Re: [expert] TV card recommendations

2003-10-27 Thread lorne
On Monday 27 October 2003 12:30 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV

Re: [expert] is it possible for cracker to cover his track?

2003-10-23 Thread lorne
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:58 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:48 pm, Jack Coates wrote: .bash_history is cake; just kill -9 your own session instead of using logout or exit. wtmp is harder, that'll involve editing

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-20 Thread lorne
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:15 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a sense it's already there. When the first Lilo screen comes up hit the escape key and type linux 3 this will boot linux to runlevel 3 (text only) and then you can make the adjustments

[expert] OLD ALR server

2003-10-19 Thread lorne
Say, I seem to remember awhile back that Mandrake has removed old Pentium support? I have an old ALR 4 processor 200MHZ pentium Pro. It locks up just as it is trying to load the drives for the Mylex DAC960 Controller card. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

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] setup email bounce

2003-10-03 Thread lorne
On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:16 pm, rikona wrote: Hello lorne, Thursday, October 2, 2003, 7:50:00 PM, you wrote: l A friend of mine has set up a tar pit type system. When he gets a l message identified as spam, he holds them open and responds one l character at a time telling them to do

Re: [expert] setup email bounce

2003-10-02 Thread lorne
On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:48 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I want to be able to setup an email 'bounce' from my server. I want to be able to setup a black list which would reside on the server and contain certain email

Re: [expert] setup email bounce

2003-10-02 Thread lorne
On Thursday 02 October 2003 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lorne said: On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:48 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I want to be able to setup an email 'bounce' from my server. I want to be able

Re: [expert] Can't Start KDE

2003-09-30 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 06:19 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I had one system hang, now everytime I start KDE I get KDE Session Manager (ksmserver) caused an SIGSEGV error. I deleted .kde from /root. But problem still persists. How can I fix this? I also wonder if there may be some corrupt

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-09-30 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 06:42 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, its that dreaded samba time again, two questions which parameter in smb.conf(file name may be wrong) do I set to make sure the gateway machine all ways wins elections for master browser,? my laptop keeps trying to take

Re: [expert] i8253 too high

2003-09-27 Thread lorne
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:50 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 22:44, lorne wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 09:35 pm, lorne wrote: I've seen 3 messages about this but no answers. My son's machine no longer will load Mandrake 9.1. I get a kernel panic

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-27 Thread lorne
On Saturday 27 September 2003 08:30 am, Terje Heen wrote: --- lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 05:43 pm, Terje Heen wrote: Hi there. How to edit the lilo.conf with vi?? Can not seem to save the read only file (not familiar with this editor

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-27 Thread lorne
On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:41 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: snip Nothing better than a vi cheatsheet! It just so happens I have such a page running on my apache server. It has all the shortcuts outlined in brevity. All are welcome to download..

Re: [expert] urpmi addmedia

2003-09-27 Thread lorne
On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:35 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Tnx James I've loaded urpmi.setup, so now just gotta sort out how to use it, its the one without a man page Go to this url! It will be your friend in gettins started!! http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php If you have a way to

Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out

2003-09-26 Thread lorne
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:46 -0500, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Samba 3.0's] in contrib, been there for a while, thanks to Buchan...unfortunately, they took too much time to get it out, and it didn't make it into 9.2 main...but

Re: [expert] SSH idiot guide

2003-09-26 Thread lorne
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:44 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All , is the an idiot guide to setting up ssh anywhere.? Try: http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/ssh-howto.html TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-26 Thread lorne
On Friday 26 September 2003 05:43 pm, Terje Heen wrote: Hi there. How to edit the lilo.conf with vi?? Can not seem to save the read only file (not familiar with this editor :-) If you are doing this a root, you should be able to do a :w! and then :q. Terje..

[expert] i8253 too high

2003-09-26 Thread lorne
I've seen 3 messages about this but no answers. My son's machine no longer will load Mandrake 9.1. I get a kernel panic with directory not found. Who knows! ?? I decided to re-install. I just stops at rebuilding rpm database. A look around shows that I'm getting: I8253 count too high resetting!

Re: [expert] i8253 too high

2003-09-26 Thread lorne
On Friday 26 September 2003 09:35 pm, lorne wrote: I've seen 3 messages about this but no answers. My son's machine no longer will load Mandrake 9.1. I get a kernel panic with directory not found. Who knows! ?? I decided to re-install. I just stops at rebuilding rpm database. A look around

Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh

2003-09-25 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 2:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It

Re: [expert] wma file conversion?

2003-09-24 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:33 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Hello list, Anyone done this before? I was on vacation and managed to have my system automatically capture a radio show and save it off in mplayer's stream dump format, which it identifies as wma. I'm attempting to explode it into a

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread lorne
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:12 am, Vincent Danen wrote: Here's an idea tho... I was recently in a local bookstore that caters to *NIX junkies and saw some Yellowdog packages there. The cool thing is, tho, that they came in a regular DVD case, just like a movie. I'm wondering if there is

Re: [expert] A vmware difficult question

2003-09-16 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:53 am, Jack Coates wrote: manolis wrote: Hi, I want to do the following: I have a software running in a real windows partition . I want to copy the partition to a virtual vmware partition so I can handle the software inside the vmware. I don't want to

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

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

Re: [expert] Video processing box

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

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-13 Thread lorne
On Friday 12 September 2003 10:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:05, lorne wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 01:11 pm, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Been useing it for about 4 years. I actually used the avmailgate with postfix as a filter. I don't really worry about getting

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-13 Thread lorne
On Saturday 13 September 2003 08:26 am, lorne wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 10:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:05, lorne wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 01:11 pm, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Been useing it for about 4 years. I actually used the avmailgate

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

2003-09-13 Thread lorne
On Saturday 13 September 2003 02:02 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Now a basic question that maybe I'm doing something wrong. When you open a song, there is a blinking cursor across the graph. I would expect this to It does over here. Maybe the zoom isn't set right -- because if the song is long

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

2003-09-12 Thread lorne
On Friday 12 September 2003 01:40 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: OK, it doesn't sound that bad in the beginning, but this is a dangerous trend. Like displaying ads while installing, OK, but will this mean that usefull messages get less screenspace (ETA, actions, ...) I'm also very cautious of big

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

2003-09-12 Thread lorne
On Friday 12 September 2003 03:22 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Yep! You are genius! Thanks so much. Now let me ask why I need to do this... Is this because of a bug or the way the application was designed, or is it like a gnome product that I'm trying to use in KDE? I don't think it has

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-12 Thread lorne
On Friday 12 September 2003 01:11 pm, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Been useing it for about 4 years. I actually used the avmailgate with postfix as a filter. I don't really worry about getting a Linux virus but I don't want to pass anything on to anyone and also my wife used a windows box. I have a

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

2003-09-12 Thread lorne
On Friday 12 September 2003 08:44 pm, David E. Fox wrote: my xmms, and every other audio tool I've ever used have never had this problem here. So that is why I was kind of lost. I've never had to use wrappers etc. Kind of caught me off guard. I had remembered reading about wine or

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

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: snip libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1 is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk I used urpmi, which also failed, but... urpmf then showed me that the only versions of libwx_gtk Mandrake has are 2.4.*, which is why it failed. OOH!. Just learned

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

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: Yeah, that can be frustrating. Hmmm, looking at my sources, somehow, although there is at least one 9.1 package, most of what I am seeing are 9.0 contrib/ packages. I don't know how that happened but, if you want, I

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

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:00 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 07:13, lorne wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: snip libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1 is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk I used urpmi, which also failed, but... urpmf

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

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:02 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: Yeah, that can be frustrating. Hmmm, looking at my sources, somehow, although there is at least one 9.1 package, most of what I am seeing

