Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 07:28, stuart bell wrote:
Thanks Dan,
We British had no idea what it meant. Ask Bush's only friend Blair.
tsk tsk and this group complains about a mexican virus joke
except that stuart is of course correct politically :)
Brad Rogers wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:44:08 +
Neill Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Neill,
/
/opt
and
/home
You all seem to have forgotten about swap. Whilst it's not available
to the user directly, it still has to be set up. 512MB is what I use.
It rarely gets used
JoeHill wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:33:26 +0100
Ralph Utbult got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
Sorry, I'm no easy guy ;-)
The two machines are identical, remember? Ghosted one from the other.
Don't think it's a good idea to bring them both online on the same
network...
Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:19:27 +0100
M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello M.Schild,
Thanks. I shall try that on 2007 when i get it. Is there anything
You're welcome.
else to watch for? If I ask for clean install, will it respect /home
if it is on a
JoeHill wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:53:31 -0500
Miark got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
I make root 6GB, and give the rest to /home.
Unbelievable, eh? That wouldn't even hold a default install of XP, and that's
with *no software installed*. You'd be getting warnings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About to reconnect to internet, and find that best broadband option at
present in Australia (without home phone) is Telstra Wireless ADSL via
USB port.
Currently have Mandriva 2006 installed.
Will this detect and run the wireless USB modem ?
If not, would Mandriva
Keith Powell wrote:
Mandriva 2007 KDE is excellent, so I have been trying the Gnome
desktop. In many ways I think that it is better than another very
well-known Gnome specific distribution!
However, I have found two problems which although they aren't vital,
are annoying.
The panel clock
Miark wrote:
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:04:12 -0500, ET wrote:
not sure about before, but ctrl+z seems to put some in the
background, in bash
But that also suspends the job. I think he wants it running.
If you 'ctrl+z' a command and then type 'bg' it puts it running in
Hardware first. Software second. Someone please drill that into my head.
Along with as many different variants of is it plugged in? and is it
on? that
you can think of.
Spent half a day trying to solve a networking problem to find out the
ethernet
cable was plugged in to the wrong
On 10/7/06, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I just installed 2007 Free from the DVD with all packages offered by
default on a clean machine. Everything is OK, but 3D destktop is not
available, MCC says not supported on this system. What is wrong?
Hardware is:
- NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
Hi all,
Following a suggestion regarding a 2007 freeze while using Gnome, I am
currently using KDE, but
can't see how to have more than one desktop. The multiple desktop panel
applet ignores requests to add more desktops (I'm using the 3D desktop
and I guess compiz is preventing it) and I
Rick Kunath wrote:
Neill Jones wrote:
Hi all,
Following a suggestion regarding a 2007 freeze while using Gnome, I
am currently using KDE, but
can't see how to have more than one desktop. The multiple desktop
panel applet ignores requests to add more desktops (I'm using the 3D
desktop and I
Hi Hugh
I would say check your firewall on the machine and your routers to make sure
everything is ok. Your router needs to port-forward all bittorrent
requests to
your machine, and your firewall needs to allow them too. The reason is that
bittorrent penalises you if you are not allowing
Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 04:08 am, ET wrote:
Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
trying to get the IDE for programming the basic stamp
http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/products/basicstamps/bs1.asp
I downloaded and apparently sucessfully compiled this
Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 06:52 am, Neill Jones wrote:
Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
snip
Just to make sure, (haven't looked at the code so this is just running
through the
basics), was the compilation along the usual lines of
./configure
make
Thanks one and all - yep done this and all works fine (with the
easyurpmi plf set up sources)
Thanks for the help(s)
Cheers
Neill
ET wrote:
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Saturday 09 September 2006 12:13 am, CJ Kelley wrote:
Neill Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,
Does anyone know what I
Hi all,
Does anyone know what I need to download/urpmi to see Windows Media
Player 9 files
and where I need to put the files?
Regards
Neill
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Is this something that is easy to install on Mandriva 2006? Or is it
very
involved?
Neill
Miark wrote:
That's a great way to showcase its abilities. Quite eye-popping
abilities, too, I might add.
Miark
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:46:07 -0400, RickS wrote:
Hi all,
Take a look at
e one. Has anyone had a similar problem? (and hopefully solved it
:-)
Neill
David McDougal wrote:
kiosk hs it as a link you need gnome 2.12 to do it
though...
