Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:49, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3696 days Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running.

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread s
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too many parameters. I'm trying trickle right now to see if I can throttle it that way. you are right though...

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:31, s wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too many parameters. I'm trying trickle right now to see if I can

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-15 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:04:51 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless

Re: [expert] test - do not read.

2003-10-15 Thread Anton
So you mean it was this that I wasn't supposed to read, or one of the previous two? A :-{) Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I said don't read. Are you blind? - -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-15 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a checkinstall make install. This will build an rpm from the install process

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread s
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:28 am, James Sparenberg wrote: for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too many parameters. yep, I got that too. I ended up editing the

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3696 days James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:31, s wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too many

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-15 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:21:32 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: They aren't MDK Lint compliant. (no changelog etc) but they are rpms that work on your system. Lint? Maybe when you see my other question... ;-) I'll go do some reading now, Texstar has an RPM how-to on

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-15 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. I found this site: http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines apparently, the max I can get for

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:49 am, Vox wrote: I tried doing that, but I'm getting a weird error from it...if anybody's got a clue, I'd be happy :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox]$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 /home/vox/mytorrent-vox.torrent These errors occurred during execution:

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-15 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:53 pm, L.V.Gandhi graced me with: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 7:19 pm, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I have good luck with Thinkpad R40 and Mandrake 9.1. I did upgrade its kernel to the latest, and DRI. -turgut can you give some more info on cpu, chipset, video system? I

[expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
I'm going nuts ! I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages. All the RPMS installed and bittorrent3.3.2, and the gui version. I'm running Gnome here so on the menus under networkingfile transfer I have 2 icons, One for bittorrent creator, and the other for bittorrent

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-15 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Mine is a Dell Inspiron 8100, NVidia Graphics, Pentium III 1ghz, 256 MB RAm.30Gb Harddrive (10NTFS, 10FAT32 shared writing btwn the two OS's, 10 Reiserfs, including root+boot)(Hitachi DK23DA), 3Com Mini PCI adapter, ACPI, LG DVD-ROm and TEAC CD-W216E, Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad mice (works

[expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Axtell
Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to find out much about this. Is there any software that makes this easy? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[expert] decoding DTMF

2003-10-15 Thread Kum Gábor
Hi! Could you tell me how can I decode DTMF codes with a sound card? Thanks, Gabor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Mark
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:38, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! James Hmm your the lucky ones, no matter what I try I get Problem connecting

[expert] 9.2 and Windows Compatibility

2003-10-15 Thread HaywireMac
I was going to send a link to some friends about the availability of this Discovery Edition, but there's one thing I'd like to clarify, if anyone can. It claims: 9- Compatibility: Run Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer simultaneously What exactly does this mean? Simultaneously

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Miark
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:50:40 -0700, Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on www.madrakeusers.org that everyone it downloading awfully slow. I was pulling it down at 200KB/s most of the time. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] 9.2 md5sums

2003-10-15 Thread Miark
I got the following md5sums. Does anybody concur? 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e MandrakeLinux-9.2-18-Download-2.i586.iso 2b6ffc5957533c927f14197ec99a0372 MandrakeLinux-9.2-19-Download-3.i586.iso Miark Want to buy

Re: [expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:12 am, Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to find out much about this. Is there any software that makes this

Re: [expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have a corrupt tar file from way back: /stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ tar -xvf KEEP.TAR keep/ keep/c/ keep/c/arrays.c tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [...] Any idea how to get around this? I

Re: [expert] decoding DTMF

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Could you tell me how can I decode DTMF codes with a sound card? There's a project in the following link that might do what you're looking for: http://telephonectld.sourceforge.net/ -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

[expert] More postfix testing...help?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As it would be dangerous to make a broad request and potentially fill up my inbox with helpful replies, I direct this to a few specific individuals: James Sparenberg, Bryan Phinney, and Jack Coates. I request that the three of you send me a

Re: [expert] More postfix testing...help?

2003-10-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:13 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: As it would be dangerous to make a broad request and potentially fill up my inbox with helpful replies, I direct this to a few specific individuals: James Sparenberg, Bryan Phinney, and Jack Coates. I request that the three of

Re: [expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread Eric Fernandez
Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to find out much about this. Is there any software that makes this easy?

[expert] Kernel Errors every Now and Then

2003-10-15 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0082 Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: *pde = Usually system hangs for a while, then after some minutes, goes back into operation mode. During hang, ofcourse, no ps or top or w, anything,

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:35 am, Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:38, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! James Hmm your the lucky

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:37 am, Richard Bown wrote: I'm going nuts ! I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages. All the RPMS installed and bittorrent3.3.2, and the gui version. I'm running Gnome here so on the menus under networkingfile transfer I have 2

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Windows Compatibility

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:31 am, HaywireMac wrote: I was going to send a link to some friends about the availability of this Discovery Edition, but there's one thing I'd like to clarify, if anyone can. It claims: 9- Compatibility: Run Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer

Re: [expert] More postfix testing...help?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you. I am still waiting for it to appear (it's taking its sweet time). I'll give it a while before I assume it vanished into nowhere). On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:17 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:13 am,

Re: [expert] 9.2 md5sums

2003-10-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Miark wrote: I got the following md5sums. Does anybody concur? 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e MandrakeLinux-9.2-18-Download-2.i586.iso 2b6ffc5957533c927f14197ec99a0372 MandrakeLinux-9.2-19-Download-3.i586.iso Miark

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Mark
Hmm your the lucky ones, no matter what I try I get Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found Now I am on the Optus cable network in Australia, can't quite workout what is the problem, I have tried everything, but the Optus network does block some ports.. I

Re: [expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 14:12, Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to find out much about this.

Re: [expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-15 Thread Eric Huff
I have a corrupt tar file from way back: Try running file against the archive to determine if it's actually a tar archive: file KEEP.TAR It's definitely a tar file. Let's see what file says (never used that before) : /stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ file KEEP.TAR KEEP.TAR: POSIX tar

[expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK Bryan, your message has still not arrived and I see no sign of it in my syslogs so I think it is either bogged down on the net somewhere or has simply vanished. Here is an excerpt from my syslog indicating the arrival of two messages, neither

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Tibor Pittich
On 15. October 2003 at 10:29, Greg Meyer wrote: Your ISP is probably forcing you through a transparent proxy, so the tracker cannot get your real ip address. There is a lot of discussion on the Club about this. doesn't help this option? --ip/-i arg ip to report you have to the

[expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just do not ever see messages that pass through spamassassin regardless of whether they are spam or not. My current /etc/procmailrc contains: - --- :0: * !email address * !list address * !etc, etc * 256000 | spamc -f

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there Richard On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:30, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:37 am, Richard Bown wrote: I'm going nuts ! I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages.

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:14 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK Bryan, your message has still not arrived and I see no sign of it in my syslogs so I think it is either bogged down on the net somewhere or has simply vanished. Okay, check your mail one more time, I just sent a message and

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Bryan. It arrived (in my logs only). I have not actually seen it and cannot see it. I do NOT understand what the deal is here. My syslog for your last direct email: Oct 15 11:54:02 stonekeep postfix/cleanup[31348]: E25CD831:

Re: [expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?

2003-10-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:26 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I just do not ever see messages that pass through spamassassin regardless of whether they are spam or not. My current /etc/procmailrc contains: --- :0: * !email address * !list address * !etc,

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:57 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Thanks Bryan. It arrived (in my logs only). I have not actually seen it and cannot see it. I do NOT understand what the deal is here. My syslog for your last direct email: Oct 15 11:54:02 stonekeep postfix/cleanup[31348]:

Re: [expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
/stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ file KEEP.TAR KEEP.TAR: POSIX tar archive On a tar i made just now, i get: /stuff/keep_huff_sort $ file tmp.tar tmp.tar: GNU tar archive Any idea if POSIX tar is actually different than GNU tar? Hmmm.. I have some possibly bad news. Gnu tar can

Re: [expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
As Bryan said, specify a path. You may also like to know that you can make backups of mail with procmail... and commenting the heck out of procmail is good. In fact, I should put more comments in mine. Here's my user-level .procmailrc, in the interest of completeness: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There were no spamassassin processes running when I did ps -A so it would appear not to be a logjam there. I also altered my procmailrc file slightely as you suggest, starting with :0f instead of :0: and adding the full path to spamc. We'll see.

Re: [expert] 9.2 md5sums

2003-10-15 Thread s
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:45 am, Miark wrote: I got the following md5sums. Does anybody concur? 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e MandrakeLinux-9.2-18-Download-2.i586.iso 2b6ffc5957533c927f14197ec99a0372

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, the changes appear to have fixed things. I am actually receiving emails again from other than the expert list or other members of my do-not-process list. The lost messages are still lost but at least I'll (apparently) receive future ones.

[expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
the mirrors are slammed and urpmi is not working, which is a bit of a bummer as I managed to hork the rpm database on one of my boxes and need to define new sources :-) Just wanted to let anyone else having problems know that you're not alone; it'll probably straighten out in a few days after the

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:27 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK, the changes appear to have fixed things. I am actually receiving emails again from other than the expert list or other members of my do-not-process list. The lost messages are still lost but at least I'll (apparently)

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is nothing there. No locks, nothing. It would appear that however many there were (perhaps a total of 5 or 6 total, counting my numerous test messages to myself as one distinct message). My next task is to ensure that my system isn't acting

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:29:56 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the mirrors are slammed and urpmi is not working, which is a bit of a bummer as I managed to hork the rpm database on one of my boxes and need to define new sources :-) Just wanted to let anyone else having problems

Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D865GLC MB with SATA drives

2003-10-15 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 00:38): Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. What SATA controller? That board does

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:28 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there Maybe the test file you are trying to download no longer exists, or if you are on dhcp and have a new ip address, you will have to get a new

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread J.C. Woods
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is nothing there. No locks, nothing. It would appear that however many there were (perhaps a total of 5 or 6 total, counting my numerous test messages to myself as one distinct message). My next task is to ensure

Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D865GLC MB with SATA drives

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 20:16): Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 00:38): Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2,

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:06:34 -0700 Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:29:56 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the mirrors are slammed and urpmi is not working, which is a bit of a bummer as I managed to hork the rpm database on one of my boxes and need

[expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
Hi All Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, its for very low level radio sigs that are below noise levels. It requires svgalib -1.4.3 or later, this I suspect is ancient. using RPMfind that version seems to the same vintage as RH 6.2, about the time of the change from 2.0 to 2.2

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Tim Sawchuck schrieb am Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:51:45 -0700: There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also released on the mirrors by mistake, but I have not been able to get any kind of connect to verify. That would add to the frenzy, if true Well. duh.. 9.2 RPMS are

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, its for very low level radio sigs that are below noise levels. It requires svgalib -1.4.3 or later, this I suspect is ancient. using RPMfind that version seems to the same vintage as RH 6.2, about the time of the change from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:26, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:28 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there Maybe the test file you are trying to download no longer exists, or if you are on dhcp and

[expert] remotekeyboard in ssh

2003-10-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, Here's a strange problem I've encountered: I've got a small spec laptop running applications on a ssh-server with Xforwarding. These machines have Belgian keyboards and special characters like ô or è. Locally I get these by first hitting the ^ key and then the letter that goes

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
http://vger.kernel.org/mxverify.html On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 10:04, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is nothing there. No locks, nothing. It would appear that however many there were (perhaps a total of 5 or 6 total, counting my numerous test

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:19:02 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Sawchuck schrieb am Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:51:45 -0700: There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also released on the mirrors by mistake, but I have not been able to get any kind of connect to

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:28, Kwan Lowe wrote: Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, its for very low level radio sigs that are below noise levels. It requires svgalib -1.4.3 or later, this I suspect is ancient. using RPMfind that version seems to the same vintage as RH 6.2,

Re: [expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-15 Thread chmod
Gnu tar can apparently read POSIX archives without problem. The issue, as you suggested, may be that the archive itself is corrupt. From a quick google it appears that transferring a tar file in non-binary mode can lead to such corruption. So next question: Did you ftp this file from

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 01:17 pm, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:19:02 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Sawchuck schrieb am Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:51:45 -0700: There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Markus Ueberall
Hi Richard, On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Richard Bown wrote: I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages. All the RPMS installed and bittorrent3.3.2, and the gui version. [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# btdownloadcurses.py test mytorrent-richardbown929.torrent Traceback (most

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Make sure that you have both svgalib and svgalib-devel installed. But where are they sourced Kwan ? I hav'nt been able to find them on any of the mandrake sites , including cooker. There are a couple of references to svgalibs on LUNI and MDK7.2 and they are dated between 1997 and the last

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Markus That nows behaves like a torrent, There are still some errors , but it will have to wait until some sanity returns to all the mirrors Richard On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:37, Markus Ueberall wrote: Hi Richard, On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Richard Bown wrote: I've installed

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Bown
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:57, Kwan Lowe wrote: OK Kwan I think I understand, at the moment the mirrors are so heavily being used , I cant download much at all. I think I understand , and I'll try it in the morning, when those to the west are tucked up in bed and those to the east are at work or

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:17, Tim Sawchuck wrote: ... I thought the general release for the public was not until the end of October. We (public / non-mdk club) can download rpms and isos now??? See why I'm confused, or am I the only one as usual? ;-) rpms != isos -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] LM9.2: MD5 sums for Download Powerpack editions

2003-10-15 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Frederic Soulier wrote: Hi I've seen the MD5 sums for the Download edition and the ones I have have the same MD5 sums. Could someone post their Powerpack edition MD5 sums? Thanks. For the Download edition: 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:58, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:21:32 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: They aren't MDK Lint compliant. (no changelog etc) but they are rpms that work on your system. Lint? lint is a template that checks the rpm config file for

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 08:28, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there I can duplicate this on my cooker box if I'm running the bittorrent rpms from Texstar Since they are a backport of the ones in cooker then they don't get

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Windows Compatibility

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 06:31, HaywireMac wrote: I was going to send a link to some friends about the availability of this Discovery Edition, but there's one thing I'd like to clarify, if anyone can. It claims: 9- Compatibility: Run Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members. (GOOD NEWS)

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, Looks like the Mandrake club has fixed the transparent proxy issue, via downloading the mytorrent-(userid).torrent file using a different port. I am now downloading the and uploading the ISO, excellent stuff.. it's coming down at 50K/sec and some times shooting to about 80K/sec,

Re: [expert] Ancient lib

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:30, Richard Bown wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:28, Kwan Lowe wrote: Trying to compile a DSP package called Linrad, its for very low level radio sigs that are below noise levels. It requires svgalib -1.4.3 or later, this I suspect is ancient. using RPMfind

Re: [expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 06:50 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:12 am, Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to

Re: [expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 06:44 pm, lorne wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 06:50 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:12 am, Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Theo Brinkman
Here's how I did mine, and it worked great. (Left it up overnight last night, too.) python /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py torrent file/ --max_upload_rate 20 I got downloads in excess of 300KB/s at peak, and easily averaged 200. - Theo James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:49,

[expert] LM9.2: MD5 sums for Download Powerpack editions

2003-10-15 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi I've seen the MD5 sums for the Download edition and the ones I have have the same MD5 sums. Could someone post their Powerpack edition MD5 sums? Thanks. For the Download edition: 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e

[expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread Joeb
Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my CDs or were the ISOs bad (again). I can DL the sources, but it would have been nice if they were included! Does anyone know of any other files

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! Well, I stated up bittorrent last night, and I have had pokey download

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my CDs or were the ISOs bad (again). I can DL the sources, but it would have been nice if they were

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread Joeb
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my CDs or were the ISOs bad (again). I can DL the sources, but it would have been

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:19, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Tim Sawchuck schrieb am Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:51:45 -0700: There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also released on the mirrors by mistake, but I have not been able to get any kind of connect to verify. That would add to the

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Joeb wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my CDs or were the ISOs bad

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread Joeb
James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Joeb wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:45, Joeb wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Joeb wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread Joeb
James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:45, Joeb wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Joeb wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the