Re: [expert] Modem for Mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Jason Greenwood
Use an external, serial modem IMHO. They just work, work well and are easy to set up. Save yourself the headache, go hardware external. Cheers Jason Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 8:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:38, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11

[expert] XWC - Undelete?

2003-10-13 Thread Jason Greenwood
Anyone know how to undelete in XWC? I accidentally deleted some files I'd dearly like to have back =( Cheers All, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] netatalk anyone?

2003-09-28 Thread Jason Greenwood
Well, dunno bout anyone else but it was DEAD easy for me...WAY easier than Samba/Windows. I installed the RPM, rebooted and voila, I was visible on the Mac network. I craeted users for the Mac machines on my box and poof, they could login via their machines etc Easy Peasy. Cheers Jason

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi Vincent, Like you, I only just picked up on this thread. However, playing devil's advocate here, I'd say that RH figures they have enough market penetration and recognition to drop the costly retail sector. However, 2 things spring to mind, RH built their repuation and branding on having

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
In a pinch, use Knoppix to autoconfigure X and then overwrite the XF86Config/Config-4 of Mandrake. If it's just a configuration problem than that might work. If not and X is toast, then a downgrade to an earlier version of X might be the only fix. This, of course, will have to be done from the

Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

2003-08-20 Thread Jason Greenwood
http://www.dyndns.org/ Have several friends who use and swaer by their service. Cheers Jason Miark wrote: I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it. All all the features pretty much the same from provider to provider? Any recommendations? Miark

Re: [expert] Compile problems with K3B 0.9

2003-07-21 Thread Jason Greenwood
Quick question. Why not use the prcompiled K3B Rpms instead?? Cheers Jason Rob Blomquist wrote: I am having a problem with the source code for K3B under Mandrake 9.1: during make, I am getting: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -laudio. Has anyone attemped to compile this, and found a solution?

Re: [expert] ntp error

2003-07-09 Thread Jason Greenwood
Open a terminal, su, then install ntp urpmi ntp if it's not already installed. After doing that put ntpdate time.sinectis.com.ar and so long as your time isn't wayyy off, it will sync with it. HTH, Jason PlugHead wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 07:55 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Noticed

Re: [expert] CD Burener

2003-07-06 Thread Jason Greenwood
I can't help with GT but I recommend K3B. Cheers J Joseph Loo wrote: I tried looking around for some information on burning CD's. I have a Plextor 12/10/32 scsi on a ultrawide scsi card. When ever I try to burn a cd on the burenr, I can only get reliable burns if the write speed is set as

Re: [expert] snooper

2003-07-01 Thread Jason Greenwood
ethereal/tcpdump should do what you require. Cheers Jason chris wrote: Hi all Does linux have same program snoop in Solaris? how do I get it and install? I would like to use it to analysis the network packet? Thank you

Re: [expert] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
A had a perfect reply written to this then mozilla crashed =( Damn. Though my reply was a finely crafted piece of prose, it was basically like this. Leave Winders alone. Backup ALL data since you can lose data no matter how careful you are. Defrag d: (extended part.) to minimise chance of

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

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

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP for it to work right but I see no way to change it on

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Also, what if their Windows usernames have spaces (or capitals) in them?? AFAIK, I cannot create usernames with spaces on my Lin box... Cheers Jason Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
, 2003-03-31 at 22:15, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup settings for users on their win98 boxen?? I obviously need to change them to MDKGROUP

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yup, I tried that too This is what it says: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change : Error was RAP86 : the specified password is invalid WTF?? Cheers Jason David Rankin wrote: Wait, Wait, Wait You don't need to disable the samba password. The way it works is to just

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Greenwood
and authentication tool should be provided Jason Greenwood wrote: Yup, I tried that too This is what it says: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change : Error was RAP86 : the specified password is invalid WTF?? Cheers Jason David Rankin wrote: Wait, Wait, Wait You don't need

PLF - was Re: [expert] Product Question

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi All, Todd Lyons wrote: Kwan Lowe wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0500 : 1) Does 9.1 have an easy DVD playback solution? I.e., do either the installation CDs come with all appropriate RPMS (including libdvdcss, dvdread, etc) or are Mandrake specific packages availalble online? Both

Re: [expert] Wishes for Mandrake and 9.1

2003-02-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
reader/writer to work great on mdk 9.0 but NOTHING else. (ok, a USB mouse but that doesn't count ;) The reader workd out of the box just by plugging it in and I was totally overjoyed but then was dismayed when NONE of my other USB peripherals worked the same way. My .0002c worth. Cheers Jason

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
I believe the "official" release date is sometime around AprilMandrake?? Cheers J Mark Weaver wrote: Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: So, when do you guys think MD9.1 will be out? I have tried compiling qt3.1.1 and got errors on install, so I quit :( Im not much of a GUI person

Re: [expert] Recognition of Todd Lyons

2003-01-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
Todd Rocks, nuff said. Thanks for all you've done.. H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 16:49, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current events

Re: [expert] Abi Word Help

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thanks for the advice! Does anyone besides me think it should be easier to change than this?? ;) Cheers Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: In AbiWord how to I change the default font?? You need to edit the normal.awt file. From

[expert] Mozilla Language packs??

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
How do you install/download language packs for Mozilla?? I mean to DISPLAY pages created with different languages, not locals. If know there are language packs for Mozilla but these seem to change the language for all of Mozilla. I just want to be able to display text in other languages. For

Re: [expert] Mozilla Language packs??

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Greenwood
friendly way to do things?? Besides, I don't want to have to use MS Word just to type text in other languages!! Thanks for any advice. Jason Jason Greenwood wrote: How do you install/download language packs for Mozilla?? I mean to DISPLAY pages created with different languages, not locals. If know

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Greenwood
K3B is your friend. So is eRoaster. Regards, Jason Phil wrote: Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome

Re: [expert] mouse wheel and tv card problems

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Greenwood
You have to modify the XF86Config-4 (in /etc/X11) file by hand as I found out on my laptop. There was a thread on this around 12-12-02. I got helped by several on the list but also had to do some searching of my own. I have a laptop and I wanted my touchpad AND USB optical scroll mouse to be

Re: [expert] ntpdate use

2002-12-19 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, I had the same problem. I use Mandrake so under Mandrake Control CenterSystemServices, I just stopped the process (ntpd) and then ran ntpdate. Worked like a charm. Cheers J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:14:36AM +, Phil wrote: 20 Dec 08:10:16

[expert] Mozilla problem - can't delete message

2002-12-19 Thread Jason Greenwood
other address (also in Mozilla), it viewed, and deleted just fine. Ideas?? Cheers Jason Greenwood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-18 Thread Jason Greenwood
I use Mozilla Mail happily every day. I find it perfect for my needs with excellent filter functionality. What exactly are you looking for in your perfect mail client? I used to use Eudora and find Mozilla beats it hands down for my needs. Cheers Jason Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Greenwood
Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding. Cheers Jason Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 05:50 pm, J. Grant wrote:

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Greenwood
The only advice I can offer is not to use anyhting that contains an SIS Chipsetthey perform, um, erratically with XFree86. Regards J Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi everybody. I know this is a frequently asked question on this list, but I have a list of candidates and I would like your

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, I concur. It IS possible for the copyright holders but a royal pain in the a** to prosecute someone who downloads maybe 1-3 songs per week, that may or may not be copyrighted. Cheers J Ron Stodden wrote: Jason Greenwood wrote: Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
Just wondering why you don't use the pre-built mdk RPM?? Wouldn't it be easier?? Cheers J Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have been trying and trying and trying to build a functional KDE 3 system for days now. I have tried with mandrake 3.0.3, 3.0.4, and 3.0.5 src rpms and have managed

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 15:37, Jason Greenwood wrote: Just wondering why you don't use the pre-built mdk RPM?? Wouldn't it be easier?? Cheers Hello, I cannot use the prebuilts because I am not running MDK 9.0. I am still using 8.2 so I must rebuild

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
ult and fails miserably. Wish you all the best anyway. Regards J Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 16:13, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok, I offer 2 possible solutions for you then. Download the 9.0 ISO's for free (or have them burned to CD by someone you know who alre

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Jason Greenwood
insight here... All the best J Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2002 05:15 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok, I'm with you now. I know plenty of people who have 9.0 and would burn it for you for free (if you replaced the CD's for them). I am sure you do as well. If not, I

Re: [expert] second mouse ?

2002-12-12 Thread Jason Greenwood
I wrote to the list yesterday with a similar problem with no response... =( rodrigo wrote: Dear Experts... I have been trying to install a second mouse in my laptop It comes with a touch-pad-mouse, and I like a second one (usb-mouse...), but tools like "mousedrake", Harddrake2, ...

[expert] Mozilla Plugins

2002-12-12 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi all, Mozilla used to list under helpabout plugins where the plugins were located but it doesn't do that anymore. I am trying to put in the flash/active X plugins but can't for the life of me see where to put them as there is no plugins directory under .mozilla and putting them in the

Re: [expert] Mozilla Plugins

2002-12-12 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thanks for all the advice from the list, this worked a treat and Flash is now viewable for me. Cheers Jason Dave Sherman wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:28, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi all, Mozilla used to list under helpabout plugins where the plugins were located

Re: [expert] second mouse ?

2002-12-12 Thread Jason Greenwood
quot; Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # Option "Emulate3Buttons" # Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice # Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection Section "InputDevice"

[expert] 9.0 and hardware autodetection woes

2002-12-11 Thread Jason Greenwood
I run cooker at home but 9.0 at work. On my work PC (an ASUS laptop) I have a touchpad mouse and an external USB mouse I like to use sometimes. On Install I used the touchpad and the first time I rebooted I plugged my USB mouse in and it was autodetected. The next time I rebooted, I used my

Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?

2002-11-05 Thread Jason Greenwood
Or just use kwikdisk to mount/unmount removable media (I have it running in my systray at kde startup), I find it much quicker, though once in bash history (for you command line hero's), it's just a matter of navigating up to the proper mount command! ;) Cheers Jason Todd Lyons wrote: