Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-05 Thread Jim Conner
When you did the logout from kicker(kpanel) did you put a check in 'Restore session when logging in next time'? If you do any changes to kicker or the desktop, this needs to be checked. Jim On Saturday August 04, 2001 8:20 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:10, Bill

Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 05 August 2001 16:52, Jim Conner orated thus: When you did the logout from kicker(kpanel) did you put a check in 'Restore session when logging in next time'? If you do any changes to kicker or the desktop, this needs to be checked. Jim No i didn't so ok i'll do that, thanks. Re

Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
However this time ther is no sound but have not investigated that yet, however there was previously. Check permissions on /dev/dsp and the like. The TakeConsole script often causes problems. Joel ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives,

Re: OTDell.au not dumping Linux on desktops

2001-08-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:17:01 -0500 Jim Conner wrote: The last Linux mag that had cds was Maximum Linux. It folded early this year. We are not large enough in Oz to have that distinction. The Windows oriented PC mags (there aren't any other apart from Mac) offer Linux apps and distros on

Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:45, Shawn Tayler wrote: On a related side note, other than the automounter in services (which is gone but didn't effect this), how do I get the Drive icons to go away as well as the autoloader to stop opening browser windows when a CD is placed in a drive?It keeps

Re: Wrong major/minor device number

2001-08-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:15, Geof Steichen wrote: It is a little difficult to cut/paste and e-mail you when I cannot get the floppy or cdrom to work so I can get the NIC driver loaded. I cannot telnet, ftp, e-mail, or otherwise communicate using the system in question. [snip] it's (probably)

cameras was Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-05 Thread Mike Andrew
skippy wrote However this time ther is no sound but have not investigated that yet, however there was previously. Kantoine, have you had a look at the newer releases of backend scanners for Sane? There's a few digitals included in there, and some usb. hope it helpz -- http://linux.nf

OT Paranoia and Worms

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
I haven't bothered to refresh my facts about what I am going to say here, so, the details should be taken with a large grain of salt, but...: Some years ago, before we learned about penetration of the CIA by the Russians, there was a very paranoid guy in charge of CIA counterintelligence, funny

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-05 Thread dep
On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:49 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: | Man, things have changed around here. Starting about 9:30 this am | (EST AUG 4), I am getting numerous hits with an repeating | payload, not the old . | About 170 today, all from 24.xx.xx.xx, that is, mostly @HOME ip's. | I

Re: Wrong major/minor device number

2001-08-05 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:53:09 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:15, Geof Steichen wrote: It is a little difficult to cut/paste and e-mail you when I cannot get the floppy or cdrom to work so I can get the NIC driver loaded. I cannot telnet, ftp, e-mail, or

Re: OT Paranoia and Worms

2001-08-05 Thread dep
On Sunday 05 August 2001 09:58 am, Joel Hammer wrote: | I haven't bothered to refresh my facts about what I am going to | say here, so, the details should be taken with a large grain of | salt, but...: Some years ago, before we learned about penetration | of the CIA by the Russians, there was a

Re: OT Paranoia and Worms

2001-08-05 Thread Lee
dep wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 09:58 am, Joel Hammer wrote: | I haven't bothered to refresh my facts about what I am going to | say here, so, the details should be taken with a large grain of | salt, but...: Some years ago, before we learned about penetration | of the CIA by the

Re: Wrong major/minor device number

2001-08-05 Thread Geof Steichen
Thanks to Mike Andrew and Collins Richey for the suggestions. I will look into booting from floppy using lilo or grub. I have used both on other distributions and grub comes on eDesktop 2.4. Geof. ** On Sunday 05 August

Re: OT Paranoia and Worms

2001-08-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:17, you wrote: dep wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 09:58 am, Joel Hammer wrote: | I haven't bothered to refresh my facts about what I am going to | say here, so, the details should be taken with a large grain of | salt, but...: Some years ago, before we

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
I agree, @home actually runs scans, several times a day looking for just such and instance (a friend of mine has the logs showing it). So what is this virus actually infecting? Could it be getting into the little web server inside the cable modems? You'd think after all the hoopla last week,

