--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
loads.
Instead they installed a snazzy GUI to give you a urpmi.addmedia command
for any one of the mirrors.
Austin
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
...
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
).
Buchan
For me, the one and only UI font that works in OO.o is Lucida. If you
have it, you can replace Andale Sans UI with Lucida. Luckily I'm so
accustomed to OO.o that I was able to do that without any fonts.
Skills, yes, thank you.
Austin
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc
Type1 (Postscript) and TrueType
fonts.
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:22, Florent BERANGER wrote:
- mysql control center : http://www.mysql.com/products/mycc/index.html
I'll work on packaging it, unless someone else already is.
Austin
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:56, Buchan Milne wrote:
I had it compiling a way back, but according to the mycc list, there
will be a new release end of this month. Current (0.8.5?) is broken a
bit, so you may as well wait a few days before packaging.
Will do. I hate packaging broken stuff.
Also,
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 00:34, Ben Reser wrote:
I think a lot of people are on vacation and it's a relaxed not anywhere
near release atmosphere right now. :)
That's understandable. Vacations are good.
So what's the solution? Put it on bugzilla and hope someone will look
at it someday?
Austin
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:42, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
There was a fix proposal some times ago, consisting of modifying the glibc
headers with an additional #ifdef __KERNEL__ around the redondants
definitions. See the thread FYI: Getting mjpegtools built with avifile
(divx/lav2divxt) for
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:33, Oden Eriksson wrote:
I'm getting this error:
ac-wrapper: ouch, couldn't call binary (/usr/bin/autom4te-2.13).
autoheader-2.5x: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 2
I've had this problem before. Not sure what causes the problem. Try
setting the version
compile.
There must be at least ONE more person who cares about these problems...
:-)
Austin
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 18:30, Lyall Pearce wrote:
I also find the installer annoying if I try install a list of packages,
something goes wrong and it forgets all the selections I have made. I
have to repeat them all again for the next attempt (really bad if you
are doing wildcard searches then
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
posts
of the problem (by others) to kernel list were pretty much ignored.
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer
that Mandrake uses so I do not miss anything.
Thanks.
-Dave
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 00:40, Quel Qun wrote:
depmod -a after editing modules.conf?
=o=
kk1
Hehe. Yes, that's it. Thanks.
All seems well now.
Sorry to take up so many people's time with this, but I guess we learned
that the sundance driver in 9.0 is no good for important connections.
I'll
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 02:24, Ben Reser wrote:
Austin, you've clearly missed the point. It's a stupid argument because
it's not a choice the distribution or even a group of us has to decide.
We get both (unless we really don't want them) when we install Mandrake.
Do whatever you will with
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 08:53, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Why the heck it takes a whole 3-4 seconds to authenticate my password
in the command line
What's she talking about? Authentication is instant for me.
With a fresh install the other day, (no X installed), it does in fact
take about 2-3
of
resources or processing time.
Just wondered if anyone has any insight.
Austin
--
Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 15:38, Igor Izyumin wrote:
QT would be a nicer choice than GTK. It looks better. GTK1 doesn't really
look like Gnome2 and doesn't look like KDE. But then, that's up to the
mandrake team to decide.
--
-- Igor
I don't think there are any perl bindings for qt3, and
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 18:09, Igor Izyumin wrote:
Actually, it would be an order of magnitude less confusing. People don't
really understand why KDE is not an integral part of Mandrake, and they
expect all the tools to be in one place. It is very confusing when you have
a fonts panel in
I have a Compaq Armada 3500 (PII-300).
Everything on it works perfectly (USB, PCMCIA modem, PCMCIA ethernet,
pointer, sound, APM, etc), except the video card. It's a Chips and
Technologies 96000 (2MB), and it stinks. It was insanely slow with
XFree 3 and it doesn't work at all with XFree 4.
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:43, Yura Gusev wrote:
Better fonts (freetype hinting, please enable it if you can) and fonts
configuration tools.
I know there are more important things, but drakfont does need some
updating, a facelift, and some more user-friendliness.
Austin
P.S. It would be much more helpful if you would tell us what's wrong...
i.e. what error messages do you get? when does it stop working? how
does it stop working? We can't read your mind you know...
Austin
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:35, aaron wrote:
Hi,
Since the wine shipped with 8.2
Delete your ~/.wine/config.
Copy /etc/wine/config to ~/.wine/config.
All should work fine.
Austin
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:35, aaron wrote:
Hi,
Since the wine shipped with 8.2 didn't work for me, I was very happy
some time several months ago when I pulled one from cooker,
Did you have too much coffee this morning, man?
Maybe some aromatherapy would help...
Austin
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 13:24, Eyal Ben-David wrote:
Is this Cooker or not? It should start preparing the next MDK release!
For me it's obvious that cooker should contain these as soon as it is
Hey guys,
Can you help?
My brother is trying to install Mandrake 9 on a Toshiba laptop (I forget
the model, it's a PIII, about 2 years old...). And he gets these weird
errors I can't figure out. P.S. Mandrake 8 and RedHat 7 and 8 all
installed without any troubles...
P.P.S. The MD5's are
This is hilarious.
You have to be joking!
Shit, this whole censorship thing is a pain in the ass.
Austin
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:21, marcos colome wrote:
You should inform your developers or any other person that is helping you, that they
must not use bad expression thru the internet. I
We could stop a LOT of the complaining by adding one simple feature...
In the RPM installer, add an icon that opens the package remover; in the
remover, add an icon that opens the installer.
It's that simple.
Austin
Use hackaudacity.
Austin
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 03:17, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Peter Ruskin wrote:
rpmdrake says:
Conflicts detected:
libstdc++.so.4 is needed by audacity-1.0.0-3mdk
libstdc++.so.4(GLIBCPP_3.1) is needed by audacity-1.0.0-3mdk
Install aborted
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:49, Levi Ramsey wrote:
That said, ISTR a couple of developers taking vacations in August, while
Cooker was fast approaching freeze. I'm not sure that that was such a
wise decision, though if it kept you guys sane for long enough to put
out 9.0, all is acceptable...
You probably haven't installed them.
Try
# urpmi OpenOffice.org-help-en
Austin
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:00, Rufferto wrote:
Hi,
OpenOffice can't find it's Help files after installation? Where are they
gone?
Ruffi
Don't forget that there are TWO gnome theme systems working in Mandrake
9.0. Applications based on gnome2 (gedit, eye of the gnome) use the
gtk2 theme. This is set in gnome menu. Applications based on gnome1
(evolution, galeon, gaim) use the old gtk1 themes. These themes are set
automatically
You evil genius.
Austin
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 10:53, David Eastcott wrote:
check misc/doc/9.0.conf for the -t option
WOW! Since when does installing a win32 application with wine put an
entry into the Mandrake menu? That's amazing! Is that
Mandrake-specific? If so, good work guys!
Austin
Mandrake has been in deep freeze for several weeks. That's the only way
we can troubleshoot. In fact, Mandrake 9.0 will be THE most current
binary based distro when it is released. Updates for packages like
webmin and quanta can be (and will be) requested on the mandrakeclub
website.
Austin
Well, I must say I loved the name Traktopel. That's front end
loader in English, I do believe. It sounds so much cooler in French
though.
It's weird for us, cuz most distros change the working codename for
their development branch (potato, woody, roswell, null), but we use
cooker eternally. So
I have the same chip, PCI card, static IP.
Works fine on current cooker.
Austin
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 18:13, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
mandrakeexpert incident 32401 forwarded to cooker.
when replying, please cc this email address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
quoted text below
rountree :
Just wanted to say that mozilla-enigmail works GREAT!
Thanks so much to whoever put that together!
P.S. Anyone ever had weird problems with Evolution before? Suddenly I
don't get a window any more for a message body, i.e. when I hit compose,
I only get text boxes for address and subject,
As of last night's cooker, enigmail works perfectly for me.
Tested encrypt, sign, and verify, but I haven't tested decrypt yet.
Austin
Buchan Milne wrote:
Austin Acton wrote:
Just wanted to say that mozilla-enigmail works GREAT!
Thanks so much to whoever put that together!
Does
I also have a GeForce2MX and a TNT2, both running cooker, both with
updated NVIDIA binaries (locally re-linked). And I run both machines
pretty hard, and my girlfriend plays games all the time. Never had any
problems with X.
Austin
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 19:09, Buchan Milne wrote:
I
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:51, Bill Shirley wrote:
Ah, success. saslauthd puts it's socket (file called mux in
/var/lib/sasl and sasl client tries to connect in
/var/state/saslauthd directory, which does not exists. A
ln -s /var/lib/sasl /var/state/saslauthd will fix this.
smtp auth works
Hey Guillaume,
I'm not an autoconf expert, but this program seems to be tricking your
/usr/bin/autoconf script:
bash-2.05b$ ./autogen.sh
Running autoheader
FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
Running aclocal
Running automake
Running autoconf
FATAL ERROR:
2002, Austin Acton wrote:
Hey Guillaume,
I'm not an autoconf expert, but this program seems to be tricking your
/usr/bin/autoconf script:
bash-2.05b$ ./autogen.sh
Running autoheader
FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
Running aclocal
Danny, hope this helps:
1. CLEANUP
[root@groundstate austin]# urpme wine
bash-2.05b$ rm -fr .wine
2. FRESH INSTALL FROM COOKER
[root@groundstate austin]# urpmi wine
installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libwine1-20020804-1mdk.i586.rpm
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/wine-20020804-1mdk.i586.rpm
3. WHAT'S IN
It's a gnome2 thing.
It drove me nuts at first.
Austin
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 06:27, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I play a lot of Freecell while waiting for my Cooker updates to
finish. Instead of switching systems as usual, I played it on my
Cooker
It's called gtklp.
It's in contribs, and it's good.
Austin
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 19:06, Henri wrote:
Hi,
I'm a little bit confused with RC1 ( RC2 will be at home tomorow :-) ) :
Can't we print and watch the printing queue easily in graphical mode ??
Isn't there any thing about it in the menu
What are you talking about?
Contribs has always been urpmi accessible.
Austin
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 20:53, Vox wrote:
Ok, since it seems like contrib will not be packaged in 9.0
final, I want to know if there's going to be urpmi support in
contrib once 9.0 is out. It's
Yeah, something has happened with the menu system.
It used to be flawless. Add or remove rpm, and the menu was almost
instantly updated. Now when I install an rpm, sometimes is lose half
the entries, sometimes I just lose the icons, and sometimes the new icon
just doesn't show up until I run
Two unrelated comments:
1. The update-menus macro run through rpm does not seem to be working.
Whenever I install something, the menus don't change. I run
update-menus as root, and they update then. P.S. I'm using gnome2.
2. Urpmi often asks Is it okay (y/N)?. Really, this should be changed
Xdrawchem needs to be rebuilt right away! It still depends on
libstdc++.so.4(GLIBCPP_3.1).
Thanks.
Austin
I just did an RC1 install, installing gnome-workstation or whatever
the group of packages is called. Since this installs metacity as the
wm, I think it should also install metacity-setup by default.
Austin
Using default RC1 install, metacity themes are installed in
/usr/share/themes, but metacity-setup doesn't find them. It only seems
to look in ~/.metacity/themes.
Austin
RLPlot
gfontview
both need to be rebuilt.
Austin
This is because the current wine rpm installs a file called
~/.wine/config but it is empty. It should be a copy of
/etc/wine/config.
Also it uses /tmp/wine-{username} as temp, but it doesn't create the
directory the first time you run wine. It should, or it should use /tmp
or ~/tmp or
Hi,
I always do network installs. It's really annoying though, that after
the install, the rpm sources are NOT properly configured. This has been
the case for a long time now.
For example, I install from
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-cooker/i586
logging in as anonymous, password [EMAIL
1. I reinstalled cooker last night and the problem with the source
manager not running is gone.
2. The .rpmnew popup is REALLY cool.
3. It hasn't made the mouse pointer remain wait for several days.
I HATE to say this; I don't want to say this; I never thought I'd say
this, but...
I'm
1. The new menu icons are nice. I liked the old ones better though,
even if I'm alone on this one. At least they were more consistent.
2. The dark blue theme in the Mandrake 8 series bothered me. It was
too overstated, and a bit windows-like. I REALLY liked the light blue
theme in the
The thing I really miss from the old rpmdrake is current version.
Like tonight I was going to upgrade something (I forget what it was),
and I couldn't remember if I had a plf version installed or not. If so,
I didn't want to replace the plf version with the mdk version (just
because the revision
What do you mean?
1. Does Mandrake plan to use ICC? No. It's not gpl, and Mandrake's
goal is to be 100% gpl.
2. Does ICC have better optimizations than gcc? Hard to say. In my
own experience (computational chemistry), I've found IFC compiled apps
equal to or slightly slower than gcc. GCC
Yes, but the related problem is this:
If ONE of the selected rpms is missing, or bad, everything already
installed is reported. It does not try to install the rest of the rpms
you have selected, like it does when there is an ftp error, it asks do
you want to skip this file?
Austin
On Mon,
Are you kidding? As a newbie I tried about six distros, and one of the
main reasons I stuck with Mandrake was because it had the most complete
and intuitive menu.
Austin
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:52, Michel Fodje wrote:
Dear Mandrake developers,
I would like to bring your attention again to
I'll take care of it...
Austin
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:43, Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
Hi!
I just noticed you didn't update today anjuta to the
Beta1 of version 1.0. Last time I checked it was not
announced on the homepage but only on the project page:
http://sf.net/projects/anjuta.
You
When I close rpmdrake (normal exit), my pointer in Gnome2 remains as a
watch-face (aka wait).
Just some more info in case this helps (stdout):
wizcancel at /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm line 203
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar during global destruction.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar
Yeah, still does it with sawfish.
My wrong.
I'll go back to metacity and see if it does it.
Austin
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 18:57, Austin Acton wrote:
Well, I removed sawfish and installed metacity, and it stopped doing
it. Then I removed metacity and reinstalled sawfish, and now it still
I've tested it and built an RPM.
It looks great, and works okay, but is in its infancy.
I've uploaded the SRPM to contribs, but we'll have to wait for Lenny to
get back to see if he likes it...
Austin
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:23, Oden Eriksson wrote:
Hi.
Here's a tip of something to put in
I have built a Mandrake RPM for gcvs.
It is currently available from MandrakeClub, but has also been sent to
contribs.
Enjoy,
Austin
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 16:41, Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
Hi!
I just compiled gcvs-1.0b4 from wincvs.org (or cvsgui.org).
Sorry, currently the Homepage seems to
See below...
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:29, Frank Griffin wrote:
Just out of curiosity (this being the first time I've been involved with
an MDK beta), where does one look to find all the policies and
procedures for what's going on here ? Such as maintaining a cooker
mirror, burning CDs from
I made an SRPM for MandrakeClub.
I'll send you a copy of the spec if you want it...
Austin
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 02:43, Florent BERANGER wrote:
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
I'll try to make an RPM.
PS : and, what about my boson SRPM that I put in contribs ?
--
Keep in mind that cinelerra includes lame so probably can't go in
contribs.
Austin
Thanks for your reply.
Please realize that my point was not you're doing things wrong, my
point was you should care about contributing users, and these are the
few things that upset us.
P.S. MDK9.0 looks wicked.
Austin
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 06:18, Pixel wrote:
don't you have a clue why? it's
I was under the impression that PLF apps could go on the testing club
site, but not on the unsupported mirrors. Am I wrong?
I have not posted it yet...
Austin
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 13:58, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
Keep in mind that cinelerra includes lame so probably can't go in
contribs.
Actually, Danny, the US isn't the problem.
It that one should license the use of mp3 encoders.
So I ASSUME Mandrake can't distribute it because they can't promise that
their users will license it themselves.
I'll just get it onto PLF.
