Re: kde 2.2 on COL LTP

2001-09-04 Thread Keith Antoine
Tony Alfrey wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 04:56 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: I had better results with sybil than I am having with WS 3.1 as you may remember. I do remember. I even got a colleague to burn an ISO of sybil so I could fuss with it but it looked like a time sink. I'm

Re: kde 2.2 on COL LTP

2001-09-04 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 02:34 am, Keith Antoine wrote: Tony Alfrey wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 04:56 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: I had better results with sybil than I am having with WS 3.1 as you may remember. I do remember. I even got a colleague to burn an ISO of sybil

qt2.3 compile

2001-09-04 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi all! I want to compile qt 2.3 for my Caldera LTP installation (early KDE 2.0, early XFree 4.0, early 2.4 kernel) and then try KDE 2.2. Two questions please: a. Will my old kde 2.0 still work with the new qt 2.3?? b. What are the appropriate configure options for qt2.3 ? The last time

Re: Linuxcare ER CD

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Joseph: Yep - I took note of that when I read the info on the web site - or perhaps it was in the README. Anyhow, thanks for the 'heads-up. Regards, Glenn On Monday 03 September 2001 23:29, you wrote: fyi the original linuxcare BBC developers have left linuxcare and are now updating

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Joel: I followed your suggestion, and the results are meaningless to me; the output gave a list of sources and destinations, and the IP addresses were all 0.0.0.0s. Port 53 figured prominently in the output also, if that has any significance. I am nearly 8 years away from my amateur

Re: OT stock market

2001-09-04 Thread Marie Bennington AKA Calamity
Subject: RE: OT Stock market... From: Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:10:11 -0700 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's hard watching your hard earned dollars slip into nothingness. As I left work this evening, my

HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
As you've all no doubt heard by now, HP is gobbling up Compaq for $25billion (US) making them #2 in the market... What does this bode for Dell? What will this mean for future Linux support? HP is fairly Linux-friendly...in my experience at least. Thoughts? -- Douglas J. Hunley Unix/Linux

OTfurther numbers of the beast (from /.)

2001-09-04 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
660 Approximate number of the Beast DCLXVI Roman numeral of the Beast 666. Number of the High Precision Beast 0.666 Number of the Millibeast / 666 Beast Common Denominator (-666) ^ (1/2) Imaginary number of the Beast 6.66 e3 Floating point Beast 1010011010 Binary of the Beast 6,

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 03 September 2001 07:38 am, Glenn Williams wrote: Hi, Bruce: Thanks for the info. I went to 'vulnerabilities' web site and initiated a scan of my ISP, not knowing what else to use for a host address to be scanned. It returned the following result: You would want to put in your

Re: German Linux site hacked

2001-09-04 Thread Lee
Ronnie Gauthier wrote: http://www.linux.de looks like it...LOL On Tuesday 04 September 2001 00:38, Zoki (News) wrote: *** I have the strong impression the German Linux site got hacked by a football loving Englishman... -- Cheers, Zoran. -- Is that REAL football, or the kind

Re: OT stock market

2001-09-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Marie Bennington AKA Calamity wrote: I learned that lesson working in the brokerage biz a few years ago. Didn't stop me from investing though ;-) Needless to say, I lost a bit of the green lately to the market, but as long as I hold on.. Well, that's the plan anyhoo. What is the

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread Net Llama
--- DOUGLAS HUNLEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you've all no doubt heard by now, HP is gobbling up Compaq for $25billion (US) making them #2 in the market... What does this bode for Dell? What will this mean for future Linux support? HP is fairly Linux-friendly...in my experience at

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Bruce: I appreciate the offer. However, my ISP uses a DHCP server, so I dunno how we could do that using my IP address. Cann one use the current dynamic address for that purpose? Regards, Glenn On Tuesday 04 September 2001 06:34, you wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 07:38 am, Glenn

OTlife without a SSN

2001-09-04 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
Absolutely fascinating reading on the trials and tribulation sof a guy who decided to rescind his SSN and tackle life in the US without one... http://www.cjmciver.org/free.shtml -- Douglas J. Hunley Unix/Linux Admin http://linux.nf The truth is out th- oh, wait, here it is...

