Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-12 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:05, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Suggestion: in the future, make sure the installation procedure uses names that actually match the names on the CDs. Question: did you file a bug about this? ;-) I don't know if the developers read this list. Damon Want to buy your

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-12 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:21, Daryl Johnson wrote: U, except by this time half of the menu entries had disappeared :o) Didn't feel inclined to add them all under the circumstances. Did you see the errata page re. the update-menus command? Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 nVIDIA nforce board problme?

2003-11-05 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:14, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I just upgrade to mandrake 9.2 and got little audio problem here. I compile and install nforce driver from nVIDIA and modified /etc/modules.conf. First, I removed 'snd-slot-0 i810_audio line' which generated during install and

Re: [expert] 9.2 Kernel Source

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:56, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, The 9.2 CDs doesn't seem to include kernel-source. Is it being renamed to something else now? I also did a urmpi kernel-source, and system told me everything is installed. May I ask where is kernel-source? I guess I could always download

[expert] KDE copy and paste not working properly in 9.2?

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, has anyone else had some problems in KDE apps with copy and paste? I'm noticing some strange errors, e.g. copy a full screen of text, and paste in another window in the same application, and getting text from a privious copy / cut. It seems to work when only a small amount of text is

Re: [expert] KDE copy and paste not working properly in 9.2?

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 07:34, flacycads wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:50 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: has anyone else had some problems in KDE apps with copy and paste? I'm noticing some strange errors, e.g. copy a full screen of text, and paste in another window in the same application

Re: [expert] KDE copy and paste not working properly in 9.2?

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 09:38, flacycads wrote: Damon- I don't understand why the subject of your post is about KDE, if you use Gnome? Please advise, and enlighten me. I use applications like Kate and Quanta while running Gnome. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] KDE copy and paste not working properly in 9.2?

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 08:38, flacycads wrote: Are you using 9.1? No, 9.2, as the subject indicates. Was there always this problem, or did it suddenly occur? Just now. Does c/p failure occur when using another window manager? If so, what I would try with an RPM distro, is remove

Re: [expert] KDE copy and paste problem (diagnosed)

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 13:50, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 02:38 pm, flacycads wrote: But cut works fine, and shows up in klipper. So, time for me to figure out the new bug reporting system? :) What key combo or mouse gesture are you using to do the paste? Middle

Re: [expert] (Quanta) copy and paste not working (bug filed)

2003-10-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:50, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, has anyone else had some problems in KDE apps with copy and paste? this bug has been filed: http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=52 Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[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

Re: [expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?

2003-10-18 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 15:49, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:31 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: # mii-tool eth0 -F 100baseTx-FD has no effect. Any clues as to what I should do next? IIRC, most cable and dsl modems run 10Mb/s half duplex. is eth0 the public interface

[expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?

2003-10-17 Thread Damon Lynch
Hello, Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to why my network is running at 1/10 the speed it should be. The network cards on my firewall, which is running MNF, are all running at 10mb/s. At least two should be running at 100. I can see they are running slow by running this, for instance: #

Re: [expert] anyone been able to rebuild gaim 0.70 for 9.2 yet

2003-10-05 Thread Damon Lynch
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 06:12, Greg Sarsons wrote: anyone been able to rebuild gaim 0.70 for 9.2 yet Haven't succeeded yet Greg Yes. It worked without a problem. What is the error message you're getting? Damon __

Re: [expert] Python2.3 in MDK9.2

2003-09-18 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 01:58, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, I'm having some problems due to Python2.3 (I think) that gets installed with MDK9.2. You should be able to have 2.2 and 2.3 alongside one another, with perhaps the odd problem such as incompatible /usr/bin/idle. Installing from

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:19, Anne Wilson wrote: What I would be less happy with is repeated 'reminders', or pop-ups, as Lee said, but there's no indication that this is likely to happen. I must confess one thing that has really stunned me is that some reactions in the Linux coummunity have

Re: [expert] Is this a postfix packaging bug (9.1 RC2)?

2003-09-13 Thread Damon Lynch
, and if so, why? Thanks! Damon Miark On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:00:46 +1200, Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm no postfix expert so I don't know if what I found was a bug or not, but in 9.1, this worked in main.cf mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/10 but postfix fails

Re: [expert] Is this a postfix packaging bug (9.1 RC2)?

2003-09-13 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:02, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 7:44 am, Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 01:08, Miark wrote: Out of curiosity, why /10 and not /24? How many nodes are on your network? My network has just 2 PCs for desktop use, one as a web/mail

[expert] Is this a postfix packaging bug (9.1 RC2)?

2003-09-12 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, I'm no postfix expert so I don't know if what I found was a bug or not, but in 9.1, this worked in main.cf mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/10 but postfix fails to deliver any mail like that in 9.2RC2, and instead this must be specified: mynetworks = 192.128.0.0/10 I guess it's something to do

[expert] Cannot get sieve working with cyrus

2003-08-30 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, I'm trying to setup smartsieve for use with cyrus, but I'm going nowhere fast and the sparse documentation that comes with cyrus-sieve isn't helping me :) I don't seem to have SASL working with sieve. In the sieve docs we may find this advice: telnet foobar sieve If your

Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?

2003-08-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:41, Todd Lyons wrote: I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2. So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the advantage to this option, which has no

Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?

2003-08-10 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 16:15, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damon Lynch wanted us to know: I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2. So why does it do

Re: [expert] Python Question

2003-08-07 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 12:07, James Sparenberg wrote: import fileinput for line in fileinput.input([$HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals]): key,val = line.split(=) ... HTH K it's a start time to play.. this will work in python 2.2 or above, (perhaps crude but it works!):

Re: [expert] Python Question

2003-08-05 Thread Damon Lynch
Could you please describe in words what the awk bit does; I've never used awk but I do know python :-) Damon On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:15, James Sparenberg wrote: Perhaps it would be best offline dunno. But would anyone know the python equivalent to grep Number

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:01, John Haywood wrote: The file in question is a corrupt Microsoft Entourage message file. It is 1.8Gig in size (approx). I need to step through it and convert it to an mbox format file, by searching for patterns such as : received: from name Received: from name

[expert] OOo RC1 starts like a rocket compared to 1.03

2003-07-16 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, Things are looking good for OpenOffice.org! It starts up so fast now compared to before. I find this most welcome :-) It now has a python interface to it as well. But I have no idea how easy or hard it would be to make use of that in terms of automation of repetitive tasks. Best wishes,

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-30 Thread Damon Lynch
be builtin by default. Yes that's true. I was thinking of a user who is unfamiliar with Mandrake or Linux in general, and is confronted with having to load many MBs of packages to fix a bug or security problem. This can be stressful, and the process should be as easy as possible. Damon -- Damon Lynch

Re: [expert] SETI@home. MDK RPM's???

2003-06-27 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 07:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: And don't forget ksetispy if you run KDE, as its a great program, and the rpm for Mandrake is on your cds. I'll second that. Its package description seems to indicate it is for KDE2 only, but it works great in KDE3 (and gnome 2 where I use

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-27 Thread Damon Lynch
will happen if the connection is terminated early (for whatever reason). Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-14 Thread Damon Lynch
with the onboard 3com ethernet, which works fine. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] The Mandrakeclub site broken?

2003-04-12 Thread Damon Lynch
. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Damon Lynch
only mono microphone input. Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:31, Ed Tharp wrote: have you tried to install the blackdown java that was included on 7.2? that's what I have done in the past, I am just now getting around to using 9.1, so any info will be welcome - Original Message - From: Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Damon Lynch
Library=/lib/i686/libc.so.6 Any suggestions? (BTW I'm currently running 9.1 RC2, until I get hold of 9.1 final). Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having

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

2003-04-01 Thread Damon Lynch
a day, and my current mouse is strictly right handed only. My right handed mouse is a USB model. Thanks and best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-04-01 Thread Damon Lynch
but is strictly right-handed. Any suggestions? Thanks and best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ML 9.1 sux

