Re: [Cooker] TAKE MY BRAIN OFF THIS DAMN METHADONE FOR THE LAST TIME!
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 wrote: Yes but Exchange is not just an MTA, it is also the server for your Outlook, does IMAP, POP, and calendering stuff as well. Very true, and still we don't have a functional mail and groupware application on Mandrake :( yeah we do, evolution (and soon to be released Kontact). evolution has been around since forever too. Luca obviously means server-side (ie Exhchage, not Outlook). Regards, Buchan I read someone mention OpenGroupware.org here a couple of weeks ago, i think.. i thought it was going to be included..? Damian
[Cooker] Suggestion for program inclusion
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 is as simple as it can be: $ nrg2iso file.nrg outputfile.iso and it's very fast. I think it makes a great addition to mkisofs and bchunk. Tarball (8.1Kb) can be downloaded at: http://gregory.kokanosky.free.fr/v4/linux/nrg2iso.en.html Of course, when i say inclusion, i'm referring to 9.3/10.0. ;oP see ya. Damian
Re: [Cooker] Final in Septembre???
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: will Mandrakesoft release 9.2 even if it is not ready??? i.e. is Mandrakesoft desperate to get a version out before the end of Septembre or is there any chance for a RC3 ?? i.e. does management or development rule Mandrakesoft??? Based on past experience, 9.2 will be released on schedule on 20th of September even when it doesn't install for some people who have reported serious issues for their particular hardware. I suppose this is a company's way of making compromises :-( I hope a RC3. There are too much bugs in RC2 to call this a Release Candidate. If we compare with OOo, they made RC which was really RC. It is obvious that a distro is more complicated because of the great diversity of hardware. But the number of misses is not a problem of hardware. In fact RC2 is a beta 4. Please, make a RC3 ! Don't waste the good reputation of Mandrake with a lack of finition. This is very funny, because, _each_ release, this is the same story, people say that rcX is not good enough and we need a rcX+1. ( and there is always someone to make the statement i am doing ) And you forgot about the end of this _each_release process: Mandake goes final, and in reviews it gets a mere 7/10 score with the reviewer saying thins like Ooh, what a pity they didn't fix that ugly bug, but other than that, it works very well! or My first installation attempt hung and i had to reboot it, but after that it worked ok. There is always too much bugs. There's always too little time.
Re: [Cooker] Resizing partitions.
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 of the installer's backend tools? more like a limitation. One would need to add clusters, or change the size of the clusters. you may try parted (i don't remember if they added this feature) Well, it could be usefull to resize up partitions. I think (but should be checked) that it was possible on 8.x installations please re-read my answer (which is for fat filesystems) Thanks for your answer, Pixel. Damian
[Cooker] Resizing partitions.
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 other day i needed to make a Fat32 partition bigger. Only then I noticed that i only have the option to shrink them? when you click on the Resize button, the slidebar is at the 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 of the installer's backend tools? Thanks . Damian
Re: [Cooker] Is 9.1 finished?
What is the official position? Missionary. Boy on top. Damian
Re: [Cooker] Is 9.1 finished?
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 included in the official position? I don't know who the boy is or what is he doing to what. :oP
Re: [Cooker] Is 9.1 finished?
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.. Of course you don't want to try to make everyone happy... it can be dangerous... you can get portscanned and your socket compromised.. Damian
Re: [Cooker] Important remaining bugs
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 (f.e. the avm usb devices I want to Hi Steffen. Yeah, the package i had made with your patches was denied or ignored. Looks like nobody cares about it, huh? :o/ Damian
Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?