RE: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Wil McGilvery
You can use your current IP address for the purpose of being scanned. 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: Glenn Williams [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: German Linux site hacked

2001-09-04 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Thats what we call soccer, I think it is really called futbol or fotbol. On Tuesday 04 September 2001 08:07, Lee wrote: Ronnie Gauthier wrote: http://www.linux.de looks like it...LOL On Tuesday 04 September 2001 00:38, Zoki (News) wrote: *** I have the strong impression the German

Re: OT stock market OT TID

2001-09-04 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:46:40 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] cleverly noted: Howdy, Calamity! Good to see you're still kickin' around. How's that wayward husband o' yours? = Uh-oh.., Calamity's back?? Prolly here to talk down to all the men, bein' real

Re: German Linux site hacked

2001-09-04 Thread Gordon McCrae
It's just called football, because (unlike the american version), the players actually use their feet to move the ball around, perhaps the americans should rename their sport handball. The full name is Association Football, in an attempt to distinguish it from Rugby Football, thus the

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 03 September 2001 10:32 am, Glenn Williams wrote: Hi, Bruce: I appreciate the offer. However, my ISP uses a DHCP server, so I dunno how we could do that using my IP address. Cann one use the current dynamic address for that purpose? Yes... you would: 1) Connect up and stay

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread Net Llama
--- John Hiemenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:13, Net Llama wrote: --- DOUGLAS HUNLEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you've all no doubt heard by now, HP is gobbling up Compaq for $25billion (US) making them #2 in the market... What does this bode for

Fwd: [COLUG] TECH LITERATE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR K-12 SCHOOLS

2001-09-04 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
thos who can contribute (here in the US), please find your local chapter and do what you can. Up-and-coming techs (the students) and cash-strapped schools are 2 good audiences for OpenSource, IMHO -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [COLUG] TECH LITERATE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR

RE: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread Wil McGilvery
Selling hardware is high maintenance and low margins. It's hard to make a living that way. Brand name boxes have a reputation of being harder to upgrade or add components to and they are more expensive. White boxes are less expensive and easier to upgrade. Go figure! Regards, Wil McGilvery

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:19:46PM -0400, Wil McGilvery wrote: Selling hardware is high maintenance and low margins. It's hard to make a living that way. Brand name boxes have a reputation of being harder to upgrade or add components to and they are more expensive. White boxes are less expensive

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Bruce: Busy morning - later getting back to you. Here's the output of 'ifconfig' (long form): eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:95:E1:B5 inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 ^^^ inet6 addr:

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 01:42 pm, Glenn Williams wrote: Hi, Bruce: Busy morning - later getting back to you. Here's the output of 'ifconfig' (long form): Well yes, but don't you dial up on the phone?? I would need the ppp0 part of the ifconfig output. The 10.0.0.2 address

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
Bruce: Sorry - I guess I neglected to mention - as of last Thursday I am on DSL - hot all the time. No dial-up or dial-on-demand. Anything else I should furnish? Regards, Glenn On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:03, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 01:42 pm, Glenn Williams wrote:

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 02:58 pm, Glenn Williams wrote: Bruce: Sorry - I guess I neglected to mention - as of last Thursday I am on DSL - hot all the time. No dial-up or dial-on-demand. Well, I think then that the ISP has you on a local network. I am pretty sure that 10.0.0.x is one

Input for a FAQ

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
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 that came up, I figure a FAQ might be the best way

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Tim Wunder
The IP you gave for eth0 is definately an internal network address, not accessible from the outside world. Did your DSL provider give/sell you a router? Many DSL routers are capable of providing DHCP services for an internal network. You could always go to GRC.com,

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 03:25 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: The IP you gave for eth0 is definately an internal network address, not accessible from the outside world. Did your DSL provider give/sell you a router? Many DSL routers are capable of providing DHCP services for an internal network.

