Re: [newbie-it] Re Samba...è cambiato qualcosa?
Il 19:02, mercoledì 15 maggio 2002, hai scritto: On Wed, 15 May 2002, max wrote: Il problema non dipende da samba: ho provato con una nuova versione (2.2.4) ed una vecchia (2.0.10) ed il problema rimane. Sono andato a cercare nei files di log epare proprio che il problema sia a livello kernel. [..] May 15 16:49:23 linux kernel: *pde = May 15 17:27:21 linux kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address cc00 May 15 17:27:21 linux kernel: *pde = Prova a guardare con un motore di ricerca (digitando il messaggio di errore Unable ... address) se qualcuno ha risolto il problema, ho dato uno sguardo veloce e ho notato che l'accoppiata kernel vecchiotto [2.2x prima di un certo numero, o i primi 2.4x usciti] + disco in frenetica attivita' e' un dato spesso ricorrente, ma sembra che nessuno sia riuscito a trovare il problema. Passo ora a tre domande veloci: 1) non e' che per caso la cpu e' overcloccata in modo eccessivo e non sufficientemente raffreddata? 2) non hai compilato il kernel con gcc in versione 3.x, veero? 3) la versione del kernel e' recente? altrimenti prova a passare all'ultima versione stabile, puo' darsi che sia un baco scovato recentemente. Rispondo sinteticamente: 1) la cpu non è overcloccata 2) il kernel è il 2.4.18 della mdk 8.2 (quello di serie) mai ricompilato Vado a controllare Unable ... address Grazie max ^^^ .-. /v\ Max /( )\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ ^^
[newbie-it] Finalmente il Mozilla 1 RC2 Da leggere se utilizzate il Mozilla
Se ancora non l'avete fatto andatevi a scaricare il Mozilla 1 RC2 uscito da pochissimo, ne vale la pena. Tra le diverse correzioni apportate comprende anche quella famosa ricontrata dalla società di sicurezza israeliana GreyMagic Software (annunciata da me a questa lista in una mia precedente mail) di una falla che permetteva ad un cracker di leggere file dal PC dell'utente. Andate poi a verificare se tutto è ok sul piccolo test online al sito: http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=39979d=nb (dove potete anche verificare come agisce sul Mozilla che utilizate attualmente e rendervi conto della gravità del problema prima di effettuare il download, a me leggeva tutta la mia directory confermando l'importante scoperta, comunque non vi preoccupate è solo un test). Cerco di darmi da fare pure io. Saluti a tutti.
Re: [newbie-it] Problemino quotidiano..
Il mer, 2002-05-15 alle 21:42, nicola ha scritto: cut Quotidianamente, significa che si ripresenta solo una volta al giorno, o che accade sempre quando lanci molte applicazioni insieme? Non ho mai lanciato + di 3/4 applicazioni e niente di così pesante da far inchiodare tutto (almeno credo) al massimo openoffice ,calc e writer e gimp. Nel primo caso, non vorrei che fosse qualche operazione giornaliera programmata a mandare in panne il Pc quando è sotto forte stress. Nel secondo non saprei proprio cosa dirti. Mi dispiace di non esserti molto di aiuto. Ciao Nicola Mah stamane è successo solo una volta dopo l'avvio ho attivato la connessione a internet e aperto evolution e knode. Forse l'ipotesi dell'operazione giornaliera non mi sembra da scartare. Ma come si fa' a sapere eventualmente qual'è? C'è una sorta di auto check up? ;-) Ciao e grazie ku68
[newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi?
ciao, ho letto un msg in lista che diceva che i cd di linux c erano difettosi, è vero o può essere stato solo un problema soggettivo? è successo regolarmente a tutti? ciao grz lobax
Re: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi?
On Thu, 16 May 2002, lobaxteen wrote: ho letto un msg in lista che diceva che i cd di linux c erano difettosi, è vero o può essere stato solo un problema soggettivo? è successo regolarmente a tutti? Dipende come capiti ... certo e' che la ricorrenza dei cd difettosi di quella rivista (al confronto con altre riviste concorrenti, che probabilmente sono piu' accorte in questo senso) e' stranamente preoccupante ... non mi fa intravvedere una grande serieta' da parte dell'editore e della catena di produzione/distribuzione di cui si avvale. P.S. personalmente ho trovato recentemente, presso edicole diverse, tre riviste di fila di LC con cd danneggiati anche se in parte. Alla faccia della coincidenza e della probabilita' statisticamente irrilevante ... ; -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-ac3 Ricorda: i motori di ricerca ti vogliono bene, non abbandonarli!! Netiquette al contrario (volutamente ironica): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9704/galareteo.html
Re: Re: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi?
Sono unpò deficiente ed è la prima volta che lavoro con mandrake 8.2. Quale pacchetto devo installare per montare il server DHCP C'è un sito dove posso fare il download e installarlo? è difficile ??? - Salve, il messaggio che hai ricevuto è stato inviato per mezzo del sistema di web mail interfree. Se anche tu vuoi una casella di posta free visita il sito http://club.interfree.it Ti aspettiamo! -
Re: [newbie-it] Linux C problemi
On Thu, 16 May 2002 16:34:49 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Io sono abbonato da un anno e la rivista mi è sempre arrivata almeno 7 giorni dopo l'uscita in edicola. Questo mese non l'ho ancora ricevuta!!! (Se la sarà letta il postino?) Credo sia un problema comune a tutte le riviste in abbonamento. All'edicola le consegnano con un sistema di corrieri, lo stesso che consegna i giornali ogni mattina all'alba. A te la mandano con le Poste Italiane ... :( e non di certo on l'affrancatura prioritaria. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Samba PDC
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Paride Desimone wrote: Chi mi spiega per benino cosa diavolo e' un PDC con o senza Samba? Prova a dare uno sguardo qui: http://www.pluto.linux.it/journal/pj0112/samba_2.2.2.html http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-02/samba_01.html http://www.linuxvalley.com/columns/columns.php?IdCol=127 [e anche ad altro, che troverai con google ...] -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-ac3 Ricorda: i motori di ricerca ti vogliono bene, non abbandonarli!! Netiquette al contrario (volutamente ironica): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9704/galareteo.html
Re: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi?