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?) into it... ;o) Don't waste your time, everybody knows FreeBSD is better than Linux :o Damian
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed
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. Likewise, I hope Mandrake realizes that the serious bugs still unresolved may very well overshadow all of its great new features if it releases everything in the current state. I mean, MCC keeps having serious issues, the mouse doesn't even detect right, its easy to mess up scannerdrake and make it unusable, there are no easy ways to get to removable media in KDE anymore for an unexplained reason, Galaxy-kde makes KDE look weird and breaks Konqueror... the list goes on. Very good points. I've agreed with the original poster of this thread that 9.1 should wait.. but you just explained my feelings exactly. Damian
Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1
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 comine other suggestions, instead of checking first. It's called CHKDSK in XP (and earlier -- it was only branded ScanDisk under 9x). This was exactly why i said: copy paste from my last post ..maybe you need to replace Scandisk with DiskCheck or whatever? :oP Damian
Re: [Cooker] NTFS resizing works inRC1
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 English): Please note, for extra safety NTFS consistency check is scheduled to run when you boot Windows. good idea. I could also write a non-native english version... but would anyone be so kind and give a native english version? pliz :) Szaka's was not too bad, but how about: To ensure data integrity after resizing the partition(s), filesystem checks will be run on your next boot into Windows(TM) Even better, being a Windows related kind thing, why not make it 100% MS-talk: To ensure data integrity after resizing partitions, Scandisk will be run next time you start Windows(TM) or ( a little bit more techy) To ensure data integrity after resizing partitions, Scandisk will be scheduled to run next time you start your Windows(TM) operating system ..maybe you need to replace Scandisk with DiskCheck or whatever? :oP Damian
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 910] [Installation] Size in MB slider should also have a text field
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, for 1024 MB of swap (1 GB). Selecting Umm.. aren't you able to fine-tune these settings with your keyboard? After you have focused the slider widget by clicking on it, you can go in +1 increments with the arrow keys in your keyboard. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] isdn4net.
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 test $? -ne 0; then cleanup fi ;; OK, i'll do it today. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] isdn4net.
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
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 security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] Midnight Commander is at version 4.6.0 !!!
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 it launches: kfmclient openProfile midnightcommander ~/ So, instead of regular konq, we would get konq in mc mode... ? There are already several ways to open up regular konq windows from a KDE desktop.. (the house icons in kicker and on the desktop, etc) and since on the networking menu we have openProfile webbrowsing, adding it's mc mode into the filemanager submenu might be of some use.. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
[Cooker] oops.
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 want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
[Cooker] isdn4net.
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 holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] next try to get ignored
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 security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] How Debians do it
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 project. I've been following these threads with much interest, and i must say i feel eager to contribute in whatever way i can. A ToDo list and the ability to volunteer for specific jobs sounds very good IMO. :o) Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Release Date
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 Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] WHY HAVE YOU CHANGE KDM WITH THIS HORRIBLE LOGIN MANAGER ??????
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 please, change it back. http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SPECS/kdebase/ see the 4 big patch kdebase-3.1-new-kdm* umm... is there a way to take a screenshot? I'd like to see what caused Shift's ...errr... agressive post. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] Fast User Switching done right
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 instance losing focus and immediately throw the screensaver into a mode where it locked the session until it again achieved focus, then whoever focussed on the session would need to know the user's password to be able to get past the screensaver. Uhm...if you use GDM's New Login thing, this is what it does...it blocks the previous X session with xscreensaver, you need a password to get back into the previous session(s). Yep. But the previous poster is talking about doing this every time you switch to another tty. Which would be, IMHO, a terrible idea, since every user with two bits of experience goes to a text console to compile stuff or to run things, and switch back and forth continuously. Likewise the text console mod would blank the console when it lost focus, and demand a password before unblanking when focus returned. Umm.. there should be an easy way to disable all of this stuff, right? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] Fast User Switching done right
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 public access or something, but i would not want it on my desktop... This security measure, if implemented, should be optional, and a BIG and CLEAR question about it should be made at installation time. I'm not afraid of what my mother can do with my mozilla sessions when i'm not looking. I think you missed an important criterion: that the password not be required when switching from an unlocked session belonging to the same user (or presumably anyone with UID 0, on the premise that they could su or the like anyway). I like that idea, it's probably useful for many people, but as a desktop user, i would still like to have the option to disable it. I work a lot in text mode, and i switch between consoles often enough not to want to enter my (long) root password every time. see ya. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] Easy Idea to Make Mandrake Better: Fast User Switching
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 marketingspeak. Most of you also know that GNU/Linux is fully capable of doing the same thing. In Mandrake 9.0 (From KDE): K -- Configuration -- Start up init -- New login with GDM This will launch a second instance of X running on tty8. you can have as many X sessions open as you like, running different desktops, logged as different users It's not Fast user switching. It's called a multiuser OS, and it's far ahead of XP in this respect, IMO. have a nice day :o) (Btw, my k menu is in spanish, so i'm sorry if the translation of the menu is not accurate.) Damian
Re: [Cooker] Easy Idea to Make Mandrake Better: Fast User Switching
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 for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like Edit textfile.txt (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1048] [drakconf] Screen layout makes it impossible to use!
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 it's =640x480, run it in a separated window? At least the tool would be usable.. Better yet, when the user clicks on the tool, make a dialog pop up: --- At your current screen resolution, I cannot embed this tool, or it will not fit your screen. Do you want to run it in a separate window? O Don't ask me again ___ |Yes| |No| --- Just trying to be helpful... Damian
Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Beta 2
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 ?) you mean 9.1 will NOT have mc???! I mean that switching to 650 MB ISO removed 150MB of packages, and that 9.1 is likely to have nearly 200 packages less than 9.0. Thats ok I'll roll my own and make them 700mb to boot. Ah the freedom. looks like my last message to cooker never made it? here goes again. just in case. I know that installing mc from an external source is always an option, but c'mon, Mandrake is a self-proclaimed all around distro, able to perform as a workstation or server as well.. or so i've read multiple times. Taking this into consideration, including mc and having CLI versions of the *drak* tools go hand in hand. I agree that most people use the GUI, i use konq 50% of the time as well, but i don't feel that's reason enough to take away the CLI filemanager which has it all (double pane views, network transparency (ftp client, etc) VFS (being able to navigate into archive files as if they were directories --konq is not as good as mc in this respect yet... ) integrated shell, text editor, hex editor...) For that matter, if you wanna make more room in the CD's, you could remove the CLI versions of the drake tools, couldn't ya? Better yet, if you need more space in the CD's, you could remove some games! the 9.0 release had 4 different apps to play solitaire!!! Umm.. and what's the size of the mc package? Damian
Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Beta 2
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
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: urpmi.addmedia 91Main ftp://blah.blah.blah urpmi --media 91Main mc Well, i know that installing it from an external source is always an option, but c'mon, Mandrake is a self-proclaimed all around distro, able to perform as a workstation or server as well.. or so i've read multiple times. Taking this into consideration, including mc and having CLI versions of the *drak* tools go hand in hand. Most of the people who are using Mandrake (and _not_ most of us) use Konqueror or Nautilus for their file browsing. Those are the ones that (I guess) need to be accomodated. I agree, i use konq 50% of the time as well, but i don't feel that's reason enough to take away the CLI filemanager which has it all (double pane views, network transparency (ftp client, etc) VFS (being able to navigate into archive files as if they were directories --konq is not as good as mc in this respect yet... ) integrated shell, text editor, hex editor...) Umm.. and what's the size of the mc package? Damian
Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1
How do you *tell* that you've corrupted Windows? =) Umm.. it doesn't crash correctly? :oP
Re: [Cooker] Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....
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.
