Re: Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)
using vmware might be a better option - it creates machines that are completely separated from the rest of your system. if you trash the virtual machine you can just blast the whole thing and be on your way only problem with this is the hardware requirements for vmware are pretty steep - it's slow on anything but a rocket matt On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Tassilo von Parseval wrote: Hi folks, after someone has obviously tried to distribute the happy99.exe (nice try, by the way ;-), I just thought this might be the right time to ask something about wine. As a matter of fact I have two viruses stored as files ( I did not run them though ;-) and I am rather curious to see what they *would* do if I ran them. Is there perhaps a way of finding out when running them with wine ? I guess this cannot damage anything but perhaps I finally know what they were supposed to do. So if anyone has any idea, please drop a few lines. Tassilo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Weird Console Stuff
you are typing with a french keymap. on the french keyboard swaps a - q, z - w, and puts some other keys in different places. i don't know enough about setting keymaps to tell you how to fix the problem, but maybe someone else knows matt On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Lewis, James M. wrote: I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in console mode because I cannot predict which keys I have to depress to get the correct password. ;-( Any help on this? I had the same problem about a week ago (potato). Run kbdconfig to set up the console and it should fix it. jim -- Chad Walstrom mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] a.k.a ^chewie, gunnarr http://wookimus.net/~chewie -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: umount - URGENT
if anyone has a shell open that is is within the directory structure of the cd then it will report as being in use when you try to unmount it. make sure every account logged on to the machine is in a different directory (ie home directory) and you should be able to get the cd out On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote: I've just fallen into serious trouble: can not umount my CD-ROM - it is reported as beeing used. I'm sure it is not, what may have happened is that I was examining it's contents with `mc' which died suddenly. I desperatly need this CD out _right_now_ so please if anybody knows the answer - give it ASAP. Blazej -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Image formats
jpegs are usually the smallest, but the drawback is that the compression is lossy - the image you uncompress is not _exactly_ what you compressed. this isn't really a big deal for photos and such, so it's generally the best for photorealistic images gifs only support 256 colors, but the compression is lossless. thus they're used mostly for line-drawing type images. the major drawback is you have to listen to the flamewars about the licensing issues of the compression algorithm. oh yeah, they are the only format that can do animation. the newest format, png, is designed to do most everything (it will probably take over at somepoint). unfortunately browser support for them is currently spotty at best. i don't really use tiff much, but i've heard they're the format of choice for graphic designers and such who need large, high quality images matt On 23 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: Looking for a comparison chart of different image formats, such as tiff, jpeg, etc. I wonder what format is it more appropriate to scan images into. Thanks, -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
.gnome-desktop has a link in it (Home Directory) that points to your home directory (in which is located .gnome-desktop in which there is a link to your home directory ad infinitum). that's why it recurses forever use tar instead to copy the directory because it will not follow links. On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: I installed potato from scratch on a friends machine, and they had nifty cdrom and floppy shortcuts that I did not have. So I, since I had their harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root and do a rm -r -f .gnome-desktop. Why does this directory have an infinitly deep structure? It seems recursive to me. Ho can I copy his .gnome-desktop to my home directory? OR, better yet, how does it work, so I can just build one from scratch, with a home directory, a floppy and two cd-rom icons on my desktop? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