2003-03-31 Thread Damon Lynch
- thereby help others, learn in the process, and feel good about it. All complex software has problems, no matter the source. What you do about it, and what you can do about it, is up to you and who you choose to work with. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Nvidia Kernel Driver

2003-03-26 Thread Damon Lynch
applications. Or you can wait who knows how many weeks for Nvidia to release something that may work. Nvidia drivers are proprietary. That is the root cause of the problem. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] 1.3.x Galeon in Mandrake 9.1 - not so good, perhaps?

2003-03-24 Thread Damon Lynch
at work :-) Thanks and best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 1.3.x Galeon in Mandrake 9.1 - not so good, perhaps?

2003-03-24 Thread Damon Lynch
like a puff of smoke before you hit submit :-) I've now switched to Mozilla for everything. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread Damon Lynch
wouldn't miss him too much if we kiwis borrowed him for a while! Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-13 Thread Damon Lynch
of the former so the latter is rarely if ever needed. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.1 seems to be noticeably faster than 9.0

2003-03-09 Thread Damon Lynch
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[expert] Exit with session under Galeon 1.3.2?

2003-03-05 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, Does anyone know what happened to this handy feature (it seems to have disappeared in the Galeon in 9.1 RC2)? Is this a bug, or is that standard Galeon 1.3.2 behaviour? Thanks and best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

2003-03-04 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:31, francisco wrote: This problem must be solved before the final release. It probably will be if you have submitted a bug report :-) Florin is good at fixing these reports, in my experience. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

2003-03-04 Thread Damon Lynch
. There were bugs in 9.0 RC1 relating to printing within a LAN (for instance) and shorewall blocking the related network traffic because of Internet connection sharing. However these were fixed after the bugs were reported. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Rc2 is comming!!

2003-03-03 Thread Damon Lynch
. Does it need a special graphical tool to make it more popular? Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Rc2 is comming!!

2003-03-03 Thread Damon Lynch
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:07, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:58, Damon Lynch wrote: Question: how come rsync is not more popular? It seems like a wonderful protocol to me, but it seems to get little publicity among non-experts. Does it need a special graphical tool

Re: [expert] Rc2 is comming!!

2003-03-03 Thread Damon Lynch
the original ISOs in case of an disconnect while actually downloading. Thanks and best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-02 Thread Damon Lynch
be for the installer / GUI tools to reject an http://; being placed in front of the hostname? I've seen a newbie mess this up, and then have KDE refuse to start and Gnome regularly complain. She had to be coached to use vi in order to be able to fix it :-) Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-02 Thread Damon Lynch
, that's my point - surely one NEVER places the protocol in the host name. I'm suggesting the mandrake tools could stop this from happening. That's all :-) Best wishes, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Damon Lynch
this user was also affected by her old CDROM being unable to read the 700MB CDs properly! Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-23 Thread Damon Lynch
installed 9.1 RC1 over the top and it 'solved' the problem :) Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Playing DVDs

2003-02-22 Thread Damon Lynch
mplayer is cool also. Have you read this? - http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Very useful indeed. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root and start it manually, but I'm sure there's a simple fix. Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 16:05, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:40 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:40, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could notfind mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-11 Thread Damon Lynch
, Is this true when the slave does not function in DMA mode, or at a much lower DMA mode? I've heard that IDE defaults to the mode of the slowest device on the channel. What is you experience with this? Thanks very much, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could notfind mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-11 Thread Damon Lynch
, and the master runs a bit faster than the slave simply because it is the master. Maybe that is not what will happen. Either way, I'm curious to know what the experts think! I've heard conflicting stories from different folks (mostly off this list). Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want

Re: [expert] Java problems

2003-02-09 Thread Damon Lynch
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Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Damon Lynch
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Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Damon Lynch
to their comrades in other countries for further questioning. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow? The sun will come outtomorrow, bet your bottom dollar...

