Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

2002-08-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You seem to be assuming that the only way to contribute to a distribution is to pay money to its makers. Mandrake has many volunteers who contribute their time and efforts instead of money. I am one such person. Often these contributions can far outweigh the cost of a boxed set or Club

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

2002-08-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 19:56, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You seem to be assuming that the only way to contribute to a distribution is to pay money to its makers. 1)Have you ever contributed financially to a Linux distribution? 1.4.No, I contribute code instead 1.5.No,

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

2002-08-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:30, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: This is an excellent idea, and if you don't mind I'd like to use this? Yes please do use it but by all means try to improve it. I have no training in surveys and I'm sure it could be improved. Also if you could give us feedback in how

[expert] console cd roms contents problems

2002-08-14 Thread falcaraz
Dear friends, I am testing Beta 9.2 and I have a problem that I had also in the beta 1; I can see the contents of the cdroms (I have two cdrom drivers) using konqueror or similar graphics applications (krusader, nautilus,..) but if I try to do that from a console, even with the konqueror showing

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

2002-08-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
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

[expert] Hello List

2002-08-14 Thread newslett
I've been a Cooker List subscriber/user for some time now but I just subscribed here. A big hello from a ML fan and I look forward to the discussions with you all. Regards, Jason Greenwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2002-08-14 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
LOL Sorry.. Been there, done that. I cut a server off at the knees doing things like that. The toughest lesson I had to learn when I first got into Unix many years ago: Screw the GUI, do it by hand. Then when something breaks, you know what it was, and how to fix it. vi/iptables is your friend.

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

2002-08-14 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: 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

[expert] 2 TV questions

2002-08-14 Thread J Herzfeld
Background ATI TV wonder VE card =64(?) tuner type= 17 attached to cable TV Soundblaster Live sound card Program being used xawtv 3.58(?) First one is off topic, but maybe someone here knows. Is there a maximum length cable run before the TV signal gets degraded? The run from the

Re: [expert] 2 TV questions

2002-08-14 Thread kwan
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, J Herzfeld wrote: Background ATI TV wonder VE card =64(?) tuner type= 17 attached to cable TV Soundblaster Live sound card Program being used xawtv 3.58(?) First one is off topic, but maybe someone here knows. Is there a maximum length cable run

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

2002-08-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:25 am, you wrote: LOL Sorry.. Been there, done that. I cut a server off at the knees doing things like that. The toughest lesson I had to learn when I first got into Unix many years ago: Screw the GUI, do it by hand. Then when something breaks, you know what

[expert] Autoloading a module

2002-08-14 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I've bought a D-Link DWL-650 pcmcia wireless card that's recognized by MDK8.2 and wvlan_cs module is loaded automagically when the card is inserted. But as connection sometimes hangs and I have not been able to use it in ad-hoc mode (only in managed) I'd like to try orinoco and

Re: [expert] Autoloading a module

2002-08-14 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've bought a D-Link DWL-650 pcmcia wireless card that's recognized by MDK8.2 and wvlan_cs module is loaded automagically when the card is inserted. But as connection sometimes hangs and I have not been able to use it in ad-hoc mode (only in

[expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-14 Thread J. Craig Woods
Hey Civ, Just so you don't feel too bad about having to be job hunting again, I thought I might share this little tidbit of info with you. You are, no doubt, aware of Max Vision, and his recent travails. Well out check the following. The man is back (we hope)! Others on this list my also know

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

2002-08-14 Thread civileme
Tibbetts, Ric wrote: LOL Sorry.. Been there, done that. I cut a server off at the knees doing things like that. The toughest lesson I had to learn when I first got into Unix many years ago: Screw the GUI, do it by hand. Then when something breaks, you know what it was, and how to fix it.

[expert] Printing problem

2002-08-14 Thread newslett
I just installed ML 9.0B2 for a friend and he has this problem when printing with an Epson Colour 400 (I think that's the model): = (snip) Hi Jason. I have noticed when I print in ABI word or open office I get a get a thin horizonal line about 2mm accross the top of my page. Any

Re: [expert] Preventing msec from changing file permissions

2002-08-14 Thread Aleksey Y Naumov
Chuck, thanks for the valuable advice! I created /etc/security/msec/perm.local with just one line: /home/PgDB postgres.postgres 700 and it seems to have done what I want (after running 'msec' of course). Thanks a bunch! Daniel, thanks for the links, I'll definitely check

[expert] pppd can't connect - pptpd subsequently dies

2002-08-14 Thread james
Hello, I've followed the PopTop how-to for 2.4 kernels to a 't', yet I cannot establish a connection. Running Mandrake 8.2 with pppd 2.4.1 + Poptop 1.1.2 behind a Cisco 806 router with ports 1723 and 47 forwarding to the server. Here is a log of an attempted connection from Windows 2000 from