Re: [Cooker] TAKE MY BRAIN OFF THIS DAMN METHADONE FOR THE LAST TIME!

2003-09-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mar, 30-09-2003 a las 14:28, Buchan Milne escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jokerman64 wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:46 am, Luca Berra wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:31:00AM +0100, John Allen wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 07:19, Leon Brooks

[Cooker] Suggestion for program inclusion

2003-09-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
Recently I found myself in the need to burn a .nrg (that's Nero Burning Rom's proprietary format for ISOS) under Linux. After a bit of googling, i found this fine tool, nrg2iso. The main program is a single .c file containing 139 lines of code (That includes the GPL header in it :o) It's usage

Re: [Cooker] Final in Septembre???

2003-09-12 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 11-09-2003 a las 16:14, Michael Scherer escribió: On Thursday 11 September 2003 18:09, Pierre Jarillon wrote: Le Jeudi 11 Septembre 2003 10:56, Simon Oosthoek a écrit : On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:10:51AM +0100, Emmanuel wrote: Hi all, Quick question for all of you guys:

Re: [Cooker] Resizing partitions.

2003-09-01 Thread Damian Gatabria
El dom, 31-08-2003 a las 23:16, Pixel escribió: Fabien ILLIDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel a écrit : Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: right end, so you can't make it go any bigger. Is this a simple question of making this option available or is it a limitation

[Cooker] Resizing partitions.

2003-08-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. I have a (from the not that important, but would be nice department) feature request, i know it's probably too late, but i only noticed this recently, and, after all, maybe it's not hard to add it? I commonly use Mandrake's installer to fix or change partitions on any computer, and the

Re: [Cooker] Is 9.1 finished?

2003-03-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
What is the official position? Missionary. Boy on top. Damian

Re: [Cooker] Is 9.1 finished?

2003-03-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 25 de March 2003 22:17, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:18, Damian Gatabria wrote: What is the official position? Missionary. Boy on top. Boys are fine for you maybe but I had in mind something with a bit different architecture. *grin* Umm.. why was I

Re: [Cooker] Is 9.1 finished?

2003-03-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 25 de March 2003 22:42, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Tue Mar 25 22:18 -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote: What is the official position? Missionary. Boy on top. Anything else is illegal in some places... Yes, yes, compatibility comes to mind when you have to choose your position

Re: [Cooker] Important remaining bugs

2003-03-18 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 18 de March 2003 08:20, Steffen Barszus wrote: A trivial fix would be to add two further driver to isdn4net and solve bug 3142 and the bug I entered for isdn4net with it. the first driver is capidrv . This was allready in it but was forgotten or denied (who knows) = a lot of cards

Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?

2003-03-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 10 de March 2003 01:02, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Sun Mar 09 22:07 -0500, Austin wrote: Well, at the very least, it's a great reason to switch to gnome. :-) Let's go for broke with this thread and bring emacs vs. vi, postfix vs. qmail, and Java vs. anything (anybody else have ideas?)

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
Lets consider the KDE developers. KDE 3.1 was suppose to come out in early November. But the developers kept finding serious bugs and eventually, security bugs. They realized that KDE 3.1 has lots of cool features but they would be overshadowed by the problems if they rushed it out on time.

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 27 de February 2003 14:23, John Keller wrote: Felix Miata wrote: If NTFS is the partition type, then naming either no program or the right program might be a good idea. Scandisk is WinDOS. AFAIK, NTFS isn't accessible to WinDOS. Whoops -- good catch. I was simply trying to

Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1

2003-02-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 20:11, Buchan Milne wrote: On 25 Feb 2003, Pixel wrote: Szakacsits Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel, it may make sense to present this information to the user at some point in some way not to scare them to death later on, e.g. (in non-native

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 910] [Installation] Size in MB slider should also have a text field

2003-02-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
This is still valid in 9.1 RC1. During partitioning, the Size in MB slider should also have a text field so the user can type in the exact size of the partition. For example, I'm currently installing to a VM in VMware, giving it 512 MB of RAM. I'd like to double that for the swap space,

Re: [Cooker] isdn4net.

2003-02-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi Damian! Can the following be added to the isdn4linux runlevelscript to extend the known $I4L_MODULEs ? 'capidrv') echo Loading driver for CAPI based cards ... /sbin/modprobe -v capidrv /dev/null if

Re: [Cooker] isdn4net.

2003-02-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
One thing more: OK, i'm done. But before i upload it, i want people to test it. Whoever has a spare minute or two, please ask me to send the RPMS so you can try them. Damian

[Cooker] isdn4net

2003-02-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
I made a new isdn4net RPM/SRPM and uploaded to ftp.linux-mandrake.com. Added patch by Steffen Barszus (adds support for CAPI driver based cards). It also provides an improved runlevel script. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those

Re: [Cooker] Midnight Commander is at version 4.6.0 !!!

2003-02-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
good. There was a lightweight alternative to nautilus the name of which now escapes me. Anyway, there are a few mc style GUI apps if people umm.. file-runner? insist on having them. Maybe change a link in the menus so we have an Applications - filemanagers - Konqueror filemanager BUT

[Cooker] oops.

2003-02-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
I mistakenly uploaded isdn4k packages to ftp.linux-mandrake.com files are: isdn4k-utils-3.1-1.pre1.11mdk.i586.rpm libisdn4k-utils2-3.1-1.pre1.11mdk.i586.rpm libisdn4k-utils2-devel-3.1-1.pre1.11mdk.i586.rpm Please disregard them as i forgot to add one final patch. sorry. Damian -- -- I don't

[Cooker] isdn4net.

2003-02-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
Uploaded: isdn4net-1.4.5-5mdk.src.rpm isdn4net-1.4.5-5mdk.noarch.rpm to ftp.linux-mandrake.com They are supposed to fix bug #634, but i need somebody to test them and tell me.. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security

Re: [Cooker] next try to get ignored

2003-02-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
Damien, could you check the isdn related bugs ? I'll see what i can do. And, umm.. i think i could also help with translations to spanish, if any help is needed with that, i'm here. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those

Re: [Cooker] How Debians do it

2003-02-06 Thread Damian Gatabria
I would certainly do more than troll the list and file bug reports if there was something that told me what needed to be done. If I could scroll through a ToDo list and volunteer for specific tasks that my skill set would allow me to do well, I would be able to contribute a lot more to the

Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Release Date

2003-02-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 02 February 2003 22:12, Kris Komar wrote: Does anybody know about when the official 9.1 will be released? `cat /usr/share/$deity/knowledge/software.db | grep Mandrake 9.1` if [$? = 0] then ...maybe God can tell. else ...when it's ready. fi Damian -- -- I don't want

Re: [Cooker] WHY HAVE YOU CHANGE KDM WITH THIS HORRIBLE LOGIN MANAGER ??????

2003-01-31 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:31, Laurent Culioli wrote: Le jeu 30/01/2003 à 02:29, orville a écrit : I digress. After reading laurent's post I decided to log off and see what all the hubbub is about. THAT is definitely not KDE's new login manager. SHIT that thing is ugly. Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] Fast User Switching done right

2003-01-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
What we have is different. There is no security, for example. Someone could wander in, switch to their own screen and be working on it when you came back, That's what password-protected screensavers are for. Lock your screen if you leave The screensaver mod would detect the X

Re: [Cooker] Fast User Switching done right

2003-01-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
Yeah, just leave root consoles lying around unprotected on your box. Sooner or later that will result in a lot of stuff being disabled. Hey, Is Mandrake still a distro aimed for the home desktop or not? This suggestion is very logical and useful for businesses, or places where computers have

Re: [Cooker] Easy Idea to Make Mandrake Better: Fast User Switching

2003-01-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:57, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to propose an idea that I think could easily be implemented by 9.1 final and would be really great. I mean, wonderful. Most of you probably know the term Fast user switching from the Windows XP

Re: [Cooker] Easy Idea to Make Mandrake Better: Fast User Switching

2003-01-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
Does GDM run by default on a Mandrake install where the user has chosen KDE as the default desktop? Well, i really don't know... but since it's the only DM that has a consistent look with Mandrake's background images and icons, i would guess so. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!

2003-01-28 Thread Damian Gatabria
one uses the right tool in the right place. And how are people supposed to use it if it's not visible??? which tools are unusable when embedded in mc at 640x480? is there a possibility to add a few lines to mcc, when the user clicks to run those, to check for screen resolution, and if

Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Beta 2

2003-01-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 14:57, Brook Humphrey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 06:32 am, Warly wrote: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please forgive me for butting in here... but.. Midnight Commander 83 (really useful

Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Beta 2

2003-01-20 Thread Damian Gatabria
please forgive me for butting in here... but.. Midnight Commander 83 (really useful ?) you mean 9.1 will NOT have mc???! Damian

Re: [Cooker] MC

2003-01-20 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. Midnight Commander 83 (really useful ?) you mean 9.1 will NOT have mc???! I kind of agree with you, but we also have to look at the reality of the situation. Anybody who knows enough and is comfortable enough using a commandline browser like mc will easily be able to:

Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
How do you *tell* that you've corrupted Windows? =) Umm.. it doesn't crash correctly? :oP

Re: [Cooker] Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
I just installed cooker beta 1 with full updates as of today and I tried OO and it displays fonts less that pt 10. So all is well. ok thanks Tex. Damian

Re: [Cooker] Prepare for the onslaught.

2003-01-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
I can guarantee you they would either 1)Ship 2 CDs 2)Place an offer with the CD to send you a replacement if you can't read it Office 2000 didn't ship on two 700MB CDs (probably would have made it), it shipped on 3 CDs each less than 650MB. It would not have fit on two 700MB CD anyway.

Re: [Cooker] Prepare for the onslaught.

2003-01-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
I have installed Mandrake 8.2 on a P233 with an 6 year old, crappy,generic 24x reader and had no problems at all! oops. meant 9.0. Sorry. Damian

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-18 Thread Damian Gatabria
Didn't last long: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/download/ There's a new mirror to those, just check the link again. Oh, and i've made them available thru eDonkey network. If you care to get them, here are the links: ed2k://|file|msfonts.spec|3053|0d24fd8b645f38438d79cb13f966a2fa|/

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
All I have to say is that guy is asking for it... What is the worse that can happen? a cease and desist? ;oP Damian

[Cooker] devfsd update broke my system!

2002-12-06 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. i think i need to let you know about this. After i installed latest update to devfsd, my installation broke. First KDE and my sound (Alsa) stopped working. So i go for a reboot, and upon restart, i get: Starting DevFs daemon: [Failed] Error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Lun 25 Nov 2002 22:45, Bernard Varaine escribió: I have lost track of this .. Is there any fix for it ? Bernard Check this out, it was posted by Danny Tholen a few days ago. Damian hmm, I think this is what I meant to cover

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
This leads me to believe that it *is* a new problem, but now you introduce doubt. And I had it so neatly wrapped up in a little package. Sigh. Perhaps it is an old problem that had been fixed but has returned? Jay hmm.. well i can't say i *did* something to encounter that issue, i simply

Re: [Cooker] want to inovate ?

2002-11-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Dom 24 Nov 2002 21:56, Brent Hasty escribió: On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:01 am, Brent Hasty wrote: when I tried installing thier rpm on mandrake 9, urpmi told me I needed several dependency libarays, I sarched my 9.0 DVD edition for the lib's it was asking about and was unable to locate

Re: [Cooker] want to inovate ?

2002-11-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
You probably want the one located here: http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distri butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/3ddesktop-0.2.3-3tex.i586.rpm i don't get it ... unless i'm REALLY needing some sleep, that URL is exactly the one i posted.? Damian

Re: [Cooker] want to inovate ?

2002-11-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Dom 24 Nov 2002 23:57, Texstar escribió: On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:36 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: You probably want the one located here: http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/di st ri butions/mandrake/9.0/rpms/3ddesktop-0.2.3-3tex.i586.rpm i

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-23 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 23 Nov 2002 04:45, Bernard Varaine escribió: BTW fonts 9 and less don't show up in OO... but zooming fix the issue !!! Oh, and just a side note... i rebuilt my X server (left it compiling over night) ... now my TTF fonts are back.. so my official statement regarding this problem is:

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-23 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 23 Nov 2002 04:45, Bernard Varaine escribió: BTW fonts 9 and less don't show up in OO... but zooming fix the issue !!! heh. zooming IN seems to fix the issue, but going back to scale 100% (at least here) leaves you back with invisible fonts.. and then, if i keep zooming out, every

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-23 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Dom 24 Nov 2002 00:50, Jay DeKing escribió: On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:15 am, Buchan Milne honored me with this communique: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Damian Gatabria wrote: El Sáb 23 Nov 2002 04:45, Bernard Varaine escribió: BTW fonts 9 and less don't show up in OO

[Cooker] lib_cpp :o(

2002-11-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
i've found my system is missing this file called /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp i googled for it, and found only a thread about someone who already found this issue, but no solution. rpmfind.net does not tell me what i'm missing, yet i need this file (apparently) to be able to build XFree from

Re: [Cooker] lib_cpp :o(

2002-11-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
[root@occipital alternatives]# ls -l lib_cpp lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Nov 14 19:23 lib_cpp - /usr/bin/cpp-3.2* [root@occipital alternatives]# urpmf /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 gcc-cpp:/usr/bin/cpp-3.2 my symlinks were skrude after all. thanks. Damian

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 23 Nov 2002 02:09, Bernard Varaine escribió: reupdated Cooker today. install abiword at the same time and OO is workign again... fonts are visible again in UI... strange ..wow! can you see fonts smaller than 8pt in OO and all? Damian

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
My invisible fonts were size 10. Even pushing them up to 12 didn't make them visible; neither did increasing the cell sizes both vertically and horizontally. Changing the zoom ratio was the only workaround I have found. Jay So, these font glitches can vary so much i have recently

[Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
About the fonts dissapearing in OO, i think i've narrowed the search for the bug a little bit. After upgrading to the latest freetype, all fonts size 8 or smaller are NOT rendered. Simply open up OO, type some stuff, change the font size to 8 or smaller and voila, the text goes away. Anyone

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Vie 22 Nov 2002 01:23, Bernard Varaine escribió: cannot see any of menu in OO... and I don't know it well enough to try changing default font setup anyone can take me thru it .. Bernard sure. go to the sixth drop-down menu in the main toolbar. (that's counting from left to right) select

Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!

2002-11-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Vie 22 Nov 2002 01:38, Damian Gatabria escribió: El Vie 22 Nov 2002 01:23, Bernard Varaine escribió: cannot see any of menu in OO... and I don't know it well enough to try changing default font setup anyone can take me thru it .. Bernard dang. forgot an intermediate step. here