[Masq] Success: LRP + NetMeeting

1999-12-31 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
they are erady to go and work on 486SX's) These guys are awesome: Rajkumar. S Archana V. S. Sheenarani I. Thanks 10,000,000 -- George Tofthttp://www.georgetoft.com ___ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can

Re: [SuSE Linux] Windows 95 /98 weakness

1999-04-28 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
the graphics, but there was still a process alive and consuming 97% of the CPU's processing time. I would have to say Java on Linux is just as stable as on Windows 95/98. -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate

Re: [SuSE Linux] Gateway problem Gnome howto

1999-04-27 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
for the router (gateway) as it works. I'm going to try to get Red Hat's DHCP client to run under SuSE, but that will be a while from now. -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate/ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / -o

[SuSE Linux] Re: Running X on Win95

1999-04-25 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
machine. -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate/ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / -o) | | | | | \_| | | | | | \ \/ / (o- /\\ | |__ | | | | | |_| | / /\ \ //\ _\_v

Re: [SuSE Linux] CD-Rom Question

1999-04-25 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
silver, factory-pressed CD's. I discovered this the hard way, and verified it with their web site. -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate/ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / -o

Re: [SuSE Linux] NT fster than Linux?

1999-04-25 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
I wouldn't believe it until I saw it. And I know for a fact the sun does not shine in Redmond, Washington - it rains all the time. Been there - hated it. Not that I'm biased against them, or anything :-) I guess I'm like any other recovering addict - I despise that to which I fell prey to. -- G

[SuSE Linux] Java vs Tcl vs perl vs whatever

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
the client side - I only have to focus on the server side of the house. So many options... -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate/ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / -o) | | | | | \_| | | | | | \ \/ / (o

Re: [SuSE Linux] CNN - NT looking great -- on paper - April 21, 1999

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
? -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate/ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / -o) | | | | | \_| | | | | | \ \/ / (o- /\\ | |__ | | | | | |_| | / /\ \ //\ _\_v

Re: [SuSE Linux] Linux users?

1999-04-23 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
guess I'm part of the problem. -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/LinuxAdvocate/ __ __ ___ __ __ ______ | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / -o) | | | | | \_| | | | | | \ \/ / (o- /\\ | |__ | | | | | |_| | / /\ \ //\ _\_v

Re: [SuSE Linux] Lame Donkey Looks Fast!

1999-04-19 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
noticed the same thing on a 486dx2/66. I had SuSE 5.3, and setup went pretty quick. Then I put SuSE 6.0 (install from scratch) and it bogged like an old 386. I don't think it's an interrupt anywhere. After the system rebooted, it worked fine, if not just a bit slower than before. -- George Toft

Re: [SuSE Linux] Is Celeron Supported ??

1999-04-18 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
you're up to it, I'll look for the site again. Personally, since the difference between two PII 333 MHz and two Celeron 333 MHz is only $70, it's not worth it to me. That's why I'm building a dual Pentium II system. -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/Lin

[SuSE Linux] Prodigal Son Returns

1999-04-18 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
ed (except for making my logs bigger) - all of my SuSE 5.3 boxes. So now I have SuSE 6.0 on my router and I gave Red Hat the boot. More information on this worm is here: http://gtoft.dynip.com/worm/ -- George Tofthttp://gtoft.dynip.com/Lin

Re: [SuSE Linux] Desktop Managers

1999-03-06 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Delbaere, Tim wrote: Hello, What desktop managers would you recommend, and why. I have KDM that came with my SuSE 5.2, and I have heard about KDE 1.1, but what about some of the others like Afterstep, Gnome, Enlightenment. What do they have to offer, what is good or bad about them,

Re: [SuSE Linux] Win = SuSE printing via Samba

1999-03-03 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
George Schoelles wrote: I'm running 4 98 machines and 1 SuSE 5.3 with Samba server working great. However, I was thinking about using The _SuSE Server_ as a _Print Server_ and was interested in others opinions, success and failure stories as well as suggestions and pointers in creating a

Re: [SuSE Linux] Roadrunner.

1999-03-02 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
George H. Yeager wrote: George: I have not accomplished this yet (permanently). I have been on RR with SuSE 6.0. You just have to set up your IP/Mask/DNS info and go. Did that using YaST. You'll eventually need a DHCPCD package (free). Why do I need the daemon? Don't I just

Re: [SuSE Linux] Roadrunner.

1999-03-02 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
George H. Yeager wrote: I have not accomplished this yet (permanently). I have been on RR with SuSE 6.0. You just have to set up your IP/Mask/DNS info and go. You'll eventually need a DHCPCD package (free). http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/linux.html Very interesting pages -

Re: [SuSE Linux] Roadrunner.

1999-03-01 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
W.D.McKinney wrote: "Fred A. Miller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone connected to Roadrunner with SuSE 6.0? If so, I'd very much appreciate a detailed "blow by blow" to get connected, and what software I need, where to get it, etc. Thanks! Fred Hi Fred, See

Re: [SuSE Linux] Linux up close: Time to switch

1999-02-28 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: [big snip] I'll bet that 95% of the people who try SuSE, after trying any of the other distros, will stay with SuSE because YaST and SuSE's overall quality can't be beat by any other current distros. Two weeks ago I would have agreed with you. But I have since found

Re: [SuSE Linux] startx on Linux (XFree86)

1999-02-26 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
joe kramer wrote: Hi, I am new to this Linux. Recently I had suceessfully installed RedHat Linux 5.1 on my pc. But I do have one problem. i.e I could not start xwindows by using startx command. I think this problem came from my adapter. I could not find my adapter name (SiS 5597) during

Re: [SuSE Linux] CD

1999-02-26 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Mike Dempsey wrote: Yea, but I've never used it before... I want to "try before you buy" if I like this one, I'll prolly buy the next one... (or this one if I find I need CD's), but I can't buy a distribution that I haven't used. So buy the $2 CD at www.cheapbytes.com. I bought

Re: [SuSE Linux] Update

1999-02-15 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
SoiF wrote: On 15-Feb-99 George Toft a dit .: \ \ SoiF wrote: \ \ Hi .. \ \ I 'm wondering how can i upgrade my 5.3 (commercial edition) to a 6.0 \ version. \ Does I need to buy a another CD distro or can i download the 6.0 somewhere \ (where ?? ) \ \ ftp.suse.de

Re: [SuSE Linux] 2 annoying questions Networking and X monitor troubles

1999-02-15 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Georges-Henry Portefait wrote: Hi, I'm using SUSE 5.3 and soon 6.0 ( i Hope :) ) . 1 - I will soon be connected to the Internet using a cybersurf Motorola "modem". this involve using a network card PCI ( i don't know brand or model) but a friend got one and there was a linux

Re: [SuSE Linux] Update

1999-02-14 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
SoiF wrote: Hi .. I 'm wondering how can i upgrade my 5.3 (commercial edition) to a 6.0 version. Does I need to buy a another CD distro or can i download the 6.0 somewhere (where ?? ) ftp.suse.de or ftp.suse.com I don't want to pay every 6 months to have recent distro. Should i

Re: [SuSE Linux] AGP Video woes

1999-02-11 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
George Toft wrote: I'm trying to install SuSE 5.3 on a Pentium II (233 MHz, 32 MB RAM) with an AGP video card using the Cirrus Logic 5465 chipset. SaX has that chipset in its database, and I have it set up correctly (let's presume I do). Problem: X locks up after a few minutes

Re: [Fwd: [SuSE Linux] Vote for SuSE] - Happy99.exe

1999-02-11 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
thor@work wrote: please take care of this idiot!!! thor Subject: RE: [SuSE Linux] Vote for SuSE Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:24:46 -0600 (CST) From: Samy Elashmawy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Re: [SuSE Linux] AGP Video woes

1999-02-10 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
World Leader Pretend wrote: I'm trying to install SuSE 5.3 on a Pentium II (233 MHz, 32 MB RAM) with an AGP video card using the Cirrus Logic 5465 chipset. SaX has that chipset in its database, and I have it set up correctly (let's presume I do). Problem: X locks up after a few

Re: [SuSE Linux] Looking for a window manager?

