Re: [newbie] M 8.x configuring lilo & aurora, Xconfig

2001-09-23 Thread Miark

Michal,

The default installation would have installed the "Control Center" for both KDE and 
Gnome,
and put an icon on your desktop for it. Use that to change from Auorora to text and 
vice
versa. Ditto with LILO and Grub.

And if you installed X, you should already have Xconfigurator installed. If you've 
tried
unsuccessfully to run it, it may be because you weren't root.

Miark

- Original Message -
From: "Michal Hrtko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 11:31 PM
Subject: [newbie] M 8.x configuring lilo & aurora, Xconfig


> Hi,
>
> I have there two similar questions:
> 1; in default installation M8 is configuring tool for booting to aurora
> (or old style), and switching to Grub or Lilo etc.
> Which .rpm contains this tool (I can't remember the name) , or how
> should I change it manually?
> 2; dtto, where is Xconfigurator, or how to change the resolution
> manually?
>
> Thanks all,
> Michal.
>
>
>





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[newbie] M 8.x configuring lilo & aurora, Xconfig

2001-09-23 Thread Michal Hrtko

Hi,

I have there two similar questions:
1; in default installation M8 is configuring tool for booting to aurora
(or old style), and switching to Grub or Lilo etc.
Which .rpm contains this tool (I can't remember the name) , or how
should I change it manually?
2; dtto, where is Xconfigurator, or how to change the resolution
manually?

Thanks all,
Michal.




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Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-23 Thread Paul

In reply to Dylan's words, written Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:42:14 -0700

>When I try this, I get the following error:
>
>Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC
>
>How do I resolve this?
>
>TIA

At www.bastille.org (or something like that) you can find this one, and also
another you need (both in RPM).

Paul

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[newbie] Samba- I want to shared my windows folders with linux

2001-09-23 Thread Roderick Scotto

hi ppl!

I had successfully managed to share my linux folders with  other win98 
machines usinf Samba. Now I would lik eto share my already shared Win 98 
folders with a Linux Mandarke 7.1 machine.

thanks in advanced

regards
Roderick Scotto

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Re: [newbie] no mas email

2001-09-23 Thread Randy Kramer

Carlos,

Yo hablo un poco Espanol.  (But not very well.)

Por favor, lee
http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists,
especialmente the section "En Espanol".

Randy Kramer


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> 
> Por favor no enviarmarme mas email
> 
> Gracias
> 
> alquien que les diga a esta compañia que no envien mas email a
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Gracias,
> 
> Carlos A



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[newbie] no mas email

2001-09-23 Thread Hispanicbaptist
Por favor no enviarmarme mas email

Gracias

alquien que les diga a esta compañia que no envien mas email a

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gracias,

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[newbie] Unstoppable progress

2001-09-23 Thread samurai

Nothing can stand in Linux's way!  We'll emulate 'em if we have to!  Another brick in 
the road to World Domination: 

"The SirCam virus runs properly under WINE, with a few omissions. It does not 
properly create registry entries 
to make itself launch at boot. Also, it did not e-mail itself out to others, but that 
is partly due to not having Outlook 
installed under WINE at the time of testing. Thus I am not sure if this part of the 
program works correctly or not. What 
does work correctly is extracting the embedded document into your temporary folder."

http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=277
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Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Marcia

Dear Tim, I have tried your suggestions and I just get invalid commands and
that there are no kde or enlightement files anywhere. I used the rm command
exactly as you wrote and I just got an invalid command. Is there anything
else that can be done? Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Marcia
- Original Message -
From: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux


> What was the command typed then?  If the command was typed out
> correctly, it woul have worked just fine.
>
> rm -Rf ~/.kde
>
> This wil remove the directory that keeps all the PERSONAL kde configs on
> your machine.  If you get rid of that, you should be able to basically
> start all over with out them, and they will be made as you start to
> login.
>
> You said you can't load any other windows managers either.  How did you
> go about loading them?  If you're in level 3, you'll have to edit the
> ~/.xinitrc to load the right windows manager.
>
> Try editing your ~/.xinitrc to load another windows manager.  Try these
> commands.
>
> [timh@r2d2 timh]$ which enlightenment
> /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment
> [timh@r2d2 timh]$ echo "exec enlightenment" > ~/.xinitrc
> [timh@r2d2 timh]$ chmod +x ~/.xinitrc
>
> After you've done that, run xinit or startx.  You should then load
> Enlightenment.  Just click the middle mouse button and then select "Log
> Out" to get out of Enlightenment.  That will prove that X is running
> fine, and it's KDE that's the problem.  But I do believe if you run the
> correct command, (rm -Rf ~/.kde) your problem will be fixed.
> tdh
>
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>   
> | Dear All, Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions. Civilme, I
tried
> | your solution below, however I just got an erro message that it was an
> | incorrect command. I was able to get to a console though through F3 I
> | believe and found my files in text mode. It seemed that I was able to
move
> | around there without a problem but I cannot get KDE up or any other
window
> | manager. Since I can get into my filesystem through the console what can
I
> | do about repairing my X, window managers or whatever is truly wrong
here.
> | Thanks for your help.
> |
> | Sincerely,
> |
> | Marcia
> |
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-23 Thread Dennis Myers

On Sunday 23 September 2001 16:42, you wrote:
> When I try this, I get the following error:
>
> Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC
>
> How do I resolve this?
>
> TIA
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 8:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall
>
> On Saturday 22 September 2001 19:35, you wrote:
> > I have setup my firewall (iptables) with the control center in
>
> mandrake
>
> > 8. It works great untill I reboot and I see that all are set back to
> > allow all. What is up with that? How do I get the rules to stick?
>
> 
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> I don't know the answer to your problem, but I might suggest that you go
>
> to su console and then cd to /sbin and type in "InteractiveBastille" go
> through the setup with that select no for file limits question, and the
> settings should stick.  It is fairly descriptive as it asks you what you
>
> want to do to set the firewall up. HTH


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OK, you are probably running the bastille program that was on the CDs, and 
this is a release candidate. It works fine, but if you want the final 
version go to the bastille web site and down load it from there. Paying 
attention to the instructions.  So back to your problem.. it looks like 
you do not have the Bastille-Tk * files. These do not appear to 
autmatically load on install. So go into the mandrake software manager and 
do a search for Bastille-Tk* and load that file. then try the 
InteractiveBastille  again. HTH  

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Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-23 Thread Leif Madsen

On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:51, you wrote:
> At 12:26 PM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -=>
>
> > > portsentry.*: UDP scan
> >
> >OK.. I've tried adding all the entries you've given me, but the log files
> > are all coming the same way as before.
>
> hm I think I put a ":" where there should be a "."
>
> Try "portsentry.*. UDP scan"
>
> without the quotes of course
>
> >I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in
> >logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is.
>
> I have all the logcheck files in the same dir.  Check the docs as to the
> exact files that you should be seeing

H no such luck unfortunately :(



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Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-23 Thread Ed Kasky

At 12:26 PM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -=>
> > portsentry.*: UDP scan
>
>OK.. I've tried adding all the entries you've given me, but the log files are
>all coming the same way as before.

hm I think I put a ":" where there should be a "."

Try "portsentry.*. UDP scan"

without the quotes of course

>I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in
>logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is.

I have all the logcheck files in the same dir.  Check the docs as to the 
exact files that you should be seeing

Ed
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Re: [newbie] Boot Errors

2001-09-23 Thread Barry Premeaux

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:59:54 -0400, Barry Premeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > >
> > > > "mount:  wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> > > > superblock on none, or too many mounted file
> > > > systems"
> > >
> > > Do you know what partition this applies to?
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Don't delete these. They are essential for normal system operation.
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Your attached /etc/fstab looks mostly fine to me (BTW, please quote inline
> and
> > > _do not_ send attachments to the list). You should probably add ",notail"
> > > immediately after the word "defaults" for the ReiserFS mounts. This will
> provide
> > > extra data security and speed. Default ReiserFS mounts are not recommended.
> Are
> > > you sure that the mount points are correct?
> >
> >
> > I apologize for the attachment.  The mount
> > points are correct.
> >
> > /dev/hda5 /
> > /dev/hda7 /home
> > /dev/hda6 /var
> >
> > During boot up, the error message flashes up
> > twice.  First after "Checking Filesystems"
> > and again after the "Random Number Generator
> > Started" and "Mounting other filesystems".
> > In the Syslog, the message shows up only
> > once:
> >
> > "21:27:50 localhost   kernel  Floppy
> > drive(s):  fd) is 1.44M"
> > "21:27:50 localhost   kernel  FDC 0 is a
> > post-1991 82077"
> > "21:27:50 localhost   mount   mount: wrong fs
> > type, bad option, bad superblock on none,"
> > "21:27:50 localhost   mount   or too many
> > mounted file systems"
> >
> > If I am interpreting this correctly, it seems
> > to be trying to mount one of the "none" lines
> > following /mnt/floppy.  I don't know which
> > one though:
> >
> > "none /proc proc defaults 0 0"
> 
> Definitely not this one. I have an identical line on my system.
> 
> > or the next line
> >
> > "none/dev/shm   tmpfs
> > defaults0 0"
> 
> I've never seen this one before, but it looks important. Try commenting-out the
> line by placing a # in front of it.
> 
> > With regards to ",notail", should that read:
> >
> > "/dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults,notail 1 1"
> 
> Yes. Add the "notail" option to all your ReiserFS mount settings.
> 
> > Thank you for the help.
> >
> > Barry
> 
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
> 
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Commenting out the second "none" cleared the
mount errors during boot.  Added the
",notail" while I was at it.  Thanks again
for the help.  I did find an empty directory
called "/dev/shm" and a 0 byte file called
"shmiq" under "/dev".  I guess I'll have to
wait and see what may be broke with that line
commented out.  

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RE: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

2001-09-23 Thread Dylan Taylor

When I try this, I get the following error:

Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC

How do I resolve this?

TIA

-Original Message-
From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 8:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center firewall

On Saturday 22 September 2001 19:35, you wrote:
> I have setup my firewall (iptables) with the control center in
mandrake
> 8. It works great untill I reboot and I see that all are set back to
> allow all. What is up with that? How do I get the rules to stick?


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I don't know the answer to your problem, but I might suggest that you go

to su console and then cd to /sbin and type in "InteractiveBastille" go 
through the setup with that select no for file limits question, and the 
settings should stick.  It is fairly descriptive as it asks you what you

want to do to set the firewall up. HTH
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Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Tim Holmes

What was the command typed then?  If the command was typed out
correctly, it woul have worked just fine.

rm -Rf ~/.kde

This wil remove the directory that keeps all the PERSONAL kde configs on
your machine.  If you get rid of that, you should be able to basically
start all over with out them, and they will be made as you start to
login.

You said you can't load any other windows managers either.  How did you
go about loading them?  If you're in level 3, you'll have to edit the
~/.xinitrc to load the right windows manager.

Try editing your ~/.xinitrc to load another windows manager.  Try these
commands.

[timh@r2d2 timh]$ which enlightenment
/usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ echo "exec enlightenment" > ~/.xinitrc 
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ chmod +x ~/.xinitrc 

After you've done that, run xinit or startx.  You should then load
Enlightenment.  Just click the middle mouse button and then select "Log
Out" to get out of Enlightenment.  That will prove that X is running
fine, and it's KDE that's the problem.  But I do believe if you run the
correct command, (rm -Rf ~/.kde) your problem will be fixed.
tdh

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  4:18pm  up 1 day, 20:01,  3 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00
  
| Dear All, Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions. Civilme, I tried
| your solution below, however I just got an erro message that it was an
| incorrect command. I was able to get to a console though through F3 I
| believe and found my files in text mode. It seemed that I was able to move
| around there without a problem but I cannot get KDE up or any other window
| manager. Since I can get into my filesystem through the console what can I
| do about repairing my X, window managers or whatever is truly wrong here.
| Thanks for your help.
| 
| Sincerely,
| 
| Marcia
|
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Re: [newbie] kde locks up

2001-09-23 Thread s

On Sunday 23 September 2001 03:50 pm,  civileme wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2001 18:48, s wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I installed 8.0 freq3 on my husband's amd k6-2 450 machine and it runs
> > fine (if a little sluggish) when being used, but if it sets unattended -
> > kde locks up so hard that I can't even ctrl+alt+backspace or alt+SysRq+b.

> > Let's see, he's got: 192 mb ram & ~200 mb swap
> > some kind of sis chip on unidentified mobo

> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > TIA,
> > -s
>
> SiS5598 on a PC100 Mobo?
>
> I would guess off-hand that the power supply voltages need to be checked.
> 2.2 is right for K6 speed 450 or higher.  Another gimmick is to
> underclock--set the speed jumpers to 95 on the buss and from 450 to 400 for
> the processor.  That is a weak board with a marginal chipset, the last of
> the really bad ones SiS built.  If it is instead a 530 but still a PCChips
> board, check power supply and check memory--they built a lot with too few
> inductors on board.
>
> Civileme

Yep I think 5598 it is.  Ummm, if the voltages are off...? 

I will try the gimmick tomorrow (as he's off and glued to it today).  When he 
bought the thing it was over clocked to 500mhz.  It crashed all the time.  We 
reinstalled windows two or three times before I figured this out and set it 
to 450.   It was a little better until the fan started acting up.  But it's 
so slow as it is, I just may have to pay a visit to my favorite on-line shops.

Thanks alot,
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Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Marcia

Dear All, Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions. Civilme, I tried
your solution below, however I just got an erro message that it was an
incorrect command. I was able to get to a console though through F3 I
believe and found my files in text mode. It seemed that I was able to move
around there without a problem but I cannot get KDE up or any other window
manager. Since I can get into my filesystem through the console what can I
do about repairing my X, window managers or whatever is truly wrong here.
Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Marcia
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From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux


> On Sunday 23 September 2001 03:17, Marcia L Waller wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Last night I was using Netscape and minimized my window while I was
> > working on something else. I forgot that I had Netscape open and opened
> > it again and got the usual warning message that someone else is using
it.
> > I realized then I was already on and shut that message down. I tried to
> > find my other open one at the bottom bar but it was gone it seemed. I
> > thought that I would just shut down and things should be OK. I did then
> > opened Netscape and it thought I should sign up again and put my info
> > into preferences as if I was never on it before. I canceled that and
> > decided to shut down again. When I turned it on that time I went through
> > the start up fine got to the login and after logging in it waited 20
> > minutes with the arrow on the blue screen before it finally gave me an
> > error message which said:
> >
> >  "There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.
> > The mesage returned by the wystem was: Could not read network connection
> > list. /home/marcia.DCOPServer cdm-208-215-124-bntv-:0
> > Please check that the "dcop server" is running!
> >
> > It has been the same story since. Does anyone have ideas how I can fix
> > this without losing everything and installing again? I have had Linux
> > Mandrake 8 for awhile and had just about everything fine tuned and
> > working well plus some great new programs that I did not get to back up
> > yet. It took my a month to get cups printing to work right with my Epson
> > Stylus Color. I definitely do not want to reinstall. Any suggestion will
> > be great suggested.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Marcia
>
>
> Marcia
>
> Just hit escape when you see the lilo boot screen and type
>
> linux 3
>
> When the system comes up, then login in _Console_ mode and
> type this
>
> rm -r ~/.kde -f
>
> startx
>
> You will have to restore a few personal settings but otherwise should be
OK.
>
> Civileme
>
>






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Re: [newbie] CD Rom not working with KDE CD Player

2001-09-23 Thread Dennis Myers

On Sunday 23 September 2001 15:23, you wrote:
> Greetings all. I'm running LM8. I have recently installed a CD-RW, which
> is the master drive, and my pre-existing CD Rom is slave. So, the CD-RW
> is hdc and the CD Rom is hdd. My problem is that I can't play CDs with
> KDE's CD Player. It works with hdc, but not with hdd. Is this because
> this is not the master drive? (I have changed the configuration in CD
> Player to read dev/hdd). Any help appreciated.
> Stan


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did you change the jumpers on the back of the CDplayer to "slave"? If so 
and if you are using KDE try creating a new icon on the desk top pointed 
to your CDROM. HTH
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Re: [newbie] CD Rom not working with KDE CD Player

2001-09-23 Thread Charles A Edwards

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:23:33 -0400
Stan Lockaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings all. I'm running LM8. I have recently installed a CD-RW, which is 
> the master drive, and my pre-existing CD Rom is slave. So, the CD-RW is hdc 
> and the CD Rom is hdd. My problem is that I can't play CDs with KDE's CD 
> Player. It works with hdc, but not with hdd. Is this because this is not the 
> master drive? (I have changed the configuration in CD Player to read 
> dev/hdd). Any help appreciated.
> Stan 
> 
> 

Unless your sndcard has more than 1 connection. sush as does the SBLive,
and you have audio cables attached to both cdrom and your cd-rw then you will
only be able to play cds from the one drive.

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[newbie] CD Rom not working with KDE CD Player

2001-09-23 Thread Stan Lockaby

Greetings all. I'm running LM8. I have recently installed a CD-RW, which is 
the master drive, and my pre-existing CD Rom is slave. So, the CD-RW is hdc 
and the CD Rom is hdd. My problem is that I can't play CDs with KDE's CD 
Player. It works with hdc, but not with hdd. Is this because this is not the 
master drive? (I have changed the configuration in CD Player to read 
dev/hdd). Any help appreciated.
Stan 



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[newbie] kde locks up

2001-09-23 Thread s

Hi all,
I installed 8.0 freq3 on my husband's amd k6-2 450 machine and it runs fine 
(if a little sluggish) when being used, but if it sets unattended - kde locks 
up so hard that I can't even ctrl+alt+backspace or alt+SysRq+b.  I turned off 
trying to use screensaver (which didn't work), and moved the sliders to 
disable in the power saving, but didn't help.   Time isn't consistant, for 
example: sometimes it takes 3 hours, sometimes 20 minutes.  (I didn't install 
any other window managers due to space constraints, so can't see if it would 
do it gnome.)

Let's see, he's got: 192 mb ram & ~200 mb swap
some kind of sis chip on unidentified mobo
pci Voodoo2 3000
on-board C-media? sound (I didn't build this thing)
isa creative modemblaster
pci linksys fast ethernet? (uses tulip)
maxtor as hda with /boot, / and /home
seagate as hdb with /usr and /var,  all reiserfs

Umm, he was having an overheating problem, but with new fans and leaving the 
sides off, it runs consistantly at 52 degrees Celcius now.  Windows doesn't 
lock up, so I don't think it's the processor, but wanted to include 
this anyway for consideration.  

Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA,
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[newbie] Need to verify numeric value in bash script

2001-09-23 Thread Randy Sweeten

I'm writing a bash script to process a CSV file of billing records.  I need 
to check the last field of each record to make sure it is a numeric value, 
not a alpha character.

I can do all kinds of things to work with the specific field; I can even 
output the field to a seperate file.  I just can't figure out how to test for 
a numeric value.  I tried expr, but could not get that to work; it showed an 
error fo all of my tests.  And awk just passed over the error I planted in 
the test.

According to the book I'm using as a guide, expr should do 
it.   Maybe I've got the syntax wrong.

I've tried:
   expr $Value + 1
   It always gets a syntax error.  It is supposed to get an error like "expr: 
non-numeric argument" when $Value is non-numeric, but instead it always gets 
the error even if it is numeric.

Any suggestions?  



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RE: [newbie] open ports: explanation requested

2001-09-23 Thread Franki

you should forget most of what a localhost scan reveals.

if you have a firewall, get that running, and then from another computer on
the net, scan your computer over the internt.

then if you have ports open that you don't want, configure your firewall to
block them. (and open a console and run ntsysv to see what you have running,
and uncheck anything you don't want running... and if you are not sure what
something does, highlight it in ntsysv and press F1, which will popup an
explanation box for you.

many parts of a linux system communicate via ports... and if you closed them
to localhost, then you would find a good many of them stop working, (like
X11).

It doesn't matter if the ports are visable to localhost, the only danger is
if they are visable to the internet (and possibly to your lan if you have
one and don't trust your users.) a well configured firewall would stop both
cases.

Also, even if you do close all the stuff you don't use, you should still
have a firewall, as sometimes running mandrake update will update a server
app, and set it to start on boot again,, so you never know when you will
want your firewall...

no computer should be on the net without one. (particularly if the words
Microsoft appear anywhere in the bootup screens.)

rgds

Frank

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of WCBaker
Sent: Monday, 24 September 2001 12:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] open ports: explanation requested


Hi!

I have some open ports, as indicated by an nmap localhost scan.

2 main questions:
a) Is there a console or terminal command that lets me shut a port down?
and another command to reinstate the port ?

b) Can anyone take a moment to explain whether these are necessary:
port 111   sunrpc  (what is sunrpc?)
617 & port 631 Unknown(likely these are eth0 and lo, my ethernet and
cable connections??)
1024 kdm   (is this kde's connection?   can I make this stealth instead of
an open port??)
1026 nterm (can I make this stealth?)
6000 X11   (can I make this stealth?)

Thanks for your time!

Cheers!

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Re: [newbie] does anyone want this??

2001-09-23 Thread Tim Holmes

DShield.org asked for the logs pertaining to the CodeRed and CodeRed II
attacks.  I'm not sure if they're asking for things having to do with
Nimda.  Check their webpage, they may way those as well.

My cable provider shutdown port 80 and port 443 after the fiasco from
CodeRed, so I don't have anything in my log coming through port 80.

Also check incidents.org, they may want the logs as well.
tdh

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"Real Men Use Vi!"

Uptime: 
  
 12:55pm  up 1 day, 16:38,  3 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01
  
| Hi all,
| 
| Is there anyone or company that would want a list of over 3500 unique IP
| address's of servers infected with code red, code red II or other variants
| or Nimda???
| 
| Someone who is not a hacker???
| 
| Is there a place where you can submit this things that will try to inform
| the company in question???
| 
| just thought they may be of some use to a security company...
| 
| rgds
| 
| Frank
| 
| 
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Re: [newbie] open ports: explanation requested

2001-09-23 Thread WCBaker

Hi!

I have some open ports, as indicated by an nmap localhost scan.

2 main questions:
a) Is there a console or terminal command that lets me shut a port down?
and another command to reinstate the port ?

b) Can anyone take a moment to explain whether these are necessary:
port 111   sunrpc  (what is sunrpc?)
617 & port 631 Unknown(likely these are eth0 and lo, my ethernet and
cable connections??)
1024 kdm   (is this kde's connection?   can I make this stealth instead of
an open port??)
1026 nterm (can I make this stealth?)
6000 X11   (can I make this stealth?)

Thanks for your time!

Cheers!

-warren




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Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-23 Thread Leif Madsen

On Sunday 23 September 2001 12:26, you wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2001 09:59, you wrote:
> > At 01:15 AM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -=>
> >
> > >Sep 23 00:47:12 home portsentry[1073]: attackalert: UDP scan from host:
> > >dhcp1.cgocable.net/24.xxx.x.xx to UDP port: 68
> >
> > Try adding the following to ../logcheck.ignore
> >
> > portsentry.*: UDP scan
>
> OK.. I've tried adding all the entries you've given me, but the log files
> are all coming the same way as before.
>
> I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in
> logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is.

Oh yah.. well.. all the UDP and Host scans are still coming up (anything that 
is an "attackalert", but the mail has been filtered out.  So I'm editing the 
right file, but it's not allowing me to filter out the UDP scans...?



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[newbie] how do I set lilo.conf for 3 cdroms,USB burner?

2001-09-23 Thread etharp

in my box, I have hda as winders and /home (8 gig hd), hdb is a dvd-dcrom, 
hdc is my (winders d: (data)and LM /) second hard drive, hdd is a plain ide 
cdrom, and my USB cdwriter shows up as scd0. I would like to edit my lilo and 
what ever else to be able to emulate scsi on the other cdroms, so as to be 
able to see (and read) them as a scsi device. could anyone correct my 
"append" statement in lilo so I do not get an error message about the line 
when I run lilo as an executable to update? It sees the usb writer just fine 
as both scsi 0,0,0, and as /mnt/cdrom3, and reads fine from /mnt/cdrom3.
The current line reads;
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc5
append=scd0=ide-scsi "quiet" "hdb=ide-scsi" "hdd=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only


the error I get after running lilo (as root) is;
" Syntax error near line 15 in file /etc/lilo.conf"

line fifteen is the append statement.



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Re: [newbie] CD Burning of ISOs

2001-09-23 Thread Dennis Myers

On Saturday 22 September 2001 13:55, you wrote:
> Es Saturday 22 September 2001 16:15, Dennis Myers va escriure:
> > Can someone explain what to do with gtoaster to burn a usable image
> > from an ISO. (If I'm saying that right) or put another way, I want to
> > burn the 8.1rc1 ISOs to a bootable CD to install on a spare HD. Is
> > there a special tag that you click in gtoaster or  Gcombust to do
> > this. I know you make a selection to do it in windows on Adaptec CD
> > creator, but don't know how to handle it in gtoaster. Thanks for any
> > help.
>
> I use gcombust.  No special instructions for it, just select iso file
> and burn it!  ;)

Joan, I tried gcombust but still just made a copy of the iso. There must 
be a toggle  or something to make a regular CD.  Anyone have an Idea.
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Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-23 Thread Leif Madsen

On Sunday 23 September 2001 09:59, you wrote:
> At 01:15 AM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -=>
>
> >Sep 23 00:47:12 home portsentry[1073]: attackalert: UDP scan from host:
> >dhcp1.cgocable.net/24.xxx.x.xx to UDP port: 68
>
> Try adding the following to ../logcheck.ignore
>
> portsentry.*: UDP scan

OK.. I've tried adding all the entries you've given me, but the log files are 
all coming the same way as before.

I am editing the /etc/logcheck/ignore file which I've checked the path in 
logcheck.sh to make sure it's pointing there.. which it is.

Idea's?

Thanks.



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Re: [newbie] sound blaster live

2001-09-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall

s wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am,  Paul Rodríguez wrote:
> > I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the
> > box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right?  What I mean by this is installing a
> > new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think).
> > If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card
> > *after* I have already installed the os?
> >
> > -Paul Rodríguez
> 
> Just make sure kudzu or hardware detection is turned on in services before
> you shut down to install.  As an alternative, you might try sndconfig after
> booting.
> -s

Hi Paul. Hi s. ;-)

Here, under my setup, when using the graphical logon, I had to drop to a
shell, and run "kudzu" as root to detect new hardware.

Now, since I don't do a graphical logon (I've got a Nvidia Geforce, and kdm
kills 3D accel.), kudzu kicks in automagically.

Just a thought...

PS Do run sndconfig, it should set u right up.

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Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall

Joan Tur wrote:
> 
> What program do you use to read and write from the news lists?  I'm thinking
> on reading messages from Fido again...  ;)
> 
> Thanks!
> --
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Re: [newbie] Checking on port 80 scans?

2001-09-23 Thread Leif Madsen



On Sunday 23 September 2001 09:59, you wrote:
> At 01:15 AM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -=>
>
> >Sep 23 00:47:12 home portsentry[1073]: attackalert: UDP scan from host:
> >dhcp1.cgocable.net/24.xxx.x.xx to UDP port: 68
>
> Try adding the following to ../logcheck.ignore
>
> portsentry.*: UDP scan

OK added.. we'll see if it works in 5 minutes :)

> >Sep 23 00:47:12 home portsentry[1073]: attackalert: Host:
> >dhcp1.cgocable.net/24.xxx.x.xx is already blocked Ignoring
>
> You may want to find out why this host is doing what it is doing.  Have you
> done an nslookup on the ip and contacted the owner?

My belief is that it's my cable internet provider pinging me.  cgocable.com 
is Cogeco cable (who I have internet through) and am setup for dhcp from them 
(dynamic IP's)

> >Sep 23 00:45:00 home postfix/pickup[3669]: 887BF2BADC: uid=0 from=
> >Sep 23 00:45:00 home postfix/cleanup[4791]: 887BF2BADC:
> >message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sep 23 00:45:00 home postfix/qmgr[1605]: 887BF2BADC:
> >from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=20502, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> >Sep 23 00:45:01 home postfix/smtp[4793]: 887BF2BADC:
> >to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >relay=mail.plannettechnologies.com[216.36.196.159], delay=1, status=sent
> > (250 XAA02069 Message accepted for delivery)
>
> Try these and see what happens.  I am not familiar with postfix.  I use
> sendmail
>
> postfix/pickup.*uid
> postfix/cleanup.*message-id
> postfix/qmgr.*from
> post/smtp.*to

Yah, I think this is just logcheck.sh actually being run and sending me email

> Hope this helps.

It does.. thanks!



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Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.5...?

2001-09-23 Thread Leif Madsen

That would be correct.  The odd numbers are development kernels, and the even 
numbers are release kernels.  So 2.5.x ; 2.7.x ; 2.9.x are development, 2.6.x 
; 2.8.x wold be release.

On Sunday 23 September 2001 08:22, you wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:13:15 -0300
> "Nicolás Gómez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
> If I'm not mistaken, Nicolas, the 2.5.x series will be development
> kernels, not genuine "release" kernels.  IOW, it will be for developers
> and kernel hackers, the way the 2.3 series had been.  Most likely the next
> release kernel will be 2.6.0 and I have no idea when that might happen.
> Heck, I'm still using 2.2.19 on most of my boxes (I have one old laptop
> still using 2.2.5 ;-) ).



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Re: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

2001-09-23 Thread etharp

my bet is that until you read about PCTel opening up the source, and that 
won't happen until after M$ opens their source for the windows9x kernel.  
(read: NEvEr). I believe it has MUCH less to do with linux and it's 
development that it does with the DCMA and US law. (we in America are out to 
make friends and influence people to be our friends, as long as you don't 
talk about how sloppy our methods of encryption are or try to "steal" our 
corporate secrets. heck maybe we could solve the terrorist problem by 
checking Bin Ladens  licenses for M$ products?)  

On Sunday 23 September 2001 06:43, you wrote:
> I run the Radeon 64Mb DDR card under Linux-Mandrake 7.2 without incident.
>
> Is there any change with "winmodem" in either 8.0 or 8.1?
>
> I would like to just plug and play with my winmodem without having to get a
> new real modem.

you might be pleased with the improvments in getting winmodems to work (but 
really is not plug and pray), but you might also like the way M$winders runs 
after you get rid of the PCTel modem and the software that goes with it (not 
just the driver, but other PCTel stuff loaded at the same time as the 
driver). Just my experiance. I am sure PCTel MUST have gotten better since I 
dealt with them, since I have not bought another PCTel or HSP modem in about 
4 years, and still have 2 hanging around the house, not in any box, but my 
personal feelings are that I would NOT give one of these away to an enemy, 
much less sell it to someone I don't even know on e-bay.  



