[newbie] OT: A Virus Plague

2004-10-23 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi guys, This past week or so, I have been mailed a number of virus attachments. Usually with only a smiley face in the message body. These have caused no problem as they are Windows viruses (viri?) and I only ever download my mail under Linux - learnt the necessity for that the hard way a few

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-23 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 7:27 am, Russell W. Behne wrote: In that case, Mikkel, it's not a virus, what you're describing is a trojan horse program. Agreed. But 99% of mal-ware these days are not real viruses either. They are called viruses by the unknowing because they don't know the difference,

Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-23 Thread Alan Dunford
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 15:38, Alan Dunford wrote: Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a server on which I back up files from the other two SNIP Thanks to all who responded to my query

[newbie] DVI input signal out-of-range (LG Flatron L1710B)

2004-10-23 Thread Justin Case
Hello everyone, When I use the DVI input on my LCD display (LG Flatron L1710B), the screens goes black when starting X. I searched google, the mailing-list archives and found some related problems but no real solution. Hardware info: - Video Card: nVidia G-force 4 Ti4600 - Display: LG Flatron

[newbie] (OT) webcam

2004-10-23 Thread Lee Wiggers
Can anyone explain the intricacies of receiving webcam. I am using gaim on yahoo and icq. Lee -- My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Current address will not work after December. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT: A Virus Plague

2004-10-23 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 23 October 2004 01:40 am, Graham Watkins wrote: | Hi guys, | | This past week or so, I have been mailed a number of virus attachments. | Usually with only a smiley face in the message body. These have caused | no problem as they are Windows viruses (viri?) and I only ever download | my

RE: [newbie] How to find out package dependencies when using a wi ndows machine to download?

2004-10-23 Thread Sandaruwan Wijenayake
-Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 1:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to find out package dependencies when using a windows machine to download? On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:46:24 +0200 Sandaruwan

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Marc
Maybe your ISP is messing about with IPV6 Try disabling it. Put alias net-pf-10 off in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and reboot. derek Maybe I am missing something but as best as I can tell I do not have a /etc/modprobe file Marc Want

[newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Huff
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I did the usual search of sourceforge, google, etc, but only came up with one for an ericson t610. I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. Thanks for any leads, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Huff
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I did the usual search of sourceforge, google, etc, but only came up with one for an ericson t610. I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. I should also mention that it uses an rs232

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Thereidos
W licie z sob, 23-10-2004, godz. 16:54, Marc pisze: Maybe your ISP is messing about with IPV6 Try disabling it. Put alias net-pf-10 off in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and reboot. derek Maybe I am missing something but as best as I can tell I do not have a /etc/modprobe file If

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 23 October 2004 15:54, Marc wrote: Maybe your ISP is messing about with IPV6 Try disabling it. Put alias net-pf-10 off in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and reboot. derek Maybe I am missing something but as best as I can tell I do not have a /etc/modprobe file Marc In

Re: [newbie] Security maniac ?

2004-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 22 October 2004 06:30 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I just followed Tom's advice and upgraded to the present cooker, including the (separate) install of the new kernel. Everything seem to work perfectly. So, now I supposedly run the upcoming 10.1 Official - right ? Yes, and if you

Re: [newbie] cel phone synch software for linux?

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Huff
Is there a program for doing address book type edits on cel phones for linux? I have an ericson t60 and a motorolla i205 phone, if it helps. Ok, multisync (in the urpmi sources, duh) does work with the ericson. I don't have a cable yet for the motorola, so i'll have to see... eric --

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Marc
On Saturday 23 October 2004 11:10 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 15:54, Marc wrote: Maybe your ISP is messing about with IPV6 Try disabling it. Put alias net-pf-10 off in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and reboot. derek Maybe I am missing something but

[newbie] Re: Uptime question

2004-10-23 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2004-10-22, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1098487760-1263-160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actually, these boxes can't keep time to save their lives. I'm seeing errors in

[newbie] dvd:rip - sound tracks

2004-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
No problem using dvd:rip to rip and trancode DVD's to .avi files I can burn to CDr's. MOF, I'm surprised how well it all works, and the .avi CD's are near DVD sound and video quality. My question is about DVD's with multiple sound tracks. Ususally two in english, and one in french.

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 23 October 2004 17:50, Marc wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 11:10 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 15:54, Marc wrote: Maybe your ISP is messing about with IPV6 Try disabling it. Put alias net-pf-10 off in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 23 October 2004 01:33 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: My dumb question for the week, or day, maybe hour, anyway, how do you update from the tree?  Pick a mirror that has the 10.1 community on it or go to cooker and use one of those mirrors as the source?  This is not computing in

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 03:33, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 23 October 2004 03:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 03:33, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu,

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances are that the hdlist itself is being updated/renewed when that happensnot all mirrors are equally fast, give some

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Drew Poland
I tried disabling IPv6, didn't work for me. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:04:53 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 22 October 2004 16:09, Marc wrote: This may be on the boarder line of off topic. For about the last week about half of the web sites that I go to work

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 07:17, Drew Poland wrote: I tried disabling IPv6, didn't work for me. Why not just add a few root DNS servers to your /etc/resolv.conf and restart the networking; that way you're not always dependent on what DNS servers are being used by your ISP, eh? (Improved our

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread John Wilson
On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances are that the hdlist itself is being updated/renewed when that

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Jack
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 15:05 -0700, John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3 (without removing 3.2)

2004-10-23 Thread Jack
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:26 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Saturday 16 October 2004 08:19 pm, Jack wrote: I seem to have more recent versions and I also have Mandrake 10.1 community. I suppose that could be making a difference also. I could remove the later versions of the C compiler

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-23 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Friday 22 October 2004 07:39 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-23 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Saturday 23 October 2004 08:04 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: I keep getting things from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am well aware that I did not send this and so assume that a lot of the spam I get is from a bogus adress. Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 23 October 2004 06:05 pm, John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes