outlook virus

2002-07-15 Thread m.w.chang
new virus? --L1db82sd319dm2ns0f4383dhG Content-Type: text/html; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTMLHEAD/HEADBODY FONT COLOR=#FF bATTENTION!/bbrbr You can accessbr bvery important/bbr information bybr this passwordbrbr bDO NOT SAVE/bbr password to diskbr use your mindbrbr now

Re: outlook virus

2002-07-15 Thread William F. Day
dont know if its 'new' persay, but it definitly has the makings of a traditional windows outlook virus with the encoding showing up as a multimedai file.. Bill Day Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 6:10am up 2 days, 14:53, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From:

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Herb DeLong
Sorry, I'll try again. I have a Dell Pentium 4.I've partitioned it with Windows XP as boot partition. I tried to install COL e-desktop 2.4 with floppies and I got message it couldn't install on this machine. I attempted to install using CD at boot time several times. At end of install when you

Problem with X and KDE 3.0.2

2002-07-15 Thread Tim Wunder
Hi, Using a base Caldera eW3.1 system with kernel 2.4.18-preempt, Xfree86 4.1.0, KDE 3.0.2 compiled from source, qt 3.0.3. I occasionally will get an error when logging out (segfault, the backtrace displays on screen briefly, but too quickly to read -- anyway to capture that?) which then

Re: where's les?

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
Les has never been on this list, because we don't have our lips surgically attached to Caldera's ass. I'm not joking either. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, dep wrote: where's les? i've seen no posts from him for a long time, and he's one of maybe a half-dozen people on the planet who know just about

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Lee
No need to be nasty with the man Zoran. He has a problem and one of the purposes of this list is to help solve those. Herb: It's been awhile since I ran 2.4, but I seem to remember that I installed it through the W98 OS by accessing the setup on the cd. Course the W98 was on a FAT32 partition,

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Not promising anything...They don't include any alternative tools which I can use which ARE friendly to native configs. Besides, it'll take time. You can't rush love, you know :) Actually, it does give me SOME relief, since UnitedLinux is based on SuSE. I'm still very partial to COL, partly

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Raymond Russell
On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 08:25 AM, Herb DeLong wrote: Sorry, I'll try again. I have a Dell Pentium 4.I've partitioned it with Windows XP as boot partition. I tried to install COL e-desktop 2.4 with floppies and I got message it couldn't install on this machine. I attempted to install

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I may be uneducated, but I disagree. /var is a good place to put the packages, since they SHOULD be transient and removeable. As for ~/download, can a normal user download and apply updates? Not too likely. They're normally KDESU-ed or some equivalent which gives them root access. What would

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lee wrote: No need to be nasty with the man Zoran. He has a problem and one of the purposes of this list is to help solve those. Zoran was being a hell of a lot more polite than he should havce been. Herb waltzed in here with this chip on his shoulder, as if we owned him

Re: dhcpcd question

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
OK. Now things are making more sense. Because UDP is connectionless, many different protocols have taken to using it in their own special way. Your requests are ORIGINATING from udp port 68 and talking to the DHCP server on udp port 67, as it should be. In response, their server is reversing

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:38:14 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Carpenter wrote: Sorry, Llama, I have to disagree here... /etc/hosts is a key part of a Linux system. If your hostname and ip address don't match in there, you get weird results with some software. When

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:38:14 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Carpenter wrote: Sorry, Llama, I have to disagree here... /etc/hosts is a key part of a Linux system. If your hostname and ip address don't match in there,

Re: Problem with X and KDE 3.0.2

2002-07-15 Thread Tim Wunder
On 7/15/2002 9:59 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: Hi, Using a base Caldera eW3.1 system with kernel 2.4.18-preempt, Xfree86 4.1.0, KDE 3.0.2 compiled from source, qt 3.0.3. I occasionally will get an error when logging out (segfault, the

Re: Hard drive not detected properly by linux: SOLVED (maybe)

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
In my experience, using a boot-preparation software like the one from Maxtor is a bad thing with Linux. The BIOS generally will screw up how a HD looks, so different utils in Linux will show them differently, depending on whether the software checks the BIOS or the HD itself. That said,

Re: Hard drive not detected properly by linux: SOLVED (maybe)

2002-07-15 Thread Joel Hammer
I didn't use the Maxtor software because early on in the installation it asked for a boot disk of the OS I would be using. I don't even know what a boot disk in linux is. This is irritating, because the OS used by the Maxtor installation program is DR-DOS from caldera. Joel On Mon, Jul 15, 2002

Re: puzzeled by this log entry

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
A combination of the port ('MSNP') and the address ('hotmail.com') indicates that this is traffic associated with the Microsoft MSN Hotmail service. In fact, it is Microsoft's MSN Messenger 'instant messaging' application. http://www.eicon.com/support/helpweb/dlanen/dl010.htm On Mon, 15 Jul

Re: where's les?

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
That's a pretty insulting comment. Especially when replying to someone who has just complimented les so highly as dep just did. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les has never been on this list, because we don't have our lips surgically attached to

Re: Problem with X and KDE 3.0.2

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: On 7/15/2002 9:59 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: Hi, Using a base Caldera eW3.1 system with kernel 2.4.18-preempt, Xfree86 4.1.0, KDE 3.0.2 compiled from source, qt 3.0.3. I occasionally will

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Now try to answer the questions I already asked. I won't make you look it up, although there's definitely more details on my original post. I'll summarize to ask what happened next? When you reboot, what then? On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:25:18 -0400 Herb DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel

Re: where's les?

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
It was meant to be insulting. Apparently your memory is short with respect to the comments Les made about this list when he was first invited to join. I'll jog your memory. He said that he wasn't about to join a bunch of children who felt the need to take their ball and leave the game whenever

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Wrong answer, Llama. Of course Linux kernels generally and frequently work on hardware which wasn't around when the distro was made... i386 software works on p2's and p3's just fine. Let's not choose the easy way out. Let's try to help this guy, so he doesn't maintain his bad attitude, and so

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Wrong answer, Llama. Of course Linux kernels generally and frequently WTF is up your ass today? Speaking of bad moods, everything you've posted here today has been an attack on someone. Do look in the mirror before you continue accusing others of

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
Redhat. Even if just 1 distro doesn't folllow the rule, that automatically means its not law. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: What distro(s)? On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:27:44 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DHCP doesn't touch /etc/hosts in any way shape or

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What distro(s)? On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:27:44 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DHCP doesn't touch /etc/hosts in any way shape or form on any of the 15+ boxes that i'm responsible for. ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Raymond Russell
On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 02:13 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Wrong answer, Llama. Of course Linux kernels generally and frequently work on hardware which wasn't around when the distro was made... i386 software works on p2's and p3's just fine. Let's not choose the easy way out.

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
You're right. I've been a PITA today. Sorry. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:22:11 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Wrong answer, Llama. Of course Linux kernels generally and frequently WTF is up your ass today? Speaking of bad

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:44:38 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat. Even if just 1 distro doesn't folllow the rule, that automatically means its not law. No- surely it just means one has broken the law? A criminal breaking the law doesn't mean it's not the law. But are

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Thank you, Ray. That is a very respectable, informed response. I'm not sure Lizard is going to care about the other FS, so long as you don't tell Lizard to manipulated it at all. Lizard won't care what filesystem is on it, so long as it can make sense enough of the Partition Type setting to

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Fair enough. What happens when it is handed a new IP address, or does RedHat put all the names as 127.0.0.1? Most of the distros I've run have either updated /etc/hosts or stuck all the names/aliases as 127.0.0.1 (which seems like the logical thing to do). I apologize. This is probably the

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Terence McCarthy wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:44:38 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat. Even if just 1 distro doesn't folllow the rule, that automatically means its not law. No- surely it just means one has broken the law? A criminal breaking

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Fair enough. What happens when it is handed a new IP address, or does RedHat put all the names as 127.0.0.1? Most of the distros I've run have either updated /etc/hosts or stuck all the names/aliases as 127.0.0.1 (which seems like the logical

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Ok. That makes a lot more sense. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:07:16 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use pump. Perhaps dhcpcd and dhclient maintain things in /etc/hosts, but pump does not, and never has. ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Lee
Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please try to be civil. Might I suggest that postings and insults due to Les's departure and Herb's problem involving installing 2.4 be posted to the General List. Those wishing to help Herb on this list can do so those not wishing to simply don't respond to the post. As

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
Actually, the General list was created to handle antthing that was not on topic for this list. It wasn't specific to flame wars and other bits of jeuvenalia. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Lee wrote: Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please try to be civil. Might I suggest that postings and insults due to Les's

Re: OT Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Lee
Not this list (users-linux) but the general-linux list. This list was wisely created to handle such things. While we all enjoy a good flame war from time to time there are those on the list who at the particular time a hissy fit or flame war breaks out either are not interested or are trying to

Re: puzzeled by this log entry

2002-07-15 Thread m.w.chang
I don't see any messenger icon on my win$ desktop. I didn't install MSN stuffs neither. puzzling...why would it try to reach my host. Thanks. Matthew Carpenter wrote: A combination of the port ('MSNP') and the address ('hotmail.com') indicates that this is traffic associated with the

Re: Problem with X and KDE 3.0.2

2002-07-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:11:05 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Using a base Caldera eW3.1 system with kernel 2.4.18-preempt, Xfree86 4.1.0, KDE 3.0.2 compiled from source, qt 3.0.3. I occasionally will get an error when logging out... ---snip--- An interesting side effect

Installation

2002-07-15 Thread Herb DeLong
Thank you all for your help. I guess I'll stop trying to install 2.4. Herb ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

Fonts question

2002-07-15 Thread Joel Hammer
I guess I am feeling my oats with fonts and am spoiling for a fight. I would like to use something besides courier in my kvt terminal windows. There are a large number of available fonts in the options field, but only courier works. I ASSUME because it is a fixed width font. But, you can

Re: Fonts question

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
Don't know about kvt specifically, but most other terminals generally let you set the font with some kind of switch (see the man page). As for finding the fonts, and selecting them, try running xfontsel. Joel Hammer wrote: I guess I am feeling my oats with fonts and am spoiling for a fight.

I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread Keith Antoine
I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring tears to eyes I only just got over a mild attack of the bloody flu last Friday, sheesh, I guess lonnie has cast one of

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread dep
begin Keith Antoine's quote: | I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I | will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. | | Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring tears to eyes | | I only just got over a mild attack of the bloody flu last Friday, |

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread Net Llama!
Keith Antoine wrote: I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring tears to eyes I only just got over a mild attack of the bloody flu last Friday, sheesh, I

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread Tim Wunder
On Monday 15 July 2002 10:09 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring tears to eyes I only just got over a mild attack of the bloody

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Monday 15 July 2002 07:09 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring tears to eyes I only just got over a mild attack of the bloody flu

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:09:18 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring tears to eyes I only just got over a

Updated Step

2002-07-15 Thread Nobody
Net Llama! has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/dvdplay.html to incorporate the following: Updated with RPMs from Matt Carpenter ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info,

eServer 3.1.1 install reboots the machine

2002-07-15 Thread Matt Nelson
I asked this on the Caldera-users list, but it seems so dead over there... hope no one minds... I'm trying to install eServer 3.1.1 on a machine, and this is the second time I've had problems like this in about a week, with a good install on a third computer in between, so I'm sure the CD is

Re: eServer 3.1.1 install reboots the machine

2002-07-15 Thread stayler
Ah, The K6 IIRC is a souped up Pentium. That's why eServer is getting heartburn. On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:41:38 -0500, Matt Nelson wrote: I'll give you example of one: K6-2 200 256 Ram dual 8 gig WD IDE drives floppy 8x mitsumi hard drive intel 10/100 Nic S3 Virge 86C325 4 meg mem FIC

Re: eServer 3.1.1 install reboots the machine

2002-07-15 Thread Matt Nelson
I'll give you example of one: K6-2 200 256 Ram dual 8 gig WD IDE drives floppy 8x mitsumi hard drive intel 10/100 Nic S3 Virge 86C325 4 meg mem FIC PT-2011 motherboard it has a rocket port PCI 16 too, but removing that makes no difference. I've even tried the floppies too, and workstation

Re: installation

2002-07-15 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Herb DeLong wrote: Thank you all for your help. I guess I'll stop trying to install 2.4. If your requirements are word processing and internet, then eDesk 2.4 is perfect for you. I have Applix 5.0, Star Office 6.0, and of course, Word Perfect 8.1 available for my needs If you need USB e.g. for

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread Jim Conner
Get well soon. We'll all be thinking of you while you're away. Jim On Monday, July 15, 2002 9:09, Keith Antoine wrote: I have a bad case of Bladder/prostate infection , as a result I will be offline till at least the weekend, maybe more. Broken glass and teaspoons are not even close, bring