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  2. kmail and firefox...

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    I just recently converted to kmail from tbird. I realize now that at the time I was using Opera, and if there was a url in a kmail post, it would open in Opera (assuming I had chosen "opera" in component chooser, web browser. I was having some problems with Opera and decided to go back to firefox for a bit, so I chose "firefox" in the component chooser, web browser, clicked on the url in kmail:

     

    something flashes very quickly (it's a copyfile copying a file into /var/tmp ) and then firefox starts and asks me if I would like to open this php script in /var/tmp/kdecache-kristi with kate. (kate shows nothing in the file.

     

    I remember that to get thunderbird to open url's in firefox I had to do a mod

    to get Tbird to link to FF

    In Tbird:  using the about:config extension

    about:config

    right click choose add new string

    name:      network.protocol-handler.app.http

    string value:   /usr/bin/mozffremote

     

    Okay so I added /usr/bin/mozffremote to the menu and selected it with the component chooser, but the same thing happened.

     

    Anyone know how to open a url from a post in kmail (a topic subscription reply notification) , in firefox?

     

    tia!!!

    Kristi

  5. HP 5740 or 5740ijs driver?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Well, I've had some time to read this stuff and I think I know less than I did before, but:

    Q. What drivers are available?

    A.Two drivers are available:

    1) HPIJS is the basic printing driver that supports printing from CUPS, LPD, PPR, and other spoolers.

    2) HPLIP is a complete imaging and printing system for CUPS that includes HPIJS.

     

    the 2 choices I have are HP and HPIJS. It is not clear that HP =>HPLIP

     

    I would need to ask someone like Adam exactly what module is included in Mandriva.

  6. 2005A / shorewall / mail server

    in Security

    Posted

    The mail-server is used to send security emails every night to an email address (MCC). Configuration is pretty tight so it's not a security risk.

    (I like your avatar!)

    Is that the same thing as the email I get with kmail from /var/spool/kristi every night? I guess guarddog isn't blocking it, because guarddog blocks everything unless you expressly allow it...

     

    . So I'm not understanding the function of having shorewall expressly allow it? Why bother since - oh, maybe it's just a reminder NOT to block it...?

    :cheesy:

  7. HP 5740 or 5740ijs driver?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    :cheesy:

    I was under the impression that many things printed using ghostscript and therefore I would be betteroff with the ijs one. Right now I'm using a draft version of the plain (yeah, I assume that's the "lid" one). Damn that's fast!

     

    dunno!!!!!

    As far as printers and Linux goes I should be tickled pink if it performs this well, so I guess I'm tickled pink :D

    Can't get it to print the footers on a web page in opera, though. Ahhhhhhh n- firefox outputs to postscript, Opera doesn't kwrite does great with headers and footers.

     

    Before I posted that question I googled and found "ijs" and "lid" but no where did it tell me which to use. Guess I'll call HP! :cheesy:

     

    Thanks all!!!

    Kristi

  9. HP 5740 or 5740ijs driver?

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    My Canon i850 died, so i got a HP Deskjet 5740. When installing it with 2005A , Config your Desktop, peripherals, printer, it offers me a "5740" and a "5740 ijs". What's the difference and which one should I use? (I did a test page for each and they look identically great)

    tia!!!

    Kristi

  10. Mandriva and Lycoris team up

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Hard to say just what will happen now, but I have a positive feeling about this.  Mandriva has to grow to survive against the Big Guys.  And there is sure to be more consolidation in LinuxLand.  And badly needed, too.  Nothing wrong with having plentyof choices, but having soooo many distros just makes Linux seem more complicated than it is to n00bs. 

     

    RedHat, Suse and some others are going off in the wrong direction - very heavily patched kernels, XML config files, etc., etc.  It's not good, and while Mandriva is less guilty, they have a bit of the same kinda stuff going on, particularly with kernels.  Hopefully, as they grow they will stay reasonably true to 'true' Linux, as they have so far, at least for the most part.

     

    Linux needs to standardize, settle on one package format, (I say .rpm wins in the end, and it won't even be close) standard file locations, etc.  'Til it does, n00bs will continue to be highly confused (as I was) and Linux will be too difficult for companies, even those  who would like to get really serious about writing and selling commercial Linux software, to deal with.  A conversation I had with a developer at Symantec made that clear.  We can have all the distros we want, but they gotta standardize package installation.

     

    For sure, I'm gonna stay with 10.1 for quite a while, 'til all this combining of distros shakes out quite a bit.

     

    I don't have the working knowledge or experience, an awful lot of this sounds absolutely right. ceptin I'm gonna stay pretty current with Mandriva - club release -

    Kristi

  14. Mandriva 2005LE config headache

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    EDIT - this is wrong. see 2 posts down

     

    I know, I was frustrated with that, too, but I believe it is gone with that and following levels of KDE. In fact, if you want a root session (not just a root console or running something as root) you will have to log into it there. In 3.4 there's no more "start a new (root) session"! Actually I find I don't need it - the bad exception being turboprint which has to be running in a root session before it will tell you the remaining ink level on your printer. I believe that's where HP shines - great Linux driver support. Canon has none! :angry:

    Kristi

  16. Help! I Screwed Up the Installation

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Uh, what kind of video chip/card do you have on that machine?

     

    After an install, it will always boot to a command line prompt, level 3. Log in as root and then do kde.

     

    On an install, if you don't know, take the defaults - that is, it will come up with something already chosen - just whail away on the enter key. You can usually figure out the details later - that will at least give you a useable gui.

    Hope that helps!

    Kristi

  19. What video cards do you guys use?

    in Games

    Posted

    geforce 6800 Ultra, what's up wtih gforce4's are they better than my puppy?

     

     

    GF4 are the older generation.

     

    Of course NVidia really muddle the waters with the GeForce4 naming: a GF4 MX is really a form of GF2 and was a budget card even when it was brand new.

     

    The Ti ("Titanium") series was the top of the line about 2 years ago and still holds its own quite well for most current games, although under Windows it doesn't suport some of the features of DirectX 9 and may not play some of the brand new games that require some of DirectX 9 features like v1.4 pixel shaders. ((Battle Field 2 comes to mind). The "FX" series of NVidia cards was the first to support shaders 1.4

    I'm not a gamer but I use a XFX GeF4Ti4200 and play NWN occasionally

    Kristi

  22. pre-install combine CDs to DVD? [solved]

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Thanks, that did the trick just fine, though I chocked my system on the first try. Then I changed "tmp" to "work2" a 30gb partition, but it still nearly choked - it interprets 

    ${DVD:=~/mkrhdvd}

    as /root/mkrhdvd and pours a couple of gig in there - just barely made it by. But now I know what to change for the next try!!!!!! And the DVD worked like a champ. Not so sure about 2005A yet - kate seems to go missing from KDE now and then. - but then, what do you want for a glorified beta!!! and surprised it was out this early.

    Thanks again!!!

    Kristi

  23. playing - other distros

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by kristi

    Kristi, for Sarge 2.6 just boot linux26. Should be listed in the options from F1.

     

    Thanks, I appreciate that! I grabbed 2005A (KDE3.4 just to be current - I'm playing with that now,.[[ okay, just located the 2 Sarge DVDs. Maybe tomorrow, cause I can do that w/o disrupting my mdv build.

    Thanks!!

    Kristi

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