1999-02-07 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Michael Perry wrote: I therefore suggest blackbox which seems to be easily configurable, nice on resources, pleasant to the eye. I think that for someone just starting out the ways of adding menu items, etc; cannot be beat. The latest compiles on SuSE 5.3 without complaint and it has

Re: [SuSE Linux] New Linux User

1999-02-06 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Delbaere, Tim wrote: Can anyone recommend some good book's for getting to grips with Linux? And my $0.02: The book that comes with SuSE is good, and "The No B.S. Guide to Linux" is good. -- George - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its

Re: [SuSE Linux] X-server X-client

1999-02-05 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Thanks all - the xhost +oahu worked great. George - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at

Re: [SuSE Linux] Floppy disk and FSTAB

1999-02-05 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Christopher Ballog wrote: Hello You should not put your floppy disk in the fstab unless you want to use noauto option; and reason being is that if there is no floppy in the driver the mount will fail. Take a look at the manual pages "man fstab" and "man mount"for more information.

[SuSE Linux] X-server X-client

1999-02-02 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
How do I . . . . . . run an X program on one computer on my LAN and display the output on another. Both computers are Linux. I've been able to get the outputs to display on a Windows computer on the LAN, but I can't get a Linux-Linux connection. The X-server tries to connect to

Re: [SuSE Linux] Playing AVI files

1999-02-01 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
(Ted Harding) wrote: Can anyone recommend a program to play a *.avi file (I think it is a format for video motion pictures)? With thanks, Ted. xanim George - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out

Re: [SuSE Linux] SuSE derailed?

1999-01-29 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Joseph C. Fisher wrote: George Toft wrote: Kaare Rasmussen wrote: I'm worried about the latest announcements from the big guys HP and (not yet public) IBM that they will support RedHat Linux. This means that Linux = RedHat for the most people, and where will that put

Re: [SuSE Linux] Kernel

1999-01-28 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say: I need a little clairification on this kernel 2.2 thing. If I buy SuSE 6.0 with, presumably kernel 2.0.36, then want to upgrade to 2.2 (whatever), would I have to download each patch from

Re: [SuSE Linux] 4 IDE PORTS

1999-01-20 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Vicente A.S. Werner wrote: hello all no , I mean 4 ide ports is on the kernel documentation but doesn't says how to do it. That means 8 ide devices wich in some cases can be a bless. Thanx Vicente Werner - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [SuSE Linux] suse problems or linux problems

1999-01-09 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Norman de Groot wrote: I'm considering getting started with Linux. I wonder if the active suse list with so many user problems is the result of the suse distribution or is the difficulty with Linux itself? I understand that either way I'll have to put in a significant amount of study and

Re: [SuSE Linux] CNN - Microsoft downplays security threat to Excel - January 7, 1999

1999-01-08 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
zentara wrote: "Fred A. Miller" wrote: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/07/computers.security.reut/index.html How can they justify putting Windows on US Navy Warship's? Unless it is the same reasoning that helped get rid of old battleships at Pearl Harbor. Make the ships you you

Re: [SuSE Linux] How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?

1999-01-06 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
GMT time. Is this "bogus date" will be our next topic for 30 or so years :) Best regards to all GH portefait George Toft wrote: This is all based on 2^32 seconds from 1900, which is 2036.195, or March 10th, 2036 (plus or minus a couple days). I'll be in my r

Re: [SuSE Linux] How Does Y2K FW: [S.u.S.E. Announce] S.u.S.E. Linux and the Year 2000 Problem

1999-01-06 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Technical Information - August 1998 System Programs The kernel and core tools of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems do not store dates in a two-digit format. Time is counted in number of seconds since January 1, 1970. A 32-bit system such as

Re: [SuSE Linux] How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?