Re: OTDell.au not dumping Linux on desktops

2001-08-05 Thread Net Llama
I, for one, am not the least bit dismayed. It makes sense. In fact, Dell is truly one of the last major vendors to drop Linux on the desktop. AFAIK, IBM is the only one remaining. --- Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see some dismay expressed about Dell dropping linux desktop

CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Hello all... As some on you may know, I'm in the market for a new CDRW drive. My old an trusted Yamaha 4416s finally turned belly up and... I'm looking. The one thing I noticed while surfing for a good deal, IDE drives far outnumber scsi and quite frankly, they're cheap as hell when compared to

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Net Llama
--- Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As some on you may know, I'm in the market for a new CDRW drive. My old an trusted Yamaha 4416s finally turned belly up and... I'm looking. The one thing I noticed while surfing for a good deal, IDE drives far outnumber scsi and quite frankly,

Re: Wrong major/minor device number

2001-08-05 Thread Net Llama
So thus far you've reinvented the wheel several times without once stating the specific command that you're using to try mount the CD or floppy. EIther you've got some very unusual hardware, or you're doing something wrong, because mounting CDs or floppies are incredibly simple: mount -t msdos

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sunday 05 August 2001 01:22 pm, you wrote: --- Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As some on you may know, I'm in the market for a new CDRW drive. My old an trusted Yamaha 4416s finally turned belly up and... I'm looking. The one thing I noticed while surfing for a good deal,

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Net Llama
--- Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main area of concern is being able to do on-the-fly cdr generation, like I was able to do with my old scsi drive... I'm not sure that on-the-fly means, Copy

Re: OT Paranoia and Worms

2001-08-05 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 09:58:51 -0400 Joel Hammer wrote: Although people are putting in more effective firewalls and other preventive measures, it is very likely that these worms are already in place and may have been in place for years. So, I have to conclude that it is very likely that there

Re: OT Paranoia and Worms

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
Certainly Mattel was doing this. I read a story a few months ago about a guy who noticed that (while on an airplane) his laptop kept trying to get an internet connection. It was a game his kids had loaded, trying to phone home and tell Momma about the local digs. Mattel had forgot to tell

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 16:50:40 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote: Not so... unless they've quit in the last 4 weeks. I just purchased a Plexwriter (Plextor) SCSI CR-RW a month ago from www.dirtcheapdrives.com They still do and they are an excellent drive stayler

Re: cameras was Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 05 August 2001 22:25, Mike Andrew orated thus: skippy wrote However this time ther is no sound but have not investigated that yet, however there was previously. Kantoine, have you had a look at the newer releases of backend scanners for Sane? There's a few digitals included

Peculiar email received and backgrounds in kde

2001-08-05 Thread Keith Antoine
Umm, I am I guess niave when it comes to virii and worms. Just in case I took a does of combatrin today, just in case I had been infected by worms. After i had installed the WS 3.1 and started it up and got kmail working, I downloaded mail and also sent a message to say i was backup in Linux.

Floppy boot disk boot options

2001-08-05 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Group: I've spent all morning looking for a list of options that will be accepted at the boot: prompt, when booting from a home brew or boxed set boot disk. Can anyone help? Regards, Glenn -- Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 Powered by SuSE 7.2

Re: Peculiar email received and backgrounds in kde

2001-08-05 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Skippy: Yes, it is one of the current crop of virii and worms. I read the description a few days ago, but did not retain much of what I read. The request for advice is its hallmark. Doubtless someone on the list will furnish all the gory details. Regards, Glenn On Sunday 05 August

cuecat scanner prob: works in console but not in kde

2001-08-05 Thread David Aikema
On a recent foray of mine into the US I picked up a cuecat barcode scanner at a Radio Shack. I have since applied the modification to the cuecat so that it should spit out plain text instead of something encoded. I was in kde when I first tried this and time and time again was annoyed to see

