[expert] test - do not read.

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I said don't read. Are you blind? -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any religion. --Richard Dawkins Key fingerprint =

Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, I do own my domains. I have been trying to get email from my postfix to be user@ravenhome.net instead of the user@localhost.ravenhome.net but apparently in trying to fix this one simple thing, it prevented my system from working

[expert] One more test...

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hopefully all is well again. - -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't believe this to be a real problem though. All they need to do is design basic javascript, if that is what they intend to use, that doesn't do anything wierd or os-specific/browser-specific. The simple approach is to provide a warning to

[expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just ran MandrakeUpdate and ran into a problem I seem to come across more often than I ever should. It lists bug and security fixed packages as per normal but when I select them for install, the rpms do not exist. I get an error message about

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:38:46 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Just ran MandrakeUpdate and ran into a problem I seem to come across more often than I ever should. It lists bug and security fixed packages as per normal but when I select them for install

[expert] ghemical...any users with NVIDIA?

2003-10-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On my laptop the latest ghemical works fine in 9.1 fully updated (ghemical-1.00-3mdk) - IBM Thinkpad 1412, celeron 366, crappy Neomagic NM2200 video. On my vastly superior desktop system it segfaults as soon as I try to draw any molecule - Athlon

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
/libopenssl0.9.7-0.9.7a-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database On Monday 13 October 2003 01:09 pm, Jack Coates wrote: but you're still not using the --wget switch. Try it, really. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:51, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

[expert] test - blow off - do not read

2003-10-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I SAID do not read. You wasted your time. This was a test. The end. - -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A little checking and I see that my credit union isn't what I would call linux-unfriendly, just konqueror unfriendly. The login system using java or javascript (*.jsp...is that java or javascript?). One error message I received when trying to

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
:48 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: A little checking and I see that my credit union isn't what I would call linux-unfriendly, just konqueror unfriendly. The login system using java or javascript (*.jsp...is that java or javascript?). One error message I received when trying to bypass

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
in any case because of the way it is called. praedor On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:27 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 06:48, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A little checking and I see that my credit union isn't what I would call linux

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-12 at 07:34, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is a ref to a browser check script but I am not certain where its root lies, so I am not sure what webpage to pass a mozilla user agent id to: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry...I suppose I shouldn't have attached anything. On Sunday 12 October 2003 03:01 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Thanks, but that didn't work. I did manage to download their browsercheck.js file however. Google couldn't find it and I couldn't

Re: [expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete anything

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which version of kmail are you using? I use v1.5 with KDE 3.1.3 and have no problems. If I use the keyboard delete key, it places the selected mail into the trash folder. If I use the X icon (right next to the trashcan icon in the toolbar for

Re: [expert] KMail doesn't seem to delete anything

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm. I haven't noticed. I have a bunch of subfolders where the bulk of my messages are filtered into with only those not specifically filtered to a specific folder being kept in the inbox. I also have 3 gigs of space for my /home directory so I

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
. Now that I know a little more about their check, I can try to ask that they allow spoofing. It's not like they have to recode the whole script. praedor On Sunday 12 October 2003 03:09 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Sorry...I suppose I shouldn't have attached anything. On Sunday 12 October 2003 03

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In spite of repeated (nice) complaints from myself, my credit union still dorks me over whenever I try to access MY account information via the web using konqueror. I set it to identify itself as netscape OR explorer but it doesn't work, they

[expert] Wireless - shutting down pcmica locks system

2003-10-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have run into this nasty problem several times now over the last two weeks. I am using a wireless connection (802.11b) at my job and running MDK 9.1 on my laptop. Something goes wrong with the connection and I try to reset it nicely through

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Praedor Atrebates
: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:46:43 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a synopsis of the first working procmail recipe: :0f * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@att.net * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * !someone@purdue.edu * !someone@yahoo.com * !someone@msn.net

[expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not well-versed with a given app). How do I do a logrotate on all logs? My laptop doesn't

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread Praedor Atrebates
and simply used my personal .fetchmailrc. But it didn't. praedor On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:03 pm, David Guntner wrote: Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. [...] A new question now. Fetchmail gave me a bit of a fit

[expert] Spamassassin help request

2003-10-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have fiddled some with my spamassassin but it is still just too slow. I am running it in daemon mode (spamd and spamc) with bayes filtering on. Spamassassin email analysis on my laptop is too slow to live with (about 20 seconds per message).

[expert] test - no content

2003-10-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 test - -- What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request

2003-10-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
for the length of time the spam check was ongoing I wouldn't mind as much as I could read emails that made it through and send/queue messages for sending but as it is... praedor On Monday 06 October 2003 10:42 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 10:41 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request

2003-10-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not real up on procmail filter writing (or the cryptic language of procmail). I have run postfix locally in the past but haven't lately...I have set it up to run again now. I have never had it work with spamassassin or procmail before. Here's

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request

2003-10-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
procmail to use this second recipe? praedor On Monday 06 October 2003 02:48 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am not real up on procmail filter writing (or the cryptic language of procmail). I have run postfix locally in the past but haven't lately...I have set it up to run again now. I have

[expert] Menudrake changes don't take

2003-09-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is driving me nuts. Running 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3 from texstar. I have OOo 1.1 installed (bin file, not an rpm) and have been trying to create kmenu entries for it. I have done it 3 times now using Menudrake and it only lasts for the current

[expert] Spamassassin question

2003-09-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Well, I did something (not sure what) that seems to have sped up my spamassassin message processing (I have been, and continue, using spamd/spamc and the kmail client). In any case, in watching my /var/log/syslog scroll by, I see this pop up with each mail message being processed: Sep 24

Re: [expert] Spamassassin question

2003-09-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
checking when one must (apparently) go to some length to join the razor network. Am I offbase on this? praedor On Wednesday 24 September 2003 05:08 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Well, I did something (not sure what) that seems to have sped up my spamassassin message processing (I have been

[expert] cooker and mandrakeclub

2003-09-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have repeated problems with MandrakeClub and cooker rpms. At the moment I am trying to download the latest povray rpm. The version available for 9.1 is no more - trying to download it fails because it has ceased to exist at any mirror I try. I then tried cooker (the povray rpm is a

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Sunday 21 September 2003 05:57 pm, John Wilson wrote: On September 21, 2003 02:44 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:56:53 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] The moral of the story is. In order to sell a product the doors

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin processing black hole

2003-09-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:44 am, Tibor Pittich wrote: On 18. September 2003 at 19:52, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 06:02 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: 31.4 seconds to process a single message. Another possibility. Are you currently doing the RBL checks? One

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin processing black hole

2003-09-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 19 September 2003 08:11 pm, Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: Are you passing SpamAssassin through Mailscanner, or are you using spamd? I'm using spamd/spamc. I have the same version of spamassassin on my laptop and destop system. The only difference between the two is the desktop is an

[expert] SpamAssassin processing black hole

2003-09-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am using spamassassin in daemon mode for spam processing. Not too long ago it was pretty quick but lately, it is painfully slow...on my laptop, on my desktop it is currently still quite fast. Here is the processing time on a typical message

[expert] testing

2003-09-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need a test...why aren't my messages appearing in the list? praedor - -- Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked, and

Re: [expert] testing

2003-09-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 September 2003 01:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 7:55 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I need a test...why aren't my messages appearing in the list? praedor Dunno, but this one did. I've only seen one before

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
with a complaint that there isn't enough diskspace! I then tried it by creating it in mbox format. Same result. There is just no way to send emails to /dev/null in kmail. praedor On Monday 01 September 2003 04:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:32 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No worky. Don't try it. If you create a folder in the default Maildir format, it creates cur, new, and tmp subfolders within the new folder. If you delete these subfolders and make them symlinks to /dev/null, you will crash kmail (it complains

Re: [expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks all, I am back in bi-ness with urpmi. I deleted all my sources and re-set and updated the sources. I then managed to get all the needed rpms downloaded and installed...though I find that the texstar rpms actually make my system SLOWER

[expert] kdm wont start at bootup

2003-08-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Before rebuilding my last kernel (2.4.21-0.13mdk because all subsequent mdk kernels simply refuse to work on my laptop), I had no problems with kdm. It came up after the initial bootup just fine. Now, it wont come up and I get dumped to the

[expert] Security settings advice/aid?

