Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:37:43 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Hijacking threads

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:12:25 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 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. What is worse, if a person is deleting a

Re: Redhat discontinued? was: Re: [expert] Mandrake Clubs

2003-11-04 Thread Michael Adams
On 04 Nov 2003 09:35:17 -0500 Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:59, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:02, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 03 November 2003 07:01 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 02 November

Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:52:29 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 03:33 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm planning to try RAID-1 or RAID-5. Does anyone have any experience on this? Can you pls tell me about it or give me an url? Thanks guys. I use

Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW

2003-10-29 Thread Michael Adams
On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:20:29 -0400 Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 17:20, James Conner wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite

Re: [expert] where are urpmi commands for 9.2?

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:04:59 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Never mind. I found what I wanted (updates, plf, texstar), however, I am presently running 9.1 and plan to wait for my 9.2 CDs before I upgrade. Is there a way to

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:20:17 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have been troubling people

Re: [expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:42:37 -0700 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we

Re: [expert] Re: Reply-to

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:56:16 +0200 T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail you send will be sent back to the address you are sending from, except in such cases as the mailing lists, where replies ought to be automatically sent to

Re: [expert] alphabet characters

2003-10-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:36:45 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kwan Lowe said: Not very easily :( Here's a web resource for some information: http://www.hri.org/fonts/unix/ If you're trying to send mathematical documents I've found that the easiest method is to compose in

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

2003-09-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:36:47 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 13:32, Eric Huff wrote: 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

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

2003-09-20 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:26:24 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListE tiquette Also was the info on Hijacking left out intentionally? Left to me, I think,

Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...

2003-09-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:43:42 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:52:34 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:58:06 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you are dual booting 9.1 and 9.2. and your boot

Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...

2003-09-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:52:34 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:58:06 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you are dual booting 9.1 and 9.2. and your boot into 9.2 is reasonably ok. There are steps that need to be made by you when dual

[expert] More on threading

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave threads in my folders longer until they had well and truly dried up if i could expunge the whole thread quickly. -- Michael

Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
Sounds like you are dual booting 9.1 and 9.2. and your boot into 9.2 is reasonably ok. There are steps that need to be made by you when dual booting linux. Both vmlinuz.2.4.21-XX.mdk and initrd.2.4.21-XX.mdk.img have to be copied from 9.1 /boot to 9.2 /boot. Then you replace the 'vmlinuz' in

Re: [expert] More on threading

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Michael Adams wrote: For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave

Re: [expert] Did someone else get this also?????

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:17:52 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the headers further down the chain, if they are to be believed would seem to indicate the origination was a pacbell DSL modem(67.122.222.126) which does belong to Pacbell so is probably accurate. If anyone

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
Anne, is var/ on / ? Why i ask, is because var is a culprit likely to grow if not treated right. - If you turn your comp off overnight you need anacron installed to clean out /var/log/ files else they just keep on growing like topsy. (cron runs logrotate at about 4am IIRC). - apache html

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-25 Thread Michael Adams
Bit late here. How about removing the sane RPM. Seems to work with lots of these stuck proggies. On 23 Jul 2003 10:10:15 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 07:29, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Anne Nice try, but after I delete it and then run xsane, it

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-16 Thread Michael Adams
Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html This

Re: [expert] ntp error

2003-07-09 Thread Michael Adams
BTW for a dial-up system i take the ntpd link out of /etc/rc5.d/ and put it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and /etc/ppp/ip-down.local files. No point in the server running and posting errors when you are off-line. On 08 Jul 2003 21:20:55 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue,

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Adams
Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly (read better license) than mp3. The oggs record at 44khz. On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 23:25:06 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry no, i use lame

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Adams
On 01 Jul 2003 15:51:18 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:57, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 14:45:24 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:10:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 6:03 pm, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: Fat16 has suport to 4gb, but its not recommended to driver greater than 512mb, i think You could be right - it's a long time ago. Thinking

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:28:12 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:19 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am seriously looking at an Epox 87RD+ nvidia nforce2 board. It has EXCELLENT specs and an truly excellent price...but now I am given pause. I have no

Re: [expert] Equivilent to Debians net-install iso?

2003-06-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:30, Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, Following the heat death of my server and desktop I'm in the process of building new machines. I run debian on my servers and used a nice bootable ISO that quickly installs a minimum networkable system and I can just apt-get the rest. Does

Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91

2003-05-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. There have been other system lockups, but I

Re: [expert] Stupid password loss

2003-04-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 06:38, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 02:27, Molotov wrote: Hello Well, I need some advice for a classic problem... I am now unable to get access to one of my computers, as I forgot my password (root account). I still have a basic user password, but

Re: [expert]

2003-04-05 Thread Michael Adams
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Re: [expert]

2003-04-05 Thread Michael Adams
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Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Adams
There was talk about updates being available for this product for three years. But at present i only see a one year support cycle. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/corporate-server and http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg65843.html from which i quote quote From: Vincent Danen

Re: [expert] [OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!?

