[expert] Powerpack Md5sums

2003-11-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
I need the md5sums for the powerpack edition downloaded from bittorrent. Who's got em? And no I don't care about the theoretically infallible bittorrent checksums, I just want to check the iso's myself. LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 11:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:24 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point. I do think that linux is not yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively small subpopulation.

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 10:41, Anne Wilson wrote: Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the new

Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:43, David Guntner wrote: Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 00:18, David E. Fox wrote: I was under the impression postfix was relay proof - any advice will be helpful... It pretty much is, as long as you didn't break

Re: [expert] help - my box might be a relay

2003-11-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 01:23, David E. Fox wrote: hey - help! it's seemingly apparent that in the last week or two there seems to be an increasing number of mails of a dubious nature being sent to a large number of bogus addresses by yours truly :(. I'm not a spammer but it seems that my

Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 00:18, David E. Fox wrote: Folks - especially postfix people - I need some help - my box seems to have been turned into an open relay. I am running the same postfix configuration file I had installed when I was running 9.0 and later versions (currently I am running

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

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 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] [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] Download and Powerpack editions

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
This may be a stupid question and apologies if it is, but I just got the Powerpack edition in after a solid week of bittorrent downloading, and I'm wondering if there is any possible reason that I might need the Download edition. If there is something on the Download that's not in Powerpack, or

RE: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Of Gonzalo Avaria Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:36, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: If there is something on the Download that's not in Powerpack, or some other reason I might need

Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:48, Markus Ueberall wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I just got the Powerpack edition in after a solid week of bittorrent downloading, and I'm wondering if there is any possible reason that I might need the Download edition. I can't think

Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:41, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Thanks, now i know that. Maybe in a few years i become silver, now i´m only a student with schoolarchip, so only can use the download edition. I apologize for the latest post. Greetings I'm posting this one again, maybe you were too

[expert] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
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 kidding. Supposedly the max rating for such a storm is G5, this storm is supposed to be G3 or so.

[expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization

2003-10-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing between 70 to 90 K/sec. I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to: ('max_upload_rate', 0, 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 07:52 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: whack That having been said, I still don't see this as being applicable to the discussion. Unless we are suggesting that Mandrake Linux is installable and configurable by an

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:28 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 9:08 pm, Guilmot Mike wrote: Apu??? Apu nahaseesomething ... in The Simpsons ? :-) Kind regards, Guilmot Mike Ah - I must be the only

[expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN*

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:51, Mark wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Well...when I first loaded 9.1 thats how I had to do it to get a boot

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:53, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I've found the problem. diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:18, J.C. Woods wrote: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Thanks Carroll, I got my own message too. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 08:50 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! It's more a test. I

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Hello all, Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to

Re: [expert] XFS mount problems

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I've found the problem. diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When I

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:55, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:51 am, Felix Miata wrote: I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know of

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:31, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: I have a Hpt372 on my motherboard and had to turn it off in the BIOS since with standard 9.1, it causes a kernel panic that kills Mandrake. I did recompile the kernel with the Highpoint

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:10, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 18 Aug 2003 9:03 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:52, Anne Wilson wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:52, Anne Wilson wrote: SMC Barricade 7401BRA adsl router On average, about once a week I have to reboot my router. No apparent reason - just that no Internet connection works any more. After a reboot, all is well, both on this box and all others on the net. I

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 05:03, J.C. Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee

Re: [expert] cdbakeoven first try bad

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:56, David E. Fox wrote: I'm using what seems to be an old version of cdbakeoven after someone (who shall remain nameless) suggested I try cdbakeoven after letting him know of my issues with k3b crashing in the midst of a burn. (On that, I can simulate the writing and

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:24, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) XFS has a dump utility... non of the other FS's do (JFS or Reiserfs). There is a dump for ext2/3 but you'll have to use snapshoting with LVM or

[expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GM

Re: [expert] SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:14, Miark wrote: Red Hat has a million bucks or more to dump into this--Mandrake doesn't. I'm content to have Mandrake focus on it's own problems and let the big'uns duke it out. Miark What peeves me is that IBM bailed SUSE linux out of the hole with millions of

Re: [expert] ReiserFS , JFS or XFS

2003-08-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:26, Lawson, Jim wrote: Has anyone used these? What are you comments about these. ( Good, Bad) James S. Lawson (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- I've been running performance comparisons

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 04:36, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:24, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux

RE: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:01, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Andy Davidson wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:24:30AM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Let's

