[Cooker] install problem

2002-09-09 Thread J. Greenlees
gotta get new version I know, but the install fails completely with an error on libsasl7-1.5.27-5mdk with the rc1 can't get any further than that package in the install. got any hints as to get further on a clean install? no os on the system

Re: [Cooker] Installer won't upgrade on dirty filesystems

2002-09-12 Thread J. Greenlees
gee I saw that message a lot, when looking at Red Hat 7.2 got no mountable root partition message, went and bought Mandrake 8.1 from local store because of it. ( currently running 8.2 power pack ) Hal Black wrote: My 8.2 machine ended up having dirty filesystems after rebooting becayse of

Re: [Cooker] Stackguard, FormatGuard for future Mandrake versions?

2002-09-18 Thread J. Greenlees
Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: Steve Bergman wrote: On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:29, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 02:17:50PM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: So, am I just not seeing the negative side to this? Immunix apparently does not have enough name recognition and influence

[Cooker] cardbus support problems

2002-09-21 Thread J. Greenlees
get minor error loading window manager sessions, insmod error. figured out the cause is a lack of support for the cardbus pcmcia nic. D-Link DFE-680TX the specs from the card: * Network Interface Specification* * IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T standard 10BASE-T CSMA/CD LAN. * IEEE 802.3u

Re: [Cooker] Broken XFree86 4.2

2002-09-21 Thread J. Greenlees
it isn't just the ati mach cards, got an old sis 6326 with 8mb and only xfree 3.x runs it properly ( can get the xterm even with 4.x installed, just down to 256 colors ) Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, rcc wrote: I will test RC3 tonight, but previous releases (RC1 and RC2) and also

Re: [Cooker] xmms

2002-09-21 Thread J. Greenlees
alsa will run both my sound cards just fine, but if I use alsa then any sound for kde or gnome doesn't work. one card sb16 and the other is sbpro compatable ( crystal audio card ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Sep 2002, Nathan A. Smith wrote: ** WARNING **: snd_mixer_attach: No such file or

Re: [Cooker] cardbus support problems

2002-09-21 Thread J. Greenlees
doesn't work, there's no route for it and stuff. --- J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: get minor error loading window manager sessions, insmod error. figured out the cause is a lack of support for the cardbus pcmcia nic. D-Link DFE-680TX the specs from the card: * Network Interface

Re: [Cooker] Show Stopper - No Mouse

2002-09-22 Thread J. Greenlees
Felix Miata wrote: *That BIOS option should really be named let windoze 95, 98, or ME mismanage your hardware resources at its whim. Linux isn't designed for such mismanagement. I have found that on some machines, not enabling that option can make windoze substantially more difficult to

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Codename

2002-09-22 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Holt wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, denis uttered these words of wisdom: just a joke : Windows 2003 !? oooh, I don't know if the m$ lawyers would go for that - it would hold the bar WAY to high for future REAL windoze releases! ~looking at my wife's xp system booting~ hey, thier

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 final when ?

2002-09-22 Thread J. Greenlees
SI Reasoning wrote: Buchan Milne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, SI Reasoning wrote: Then why not revert to the package before the bug? It is a pretty serious bug to ship with if it creates issues inter-connecting with other windows computers. However it may be handled, it was

Re: [Cooker] Boot Error network card Conceptronic TCL100 PCMCIA / 9.0BETA - Bug report / Networking

2002-09-22 Thread J. Greenlees
Alan Shoemaker wrote: mandrakeexpert incident 32574 forwarded to cooker. when replying, please cc this email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted text below DavidCG : 22/09 05:47 : Incident created Hello, i want report a error in Mandrake 9.0 RC3. Sorry my bad english :-) network

Re: [Cooker] RC3 - fail to start X on Dell Latitude CPx laptop

2002-09-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Danny Zeng wrote: I have installed RC3 on my Dell Latitude CPx, without gcc package, with KDE desktop only. I chose Simplifed Chinese language. I get a neat X login screen after reboot, but when I try to login, the screen went dark and restart a login screen in half a minute. on the log

Re: [Cooker] network card list is missing a name!

2002-09-23 Thread J. Greenlees
David, get the newest rpm from the server, it had an updated list. ~wondering if maybe david has the cooker list being filtered out..this is third or fourth time posted by someone that the list is updated~ Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: David Dreggors [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am still

Re: [Cooker] Re: Nondeliverable mail

2002-09-24 Thread J. Greenlees
Gary Greene wrote: On Tuesday 24 September 2002 01:38 am, you wrote: --Transcript of session follows --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The system cannot find the path specified. This guy's address keeps bouncing. I've gotten three undeliverables from his ISP. Could someone please remove him

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Codename

2002-09-24 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Holt wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, J. Greenlees uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, denis uttered these words of wisdom: just a joke : Windows 2003 !? oooh, I don't know if the m$ lawyers would go for that - it would hold the bar WAY to high

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] apache2-2.0.42-1mdk

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
Lonnie Borntreger wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 03:00, Oden Eriksson wrote: Packager: Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] You work for Mandrake now? * Thu Sep 26 2002 Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.0.42-1mdk - the httpd-2.0.36-cnfdir.patch patch by RH is merged upstream, therefore

Re: [Cooker] Re: Nondeliverable mail

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
Todd Lyons wrote: Marcel Pol wrote on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:17:26AM +0200 : Could it be hat he is subscribed with this adress? Just a blind guess, the name looks so familiar. janmaris at zonnet.nl A feeler email has been sent. Will let you know the results soon. Blue skies...

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] apache2-2.0.42-1mdk

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
I could be much more effective if I had a valid build machine I had total control over. are systems that expensive where you are? I can get brand new pentuim 4 ( intel ) with 256 mb pc2100ddr 40 gb hd ( maxtor usually ) 52xcdr and keyboard, mswheel/net mouse ( both ps2 ) for around 400 us.

Re: [Cooker] Keyboad / Typing issues 9.0 RC2

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
have you tried setting the rate in the bios higher? it solved this problem for me. Rick Romero wrote: I have a strange problem that I've actually run into on my home PC as well. I've installed Mandrake 9.0 RC2 on a new Toshiba 1405S171 laptop. Everything went PERFECTLY.

Re: [Cooker] Keyboad / Typing issues 9.0 RC2

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
Programming' or something like that. Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't have that setting, or anything close to that. I'll keep that in mind for the desktop (Home PC) though. On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 12:10, J. Greenlees wrote: have you tried setting the rate in the bios higher? it solved this problem for me

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and next

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
why not, as Alan suggests, only one route for reporting bugs, use bugzilla or something similiar and this list used more for communication between steady testers. with a public report from the bugzilla system being made available for those on this list? but not solely a public bugzilla, one

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and next

2002-09-25 Thread J. Greenlees
If bugzilla would be enhanced in a way that you only have to paste the package name (+version) in it and then see all open problem reports and could create a new problem report for it with one more click, it would be probably used... not so hard, I think I have a phpscript that would do

Re: [Cooker] 3com 3c589c [pieter78]

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
Pieter Kubben wrote: Hi, Does someone know if there are drivers available for the 3com 3c589c NIC? Regards, Pieter yup, I'm using same card on this machine. it should autodetect the card, it did for me.

Re: [Cooker] 3com 3c589c [pieter78]

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
specifying it in the nic configuration. todd J. Greenlees wrote: Pieter Kubben wrote: Hi, Does someone know if there are drivers available for the 3com 3c589c NIC? Regards, Pieter yup, I'm using same card on this machine. it should autodetect the card, it did for me. But I

Re: [Cooker] 3com 3c589c [pieter78]

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
Pieter Kubben wrote: No, I did a cd install too (RC3)... btw, floppy... somewhere I recognize the word, but perhaps you could describe what it exactly meant... ;-) Pieter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Buchan Milne Sent:

Re: [Cooker] Appreciation

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
tarvid wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 03:51 pm, Jason Straight wrote: Thanks to everyone who contributed to make yet another killer Mandrake release. Just when I think it can't get much better - it does. I'll second that. GnuLinux is the greatest game in human history. Not even the EB

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 rc3 problems with upgrade from 8.2

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
But I multiplied by three to account for this? Merci beaucoup, Don Parsons hmm 590.9 mb for mandrake 6.1 on cd. ( just put old cd in drive and checked the size ) 2100 mb or thereabouts for mandrake 9 download edition, substantially more than three times in size, plus the higher

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 install - no hdlist2.cz

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
SI Reasoning wrote: This thread is getting way too personal. I agree there. while moderating on a graphics community site, I thought it was bad for flame-wars between members, this is starting to shape into worse.

Re: [Cooker] Broken psaux sndconfig (cs4235)

2002-09-26 Thread J. Greenlees
side note on sndconfig, if I run it ( since both machines the install doesn't pick up the cards and configure out of box ) it completely kills all sounds in kde and gnome. and no cd sound also, if I don't they work just fine. one card is sb16 with 8 mb ram the other is a crystal audio that is

Re: [Cooker] rc3 install hangs on a P200 MMX

2002-09-27 Thread J. Greenlees
Chris, give me until tomorrow night, I'll check it on mine. intel 200 Mhz pentium on an abit board. ( currently running mandrake 8.2 on it ) has usb support, but no usb ports hooked in. Chris wrote: Hi again, No luck with any of the suggestions. I also tried this with the released 9.0

Re: [Cooker] Boot loader....

2002-09-27 Thread J. Greenlees
Ron Stodden wrote: Further to my last: xosl has one big problem - if you have more that two physical hard disks, it gets totally lost. hmm sounds like a stopper for a production machine. most around here have four hard drives

[Cooker] release cd1 fails burn

2002-09-27 Thread J. Greenlees
went to download the iso's for the release, we now have three coasters from trying to burn cd1. the md5sums matched, but it just won't burn. this was the copy on the hawaii mirror at: ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ extracted all packages and repackaging didn't help,

Re: [Cooker] rc3 install hangs on a P200 MMX

2002-09-27 Thread J. Greenlees
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 09:32, Chris wrote: The Pentium 200 MMX sits on an Intel TC430HX motherboard (no USB) and I have had Windows 2000 Adv Server installed and now SNF7.2 recently installed and still running on this PC with this hardware configuration (96 MB RAM, Adaptec 2940, Pioneer SCSI

Re: [Cooker] release cd1 fails burn

2002-09-28 Thread J. Greenlees
Gary Greene wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 08:03 pm, J. Greenlees wrote: Hmmm... I had similar results at LUG for our install-day. I think I have a possible theory about it, but I need some more data from you to back it up. What brand CDs and what brand burner are you using? the cdrs

[Cooker] gnomeicu compile errors

2002-09-28 Thread J. Greenlees
crossposting from the gnomeicu support list: From: Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Compiling rpm package in Mandrake 9.0* http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2183324 2002-09-28 04:02 Hello, I'm trying to compile the rpm package in Mandrake 9.0, and I get this error just

Re: [Cooker] fat32 problem

2002-09-29 Thread J. Greenlees
Brent, have you an old win98 ebd? ( emergency boot disk ) when I run into problems like that I use one to format the entire partition.. if you don't have one I can see if I can turn mine into an image and send to you. ( I know I could turn into an archive but have never even tried making a

Re: [Cooker] Where is kermit?

2002-10-01 Thread J. Greenlees
Palmer, Hilary wrote: Where did kermit go?? :-( he was here a few weeks ago visiting miss piggy for new muppet christmas movie. ( filmed in my area ) ~wink~

Re: [Cooker] 9.0: firewall too strict

2002-10-05 Thread J. Greenlees
o beckles wrote: How? I don't run Mandrake as a server and so all of the services are unchecked. However, that setting also kills client apps so I have to research the applications and their ports and key them in at the bottom, which does not always work. actually, insert the lines

[Cooker] Sodippodi specfile fix needed?

2002-10-06 Thread J. Greenlees
user name: *G3ck0G33k* Mandrake User Board posted no email addy available. I suggested he contact the package maintainer to have specfile updated to recognise newer version of libpng Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 12:25 amPost subject: Sodipodi - why is it no longer with us? [Reply with quote]

Re: [Cooker] gimp1_3 is not working

2002-10-06 Thread J. Greenlees
~wading through trash bin full of html formatted email~ good thing I checked it this time..maybe. ;-) almost sounds like gimp isn't registering all the plugins if it only wants to open native files. have you tried re-installing it?/ Mario Vazquez wrote: same happens to me, and some images

Re: [Cooker] perldoc

2002-10-08 Thread J. Greenlees
Guillaume Rousse wrote: Not anyone installing perl is programming in perl... Think of servers, for instance. um, a good server admin will be going over and through every perl script that is on the server, the docs would help make sure they have current info about the language.

Re: [Cooker] Install troubles

2002-10-08 Thread J. Greenlees
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: You might try a boot floppy from /images/alternatives/, also. not always possible, no floppy on my laptop. so boot floppy becomes problematic with diskless workstations. :-) hmm and idea for installer, add more support on cdrom boot install specifically for

Re: [Cooker] cooker unfreeze date / features

2002-10-08 Thread J. Greenlees
Leon Brooks wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:23 pm, jaqui wrote: sis uses opengl, that one shouldn't be to dificult, my card is sis6326 ( old I know )and runs, just no current reliable 3d accel with it. xfree 3.2.0 has experimental never seemed to improve though. I presume you meant

Re: [Cooker] Why ext3fs is a default fs, not ReiserFS?

2002-10-13 Thread J. Greenlees
Vox wrote: Silly Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: B == Biagio Lucini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B Seriously, you have given a partial view of what ext3 is. There B are serious reasons to choose it in my view This is a naive question and my

Re: [Cooker] VIA EPIA 800 C3 processor

2002-10-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Thierry Vignaud wrote: snip also, the 486sx (at least the first ones) did has a coprocessor; it was disabled but was still there (though i don't rember if it was missing pins or some silicon hack). actually, it was a bad bit of circuit if I remember correctly, the co pro was

Re: [Cooker] rc3 install hangs on a P200 MMX

2002-10-15 Thread J. Greenlees
Chris wrote: Hi, I've finally had time to experiment with the hardware. I borrowed and tried a vanilla Pentium 166 (no MMX) - still hangs. It seems to be the Adaptec 2940UW card that breaks the 9.0 (released) installer. With that card removed (I had to borrow an IDE CD-ROM) the 9.0

Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: PCMCIA network cards WEP

2002-10-15 Thread J. Greenlees
Frederic Soulier wrote: Hi I've 3 ennoying issues on my laptop: 1) The possibility to associate an interface (ethx) to a PCMCIA card does not seem to exist. I've been trying to find info on the Track network card id option you get during install without success. If such an option

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-16 Thread J. Greenlees
depends on the model of dell. I have an inspiron and do have a couple of problems with it. minor, like the missing save to ram file their proprietary bios looks for ( unless you have their windows still on the system you lose this file ) and no support from dell for the inspiron in canada. ~g~

Re: [Cooker] notebooks and Linuxconf system profiles

2002-10-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Henri wrote: Hi, I 've looked at linuxconf system profiles : that's great in theory but what a mess ! I have a notebook which is sometimes on the network with dhcp and sometime in standalone with a modem. When i boot on linux without being connected to the network i have to wait for 5 minutes

Re: [Cooker] Email Trouble (was: Uhm...spammers?)

2002-10-18 Thread J. Greenlees
Felix Miata wrote: ~snip~ ...instead of the mandrake list server taking off yet another weekend. hmm, I've never had a weekend go by without something from the list showing up. not as busy as weekdays but always something.

Re: [Cooker] Future Directions

2002-10-19 Thread J. Greenlees
Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:25, Austin Acton wrote: So as Mandrake folk mentioned earlier, the immediate plans for 9.1 are bugfixes and package updates. What I'm seeing on the cooker list is a desire for: better fonts, better font control, better hardware support, fancier

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread J. Greenlees
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I know but that is mainly theory, no? The windows bootloader is a piece of junk when it goes to chainloading, no? I thought it was far more reliable to put grub or lilo on the MBR, than the opposite. true, since the windows

Re: [Cooker] good fonts / bad fonts

2002-10-22 Thread J. Greenlees
J.A. Magallon wrote: On 2002.10.22 Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:51, Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote: Does anybody know what is the difference between a good font and a bad font? (The rendering engine has an important job, but the font is important too.) I have

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake

2002-10-22 Thread J. Greenlees
Danny Tholen wrote: I read this on a forum on mandrakeclub: What would be nice is some way of searching for a package when I don't know if it is installed or not. Right now I have to search the software installer, then search the uninstaller in two separate operations. I am using MDK 9.0

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Bernard Varaine wrote: Has anyone installed or have comments on the Compaq Presario 905 Athlon 1800 CPU ? my HP XE3 (PIII 700) is getting overused and need a boost/replacement regards Bernard I haven't used or looked at that model myself, but I know compaq does make solid machines

Re: [Cooker] Re: rpmdrake

2002-10-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~snip~ A good design requires that we don't add any other visible UI element. why not a simple check box added to both current searches to enable the expanded search? minimal alteration to the ui( only shows in the search area ) and

Re: [Cooker] KDE logoff problems.

2002-10-12 Thread J. Greenlees
Ron Stodden wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: ~snip~ /It would help if Mandrake would 'fess up and document the ranking and status of each of its mirrors transparently, instead of all this secrecy./ hmm, from here in BC it is often a faster connection to use a european or asian mirror than from

Re: [Cooker] cooker updates

2002-10-12 Thread J. Greenlees
Stephen Reilly wrote: Hi, Need some help updating over mandrake control center. When I add my closest mirror, Paris, I have no issues downloading the synthesis.hdlist*.cz files. The problem lies in when I go to download a file from the synthesis.hdlist2.cz list. urpmi basically tels me it

Re: [Cooker] Probs installing 9.0 on an old pentium machine

2002-10-29 Thread J. Greenlees
Oden Eriksson wrote: tisdagen den 29 oktober 2002 18.26 skrev Kimmo Hovi: [snip] Is there a workaround for this, or do I just simply lose? (And go back to The Other rpm system) Try install on the hard drive mounted on another machine, and then switch back? it does seem to actually only

re[Cooker] Probs installing 9.0 on an old pentium machine

2002-10-29 Thread J. Greenlees
I just downloaded 9.0 (again) and successfully installed on pentium-mmx 200mhz system. the problems that I had just before release have been fixed. (isn't it nice to hear something nice? ;) )

Re: [Cooker] suggestion

2002-11-05 Thread J. Greenlees
isn't this a download manager, that several browsers have built into them?/ ( Netscape has one that can be added to their browser, so it will work with mozilla ) opera has one built right into it. ? Martins wrote: when making a download it could be usefull if the browser supported download

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users

2002-11-07 Thread J. Greenlees
unfortunately, Wim is right in the attitude for a lot of windows users. most that have switched to linux already are the one's that do read manuals / docs / howtos ecetera. a basic simple install should be designed for the moron level to keep the non reading section from filling lists with

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users

2002-11-08 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Wim Horst wrote: I am still trying to convince my kids to use linux. They dont buy it. They learned how to use windows and do not want to put much effort in learning how to work with linux. To fool them, programs must resemble those of windows and

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users

2002-11-09 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Holt wrote: Yesterday, J. Greenlees mused: shocked that it isn't all console. ~lol~ (don't want to show them a screenshot of KDE3 yet to much like windows ) lol... yeah kde3 is pretty cool, eh? the ease of use that any gui adds is a huge draw for people that haven't seen

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-13 Thread J. Greenlees
hmm, the lack of graphics problem isn't news to me. ~g~ sure there are a lot of graphics apps, but only the gimp is of the same quality as most windows based graphics apps. pointing out that there are roughly an equal number of people using linux ( all distros ) and macs to these non linux

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Stephane SOPPERA wrote: Does Maya have a linux port ? yes and it is reputed to actually operate better in linux than either mac or win xp versions. ( I looked at the ple for maya once my wife got winxp, it is a sweet app for modelling and animation. )

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Buchan Milne wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Michael Scherer wrote: The point is Mandrake wants to make money, therefore they need bigger install base, therefore they need to make windows users transfer to linux, therefore what keeps windows users from using linux, therefore try to imagine what

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Scherer wrote: Therefore, there is no need for all these fancy multimedia application. Some real businesses need multi-media. We do (animations from simulations). In fact, that's probably one of the big reasons we don't make more use of OpenOffice, and have to use Powerpoint for some

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-15 Thread J. Greenlees
interspersed comments Michael Scherer wrote: But the point is to develop a opensource dvd player is not possible, thanks to movie maker. Not impossible, just illegal in some countries. It's legal here (for example). Mmh, when you say some coutry, you speaks of this country just below Canada

Re: [Cooker] was Mandrake Made Easy:now simple request

2002-11-15 Thread J. Greenlees
this I believe was what this thread was started to address, how to change the reputation and lack of information about linux. Yeah, you are right. First, we must see what does ordinary people think of linux. For me, three categories. The ones who knows it, and the ones who don't knows, and

Re: [Cooker] was Mandrake Made Easy:now simple request

2002-11-16 Thread J. Greenlees
Buchan Milne wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, J. Greenlees wrote: okay if anyone ( read Mandrake Staff ) has snapshots ( screen captures ) of each step of the install, both normal and expert. send them to me. I can produce a complete multimedia presentation to show how linux is not what

Re: [Cooker] was Mandrake Made Easy:now simple request

2002-11-18 Thread J. Greenlees
Warly wrote: J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: okay if anyone ( read Mandrake Staff ) has snapshots ( screen captures ) of each step of the install, both normal and expert. send them to me. I can produce a complete multimedia presentation to show how linux is not what

Re: [Cooker] Bug in DrakX

2002-11-20 Thread J. Greenlees
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlatko Kosturjak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi! I-m using Mandrake 9.0, but in network part of installation I always have to enter gateway IP of network interface even If I don-t have one. leave it blank which is what I always do, even when I know my ip number.

Re: [Cooker] something up with mirroring of libflac4...

2002-11-25 Thread J. Greenlees
Adam Williamson wrote: Appears to be something wrong with the mirroring of libflac4. libflac4-1.0.4mdk appears to have disappeared from the mirrors, at least club-internet.fr and lip6.fr. I have it on this machine, which I updated sometime this afternoon, but now I can't update my laptop

[Cooker] slightly ot, web services standards

2002-11-27 Thread J. Greenlees
I spend monday morning at a seminar on the art of java by borland. the individual giving the seminar had an interesting point about the standards for web services ( selling use of apps to businesses from your own machines ), it being that while there is an open source standard being developed,

Re: Please fix your clock Re: [Cooker] postfix need openssl = 0.9.6h

2002-12-09 Thread J. Greenlees
Jay DeKing wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 05:47 pm, Austin Acton honored me with this communique: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 17:44, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: parag shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may live in a very huge planet to have a

Re: [Cooker] Bugzilla posts absolutely nescessary?

2002-12-11 Thread J. Greenlees
Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:09:50PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:51:48PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: I'd argue that those people would bother to help triage your bugs anyway. :) wouldn't Blah it was right the first time. Never mind me. :P ~passing

Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag

2002-12-17 Thread J. Greenlees
Ben Reser wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:03:42AM -0500, Austin Acton wrote: PLEASE let's not start the should we/shouldn't we debate again. ~snip~ Didn't last long: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/download/ well, since when you buy a computer you invariably get windows [

Re: [Cooker] ignorance... (bugzilla mail on cooker)

2002-12-20 Thread J. Greenlees
Warly wrote: ~snip~ Ok. I think I will try not to send any email that does not contains a comments. This is likely to remove all the status change only or think like that. But I may still send mail when the bug is marked as RESOLVED ? hmm, isn't that a status changed only email ;) I think

Re: [Cooker] Why does rpmdrake default to deleting everything on anerror?

2002-12-20 Thread J. Greenlees
Richard Ketchersid wrote: I don't understand why this is the default. Your machine downloads updates for an hour, then one little problem and all is lost. It really wastes a lot of time and makes rpmdrake more of a pain than a help. I always have to use urpmi --nodelete --auto-select ...

Re: [Cooker] updated pkg

2002-12-30 Thread J. Greenlees
Charles A Edwards wrote: I realize that quite a few pkgs are being updated/rebuilt but the last changelog listing that has actually made it onto any of the mirrors is cdk-4.9.10-2mdk Subject: [CHRPM] cdk-4.9.10-2mdk Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:30:35 +0100 (CET) Nothing since then. This

Re: [Cooker] Interesting security updates not working properly

2003-01-06 Thread J. Greenlees
Brook Humphrey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 January 2003 02:36 am, Thierry Vignaud wrote: just updating the drakxtools would be harmfull : we just do not do anything in post install but: Why would it be harmfull. I'm just trying ot track this down and

Re: [Cooker] spec file reference library

2003-01-09 Thread J. Greenlees
Buchan Milne wrote: ~snip~ (This kind of stuff has been posted before, but someone probably needs to make a cooker meta-faq). or a better search and interface for the archives of the list. you really need to know exactly what thread you are looking for to keep search times down in the list

Re: [Cooker] Prepare for the onslaught.

2003-01-10 Thread J. Greenlees
Buchan Milne wrote: ~snip~ And no, downloading 4 ISO images at R1.50/MB (approx $0.18 or so) is not a feasible answer to people who have bought sets. And also when the rest of the ISO are mirrored around (and as such are free to download for me). And I wouldn't try and download the 2.6GB over

Re: [Cooker] Prepare for the onslaught.

2003-01-10 Thread J. Greenlees
Pierre Fortin wrote: ~snip~ and if it's lng, some ISOs that some non-cooker regulars to hammer on would be helpful... well with rc1 up on the mirrors that will be happening...now just hope they use bugzilla. ;) Jaqui

Re: [Cooker] Doanloading ISOs/adding ISP to dialup wizard (was:onslaught)

2003-01-11 Thread J. Greenlees
Leon Brooks wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 01:33 am, J. Greenlees wrote: hmm, maybe I'm lucky then only $50.00+14.5%tx CDN / month, no matter how much data transfer I have for my connection ( eth0 and cable modem ) AUD$38.50 a month here (thanks ArachNet - http://www.arach.net.au

Re: [Cooker] internet connection on bootup

2003-01-12 Thread J. Greenlees
Buchan Milne wrote: On 9 Jan 2003, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/cooker/ifplugd-0.11-1mdk.i586.rpm this stuff seems to use the ETHTOOL_GLINK code to detect if link down/up from the ETHTOOL kernel interface.

Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement

2003-01-12 Thread J. Greenlees
Elliott Martin wrote: Hello, I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? I'd hate

Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?

2003-01-13 Thread J. Greenlees
Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Hi, Getting this message whenever I boot up the machine, multiple times at different stages of the boot: ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed. no idea why or what it means. What other info will help? only time I've seen disk read errors was when the

Re: [Cooker] install : automatic logon should be told not recommended

2003-01-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Pixel wrote: Christophe Combelles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matter of ergonomics : The automatic logon is not a very secure feature. [...] Either : Add the string (not recommended) just after the string do you want to use this feature, to give the good advice, Or better : replace the

Re: [Cooker] install : automatic logon should be told not recommended

2003-01-15 Thread J. Greenlees
Buchan Milne wrote: J. Greenlees wrote: for people new to linux from windows, the automatic login is what windows gives them. Depends: 1)Win9x defaults to no login, until you enable profiles or join the machine to a network unless you allow the default microsoft family login

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake websites dissappeared ??

2003-01-15 Thread J. Greenlees
Thomas Backlund wrote: Anuone else seen this... I cant connect to any of them... Thomas nope, I can get to them.

Re: [Cooker] tmake-1.10

2003-01-15 Thread J. Greenlees
Quel Qun wrote: Hi, I uploaded tmake-1.10 in /incoming on the 25th of December. Since then, it has been removed from the ftp, but cooker is still at 1.8 Who's driving here? Should I put it back, or is it worthless? Ah, and BTW, there are three corrupted files there, and what makes Galeon pop

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Broke?

2003-01-16 Thread J. Greenlees
SI Reasoning wrote: ~snip~ As far as IBM bailing out SUSE, that was also another first. They were the first of the majors to approach bankruptcy, I would hedge bets that if Mandrakesoft was the first approaching Bankruptcy, then IBM may well have bailed out Mandrake and SUSE would be declaring

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for DesktopLinux

2003-01-17 Thread J. Greenlees
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should show the progress somehow for the user. Maybe a modal dialog showing --- | processing font 33/255 | |-- Mika Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1--slightly ot

2003-01-20 Thread J. Greenlees
rcc wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:30:17 + HA Quoc-Viet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for this. the wine-mdkconf is still in the SRPMS I haven't really busted anything have I ? :o) don't know, I rarely install the cooker wine. It's just that Danny and I made some changes to the default

Re: [Cooker] MC

2003-01-20 Thread J. Greenlees
Felix Miata wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: Damian Gatabria wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:12:26PM + : please forgive me for butting in here... but.. 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

Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Beta 2

2003-01-21 Thread J. Greenlees
Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 20:57, Sander Jonkers aka Surfer wrote: I use my 400Mhz/128MB laptop with GNOME, but maybe I'm just a masochist My PII/300MHz/128MB laptop runs GNOME just fine. As long as I don't Wow, 128 MB?! That must twice as capable as my machine. ;-( my

Re: [Cooker] More beta 2 issues.

2003-01-22 Thread J. Greenlees
Randy Welch wrote: Hi! I assume it's ok to submit more than one bug at a time here ( or is the qa site preferred? ) I think the qa site preffered, for records and searchability. ;) Anyway here we go. 1. Individual packages are selectable but only after you deselect and reselect individual

Re: [Cooker] 87 modules for apache2 :)

2003-01-22 Thread J. Greenlees
Oden Eriksson wrote: onsdagen den 22 januari 2003 08.33 skrev Yves Duret: Oden Eriksson wrote: tisdagen den 21 januari 2003 22.47 skrev Buchan Milne: In terms of general packages, or are you wanting a voting system just for apache2 modules?? For apache2 modules. I don't care much about

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