Re: [Scottish] Window manager for tablet?
On Tuesday 06 May 2014 22:15:33 Colin McKinnon wrote: Anyone know if window size can controlled via Xresources? Window size parameters specified via vncviewer or rdesktop get overruled by ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc [PlasmaViews][1][Sizes] lastsize= This is set with: System Settings Display Monitor Display Configuration You can either use ssh to editthis file, or as I have done, create ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc.local and ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc.remote versions. A script on my laptop uses ssh to set a hard link from .remote to .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc, call vncviewer, then reset the plasma-desktoprc link to .local when done. Thanks for the keyboard info; I will investigate local price. Do you have an Intel chipped tablet? I have not had much luck running regular Linux desktops on Arm. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Window manager for tablet?
On Monday 05 May 2014 21:48:46 Colin McKinnon wrote: I'm looking for suggestions for WM which will be usable on a tablet (i.e. small screen) VNCing onto a Linux box. I haven't tried with a touch screen, but what about KDE-4 system Settings Workspace Behaviour Workspace Workspace Type : Netbook This opens applications full screen and has a sort of finger-friendly menu system. Also Openbox-KDE gives access to the KDE environment with a minimal window manager (no plasma). Don't you want to run these (choose as the desktop from e.g. kdm) on the host desktop rather than the tablet? Has anyone tried a smallish bluetooth keyboard -- I am also experimenting with a tablet for remote access/administration/support. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Old stuff for the taking
I have been helping with a house clearance. The following stuff is available gratis on a first come basis. Apart from where noted I have checked basic funcionality, but no guarantees. 4 ATX power supplie -- none have P4/Athlon power connector -- unteted several keyboards PS/2 and AT connectors 2 laser printers -- untested -- Canon LBP 465 1 scanner USB -- Mustek 1200 8 assorted 15 crt monitors 2x unknown 1536D, Daytek 1436AM4, Hansol 510A, Compaq S510, 5B530, Tatung TM4401, ADI ProVista 484 1 Atari 1040 with monitor, mouse, various books, cables, etc. 2x Compaq D31vm -- P2.4/256Mb/CD-RW -- HDD errors 3x carcasses -- 486SX m/board and cpu 512Mb PSU -- P2 m/board and cpu 16Mb PSU -- Celeron 400MHz 512Mb PSU various cables, serial mice, memory modules, ISA cards -- untested There i also some music stuff, but someone else is sorting that. I did notice an external Soundblaster box and a couple of small old Yamaha midi keyboards All free to uplift from Fruin St, Possilpark a.s.a.p. Phone Tim to arrange - 0141 336 4036 preferably am. -- ray () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore
On Monday 15 May 2006 16:47, Thomas McLean wrote: When the drive is plugged in, nothing gets loaded Long shot, but try using a different cable and/or USB slot. My laptop and one of mydesktops only reliably recognise USB devices when 1 use particular cables - an extension that came with a flash drive generally lets me connect anything. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SuSe 10 Installation
Rob, This is the Linux version of Plug and Pray Hell. Your monitor has claimed that it can display whatever your graphics adaptor will throw at it when it can't. The Input signal out of range. message is coming from the monitor. Mostly I see this from (older) fixed resolution LCD monitors. Really old CRTs do not normally show any message. On Wednesday 22 February 2006 22:06, Billy wrote: If it doesn't work, then try sax2 -l which will run in 640x480 at 60hz. This is nearly right, but Sax2 with SuSE10.0 has [EMAIL PROTECTED] as its --lowres mode. Check out 'sax2 --help'. sax2 --vesa 0:[EMAIL PROTECTED] will start sax2 with a standard vga screen If you know the monitor and graphics card specifications you can try e.g. sax2 --vesa 0:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have a modern-ish multi-sync vdu you could use that to get a working graphics system and then yast2|sax2 to configure for the target monitor. P.S. You might get better answers quicker if you gave out a bit more information initially. E.g. this is a display problem, but we do not know what monitor and graphics adaptor you are using. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Network notwork
On Monday 30 January 2006 21:28, Colin McKinnon wrote: What would cause *lots* of DUP ACKs / Retransmits on a LFN? Hi Colin, Here's some stuff that might help: http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2005/100305techupdate.html http://cities.lk.net/tcp.html RFC-3649http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3649.txt http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/papers/jleigh_EGVEIpt2001.pdf www.ihep.ac.cn/~chep01/paper/7-012.pdf http://data-reservoir.adm.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/contents/paper/pdcs2003.ppt -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Fwd: [nom-tech] Announcing OpenPGP:SDK
Hi, I thought that the following might be of interest beyond the Nominet membership. Even if you are not interested in OpenPGP SDKs you might be interested in the Trac project-management/wiki/SCM used by http://openpgp.nominet.org.uk/ - I had not seen it before and thought it worthy of perusal. It also seems to use a BSD type of licence. -- ray -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [nom-tech] Announcing OpenPGP:SDK Date: Friday 28 October 2005 10:21 From: Jay Daley jay nominet.org.uk To: nom-tech lists.nominet.org.uk Dear techies As you probably know we make considerable use of PGP here at Nominet, primarily for the Automaton. This uses an SDK that is now several years old, which limits the types of keys that we can support. We tried unsuccessfully to upgrade to the latest commercial SDK but this does not support 64 bit Solaris, which is the platform the Automaton runs on. None of the open source alternatives have been suitable, for a variety of reasons. Most notably, GnuPG does not provide a library (see http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q4.16 for more details). As a result we commissioned the development of a new PGP SDK based on the OpenPGP RFC and built on top of OpenSSL. This development is open source under the Apache/BSD licenses since it is not something that we need to be proprietary. The SDK is now in beta and implementers and testers are being sought. If you are interested then please see http://openpgp.nominet.org.uk/ Jay Daley Director of IT Nominet UK -- Nominet UK Technical Mailing List http://www.nominet.org.uk/lists/nom-tech.html --- ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] future meeting idea
Hi guys, The following announcement was in yesterday's Novell/SuSE newsletter, and I was not sure if would come to the attention of Mr Ben et al. I recall a well-received talk from SuSE in the Borders era (still got the freebie Tux badge). -- ray -xx--xx- Novell Linux Users International Newsletter September 2005 -- Linux User Group Support from Novell Linux Users International Are you interested in having Novell Linux Users International support your Linux Users Group with speakers, evaluation products, and training from Novell/SUSE? In an effort to better understand how Novell Linux Users International can provide value to Linux Users Groups, we would like to ask you a few questions pertaining to your group's activities and organization. Please complete this survey to let us know more about your group. - access survey here http://www.luinet.org/lugs/lug_survey.php - learn how LUI can support your LUG http://www.luinet.org/groups.php ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 07:26, William Hamilton wrote: WH Interesting... This is the next most recent signed SLUG message I could find, but there are a regular sprinkling before then using mutt and kmail :- From: Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Scottish] [Fwd: [edlug] PCW Accepts Linux Day [Was Advocacy Day]] Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:51:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 --===30823678618842054== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart11430783.JOGMlqLvRq; protocol=application/pgp-signature; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart11430783.JOGMlqLvRq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 07:26, William Hamilton wrote: WH Interesting... This is the next most recent signed SLUG message I could find, but there are a regular sprinkling before then using mutt and kmail :- From: Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Scottish] [Fwd: [edlug] PCW Accepts Linux Day [Was Advocacy Day]] Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:51:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 --===30823678618842054== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart11430783.JOGMlqLvRq; protocol=application/pgp-signature; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart11430783.JOGMlqLvRq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- ray -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 07:54, Billy wrote: Bi Hmm, Billy appeared to be using Thunderbird and MS Windows. Bi I was/am using Mutt on Linux Sorry for my carelessness; I meant William Hamilton, who posted a signed message. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 16:50, Steve Logan wrote: So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book for introducing a moderately expert Windows user to SuSE? It seems to me that there's a different mindset that Windows folks needs to be learn to get around a Linux box? First I would endorse Billy's suggestion of purchasing SuSE 9.3 Pro - I would not wait for 10.0. There is an awful lot of documentation (including books) on the DVDs (handy for reading on trains and ferries) and the paper manuals are just what you need for ploughing in. Personally as a long time SuSE user I would consider then skipping 10.0 and buying the upgrade to 10.1. The upgrades to date have been the same as the full version with the exception of the paper User Guide, but do include the Admin Guide. Yast Online Update or FOU4S (Fast Online Update For SuSE) will keep you up to date on the security front, and can also provide the most recent KDE and Gnome versions. Unix Power Tools from O'Reilly is an enormous collection of basic practical user knowledge and an insight into the Unix way of thinking. The third edition knows about Linux and Xwindows. Very strongly recommended. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 05:23, ray wrote: ra I have just sent two signed messages. This is from KMail 1.8.2 (KDE 3.4.2) signed with Inline OpenPGP (deprecated) and This is from KMail 1.8.2 (KDE 3.4.2) signed with OpenPGP/MIME both disappeared. mailman.lug.org.uk seems to be discriminating against Linux users ? -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Weird Problem ( Network)
Hi Phil, caveats: I don't use Mandriva and you have not described the hardware much. I think that you have arrived at a kernel that works with the ACPI functions of your motherboard and can handle turning stuff on and off properly. I do not know if Mandriva comes with tools to modify this. I suggest a Google on something like Mandriva ACPI shutdown control What happens if you switch off the electricity (i.e. at the wall) or press the reset button during the reboot? I think that you should try to fix MS Windows rather than crippling Linux. You may need to get drivers for your motherboard and/or update the MS o.s. If you are feeling particularly brave, you could always suggest to your wife that it is her system that does not work properly and she should either fix it herself or move up to the big people's playground; and anyway the internet is not a safe place to go to with MS - a bit like taking a push-bike on the M8. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SuSe Internet Access
On Monday 25 April 2005 07:22, Robert Barbour wrote: RB I understand nothing about DNS, host names etc. Mostly when using a dial-up ISP people get their ip address, default gateway, and nameservers dynamically. My guess is that because you have set these as static. YAST/Network Devices/Modems/Providers/Edit/Next - select: Modify DNS when connected Automatically retrieve DNS (or insert P: 194.134.5.5 S: 194.134.5.55 for Wannadoo) /IP Details - select: Dynamic IP address /OK/Next/Finish Are you using a different mail address to the one that you subscribed with, or is the 16 hour posting delay due to mailman.lug.org.uk? -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Meetings
On Friday 22 April 2005 09:23, William Hamilton wrote: WH How often are meetings held and whereabouts? http://www.scotlug.org.uk/meetings -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] USB Memory stick problem with SUSE
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:01, Alan R wrote: AR I'm having some trubs with USB mem stick. Sorry I'm a bit retarded - only a week this time - but you don't seem to have a resolution posted; although you have probably worked it out for yourself by now. I use SuSE 9.2 and buy lots of USB flash memory for distributing s/w to customers. Although I recommend updates via YOU and/or fou4s, no version of SuSE9.2-KDE3.3/3.4 should exhibit usb device problems. Problems mostly arise from the devices being poorly partitioned/formatted. I have only had one batch (three years ago) that worked with non-MS out of the box. Mostly they do not mount at all. My solution is to delete the partitions with fdisk /dev/sdx create a new primary partition with cfdisk (or sfdisk), and then make a filesystem with mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdx1 (x is probably a but depends on local circumstances). Last weeks' delivery (Gigabyte 128MB and 1GB) mounted, but were unusable in the manner that you described. They appeared ok on a customer's MS WinXP machine. In fact a 1GB device could be opened with KDE3.4/konqueror, but crashed the machine when trying to write a 250MB file to it. umount /dev/sdx1 ; mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdx1 ; mount /dev/sdx1 got them working. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Sorting out our new computer with Linux
