[expert] Fw: MDKA-2003:030 - Updated rpm packages fix database locking bug

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Huff
Begin forwarded message: Date: 19 Nov 2003 04:55:06 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MDKA-2003:030 - Updated rpm packages fix database locking bug -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
Eric from what I've seen and also from Hans' own mouth with the current version of Rieserfs it's the preferred method. In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime Allrighty. We'll see how it does tomorrow when i reboot. I'm too sleepy right now... eric -- Mandrake

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
$ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... Wat's that? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime Allrighty. We'll see how it does tomorrow when i reboot. It does seem to be quieter. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbi n/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/loca

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:18:28 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem box did not have bash-completion in the RPM list, so I just added bash-completion-20030821-3mdk.noarch.rpm and checked that bash is at 2.05b-14mdk on several boxes. The double-slashes are now gone, but it

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
Of course, that doesn't anything to do with it though. A simple count of 100Hz ticks would fill an unsigned 32 bit integer in 497 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes, 52.96 seconds. After which it would wrap around to zero. Interestingly enough Windows 95 had almost exactly the same situation, but

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
This is maddening. It is enough, literally, to drive me to uninstall MDK 9.2 and go SuSE 9.0. I have no sound in 9.2 on my desktop. Has anyone run into this and found a fix? I tried installing the 9.1 kernel-src-2.4.21-0.13mdk rpm but it will not build on 9.2. Errors all over the

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread Eric Huff
I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It keeps the file access time from being updated. Do

Re: [expert] Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
What is reading/writing on my harddrive every 5-6 seconds? If I go to runlevel 3, whatever it is, stops. Runlevel 5 uses Kde 3, so it must be something in there. I turn every app I see off, but still no result. Thanks all for suggetions. I see in fstab that my floppy and cd:s are

[expert] hard drive activiy: how to tell from top lie utility

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
I quickly looked thru the top man page, but didn't find anything. Is there a program like top that will show hardrive activity base on process? Ideally it would just be a column in the top readout. This would be useful in Björn's hard drive noise thread, too. thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's

Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
Thx. Do I have tp set anything special for anacron? Do I need to run it also as a demon? If you like the gui: run the mandsrake control center (mcc at the cli) system drakxservices in upper right then select anacron for boot, and might as well hit start too (to run it now). Want to buy

Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs

2003-11-15 Thread Eric Huff
RE anacron Just install it. It will start as a service automatically. No config is necessary derek Whoops. I guess it's not installed and shut off, my last email doesn't make much sense... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] sylpheed: how to filter on body text?

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Huff
Hi folks, I am in a pinch: i have all of a sudden started getting all bounces from newbie (since i am listed as an owner to help with subbing and unsubbing). So, i am getting one bounce for every bad address for every post! Does anyone know how to filter on the body text (and attachment text) in

Re: [expert] sylpheed: how to filter on body text?

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Huff
Thanks for the quick reply. Does anyone know how to filter on the body text (and attachment text) in sylpheed? Configuration - Filtering - Condition - Define - Match Type - Body Part (It's tough to *do* it and type it at the same time.) I know what you mean... If that is not

Re: [expert] Hijacking threads

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Huff
I think people are supposed to ignore these posts in order to encourage the offender to repost properly. I unfortunately let myself be rude instead, for which I apologize. The problem with that is that many people don't know about hijacking until they are told, so i think it is best to speak

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Huff
You can also check out http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi on the twiki. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Huff
Whichever comes sooner, when people stop hijacking threads on this mailing list or when hell freezes over. Ooops, I'm sorry, was that sarcastic :-)-- In case you don;t know what hijacking is: check out #3 at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette -- Mandrake

Re: [expert] ADSL Itex driver for Mandrake 9.0?

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Huff
This is just a friendly note about hijacking. See #3 at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette (gee, that was still in my kill ring...) eric On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:57:38 +0100 Paolo Bonavoglia [EMAIL

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Huff
Try watching a mail session with ethereal sometime... it's just telnet to port 25, though a server is faster and has fewer typos than a human. You can send mails though, -- I posted an example of how to do it earlier today, with the Dead Kennedies quote, but I think it's still floating

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Huff
On my comcrap, i seem to have a choice: run acpi or run the paralell port. i can't do both... eric Have you tried removing acpi from your lilo? Yeah, i have a choice: acpi=on and then no parallel port, or acpi=off, and then the comp doesn't shut down. Not sure what acpi=ht means.

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Huff
Yeah, i have a choice: acpi=on and then no parallel port, or acpi=off, and then the comp doesn't shut down. Not sure what acpi=ht means. I'll hae to check it out This is all under 9.1. eric Hmm... I don't pretend to know about kernel stuff, but it seems odd that

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-12 Thread Eric Huff
Sympa doesn't always tell us when it /dev/null's a mail. I have an email i have sent over a dozen times, but it just doesn't go thru, and i get no errors funny thing is, it sent a copy back to me :-) That's the sympa we know and love... You guys will probably get mine in

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:48:46 -0800 (PST) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. By the way, which is it? ACPI or APCI? Or are they two different things? APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller ACPI:

Re: [expert] Modem for Mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Huff
Well, that would be a hijack. It's ok: everybody does it a couple of times. Chesk out #3 at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Huff
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface APCI Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller errr APIC sorry. Now this is getting freaky. This thread showed up several months ago on newbie (i think) and i swear i wrote exactly what you did

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Huff
I just upgraded to 9.2 though, and noticed that when I shutdown the machine, it actually powered all the way off; instead of just stopping at the end and waiting for me to turn it off. Do you have a printer hooked up to the paralell port? If so check and see if it works. On my comcrap, i

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Huff
I just upgraded to 9.2 though, and noticed that when I shutdown the machine, it actually powered all the way off; instead of just stopping at the end and waiting for me to turn it off. Do you have a printer hooked up to the paralell port? If so check and see if it works. On my comcrap, i

Re: [expert] TWIKI: was Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-08 Thread Eric Huff
There are definitely newbies that join expert, and may times we have seen inadvertant hijacking, reply-tos and all the other etiquette no-nos here. (i added the inadvertant because we're hijacking as we type! This was an advertant hijack though...) You're right, of course. I took it

Re: [expert] Print to PDF question . . .

2003-11-07 Thread Eric Huff
When I print to PDF file - where does it end up? Actually, I tried it from a VMWare session (WinXP) through Samba to the shared Print to PDF printer . . . It seemed to print but I can not find where the file is! Well, i don't print thru samba, so this may not help, but whenever i do print

Re: [expert] TWIKI: was Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-07 Thread Eric Huff
We have to try to find a way of getting people to use the TWiki. One of the main reasons for making it was to avoid the constant FAQs. This one, for instance has been covered there for ages. What can we do the make it more visible to users? Eric is now sending out regular introductory

Re: [expert] Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-07 Thread Eric Huff
Indeed, I have the same audio chip set, and after a few hours research, I eventually realized that the sound volume was set to zero in aumix.. Is there a such thing as aumixer in addition to aumix, or is that a typo on the twiki? (for now i put aumix next to it)

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread Eric Huff
This must be due to Mandrake's signing on to the LSB? Or is that something different? yup Would that be a yup to the LSB, or a yup to something different? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread Eric Huff
yup LOL! yup it's something different, or yup that's what LSB means? Now you're scaring me, man! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 - 9.2 issues with urpmi

2003-11-02 Thread Eric Huff
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we keep putting stuff in the TWiki we are going to have to stop saying check the archives and start saying check the TWiki *grin* That will be a good day, won't it?:) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Eric Huff
I'd say you have Virus Protection set to Yes in the BIOS. What's that, where the bios doesn't allow you to run or even look at Windows partitions? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 - 9.2 issues with urpmi

2003-11-01 Thread Eric Huff
You could copy and paste most of your email to: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade Doing that right now. Hope not to screw up the wiki too much. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgradeIssues That's a helpful page, Luca. Thakns for posting it. eric --

Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Eric Huff
This came up before. Verisign actually sold the domain localhost.com, bloody arses that they are. Two sol'ns came up, tell your browser not to autmatically append .com to addresses, or use 127.0.0.1 instead. How you tell your browser not to append .com would vary according to the

Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Eric Huff
127.0.0.1 worked fine. I'm using Mozilla-Firebird and could not find how to disable. I do have the extension that lets me modify all prefs, just could not find it. Hmm... I just now read closely enough to see you use firebird. Which version? Do you have Webmin set to run at startup? (it

Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Eric Huff
Webmin set itself up to run at boot. I will leave it, but I wish it would load on demand or when requested I guess it is. Yeah, that's the key for me. I swear it used to load on demand, but maybe i am smokin it... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want

Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Eric Huff
Firebird is 0.7. I do have a ton of extensions loaded, but could not fine the one to stop www. and .com being added. I found that the backslash after the localhost ip solved it, i.e. https://127.0.0.1:1/ Here are the ones i modified: browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false

[expert] Fw: MDKA-2003:021 - Updated kernel packages problems with LG-based CD-ROM drives

2003-10-28 Thread Eric Huff
For anyone not on the mailing list: Begin forwarded message: Date: 28 Oct 2003 05:41:13 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MDKA-2003:021 - Updated kernel packages problems with LG-based CD-ROM drives -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [expert] LG CDRoms

2003-10-27 Thread Eric Huff
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It had hit cooker 3 times instead. I will reply to GC and tell him. I think its really time to fix sympa ;) I am surprised it made it to expert at all with cooker in the To field. I have never seen an email go to more than one mandrake list.

[expert] weird webmin problem in firebird: wrokaround

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
From bugzilla: going to about:config in firebird and setting keyword.enabled to false kept localhost from keywording to spams are us. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
I have always used the Index link on the blue bar, but the problem there is that it just does not stand out. Is it possible to make that entry bold? I presume it is on a page template, somewhere. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebPreferences defines the title bar. It's not

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
When I get some time later, I will make a new page with a proposed home page layout, that way, you can see what I am talking about without changing anything just yet. That's cool. I was planning to start trimming the home page and moving a lot of the TWiki stuff to contributing. If that's

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on your /home partition and then copy and start the game from there. Does it

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Huff
I was poking around on the community twiki tonight and I am not sure I came back with an entirely positive experience. I really don't want to be negative, but I also want to give some feedback that I hope those of you that have worked so hard will find constructive. Well, feedback is what

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-21 Thread Eric Huff
Once I get to the Index, I think the organization is good, it is just very hard to find the index. I added a Table Of Contents link at the very upper right. I think it is very easy to find. Not sure thet Knowledge Base is the best name for the section. What do you think? eric --

Re: [expert] urpmi: get summaries, etc

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
Rolf, Thanks for the great summary. It's exactly what i needed. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she keeps getting virused emails in from the people who are on a mailing group that she must use - the

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
rikona uses The Bat!. It's the one that adds the number in brakcets to the subject line. Why *does* it do that? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
EH Why *does* it do that? It's the default, but does seem to confuse some clients. If you all would rather have it off, I'll turn it off. The only time it causes trouble is when i delete parts of threads. After that, the mails get grouped in different places. No biggie, but would be a

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
I don't understand how she gets them on mozilla. i thought mozilla was smart enough not to run stuff w/o permission? What are the virii taking advantage of? Is it an html issue? There are virii that use Java, Javascript, Flash, you name it, and then there's the evil code masquerading

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
But why is the OS running attachments in an email w/o the user saying so? Mozilla, Edit Preferences Advanced Scripts and Plugins, she's probably got them enabled for mail and news reader. If that isn't enabled, then they shouldn't be able to do anything, but if it is enabled then

Re: [expert] webmind problem: possible invader or corruption?

2003-10-18 Thread Eric Huff
In preferences/Navigator choose the smart browsing link. firebird doesn't seem to have that option... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] urpmi: get summaries, etc

2003-10-18 Thread Eric Huff
Hello, How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. What i'd like is a command line version of what rpmdrake does: once i get it open, it very nicely shows only packages with nmh (for example) in the name and i can quickly

[expert] webmind problem: possible invader or corruption?

2003-10-17 Thread Eric Huff
Every once in awhile, if i go to webmin (which i have bookmarked as https://localhost:1/ or https://127.0.0.1:1/ i get http://www.netbreakthroughs.com/ instead which is some insidious spam promoting site (don't click it unless you are really curious). I am behind a linksys

Re: [expert] webmind problem: possible invader or corruption?

2003-10-17 Thread Eric Huff
Every once in awhile, if i go to webmin (which i have bookmarked as https://localhost:1/ Yep ... like the id10t's that they are verisign actually sold localhost.com. Disable the autmatically add www and .com to a name if the domain is not found. feature under smart browsing.

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] upgrading on twiki

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Huff
Recently there wa sa flurry on how to upgrade, so i compiled it and put it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade If i got anything wrong, please let me know or fix it. (i plan to use the page when i get around to upgrading!) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [expert] testing - problems with postfix?

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Huff
I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? The best way to test this is usu to look at the archive: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/ That way, you can tell w/o waiting for a response or getting it yourself. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

[expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Huff
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 Emacs can see the file all the way thru, but i

Re: Re[4]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Eric Huff
EH That's the silly part: we're not really even asking for EH development. We just want them to get rid of the rejection of EH non IE browsers. It would mean *less* work and less code if EH they didn't put it in to begin with. I think it would be more work. They'd have to test it with

Re: [expert] Error during installation (RC2)

2003-10-12 Thread Eric Huff
is that for real? the barbie stuff? Absolutely! In fact there is also a companion South Park version in which fsck is spelled correctly. ;-) LOL! -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: Re[2]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Eric Huff
The more honest ones have admitted they can't justify developing for more than IE, given the huge REPORTED market share. With so many people using spoofing, it just makes the market share look even bigger than it is. We can't win for loosing. That's the silly part: we're not really even

Re: Re[2]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Eric Huff
Honestly, maybe I don't hang out in the right places or something, but my wife and I do almost everything online using Mozilla and Galeon and hardly ever run into this problem. It's been at least a year since the last time I had to show her how to spoof a browser ID with Konqueror. It still

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Eric Huff
I am DETERMINED to get past their nonsense and access my account information USING KONQUEROR DAMNIT! So there. It does still happen, this nonsense, and spoofing a browser doesn't always work. praedor oops forgot an example page http://supportwizard.com This works fine with

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Huff
Well, Eric, Thanks for the tip, XFCE4 installs just fine under Cooker 9.2, but it will not run. I installed everything, Xtart cannot see it, it does not show up as a WM in any other WM menu. I tried from a terminal within blackbox, I'm at a loss. No error messages, nothing, just command

Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
I have recently joined the Mandrake Club haveing been a lomg term SuSE Welcome! trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the first time it always complains that it can't find the address book and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first time setup.

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM. Even on a P4 1.3GHz, 512Mb RAM, I love the quickness of a simple WM. Have you tried http://pekwm.org/ (my favorite) XFCE4 (rpms at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ ) ? They are also realy fast. XFCE4 is more of a desktop, pekwm is just a wm.

Re: [expert] ATTN Eric and Anne regarding TWiki

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Huff
Note this, I'm not complaining one bit. However I'm in a bit of a quandry in that I can't find 1. The pages I put up before. Hmm... Which pages were they? It is possible they were added to other pages cut and paste style, and even more possible that they were moved around. If you do a

Re: [expert] [OT - Q] Fwd: Mandrake newsletter: Mandrake Linux 9.2 pre-orders being accepted

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Huff
I have a question for some of you, who may be closer to the Mandrake happenings: it is my understanding that a direct purchase from Mandrake is much more helpful to them than a regular store one. From what i hear, the best way to support them is thru the club and download, if that's an

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-08 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:13:47 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. /etc/rc.d/init.d/numlock has to be run on boot. If you boot into runlevel 5 (multiuser graphical environment) then you have in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d a link like @S85numlock which points to /etc/init.d/numlock 2. You

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-06 Thread Eric Huff
I have the numlock rpm installed and numlock is enabled during boot. When I startx though, I lose numlock. I think it used to work, to tell the truth though, I´ve been too busy to really think about it. I have the same problem. I think it *might* have started with a recent X update? I use

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Eric Huff
I preparation for the coming of 9.2, is the proposed Anthill bug tracking system going to be available/used? This is part of the reason I've been so busy in the last 2 weeks.. doing some frantic bug squishing in the Anthill code to make it ready. So, will there be aplace to report

Re: [expert] Re: 9.2RC2 on VMware / TWIKI-ing

2003-09-23 Thread Eric Huff
Yeah that's me thanks. BTW, just some nitpicking--VMWare should be spelled as VMware. Perhaps you may want to change that too? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VmWare In the Twiki if you want something not normally a link to become a link do this [[this is now a link]]

Re: [expert] TWIKI-ing, was 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-23 Thread Eric Huff
And only WikiWords work with the treeview commands. Sooo, a page named VmWare works, VMware doesn't. Right, but that's only for the page. You can use something like this: [[VmWare][VMware]] which will link to the page VmWare but will display VMware to the browser (but will still be

Re: [expert] TWIKI-ing, was 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-23 Thread Eric Huff
I have one last question. Is there any way to invoke multiple %TREEVIEW% commands on one page? Maybe it is just a bug, but when i try, only the first one works. I looked around the twiki help, but didn't find an answer.. Well, i looked some more, and it does appear to be a bug:

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Huff
Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as this one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more thorough authority. HTML http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 Not to be a spoil sport but isn't this a bit much? 6 or 7 points and requests from

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Huff
Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 I personally also prefer the informal. But, if someone reads our entire list and gets to a link at the bottom, they can, if interested, look into it more. We could expand the The 'rules' of internet usage... line to emphasize

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
There's an interesting article at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster That is an interesting article. So, if paralelling speeds things up, doesn't that mean that some processes are waiting for hardware? Or do intel chips actually

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
Paralleling obviously works great for human interaction (one web page loading while reading another). But if the processes are using up all the cpu, paralleling shouldn't help unless there is a piece of hardware/peripheral it's waiting for, right? once the kernel's up, you've got a

Re: [expert] OOT: very interesting fact about how human interpretwords

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
I'm only going to tell you one more time about hijacking threads, then I am going to get very, very, very angry. what do you mean by saying that the author of this email 'hijacked' the thread? PLEASE be aware, I'm not trying at all to get in any conflict, I just really don't know what

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
not really... first, we must define what busy is :-) I have an impatient daughter standing at my elbow speaking of busy... Processes aren't always bottlenecked by CPU, and the well behaved ones will let go of CPU when they're waiting on something else. Say that it's a database startup--

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as this one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more thorough authority. HTML http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 Plain Text

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
If you notice X starts up even though the entire init process is not complete and in fact you can actually start logging in before the init is finished. I have noticed that. I wish they would do more multitasking like that. What i didn't realize was that a lot of the startup programs

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as this one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more thorough authority. HTML http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 Plain Text http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Done, thanks What? No You gotta start Wiki-ing

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-18 Thread Eric Huff
Is there any way to get this sort of thing in the welcome letters? I have to admit, i didn't know about hijacking til the 1st time i turned threading on and saw my own hijack Excellent idea. Maybe something about unsetting 'Reply-To:', as well. :) I had planned to put a list

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-18 Thread Eric Huff
Eric, I still have a text file that I used when asked to reply to the hijack problem. If you get started on the etiquette page, I'll put that on if you like. That would be great! Your responses on hijacking have been more complete than mine... Here is the etiquette page:

Re: [expert] Verisign hijacks .com and .net DNS space

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Huff
Oh and it seems that Outlook is really affected by this. One of our people sent an e-mail to 8 of us. One e-mail addy was mistyped. Yep you guessed it every 5 minutes or so it kept resending the e-mail because the Verisign site didn't return an error properly. It didn't stop sending

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Huff
Sylpheed-Claws has such a plug-in to tell me when I have mail. Scared me to death the first time everything flashed. Thought kde had suffered a cardiac thing. I got a good chuckle out of your post. I unplugged it. I always have new mail. Hey, so do i :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Huff
Ok, Haywire is list nazi on newbie this week, i'll pipe in here. I have seen 3 hijacked threads today. Please, when you want to start a new thread in a mailing list, click new. If you click reply and then change the subject, the email shows up in the middle of the thread. Is there any way to

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Huff
Around here (it was Borders i think) Mandrake 9.0 was on the shelf nect to RedHat. I noticed it just before 9.1 came out, and i didn't get the idea it just showed up. Of coure, i live in pasadena, california, 1 mile from where the old US Mandrake office was... -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
Back in version 8 and 9 I had the exact same problem! It is the mirror you are using! I don't know why mirror sites continually get bad images, but it is true. Try an rsync to another site. So, does rsync help when it is all one file? -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Eric Huff
Whoops. UPN, which is the parent of Trek, shows it on wednesdays (and then again on the weekend). Other channels that pick it up show it on other days. In the US, i think most people get it thru UPN. Are you in the US, Eric? Nah, I'm in California. :) Actually, i have been told by

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Eric Huff
Sometimes i log in in the morning (i hear other people read the paper?), and occasionally when i take a break at work i log in. We do seem to be online at the same time often enough Yes - you seem to be around when I would expect you to be asleep. I guess that's why I thought UK.

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
*Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* This next wednesday the 10th, of course, being the season premier. Uh? Am I missing something? I've been watching on Mondays on Sky1. I understood that there wasn't going to be another season because it had not been popular. Or is

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
and don't ferget tab-completion while yer at it... Tab completion is the best ever. Including Esc ! to complete args. type cd /u[tab]lo[tab]ga[tab] and see where it gets you. /usr/local/games $ ll total 0 :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the

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