2003-01-29 Thread Damon Lynch
://www.asianreflection.com/khanafghanistan.shtml Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Bad md5sums on 91 ISO's; CHECK yours]

2003-01-28 Thread Damon Lynch
changed). Best the man page regarding the flags as the clobbering / replacing ones are quite important :-) Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Is it meant to be hard or easy to change networksettings?

2003-01-22 Thread Damon Lynch
tool and let them no of our problem. Thanks! Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Is it meant to be hard or easy to change network settings?

2003-01-21 Thread Damon Lynch
to do this automatically (with the different profiles), then I suppose there is a bug in them. Or else it is a missing feature? Can someone replicate this in the 9.1 beta? Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Is it meant to be hard or easy to change networksettings?

2003-01-21 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:26, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 21 January 2003 21:44, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, Are the GUI network tools supposed to take care of all changes needed to connect through KPPP instead of through an already configured ethernet adapter? That is, change the default

Re: [expert] Is it meant to be hard or easy to change networksettings?

2003-01-21 Thread Damon Lynch
it is a known missing feature. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?

2003-01-15 Thread Damon Lynch
it or not many of us are part of the herd where the herd goes, we go. Thus, it's partly up to people like you. We've got to think with the bigger picture in mind. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-12 Thread Damon Lynch
educated myself a bit more on what these codes are). Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-09 Thread Damon Lynch
and closing double quote) \x93 (another curly quote) Is there a utility program in Linux to convert these characters? Or is there a library in Python that will do it for me (instead of me using RE's to substitute them)? Many thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-09 Thread Damon Lynch
the advantage of covering all the codes used by M$, not just the ones I've picked up thus far.. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-09 Thread Damon Lynch
). Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-09 Thread Damon Lynch
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:58, Pierre Fortin wrote: Save as text...? Yes that does indeed work from OOo, but a code solution would be ideal :-) Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NFS permissions

2002-12-03 Thread Damon Lynch
from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1

2002-10-21 Thread Damon Lynch
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 10:58, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: 3. With the RandR extension hopefully coming to the next release of Mandrake, some of the Control Centre will be made redundant. Redesign it for QT/KDE based rather than GTK based. Mandrake is a KDE-pro company, are they not? I'm

[expert] Can anyone paste a lot of text into a Mozilla form textarea?

2002-10-16 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, I'm pretty sure I'm seeing a bug in Mozilla, but it seems so obvious I don't know why it wouldn't have already been reported and fixed. Does anyone else have problems pasting 25KB + of text into a textarea within a form when running Mozilla? Perhaps rarely it can be done, but oftentimes

Re: [expert] Can anyone paste a lot of text into a Mozilla formtextarea?

2002-10-16 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 01:13, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I have no prob either. But I never tried to paste text of that size. And, honestly, I never saw any webform where you paste such a large chunk. My workplace processes large amounts of text via webforms. The test is then run through

Re: [expert] Can anyone paste a lot of text into a Mozilla formtextarea?

2002-10-16 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 05:03, Dave Sherman wrote: Yes, I have the same problem, and it is rather annoying when I am trying to paste text from an OpenOffice doc into my website's web-based content editor (a form w/ textarea). I haven't

[expert] Is it actually a gnome problem?!

2002-10-16 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, Regarding these text copying woes, I have been trying to nail down the problem, and I did something a little counter intuitive using KDE and not just Gnome: 1. I'm running in the gnome environment 2. opened the 25 KB file in gedit; select all, copy 3. tried pasting

[expert] Gnome bug 95994 posted

2002-10-16 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 10:48, Damon Lynch wrote: Thanks for everyone's feedback and suggestions. I'm sure glad I didn't submit a mozilla bug! Bug 95994 has been posted: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95994 If anyone has any additional information to help the coders narrow down

Re: [expert] Handy text change case utility?

2002-10-14 Thread Damon Lynch
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:08, Toshiro wrote: To uppercase: sed 'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/' file To lowercase: sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/' file Hi Toshiro, Thanks for that. I've never used sed before. Do I need a

Re: [expert] Handy text change case utility?

