Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread zephod
On Saturday 04 October 2003 00:05, Bill Mullen wrote: And to refresh my memory, why is it a bad idea to login as root in KDE? These days I do a lot of root changes,it's easier for me to stay for a while in KDE as root than to type my root password everytime I want to do some root job as a

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 11:05 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: And to refresh my memory, why is it a bad idea to login as root in KDE? These days I do a lot of root changes,it's easier for me to stay for a while in KDE as root than to type my root password everytime I want to do some root job as a

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003 21:46 schrieb vatbier: Sometimes I log in into KDE as root. When I, being logged in as root, use Konqueror to surf on the internet, I notice a lot of timeout errors (trying do to a query search in Mandrakesoft Bugzilla always timed out). In KCC:Network:Preferences

Re: [expert] Re: setup email bounce

2003-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 06:34, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Oct 2003 7:52 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:27:48PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] innocents. One of the things I hate about spam assassin, and other anti viral software is that they send me an

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 03 October 2003 10:03 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: And then how much distortion, at the top end of the scale do you allow? Or should I say time above 50%, 90% and 99% of max volume? Rob Generally speaking, this will vary a bit with taste, but I would'nt let more than say 5 or 10

Re: [expert] setup email bounce

2003-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 01:08, lorne wrote: 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

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello zephod, Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:45:15 +0200, zephod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake

[expert] KNode Surprise

2003-10-04 Thread Daryl Johnson
Is it possible I am missing something? It appears to be impossible to save filters in KNode. I set one up last night, closed down KNode - and it was gone this morning. Did it again, closed KNode, just to check, restarted and the filter was gone. Hm. regards Daryl -- We can found

Re: [expert] Re: Can't Start KDE

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Norman Zhang wrote: As for the safety of upgrading, I prefer clean installs that retain /home, which I keep on a separate partition for exactly that reason. I also back up /etc and certain subdirs of /var before the install, to be able to quickly get the new system's

Re: [expert] print to samba server

2003-10-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 6:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: On Friday 03 Oct 2003 4:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg said: Good news may be with samba 3.x it's better aimed at XP (fingers crossed) You know, I was reading a little bit about

[expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on MDK 9.1? I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all. I have Goggled for answers and it looks like this card is not supported by Linux. Thanks. -- J. Kelley Jernigan - Registered Linux User # 282143 Mandrake 9.1

[expert] Bug in php-rrdtool-1.0.40-2mdk in rrd_fetch function

2003-10-04 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, by trying to improve my system stats etc. I found out that the rrd_tool module for php4 still had the old Bug I sent a patch to Tobias Oetiker by that time. Actually - the rrd_fetch function returns the data for one Datasource only, instead of cycling through all existing

Re: [expert] Bug in php-rrdtool-1.0.40-2mdk in rrd_fetch function

2003-10-04 Thread Joerg Mertin
*lol* It's You folks from mandrake of course. A Year back - I had patched a RedHat RPM to include the fix. But - since about 5 months - I do use Mdk-9.1 for my little Home-Server ;o) BTW - the stats I need the patch for can be viewed here: http://www.solsys.org/system.php?action=ext_Det The

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Vinyl to CD] - running at last!

2003-10-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 3:52 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: before running Audacity and/or Rezound do the following $killall artsd That might get you going. Here's hoping kernel 2.6 and its built-in ALSA support comes and wipes the old OSS Sound way of doing things off the planet

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 2:10 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on MDK 9.1? I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all. I have Goggled for answers and it looks like this card is not supported by Linux. Thanks. Mine

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished, but you can safely leave it open until you have finished and tested what you are

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished, but you can safely leave it open until you have finished and tested

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 4:32 pm, Charlie M. wrote: October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished, but you can safely leave it open until you have finished and tested what

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:32:52 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished, but you

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 4:46 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager, Super User. Shut it down when you've finished,

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 08:59, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:32:52 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [..] And if you don't like to use the command line, use File Manager,

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 09:46 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [..] I don't know how the menu item, FM Super User mode, will be resolved but you can always press alt-F2 and type in kdesu konqueror to run konqueror as root, after supplying the root password, or

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 07:10 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on MDK 9.1? I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all. I have Goggled for answers and it looks like this card is

[expert] 9.1: partition device busy on shutdown

2003-10-04 Thread Norman Carver
Have had 9.1 installed on several machines for months working fine. One had a harddrive problem this last week, so just got a new drive and reinstalled 9.1 then did most updates. When I tried to shutdown the machine, however, umount failed for the partition I have /home on. Get a device busy

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread zephod
On Saturday 04 October 2003 12:14, Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello zephod, Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! If you can point me where I can do this in kmail

Re: [expert] 9.1: partition device busy on shutdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
Have had 9.1 installed on several machines for months working fine. One had a harddrive problem this last week, so just got a new drive and reinstalled 9.1 then did most updates. When I tried to shutdown the machine, however, umount failed for the partition I have /home on. Get a device

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 07:10 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on MDK 9.1? I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all. I have Goggled

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 09:46 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [..] I don't know how the menu item, FM Super User mode, will be resolved but you can always press alt-F2 and type in kdesu konqueror to run konqueror as root, after supplying the root

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 12:16 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: [..] Would someone with one of theese Dell systems with cripled audigy2 dsp send me the output of lspcidrake -v... If we can't get it to work normally, maybe we can work around the problem with

[expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread Leonardo Sá
i'm planning to do a mail user management (like to add and remove mail users, but only mail users) via the web using apache. I know that postfix can use mysql (and mysql records can be added via web using php) to authenticate it's users but i don't have any ideas on how to create new users for

[expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread Leonardo Sá
i'm planning to do a mail user management (like to add and remove mail users, but only mail users) via the web using apache. I know that postfix can use mysql (and mysql records can be added via web using php) to authenticate it's users but i don't have any ideas on how to create new users for

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [..] October 4, 2003 12:20 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Well, that's not exactly how I see it. Having never used the menu item for File Manager Super User mode, I can see where someone else might have more of an attachment to it. There are other

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Charlie M. schrieb am Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:16:01 -0600: If I start talking anything more geekish than that these people go TILT. Then they run. But you'll never educate most people because they just want a tool to use. They don't want to be educated, and stop listening as soon as

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 02:29 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Charlie M. schrieb am Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:16:01 -0600: If I start talking anything more geekish than that these people go TILT. Then they run. But you'll never educate most people because

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
1st thing I did was to make sure nothing was muted. I've tried OSS and Alsa. No go on both. On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:52, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 2:10 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on MDK 9.1? I have one

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
How do you think Dell will react considering the card works perfectly well with XP Pro? Also, where did the Audigy 2 drivers for linux come from? I've googled and tried Cooker and I cannot find any for Linux. On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:59, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
OK, Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kelley]$ lspcidrake -v unknown : unknown (8086/2578/1028/0157) [BRIDGE_HOST] unknown : unknown (8086/2579//) [BRIDGE_PCI] usb-uhci: Intel Corporation|USB Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24d2 subv:1028 subd:0157)

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: J. Kelley Jernigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kelley]$ lspcidrake -v [...] audigy : Creative Labs|EMU10K2 Audigy Audio Processor [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0004 subv:1102 subd:1003) ohci1394: Creative Labs|EMU10K2 Audigy IEEE1394

Re: [expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Leonardo Sá wrote: i'm planning to do a mail user management (like to add and remove mail users, but only mail users) via the web using apache. I know that postfix can use mysql (and mysql records can be added via web using php) to authenticate it's users but i don't have

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
P.S. I tried changing my sound configuration in MDK control center from Audigy to snd-emu10k1. The problem is how do I save this change? If I go to any other part of NDK Control it tell me the changed will not be saved and when I click on Configure Module it crashes Control Center. Thanks On

Re: [expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Leonardo Sá said: i'm planning to do a mail user management (like to add and remove mail users, but only mail users) via the web using apache. I know that postfix can use mysql (and mysql records can be added via web using php) to authenticate it's users but i don't have any ideas on how to

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 03:29 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: How do you think Dell will react considering the card works perfectly well with XP Pro? Also, where did the Audigy 2 drivers for linux come from? I've googled and tried Cooker and I cannot find

Re: [expert] print to samba server

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Anne Wilson said: Just browsing their webpage, they don't seem to have support for anything buy 95,98 or ME. Are you talking about one in beta? I may have to grovel on this one. I was speaking from memory, but I can't find the newletter I was thinking of - I must have deleted it. I

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Charlie M. schrieb am Sat, 04 Oct 2003 14:46:41 -0600: I hope they don't run. I'll be modifying my presentations and methods to try and overcome some of the natural resistance I expect to encounter. I recognize that the onus is on me to make things appear as easy as they actually are, and

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 October 2003 14:06, zephod wrote: Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! If you can point me where I can do this in kmail 1.5.3, I will be glad to do so. It seems that there is only a

[expert] alphabet characters

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Hey, How do I go about using cyrillic, greek, or any other characters in my outgoing email? I messed around pasting the characters, but when I viewed it, it only showed the ascii character code ''. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\

Re: [expert] Auto installation question

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Jack Coates said: Jumpstart uses a network boot protocol to get an IP and basic system image, then either run as a diskless workstation or install system packages from an NFS server. It's good stuff. LTSP is the right direction, and I seem to recall that some cluster projects have some way

Re: [expert] alphabet characters

2003-10-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hey, How do I go about using cyrillic, greek, or any other characters in my outgoing email? I messed around pasting the characters, but when I viewed it, it only showed the ascii character code ''. -- Not very easily :( Here's a web resource for some information:

Re: [expert] alphabet characters

2003-10-04 Thread michael
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 LaTeX then send as a PDF or PS file. eeekk!! I was hoping it wouldn't be

Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support

2003-10-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 04 October 2003 05:29 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: How do you think Dell will react considering the card works perfectly well with XP Pro? Well, if push gets to shove, take the approach that you bought a general purpose computer -- not an appliance that only ran with one specific

Re: [expert] Auto installation question

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 16:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Coates said: Jumpstart uses a network boot protocol to get an IP and basic system image, then either run as a diskless workstation or install system packages from an NFS server. It's good stuff. LTSP is the right direction, and

Re: [expert] web mail server

2003-10-04 Thread Leonardo Sá
thanks for the answers guys. On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Leonardo Sá wrote: i'm planning to do a mail user management (like to add and remove mail users, but only mail users) via the web using apache. I know that postfix can use mysql (and mysql records can be added via web using php) to

Re: [expert] Auto installation question

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Jack Coates said: No biggie since the first thing you have to do with Sun is patch with their horrible patch system, and the second thing you have to do is install all the GNU utilities so that you actually get a usable Unix. Well said -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA

[expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Anton
Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? Thanks Anton Hi, I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the

[expert] gnomemeeting / netmeeting

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Hey all, I´ve setup gnomemeeting on my computer and I´ve been trying to test it by connecting to my in-laws´ computer running netmeeting. Everything seems to be configured and working correctly. When I connect, it lasts anywhere from 1 to 2 minutes tops and then disconnects. Neither app

Re: [expert] OT theme question

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Jack Coates said: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:45, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, replying to myself again... never underestimate the rest of the world's desire to look like MacOSX :-) I

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 October 2003 23:13, Anton wrote: Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? My patience with

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 09:13, Anton wrote: Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? Thanks Anton that

Re: [expert] OT theme question

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 20:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Coates said: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:45, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, replying to myself again... never underestimate

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Matthew Alexander
Would go quicker if you provided your config's and/or log snippets doesn't seem to be working really doesn't give us much to go by.. :) /var/log/messages is a good place to start.. It's cool how yer like one of 8 people using ME in real life tho.. I've heard

Re: [expert] OT theme question

2003-10-04 Thread michael
Jack Coates said: yeah, that kinda bugs me too :-) I found a really badly done XP theme trying to look like Keramik, but it was unusable. The interesting thing about this Aqua theme is that it really does make the XP box feel better, faster, more usable... with one exception. I've been

[expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks

2003-10-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split the others. Has any one fiddled around with splitting

[expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
Is there a tool for converting wav files to mp3s enmasse? Right now I am using Lame at the command line, but it is getting old. I would like to point Lame at a directory of wavs and have it encode the mp3 files using the same name. Any thoughts beyond a shell script? Rob -- Linux: For the

[expert] KDE start up is too slow!!

2003-10-04 Thread Kaveh Gh
Dear Friends, I've installed mdk-9.0 on a 40Gb western-digital (WDC-4000C) HDD several times and never seen any problem with installation and boot-up of system or KDE start-up. I think untill now, I've installed mandrake 9.0 on my system for about 20 times, and never had had any problem. but