Re: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town(October 22)

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 09:00, Oliver Thieke wrote: Hi List, hi Steve B. ;-) ! Linux is very, very, very expensive for customers to take care of, Talking about a home environ he might be right. But in a corporate environ ? win2k and XP-Pro are there as complicated and difficult to

Re: [expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-26 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 26 October 2002 15:45, you wrote: John Haywood wrote:  Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it  crashes again. (you don't have to move the all the stuff back - cache files spring to mind) I suspect the bug will reappear with this. But should we

Re: [expert] Server shuts down

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
When it shuts down what happens if you try to ssh into it. If it's a web server does it still serve web pages? If it does I'd be inclined to suspect that perhaps apm or APIC (hope I got the right acronym here.) is trying to put the box to sleep. If so turn off or even remove apm from the box

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 screen shots ????

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Couple of things help. Go into look and feel and start checking out all the tabs available and playing around with the settings. Also Guys like texstar have bundled up Liquid and Keramik styles for KDE that in my opinion really help (pclinuxonline.com left hand side yields the links to some

Re: [expert] Creating network install bootable cdrom

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Jack, Actually ran across your pages independently while looking for some other info. A lot of really valuable info on them whether you are using a VIAO or not. Just wanted to say thanks for the site. James On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 08:43, Jack Coates wrote: the repeatable auto-install (e.g.

Re: [expert] importing X

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
If you found VNC to be slow try the tightVNC that MDK is now putting on it's disks. I've been using it for about a year. In fact I'm typing this e-mail on my desktop from the living room via VNC right now. No problems with speed at all. What I have found is. Over the net DON'T use kde or

Re: [expert] trouble with compact flash in pcmcia adapter

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On my box it's not hde but actually /dev/sdaX that is the compact flash device. So to mount the device I type mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk and it mounts. I also removed the line from fstab for auto mounting. Mandrakes install creates it during install and since the command to mount local file

Re: [expert] importing X

2002-10-26 Thread ddc_prueba
I agree with you James, I have an AMD XP 1600MHz 256Mb main box and a Pentium 166MMX laptop with 160Mb connected through a 100Mb/s lan and I have found TightVNC faster/more responsive than normal X in a linux to linux or in a linux to Exceed over windows config. (I use KDE over it and it's a

Re: [expert] Making an optimized kernel

2002-10-26 Thread ddc_prueba
I'm afraid I still don't catch it... what has to do in between telling gcc to try to optimize a bit more the binary and not being able to handle the source? Forgive my ignorance O:-) El sáb, 26-10-2002 a las 01:53, Todd Lyons escribió: ddc_prueba wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:06:02PM

[expert] menudrake and WindowMaker

2002-10-26 Thread Milos Prudek
I had that problem on one of the 3 Mandrake 9.0 installs that I performed. If I recall correctly the fix was very simple. As root cd to /etc/alternatives then execute the following command: ln -s /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 lib_cpp Yes it helped! Thank you very much. -- Milos Prudek Want to

[expert] menudrake and WindowMaker sync

2002-10-26 Thread Milos Prudek
menudrake does not synchronize with WindowMaker. Is there a simple fix? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town - Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-26 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi all I think such discussions are important of course, but these things must have a place outside this list. The expert list is I think a high traffic list with technical/expert themes. In the last days I got 33 postings on these topics I have filtered to trash, since I got some other

RE: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates ( be nice people!!!)

2002-10-26 Thread Franki
come on guys, chill out... This is the sort of fragmentation that will help remove our rights whereever we live.. The issue was raised, everyone on the list know knows whats going on and we are on an expert list and must therefore at least know how to use google :-) so if anyone wishes to

Re: [expert] rpm build issues, rpm -ba or -bb does not build binary .rpm file, src is OK.

2002-10-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:25:35 -0400 Eli Stair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get it back to the previous state. Can anyone point me in the right direction? bzip the spec and attach it and I will take a look. Charles --- Sanity and insanity overlap a fine grey

[expert] Mutt via KDE: flashing status line

2002-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
usually, i start Mutt from the command-line of a Konsole (on KDE), but i thought i would try to get it to start automatically at logon by using the entry in the KDE menu Networking - Mail - Mutt . this starts a working version of Mutt in a terminal, but the Mutt status line flashes continually.

Re: [expert] Mutt via KDE: flashing status line

2002-10-26 Thread Dave Kufta
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:50:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: usually, i start Mutt from the command-line of a Konsole (on KDE), but i thought i would try to get it to start automatically at logon by using the entry in the KDE menu Networking - Mail - Mutt . this starts a working version of

Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-26 Thread ET
On Friday 25 October 2002 10:37 pm, Mark wrote: Udo Rader wrote: hmp. I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list where (besides some outbreaks of mostly interesting OT threads) such political _nonsense_ has nothing to search. Living in Europe I have neither the

Re: [expert] trouble with compact flash in pcmcia adapter

2002-10-26 Thread J. Grant
hi, if you are using lilo edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove the devfs from your normal bootup then run lilo as root if you dont want to do that just boot failsafe JG ajax wrote: The card is a normal CF card. It works in my pocket pc and digital camera. The adapter works in windows. When I

Re: [expert] trouble with compact flash in pcmcia adapter

2002-10-26 Thread J. Grant
Sounds like you have USB adapter, we are using the pccard type that really only just cross a few wires mine is /dev/hde1 JG James Sparenberg wrote: On my box it's not hde but actually /dev/sdaX that is the compact flash device. So to mount the device I type mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk and it

Re: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town -Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 02:40, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi all I think such discussions are important of course, but these things must have a place outside this list. The expert list is I think a high traffic list with technical/expert themes. In the last days I got 33 postings on these

SOLVED: Re: [expert] rpm build issues, rpm -ba or -bb does not build binary .rpm file, src is OK.

2002-10-26 Thread Eli Stair
Charles, thanks. Fortunately I was just up for too long and my eyes were bleary :) After taking a fresh look this morning it was obvious. Just goes to show you , gotta get some sleep /eli On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:25:35 -0400 Eli Stair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get it back

Re: [expert] Mutt via KDE: flashing status line

2002-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
021026 Dave Kufta wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:50:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: usually, i start Mutt from the command-line of a Konsole (on KDE), but i thought i would try to get it to start automatically at logon by using the entry in the KDE menu Networking - Mail - Mutt . this

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-26 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi gary okay its a global setting since it affects both root and others. what is your security setting? how about trying to lower the security level just to test whether this also happens. im running out of ideas ... its already draining my 1/8 brain =P cheers dianne --- Gary Hodder [EMAIL

Re: [expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-26 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi norman, it works yeah ... but it sux to have mozilla crash on you when you are in the middle doing some important long business mail that you were composing. and of course, it also sux big time to save draft mails everytime. (not used to it on netscape 4.x) i checked with other people about

[expert] Nvidia tvout: solved

2002-10-26 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Well, It seems that at the moment nvtv (release 0.4.04) can't work with my video card chip (Geforce 4 Titanium 420), but the Nvidia drivers can run relatively well; after looking for information in the Internet, I found the solution, just adding in the XF86Config-4 file the next lines in the

Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-26 Thread Daryl Johnson
When you resort to personal abuse then you have already lost the argument. It appears that your respect for others is matched only by your lack of knowledge of european history - which has nothing of course to do with linux. Unless that is you want to start talking about the (British)

Re: [expert] trouble with compact flash in pcmcia adapter

2002-10-26 Thread ajax
Thanks, It works now. Failsafe boots the mandrake kernel and I need the win4lin kernel so I needed to change lilo.conf. Am I going to lose something by not running devfs? On Saturday 26 October 2002 07:37, J. Grant wrote: hi, if you are using lilo edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove the devfs

Re: [expert] funny xine bug in Mandrake 8.2

2002-10-26 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
For my xine 0.913 is runing almost perfect under 9.2 and did also that under 8.2 (0.9.10 and 0.9.13) Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Jue 24 Oct 2002 19:25, ddc_prueba escribió: I'm using 8.2 with: libxine0-0.9.13-3plf xmms-1.2.7-4mdk and does NOT have that problem (and have never had

[expert] LM 9.0 compatibility with HP Pavilion 523n?

