[expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
I cannot get the kicker digital clock to get off 24 hour time. I would like to see it in 12 hour time. I think this is due to being force to use the English GB Language format. Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me

Re: [expert] is it possible for cracker to cover his track?

2003-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 22:02, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 October 2003 11:11 am, Jack Coates wrote: define good; there's not a lot of ways that don't involve hard feelings. Assuming that telling him it didn't working out and walking him

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: I cannot get the kicker digital clock to get off 24 hour time. I would like to see it in 12 hour time. I think this is due to being force to use the English GB Language format. Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed

Re: [expert] where are mozilla,xine stuff in mandrake 9.2?

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
On October 23, 2003 08:01 pm, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I just got a copy of mandrake 9.2 download edition. It's very easy to perform a new install. But I found some of my favorite apps like mozilla,xine,etc in 9.1 are missing after login, are they in default installation of power pack or

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread James Conner
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 17:20, James Conner wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the

[expert] NFS Install - How?

2003-10-24 Thread T. Ribbrock
Hi all, after spending quite some time on Mandrake's site, Google, the list archive and the twiki, I'm still none the wiser: What *is* the correct (or best) way to use the NFS install option? Here's what I have so far: With 9.1, I had the first CDROM mounted on the server and exported as NFS

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wilson wrote: Dunno what Fox was on about but you can no more get a voltage spike from solar flares than you can from making tea. :-) The 6 million customers of the Hydro-Quebec power system in Canada that lost their power in March of 1989

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 deedee wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:38:57 -0700, KevinO wrote: /mnt/cdrom is a real directory, until you mount something there. Since the /mnt directory is part of the / filesystem (not on a separate partition), its' size is limited to the free

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
By tomorrow means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun would take days to reach the Earth instead of 8 minutes :-D John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2003 07:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I just heard on Fox news that a pseudo-solar flare has erupted on the sun, and we now have a

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: By tomorrow means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun would take days to reach the Earth instead of 8 minutes :-D It is not the electromagnetic radiation that causes the major problems. It is the changed

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 11:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: James, scripting is turned off for mail in Mozilla. Is there somewhere else you say that I must disable scripting? She's on Win98, if we are talking os level. Anne Anne, I could be wrong but my information is that it's due

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: By tomorrow means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun would take days to reach the Earth instead of 8 minutes :-D It is not the electromagnetic radiation that causes the major problems. It is

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
these are the logged wwv values for the last 24 hrs. comms below 30 MHz are short range at the moment. The A index indicates a large aurora is imminent. DateHour SFI A K Forecast 24-Oct-2003 06 183 10 2 R=122 Str,R3=Str,G3,R1

Re: [expert] NFS Install - How?

2003-10-24 Thread Felix Miata
T. Ribbrock wrote: In the end, I ended up copying the contents of all three CDs on one partitions into one big tree. That's possible, of course, but feels rather clumsy, never mind that I'd have to do it for even more CDs with 9.2 (as I went for the Power Pack). Only way I've ever found. :-(

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: On the other hand, it's rather EM wave which is more harmful to satellites rather than particulars because charged particles are mostly deviated by terrestrial magnetic field whereas em wave is unaffected. A great

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:11:03 +0200 Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: By tomorrow means 24 October? Strange that EM wave from the Sun would take days to reach the Earth instead of 8 minutes :-D Well, the Sun is being considerate this time and slowing down c for us. --

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HaywireMac wrote: Well, the Sun is being considerate this time and slowing down c for us. Yeh, I guess it is smiling at us after spitting in our general direction ;-) It is all relative anyway :-p - -- KevinO If Microsoft built cars, If you

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
Time to stick my oar in ! A few facts as satellite coms are above 1 GHz, there will be no effect on them I'll explain why the increase in magnetic flux caused by a solar flare has several effect 1. it changes the properties of the ionosphere, which short wave comms relies on , hence the short

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:14:59 -0700 KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It is all relative anyway :-p I was gonna use that one, but I thought I'd leave it for someone else ;-) Anyhow, it does turn out we have a case of mismatched terminology here, the *charged particles* in the solar wind can

[expert] Qmail woes

2003-10-24 Thread James
I'm trying to set up Qmail on Linux Mandrake 9.1. I've tried to run the RPM for Mandrake 9.1, but it didn't seem to work. I then downloaded the source and installed that way, but it looks like I might have done one thing wrong. It looks like the program is trying to find /usr/local/bin/ when it

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Bown wrote: Time to stick my oar in ! A few facts as satellite coms are above 1 GHz, there will be no effect on them In a large solar event that was pointing directly 'at' us, it could destroy satellites and kill astronauts but these are

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:14:59 -0700 KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It is all relative anyway :-p I was gonna use that one, but I thought I'd leave it for someone else ;-) Thanks! - -- KevinO If Microsoft built cars, If

Re: [expert] Qmail woes

2003-10-24 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ideas: 1) Did you make the entry in /etc/inittab for daemontools? SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot on the last line 2) If ucspi and daemontools are rpms from Mandrake then lose them and get the versions from DJB. James wrote: Thanks for any

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
I was trying to keep it simple, so it was understandable by those without any RF experience. As for AMSAT most uplinks are now above 430 MHz, and those with downlinks below 430MHz are old/obsolete ie AO10. If you want to take it further , either off list , or on air or if you must echolink Richard

[expert] Multi-Threaded Perl (5.6.1 - for MN 8.2)

2003-10-24 Thread Albert Whale
I need to recompile the Perl Source RPM to support Multi-Threading. Is there a Simple Command sequence that will help to accomplish this task? I've gotten the perl-5.601-7mdk.src.rpm file. Do I need to replace the perl.spec file before recompiling it? Can we get a Threaded Version of Perl

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 17:20, James Conner wrote: For those on the MDK security mailing list you will already know. For those that aren't, check the archives(it's too large to repost here). These updates fix quite a few of the bugs that have been troubling people lately. Glad to see that

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:20 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: It's bad enough that over 300mb of fixes were posted against 9.1. This is an attitude I just can't buy. It's not 'bad enough' - they could always do what M$ does, and not release fixes. Would that suit you better? How many millions of

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Friday 24 October 2003 08:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2003 1:20 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: It's bad enough that over 300mb of fixes were posted against 9.1. This is an attitude I just can't buy. It's not 'bad enough' - they could always do what M$ does, and not release

[expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread stefmit
Is it true that the effects of this related to the gravitational forces may make the aurora effect appear in the sky more proeminent further South than usual? On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I just heard on Fox news that a pseudo-solar flare has erupted on the sun,

[expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread Brian V Bonini
Is it just me or os menudrake whacked? It just never does what it's supposed to. It will remove stuff from the menu that I did not ask it to yes it will still appear in the menudrake interface and all sort of weird stuff like that... Has always done this.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread R N dev
sometimes i have the same problem have you tryed to save menu again? --- Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or os menudrake whacked? It just never does what it's supposed to. It will remove stuff from the menu that I did not ask it to yes it will still appear in the

Re: [expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:05, R N dev wrote: sometimes i have the same problem have you tryed to save menu again? Yeah, tried that and tried reloading it but it still is whack. Logging out and back in is the only thing that seems to work.. --- Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 13:16, stefmit wrote: Is it true that the effects of this related to the gravitational forces may make the aurora effect appear in the sky more proeminent further South than usual? Yes, but at 1400Z the radio aurora is not much further south than the artic circle.. I

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Avi Schwartz
James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went peachy, only lost the menu's once. That bug/feature was fixed with

Re: [expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have had problems myself. Just as you mention, items that appear in menudrake's depiction of the kmenus but not in real life. Some of these items are things I added several attempts in the past (as root editing the system menu) that just refuse

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:19 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went peachy,

[expert] where are urpmi commands for 9.2?

2003-10-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I bought the boxed prosuite. As I wait for the arrival of the CDs, I have decided to pre-download ALL the updates/fixes so that they are onhand for immediate install after 9.2's install. Where might I find the commands for urpmi sources (the

[expert] Re: NFS Install - How?

2003-10-24 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:02:31AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: T. Ribbrock wrote: In the end, I ended up copying the contents of all three CDs on one partitions into one big tree. That's possible, of course, but feels rather clumsy, never mind that I'd have to do it for even more CDs with

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
On October 24, 2003 12:43 am, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wilson wrote: Dunno what Fox was on about but you can no more get a voltage spike from solar flares than you can from making tea. :-) The 6 million customers of the Hydro-Quebec power system in

Re: [expert] where are urpmi commands for 9.2?

2003-10-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Never mind. I found what I wanted (updates, plf, texstar), however, I am presently running 9.1 and plan to wait for my 9.2 CDs before I upgrade. Is there a way to use urpmi to download rpms without installing them? I can save them with the

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:38 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 09:19 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:53 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Actually, he is quite correct. /mnt/cdrom is a directory located off of /mnt which in turn is located off of /. Until you mount a cdrom in which case /mnt/cdrom actually starts pointing to the /dev/cdrom device which is then the

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 02:36, John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2003 07:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I just heard on Fox news that a pseudo-solar flare has erupted on the sun, and we now have a massive wave of electromagnetic energy and particles headed our way. It's due to hit tommorrow. No

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 08:16, stefmit wrote: Is it true that the effects of this related to the gravitational forces may make the aurora effect appear in the sky more proeminent further South than usual? Yes...the massive stream of particles being channeled to the poles is supposed to give

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
HaywireMac wrote: Anyhow, it does turn out we have a case of mismatched terminology here, the *charged particles* in the solar wind can take days to reach the Earth, whereas, of course, the actual EM radiation only takes minutes. Actually, the charged particles that Fox (?) tried to talk about

Re: [expert] compiling kernel

2003-10-24 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 19.34 23/10/2003, you wrote: Use the Mandrake kernel-source. It does include things you wont find in the kernel.org kernel (supermount being one of them). I couldn't enumerate all the addons that Mandrake provides but it is worth it to use the official mandrake kernel-source rpms. Probably

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-24 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 17.47 19/10/2003, you wrote: ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/vol/1/mandrake-mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-10.mdk.i586.rpm is what you're looking for (IIRC this was about kernel sources wasn't it?). It's about 40Mb big which is a lot less to download than a complete iso image. But

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-24 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 17.32 19/10/2003, you wrote: There's nothing wrong with waiting a little bit but, since you would have to have the 9.2 tree downloaded to make the isos, have you considered doing an hd install from the tree? Probably I will download the full tree (could someone tell me in advance how much

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-24 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 04.33 20/10/2003, you wrote: I did have dependency problems, but the CDs were made and boot and install. It looks like most of the dependency issues were with apache2 (which I'm not running, anyway). I need to know how to solve the dependency problems. I suppose Mandrakesoft solved them

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-24 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
The dependency problems is only makecd's way to inform you that those packages won't be on the cd's as you cant install them anyway... Could you explain it better? Why shouldn't he be able to install them anyway? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
On Friday 24 October 2003 12:16, stefmit wrote: Is it true that the effects of this related to the gravitational forces may make the aurora effect appear in the sky more proeminent further South than usual? Maybe, but not too much south, it depends on how the flare reaches the earth. And also

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-24 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 18, 2003 06:08 pm, Joeb wrote: [..] Hi Joe; In this part of the development cycle cooker as frozen for release is 9.2, 9.2 is cooker to all intents and purposes. The script used to generate the ISOs is slightly different but the

Re: [expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:29 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had problems myself. Just as you mention, items that appear in menudrake's depiction of the kmenus but not in real life. Some of these items are things I added several attempts in the past (as root editing the system menu)

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-24 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 24, 2003 03:05 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.32 19/10/2003, you wrote: There's nothing wrong with waiting a little bit but, since you would have to have the 9.2 tree downloaded to make the isos, have you considered doing an hd install

Re: [expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Anderson
Could the em wave have a lot of energy at 2.4ghz? My wireless connection was almost unusable most of wednesday and thursday, but is back to normal now. Dan On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 10:30, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 02:36, John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2003 07:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir

Re: [expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 09:29 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had problems myself. Just as you mention, items that appear in menudrake's depiction of the kmenus but not in real life. Some of these items are things I added several

[expert] artsd and xmms question

2003-10-24 Thread Jack Coates
hey, what was the magic combo for making xmms not stutter with artsd again? I've tried making artswrapper suid and toggling realtime priority on in kcontrol and xmms, but no soap -- it still stutters on just about any excuse. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Richard Bown wrote: back again,sorted the libxml , but gnomeprint is giving me probs and I'm now hitting long lists on file conflicts These are the versions of gnomeprint installed libgnomeprint-2.3.1-4mdk libgnomeprintui2-2_0-2.3.1-2mdk libgnomeprint15-0.37-4mdk

[expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread Thomas Gamble
Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch? -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #270415 Discipline your son while there is

Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:25:35 -0600 Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch? There was a thread on

[expert] urpmi auto select question

2003-10-24 Thread Brian
Does anyone know of a way to flag certain packages so they are NOT included during the update process? Is this even possible? I've been unable to locate a clear answer on this one. Thanks -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:16 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: Why are you going through all this hassle when gal is part of the distro urpmi gal I think the package name is libgal23 or something like that. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read

Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread Guy McArthur
HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:25:35 -0600 Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch?

Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:25 pm, Thomas Gamble wrote: Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch? urpmi.addmedia --distrib /mnt/cdrom -- /g

Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:56:21 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: urpmi.addmedia --distrib /mnt/cdrom /Haywire adds that to his answers to copy and paste the next time that comes up database ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Bill there was no way this was going to compile on 9.2,I'd got to the point of so many conflicts between libs and prog dependancies that urpmi just would'nt play. There really needs to be added to th mcc gui on s/w management a do as your told function, force it. On an earlier ver circa

[expert] [OT]Virus; the Next Generation?

2003-10-24 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/flea.shtml Even signature files aren't to be trusted in HTML e-mails now. Not that I've ever trusted HTML e-mails anyway. Quote from the advisory: Flea activates when an infected email message is opened. At this

Re: [expert] urpmi auto select question

2003-10-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:53:11 -0500 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to flag certain packages so they are NOT included during the update process? list them in /etc/urpmi/skip.list Charles -- In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are

Re: [expert] [OT]Virus; the Next Generation?

2003-10-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:21:13 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Even signature files aren't to be trusted in HTML e-mails now. Not that I've ever trusted HTML e-mails anyway. E-mail was *never meant to be HTML*. Only MS came up with that hare-brained idea. Block HTML mail, and you

[expert] [Q] Time to marry 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant

2003-10-24 Thread stefmit
In anticipation of the early bird pre-order MDK 9.2 package arrival, I am also looking into indulging myself with a new laptop (the one I have right now is running 9.1, but it is at a stage where it can hardly manage all the stuff I want) ... so, the obvious formal step I thought of taking

Re: [expert] [Q] Time to marry 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Cox
On Friday, 24 October 2003 21:29, stefmit wrote: In anticipation of the early bird pre-order MDK 9.2 package arrival, I am also looking into indulging myself with a new laptop (the one I have right now is running 9.1, but it is at a stage where it can hardly manage all the stuff I want) ...

Re: [expert] [Q] Time to 'marry' 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant

2003-10-24 Thread lduvall
My fairly new Dell Inspiron 8500 is quite happy with 9.1. I imagine 9.2 would work equally as well. LeRoy In anticipation of the early bird pre-order MDK 9.2 package arrival, I am also looking into indulging myself with a new laptop (the one I have right now is running 9.1, but it is at a

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread J.C. Woods
Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: HaywireMac wrote: Anyhow, it does turn out we have a case of mismatched terminology here, the *charged particles* in the solar wind can take days to reach the Earth, whereas, of course, the actual EM radiation only takes minutes. Actually, the charged particles that Fox

Re: [expert] KDevelop Help

2003-10-24 Thread Theo Brinkman
Thanks. I'm new to developing where I have to play with anything remotely resembling a makefile. I didn't know that in the additional libraries I had to put the -l in front. Ooops. - Theo Kwan Lowe wrote: The project is a simple 'Terminal C++' project, with the only changes being an

Re: [expert] KDevelop Help

2003-10-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
Thanks. I'm new to developing where I have to play with anything remotely resembling a makefile. I didn't know that in the additional libraries I had to put the -l in front. Ooops. I, uh, did the same thing at first :D. Let me know if i can help anytime. -- The Digital Hermit Unix

[expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Sword
How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Larry -- Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] [Q] Time to 'marry' 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant

2003-10-24 Thread Onur Kucuk
Compaq evon800v will be fine with mandrake. It has an intel ethernet btw :) -- Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Crompressed disk image or doublespare like for Linux

2003-10-24 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 10.56 22/10/2003, you wrote: Just wondering if there is a hard drive, of better still, a directory compression scheme, that can be mounted, something like the old dos double space.. I remember its nickname, double trouble. I never had troubles with it... MS-DOS 6.22 on a 386-40 MHz (AMD...)

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me with this. right click on the clock and chose Date and Time

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 October 2003 04:31 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: Sheesh, what next? Can we get an explanation of this phenomenon based on Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. After all, when dealing with charged particles, you wouldn't want to omit any kind of explanation based on quantum mechanics,

[expert] Re: [export] DVD stuff

2003-10-24 Thread Rodrigo Sanchez Olavarria
R/RW Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:51 am, Rodrigo Sanchez Olavarria wrote: Hello Experts .. I have a DVD writer... and I want to backup some big files, but cdrecord/cdrecord-dvdhack doesn't work ... (A error message related to image size, in the beginig of the

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:31, J.C. Woods wrote: Sheesh, what next? Can we get an explanation of this phenomenon based on Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. After all, when dealing with charged particles, you wouldn't want to omit any kind of explanation based on quantum mechanics,

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed something? I upgraded' from 9.1 to 9.2, and it left me with this.

Re: [expert] where are urpmi commands for 9.2?

2003-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 06:43, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I bought the boxed prosuite. As I wait for the arrival of the CDs, I have decided to pre-download ALL the updates/fixes so that they are onhand for immediate install after 9.2's install.

Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 10:41, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:25:35 -0600 Thomas Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have

Re: [expert] urpmi auto select question

2003-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 10:53, Brian wrote: Does anyone know of a way to flag certain packages so they are NOT included during the update process? Is this even possible? I've been unable to locate a clear answer on this one. Thanks -- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /etc/urpmi edit

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Phil G.
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:20:29 -0400, Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just looked at the update page, and I'm shocked to see how many packages are affected by MDKA-2003:020 (about 60!!). That's got to be a new record for a new release. Yeah that's sure is an impressive number !!

Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 24 October 2003 15:43, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: Are all Americans having this little problem? Or have I missed

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Go to the KAudioCreator options and then click the configure AudioCD

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 19:20, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 06:12 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:31, J.C. Woods wrote: Sheesh, what next? Can we get an explanation of this phenomenon based on Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. After all, when

[expert] Update procedure not fully working - am I doing something wrong?

2003-10-24 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, I'd like to be able to pull down the new kernel and it's source. I've added numerous update mirrors (not at the same time ;-) using MandrakeUpdate but although I can see the kernel source, I don't have the option of downloading the kernel itself using urpmi, e.g. # urpmi kernel One of the

[expert] single click

2003-10-24 Thread Brian V Bonini
Just moved from 9.0 - 9.1, used to be able to single click items on the desktop and in Konqueror file explorer thing but no more, not sure how to get that behavior back, anyone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] single click

2003-10-24 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 20:06, Brian V Bonini wrote: Just moved from 9.0 - 9.1, used to be able to single click items on the desktop and in Konqueror file explorer thing but no more, not sure how to get that behavior back, anyone Nevermind - I found it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] single click

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 24 October 2003 17:06, Brian V Bonini wrote: Just moved from 9.0 - 9.1, used to be able to single click items on the desktop and in Konqueror file explorer thing but no more, not sure how to get that behavior back, anyone In the KDE Control Center/Peripherals/Mouse you shall find the

Re: [expert] Update procedure not fully working - am I doing something wrong?

2003-10-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, I'd like to be able to pull down the new kernel and it's source. I've added numerous update mirrors (not at the same time ;-) using MandrakeUpdate but although I can see the kernel source, I don't have the option of downloading the kernel itself using urpmi, e.g. # urpmi

Re: [expert] Re: [export] DVD stuff

2003-10-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 pm, Rodrigo Sanchez Olavarria wrote: R/RW I guess I am not being clear. The cdrecord-dvdhack is used to write to a DVD-R or a DVD-RW type of drive and media. In order to write to a DVD+R or DVD+RW media, you need to use the dvd+rw tools. If you try to

[expert] GL screensaver crash

2003-10-24 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Running 9.2 with ati Radeon 32M ddr QD 7200 vid card. I configured one or another of the GL screensavers, such as Gravity or Solar Winds, which are quite nice. It seems they will activate and return the desktop with mouse or keyboard activity. I have the screensaver set to activate after 7

[expert] CD Text

2003-10-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
Is it possible to have CD Text burned to a CD so that it is readable by CD players? My Lite-On CD-RW 52x24x52 is apparently CD Text capable, and my car stereo is able to read CD Text, but can any of the CD Burning Programs support it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to

Re: [expert] Re: [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread John Wilson
On October 24, 2003 06:17 am, Richard Bown wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 13:16, stefmit wrote: Is it true that the effects of this related to the gravitational forces may make the aurora effect appear in the sky more proeminent further South than usual? Yes, but at 1400Z the radio aurora

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:20, Carroll Grigsby wrote: ... Let's cut to the chase. Should I wear my tinfoil hat or not? -- cmg every day. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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