Michel

heya, like I said: I'm not expert at all at this. I can just refer you too the sendmail-jomepage: http://www.sendmail.org/

Heya, tx for the responses. I have adsl at the moment. I'm just not sure about my upload. I have 3.3 Mbps download, but I also have 128 kbps upload. I have a limit of 15 Gigabytes, so that shouldn't be a problem. I only worry about my upload. If I want to upload a project to a remote computer it can take some time. If I choose to have my own server ... I do that because I want enough storage-space and so that I can install my own programs. But tx for the info, I'll keep it in mind. thanks, Michel

Maybe you could install webmin. It even integrates with the mandrake control center. It's a webbased-gui for setting up stuff. Maybe it could help you. Which mailserver are you using? postfix, sendmail, qmail(?), ... ? I'm not server-person myself, but maybe this can help you ... to start anyway.

Heya, I was just thinking. What should I do if I have my own server at home and want to link it to the net. I suppose I need to get a domainname (maybe a dynamical one, but else I have to buy one I suppose ...). I also need to buy some traffic or how is this called (maybe I need to buy a domainname with that ...)? Anyone knows some good companies who do this? Any experiences, advice? It's for Europe (Belgiu), but ofcourse all advise is welcome ... tx, Michel

Heya, I'm a beginner at this and I don't know if this still maters, but I mostly do: diff -ur old-dir new-dir > patchfile (no "./" in the beginning of the directories) and to patch .. go into your <old-dir> and do patch -p1 < patchfile Hopes this helps.

You need to type java Minimise I believe.

Can you see if your .xsession-errors-file (in you home-directory) has any contents of the moment when you login and if so, post it here ... ?

There is a linux-app to shrink a dvd called "lxdvdrip". I have the source on my computer, but have to make a package for it (am not using Mandrake). You can check if it is in the mandrake-repository ... It does everything automatically it seems. It has no gui it seems. I uses dvdstreamer which has a gui, but where youu have to put in some parameters yourself.

I hope you are you using dvdauthor ... just to be sure ... :). Maybe it doesn't suit your needs ... ?

search XXX XXX is your local domain or the domain you want to append to your url's if none is specified say your domain is "myhome" if you type "mycomputer" in your browsers addressbar, it will be translated to mycomputer.myhome nameserver YYY YYY is the dns-server to contact ... This is your providers DNS-server (you can have multiple nameserver-entries ). I don't have a local network, but I suppose this is your gateway-computer (???) or your own dns-server ofcourse ... I use ppp and with that there is an option usepeerdns so that the dns-servers are filled in automatically ... hopes this helps some and is correct :). You can edit these values in mandrake's control center under the networking-options

the login-optins for ssh are located in /etc/sshd_config and another one (maybe others too, but these I know of) /etc/ssh_config? Anyway in /etc/sshd_config you can specify AllowUsers and dissallow root-acces I think. check man sshd_config I'm not sure but does ssh use tcp-wrappers? Else you can also use /etc/allow_hosts and /etc/deny_hosts to allow and deny access. Above that you can, like mentioned, use your firewall and specify which uses may make connections to that port .. Im' not totally sure if that is possible, sinc eI haven't tried it yet, but I saw something like that in the shorewall-config-files. I'm not sure how secure it would be though. And you could make a strong key for ssh .... I suppose Hope this helps some.

Did you compile transcode and all ithe programs it depends on yourself? They can use specific instructions of your computer like 3DNOW, SSE, ... to make it go faster. The speed increase can be significant. Example: I converted a 3 hour divx to an mpeg-2-video. I also upscaled the video using the bi-cubic algorithm (hopefully the name is ok). It took almost 30 hours I think to do that without some optimisation(s). Then I recompiled the upscaling algorithm which could use special instuctions ( you need the nasm-package for it I believe) and the time got reduced to around 16-18 hour ... withouth upscaling it was half the time I think: 8 hours or so. Not sure though about the 8 hours Maybe you did recompile ... but just to let you know ... it would be best to recompile all packages transcode depends on ... with these apps it can make a difference ... btw .. I have an athlon thunderbird 900 Mhz with 128 MB ram.

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isn't allied assault supported by wine ? don't know for flight simulator ... Maybe check out ... flightgear also ... http://www.flightgear.org/ I think there is an rpm for it, but don't know how old. Wine is the same as cedega EXCEPT that cedega has more support for games, .... I suppose it supports more stuff. Especially more recent I suppose. it supports more directx, ... Cedega is also more userfriendly for installing games ... correct me if I'm wrong :). wine is free ... http://www.winehq.com/ http://appdb.winehq.org/ hopes this help some.

ok tx

Just a question ... isn't there a linspire lifetime warehouse membership anymore? I suspect it isn't viable ... Am I right that there was once an offer for this or not? tx

Heya, I have a friend who is buying a new computer and would like to put linux on it. But he would like the wireless card to be automatically detected and configured .... (everything if possible :)). Anyone knows if configuring wireless cards using mandrake is easy?? Thanks.

Thanks Paul !!!! Simple solution :). Many thanks.

I'm designing a site ..but I've a problem .... maybe more :), but I can't spend too much time on this anymore .... Anyone know how to get the text in the green box ont he right side to be wrapped in the box? ..now it's overflowing the box, I want the text inside the box and let the box grow in height .... Anyone an idea? http://dspace.luc.ac.be/ tx.

I think "su" stands for "substitue user" ... just read it in the manpage of su. To see manpages of commands on the commandline type "man <command>", for example: man su Anyway you can change to any user with su like this: su <username>, for example: su root su boyce1 (if your username is boyce1). Hopes this explains it a little more.

Did you enable port-forwarding? I think it is in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, not sure though ... Don't know if X-forwarding is enabled by default ...thought it was.

Type poweroff as root. I have searched a time to also be able to shutdown as a normal user in that setting. It can be done by adding the user to the sudo-list for poweroff I believe, but I haven't found it for the graphical logout .... if you know how, please tell write it down here ...

just wanted to say, that I'm still working on building grass if it hasn't been built by anyone else ...already, but I'm having some problems building lapack-library at the moment. It's crashing during the compile and am informing about it ...

The lsb-standard standardizes some of this .. the filesystem-standard: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html I haven't tried it, but like you might have seen, there are packages for this in Mandrake under the developper->lsb - branch. It seems that rpm is becoming a standard packaging system. I'm still a newbie in packaging and can eb wrong, but there are some things I would like to see in a packaging-system that isn't present in rpm as far as I know at the moment, or not easy to do. I'm going to explore other packaging system and see how they work. Here is the latest standard: http://www.linuxbase.org/modules.php?name=...e/LSB-Core.html It can be that it isn't finished yet. someone beat me to this I see :) or how do you say this in English.

for each noob, I recommend setting ut the urpmi source first with easyurpmi I've set up some sources ona computer todaya and they seemed to work ... here are the commands (in commandline as root): urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/10.0 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/offici...dates/10.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/offici...6/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/offici....0/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz and for javaprograms: jpackage , add: urpmi.addmedia jpackage-1.5-generic ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/p....5/generic/free with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia jpackage-1.5-generic-non-free ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/p...eneric/non-free with hdlist.cz I have to figure out where the gpg-key is for jpackage, but that is something for this weekend ... I think you have quite some some software with these sources ... the more the better ofcourse ... I haven't tried it, but adding the non-free-repository will allow you to install the different available java jre's/jdk's?, anyway, quite some ... I think