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. And yes, Windows 95 and Office 95 had Diskette installers, but that's the point. That was 1995. It's been 8 years since then. Why do you think thare's not a floppy version of Office XP? Because CDs are ubiquitous now. Does Office XP ship on 700MB CDs? my point is, things change. In 1995 the new thing was the CD, but the floppy was ubiquitous. That time is over. Now, 700MB CD are the most common kind of CD, and at some time or another 650MB CD's will be obsolete. It's Mandrakesoft's call, and they say the drives unable to read 700MB cd's are no longer important... Maybe they have good reasons. I don't know any other software company that ships their official, commercial software distribution on CDs650MB. In my country, a lot of artists compose albums of nearly 80min, and this requires 700MB CD's. But doesn't prevent you listening to the rest of the CD, you just miss the bonus track. eeewww.. the thought of a bonus track makes me think of crappy BsB, Cristina Aguilera, and all those sh*tty pop pseudo-singers.. yuck! no, no bonus tracks. Just regular rock bands which happen to make CDs with 16 songs or so. And i'm talking about a country in a very difficult financial situation, in which people does not dare to waste a single cent on their computers unless it's absolutely necesary. (i.e. if it breaks down completely.) Magazines also include 700MB CD's with goodies. Magazines are for people with money to waste, Sorry, but that comment is very short sighted. and they don't bet their business on the CDs, they get most income from adverts. I know, but the fact is, most people can read them, and the amount of business people that care about old cd-drives unable to read 700MB has been getting smaller and smaller for some time now. So what is Mandrake is the first distro to ship 700MB per CD? Others may do just the same next year... I may be wrong, but i *think* Photoshop 7 comes in a 700MB CD. tihnking isn't good enough, and I would be very surprised if Photoshop requires a 700MB-capable CD to be able to install (the rest is probably media, docs etc). And I am quite sure they would ship you a replacement CD if you needed one. I may be wrong here too, but i also think that the spanish version of Corel Draw 11 comes in 5 CD's of 700MB each. Please check ... i will. I think i could find more... I have never seen any, but that is mostly MS stuff, and engineering software (Matlab, Nastran/Patran, Pro\Engineer) most of which ship on multiple CDs less than 650MB. Anyway, this software is high-end machine only, with software licenses of approx $10 000 per seat, so it's no problem to buy a new CD-ROM. Mandrake however, if they were to lose the $30 I would spend on a CD-ROM, wouldn't have any money left (assuming a $30 GPL set from Mandrakestore). Again. The point is, you will end up buying a new CD-ROM in the future anyhow. Yours will break, get old and die, or simply not meet your expectations or fit your needs anymore. And besides, you will not be buying a new drive every Mandrake release... When you choose not to spend money on hardware, you are also limiting your choices in software. It does not matter if the Linux kernel is getting leaner, if Phoenix is getting lighter, or if the new KDE works faster. Each part of a computer system has it's own lifespan. As a last comment, I just want to make clear one thing: I'm not against four 650MB ISOs. It's just that i can understand the choice for the bigger ones.. It may have bothered me if i had a CD-ROM incapable of reading them, but i would have understood anyway. Damian
Re: [Cooker] Prepare for the onslaught.
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
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|/ ed2k://|file|msfonts-style-1.2-1.noarch.rpm|1515188|8080f03964b6a49674140dc5cc6a8f4d|/ ed2k://|file|msfonts-1.2.tar.gz|5999680|bded92b36ba13a9503ff42d0f7e619b2|/ ed2k://|file|msfonts-1.2-1.src.rpm|5997025|f85f2dd5b86af7685225523426f09a5b|/ ed2k://|file|msfonts-1.2-1.noarch.rpm|4476067|c9dcbbe78f4c82d3aa509f8b9df59ec1|/ bye. Damian
Re: [Cooker] MS Fonts in a bag
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!
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: unexpected PLT reloc type 0x42 After that, none of my devices were present in /dev (obviously) so i had to reinstall. that's all the info i have for now... Damian.
Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!
