iphitus
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I disagree, it is a good practice for people that are in business to use an auto responder. In many cases it is not reasonable for them to furnish all of their (numerous?) customers, suppliers, and other affected stakeholders with this information beforehand. There's nothing rude about clearly stating to the sender why you will not be attending to their email in good time, it is very good communication, it would be very rude not to, ignorant, maybe.
It's also responding to spam, mailing lists, newsletters, mass emails, other autoresponders...
In all but the smallest businesses, the business doesnt go on hold if one person goes away. Customers can be handled by someone else, and for important clients, some other form of communication beforehand would suffice. Email is impersonal, and for most businesses - it shouldnt be and won't be the primary form of communication
I still maintain that there are better avenues of informing people of your absence than a spam generating boilerplate auto responder.
Regardless, this discussion is moot, as Patkos Csaba doesn't have a choice.
Patkos: First, check see if the mail isnt being collected as spam.
After that, do a test and trace it through the system, try and find where it's dissappearing. If you know bin/vacation is receiving the mail, try passing an email to it manually and see if it dispatches it correctly. If it appears to dispatch it properly... check the sending server, see what it's doing. Just look at bits, test them in isolation, trying to find the path of the email.
James
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Please don't use these, they're rude and an absolute pain.
If people need to know you're on holiday, then you can notify them beforehand. For those who don't need to know, they can wait until you return.
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On our cable modem, you need to reboot it to swap between computers -- unplug it from power for ten seconds, and then replug it.
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I wouldn't jump to conclusions yet.
Valve do release Linux software already. They have a version of steam, and many dedicated servers for Linux. Could just be looking for another dedicated server developer.
James
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Funny you mention the BJ10e, I've still got a working one in the garage.
Every HP inkjet i've seen has the print heads on the cartridge. That's a range from recent PhotoSmarts and Deskjets, all the way back to the first deskjet.
Their cartridges keep well too. My printer is generally left for months at a time unused, then prints perfectly when I eventually do decide to print something. This one is a Deskjet 5550, a few years old now, but still working like new. I wouldnt be surprised if I pulled our 14 year old Deskjet 660C out of the garage and it still printed clearly despite being unused for many years (cartridges still available for it too afaik).
Their linux support is brilliant. HP has sponsored open source linux drivers for *years*, which is something to be admired. Their drivers are standard fare in any distro now. http://hplip.sourceforge.net/
James
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You either get the bytecode interpreter or the autohinter, can't have both. Make sure your freetype is built with the bytecode interpreter, and *disable* the autohinter. Might need to set hinting to full in gui/config.
Also, read the above config, it states clearly not to touch /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, edit /etc/fonts/local.conf. If local.conf is empty, make a copy of fonts.conf.
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iphitus: ATI cards supported by the free driver generally work fine. only the proprietary driver is a pain.
But their 3D performance is terrible compared to a similar nvidia card under closed drivers. If 3D performance isn't an issue, then you're right an older, supported radeon would be ideal -- and would ensure driver support for the life of the card. I've packaged the proprietary driver, I know how much of a pita it can be :)
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Get an nvidia. Don't get an ATI.
Not much more than that :) Not sure where nvidia ended their AGP cards, but I think there were some 6600GT AGP cards, and I recall them releasing one randomly a few months ago.
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Just a tip, don't ever ever use the windows partition tool once you've installed linux. Firstly, it'll report the partitions as empty as it does not recognise Linux filesystems, and secondly, it's been known to mess things up.
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Also, I realised this is in completely the wrong section, so I've started a new thread in the networking section.
( https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...st&p=327946 ). If you think you can help me please could you post there instead? Thanks. Sorry if this wasn't the right thing to do.
Don't worry. I tidied it up. I deleted the dupe and moved this to network as it has responses.
Welcome to the forum, i'm sure someone will be able to help. In the meantime, see if anyone else has had the same problem by searching.
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Open gconf-editor and see if theres an intelligent option. Otherwise, just install another window manager, kill metacity or your 3D desktop wm, and run another one instead. I use pekwm in xfce4 for example.
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Am in a film shoot with a Uni (university in Australia) course at the moment, and don't have much time to fiddle around with getting this setup... or with fixing my computer when I hose it. Am looking forward to this while I'm less busy. Question about cooker though, most of the kernels seem to be in the main suppositories, I can find a large variety in the package manager, which isn't currently configured to get cooker packages. While anything past 2-6-17-15 isn't supported offically, there are others there. Are these the ones you meant? Also, I installed from Mandriva Spring 2007 Live cd. How do I install this with the bare minimum packages? Everything was done automatically. Are there other sources I can use? Thanks Arctic,
What uni? I'm studying at RMIT.