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

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: Glad I could help -- the reason why is one of those Linux things. Everything is an evolutionary battle between several ways to do things, and while it may eventually lead to one killer app like ssh, in the meantime the cooperation

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread lorne
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:02 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Charlie M. wrote I posted a link (yesterday? the day before? last week? too often? ;-) to Greg Meyer's page that will teach you how, plus I and others have posted examples recently. It ain't a hard thing to do Gary. :-)

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

2003-09-10 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:05 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: What I'm trying to say is that I get no package named hackaudacity. It isn't in most contrib sites. It must ONLY be at mandrake. ?? Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: 9.1/contrib/ is on the same mirrors that host the download isos. I see by your other post that you have tried Easy urpmi at PLF and it might be the problem with that is the mirror being busy; 9.2 rc2 is starting to get downloaded and

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward. Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the needed line to setup

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote: Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:19 am, Eric Fernandez wrote: Actually you have urpmi.setup as a GUI for adding sources (same team than nanardon) The gui is what I'm referring to. I'd do screen shots to demonstrate, but I don't think those pass through. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:00 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:00 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want

Re: [expert] Login problem

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to

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

2003-09-09 Thread lorne
2003 05:56 am, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 06:42 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I

Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-08 Thread lorne
would sink. :/ Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:04 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote

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

2003-09-08 Thread lorne
I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart?

Re: [expert]SOLVED! Interesting times with sound

2003-09-07 Thread lorne
On Saturday 06 September 2003 10:54 pm, Charlie M. wrote: Here's my latest favorite OGG streaming station: http://ogg.smgradio.com/vr96.ogg It's a broadband type but since they have a link for download users to. As well as some others. Home page at:

Re: [expert]SOLVED! Interesting times with sound

2003-09-07 Thread lorne
On Sunday 07 September 2003 09:45 am, lorne wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 10:54 pm, Charlie M. wrote: Here's my latest favorite OGG streaming station: http://ogg.smgradio.com/vr96.ogg It's a broadband type but since they have a link for download users to. As well as some others

Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients

2003-09-05 Thread lorne
On Friday 05 September 2003 07:18 am, David Rankin wrote: Specifically, on your linux box, for each user that will connect from XP: #useradd {whoever} enter password #smbpasswd -a {whoever} enter samepassword NOTE: the linux, samba and XP usernames and passwords must match as Anne stated

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:34, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 08:09 pm, David Rankin wrote: Well, you're right about there being something suspicious about the way XP does business. Browsing win98 clients is just slow

Re: [expert] Re: Mouse problems.

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:17 am, Alex Fisher wrote: Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Alex, In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: Don't know which version of mdk you're using, or whether you're using X, or whether you're using gdm. Mandrake 9.1,

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:07 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Yep. it adds native cifs vfs support... some features mentioned by one of the developers: - more stable than smb protocol - faster - large file support 2GB - works with windows 2003 - ... You can read about it at:

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:01 pm, David Rankin wrote: Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:48 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any

Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical switchboxes. XPH manages to loose mouse and get it back working after

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 . You may also want to try running

Re: [expert] Changing Mouse

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:40 am, James Conner wrote: I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with ball) on MDK 9.0. It's currently identified as the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I got the same

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:14 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you called

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:09 am, chort wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Agreed. First thing I looked for in the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:41 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Who's network? Just a simple

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
not seeing anything the jumps out at me. 1514 frames though. ?? I'll write back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:36 am, David Rankin wrote: Brian wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Brings up a good

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:13 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all... upcoming MDK 9.2 has cifs support in both

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything) in the slow than the fast! Not sure yet what else I'll dig

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:04 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
those. I can find no reference to window size on support.microsoft.com either. Odd. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 What is odd about this web site is that even though it says 2000/XP... virtually all the settings are specific to XP. XP

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:29 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 I DID go to a web site to download tweaks. There was a little executable

