Re: [expert] how to run VB application under linux

2003-03-14 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:32 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:50, PlugHead wrote: (Doh! Re-post to the correct address.) In my (somewhat limited) experience with wine, it is possible to fix some of these problems by copying the appropriate windows DLL to

Re: [expert] Videoconferencing and OpenMCU

2003-03-14 Thread Oscar Santacreu
El Jue 13 Mar 2003 22:46, escribió: -- Mensaje reenviado -- Subject: Re: [expert] Videoconferencing and OpenMCU Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:11:58 -0500 From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:14:46 +0100 Oscar Santacreu [EMAIL

Re: [expert] New list Moderator (was) 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-14 Thread Trevor
Mark, ROTFLMAO till I wet myself!!! alright, I yeild. since I can't find my @$$hole card at the moment I too am assured by the look of mr! you just crossed the line stare I get from my wife that I too can and do exercise my God given right to be an @$$hole on occassion when the situation

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:47 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Funny stuff which I don't really understand is that in installer I could select my radeon, and XFree86 4.3.0 with hardware acceleration with no prob and the test would show the X screen in my chosen resolution and colors, but after

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread adrian . golumbovici
civileme schrieb: On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:47 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Funny stuff which I don't really understand is that in installer I could select my radeon, and XFree86 4.3.0 with hardware acceleration with no prob and the test would show the X screen in my chosen

Re: [expert] Multi-profile Linux

2003-03-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:37, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:48:46PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: How have any of you solved this? I agree with your experience: Mandrake does not provide nice support for roaming with your laptop (perhaps Starbucks is not

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:56, Gary Hodder wrote: It is the latest as of a couple of days. It boots up ok and is quick in text mode. When running kde it starts loading ok, brings up the kde box and goes through those items and then it disappears. All that is left is the blue screen, its just

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 March 2003 03:49 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:56, Gary Hodder wrote: It is the latest as of a couple of days. It boots up ok and is quick in text mode. When running kde it starts loading ok, brings up the kde box and goes through those items and then

[expert] howto set default url-handlers for gnome2

2003-03-14 Thread Udo Rader
hi all, I'm wondering how to set evolution (or anything else) as my default mail-handler for all gnome2 applications (like galeon). I don't see any url-handler item in the gnome-control-center, so has anybody else got an idea how to do this? thanks udo Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] four shots fired into Dell laptop Sunday (3/2) morning

2003-03-14 Thread David Jones
His laptop had to be running windoz caz Linux would have fought back LOL http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/georgedoughty1.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT Linux user from Taipei familiar with available hardware

2003-03-14 Thread Tru64 User
Hi Tarvid, If you dont mind sharing your findings. Looking for a supplier to Tanzania for hardware. _Thanks Richard --- tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to make contact with a Linux person who knows the hardware market in Taipei to act as a purchasing agent on a small scale.

Re: [expert] OT Linux user from Taipei familiar with availablehardware

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Coates
? Taipei, Taiwan -- off the coast of China. Tanzania, country in Eastern Africa. Small time distributor in one is unlikely to have reach to the other :-) On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 06:46, Tru64 User wrote: Hi Tarvid, If you dont mind sharing your findings. Looking for a supplier to Tanzania for

Re: [expert] OT Linux user from Taipei familiar with available hardware

2003-03-14 Thread Tru64 User
Sorry ALL, I shouldn't have sent this to the public to begin with, i meant to reply directly to person who sent initial OT message. It just happened that someone had asked me if I know of distributors who can supply hardware parts directly to Tanzania, instead of them having to buy from UK or

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-14 Thread Jim C
I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I figure that the French probably have as little control over their government as we here in the US have over ours. I just wish the Middle Eastern extremists could see this. Government should be run more like an open source project, anyway.