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread Susan Macchia
As you've all no doubt heard by now, HP is gobbling up Compaq for $25billion (US) making them #2 in the market... What does this bode for Dell? What will this mean for future Linux support? HP is fairly Linux-friendly...in my experience at least. Thoughts? Ok guys, I am a Compaq

Re: German Linux site hacked

2001-09-04 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
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. http://www.apostarenlared.com/fotbol-s.html http://www.futbol365.com/

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
Bruce and Tim: Thanks for your help and comments. More info follows, below: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:32, you wrote: [snip] Hey Glenn: I assume you have only one nic card in your machine What is the output of your 'route' command? The problem is to find out what your IP

mapping commands or keyboard shortcuts to mouse events

2001-09-04 Thread Markus Feilner
hello list, i have a mouse and a trackball at my system, and i want to have the mouse configured as usual, but moving the trackball should scroll vertically or horizontally, and i 'd like to have a command or a keyboard shortcut being executed. i looked in xmodmap, and in xf86config, but i only

Re: mapping commands or keyboard shortcuts to mouse events

2001-09-04 Thread Markus Feilner
Am Dienstag 04 September 2001 23:49 schrieb Markus Feilner: hello list, i have a mouse and a trackball at my system, and i want to have the mouse configured as usual, but moving the trackball should scroll vertically or horizontally, and i 'd like to have a command or a keyboard shortcut

HP-IB interface

2001-09-04 Thread Aaron Grewell
Hello all, I've got a name that ancient hardware question. These are so much fun. Next week I get to work on my first Atari ST! Anyway, on to the business at hand. I was given an HP 7475A plotter. I'd like to hook it up for my father since he has an interest in CAD drafting. It has an

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread gerry
Well, I heard on the way home that the deal is a long way from done. It has to go through regulatory approvals in both the US and Europe. The speculation was that these wouldn't be a walk over. HP was forecasting about 14,000 would be laid off but not for two years (time needed to sort things

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 04:43 am, Glenn Williams wrote: Bruce and Tim: Thanks for your help and comments. More info follows, below: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:32, you wrote: [snip] Hey Glenn: I assume you have only one nic card in your machine What is the output

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 04:43 am, Glenn Williams wrote: Bruce and Tim: Thanks for your help and comments. More info follows, below: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 13:32, you wrote: Try this sometime: 1) Send me an email that you are about to: 2) telnet bmarsh.com I can then

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-04 Thread Robert Cunningham
Aaron Grewell wrote: Hello all, I've got a name that ancient hardware question. These are so much fun. Next week I get to work on my first Atari ST! Anyway, on to the business at hand. I was given an HP 7475A plotter. I'd like to hook it up for my father since he has an interest in CAD

New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Zoki (News)
*** On one line... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/ TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/win2kcd.asp Have fun, Zoran. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Glenn Williams
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 16:49, you wrote: Try this sometime: 1) Send me an email that you are about to: 2) telnet bmarsh.com I can then match up the email time with the time that I find someone knocking on my door.. Just for grins Okay, Bruce: Here goes... I don't

Re: HP-IB interface

2001-09-04 Thread Aaron Grewell
Thanks, I'll give that a try. On Tuesday 04 September 2001 04:03 pm, you wrote: Aaron Grewell wrote: Hello all, I've got a name that ancient hardware question. These are so much fun. Next week I get to work on my first Atari ST! Anyway, on to the business at hand. I was given an HP

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 07:44 am, Glenn Williams wrote: Here goes...  I don't know what to expect, so I'll just 'wing it.' It is 5:42 MDT. MDT?? MDT??oh sure, make it really tough on me...:o) -- ++ +

