Caldera RPM Putting!

2001-09-20 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Where would I place Caldera RPMs? I try to anonymous ftp to ftp.caldera.com but am unable (permission denied) to write any files there. Anywhere? I have Snort (and associated libpcap), althea, gtknw, ncpfs, and sylpheed on this machine, and much more on others, but I have nowhere to put

Are there any programs that support DVD-ROMs

2001-09-20 Thread James McDonald
Hi All, Just purchased a RICOH MP9200A and have installed it and the burner part works fine on RH7.1. What I would like to know does anyone know where/if there is some DVD-ROM software available so I can watch DVD's with out booting to windows Cheers James McD

Re: I am afraid...

2001-09-20 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 09:20 pm, you wrote: Isn't it funny, but when we start talking about the need to defend rights and freedom, the first thing we do is to suspend the civil rights of all honest, healthy, straight men between 18-?40 (How high will they go? And, they don't draft

CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
CNN (http://www.cnn.com) is currently running a poll on their front page concerning whether you'd be willing to let the government control more of your life in exchange for a sense of security... Everyone please go register your opinion so the lawmakers can know your true feelings about having

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 20 September 2001 07:35, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: CNN (http://www.cnn.com) is currently running a poll on their front page concerning whether you'd be willing to let the government control more of your life in exchange for a sense of security... Everyone please go register your

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread Net Llama
I see no such poll. The only poll that i see asks how long the US should wait before retaliating. *shrug* --- DOUGLAS HUNLEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CNN (http://www.cnn.com) is currently running a poll on their front page concerning whether you'd be willing to let the government control

Re: nimda worm

2001-09-20 Thread Bill Day
Hell dont do it with any box.. I have been cleaning out *.eml and *.nws files for hours There were some 4000 eml files in just my home directory around 600 nws for a while I couldnt get my kde2 desktop to run.. i could log in it would load up then my screen would go blank.. dont know why..

Re: Are there any programs that support DVD-ROMs

2001-09-20 Thread Gordon McCrae
Look at http://xine.sourceforge.net, and also related http://www.linuxvideo.org Gordon James McDonald wrote: Hi All, Just purchased a RICOH MP9200A and have installed it and the burner part works fine on RH7.1. What I would like to know does anyone know where/if there is some DVD-ROM

Re: fighting the worm (enough of this already)

2001-09-20 Thread Lee
Would vote a conditional yes. Not so much desktop users as server administrators. By now they have to be getting pretty fed up with complaints from clients bothered by Microsoft worm of the week shut/slow downs. Wil McGilvery wrote: I vote no, because they don't believe there is any

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread dep
On Thursday 20 September 2001 08:35, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: | CNN (http://www.cnn.com) is currently running a poll on their front | page concerning whether you'd be willing to let the government | control more of your life in exchange for a sense of security... | Everyone please go register your

Re: fighting the worm (enough of this already)

2001-09-20 Thread Joel Hammer
Here is an email we got today. It actually came as a rich text format, not a word document, which is surprising. We are a very large multi-hospital health system. === This is to advise you that a new computer virus called Nimda is

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread stayler
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:24:31 -0500, John Hiemenz wrote: The results so far are a bit disturbing, but then those votes are probably from the mindless ones that think that the Windows OS/Application is secure and 'everyone' should be using it. It doesn't appear to be on the site anymore.

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:46, Net Llama babbled: I see no such poll. The only poll that i see asks how long the US should wait before retaliating. *shrug* damn.. they changed it. I just checked and the poll you describe is up... that's weird... it was there... I *swear* -- Douglas

Web-based Calendaring

2001-09-20 Thread Tim Wunder
I'm looking for a good web-based calendar for my Fathers' Club web site. The intent is to have a calendar with a nice GUI front end for end users to access, but a simple backend file format conducive to automatic frequent updating (mySQL? PostgreSQL?). I'd like to be able to give multiple

Re: Scanners [was Re: (no subject)]

2001-09-20 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
I would say... Is there any way around your requirements? HP (and Microtek) make pretty decent stuff, but mainly for low-end graphic arts work: not high-speed or larger format. Then there's always Fujitsu, and they seem affordable for production scanners, but theirs leave you with a choice

Re: Web-based Calendaring

2001-09-20 Thread Gordon McCrae
Try http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html There's loads of Web Calendars out there for Linux, we've used this one in house for nearly two years now. Gordon Tim Wunder wrote: I'm looking for a good web-based calendar for my Fathers' Club web site. The intent is to have a calendar with a

RE: fighting the worm (enough of this already)

2001-09-20 Thread Wil McGilvery
Good Luck is all I can say! Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager, Digital Media Lynch Technologies Inc. 416-744-7191 1-888-622-3729 416-744-0406 FAX www.lynchdigital.com -Original Message- From: Joel Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001

RE: fighting the worm (enough of this already)

2001-09-20 Thread Wil McGilvery
One thing that needs to be mentioned is that a large number of IT companies make money because MS is so insecure. Think of it. MS makes money from the products and Licenses. Then you have to buy more products and licenses to make the MS product safer But it is not really safe, so you have to

Re: Web-based Calendaring

2001-09-20 Thread Tim Wunder
Thanks. I did see that and it looked interesting. It was one of the first few to pop up on a google search. Glad to hear of someone who uses, and likes, it. The good news is that we'd have to migrate the fathers club web site to a linux-based web server. Actually, it looked good enough for me

Re: nimda worm

2001-09-20 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Wow, sorry. I have not had that kind of trouble. I did find that Opera tried to DL the .eml file. Never had any .eml or .nws files grow on my box. I really dont understand how that many .eml and .nws files could get to your box unless it was some type of javascript problem where it looped for

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread Jim Conner
Please note that the following is my opinion. I've heard plenty of people complain about the loss of certain 'liberties and freedoms' recently. Whether this is concerning the tightened security at airports, AOL and Earthlink cooperating with the federal investigation, or other related

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
That is the smart and prudent thing to do. Nothing would start a divide quicker than a heated national debate on our freedoms/privacy and how far the restrictions should go. It is not a subject that would be rationally debated by either side nor would it do any real good except to tell the

Re: I am afraid...

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Thompson
Preamble ... provide for the common defense ... Article 1, Section 8 - Powers of Congress - To declare war, to raise and support armies, provide for calling forth the militia, and organize, arm and discipline the militia. Amendments - Article 8 - Abolition of slavery and involuntary servitude,

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 20 September 2001 13:39 pm, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:46, Net Llama babbled: I see no such poll. The only poll that i see asks how long the US should wait before retaliating. *shrug* damn.. they changed it. I just checked and the poll you

Re: fighting the worm (enough of this already)

2001-09-20 Thread Matt . Carpenter
I think it is definitely MORE up in the air than before. What's changed with Nimda is the incorporation of not only exploits but multiple exploits with intelligence to wreak far more havoc than before. Also, most worms until this point targetted servers, with mail viruses focussing on email,

Re: Web-based Calendaring

2001-09-20 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Go look at ical from Brown Bear Software. It is a windows based server calendering system. Runs on W95 and up. It is a good way to run a non IIS web server on a 95/98 box. I cant vouche for its security but have not heard of any problems. http://www.brownbearsw.com On Thursday 20 September

Re: KDE2 - removing applet from kicker

2001-09-20 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
I run Mandrake and had the same problem you describe. My solution after banging my head against the mutitude of KDE files was to use my installation disk and choose 'upgrade then use only the last option and (re)configured the GUI. It worked, the taskbar was free of the applets I had stupidly

Re: nimda worm

2001-09-20 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Ronnie Gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow, sorry. I have not had that kind of trouble. I did find that Opera tried to DL the .eml file. Never had any .eml or .nws files grow on my box. I really dont understand how that many .eml and .nws files could get to your box unless it was

Re: Scanners [was Re: (no subject)]

2001-09-20 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Stuart Biggerstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would say... Is there any way around your requirements? HP (and Microtek) make pretty decent stuff, but mainly for low-end graphic arts work: not high-speed or larger format. Then there's always Fujitsu, and they seem affordable for

RE: BP adds to Open Source

2001-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
If you have some relevant, non-proprietary benchmarks for the performance of seismic code in Fortran on Linux vs. C on Linux using an open-source compiler, let's see them. I was unable to find an open source Fortran compiler for Linux - which one are you using? Um, g77 comes to mind,

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thursday 20 September 2001 01:24 pm, you wrote: Please note that the following is my opinion. I've heard plenty of people complain about the loss of certain 'liberties and freedoms' recently. Whether this is concerning the tightened security at airports, AOL and Earthlink cooperating with

Re: nimda worm

2001-09-20 Thread Bill Day
Its not your fault, Im nosy 8) I did let it dl the .eml file but as to how I got all those and such was wierd.. They even migrated to samba shares(and winboxes) somehow. I visited one page (206.230.156.209) with I.E. and closed all open window imdeiately then trie dwith konquerer figured

Re: I am afraid...

2001-09-20 Thread rickf
Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Joel You have not or will you or anyone else for that matter loose anyrights privileges. That is unless you screw up. I think you are talking about the war on Terrorism, I know you will correct me if I am wrong here g, But every body gets into

Re: fighting the worm (enough of this already)

2001-09-20 Thread Chang
it is a religionit would be tremendously difficult to twist a party's religious belief. The real kick in the teeth is everyone loves to complain, but when you suggest an alternative, it is rejected. I know lots of network administrators who know a lot less than they should. These people

Re: Terminal Server ?

2001-09-20 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 20 September 2001 14:45, dragonsfireburns wrote: I want to be able to maybe click on an icon to access the server desktop, or maybe auto boot like the windoze startup. NFS - on the site below -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We are all Americans

2001-09-20 Thread Mike Andrew
On the day of the bombings, when the world was speechless in horror and all words failed, this simple, profound statement, came from the German Chancellor. It did not just mouth platitudes of comfort to 'you lot' that you weren't alone. It legitemised non-american grief. I was allowed, and my

Re: locate wierdness

2001-09-20 Thread Mike Andrew
On Friday 14 September 2001 00:43, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi all! I'm having increasingly annoying issues with SuSE 7.2. I have two [snip] may not be SuSe. kernel 2.4.3 exhibits this behaviour. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash profile problem

2001-09-20 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 14:23, Collins Richey wrote: I have bash 2.04, and I can't find anyway to get the aliases in the profile to take effect for normal users. . If, however, I use su, ls is available immediately in color. Is this a bash bug, maybe? [snipetty hack] su

Re: Caldera RPM Putting!

2001-09-20 Thread Chang
there should be a contrib directory. Matthew Carpenter wrote: Where would I place Caldera RPMs? I try to anonymous ftp to ftp.caldera.com but am unable (permission denied) to write any files there. Anywhere? I have Snort (and associated libpcap), althea, gtknw, ncpfs, and sylpheed on this