[newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Looks interesting! :-) http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT -- /\

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:42 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Looks interesting! :-) http://linuxtoday.com/security/2003040101926NWCYNT check the date of the story . alas some things are too good to be true You cain't map a sense

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:53 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Ronald: When I built this box two years ago, I bought the RAM from Mushkin. At the time, they were highly recommended on various hardware sites, but I haven't heard about them for a while. I was very pleased with the whole transaction,

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-03-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:31 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Micro$oft sux. Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) --LX Hehehehehehe, you wouldn't be you if you could have resisted that Lyvim! and I'll continue this very popular theme: Micro$oft sux vacuum hard. :-) --

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:15 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Hmm. I'm not sure what that does physically - my guess that it is slowing the memory so it is more in spec or more in tolerance to its requirements. It could be that your memory is just a tad out of tolerance vs. your motherboard - and the

[newbie] Neverwinter Nights

2003-03-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, no one else has mentioned this, so... :-) Public beta number 3 of Neverwinter Nights is out, available from the Bioware web sight. You will have to register with them to be able to download though. Now. Does anyone here actually have it working? I've bought the game, I used Icculus's

Re: [newbie] Radio

2003-03-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 March 2003 05:14 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: How to run my PixelView Station BT878p+ with Fm ? I have instaled gradio and it doeasn't work, typed that the devises don't exist what should i write: ln -s /dev/? /dev/radio Under the Mandrake Control Center, hardware, TV card. You can

Re: [newbie] Re: Radio

2003-03-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 March 2003 10:21 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: Is any body know what should symbolic linc include: ls /dev/? /dev/radio Here, I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls radio* radio@ radio0 radio1 radio2 radio3 radio4 radio5 radio6 radio7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -al radio

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:01 am, Ian Trickett wrote: Should be fine at 50C. If your memory is in 2 sticks, try taking one out. If it still crashes, switch them! If it's ok you've found your problem. Make sure you,ve got good air circulation, esp. round your vid card - they can get real hot

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 March 2003 04:24 am, Bart Salien wrote: Roland , Er, its Ronald (all my friends call me Ron) but Roland is okay - love the French hero of the same name (Durandana and Olifant!) (sp?) :-) I' m not so sure that the indication of the cpu temp. is always so accurate . A good thing

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:14 am, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: I doubt it is a memory problem. I am no hardware expert but had my share of misc. hardware problems and never had or heard of faulty memory causing immediate lock-ups. Okay, just to be clear, the immediate (2 minutes or less) lockup

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:46 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Google: Raising skinny elephants is utterly boring. There's better ways to tryin shutdown before usin the panic button ;) Well, I tried to kill out of my Xserver using control alt backspace but that didn't work so I tried control alt

[newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I'm still having some hardware problems. I installed and ran memtest overnight, about 24 passes with no errors. I grabbed and installed cpuburn 1.4 last night, then ran burnMMX. It won't run longer than 2 minutes before I get a full lockup that requires a hardware reset or powerdown and

Re: [newbie] Burning CD help

2003-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 14 March 2003 04:16 pm, K Montgomery wrote: I got that error once, and it turned out I did not have the appropriate permissions to run the /usr/bin/cdrecord command. The command was set as executable by the a certain group, but I was not a member of that group. To solve the

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:23 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: A month or two ago I bought a refill for the cartridges on an Epson 777i. It came with a floppy disk of software to install in WIndows to reset the chip so the printer would accept the refilled cartridge. I returned the entir package

Re: [newbie] console question - search all files for text-string?

2003-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 03:20 pm, ffacciola wrote: How can I verify how much RAM is installed on a PC? What about to determine the CPU type speed? Also, what does the msec* script in cron.hourly? Frank J. Facciola Hi Frank. I can't help you with msec in cron.hourly but... cat

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... I would guess so. There are some very savvy people out there. Anne If they don't know,

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're probably right about the differences in markets. My HP 930C (Hey, maybe the C stands for Chipped) is sitting in a box right now because it's too much of a hassle to deal with the cartridges. The HP carts are too expensive and

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Well Andrew, I have a question for you:

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: If they don't know, tell'em to talk to the Germans - they dropped Windows because they said that Microsoft had it setup to report stuff on their military back to our military. Sorry, forgot to add the link! :-) http://www.aaxnet.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:58 pm, David E. Fox wrote: singing... Oh the yellow rose of Kentucky la la la la la la hmm. Doesn't have the same ring. :( Heh. Neither does My old Texas Home... grin Methinks we should leave well enough alone... --

