Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-18 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:46:15 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

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 Unfortunately the mute/unmute trick with aumix didn't work for me.  All I
 get is very faint static over the speakers whenever I manipulate the
 volume sliders (pretty much any of them).  If I crank up my speaker volume
 to max and try to test sound/arts via control center, I don't even hear
 faint sounds.  Playing music cds works fine, however.  
 
 I also tried killing artsd and trying to get sound working through esound.
  
 Nope.  The system is broken before any sound daemons, in the drivers 
 somewhere.


This may not be any help, but this just came through Cooker Bug, and I don't
see that anyone mentioned kernel boot parameters.  NOTE his *last* sentence:


http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5821


--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-11-18 18:39
--- I'm having the same problem (freezing during boot when ACPI is
enabled) on a Toshiba Satellite 5105 installing from the PowerPack 9.2 DVD. 
Unfortunatly, the nolapic option didn't work for me.  I'm relatively new to
kernel options, so I may be applying incorrectly.  I added nolapic to my
append list in lilo.conf and then ran lilo, but it still freezes.  Are there
any other options to get this working?  I think it's also causing other
things to go wrong with my machine, like the sound not working.  My sound
didn't work with 9.1 until I enabled ACPI, then like magic, it was fine.  


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Re: [expert] sylpheed: how to filter on body text?

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:21:42 -0800
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Hi folks,
 I am in a pinch: i have all of a sudden started getting all bounces
 from newbie (since i am listed as an owner to help with subbing
 and unsubbing).
 
 So, i am getting one bounce for every bad address for every post!
 
 Does anyone know how to filter on the body text (and attachment
 text) in sylpheed?  I am used to seeing an Any header / any body
 or some such choice in filtering, but can't seem to find that in
 sylpheed.
 
 Thanks for any help.

Configuration - Filtering - Condition - Define - Match Type - Body Part

(It's tough to *do* it and type it at the same time.)

If that is not clear enough, Ill go into more detail.

Tim

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Re: [expert] sylpheed: how to filter on body text?

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:05:45 -0800
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Thanks for the quick reply.

[...] %  snip

 That makes enough sense, but i am on sylpheed 9.6, not claws, so it
 is different here.

Oops!  Sorry!  You said sylpheed, my eyes/mind saw sylpheed-claws and
just assumed that they were the same, but guess not.  Darn

Tim

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Re: [expert] sylpheed: how to filter on body text?

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:09:09 -0800
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 00:40, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
  On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:21:42 -0800
  Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:
  
   Hi folks,
   I am in a pinch: i have all of a sudden started getting all bounces
   from newbie (since i am listed as an owner to help with subbing
   and unsubbing).
   
   So, i am getting one bounce for every bad address for every post!
   
   Does anyone know how to filter on the body text (and attachment
   text) in sylpheed?  I am used to seeing an Any header / any body
   or some such choice in filtering, but can't seem to find that in
   sylpheed.
   
   Thanks for any help.
  
  Configuration - Filtering - Condition - Define - Match Type - Body
  Part
  
  (It's tough to *do* it and type it at the same time.)
 
 Not to mention that someone gets real upset that you aren't paying
 attention to them.  *evil grin*

not to mention that basketball game in the upper right corner of the
monitor that has one eye glued to it!   ::smile::


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Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:48:46 -0800 (PST)
Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Artemio mused:
  I may not be right, but this can be something connected with ACPI.
 
  If in /etc/lilo.conf for main linux image you have acpi=off in
  append
  string - try to change it to acpi=on and say lilo to
  re-install the
  loader. Or, if you have acpi=on try to set it to off.
 
 Hey, awesome!
 I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic
 for kicks.
 
 By the way, which is it?  ACPI or APCI?  Or are they two different

Two *very* different things!  Thanks to Google:

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)  www.acpi.info/

The 82093AA I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
(IOAPIC) provides multi-processor interrupt management

www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/290566.htm 

Tim

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Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:59:06 +
Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

  dd is probably all anyone on Linux needs, but doesn't have menus and a
  pretty face. The M$ware may be able to do conversion if the source and
  destination don't have matching CHS? I use DFSee myself, used to use
  Partition Magic, never Ghost or Drive Image.
 
 The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive
 will be identical to the source drive. If, like most people, you've bought
 a bigger disk, then that's hard luck. The partition table will show it as
 the same size as the old disk. I don't know where the actual full size of
 the disk is calculated so you might be able to add new partitions later,
 or you may not.
 
 I would always prefer to use tar (with the correct magic flags) to copy 
 drives.
 
 (Ghost does handle different size disks, but does it handle your
 filesystem? And it does cost money, or did the last I heard.)

Partition Image only copies the actual data on the drive and either does a
.gz or .bz2 file.  It can break down files into multiple sizes, for example
I burn to CD's as a stable backup.  It will allow you to restore to
different partition sizes, provided there is enough room for the data.

And is it GPL free software.  URPMI partimage or http://www.partimage.org

Tim

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Re: [expert] Frickin spam and spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:27:12 -0500
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 OK, this really irritates me.  I have the latest spamassassin.  It is
 running in daemon mode.  I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that
 is identified as spam.  I have trained the Bayesian filter (supposedly) to
 
 identify certain messages as spam...BUT THEY KEEP GETTING THROUGH!
 
 These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. 
 Generally they are viagra messages.  The one that really galls me is one
 that uses the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the actual 
 proper
 spelling.  Nonetheless, this shouldn't matter...or so one would think.  
 
 I have now run sa-learn --spam --dir Mail/Spam/cur twice on this
 message.  It comes back saying it learned from the message.  About 10
 minutes later that damn message is back and spamassassin let it come right
 through.  
 
 What the hell?  I REALLY want to nuke the computer from which this comes. 
 I was doing so well there with nary a spam for weeks getting through, then
 
 something inane and seemingly simple like this gets through inspite of 
 teaching spamassassin to recognize it as crap.
 
 Since spamassassin appears to be falling down on the job, what would be a
 nice generic procmail recipe that would recognize EITHER iteration of
 viagra spelling (in the body or subject) and pass it, no pass go, to
 /dev/null?  I never ever ever want to see another damn viagra message of
 any kind ever again.  
 
 Thank you for any aid in this endeavor.
 
 praedor
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By latest do you mean 2.55 or 2.60? 
With 2.60 you have to run sa-learn --import to update the Bayesian
database. 

Tim

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Re: [expert] Missing menus in window managers

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:07:43 -0500
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:42, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
 
  Edit  /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, and where it has title=, make it
  title=Style  (actually *any* word will fix it).
  
  Then re-run update-menus -v as root.
  
  This is a known combo-bug (new techie term!) caused by Fluxbox and RPM. 
  You might check that you have updated copies of both, but editing the
  above line will fix it.
  
  Believe me, I have done it a couple or triple dozen times in the last
  few weeks, running Cooker as they got this solved. ;-)
  
  Tim
 
 *whe*
 
 That did it.
 
 Thanks for your help, Tim!

You are welcome.

That's half of why we are here.  The other half is to *get* help.  ;-)

Tim

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Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:50:07 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote:
  It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to
  make them the same type and size).  Assuming that the old disk is
  /dev/hda and the new disk is /dev/hdb the following command should
  work:
 
  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
 
 I've heard people recommend this before, but I'm not sure why this is 
 better than cp -a ?  I do remember that the last time I tried to copy 
 a whole directory to a new partition I had some problems before I got 
 it right, so I want to be clear before I start.
 
  Then make the new disk /dev/hda and the system should boot.  As I
  said it has been a while and may have the basic command a little
  off.  But the original (noisy) drive will still be in working
  order.
 
  If you have it, I have also heard that the latest Norton Ghost will
  also work.
 
 This is really a much better way, but I don't have the latest Norton 
 Ghost.  My Drive Image is not the latest, either.  Is there not a 
 linux tool that tackles it in a similar way, rather than just copying 
 files?

Partition Image at http://www.partimage.org, they have a rescue cd iso image
that I use as a backup.  I make the backups to another drive, and then burn
them to cd.

Tim

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Re: [expert] Missing menus in window managers

2003-11-08 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:06:49 -0500
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 I was showing a friend how menudrake worked last night and selected the
 Save icon without making any changes.  After which my KMenu no longer
 shows any entries (other than 'Run command', 'Lock' 'Shutdown'...all my
 program entries are gone!
 
 I searched the archives to and found some similar situations that were
 apparently fixed by running 'update-menus -v' as root.  However, I get
 the following output showing the command aborting (only the first half
 of output is shown, but the gist can be seen):
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# update-menus -v
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# Update-menus[4811]: Dpkg not locking dpkg status
 area. Good.
 Update-menus[4811]: Reading installed packages...
 Update-menus[4811]: Reading translate info in
 /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus
 Update-menus[4811]: Reading menuentryfiles in /etc/menu/
 Update-menus[4811]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/
 Update-menus[4811]: Reading menuentryfiles in /usr/lib/menu/default/
 Update-menus[4811]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/
 Update-menus[4811]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//menu
 In file /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, at (or in the definition that ends
 at) line 6:
 [...] package=menu section=Fluxbox/Styles/ title=
 [...] ^
 Missing (or empty) tag: title
 This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
 Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
 tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
 isn't literal
 /etc/menu-methods//menu: Aborting
 Update-menus[4811]: Script /etc/menu-methods//menu returned error status
 1.
 Update-menus[4811]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//twm
 In file /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, at (or in the definition that ends
 at) line 6:
 [...] package=menu section=Fluxbox/Styles/ title=
 [...] ^
 Missing (or empty) tag: title
 This tag needs to defined for the menuentry to make sense.
 Note, BTW, that update-menus re-arranges the order of the
 tags found in the menu entry files, so that the part above
 isn't literal
 /etc/menu-methods//twm: Aborting
 Update-menus[4811]: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm returned error status
 1.
 Update-menus[4811]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//enlightenment
 In file /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, at (or in the definition that ends
 at) line 6:
 [...] package=menu section=Fluxbox/Styles/ title=


Edit  /etc/menu/menudrakeentry, and where it has title=, make it
title=Style  (actually *any* word will fix it).

Then re-run update-menus -v as root.

This is a known combo-bug (new techie term!) caused by Fluxbox and RPM.  You
might check that you have updated copies of both, but editing the above line
will fix it.

Believe me, I have done it a couple or triple dozen times in the last few
weeks, running Cooker as they got this solved. ;-)

Tim

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Re: [expert] Where to go from here...

2003-11-06 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:24:45 -0500
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 I know it's been frozen for a while, but is Cooker now open and getting 
 newer packages added?


Oh, my gawd, yes - at an alarming rate.

My Changelog folder in the last couple days fills up faster than Cooker
or Expert, and those two are_not_ low traffic lists!


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Re: [expert] CNN video clips

2003-11-06 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:50:56 -0700
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

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 Thursday 06 November 2003 2:36 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
  What format is CNN using for its videos?  I try to view any of them and
  I get an error message:
 
  Sound server warning message:
 
  mimetype text/html unsupported for streaming
 
  Huh?  text/html?  What's the deal with CNN?
 
  praedor
 
 This question got me curious so I went to CNN to look. I found that you
 can't view any of the videos if you run any Pop-Up blockers. Or if you
 don't have Real One Pass. Whatever that is...

It's a monthly pay as you go service for A/V content with a proprietary
client that only runs on (2 points!) which OS??
 
 They appear to be in Real One format but I'll never know 'cause I'm damned
 if I'll let pop-ups happen anywhere.

Couldn't agree more.  I love (sic) that Mozilla offers a pop up counter. 
Who the @$! cares, long as I don't see 'em

Tim

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Re: [expert] CNN video clips

2003-11-06 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:58:02 -0800 (PST)
David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Tim Sawchuck grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
 
  On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:50:56 -0700
  Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:
 
  This question got me curious so I went to CNN to look. I found that you
  can't view any of the videos if you run any Pop-Up blockers. Or if
 you don't have Real One Pass. Whatever that is...
 
  It's a monthly pay as you go service for A/V content with a proprietary
  client that only runs on (2 points!) which OS??
 
 Um, someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but I could have
 sworn that Real make a version of the real media player which runs under
 Linux

You are correct, there is a free version.  But the Real One player to use
with the Real One SuperPass is not the same.  The free player cannot access
Real One SuperPass pay subscription content.

http://www.real.com/

My favorite radio station that streams on the net (200 miles from where I
live has a Real One stream, but there is no linux version of it.  I have to
be happy with recorded events, and not the live feed any longer.

Tim

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Re: [expert] Konq/Moz Crash during Web Browse.

2003-11-06 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:31:08 -0800
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 install Sun's JRE -- it's really not difficult*, and the other VM's for
 Linux kind of really suck badly a little. I've used Outlook webmail with
 Moz and it was fairly stable as of Moz 1.3, though Konq and Galeon would
 regularly barf in the way you describe and other ways as well.
 
 * Find it and download it -- this is the hardest part. 
 1 sh /the/file/you/got, page, type y, and you get an RPM. 
 2 urpmi /the/rpm/you/got. 
 3 ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Sun's Java http://java.com/en/index.jsp

Click on the Green box to the top left.

Tim

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Re: [expert] X Server Flags

2003-11-05 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:28:22 -0500
Brian Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Hello all, 
 I'm using 9.2 and somehow using ctrl-alt-bs to kill the X server no
 longer works all of a sudden.  I've checked the man pages, and it seems
 that everything is set up properly in XF86Config-4.  No Zap and disable
 are commented out (in fact I just completely erased them while
 troubleshooting).  Anyone have any clue as to what I am missing?

Something changed (?) with 9.2, and it will work at the DM login screen,
but not if you are logged in.  I have not found where it changed.

Tim

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Re: [expert] On disapearing Menus

2003-11-04 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:19:46 -0500
Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:01 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
  All,
 
 A while back a number of you expressed problems with disappearing
  menu's right after installing a new KDE or Gnome app.  DEG is reporting
  that the problem seems to be related to cxplugin from codeweavers.  Now
  the question comes.  How many of you who have this problem are using
  cxplugin, or is it happening to you without cxplugin.  If it is cxplugin
  what version are you using?
 
 
 I have the problem here and I'm not using cxplugin on any of my boxes.  I
 have heard it is actually a bug in rpm that prevents the rpm database from
 being unlocked in time for the post-install update-menus script to be run,
 so you have to run it yourself.


And there have been two releases of rpm to fix it.  The last one came
through ChangLog today, and should be on the cooker mirrors at least by
tomorrow.  I have very few menu problems now, compared to the first one when
I moved up to 9.2 Cooker.

Tim

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Re: [expert] sound in 9.2

2003-11-04 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:06:26 -0800
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 You all know how I hate to take time away from the usual chatter with an
 actual problem, but here goes :-)
 
 Has anyone else noticed bad sound choppiness since installing/upgrading
 to 9.2? I have two systems with this problem, one using the stock
 2.4.22-21 kernel and AC97 sound and one using -mm with i810 sound, both
 using ARTS. artswrapper is suid, run sound server with realtime
 priority is checked in kcontrol (note that I actually use XFce4, not
 KDE).
 
 XMMS is of course the app where I notice the problem (since GAIM is the
 only other program that is allowed to make noise and it doesn't make
 much). On stock-21/AC97 desktop, the use realtime priority flag is
 set, and true to the warning, I've experienced a system lockup under
 heavy load when XMMS was playing. On the 21-mm/i810 system, XMMS's use
 realtime priority flag is not checked (system lockups are more annoying
 on a laptop when there's no network accessibility). 
 
 I don't recall if the AC97 desktop is on OSS or ALSA, but the i810
 laptop is on OSS since the 9.2 upgrade; it was rock-solid and generally
 perfect on ALSA for 9.1, but with 9.2 ALSA sounds were drowned in static
 and frequently played at the wrong frequency.
 
 Any ideas? I'm sure I don't need to mention how annoying choppy music
 and system lockups are, especially when I'm the only hardcore Linux
 fanatic^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huser in the building.

Funny you should mention!

I have been playing with the 2.6 test 9.4 kernel, and have noticed it even
more.  I have 9.2 Cooker (2.4.22-21mdk) , which is really just 9.2  since
the freeze has been on.  This is a desktop with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
card (cs46xx),  5.1 Dolby Digital to a kickin' set of Altec Lancing speakers
/ subwoofer.  I _can_ rattle the window!  but that is another story.

I'm all ALSA.  I can stream 128k audio off the net with no problems, but I
have some oggs that get funky and choppy, but not always.  No lockups at
all.  There are some issues with gstreamer-alsa based players, and ChangeLog
shows fixs have just released.  I've played with a bunch of music manager
software - it is uses gstreamer I have a serious sound problems; if it uses
xmms, then the minor issue mentioned, if it uses alsaplayer, smooth as silk.

Anyone else?

Tim

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Re: [expert] where can I get kernel sources?

2003-11-03 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:11:46 +0200
Artemio [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Hi everybody!
 
 I know there is a native mandrake 9.2 kernel src package available - but
 don't know where I can download it.
 
 I cannot afford myself purchasing the CDs - so is there some http/ftp/etc.
 
 place I can get the sources from?
 
 Can't find them in rpmfind's SRC directory for Mdk 9.2.
 
 I really need the sources, as NVidia drivers won't compile without them.

Easy Urpmi  http://www.zarb.org/%7Enanardon/  is a great site to find all
the mirrors; although not all are reliable.  I'm in the USA, but use
Checkoslovakian sites for my 9.2 sources, regular and Cooker.

Tim

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Re: [expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?

2003-11-02 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:07:52 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 I found a very simple fix and it works very nicely with kmail.  Simply 
 install gnupg, libgpgme, and cryptoplug.  In kmail, go to the security


That is precisely what I explained to you in my reply to your original
message! 


 tab, enable gnupgp, then go to the plugins tab and simply enter the path 
 gpme-openpgp.so (default in mandrake =
 /usr/lib/cryptplug/gpgme-opengpg.so) and enter a name like gnupg or
 whatever.  I don't know if it is necessary for this method to work but it
 is for other means of using the pgp plugins, but you can/should also
 change your ~/.gnupg/conf file to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf.  
 
 Hit apply after doing the above in kmail and that's it.
 
 praedor
 
 On Friday 31 October 2003 05:40 pm, Robert Goshko wrote:
  Praedor Atrebates wrote:
   I should specify that I have gnupg installed and that is what I use on
   my system, and through kmail.  I have gnupg selected in kmails
   security settings and have it autosign my own emails.
  
   So, what is this plugin that isn't specified?
 
  When reading the e-mail, Kmail needs a plug-in to verify the signature,
  I found the gpg/pgp support mechanism kind of kludgey in kmail.
 
  Evolution attachs GPG signature via a MIME type, but it can't handle in
  line signatures (BEGIN/END blocks).
 
  Enigmail enhancement for Thunderbird handles both in line and MIME type
  signatures, very nice.
 
 - -- 
 Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical
 component of spiritual devotion.
 - --Krakauer
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
 Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
 
 iD8DBQE/o8xOb1CLurEA6xURAmGMAJ9InkuOVW6aXSCC9sozahW850KQvwCfcgwa
 t3CzSO2QaTanjj7V+SNWwMw=
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Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.4?

2003-11-02 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 17:26:39 -0800
Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Any idea where I can get 3.1.4 in rpm format for 3.2, or am I going to
 have to compile the sucker?

Texstar
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/

There are alpha kde 3.2 available from one Cooker developer as well, but
they are very buggy, according to post there.

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Re: [expert] sylpheed spamassassin

2003-11-02 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:17:24 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 How do I make sylpheed and spamassassin play nicely together? I have the
 plugin (as well as the gui for the plugin), and spamd is running.
 Unfortunately there seems to be a missing component - or I haven't done
 something - because the filtering hasn't kicked in yet. How does it
 actually work? (The docs I found on the web all pertained to hitching
 spamassassin to a server. Perhaps the twiki could use a page on
 sylpheed/spamassassin?) 

Take a look at the readme in /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.55/
about half way down, look at the sa-learn options.

I had a junk directory that I had been using filters to send spam into,
using filters in sylpheed.  I used the sa-learn --spam on this folder.   I
rerun that same command via cron every night, and anything missed gets
manually moved to my /junk directory.

I then did the sa-learn --nonspam options on the folders where I have
friends, business notices, mailing lists, etc. 

I get about 50-75 spams per day, and spamassassin gets all but 2 or 3.  I am
going to subscribe to the free mail-abuse.org service mentioned in the
readme.

HTH

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Re: [expert] corrupted xmms in 9.0 -- 9.2???

2003-11-01 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:23:16 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 I have an xmms playlist of approx 600 songs which I've been listening
 through. I was at about 150 when I upgraded from (mdk) 9.0 to 9.2. When I
 loaded xmms, first time after upgrading, it couldn't even see the
 directory that the mp3s were in (music/my-cd-backups) either in the
 playlist editor or in the eject button from the main interace...it'd
 just close the file browser if I tried to browse into there. 
 
 It is something to do with my .xmms preferences; when I run xmms as root
 from the command line it works fine, but when I run it as me from the
 menu, it is screwed. Anyone encountered similar? I can just remove .xmms,
 I don't care particularly. Just wondered whether anyone had noticed.


I had a similar situation when I changed from RH to MDK and used the same
drive mounted /home.  Permissions changed on some files and directories. 
Check the permissions on .xmms to see if it is higher than what your user
can access.  You may have to su and change them.  I had to do half my /home
directories and files!

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Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-31 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:45:01 -0800
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

  Firebird is 0.7.  I do have a ton of extensions loaded, but could
  not fine the one to stop www. and .com being added.  I found that
  the backslash after the localhost ip solved it, i.e.
  https://127.0.0.1:1/
 
 Here are the ones i modified:
 
 browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false
 
 keyword.enabled false

Thanks Eric,

Those were the ones to do for me as well.  I have never had any programming,
but I am a damn good trouble shooter.  I just need to learn enough of the
language to know what it is saying.  ;-)

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Re: [expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?

2003-10-31 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:40:12 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 I should specify that I have gnupg installed and that is what I use on my 
 system, and through kmail.  I have gnupg selected in kmails security
 settings and have it autosign my own emails.  
 
 So, what is this plugin that isn't specified?
 
 On Friday 31 October 2003 04:26 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
  When people sign their emails with their PGP key (unknown to me) their
  message in kmail is prefaced with the following:
 
  Message was signed with unknown key.
  The validity of the signature cannot be verified.
  Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified.
  Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the
  plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you.
 

You can go to the kmail page, get the instructions to download and compile
it all, or you can download cryptplug with urpmi.  Or you can use GnuPG
integrate the way you have it.  You will still get that message from KMail!

It will not really change anything.  The message is kind of cryptic (sic)
since it basically states that you are looking at a signed message, HOWEVER
you have no credentials to know if the key is valid, if that person is
who they say they are, or an imposter using a stolen key.

You can download the users public key, and then the message will change to
say that it is a valid key, but the trust will not be determined unless you
exchange signed keys with that (or all) users.

Understanding cryptography, how it works, what it does, and what you have to
do to secure it and interpret it is a long steep learning process.  The
GnuPG website is a good place to start http://www.gnupg.org/

For the most part, use it for secure communications with those people that
you need it.  In this mailing list, you don't really need to worry about it.

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[expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Sawchuck
This is a weird one!  Using https://localhost:1/  I'm getting redirected
to a marketing site named www.netbreakthroughs.com!

Anyone seen this?  How to stop it?

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Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:22:31 -0500
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:15:59 +
 Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
 
  
  Anyone seen this?  How to stop it?
 
 This came up before. Verisign actually sold the domain localhost.com,
 bloody arses that they are.
 
 Two sol'ns came up, tell your browser not to autmatically append .com
 to addresses, or use 127.0.0.1 instead.
 
 How you tell your browser not to append .com would vary according to the
 browser, check the archives for more info on that.

Thanks Haywire!

127.0.0.1 worked fine.  I'm using Mozilla-Firebird and could not find how to
disable.  I do have the extension that lets me modify all prefs, just could
not find it.

And I found your reply stumbling through the archives; search in acrchives
is not working, so it is the scroll and hope you find the keywork that
works.  Find in page in the browser works ok, *if* you get the correct
keyword.

Anyway, now I have to admit that I viewed WebMin as a security problem and
never used it.  Now I feel like an idiot, seeing how powerful it is - at
least I learned something new today..'  old dawg, new trick!  ;-)

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Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:54:23 -0500
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:38:41 +
 Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
 
  And I found your reply stumbling through the archives; search in
  acrchives is not working, so it is the scroll and hope you find the
  keywork that works.  Find in page in the browser works ok, *if* you
  get the correct keyword.
 
 I should have mentioned, it was Eric Huff IIRC that ran into the same
 thing, would have helped you track it down easier, sorry.

No big deal.  Your answer still got me going, even if it did show in the
archives before it got delivered to my pop account.

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Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:21:50 -0800
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

  127.0.0.1 worked fine.  I'm using Mozilla-Firebird and could not
  find how to disable.  I do have the extension that lets me modify
  all prefs, just could not find it.
 
 Hmm... I just now read closely enough to see you use firebird. Which
 version?
 
 Do you have Webmin set to run at startup?  (it probably was by
 default)

Firebird is 0.7.  I do have a ton of extensions loaded, but could not fine
the one to stop www. and .com being added.  I found that the backslash after
the localhost ip solved it, i.e. https://127.0.0.1:1/

Webmin set itself up to run at boot.  I will leave it, but I wish it would
load on demand or when requested I guess it is.

My head is swimming; I'm trying to learn to much at once!  ;-)

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Re: [expert] WebMin login

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:03:29 -0800
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 02:38, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
  On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:22:31 -0500

  Anyway, now I have to admit that I viewed WebMin as a security problem
  and never used it.  Now I feel like an idiot, seeing how powerful it is
  - at least I learned something new today..'  old dawg, new trick!  ;-)
  
  Tim
 
 I like it because like sudo it logs everything.  Configuring a user so
 that he/she can use/configure something that would normally require root
 access is a lot easier than with sudo.  Seriously though if you like
 Webmin you'll love Usermin.

James,

Well, I'm the only user on this computer.  I did log in to Webmin as
root, but will setup myself as a user soon.  I was astonished at all the
options.  I know enough to monitor essential logs and so on, but Webmin is
very nice.

Tim

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[expert] Change screen color

2003-10-28 Thread Tim Sawchuck
Ok, this is a real nitpick, I know.  Bear with me, sometimes I am very AR
about these things.  ;-)

After X loads, and before the DM screen loads, there is a solid light blue
(std Mdk color)  screen with the cursor/wristwatch/watch.  I would really
like to change this screen to black.

I load nVidia drivers w/o splash, so screen is black, then that $@#
blue, then GDM with the enterprise spotlight that is black.  

I've installed Mdk on some friends computers and get the question about so
many screen colors as it boots.  Of course I am trying to personalize it for
them from the default install.

Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image?

It is not in /usr/share/bootsplash or /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds

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Re: [expert] Change screen color

2003-10-28 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:57:26 +0100
Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
 
  Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image?
 
 check /etc/X11/Xsession, espec. lines after comment Mandrake
 default background
 

Very close, but not quite there; this sets the background after a user logs
in, bright red for root, and Mdk blue for others.  I looked at everthing in
/etc/X11 but no joy

Thanks for the info, it is appreciated.
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Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-25 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:18:40 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:44, Rob Blomquist wrote:

  Now, I haven't mucked with locales, but I did upgrade KDE from Texstar's
  rpms, and I see that I still have a few of Texstar's rpms around.
 