As for the window borders thing, it sounds like your window manager is crashing -- hence no 3D desktop etc. Try disabling 3D desktop, and the regular metacity should work fine.
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what's the details of this mail server? It probably doesnt support ssh if they're offering telnet/you're telnetting.
Go into mandriva control center -> package management -> install software and search for telnet, im sure you'll find a suitable telnet client there somewhere.
scarecrow: kidding me? Putty is great under windows, but under linux -- terrible! it's an ssh app, where you have to *click* everything to get it started! Under linux, it doesnt hold a candle to openssh.
James
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Personally I'm disappointed with the trends on pacman3. While it is a major leap forward, it still has a few major issues... It would be better to adopt the (apparently working) pacman3 patches from Frugalware and move ahead instead of getting in that mess and declaring war against them...
Still, Arch is the no.1 distro for me- pacman, aur and kiss is an irrestistible combo.
Many patches will be in pacman 3.1. The aim of pacman 3 was to stabilise libalpm, fix up the bugs, and ensure it was working a lot better. pacman 3.1, already has, and will have many of the feature requests closed off and added. Pretty sure a 3.1 release was planned "soon" but you're free to grab it from cvs.
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http://archlinux.org/news/337/
Latest installment of Arch Linux, this one, based on 2.6.22.
As always, the nearly latest versions of nearly everything are available in the repos, and you get the great "simple" Arch system. ISO's available for both x86_64 and i686 (>=Pentium II).
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If anything, don't use the 2.6.17 config. It's so horribly dated (why are you still using that guys? it's over a year old), it won't work all too well with 2.6.22.
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Do what unruh said:
du -hs --max-depth=1 /home/mindwavex|grep M
du -hs --max-depth=1 /home/mindwavex|grep G
and for good measure
du -hs --max-depth=1 /
They'll give a clear idea of where the data is.
James
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When the driver is working, you need to configure wlan0 not wmaster0.
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sorry to sound like a broken record, and i KNOW some folks hate the pay feature, BUT I would strongly suggest you check out:
Please don't blindly and stupidly spam linuxant. The ipw2x00 drivers are very solid, stable and mature, there's no need to waste money on linuxant. They're one of the best wireless drivers we've got.
As we saw above, this isnt a driver issue. The driver is loaded and working fine, he just needs to connect to the wireless network -- linuxant won't fix that.
James
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Yes, without saying so - no attribution to the source = atrocious reporting.
well they still have the bofh :P
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Did I say that the news surrounding Xandros wasn't accurate? No - I said it was badly reported; no quotes, etc. That's their modus operandi - sometimes they get the news right, mostly they get it wrong - but they ALWAYS report it atrociously. Without supporting quotes and the like all you are doing is speculating... correctly or not.
As I said, they did quote and paraphrase the press releases.
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More classic reporting from the Register - complete speculation with no quotes or substantiation.
When is someone going to close that site down?
Um. Take a look at this Xandros press release:
http://www.xandros.com/news/press_releases...laboration.html
Or this microsoft press release:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2...xInteropPR.mspx
And the quotes in the body of the article, and the paraphrased sections.
Besides, how dare you suggest shutting them down, they publish the BOFH! :P http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/ - which alone makes them worthwhile, regardless of some of the other trash they publish
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nVidia and USB magically fixed themselves but my usb keyboard (i just popped an old ps/2 keyboard and it works fine) is still borked and also some, like flash and vuze(=azureus 3.0) but not all, gtk-apps, there is even a mention in the kdebase changelog that a workaround has been made to get flash to work with the new gtk but other apps are also affected by the new gtk, flash now works with konqueror and firefox but not opera
Someone please tell me how on earth mandriva screws up usb keyboard support... it'd take a *ridiculously* broken installation to mess that up, something like that just simply shouldnt happen.
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networkmanager is just funny in general. It only ever shows one of the two networks I use at home, as well as a range of other odd maladies.
Filed bugs for them months ago now, but the developers have done sweet bugger all.
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Should I report these bugs?
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They should be reported regardless. Sometimes there's multiple things which cause a symptom, or if nobody has noticed them, he's reducing the time developers have to fix it. The earlier the better, he might make it in time for 2009 RC2 given the average mandriva bug fix rate.
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