[expert] [newbie] Cannot install 9.1 on Vaio

2003-04-01 Thread Benedetto Gorini
Hi Guys, could someone please help me to install mdk 9.1 on a Vaio PCG-Z600TEK? It has an external pcmcia cd-rom. When I installed mdk 8.1 and 8.2 I had to use a special boot disk called pcmcia-vaio-memorystick.img that I found in the errata page. With mdk 9.1 there is no equivalent img file. I

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-01 Thread richard bown
Thanks Gary, I'll try this when I get in from work tonight Richard On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 06:18, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. > > For a network of samba and windows but does not have a windows server/domain > controller. > example setup. > Workgroup = home

Re: [expert] Kernel headers

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 21:04, Laurent Mesuré wrote: > Hi, > > i use a kernel 2-4-19 on a Linux Mandrake 9.0 and i have to install > vmware workstation 3.2. But it asked me for kernel-header 2-4-19, but > there is none because it is ending with the 2-4-18 version. > > How can i do to get the head

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-04-01 Thread David E. Fox
> I've had good experiences with SpamPal. It's free. Thanks for the tip. Not only that, it'll fit on a floppy, and the installation doesn't look too difficult. I'll pass it on. now if I can find a floppy that actually works :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:01, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:31, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup

Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-04-01 Thread David E. Fox
> Now that I have created (add) another swap partition to have memory enough > to suspend to HD, my doubt is what should I have to put in lilo append? I don't think that's an issue. How much total RAM do you have? IMHO you can just add both swap partitions in /etc/fstab and have them autoattach o

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-01 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. For a network of samba and windows but does not have a windows server/domain controller. example setup. Workgroup = homenet User = winuser Passswd = winpass Win98 user logs into windows with username winuser and passwd winpass. In control panel net

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread David E. Fox
> I have to write a webapp with a downlaod option for the data.. > at present the format is in .csv (comma seperated values) OK, most if not all spreadsheets can take CSV. (csv is nearly identical to Basic DATA statement format, without the DATA tokens, in case anyone's wondering). It seems you

[expert] Kernel headers

2003-04-01 Thread Laurent Mesuré
Hi, i use a kernel 2-4-19 on a Linux Mandrake 9.0 and i have to install vmware workstation 3.2. But it asked me for kernel-header 2-4-19, but there is none because it is ending with the 2-4-18 version. How can i do to get the headers of 2.4.19? regards Laurent Mesuré Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [expert] Unknown processes...

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:33, Leonardo wrote: > I have these running... > > keventd -- kernel event daemon > kapmd-- kernel apm daemon > ksoftirqd_CPU0 --kernel irq daemon > kswapd -- kernel swap daemon > bdflush -- kernel daemon to flush dirty buffers back to disk > kupdated -- kernel upd

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:23, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:16, Jack Coates wrote: > > 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup > > program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying > > ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/soffice, but all my MIME stuff

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:16, Jack Coates wrote: > 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup > program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying > ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/soffice, but all my MIME stuff is borked. Any > ideas? > > thanks, Jack doesn't sound like

Re: [expert] my 9.1 first day: missing start menu items and more

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 06:50, Christopher Kolar wrote: > At 09:24 AM 3/30/2003, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:03, Christopher Kolar wrote: > > > Hi everyone. I've recently upgraded to 9.1 from 8.1 and, given the > > > age difference, things went pretty smoothly. To date the most > > >

Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 - a big puzzle

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 00:05, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 4:10 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I've installed the 2.4.21 kernel, and think that with a bit of help it > > > should be possible to get the camera working now. It has b

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thanks to a local LUG member, got Samba going. Samba does not by default create a new smb user when you run smbpasswd. You must create it manually. I'm sure many ways would have worked but smbpasswd -a worked here and then with a few tweaks she came up roses. Cheers for the help all, Jason Ga

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:44, diego wrote: > XML is universal and should perform ok with any perl/whatever script to > convert to/from any other format. Only backdraw I can think of is > unefficiency (you'd probably end with much more tags than data > itself)... > > Anyway, it seems you have

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Jason Greenwood
AFAIK, yes, they can, it's a matter of piping the output of one through the other eg, like using a touchpad AND external mouse on a laptop at the same time (which I currently can do). It makes use of the send core events argument in the XF86 Config files. I will attch my config files for you to

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Damon Lynch
Thanks very much everyone for the detailed information. All I need to do now is find a decent left-hand mouse with buttons that can be activated by the thumb - not easy to do! For the right hand I use a 3M ergonomic mouse - http://www.3m.com/cws/renmouse.html This works very well but is strictl

[expert] I also had network problems (among others...) after upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen Hillier
I have an old Dell GX-Pro with a Pentium Pro 200, 128 Meg, 3COM 3c905 Boomerang 10/100baseT and Adaptec 2940UW scsi (no IDE enabled). Its a test machine I use at work and I thought I'd upgrade it first to check things out before upgrading my main home server machine. I'm glad I did the test upgrade

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 06:20, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 3:10 pm, Frankie wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I have to write a webapp with a downlaod option for the data.. > > at present the format is in .csv (comma seperated values) > > > > however there are massive limitations to what cs

Re: [expert] Unknown processes...

2003-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:33, Leonardo wrote: > I have these running... > > keventd > kapmd > ksoftirqd_CPU0 > kswapd > bdflush > kupdated > mdrecoveryd > kjournald > > ... and i'm deperate to free some system's resources. I don't have any ideas > about what they are, and I would take some time in

Re: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:16, Jack Coates wrote: > any one else using (or failing to use) crossover plugin on 9.1? It > quietly fails to work here, except pluginsetup which fails with "unable > to get info about installed DLLs." Yep and I've talked with one of their people about this as well. I'

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:17, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:41, Damon Lynch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My physiotherapist is suggesting a mouse for the left and the right > > hand, with one for half the day, and one for the other half. Can I have > > both plugged in at the same time?

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-04-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 05:08, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > On 30 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > > I'll do a double check at home. All that said, you're using 'pmsuspend', > right? > > > Yes... if I leave it commented out ... it goes to ram... (verified by > > removing power suspen

[expert] Unknown processes...

2003-04-01 Thread Leonardo
I have these running... keventd kapmd ksoftirqd_CPU0 kswapd bdflush kupdated mdrecoveryd kjournald ... and i'm deperate to free some system's resources. I don't have any ideas about what they are, and I would take some time in google trying to find what these process are. So, can I kill (or disab

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Crawford
I agree- I run only Crucial on all my boxes. I've never had a ram problem in all these years, and if you like to overclock, Crucial always does great. But if Anne has cheapo pc100 on the old cyrix/ibm box, it probably won't cut it with a PC133 board. Robert C. On Tuesday 01 April 2003 04:34 pm

Re: openssh was: Re: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap

2003-04-01 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Mon 2003-03-31 at 21:18:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun Mar 30, 2003 at 09:35:58AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] > > -i Specifies that sshd is being run from inetd. sshd is > > normally not run from inetd because it needs to generate > >

Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

2003-04-01 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Now that I think of it I used DigiKam Sorry for the mixup. Ralph On Tuesday 01 April 2003 04:46 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I use to use gphoto in 9.0 with a PowerShot S30 "USB". All I had to do was > plugin the camra to a usb port turn it on and start gphoto configure it for > my camra and

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:41, Damon Lynch wrote: > Hi, > > My physiotherapist is suggesting a mouse for the left and the right > hand, with one for half the day, and one for the other half. Can I have > both plugged in at the same time? (I don't need to actually move them > around simultaneously

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:41, Damon Lynch wrote: > My physiotherapist is suggesting a mouse for the left and the right > hand, with one for half the day, and one for the other half. Can I have > both plugged in at the same time? (I don't need to actually move them > around simultaneously :-) I'd

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:41 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > Hi, > > My physiotherapist is suggesting a mouse for the left and the right > hand, with one for half the day, and one for the other half. Can I > have both plugged in at the same time? (I don't need to actually > move them around simultaneo

[expert] CD-ROM troubles

2003-04-01 Thread Stutzman, JL Jason (6081) @ IS
I've installed MDK 9.1 on two machines...one worked perfectly, the other has CD-ROM troubles. It is a dual 500 Mhz (kinda old) with a SCSI interface card (for scanner, and ZIP drive). One of the CD drives is a writer and is under SCSI emulation. The other is a standard DVD rom drive on the ide. T

Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

2003-04-01 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
I use to use gphoto in 9.0 with a PowerShot S30 "USB". All I had to do was plugin the camra to a usb port turn it on and start gphoto configure it for my camra and usb and presto download the pic's. Ralph On Monday 31 March 2003 04:03 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: > Anne, > I've been away for a da

[expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, My physiotherapist is suggesting a mouse for the left and the right hand, with one for half the day, and one for the other half. Can I have both plugged in at the same time? (I don't need to actually move them around simultaneously :-) I'd prefer not to have to crawl under the desk twice a

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday April 1 2003 03:09 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:43:06 -0500 > > Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears you > > will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has > > PC100 at best. > > If it is "good" PC100 from a reputable company su

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread diego
True, but that's why standards are for... Have a look at http://www.w3.org/ as they are working on html, xml, etc standards and they pretend them to be widely spread. M$ is not a reference to proof a standard. I read somewhere that M$ worked together with other companies to get HTML transactional

Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 31 Mar 2003 10:03 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: > Anne, > I've been away for a day. I see you got the 2.4.21 installed, so I guess > the lilo problem has been solved. On the camera problem- I had a similar > problem with a canon PowerShot G2, and never was able to solve it with > Mandrake 9.

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 10:09 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:43:06 -0500 > > Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears you > > will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has PC100 at > > best. > > If it is "good" PC100 from a reputable company suc

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 31 Mar 2003 9:43 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: > Here's a link to what I believe is that board/cpu you mention. It appears > you will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has PC100 at > best. You might need a better Power Supply- at least 250watts, but some > smaller ones wil

Re: [expert] Fuji Finepix S304 again!

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Crawford
Anne, I've been away for a day. I see you got the 2.4.21 installed, so I guess the lilo problem has been solved. On the camera problem- I had a similar problem with a canon PowerShot G2, and never was able to solve it with Mandrake 9.0, so I can offer little help on that one. Robert C. On Mond

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:43:06 -0500 Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears you > will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has PC100 at > best. If it is "good" PC100 from a reputable company such as Crucial or others it can be run at 133. I have several stick th n

Re: [expert] usb problem with PDA palm zire

2003-04-01 Thread Shamot
my PDA works fine now. I solved the problem with KPilot where I hade to change some conduits to make it work. But Kpilot is too bugy for using. I am happy jpilot works fine now. Dne út 1. duben 2003 22:13 Robert Goshko napsal(a): > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:46, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > I get min

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Crawford
Here's a link to what I believe is that board/cpu you mention. It appears you will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has PC100 at best. You might need a better Power Supply- at least 250watts, but some smaller ones will work, if the output on the 5v and 3volt lines is adequate

Re: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:52 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > What version of winex? Did you try StarCraft? > > > > This is the only thing keeping me from upgrading to 9.1 on my r

[expert] re:samba

2003-04-01 Thread richard bown
Sorry Guys, this is getting a pain !!! I have at last managed to get the windows machine to see the linux machine, albeit its still very wrong. If I use the find computers in the entire section of winblows network neighbourhood, it will find it and show the shares if I use the ip address of the lin

Re: [expert] usb problem with PDA palm zire

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:46, Mark Weaver wrote: > > I get mine to work, but only when I don't used devfs (devfs=nomount in > > LILO),as under devfs, it doesn't exist until something is there. > > > > Once you get rid of devfs them you will find /dev/ttyUSB1, then do: > > > > ln -s /dev/ttyUSB

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > > yes, OpenOffice.org-1.0.2-7mdk. It started after I cleaned out my home > > directory, but persists after: > > > > restoring ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1 & ~/.openoffice from backup > > > > rem

Re: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > What version of winex? Did you try StarCraft? > > This is the only thing keeping me from upgrading to 9.1 on my real machine. > I have it installed on a test box and it looks really

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:29 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > IIRC, OpenOffice.org is working with OASIS to correct this very problem > > Here's hoping... [...] > -Original Message- > From: diego [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: T

RE: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
What version of winex? Did you try StarCraft? This is the only thing keeping me from upgrading to 9.1 on my real machine. I have it installed on a test box and it looks really nice. David -Original Message- From: Praedor Atrebates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 200

Re: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:05 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > Crossover (and wine in general) are currently broken on all distros that > use glibc 2.3.x with the native pthreads stuff. > > You can see a summary from Jeremy White of CodeWeavers

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 8:21 pm, Frankie wrote: > I also got headers of a sort with csv now as well.. > I had the headings in an array (a list)... so I did a count on them.. and > inserted this in the script: > $csv_output .= '-,' x $count; > > so it adds an underline for each header...

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > yes, OpenOffice.org-1.0.2-7mdk. It started after I cleaned out my home > directory, but persists after: > > restoring ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1 & ~/.openoffice from backup > > removing and reinstalling the workstation install via > /usr/lib/ope

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
is the file format of SS open??? I need to create it with perl... in other words, I'd need to know the format. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Felix Miata Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
IIRC, OpenOffice.org is working with OASIS to correct this very problem Here's hoping... David -Original Message- From: diego [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. XML is uni

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread diego
XML is universal and should perform ok with any perl/whatever script to convert to/from any other format. Only backdraw I can think of is unefficiency (you'd probably end with much more tags than data itself)... Anyway, it seems you have hit a good point: missing aplication standards!!

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
I have since decided against this as well in the end.. I have gone back to csv... but as for why this is better then normal xls.. is that the perl module will only write xls that all the office apps will totally understand.. there is no diff in any of them.. excel often writes xls files that look

[expert] problem with ifplugd and 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx

2003-04-01 Thread Bruno Damour
Hi, I upgraded my server with mdk 9.1 (def) and I had problem with the network : eth0 does not come up properly (no ip). In syslog: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 00:10.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boome

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Frankie wrote: > so maybe that will have to do for now... csv is just missing to much... I > need basic formatting.. Why not try the original standard SS file formats, Lotus 1-2-3 v1A (WKS) or v2 (WK1)? AFAIK, there is no such thing as a spreadsheet app that can't handle at least one of them. My

RE: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Crossover (and wine in general) are currently broken on all distros that use glibc 2.3.x with the native pthreads stuff. You can see a summary from Jeremy White of CodeWeavers here: http://crossover.codeweavers.com/pipermail/discuss/2003-March/003093.html It looks like they're working on it an

Re: [expert] usb problem with PDA palm zire

2003-04-01 Thread Shamot
fine. It works now. USB files in /dev/ exist I have /dev/pilot as link to ttyUSB1 and with jpilot synchronizing with PDA works fine but in Kpilot it doesn't work. It seems like PDA connects to PC but it doesn't synchronize data and it ends the synchronizing prematury. Does anybody has the same p

Re: [expert] [squid-users] running out of file descriptors

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Rambo
Kwan Lowe wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:42, Mike Rambo wrote: > > We're running squid-2.4.STABLE7-2mdk on Mandrake Linux release 9.0 > > (dolphin) for i586. It's been running ok for a few weeks. I noticed this > > morning numerous "WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors" > > e

Re: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > any one else using (or failing to use) crossover plugin on 9.1? It > quietly fails to work here, except pluginsetup which fails with "unable > to get info about installed DLLs." Jack, there was a message not long ago from Jeremy (forgot his l

Re: [expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > any one else using (or failing to use) crossover plugin on 9.1? It > quietly fails to work here, except pluginsetup which fails with "unable > to get info about installed DLLs." Same here, using

[expert] KDE is taking forever to load - add client, destroying client????

2003-04-01 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello I had 8.2 running on my Sony laptop but I decided to upgrade to 9.1 (what a hell, 8.2 works fine and why not 9.1? So I thought). X server is taking forever to load. After 10 minutes I gave in and used shutdown the x server. Lots of adding clients and destroying clients showed up on

[expert] crossover plugin?

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
any one else using (or failing to use) crossover plugin on 9.1? It quietly fails to work here, except pluginsetup which fails with "unable to get info about installed DLLs." -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:31, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup > > program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifyi

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 6:21 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > As I think about it, I don't see much basis for anyone to come up with a > > "universal" spreadsheet format. Certainly, OO/SO, gnumeri

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 6:45 pm, Frankie wrote: > yeah, I agree with all of that.. > > problem is the end user is not gonna understand downloadin the data as > html.. > > so I went looking at cpan and found this: > http://search.cpan.org/author/JMCNAMARA/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.40/WriteEx >c el.pm

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 6:21 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > As I think about it, I don't see much basis for anyone to come up with a > "universal" spreadsheet format. Certainly, OO/SO, gnumeric, and kspread > developers COULD do so but it would be universal only to them and leave out > excel and lo

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
But if you name the file .html.xls, for all the users know, they are downloading Excel files. :) David -Original Message- From: Frankie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

Re: [expert] usb problem with PDA palm zire

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Goshko
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 06:34, Shamot wrote: > I tried it but it doesnt work. /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 still don't > exist. Modules for usb are loaded such as a viser module. There are still > reported errors like this: > > devfsd[143]: error copying: "/lib/dev-state/usb/tts/0" to "/dev/usb/t

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
yeah, I agree with all of that.. problem is the end user is not gonna understand downloadin the data as html.. so I went looking at cpan and found this: http://search.cpan.org/author/JMCNAMARA/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.40/WriteExc el.pm it creates what is as close to standards compliant xls as p

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > 9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup > program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying > ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/soffice, but all my MIME stuff is borke

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:57 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > I was able to get it to open in OO.o Calc only after naming the html file > spreadsheet.html.xls. The .xls extension is required or OO.o opens the file > (as you saw) in it's silly

[expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
9.1, every time I try to use oocalc or oowrite OpenOffice runs the setup program again instead. I can get OpenOffice by specifying ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.2/soffice, but all my MIME stuff is borked. Any ideas? thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://f

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
I was able to get it to open in OO.o Calc only after naming the html file spreadsheet.html.xls. The .xls extension is required or OO.o opens the file (as you saw) in it's silly HTML editor. I couldn't get the HTML I created to work in either gnumeric or kspread. kspread looks like it just tries t

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21 and NForce2 Chipset.

2003-04-01 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, OK - got the Asus A7N8X Board Booting & Working reliably under Mdk-9.1. with default kernel. 2 Problems do exist: 1. Framebuffer - For this - in the lilo.conf file - make sure the vga=xxx line is removed 2. acpi - Add the option: acpi=off to the append line of Lilo. You have to disabl

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:55 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > I would suggest trying HTML. Since you're using Perl, it should be a no > > brainier to create an HTML file that you can feed

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
csv is not good for formatting or table headings and the like.. The data is about 8gig of debt collection data.. and without headings it is gibberish.. whats why I was hoping there was a format that allowed just basic formatting.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [expert] samba

2003-04-01 Thread richard bown
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:31, Frankie wrote: > if you use windows find to look for the machine.. can it see it then?? > > Start->search/find->Computers... that bit is'nt in winblows 2k, but it dos'nt in network neighbourhood when searching there > > and enter the hostname of the linux server (in

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:55 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > I would suggest trying HTML. Since you're using Perl, it should be a no > > brainier to create an HTML file that you can feed

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Thanks! I'll send the file via private Email in a minute or so... David -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:55 pm,

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:55 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > I would suggest trying HTML. Since you're using Perl, it should be a no > brainier to create an HTML file that you can feed to whatever your client > is. I just tried a simple HTML file with both Excel (via CrossOver Office) > and

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 5:07 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > So what IS wrong with *.csv? You can format it so that it is compatible > with windoze or Mac or linux/unix. It is a simple text file and is > importable readable by virtually anything (as Anna stated). > The original post said that he h

Re: [expert] [squid-users] running out of file descriptors

2003-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:42, Mike Rambo wrote: > We're running squid-2.4.STABLE7-2mdk on Mandrake Linux release 9.0 > (dolphin) for i586. It's been running ok for a few weeks. I noticed this > morning numerous "WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors" > errors in cache.log. > > Googl

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: > > thats great > > > > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ??? > > .sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenOffice on all > platforms, or .xls if you want to g

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:36 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > I certainly understand the desire to not support M$ file formats. Even > though M$ doesn't gain directly from such support, they do peripherally. > It perpetuates the use of M$ software and the idea that M$ is a "standard" > that people n

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: > > thats great > > > > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ??? > > .sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenO

RE: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap

2003-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 09:52, James Sparenberg wrote: > > I believe now that the network problem was related to the dhclient > > startup. Putting in a static IP seems to have worked around the problem > > but I'm still trying to confirm this. There's about a 5 second delay > > when I run dhclient m

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: > thats great > > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ??? .sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenOffice on all platforms, or .xls if you want to get to practical working state quickly. Or if you really want to

Re: [expert] print multi-page TIFF files?

2003-04-01 Thread Jack Coates
tried them all, and the last one works... On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:18, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:32, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 03:19 schrieb Jack Coates: > > > any one have a way to print a multiple-page fax sent as a TIFF? I hate > > > to b

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
I would suggest trying HTML. Since you're using Perl, it should be a no brainier to create an HTML file that you can feed to whatever your client is. I just tried a simple HTML file with both Excel (via CrossOver Office) and OpenOffice. I don't have Lotus, but I have to assume that it would work.

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
thats great do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ??? Its strange.. rtf has been around for many years.. but noone has greated a spreadsheet version? seems odd.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Praedor

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 3:46 pm, Frankie wrote: > > its not in xls format... > > > > its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls > > format data would be quiet hard.. >

Re: [expert] usb problem with PDA palm zire

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Shamot wrote: I tried it but it doesnt work. /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 still don't exist. Modules for usb are loaded such as a viser module. There are still reported errors like this: devfsd[143]: error copying: "/lib/dev-state/usb/tts/0" to "/dev/usb/tts/0" error copying: "/lib/dev-state/us

Re: openssh was: Re: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap

2003-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 23:18, Vincent Danen wrote: > In fact, because of this, I don't understand why Thierry made it runable > from xinetd. Sure, it's possible, but it's so inefficient to make it pretty > much worthless. I just thought I'd add that I've always run sshd standalone. I just happene

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 3:46 pm, Frankie wrote: > its not in xls format... > > its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls > format data would be quiet hard.. > I suggested this because just about any spreadsheet can read/write .xls. I use Gnumeric, and use .xls to cro

Re: [expert] my 9.1 first day: missing start menu items and more

2003-04-01 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 09:24 AM 3/30/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:03, Christopher Kolar wrote: > Hi everyone. I've recently upgraded to 9.1 from 8.1 and, given the > age difference, things went pretty smoothly. To date the most > annoying problem that I have had is that all of the programs on the > KDE

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-01 Thread Frankie
its not in xls format... its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls format data would be quiet hard.. Also, I don't want to support M$ file formats.. Thats why I was hoping there was an rtf type format for spreadsheets. rgds Franki -Original Message- F

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