 Could be it.  I've but one tex rpm and that's for xmms skins.  (however
 I still which I had some of the features from his like randar support.)

Take a look at the PCLinuxOnline site.  It appears that someone else has
stepped up and is making 9.1 rpms while Texstar is gone.  Maybe he can be
encouraged to do 9.2?

Also, there is Chip Cuccio's rpms:
http://norlug.org/%7Echipster/index.pxml?rpms 

He is building for 9.2 now. Not as prolific as Texstar, but very similar.  I
have his xmms and
sylpheed-claws.

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Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-25 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:23:22 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 23:57, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
  On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:18:40 -0700
  James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic
  parchment:
  
   On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:44, Rob Blomquist wrote:
  
Now, I haven't mucked with locales, but I did upgrade KDE from
Texstar's rpms, and I see that I still have a few of Texstar's rpms
around.
   
   Could be it.  I've but one tex rpm and that's for xmms skins. 
   (however I still which I had some of the features from his like randar
   support.)
  
  Take a look at the PCLinuxOnline site.  It appears that someone else has
  stepped up and is making 9.1 rpms while Texstar is gone.  Maybe he can
  be encouraged to do 9.2?
  
  Also, there is Chip Cuccio's rpms:
  http://norlug.org/%7Echipster/index.pxml?rpms
  
  He is building for 9.2 now. Not as prolific as Texstar, but very
  similar.  I have his xmms and
  sylpheed-claws.
  
  Tim
 
 Unfortunately from reading his site no where near as personable.  

I see him as all bark and no bite to scare off the lazy and the pests. I get
his updates newsletter, and it has a very friendly tone.  He is testing a
urpmi repository.  Have exchanged a couple e-mails and he is very helpful,
provided you have done your homework and you are really stuck, not just
asking him to do it for you.


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Re: [expert] 9.2 made slashdot

2003-10-25 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:01:35 -0700 (PDT)
David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
 
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244
 
 I get Page cannot be displayed.
 

Comes up now.  Can you say /. ed!  :smile::

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Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:41:20 -0700
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:20, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
 ...
  Let's cut to the chase. Should I wear my tinfoil hat or not?
  -- cmg
  
 every day.

Sunday you can remove the tinfoil from your head and return to the
Mothership.

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

2003-10-24 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:56:47 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 06:19, Avi Schwartz wrote:
  James Conner wrote:
  
   On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
   
   I agree, I was being sarcastic.  I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends
   system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up.  Everything
   went peachy, only lost the menu's once.  That bug/feature was fixed
  
  I don't think the disappearing menu 'feature' was fixed since I lost my 
  menu couple of times on two different machines since applying the
  Avi
 
 
 I know I'm beginning to sound a bit like Anne concerning the TWiki (Anne
 this is meant in jest.) But could you please submit a bug report.  Now
 that we have bugs.mandrakelinux.com please (pretty please) submit the
 report.  If we don't then the developers will either think;
 
 1.  The release is bug free.
 2.  That we the users don't care. 
 
 Sorry to be a harpy here but since they have given us a voice I
 really want us to be heard.  With this release I've seen more evidence
 than ever of MDK listening to users and I'd like to expand that dialog
 if at all possible.  Thanks.
 
 If you do / have submitted one I'd request that you let the list know
 the bug and bug number so that others who have the same problem can add
 info.  This way the bugs that are relevant to us, are the first ones
 fixed (after security holes that is.) Myself, since I don't yet have
 this problem I can't submit the bug.  I don't know what it is. :) 

I agree completely; if we do not use the opportunity to report bugs, they
will not pay attention to it, or our requests for similar things in the
future.

OTOH, not to worry about missing menus, kde terminals missing or kde
components missing, they are getting beaten up pretty bad over there about
this and a few issues, I doubt they will miss them.   :-((

Yes, report bugs, and add comments about found bugs to help identify and
substantiate their existance.  I have not seen another distro in the last 10
years that has given that kind of opportunity to interact with the
developers as this.   One more reason I'll stay with Mandrake.

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Re: [expert] Info request GPG(PGP)

2003-10-24 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:14:57 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 Anyone know of a good online tutorial on 
 
 1. Using GPG with mail
 2. Using GPG instead of passwords to login via ssh
 3. Signing an rpm with a signature.
 
 
 I'm not talking about something like the full blown explanations I've
 read and fallen asleep there.  I'm looking for something like a cookbook
 that I can print and hand to people and say.  Do this it will work 


I have some links for ssh, but nothing in any of them about using gpg
instead; never heard of that.  I'll be talking to Google 'bout that.


1 - 

This is the link that I have used to setup GnuPG with three different
mailers:
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/related_software/frontends.html#mua

2 - kinda' but not really. 

I use this MiniHow-To almost 2-3 times a weeK:
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/howtos.html#GnuPG-miniHOWTO


3 - 

This is right off the Cooker Page:
http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3

# How to contribute some packages to Cooker?

First, if you have developed a program and want to make your
contribution in the RPM Contribs part of the distribution, please contact
the RPM apps manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and tell him that you have
a new package. Thank you and Good Luck!

Next, Install the GnuPG package:

You may do so by running, as root, the command urpmi gnupg
- create a .gpg directory in your home directory: mkdir ~/.gpg
- in order to generate your GnuPG keys type: gpg --gen-key
- select option 1) 1024 bits- Low commercial grade...
- enter your Firstname+Name+email address @linux-mandrake.com
(for example: if your name is John Smith and your email address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED], then enter: John Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED])- enter a good little pass phrase or password
that you can remember - don't forget it!- type like a fool on your
keyboard while the keys are generating; try not to break it:)

Now the keys should have been generated.

In order to extract a public ascii key:
- type: gpg --export -a -o key.asc
- enter your complete GnuPG identity (in our example: John Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED])- enter a filename for the ascii file, for
example: key.asc- send the key.asc file to Contributions manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so your packages can be authenticated in the
future.

# How to sign your RPM packages?

It's very easy:

- edit ~/.rpmmacros and put something like this:

%_signature gpg
%_gpg_name  John Smith  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
%distribution   Mandrake
%vendor MandrakeSoft

( replace _gpg_name with your own GnuPG id! -unless you are John Smith
:-) )

Now, every time you recompile a package, you need to enter the following
command:rpm --sign -ba --clean file.spec
(you will be prompted for your personal secret phrase).

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[expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
This is a weird one, and I have tried *everything* I can think of...

Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday, it
appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic) to encode
the ripped .wav files 925-30, but they are only 16-20 K, when they should
be 3-5Mb.

Everything (xmms, alsaplayer, MythMusic) play them with no failure,
but no sound.  Rate shows 0-2kbps with 44kHz.  The time per cut is fine as
well.

Mp3 encoding in all the same apps works just fine, with files that play
music (!) :-)  and no failures.  I'm convinced it is oggenc in vorbis-tools
- tried 1.02, 1.06, 1.07 of these - same small file on all.