Alle 15:20, giovedì 16 maggio 2002, hai scritto: ciao, ho letto un msg in lista che diceva che i cd di linux c erano difettosi, è vero o può essere stato solo un problema soggettivo? è successo regolarmente a tutti? ciao grz lobax A me è successo. Con quelli originali (della rivista) non sono riuscito ad installare. Li ho rimasterizzati ed i nuovi funzionano a meraviglia. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - A.I.P. n. 2075 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
[newbie-it] Audio CD
Salve a tutti: ho un problema nell'ascolto di CD Audio con Mdk 8.2. Premetto dicendo che è almeno una settimana che smanetto senza venirne a capo. Tutto sembra configurato alla perfezione: mi sono loggato come root ma il risultato non cambia, il cd non si sente, quindi non è questione di permessi. Sia al log in che al log out sento il sonoro quindi la scheda è configurata, ho controllato anche la configurazione della stessa e la scheda è la mia (lo prova il test...). Ho provato ripetutamente a cambiare cdrom passando dal lettore al masterizzatore ell'emulazione scsi senza risultato. Ho trafficato ore con il mixer. Nulla... Non so realmente quali altri tentativi effettuare, mi rimetto a voi. Il cd viene riconosciuto, lo inserisco nel cd-rom e lo chiudo con il pulsante dell'applicazione, il cd inizia a girare e i brani riportati dall'applicazione sono corretti: il problema sembra proprio l'output... Grazie dell'attenzione, Nicholas
[newbie-it] Knode e News offline
Non riesco a configurare KNode in modo che mi permetta di marcare offline gli articoli che mi interessano per poi scaricarli quando vado online in modo da leggerli poi con calma offline e rispondere mettendo in coda i replies. Ho letto sul manuale che devo avere un server NNTP... :-O Qualcuno c'è riuscito ? Grazie del tempo, ciao Nicholas
[newbie-it] Ispell
Salve a tutti, Grazie Fabio per le spiegazioni, in kword ho configurato!! Il problema rimane per il comando da console e in programmi tipo emacs , dal momento che quando dico di fare il controllo subito cercano il dizionario di default che è inglese. Adesso chiedo a qualcuno che lo abbia già fatto o che sa teoricamente come si fa: Come faccio da console o da emacs e simili a scegliere il dizionario per ispell? Grazie mille...
Re: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi?
On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:20:43 +0200 lobaxteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao, ho letto un msg in lista che diceva che i cd di linux c erano difettosi, è vero o può essere stato solo un problema soggettivo? è successo regolarmente a tutti? ciao grz lobax A me hanno sempre funzionato benissimo. Cmq la rivista costa poco e credo che anche sotto quell'aspetto sia una delle migliori. Pensa che mi è capitato di avere addirittura una distro incompleta su altri giornali Linux... Ciao, Nicholas
Re: [newbie-it] 8.2 e xine e dvd del commercio
On Thu, 16 May 2002, paolo brusasco wrote: xine parte ma premendo il bottone dvd e poi play dice che mancano dei plugin. ho installato tutti i plugin della distribuzione. ho installato un plugin xine-d4d-plugin-0-3-0-2plf etc da plf ho modificato la chiamata come $xine -pq dvdnav:// Mi suona strano questo modo di avviare xine, sinceramente ... anche perche' gli dici di avviare automaticamente qualcosa che AFAIK non trova e poi di uscire. Hai gia' creato un link simbolico /dev/dvd al dispositivo del lettore dvd? Che plugin ti dice che mancano, precisamente? Avvia xine (senza opzioni) da riga di comando, in modo da vedere quali sono gli eventuali errori che riporta. P.S. A titolo di precisazione i pacchetti mdk di xine sono questi: xine-aa xine-alsa5 xine-arts xine-esd xine-oss xine-plugins xine-ui xine-ui-aa xine-vx libxine0.9.8 libxine0.9.8-devel libxine0.9.8-docs? -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-ac3 Ricorda: i motori di ricerca ti vogliono bene, non abbandonarli!! Netiquette al contrario (volutamente ironica): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9704/galareteo.html
[newbie-it] Windoz 98 e samba
Saluti a tutta la lista. Da giorni mi sto scontrando con l'installazione di samba. In rete si trova molta documentazione ma non riesco a trovare una descrizione che faccia al mio caso. In ufficio abbiamo questa configurazione: Mandrake SNF firewall.astel.org (90.0.0.100 - 10.0.0.100) come firewall verso internet Mandrake 8.2 Gutemberg.astel.org (90.0.0.12) come server di stampa (anche questo non pare funzionare correttamente, ma ne discuteremo un'altra volta..) Mandrake 8.2 Franklin.astel.org (90.0.0.14) come file server. Un numero imprecisato di client W98 che al più presto passerano in MDK. Il problema riguarda le autorizzazioni all'utilizzo delle risorse condivise su Franklin. Samba su Franklin è configurato cosi: security = user Il server Franklin è visibile dalla rete win ed è possibile entrare solo se l'utente win ha un account sul server linux. Il mio desiderio è quello di avere directory diversamente abilitate per i diversi utenti. In questo modo i dipendenti dell'amministrazione potranno accedere solo alla dir \\Frankli\admins, i progettisti a \\Franklin\design ecc.. Come diamine si fa Le sto provando tutte. HELP. Ciao, Paolo ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002 15:24:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] 8.3 di linux c problemi? ciao,ho letto un msg in lista che diceva che i cd di linux c erano difettosi, èvero o può essere stato solo un problema soggettivo?è successo regolarmente a tutti?ciao grzlobax. IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:22, giovedì 16 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Audio CD, Nicholas Wieland ha scritto: Il cd viene riconosciuto, lo inserisco nel cd-rom e lo chiudo con il pulsante dell'applicazione, il cd inizia a girare e i brani riportati dall'applicazione sono corretti: il problema sembra proprio l'output... Ciao, spiegami una cosa: il problema c'è con qualsiasi applicazione tu usi? xmms, kscd, noatun e compagnia bella? seconda cosa: se provi la stessa configurazione hardware con un altro so tutto funziona a dovere per quel che riguarda l'ascolto di cd audio? biez_ - -- - - jv - ~~~ mdk 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.18 l.u. # 245448 l.m # 126972 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE85BqpoD2O62YfgMARArhzAJ9VcA7MknicFYlYUPPyGFCNICCRNwCgjbkM BDN5Vc2IljHdxzsThR0APUc= =k9kB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD
On Thu, 16 May 2002 22:46:33 +0200 jv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, spiegami una cosa: il problema c'è con qualsiasi applicazione tu usi? xmms, kscd, noatun e compagnia bella? seconda cosa: se provi la stessa configurazione hardware con un altro so tutto funziona a dovere per quel che riguarda l'ascolto di cd audio? biez_ Nemmeno XMMS legge i cd audio no. Io non uso più Win da un po' ma i cd li leggeva ... Assurdo, continuo a smanettare ma nulla, non ne vengo a capo :( Ciao, Nicholas
[newbie-it] Audio CD
Mi associa anch'io al problema. Qualunque lettore CD utilizzo (anche in root) mi riconosce il disco ma non c'è verso di ascortarlo (cioè progredisce regolarmente la lettura ma non si sente nulla). Se uso gli stessi programmi per file audio (anche MP3) salvati nei dischi locali riesco a sentirli perfettamente. Aiuto! Paolo
Re: [newbie-it] Ispell
Alle 19:57, giovedì 16 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, Grazie Fabio per le spiegazioni, in kword ho configurato!! Il problema rimane per il comando da console e in programmi tipo emacs , dal momento che quando dico di fare il controllo subito cercano il dizionario di default che è inglese. Adesso chiedo a qualcuno che lo abbia già fatto o che sa teoricamente come si fa: Come faccio da console o da emacs e simili a scegliere il dizionario per ispell? ..Ehm... quasi mi secca dirlo ma... RTFM !! Dopo questa operazione scoprirai che ispell -d italiano nomefile fa proprio quello che vuoi. Il divertimento di Linux, almeno per me, è proprio quello di leggersi tutti i manuali Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
Re: [newbie-it] Knode e News offline
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Nicholas Wieland wrote: Non riesco a configurare KNode in modo che mi permetta di marcare offline gli articoli che mi interessano per poi scaricarli quando vado online in modo da leggerli poi con calma offline e rispondere mettendo in coda i replies. Ho letto sul manuale che devo avere un server NNTP... :-O Non ti posso aiutare piu' di tanto (finora ho usato solo pan e col news-server del provider), cmq installa e configura un news server locale come p.es. leafnode. Dai uno sguardo a: http://www.leafnode.org/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/News-Leafsite.html http://ildp.pluto.linux.it/AppuntiLinux/a2201.html (anche se riguarda perlopiu' INN) man di leafnode e programmi dipendenti ed eventualmente col solito google se riesci a trovare qualche altro sito informativo sul tema .. -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-ac3 Ricorda: i motori di ricerca ti vogliono bene, non abbandonarli!! Netiquette al contrario (volutamente ironica): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9704/galareteo.html
[newbie-it] Sympa... questo sconosciuto!
Sto cercando di mettere su una lista x i miei amici e io e, dopo essermi letto tutto quello che trovavo su postfix e majordomo, mi sono accorto che la mia distro (mdk 8.1) cia' il sympa gia' installato! Ora, mentre x tutto il resto ho trovato vari howto (anche in italiano!) + che esaustivi, x quest'ultimo trovo solo quanto pubblicato sul sito francese di riferimento. Da una ricerca con google sulle pagine in italiano ho potuto rilevare che, pur essendo utilizzato da varie liste in cui si parla di mandrake, nessuno di quelli che hanno gia' implementato queste mailing list e' stato molto prodigo di suggerimenti con tutti coloro che lamentavano difficolta' e problemi con questo gestore... si limitavano a rispondere: questa lista e' implementata con sympa! (come dire: tant'e', come vedi funziona, quindi datti una svegliata!). Mah domani in ufficio mi stampo il manuale ufficiale (in francese?!?) poi, se ci capisco qualcosa bene, al peggio lo disinstallo e uso Majordomo! ;) P.S.: mi sono anche scaricato i manuali .pdf della mia distro ma di sympa neanche l'ombra.
Re: [newbie-it] Audio CD
Alle 23:15, giovedì 16 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Mi associa anch'io al problema. Qualunque lettore CD utilizzo (anche in root) mi riconosce il disco ma non c'è verso di ascortarlo (cioè progredisce regolarmente la lettura ma non si sente nulla). Se uso gli stessi programmi per file audio (anche MP3) salvati nei dischi locali riesco a sentirli perfettamente. Aiuto! Paolo Awv... E' solo una supposizione ovviamente.. Kmix non ha il valore Cd o il valore Pcm settato a zero, vero? -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## -
[newbie-it] very OT filesystem
Scusate la domanda sicuramente banale.. Sono passato a alla Distro Turbolinux, sul mio pc dove ho installato su hda windows 2000 e hdc linux ( appunto Turbolinux) Fino ad ora ho usato Mandrake che faceva tutto da sola e mi creava l'icona sul desktop (KDE), che mi montava e mi faceva leggere su win...non mi ero mai preoccupato di dare un'occhiata a /etc/fstab e /etc/mtab ... il file system di windows 2000 è FAT32... Che line devo aggiugere rispettivamente nei 2 files? (non ricordo che tipo di filesystem mettere) Grazie e scusate la domanda Roberto
Re: [newbie-it] very OT filesystem
On Fri, 17 May 2002, robirossi wrote: di dare un'occhiata a /etc/fstab e /etc/mtab ... il file system di windows 2000 è FAT32... Che line devo aggiugere rispettivamente nei 2 files? (non ricordo che tipo di filesystem mettere) /etc/mtab non va _mai_ toccato (viene gestito dal sistema) in /etc/fstab ti dovrebbe bastare (se non usi quella porcheria di devfs :)): _dispositivo-di-winz_ _directory-di-mount-winz_ vfat defaults 0 0 es. /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-ac3 Ricorda: i motori di ricerca ti vogliono bene, non abbandonarli!! Netiquette al contrario (volutamente ironica): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9704/galareteo.html
Re: [newbie-it] Sympa... questo sconosciuto!
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Paolo Tomiato wrote: Mah domani in ufficio mi stampo il manuale ufficiale (in francese?!?) poi, se ci capisco qualcosa bene, al peggio lo disinstallo e uso Majordomo! ;) Il manualone e' in inglese (se ti puo' consolare :P) http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/doc/sympa/ [poi ci sono le FAQ, anche quelle in inglese) -- LU #210970 LM #98222 - MDK8.2 elaborata / 2.4.18-ac3 Ricorda: i motori di ricerca ti vogliono bene, non abbandonarli!! Netiquette al contrario (volutamente ironica): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9704/galareteo.html
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows]
The easy answer is to approach someon like MS and have the company use its muscle in offering a Special relationship to one of the hardware vendors that makes attractive hardware and have a binding non-disclosed contract to install the spy and rootkit binary in its binary-only driver for linux. In that way, linux is deposed as having better security, making MS happy; the merchants get their marketing data and are happy; the spyware producer gets paid and is happy; and the linux users do all the dirty work to themselves by installing binary-only drivers and are happy because their super hardware works fully fiunctionally under linux. So, everyone is happy in this scenario, unless someone happens to restore /bin from a backup and gets a nasty surprise about a phone-home sitting in the kernel processes. If you think it cannot happen... Think again, and remember the stolen homework that became Excel, the plagiarized DOSes, the Nantes Commercial Court findings, the Ztore that was linux/Samba and was billed as secret and proprietary network storage devices It happens all the time. The question is not _if_ but _When_ and _Who_. As long as users buy hardware and accept binary-only drivers, linux is as vulnerable to the installation of spyware as any other system. Most likely it will be a winmodem driver, but it coud be a video card or it may already have been a high-level sound card. Civileme * feels really tempted to change the subject of the thread to glad my PC is an old POS and i don't have any new hardware ** ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: National security and M$
Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting through a bill that would eliminate closed, proprietary software (M$ software) from government computers. The General Manager of M$ in Peru wrote a public complaint, and a congressman wrote a response. I was most interested in what he said about security: To guarantee national security or the security of the State, it is indispensable to be able to rely on systems without elements which allow control from a distance or the undesired transmission of information to third parties. Systems with source code freely accessible to the public are required to allow their inspection by the State itself, by the citizens, and by a large number of independent experts throughout the world. Our proposal brings further security, since the knowledge of the source code will eliminate the growing number of programs with spy code. In the same way, our proposal strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state, and in their role as consumers. In this second case, by allowing the growth of a widespread availability of free software not containing spy code able to put at risk privacy and individual freedoms. Well said. And if that wasn't enough to stricken M$ crap, check this out (in case you didn't already read it in Shane's sig): Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer software from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -ED CURRY, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to Defense Secretary William Coen In other words, M$ risked national security for the love of money. How unbelievably vile! Just look at how much M$ cares about the security of the 260+ million inhabitants of its home country. I didn't think I could hate M$ as much as I do right now. Anyway, I really hope the US government starts taking notice of how other governments are separating themselves from the evil that is Microsoft. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 May 2002 6:50 am, civileme wrote: As long as users buy hardware and accept binary-only drivers, linux is as vulnerable to the installation of spyware as any other system. Most likely it will be a winmodem driver, but it coud be a video card or it may already have been a high-level sound card. The only piece of hardware I have which has a binary-only driver is the Alcatel Speed Touch USB (with the notorious mgmt.o) and, for 18 months, that was the only ADSL modem supplied in the UK. So, sometimes, there's no choice :/ Still, things are looking up, as there's now a 'wires only' service which has opened up the market to all sorts of device; I note that Fujitsu has agreed to make its driver open source: http://www.ftel.co.uk/products/fdx310_faqs.html#linux Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE842Q8Cv59vFiSU4YRAlyvAJ4kVM8kp+WH5z8HzdR3Gbv64bntFQCfbmQH z6mfi5RTTM5ZXN9ohTrHIWU= =lNga -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs
Sorry: I probably did not make myself clear. It was not the presence of USB devices that prevented my installing Mandrake. It was the presence of the USB controller on the motherboard. Disabling usb in the BIOS resolved the problem for me. derek On Thursday 16 May 2002 5:02 am, Serkan Barut wrote: Well thanks for your answer first.I connected my mouse through the ps/2 port via adapter so there was no device left on the usb(keyboard is ps/2),but it still can't pass partition check so it seems it is not related with usb.My mainboard is Abit BX6 rev 2.I never thought that i would have a problem at this stage.I thought that my mouse could be a problem during the install but could never have imagined something like this.Well with other distros partition check was no problem,i am really confused and it seems that there is nothing i can do except using a 2.2.x series kernel during install.Some other guy asked me about my filesystem but it just doesn't make sense,-who knows? - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Serkan Barut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 17:48 Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs I have had a similar problem on installing 8.2 on my Asus K7V motherboard. I resolved it as being down to the usb controller. If I disabled USB during the Mandrake install it would go through the partition check process no problem. I could then re-enable usb once the install was completed and then use Mandrake Control Centre to install my usb devices. derek On Wednesday 15 May 2002 1:22 pm, Serkan Barut wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake Linux 8.2 bluebird-i586 20020317 12:00 which is the downloadeble version,i guess.When i boot from the cd to install with the default kernel 2.4.18 the machine hangs at the partition check process.I waited a long time,more than 20 minutes and did not see any message.I played with my bios settings but that changed nothing.Up to now i installed other distros including slackware 8,redhat 7.1 and did not have any problem of this kind.There is the alt1 and alt2 with which i booted safely and at last saw the installation screen but this time my mouse and keyboard was not working(i have a logitech pilot optical connected to usb probably causing this problem).I have two Quantum ide hds.I have Windows98 on hda. If anyone can help i would be pleased,thanks. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Glad i don't surf with Windows]
Damian G wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2002 00:09:30 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse me, but it seems to me that the only reply to this subject is Well, duhhh. (not the thread, though -- some interesting stuff there.) -- cmg uhm.. don't quite follow, here... 'duhh' would be the answer to which question? Damian The subject itself... he's saying most ppl who use Linux are glad they don't use windows... therefore the Duh comment luv :) -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
AW: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
brian : how are you going to puplish that paper ? i realy would like to read it ! and i'm sure it will be a good one , so if you don't mind if i could translate it to german adi --- ... XP , while X stands for cra -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Brian Koppe Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 10:46 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$ WOW. I'm actually writing a research paper on M$ right now. If you know and could tell me your sources for these things it would be GREATLY appreciated Thanks! Brian Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting through a bill that would eliminate closed, proprietary software (M$ software) from government computers. The General Manager of M$ in Peru wrote a public complaint, and a congressman wrote a response. I was most interested in what he said about security: To guarantee national security or the security of the State, it is indispensable to be able to rely on systems without elements which allow control from a distance or the undesired transmission of information to third parties. Systems with source code freely accessible to the public are required to allow their inspection by the State itself, by the citizens, and by a large number of independent experts throughout the world. Our proposal brings further security, since the knowledge of the source code will eliminate the growing number of programs with spy code. In the same way, our proposal strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state, and in their role as consumers. In this second case, by allowing the growth of a widespread availability of free software not containing spy code able to put at risk privacy and individual freedoms. Well said. And if that wasn't enough to stricken M$ crap, check this out (in case you didn't already read it in Shane's sig): Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer software from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -ED CURRY, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to Defense Secretary William Coen In other words, M$ risked national security for the love of money. How unbelievably vile! Just look at how much M$ cares about the security of the 260+ million inhabitants of its home country. I didn't think I could hate M$ as much as I do right now. Anyway, I really hope the US government starts taking notice of how other governments are separating themselves from the evil that is Microsoft. Miark --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
WOW. I'm actually writing a research paper on M$ right now. If you know and could tell me your sources for these things it would be GREATLY appreciated Thanks! Brian Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting through a bill that would eliminate closed, proprietary software (M$ software) from government computers. The General Manager of M$ in Peru wrote a public complaint, and a congressman wrote a response. I was most interested in what he said about security: To guarantee national security or the security of the State, it is indispensable to be able to rely on systems without elements which allow control from a distance or the undesired transmission of information to third parties. Systems with source code freely accessible to the public are required to allow their inspection by the State itself, by the citizens, and by a large number of independent experts throughout the world. Our proposal brings further security, since the knowledge of the source code will eliminate the growing number of programs with spy code. In the same way, our proposal strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state, and in their role as consumers. In this second case, by allowing the growth of a widespread availability of free software not containing spy code able to put at risk privacy and individual freedoms. Well said. And if that wasn't enough to stricken M$ crap, check this out (in case you didn't already read it in Shane's sig): Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer software from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -ED CURRY, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to Defense Secretary William Coen In other words, M$ risked national security for the love of money. How unbelievably vile! Just look at how much M$ cares about the security of the 260+ million inhabitants of its home country. I didn't think I could hate M$ as much as I do right now. Anyway, I really hope the US government starts taking notice of how other governments are separating themselves from the evil that is Microsoft. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
Miark wrote: As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary... Incidentally, I read somewhere recently that nVidia _wants_ to open source their drivers, but they can't... wish I could remember why! Miark Special relationships and binding contracts with SGI and you know who. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On 15 May 2002 23:49:39 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary... Incidentally, I read somewhere recently that nVidia _wants_ to open source their drivers, but they can't... wish I could remember why! I faintly recall reading somewhere that Nvidia licenses intellectual property from a third party. In that case, they cannot open source their drivers without the permission of the copyright and patent holders. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself.' That's it. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting through a bill that would eliminate closed, proprietary software (M$ software) from government computers. The General Manager of M$ in Peru wrote a public complaint, and a congressman wrote a response. I was most interested in what he said about security: To guarantee national security or the security of the State, it is indispensable to be able to rely on systems without elements which allow control from a distance or the undesired transmission of information to third parties. Systems with source code freely accessible to the public are required to allow their inspection by the State itself, by the citizens, and by a large number of independent experts throughout the world. Our proposal brings further security, since the knowledge of the source code will eliminate the growing number of programs with spy code. In the same way, our proposal strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state, and in their role as consumers. In this second case, by allowing the growth of a widespread availability of free software not containing spy code able to put at risk privacy and individual freedoms. Well said. And if that wasn't enough to stricken M$ crap, check this out (in case you didn't already read it in Shane's sig): Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer software from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -ED CURRY, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to Defense Secretary William Coen In other words, M$ risked national security for the love of money. How unbelievably vile! Just look at how much M$ cares about the security of the 260+ million inhabitants of its home country. I didn't think I could hate M$ as much as I do right now. Anyway, I really hope the US government starts taking notice of how other governments are separating themselves from the evil that is Microsoft. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Microsoft has (or had) in Win9x and WinNT cruyptographic keys for cryptographic services and no services would work without passing the appropriate key. This was to comply with export restrictions at the time (128 bit encryption was considered a weapon). Ummm no wrong, the backup key or what everyone had been led to believe was the back-up key was clearly and unequivocally labelled in the tag NSAKey Rapid denals were issued by NSA and microsoft that the key was used by the NSA though such a key did have the potential of allowing the installation of security (spy) software on the system without the user's knowledge. A little later a third, undocumented and definitely untagged key was discovered. A program was issued to overwrite the second key which had the side effect that exported versions could enable 128 bit encryption by installing their own keys. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 04:10 pm, civileme wrote: Well, I had to btreak down and get something that would give me a little experience supporting NVidia installs. As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary, which means those drivers don't get on the download edition, and since the driver's wrapper has to be recompiled for each new kernel, it is difficult to make the commercial offering work properly--since linux distros don't have the source, the installation is always non-trivial. After looking around, I decided to build something that could dual-boot for testing purposes and also fit in a small case with a CDRW/DVD as the only 5.25 drive, so I chose the ASUS A7N266-VM snip What kind of a box did you put it in? -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] networking