(OFF LIST)Re: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem

2003-08-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:14, Vincent Danen wrote: You had the binary driver for nvidia installed. I did build a new one and it should be on Club (I didn't put it there, but asked someone else to). I just assumed it would be there. If it isn't, I can email the webmaster again and get him to

Re: [expert] time drift

2003-08-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:37, David E Fox wrote: Hi On a previous message I noted my issue with kde's clock having the wrong timezone. Still haven't sorted that out. But I noticed today that the system's time was wrong - still the right timezone but about 20 minutes off PDT using the

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-07-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 02:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 22:55, Felix Miata wrote: David Guntner wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: or in your lilo.conf vga=[some number] changed to vga=normal Ah! Good catch. :-) I was about to ask

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 21:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:26, Avi Schwartz wrote: Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the latest Security Advisory since they say there: To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade

[expert] Test

2003-07-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
-- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Filter That, Beach! --Lanman, MDK Newbie List Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 01:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You'll like this Lyvim... I've known for a while that my everything server cum router cum wife's workstation was overheating, but it's only been a major problem (e.g. interrupting task at hand

Re: [expert] NIC's

2003-07-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:12, James Sparenberg wrote: For speed. The pro100 edged out the 3c905 (especially when using multiple NICS to a single network as in for example a web server.) by about 2 or 3 percent. For reliability. I've yet to have either one fail (over the last 4 years.) so I

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 01:07, James Sparenberg wrote: Really. Interesting. Must be one heck of a magnet to handle the torque and thrust of the fan eh? Just a thought here. But if you think about it torque and thrust for the spinning fan (assuming a constant speed) will be almost 0. If

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:53, James Sparenberg wrote: I think by bearingless they actually do mean sealed bearing. It's more a case of marketing taking a technical term and misusing it to the point of extreme obfuscation of term (ie Trusted Computing by M$) rather than what it actually

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 01:07, James Sparenberg wrote: This is not the same thing. This is new bearingless technology. It utilizes something called a magnetic tip. My understanding is that the fan blade is suspended by a magnetic field. Really. Interesting. Must be one heck of a

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 03:45, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Got some new news. Looks like you were right James; on all counts. It's basically a little gyro that uses the weight at the edges of the fan (magnets) to resist movement off it's plane of operation. Also, they do actually have small ball

Re: [expert] NIC's

2003-07-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 03:07, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:45, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I did send this in when the server was down so it looks like it got lost. My cable connection is not as good as it could be, so called out the cable guys and to my horror, his

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:45, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 06:24, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: HSF's that outperform the Areoflow don't do it by a significant margin and plus they weigh a ton cause usually they are solid copper. That can possibly put a physical strain on the

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:11, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: I had a system that was experiencing periodic lockups recently. Turns out the cpu temps were creeping up to around 78C. Improving the case cooling brought the temp down to around 63C under load. Still not ideal, but the system is in

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 00:29, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Does the Duron use the same flags as the t-bird? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all

Re: [expert] OT - quake3

2003-07-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've been REALLY busy the last few months and haven't had the chance to play my favorite game, q3a. I just started it up last night and after finding that I had to install the latest point release, 1.32b, to make it work again -

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 00:15, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:55, Vox wrote: The stock fan that comes with the Athlon is not the best deal in the world. The real deal is a Vantec Areoflow VA4-C7040. That's a fantastic piece of engineering, and it doesn't cost an arm

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 00:55, Robert Crawford wrote: On Friday 11 July 2003 12:35 am, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3599 days James Sparenberg wrote: Vox, Last ditch if you get worried. open the side and put a small desk fan right on it. From the hardware standpoint. make sure

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 08:43, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 05:12, Phil wrote: Hello All, After playing with Ksensors tonight I'm now wondering what the threshold temperatures for the CPU and Mother board should be. I have an AMD XP2000+ CPU which is currently running at

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:19, Jack Coates wrote: Is it just me, or does 205 to 230 degrees Fahrenheit seem a bit excessive for the maximum temperature of a desktop? Yikes! I'm nervous enough about the operating temperature of 122 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit. Overclockers usually don't like a

Re: [expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1

2003-07-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:58, Praedor Tempus wrote: It has been a while since I last played this game but now I have some family visiting and at least one of these visitors would like to pass some time playing it. I installed it last night, got it working with my NVidia Ti4200 just fine, but

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:50, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 03:22 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: There have been some Toshiba firmware updates addressing media support; you probably would be served best if you made sure the drive was flashed with the latest firmware. I've got

Re: [expert] heretic2 and sound in mandrake 9.1

2003-07-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2003 01:19 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Ahhhyou also need to have the dynamic linked patch in place instead of the static lined one. I've got that patch archived if you need it btw. The best one I could find was from

Re: [expert] cdrw

2003-07-09 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 23:48, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about re: [expert] cdrw ok i bit the bullet. Thanks to lyvim and other people's comments, i am going with a 1312 combo dvd/cdrw, from toshiba. i ordered it from micro pro and hope it arrives soon. i'll update folks when i get it.