I have removed *every* ogg / vorbis program / library, and all apps that
required any ogg / vorbis files.  Then tried to re-install just the minimum
apps, such as just Grip and Vorbis-Tools.

Even tried a different kernel, normally running 2.4.22-18, so I tried the
2.4.22.10multi-media kernel.  Same schtuff no music!

I'm at a @^#%!#?^!%@   loss - anyone have ANY ideas what-the- is
going on?

Tim

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Re: [expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:27:37 -0400
Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

GM  Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday,
GM  it appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic)
GM 
GM Are you running cooker?  vorbis-tools broke the other day with an
GM update.  There was a thread on Cooker ML about this today.


Yes, dang!  I guess I need to resubscribe to CookerML.  It was getting way
ahead or I was getting way behind, don't know for sure which!  snurk

Also just saw a libvorbis upgrade hit ChangeLog as soon as I sent original
message.

Thanks!

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Re: [expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:41:36 -0700
Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:27:37 -0400
 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:
 
 GM  Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week,
 GM  yesterday, it appears that everything works fine (used Grip,
 GM 
 GM Are you running cooker?  vorbis-tools broke the other day with an
 GM update.  There was a thread on Cooker ML about this today.
 
 Yes, dang!  I guess I need to resubscribe to CookerML.  It was getting way
 ahead or I was getting way behind, don't know for sure which!  snurk
 
 Also just saw a libvorbis upgrade hit ChangeLog as soon as I sent original
 message.

Greg,  thanks so much!  Went back to the cooker archives and found the
messages that it was libvorbis.  I hit rpmfind.net and grabbed
libvorbis0-1.0.10 (11 broke it, 12 is coming per Changelog) and it needed
vorbis tools-1.06.

So backing down a step on two programs and now it all works fine again! 
Reactivated Cooker ML too.

Thanks for the tip.  I should have asked sooner, 'stead of being a hardhead
trying to figure it out myself for the last day and a half!  But that's
how one learns.. Probably why I choose to run cooker!? hehehe

Tim

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

2003-10-22 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:20:17 +
James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment:

 For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know.  For
 those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). 
 These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have been troubling people
 lately.  Glad to see that Mandrake is on top of this to release patches. 
 Granted, it would have been nice to have flawless, bug-free release. :)

They were on the mirrors this morning at 6am PDT even before the message
came through on ChangeLog.  

My morning urpmi update on my 9.2 Cooker box had a TON of stuff (I don't use
Gnome or KDE, just fluxbox) and I thought something was wrong.:-)  Too many
updates, can't be right - took me two more cups of coffee before I had the
guts to say Yes to the update!  

Then they broke my libvorbis, and I had to downgrade that and vorbis-tools. 
But I'm fearless -  I make nightly backups!  whe

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[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 difference.   This is my home machine, not
network with other computers.

I'm just trying to avoid conflicts and not run any services not needed.

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. 
I'll email the developer as well.

Tim

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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:

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 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
 machine, not network with other computers.
 I'm just trying to avoid conflicts and not run any services not needed.
 
 The way it works if you have both on (default):
 
 start alsa init script
check modules.conf to see if alsa configured
   if yes, load modules
   if no, exit with success
 start sound init script
check modules.conf to see of OSS configured
   if yes, load modules
   if no, exit with success
 
 You lose nothing by leaving both on.  You gain the benefit that in the
 future if you or Mdk determine the other is better, it just works
 without you having to remember to enable the other service to start.
 Personally I think they should be both just done from within the sound
 init script, but that's just me :-)
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Thank you, Todd

I did comment out all the OSS entries in modules.conf, I'll enable them
again.  Maybe that will solve my Ddj problem as well.

Tim

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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. 
 I'll email the developer as well.

I know, I know, replying to myself, but it might help some other lost soul!
;-)

Solved my Digital DJ situation by changing the player in the config from
ogg123 to alsaplayer.  Removed the aslaplayer gui and it works great!  Turns
out to be ogg123 not playing with alsa, and not Digital DJ.

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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 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 then the
 only thing that works).
 
 Turns out to be the Intel Speedstep. When I disable
 this in my Bios the problem goes away. The problem was
 not there with mdk 9.1, and 9.2RC1 (did not try RC2).


I *think* I saw this in the bugs list about two weeks back, but I do not
keep most messages.  You can look real quickly in the BugTracker url above
and probably find it.  You don't have to register to browse it, just to
post.


Tim

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Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:52:45 +
Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 My sister currently has 1479 messages on her ISP's POP3 server waiting to
 be downloaded, probably 99.9% Swen, so 100K each on a 40K dialup line.
 She's ditched the ISP and gone to Compu$erve (argh!). Currently she still
 doesn't have email setup, nor an email client apart from Lookout, an
 antivirus package or a firewall.
 
 Can anybody suggest (probably offlist is best, my mailbox can stand the 
 traffic,) free packages for all the above? I would be grateful. My current
 
 thoughts are Pegasus, Mozilla, Spybot SD. But I haven't used Pegasus
 since 1995, is it the best? Don't know whether to go Mcafee or AVG (or
 some other.) Howabout firewalls?

I liked Tiny Personal Firewall when I ran win2k.  Very simple to use, and
quite secure.  When first installed, it prompts you for every attempt for
incoming or outgoing traffic, so it can be a little annoying, but it
requires no configuration; you just choose allow yes or no - this time or
every time.

For a bunch of free software, take a look at WebAttack (yeah, I know, odd
name), but a bunch of freeware for windows.  I used alot of these when I had
to boot back to windows, before I finally got everything I wanted to work in
linux.

http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.html

Tim


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

2003-10-18 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:31:03 -0400
Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It was mentioned in this thread that all of the Mandrake Packs will come 
 with the nVidia drivers.  Anybody care to pass them along to the rest of 
 us?  Or do I have to wait until Nvidia gets them onto their site?
 
 - Theo

I just installed the current site drivers onto Cooker 9.2 about a month ago,
and have changed kernels about 4 times since then.  You just have to run the
nVidia installer and let it compile a module for your system.  No need to
wait for anyone.

Tim

 
 Anne Wilson wrote:
 
 On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:14 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
   
 
 At 12.36 18/10/2003, you wrote:
 
 
 Which is where the TWiki comes in.  Why not write up how you did
 it and make it available for everyone else?
   
 
 But I didn't (yet): I'm not a club member and I son't have 9.2.
 Furthermore, Steven explained me how to do, you should have
 received his post as well.
 
 Olaf
 
 
 
 Olaf -
 
 1) I have been away, so I did not receive it.
 2) Open Source is about sharing responsibility and labour.  It is not 
 for me to learn in depth about a problem that you are solving in 
 order for me to write an article.  I am asking you to pay back the 
 help you receive by helping someone else.
 
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Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:29:56 -0700
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 the mirrors are slammed and urpmi is not working, which is a bit of a
 bummer as I managed to hork the rpm database on one of my boxes and need
 to define new sources :-)
 
 Just wanted to let anyone else having problems know that you're not
 alone; it'll probably straighten out in a few days after the 9.2 rush is
 over.

I'm getting an update, since Contrib shows a couple new updates I want, but
at about 1/3 of my normal download speed.  It appears that urpmi.update -a
--wget works!?

There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also released on the
mirrors by mistake, but I have not been able to get any kind of connect to
verify.  That would add to the frenzy, if true

Tim

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Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:06:34 -0700
Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:29:56 -0700
 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  the mirrors are slammed and urpmi is not working, which is a bit of a
  bummer as I managed to hork the rpm database on one of my boxes and need
  to define new sources :-)
  
  Just wanted to let anyone else having problems know that you're not
  alone; it'll probably straighten out in a few days after the 9.2 rush is
  over.
 
 I'm getting an update, since Contrib shows a couple new updates I want,
 but at about 1/3 of my normal download speed.  It appears that
 urpmi.update -a--wget works!?
 
 There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also released on the
 mirrors by mistake, but I have not been able to get any kind of connect to
 verify.  That would add to the frenzy, if true

Well. duh..

9.2 RPMS are available right from the source mirrors!
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#586

Tim

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Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:19:02 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Tim Sawchuck schrieb am Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:51:45 -0700:
 
   There is a rumor that the complete 9.2 RPMS were also released on
   the mirrors by mistake, but I have not been able to get any kind of
   connect to verify.  That would add to the frenzy, if true
  
  Well. duh..
  
  9.2 RPMS are available right from the source mirrors!
  http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#586
 
 And it was not 'by mistake'. It was an action, planned by a human brain,
 acted out by humans with the help of electronic devices and ancient
 knowledge. So how can you think of 'a mistake'?

I thought the general release for the public was not until the end of
October.  We (public / non-mdk club) can download rpms and isos now???

See why I'm confused, or am I the only one as usual?  ;-)

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Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:24:29 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

%  snip

  shows that both monitors are set at 85Hz, which ain't bad. So my crawly
  dim lines are probably caused by interference since the monitors are
  side by side. Maybe they need an AFDB :-) That would explain why there
 
 check out where your cell phone is sitting.  I'm serious here.  They
 really muck with monitors.

That's the truth.  I work in the wireless biz, and I know a call is coming 
a few seconds before the phone rings if I keep the phone on the desk
below the monitor shelf!

Tim

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Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:32:28 -0700
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:04, James Sparenberg wrote:
  On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:39, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
   Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works.  I did not read the instructions
   and tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart.  I do not have kdm or gdm
   installed, so I like the WMs that will allow me to change to another,
   until I decide which one to settle on.  Right now I need a combo of
   blackbox and Ice, or if bb just had a pager (found one, but you cannot
   change vdesktops with it).
   
   I might like xfce4 if I can find the time to get menus in it.:-)
   
   Tim
   
   
  Since xfce (3.8) is in the contribs section for 9.1 I wonder if you
  installed it... then did the build / install from 4 over it if you would
  keep the menu's etc or not.
  
  James
 ...
 
 nope; there's a program called MenuMaker though that handles making
 menus from the GNOME and KDE stuff for everything else. That's the
 stopgap until XFce can implement the new freedesktop.org menu standard
 (they're aiming for the 4.2 release).

Found it and installed it, but have not had time to read how to set it up
yet.


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Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Go to the club and get your bittorrents running.  Mainly because right
 now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need
 some speed!!! 

I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on
www.madrakeusers.org
that everyone it downloading awfully slow.

Since I did the urpmi update to 9.2 a month ago, I'll just wait until all
the mirrors are not slashdotted!  ;-)

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Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Sawchuck
Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works.  I did not read the instructions and
tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart.  I do not have kdm or gdm installed, so
I like the WMs that will allow me to change to another, until I decide which
one to settle on.  Right now I need a combo of blackbox and Ice, or if bb
just had a pager (found one, but you cannot change vdesktops with it).

I might like xfce4 if I can find the time to get menus in it.:-)

Tim


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:51:24 -0700
Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 21:08, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
 ...
  I've messed with XFCE, and it just didn't do it, but now 4 is out, I
  have to see if it will run under 9.2 Cooker.  
  
  Tim
 
 I've got three cooker systems and it runs a treat on all of them. Follow
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Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:19:06 -0400
Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 7) Wait for Tex to build cool stuff for 9.2

He has a few things already, check his website, mostly icons and themes.  He
stated in Cooker mail list that he would setup a hdlist.cz as soon as 9.2 is
officially released.

Tim

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Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:16:01 -0400
Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 A recent experience:
 During dinner a week or so back, SheThatIs decreed that the purchase and 
 installation of a new mailbox and post was essential to my continued 
 happiness. There are two major sources for such purchases in this neck of
 the woods -- Lowe's and Home Depot. Wanting to eliminate schlepping
 between the two stores, I decided to visit to each company's web site to
 compare their offerings. Fired up Konq, went to Lowe's, and saw what they
 had. Next stop, Home Depot. Oops! Some nitwit has decided that since I
 would not be able to enjoy the full benefits of their site because I was
 not running either Netscape 4.0 or IE 4.0; further access was denied.
 
 The next morning I dropped about $150 at Lowe's for the mailbox, mailbox
 post, and some other stuff.
 
 Yes, I could reconfigure to Konq to get past Home Depot's barrier, but why
 the hell should I? They are the ones trying to sell something to me.
 
 And yes, I thought about sending them a nastygram, but that was not in the
 
 list of options. (Remember when every website had a Contact Webmaster
 link?) Then too, would anyone who considers Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0 to be
 the latest and greatest understand my complaint? The idiot must still
 think it's 1997.

I have done that three times (I'm old enough to blame the fact that I forget
about Home Depot and Konq), each time I send a postcard addressed to the
manager of the local store about the situation.

Third time I got a reply back apologizing, explaining that it was handled by
corporate, AND a nice juicy discount coupon (that I may or may not use). 
I'd be interested to hear his explanation about why he was offering 50% off
for an old senile linux geek.  ;-)

Tim

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Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:29:09 -0400
Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Saturday 11 October 2003 09:44 pm, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
  On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:16:01 -0400
 
  Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  snipped long rant about trying to access Home Depot website from Konq
 
 
  I have done that three times (I'm old enough to blame the fact that I
  forget about Home Depot and Konq), each time I send a postcard addressed
  to the manager of the local store about the situation.
 
  Third time I got a reply back apologizing, explaining that it was
  handled by corporate, AND a nice juicy discount coupon (that I may or
  may not use). I'd be interested to hear his explanation about why he was
  offering 50% off for an old senile linux geek.  ;-)
 
  Tim
 
 Tim:
 Good for you. And good for the guy who runs your local Home Depot. He
 seems to understand that every dollar spent at a competitive store is a
 buck that he won't get. But the root cause -- the idiot webmaster -- still
 remains. Now that you and the store manager are buddy-buddy, is there any
 chance of learning either the e-mail or snail mail address of whoever it
 is that has custody of the idiot? I'd be interesting in laying a few lines
 on him.-- cmg

He stated that his district manager knew of numerous complaints (?)
throughout the area and that they were getting the word up the chain to
corporate and whoever made the choice, or was just lazy and followed the
Microsoft instruction book(yah, right).