1999-01-05 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Ec|ipse wrote: Scott Watson wrote: From: Harald Sundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps? I understand that, while Linux is 2000 OK, it may have problems in 2038. Can anyone expand on this? In a nut shell, thats when the internal clock on the

Re: [SuSE Linux] Another SAMBA problem

1999-01-04 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Leon McClatchey wrote: In your /etc/smb.conf, whereever you have the share for the cdrom defined, add two lines for preexec and postexec that would mount the cdrom if someone wants to access it and unmount the cdrom once they release the share. It worked great here, the only thing is that

Re: [SuSE Linux] SuSE locking-up after 4 days repeatedly

1999-01-04 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Ec|ipse wrote: Hello. I've been using slackware since around 3.0 and about 3 months ago started reformatting/installing the various dist's to see and form my own opinions of the various dist's. I was very impressed with SuSE 5.3 as the file structure was more similar with slack then the

Re: [SuSE Linux] How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps?

1999-01-03 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Harald Sundt wrote: How does Y2K affect the Linux Platform or Apps? 1.) Scientifically, the Millennium begins January 01,2001, 00:00:01 AM I don't understand this one. How is it anyone in computer science can say it begins with anything other than a zero == 2000 is the beginning of the

[SuSE Linux] Another SAMBA problem

1999-01-03 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
I've searched the samba site, read the FAQ. I guess I have an infrequently asked question. I have samba running on my Linux server. The server's CD-ROM is shared. I noticed if a win95 client maps the CD-ROM "folder" to a drive letter, I can not umount the CD-ROM. Even after the drive

Re: [SuSE Linux] rc5 cracking program.

1998-12-28 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Hello again.. I have a small dillema. I was a part of the rc5 cracking effort when I had win95. I want to rejoin, so, I downloaded the latest version and extracted the files to my /home/user/rc5 directory. I did this for a while. Then I did the math and

Re: [SuSE Linux] re: SAMBA Help

1998-12-26 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Mitch Appleby wrote: Could you send me a list of what worked for you? I had Samba working with Win-95, but have not successed at all with Win-98. The Win-98 PCs see the linux server, but can not logon. I tried a change the window$ registery and adding encription to the linux end, but no

Re: [SuSE Linux] Winner SuSE and Runner-up RH

1998-12-26 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
I just set up RedHat 5.0 and SuSE 5.3 in my class (Networking and Data Communications), and SuSE was by far the favorite as the GUI was the best looking. In the Spring, I'll be using SuSE to teach networking. (This is primarily due to the live filesystem feature. I can't repartition the hard

[SuSE Linux] SAMBA Help

1998-12-22 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Weirdness! I have a Linux fileserver (named hawaii) connected to a gateway (named oahu) with three Win95 clients (lanai, maui, and julie). All Win95 computers are configured the same (IPX, TCP/IP, and client for Microsoft networks). hawaii has a printer attached and it has a hard drive and

Re: [SuSE Linux] SAMBA Help

1998-12-22 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Samy Elashmawy wrote: Is she running win98 , if so you need to set the registry to use unencrypted passwords. there is a doc on the suse sight that will take you throgh this step by step. Naw - we reloaded (fdisk format) the classic Win95, and setup control panel | network exactly the

[SuSE Linux] Re:

1998-12-22 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Rouwen, Martijn wrote: Cause windooze isn't stable enough and I will have acces to the Internet by a cable-modem ( If anything goes right) soon I'm planning to build a little LAN at home, My first suggestion: Don't use the 300MHz machine as your gateway. I use a 486dx2/66, and it keeps up

Re: [SuSE Linux] Cheap VideoCard

1998-12-22 Diskussionsfäden George Toft
Rouwen, Martijn wrote: Hello, Does anyone know a cheap Video card which is supported bij Linux, it have to work with X ? Season Greetings Martijn - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the