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:23 pm, David Rankin wrote: Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
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Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread lorne
On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP system to my 9.1 samba server is HORRIBLE! Say I'm copying 650mb of Wav

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread lorne
On Sunday 31 August 2003 09:38 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 12:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm

[expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-08-25 Thread lorne
I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP system to my 9.1 samba server is HORRIBLE! Say I'm copying 650mb of Wav files. We're talking an hour or so! Looking at the

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-21 Thread lorne
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 07:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? Microsoft has given lip service that it is getting serious

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:04 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 09:59, Lorne wrote: On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:11 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The Areoflows have bearingless fans which are some of the quietest in the industry, and ultimately reliable because they are, well

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 08:38 am, diego wrote: Which mark and model? I'm really concerned about noise and temp... Well first I have to thank you! I went to look and realized that my fan filter was plugged with dust! I don't have any special brands, I just looked for ball bearing muffin fans.

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 10:53 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 06:59, Lorne wrote: On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:11 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The Areoflows have bearingless fans which are some of the quietest in the industry, and ultimately reliable because they are, well

Re: [expert] Problems with MNF

2003-06-23 Thread Lorne
On Monday 23 June 2003 10:49 am, Jim C wrote: If someone can verify that the problem is for sure the Netgear card, I can maybe justify taking some money out of my budget to get another one. Is there a manual out there on how to use MNF? Sure would come in handy. Looking at this mess is like

Re: [expert] updatedb crashes system - update.

2003-06-23 Thread Lorne
On Monday 23 June 2003 02:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: For those of you who were following/helping me with this thread, I've made some progress - 1 step forward, 2 steps back. grin Kmail has been crashing quite a bit since I upgraded to 9.1, full lockups requiring hard resets. So...I figured

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Lorne
On Friday 13 June 2003 09:15 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 07:51 pm, Lorne wrote: I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you running hdparm and doing anything

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Lorne
On Friday 13 June 2003 01:17 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 04:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: slocate.db.tmp, size 1.6mb. I renamed it, will run the command again. Wish me luck! :-) Well, (hate replying to myself - sound psycho) but... Ran updatedb as root (single user

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-05 Thread Lorne
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:24 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Whatever Rolf. Tthis was a step backwards and from what I can see, I'm in the majority. I'm now done. When I say you can open both rpmdrake installer and rpmdrake uninstaller from the Software Management module in Mandrake Control Center

Re: [expert] Encrypted partition

2003-06-05 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:02 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello Robert Entering the password at bootup is the only draw-back for me. The partition can be encrypted for with a single key for all users, as it will be only me and my wife using it. The encryption is mainly intended to keep third

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-04 Thread Lorne
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:19 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Lorne wrote: I have primarily used the urpmi family of tools on the cli instead of rpmdrake for a some time as that seems to be quicker and more flexible, so I am not the one to advise how to use rpmdrake. However, you can open both

Re: [expert] hd device file doesn't get created

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 12:24 pm, stanly klyuhin wrote: 02 2003 21:23 Anne Wilson : Right - when you get home, go through the mcc and explain exactly where and how you can see hdc. Then do the same for where it failed, being very specific about how you tried to use diskdrake

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 09:39 am, Brian V Bonini wrote: About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences (good or bad) I'm sure you will get a lot of folks saying, NO!... DON'T! I did it and suffered no problems at all. ?? I thought

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 12:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I don't want to say this, but I have to say it because it is the truth. For users of 8.2 or maybe even 9.0 there is no cogent reason to upgrade to 9.1, if you are seeking a stable production system. The reasons I say this are myriad,

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Lorne
On Monday 02 June 2003 02:48 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Third, (mostly) because of the rpmdrake user interface (NOT the urpmi improvements at the CLI level, which *are* good), I consider LM82 to be better than either 9.0 or 9.1. It is most unfair to keep harping on this one. You were told

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