Re: [expert] is it possible for cracker to cover his track?

2003-11-08 Thread Dave Seff
Be very careful. Many people miss this bit of info: Check for installed RSA/DSA keys in any ssh accounts. Just because you change passwords doesn't mean you're safe. He/She may have a stray account that, if an RSA/DSA key was installed would give acces without password needed. -Dave On Fri

[expert] UNIX/Linux Admin in New York City Area

2003-10-27 Thread Dave Seff
I know this may look like spam, but if any of you are in the NYC are and are looking for a Full time UNIX(sun)/Linux (Mandrake) job, Contact me off this list, I have a spot opening up and I don't really want to pay a headhunter. -Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] ECMP and iproute2

2003-10-22 Thread Dave Seff
' compiled under 2.2 will not properly configure ECMP on 2.4! Any help is geatly welcomed. -Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Flash Broken (FYI)

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Seff
I had actually tried to search for the file with rpmdrake. I'll try with urpmf and see what happens. On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 05:17, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 12:42 am, Dave Seff wrote: I noticed that The Flash player

Re: [expert] Flash Broken (FYI)

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Seff
That worked also. Thanks everyone. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:56, Dave Seff wrote: I had actually tried to search for the file with rpmdrake. I'll try with urpmf and see what happens. On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 05:17, Greg Meyer wrote

Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Seff
Done. More OEM's and companys should have this. It would be amazing to some people the responses they would get. Instead most of them just say, The only people that want this are Windows users with their heads still buried in the sand. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Seff
isn't not supplying the kernel source technically a violation of GPL? It probably was not intentional. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Flash Broken (FYI)

2003-10-19 Thread Dave Seff
. Anyway, just FYI. -Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
the tarballs of both from the Mozilla site, and simply untarred them into my home directory. They both work great that way, as long as your system already meets the basic dependencies (GTK2 and XFT libraries). -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you

Re: [expert] Re: Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Sherman
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:43:52AM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: If you mean for Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3, then I don't think anything is up yet. But last night I downloaded the tarballs of both from the Mozilla site, and simply untarred them into my home directory

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Sherman
on their site, including one devoted to running Linux on their systems. All in all, I've been very happy with this unit. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Serial terminal program for Linux?

2003-09-14 Thread Dave Sherman
out and capture.) I *could* hack this program to do what I want, or just use cut and paste, but I can't believe there is nothing else out there. Does anyone know of anything that will suit? Actually, minicom *does* do file send/receive. 'man minicom' to find out how. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE

Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients

2003-09-05 Thread Dave Seff
server. Then again I could be completely wrong. -Dave On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:07, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Thanks to Rashid but still problems: Have setup user accounts with userconf, have activated same accounts in samba via SWAT but still on XPH client when accessing resources the log

Re: [expert] Dropped packages - Attack?

2003-08-17 Thread Dave Sherman
ports: 445, 135, 1839, 2536, etc. Is this normal attack attempts or results of the infamous worm? BTW: I'm not using any donkeys or such kiddie stuff. Well, the worm is known to scan on ports 135 and 445. Can't say about the others... -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-16 Thread Dave Sherman
sudo) run the following command: service network restart to restart your network services without rebooting. However, depending upon how the cable company is set up, their systems might refuse you Internet access if you have a hostname that they don't recognize. Good luck. -- Dave Sherman

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-16 Thread Dave Sherman
nicely for me. Even if it automounts a CD-RW with stuff already on it, the mount point is /mnt/cdrom, which does not interfere with k3b using /mnt/cdrecorder. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want to buy your

[expert] kde question

2003-08-02 Thread Dave Sherman
Hi all, Anybody know a way to make KDE recognize a DVD when I put it in the drive (supermount works), and automatically launch Xine? I know I used to do it when I used Gnome, and I figure there's gotta be a way with KDE. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons

Re: [expert] wpd2sxw

2003-07-10 Thread Dave Sherman
part of the job for you. Check out this URL, you might find what you are looking for. And maybe someone will be able to write a script the automate the use of one of these tools, and be able to do what you are looking for. Here's the URL: http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/ Enjoy! -- Dave Sherman MCSE

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
risk, but my laptop is mostly single-user (my wife occasionally plays Frozen Bubble on it). -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim, Restroom

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
for supermount -- K3b mounts it on demand, and presumably unmounts the cdrom mount point at the same time, so there are no conflicts. If *both* mount points are setup for supermount, but they use the same device, wouldn't this be rather ... counterproductive? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
assuming that K3b is unmounting cdrom (which would have been automounted) before manually mounting cdrecorder. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA In total we spend almost three years of our lives on the toilet. It's natural and it's normal, so let's learn to say: 'Wow! That's a great toilet!' - Jack Sim

[expert] 2.4.21 Variable HZ Howto

2003-07-01 Thread Dave Sherman
James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:43, Robert Crawford wrote: Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you

Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.

2003-06-30 Thread Dave Sherman
! -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Installation advice

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Sherman
, but it is still a monster for memory. I always had better performance using Galeon under Gnome, with either Mandrake or RedHat. In spite of my above comments, I now use Mandrake 9.1, KDE and Mozilla, but on a much faster laptop :-) -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing

Re: [expert] hostname

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Sherman
by an entry in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-*, or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*. The dhcp client daemon can overwrite these files, if it receives a hostname from the dhcp server. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
and I've been told that the 8500 should work out of the box. Any help would be seriously appreciated. Thanks. Have you checked this page? http://www.zebulon.org.uk/3D8500_en.html -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong

Re: [expert] a bit of a mailserver technical question

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Sherman
or even days, before bouncing back to the original sender with a Host unreachable message. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] System locks on logout

2003-06-22 Thread Dave Sherman
laptop. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Sherman
, not music CDs -- I have heard via my local LUG mailing list, that several people have had difficulties burning music CDs, even though they have no trouble with data CDs. I did not install any of the additional programs that the K3b setup program looks for. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think

[expert] Shared Raw file systems

2003-06-17 Thread Dave Seff
9i and others? -- Dave Seff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT LTSP + Mandrake = Mandrake on Steroids.

2003-06-13 Thread Dave Sherman
face -- always a Good Thing. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Dave Sherman
. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] third test to list

2003-06-10 Thread Dave Sherman
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Keeping up with security updates with older systems

2003-06-06 Thread Dave Sherman
could use source rpm's. That way he still has the package control of RPM, and adds to it the ability to get the latest source package for an application and compile it for his system. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting

Re: [expert] Linux Flash Player trouble.

2003-06-05 Thread Dave Sherman
, and it opened the site without breaking a sweat -- CPU was hovering around 20%. Running Mozilla 1.3.1 with libflashplayer installed. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] NTFS - ext2/3 ?

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Sherman
, to resize the NTFS-5 (WinXP) partition on my laptop. This was less than 6 months ago, so it should still be available. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Sherman
a clean install. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Windows NT was supposed to hit Unix hard (it did - like a bug hitting a windshield) - Andrew Grygus, aaxnet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM9.1: DVD ejects automatically

2003-04-05 Thread Dave Sherman
reader ejects it automatically after 10s Have you tried calling mplayer from a command prompt, and watching any messages it kicks out? Maybe it's failing to mount the disk, or something... -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] wireless in ML 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Sherman
PC card. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Laird
it to run daily. I believe it defaults to once per week since 8.x, but I could be wrong. In either case, I altered the default to once each day manually, as well. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-26 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Jack...everyone... On Wednesday 26 March 2003 09:28 pm, Jack Coates wrote: It's been kind of entertaining watching Dave and Mark go off in search of the most difficult way to do it while ignoring that URL until they finally snipped

Re: [expert] RH is jumping numbers hard.

2003-03-24 Thread Dave Laird
why the version number boogety-boogety. Now back on topic, we are saying Mandrake 9.1 will be released when? 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians

Re: [expert] RH is jumping numbers hard.

2003-03-24 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, James... On Monday 24 March 2003 10:51 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 22:42, Dave Laird wrote: Is it a necessary evil? While I'll concede this is probably not something that is entirely on-topic, since most

Re: [expert] hysteresis

2003-03-23 Thread Dave Laird
, but don't hold your breath. Hysteresis will always be a factor to contend with. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-23 Thread Dave Laird
to install it, of course. It even shares pretty decently using Samba. My only wish is that the media didn't cost so much, but on the good side, the disks seem (at least to me) to last a long, long time, which is more than I can say about floppy disks. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-23 Thread Dave Seff
:02, John Haywood wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:13 pm, Dave Seff wrote: On this topic, does anybody know of any project that aims to be a drop-in replacement for exchange? Well, you might look at CommuniGate Pro (commercial) with the new plugins. It might not have everything

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 rc2 and radeon 7000

2003-03-23 Thread Dave Sherman
bug in the radeon driver - I found the problem mentioned in the Mandrake Cooker mailing list archives. I am running Mandrake 9.1 rc2, updated to Cooker, including X 4.3. -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Update to Cooker?

2003-03-20 Thread Dave Sherman
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:05, Dave Sherman wrote: This is probably a silly question, but I have so far been unsuccessful in finding the info I am looking for... Can anyone tell me how to update Mandrake 9.1rc2 to Cooker? You have to create a urpmi source with a cooker mirror

[expert] Update to Cooker?

2003-03-19 Thread Dave Sherman
This is probably a silly question, but I have so far been unsuccessful in finding the info I am looking for... Can anyone tell me how to update Mandrake 9.1rc2 to Cooker? -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-15 Thread Dave Laird
PROTECTED] and receiving meaningful promises that it will be handled. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-15 Thread Dave Laird
input to this idea. It *does* block strings from Code Red, but at a pretty substantial performance hit. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, Todd... On Friday 14 March 2003 11:43 am, Todd Lyons wrote: In effect right now. I read what's been posted to the list through the night, after that, they're gone. In few words, my Inbox says THANK YOU. gulp and so do I. Dave

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Pierre... On Friday 14 March 2003 04:27 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On the _passive_ side, I have some ideas for short-circuiting Nimda attacks with iptables. [Dave sits upright in his chair from sleeping through the flame wars

Re: [expert] MS crud

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Laird
... There it is. I'm going to experiment some more with this with a box and see if there are any additional drawbacks to using an iptables filter to trap Code Red. Then I'll summarize back here what I find. I'm still somewhat surprised how easily it all flew together, and it works! 8-) Dave

Re: [expert] New list Moderator (was) 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Dave Laird
moderator, and they can have their choice of whoever they want to be their Leu-ten-ant or even Sargeant-at-Arms, if they want. However, I have a permit, here, that entitles me to be an @$$hole anytime I feel the need. Dave goes hastily fumbling through his moth-eaten hunting jacket pockets

Re: [expert] printer abnormalities

2003-03-13 Thread Dave Laird
in /etc/cron.d/ as one of those may be configured to run hourly. Without reading Todd's mind (above) I might humbly submit that you might also give an eye to what's inside cron.daily, as well. It does sound like a mis-firing cron job. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Laird
and all was well. Several attempts resulted in the same findings and finally I put the case on it and all was well. That day there simply wasn't enough time. sigh On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I hate not knowing what has caused this. Me too. 8-( Dave - -- Dave Laird

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Laird
. Last night I tried the same experiment here, using two drives and a more-recent Motherboard and BIOS and saw no such problems, no matter where I put the drives. I think I'll go back out that way next week and flash the BIOS with the latest and see what happens. Thanks, though... Dave - -- Dave

Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem

2003-03-09 Thread Dave Laird
the screen saver kicks in, in some cases. Of course, your results may vary. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Seff
(ldap, mapi, pop, imap, yada yada . .) That will get people's attention. Especially mine. -Dave On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:32, Norman wrote: Hi all, I have been asked if I can set up a Linux box to replace an NT server. What has been requested is that it be file server, mail server, print server

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Laird
for the next comeback. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 03/05/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Samba-Only Windows Clients can write to shares

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Laird
post your smb.conf file for everyone to examine? This might show others and myself something which might cause your problem. Also, if you could, please show the full permissions for any given file in the shared directory if you could, please. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon... On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:05 pm, civileme wrote: lthtmlgt Thanks. It's been installed. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20

Re: [expert] Samba LDAP PDC an answer, not a question

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Seff
I have been trying to do the same thing. Could you send me the LDAP section from your smb.conf offline? Just X out your specific info. Thanks. -Dave On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:12, Jim C wrote: So I've been racking my brains over why my Samba-LDAP PDC wont add a machine account automatically

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Laird
of 256 MEG of RAM you can have it play anything you prefer. I imagine it would even gleefully play a MIDI file if you wanted to work out the details. It's actually pretty handy if you poll a mail server once in awhile for new mail. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Laird
reduce my spam loads. Also, if you want more targets, go to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and look up the IP blocks assigned to the primary sources of most pornographic spam. Then block them by country. You'd be surprised at how spam levels will drop. Dave - -- Dave Laird

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Laird
going to bed. sigh Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html

Re: [expert] Defragging

2003-02-25 Thread Dave Laird
performance gains for ext Might you have a link to this utility? It might be handy for running usenet news which, as we all know, is notorious for fragmenting an ext2 file system pretty badly. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http

Re: [expert] Defragging

2003-02-25 Thread Dave Laird
/projects/defrag/?topic_id=136 Is a url that should get you to it. Thanks! It went to work as soon as it came out of the compiler. I'll be curious what it does to the news spool, which is nearly always fragmented quite a bit. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix

Re: [expert] ML9.0: patch VIA to enable UDMA100 not installed but yet reporting UDMA100, Cycle time 120 ns???

2003-02-15 Thread Dave Laird
with the command hdparm -t /dev/hda ? Would it be the same speed as in Linux ? hdparm -t /dev/hda1 Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.08 seconds = 30.71 MB/sec My UDMA is set by the motherboard resources, and is fast as the dickens. I hope my answer helps in some way. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Laird
:) In case your findings come to you off this list, could you please forward any information you may find about this? I've begun playing with Xnest, too, and would like to have a gui tooie. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Laird
on this evening and I'll see what I can come up with, as I did just that a long, long time ago. I just don't remember what I did. 8-( Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Laird
those autographed pictures of George Bush, Jr. you ordered, they are in now. 8-) hehehe. Sorry. It's Friday and I'm multi-tasking too many processes at the same damned time. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could not find mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Laird
, something else I never understood. 8-) was that in M$ products say before 1997? Yes, I believe that was the platform. There's an excellent article that explains some of the more technical aspects of why floating around the web written by young Steve Gibson, I think. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could not find mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Laird
. And in case anyone thinks I'm bashing Maxtor drives, I'm not. I've been using Maxtor drives nearly exclusively as my personal choice for almost two decades in nearly every network machine in my office, and am *delighted* beyond words with their no-BS warrantee policies. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could not find mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Laird
. brightening They say Mandrake 9.1 and KDE 3.1 are both coming out the cooker soon. That, too, works for me. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could not find mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Laird
the drive geometry correctly every time. sigh Can I buy an axiom now? grin Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could not find mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Laird
books, which they don't even sell anymore, anyway. shrug Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could not find mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Laird
drive on the primary and a fast Seagate on the secondary, which only worked in 16 bit mode, something else I never understood. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server

Re: [expert] TV card problems.

2003-02-08 Thread Dave Laird
method of reception. Nice choice of card, though. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net

Re: [expert] TV card problems.

