On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9
[...]
Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here all in a
sudden... Welcome, John! :-)
I've actually done the same, though I came from RHL7.3 and I did a
full install
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:56:53PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
I don't know what this means. I write a paragraph in OO, in Lyx, and in
Abiword. Same paragraph. I then print it. It looks identical regardless of
what I used to generate it. The text is whatever quality the printer can
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:05:26PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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What are you referring to here? I have tried inline graphics either with or
without text flowing around the graphic. This can be nifty, given a good
graphic and proper page placement,
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:36:23PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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[...]
There is NOTHING like Word/Wordperfect + EndNote in linux - Lyx
contains it all in one package but you give up WYSIWYG and the ease that
comes with that.
Well, on the other hand:
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:42:04PM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
[...]
RH is trying to build two truly separate distributions, a server and a
desktop, with different source trees, different package revisions,
different config tools...
[...]
Errr... While I don't like the direction RH is going
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:58:40AM +0200, Artemio wrote:
[...]
I just installed nvidia drivers (4363), modified XF86Config-4, just as 50
previous times with all previous distros.
I have X running at 1152x864, but when I launched X with nvidia driver - it
runs at 1024x768. I tried hard for
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:40:07PM +0200, Artemio wrote:
Did you check the log file X produces? (/var/log/XFree86.0.log)i
[...]
I LOVE YOU!!! :-)
Thanks very, very much!
grin glad to be of help... I just had to use it myself, as the
integrated nForce graphic adapter refused to display
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:33:22PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote:
OK,
Guess what RH9 is the last Redhat distro to be released. At
least as a free OS.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1371164,00.asp
For the article. After next summer they will no longer support or
release
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:37:48AM -0500, Lawson, Jim wrote:
What does this mean for the future of Mandrake?
Potentially more users? :-)
Cheerio,
Thomas
--
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Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org
For the curious, here's Novell's press release:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html
Cheerio,
Thomas
--
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Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org
You have to live on the
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:31:46PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote:
Thomas as to why it takes to long now. There has been a lot of new
hardware added since the 7.3 days and MDK has compiled every single one
of those modules in.
Ah. I was afraid someone would say that... :-} Well, at least I
Hi all,
I'm just after installing MDK 9.1 on my Libretto 110CT laptop (went
mostly smoothly - chalk one up for Mandrake) and noticed a little
problem: Upon boot, the Finding module dependencies step takes ages
(i.e. about 1.5min(!)). Same goes for running depmod -a manually
from the prompt. Now,
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
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
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:20:55PM -0700, rikona wrote:
[...]
In the
M$ world, the address book is NOT your friend, and should be BLANK.
[...]
It doesn't matter that much anymore, as the latest generation of
viruses gets their addresses from Usenet and the web cache as well, so
there's still
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:40:40PM -0400, HaywireMac wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:36:09 -0700
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
yeah. I remember those scripts. Got a note that my windows box was
infected with some dang virus. Reported to the ISP that I don't run
windows.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:19:43PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails:
[...]
While I was away several people told me that they were just doing
something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had done
what Microsoft said in their
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote:
[...]
Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close.
Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and btw it does
pass the test if you install the LSB packages) than
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:04:30AM +1000, Charlie wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:35 pm, many eyes noted that Vincent Chen wrote:
[...]
If RPM is not available, will it cause any problem if I use OO's
installer?
[...]
No
OpenOffice.org1.1.0 installs beautifully like this:-
[...]
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:46:29PM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote:
T. Ribbrock wrote:
I'm curious: Does an out-of-the-box MDK 9.1 (or 9.2) install fulfill
those dependencies?
Did for me on 9.1.
Cool, thanks! Next step: Installing Firebird at home... I tried it at
work under Win00 and it's
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:43:52AM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote:
If you mean for Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3, then I don't think
anything is up yet. But last night I downloaded the tarballs of both
from the Mozilla site, and simply untarred them into my home directory.
They both work
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:01:46PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Hmm, I thought (referring to an earlier part) that the twice as big as
physical ram rule of thumb only went up to x size, say about 400-500 megs or
so? I thought it was wasteful (short of doing video editing or something
rather
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:32:59AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote:
[mutt]
I tried it a few times, never liked it enough to keep it though. Reminds
me of emacs (in that the tool is more complicated than the task).