On 9/7/06, Neill
Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is this something that is
easy to install on Mandriva 2006? Or
Thanks Miark
The urmpi -a codecs did it :-)
Regards
Neill
Miark wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:57:30 +0100, Neill wrote:
Does anyone know what I need to download/urpmi to see Windows
Media Player 9 files and where I need to put the files?
If mplayer doesn't play any
Sorry - realised I changed topic so here is a new post of the same ...
Neill Jones wrote:
Thanks David,
On that topic - everytime I try to download the 2.12 bundle, it gets
through to the point
where the "Please Wait Preparing" windows disappear and then nothing
else happe
Phil Savoie wrote:
On August 31, 2006 10:02, Dennis Myers wrote:
Looks like your original install was a 32bit rpm install and not the 64
bit, not sure how to fix that except do a reinstall making sure you get the
64 bit package. HTH
Dennis M. linux user # 18084
Hi
JRH wrote:
I'd carry on with AZ, but it just chokes my home network, even when
downloading at something daft, like 9K/s... nobody can load any web pages, as
they just keep timing out..
Hi,
I've just installed this and got it working so try this :-). Remove what you
have installed
No idea if it is related, but I had a more serious set of errors like
this which
happened when a non-DMA drive was used with DMA on. It corrupted the
initial blocks (or at least seemed to). So, either something to do with DMA
or you had disk corruption, in which case may be time to replace the
What have you tried doing so far - have you used the Mandriva Control
Center?
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 10 August 2006 06:13 pm, Mike The Chief wrote:
Hi: I bought a (New) Acer laptop 2.0 Ghz 80 Gig Hd 1.0 Gig Memory, Iam
having trouble configuring my Wireless adapter which
mount hda1" would unmount hda1 (without the quotemarks of course)
note only 1 "n" in umount
Here's why I asked:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# umount hdc5
umount: hdc5: not found
AFAIK hdc5 is not in use, either.
Lee
Hi Lee,
On mine I need to type in the full path (ie.
My passwd file looks like yours with an x after the first : but the
shadow one doesn't
- mine is
root:password bits here:a number here:0:9:7:::
Maybe you deleted too much info as I have 8 colons here whereas you only
have 4
The bit which says a number here is the same number for all of
to be
root::same number as other fields:0:9:7:::
HTH
Neill
Neill Jones wrote:
My passwd file looks like yours with an x after the first : but the
shadow one doesn't
- mine is
root:password bits here:a number here:0:9:7:::
Maybe you deleted too much info as I have 8 colons here whereas you
only
Just in case anyone was interested in how to do this, but didn't know,
apparently all
you do is create the empty hidden file
.mdk-no-desktop-launch
in your home directory. (The word "botch" seems to come to mind for some
reason).
Regards
Neill
Neill J
Just in case anyone was interested in how to do this, but didn't know,
apparently all
you do is create the empty hidden file
.mdk-no-desktop-launch
in your home directory. (The word botch seems to come to mind for some
reason).
Regards
Neill
Neill Jones wrote:
Hi all
Whenever I start up
Hi all
Whenever I start up Gnome Terminal it starts my session in ~/Desktop
whereas I
nearly always want to be in ~. Aside from typing cd ~ each time, how can
I get
the terminal to start in the default folder I want and not the one
Mandriva has
assumed I want? Or to put it another way, where
I was also getting double posts too - did you get two from me - I only
got one from you.
Neill
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
The subject says it all.
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On Wednesday 24 May 2006 06:43 pm, Neill Jones wrote:
Mmm interesting. Works fine on mine. I did the following test
snip
Regards
Neill
Found it!
I missed out on a second * with -iname.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ find . |grep -i mijn
./mijn bestand
./Mijn Test
[EMAIL
Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas wrote:
From:"H.J.Bathoorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:newbie@mandrivalinux.org
Date:Wed, 24 May 2006 18:13:24 +0200
Subject:Re: [newbie] Find and spaces in file names ... was oowriter2
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 03:29 pm, Neill Jones wrote:
Just for info a
Neill Jones wrote:
n Tuesday 23 May 2006 09:17 am, Duncan Anderson wrote:
No problem. I like the mosquito/sledgehammer analogy. Tell me, do you know
how to overcome the problem of file names being rejected by find when they
contain spaces, etc
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 03:29 pm, Neill Jones wrote:
Just for info and clarity:
A minor extra to H.J.Bathoorns post ... in the above, it is not the
-iname which causes
problems with the spaces, it is the use of xargs. For example,
find . | grep
n Tuesday 23 May 2006 09:17 am, Duncan Anderson wrote:
No problem. I like the mosquito/sledgehammer analogy. Tell me, do you know
how to overcome the problem of file names being rejected by find when they
contain spaces, etc.?
No never had any of those probs, I think.
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:24 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:
Where I seem to pick up problems with "find" on its own is when a file
name contains a single quote "'".
played around a bit and found it's the -iname flag that loses the space_files,
not
Thanks Miark.
One more (very newbie) question - what is cooker?
Neill
Miark wrote:
On Tue, 09 May 2006 11:25:33 +0100, Neill wrote:
My windows NTFS drive always comes up read-only. I've tried
changing the fstab entry to be rw umounted and remounted, but
it is still read-only.
Hi all
My windows NTFS drive always comes up read-only. I've tried changing the
fstab entry to be rw umounted and remounted, but it is still read-only. Does
anyone know why this is, and if it possible to mount it read-write?
Cheers
Neill
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A possible cause, although I have absolutely no clue why - just know
someone who recently had what sounds like a similar problem - is the
router. My friend changed their router, and it all worked (they had
problems with gmail - can you access that site?)
What on earth that has to do with
and epiphany issues. Unless there is a way of using
urpmi to upgrade and
keep the original packages installed?
Regards
Neill
Paul Stejskal wrote:
Neill Jones wrote:
Having said thanks :-) don't do this as it will delete the other
dependencies (sigh - back to the discs)
It also just
Paul Stejskal wrote:
Add Wawkwind's SoS source (seerofsouls.com btw), then as root: urpme
mozilla-firefox urpmi mozilla-firefox. Should install 1.5.02 or
something similar. If it just says that the following packages contain
mozilla-firefox:.. then add the -a flag to the urpme part
Having said thanks :-) don't do this as it will delete the other
dependencies (sigh - back to the discs)
It also just reinstalled firefox 1.0.6 rather than 1.5.02
Neill Jones wrote:
Paul Stejskal wrote:
Add Wawkwind's SoS source (seerofsouls.com btw), then as root: urpme
mozilla-firefox
This what I found on the web
Yelp - Help browser for GNOME.
Updated by FastRunneron Monday, April 24th 2006.
Help browser for GNOME
2.4 which supports DocBook documents, info and man.
Licence : GPL
so I guess it is your help browser :-)
Regards
Neill
stuart bell wrote:
Hi All,
Which I also guess means don't uninstall the old firefox? Has anyone
on the list successfully updated firefox-1.0.6 from the 2006 distro with
firefox 1.5.x? I have them both on the system which is not ideal
Neill Jones wrote:
This what I found on the web
Yelp - Help browser
Just guessing but you don't have a machine name specified anywhere
shouldn't the mount path refer to your machine?
e.g. (not sure of syntax)
smbmount //NODE4/homes localhost://home/joehill/mnt/NODE4/homes
or the correct name for your machine?
The man page for smbmount doesn't really say
, please ignore my post :-)
Neill Jones wrote:
Just
guessing but you don't have a machine name specified anywhere
shouldn't the mount path refer to your machine?
e.g. (not sure of syntax)
smbmount //NODE4/homes localhost://home/joehill/mnt/NODE4/homes
or the correct name for your
Not a perl expert but does the print print out to stdout? If so, maybe
(just maybe) it doesn't like
that since cron doesn't have a tty attached (really just guessing). If
you want to get a feel of what
is causing the problem though, just comment out sections of code and run
it until you can
Hi Roy
I take it you have the rpm already. So you need to understand how to use
rpm or urpmi. Just type
man rpm
man urpmi
and then (usually I need to) re-read, and read again, play with it and then
you will suss it.
Or alternatively you can double click on the rpm file and it will
install in
The plugins directory is a hidden one ...
type
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
and you should find it (at least I do on mine :-)
Not sure about the components directory (anyone???)
- I have both files in this one, so it may be wrong.
Note the . in front of mozilla which makes mozilla a
hidden file -
Or this if you have a mind not to: :-)
http://destroy.50webs.com/
JoeHill wrote:
Fun stuff to do with your website, if you have a mind to:
http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/
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On mine it is /usr/bin/realplay - I haven't downloaded bitdefender
and I downloaded realplayer but not from an rpm so it may not apply.
In general there are a few ways to search for things ... you can get
the contents of a package with the rpm -qpl rpm file
which will list the contents of the
yep in the mail when I explained the flags I made a mistake - I put
-f (flags) and should have put -r (flags). But the command was still valid.
Can you send me (do it offline if you still have my email) the results of
the following
ls ~/Desktop
ls ~/software
Cheers
Neill
stuart bell wrote:
This would have worked if you had typed
./firefox
and not
firefox
It failed because this directory was not in your PATH
variable. This is the variable that tells the system where
to look for executables. Oozy's suggestion might work
in your case, but it is dependant on what is in the PATH
No.
Let's start from scratch to make sure everything should work.
1. If you no longer have the firefox-1.5.0.2.tar.gz file download it
again from
the firefox website. Save it to your Desktop. (This is to make sure you
haven't accidentally moved components out of the original folder which
will
Neill,
Ok, I'll move it to new dir 'software'. Then do i run './firefox '
Will this install it in the new dir? My learning curve is vertical
here and very slippery.
Stuart
No.
Let's start from scratch to make sure everything should work.
1. If you no longer have the firefox-1.5.0.2.tar.gz
On a side note to this, has anyone actually got Kat working
- I removed it from mine but I can't remember why apart
from it just seemed to not work properly.
OOzy Pal wrote:
On 4/17/06, OOzy Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/16/06, ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi OOzy
Please see previous answer about linuxant - they have a list of modems
that do and don't work.
Regards
Neill
OOzy Pal wrote:
Will US Robotics Serial Modem Model 5668B works with Linux?
--
OOzy
Want to buy your Pack or Services
Have you looked at www.linuxant.com where you can get
hold of drivers for modems - I know you need them for
winmodems (usually on your motherboard) and I'm pretty
certain for some USB modems. You do have to pay about
$15 for the software and keep upgrading it as you upgrade
the kernel (at no
Have you just tried using the nautilus burn facility - that's what I use
to burn a data disk. Open up a nautilus window and select
"Go-CD/DVD creator"
then drag the .exe into the window and press burn ("write to disc").
I've used that to transfer
data between linux machines and I'm pretty
Hi Joe
Just a thought - maybe try doing a grep on any logging files for around
the time of
reboot - something like
find /var -name "*.*" | xargs grep "10:36:3" | more
and the same with -name "*" as root.
It sounds to me from Ricks email that the swsusp was happening because
the machine was
Hi Keith
I told a slight porky - I actually have ntp running on both windows and
linux
- just checked it.
Regards
Neill
Keith Powell wrote:
David, Ron and Neill.
Thank you for your replies to my problem with having the correct time
in both Linux and Windows. I appreciate your advice.
Hi all
I've set NTP on using the DrakClock panel applet which doesn't offer
the BIOS setting that Ron mentions, however I don't get any problem
with the Windows and Linux clocks being off, so I guess it sets it
correctly as default. This asks you for the disks to install the NTP
software
and
receivers, but the structure of the program makes such development
possible.
6.2.How to Use chrony?
chrony consists of two parts: chronyd daemon and a user interface chronyc.
You can find chrony at chrony.sunsite.dk/index.php
Neill Jones wrote:
Hi all
I've set NTP on using
Hi Paul (and others)
With urpmi.update and urpmi as you suggested, I get updates.
Do you know what I need to do to get the applet working
correctly again (I guess I am looking at a corrupted set of data
on my machine?)
Regards
Neill
Neill Jones wrote:
Hi Paul
Are you currently getting
is up to date so I'm pretty
certain there
is something funny with my subscription at Mandriva's end).
John Abbott wrote:
When does your subscription expire? I registered my Globetrotter
Mandrivia and it stopped updating after 30 days.
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:11 +0100, Neill Jones wrote
Hi Paul
Are you currently getting updates?
Neill
Paul Stejskal wrote:
Neill Jones wrote:
Not for about 10 months - I have just renewed Silver membership. I'm
really trying
to get a hold on whether or not anyone is currently receiving
updates, in which case
I know there is a problem with my
I think it is failing to update properly. I haven't had any updates
for over a month.
Has anyone experienced the same problem? I've tried emailing
Mandriva but as always I get no reply.
Regards
Neill Jones
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