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Jim Conner
I have a Yamaha 4416e ide version of your scsi. It'll be 2 years old in October and still running strong(knock on wood). Either get a Plextor or Yamaha, rated #1 #2 respectively. As far as IDE v. SCSI, their isn't much difference in linux and they are equalably reliable. Any other brand

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:56:12 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 04:42 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: | I checked in CompUSA a while back. The guy said that almost all | burners, if not all, were now IDE. | Joel this means that some guy who got a job other than selling

Re: geez hate airing my washing

2001-08-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:31:35 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: I always batch convert the pics to .tiff before I do anything to them so as they do not deteriorate and then forgot... At least i found what it was There are some Libs to do tiff and gif I thought, or am I mistaken? stayler

Re: geez hate airing my washing

2001-08-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:31:35 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the gero did it again; I was asking re my new backgrounds that would not show, and I now know why!! I bloody well uploaded .tiff files instead of .jpg to /opt/kde2/share/wallpapers, no wonder they would not work.

Re: CDRW IDE?

2001-08-05 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sunday 05 August 2001 06:39 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:56:12 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 04:42 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: | I checked in CompUSA a while back. The guy said that almost all | burners, if not all, were now IDE. | Joel this means

Re: OTDell.au not dumping Linux on desktops

2001-08-05 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: NL I, for one, am not the least bit dismayed. It makes sense. In fact, NL Dell is truly one of the last major vendors to drop Linux on the NL desktop. AFAIK, IBM is the only one remaining.

Re: ipchains, gateway etc.

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
#!/bin --CHANGE THIS TO #!/bin/bash or /bin/shell TELEPHONE=*** MODEM=/DEV/TTYS0 See my correction above. I think you have just experienced a linux newbie moment. There will be many more. Joel ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL

Re: geez hate airing my washing

2001-08-05 Thread dep
On Sunday 05 August 2001 07:31 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: | Well the gero did it again; I was asking re my new backgrounds that | would not show, and I now know why!! I bloody well uploaded .tiff | files instead of .jpg to /opt/kde2/share/wallpapers, no wonder they | would not work. Kde does not

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, @HOME is still going strong. 348 hits since 5:00 am Aug4, 2001 (now is 9:30pm) here in Baltimore. Most of these hits are from the @HOME network. Joel ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-05 Thread dep
On Sunday 05 August 2001 09:34 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: | Well, @HOME is still going strong. | 348 hits since 5:00 am Aug4, 2001 (now is 9:30pm) here in | Baltimore. Most of these hits are from the @HOME network. fyi: Worm Attack Rate Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:19:14 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipchains, gateway etc.

2001-08-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
Oh, that hurt Thanks! On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 21:10:20 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: #!/bin --CHANGE THIS TO #!/bin/bash or /bin/shell TELEPHONE=*** MODEM=/DEV/TTYS0 See my correction above. I think you have just experienced a linux newbie moment. There will be many

Re: ipchains, gateway etc.

2001-08-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 05 Aug 2001 19:32:55 -0700 (PST) Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, that hurt me too and it smarts! Let us know how it runs now! :') -- ** Registered Linux User

Re: ipchains, gateway etc.

2001-08-05 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 05 Aug 2001 19:32:55 -0700 (PST) Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, that hurt Thanks! On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 21:10:20 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: #!/bin --CHANGE THIS TO #!/bin/bash or /bin/shell TELEPHONE=*** MODEM=/DEV/TTYS0 See my

Re: ipchains, gateway etc.

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
connect /usr/sbin/chat ATDT$TELEPHONE CONNECT ' I don't use chat, and don't understand your pppd login script at all, but that line looks like it has an unbalanced single quote. If you balance it, say like: 'ATD...' the shell likely won't interpret your $TELEPHONE variable. You might be

Re: ipchains, gateway etc.