On Sunday 13 March 2005 14:52, John McCreadie wrote: JM Dear Sirs, Obviously John has never been to a SLUG meeting - otherwise he would have started with a more appropriate Hey Youse. First I would concur with Colin's points. If you bought the machine and SuSE together get the supplier to fix it. If you bought SuSE 9.2 then my experience of their support (pre-Novell) is that it is very good and the manuals have most of the information that you need. Also there is vast amounts of documentation on the DVDs/CDs. If you have a free version from a magazine cover disc, then you probably need some experience or help. By the way do not buy SuSE 9.2 now as 9.3 can be pre-ordered from e.g. Amazon and is due in 3-4weeks. To get help here it would be easier if you gave a bit more information about what you have and what you have done. Most modems should work, but you do need to configure them. What sort of modem (make and or chipset) do you have? The motherboard has Creative SB Live! which is supported, but needs configuration (semi-automatic during the latter, graphical part of the installation) You will need the updated NVidia drivers, and perhaps VIA patches for the motherboard. The best way to get these and the graphics drivers is via YOU (Yast Online Update). If the graphics problem is that you get the initial text screens on booting, but then have a blank screen when the system enters graphical mode (run level 5), the most likely cause is not the graphics card, but the vdu monitor not identifying itself properly and then receiving inappropriate signals. You can sidestep this by entering '3' as a boot option to use run level 3 (text mode). Then log in as root and enter 'yast' to use a text mode coniguration to select an appropriate monitor in hardware/graphics. This is also the best place to set up your modem, network connection and run the on-line update from. As well as Ian's offer to help, you could send me a phone number off list, and I will try to help. I have a vested interest because I am considering purchasing a MSI K8N SLI Platinum to replace a Gigabyte K8NS Pro that doesn't like more than 1GB RAM, and I use SuSE for work. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help! SuSe installation
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 07:20, Robert Barbour wrote: RB Was this 9.2 personal or prof? Actually 9.1 pro with all the patches. But it's the same in 9.2 pro. I do not think that personal/pro will make any difference to SaX2, the difference is more likely one of appearance/menu navigation because I am using KDE 3.3.3, and 9.1 ships with KDE 3.2.1 and 9.2 with KDE 3.3.0. RB RayFirst you need a working network... RB OK, when I get 9.2 installed ... I am almost certainly going to be in Glasgow Thurs and will bring to the meeting a DVD with SuSE 9.2 for x86 English language only and the updates to last weekend and KDE3.3.3 on CD. If any other SuSE SLUGger who is connectivity challenged wants these discs brought in, please let me know before midnight tomorrow. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] ISDN card for laptop
Can anyone recommend one that works? I have found someone selling the BIPAC (Billion) ISDN terminal adapter - PC Card and a much cheaper USB device from the same manufacturer, but cannot determine whether either will work or not. I want to try using a laptop as a substitute for the very expensive ISDN test handsets (Harriers) that some BT engineers have. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help! SuSe installation
On Friday 10 December 2004 07:42, Robert Barbour wrote: RB This list turn-around is very slow, as I'm posting stuff during the day, but don't get the answer till the next day, so the offer of telephone help is for yesterday! I will email a phone number off-list, though. If we have not made contact before try calling me in the evening or before 09:30 any day. SuSE 9.1 out of the box was not as good as 8.2 or 9.2 and had Yast and kernel updates before and just after it was released. Your printer will be fine, and if plugged into the parallel port should be detected and configured automagically. If you ask Yast to install a samba server it will should by default share the printer and your home directory with Win98. You have to set up a network login on Win98 with the same username as on Linux and the same password as in samba on Linux (smbpasswd -a username). If you can see an icon for the floppy you should be able to access (and mount/unmount) it using KDE. It works slightly differently in different versions of KDE (the current one is 3.3.2). You should be able to set up your pointing device either in text mode or using the graphical interface to Yast/Sax2 in the KDE/system menu. Gordon was right about it being much easier to demonstrate than explain. I will try to bring a laptop on Thurs and some upgrades - do you have a DVD reader or CD only? -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help! SuSe installation
Hi Rob, RB I took the plunge and installed SuSe on my machine Which SuSE? and what hardware? SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 pro should recognise the floppy drive and most ethernet cards. Have you installed the updates? How did you configure the network? You will need to use Samba to use a printer on a windows machine - and is it a real printer or one that is designed to only work with windows. Do you intend to use the network for file sharing, printer sharing, routing external traffic, and or remote control? Questions, questions, but if want you send me a landline phone number off-list I would be able to call this evening and maybe try to give you a few pointers (I have installed/upgraded 9 SuSE 9.2 machines this week and have another 14 lined up for next week). -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Skype?
I just wrote this as part of a work evaluation I have spent most of Saturday trying out VOIP and the Skype gateways to BT (Scotland and NI) and Eircom landlines. It works, but the service quality makes it impracticable at the moment. I will wait six months, or for an announced improvement before going back to it in earnest. My connection was ISDN2 (128k) the sound stream was choppy - intermittent drop-outs. I think that the problem was primarily with the Skype/PSTN gateway(s), as I did find the quality fairly acceptable calling random US and Australian Skypers using only VOIP. But the only reason to use a commercial service is because of the gateways to landlines and mobiles. I was using a fairly expensive (c£150) GN Netcom 2100 UNC headset, and experimenting with various amplifiers and adaptors. It worked best plugging it into the on-board sound on both my workstation and laptop. I had difficulty in getting the mic volume adequate using a GN Netcom 8100 USB adaptor. Unless this is a demanding professional environment (I work with several call-centres) or you want to make a call while someone else in the room listens to radio/tv/hi-fi, I would recommend the sort of headset recommended for voice recognition. A couple of years ago I had a £20 Labtech (or Labgear - I can't remember), that came with a Naturally Speaking test kit; it outperformed all of the sub-£100 headsets in the call-centres. If you use something with 3.5mm jacks, most of the work is being done by your sound card. USB devices use their own ADC/DACs and companders. The biggest problem is background noise rejection - hence noise-cancelling mics and correct positioning. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Dvd Burners and their fickle ways
On Thursday 22 July 2004 00:42, Phil Deane wrote: PD Burned a data DVD full of FLACS and SHNS in k3b. Which K3B/KDE? current is 0.11.12/3.2.3 During the upgrade cycle I had problems writing DVD ISOs althoug CDs were OK, but the present set-up seems to work. When things weren't working for KDE/K3B I used X-CD-Roast. I have mixed success with RW DVDs being readable on other players, but I think that this is due to not having found the right media yet. Does Settings/Configure k3b/Devices match your hardware specs? I assume that Notifications/Logging is on and that K3b claims to complete with no errors. In the Burn dialogue did you select Verify written data ? You might also take a look in Settings/Configure k3b/Programs to look for anything obviously missing or ancient. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Dvd Burners and their fickle ways
On Thursday 22 July 2004 10:10, ray wrote: ra On Thursday 22 July 2004 00:42, Phil Deane wrote: ra PD Burned a data DVD full of FLACS and SHNS in k3b. And ray had failed to read Phil's post carefully before getting itchy fingers, hence the totally off-topic reply. PDBurned a new disc in Windows, of different FLACS and SHN's. Played fine Was this in the DVD-ROM or DVD writer? When you try to read from the DVD writer are you using Konqueror or K3B? Have you tried another brand of DVD media? I am wondering whether K3B is using a lower laser power setting for reading than the MS Windows (I refuse to allow MS to appropriate the use of the generic term windows) software. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Dvd Burners and their fickle ways
On Thursday 22 July 2004 19:27, Phil Deane wrote: PD It is 0.11.9 with KDE 3.2.3, which ahs been the latest release from mandrake PD so far, I could try cimpiling source. I might try X Cd roast and see if that PD works from mandrake cooker: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/k3b-0.11.12-1mdk.i586.rpm I use SuSE 9.1, but had to get k3b-0.11.12-0.pm.0.i586.rpm from packman. k3b-0.11.7 worked with kde-4.3.1, but either k3b-0.11.10 or 0.11.11 would work with CDs but not with DVDs I did go through the compiling loop with KDE 3.2.2, but it took a long time sorting out the dependencies (esp. as I can only get an ISDN connection here). PD PDWhen I tried to got to setup it segfaults, with the following PD PD [EMAIL PROTECTED] testy]$ k3b PD k3b: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name passed PD to the constructor! PD KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing... PD [EMAIL PROTECTED] testy]$ PD Now I do remember not having access to K3B setup. To fix this as well as updating K3B I had to get more recent builds of some of the KDE-3.2.3 libs. You might want to compare your installation with: http://www.sunsite.org.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/kdeftp/stable/3.2.3/Mandrake/RPMS/?M=D or more recent builds from the aforementioned: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processes....
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:13, Colin McKinnon wrote: PM you might want to check that your PM disks are using DMA correctly. PM I'm planning to play around with elvtune (now that conjours imagery) tomorrow, but I don't expect it will have much impact. You are looking at a SuSE box, and can check out the DMA and HD settings from yast/hardware/IDE DMA Mode. (they look OK) -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: I did find what looks like a good guide to performance tuning at: http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html I liked this tip - Is that the excuse for a big chunk of your server room being occupied by audio-visual kit? _ Careful analysis and benchmarking has shown that server will respond positively to being played the approriate music. For the common case, this can be about anything, but for high performane servers, a more careful choice needs to be made. The industry standard for pumping up a server has always been Crazy Train, By Ozzy Ozbourne. While this has been proven over and over to offer increased performance, in some circumstances I recomdend alternatives. A classic case is the co-located server. Nothing like packing up your pride and joy and shipping it to strange far off locations like Sunnyvale and Herndon, VA. Its enough to make a server homesick, so I like to suggest choosing a piece of music that will remind them of home and tide them over till the bigger servers stop picking on them. For servers from North Carolina, I like to play the entirety of feet in mud again by Geezer Lake. Nothing like some good old NC style avant-metal-alterna-prog. Comentary, controverys,chatter. chit-chat. Chat and irc servers have their own unique set of problems. I find the polyrythmic and incessant restatement of purpose of Elephant Talk by King Crimson a good way to bend those servers back into shape. _ -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Damn those pesky processess....
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 21:24, Colin McKinnon wrote: CM But fumbling with elvtune seems to have alleviated things (elvtune=Peer Gynt CM by Greig, Act II/scene 2) I thought they were trolls not elvs -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] DVDrw drives - advice?
Prices have just fallen a bit, which may affect the choice. Two weeks ago I got a BTC unit: BTC DRW1008IM 1pc GBP 68.00 the price is trade, vat + delivery would probably take a retail price nearer £90. Quoted write speeds: 8x DVD+R; 4x DVD-R, DVD+RW; 2X DVD-RW; 40x CD-R; 24x CD-RW Don't know about MS Win*, but it comes with Nero. I have used it for data DVD, CD and audio CD recording without problems, it has just worked: SuSE 9.0, KDE 3.2, k3b (everything updated). -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
On Thursday 26 February 2004 10:01, Chris Binnie wrote: A blatant ad - aka spam Do we have a no advertising no, spam policy? If not can we please have one, and blacklist companies/individuals who offend. I am not against useful news and comment about supplies and services from genuine sluggers, just salesmen in penguin suits. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:23, Andrew Back wrote: However I for one would hate to see every co-lo, domain registrar and Linux book vendor posting adverts to the list. The point is that there are several employees and proprietors of service provider type businesses who are regular contributors to SLUG, and who manage to not flagrantly tout for business, while still making use of the group's networking opportunities. If Chris was to turn up at the Counting House tonight and buy Willie et al a pint, I might consider him an ally. Spamming LUGs should not earn him a sales bonus. As far as I can tell he has never visited us before. I think that a short factual statement, without the sales pitch, e.g. Joe Bloggs has new co-location prices plus a link to more information would be acceptable together with a suitable subject line, e.g. [Commercial - co-location]. That's more or less how it worked on the first technical newsgroups, which were much like our mailing list. Another rule was that you had to declare any commercial interest (including working for a competitor) in any product that you offered an opinion or information about. As our neurone has already commented; it's not that cheap, especially when you check the small print, like bandwidth charges and £40-£60 per hour for physical access. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] help with printing KDE logos
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 00:22, Jonathan Riddell wrote: What's wanted is printouts of the icons for the main KDE applications Have you tried karbon? This allows importing .svg files from (on my suse9.0 kde3.2 box) /opt/kde3/share/icons/*/scalable/*/*.svg But I haven't worked out how to uncompress the .svgz files. Trying to open those in karbon seems use up all of the memory (real and virtual); but may be ok on kde 3.2. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Konqueror 3.2
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 09:23, William Anderson wrote: Just had a work colleague check this on SuSE 9, although on konq 3.4.1 - works fine for him, you might want to update your konq install Thanks, but I think that he actually has 3.1.4 - 3.2 is the latest (3rd Feb) It worked for me with 3.1.5, but the behaviour with 3.2 is erratic. I have tried three different machines on two networks using installs from SuSE rpms. ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/applications/kdeaddons3-konqueror-3.2.0-17.i586.rpm and on one with compiling konqueror from the KDE.org sources, while using the rpms for the rest of KDE3.2. I was hoping someone was using 3.2 and a different distribution, or even another SuSE but not me doing the upgrade. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Konqueror 3.2
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 20:00, Kyle Gordon wrote: Loads, renders, and then blanks out here, on Konq 3.2 Turning off Javascript allows the page to render properly, and stays that way. Thanks Kyle, I'll pass that on. I suspected that it is related to the use of the proprietary Milonic (javascript) menu system. There was a bit of flack from the I use only standard Microsoft products, honest! sector. The Nominet response so far is: For information - Our website is tested with IE, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and Safari on Windows (98,2K,XP), Linux (RedHat, Mandrake), Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Most of our web development is done in Opera/Mozilla on Linux. We do not yet test with Firefox as the Mozilla Foundation website describes it as a Technology Preview. However it does work. Jay Daley Director of IT Nominet UK -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Konqueror 3.2
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 20:00, Kyle Gordon wrote: Loads, renders, and then blanks out here, on Konq 3.2 Sorry I sent the reply before I had finished. Turning javascript back on. plus debugging and reporting, finds a type error in the javascript menu that is linked to. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] networking OSX and Redhat
On Thursday 02 October 2003 22:44, George wrote: Ideally I would like a network folder on RH that I can easily pull files from, but so far I haven't figured out how nfs or samba ? -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: Re[2]: [Scottish] Sending display to another machine
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:48, Mark Robinson wrote: Just a sideways thought, do you really want KDE? Could you try a lighter window manager? I used to use icewm for VNC as it's a lot quicker then KDE... This method presents the user with a graphical login, where the preferred window manager can be selected. As this is to be the only terminal to a local workstation it is reasonable to want be able to use Kmail, Koffice etc. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Sending display to another machine
Are you using a standard Linux distribution? If so which one? Mandrake 9.1 I do not use this, I use SuSE 8.2, but someone else will be able to help here. For setting up VNC the major point is; does are you using xinetd or inetd? What version of KDE are you using? 3.1.3 IIRC What version of XFree86 / VNC is installed? X 4.0.3, RealVNC 3.3.7 Are you in run level 5? nope, 3 _You have to be in level 5 for X_ (init 5 as root). This should be in the Mandrake stuff to go to run level 5 on booting. Is there a special reason for running the (many years obsolete/insecure) telnet daemon rather than openssh? yes, I am within my local LAN so security is not an issue. I use SSH to remote login to work, but I have not set up an ssh server on the linux box yet. Any hints as to how I start with this? But you said I have got my linux machine now setup and running as a router and mail/web server. so you should not be running the telnet daemon. Sshd is normally installed by default; a Mandrake 9.1 user should be able to help here. Why not just try a ssh to your linux box? What version of MS-Windows are you using? XP SP1 ... just TightVNC as per your recommendation v1.2.9 (also tried RealVNC but no luck) No anit-virus and no port blocking - I have IPv6 installed on both machines though. Then when you have configured VNC on your linux box, you should be able to run TightVNV (Fast Compression)* and open a window into kdm. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Sending display to another machine
On Friday 26 September 2003 10:40, Allan Bruce wrote: I am getting connected, and I see the backdrop of KDE but just no icons, menus or windows. Well, sometimes they appear for a few milliseconds before disappearing, but mostly they are never there. I do get the clipboard icon until I click it, and then it disappears too! It seems that you are connecting to a running KDE session. That session will locally be required to grant permission for access. The first X session will be 0 which is the default for TightVNC if you do not specify a session number. You do not want to be running KDE when you connect with VNC. You need a local VNC service running from xinetd to start kdm, or the Mandrake equivalent. This will permit login to a new KDE session via VNC. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Sending display to another machine
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:24, Allan Bruce wrote: Although when I start vncserver, it does say New 'X' desktop os Kes:1 I do not understand when I start vncserver and and X isnt running before I start it.. I configure /etc/xinetd.d/vnc to start KDM in response to a remote vnc connection. This allows a KDE login, which starts an X session with KDE which displays in the remote VNC window. But I do not know exactly what happens in Mandrake 9.1. Colin told me how he set up his work SuSE box to allow disadvantaged colleagues to run a KDE session on his workstation from their WinXP boxes. I mostly do things the other way round and use vncviewer from Linux to support remote users running Win2k/TightVNC. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Sending display to another machine
On Thursday 25 September 2003 14:43, Allan Bruce wrote: I have tried VNC but it doesnt seem to work well with the new KDE - I dont get any icons or menus, which renders it pretty useless. Presumably you want a remote connection to the graphical login window (kdm) Message I got from Colin McKinnon six weeks ago: --- Hi Ray, I solved the VNC thing - the problem was that although I get a VNC session runing after I was logged into the computer, I wanted to be able to initiate the session via VNC (which doesn't have intrinsic support for usernames and PAM). All I needed to do was to enable the vnc service in xinetd.d and startup xinetd. Hey presto - KDM. (OK, its probably not as efficient as using the X Window protocol for writing changes to the terminal screen, but it saves a lot of fiddling about with fonts and colourmaps) Colin --- This refers to the KDE 3.1.3 on SuSE 8.2 To make matters more difficult, I want to route the display back to a windows machine if possible. Does anybody know if (and how) I can do this? Use TightVNC on the MS-Win box (we were calling them windows on graphical BSD boxes before there was such a thing as MS-DOS . when I were a lad) and all will be well. It really is easy. Hmm Kmail isn't handling replying to a list very well. No its the lug mailman omitting the Reply-To: header. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] FW: VPN
Hi Keith; I've never setup a VPN before but am I right in thinking that all that's needed is the right software and two static ip addresses With a 'nix box at each end that's about it. It gets a little more complicated if one of the gateways is MS or Cisco. Most Linux distros will include freeswan for IPsec VPN and there is PoPToP to use Linux as a MS VPN Server. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Looong Cat5 Cable
On Friday 21 March 2003 14:36, Philip Ward wrote: Can anyone planning to be at next Thursday's meeting help me out? I need a 60 metre cat5 cable, and retail prices scare me. If you just want alength of PVC solid core Cat5e/Cat6 with a booted RJ45 at each end it will cost you a pint of IPA. If you are not fussy about the exact length I have a few similar in stock. I can make a shielded cat5e patch cable (stranded core - more flexible and useful near flourescent light units and other noisy environments), but would have to make a modest charge as the cable is expensive and it is fiddly to put the connectors on by hand. If you need low halogen/ cable I would need a couple of days notice, because I don't have much in stock. If you are in a hurry 30m patch cables are pretty common and cost about £15 each (e.g. Tait Components). You can use a connector or twin faceplate to join two. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] tarring
tar -cvf foo.tar foo_dir -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] samba and suse 8.1
On Saturday 01 March 2003 13:52, bob renshaw wrote: windows share to my home directory . But cannot copy files from linux into the windows share. I'm not really sure what you are trying to do, but if you are trying to access a shared directory on the Win98 machine from 'nix you will have to mount it. mount -t smbfs (man smbmountfor the options). -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] KDE 3.1 released
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mark, Kmail does support gpg out of the box. What those plugins allow you to do is sign and encrypt all message parts. Which is something kmail has not been able to do before. It also can use certs. I do not understand what has happened here. I use gpg signing a lot, mostly because I am a Nominet tag holder and signed mail to the Nominet Auotomaton is how domain registrations are managed. With KDE3.05/Kmail1.4.3 I could choose from Options to send sugned mail and on reading signed messages they were recognised as such and signaled as verified or not. I upgraded to KDE3.1 by downloading the SuSE8.1 rpms, dropping out of the graphical environment, su root, rpm -Fvh ..., back out of root, and startx. Seemed painless. When I tried to sign a message in KMail1.5 the option was not available. When I recieved a signed messsage a dialogue popped up: Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you. I downloaded the files for the plug-in and then discovered that I needed some developer libs, then ran out of time so just used another machine with KDE3.05 to send signed messages. I had however moved the gpg options file to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and have probably closed and opened Kmail. Today I find that the 'Sign Message' option is back, and am about to try it. Incoming signed mail (e.g. your message to this thread) still produces the warning dialogue. Older signed messages that had been retrieved with KMail1.4.3 does not produce the dialoge, and does display the status of the signature. - -- rayH -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RSA/rfBg8yGgGC0RAgeuAJ4yuhr2DiFkB1cQV/OGHq5XWpd/OgCgpq2Q 9uGl3wQcEiaaZESAI69bo74= =EYqn -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] KDE 3.1 released
That seems reasonable. Ithink that what I did to make it work was change from the options to gpg.conf files and restart KMail. I think that what you are using is the IETF endorsed OpenPGP, which is described in MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy, RFC 3156. S/MIME is proprietory and favoured by the fans of Bill G. Ref: http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html -- rayH ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] KDE 3.1 released
FYI On January 28th 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1, a major feature upgrade to the successful KDE 3.0 series. http://www.kde.org -- rayH ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software?
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 13:09, David Marsh's list-reading hat wrote: My 'objection' to PHP in this instance is not that it's a programming language (most of these HTML preprocessors are programming languages of a sort) but that (afaik) PHP 'needlessly' impedes cacheability of pages that aren't intrinsically dynamic as each document is assembled on the fly live on the server before being served, which will be an unnecessary overhead for most documents that I will write (Having said that I will be playing with PHP on some occasions, I am sure). This is why I would prefer a system that I can preprocess locally and then upload (static) changes to the server. PHPA works great. Main problem with totally dynamic commercial sites is that they tend to be invisible to search engines. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