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:05 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Ron, I wouldn't know a dupe message if I fell over it. In fact I haven't seen one since I started using procmail filtering two years ago. Although I have been wondering about whats been going on with the lists the last few days. Any

[newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, about a week ago I posted a message about problems I was having with my Epson C62 printer. Just to make a long post -short-, I had used replacement inkjet carts. from Amazon Imaging. In a word -- *DON'T* I replaced them with genuine Epson carts and everything is fine again. ;-) --

[newbie] Random X crashes and freezes

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I'm still having problems with v9.0 (Powerpack) and X freezing up or quitting back to the desktop during games. I installed memtest last night, ran it for almost 12 hours, it gave no errors with 24 passes. (512 megs of DDR Ram - PNY brand) Temperature, as reported by BIOS before the test was

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 March 2003 02:20 pm, Technoslick wrote: Isn't it true on the newer inkjets that you need to apply a software 'patch' to reset the chip, or fool it, into thinking that the refill is brand new? A friend who refills her own told me she had to do this to get her own refils to work.

Re: [newbie] Random X crashes and freezes

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:49 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: et may be on to something, are you running a GL screensaver? Or any screensaver for that matter. Choose none for the screensaver and see if the problem persists. Guessing here. Well, right after I sent this (ah, the timing!!!) I figured

Re: [newbie] Random X crashes and freezes

2003-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 March 2003 02:06 pm, et wrote: APM? acpi apic? no pentium? in lilo? in bios? as a service? agp apature size? cpu /FSB clock speed? memory wait states? what does cat /proc/interrupts and cat /proc/pci APM is disabled in services. I've tried the no/off acpi and apic options

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 05:11 pm, robin wrote: I find the etch-a-sketch reboot method works well enough. Sir Robin Hey Robin. That reminds me of my old Atari days. You could call Tech support for issues with the 520 and 1040ST and they would actually tell you to lift the computer up

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I was just trying to be a nice guy this morning and gave my keyboard 1/2 a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar. Would you believe that not only did it not thank me, but it began cursing at me in some foreign language cause I could

Re: [newbie] boot messages

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:04 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: How can I see the boot messages? There seems to be something wrong and I want to check it. Thanks. JM You can type in dmesg dmesg.txt and you'll have a file in your home directory that you can look at. --

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:43 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tom: Easy for you broadband types to say, but how effective is it on plain old dialup? (I guess we're talking pph -- pints per hour -- rather than kbs). And since when is free beer OT? Maybe for those wine sipping Mac types, but

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it. Anne evil look on face I have a dishwasher here...do you suppose,

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Go on, then! - you will have the webcam set up won't you? g Anne Hehehehe, I might want to wait a bit - I'm using one of the older IBM model keyboards (clickety-clack!). Weighs about 5 pounds by itself. Methinks that could become a

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:34 am, Anne Wilson wrote: If you make it to the Huddersfield area, that's a promise Anne Thanks Anne - if we ever do make it across the big pond - deal! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:29 am, John Rye wrote: (although in my case I use the one the X still complains she never did find when she unpacked ;-{ ). Cheers John lol thats funny! --

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: speaking of keyboards... does anyone know if there are any manufactureres who still make keyboards with the characters embedded through the entire depth of the keypads ike the older models did? i'm getting tired of watching my

Re: [newbie] Disable internal firewall

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:19 pm, Ruben Sajnovetzky wrote: Hi, Sorry for the wide disturb. I have a remote machine installed by someone else. It is Mandrake 9.0 standard installation (all packages but not games). He installed with higher security level and now I can't get in even by

[newbie] Printer Hell (long post)

2003-02-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, folks - I'm having a heckuva day. Last night, I tried to print out a simple ASCII text file, created in Kedit, of a short story my 12 yr old had written for his Literature class. The teacher wanted it in a 20 pt font size. I've never tried printing that large before and never imagined all

Re: [newbie] Printer Hell (long post)

2003-02-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Go back to Webmin, it says the printer is idle, rejecting jobs. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong/happened? Better yet, how to fix it? Otherwise I guess I'm going to have

[newbie] Remote printer question

2003-02-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hey guys. I've never played much with remote printing under Linux, but my 2 boys were wanting to print out a few pictures from their comps to my Epson C62 printer on my main comp, so I tried it. I setup remote printing on their comps via the printer wizard (Cups) and it worked fine. For

Re: [newbie] Remote printer question

2003-02-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 February 2003 02:41 am, mycal62 wrote: What kind of Os do the boys run ? windows? Maybe they are not still connected on their end. No, this is straight Linux to Linux. Thanks. --

Re: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2

2003-02-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 21 February 2003 07:41 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Don't seem to be able to find the Kill icon that I'm used to having copied to the panel so that I can easily zap frozen applications. How do I set this up under 9.1? I know that I can CTL/ALT?F1-6 logon and ps -aux 'pipe' less/more and

Re: [newbie] New Galaxy theme.

2003-02-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:17 am, mycal62 wrote: Hi Craig, you can get it here : http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gal axy-kde-0.0.4-5mdk.i586.html You will also need fontconfig, and libfontconfig.so.1 first. Tried it in KDE 3.1 under 9.0 and

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card

2003-02-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:59 am, Derek Jennings wrote: In that case open MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices and check that pcmcia is set to start at boot, and if it already is then you may have an IRQ conflict between your pcmcia slot and your sound card. You can check that in KDE

Re: Sensor alarm was Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 17 February 2003 08:11 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: Hmmm...nope, still getting the same thing - /dev/video No such file or directory. Guess its time to start searching the web. Thanks anyways, Dennis. Roger, on the original thread... I tried using Gqcam with my Logitech

Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:49 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob Thanks Rob - I was searching with linux webcam :-) Anyways, I seem to

Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, Miark wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Hmm, don't know about the

[newbie] Camstream?

2003-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Bryan, I know you said you liked Camstream best of all for your Logitech 3000, but how did you ever get it installed? I tried the 26 RPM (errored out, multiple dependencies that I never could meet - too many conflicts), I tried v25 src RPM and it also errored out during the rebuild...

[newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I got a Logitech 3000 webcam now and I'd like to use it. :-) USBview shows it, as soons as I plug it in. Its listed in /proc/bus/usb/devices. KDE Center shows it in info, and here is my loaded modules: Module Size Used byTainted: P c-qcam 8056

Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:21 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I got a Logitech 3000 webcam now and I'd like to use it. :-) Er, sorry for posting to my own message (bad form and all that!) but I needed to update this. I installed Gnomemeeting and it worked, sort of. I went to its prefs

Re: [newbie] I LIKE rpmdrake 2.1

2003-02-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:47 pm, civileme wrote: Another option for the tab-top UI is to make it callable under another name like rpmdrakexaphir. It should take only a couple hours working from the python-gtk demo to do a tabbed screen that invokes each of the functions... errr

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you are answering more questions than you ask? :-) BTW, I was a newbie 5 years ago, I'm a newbie today, and 5 years from now I will

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:42 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Oh come one. I like 12 hour shifts. They are easier than 16 hour shifts. HEHE Rob You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a week. They gave me 8 hrs

Re: [newbie] Rpmdrake in 9.1 needs to be stomped and burned

2003-02-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:54 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Well, I've done searches within the newbie and expert lists for rpmdrake and I see almost no vocality on a positive note for rpmdrake 2.1. This isn't from memory, this is from a hard search for rpmdrake thru all emails I have. My

Re: [newbie] Module question?

2003-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 04:12 am, Jerry Barton wrote: Just wondering... for my own future reference (i might need to do this one day lol)... did it work? Jerry. Hi Jerry - sorry I didn't report the results back - I should have. Yes, it did work - doing all the js tests now show my USB

Re: [newbie] Strange problem with my 8.2-box

2003-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:23 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello there, I have a strange problem with my Mdk 8.2-box, after a while I lose the commandline in for example RXVT, if I open up a new one nothing comes up. Do anyone have ever heard of this or can give me an idea what I can do to

Re: [newbie] Module question?

2003-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:46 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: Cool at least i'll have an idea with the modules. I have a Saitek joystick which is totally useless now (no linux module) so i've been doing any games using the kb (and been getting quite good at it too ROFL) but I plan on

Re: [newbie] UT2003 help

2003-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:05 am, Greg Meyer wrote: This does not solve your problem, but it runs flawlessly here on a GeForce3 and 3123 drivers. What is the platform of the machine that is segfaulting, AMD or Intel? If AMD, it could be a agp issue. All 3 of the machines are AMD - runs

[newbie] UT2003 help

2003-02-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone else having problems with this game under v9.0? I can play it just -so- long then, always...it segfaults out. Whats puzzling is that this game, running under 9.0 on my 2 sons computers runs for hours flawlessly. We all use Nvidia Geforce cards. One is running the 4191 drivers, 2 are

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:46 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Nothing is wrong with wineX, I just don't use it. I stay away from the Evil Empire by not running anything that needs it. Rob Hey Rob. There has been a lot of debate for/against WineX. Its been a real Godsend for me and my boys