2001-08-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
Thanks Joel, I'll take a look at that. On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:14:58 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: I don't use chat, and don't understand your pppd login script at all, but that line looks like it has an unbalanced single quote. If you balance it, say like: 'ATD...' the shell likely won't

Re: ps2pdf

2001-08-05 Thread Linuxism Chang
out of curiosity, is ps2pdf available to Window$? To get respectable pdf output from those gnuplot files, all it takes is the following: pchain files*ps | psnup -4 | ps2pdf FancyPDF.pdf _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com

Re: OT Joke of the Day Fwd: Update for Modem

2001-08-05 Thread Auyeung at Technet Systems
You might consider replying with the message that a full OS update is available at www.caldera.com :-) Auyeung - Original Message - From: Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:15 AM Subject: OT Joke of the Day Fwd: Update for Modem Yes,

Re: wu-ftpd, ftpaccess, host-limit?

2001-08-05 Thread Linuxism Chang
I did. there is file-limit, data-limit, limit, limit-time but no host-limit. I also searched google.com, and it seemst that host-limit is a patch to apply... Kurt Wall wrote: -Original Message- I compiled wu-ftpd 2.6.1 from tarball finally on my edesktop But the man file (was it updated

multiple pppd

2001-08-05 Thread Linuxism Chang
I want to know whether ti's posisble to edit pppoe such that it would start pppd as device ppp1 rather than ppp0. Or is there a how-to that talks about firing up multiple pppd? I want to set my linux as a dial-in server while pppoe activates the DSL (something like an dial-up ISP).

mime decoder

2001-08-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
--168E5737_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: application/mixed; name=slamdunk.zip.bat Hi Guys, I have a binary that was part of an email. The attachment got screwed up somehow, my email client doesn't recognize it as such. It like to recover the binary file from text msg. Is

Re: ps2pdf

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:35:23AM +0800, Linuxism Chang wrote: out of curiosity, is ps2pdf available to Window$? To get respectable pdf output from those gnuplot files, all it takes is the following: pchain files*ps | psnup -4 | ps2pdf FancyPDF.pdf I don't know. There are online sites

Re: ps2pdf

2001-08-05 Thread David Aikema
On August 5, 2001 08:35 pm, Linuxism Chang wrote: out of curiosity, is ps2pdf available to Window$? Seems to be part of ghostscript which is available for windows. So you're quite possibly in luck. Head to http://download.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/ and try it. David Aikema

Re: mime decoder

2001-08-05 Thread dep
On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:56 pm, Shawn Tayler wrote: | I have a binary that was part of an email. The attachment got | screwed up somehow, my email client doesn't recognize it as such. | It like to recover the binary file from text msg. Is there a | command line application that will do

C++ compiler cannot create executables

2001-08-05 Thread Net Llama
I'm attempting to recompile the COL3.1-wkstn SRPMs with rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm and i'm running up against a wall. Seems that the ones that require c++ are bombing out during the config process: checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 -march=i686 ) works... no

blocking ranges of ports

2001-08-05 Thread Steve Jardine
I find myself in need of using ipchains to block a whole section of ports. Lets say, 61000 to 61300. Can anyone offer up a chain script that could accomplish this task? Thanks... Steve ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives,

Re: blocking ranges of ports

2001-08-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 09:57:29PM -0700, Steve Jardine wrote: I find myself in need of using ipchains to block a whole section of ports. Lets say, 61000 to 61300. Can anyone offer up a chain script that could accomplish this task? Just separate the low and high port number with colons. This

Re: blocking ranges of ports

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 09:57:29PM -0700, Steve Jardine wrote: I find myself in need of using ipchains to block a whole section of ports. Lets say, 61000 to 61300. Can anyone offer up a chain script that could accomplish this task? Thanks... You would find ipchains much easier to use if

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-05 Thread Joel Hammer
Things are still busy. Has anyone tried to visit the source IP's ? I haven't seen the famous defaced by china one yet. All I get is error 403.9, which says too many people are using the web site and there is a referral to the Microsoft help site, which says to contact the administrator of the

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-05 Thread dep
On Monday 06 August 2001 01:41 am, Joel Hammer wrote: | Things are still busy. | Has anyone tried to visit the source IP's ? | I haven't seen the famous defaced by china one yet. | All I get is error 403.9, which says too many people are using the | web site and there is a referral to the