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:58, stefmit wrote: Sorry for the OT, but I am feeling so frustrated now ... I meant to ask this question for a while (Google didn't turn any positive results), but it is now when I am in dire need of an answer: is there an equivalent multi-site search agent for Linux, as

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Adams
Whups, i should finish reading the posts before replying. Sorry Vincent. On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:26, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:18PM -0500, Jim Hubbard wrote: I think that now is a really good time for Mandrake to reconsider their snip will happen I think in about a

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:43, Mark Weaver wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:00, Ron Stodden wrote: Simone Riccio wrote: Dear Ron, html is of course nice 2 see and maybe look professional but please consider that not everyone on this list has broadband, and goes on with 56Kbps

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:00, Ron Stodden wrote: Simone Riccio wrote: Dear Ron, html is of course nice 2 see and maybe look professional but please consider that not everyone on this list has broadband, and goes on with 56Kbps modems. So, that's more than a cosmetic or geek or old fashion

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:35, Greg Meyer wrote: snip HTML e-mail is always more than likely to be spam than a real message. In fact, I typically have a filter set up to automatically send mails with html to the trash. After I saw civileme's post, I had to go retrieve this one to reply to it.

Re: [expert] Windows Games Platform, was Enterprise OS, was Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:52, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:55, Ric Tibbetts wrote: ... Actually, I have XP running at home on a PII-333 My kids use it as their game machine. But my oldest is only 7. Their demands are low. :) Ric yeah, I was kind

Re: [expert] Squid Delay Pool

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:46, Sebastian McDonagh wrote: He is talking about squids bandwidth management features. Dont know too much about it myself but i found a bit about it in the howto on bandwidth throttling. Seb On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 20:28, Michael Adams wrote

[expert] Squid Delay Pool

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Adams
This came up in another list i am on. I do not even know what he is talking about (other than squid being a proxy server). I am running squid with Mandrake 8.2 and using Webmin for management. Just a quick one, is the Squids Delay Pools feature enabled during installation of Mandrake 8.2? or

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:15, Will Styles wrote: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 05:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: J.P. Pasnak wrote: snip If you want to change it on a per-user basis, create an '.Xdefaults' file in your home directory and add the following lines: --- Xcursor.size: 16

Re: [expert] Problem of Lost User Name continues

2003-01-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:29, Clif Caldwell wrote: Continue to be unable to assign a lost name to a working user id. Name was lost during samba and various other set-ups. Have attempted changing all the password files in /etc and all the other files and then using pmconv (pwconv...I can't

[expert] NIC insmod Runaround

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Adams
I am learning the basics of networking and have stuck an old PI beside my PIII. I have a NIC installed in each with a patch cable and have succesfully insmoded or modprobed both computers once. The modprobe seems to do an insmod as part of its operation. That was fine, i set up eth0 with #

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:58, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 18:40, James Sparenberg wrote: Just a curiosity... but since lilo is just about one of the oldest programs in linux. what happened? What happened was that lilo installation couldn't be stopped/skipped ...well no

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:24, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:42, Mark Weaver wrote: Damon Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:18, Mark Weaver wrote: I don't mean to be facicious here, but the utility is called PERL. I can already do that with Python (and in fact I am

Re: [expert] weekly cron

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:15, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello guys I suspect that the contents of cron.weekly is not executed. My system is mainly default Mandrake 9.0. I see a script slocate.cron in /etc/cron.weekly, run manually it updates the locate database, but it does not seem to run weekly

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:42, Mark Weaver wrote: Damon Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:18, Mark Weaver wrote: I don't mean to be facicious here, but the utility is called PERL. I can already do that with Python (and in fact I am doing that). But it seems a common enough problem that

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:27, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, I need to convert a lot of text sent in e-mails and MS Word documents into plain text format, to be fed into a python script and then e-mailed. I want the final product to be plain ASCII text i.e. no fancy em hyphens, curly quotes and so

Re: [expert] Difference between distros

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Adams
Forgive my stupidity, but i thought Linux was based on the System V system and BSD (Berkley System Distribution) was a different flavour of Unix to Linux. Not all unices are the same but Linux is heading to the posix/LSB standard to make it easier for more program compatability. Of course

Re: [expert] Difference between distros

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 04:25, Philip Webb wrote: 030104 Michael Adams wrote: I have noticed on my short time on this list that most questions should have been posted newbie first anyway. 'newby' (ugh! reaches for verbicide: sb 'novice') 'expert' are relative: contrast 'angel' 'devil', which

Re: [expert] cdrom fstab entry

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Adams
Also as root # cdrecord --scanbus will show you where it is. The three numbers tell you the X X X of /busX/targetX/lunX/cd On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On my CD-Burner scd0 is a link # ls -l /dev/scd0 # lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Dec 16 22:21 scd0 -

Re: [expert] A bit OT: Help needed - reaching the edge...

2002-12-30 Thread Michael Adams
I get it too. To remedy try $ ls -X | grep / or $ ls -F | grep / Running standard 8.2 install with ls (fileutils) 4.1.5 On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:32, Vox wrote: This time James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: ls isn't broken... at least as I read the man page. It should