Re: [expert] Flash Plugin for galeon

2002-08-13 Thread Damian G
This was weird I got Oscar's thankyou 10 minutes before I got your answer to him. Twilight zone time. James happens all the time, James. messages not always arrive in the correct order, sometimes i can't read my own posts but i get replies from them... i just had to get used to

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-13 Thread J. Craig Woods
civileme wrote: I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in business they can't see five minutes into the future, now that

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-13 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, civileme uttered these words of wisdom: Agree, Mike. SuSE could have a much bigger market share and Caldera is now insignificant, SuSE for its closedness, and Caldera for its abysmal support, proprietary software, and per-seat licensing. I am one of the people bit by

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:21:39 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grabed a keyboard and said: James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:29:10 -0400 jerry white [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grabed a keyboard and said: I am new to the list so may this has been answered. I searchedth archives and

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r SOLVED

2002-08-13 Thread James Sparenberg
GREAT! I've got a collection of TDK coasters myself. Strangely enough I've had good luck with a brand called sale (actuall GQ disks) grin. James On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:25:03 -0500 jerry white [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grabed a keyboard and said: To all that responded thanks The problem was

Re: [expert] kde3 won't start since upgrading from kde 2.2.2

2002-08-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:32:23 -0400 Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grabed a keyboard and said: I have tried 5 times to upgrade to kde 3.02 and each time it won't start kde3 when I choose to login to kde3. Can anyone help me solve this problem.. I run Mandrake 8.1 Harold Harold,

Re: [expert] Flash Plugin for galeon

2002-08-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:24:05 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grabed a keyboard and said: This was weird I got Oscar's thankyou 10 minutes before I got your answer to him. Twilight zone time. James happens all the time, James. messages not always arrive in the correct

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-08-13 Thread civileme
J. Craig Woods wrote: civileme wrote: I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in business they can't see five minutes into the

Re: [expert] Iptables and Quake3... (fairly long post)

2002-08-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 14:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I'm posting this here, because I figured it was a bit above the newbie level. If wrong, I apologise... I ran BastilleChooser, I added a rule to iptables, and I'm not able to get Quake 3, v1.31 to find my other 2 Linux comps. (or them find

Re: [expert] kde3 won't start since upgrading from kde 2.2.2

2002-08-13 Thread Harold Hartley
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 03:00 am, you wrote: Harold, Since I don't know how you login normally (from the command line or graphical) I'll give you both. 1. From the command line type startkde3 2. From Xtart. Download the latest and use it. 3. From Graphical. Login to kde2 and

[expert] devfs and IDE-SCSI

2002-08-13 Thread David
Hi All, I am having a bad week with devfs. I am running 8.1, stock kernel but most security updates in place for packages I run. My HP Colorado 14GB IDE tape unit does not get a correct dev. I have the 'append devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi' option in lilo which boots with no errors. My problem is

Re: [expert] Linux's equivalent to FreeBSD's 'watch'?

2002-08-13 Thread SpeedMan
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 01:42, James Sparenberg wrote: There is a watch in Linux ( man watch ) but you are right it's not as full featured as the one in BSD. SNIP Perhaps ttysnoop would fit the bill. Have a peek here: http://www.geckil.com/~harvest/tcpip-docs/ttysnoop.html SNIP Regards,

[expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi, am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. what I should do with it : making animations, making pictures (combine together) and sound

[expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for

Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 1:07 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi, am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. what I should do with it : making

Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:07, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not

Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 07:36 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 1:07 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r [OT]

2002-08-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:27 am, Felix Miata wrote: civileme wrote: 734003200 is 700Mb remember MB is 2^20 not 10^6 700 Mb is 700*10^6=700,000,000 bits. MB is 10^6 bytes. MiB is 2^20 bytes. 80 min CD's labeled 700 MB are mislabeled and actually hold 700 MiB, 734,003,200 bytes.

[expert] More fax problems hylafax and efax

2002-08-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
Printing/sending to fax a simple text file from kwrite I get a nice printing hang and this is the logfile output from Print to fax (recipient and fax number edited): Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/sendfax -h 'hfaxd' -d 'recipient''faxnumber' -x '' -c 'Test fax' -f 'praedor'

Re: [expert] More fax problems hylafax and efax

2002-08-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 3:21 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: Printing/sending to fax a simple text file from kwrite I get a nice printing hang and this is the logfile output from Print to fax (recipient and fax number edited): SNIP Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/fax 'NAME=praedor' DEV=modem

[expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive)

2002-08-13 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:34 am, J. Craig Woods wrote: civileme wrote: I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
civileme wrote: I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in business they can't see five minutes into the future,

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Aug 10, 2002 at 06:19:20PM -0600, engage wrote: I am trying to update from libopenssl0-0.9.6b-1.1mdk and libopenssl0-devel-0.9.6b-1.1mdk to 0.9.6b-1.3mdk per Mandrake Advisory MDKSA-2002:046-1 for Mandrake Linux 8.1. I did get openssl-0.9.6b-1.1mdk to upgrade to 0.9.6b-1.3mdk but

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Aug 11, 2002 at 12:08:50PM -0600, engage wrote: Two thoughts. 1. Don't use Fvh or Uvh with a kernel do ivh always install never upgrade. 2 Did you get a httpd.conf.rpmnew when you upgraded ssl? I don't run apache on a Mandrake box so I don't know if it happens. If you

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread David Rankin
The true mark of great leadership within a company is management's ability to attract and maintain key individuals. Whatever the backdrop to the situation actually is, Mandrakesoft's inability to maitain its relationship with Civileme is an incredible loss both to Mandrakesoft and to us all.

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Aug 10, 2002 at 10:46:07PM -0500, J. Craig Woods wrote: Neither libopenssl0 package installed with the -Fvh switch but they did install with the -Uvh switch. The Apache server still won't start, though. Mandrake needs to provide better instructions for manually updating packages.

RE: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the good business sense behind them. It has been a calming influence in many discussions on this list

Re: [expert] Iptables and Quake3... (fairly long post)

2002-08-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:02 am, you wrote: Ron, I responded to you private on this, but I just thought of something else also that you can try. First the original suggestion for everyone elses benefit, as root: /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop Then /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables start

[expert] How to get tripwire to NOT report something

2002-08-13 Thread David Guntner
Does anyone know, offhand, if there is a way to tell tripwire that you don't want it to watch particular files or directories. I.E., to tell it that I don't want it reporting changes to /var/log/snort/ (which tends to have plenty of changes during the course of a day :), as an example?

RE: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the good business sense behind them. It has been a

[expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I had nfs running perfectly, and then (sadly) I ran BastilleChooser. I picked lax and workstation. Now, I've no longer got nfs. I finally removed all Bastille RPMs thru the software manager, but I still have no nfs. Its installed, its checked under services. If I do a rpcinfo -p, I get

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi again, am sorry about to forgot to mention, that I'll do an upgrade to mdk 8.2 too. But the very interesting thing I should know now is, which hardware-equipment is commendable. thanks again bye hans Am Dienstag, 13. August 2002 14:41 schrieben Sie: On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, hans schneidhofer

[expert] Preventing msec from changing file permissions

2002-08-13 Thread Aleksey Y Naumov
Dear experts, I have I question/problem with msec on my 8.2 system: it keeps changing permissions on directory /home/PgDB. /var/log/auth.log has: ... Aug 13 15:01:00 ples msec: changed mode of /home/PgDB from 700 to 755 ... Trouble is, this is my data directory for PostgreSQL database, so it

Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 03:04 pm, you wrote: Ron, you've really gotta get away from BastilleChooser. cut the apron strings and let it go. If you absolutely must use something other then VI in a console to setup your filewall then use InteractiveBastille and use Only the firewall setup

Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I had nfs running perfectly, and then (sadly) I ran BastilleChooser. I picked lax and workstation. Now, I've no longer got nfs. I finally removed all Bastille RPMs thru the software manager, but I still have no nfs. Its installed, its

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates:PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Ken Hawkins
I also wish to thank Civileme, who is, in my mind, synonymous with Mandrake. But for his expertise and willingness to help (along with so many others here), I would have ditched Mandrake entirely (I had a functional Corel setup on 3 of my machines). After having played with 7.0, 7.2, 8.0, and

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread civileme
Tibbetts, Ric wrote: But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the good business sense behind them. It has been a calming influence in many

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 13 August 2002 9:38 pm, civileme wrote: I am more concerned with the folks who want to make mandrakesoft a company like SuSE. SuSE would be history except that IBM and Intel bailed them out last year for like $45 million. Yet the same

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Jonathan I. Nori
Hi! Sounds like you want an SGI or Sun Solaris workstation. The kinds of tools you seem to be looking for really aren't in a mature (if they even exist yet) stage on the linux platform. If you want to do professional, high-end audio/video/animation editing (which you seem to be hinting at)

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Ken Hawkins
AMIGA VIDEOTOASTER! too bad they went belly up...played with back in the old days (94?) had A/B/C tape editor control, transition effects, 3D animation with a whole sh*load of models and sets, character generator, stereo sound etc etc etc; essentially a whole studio at your desk. INCREDIBLE

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Civileme, Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat, Daouda Lo and a few others. I agree with their evaluation as to

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread et
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:38 pm, you wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: But one does have to wonder how much Civileme's attitude will change. ;) In the past, we could always count on his level-headedness in defending some of Mandrakesofts decisions, and to point out the good business sense

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread et
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: AMIGA VIDEOTOASTER! too bad they went belly up...played with back in the old days (94?) had A/B/C tape editor control, transition effects, 3D animation with a whole sh*load of models and sets, character generator, stereo sound etc etc etc;

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 03:51:01PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat, Daouda Lo and

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread hans schneidhofer
thanks for helping, so I have now a first point for lloking for my my new hardware. As I wrote, I was using my old workstation as a test-station, but the results was very poor, so I have to look for a new hardware-equipment. The USB I will use for printers, cameras, scanner and much more - if

Re: [expert] Preventing msec from changing file permissions

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Aleksey, I have I question/problem with msec on my 8.2 system: it keeps changing permissions on directory /home/PgDB. /var/log/auth.log has: ... Aug 13 15:01:00 ples msec: changed mode of /home/PgDB from 700 to 755 ... Trouble is, this is my data directory for PostgreSQL database, so it

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Jason Guidry
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 16:00, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: The kinds of tools you seem to be looking for really aren't in a mature (if they even exist yet) stage on the linux platform. If you want to do professional, high-end audio/video/animation editing (which you seem to be hinting at) you

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Vincent, On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 03:51:01PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat,

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 04:20:35PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat, Daouda

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-13 Thread engage
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 11:06 am, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sat Aug 10, 2002 at 06:19:20PM -0600, engage wrote: I am trying to update from libopenssl0-0.9.6b-1.1mdk and libopenssl0-devel-0.9.6b-1.1mdk to 0.9.6b-1.3mdk per Mandrake Advisory MDKSA-2002:046-1 for Mandrake Linux 8.1. I did get

Re: [expert] Preventing msec from changing file permissions

2002-08-13 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 15:15, Aleksey Y Naumov wrote: Dear experts, I have I question/problem with msec on my 8.2 system: it keeps changing permissions on directory /home/PgDB. /var/log/auth.log has: ... Aug 13 15:01:00 ples msec: changed mode of /home/PgDB from 700 to 755 ... Trouble is,

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Jason Guidry
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 14:01, hans schneidhofer wrote: thanks for helping, so I have now a first point for lloking for my my new hardware. i salivate at the though of this baby: http://www.pogolinux.com/cgi-bin/NVorticon/emptyquote.cgi there's also this box:

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Kiran
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 21:00, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: Hi! Sounds like you want an SGI or Sun Solaris workstation. The kinds of tools you seem to be looking for really aren't in a mature (if they even exist yet) stage on the linux platform. If you want to do professional, high-end

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Jason Guidry
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 13:39, Kiran wrote: as for 3D modeling take your pick, but my favorite is no longer available either and that was Blender (but there are others too). Not so fast, blender seems to be coming back back...open source. There's a ransom, $100k, but www.blender3d.com has

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-13 Thread engage
On Sunday 11 August 2002 08:47 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: engage wrote: The problem turned out to be with mod_ssl-2.8.5-3.1mdk. I uninstalled 2.8.5-3.1mdk and reinstalled 2.8.5-2.1mdk and that got the server running again. I don't know why the upgrade crashed the server. I'm running

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Jonathan I. Nori
Boy does this bring back the memories! [sits back and has fond memories of his old Amiga Toaster] *sigh* And yes, Babylon 5 and Reboot were primarily done on old off-the-shelf (well, at least as off-the-shelf as you can get with a computer that you have to have a couple laying around of for

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates:PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 16:38, civileme wrote: Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat, Daouda Lo and a few others.

Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...

2002-08-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 06:13 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: snip AMIGA VIDEOTOASTER INCREDIBLE machines. If people bought computers based on quality and snipped again I remember the Amiga! I had an A1000, A2000, and A1200... Loved the keyboard bay on

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

2002-08-13 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:39, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So my current suggestion to anyone who has bothered to read this far is to perhaps consider becoming activist with regard to Mandrake (if you havent already), each in his/her own way, but with financial concerns being paramount in your mind.

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

2002-08-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:53, Damon Lynch wrote: This is an excellent idea, and if you don't mind I'd like to use this? I have a suggestion. This survey would best be dealt to an audience of Linux users that have just heard a lecture on Open Source philosophy, with perhaps a touch on the