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RE: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...

2001-09-23 Thread Keith Lynn

No that won't make it run 12 times an hour. That will make it run 12
minutes after each hour. One way I have seen it done is with  */12 or you
can use the brute force method and list a comma delimited set of minutes
per hour in which to run the job.

Keith Lynn
Systems Administrator
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36608
Phone: (334) 460-6390
Fax: (334) 460-7274
Alternative E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/


On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Franki wrote:

> cool,, mcedit makes much more sense to me then vi (though I should probably
> learn to use it at some stage.. at present I use mcedit or pico for
> everything..)
> 
> anyway, if I want to run it every five minutes... is this the right format?
> 
> 12 * * * * /sbin/nimda
> 
> ie run it 12 times an hour?? is that right? or does that run it 12 times a
> minute??
> 
> rgds
> 
> Frank
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith Lynn
> Sent: Sunday, 23 September 2001 9:59 PM
> To: Franki
> Cc: NEWBIE Mandrake List
> Subject: Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...
> 
> 
> The way I do it is to export the editor that I use as the default editor,
> export EDITOR=pico, and then do crontab -e.
> 
> Keith Lynn
> Systems Administrator
> School of Computer and Information Sciences
> University of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36608
> Phone: (334) 460-6390
> Fax: (334) 460-7274
> Alternative E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
> 
> 
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Franki wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been trying to add an entry to contab for root on my mdk 7.2
> system..
> >
> > when I type crontab -e it brings up a screen with an entry at the top and
> > one at the bottom and a funny ~ char at the start of all the lines in
> > between.
> >
> > like so:
> >
> >
> > 0 * * * * /etc/iscan/prescan.cgi >/dev/null 2>&1
> > ~
> > ~
> >
> > I cut out a heap of these characters, but you get the point.
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~
> > ~
> > "/tmp/crontab.16832" 1L, 49C
> >
> > I can't seem to add one and I really need to.
> >
> > I want to add something like:
> >
> > 05 * * * * /sbin/nimda >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > so that it runs my scan that adds nimda and code red clients to my
> ipchains
> > rules to block them...
> >
> > it needs to run alot so I figure that every five minutes would be good.
> > (have I done that right?)
> >
> > can anyone tell me why I can't enter anything?  and can't I just edit a
> file
> > with mcedit?
> >
> > I can move the cursur to the start and end of the top line, but nowhere
> > else, and I can't get a newline (also, I am trying to do this via ssh as
> > root.)
> >
> >
> > any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 




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Re: [newbie] Console Tool to replace rpmdrake

2001-09-23 Thread Mohammed Arafa

rpm or urpmi
- Original Message -
From: "Patrick Meisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: [newbie] Console Tool to replace rpmdrake


> Hi,
> is there a tool like rpmdrake which does not need X?
>
> Patrick
>
>
>






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RE: [newbie] Console Tool to replace rpmdrake

2001-09-23 Thread Michael Spivak

It's 'urpmi'
Just type 'man urpmi', and read the help ...

-Original Message-
From: Patrick Meisel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Console Tool to replace rpmdrake


Hi,
is there a tool like rpmdrake which does not need X?

Patrick





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RE: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...

2001-09-23 Thread Franki

Thanks guys, I got that added, export works fine...
just gotta get the format right so it runs every 5 minutes.

also, if for some reason it hasn't finished running from the previous time,
is there a way to stop it running again?

I don't want to crash my system by having 200 copies running by tomorrow
morning... (actually, at every 5 minutes, it would no doubt happen much
sooner then tomorrow morning..)


rgds

Frank

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Kasky
Sent: Sunday, 23 September 2001 10:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...


Crontab is working - what you are seeing is the vi editor

Not my favorite editor in the world that's for sure.  ;-)

In order to be able to edit the file, press the insert key - you will see
--INSERT-- at the bottom of the screen.  (F1 brings up the help screen.)

once you are done editing, press "esc" then ":" the "wq" for write/quit.
If you did the steps correctly you will see a message that indicates a new
crontab has been installed...

O'Reilly puts out a good pocket reference fo rthe vi editor.  I think I
picked one up for $5 US or so...

Ed
~~
At 09:53 PM Sunday, 9/23/2001, you wrote -=>
>Hi all,
>
>I have been trying to add an entry to contab for root on my mdk 7.2
system..
>
>when I type crontab -e it brings up a screen with an entry at the top and
>one at the bottom and a funny ~ char at the start of all the lines in
>between.
>
>like so:
>
>
>0 * * * * /etc/iscan/prescan.cgi >/dev/null 2>&1
>~
>~
>
>I cut out a heap of these characters, but you get the point.
>~
>~
>~
>~
>~
>~
>"/tmp/crontab.16832" 1L, 49C
>
>I can't seem to add one and I really need to.
>
>I want to add something like:
>
>05 * * * * /sbin/nimda >/dev/null 2>&1
>
>so that it runs my scan that adds nimda and code red clients to my ipchains
>rules to block them...
>
>it needs to run alot so I figure that every five minutes would be good.
>(have I done that right?)
>
>can anyone tell me why I can't enter anything?  and can't I just edit a
file
>with mcedit?
>
>I can move the cursur to the start and end of the top line, but nowhere
>else, and I can't get a newline (also, I am trying to do this via ssh as
>root.)
>
>
>any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
>
>regards
>
>Frank
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.5...?

2001-09-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:22:04 -0400, Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:13:15 -0300
> "Nicolás Gómez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
> 
> NG> Hi Folks! when is the date that the Kernel 2.5 is expected to be
> NG> released??
> NG> I read that it will has the ALSA drivers on it is that true?
> ==
> If I'm not mistaken, Nicolas, the 2.5.x series will be development
> kernels, not genuine "release" kernels.  IOW, it will be for developers
> and kernel hackers, the way the 2.3 series had been.  Most likely the next
> release kernel will be 2.6.0 and I have no idea when that might happen. 
> Heck, I'm still using 2.2.19 on most of my boxes (I have one old laptop
> still using 2.2.5 ;-) ).
> Mike

That's right. There are three parts to a Linux (i.e. the kernel) version number,
which are separated by dots (the numbers are _not_ decimals!).

Take a look at the latest Linux release, 2.4.9. A chance in the first part
(which is currently 2) signifies a _major_ change. A change in the second part
(currently 4) denotes a large, but not fundamental, change. A change in the
third part (currently 10) shows a relatively minor change.

Now, breaking down the second part even more, odd numbers signify "development"
releases, and even numbers represent a "stable" release. The 2.3 series was
developed to become 2.4. When the 2.5 tree is opened, it shall be developed into
2.6 (or possibly even 3.0).

-- 
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson



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Re: [newbie] Anyone Running Mac Linux-Man?

2001-09-23 Thread David Chart

--On 23/9/01 0:08 + hp wrote:

> Anyone running Linux-Mandrake on a Mac? Thinking of installing on a
> G3/266.

I'm in the middle of trying to install on an iMac DV. It isn't easy... 
Unless you have quite a bit of Linux experience, I'd suggest waiting for 
8.1 PPC, which will probably have a number of the bugs ironed out. (The 
contrast between installing LinuxPPC 2000 and LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 was amazing, 
for example.)

If you do have Linux experience, I'd suggest installing right away, so that 
you can help me with the problems I'm having. :-)

David Chart



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Re: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

2001-09-23 Thread PENA FAMILY

I run the Radeon 64Mb DDR card under Linux-Mandrake 7.2 without incident.

Is there any change with "winmodem" in either 8.0 or 8.1?

I would like to just plug and play with my winmodem without having to get a
new real modem.




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RE: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

2001-09-23 Thread Rod Walsh

ATI Radeon 32MB DDR is an excellent card but - beware LMD8.0 drivers will 
have major problems. Solutions have already been on this list but I'm 
waiting for 8.1 - next week (should work "out of the box")

At 20:51 17/09/2001 -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:




> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers
> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:07 PM
> > To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake
> > Subject: [newbie] Video cards
> >
> >
> > So, with all the discussion about nVidia cards, what is a
> > good card to
> > run? I am going to upgrade cause my little 4mb ATI Rage
> > doesn't even get
> > tux down the hill.  I want a midrange card in the $60 to $100
> > range. Is
> > there any hope? TIA for any suggestions.
> > --
>
>
>In that price range I would get the OEM version
>of the ATI Radeon 32MB DDR.
>
>You can pick 1 up from www.newegg.com for $72+$8 S&H.
>That is Cheap for that card.
>The retail version runs $130+ and everywhere else even the OEM
>is $100+.
>
>Do not be tempted by the Radeon VE it uses a different chip and is not
>supported at all yet.
>And the SDR is a lesser version of the DDR.
>
>As I said in 1 of my previous post the Radeon will not be
>fully supported until 8.1
>It runs well on either 7.2 or 8.0 but it is great in 8.1 B3.
>
>Should you prefer a stop gap solution you can get an OEM ATI Expert 2000,
>32MB Rage 128 chipset, from several vendors for between $30-$35.
>I have this card in 2 systems and it performs very well.
>
>In case no one has noticed I have become an ATI fan, especially where
>Linux is concerned.
>
>
>
>Charles  (-:
>
>Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
>And for too many there are now no tomorrows.
>
>
>
>
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Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-23 Thread Rod Walsh

If CMYK is the only (?) drawback to GIMP, How hard can it be to implement?

E.g. if you have an RGB bitmap, how easily could it be transformed into a 
CMYK bitmap (or bitmaps for each of the colours)?

(Is it true that there are some patent/rights tied up with CMYK and 
printing these?)

Cheers, Rod.

(Must be a dumb question or else it would already be implemented, right?)


At 20:24 19/09/2001 -0500, Matt Greer wrote:
>On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:04, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the internet, stick with RGB;  most browsers don't support displaying
> > CMYK images (correctly or at all).  Also, most browsers support a very
> > limited colour palette, so even though RGB covers a smaller portion of the
> > colour spectrum, it is MORE than adequate for the amount of colours
> > supported by browsers.
> >
>That is incorrect. RGB supports more color than CMYK does, by a rather large
>margin. CMYK is generally a poor, but required, color space.
>
>This page has a good breakdown of the two gamuts, and the differences between
>additive and subtractive color.
>
>http://web.wi.mit.edu/graphics/pub/photoshop/colman.htm
>
>Matt
>
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