Austin
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 16:24, Danny Tholen wrote:
Just a few comments...
1. The newest GnomeICU has lost its menu icon.
2. Any chance of fixing the bug in openoffice where user preferences
are not saved? Preferably before 9.0? I can't seem to figure it out...
Austin
Hate to say it, but I totally agree.
Is this new mess REALLY easier to use?
I just don't see how...
Austin
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 15:52, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
OK, I could live without the breezecom driver but today I updated
cooker fron Saturday and saw what becomed of rpmdrake, and with all
Also, I forgot to add...
The new rpmdrake has that annoying problem where you close it, and the
cursor stays as a wait symbol (like a watch-face) until you logout of
gnome. This used to happen in 8.1 with drakconf and now the nightmare
is back again.
Can this be easily fixed?
Austin
I have to say I'm 50/50 on the dual rpmdrake idea. But yes, either fix
the new one or include the old one.
I think Mandrake is the best distro in the world but I think they don't
realize their biggest fault: They make their most devoted users angry.
Seriously. Many newbies throw around
Someone on the club had a cool and easy suggestion, so I just wanted to
make sure you heard it.
Austin
(quoting)
Hello!
I only have one request to add to v9.0 in the installer. I want an
Install All button - ala Redhat. Disks are cheap. The time required to
get the system fully operational
really don't need to download a whole
bunch of ISO's. Maybe just part of one. The rest can install itself as
needed over the net... uprmi.addmedia (somewhere) urpmi.finishinstalling ;)
?
-AEF
On Monday 12 August 2002 08:18 pm, Austin Acton wrote:
snips
Hello!
I only have one
Anyone else notice strange behaviour in gnome-calculator using the
keypad? On both of my machines, some numbers work, but others don't.
And yes... NumLock is on. :-)
Austin
I have the same problem.
Test case? EVERY form that has a checkbox crashes.
Austin
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 03:28, Frederic Crozat wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:23:25 +0200, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:02, Steve Fox wrote:
Just about every other form I submit crashes
I couldn't agree more.
I hate that!
Austin
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 06:14, Danny Tholen wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Would it perhaps be possible to keep alive connections to remote sources?
Updating 20 packages from an ftp mirror takes very long because each time
a
You're right, it's a silly bug.
But don't forget about /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.
Austin
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:29, Tech At Mathco Dot Com wrote:
Would it not be better if rpmdrake
would see.. ok.. this package is bad
but the others aren't and give the user
a choise to still install the other
Yeah, I've had the same problem.
No saved preferences and it always opens to ~/openoffice/user/work or
something like that that doesn't exist.
Austin
Work/office computer - MDK 8.2
Laptop and home computer - cookah!
Austin
And we have share templates mounted via NFS that I need to use. I guess
I could link my templates directory OO.o uses to that location, and do
the same with My Documents, but what else is broken. Ok, maybe I
should
Not the case.
Volunteered RPMS will be freely available on regular MDK mirrors,
provided they are GPL or similar. The only RPMS available only to club
members will be those that are free, but not open source.
New SRPMS will go directly into cooker if they are reliable.
You should contribute this
I have just uploaded two SRPMS.
Gtklp, which is a great little GTK interface to CUPS, and RLplot which
is a scientific graphics program not unlike scigraphica. Both have been
requested by Mandrake 8.2 users, and these SRPMS will build on cooker or
8.2.
Please enjoy and use responsibly,
Austin
Edit .gtkrc
Austin
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 13:40, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
How do I configure themes for gnome1 now when gnomecc is gone?
-andrej
Okay kids, you asked for it...
I installed the cooker iso posted recently and then updated to the
current cooker, and I found a few bugs that have been around since
before 8.2 came out. Can we work on them?
1. During install, screen says probing serial ports. If my Wacom USB
tablet mouse is
Anyone care to help me/Mandrake with a minor laptop glitch?
My laptop has a floppy drive in the docking station, and it automounts
beautifully in the new cooker. But if the dock is not present,
supermount searches for the floppy drive infinitely druing Aurora, and
boot will not continue until
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