Re: Personal firewall

2001-09-04 Thread Joel Hammer
DENY tcp l- 0xFF 0x00 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 24.182.146.18 * - 1:1023 rule protocol log Who knows NIC any ip my ip from any port to your ports Translation: Deny tcp packets, logging it, Huh??, to my eth1 from any ip on the planet to the ip address of the NIC of my router (which

Re: Konqueror question

2001-09-04 Thread Ron Giesman
Just a suggestion..Use Squid transparent proxy, and force NCSA authentication. If you redirect internal net port 80 traffic to whatever port you have squid running on (probably 3128), this enforces transparent proxy. You might need to tweak squid, though.

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My eye. Mote. Your eye. Beam. A MOTE IN YOUR EYE? A great book, indeed. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Kurt Wall wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: Is this truly evil or what. This sounds like Philip Morris explaining why My eye. Mote. Your eye. Beam. Err, which quip was intended for Microsoft, not Joel. Kurt -- Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to

Re: kde 2.2 on COL LTP

2001-09-04 Thread Keith Antoine
Tony Alfrey wrote: Since you mention it, I will tell you my Mandrake problem and you may comment if you have an idea. I have twice loaded up different Mandrake versions, including 8.0 that I got from the Linux conference. It seems to install fine, but when I get to testing the X config,

Re: OT stock market

2001-09-04 Thread Keith Antoine
Marie Bennington AKA Calamity wrote: I learned that lesson working in the brokerage biz a few years ago. Didn't stop me from investing though ;-) Needless to say, I lost a bit of the green lately to the market, but as long as I hold on.. Well, that's the plan anyhoo. What is the old

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Jerry McBride wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My eye. Mote. Your eye. Beam. A MOTE IN YOUR EYE? A great book, indeed. Indeed. I loved the phrase the moties. Kurt -- Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny.

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
Are you speaking of Mote in Gods Eye On Tuesday 04 September 2001 07:58, Jerry McBride wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:44:54 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My eye. Mote. Your eye. Beam.

Re: OT MSDOS Rescue NeededTID

2001-09-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Myles Green wrote: burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. OK, now I'm jealous... /me who has to wear a hat just to keep from blinding passing pilots when the sun is

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Ronnie Gauthier wrote: Are you speaking of Mote in Gods Eye Yea, verily. Great novel. Kurt -- charityware /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. careware. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc

Re: German Linux site hacked

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Wilson
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:59 am, Gordon McCrae dropped these nuggets of information: And american football is rugby for pansies, but that's probably just a national bias. Hey now! Watch how you talking about the second greatest sport in the world ;-) NASCAR is the first greatest

Re: kernel goof

2001-09-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 19:18:25 -0700 Bob Hemus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to the Brains! Finally tried to monkey with the kernal, but goofed. May(can) I copy as /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig back to /usr/src/linux, then do the # make dep - to the end? Or should I do the #make

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 01:28:45 +0200 (CEST) Zoki (News) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** On one line... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/ TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/win2kcd.asp Even all on one line, I get no such page at the microsoft site. Care to share a

freshmeat?

2001-09-04 Thread Collins Richey
Anyone else getting strange results from freshmeat tonight? -- Collins Richey Denver Area jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc

Re: OT MSDOS Rescue NeededTID

2001-09-04 Thread Myles Green
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myles Green wrote: burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. OK, now I'm jealous... /me who has to wear a hat just to keep from

Re: freshmeat?

2001-09-04 Thread Myles Green
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else getting strange results from freshmeat tonight? as in using the search engine? no, not really... just did a search a little while ago and it seemed to be fine. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror:

Re: kde 2.2 on COL LTP

2001-09-04 Thread Tony Alfrey
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 used an add-in card, since I had a problem moons ago with a built in. What kind of card do you have? I have a

Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-04 Thread Chang
try this one: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/win2kcd.asp Even all on one line, I get no such page at the microsoft site. Care to share a few exerpts so I can know what we are talking about?