2003-02-08 Thread Dave Laird
is really *well* amplified noise and scatter on the screen. Let us know, though. If I get some time free this weekend I'll try to replicate the problem, uh... with different television stations, of course. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-07 Thread Dave Laird
. To be politically-correct, I am not here to bash Windows. However, given the number of times the Windows boxes have been patched and upgraded, I still cannot seem to do better than 2 or 3 days uptime before one or both of them crash or require a reboot. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Laird
haven't had any trouble, and then it was because I was in too much of a hurry to do my homework. 8-( Thus far I have never used Mandrake as a server, although I understand it can be just as robust as RedHat when it comes to that. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. grin Dave - -- Dave Laird

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, Mike... On Wednesday 29 January 2003 06:20 am, Mike Veltman wrote: And please respect the fact that a lot of europeans have a different view of the Irac case. ...as do *SOME* Americans. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Dave Laird
minutes. And it will contain nothing about politics! Promise. [Dave puts on a black wig and leans close to the monitor] Whisper about it in my ear. No one else will ever know. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net

Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Laird
evil grin Speaking for the Polident faction of Mandrake, of course. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system

Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Laird
themselves. 8) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system. An automatic random

Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Laird
know? Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system. An automatic random thought

Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Laird
. ;) You forgot to mention she is fluent in Perl, Java, Assembler (remember THAT?), C and C++ and can code while doing the laundry. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Laird
money in my bank account, is somewhat difficult given my moral beliefs against war. My Mandrake box even agrees with me. So there. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Laird
coming from The Shrub's office, I am truly saddened by what I see coming. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system

Re: [expert] mysql install problem

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Laird
any assistance don't hesitate to drop a note on this mailing list. I've been testing 4.x for about two weeks now, and other than having to regenerate the indexes, I haven't had a moment's problem. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http

Re: [expert] mysql install problem

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Laird
: On Sun Jan 26, 2003 at 09:10:12PM -0800, Dave Laird wrote: [...] The last time I looked (last week or two) it was listed as BETA-Stable, That would be rather be at least 6 weeks, because since 2002-12-14 (v4.0.6) MySQL is declared gamma. That's about right, actually. I was going to check

Re: [expert] mysql install problem

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Laird
man's verification that record locks work as well as rollover, and they do work without exception. Perhaps even more important, 4.09 didn't break *any* of my Delphi code, which means no breaks in existing development programming. I can hardly wait for 4.10 to emerge. Dave - -- Dave Laird

Re: [expert] mysql install problem

2003-01-26 Thread Dave Laird
as BETA-Stable, but other than having to regenerate the indexes for an existing table which I moved over into my development directories, it was pretty much a bolt-up application. I only got to spend a half-day on it, but there is a lot to commend switching over as soon as it goes stable. Dave

Re: [expert] mysql install problem

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Laird
impressions once I really get my feet wet with it. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system

Re: [expert] Updated information about TV cards in general...

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Kwan... On Friday 24 January 2003 09:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Dave Laird wrote: Xaitv not only works better than Xawtv 'out of the box', as it comes up the first time with the audio on and the picture

[expert] Updated information about TV cards in general...

2003-01-24 Thread Dave Laird
screen captures with v41, something that Xawtv won't do without a v42. Now I can pull the ATI card from my system and try out the new Hauppage card I bought last night. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated

Re: [expert] getting a DWL-650 to work in MDK

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Laird
laptop. My solution was to go to the BIOS and *force* the stupid thing to use other IRQ's in the BIOS. Then force Plug N' Pray to re-read the table and perhaps you'll be good to go. Of course, maybe not. 8-| Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web

Re: [expert] getting a DWL-650 to work in MDK

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Laird
the change... Progress is good. Progress is good. Hope to know soon if that'll fix my sound problems after suspend/resume. Let us know. I can look up the IRQ's for the onboard sound, as I have a cheat sheet here for IBM laptops that comes in pretty handy every once in awhile. Dave - -- Dave

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