Re: [expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 01:34, John McQuillen wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:09 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: A 700 mb CDr has two sizes. 80 minutes, and 700mb. Only time minutes is important is audio images. I often burn way over 800 mb's of wav's to a CDr, but the time needs to be just

Re: [expert] 2.4.21 athlon-xp optimized mm kernel

2003-07-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
What kind of speed difference are you seeing between the xp-optimization and the stock kernel? On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 01:36, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, I recompiled the 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk kernel with pretty aggresive athlon-xp optflags, and it works fine. These flags also

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 18:01, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 07:46, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that this kernel locks up more often than even

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Remember. The vendor can report the correct write modes all he wants; but there is also the small matter of correct EFM encoding. That means actually testing the drive to see if the drive can reproduce exotic conditions like weak sectors. That in turn means that somebody needs to have actually

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:52 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It's not so much the difference between the atapi and scsi drives, it's the data bus. Copying a CD on the fly is a much safer and faster thing using scsi. wobo Agreed. Less

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the quality drives (Plextor and Yamaha), I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:38, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 following the instructions I created the .rpmmacros file edited it as it outlined. then I did gpg --gen-key filled in the blanks ... generated a

Re: [expert] CD Burner

2003-07-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:53, 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 3x on gnome toaster. If

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 13:31, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [expert] CDRW Hi all, after compiling K3b 0.9pre 2 after reinstalling KDE, I can now burn audio CD's on my second somewhat older CDRW.and using Gnome as the WM ! I'm not sure (since I don't have a cdrw) if there really is a

[expert] CPU Temperature monitor

2003-07-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
I need a utility that will tell me what is going on with the cpu temperature. Haven't been able to locate one. Any of you guys out there got any suggestions? --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk

Re: [expert] CPU Temperature monitor

2003-07-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 19:40, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I need a utility that will tell me what is going on with the cpu temperature. Haven't been able to locate one. Any of you guys out there got any suggestions? urpmi

Re: [expert] Interview: Gaël Duval on finances

2003-07-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:32, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:48, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Source URL: http://mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/MandrakeClustering_Story01.html Excerpt: Mandrake's Good Financial News MozillaQuest Magazine: Anything else within

Re: [expert] Interview: Gaël Duval on finances

2003-07-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 12:32:07PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Now the question. Any chance this will include a way to submit bugs for the release version! (and no I won't hold my breath waiting.) Without holding your breath, or my own,

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.21-0.18mdk xconfig - fixed

2003-07-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 12:52, Vincent Danen wrote: On Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 09:39:09AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I accidentally deleted the message so I had to do something. heheh... ok. Incidentally, the mailing list archives are great sources of information as well... =) But I

[expert] Interview: Gaël Duval on finances

2003-07-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Source URL: http://mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/MandrakeClustering_Story01.html Excerpt: Mandrake's Good Financial News After MandrakeSoft filed the equivalent of a U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it set about a restructuring designed to make MandrakeSoft a financially viable operation. We asked

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no call for that unless some idiot user decides to give other people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by default regardless of distro. This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate homedir perms. This

[expert] Newsflash: Gentoo has forked.

2003-06-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Gentoo has been one of MDK's greatest competitors so far, maintaining fourth place at Distrowatch.com right behind Red Hat. Mandrake of course has almost consistently maintained it's first place position there. I find it interesting that so far we in the Mandrake world have avoided forking,

Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??

2003-06-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 23:19, Vincent Danen wrote: Well, trust me, I was not very pleased with the results of my queries. Of course, I don't have the time or skills to fix the installkernel script myself. If someone out there is feeling bored... =) You're right though Vincent - it's been

[expert] Good news: System Crashes stopped

2003-06-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
While I was looking for a way to speed the system up here (it had slowed to a crawl, if you had Evo, Opera, and several Eterms open...which I do all the time) I decided to reduce the number of Enlightenment desktops I had open, to gain some desktop speed. I took the system down to two from

[expert] WineX 3.1 is out..and Morrowind works!!

