Re: [Cooker] laptops (was: way of life)

2002-03-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 21 March 2002 05:14, civileme wrote: For laptops, realize this: 1. To cram all that functionality in a small package, compromises are made with the accepted industry standards. 2. The hardware engineers do their best, then the software people take over and write customized

[Cooker] 8.2-final: SCSI CD drive not linked to /dev/cdrom

2002-03-21 Thread Leon Brooks
SCSI driver's happy and everything else works, as /dev/scd0, just no link from /dev/cdrom. The drive (a burner) is attached to a PCI SCSI card (not a builtin controller). The machine has this one burner on it and no plain CD-R, so I would have expected the link. Otherwise, nice install. It's

Re: [Cooker] Which cooker SRPM contains popt

2002-03-21 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 21 March 2002 10:42, William Kenworthy wrote: Which cooker SRPM contains popt ? a dir *popt* on uio shows nothing, but popt* binary rpm's exist. On a system with popt installed, try something like: rpm -qf $(which popt) ...or if you're after a library, something like...

Re: [Cooker] MDK 8.2 and StarOffice 6

2002-03-23 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 22 March 2002 18:12, Frederic Bastok wrote: Of course, I won't (and nobody will at Mandrake) answer any questions regarding the agreement with SUN to distribute it or comments rumors like Is SUN buying Mandrake ? Perhaps it is true, perhaps it is wrong ? :-) It must be true, I

Re: [Cooker] ports (was: MDK82/SO6)

2002-03-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 03:34, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Of course, I won't (and nobody will at Mandrake) answer any questions regarding the agreement with SUN to distribute it or comments rumors like Is SUN buying Mandrake ? Perhaps it is true, perhaps it is wrong ? :-) It must be true, I

[Cooker] [Meta] bugFAQ version 0.05

2002-03-26 Thread Leon Brooks
Added a section (thanks hamster) on what Cooker is *not*. http://leon.brooks.fdns.net/Mandrake/bugFAQ.html All criticisms, suggestions, extra material, official opinions and translation efforts welcomed. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Wine doesn't work, compile with -O2

2002-03-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 28 March 2002 07:26, andre wrote: On Tuesday 26 March 2002 18:02, Danny Tholen wrote: On Monday 25 March 2002 21:37, you wrote: Wine as packaged by Mandrake doesn't work for me. wine notepad.exe even doesn't run. I get this with the version in 8.2 or when i compile it

Re: [Cooker] KDE3 WHAT A MESS

2002-04-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 05 April 2002 08:23 am, Maks Orlovich wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2002 06:43 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2002 5:23 pm, tester wrote: On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 05:29, Joe Simon wrote: Just installed Mandrake's KDE3 packages. This must be the worst yet! I got the ones from

Re: [Cooker] Cannot install cooker (or 8.2) on IBM Server PC 330

2002-04-08 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 08 April 2002 06:05 pm, Pixel wrote: Miguel Beccari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not able to install cooker (and 8.2) on IBM PC SERVER 330. The error is :cannot find cdrom. Try booting from floppy, then inserting the first CD just before it is required. This worked for me under

Re: [Cooker] Frontpage Extensions 8.2

2002-04-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would anyone care to explain how to setup frontpage extensions so that i can edit my wwwroot w/ frontpage? this really would be helpfull and i would greatly appreciate it.. as i can't seem to figure it out for the life of me..

Re: [Cooker] Frontpage Extensions 8.2, PS

2002-04-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would anyone care to explain how to setup frontpage extensions so that i can edit my wwwroot w/ frontpage? ...also, this is a better question for the mandrakeuser site (bookmark for same shipped with all browsers on 8.2 and some

Re: [Cooker] KDE3 KDM

2002-04-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 11 April 2002 12:35 am, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: See attached patches below. Chmouel, any chance of having those patches merged Maybe you didn´t noticed but i´m not working for mdksoft for a while.. The obvious question would be `why?' `None of your business' is a reasonable

Re: [Cooker] Some Contrib Names too long for mkisofs.

2002-04-14 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 15 April 2002 01:22 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: But mkisofs objects to 19 of the file names being longer than the maximum of 37 characters supported by ISO 9660 and mkisofs -U. Hm, did you also try to make a pure rockridge CD? Even the 37 characters is a violation of ISO-9660;

[Cooker] small KDE3 issues

2002-04-23 Thread Leon Brooks
I'm using Texstar's RPMs, so this may be off topic. * KDM won't start KDE3 (I'm using the KDM from KDE3), there is no menu entry; * The menus only have KDE3 stuff in them, not the whole Mandrake collection, and no amount of running menudrake seems to cure this (the normal mdk menus are

Re: [Cooker] Why is xmatrix missing from xscreensaver?

2002-04-24 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 21:12, Frederic Crozat wrote: Is it really hard to understand that xmatrix is really a non-licensed use of The Matrix artwork ? If Jamie or other distributions don't care, fine.. But we DO care, we don't want to get sued.. That is why xmatrix was removed and there

[Cooker] Matrix screensavers

2002-04-25 Thread Leon Brooks
[I BCC'ed this to the list but it didn't come through, this is a repost] [To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dear Sir or Madam This was the only email address I could find linked from sites like http://www.whatisthematrix.com/ but it seems inappropriate for my purposes. Please forward this email to the

Re: [Cooker] Why is xmatrix missing from xscreensaver?

2002-04-25 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 25 April 2002 14:31, Alan wrote: There is no artwork involved. it is a character set. I think you guys are overracting. I don't. Although the risk of being sued is negligible, the *damage* that would ensue (basically, Mandrake goes under) is extreme enough to make the choice

[Cooker] Re: xmatrix and artwork copyright

2002-04-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 27 April 2002 17:58, Jamie Zawinski wrote: Alan wrote: If Jamie or other distributions don't care, fine.. But we DO care, we don't want to get sued.. That is why xmatrix was removed and there is no plan to put it back (except if you get a royalted free license for commercial

Re: [Cooker] More intellegent logging postprocessing

2002-04-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 27 April 2002 18:13, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: syslog provides only limited logging configuration. On some (comercial) Unices more elaborated packages exist that give high degree of control over events and there reactions. E.g. you can define event as regexps in log lines and

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

2002-04-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 27 April 2002 18:51, Juan Quintela wrote: Making SMP versions to work only in i686 upper is a good move because Pentium support for multiprocessing is quite bad, and anyways, there is almost no i586 SMP boards (comparing with i686/athlon boards). Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

2002-04-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:10, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Sun Apr 28 9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF mobo. One example does not a statistic make, but... Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's? It could be me being

Re: [Cooker] ext3 undelete tool?

2002-04-30 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 08:27, Ron Stodden wrote: Nelson Bartley wrote: I REALLY desperately need to know how to undelete something under an ext3 file system. Never heard of restore from your most recent backup? You guys are all heart. Even though you are also technically correct. Nelson,

[Cooker] Fwd: [plug] OpenOffice.org 1.0 Launch

2002-05-01 Thread Leon Brooks
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [plug] OpenOffice.org 1.0 Launch Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 20:38:33 +0800 From: Jacqueline McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenOffice.org MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG

[Cooker] How would one bootstrap to Sparc Mandrake 8.2 or Cooker?

2002-05-25 Thread Leon Brooks
Would it be easier to rebuild Cooker sources on a modern Intel distro, or to start with an old Sparc distro and bring it forward peicemeal (e.g. by updating RPM, GCC, and glibc and working from there)? Do any of the MandrakeSoft wizards have scripts tucked away somewhere for rebuilding an

Re: [Cooker] My suggestions for Mandrake 9.0

2002-05-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 30 May 2002 08:01, Timothy R. Butler wrote: 1.) How about replacing bootsplash with a modified version of Aurora? Urgh. Something else, please... if I was going to have a boot problem with a machine, Aurora would do it. It choked fairly consistently on Kudzu and HardDrake, for

Re: [Cooker] Mounting /usr read-only

2002-05-30 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 30 May 2002 13:45, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: /usr ro is not for a desktop, actually. It is more for a server. I do it routinely for both, and if it breaks anything, I haven't noticed yet. (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] OpenOffice.org-1.0-5mdk

2002-06-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 31 May 2002 00:26, David Walser wrote: Would it be possible for the Default paper size to be US Letter instead of A4? No! (-: Cheers; Leon (in Oz, which uses A4)

Re: [Cooker] Mounting /etc read-only

2002-06-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 31 May 2002 15:44, Yves Duret wrote: Philippe Coulonges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to have /usr mounted as read-only. To achieve that, I have to ajust some things in the distro at every update. Could it be fixed, has I think variable files does not have their place

Re: [Cooker] php extensions in contrib or main?

2002-06-03 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 03 June 2002 00:56, Oden Eriksson wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 18.39, Alexander Skwar wrote: Oden Eriksson wrote: Yeah, maybe move games and such to contribs to make room... What do you mean? They don't take much space (byte wise). Or are you talking about the number of

Re: [Cooker] new urpmq - strange depndencies

2002-06-06 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 06 June 2002 19:45, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:02:59 +0200, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Does evolution really require telnet, rmt or make? It requires kerberos libs which probably pull telnet-client-krb5 Maybe with telnet, Xv and aalib...? (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] LTSP Admin. Tool

2002-06-06 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 07:38, Stew Benedict wrote: Working on that package now (LTSP). I can't begin to tell you what an excellent idea that is. (-: One of the Mandrake Cooker dudes had a Mdk-specific LTSP-HOWTO, can they please post a link if they're reading this? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] what to use to talk to a serial device?

2002-06-08 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:37, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I need to have a little chit-chat with my modem. I would have used Seyon (or 'cu' with good old UUCP) in the past to do this but Seyon does not seem to be in Cooker or Contribs (as urpmi can find it anyway). What is in Cooker that can be

Re: [Cooker] slow 3D (was: time for some gaming)

2001-04-23 Thread Leon Brooks
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Mattias Dahlberg am Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:34:07PM +0200: The screenshots in DrakX made me want to give Tuxracer a whirl on my PII 400Mhz with a Matrox G400. It was slow as h*ll. Not only was the game unplayable, but the mouse pointer hardly moved in the

[Cooker] At the end of all of these font woes...

2001-04-29 Thread Leon Brooks
...can Mandrake please put up (a) suitable update RPM(s) for 8.0 that will fix the issue mentioned here (http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker%40linux-mandrake.com/msg34648.html) by Arnd and/or incorporate the very small fix mentioned here

[Cooker] 8.1 wish: a text installer that doesn't suck and really is text

2001-05-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Basically, a ``text'' installer is a misnomer unless you can use it through a serial port. (-: OTOH, answering Yes/No/Panic questions with numbers really is a bit 1970s. I would like to see a DiskDrake that can work with ANSI graphics if need be, and doesn't need a mouse at all. One that

[Cooker] 8.0 wish: latest KOffice as an update

2001-05-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Looking forward to a KWord that doesn't crash regularly and is a bit more intuitive. -- ...nor is there any target for our children to aim for in this society but the approval of official strangers. That's a major reason our families fall apart. How can children respect their own parents when

[Cooker] 8.0 bug: mouse kills keyboard on NEC PowerMate VT (fwd)

2001-05-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Install in graphics crashed. Install in text crashed if I selected many packages. After simple install in text, touching the mouse or starting X locks up the keyboard. Stopping or starting GPM fixes it until the mouse is next touched. Mouse is PS/2 LogiTech M-S48 branded NEC. System is

[Cooker] 8.0 bug: updating a 7.2 system always fails miserably

2001-05-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Updating an Mdk 7.2 to 8.0 system has always crashed out (tried on three different systems now) and always left the system in an unusable state. The option to update an existing ``live'' system piece-by-piece Debian style would be good, but to do this you would have to redefine a lot of

[Cooker] 8.0 bug: reiserfs partitions unreadable under 2.2.19 kernel, no ``v1'' option during install

2001-05-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Installed under 2.4.3, tried to switch to 2.2.19 to work around mouse/kbd problems mentioned above, 2.2.19 won't read ReiserFS paritions formatted during install, had to copy off, mkreiserfs -v 1 /dev/xxxX, copy back on to make it work. An option for ``Old ReiserFS'' format would be nice

Re: [Cooker] starttime

2001-07-12 Thread Leon Brooks
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Henrik Berglund SdU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that it takes about 12sec or longer to start abiword or other programs in gnome or kde but only about 1-2 sec in windowmaker why is that? You're probably low on RAM. Happens to me with K6-II-300 with

Re: [Cooker] x86-64 port?

2002-06-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:59, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ben Reser wrote: The alpha port isn't suported anymore is it? I thought it was only still done by some people volunteering their personal time to work on it. IOW Mandrake no longer supported it with employees paid

Re: [Cooker] x86-64 port?

2002-06-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:54, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: So does this mean we'll ever see, for example, a Sparc version of 8.2? A supported version? Slim chance. _Any_ version? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] ms eula

2002-07-06 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:03, Chuck Lalli wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 07:58 am, Chuck Lalli wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html Sorry, that was a mistake in addressing Still... Mandrake could advertise that their software and licencing does *not* have this feature.

Re: [Cooker] telinit S Madness

2002-07-07 Thread Leon Brooks
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 04:48, Chuck Shirley wrote: As it stands, if I need single user mode, I reboot, and tell lilo. What does... init 1 ...do for you? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] kdm/autologin

2002-07-23 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:16, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: if I log out (thus going to the kdm screen and then use ctrl-alt-backspace to reset X several times (about five or so) then after a while I will be automatically logged in again (which is probably undesirable). Sounds like the

Re: [Cooker] mouse weirdness (ddoouubbllee cclliicckkiinngg)

2002-07-24 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:18, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Am I really the only one with this issue? Um, you _have_ tried replacing the mouse, haven't you? Old, dirty or faulty microswitches such as used under mouse buttons are reknowned for doing just what you describe. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Rescue disk feature request: a suggestion

2002-07-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:40, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Jason Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I once had to save as much of a damaged filesystem as I could. It was damaged from a failed drive in a hardware raid configuration that was not rebuilt and it was slowly corrupting the drive... I

Re: [Cooker] wine optimization new version

2002-07-30 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is probably to late for 9.0, but I build a srpms for wine 20020710. That would be nice, it runs AutoCAD R14. The next snapshot will also clean up some leaks which crash AutoCAD 2000. It would be very helpful for replaciong Windows

Re: CDROM Install (RE: [Cooker] Install Exited Abnormally)

2002-07-30 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:22, Andy Neillans wrote: few lines about usbdevfs and a usb hub being registered (interesting, as they are disabled on this machine). Disabling BIOS access to a device is not the same as disabling the device. Linux will still use it. However, some BIOSes do also

Re: [Cooker] Control Centre

2002-07-31 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 04:11, Steven Lawrence Glew wrote: It seems to be very flaky most of the time. I can't access most things when I load up the control centre, if it loads. Go on, then, bury us in detail! (-: Which bits fail for you? Are there specific circumstances in which they fail? What

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus

2002-08-08 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:45, Igor Izyumin wrote: Sometimes, they don't have a choice. Yeah, like about once in every two blue moons. They may have trade secrets or something within the driver that would prevent it from being open-sourced. For example, if nVidia open-sourced their driver,

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus

2002-08-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:04, Igor Izyumin wrote: On Thursday 08 August 2002 07:52 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: No, I don't. But it _is_ a totally bogus excuse. Their competitors _will_ be clean-rooming their chips and disassembling their drivers anyway. I very much doubt that - it's too hard and too

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus

2002-08-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:25, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: In other cases, instead companies released binary only drivers but abandoned it (e.g. the ESS module for ESS based winmodems, or the Lexmark printer drivers) so they would work only on old kernels/distributions. That by itself looks like a fine

Re: [Cooker] Cooker as of 22/06/2002 pressing F1 more options on install CD

2002-08-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 19:17, John J. Allen wrote: Pressing F1 more options on install CD, just produces a nice blue screen. On which hardware? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] application/x-msword

2002-08-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:40, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: Is there some program that Mandrake could select as default application for viewing (or editing) Word documents? OpenOffice.org Writer There are other Word-aware tools, but they're no more likely to be instaklled than oowriter is. Cheers;

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus

2002-08-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:52, Igor Izyumin wrote: Actually, I think the most likely scenario would be of Microsoft buying Nvidia. Argh! Don't even think about things like that! )-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Beta 2: System freezed ramdomly after rebooting from Win2000

2002-08-11 Thread Leon Brooks
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:32, Chua Keng Koon wrote: everything works great! however, when I booted to window 2000 and then boot back to linux, the system freezes ramdomly. This is a well-known Windows problem with an enormous range of hardware and is not at all unique to Linux. I have no real

Re: [Cooker] Problem with XFree with a sony laptop (video chipset: intel i810)

2002-08-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 04:55, Pbt wrote: I use the i810 driver but i can start X server only once a time and if i stop X Server and i want it to restart, i have to reboot my laptop)... Guessing it's APM related. Try disabling APM at boot (as an experiment or for when you're running from mains

Re: [Cooker] Installer suggestion (and a modest proposal about that)

2002-08-12 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:45, allen wrote: On Monday 12 August 2002 09:05 pm, Ryan Little wrote: 1. Say CD1 is a minimal installer and a file system, rudimentary, ready to go. ( And yes, I've actually created such a thing on contract for a company in the Northwest so I know this pretty well...

Re: [Cooker] Aurora + Mandrake 9.0

2002-08-14 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:47, Igor Izyumin wrote: This is not windows, you don't reboot every 15 minutes, so I don't think it's important how it looks. True story: my wife saw the very screen in question last week (I added hardware to her box), and startled me by asking `what's that?' - she had

Re: [Cooker] Aurora + Mandrake 9.0

2002-08-14 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 03:01, Gary Greene wrote: Personally, I liked it much more than the new bootsplash system. Sure it had some issues (specifically when harddrake and kudzu would find changes in the hardware installed) but over all I found it to be more asthetically pleasing than a console

Re: [Cooker] mke2fs run twice at kernel install

2002-08-14 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:47, Quel Qun wrote: For a while now, mke2fs seems to be run twice when I install a new kernel. Should it be so? It needs to run at least once to make an initrd. It may run twice to optimise the size of the image or something. Is it safe to presume that the resulting

Re: [Cooker] Aurora - the devil's in the details

2002-08-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:47, Chris Higgins wrote: Mandrake Linux is what I use on my desktop, I put redhat or debian on servers. I'm considering dropping Mandrake for my desktop - and let me take a second to explain why. Having read your reasoning, the idea of replacing Mandrake with RedHat is

Re: [Cooker] Lojban (was: speling gripes*, was Aurora)

2002-08-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:59, Adam Williamson wrote: Lose and Loose are two different words in English. English sucks anyway, let's all switch to Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/) today. Fully parseable, unambiguous, orthogonal extensions, yeehah! (-: Cheers; Leon * Yes, I did this deliberately

Re: [Cooker] Is there an answer to this?

2002-08-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:08, Adam Flinton wrote: I asked about this in a mail entitled: M9 Beta2 Bug 1 - losing icons menus My technique is to wait 3 days, then re-post the message with a `REPOST:' prefix in the Subject line. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Aurora + Mandrake 9.0

2002-08-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 01:01, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Fri Aug 16 10:59 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: (Interestingly, my spellchecker doesn't appear to pick up the word spellcheck or the word spellchecker. Crazy. It's happy with spell checker, though. That's what it calls itself. Hmm. I think i'm

Re: [Cooker] Linux Terminal Server service being added to 9.0

2002-08-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:01, Stew Benedict wrote: Usb periferials like scanners? Should get mostly the same behaviour as the normal system. You may have to do some manual config for the client, possibly. The problem you run into is the server root fs is readonly, for some degree of security,

Re: [Cooker] the devil's in the details

2002-08-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 04:13, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having read your reasoning, the idea of replacing Mandrake with RedHat is loopy, on a server or elsewhere. RedHat offer you less choices than Mandrake. Mandrake and SuSe, for example, _prefer_ KDE and so

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Install suggestion

2002-08-18 Thread Leon Brooks
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:39, Chris Stevens wrote: If you have a faulty CD, Mandrake tries a bit then comes up with a package error and asks whether to continue. I'd personally like the ability to save your configuration choices, specifically your package selections, to a floppy before launching

Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 comments.

2002-08-19 Thread Leon Brooks
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:45, Randy Welch wrote: It takes a LONG time on a 300Mhz Pentium based system. So long that one might think the install had stopped. The hazards of writing in perl... Moreso the hazards of having thousands of packages dependent on one another. The dependency tree is a

Re: [Cooker] Firewire networks (IP over FireWire, also IP over USB)

2002-08-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 05:16, faraj Meir wrote: I wanna know if Firewire networks like in windows xp are supported on linux MDK9? IP-over-USB networks work fine with Linux (Zaurus uses it, http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html), so I see no reason why FireWire can't. And in

Re: [Cooker] Speaking of bug-buddy...

2002-08-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:08, Frederic Crozat wrote: where did you saw bug-buddy needed to be run as root ??? No, the RPM runs a script as root when he _installs_ bug-buddy. IMHO RPM needs a `suggested' relation like Deb. That would enable package management software to say `evolution suggests

Re: [Cooker] Speaking of bug-buddy...

2002-08-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:46, Frederic Crozat wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:32:27 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:08, Frederic Crozat wrote: where did you saw bug-buddy needed to be run as root ??? No, the RPM runs a script as root when he _installs_ bug-buddy. it runs both

Re: [Cooker] Wishlist: spam filtering

2002-08-20 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:05, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:10:05PM -0400, Richard Tango-Lowy wrote: I think I saw something similar pass through this list recently, but with the increasing amount of spam out there, it would a usability coup to include spam filtering (spamassassin,

Re: [Cooker] Jesus wants you to use Mandrake (was: Question)

2002-08-21 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:33, Adam Williamson wrote: Please tell me the Christian Web Services don't overlap with the Enterprise Open Source Journal. Having had a squiz at them, FaithTree and OFB seem to be pretty much mutually exclusive in terms of content. I might expect a release announcement

Re: [Cooker] Jesus wants you to use Mandrake (was: Question)

2002-08-21 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:34, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: Uhhr, could we just please avoid religious discussions etc? Sure thing, except where they touch on Cooker packages. (-: I don't subscribe to the cooker mailinglist to see a bunch of bible quotes;) No offense. I'm quoting that, too.

[Cooker] Cooker (of 1:30AM GMT+08 Tuesday) install

2002-08-21 Thread Leon Brooks
Did an HTTP install (from an 8.2 webserver) of cooker from a floppy-booted network.img on an AMD 500 with 256MB RAM, 80G HDD and EEpro100 LAN card. URI *must* start with a / else the hosting Apache gets sad (returns 400). Might be worth mentioning that in the error message if the installer

[Cooker] Cooker (of 1:30AM GMT+08 Tuesday) install, part 2

2002-08-21 Thread Leon Brooks
In between libgii-0.8.1-3mdk and apache2-2.0.40-4mdk nestles gstreamer-0.4.0-3mdk, hereinafter [name]. From the previous batch I got getFile libmad0-0.14.2b-2mdk.i586.rpm: refusing medium 2 In this batch I get this repeated x4: opened rpm database for retry transaction of 1

[Cooker] Is anyone mirroring Cooker on WAIX (Western Australia)?

2002-08-21 Thread Leon Brooks
I can't get more than about 1.2kb/s sustained out of any of the listed Cooker mirrors, which means by the time I download the missing pieces the next release will be out. This is a far cry from the 150kB (yes, bytes) I was getting at the bandwidth party I picked up the first dose of Cooker

Re: [Cooker] konqueror regression

2002-08-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:06, Levi Ramsey wrote: HTML spec requires double-quotes. IRL I see both single and double quotes, and sometimes no quotes. Also, the HTML 4.0 spec does say: An attribute is included in the start tag only--never the end tag--and takes the form

[Cooker] Cookers for other architectures (special question for Vincent Danen)

2002-08-28 Thread Leon Brooks
Having just read Vince's eulogy for OS/X 10.2, I had a thought. If Mandrake 9.0 is not being released for PPC, why are there Cooker RPMS available for PPC? FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ Parent Directory SRPMS. . . . . . . .

[Cooker] New glaxium (0.4a) released

2002-08-28 Thread Leon Brooks
Has lots of bugfixes and speed improvements, probably worth including for rc1. He's also released 0.4b which is 100% configure/build improvements, a good sign from the bugs PoV. http://xhosxe.free.fr/glaxium/ Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] New glaxium (0.4a) released

2002-08-28 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:01, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Leon Brooks wrote: Has lots of bugfixes and speed improvements, probably worth including for rc1. He's also released 0.4b which is 100% configure/build improvements, a good sign from the bugs PoV. Well, the current

Re: [Cooker] New glaxium (0.4a) released

2002-08-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:01, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has lots of bugfixes and speed improvements, probably worth including for rc1. He's also released 0.4b which is 100% configure/build improvements, a good sign from the bugs PoV. Muf? [gc@bi ~] ch

Re: [Cooker] thoughts on mp3 issue

2002-08-29 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:41, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Why doesn't Mandrake, RedHat, and others simply pay $50,000 on behalf of the XMMS team. Then they will have an unlimited license for decoding .mp3's. Mandrake/Redhat/others simply distribute XMMS Or am I missing something? You're short

Re: [Cooker] Too late for this change?

2002-09-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:27, Richard Burt wrote: I suppose is would be asking too much to include KDE3.1? Ho, ho, ho; chortle, chortle... Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Surprising XF86 crash

2002-09-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:59, Igor Izioumine wrote: On Wednesday 04 September 2002 09:00 pm, Ben Reser wrote: On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:52:02PM -0700, Digital Wokan wrote: Considering, I've never had X crash on me since I was trying to install nVidia a) Wrap your lines at 72 characters. b) X

Re: [Cooker] kde3 in contrib??

2001-12-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 21 December 2001 01:02, David BAUDENS wrote: Replace stable KDE 1 by the unstable KDE 2 beta1 in Cooker was a (very) bad idea. Reminds me of children's videotape series, 3-2-1-Penguins (2nd tape, Bullamanka), Michelle Conrad asks, ``So, this new landing gear's never been tested?''

Re: Re[2]: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] objprelink-0.0.1-5mdk

2001-12-22 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 22 December 2001 21:36, Oden Eriksson wrote: On Thursdayen den 20 December 2001 17.58, David BAUDENS wrote: support it, we will support it, not before. Mandrake is not a distribution for experimentals things. ;-), yeah right..., it's not a bleading edge distro... How do I do a

Re: [Cooker] Merry Christmas

2001-12-26 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 02:18, ismail donmez wrote: Merry Christmas all! Although we dont celebrate it! Have Fun! You are in a non-``Christian'' nation? Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Merry Christmas

2001-12-27 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 28 December 2001 18:33, ismail donmez wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 01:04, you wrote: On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 02:18, ismail donmez wrote: Merry Christmas all! Although we dont celebrate it! Have Fun! You are in a non-``Christian'' nation? Yep OK, so how do we best

Re: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake

2002-01-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Saturday 05 January 2002 21:38, John Herdy wrote: Quake 2 is under the GPL. Can we expect it to be in cooker/freq/mandrake? As ttyquake2? (-: Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] OT: working on weekends

2002-01-07 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 07 January 2002 00:02, Yura Gusev wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Mircea Ciocan wrote: Check the date, they are not working on weekends. Nobody should. What? I get so much more done on Sundays 'coz nobody disturbs you. Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] OT: working on weekends

2002-01-07 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:24, Yura Gusev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Leon Brooks wrote: On Monday 07 January 2002 00:02, Yura Gusev wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Mircea Ciocan wrote: Check the date, they are not working on weekends. Nobody should. What? I get so much more done on Sundays

Re: [Cooker] restricting http usage

2002-01-08 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 01:17, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Hello apache wizards. My PLF site is victim of his own success :-) As it is a rather old machine, running an old version of FreeBSD, too many people downloading simultaneously too many packages make the server freeze. Is there a way

Re: [Cooker] First Timer on List

2002-01-09 Thread Leon Brooks
Greetings from Perth, Western Australia! On Wednesday 09 January 2002 20:33, Mike Calloway wrote: Is there an archive somewhere of this list? Just under the bit on Mandrake's site about joining the list, you'll find a link to: http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/ I

Re: [Cooker] eject SCSI removable

2002-01-15 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 00:28, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: The eject button means physical access, there is no real reason to protect it. Granted. Disagree, it may be desirable to not let people eject and steal a CD. am unable to do it using eject command. Because you can be logged

Re: [Cooker] OT Kernel 2.5.2 is Out!

2002-01-15 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 22:08, Pascal Terjan wrote: Chmouel Boudjnah a écrit : Michael Bollozos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/15/1245209.shtml 2.5.x is far away of our problems actually :) And please, keep it like that :) hackkernel-2.5.2-Nmdk-arch.rpm?

Re: [Cooker] OT Kernel 2.5.2 is Out!

2002-01-15 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 08:24, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2002 22:08, Pascal Terjan wrote: Chmouel Boudjnah a écrit : Michael Bollozos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/15/1245209.shtml 2.5.x is far away of our

Re: [Cooker] Strange Groups

2002-01-17 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 17 January 2002 19:29, Stefan Siegel wrote: May anybody explain me please why those groups are needet over all? We have the group nobody, so why do we need a group nogroup? For non-packaged applications, many daemons expect to run as one of nobody or nogroup. Also, some apps

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