Tim

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Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:53:07 -0700
Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM.  Even on a P4 1.3GHz,
  512Mb RAM, I love the quickness of a simple WM.
 
 Have you tried http://pekwm.org/  (my favorite) 
 XFCE4 (rpms at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ )  ?
 
 They are also realy fast.  XFCE4 is more of a desktop, pekwm is just
 a wm.  A few people run XFCE4 with pekwm as their wm.

Well, Eric,

Thanks for the tip, XFCE4 installs just fine under Cooker 9.2, but it will
not run.  I installed everything, Xtart cannot see it, it does not show up
as a WM in any other WM menu.  I tried from a terminal within blackbox, I'm
at a loss.  No error messages, nothing, just command not found even though
slocate shows me where it is.

A well, found a nice gtk theme switcher that sylpheed and JPilot use nicely!

Tim

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Re: [expert] source of rpm contrib

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
Ricardo \(Tru64 User\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 --- Tim Sawchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I receive the mails from the changelog
 
 
 What do you mean mails from the changelogthis must
 be something I am not aware about...please elaborate.


The Cooker page gives you a choice of mailing lists to join, Changelog is
one of them:
http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdevlists.php3

Tim

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Re: [expert] When is Mandrake 9.2 available?

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:05:56 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Azrael Azrael schrieb am Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:24:28 +0100:
 
  When is Mandrake 9.2 available to the mere mortals amongst us?
 
 Mandrake is not for mere mortals! 


A-l-m-o-s-t spit coffee all over my monitor..   


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[expert] Re: Pilot: Email client used with Palm Desktop?

2003-10-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
Sylpheed Claws under Mandrake Linux 9.1  :-)  

Integrates multiple address books for use *including* JPilot which is the
linux clone of Palm Desktop. JPilot gives me Address, Datebook, Memos, ToDo
(plus Manana display and support!), Expense, and KeyRing conduits.

I can extract e-mail addresses from this mail client and import them to Palm
with one click!

Cool, huh???

Tim

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:39:25 -0400
Vivian J. Paige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I was just noticing that a number of people are using the Palm Desktop,
 which does not have an email program. I'm thinking of going back to it.
 What email program are you guys using? I use Outlook primarily for
 email, although I have Mozilla set up as well.

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Re: [expert] Re: Pilot: Email client used with Palm Desktop?

2003-10-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
Excuse me!  I have NO idea why this went to the wrong ML, but I'll find out
and it will NOT happen again.

Tim

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Re: [expert] source of rpm contrib

2003-10-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:57:02 +0800
Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I receive the mails from the changelog with all the 
 rpm-contrib but I don't know where I can download those rpm 
 from.
 
 I did urpmi-update contrib
 but the rpm still don't show. Is there another source for 
 them?

I think most everything coming through changelog now is Cooker 9.2 stuff,
right?

This site will give you many places to get RPMs, including Cooker:
http://www.zarb.org/%7Enanardon/

Tim

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Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:30:13 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ok,
 
 I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to
 9.2 via urpmi.  The order of march is

Just?!?!  :-)   I did this a few weeks, maybe a month ago after a
posting on Distrowatch about this technique.  I had not found this list at
the time.

 urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases)
 
 urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker)
 
 urpmi urpmi (get the new urpmi first it's ability to download install
 and then download more is a big boon. But be prepared for a huge list of
 changes to accompany it as well.) 

I really recommend doing a uprmi.update -a at this point since the new urpmi
and databases work a little differently.

 
 urpmi --auto-auto select --force 
 
 why the force ... because signatures in the cooker are all over the
 place, and plf cooker isn't signed with the same sig as the rest of plf
 etc etc and I got real tired of saying y every 3 or 4 rpms.  

You can use the --no-verify-rpm switch as well.  I've found that using the
--allow-force switch works better for me, since the dependencies can get
funny with textar and plf rpms that might have a newer numbering than the
9.2 versions installing.
 
 urpmi kernel.
 
Basic rundown did it work.  Yes.  Was it quick ... no expect to let
 the box run almost as long as it takes to download a single ISO.  Would
 I recommend it to anyone but someone who knows MDK... NO I repeat NO.
 Some rpms won't install because of conflicts with plf or texstar (I
 forced those like kdebase and kdebase-common.)  You also need to know
 that things like konsole are seperate and don't get installed here. So
 it's not perfect but dang close. 

A couple other tricks, use telinit 3 to run from a console.  When it is all
done, before you reboot, try rpm -Va | grep miss to see if any libraries
are missing.  I actually had 3 consoles open doing this, with radio
keeping me entertained.


Can it be done over the net YES.  I've done it twice that way.  Once
 here at home (local simulation) and once to a box in a remote office for
 someone.  Both times it worked and worked right. Both boxes worked
 afterward and so far no real problems.  All configs etc are retained and
 as such there was little if anything to do after.  I honestly don't like
 the MDK kde as well as the texstar version (I lose the ability to do
 full modifications of the panel as well as no randar support.) But it
 does seem to start faster.  More to come.

I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM.  Even on a P4 1.3GHz, 512Mb RAM,
I love the quickness of a simple WM.

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Re: [expert] KMail bookmarks XML to HTML

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:28:49 +0200
Tomas Rett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 how can I convert the bookmarks.xml file from KMail to another format, for
 example the bookmarks.html file of Mozilla ?

Click on Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks - then I think (not using Kmail
anymore) under File there is an Export function to export to Mozilla.  It
will allow you to choose the path, and choose the bookmarks.html (backup
your Mozilla bookmarks first if needed!)

Tim

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Re: [expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:04:10 -0500
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help
 me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for 
 someone not well-versed with a given app). How do I do a logrotate on all 
 logs?  My laptop doesn't run 24/7 so the normal rotation period never 
 arrives, and thus my logs get tremendous.  
 
 praedor
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Run Anacron in the services menu.

Description: Anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') is a periodic command
scheduler.  It executes commands at intervals specified in days.  Unlike
cron, it does not assume that the system is running continuously.  It can
therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly and monthly jobs
(or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a
day.  When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that
the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine-uptime
permits.

This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Mandrake
system. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on 24
hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Mandrake packages are
executed each day.

Tim

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Re: [expert] Switch to another window manager?

2003-10-07 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:14:50 +0200
T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I think I've used this in the past, but I can't remember what I did and
 can't find it in the docs: How can I - as a user - choose what window
 manager I'm using when running startx from the console? Under Red Hat,
 there's switchdesk, which allows a user to permanently set his/her
 window manager, but I can't remember the Mandrake equivalent... :-/
 
 Cheerio,
 
 Thomas

Xtat!

Description: Xtart is a simple program that checks for properly installed
window managers and allows the user full menu access to them from a
logged-in console.  The special entry 00 in menu selectio will start X with
an xterm to manually start new installations of window managers or to do
tests with X and no window manager.  See /etc/X11/wmsession.d for proper WM
integration.

Tim

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