2 computers Mandrake 8.2 network can ping from machine 1 to machine 2 Where do I find equivalent of 'network neighbourhood' in Gnome? Found it in KDE, but keep getting 'localhost not found' message. Was advised to change to Gnome, because KDE has bug. help! -- Luc Vermeersch Wereldverbond van de Arbeid - WVA Trierstraat 33, B-1040 Brussel, België tel 32-2/285.47.11 - fax 32-2/230.87.22 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.cmt-wcl.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
Marcia, Sorry for the delay - have been setting up a broadband for myself and newbie has taken a back seat the last couple of days. Sounds like you are just about set hardware-wise and with 8.2 the software side should be a breeze. I think all you need to add is a cross-over network cable. i.e. just like the cable you have from the desktop to the cable modem, but with some of the wires connected differently at one end. You can get one of these at your friendly computer store. Now, do I understand correctly that you can connect the desktop to the cable modem via USB? First step (after you have your crossover cable) is to do this and make sure you have internet on the desktop without anything connected to the ethernet card. Now plug the crossover cable between the laptop and desktop ethernet ports. Now run Control Center Network Internet Connection Sharing It will warn you that you must have a dedicated device to do this - that's fine. It will set up eth0 (your ethernet interface) to static address 192.168.0.1 and enable Masquerading. Set your laptop IP address to either DHCP or 192.168.0.2 (I prefer the latter as static addresses give less room for problems). All other network settings on the laptop should be empty. At this point you should have internet access on both machines. You may then choose to tighten up security a little by running InteractiveBastille, but even without that you are much less visible and vulnerable than before. InteractiveBastille will ask a lot of questions while providing a lot of info on how to answer them. You'll learn a bit and end up with a secure environment at the same time. Good luck and have fun! Brian On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 03:47, Marcia wrote: Dear Brian, On Sunday 12 May 2002 07:48 pm, you wrote: Marcia, I have seen some replies to this, but don't think any of them have yet touched on a crucial point: Your laptop is running W98, so would therefore be much more safely disposed sitting behind your linux box in internet terms. I agree with you here. I would like to do this but am a newbie here and really do not know how to do that. I have been reading for months about it, however, it has taken awhile to approach this for me. Does the laptop have an ethernet port, or can it be added? Yes, the laptop has an ethernet port and 2 USB ports. My new Toshiba DOCSIS cable modem has both an ethernet port and USB port so I hooked up my desktop with LM8.2 to the ethernet port and my laptop with dualboot Win98/LM8.2 is hooked up to the modem through USB. They both connect to the internet just fine and to my surprise even the LM8.2 is on the internet through the USB. I have been able to ping from LM8.2 on my desktop to Win98 on my laptop. I have not tried pinging from LM8.2 on my laptop to LM8.2 on my desktop yet. I thought of using VNC to use the Powerpoint program on my LM8.2 desktop if that is possible. My husband prefers using the desktop and wishes to become proficient with Powerpoint for his work. mind the best scenario would be for the laptop to be connected to the linux machine via ethernet - just a crossover cable between the two would do this. Then you set up internet connection sharing and firewall on the linux box. Add samba and you have the laptop able to share the cable connection from behind a firewall, and move files/share printers between the two machines. I would love to do this and probably can right now if I figure out how to set it up. Assuming that neither box has a network card (as you indicated the cable modem is connected via USB), total cost for this would be almost nothing for a NIC for the desktop and somewhat more for the laptop. Like my budgeting? Actually both computers have a network card. The desktop also has a dial up modem which I do not use and the laptop has 2 dial up modems. I am able to use the cox cable internet from LM8.2 on the laptop through the USB connection. That was a pleasant surprise. My goal here is to be able to network all of my systems and to possibly use ipmasquerade so that Win98 can be used on the net through Linux. These are the things I need help with since I do not know exactly what to do yet. Thanks very much for your suggestions and help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking
What bug? Theres nothing wrong with KDE networking. That 'Localhost not found' was because you clicked on Networklocal Network in konqueror which is used for browsing Samba networks. If you have not set up Samba and an application called LISa thats what will happen. There are 2 ways to share files in Linux, NFS and Samba NFS is Linux only, is easy to set up, but is less secure and requires you to have exactly the same user accounts and UID numbers on both computers. Once set up you can mount folders using kwikdisk, and can browse the network using any file manager Konqueror/Nautilus etc. Refer to the docs section at www.mandrakeuser.org for details of how to set it up. Mandrake Control CentreMount Points now has a GUI to set up NFS but until you read about it you will not understand how to use the GUI. The second way is Samba Samba allows you to share files between Linux to Linux, and Linux to Windows. Refer to mandrakeuser for setting it up. (Webmin is a good tool) Once set up you can browse Samba networks with applications like Komba2 for KDE or Gnomba for Gnome to mount folders which can then be browsed with a file manager. There is a lot of references on Mandrakeuser and in the archives of this list about setting up Samba and NFS. HTH derek On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:51 am, Luc Vermeersch wrote: 2 computers Mandrake 8.2 network can ping from machine 1 to machine 2 Where do I find equivalent of 'network neighbourhood' in Gnome? Found it in KDE, but keep getting 'localhost not found' message. Was advised to change to Gnome, because KDE has bug. help! -- Luc Vermeersch Wereldverbond van de Arbeid - WVA Trierstraat 33, B-1040 Brussel, België tel 32-2/285.47.11 - fax 32-2/230.87.22 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.cmt-wcl.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking
localhost not found is (my first guess would be) a problem with the names of the computers in the /etc/hosts file or /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny. does each computer have it's own name and IP properly wrote to these files and set in the network setup scripts? On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:51 am, you wrote: 2 computers Mandrake 8.2 network can ping from machine 1 to machine 2 Where do I find equivalent of 'network neighbourhood' in Gnome? Found it in KDE, but keep getting 'localhost not found' message. Was advised to change to Gnome, because KDE has bug. help! -- Luc Vermeersch Wereldverbond van de Arbeid - WVA Trierstraat 33, B-1040 Brussel, België tel 32-2/285.47.11 - fax 32-2/230.87.22 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.cmt-wcl.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] /Net unmount at shutdown failing 8.2MDK
as far as the original post, the easist fix for me was to turn off netfs,
since this is just the home toy, and don't connect to anything other than the
kids and wife's windos boxes.
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 10:34 pm, you wrote:
Miark, try this link:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/arecov4.html#Freeze
or this one
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html
Michael
On Thursday 16 May 2002 11:58 am, Miark wrote:
Speaking of which, what do these commands do? I took a quick look
for this on Google, and came up empty.