Well, comparing mutt to emacs is not entirely wrong - both tools are
very powerful
Hi all,
I think I've used this in the past, but I can't remember what I did and
can't find it in the docs: How can I - as a user - choose what window
manager I'm using when running startx from the console? Under Red Hat,
there's switchdesk, which allows a user to permanently set his/her window
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:39:26PM -0700, Tim Sawchuck wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:14:50 +0200
T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I've used this in the past, but I can't remember what I did and
can't find it in the docs: How can I - as a user - choose what window
manager I'm
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:14:55AM +, Dick Gevers wrote:
Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it
sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks!
As the list archives don't seem to work[0], please allow me one question:
*Why* does this list have a
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:38:15AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:55, T. Ribbrock wrote:
...
[0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search
daemon - are there other archives?
Google, and add site:mandrakelinux.com to the end of the search
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:12:08AM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
If I understand you, there is no need to set your mail agent's reply-to
to the list.
Personally, I hardly ever set a Reply-To...
In fact, if you leave reply-to unset, all replies to mail
you send will be sent back to the
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:49:02PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
I don't get the mail from the sender ... I get it from the list.
Well, here, all mails are From: the person who sent it, which makes
sense, as the list server just re-sends them.
But the Reply-To header of the list does change
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:27:48PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
[...]
innocents. One of the things I hate about spam assassin, and other anti
viral software is that they send me an e-mail every time some idget with
my e-mail address in outlook starts spawning the latest virus.
I've never
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
I'm not sure this is a problem specific with VIM. I say that because I
haven't noticed this behavior in Vim, but have seen Bluefish exibiting
this very behavior. I too am running Mdk9.2RC2. I saw the same behavior
in the same
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:14:53AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
Now there's the rub - I don't hear anything. I hate to say the
dreaded line, but I used both card line-in and front panel line-in
under windows. Both line-in and line-in2 show up on the mixer
panels, both are turned right up,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:06:47PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
No, I didn't see it. Thanks for sending it on. I got LVG's though.
Before I saw this I had found an article on Gramofile through google,
so I've installed it.
The nice thing about gramofile is that it has filters to get rid of
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:02:20AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
Dunno here Jack. MDK and SuSE are ssh patched. RH is still 6 versions
behind in the last (a while back too) update for anything but 9.
In fairness to RH: The version numbers don't mean much on RH. Most of
the time they try to
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:57:15PM +0100, Chris Slater-Walker wrote:
Has anyone else heard about this? Read it and boycott them!
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126tid=95tid=98tid=99
Someone has started a petition to ICANN to do something about this:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:59:25PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
Philosophically, I hate the idea of masquerading - I don't want to be
though to be using IE, but I recognise that it's sometimes necessary.
Well, I share you're reservations agains masquerading. However, if
it's any consolation,
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:52:35PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
[...]
In Mozilla, it is... I just haven't found an easy way of keeping
bookmarks and settings in sync yet.
When you've sorted it, will you write it up, please?
I'll keep that in mind. Can't promise anything, as I'm not using it
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:46:08PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
It sounds like something that would be useful to a lot of people, even
if it's not foolproof, though. I'd like to see this somewhere on the
TWiki.
Ok, I'll see what I can do. I'm on vacation for a couple of days, but
once I'm back
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:05:18PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did
not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts
circulating).
[...]
Well, while updating is definitely recommended, at least there seems to
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:21:13PM -0400, Gonzalo Avaria wrote:
I have a little question, i would like to have a script on the startup (could
be init.d) that should do two command lines:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | fgrep -i inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1
ipnumero
mail -s IP Number
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why
Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little shelf-space
in the UK, but I have *never* seen a Mandrake box.
Admittedly, I've been wondering about this as
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:07:12AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:29:16 +0200:
Linux companies are a necessary evil in my eyes. They're needed to
help prevent monopolies from drowning the software world in
proprietary lock-ins, as unfortunately
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:25:18PM -0700, Jeremy Gregorio wrote:
It's weird. None of my posts show up no matter what reader I use
(pan, mozilla, knode). The newsreaders seem to send fine, but the post
never shows up. It works fine in redhat though. I've tried shutting down
iptables with
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:34:16AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
[...]
But is that kind of special hardware also available for Linux (they
offer more advantages than PC's, including lack of noise)? Can Sunrays
work with Linux?
To the best of my knowledge, SunRays themselves cannot be used with
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:40:51AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200:
I did not mean such that involved proprietary stuff. I meant projects
which involve a lot of time and engagement. If there were only people
doing it in their spare time
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
[...]
So, why don't you read the statements
of long-term Mandrake users and go to the website and read the last 3
year's news from Mandrake. They show a lot of Mandrake's commitment to
Open Source. It's just one page.
I'll keep
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:35:45PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 15 Sep 2003 10:25 am, T. Ribbrock wrote:
That leaves only the product download edition if I do want the
distro, which is a pity.
I would have much more sympathy with your argument if you had at any
point said 'so
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:39:13PM -0700, John Wilson wrote:
Perhaps I'd feel better if you could tell me one patch you contributed to a
CVS, one contribution you made to a project even at high level design, one
thing you've done other than complain. At least then I'd have to rethink my
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:45:29PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
[...]
Of course, Thomas also pays in other ways. The only reason that I saw
his situation as freeloading was because he started by saying that he
would have bought, had not the matter of advertisements arisen - in
other words, he
...hold it right there.
Ok. Time to take a step back, take a deep breath and de-escalate this
discussion.
Upon re-reading, I realize, that some of my comments were ill-written
and easily be taken as inflammatory. For this I offer my apologies.
Cudos to those who were still able to come up with
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 07:49:30AM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
Do you even use Mandrake?
Yup, I have 9.1 on one of my machines. That's why I considered buying
9.2. MDK lost that sale.
A product does not materialize out of thin
air: it takes money for the people who produce it to live,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:54:37AM -0400, Miark wrote:
This reminds me of single issue voters I've heard so much about. You
probably like urpmi more than up2date, the Drak tools more than Red
Hat's tools, the MDK support lists more than the Red Hat lists, and MDKs
goal of making Linux easier
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:59:12AM -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Do you ever watch sports? Take the US Open that just wrapped up last
weekend.
With the name *J.P. MorganChase* is plastered all over the walls of the
courts in Arthur Ash stadium with the *IBM* scoreboard high above the
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:33:06AM -0400, Lee Wiggers wrote:
Let's see if I understand this. Mdk sells advertising for megabucks
to companies who want to reach mdk users.
Mdk users simply avoid gui install and avoid adverts.
So the logical next step is? Right: Remove the text install (or
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:56:38PM +0300, Paul wrote:
[...]
I take this to mean that, once set up, the default screen-saver will
display ads, rather than ads in the install.
No, both. If I interpret Mandrake's statement correctly (URL in first mail of
this thread), installer ads, ad bookmarks
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:25:05AM -0400, Miark wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:15:48 +0200, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Logical conclusion: Don't buy Mandrake distros at all. Download them,
remove the ads, be happy. As they're getting money that way anyway, I
have even less reason
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote:
I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 bit
ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure the
card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the module
freezes the
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:34:08PM +0100, David wrote:
If this is you, you need to detach from the internet and clean your
machine!
Just an aside: You *are* aware of the fact, that Sobig Co. pick
random From addresses? I got tons of bounces from machines that
thought I'd sent them a virus -
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:19:04PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
[...]
True PIF files contain information on how to run a program. It was mostly
used in early versions of Windows for running DOS mode programs.
intresting point here. your statement is correct but it actually
contains a
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:45:28PM +, Dick Gevers wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:01:15 +0800, Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about RE: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:
Besides, what is the big deal? you can pick up a second hand 15 inch
monitor for about 30
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:34:10AM +, Dick Gevers wrote:
Aha, I wasn`t aware of that. I thought it was all proportional and I can`t
accomodate a larger box between my keyboard and the wall.
I just noticed that you're also in the Netherlands. Have a look at
www.marktplaats.nl and
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