Re: OTDell.au not dumping Linux on desktops

2001-08-04 Thread Joel Hammer
I see some dismay expressed about Dell dropping linux desktop computers. Let's take a poll: How many people on this list have bought a Dell computer with linux for the desktop in the last twelve months? I doubt any. Some years ago, outside of Boston, the train company wanted to end a particular

Re: DELL dropping Linux desktops

2001-08-04 Thread Lee
Mike Andrew wrote: On Friday 03 August 2001 21:26, Linuxism Chang wrote: Is it much more difficult to write a linux virus? whatever is happening to OE could just happen to any baby-friendly email reader. It's not difficult at all, If I had a mind to, I could, and so could 90% of other

Re: Merging Postscript Documents

2001-08-04 Thread Jim Conner
When this saga comes to a conclusion, I think it would make a great SxS. Jim On Saturday August 04, 2001 12:25 am, Joel Hammer wrote: Well, my long march may be getting to an end. Thanks to this list, I have finally realized that mpage and psnup take a SINGLE multipage postscript file and

sircam giggle

2001-08-04 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/ad.html?group=homecount=19 -- Ronnie == Life can be a dream; or it can be a nightmare it's all in your mind ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc

Re: Security question

2001-08-04 Thread Jim Conner
Interesting, I'm not running a DNS server(named) at all. It's just that it's picked up in the last few days. Almost constantly doing this. Is this comming from my box or from @Home? Would somebody explain what arp is doing beyond what the man pages say about arp? Jim On Friday August 03,

Re: Merging Postscript Documents

2001-08-04 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:12:04AM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: When this saga comes to a conclusion, I think it would make a great SxS. Unless I shoot myself first. This seems SO simple there may not be a name for it or it may be so complicated nobody can do it. The current status of my simple

Re: Security question

2001-08-04 Thread Joel Hammer
CT39762-A.lafayt1.in.home.com.2682: 1449* 1/2/2 (184) 12:17:59.772844 arp who-has ct??-a.lafayt1.in.home.com tell 24.17.45.1 Who is at 24.17.45.1 That ip is looking for ct? I don't find 24.17.45.1 with nslookup but I can ping it. Joel ___

Re: OT Interesting Article

2001-08-04 Thread burns
John Hiemenz wrote: On Friday 03 August 2001 11:44, Jim Conner wrote: The Death of TCP/IP: Why the Age of Internet Innocence is Over http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html It's an interesting theory. I thought I'd send this link out due to the talk in another thread

Re: DELL dropping Linux desktops

2001-08-04 Thread burns
Shawn Tayler wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 19:59:59 -0700 (PDT), Net Llama wrote: Its almost certainly because they aren't selling at all. Right now, Linux on the desktop just isnt' profitable. In fact its not even close to profitable. I believe its simply a matter of time. The security

Re: downloading photos

2001-08-04 Thread burns
Keith Antoine wrote: I got around to d/l the photos from the cameras today only to find that the windows drivers for usb that were supplied by the mfgrs are NOT ME complatible only 98. The Olympus is dual ported with serial as well, but slow. So I am being held up whilst I buy a card reader

Re: OT Interesting Article

2001-08-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:45:55AM -0400, burns wrote: ... The problem is not tcp/ip itself, but how MS purportedly intends to allow raw socket access in XP - in other words it's not the highway, but how MS is building the on ramps. Raw socket access isn't a problem in itself. Steve Gibson

Re: OT Interesting Article

2001-08-04 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:41:01 -0700 Bill Campbell wrote: On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:45:55AM -0400, burns wrote: ... The problem is not tcp/ip itself, but how MS purportedly intends to allow raw socket access in XP - in other words it's not the highway, but how MS is building the on ramps.

Back again in Linux

2001-08-04 Thread Keith Antoine
Well I have installed Caldera Workstation 3.1 thanks to a Donar on this list. However it has some of the 'old' problems still not fixed plus some new ones. As I have not been in linux or knew at the time which way I was going to jump, plus the fact that I have been away too, I have missed many

Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-04 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 05 August 2001 09:15, Shawn Tayler orated thus: 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?

Re: Back again in Linux

2001-08-04 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:10, Bill Campbell orated thus: How are you exiting from kde? Are you doing it from the K-start, or using ctrl-alt-backspace? Logout on the k-panel.. I seem to remember something about this previously. --

Re: The Worm: How you doin'?

2001-08-04 Thread Joel Hammer
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 haven't seen the payload before. I guess this thang must

Re: Sound in slackware

2001-08-04 Thread David Aikema
On August 1, 2001 09:51 pm, Myles Green wrote: I just finished building the kde2.2 snapshot from july 27 and 'viola' we have sound once again. They're supposed to release kde2.2 final next week so you may want to wait until then to grab the source. Ok. Thanks for the advice I'll

Re: Wrong major/minor device number

2001-08-04 Thread Geof Steichen
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. I get the error message indicating a wrong major or minor device number