On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:16, Quel Qun wrote:
I tried the on-line Merriam-Webster's but the only form it knows is to
fill-up.
`The disk is getting full.' == `The disk is filling up.', both good English.
`This disk is getting full up' and `The disk is filling' are less polished
English, but
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 05:34, allen wrote:
Right now I cannot install RC1 into VMWare for a variety of odd reasons
that I hope are being addressed.
Oooh, yah, why do you bury us in such overwhelmingly specific detail? (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:15, Igor Izyumin wrote:
Also, can we have a retry button when a package fails to install? I
often get problems with packages when installing over the network or on old
CDROMs, and it would really help. Currently, there is only an option to
cancel or continue. Is it
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:46, Alastair Scott wrote:
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:25, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote:
I thought the whole idea was that this should be automated now. Does the
'automated' part only apply to the mounting and not to the unmounting?
In other words, is this a feature or is this
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:14, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Fri Sep 06 17:06 -0700, David Walser wrote:
Yes, but doesn't it mean expressing interest? I think
here he would say raising an eyebrow.
It generally means something along the lines of without pausing, looking
calm and natural.
Australia
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:05, Chris Picton wrote:
My maximum mode is exactly the same as before, but I have many more low
resolution modes.
For my monitor, the full list available modes I get is:
[57 modes deleted]
You want to hit Ctrl-Alt-GreyMinus _how_ many times to get the rez you like?
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:19:15 +0100
Crispin Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on my tuxkart (0.1.0-4mdk) when you start the game Tux and his kart
just plummet downwards through the track - why is this?
Do you have the Neutronium texture installed, but not Penguin Black? Perhaps
he became too
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:23, Adam Williamson wrote:
Current Mandrake ISOs burn
happily to my 700MB CDs from a rather old Sony CDRW. No overburning,
nothing special. I just write them using xcdroast, and they come out
fine.
Ditto, and on a dodgy Diamond drive at that (e.g. it won't burn LASER
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:57, Henri wrote:
As told in a previous message, could kino be installed when a firewire
card is detected ?
Firewire is also used for stuff like portable hard drives on a server. Kino
and a ton of useless (on a server) X stuff that it depends on would be a bit
of a
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
I'm trying to use MakeCD on a RedHat 7.3 system and I'm running up again
the following error:
Have a look at the mckd script options. There's something in there about
getting dependent PERL modules from the tree you're making the CD with.
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:39, Richard Houser wrote:
Zip and Unzip really aren't used that much in the linux world from my
experience
StarOffice/OpenOffice and now KOffice pack their documents with it. Sorry,
that makes it `required' for me even if the ability to port Windows apps and
muck
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:07, Richard Houser wrote:
Leon Brooks wrote:
| On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
|I'm trying to use MakeCD on a RedHat 7.3 system and I'm running up again
|the following error:
| Have a look at the mckd script options. There's something in there about
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 02:09, Buchan Milne wrote:
One annoyance is that it seems impossible to have terminal-server and
snf configure dhcp, but terminal-server doesn't make allowance for a
dynamic range or WINS IPs (both of which I need for the +- 10 windows
desktops they currently have), if I
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 05:23, rcc wrote:
On 19 Sep 2002 17:03:18 -0400
there's more (real) skin to be seen in advertising and newspaper
booths around here.
I would have thought paper was a more appropriate medium _and_ far easier to
obtain. (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:44, Digital Wokan wrote:
While this may not get my grandmother to use Linux, I'll bet it might
convince my brother and a couple more friends at work. :)
No worries. Grab the RPMS from the main distro, add hot-babe and anything else
you like from PLF, and roll your own
Using the following command on a Cooker collection rsync'ed from Norway 3
hours ago, I get...
depslist.ordered, hdlists and RPMS mismatch
...and no ISOs (and did before I added the --buildhdlist option). This command
produced 5 working ISOs when I tried it about halfway between RC2 and
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:49, Ben Reser wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:13:40AM -0500, Texstar wrote:
Args. Probably has something to do with the installation of nvidia glx
driver. Didn't get that when I compiled and installed from source. rpm
seems to pick it up. Back to investigate...
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:45, Warly wrote:
perform:
cooker/i586/misc/MakeCD --verbose --discsize 7 -d --isodir iso \
-a cooker/i586 contrib/RPMS mkcd.log
Doing that now.
and send me privately the mkcd.log file if you want me to have a more
precise look.
Thanks!
Cheers;
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:29, SI Reasoning wrote:
This is the internal mouse for the laptop that he had lock up on him. No
problems with it in 8.2. Most of the little things are just that. The fine
tuning that a few additional weeks would bring, but it makes all of the
difference in usability.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:53, Ben Reser wrote:
But you're arguing that we
should delay it so we can fix some guys error where the kernel doesn't
think he has a PS/2 mouse port and nobody else has seen this issue.
Um, not to rain too heavily on your parade, but I've seen quite a few me-too
posts
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:12, Ben Reser wrote:
Well people with those machines have reported that enabling ACPI in
their kernel's usually fixes their problems. But I personally haven't
tried it. I don't really care I'm not so lazy that I can't press the
power button.
It's kind of handy for
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:04, Austin Acton wrote:
Well, I must say I loved the name Traktopel. That's front end
loader in English, I do believe.
Snowplough. Tractor-with-shovel, kinda-sorta.
Cheers; Leon
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:15, James wrote:
One thing I've been wanting to do here is to set up a partial mirror of
cooker that holds only packages which haven't changed in (say) 2 weeks.
Debian-testing for Mandrake? (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:27, Felix Miata wrote:
Jason Straight wrote:
On Saturday 21 September 2002 06:34 pm, Jure Repinc wrote:
What is the codename for 9.0 release?
8.1 was vitamin
8.2 was bluebird
9.0 will be ?
Should call it Top Fuel, or Supercharger.
calcium
charlese
clousot
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:53, David Eastcott wrote:
Its called Dolphin,
check misc/doc/9.0.conf for the -t option
`Kooeelung' is one Aboriginal name for dolphin.
I prefer the Indonesian word for dolphin, `lumba-lumba', which transliterates
as `race-race' and would be interpreted as `races' in
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:18, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
Unfortunately a platform is only as good as the new programs being
produced for it. I would like to stay on 8.2 for a while after 9.0 is
released but there are pieces of software that I'm really aching for.
Above everything else I wish to run
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 03:15, Felix Miata wrote:
I agree with a lot of your other stuff, but...
Kudzu was easy: configure new, remove old, ignore.
You left off `sit there looking at black screen indefinitely, sigh, reboot'
which happens to me a lot with Kudzu under 8.2.
I was also delighted to
WRT the discussion about a few extra weeks of stabilising vs the need to
release within cooee of schedule, I have a suggestion:
Cut a release, then keep Cooker in `stabilising things' mode (basically the
same minimal-changes approach as during RC1-RC2) for, say, two weeks or a
month. At the
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Preface: Since my previous installs didn't work, I decided to try a new
tack. I installed a fresh 8.2 installation, working from the first CD
alone. I then tried an Upgrade, and ended up with another 5 installs
It sounds very borderline
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:21, Palmer, Hilary wrote:
I know that this isn't really a cooker concern, but I still haven't see an
upgrade for 8.2 to upgrade OpenSSL to 0.9.6g or better. I see that 9.0 has
the upgrade. With the Slapper Worm around that concerns me.
Mandrake patches the old
MakeCD spews error messages all over the place and produces no ISOs.
I can kill off some of the error messages by LD_LIBRARY_PATHing to the
cooker/i586/misc directory for the cooker-supplied binary programs (doing
that for 8.2 programs, like less and cat, causes them to segfault instantly),
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:50, Michael Holt wrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Guy.Bormann uttered these words of wisdom:
battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I kid you not!).
Ok, I give up - what are battery chickens??
A battery of anything is a long row of them. So a D cell (or for that matter
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:30, Guy.Bormann wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:
A battery of anything is a long row of them. So a D cell (or for that
matter A, AA, AAA and C as well) is not actually a battery, but the
little square 9V models and the ones in cars are.
Not necessarily
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:21, Todd Lyons wrote:
s wrote on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:07:16PM -0500 :
Damon Lynch wrote:
I'm especially puzzled since all the packages used to install were
in /home/damon
I wonder if it was because /home or /home/damon was renamed /mnt/hd?
How in the hell did you
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:33, kim marshall wrote:
I have now tried for two nights and 5 Cd burning applications and I
cannot write an audio Cd with any of them.
Which particular CD? It may be a weird copy-protected one. Do you have more
than one CD there?
Cheers; Leon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see a LOT of I got ignored or this is the third time I've
reported this bug posts.
Amen! (-:
...and having everyone prefix their second try with REPOST: probably wouldn't
be helpful, either. (-:
Maybe you (Mandrake people) could make up
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:13, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
To make a long story short: next time I would like to see a string freeze
that can only be broken in special cases and with notification of
translators in due time. The way the Gnome Translation Project works, can
be used as a model.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:40, Levi Ramsey wrote:
Perhaps it might make sense to segment the cooker list. Have
cooker-kde, cooker-gnome, and cooker-apache in addition
to a general cooker list.
Don't like that very much. Some problems can strike across boundaries (e.g. X
bug gets both KDE and
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:39, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
Gerard Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I got the impression that some developers were reluctant to use the
mailing list; for example, I posted a message about net_monitor, got
invited to post code, did it, got absolutely no answer, reposted in
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:56, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, I think it would be feasible (depeding on how easily Bugzilla
can be hacked to do this) to have at least one non-mandrakesoft
bug-triager per package, who would be able to answer the easy
questions
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:03, Lenny Cartier wrote:
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:04:07PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
I presume the contrib tree will be copied across to stable later, but
when? Is it worthwhile making small fixes to packages in contribs now?
Will new packages (just got cdbakeoven
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:32, Biagio Lucini wrote:
A modified installer perhaps is a bit of work. But if one could add the
extra CD to the rpmdrake source list, then for upgrading is just matter of
rpm -F *
afterwards, while for installing new things you cold use rpmdrake...
Problem is,
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:27, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote:
Even if i was a member, i still have a modem connection ...
Think of all of the 3rd and 4th world countries where they have to download by
hand-transcribing morse over long lengths of barbed wire. (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 05:09, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
I was just wondering if there was any chance MDK might have an
unsupported 9.0 kernel that has Win4Lin extentions included? Since
MandrakeSoft sells Win4Lin, I thought perhaps there might be an update
available...
If not, has anyone
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:52, Peter Ruskin wrote:
New kernels for 9.0 are on the Netraverse web page.
I wonder if they miinded me asking for them two days before the faux 9.0rc3's
started creeping out onto mirrors? (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:28, J. Greenlees wrote:
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 disc image )
EBD floppy into drive, type:
dd if=/dev/fd0 | gzip win98-ebd.disk.gz
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 01:00 am, Palmer, Hilary wrote:
C-Kermit was in 8.2. Used it almost every day.
Pull the 8.2 SRPM then, and rebuild it. Maybe PLF or Texstar have it.
Cheers; Leon
On Thursday 03 October 2002 02:49 am, Palmer, Hilary wrote:
some of the good old faithful terminal utilities and documentation are
not there anymore. A utility such as C-Kermit has no replacement for it,
that I have found, included in the distro.
Fetch the SRPMs for 8.2, install, cd
On Friday 04 October 2002 01:47 am, Warly wrote:
I found at least one reason for the ISO not being created:
/mnt/disk/cooker//misc//parsehdlist: error while loading shared libraries:
librpm-4.0.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No \ such file or
directory
Yes. And, AS I POSTED HERE
On Friday 04 October 2002 02:13 am, Matthew C. Tedder wrote:
Do you how I can get this information from the package without installing
it?
rpm -qip name-of-package-file.rpm
Q for query, I for info (maintainers etc) instead of basic response, P for use
package file instead of database.
On Sunday 06 October 2002 05:40 pm, Pbt wrote:
It would be very great to plug the cam. and to wait for an icon on KDE
or Nautilus.
Icon? My hotplug script empties my DSC-F707 camera into a new directory,
indexes it, and wipes the camera. No muss, no fuss, no wizards.
Cheers; Leon
On Sunday 06 October 2002 09:46 pm, Pbt wrote:
It's exactly what i want ! ;)
Can you explain me how to do?
What script have you modified?
/etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage
That runs a script in my home directory, the fetching parts of which are:
mount /mnt/camera/
TODAY=$(date +%Y%m%d)
mkdir
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 03:15 am, Warly wrote:
Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 04 October 2002 01:47 am, Warly wrote:
I found at least one reason for the ISO not being created:
/mnt/disk/cooker//misc//parsehdlist: error while loading shared
libraries: librpm-4.0.4.so
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:58 pm, Ben Reser wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:08:25PM -0700, Brent Hasty wrote:
In setting up tftpd on mdk 9.0 it does not seem to be starting. Xinetd is
installed and running, but when terminal trys to acess a tftp shared
directory it gets nothing from the
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 4.2.0; the SiS chipset
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:56 am, Warly wrote:
Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MakeCD doesn't work on an 8.2 system. If I download Cooker (or 9.0) onto
an 8.2 system and do a MakeCD, it does because it cannot find the
librpm-4.0.4 libraries which are part of cooker/9.0. If I define
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 01:32 am, rowland wrote:
All this does beg the question, why does a distribution claiming to be i586
compatible, have a directory named i686?
To get better performance on a '686. If the Via chip didn't lie about it's
capabilities, it would all work sweetly, too.
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 02:27 am, Todd Lyons wrote:
The only config file I have there is default and it is pretty simple:
[root@fiji /var/lib/tftpboot]# cat PXEClient/pxelinux.cfg/default
PROMPT 1
DEFAULT local
DISPLAY messages
TIMEOUT 150
label local
LOCALBOOT 0
label
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 08:28 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote:
Alkuperäinen viesti (liitetty) sisälsi vaarallista koodia.
AntiVirus-Tutka on puhdistanut viestiä.
Not sure what language that's in, but it looks like your (ISP's) virus scanner
decided that the gzipped report.bug was a virus. Try
On Friday 11 October 2002 07:54 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
(Like 300 windows drivers
for all the tulip based nic cards vs one on Unix.)
Two on Linux. As usual, some of the clones are a bit... odd.
Cheers; Leon
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:19 am, Jason Straight wrote:
On Thursday 10 October 2002 07:17 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
Jason Straight wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:45:45AM -0400 :
If I had a nickel for every file reiserfs fragged on a busy server it
still woudln't come close to paying for the
On Monday 14 October 2002 08:43 am, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
This is a naive question and my first-guess is that it is not
possible, but is there any way to 'upgrade' a live file-system to
ext3? I have some older machines that could benefit, but it's not
worth doing a complete re-install
On Monday 14 October 2002 10:40 am, J. Greenlees wrote:
well, when I went ext3 I started getting major shutdown problems, where
the system can't unmount device, like eth0 and /dev/fd0 ( thelast is
really wierd the device is busy and no such device on the computer )
it is faster, and
On Monday 14 October 2002 05:03 pm, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX
i would do this only in single mode after having fully checked the fs
with fsck to be sure to rely on journal protection for new operations
whereas some errors were
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 04:18 am, rowland wrote:
On Monday 14 Oct 2002 11:23 am, J. Greenlees wrote:
Thierry Vignaud wrote:
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
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 05:32 am, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
We're trying to keep from being forced onto Windows just for an IM
standard.
Perhaps you can gateway IM to email?
Cheers; Leon
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:05 am, rowland wrote:
dont see how 486sx could have 'skinnier bus' seeing as how the same
motherboard socket could take either a sx or dx chip
There were two different 486SX packages, one designed to be a proper SX like
the 386SX, the other basically a
On Friday 11 October 2002 04:58 pm, François Pons wrote:
We don't have Xbox here so you will have to provide information on how to
proceed, maybe Micro$oft will give us a Xbox for that ...
Class Pons humour. G'wan, ring them up and ask anyway, I should be able to
hear the screams from here in
On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:47 am, David Walser wrote:
Alex Chudnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The recent Konqueror ( 3.1 rc1 ) just hangs when trying to load
Netscape plugins. The nspluginviewer process is in the 'D' state,
probably blocking some system resources, and the worst is that
On Sunday 03 November 2002 05:30 pm, Alex Chudnovsky wrote:
On Sunday 03 November 2002 03:06, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:47 am, David Walser wrote:
Alex Chudnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The recent Konqueror ( 3.1 rc1 ) just hangs when trying to load
Netscape
We have most of the technology, we can do it...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/135233
Question for those on the list who still use Windows for soem things (e.g.
work desktop):
What would you like carried across into Linux?
Mandrake already does TTFs. I haven't used
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 08:41 am, Faraj Meir wrote:
There is a lot of things Still to do :
* first font are Very Ugly
I'd expect to see this fixed well before 9.1
* good rootkit integrated scanner (it's equivalent to antivirus for linux)
Comes with chkrootkit (don't know if you'd
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 09:15 am, Ben Reser wrote:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:35:51AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
* ICQ/IRC/AIM/MSN settings - EveryBuddy
everybuddy already has an import feature to import ICQ99 contact lists.
Yes. The trick is getting this to happen during the install
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 06:47 am, Florent BERANGER wrote:
is there a KDE tool (as samurize for Win XP - http://www.samurize.com ),
that displays sys infos integrated in background (not as gkrellm) ?
Yes, it's called `Konqueror' (-:
Along with `audiocd:/', there are a lot of
What is the easiest way to flip TS clients between running their apps (WM?)
locally or on the server?
Is it possible to have some clients running as Xterminals and some as thin
clients (ie no disk but local apps)?
Is it possible to run most apps from the server but some (e.g. xterm-ishes,
for
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:20 am, Stew Benedict wrote:
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:
What is the easiest way to flip TS clients between running their apps
(WM?) locally or on the server?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here, aside from modifying the
client config
On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:12 am, Wim Horst wrote:
Op maandag 4 november 2002 23:35, schreef Leon Brooks:
Question for those on the list who still use Windows for soem things
(e.g. work desktop):
What would you like carried across into Linux?
easy installation of programs
Lets
On Thursday 07 November 2002 07:20 am, paul mccarthy wrote:
What would you like carried across into Linux?
I always found the OLE feature to be helpful
KDE supports that kind of action through KParts, and Gnome through Bonobo, but
there is nothing universal.
The actual implementation of
On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:01 am, Stew Benedict wrote:
You should be able to drop [Cooker] drakTermServ into 9.0 with no
issues. It's really the only thing that changed to support the thin
client approach.
Thanks++
Cheers; Leon
On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:57 am, Salane wrote:
is this a problem with chkrootkit or with nfs
Do an lsattr in (/usr)/(s)bin and check for funny attributes, just in case.
One of the features of many rootkits is subverting tools like netstat. In
fact, I discovered one the other day because
On Thursday 07 November 2002 08:10 pm, Salane wrote:
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:39 am, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:57 am, Salane wrote:
is this a problem with chkrootkit or with nfs
Do an lsattr in (/usr)/(s)bin and check for funny attributes, just in
case
On Thursday 07 November 2002 10:11 pm, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
Wim Horst wrote:
ai, ai, ai, urpmi asks for a hdlist, so i searched for something called
hdlist. Is this realy as stupid as it sounds?
uhhr, how about reading the doc's?
if you're going to be involved in cooker you *have* to
On Friday 08 November 2002 06:32 am, J. Greenlees wrote:
make an install option for windows like use, but never make windows like
changes to tool sets.
Agree. The pretty GUI brainless stuff should always be layered over the stuff
with sharp edges; the sharp tools should always be there, but
On Monday 11 November 2002 06:43 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
Wim Horst wrote:
I didnt succeed with urpmi because you have to tell it where to search
for hdlist which is called syntesysblablabla. I am not clearvoyant and
didnt know this. And why should i know this. It is something the
program
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 06:14 pm, Florin wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Schonberg) writes:
It really would be nice if the Mandrake Control Center Firewall could
include a radio button for VNC. Mandrake ships with the tight-vnc
client . . .
you can use the custom options and enter the
On Friday 15 November 2002 05:36 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
If business didn't need multimedia, Windows Media player wouldn't be in
Windows 2000 Pro.
I agreed with the rest of your post, but `Microsoft thinks you need a thing'
is far from sufficient justification for `businesses need this thing'.
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:56 am, Jason Straight wrote:
Mine is working now. I removed me extra font dir from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
and added it to /etc/X11/fs/conf (apparently soffice was somehow using one
of my 3rd party fonts from a CD I copied for the spreadsheet tabs)
drakfont doesn't
On Saturday 23 November 2002 08:35 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:56 am, Jason Straight wrote:
Mine is working now. I removed me extra font dir from
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf and added it to /etc/X11/fs/conf (apparently
soffice was somehow using one of my 3rd party fonts from
On Monday 25 November 2002 10:10 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
you could try texstar's RPM:
ftp://[...]/mandrake/9.0/contrib/3ddesktop-0.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm
I think it's a good rule of thumb to *never* install an RPM that's
packaged for a different distribution.
Adam, this _is_ packaged for
On Monday 25 November 2002 12:01 pm, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
A. Acton explain to you the reason, the solution is here:
http://plf.zarb.org/
or maybe here:
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/
Oo! Nice! Definitely worth it being off air for a while...
Cheers; Leon
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 05:41 pm, Götz Waschk wrote:
Am Dienstag, 26. November 2002, 10:37:55 Uhr MET, schrieb Pascal Terjan:
I tryied to install kdevelop and was surprised it wanted to install me
postgre and mysql servers (cf http://pascal.terjan.free.fr/tmp/kdev.txt)
So I tryied to look
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 05:18 pm, John Allen wrote:
I'm using Cooker with KDE 3.1, and Anti-Aliasing enabled with the
Luxi Sans [xft] font, and the desktop looks just magic. No Microsoft
fonts needed whatsoever. I think the latest Qt anti-aliasing is just
fantastic.
So _with_ the fonts
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 08:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-15] Stéphane Teletchéa wrote:
We need reliable, GPL products, so i think we'd better concentrate on GPL
stuff instead of arguing.
Agreed, but I see no GPL fonts around.
A few here:
On Thursday 28 November 2002 07:13 am, Ben Reser wrote:
I seriously doubt that the removal of the fonts from their website had
anything to do with Linux.
The two core platforms Microsoft cares about are Windows and the
Macintosh. Internet Explorer is the predominant browser on both of
these
On Thursday 28 November 2002 03:45 pm, J. Greenlees wrote:
since the evil empire has more money than god
Yes. They'd certainly be better off if they had more God than money. (-:
Cheers; Leon
On Thursday 28 November 2002 06:29 pm, Murray J. Root wrote:
What I don't understand is the offensive way of stating the position.
I guess it comes from the contempt MandrakeSoft has for its contributors.
Or possibly from knowing and dreading that no matter how they closed it, they
would get
On Friday 29 November 2002 01:36 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 16:23, David Walser wrote:
The difference between some
script that DLs them at install time and an RPM that
ships them directly is not immediately obvious to a
non-techie. What that means is, it's close
On Friday 29 November 2002 10:48 am, Ben Reser wrote:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:43:55AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
Ask yourself if Trey would turn down an opportunity to destroy a Linux
distributor while simultaneously portraying them as a thief of
intellectual property. It's nearly Christmas
WRT the recent flameish to-and-fro about Microsoft's fonts, why not put up a
page on (say) MandrakeUser for each release of Mandrake that has links to
ways to `tart up' your Mandrake desktop, and make the point that these links
have been found useful by Mandrake Users but are _completely_
On Sunday 01 December 2002 02:52 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:15, Leon Brooks wrote:
Mozilla themes such as `Sky Pilot', 'Internet Explorer' (`That's _Linux_?'
is a typical stunned question from an unbeliever) and `Orbit 3+1',
Windows font downloaders and whatever else
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