Re: [vox-tech] x-windows problem?

2002-02-05 Thread Cathair
Holy frijoles! I had this same exact problem just last month: screen behaving as if it was switching on and off every second or so... I got my putty colored box set up to boot directly into runlevel 5 (I think)... Anyhow... I did the "linux 1" at the lilo prompt in order to get a command prompt

Re: [vox-tech] x-windows problem?

2002-02-05 Thread Mark K. Kim
If you use LILO in text mode (you see "LILO: " prompt), type "linux 1" to boot into text mode. If you use LILO in graphics mode, you press some key combo to go to the text mode (ctrl-X, or just X, I think). This will boot Linux in text mode, where you can fix the problem from the command prompt.

[vox-tech] x-windows problem?

2002-02-05 Thread kaiharris
Help!!! I'm having problems logging into my computer. I shut it down to install more RAM and then rebooted. Comp boots all the way to the text login, but I dont have a chance to loging here because it is set to log straight into x-windows first and then give a graphical login window. when it tr

Re: [vox-tech] Mail server advice

2002-02-05 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 11:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Requirements > IMAP (I access from home and work so I like leaving things on the > server) Courier IMAP works well for me. I tried Cyrus but it has too many idiosyncrasies for me, and it's really designed to run on a dedica

Re: [vox-tech] Oracle question

2002-02-05 Thread Jay Strauss
I know at least one person wanted to install Oracle on Linux: http://www.e-gineer.com/instructions/install-oracle9i-on-linux.phtml http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/ Both of these are good instructions, I haven't installed 9i on linux yet but I'm getting ready to (I need to buy some more memory f

[vox-tech] Mail server advice

2002-02-05 Thread speck
All right. It looks like I'm getting a broadband connection again (DSL, it'll be nice to get my fix :) This time I'll have a full DMZ, protected internal network etc. However, I'd like to have a mail server that I can run off a Linux system (this will let me learn more about Linux). I know

Re: [vox-tech] ZIP drive woes

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:15:30PM -0800, nbs wrote: > I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on, > and thought I'd poke around and see what I had. > > Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive), > I was faced with the following: [snip] I

Re: [vox-tech] Re: What anti-spam techniques do you use?

2002-02-05 Thread Rod Roark
I believe ordb.org also has an experimental non-open-relay blacklist. Since you have broadband, operating your own mail server is definitely a good thing to do (IF you have the time to learn the details). I'm also a happy Postfix user. You don't even have to buy a domain -- dhs.org has them fo

[vox-tech] Re: What anti-spam techniques do you use?

2002-02-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi john, there's not much you can do once the mail is delivered to your mailbox. that means if mail is going to someone else's server, you either need them to cooperate with proactive methods or you need to filter spam passively and complain retroactively. since most of my mail comes to dirac.o