2003-08-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I currently run my laptop at security level 2 (default). I would like to beef it up but fear wrecking the useability of my system. In the past, if I simply select security level 3, for instance, it changes enough settings that basic things like

[expert] urpmi problem

2003-08-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to update/upgrade my KDE to the texstar 3.1.3 rpms. When I run urpmi kdebase kdelib kdegraphics kdenetwork it downloads about half of the required rpms (dependencies) but then craps out with: Installation failed, some files are

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
apart from their supermount forms (/mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2). Now I can give it a try and decide if it will do for my purposes. praedor On Saturday 16 August 2003 01:29 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 09:45 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Larry Sword

[expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

2003-08-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an IBM Stinkpad that has been running Mandrake for several years without problem. It currently runs 9.1 and 2.4.21-0.13mdk without problems. I have tried building -0.18mdk and, most recently, -0.25mdk kernels but neither works. Since

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 09:45 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Larry Sword wanted us to know: I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. And so I stand corrected sigh How have you pulled this off? I have tried, off and on, to get k3b working - and

Re: [expert] What's the deal with this?

2003-07-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:42 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: There is an app available called Pyblink that makes it possible to use pybliographic with OpenOffice. It is a bit of a hack but if you use references in your writing, it is possible to get

[expert] What's the deal with this?

2003-07-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is an app available called Pyblink that makes it possible to use pybliographic with OpenOffice. It is a bit of a hack but if you use references in your writing, it is possible to get past the loser reference manager in OO/SO and use

Re: [expert] KMail filter oddity

2003-07-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perhaps it would be better to wait for the messages to start flowing first so that a filter can be generated from actual messages samples. On Tuesday 29 July 2003 03:11 pm, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:10 pm, Anne Wilson

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe the problem is that until the download is complete, Mozilla stores the partially downloaded file in /tmp THEN transfers the finished download to the selected location. If you have a large '/' directory and/or have setup /tmp on its own

[expert] Shutdown/reboot for users

2003-07-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't understand this... I recently had to replace a hdd due to failure and reinstalled 9.1. After initial bootup and login to KDE, when I was finished and clicked the logout button, I got the nice dragon combo box with 3 options in it: logout,

[expert] redirect to /dev/null...how?

2003-07-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am now very confident in my spamassassin filtering - I haven't had any misidentified spam for weeks. I have set a kmail filter to direct spam as identified by spamassassin into my kmail trash folder but now would like to skip right past this and

Re: [expert] redirect to /dev/null...how?

2003-07-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 09:34 am, Mark Watts wrote: I am now very confident in my spamassassin filtering - I haven't had any misidentified spam for weeks. I have set a kmail filter to direct spam as identified by spamassassin into my kmail

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using sendmail to send your email automatically will use postfix by default on your system. Postfix understands sendmail. As for using localhost, that may be fine for testing, and it will be the default if you haven't made any changes or named

[expert] Draksync...how

2003-07-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thunderstorms have conspired to wreck my HDD. I bought a new one and now wish to bring my desktop fully current with my laptop. It is simply unreasonably slow to do it via MandrakeUpdate because of my dialup speed and phone usage needs so I would

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.21-0.18mdk xconfig - fixed

2003-07-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I accidentally deleted the message so I had to do something. On Wednesday 02 July 2003 07:50 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 05:24:14PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Nevermind, I ran an strace on make xconfig and it pointed

[expert] kernel 2.4.21-0.18mdk xconfig

2003-07-02 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I lost the email that mentioned how to get 2.4.21-0.18 to build (fails at xconfig). What file needs to be edited to fix this? praedor - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from

[expert] Security and permissions problems

2003-07-02 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After I originally found that all users could see other user's home contents, I tried first changing to security level 3. Someone else mentioned I could set the home permission to 700. Both methods have screwed up my system and I can't seem to

Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.21-0.18mdk xconfig - fixed

2003-07-02 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nevermind, I ran an strace on make xconfig and it pointed me to the problem entry in drivers/net/Config.in On Wednesday 02 July 2003 05:06 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I lost the email that mentioned how to get 2.4.21-0.18 to build (fails

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-07-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:00 am, Ken Thompson wrote: Praedor, Take a look at Smoothwall --- http://www.smoothwall.org It just works. As for mandrake, did you set your default gateway on the laptop to the address of your desktop?? It should have

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
OK, I don't understand this...I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21-0.18mdk from updates for 9.1 and tried to install it but I get a message about my current kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk being newer. Huh? I'm pretty sure that the update is newer. Am I wrong? Should I install it anyway? praedor

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk

2003-07-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 July 2003 09:52 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: OK, I don't understand this...I downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21-0.18mdk from updates for 9.1 and tried to install it but I get a message about my current kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk being

[expert] Again, no messages

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So yet again the list is generating no traffic (for me at least). What's up? - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Of course I meant it should lie to the server. What else could I possibly have meant that would make any sense? It (MandrakeUpdate) should also be prudish and prurient (try to do both of those at the same time). praedor On Friday 27 June 2003

[expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't have much hope that this message will actually make it to the list but what the hell (I haven't seen a single message all weekend...AGAIN...I think I will drop off the list, it is too broken to be of any more use). For the first time I

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall

Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
am, KevinO wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I am just now getting over having to live with a 26.4Kbps dialup connection for the last few years... Smoothwall took 2 hours or so download at THAT speed

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 10:31 am, Robert W. wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior

Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 30 June 2003 01:10 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:46:00PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed

[expert] what now?

2003-06-30 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried using urpmi as some suggested here when I made feature request wrt mandrakeupdate. I know I am not 100% updated so I should get something to update. Instead I get: ]#urpmi --noclean --auto --auto-select medium Installation CD 1 (x86)

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion

2003-06-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
for starting it? Urpmi isn't really an option under the circumstances. It kindof requires that you know what packages you want to update a priori. MandrakeUpdate does not. praedor On Friday 27 June 2003 08:01 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: [...] It would be way nice

[expert] Connection sharing hell

2003-06-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been trying to get my desktop setup to share its dialup connection with my laptop - both connected by ethernet (crossover cable) to no avail. I tried doing it manually with various commands to iptables. Under MDK 9.0 it worked but under

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:31 am, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:52, Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 14:51, Praedor Atrebates wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability? I agree. This would be very

[expert] Feature request/suggestion

2003-06-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At home I am stuck forevermore with a godawful slow dialup connection. As a result, I rarely do a MandrakeUpdate from home - takes way too long with anything over a several megs of files. My laptop gets access to a fast connection at my

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 June 2003 07:52 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: [...] It would be way nice if I could do a MandrakeUpdate at work/school with my laptop and select to save the downloaded rpms so I could go home, connect up to my desktop, and upgrade

Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.

2003-06-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was under the impression that postfix, by default, didn't work/operate as an open relay. Does one actually need to alter the config to stop postfix working as an open relay? I am not presently running postfix, though I have in the past and

[expert] Hello?

2003-06-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is the list, finally, dead? Has it expired, given up the ghost, gone to meet its maker? Is sympa under assault? Anybody out there? - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do

Re: [expert] Hello?

2003-06-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 June 2003 11:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 5:33 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: [...] Anne: Did you notice that Praedor sent this message last week while sympa was having a tummy ache? He's probably been wide awake two

Re: [expert] Extracting a URL from a Java applet

2003-06-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 12:12 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The scenario is that I would like to pass a url to mplayer from a Javascript applet, so I can play a WMA soundstream. Manually; like with copy and paste, straight to the command line. However

Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've had no problems at all. Are you all sure you are first running make mrproper? praedor On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:16, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody else tried to recompile the new

Re: [expert] Ongoing libraries saga (e.g. qtopia, nagios, probably everything non-MDK)

2003-06-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This also illustrates a problem with depending on urpmi for anything from outside the Mandrake distro. If you use urpmi it will crap out and not be able to handle it if you try to install a non-native rpm. In such a case, you may have to rely on

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 10:10 pm, John Haywood wrote: [...] I have spamassassin running fine in kmail, but it´s slow on incoming mail filtering, so I switched the filter to spamc instead of spamasssassin. Result - no filtering at all Now how

Re: [expert] 9.1 kernel 2.4.21 vs cooker 2.4.21

2003-06-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks...but I really need the kernel-source rpm not a binary kernel (the the kernel-docs to go with it). I build my own kernels so as to include the interesting grsecurity features: randomized tcp ports, randomized ip id's, etc, network

Re: [expert] 9.1 kernel 2.4.21 vs cooker 2.4.21

2003-06-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:38 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 07:17 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Thanks...but I really need the kernel-source rpm not a binary kernel (the the kernel-docs to go with it). I build my own kernels so

Re: [expert] 9.1 kernel 2.4.21 vs cooker 2.4.21

2003-06-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:04 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dissabte 14 Juny 2003 23:52, en Jack Coates va escriure: doesn't matter where it is, urpmi will select the one with the highest version number. This way your computer installs the update package instead of the distribution package for

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 06:28 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:19 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am seriously looking at an Epox 87RD+ nvidia nforce2 board. It has EXCELLENT specs and an truly excellent price...but now I am

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 11:49 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Thanks for the refs to the URLs, Joham. I have nearly got Photoshop 5.5 working - I think! - using the latest SourceForge Wine MDK RPM. Once I'm successful with that I would like to get InDesign

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 06:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: I just tried installine WineX on my 9.1 box last night for the 3rd time. Was following the instructions on http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm Unfotunately I kept getting the no

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 06:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: I just tried installine WineX on my 9.1 box last night for the 3rd time. Was following the instructions on http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm Unfotunately I kept getting the no

[expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have inched up my clock freq now to 133MHz so that my Athlon XP2700+ is up to XP2100+ speed. To do this I had to remove my soundcard, otherwise the system wouldn't even post to bios. To refresh: I have an MSI KT333 Ultra and recently upgraded

Re: [expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 01:32 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have inched up my clock freq now to 133MHz so that my Athlon XP2700+ is up to XP2100+ speed. To do this I had to remove my soundcard, otherwise the system wouldn't even post to bios

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 02:00 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Very Interisting about the NTPL - I was not aware. However, I when I did a compile of the CVS it was the most recent. That is unless that link told me to download from a directory other then the

[expert] Kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is now official that kernel 2.4.21 is out in the wild in final form. Is there a mandrake src rpm (ie, kernel-source) that is essentially the final released version of 2.4.21 with usual Mandrake mods? Perhaps in cooker? I just want to know if

Re: [expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 03:11 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Praedor, Glad you got the FSB up to 133- have you got the multiplier setting maxed out? I assume it's set at about 133x13? If you have good cpu cooling, you might try upping the cpu voltage a

[expert] 9.1 kernel 2.4.21 vs cooker 2.4.21

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The official release of 2.4.21 was announced today from kernel.org. The 9.1 kernel I have right now is 2.4.21-0.13mdk. The cooker kernel is 2.4.21-1mdk but when it is installed, it becomes 2.4.21-0.1mdk. Does this mean that the 0.13mdk kernel is

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remove the supplied wine and either spend a little and get the very good (for gaming) WineX rpm from Transgaming (or you can freely download the source and build it yourself, but it is a royal PITA). You could try Codeweaver's Wine (for a small

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 01:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:30, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I've tried dozen of times to install wine successfully on mandrake to run half-life and its mods. The last try, i

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:14 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030611 Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:38 pm, Philip Webb wrote: so i will look seriously at the AMD processors, You should have no problem as long as your motherboard

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: snip Well, all is well with the system now but I will still need a new mobo to take advantage of the CPU. I have finally figured out

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 June 2003 02:15 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:06 pm, John McQuillen wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote: snip [...] This board wont even handle what the MSI sites say

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