[expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail not installed by upgrade. 4. I don't seem to have American English installed on my machine, GB is installed

[expert] Xfree86 desktop went to default X11

2003-10-19 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
I believe during my attempts at enabling DRI (I installed Free86-DRI with make World/make install), I have wiped my desktop settings; so that when I startx now, I get 3 windows, and a clock in the corner; nothing else. Does anyone know what I would need to re-install from the CD to get the

[expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is there any way that I can get in to the configuration file to stop instant connections? I

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
Oh well I'll reply to myself After formating my home partition, and a new install of 9.2 all seems to well, I hav'nt found yet whether or not I still have sound probs. What I have got probs with is urpmi addmedia, the mirrors are getting so heavily hammered I cant down load the lists.. Richard

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is there any way that I can get in to the

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 11:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails,

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 11:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SNIP I chose to use kopete because my two grandchildren use msn along with their friends. I assumed that the msn change was what was causing the problem now. IM is not a service I have used much, and I know very little about it. Do you

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 12:32 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 11:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SNIP I chose to use kopete because my two grandchildren use msn along with their friends. I assumed that the msn change was what was causing the problem now. IM is not a service I

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-19 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlie M. wrote: [...] Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes about it on the TWiki (cooker). gendistrib if for prepairing the tree for hd / network installs...

Re: [expert] Orinoco gold driver problems

2003-10-19 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to get kismet, the wlan sniffer, to work with my orinoco gold. There are patches available for the orinoco driver that allows it to go into monitor mode. The thing is, all the sources indicate that the default driver version in the

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread kat
You'll want to look at the urpmi --parallel switch. It's more fully explianed in the urpmi HOWTO at http://www.urpmi.org. The links returned a '404 - File Not Found' message. Anyplace else this could be hosted? Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] urpmi: get summaries, etc

2003-10-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Eric Huff wrote: Hello, How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. The more you specify a file path to urpmf, the less it will return as relevant, and vice-versa. However, if urpmf returns nothing for a specific library,

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 4:13 pm, kat wrote: You'll want to look at the urpmi --parallel switch. It's more fully explianed in the urpmi HOWTO at http://www.urpmi.org. The links returned a '404 - File Not Found' message. Anyplace else this could be hosted? Kat It might be worth trying

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread kat
You'll want to look at the urpmi --parallel switch. It's more fully explianed in the urpmi HOWTO at http://www.urpmi.org. The links returned a '404 - File Not Found' message. Anyplace else this could be hosted? Kat It might be worth trying again, Kat. It is working from here

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 00.02 19/10/2003, you wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only the 9.2 iso's that aren't available allover (yet). But I don't

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] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 00.02 19/10/2003, you wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only the 9.2 iso's that aren't available

Re: [expert] Orinoco gold driver problems

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:22 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to get kismet, the wlan sniffer, to work with my orinoco [...] for MDK 9.1 the update kernel is 2.4.21-0.25mdk wich carries orinoco 0.13c for MDK 9.2 we hav the latest

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 October 2003 17:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 00.02 19/10/2003, you wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, kat wrote: The first few links work but when I go to the individual tools, such as 'urpmi,' the '404' message comes up. Yes, it appears that the HOWTO links no longer work, as the tiscali.co.uk site that held those pages is no longer valid; however, you can view the

[expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Over the last few days, my inbox has been receiving repeated versions of this: General SMTP/ESMTP error. attached, empty message that contains: Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:49:21 -0500 (EST)

[expert] New site for Mandrake users

2003-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, although this is a list for English speaking people I know well that there are a lot of German native speakers around in this list. So, for all those German speaking people I have an info: Following a discussion in the newbie-de mailing list we (3 other users and I) are opening a new site

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:58 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Is someone trying to use me as a relay? Is this just some badly designed spam that contains nothing and is getting past spamassassin on my system? It is badly designed spam. The IP address in the received header is in spamcop as a

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, so how might I setup procmailrc to have any/all messages from this IP be dumped into /dev/null? Since sending my message to the list, I have received 8 more of these damn things in my trash folder. praedor On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:03 am,

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wanted us to know: After formating my home partition, and a new install of 9.2 all seems to well, Usually it's just the .gnome or .kde directories that needed to be wiped, or the config dir for a specific application. I hav'nt found

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:44, kat wrote: You'll want to look at the urpmi --parallel switch. It's more fully explianed in the urpmi HOWTO at http://www.urpmi.org. The links returned a '404 - File Not Found' message. Anyplace else this could be hosted? Kat It might be

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is there any

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: Received: from 24.61.30.135 (HELO 67.164.237.213) (24.61.30.135) by mta154.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:52:58 -0700 OK, so how might I setup procmailrc to have any/all messages from this

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:40, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you. Unfortunately, for some reason it isn't working. These messages are coming into my inbox from my fetchmail-daemon (From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and for whatever reason it appears that they are sidestepping procmail. I added the entry you

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 5:40 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Anne Wilson wanted us to know: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is there

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: Thank you. Unfortunately, for some reason it isn't working. These messages are coming into my inbox from my fetchmail-daemon (From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and for whatever reason it appears that they are

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 06:11 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: [...] Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes about it on the TWiki (cooker). gendistrib if for

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

2003-10-19 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: [...] Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close. Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and btw it does pass the test if you install the LSB packages) than

[expert] Re: Is there OpenOffice 1.1 RPM for mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-19 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:04:30AM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:35 pm, many eyes noted that Vincent Chen wrote: [...] If RPM is not available, will it cause any problem if I use OO's installer? [...] No OpenOffice.org1.1.0 installs beautifully like this:- [...]

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

2003-10-19 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3700 days T. Ribbrock wrote: QMail is a great example, Gee lets put all of our executables in /var and the forbid the user to change it. I seem to remember that there is reasoning behind this on part of the author - it's been a while, though, that I read about it.

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

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T. Ribbrock wanted us to know: QMail is a great example, Gee lets put all of our executables in /var and the forbid the user to change it. I seem to remember that there is reasoning behind this on part of the author - it's been a while, though,

Re: [expert] IM issues

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 5:50 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:40, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away.

[expert] Ping kopete users

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
Anyone able to tell me where I can find the config file that sets auto connect? I have not been able to start the program since the 15th, as it tries to autoconnect to msn the segfaults. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy

Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:07, Rob Blomquist wrote: 1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail not installed by upgrade. I hunted through all the kde

[expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: Last Network Security Update Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 From: Microsoft Internet Security Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Microsoft Consumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft Consumer this is the latest version of security update, the

[expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
I just recently changed to ALSA from OSS sound. Mdk 9.2 I've tried all the docs I can find, Googled, etc. The one thing I cannot determine is in MCC Services, is do I need Sound as well as ALSA? I have ASLA on at boot. I have tried ALSA On, Sound Off, and ALSA On, Sound On, and can see no

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Sawchuck wanted us to know: The one thing I cannot determine is in MCC Services, is do I need Sound as well as ALSA? I have ASLA on at boot. I have tried ALSA On, Sound Off, and ALSA On, Sound On, and can see no difference. This is my home

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Anne Wilson schrieb am Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:19:43 +0100: While I was away several people told me that they were just doing something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had done what Microsoft said in their message'. I know it's ridiculous expecting virus writers to play fair,

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:38:02 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Sawchuck wanted us to know: The one thing I cannot determine is in MCC Services, is do I need Sound as well as ALSA? I have ASLA on at boot. I have tried ALSA On,

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:45 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Anne Wilson schrieb am Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:19:43 +0100: While I was away several people told me that they were just doing something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had done what Microsoft said in their message'. I know

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: Last Network Security Update Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 From: Microsoft Internet Security Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Microsoft

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
Hi There is definitely a problem when upgrading 9.1 to 9.2 when gnome is the wm I upgraded my friends, after 1.5 hrs it was upgraded, he had autologin enabled, as gnome 2.4 started the machine froze. Did so againso fresh install, saved the home partition all well and how doi put entries back

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:51 pm, Charlie M. wrote: While I was away several people told me that they were just doing something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had done what Microsoft said in their message'. I know it's ridiculous expecting virus writers to play fair, but

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:27:12 -0700 Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only other thing is that DigitalDJ that integrates with Grip will not play under ALSA. All my other Audio/Video apps are fine. Anyone know a trick to get Ddj to run with ALSA? Nothing on the Grip / Ddj home page.

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip Thanks for an opportunity to join a rant Anne. (-; The sad part is that so many people will be taken in by such transparent social engineering crap. I spend more time de-worming infected

[expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a good VPN

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:18:33 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:51 pm, Charlie M. wrote: While I was away several people told me that they were just doing something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had done what Microsoft said in their

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anne, On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:18:33 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses: My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a good VPN

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 19 October 2003 12:26 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK, so how might I setup procmailrc to have any/all messages from this IP be dumped into /dev/null? Since sending my message to the list, I have received 8 more of these damn things in my trash folder. Create a recipe for that IP

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 8:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that infection transport agent that comes with Windows as an e-mail

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

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:32, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: [...] Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close. Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and btw it does

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

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:32, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: [...] Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close. Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and btw it does

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:36 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days (and counting). That may be a record. Saves a mint in upgrades (win and anti-virus junk), and protects us all

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: Tell your daughter to use Pegasus Mail. Once upon a time when I was using Windows I found it the best mailer for that O/S. I never ran antivirus software continuously and never got infected, though I received viruses as attachments regularly.

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

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:41, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T. Ribbrock wanted us to know: QMail is a great example, Gee lets put all of our executables in /var and the forbid the user to change it. I seem to remember that there is reasoning behind this

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 H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:28, Anne Wilson wrote: That's one I hadn't thought of. Thanks Here's another one: Calypso, it has some very nice features in it including filtering on the server. And it has good looks;) The only mailer I advise to Win sufferers. Good luck, HarM -- Registered

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:05, Kwan Lowe wrote: 2. Run X over SSH. ssh into the server and run the client X11 application. a. ssh -X w.x.y.z b. On remote, launch X11 application. Even easier: On Mandrake -X is applied by default (or alias)...you actually have to use option -x to disable

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:21, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 06:11 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: [...] Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:08, Richard Bown wrote: Hi There is definitely a problem when upgrading 9.1 to 9.2 when gnome is the wm unfortunately you have to lose the .gnome* files in your home directory. I noticed this as well (no autologin) and once I wacked my personal configs... all was

[expert] Complete freeze with kernel 2.4.22 and Intel Speedstep activation

2003-10-19 Thread rode vriendje
I just thought I post this here, because I can't think of a better place. I hope that's OK. I have had problems with my Dell Latitude C640 laptop and Mandrake 9.2, kernel 2.4.22 (the default kernel). When the powercord is plugged/unplugged the whole machine freezes (forced powerdown + reboot is

Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:07, Rob Blomquist wrote: 1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. 3. KMail

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:06, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: Thank you. Unfortunately, for some reason it isn't working. These messages are coming into my inbox from my fetchmail-daemon (From: [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 03:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that infection transport agent that comes with Windows as an e-mail client?

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 03:39 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: whack I'll eventually attain knowledge enough to be as helpful as some others on these lists. Maybeif my head doesn't explode. (-: My mission at the moment though is to see how long I can

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:51, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: Last Network Security Update Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 From: Microsoft

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wanted us to know: Forgot to say earlier, a big Welcome Back We've missed you. I'm here in bits and pieces when I have time. I try to read Expert and Cooker every other day, but it's usually only weekends when I have time to

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread J.P. Pasnak
Kwan Lowe said: I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH?

