Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Coates
the MDK guys are fond of making perl-Net-1.0.2 into perl-Net1-0.2mdk. Oh well, I guess this just goes back into the rpm sux box. ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Coates
be harder than they expected. In that sense, I'm fine letting it go by unchallenged. And heck, the OP may even buy a switch to put between firewall and servers, in which case the vulnerability is slightly lessened. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Coates
. Any ideas? tia -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] net_monitor

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
is going on there? Would love to remove that if it was safe to do so. [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/alternatives rpm-4.0.4-19mdk doesn't look safe. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] cron tar

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
depending on, such as PATH. Of course, the fastest way to success is probably tar's -L option... ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
and are trying to rattle a few more coins out before closing shop. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
was a clean install of 9.0. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
old fashioned disk space for /tmp? thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:31, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 07. mar 2003, 11:24, Jack Coates wrote: How can I increase the amount of tmpfs space in /tmp? check your kernel documentation: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt ... tmpfs has a couple of mount options: size

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:20, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Jack is your lilo set to clean /tmp on reboot? er, kind of irrelevant with tmpfs :-) m -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] swsusp nearly working

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
time, much longer than simply rebooting takes. But, this is still a lot better than a crashed computer and a corrupted swap file :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 16:50, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:36, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:20, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Jack is your lilo set to clean /tmp on reboot? er, kind of irrelevant with tmpfs :-) ooops missed that part sorry

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
the disk and start over from scratch. In msec's current implementation, user simply alters the security level to 3 and the system heals itself (in theory). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 19:56, Jack Coates wrote: ... I do agree with you, but I also see Mandrake's point and I think that this comes from several distros of telling people that a workstation OS clearly not intended as a server should be using levels 4 and 5 and buckled tighter than NORAD

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
between OSes but not exactly. I've got buckets of swap (771M) from when I was mucking with a broken swsusp beta, so I don't think that effects things. I'm just going to have to come back and read all the tmpfs stuff when I'm not really tired and see if it makes sense then. -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 21:05, Felix Miata wrote: Jack Coates wrote: They are of course shooting themselves with this action... however, I beleive the applicable terms might be euthanasia or self-inflicted coup de grace :-) Seen any SCO or Caldera out there in the real world lately? I

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-08 Thread Jack Coates
might try using a lightweight window manager rather than the default KDE or Gnome, both of which are memory-intensive. definitely. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-08 Thread Jack Coates
. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] msec fixed in 9.1?

2003-03-08 Thread Jack Coates
coded a visual (1/2 way between the GUI/CLI argument :) interface to msec and other stuff... at my age, I prefer prototyping tools and then let the young 'uns code for speed... : cool gadget :-) ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
Journal, there's an article about KDE's Desktop Sharing which makes it very clear what one needs to do to compile software for KDE on Mandrake. It agrees with your process. Perhaps Mosfet should consider a subscription? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
. (Less filling too). Blue skies... Todd I love xpp... xpp is my little friend. lpr is icky. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
five or six seconds to load. ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
on a Mdk 9.0 system did the transparent menus work for you ? Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:47, James Conner wrote: ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
about which parts to do first. It seems to me it'd go fairly smoothly if you did glibc and gcc first, then tried to do the rest of the distribution though. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
to avoid conflicts and dependency issues. I'm not in a big hurry, looks to me like a fine way to toast package management. ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Pentium4 motherboards keeping ISA slots

2003-03-12 Thread Jack Coates
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dumb Question: Mandrake's notebook installation

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
__ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
always use Apple Color Laser Writer because it's near the top of the list. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] SNMP MIBs

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
from the latest source, which is of course the recommendation to all problems at net-snmp.souceforge.net. Any ideas? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] SNMP MIBs

2003-03-13 Thread Jack Coates
snmpwalk is running... Yeah, a friend cleared that up for me -- thanks! Now I'm reading the MIB and trying to figure out which OID I want to query... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT Linux user from Taipei familiar with availablehardware

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Coates
Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Using SSH without passwd

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Coates
this. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Coates
.. Civileme __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] rsync+ssh backups - encrypted and compressed

2003-03-16 Thread Jack Coates
filename.tar.bz2 rsync filename.tar.bz2.gpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:: -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Fuji FinePix 2650, supermount, and Removable media

2003-03-17 Thread Jack Coates
and where to do it. Search the archives for Oct 19-21, conversation between me and bascule, subject includes /mnt/removable. 3. I am also interested in seeing an icon for the camera appear in Removable media how do I go about that in KDE? i don't know. Rob -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] MDK anonftp behind iptables

2003-03-19 Thread Jack Coates
the ftp masquerade module to implement that stateful inspection. Most firewall scripts will automate setting this sort of thing up for you, and it's a little easier than using your own iptables scripts. See shorewall, gshield, firestarter, c. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

Re: [expert] Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Coates
. Is there an easier way? (I sure hope I just did it the wrong/hard way) Not that I know of... I've heard of a number of different workarounds, but none of them look any easier than what you did :-) Is this fixed in mdk9.1? not likely. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:15, Jeremy Mereness wrote: I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, ... archives. today. subject is Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems Reply-to: is annoying. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy

Re: [expert] samba, sharing, nautilus, me, frustration

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
interfaces (including modems, VMWare, VPNs, c) then you'd better read shorewall's documentation. Short answer is to edit /etc/shorewall/rules and open up 137,139 UDP and TCP bidirectional. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
anywhere on the net? rpmfind.net has difficulty indexing Mandrake's RPMs -- try searching for kernel-2.4 instead of kernel. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
is confusing, I agree. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
the source build the kernel. James ... I run cooker kernel on 9.0 with no issues -- but you do need to install the kernel-source RPM to match your kernel RPM. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:29, J. Grant wrote: ... jack, The kernel will run without the kernel source installed though won't it? But I guess that would stop me compiling other apps on the upgraded machine? right -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
going to release one more kernel with a newer swsusp before 9.1. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
__ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
or two of swap and left it to itself for a few weeks :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
crossing the 9.0 to 9.1 divide though -- you'll note there is no kernel-headers package on the k page I posted earlier, and the 9.0 kernel headers aren't sufficient (you can leave them installed, but nothing that uses the kernel will compile properly until you've installed kernel-source). -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] Kernel and glibc updates?

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 21:44, Vincent Danen wrote: ... Let's see... I could have been really quick and put them out the day I built them without any testing... would that have been fast enough for you? ... The beatings will continue until morale improves! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-22 Thread Jack Coates
on a fix for it? Cheers JG __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-22 Thread Jack Coates
.bash_history and the command I actually used was urpmi -- a little thought makes the issue obvious, as does Rolf's reminder. Sorry for the bad advice, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
doublecheck that /etc/init.d/sensorsd is looking for the right sysconfig file -- there were buggy versions that looked for /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors, not sure if it's fixed in the package. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Shorewall, eth0 eth1

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
OPTIONS wire eth0 detect filterping,dhcp wireless eth1 detect filterping,dhcp vmnetvmnet1 detect dhcp -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

RE: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices.... NOT THE ANSWER

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
felix sensord: CPU Temp: 34.9 C (limit = 59.9 C, hysteresis = 55.1 C) System temperature is nice and cool, relatively -- I ain't in a big hurry to stick my hand in there :-). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] hysteresis

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:21, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 7:14 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:02, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Mar 23 11:01:19 felix sensord: SYS Temp: 37.1 C (limit = 80.5 C, hysteresis = 69.8 C) Mar 23 11:01:19 felix sensord: CPU Temp: 34.9

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
: non-universal, non-bootable, but does have hardware write-protect. SD: Software write-protect. Zip: Software write-protect. LS-120: non-universal, IIRC software write-protect too. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
? There are work arounds in recent LEAF versions, but the humble floppy disk is still the best choice. Jack On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 15:32, Dave Laird wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Afternoon, Jack... On Sunday 23 March 2003 03:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: What else would you store

Re: [expert] mdk9.1 rc2 problem

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
. Edit it to do so, many guides on web. cat /etc/hosts.deny probably denies everything which isn't specifically allowed. drakfirewall make sure the firewall isn't blocking POP3. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices.... NOT THE ANSWER

2003-03-23 Thread Jack Coates
on the heatsink and a small motherboard fan. Yet, sensors on my setup must not be altogether correctly installed, viz.: You need to edit that section of /etc/sensors.conf. As it says: # Asus won't release a datasheet so this is guesswork. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want

Re: [expert] mdk9.1 rc2 problem

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
Home Of Beau's Bullet and Beau-Tie Goldens On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 15:50, Bill Beauchemin wrote: I upgraded with 9.1 rc2 and now my pop3 port 110 is closed. I tried restarting xinetd with no help. I looked in the xinetd.conf file

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
__ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
cracker clearing the boot media and rebooting for you... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
...) and it plugs to the PC thru USB ports. It's a little big, especially if you need to carry it around, but it's unbeatable in many aspects... hot swapping 120GB IDE drives is very useful sometimes.. Damian not bootable or write-protectable. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:38, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23 Mar 2003 11:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:09, Dave Laird wrote: CD-R: Write once and it's gone. CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs to be done in a different machine (either that or your secure

Re: [expert] 1.3.x Galeon in Mandrake 9.1 - not so good, perhaps?

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
stable for every day use. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 1.3.x Galeon in Mandrake 9.1 - not so good, perhaps?

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:50, Damon Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 16:34, Jack Coates wrote: Even though the 1.3.x branch is a development branch, in practice it is considered stable for every day use. All I can say is that's not been my experience at the office! They should try

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate-Signature not correct

2003-03-26 Thread Jack Coates
reliably either, for some reason. Haven't had time to deal yet though. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-26 Thread Jack Coates
of the most difficult way to do it while ignoring that URL until they finally snipped it out... that is, when I've had time to notice. Brutally busy week and I'm going to bed now. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Jack Coates
/ZPublisher/BaseRequest.py, line 308, in traverse File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py, line 502, in debugError NotFound: (see above) Hm, must fix my not-found handler... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Getting X Terminal to Work

2003-03-27 Thread Jack Coates
. urpme autologin ... doi! of course! I was trying to figure out what could have caused his issue, and that makes it obvious. Thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-27 Thread Jack Coates
into anything like this, and if so, how did you solve it? Any help/pointers/clues/RTFMs would be appreciated. --Dave if you run alsamixergui, are all the levels set to zero? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

[expert] 9.1 upgrade experience

2003-03-28 Thread Jack Coates
for people to vote for my bugs, they've been closed out of bugzilla and are still unresolved. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Just a curiosity.