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
The red letter date has arrived! Transgaming released a new version of WineX, and believe it or not, they are claiming that Morrowind is now working!! Man, I can't wait to try it on this system. Hot diggity dog. --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk

[expert] WineX 3.1 is out..and Morrowind works!!

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
The red letter date has arrived! Transgaming released a new version of WineX, and believe it or not, they are claiming that Morrowind is now working!! Man, I can't wait to try it on this system. Hot diggity dog. --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk

[expert] Sympa server outage confirmation

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Here's an explanation from the latest Mandrake newsletter giving some more information on the downed servers. - If you encountered troubles when ordering this product on MandrakeStore yesteday (06/18), please process it again.

Re: [expert] disk check

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:55, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 07:22, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 00:01, David Hlacik wrote: how can i check disk partition in fat32 for errors? and how can i repair it. David Hlacik David, I presume that you have

Re: [expert] irc client

2003-06-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 04:13, elPunishar wrote: DCC and everything ? On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 15:12, Steven Broos wrote: If you are familiar with mIRC, then you'll like xchat. I went from mIRC to xchat too. Try it. --LX -- Kernel

Re: [expert] I Found my Martians

2003-06-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 07:17, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:41 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Hmmm... too

[expert] Linus Torvalds leaves Transmeta

2003-06-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
OSDL scores bigtime. --- Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31245.html Torvalds leaves Transmeta By Tony Smith Posted: 17/06/2003 at 10:47 GMT Linux creator Linus Torvalds is to quit Transmeta after six years to work full

Re: [expert] Suggestions to help Minimize List Email Traffic

2003-06-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:17, Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 23:43, Tru64 User wrote: Hi All, The list I am refering to is for tru64 Unix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IMHO, that list serves much better purpose than this one. Searching their archives, its almost 100% hit on

[expert] Extracting a URL from a Java applet

2003-06-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
The scenario is that I would like to pass a url to mplayer from a Javascript applet, so I can play a WMA soundstream. Manually; like with copy and paste, straight to the command line. However it's like pulling eyeteeth to get a source URL out of a java applet. Does anybody have a way to do

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:35 am, stefmit wrote: Very weird situation - didn't pay much attention to it, until now, when - due to some immediate needs to resolve some issues via email - it seems to go beyond a simple nuisance level: I can

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:37, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:22, Jason Guidry wrote: Piero Piutti wrote: Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? I'm working on it, I'll report back on how it goes Just tried Transgaming with a couple of kid games, no success. They

Re: [expert] Copy/paste between eterm and kmail not working

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:31, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 06:48, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: just fine, but I can't either. I can use Klipper by highlighting what I need in Eterm, then go to Klipper, click on that entry, go

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, a bit of an update. I deleted the slocate.db.tmp file in /var/lib/slocate, and reran updatedb. Crash - spont. reboot. I did a urpme slocate, then a urpmi slocate. Reran updatedb. Crash - spont. reboot. I turned DMA off to /dev/hda,

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 14:15, Lorne wrote: Would it be out of the question to load 9.0 on it again fresh and see if the problem goes away? Even if you put it on another hard drive. Although it would be better to use the same HD if possible. I've been watching the thread and even though it

Re: [expert] WMAs under Linux?

2003-06-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 02:32, Rob Blomquist wrote: With the proliferation of streaming WMAs under Linux, I am wondering if there are any programs to play these, or plugins that are in development for XMMS? Rob You may not believe this but right now I'm listening to a Rush Limbaugh WMA audio

Re: [expert] Mail formats revisited

2003-06-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 15:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:14 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Freitag, 6. Juni 2003 21:04 schrieb Anne Wilson: My dally with evo made me aware that I had a mixture of maildir and mbox for my mail - obviously not ideal - so I set out to convert

Re: [expert] Mail formats revisited

2003-06-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 05:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for that explanation, Lyvim. It's given me a lot to think about. The thing that put me off maildir was that when I tried to import from KMail into Evo it wouldn't read the mail. I tried both reading methods in the import, but it

[expert] Gone for a week

2003-06-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Peeps, I'll be off the lists for about 8 days. Thought I'd try to make some people happy. ;) We're going out of state on vacation. I know it will be very hard for you guys to do without me, but please do your best. g l8r, --LX -- Kernel

Re: [expert] chmod question

2003-06-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 23:00, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 03:08, charlie wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 04:30 am, Michael Noble sent this :- P.S. In the future, please consider asking this sort of question on the newbie list (or, better yet, on a generic linux/unix list.)

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