Re: [expert] Complete freeze with kernel 2.4.22 and Intel Speedstep activation

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:55:14 -0700 (PDT) rode vriendje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just thought I post this here, because I can't think of a better place. I hope that's OK. The BugTracker would be the best place: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ I have had problems with my Dell Latitude C640

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
On October 19, 2003 11:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: Last Network Security Update Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 From: Microsoft Internet Security Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Microsoft Consumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft Consumer

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
Hi James well in a way I'm glad it was'nt my imagination. What screwed me up was he had autologin set, so once X started It had gone past the point of no return.. OK , I should have used the 1st cd as a rescue disk, and got into his home dir and deleted all .gnome* files. To be honest this

Re: [expert] wine

2003-10-19 Thread deedee
On 16 Oct 2003 23:42:52 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: So its try wine, the version I have is wine-20030115-4mdk, but I cant find the config file. Looks like it did'nt install. Where is the normal place for wine.conf in MDK ? and should it have installed the conf file when the rpm was loaded ?.

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:36 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days (and counting). That may be a record. Saves a mint in

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 15:25, John Wilson wrote: On October 19, 2003 11:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: Last Network Security Update Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 From: Microsoft Internet Security Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:06, Rob Blomquist wrote: I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: Tell your daughter to use Pegasus Mail. Once upon a time when I was using Windows I found it the best mailer for that O/S. I never ran antivirus software continuously and never got infected, though I received viruses as attachments regularly.

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 16:25, Richard Bown wrote: Hi James well in a way I'm glad it was'nt my imagination. What screwed me up was he had autologin set, so once X started It had gone past the point of no return.. OK , I should have used the 1st cd as a rescue disk, and got into his home dir

[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] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:06, Rob Blomquist wrote: I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:52, James Sparenberg wrote: Yes on SSH ... just check your config files in /etc/ssh and make sure forward X11 is set to yes. (should be by default.) To verify ssh to the box and type xclock. If the clock pops up your working. (note this won't work coming from

[expert] (Solved) e2fsck -b 8193 won't help!

2003-10-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Just to say that I fixed the problems of resizing ext3 partitions with Partition Magic 8. Linux asks for e2fsck -b 8193 but the correct command for 4k filesystem is e2fsck -b 32768 in case someone else runs into trouble. Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process, I know that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can I check if swap is on? How can I check how much of swap linux is

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
On October 19, 2003 04:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: semi monsterous snip In fact if you go to just about any main page at M$'s website they have huge warnings about this scam and a statement saying We haven't, we don't, and we never will send out a virus warning in this manor. larger

Re: [expert] Orinoco gold driver problems

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I downloaded the orinoco-0.13e drivers, patched them with the monitor patch, and replaced the default kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk orinoco drivers with them. They sort of work. If I run iwpriv I get monitor as one of the available options but trying to

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

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 12:18:33 PM, you wrote: AW Quite apart from the time I spend on this, it makes me very angry AW that she takes every precaution a non-geek can be expected to AW take, and yet still she suffers this regularly. My suggestions - Remove **ALL** M$ software

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:42 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:27, Anne Wilson wrote: Can't find the link at the moment. But there is a windows e-mail reader called Bat. (as in Batman.) I've a few windows developers I know who swear by it. It looks acts and feels

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

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 2:25:21 PM, you wrote: AW On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 8:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 01:42, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process, I know that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can I

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Gary Hodder
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 18:42, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process, I know that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can I

[expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have receive over 100 of these today alone. Nothing i've tried with procmail recipes has worked. I cannot stop this nonsense. The from address is my own fetchmail-daemon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am considering having all fetchmail-daemon emails

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
Even quicker is: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] appname ie: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakconf The username is only required if you have a different username on the remote box. Works even slicker if you are using ssh keys. If you're not launching from an xterm and you're not using keys, you

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[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello John, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 3:25:27 PM, you wrote: JW I first spotted this scam on the newsgroups, oddly enough. As I JW don't run a news client on windows I was safe so I peeked. With TheBat, you'd probably be safe too. First, it would be quite visible, and you could look inside,

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