2002-10-14 Thread Damon Lynch
If anyone is interested, I'm implementing it using python and giving it a web interface. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Handy text change case utility?

2002-10-13 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, Is there a small application out there, that will take selected text, and convert its case to a desired case, and put it into the buffer again? For instance, what would be most useful is: UPPER CASE -- Mixed Case That Can Save a Lot of Time Because it Knows About Exceptions and ACRONYMS

Re: [expert] ML 9.0 final is out?

2002-09-30 Thread Damon Lynch
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 16:58, David Guntner wrote: Thoughts? http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2449lang=en may have some ideas for you. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Dolphin: ypbind / nfs group permission denied

2002-09-25 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, I'm running Dolphin as a client to a Debian 3.0 server with 2.4.19 kernel. I'm authenticating with ypbind, and access files across the network with nfs. IP is gained via DHCP. I do not have permission to view files on the nfs mount, despite me being a member of the group. I can view a

Re: [expert] Device is busy: how do I figure out which processes?

2002-09-21 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 21:32, Thomas Sourmail wrote: I'm trying to figure out why drakfont from RC3 is freezing when importing fonts. After that, /mnt/nt cannot be unmounted, because it is busy. How do I figure out which processes are running that use it, so I can terminate

Re: [expert] Beta 4: first impressions

2002-09-06 Thread Damon Lynch
I prefer the new rpmdrake. It's a lot faster, and looks better for the most part. I think when you get used to it, you'll be fine :-) Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

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

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

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

Re: [expert] Survey (was Thanks Civileme)

2002-08-13 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:39, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: So my current suggestion to anyone who has bothered to read this far is to perhaps consider becoming activist with regard to Mandrake (if you havent already), each in his/her own way, but with financial concerns being paramount in your mind.

[expert] Anti-virus for mail server--best solution for cash-strapped org?

2002-07-12 Thread Damon Lynch
time honored tools can be a very good thing. Is F-Prot viable in a setup like this? It seems a lot cheaper than some other solutions. Dev-Zone is a non-profit organisation, so these things count. Damon -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] blocking an ip address

2002-07-12 Thread Damon Lynch
On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 13:36, J. Craig Woods wrote: if using ipchains, use ipchain rule. If using this, the script pmfirewall might come in handy. Don't know if it works with 2.4 kernels though. It may do. Damon -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber

Re: [expert] supermount and usb-storage

2002-06-21 Thread Damon Lynch
Civilme, is it the kernel or supermount that causes a lock-up when a CD cannot be read after a certain time-period? Who should I submit a bug to for that? Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +64 4 496

[expert] Firewall / Internet sharing with Mandrake 7.2 - how to temporarilyturn off?

2002-06-06 Thread Damon Lynch
again! Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +64 4 496 9597 Yahoo Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Firewall / Internet sharing with Mandrake 7.2 - how totemporarily turn off?

2002-06-06 Thread Damon Lynch
to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +64 4 496 9597 Yahoo Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Firewall / Internet sharing with Mandrake 7.2 - how totemporarily turn off?

2002-06-06 Thread Damon Lynch
- email me privately if so. Alternative is to just email the other office the ipchains command to open port 22 and make sure sshd is running. Billk On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 06:12, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi fellow Mandrake users, I installed Mandrake 7.2 in my old office in India. I setup

Re: [expert] problem with Slideshow on LM 8.2?

2002-06-05 Thread Damon Lynch
utility took over for KDE. Any suggestions? -- Damon Lynch Dev-Zone Program Officer http://www.dev-zone.org Jabber Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +64 4 496 9597 Yahoo Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Very nice Evolution GUI feature

2002-06-02 Thread Damon Lynch
I didn't even notice till now that Evolution panes can be easily scrolled with a wheelmouse. That is, just move your mouse over one of the panes, and the contents can be scrolled via the wheel without selecting anything. The window itself doesn't have to be selected. In some other programs

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