Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Zoki (News)
On Sep 4 Bruce Marshall was heard saying: -A long session on the phone the other night with my SO (who is now running -Linux with little experience) leads me back to the subject I once posted -here: - -A FAQ or document for total Linux newbies (but END USERS) - -From some of the questions

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:59, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: HP no longer supports the IEEE488 cards, check out http://tamsinc.com I dont know if this is supported under linux. uhh...be prepared for sticker shock! I haven't found a linux driver but i'd be interested in writing one if it

Re: jblinux - graphics boxes empty

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Friday 31 August 2001 21:47, Collins Richey wrote: Well, the developer returned my mail. Difficult to understand, but the problem with all my icons for Wide and the splash screen for xfce is: running X in color depth 16. Now I've switched to color depth 24 (Netscape will probably

Re: assist with a configure/compile

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Saturday 01 September 2001 18:10, Keith Antoine wrote: I am keeping notes on all the things that I have success with that I need for working and display of DVD's and vcd's on linux, plus my photographic and card readers. When I get as far as I need i'll do a step x step. Must admit its

Re: OT MSDOS Rescue Neededototot

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:55, Keith Antoine wrote: burns wrote: I'm running Suse 7.2 Pro and this thing flies! It's hard to concentrate on the screen with all this wind in my hair g. I am running very similar 1.2 gig Athlon 256mb DDR and Soltek MB 60 gig HD space. What this skiting

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:45, Bill Campbell wrote: I've always found Compaq and HP to be a PITA to work with because lots of things are proprietary, require special drivers, and even use non-standard mounting hardware. Ditto. I've never considered either of these boxen, at any time,

Re: German Linux site hackedotot

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 07:44, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: Might be, like you said, where you grew up. But. there is a whole big world out there, where you didnt grow up. But everyone that knows sports knows what soccer is, ;-) even us yanks that know what football really is. Huh? You

Re: mapping commands or keyboard shortcuts to mouse events

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 09:19, Markus Feilner wrote: hello list, i have a mouse and a trackball at my system, as soon as you get this sorted, I'd like some details on trackball anything for the site below. thanks. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 18:18, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: I have a Q but no A how to change time format from 24hour to 12hour in KDE2x Big Green Button - personalisation (aussie spelling) -Time Dates Tab, change time format with salt and pepper. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-05 Thread Joel Hammer
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/ TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/win2kcd.asp You need to leave on the \ at the end of the first line. Also, when pasting, linux or opera converted that space in front of TechNet to %20, which didn't help either. Anyway,

Re: jblinux - graphics boxes empty

2001-09-05 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:48:29 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 21:47, Collins Richey wrote: Well, the developer returned my mail. Difficult to understand, but the problem with all my icons for Wide and the splash screen for xfce is: running X in

RE: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Wil McGilvery
What is your gateway address? Also, This may be a bit cheesy, but what is the IP address that is shown when you have your have your shields tested at www.grc.com? Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager, Digital Media Lynch Technologies Inc. 416-744-7191 1-888-622-3729 416-744-0406 FAX

Re: OT MSDOS Rescue Neededototot

2001-09-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
OMG, I think I just hurt myself laughing. stayler On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:09:31 +1130, Mike Andrew wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:55, Keith Antoine wrote: burns wrote: I'm running Suse 7.2 Pro and this thing flies! It's hard to concentrate on the screen with all this wind in my

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 02:43 am, Zoki (News) wrote: On Sep 4 Bruce Marshall was heard saying: -A long session on the phone the other night with my SO (who is now running -Linux with little experience) leads me back to the subject I once posted -here: - -A FAQ or document for

Re: German Linux site hackedotot

2001-09-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
Ok, Where in the US can you watch Aussie Rules? I actually like that game stayler On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:18:51 +1130, Mike Andrew wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 07:44, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: Might be, like you said, where you grew up. But. there is a whole big world out

need clarification

2001-09-05 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
If I install one of the growing number of email scanners (say amavis), the program will scan the incoming mail *before* anything in /etc/mail/aliases is fired. yes? that's my understanding of what I'm reading, but I wanted to be sure. thanks! -- Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux

ATI Xpert 128

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Jardine
Has anyone used the PCI version of the ATI Xpert 128 for Linux/XFree96? Does it work? Does it work well? Anomalies noted??? Oh, COL 3.1, AMD 900 Mhz, 512M RAM system. Thanks in advance. Steve ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives,

[OT] ELSA Gladiac 511 (no tv-out)

2001-09-05 Thread Linuxism CHANG
Does anyone of you use a ELSA Gladiac 511 (no tv-out)? Could you scan me a photo if your card? I suspected that I bought a Gladiac 311 re-labelled and re-packaged as as a 511 (Geforce2 MX200 vs MX400). 3dmark2001 gave me a 1500 score only on a P3-933 system, rather than the usual 2400 found in

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 05:21 am, Mike Andrew wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 18:18, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: I have a Q but no A how to change time format from 24hour to 12hour in KDE2x Big Green Button - personalisation (aussie spelling) -Time Dates Tab, change time format

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Joel: Thanks for the firewall tutorial. I'm sure it will be useful, once I've digested all the information in it. I'm grateful to you for taking the time to send this to me. I have some books on TCP/IP and one which specifically covers firewalls and Internet security, but they are

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Tim Wunder
Glenn Williams wrote: snip grc.com was not much help. First of all, I had to switch to windoze and a different firewall. They report my IP address as 10.0.0.2, and then gave me a boilerplate blurb about how IETF in their wisdom set aside a large block of addresses for internal network

Another great article by D.E.P.

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Conner
Here's another great article by dep. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3751/1/ I've helped 2 of my friends install Caldera eD2.4. One is using it on a sporadic basis, just testing the waters, not doing anything critical yet. He's hooked on Shisen-Sho though. And the other

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 21:30 pm, Glenn Williams wrote: I'm using the SuSE 7.2 Pro personal firewall which is non-configurable.  It's either enabled or disabled, and that's about it.  However, there's a SuSE Firewall that ships with this distro, and it is *very* configurable.  So I will

Re: Another great article by D.E.P.

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:56 am, Jim Conner wrote: Here's another great article by dep. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3751/1/ I've helped 2 of my friends install Caldera eD2.4. One is using it on a sporadic basis, just testing the waters, not doing anything

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Conner
I've proposed something like this to a couple of KDE mailing lists. While it got warm kudos for the idea, getting it implemented was a problem. I proposed that it become a section in the KHelpcenter. Titled: How do I? This would have the 27 questions and others with instructions in plain

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Glenn Williams
Thanks, Tim: Obviously I did not read the info on the grc site carefully. I'll give that a try. Regards, Glenn On Wednesday 05 September 2001 08:57, you wrote: Glenn Williams wrote: snip grc.com was not much help. First of all, I had to switch to windoze and a different firewall.

Fwd: Highly respected OpenBSD, OpenSSH programmer censorswebsite, cites DMCA

2001-09-05 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
-- Douglas J. Hunley Unix/Linux Admin http://linux.nf The truth is out th- oh, wait, here it is... - Begin Forwarded message - Dug Song is a highly respected OpenBSD, OpenSSH programmer, the author of Dsniff and numerous security papers including a common vulnerability in many

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-05 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 06:56, Rick Sivernell babbled: Bad O, high price and the privilege to beta test all in one package. Oh, I forgot, raw sockets to allow the scripot kiddies access. What a deal. it gets better than that.. those of us who actually did beta test the damn thing got a

Re: ATI Xpert 128

2001-09-05 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 09:17, Steve Jardine babbled: Has anyone used the PCI version of the ATI Xpert 128 for Linux/XFree96? Does it work? Does it work well? Anomalies noted??? Oh, COL 3.1, AMD 900 Mhz, 512M RAM system. Thanks in advance. I used to run an XPERT98 PCI with no issues.

Re: [SLE] mounting and formating a second Hdd (hdb)

2001-09-05 Thread Glenn Williams
Matt: Could this be due to an older BIOS? What does Windows/DOS fdisk report? What does Linux fdisk or cfdisk report? I confess I have not followed the thread so I amy be way off the target here. Regards, Glenn On Wednesday 05 September 2001 09:29, you wrote: Ahhh spoke to soon... I

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:28 am, Glenn Williams wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 08:58, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 21:30 pm, Glenn Williams wrote: I'm using the SuSE 7.2 Pro personal firewall which is non-configurable.  It's either enabled or disabled, and that's

Re: Another great article by D.E.P.

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Conner
If you are referring to questions once a new user looks at a Linux distro for the first time(or tenth time), please see my post in the FAQ thread. If you are wanting questions about people that are curious about linux, then here are some with some of my answers. Can Linux run program XYZ?

Re: German Linux site hackedotot

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
I love it. The rules seem designed just to keep the level of injury a bit above death and to keep it from becoming a total free for all. Sportswise those guys have to be the toughest there is. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 03:48, Mike Andrew wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 07:44,

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:22 am, Jim Conner wrote: I've proposed something like this to a couple of KDE mailing lists. While it got warm kudos for the idea, getting it implemented was a problem. I proposed that it become a section in the KHelpcenter. Titled: How do I? This would

Fwd: UNIX TIP: SEPT 9TH DATE UPDATE

2001-09-05 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: UNIX TIP: SEPT 9TH DATE UPDATE Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 03:10:55 -0700 From: UGU [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= UNIX GURU UNIVERSE

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
In my KDE its under small green buttonsystem and there is no place to alter the format. mandrake 7.2, KDE 2.0 guess it must be time to think about upgrading. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:21, Mike Andrew wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 18:18, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: I have a Q but

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:30 am, Glenn Williams wrote: Thanks, Tim: Obviously I did not read the info on the grc site carefully. I'll give that a try. Regards, Glenn Here's your NMAP scan: Starting nmap V. 2.53 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) RTTVAR has grown to

Re: Another great article by D.E.P.

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:56:56 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: Here's another great article by dep. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3751/1/ I agree, it's a very well done article. No surprise there!

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
I use them for our frontdesk software. Last batch I bought, even though I was assured they had W98se came with ME. I wiped out ME and installed SEwhat a chore. Took me half a day to get them running right. But their business rated machines are very reliable. Have not tried to put linny on

Re: Input for a FAQ

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 12:17 pm, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: In my KDE its under small green buttonsystem and there is no place to alter the format. mandrake 7.2, KDE 2.0 guess it must be time to think about upgrading. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 04:21, Mike Andrew wrote: On

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Sorry, I forgot they have a brain dead hoster, need the ~www~ http://www.tamsinc.com On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:44, Aaron Grewell wrote: In this case, while a Linux driver would be nice for networking purposes, all it really needs to do is work with Dad's Win9x box. I can't get to

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-05 Thread Glenn Williams
Bruce: Thanks for the scan and analysis. I found a couple of my old books on TCP/IP (published in '91 and '92 respectively), but could not find the one called 'Internet Security and Firewalls' so I will be browsing amazon.com for something along those lines. If anyone has a favorite title

Re: German Linux site hackedotot

2001-09-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:40:13AM -0600, Kurt Wall wrote: Mike Andrew wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 07:44, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: Might be, like you said, where you grew up. But. there is a whole big world out there, where you didnt grow up. But everyone that knows sports

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-05 Thread Aaron Grewell
Cough, sputter, sputter. $525? Sticker shock indeed! I'm definitely hitting e-bay to see if I can find a used one! On Wednesday 05 September 2001 09:40 am, you wrote: Sorry, I forgot they have a brain dead hoster, need the ~www~ http://www.tamsinc.com On Wednesday 05 September 2001

Re: OT MSDOS Rescue Neededototot

2001-09-05 Thread Myles Green
Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:55, Keith Antoine wrote: burns wrote: I'm running Suse 7.2 Pro and this thing flies! It's hard to concentrate on the screen with all this wind in my hair g. I am running very similar 1.2 gig Athlon 256mb DDR and

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Thats not that bad, really. Considering that most of the stuff cabled to one costs ten times that much. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 12:46, Aaron Grewell wrote: Cough, sputter, sputter. $525? Sticker shock indeed! I'm definitely hitting e-bay to see if I can find a used one! On

Re: kde 2.2 on COL LTP

2001-09-05 Thread Keith Antoine
We botht have one of the Gforce M200 cards which essentially are Nvidia chipset TNT2 agp. Tony Alfrey wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 05:31 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: snip It would certainly seem to be a graphics card problems, but I have never trusted any built in cards and always

Re: OT MSDOS Rescue Neededototot

2001-09-05 Thread Keith Antoine
Ah! Shades of FLASH Gordon; but really Mike wouldn't he be more of a laughing stock, such a big fuss over such a little thing ?? Mike Andrew wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:55, Keith Antoine wrote: burns wrote: I'm running Suse 7.2 Pro and this thing flies! It's hard to

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-05 Thread Aaron Grewell
Yeah, but the plotter was free. $525 for an interface card for an 80's vintage plotter that didn't cost me a dime is really a bit pricey. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 11:04 am, you wrote: Thats not that bad, really. Considering that most of the stuff cabled to one costs ten times that

star Office new video card

2001-09-05 Thread Keith Antoine
Had a problem installing Star Office, d/l it to a dir and called 'setup' but that fell over staright away as it could not seem to find a stsrting point, Anyone else setup this 638 version ? New video card inserted and it now falls over on X startup; now that lizardx is defunct and I have not

RE: Another great article by D.E.P.

2001-09-05 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Jim, Most people that want to test the waters when it comes to linux, still want to have a working and fully functional copy of Windows. You Isn't this an oxymoron? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) +--+ |

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Ask whoever you got the plotter from what they do with old computers and parts. ;-) he/she probably had no idea it needed an interface card. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:18, Aaron Grewell wrote: Yeah, but the plotter was free. $525 for an interface card for an 80's vintage plotter that

Re: OT Citibank: Which OS?

2001-09-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Joel Hammer wrote: Citibank Computer Crash Knocks Out 2,000 ATMs I believe OS/2 is still the OS of choice for most ATMs. K -- Bedfellows make strange politicians. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest,

Re: OT Citibank: Which OS?

2001-09-05 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Hard to say what was at fault they use Vpro5 for their data files and it needs an M$ OS. They use microbanker for bank fund transfers, Customisation of MICROBANKER (MBx), a corporate banking product of CITICORP. MBx has some retail banking features also. It is a product developed on Business

Re: OTfurther numbers of the beast (from /.)

2001-09-05 Thread Kurt Wall
DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: [mondo deletia] Flt. #666 Flight number of the Beast 666-66- SSN of the Beast 900-666- Telephone sex number of the Beast 666 666th Street Street address of the Beast alt.666 Usenet group of the Beast 66.66.66.66 IP address of the Beast Kurt -- A woman can

Re: star Office new video card

2001-09-05 Thread Myles Green
Ronnie Gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XF86Setup not if he's using xfree86-4.x, that tool went the way of the dinosaur along with xfree86-3.x (for better or worse). Xfree86-4.x uses either the original cli tool xf86config, or one of xf86cfg or, in the latest version, X -configure to get you

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-05 Thread burns
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 01:39, Chang wrote: try this one: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtech nol/iis/deploy/depovg/win2kcd.asp Works in Netscape, doesn't display the main frame in Konqueror.. For those with Microsloth-challenged browsers, here

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-05 Thread Myles Green
Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a zip disk. Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it won't untar.

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-05 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 01:39, Chang wrote: try this one: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodte ch nol/iis/deploy/depovg/win2kcd.asp Works in Netscape, doesn't display the main frame in

ATI Xpert 128

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Jardine
Has anyone used the PCI version of the ATI Xpert 128 for Linux/XFree96? Does it work? Does it work well? Anomalies noted??? Oh, COL 3.1, AMD 900 Mhz, 512M RAM system. Thanks in advance. Steve ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives,