Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 14 November 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry... It's in there by default in KMail since I have multiple email addresses configured. :-) Will try to do better next time. ;-) John Tips for using kmail - Set up two profiles - it doesn't matter that they are using the same

[expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora for those of us who don't have several hundred dollars for enterprise linux and those who have the money and need

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:57, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora

Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:33 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 [...] Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here all in a sudden... Welcome, John! :-) I've actually

[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] System Resources Needed For X, KDE, SO

2000-10-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone in for more tips? Sure... what video card is in this thing? If it's an old 2-4 meg video card, it's not going to have NEARLY the performance that a nice 16 or 32 meg card does... and more RAM on the video card leaves more RAM up for grabs

[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] wu-ftp delay before login request

2000-09-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wu-ftp delay before login request (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2917133754) Richard mCallister writes "I'm setting up Mandrake 7.1 to recieve files from another pc @ 1 file per second. I'm finding a delay after requesting

[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Installing GRUB

2000-08-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing GRUB (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2825031605) Vincent writes "I have a Western Digital 10.2 GB hard drive with EZ-BIOS. EZ-BIOS allows you to use all 10.2 GBs with a BIOS that doesn't support drives larger than

Re: [expert] kmail option?

2000-08-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: To all: I have been using kmail, and I have to say that I am very pleased with all the features and the filtering. The only thing: Is there a way to have kmail to default to netscape when you click on a url in a message? Maybe a particular file that could

Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB

2000-08-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hi, I have 7.1 installed on a couple of machines with 1.5 GB and they show up as 1 GB although I said I have 1.5 (it autodetected 968M) during installation. Any help? (other than appending line mem= to the kernel which I alredy did and dosn't work). Is

Re: [expert] 32MB Mdk 7.1 systems?

2000-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hello everyone! I have a friend who I'm trying to introduce to Linux. I installed Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on his system, and everything worked. However, it is extremely slow at networking, and swaps all the time. His machine is connected to a Road Runner cable

Re: [expert] 32MB Mdk 7.1 systems?

2000-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: Well, that's another problem. I have no idea what type of RAM it uses. He's been thinking about upgrading the RAM for almost a year now, but we have no idea about RAM type. I would **guess** EDO 72pin SIMMs, but if I buy it and it doesn't work, I'm down $75

Re: [expert] 32MB Mdk 7.1 systems?

2000-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Hoyt wrote: Just examine the ram or take it with you when you go to buy more. You may be able to "trade in" the old ram if you don't have enough free sockets. Buy as much as you can afford - it only gets more scarce and more expensive.

Re: [expert] editors

2000-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: what kind of a question is that ?!?!??!?! do what ever you want man...and please dont send this junk massages to this list...Linux related question's only ! And this is a non-linux related question, HOW??? Since we've been discussing the relative benefits of

Re: [expert] 32MB Mdk 7.1 systems?

2000-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: Perhaps. It's an old Vanilla Pentium system, clocking in around 166 or 200 Mhz. Probably 72-pin simms. I'll make sure there are no FTP daemons running. Forgot about that. Anyway, though, I was thinking more along the lines of "What do you do on your

Re: [expert] Kmail and threading...

2000-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me, does Kmail do threading like Nutscrape Messynger? Not yet. I think that is planned for an upcoming version (AFTER KDE2 is released) John

Re: [expert] Boot Logger???

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote: 3)Someone knows how to create a log file to look at the messages created during the boot sequence? or if it is just being created by default where it resides??? Tnks! Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed"

Re: [expert] server question

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Thus spake Tony McGee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Firewalling works by selectively blocking off access to certain Internet Protocol ports. It's recommended to have a single dedicated machine as a firewall and a second one as an internal mail/web server but

Re: [expert] RPM database won't rebuild!

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Dear friends I would appreciate your help with my rpm database problem: I was been unable to get my RealPlayer to play Radio Free Europe from its usual URL using Netscape. There is nothing wrong with RealPlayer itself. It plays other stations and even

Re: [expert] did the list die?

2000-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
I hate to tell you both this, but I've been getting a TON of mail. John On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, ron peake wrote: Hi Bill Not only does the email often NOT get through it also appears to be censured. For example Macmillan monopoly is a definite non-topic. Regard, Ron On Wed, 16 Aug

Re: [expert] howdo I single boot?

2000-08-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: Well...now wait a minute...That's an interesting concept. What it 'that' and how would one do that? No network access, and no login prompt either. Type "linux single" at the lilo prompt (minus quotes) and it should put you into single-user mode. It's good for

Re: [expert] server question

2000-08-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Is it practical / advisable to set up a single machine to act as a firewall/email/web server or am I looking for MAJOR trouble. I'm trying to run a SOHO with limited resources/computers but still need all the goodies. My suggestion would be two computers --

Re: Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: No-one is forcing you to use vim. If you don't like it use something else! Can we kill this thread please? The best thing to come out of it would be for Mandrakesoft to take the suggestion of a default editor selection at installation time because complaining

Re: Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: What are the programs that use this environment variable? I just typed `echo $EDITOR` at a prompt and received nothing. I haven't modified any of the system wide profile files or my own .bashrc file since installation, neither have I received any warnings

Re: [expert] Re: KVM Switches Mouse Problem

2000-08-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: I now have a Cybex SwitchView and it works like a champ. We use hundreds of switchboxes at work, and we're much happier with the Cybex products. The SE has only TWO buttons -- one for which computer and one for which switchbox you want (assuming you've

Re: [expert] Re: KVM Switches Mouse Problem

2000-08-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: I need to register a dissenting vote against Belkin here. For a couple of years I used a Belkin OmniView (not an SE as far as I can tell) that suffered from a number of problems, mostly related to poor wheel mouse support, even in NT. Linux was very problematic

Re: [expert] Sendmail relay confusion

2000-08-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: One other thing, is it worth using FEATURE(rbl)?? IIRC, the "FEATURE(rbl)" means that you will be refusing email from "known" spam sources and known "open relays." This is a question only you can answer. Do you want to accept email from known spam sites and open

Re: [expert] Re: KVM Switches Mouse Problem

2000-08-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: Yes, the mouse works fine without the KVM device. I'm using a KVM switch here -- a Belkin Omniview SE and it works fine with my Windows box and my linux box. I've got a true-blue IBM PS/2 keyboard and a Microsoft Intellimouse hooked up to the KVM. It works fine,

Re: [expert] Time till messages appear.

2000-08-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jason Pierce wrote: Why does it take so long for messages to be sent to the list? I sent a message over an hour ago, and it hasn't showed up yet. This has happened to me before too. Are all messages manually moderated befor being sent to the list or something? Jason

Re: [expert] Full permission to VFAT partitions

2000-08-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: Win-printer? Win-modem does exist, but I'm not sure if any win-printer exists. Hard to believe anyway. Can you give me any example so as to avoid them? I understand Lexmarks are "Win-Printers" John

Re: [expert] IP Masq connection on demand?

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: I'm working with some internet cafes in Thailand and are using a Linux box as a server and connection to the internet. We use the Squid package to cache locally. My question is, is the an easy fix to disconnect the ppp0 device after about 10 mins of idle

Re: [expert] Sevatio Octavio's posts

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote: John, Thanks for letting me know. However, I'm still a bit puzzled as to the causes. It could be a combination of : 1-I recently switched to StarOffice5.2. 2-The List keeps putting me on the junk-mail list. Perhaps you can assist me in pinpointing the

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.0test5 System.map?

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: OK, so I compiled the new kernel yeasterday, so I could try out the new Linux Diskless Terminal version (they recommend using 2.3.somethingoranother, but I figured the 2.4 would be safer). Anyway, I had no problem with the compilation, added it using linixconf

Re: [expert] IDE cylenders !

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: faisal wrote: i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation which is your cylender are set to 1048 which exceeds 1024 limit .. this will cause problem for lilo to boot . how can we change it ? When you're partitioning

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
Can you say 'HOAX!!!" I knew you could! John

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
Please check out an "urban legends" page near you or go to http://ciac.llnl.gov for their "urban legends" page. John

Re: [expert] mounting windows drives

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: How do I set up /etc/fstab so that I can write to my windows drives when I'm a regular user? I have no trouble writing as root, but I can't as a regular user. It's a "Bad Idea (tm)" to let "joe user" have write access to non-linux partitions. Why? Because

Re: [expert] OT: $0.05 e-mail surcharge

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: It was sort of a long link to cut and paste, so just go to www.ask.com and type 'bill 602p' in the box and one of the returns it will give you is an internet rumours site. Check it out. http://ciac.llnl.gov gives you some VERY good info on hoaxes and urban

Re: [expert] manipulating tgz's on windows

2000-08-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:26:09PM -0700, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: Anyone know of any reasonably priced software (say us$40 and under) that will allow one to manipulate tgz files, including creating tgz's on an ms windows box? There is one package out

Re: [expert] LILO doesn't recognize default label

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, you wrote: it sounds like you have the 1024 syndrome. If you haven't done a lot to your system yet as far as moving in and settling down you may want to re-install Linux. LILO doesn't work well on Large HDD's unless you use a 10-15MB /boot partition. LILO will work

RE: [expert]

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote: Is there any answer to this yet/ If not, what does one do with LINUX, just say to oneself ahh well, we don't support you modern and common hardware but that is ok, just use an older version. Boy that makes for confidence in this toy. This could be the

Re: [expert] Mouse on ps2

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hello All: I am running LM 7.0 in dual boot on my laptop. I have been using a serial mouse up until now with no problems. I am wanting to switch to a ps2 mouse to free up my serial port to use with the Palm Pilot, but when I hook up the ps2, it doesn't

RE: [expert]

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote: I tried both ways. OBVIOUSLY I am not going to use FDISK or DISK DRAKE on a functional system with WIN2000 because it will destroy it. Even if it could do it non-destructively it would not matter. it does not allow you to get that far, it does not give the

[expert] Sevatio Octavio's posts

2000-08-01 Thread John Aldrich
Is it just me or is every post by Sevatio getting re-sent several times??? I think it's because his reply-to address is bad. I've sent Denis an email, hopefully he'll fix this and we'll not see any more dupe loops like that... In the meantime, if anyone knows Sevatio, please tell him to fix his

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: HI all, I understand to get the CD or to burn my own. What next.. do i have overwrite my existing install.. i just wanted to know, what image i should get from the web.. I need the details of all the stuff i need to make my 6.1 to 7.x i need

Re: [expert] netscape messenger or aol messenger ?

2000-07-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: I want to installe use aol or netscape instant messenger on my drake box does anyone have a clue where to find them ? Do you mean AIM? If so, you have several choices. I recommend "everybuddy" as it works with AIM, Yahoo, ICQ and MSN. HTTP://www.everybuddy.com

Re: [expert] Parrellel Port Scanners

2000-07-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: If it's possible you'll find the information on SANE.ORG (I think that's the web address...) John Actually, the address appears to be http://www.mostang.com/sane/ . Thanks. I don't have ANY kind of scanner, so I posted what I *thought* to be correct.

Re: [expert] Parrellel Port Scanners

2000-07-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote: John, What was that address again for SANE? I tried the one in the message below and it took me to some place all about mental illness. YEah. I was lazy and didn't look it up. Go to "www.google.com" and search for SANE and scanners and linux. Sorry I can't

Re: [expert] network administrator

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello there I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would like to extend my skill go for Linux Administration. now the question is that does my being an Nt administrator help me in any way with Linux.? Also what should i know to be a good Linux

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
Hey, speaking of the ORIGINAL topic here anyone remember MFM hard drives??? I am subscribed to a list from Hitechcafe.com and this morning in their list of items they have on special, the included the following: 0083MB MFM 3.5 X 1.6 15MS HARD DRIVE - $89 ITEM #...ST1100

Re: [expert] Parrellel Port Scanners

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi, I have a Canon CanoScan FB630P (Parrellel Port Scanner) which I am probably dreaming but wish to run in Linux. It happens to be the only thing keeping Windows on my system which is dual booting with LM7.0. If there is anyone out there with information

Re: [expert] Setting up autofs

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: No...another machine I have, but they're not networked yet. I was wondering what to do when the occassional hard freeze happens. Thankfully it doesn't happen very often with Linux and I REALLY hate doing hard boots when it does. Heh. Well, what're you waiting

Re: [expert] network administrator

2000-07-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote: So pick up a book called 'linux network servers' by craig hunt and a $3.00 Linux CD from cheap bytes (mandrake is nice) and go for it. See how much you can get running in a week. OTOH, RedHat is a TINY bit more stable... ;-) Maybe I'll D/L and burn a Mandrake

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console stuff. I'm only half there. So, if my desktop freezes as it has once or twice since I've started working with Linux,(about 14 months), and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't take me out of X, then will CTL-ALT-Fx (x = 1-6)

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: What does CTL+ALT+F3 do? switches you to a new virtual terminal complete with login, etc. John

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever! I took a class back in the early 80's on how to program in RPG. The funny thing was, that even though we were using

Re: [expert] Test

2000-07-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I've tried capital "E's" small "e's" no post yet for about 3 days, I hope I can "hitch a ride" on someone elses email and get through whatever parsing engine that has been enabled! vern Well, I'm seeing your posts here... *shrug*

RE: [expert] I'll be back

2000-07-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: Outlook 2000 DOES do threading. I'm using for this list now. I have to use Outlook as my company has standardized on M$ Exchange. Does Exchange not do POP and SMTP? John

Re: [expert] netscape 474

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I use Staroffice, but the install says that I don't have JAVA installed. What package would I install that works well with SO? I've done some searching of Linux sites, but haven't yet found what it wants. Got a package name and a download URL? The JRE from

Re: [expert] sound AC'97 on mother board Abit VT6X4

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: You can use the ALSA drivers for AC97. I think the URL is www.alsa.org. Close, but no cigar -- www.alsa-project.org. John

RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake (correction)

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Of course, that's what I meant. Thanx for catching me! No sweat. :-) I've mis-typed more than enough for both of us. :-) John

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: I think I will wait until reiser is as good as ext2--- I can't afford to experiment with the very core of the system, but I hope it turns out to be a good filesystem Spamcop.net runs on ReiserFS, IIRC.

Re: [expert] Asf files

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hm, sounds like some reverse engineering is in order. Now if I could only find a reverse compiler I could make myself a copy for linux, of course I would share the wealth, but only by e mail request, don't wanna post it to a web site. I heard on NPR

Re: [expert] new reiser question

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: That is why ReiserFS is not an available option during install unless you choose an expert install. It is expected that people who select expert are exactly that: expert. If you don't know enough to make an informed decision (read: you have read all of

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape using tar/gz, taper, or kdat? I would be inclined to go with the console app, because you may not always be ABLE to start the

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 wheel mouse issue

2000-07-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1, and installed XFree86 4.0. No problems there, but the wheel mouse won't work. Even with ZAxisMapping 4 5 in the XF86Config file, the wheel is ignored. imwheel-0.9.8 is installed, but not called in the XF86Config file...but

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 wheel mouse issue

2000-07-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: I tried running imwheel -k from terminal, apparently it was already running, and restarting didn't help. Although I hate Microslut, I'm completely lost without my damanble wheely-mouse! Thanx for the shot, though! There are some additional commands you

Re: [expert] Laplink

2000-07-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Sevatio Octavio wrote: I didn't catch your original question. Are you wondering about remote controlling another pc? Or is this a laplink specific question? I want to transfer files between two linux boxes, using a laplink cable. I was hoping there

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Pj: From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993 Pg. 140; pgph 5: "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives capable of storing more

RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake

2000-07-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Civileme recommends this board, but it has no ide sockets and only 5 PCI. I goatta have at least one ide. Let's try again, wouldja? Thanx, all. Err... do you mean ISA? IDE is hard drive. :-) John

Re: [expert] Laplink

2000-07-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: When I set up this file system, the hard drive was in a 486/33, with 8megs of ram. Now its in a 586/100 with 64 megs of ram. I want to increase my swap partition from 32megs to at least 64megs. I have loads of free disk space, but I can't free it up. Unless

Re: [expert] Freedoms Past

2000-07-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote: A disturbing trend in this modern age is that we feel compelled to protect us from ourselves. Microsoft offered up a convenient black box that protected us from the horrors of it's inner truth. Linux was to be the answer to that ignorance-by-consent. [snip]

RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake

2000-07-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: I have had complaints from customers about the fact that mandrake is compiled for the Pentium class systems when using an Athlon. Have any of you had the same problem. My experience is with the K6-2 and K6-3. I want to install on an Athlon but have my

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Arrogance

2000-07-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ken Archer wrote: Funny how you remember things your father used to say. Mine used to look at me and say, "Experience is a cruel teacher, but a fool can learn from no other." Good one. While certain (safe) commands have had

RE: [expert] Version 7.1 HUGE install problem

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote: I did not do this because I cannot even get that far. I also must use PM because your partition utility will not give me the needed FAT32 partitions for DOS and Windows. If PM 5 will not work then I am in big trouble. I also use Boot Magic. That also must work,

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Arrogance

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:34 AM Subject: [expert] RIGHT CLICK--NEW - Folder Are you folks who are complaining running as _root_? This is something not to be

Re: [expert] GCC/make gets random signal 11s

2000-07-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: Tony McGee wrote: I always thought that Mandrake was not just i586 optimized code but i586 ONLY code. I think it's much safer to stick with RedHat for anything less than a Pentium cpu. Well, I used RedHat before, but I could not get my ISDN TA card to

Re: [expert] SLOW boot

2000-07-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, you wrote: My boot proceeds pretty well until it gets to the starting AMD stage. What is AMD and why would it take over 1 minute at times? Sometimes it is instantaneous or nearly so. AMD==AutoMount Daemon. I think it's searching for stuff to mount. John

Re: [expert] Intellimouse is drunk!

2000-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, you wrote: Well sir, I have been against the same type of problem many times. Althought I don't have the awesome computer you do, I think I may be of some help. (I hope...) First off you need to make sure your mouse doesn't have a switch on the bottom that

Re: [expert] Linux file system update?

2000-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, you wrote: After adding a new hard drive to my system and creating an ext2fs type partition, how do I add this to my file system table?? I would like to have Mdk 7.1 to start using this partition. I created the partition with PartitionMagic and did not specify a mount

Re: [expert] Good vidoe card to use

2000-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, you wrote: Since my Diamond Viper II on one system and Maxi Gamer Voodoo Banshee on the other do not work in version 7.1 and X 3.6 or 4, can anyone recommend a GOOD FAST card that works in both Linux 7.1 and windows 2000. I am not sure I am ready to buy a new card but I

Re: [expert] CD burner Howto..

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hoyt wrote: Maybe www.linuxforum.org/plug/articles/scsiemu.html will help. Hoyt This is *EXACTLY* what I was looking for..! Thanks! However, I do have question for anyone here.. I know that the CD rom is hdc.. This how-to says to add

RE: [expert] i810 on Mandrake 7.0

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, you wrote: I installed mandrake 7.1 on an i810e and it detected the network and sound just fine. only problem i found was the modem included with my board it is a win modem with a PCTEL chip Driver for linux are avilable but only for kernel version 2.2.7. Icould not

Re: [expert] can't recognize UMAX-VistaS6 on AHA1520b

2000-07-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, you wrote: My Mandrake 7.02 can't recognize my Umax Vista-S6 scanner wich is hosted by a Adaptec aha1520b scsi card. This card works well and is recognized trough its bios (My CD-burner is found) - sg driver (generic scsi driver) is installed V.2136 - My scanner is in

RE: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found

2000-07-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote: Another question, can you tell me why it takes 3-8 hours for a message to show up. Is this thing moderated? It is too bad it is if that is it. It takes so long to get messages. Most mailing lists I use show a message within 30 seconds or less. It is a sad

Re: [expert] OpenSSH won't accept connections?

2000-07-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, you wrote: initial Linux Mandrake installation security option: High This may be the reason. I've seen a lot of reports that the "high" security level is TOO tight -- it won't let ANYTHING in (remotely.) You might see if you can reduce the security level and / or

Re: [expert] Modem problem

2000-07-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote: why isnt' there a GUI utility to load/unload drivers.. I was trying to get a modem to work under linux and didn't know how to test it other than kppp. Under kppp it said modem ready.. then it started querying the modem.. but the result of all ATIs was blank

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject

Re: [expert] Framebuffer/SMP

2000-07-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: Are all precompiled SMP kernels now going to be framebuffer-enabled? I DON'T WANT framebuffer. I DO WANT SMP. There's my vote. If it comes to it, just recompile and disable FB. ;-) John

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: It seems pretty obvious that they DIDN'T think about it. It's been fixed in 7.1 anyway, as I understand it. Sort of. It's now in /root/tmp, instead of /tmp. *shrug* John

Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome

2000-07-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, you wrote: Is sawfish the default wm for helixgnome? I don't even know! I've tried to use the Solaris-CDE theme from the gtk theme package unsuccessfully. Help! Yes, it is, and yes, I've had problems as well. I can't get it to install ANY themes. Besides which, I

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Try it at http://forum.mandrakesoft.com Our own version of slashdotg I emaild Chmouel. Maybe he'll deign to post in here their thinking on that subject. :-) It would be NICE if they'd use this mail list! John

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: I'm running RH 6.2 at the moment. I susbscribe to this list since there are lotta good people here and I've learned a tremendous amount. 2 reasons I'm running RH.. When 7.0 came out there were just too many problem's being reported. I'm not good enough in

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe a question for the cooker list? I don't really know how else to direct a question to the Mandrake team. Maybe, but I've had the distinct impression that some of the Mandrake team hang out in this list

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: Alan, I've heard that Mandrake is RedHat enhanced. I don't know this for a fact, but I've seem a lot of similarities between the two. You could say they're 1st cousins. Not any more. It *used* to be "RedHat + enhancements." Now it's a separate distro.

Re: [expert] Extending Timeout on kmail

2000-07-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi, With kmail, I frequently get "Timeout while waiting for server" error messages. This is especially so when I'm not dialling in, but accessing my mail from my work place. Does anybocy know where I can change the default values to extend the

Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade went badly--Linux is dead

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote: I used the Mandrake 2.2.16 upgrade for my system. There was a hicup with the install and I had to fix lilo.conf to reflect the kernel...old and new. Well, I thought I was running 2.2.14secure in the past and 2.2.16secure now. Wrong! My system is not setup for

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote: Has there ever been a satisfactory explanation of WHY they put PERMANENT stuff in a temporary directory? It seems rather loco to me to put ANYTHING you want to keep in a TEMP directory... :-) John Is it something that is overwritten at each

RE: [expert] Remote Access of Root

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Log in as a regular user to the remote machine and then do an 'su' to root once you're logged in. -Original Message- From: Richard Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 5, 2000 5:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Remote Access

Re: [expert] Mandrake Forum News Poll...

2000-07-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello everybody, several weeks ago we set up an experimental Mandrake web forum that was intended to get as many ideas as possible about what the future Linux-Mandrake systems should be. This forum was intended to have a very short life (one week). As those

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