Re: [expert] Php-nuke postfix not working

2003-03-14 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres 14 Març 2003 01:16, en Todd Lyons va escriure: Joan Tur wrote on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:35:28PM +0100 : syslog after having ordered php-nuke to send the password to a user: - - Mar 13 23:26:54 quiniserver postfix/pickup[2999]:

[expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I have removed the last bug I had for 9.1 (^_^) I think 9.1 is ready to come. I will be a great distributions, the Mandrake team has worked very well, draktools look pretty well and now seems that all are runing (even my digital camera has been instaled throughout a line in the fstab about

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:00 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will return, and support the French again. Until

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Todd Lyons
Vincent Danen wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:03:35AM -0700 : Zero tolerance. I'd like to see that done on all Mandrake lists. The amount of time some of us spend wading through this junk boggles me. In effect right now. I read what's been posted to the list through the night, after that,

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, Todd... On Friday 14 March 2003 11:43 am, Todd Lyons wrote: In effect right now. I read what's been posted to the list through the night, after that, they're gone. In few words, my Inbox says THANK YOU. gulp and so do I. Dave -

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Preston-Campbell
On Friday 14 March 2003 02:43 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Vincent Danen wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:03:35AM -0700 : Zero tolerance. I'd like to see that done on all Mandrake lists. The amount of time some of us spend wading through this junk boggles me. In effect right now. I read

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-14 Thread silkythreads
Well said Civileme If you don't like this distropost your complaints somewhere else. Alot of the contributors to this are not French your views represent a NARROW MINDED LOOK AT THE WORLD !! Ricdo you really think every thing marked MADE IN AMERICA is ?Go boycott fried

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 13 March 2003 01:57 pm, Jack Coates wrote: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/deworming.html On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 05:01, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi all, any way to stop getting over run with this crud. The start of each line has been removed to protect the guilty. Thanks Gary.

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 08:32:05PM +0100, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: [...] (^_^) Happy for Mandrake 9.1, :-( sad because it seems that sooner millions of irakies will probably be fighted by the war. Bad times for the freedom are coming, aren't they? Good grief. Are you *trying* to

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 11:43:43AM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: Zero tolerance. I'd like to see that done on all Mandrake lists. The amount of time some of us spend wading through this junk boggles me. In effect right now. I read what's been posted to the list through the night, after that,

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few questions tho... XFree86 4.3.0 is supposed to support the Radeon 9700 (to what extent... I couldn't find any info on their site). I think the agpgart might be the prob. I am wondering if the agpgart module supports at least

[expert] Setting up Embperl

2003-03-14 Thread Daniel Axtell
I'm trying get beyond Perl and CGI to do more sophisticated templating. Before I take the plunge into PHP, I thought I'd check out some of the Perl-based templating system, like HTML::Mason and Embperl. That latter looks particularly promising, if I could get it to work. I'm running LM 9.0,

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:45:07 -0700 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am, personally, about half an inch from unsubscribing from this list as well, although it pains me to do so as some people have questions regarding security and updates that I like to help with. But I simply can't

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny stuff which I don't really understand is that in installer I could select my radeon, and XFree86 4.3.0 with hardware acceleration with no prob and the test would show the X screen in my chosen resolution and

[expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Righty ho, time to post I've come late to the thread, but not the issue - I posted not so long ago about using the Radeon 9000 board under MDK. Here's what partially works for me: 1.Backup your current /etc/X11/XF86-Config 4 to .org 2. Download the ATI Linux drivers 3. Install them,

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
I've come late to the thread, but not the issue - I posted not so long ago about using the Radeon 9000 board under MDK. Here's what partially works for me: ... SNIP ... Almost forgot. Did you manage to install the drivers with the XFree86 4.3.0? It seems

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:14, et wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 05:54 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: This might be the DHCP problem that was talked about today at some length. Is it 9.1 RC2? If so, you'll want to wait for 9.1 final or update the DHCP packages from cooker. I'm not

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread tarvid
Vincent - Francisco - we love you both. At all times, but expecially times like this, the kindest thing we can do for our friends is cut them a little slack. There are bugs, there will always be bugs, I've been using cooker in production for over a month now and it has been a source of joy. A

