The conclusion I draw was that the initial poster was trolling a bit
AGAINST Linux!
He put forth the informal poll but after receiving an initial message
about how well Linux worked for a specific user, the pollster told that
user that they had merely been lucky.
This smells a bit to me.
-JMS
Again, I believe my survey is not statistically correct as it was done for
fun only. I just want to know how it is out there. I also did it to see what
people are using to do what on Linux. In the process, I actually picked up a
lot of things that I wouldn't know about Linux otherwise (there
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote:
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:22:08PM +1100, Andrew George wrote:
Anyone ever seen this before?
Andrew
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Port Denial noted esound-localhost
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:10:30 +1100 (EST)
From: [EMAIL
No.
Audio CD's are played by turning your CD-ROM reader into a dumb
player. The CD Reader itself engages and plays back the Audio CD.
Output takes the form of either (or both) a DIGITAL, or ANALOG signal
coming from the back of the CD-ROM reader. This signal is fed to the
sound card via a
I do not understand the tone of this email.
Lucky was our (me and my friends) experience with Linux. It was hit or miss
at the start since we did not know anything about Linux at that point in
time. Our hardware was varied. If something worked then it worked, if
something did not then we were
Mr. Woods Thank you very much for replying to my post.
port 139 I was leaving open for samba. I use samba so that I can download
stuff straight from the internet to my linux box from my Win2K box. (At
least I was back when my win2K box could connect to the internet). As for
port 6000 I may
Do not use this list for surveys, PLEASE!
It should be used for technical questions
relating to Linux Mandrake products.
-- Bjarne Thomsen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Hmmm, your job could be at stake? Be careful with heavily formatted Excel and
Word docs. PowerPoint I find are fine with StarOffice.
On Thursday 08 November 2001 01:19, you wrote:
Informal survey.
How many people in this email list are actually using Linux exclusively
for
their
Hi All People,
I succeeded downloading RedCarpet installer but failed to install it. I
tried both Ximian site and Planet site (Australia) downloading the
installer successfully but failed to proceed further during installation
with following warning pop-up
Application
It's always difficult to fathom the original intent in E-Mail messages
as we are missing the cues that can often differentiate one thing from
another.
Thus I took you telling the person you replied to, that he was lucky
as a passive indication of displeasure or frustration. Hence the tone
of my
dont forget there's also the product from netraverse, win4lin, much lower
cost than vmware, but with disadvantage, of the kernel patches being a
long way behind the current kernels
A long way? I don't think so.
There is a kernel available as a drop-in-replacement for the stock Mandrake
I'm using 8.1 on my toshiba notebook, and I've found it to be VERY stable.
I've had to restart X a couple of times, but I've NEVER been forced to reboot.
Overall, I'm quite happy.
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 23:55, you wrote:
I have been using Linux Mandrake 8.1 ever since it came out and
Your answer is on their support site at:
http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=E
95QRH_fp_lva=p_refno=011010-02p_created=1002732841p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29yd
D0mcF9yb3dfY250PTgwJnBfcGFnZT0xp_li=
Basically, they are working on Mandrake 8.1 support.
-Original
Craig (and anyone else that can help),
Daniel Woods wrote:
On the AIX client, the /etc/filesystems contains (as same for cd1, cd2)
/ovid/cd0:
dev = /ovid/cd0
vfs = nfs
nodename = DUMMY.lib.ucalgary.ca
mount = false
type= nfs
options =
Thanks for replying Richard,
The link you gave me basically told me it could connect to every port that
Nmap could except 3306 which is where MySQL is listening. That might
explain why Scoop isn't working but I still don't get it because apache
should be connecting to MySQL locally via sockets
On Thursday 08 November 2001 03:34 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
The conclusion I draw was that the initial poster was trolling a
bit AGAINST Linux!
Jee'monee' Jose!, usually you're a rock of sensibility around here
He put forth the informal poll but after receiving an initial
message about
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Aristotle wrote:
100% Linux on my desktop! Since 1998! Just moved into mdk8.1!
Just for info: I'm a English Teacher for non-natives and Translator!
And I exchange a great deal of files with '*.doc' extensions including
with
Title: RE: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?
Hi
all,
I am
having a small problem,
recently I installed 8.1 on a box, and installed 2.4.12-5 kernel.. all
went well.
So
anyway, I started by using msec to increase security to high.,.. and started
opening all the stuff that I
Daniel Woods wrote:
Craig (and anyone else that can help),
On the AIX client, the /etc/filesystems contains (as same for cd1, cd2)
/ovid/cd0:
dev = /ovid/cd0
vfs = nfs
nodename = DUMMY.lib.ucalgary.ca
mount = false
type= nfs
options =
Ben Nicolas wrote:
Mr. Woods Thank you very much for replying to my post.
port 139 I was leaving open for samba. I use samba so that I can download
stuff straight from the internet to my linux box from my Win2K box. (At
least I was back when my win2K box could connect to the internet).
--
J. Craig Woods
UNIX/NT SA
-Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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Daniel Woods wrote:
Craig (and anyone else that can help),
On the AIX client, the /etc/filesystems contains (as same for cd1, cd2)
/ovid/cd0:
dev = /ovid/cd0
vfs = nfs
nodename =
I use it exclusively, until I need a gaming fix.
:-)
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 21:55, you wrote:
Informal survey.
How many people in this email list are actually using Linux exclusively
for their desktop computing needs?
When I say exclusively, I mean you don't just play with Linux
On Thursday 08 November 2001 05:37 am, you wrote:
My permissions are there for all three. The baffling part is that the
cdplayer program can access the cdrom hardware, read the number of tracks,
etc., start to play but not output anything. Can the output be verified in
some way?
Then the
Works great - if you build from source and are *very* carefull which
rpms you install and which you build outright (from src tarball) The
one system I tried using rpm's (from cooker) is still totally screwed,
with libpng problems amongst others. The tarball way is a bit tedious
but eventually
Title: RE: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?
I totally understand what you're saying here, and agree to a degree. What many of us may need to realize is that nVidia may have code in their drivers that are under an NDA from another party. If memory serves me, they're using code from S3 in
Or, the sound card cdrom input is turned down, or muted, or labeled
incorecctly. IE, it's actually plugged in to the sound cards, Modem input.
Check the mixer.
On Thursday 08 November 2001 16:44, you wrote:
On Thursday 08 November 2001 05:37 am, you wrote:
My permissions are there for all
Thus spake Sergio Korlowsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Thursday 08 November 2001 05:37 am, you wrote:
My permissions are there for all three. The baffling part is that the
cdplayer program can access the cdrom hardware, read the number of tracks,
etc., start to play but not output anything.
I used the 8.0 rpms on mdk 8.1. It seems to be fine, quite stable. Watch
out for all the dependency problems - it must have taken me about 2
hours to get it all sorted out - especially since I ugraded to 0.16 then
found the 0.99 release. Talk about a double whammy! At any rate,
Evolution is good
I tried running my UT without the xserver having the module glx
enabled. No success getting my sound to work that way, neither. I had to
change the graphic renderer to SDLSoftDrv.SDLSoftwareRenderDevice in
order for it to work. The other two graphical options complained about
not having the
Many thanks, is there a place I can order
one from?
www.pricewatch.com
buyer beware
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I did a complete re-install.. and didn't even restore my home directory :)
On Thursday 08 November 2001 09:23 am, you wrote:
For those if you with problems, did you install clean (and then restore
your home directories), or do the upgrade? I upgraded a 7.2 workstation
to 8.1 and had some
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote:
Whatever the technical reasons, as a desktop user I am not really
interested in knowing all that.
However, if you subscribe *totally* to the consumer mentality you seem to be
espousing while dealing with OpenSource (or its variants), you're in for a
Wow, I loved that show, in stunning black and white!
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman
|Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:12 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?
|
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Stephen I still maintain that you are having way too many problems.
I still suspect that you may have bad hardware. I've seen you post about
various items which work flawlessly for me.
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen
On Thursday 08 November 2001 02:52 pm, Bjarne penned:
Do not use this list for surveys, PLEASE!
It should be used for technical questions
relating to Linux Mandrake products.
Please allow me to agree and disagree. Since I don't post often, please
allow me a few words.
The reasons for
Just wondering how many people use FVWM these days.
I started using it a number of years ago (version 2), and
came to like it - having customized it considerably. I
have since tried gnome and kde (both very nice), but have
gone back to FVWM mostly.
I am running FVWM 2.4, but am a little
I have set up a little linux portal at http://otrobert.tripod.com/homepage.html. I am
calling this an open source web site, so if you want to make a contribution (even and
page if you want) Email it over, Ill post it up. Suggestions welcomed. Wanna host
without charge so I can get a real URL?
Hi!
I have tried to install a 8.1 box for the following tasks:
router with public wireless IP adapter --- private IP ethernet
card
web/mail server
NAT for the private range internal IP network
CBQ scheduler and shaper for bandwidth limitation
It worked fine with 7.2, but without CBQ so I
ltiu wrote:
Informal survey.
How many people in this email list are actually using Linux exclusively for
their desktop computing needs?
When I say exclusively, I mean you don't just play with Linux and then
reboot to another OS to do real work, but actually do everything with Linux.
Hi Quintin
Thanks for your advice.
Stephen Liu
At 03:30 PM 11/8/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Your answer is on their support site at:
http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=E
95QRH_fp_lva=p_refno=011010-02p_created=1002732841p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29yd
You were right in assuming my basic topology consisted of 1 LM 8.0 server
(acting as a gateway/router) with 2 nic's. Besides that all I have is one
client machine running Win2K.
Now that you mention it you're also right about not needing to have port
139 open externally to use samba betw. my
Pretty good start. I would only suggest you add a few more things from
what you have right now.
-- Distros
A lot of people run FreeBSD for gateways or firewalls and what not.
BSD on a whole is a good jumping ground, may be a good idea to toss in
links to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and just for sh*tz
I use it at work. And for work, and SunOS it's great, but for home use
it doesn't suit me very well. I much rather use Enlightenment
personally.
I'm not even 100% sure what version we use at work. But you're right,
it's very customizable.
The last version of SuSE I installed, which I think
Hmmm, your job could be at stake? Be careful with heavily formatted Excel
and
Word docs. PowerPoint I find are fine with StarOffice.
Get fired for using Linux? That would be an interesting case, since I work
for a Linux company. The boss is fairly new, he is in sales and marketing
and knows
There is also, of course, my FAQ site at
http://webspinners.uwf.org/~mviron/faqs/linux.php, which I mentioned
several months ago.
--
Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 05:53 PM 11/08/2001 -0600, [EMAIL
I would ask this in the Newbie list.. but I no longer subscribe to it.
I've installed Mandrake 8.1 on a P100, with 32MB of RAM, and plan on using it
for a router/gateway to the internet. I've got two network cards in the P100
system, and they both load fine. For some reason, I can't seem to
On Thursday 08 November 2001 09:04, you wrote:
In some situations this is true but I do know from building my own
computers that in order to use the cdrom as a normal music cd player, this
cable needs to be hooked up. Is this a bought or built system? If you
bought it (Dell, Gateway,
Go to a search engine (my favorite is Google) and look for linux firewall.
You will get a good number of hits. This one looks good:
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/
Since you are using 8.1 (the 2.4 kernel), you also need to search for linux
iptables. Iptables replaces the Ipchains
You have to ask this question in the expert section because you're no
longer subscribed to the newbie list???...pretty lame excuse considering
the guidelines for this list specifically ask to not post install related
questions. if you can't figure out how to re-subscribe to a mailing list
I've noticed that after some use that my display seems to have a
ghosting or shadow in it. Well at first I thought it was the video card
so there is now a new video card. Then I've tried a different monitor
thinking this was the problem.
What I've just noticed is that if I restart X this goes
Question: If you lower the video resolution, does the problem go away? I
ask because I've seen this on my own systems with high resolution, when
interference gets into the cable or the connection isn't solid. Since you
have replaced the card and monitor this is a long shot, but I figured
On Thursday 08 November 2001 05:15 pm, you wrote:
I tried running my UT without the xserver having the module glx
enabled. No success getting my sound to work that way, neither. I had to
change the graphic renderer to SDLSoftDrv.SDLSoftwareRenderDevice in
order for it to work. The other two
On Thursday 08 November 2001 05:30 pm, you wrote:
Your answer is on their support site at:
http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=
E
95QRH_fp_lva=p_refno=011010-02p_created=1002732841p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29y
d D0mcF9yb3dfY250PTgwJnBfcGFnZT0xp_li=
Basically,
Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
Video Card...
Sound Card
Kernel-version
ALL that info is needed...
nVidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB
Intel 82801 AC '97 Audio sound card
2.4.13-2mdk and 2.4.8-26mdk kernels
Same behavior for both. I had read in a forum in loki games of someone
that managed to get sound
Hi Quintin
Further to my posting of today
At 03:30 PM 11/8/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Your answer is on their support site at:
http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=E
95QRH_fp_lva=p_refno=011010-02p_created=1002732841p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29yd
The Mandrake guys introduced by default the dev file system that manages
Huh? /dev has been in Unix since day one. What's in /dev is nearly identical
across distributions.
Arnab
David E. Fox
I have been running Linux, exclusively, for 2.5 yrs. I recently set up a
second machine with Linux, for my son to learn on (8 yrs old) and set up a
Well if it is good enough for Jesus it's good enough for everyone :).
On Thursday 08 November 2001 10:53 pm, you wrote:
Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
Video Card...
Sound Card
Kernel-version
ALL that info is needed...
nVidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB
Intel 82801 AC '97 Audio sound card
2.4.13-2mdk and 2.4.8-26mdk kernels
Same behavior for both. I had read in a forum
On Thursday 08 November 2001 11:00 pm, you wrote:
Hi Quintin
Further to my posting of today
At 03:30 PM 11/8/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Your answer is on their support site at:
http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid
=E
Hi Sergio
Thanks for your Site Note.
At 10:41 PM 11/8/2001 -0600, you wrote:
I succeeded downloading RedCarpet installer but failed to install it. I
tried both Ximian site and Planet site (Australia) downloading the
installer successfully but failed to proceed further during installation
Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
On Thursday 08 November 2001 10:53 pm, you wrote:
Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
Video Card...
Sound Card
Kernel-version
ALL that info is needed...
nVidia TNT2 M64 with 32MB
Intel 82801 AC '97 Audio sound card
2.4.13-2mdk and 2.4.8-26mdk kernels
Same behavior for both. I
Ben Nicolas wrote:
You were right in assuming my basic topology consisted of 1 LM 8.0 server
(acting as a gateway/router) with 2 nic's. Besides that all I have is one
client machine running Win2K.
Now that you mention it you're also right about not needing to have port
139 open
Turn off sideband addressing if you have a VIA or ALiMagik based
motherboard.
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Greg Sarsons
|Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 10:27 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [expert] X
|
|
|I've
David E. Fox wrote:
The Mandrake guys introduced by default the dev file system that manages
Huh? /dev has been in Unix since day one. What's in /dev is nearly identical
across distributions.
I think he means that 'devfsd' stuff
--
J. Craig Woods
UNIX/NT SA
-Art is the
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
Wow, I loved that show, in stunning black and white!
-JMS
Hey! You guys are dating yourselves. Let me know when your get to Love
that Bob.
--
J. Craig Woods
UNIX/NT SA
-Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Yes I do mean devfsd and hope that the installer gave me a choice of
installing without it.
Cheers,
Arnab
--
From: J. Craig Woods[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Daniel Woods wrote:
I have not tried soft mount because the NFS how-to recommends to never use it,
otherwise you risk file corruption.
I have used a soft mount many times with both AIX and Solaris over the
years. It has not ever corrupted any file. The main thing that a soft
mount does is
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:17:22PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote:
I am still having problems with setting up Linux-Mandrake 8.1
(kernel 2.4.x) as an NFS server to allow an AIX client to access
it. Has anyone else got this scenario to work ?
I have disabled iptables so that is not the issue.
I
Hi, msec is a bit destructive when you change the level upward, not only
do file attributes get changed , but a few get blown away, the xinetd
files.
so once you go down the files are no longer there to reinstall.
I've been caught by this one !
I did a reinstall of every thing after this happened
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:46:53PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
I am still using LM 8.0. My question is: Can I use the latest Mozilla
versions that are listed for Mandrake 8.1 in Mandrake Cooker? Are there any
limitations? What would you recommend?
Thank you.
Benjamin
And Howdy?
Of course!
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods
|Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:14 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [expert] How is Linux doing on the desktop?
|
|
|Jose M.
Hi All,
Kindly advise ;
1) What will be the advantage and disadvantage of Postfix and Sendmail ?
2) Which ranks on top ?
3) Which components should be installed for each of them to upgrade a Linux
box to a mail server ?
4) What shall be the minimum capacity of a hard disc serving 50
On Friday 09 November 2001 01:32 am, you wrote:
Hi All,
Kindly advise ;
1) What will be the advantage and disadvantage of Postfix and Sendmail ?
2) Which ranks on top ?
Postfix as being more 'secure'
If you're running 8.1 go to Control Center and click on Servers and then
I'm using the 0.99 cooker RPMs, which scared the jeebies out of me at
first. After doing a urpmi evolution and installing all the
dependencies and evolution, I promptly started it up. Well, I couldn't
access my Mail or Contact folders. Arghhh... Searched the Ximian bugs
and found one that
Hi all,
Does anyone know if 8.1 openssh packages do anything differently to 7.2 ??
for some reason, my win32 client for scp doesnt' work in 8.1 (the prog is
called iXplorer)
iXplorer uses putty and even getting the cvs version of putty didn't help.
The problem is that it logs in sucessfully
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