture? There are two issues here - vhs and the current camcorder's analogue

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:30, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 01:18 schrieb ed tharp: I wonder if the my current 1.1Ghz Duron main machine i get around 7 frames per second, a 1400 Athlon gets around 14 frames per second is capture? sounds like crap to me you need

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:10, Philip Webb wrote: 030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Frank Cote
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 07:14, Anne Wilson wrote: I have noticed that compulsive knee-jerks are a common phenomenon in certain sections of the linux community g Anne coming in late in the thread (missed a few) I've noticed a lot of knee-jerk reactions elsewhere on this as well, but I think

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon plus MB

2003-09-14 Thread Udo Rader
Am Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:35:01 + schrieb Ronald J. Hall: Anyone on this list have one of these boards, and if yes, then have you ever recorded anything using the line-in jack? I've got some older (20+ years) cassettes that I'm trying to convert to .ogg using Gramofile and oggenc.

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, you wrote: 030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Peter Watson
Anne i'm not clear what you actually intend to do, but my experience may be of interest to you. I rip DVD's using DVD::rip and capture video from my mini dv camcorder using the firewire port on my audigy sound card and kino. Both of these are easily accomplised with an Athlon 2100. A one hour

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 3:00 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Anne i'm not clear what you actually intend to do, but my experience may be of interest to you. I rip DVD's using DVD::rip and capture video from my mini dv camcorder using the firewire port on my audigy sound card and kino. Both of these

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:21 pm, Frank Cote wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 07:14, Anne Wilson wrote: I have noticed that compulsive knee-jerks are a common phenomenon in certain sections of the linux community g I've noticed a lot of knee-jerk reactions elsewhere on this as well, but I think

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, Philip Webb wrote: [ cc to Mdk Expert, in case anyone else has helpful advice ] the retailer -- to whom i returned the Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 mobo -- told me that Soyo had recalled them were replacing them with new ones. last week, i picked up a mobo,

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 ed tharp wrote: i have now reassembled the box tried it out. it seems to be an improvement at the BIOS level: it recognises the processor as 'AMD XP 2500+' (correctly) defaults the DRAM clock to 166 MHz (previously it set it to 133 MHz ). however, there's a new problem: Linux

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 Greg Meyer wrote: What does your lilo.conf look like? Remember that board has to boot with 'noapic acpi=off'. assuming nothing has happened to the HD files, lilo.conf still has the 'noapic acpi=off' item. nothing should have changed on the HDD, which has remained in the box during the

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 Bryan Phinney wrote: Not really sure which board you have. I have a Soyo Dragon KT400 Ultra Platinum. Soyo Dragon Ultra Black KT400 ( 1 below the Platinum IIRC). I have always had problems with the Hpt372 RAID controller on the board I get a kernel panic everytime I boot when the

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: What does your lilo.conf look like? Remember that board has to boot with 'noapic acpi=off'. assuming nothing has happened to the HD files, lilo.conf still has the 'noapic acpi=off' item. nothing should have changed on the HDD, which has remained

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:41 am, Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Bryan Phinney wrote: Not really sure which board you have. I have a Soyo Dragon KT400 Ultra Platinum. Soyo Dragon Ultra Black KT400 ( 1 below the Platinum IIRC). I have always had problems with the Hpt372 RAID controller on

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread diego
El dom, 14-09-2003 a las 11:25, Anne Wilson escribió: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 12:32 am, diego wrote: El sáb, 13-09-2003 a las 22:45, Anne Wilson escribió: I thought of scsi2, but it's very expensive, so it would have to be worth a lot more. I planned a 7200 120GB disk. It would have

[expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't do file send/receive (I don't need any protocol just dump out and capture.) I

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-14 Thread lorne
On Saturday 13 September 2003 09:15 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Something must be wrong then. It is a 4 minute song and it doesn't matter what the zoom is and nothing I do causes it to progress like it should. Weird. It would seem so. Are you importing the mp3 directly, rr is it in a wav? I

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Dave Sherman
Richard Urwin wrote: I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't do file send/receive (I don't need any protocol just dump

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
Richard Urwin wrote: I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't do file send/receive (I don't need any protocol just dump

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread lorne
On Sunday 14 September 2003 08:00 am, diego wrote: El dom, 14-09-2003 a las 11:25, Anne Wilson escribió: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 12:32 am, diego wrote: El sáb, 13-09-2003 a las 22:45, Anne Wilson escribió: I thought of scsi2, but it's very expensive, so it would have to be worth a lot

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:48, lorne wrote: ... One thing everyone need to remember is that the IDE raid solutions that are available right now aren't really raid as most have come to expect raid. They use cpu processor power. This puts an extra load on the processor. The scsi raid systems

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 08:00, diego wrote: ... That's not true, I'll show the most interesting cases in brief. Let say you have a HD and it's running out of space, so you buy another one. Then you'll have some programs/data in one and some in the other, but in general you are only accessing one

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:35, Richard Urwin wrote: I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't do file send/receive (I

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread diego
El dom, 14-09-2003 a las 19:48, lorne escribió: On Sunday 14 September 2003 08:00 am, diego wrote: El dom, 14-09-2003 a las 11:25, Anne Wilson escribió: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 12:32 am, diego wrote: El sáb, 13-09-2003 a las 22:45, Anne Wilson escribió: I thought of scsi2, but it's

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. I have experienced Yes, this is

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 7:14 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:48, lorne wrote: ... One thing everyone need to remember is that the IDE raid solutions that are available right now aren't really raid as most have come to expect raid. They use cpu processor power. This puts an

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 12:33 am, Charlie M. wrote: September 11, 2003 12:16 am, James Sparenberg wrote: whack Charlie, what do you think the chances are the 2.6 would run on 9.1? (I won't even ask about Win4Lin enabling it *grin*) I need to do

[expert] Whoa there... (was: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.)

2003-09-14 Thread T. Ribbrock
...hold it right there. Ok. Time to take a step back, take a deep breath and de-escalate this discussion. Upon re-reading, I realize, that some of my comments were ill-written and easily be taken as inflammatory. For this I offer my apologies. Cudos to those who were still able to come up with

Re: [expert] Whoa there... (was: (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.)

2003-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:29:16 +0200: I see Open Source/Free Software as a community effort, something that has fascinated me right from the start - especially as contrast to the 'doze world. My loyalty is to that community effort, and I live up to it within the limited

Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound

2003-09-14 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Anne, When you've time, Trish, could you write up the link on the TWiki sound page? Thanks Added to SoundTips. 8-) -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 3 days and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 6:45 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I need a serial terminal program to talk to a microcontroller programmer I have just acquired. After googling for half an hour or so there seemed to be only one: Minicom. It's a console-based beastie and it doesn't

[expert] Can't post to newsgroups in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-14 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
It's weird. None of my posts show up no matter what reader I use (pan, mozilla, knode). The newsreaders seem to send fine, but the post never shows up. It works fine in redhat though. I've tried shutting down iptables with /etc/init.d/iptables stop, to no avail. Weird thing is, I can

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
030914 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. Yes, this

[expert] Draksec problem

2003-09-14 Thread Alexandre Jacarandá
Hi everybody!!! What's the problem with draksec on mandrake 9.1 ? How can I configure it ? When I configure and change some configuration, this configuration don't work, like on mandrake 9.0 . Any help will be welcome!!! --- Alexandre Gonçalves Jacarandá

Re: [expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake

2003-09-14 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, Since placing the question to the mailing list about the Epox EP-8RDA3+Socket A motherboard with a Nforce chipset and SATA support, I thought I better let people know how I went.. First up I tried the board with SATA drives, and installed Mandrake 9.1, I had 2 SATA 80Gig Seagates

[expert] Partitions

2003-09-14 Thread Gary Montalbine
The saga continues. I have been reading my copy of the 9.1 Mandrake The Definitive Manual or in my case the confusion manual. To review I installed 9.2 on my second HD and got it bootable. Now I am trying to back up certain files from my /home directory using drakbackup. The default directory for

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:14 pm, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: I have noticed that compulsive knee-jerks are a common phenomenon in certain sections of the linux community g Anne In certain sections of all communities. It is the lynch mob mentality, carried along by a self created

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:31 am, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:21 pm, Frank Cote wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 07:14, Anne Wilson wrote: I have noticed that compulsive knee-jerks are a common phenomenon in certain sections of the linux community g I've

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Larry Sword
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone offer clarific'n ?

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone

[expert] HELP!! Opening firewall ports to allow conter strike online gaming...

2003-09-14 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi everyone, I am running an ipchains firewall on my router. I have most ports closed, but I need to open the counter strike port to play online games I dont know exactly what port this involves. Can somebody give me the proper rules to allow my CS client to connect to servers and be able to play

[expert] urpmi not reading Mandrake CDs properly

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to install wine from my 9.1 CDs, which I believe are properly burned, as I can read them in Konqueror. Urpmi is ejecting the CD, and telling me that I need to install a different cd. I am assuming that some configuration file is corrupt, and I need to update urpmi for the CDs. I