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 with point 5 of the section I wrote in the Fontdeuglification howto: 5 . My fixed fonts do not appear or look _very_ wrong in the KDE konsole or similar programs! I noted that somehow a lot of fixed font do not tell Xft that they are fixed, and thus, mono spaced. Therefore only a part of the font is displayed. We can manually set the spacing for these fonts (this assumes you have fixed aliased with mono as in question 3 above): match any family == mono edit spacing = mono; Note that this assumed fixed is aliased with mono! (otherwise replace the first mono with fixed. I do not had the time to try what is the correct way of doing this in the new fontconfig, but I'm sure you can find out:) Danny
Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!
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 bumped into it months ago while i was testing a bucketload of TTF fonts all over the system.. i don't recall ever updating the box in question (other than installing kde3), so it was probably stock freetype, and the s p a c i n g p r o b l e m seemed to get worse or much worse, according to the font i chose. The most problematic was gnome-terminal. after some time i gave up trying to fix it... the last time i tried to use it, it would create a window so wide it didn't fit in the screen. (1024x768 screen) Obviously not many people experienced this in 8.2, so it's possible that it showed up only under certain circumstances that i'm not able to guess.. Damian
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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 them. Any one had sucess installing this on 9.0? you could try texstar's RPM: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/3ddesktop-0.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm nice 'n short URLs.. just the way i like 'em ;o) HTH Damian
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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
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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 don't get it ... unless i'm REALLY needing some sleep, that URL is exactly the one i posted.? Damian 3ddesktop-0.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm vs 3ddesktop-0.2.3-3tex.i586.rpm damn. off to bed i go. sorry. Damian
Re: [Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!
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: !?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!? Damian
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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 other font starts dissapearing as well... Damian
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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... 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 other font starts dissapearing as well... Noting of course that OO.o sets AA by *pixel size* not by point size, you should probably just turn off AA in OO.o, or adjust the *pixel* size tha OO.o starts doing AA at. By default this is something like 8 pixels, while IMHO, it should really be more like 16 or 20. Buchan Hmm ... I don't use anti-aliasing. Haven't tried that for the OO problems. By the way, my terminal fonts were s t r e t c h e d o u t l i k e t h i s until I set them to unicode. i've seen it too, however i was able to reproduce it with MDK 8.2, so it's no new issue. (konsole and gnome-terminal seem to have problems with TTF fonts.) Damian
[Cooker] lib_cpp :o(
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 Mandrake's .src.rpm ... of course, i tried urpmi lib_cpp but found nothing there either.. i finally thought well, it must be an incomplete gcc package, downloaded gcc 3.2.1 IIRC (latest release) ..built it (slow machine.. took me hours) only to find out it did not provide this lib_cpp ... is anybody kind enough to tell me where to go from now? obviously i'm missing an RPM but i simply can't find it... Thanks! Damian
Re: [Cooker] lib_cpp :o(
[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!
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!
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 installed kde 3.0.5 from the unsupported RPMS available (Therefore i upgraded Qt) and now i have neither AA nor TTF fonts! and any font smaller than 9pt is invisible here in OO... Apparently, the small fonts are invisible is related to freetype2 whereas all the rest of the weirdness is related to Qt, however: i tried to roll back to the old freetype2 i had been using, (a tweaked RPM made by Texstar) since an upgrade to freetype2 is what broke stuff first -- and my problem with fonts in OO persisted :o? So maybe Qt is to blame? Damian
[Cooker] About OO vanishing posts, please try this!
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 else gets the same behavior? Damian
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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 the last option in that menu. expand the first tree. you will see two drop-down lists. just type lucida on the second. push the first button at the bottom of the dialogue. if that doesn't work, repeat the same steps but this time type lucida on both the drop-down lists. HTH Damian
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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 it goes again. go to the sixth drop-down menu in the main toolbar. (that's counting from left to right) select the last option in that menu. expand the first tree. go to the 9th branch of that tree. you will see two drop-down lists. just type lucida on the second. push the first button at the bottom of the dialogue. if that doesn't work, repeat the same steps but this time type lucida on both the drop-down lists. HTH Damian