2003-03-28 Thread Jack Coates
. Wonder if SuSE has this file as well. James why would SuSE linux have this legacy stuff from RedHat in it? so the Oracle and Check Point installation programs will work. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate-Signature not correct

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
key into two keyrings each on the four machines I administer regularly and umpteen I set up for one reason or another... thanks! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
the commercial windows version of SpamAssassin for all of your desktops (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/msk/) At $29 per desktop plus tax (ignoring the huge hassle of configuring desktop-by-desktop instead of on a single server), you'll break even at ten desktops. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

[expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problem

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
/comp/screwy-shot.png note the title-bars icons -- they should have text in them, and you don't even want to see my desktop menus. XFce's tooltips are still okay though. Any pointers? Thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] 9.1 upgrade experience

2003-03-30 Thread Jack Coates
. that and money *grin*. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
when whoever's maintaining the primary mirror comes back to work after a weekend off ;) What's a weekend off? that's the part where your wife makes you re-sod the back yard :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problem

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 20:22, Jack Coates wrote: I had a rough upgrade on my laptop (basically it failed, but got far enough that I was able to upgrade the rest of the way via urpmi). Everything now works except the fonts in XFce. Presumably they don't work in Gnome either, but it was busted

[expert] 9.1 font reset?

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
to the defaults option for Gnome fonts? Maybe rebooting would help? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problem

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:54, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 31 Mar 2003 07:30:20 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is 3.8.16-2mdk, not sure if it was something from my botched upgrade or if it is a real distro problem... anyone else use XFce on 9.1 yet? I am using it on 2

Re: [expert] 9.1 font reset?

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 06:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:32, Jack Coates wrote: I was trying out some of the font rendering stuff in KDE and Gnome and now about half of my fonts are rendering in the old, unhappy way instead of the beautiful new way :-( Particularly GTK

Re: [expert] 9.1 font reset?

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:23, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 06:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:32, Jack Coates wrote: I was trying out some of the font rendering stuff in KDE and Gnome and now about half of my fonts are rendering in the old, unhappy way

Re: [expert] 9.1 font reset?

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:49, Jack Coates wrote: ... no bueno por nada. I agree the ms-ttf fonts are nice, but I am getting no fontly joy at all. Moral of this story: do not launch the gnome configuration panel, bad things will happen. root's Gnome is fine, so it's a personal

[expert] print multi-page TIFF files?

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
any one have a way to print a multiple-page fax sent as a TIFF? I hate to boot VMware just to print it, but it looks like that's the only option -- everything in Linux only shows page 1. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] 9.1 font reset?

2003-03-31 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:18, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:49, Jack Coates wrote: ... no bueno por nada. I agree the ms-ttf fonts are nice, but I am getting no fontly joy at all. Moral of this story: do not launch the gnome configuration panel, bad things

Re: [expert] print multi-page TIFF files?

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
tried them all, and the last one works... On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:18, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:32, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 03:19 schrieb Jack Coates: any one have a way to print a multiple-page fax sent as a TIFF? I hate to boot

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
+ibIcaKr9sJYeTxgRAlxnAJ9p6rTJCSs/t190/Mbkd3MspC0BwgCgr+sw LwExnYhP5HOhvXrJFml0es0= =mMuA -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack

[expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/soffice, but all my MIME stuff is borked. Any ideas? thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:31, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying

[expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
any one else using (or failing to use) crossover plugin on 9.1? It quietly fails to work here, except pluginsetup which fails with unable to get info about installed DLLs. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: yes, OpenOffice.org-1.0.2-7mdk. It started after I cleaned out my home directory, but persists after: restoring ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1 ~/.openoffice from backup removing

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
know if the GUI tool supports this. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:23, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:16, Jack Coates wrote: 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/soffice, but all my MIME stuff

Re: [expert] Kernel headers

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
of 2.4.19? just install the kernel-source RPM which exactly matches your kernel. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [newbie] Cannot install 9.1 on Vaio

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
directory, then remove the three CD sources and specify a new filesystem source pointing at the RPM directory. Thanks, Benedetto -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Intel 815 Chipset and Xfree86

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.1 kudos

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
all environments. That and a better swsusp. so thanks MDK-guys! -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] 3rd Day Recap

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
, but that was the process with 9.0. ... lot better. This may be my imagination, but the box also seems to run cooler. Is there anything in the kernel that could possibly have done this? Better ACPI support, but you'd have to turn that on... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

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