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:25 pm, David Jones wrote: First off hi to everyone second offi need to run Diablo 2 Lod On Linux Mandrake 9.0 i have wine installed ... i think and now donot know where to start with this I am a total newbie to linux...well not totaly i do know a little but

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 08 February 2003 02:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Yikes, just what I learn from posting first. Yes, I game, but not much, and certainly not with winex. I only play linux games. Rob I guess I missed something, somewhere, somewayWhat is wrong with WineX? It keeps me from

Re: [newbie] Connection sharing questions

2003-02-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:14 am, Lanman wrote: At least that way, you're up and running, with a fall-back firewall and masquerading config. That way you can take the time to learn Shorewall, and test it before dropping Bastille. If you don't have it, write me off-list and I'll forward

[newbie] Module question?

2003-02-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I've done man on modprobe, insmod, and depmod but I'm at a loss to understand how to get the adi module to load and then -be- loaded everytime I powerup. Using insmod results in some unresolved symbol errors modprobe seems to work, adi is then shown by lsmod depmod -a after all this,

Re: [newbie] starting mplayer

2003-02-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 06 February 2003 08:09 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi List ! I've installed Mplayer, but I can't run it. Will you have a look and maybe tell me what I am supposed to do ? Thank you very much. Hmm, first of all I never start mplayer with gmplayer - I just use plain 'ole

Re: [newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 05:31 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: OK going to ask a dumb question here. I've uninstalled stuff before that LM installs. Stuff like Oh... hm... Kwrite? Or some audio program I don't want/need? Always in the past it has occurred where as I am uninstalling, a load of

Re: [newbie] GLX gears

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 09:51 am, et wrote: I mailed her off list with the same basic answer, since i did not think explaining a pissing contest was quite the approprite thing for a list where the moderator (Todd Lyons I guess now) was attempting to keep it on topic, and was pretty sure

Re: [newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:07 am, magnet wrote: Glad you got it sorted Ronald. :) But I didn't. Well, I mean I returned my system to its prior status, I can ping between comps, NFS works again, etc, etc, but connection sharing is NOT working. SOwhat do I do to get connection

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:21 am, et wrote: ehhh.. I am the only one allowed to be holier-than-thou,,, and if you don't believe me,,, just wait till my wife gets up and she will tell you the same thing. time for some humor in this thread So who is this thou and what makes him/her so

Re: [newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: DarkLord - which version of the distro do you have? Does it have much documentation with it? I have the PowerPack and there are several .pdf manuals. If you haven't got them I'll try to find time to browse and see if there's

Re: [newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:36 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: The only way i could get mine to work was to uninstall shorewall and use an rc.firewall from the IPTABLES HOWTO. I can post the basic script if you'd like. Jerry. Again and again I see the same answer - Shorewall! It appears that

Re: [newbie] GLX gears

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:17 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:36, s wrote: oh, I love this game! :D You would! I can still remember what your lilo.conf looks (looked) like! default window size w/ screen resolution of 1280x1024x16: 30911 frames in 5.0 seconds =

Re: [newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:54 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: #!/bin/sh edit anything you want to change and save as rc.firewall in /etc/rc.d and it will start at boot. It should work right out of the box (if your interfaces are eth0 and eth1) but i'm sure there are some things you might want

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:34 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Lanman wrote: Um, Just wanted to jump in here, before everyone starts exchanging hugs and kisses (I hate it when things get mushy!), but has anyone ever considered using Samba instead of NFS? good God Lanman!

Re: [newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:06 pm, magnet wrote: Been there, T-shirt/video etc. Annoying ain't it! Your system installed shorewall. this can be turned off in the control center. It has a nasty habit of changing your system IP from 192.168.0.1 to another subnet: 192.168.1.1 then things seem

Re: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:28 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I am still learning and i would say that i am a verteran. Everyone on the list, even developers are still learning linux on a daily basis, just on different levels. Rob I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 5 years ago, I

[newbie] Connection sharing questions

2003-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I give up. How do you enable connection sharing from my main comp to the 2 comps on my Lan under v9.0 of Mandrake? Caveat: with OUT losing all other services and having my networks card changed from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1 without my permission? I lose the ability to ping, NFS, etc,

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 04:30 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Ronald, Why not send it to your very nice dear friend Saddam, to see if he can offer you a little help. I sure he would be very pleased. Saddam is not my friend, nor a friend to anyone in the civilized world... On the other hand,

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: I don't use a webcam but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any webcam, and uses stuff you might already have. I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife that I

Re: [newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:54 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: It's true that 90% of the video players available for Linux are crap, but he didn't give MPlayer a fair shot. That said, if he gets frustrated that fast, he should not be using the kind of OS that requires some actual learning. Maybe

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:02 pm, et wrote: really, your cam doing a lot of other stuff? it does not require the tape, nor does it require a lot of setup, depending on what sort of connections it has, if you down load the tape into your vhs player, you could just download it to the HD

[newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, under v8.2 of Mandrake, I simply clicked on my main computers connection sharing icon, and everything was automagically setup. Both my other comps could reach the Internet. No problems whatsoever. Now...9.0...a whole 'nother story. I clicked on connection sharing, it asked for a few

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 February 2003 06:50 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Here is mine. [derek@Derek derek]$ more /etc/exports /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw) To make it active exportfs -ra and I can mount it with [root@Derek derek]# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.45:/home /mnt/disk The NFS GUI in

Re: [newbie] RE: NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 February 2003 05:33 am, Robert Wideman wrote: NM, i stopped nfs, recreated the /etc/exports file and added the system i wanted to client from into /etc/hosts and it worked fine. Rob Ah, that was it. My /etc/hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

Re: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 February 2003 08:07 pm, Aurélio Diniz wrote: I've seen that are many applications to choose from: x-cd-roast, k3b, gnometoaster.. For a windows person kind of guy like my, x-cd-roast seems to complicated for me.. I downloaded k3b but some people said that it screwed their

[newbie] Webcams

2003-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Can anyone recommend a good webcam for use under Mandrake 9.0? I've been dying to try one but have no experience whatsoever with them. Thanks! -- /\

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 03:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip As usual, thanks for all the advice, Tom! I've got a Gef2-64mb (Abit), 167mhz memory, 200mhz core (oc's to 185/225 with ease). Altho I use it with the Xfree driver that has some 3d hardware acceleration (minus direct rendering),

Re: [newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks Todd. I have to confess I much prefer paper manuals, so I tend to check books before reading man pages. And really, this above is a prime example of why newbies often don't read them. The info is all there, but when you read

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:41 pm, et wrote: I am glad we don't have the hardware specs any more too... so now I can chime in add more memory Er, didn't notice what anyone had posted about that - was it low? I just assumed (shame on me!) that with Ram so cheap now-a-days, that everybody

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:02 pm, civileme wrote: glxgears is DEPENDENT on size of screen for performance. Make sure both screens have the same resolution and color depth, then run glxgears from an Eterm and full size the glxgears screen, wait 3 minutes then kill it and you should have a

[newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, like a lot of people, I liked install and remove integrated together but I can live with them being split up...BUT Many, many times I go to install a package and it says: Everything already installed (is it supposed to be like that?) As su, I issued a rpm --rebuilddb, but it didn't

Re: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 February 2003 03:24 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Try this (as root) to completely rebuild the rpm db. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* ( ^^ that's two underscores ) rpm --rebuilddb Thanks Tom - and to everyone else who replied! :-) --

[newbie] Logitech Wingman/USB joystick question.

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Is there a good howto on getting this to work? I can plug it in to my USB port and it shows up, recognized and everything in USB View. Do I have to load some modules 'n stuff? Also, what games support Linux joysticks? Thanks much! --

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 06:54 am, Frank Mertens wrote: The United States are about to start a war without of consideration for international law. If you want to speak against it, the UN are collecting signatures to work against this tragically event. Please do copy this e-mail to a new mail,

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 10:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Don't know about that, but a Duron is very throttled back compared with an Athlon, so perhaps it's a case of what you gained in one place you lost in another. Anne Hi Anne. I knew a Duron is lite beer compared to a regular Athlon but I

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 11:14 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: Dennis, unless you have exactly the same processes running on both systems you can not really do a true comparison. Well, they are both running v9.0 of Mandrake with the same kind of setup. Only software diff. that I know of is the

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 12:20 pm, Charlie wrote: Lot's of variables, not enough for me to base anything other than these SIWAGes on. (semi intelligent wild @$$ guesses) :-) Regards; Ha - those are the finest kind! grin (and thanks for the reply) --

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: As root edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. Reboot the machine and the DNS resolution should start working ok. ps there are full details in the archives somewhere (errata) HTH Anne Anne, I've got this

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 12:33 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: mode=1x, 2x, 3x, 4x and with newest high end cards 8x Both your cards should be set for 4x grin I thought thats what you meant but didn't want to show my, ah ignorance... :-) Anyways, yes - both are set to 4x mode. But hell if

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