2002-10-26 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know whether LM 9.0 will install and run OK on an HP Pavilion 523n? I've spent some time scouring the web and can't find any indication one way or the other, so before I found myself out $800 I thought I'd check here to see if anyone

[expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-26 Thread Jack Coates
Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset. Athlon 900 MHz 768MB PC100 RAM Voodoo3 3000 AGP card

[expert] file properties viewing as in win

2002-10-26 Thread bascule
in win one can r.click on some files and view their properties to see who wrote them or what version they are etc. is there a way to get this info in linux bascule -- He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Jack Coates wrote: Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset. Athlon 900 MHz 768MB PC100 RAM Voodoo3

[expert] strange message from list participant?

2002-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
the message below has appeared in my spam mail file, diverted there by the presence of please in the subject. i find it rather suspicious seem to recall an article re some sort of virus or worm or other deviant creature, which hid behind this type of subject message. i also find it difficult to

[expert] libsasl7

2002-10-26 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
Anybody know what src.rpm libsasl7 is part of. There is no src.rpm named libsasl7 in the curent release. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] libsasl7

2002-10-26 Thread Toshiro
El sáb, 26-10-2002 a las 22:35, Gregory K. Meyer escribió: Anybody know what src.rpm libsasl7 is part of. There is no src.rpm named libsasl7 in the curent release. -- The rpm is cyrus-sasl-1.5.27-5mdk.src.rpm. BTW, if you type: rpm -qi package it gives the src.rpm that builds the package.

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Someone had mentioned once that the highest setting in msec actually has a login timeout. Backing off the highest level or changeing the setting in /etc/msec should help. James (My cure for msec problems is a bit more drastic... rpm -e msec *grin*) On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 10:30, Dianne Marie

Re: [expert] trouble with compact flash in pcmcia adapter

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Could of swore I'd read you had USB sorry about that. Shouldn't answer letters after an 18 hour day. James. On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 07:39, J. Grant wrote: Sounds like you have USB adapter, we are using the pccard type that really only just cross a few wires mine is /dev/hde1 JG James

Re: [expert] file properties viewing as in win

2002-10-26 Thread James Sparenberg
To always have that info cruise your directory with Konqueror. Use View then detailed list mode. Gives all the data you could want. In the icon view mode it comes up with a tabbed window when you right click. (last item in the list properties) that also gives this info. James On Sat,

[expert] Disk Full notification?

2002-10-26 Thread Barry Michels
When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it was working on

Re: [expert] libsasl7

2002-10-26 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Saturday 26 October 2002 09:56 pm, Toshiro wrote: BTW, if you type: rpm -qi package it gives the src.rpm that builds the package. Thanks, I learn something new everyday. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Creating network install bootable cdrom

2002-10-26 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 09:44, Todd Lyons wrote: Very nice indeed, but the guy only needed to boot CD2 and he would have been able to do a network install from that. :-/ Blue skies... todd -- Todd, I have seen this advice before, but it don't work for me. Perhaps you can tell

[expert] Using Kmail with postfix/fetchmail/procmail question

2002-10-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I've got postfix/fetchmail/procmail setup, following the excellant tutorial at MandrakeUser Online. (BTW, I have to comment on the gui for fetchmailconf - its great! Wish other apps would use it as an example!) Now...I use Kmail, and I'm not sure if I have it setup correctly to use with