Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Richie de Almeida
On July 21, 2002 06:36 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. I'm thinking about buying a Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk. I remember that there were some problems back in the days with WD hard disks. Do these problems still exist? Thanks, Alexander Skwar WD's are awful, awful drives.

Re: [expert] Dual boot: differt TYPEs of Drives

2002-07-21 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Sunday 21 July 2002 14:22, civileme wrote: Ummm, since I don't have your system in front of me may I suggest that bringing up mandrake Control center = Boot = Boot Config and actually trying that scenario might be the best way to discover if it is better? While you are tinkering, it might

[expert] streamripper vs. live365 broadcasts...

2002-07-21 Thread Chuck Shirley
Hi List! Are there any users of the streamripper utility here? According to the description in the rpm, and other documentation, it is supposed to be able to ripp live365 streams, but the docs don't let on as to how this is done. With shoutcast streams, it's a walk in the park, but I

Re: [expert] X over SSH

2002-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Chuck Lalli wrote on Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 07:24:02PM -0400 : this to work. I can run command line and text stuff, edited my files with vi for example over ssh but X does not work at all. ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Randy Kramer wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:49:18AM -0400 : found for 'wd and civileme and crc and ata100' whether the search term Drop the and. civileme wd crc Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop

Re: [expert] VNC access to Display:0 ?

2002-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Sevatio wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:14:35AM -0700 : LM8.2 How do you get the vncserver to allow access to screen 0? Having the ability for several virtual screens is nice but for this instance I just want to remotely control my current desktop. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

Re: [expert] changing default system fonts

2002-07-21 Thread Angus Beath
John, unfortunately this made absolutely no difference. Any other possible suggestions? Angus John McQuillen wrote: On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 16:20, Angus Beath wrote: Hey everyone, I've just been messing with my system and all of a sudden my fonts are digustingly ugly. I use Evolution for my

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Todd Lyons wrote: Randy Kramer wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:49:18AM -0400 : found for 'wd and civileme and crc and ata100' whether the search term Drop the and. civileme wd crc Thanks, looks like it didn't make any difference in this case (looks like the search doesn't recognize and

[expert] dhcpd.conf of woe

2002-07-21 Thread Jason Guidry
I'm now living among civilization (San Antonio, close enough) and I'm trying to set up a router to share our cable connection. this is a minimal system (no X or extra garbage) with two NICs, one plugged into the cable modem and the other into an 8 port switch. dhcpd keeps complaing that I have

Re: [expert] streamripper vs. live365 broadcasts...

2002-07-21 Thread Larry Sword
IAW the change log: Changes in 1.0.3 Removed live365 ripping (legal reasons) Chuck Shirley wrote: Hi List! Are there any users of the streamripper utility here? According to the description in the rpm, and other documentation, it is supposed to be able to ripp live365 streams,

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: Well, there are two sets of archives to search, and my post(s) on WD are more likely to be on the older archives (prior to Jan 2002)... Thanks, you're right in this case -- found the post. But, try this: * go to, for example,

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread s
On Sunday 21 July 2002 08:28 am, Chuck Shirley wrote: The same search at Maxtor returns 112 hits. While most of their documents seem to be Micro-$entric, there is at least more than such passing mention as what is made at WD, and I would say that they are far more friendly to Linux than WD

Re: [expert] X over SSH

2002-07-21 Thread Chuck Lalli
Todd, Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 From my reading, it seems this should be simple, but I am having no success at all. On Sunday 21 July 2002 04:51 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Chuck Lalli wrote on Sat, Jul

Re: [expert] X over SSH

2002-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Chuck Lalli wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 06:32:44PM -0400 : Todd, Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 cat /etc/hosts Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.

Re: [expert] streamripper vs. live365 broadcasts...

2002-07-21 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Sunday 21 July 2002 17:50, Larry Sword wrote: IAW the change log: Changes in 1.0.3 Removed live365 ripping (legal reasons) Ah! That explains it! I've sent a message to the packager to update the package description accordingly. THanks! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man

RE: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe

2002-07-21 Thread gikoreno
Hey, This is just a wild guess, cause I don't know much about this... I remember reading that in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file you should have somewhere a line that looks like this: /usr/sbin/dhcpd eth0 -q Maybe there is a line like that that has eth1 too... So removing that line would maybe

[expert] Mdk 8.2 / XFree86 / Thinkpad A31p

2002-07-21 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings, Just purchased an IBM Thinkpad A31p - a wonderful machine; very fast, outstanding display and keyboard, large disk (60GB). I have almost everything working (was surprisingly painless)... Mdk 8.2 almost works out of the box - problems are with video; XFree86 4.2.0 does not

Re: [expert] X over SSH

2002-07-21 Thread Chuck Lalli
On Sunday 21 July 2002 06:48 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Chuck Lalli wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 06:32:44PM -0400 : Todd, Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 cat /etc/hosts Blue skies... Todd

[expert] vfat undelete

2002-07-21 Thread Barry Michels
I moved about 18GB from a windows98/XP dual boot laptop to my LM8.2 machine that has a 100GB unused drive formatted as FAT32 and is shared out with SAMBA. All went well, so I reformatted the laptop and put Win2k, WinXP LM8.2 (5GB each with a 15GB common partition) on it's 30GB drive. Again,

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Sevatio
I'm not sure about the WD120AB but last year I had to replace a WD307AA and it was only a year old. That's my first HD failure and definitely last WesternDigital harddrive. It took them about three weeks to send me the replacement. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] VNC Server Mandrake Control Center

2002-07-21 Thread msh
I'm running MDK 8.2 and I don't have a /etc//etc/sysconfig/vncservers file Is there anyplace else I should look. sysconfig/vncservers On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 12:34, James T. Nelson III wrote: You need to modify '/etc/sysconfig/vncservers' for this to work. Info is in the file. logic7

Re: [expert] VNC Server Mandrake Control Center

2002-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
msh wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:35:43PM -0500 : I'm running MDK 8.2 and I don't have a /etc//etc/sysconfig/vncservers file You don't seem to be running a Mandrake package then. Not sure what to tell you. Look where the files should be: [todd@todd todd]$ urpmf vncserver

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Sevatio wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:02:00PM -0700 : I'm not sure about the WD120AB but last year I had to replace a WD307AA and it was only a year old. That's my first HD failure and definitely last WesternDigital harddrive. It took them about three weeks to send me the replacement.

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:31:44 -0500 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 July 2002 08:28 am, Chuck Shirley wrote: The same search at Maxtor returns 112 hits. While most of their documents seem to be Micro-$entric, there is at least more than such passing mention as what is made at

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread civileme
Todd Lyons wrote: Sevatio wrote on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:02:00PM -0700 : I'm not sure about the WD120AB but last year I had to replace a WD307AA and it was only a year old. That's my first HD failure and definitely last WesternDigital harddrive. It took them about three weeks to send me

Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe

2002-07-21 Thread James Sparenberg
Jason, I had the same problem and the answer for me was to put the following in /etc/init.d/dhcpd change daemon /usr/sbin/dhcpd to daemon /usr/sbin/dhcpd -q eth1 the -q eth1 tells it to only pay attention to eth1 and ignore eth0. In may case I get

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread s
On Monday 22 July 2002 05:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:31:44 -0500 Oh yeah, I really like maxtor more than ever. I've had this 80 gig ata133 that would never work even after getting a mobo with a 133 controller. So I call their support line this past week and

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-21 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:48:01 -0500 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 July 2002 05:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:31:44 -0500 Oh yeah, I really like maxtor more than ever. I've had this 80 gig ata133 that would never work even after getting a mobo with