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 14 Mar 2003 22:41, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. I've got a Hercules Radeon 8500LE and it worked perfectly using DVI to my LG Flatron. I never play game so I

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Whitehead wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:41:18PM -0800 : Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. 2D should be supported in 9.1 (I'll assume that was

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread civileme
On Friday 14 March 2003 01:41 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. For 2D you should(tm) be OK, but you should also realize that you are less than five miles from the

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 March 2003 02:43 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Vincent Danen wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:03:35AM -0700 : Zero tolerance. I'd like to see that done on all Mandrake lists. The amount of time some of us spend wading through this junk boggles me. In effect right now. I read what's

Re: [expert] KDE very slow in mdk9.1

2003-03-14 Thread Gary Hodder
Thanks to all who replied. It seems logical that it would sit there forever trying to do a lookup on a unknown lo interface. My sons away for the weekend and don't know his root passwd so wont know the outcome till sunday night. I'm looking forward to the results before upgrading my box. Thanks

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:40:25 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin has some dandy answers, concerned with automnated email to sysadmins followed by action to keep them from bothering you or others. I think you will find them at his site. http://pfortin.com/Linux/

Re: [expert] Multi-profile Linux

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 12 Mar 2003 16:48:46 -0800 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've fought with it till I'm blue in the face and it seems I finally have tricked my hardware into allowing me to use a wireless nic. Now I've got to find out how to do something simple enough in theory... move

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 06:14:27PM -0500, tarvid wrote: Vincent - Francisco - we love you both. At all times, but expecially times like this, the kindest thing we can do for our friends is cut them a little slack. I don't think there should be slack for consistent OT posters. I don't

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Pierre... On Friday 14 March 2003 04:27 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On the _passive_ side, I have some ideas for short-circuiting Nimda attacks with iptables. [Dave sits upright in his chair from sleeping through the flame wars and

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 04:27:38PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: I am, personally, about half an inch from unsubscribing from this list as well, although it pains me to do so as some people have questions regarding security and updates that I like to help with. But I simply can't stand

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:49:53 -0700 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have something you know for sure won't be addressed in the final release to add? I do... I'm running 9.0 on only one system -- all the rest are still at 8.2 BUT... the question I have is very

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-14 Thread Vox
This time Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Vox wrote on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:24:53PM -0600 : 1.2.1 on my Mandrake 9.0 box (compiled by Mandrake developers). One thing is that the upgrade to the version of urpmi/gurpmi in there was bad. urpmi still worked,

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:49, Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 06:14:27PM -0500, tarvid wrote: Vincent - Francisco - we love you both. At all times, but expecially times like this, the kindest thing we can do for our friends is cut them a little slack. I don't think there

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:50:15 -0800 Dave Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Pierre... On Friday 14 March 2003 04:27 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On the _passive_ side, I have some ideas for short-circuiting Nimda attacks with

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Pierre... On Friday 14 March 2003 06:04 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Got a pointer to the strings' stuff...? I'm running 8.2 on my main server (9.0 issues)... http://articles.linuxguru.net/view/125 It would seem, based upon my reading

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 March 2003 08:35 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Does Mdk even try just *starting* the applications included in a release? I'm still quite miffed at 9.0 for a number of reasons; however, last night, I asked another list member if ohphone just *started* in 9.1rc2... NOPE! pwlib

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 March 2003 05:41 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. -- Linux counter number 167806 yes it works out of the box on the ATI 8500DVI installed in a box here.

[expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. any ideas about what I can really do to fix this? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Whitehead wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:41:18PM -0800 : Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only need 2D. No hardware 3D needed. 2D should be supported in 9.1 (I'll

Re: [expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. any ideas about what I can really do to fix this? One popular

Re: [expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Andy Davidson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0800, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 19:44, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Whitehead wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:41:18PM -0800 : Will Mandrake 9.0 work out of the box with this card? or do I need todo some extra hacking? I only

Re: [expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 14 March 2003 07:32 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. any ideas about what I can