Miark
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 13:18, Nick Baker wrote:
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:57 pm, you wrote:
Miark wrote:
Third If you really have to kill the system do it the correct way
Alt+Sysreq+R
Alt+Sysreq+E
Alt+Sysreq+S
Alt+Sysreq+B
New to me, but that is Linux for you--
a lifetime learning experience. (=8-{p)
Nick
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[newbie] Mouse and X
Hi Guys Here's a strange problem. If i chooses to boot directly into X my mouse will not work, however booting into a console logon and then starting x it works okay. Any ideas what could be causing this ? Regards Mark -- Mark Annandale Mandrake 8.2 : KDE 3.0 : KMail 1.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] networking
Got the advice that I have to set up Samba and Lisa. Will first have to read documentation about this thanks anyway localhost not found is (my first guess would be) a problem with the names of the computers in the /etc/hosts file or /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny. does each computer have it's own name and IP properly wrote to these files and set in the network setup scripts? On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:51 am, you wrote: 2 computers Mandrake 8.2 network can ping from machine 1 to machine 2 Where do I find equivalent of 'network neighbourhood' in Gnome? Found it in KDE, but keep getting 'localhost not found' message. Was advised to change to Gnome, because KDE has bug. help! -- Luc Vermeersch Wereldverbond van de Arbeid - WVA Trierstraat 33, B-1040 Brussel, België tel 32-2/285.47.11 - fax 32-2/230.87.22 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.cmt-wcl.org -- Luc Vermeersch Wereldverbond van de Arbeid - WVA Trierstraat 33, B-1040 Brussel, België tel 32-2/285.47.11 - fax 32-2/230.87.22 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.cmt-wcl.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] re: hard drive performance
I have used the suggested k in my hdparm settings (there are actually 'K' and 'k', I tried them both) and still whenever rebooting it is set back to 16-bit IO. These are what I've tried: hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 -k1 /dev/hda hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 -K1 /dev/hda hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 -k1 -K1 /dev/hda what am I doing wrong? It even tells me that keep settings after reset are set to '1' and 'on'. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:01 am, you wrote: Miark wrote: As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary... Incidentally, I read somewhere recently that nVidia _wants_ to open source their drivers, but they can't... wish I could remember why! Miark Special relationships and binding contracts with SGI and you know who. Civileme Love to see them open up - those are the only closed source drivers I use here ;-( -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:12 am, you wrote: Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. Didn't the German armed forces (?) also drop Windog because somebody was using it to spy on them? Seems like I saw that a while back on LinuxToday or some place like that... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Thursday 16 May 2002 02:06 am, you wrote: Its a Geforce2 i'm running quake normally, nothing special no winex And you only get 20fps? You installed the NVidia drivers properly? That's messed... -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thursday 16 May 2002 01:46, Brian Koppe opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: WOW. I'm actually writing a research paper on M$ right now. If you know and could tell me your sources for these things it would be GREATLY appreciated the vast majority of my stuff comes from somewhere in http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Business/Allegedly_Unethical_Firms/Microsoft/ and though only some of those pages give their sources, there is a fair amount. also if you find a really good quote, search for a large part of the quote in google, actually putting the search term in quotes. you can often find sources that way. another good one is trustworthycomputing.com though it is only a redirect to a google search it is rather interesting. if you happen to publish the paper on the web, please submit it to the dmoz.or url above so i can include it for the rest of the worl to see.. -- Doing my part to piss off the religious right. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Security? What security?
I found this somewhat amusing. OK; I laughed my a$$ off. Gummi bears? http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0205.html#5 Isn't identity theft from paper trails bad enough? Now we'll all have to wear surgical gloves to prevent ID theft through fingerprints? Just be careful where you dispose of the gloves. :-) -- Charlie, Edmonton, AB, Canada Mandrake 8.2 Registered Linux user 244963, http://counter.li.org Q: What does friendship among Soviet nationalities mean? A: It means that the Armenians take the Russians by the hand; the Russians take the Ukrainians by the hand; the Ukranians take the Uzbeks by the hand; and they all go and beat up the Jews. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
Brian: Here's a link to an English translation of the letter from the Peruvian senator to the head of MS in Peru: http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html About the only thing that he didn't say was, and the horse you rode in on. Good stuff. This is a guy I'd like to vote for. -- cmg On Thursday 16 May 2002 04:46 am, you wrote: WOW. I'm actually writing a research paper on M$ right now. If you know and could tell me your sources for these things it would be GREATLY appreciated Thanks! Brian Miark wrote: Shane and I were talking about M$ products and the government. I thought y'all might be interested too. First, the Peruvian government is putting through a bill that would eliminate closed, proprietary software (M$ software) from government computers. The General Manager of M$ in Peru wrote a public complaint, and a congressman wrote a response. I was most interested in what he said about security: To guarantee national security or the security of the State, it is indispensable to be able to rely on systems without elements which allow control from a distance or the undesired transmission of information to third parties. Systems with source code freely accessible to the public are required to allow their inspection by the State itself, by the citizens, and by a large number of independent experts throughout the world. Our proposal brings further security, since the knowledge of the source code will eliminate the growing number of programs with spy code. In the same way, our proposal strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state, and in their role as consumers. In this second case, by allowing the growth of a widespread availability of free software not containing spy code able to put at risk privacy and individual freedoms. Well said. And if that wasn't enough to stricken M$ crap, check this out (in case you didn't already read it in Shane's sig): Microsoft has knowingly and willfully concealed information regarding security flaws in computer software from the [National Security Agency] out of fear that revealing such flaws would reduce the number of copies of its products that would be purchased by the government... I have raised this issue internally with Microsoft, and in return have been the subject of both bribes and threats. -ED CURRY, Computer Security Specialist, in a letter to Defense Secretary William Coen In other words, M$ risked national security for the love of money. How unbelievably vile! Just look at how much M$ cares about the security of the 260+ million inhabitants of its home country. I didn't think I could hate M$ as much as I do right now. Anyway, I really hope the US government starts taking notice of how other governments are separating themselves from the evil that is Microsoft. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 05:12, civileme wrote: Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Microsoft has (or had) in Win9x and WinNT cruyptographic keys for cryptographic services and no services would work without passing the appropriate key. This was to comply with export restrictions at the time (128 bit encryption was considered a weapon). Ummm no wrong, the backup key or what everyone had been led to believe was the back-up key was clearly and unequivocally labelled in the tag NSAKey Rapid denals were issued by NSA and microsoft that the key was used by the NSA though such a key did have the potential of allowing the installation of security (spy) software on the system without the user's knowledge. A little later a third, undocumented and definitely untagged key was discovered. A program was issued to overwrite the second key which had the side effect that exported versions could enable 128 bit encryption by installing their own keys. Civileme Here's another YAWN (yet another wooden nickel) to add to what Civ added to what Miark stated. Since the NSA is able to spy on citizens by virtue of the NSA backdoor so thoughtfully provided by M$, would this not be an excellent reason for the government to maintain an ongoing business relationship with M$? Perhaps the Government would even be so thoughtful as to provide some extra consideration in court by bumping good judges from the bench in favor of more controllable personnell; Kotar-Kelly, perhaps. Maybe the liberals don't give a fig about the military and the NSA; however the republicans weigh towards them extensively; and that to my thinking is a powerful motive to grease MicroShaft out the Antitrust a-hole relatively unscathed. Quite sickening. So while the Peruvian Government does the right thing, the corrupt American government violates it's own Antitrust laws by giving M$ a carte blanc to rape and pillage the public with the M$ Tax. We are all, after all, nothing but tax fodder to the government employees, anyway. Since M$ imposes their own tax on businesses and individuals, why then should they not be buds? Two bloodsucking vampiric parasites walking along together conducting legal crime; birds of a feather flock together, right? The government taxes the individuals, while it's buddy MicroSh*t provides a spy conduit by which the government can track individuals that don't like the taxes, while MicroSh*t taxes the individuals, while the government provides unofficial protection for Microshaft. It's a sweetheart deal, boys. HTH, LX : -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 10:34, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: Here's a link to an English translation of the letter from the Peruvian senator to the head of MS in Peru: http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html About the only thing that he didn't say was, and the horse you rode in on. Good stuff. This is a guy I'd like to vote for. -- cmg What's the cost of living in Peru?? ;) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:51 am, darklord wrote: Incidentally, I read somewhere recently that nVidia _wants_ to open source their drivers, but they can't... wish I could remember why! Miark Special relationships and binding contracts with SGI and you know who. Civileme Love to see them open up - those are the only closed source drivers I use here ;-( Don't hold your breath ; Besides the Special relationships and binding contracts, nVidia is a major chip supplier to you know who. I seriously doubt nVidia would risk M$'s rath and subsequent loss of market (eg, video chips for the Xbox). M$ doesn't want hardware working correctly on other than their OS. Not to mention that M$ could kill nVidia just by slowing info that nVidia needs to write their Windoze drivers. It's a fact of life that they're willing to threaten, arm twist, and bully to keep it so. IMO, a much greater crime than the integration of the IE browser and Media Player. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynewsStoryID=959281 -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thursday 16 May 2002 07:52, Lyvim Xaphir opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Since the NSA is able to spy on citizens by virtue of the NSA backdoor so thoughtfully provided by M$, would this not be an excellent reason for the government to maintain an ongoing business relationship with M$? it is rather interesting that all the time they were in court together you never heard and we will now stop buying software from known criminals and go open source. interestingly gartner just recommended MS go open source to fix their security. -- It is no measure of your health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem
Title: LAN and COX cable modem Cox supplied a software package fot connecting a Surfer Or Toshiba Cable Modem here in Tucson. Simple installation! - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Does anyone use Cox cable and have a LAN set up? How hard is it to set up and where did you start the learning process? I'm going to switch over to Cox and hoping it is not rocket science. Any help is appriciated. TIA Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thursday 16 May 2002 04:52 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip So while the Peruvian Government does the right thing, the corrupt American government violates it's own Antitrust laws by giving M$ a carte blanc to rape and pillage the public with the M$ Tax. We are all, after all, nothing but tax fodder to the government employees, anyway. Since M$ imposes their own tax on businesses and individuals, why then should they not be buds? Two bloodsucking vampiric parasites walking along together conducting legal crime; birds of a feather flock together, right? The government taxes the individuals, while it's buddy MicroSh*t provides a spy conduit by which the government can track individuals that don't like the taxes, while MicroSh*t taxes the individuals, while the government provides unofficial protection for Microshaft. It's a sweetheart deal, boys. HTH, LX /snip Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Networking
Marcia, Try using the -bgr233 option. That will force the server to send 8-bit color instead of 16-bit color. You can also mess with the -compresslevel num option, where num is 0-9. The -quality num may also help the speed (at the expense of quality, of course). See the man page for (sketchy) details: man vncviewer I have no idea how to do these things with the Winsux client. Miark On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 11:16, Marcia wrote: By the way, how can I improve the speed of VNC? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SNF start up
Title: SNF start up Hi all, wondering if anyone has used Single Network Firewall? I have installed it on a K6-II 266mhz computer, an old gateway desktop case and 400mb harddrive. the install went fine but now I don't have a clue as to how it starts. When you boot it up with a monitor still connected it boots to the login prompt. I assume it is not started. The nearly 300 page manual does not indicate that you have to start it and then unplug monitor and keyboard or if you somehow start it when you access via the https://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:port# So I need a little help just getting into it to configure my cable modem setup. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thursday 16 May 2002 12:02, Kaj Haulrich opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? timing is everything http://www.theregus.com/content/6/24966.html -- If you set a man by a fire, you keep him warm all day, but set a man on fire and you keep him warm the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF start up
On Thursday 16 May 2002 01:49 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Hi all, wondering if anyone has used Single Network Firewall? I have installed it on a K6-II 266mhz computer, an old gateway desktop case and 400mb harddrive. the install went fine but now I don't have a clue as to how it starts. When you boot it up with a monitor still connected it boots to the login prompt. I assume it is not started. The nearly 300 page manual does not indicate that you have to start it and then unplug monitor and keyboard or if you somehow start it when you access via the https://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:port# So I need a little help just getting into it to configure my cable modem setup. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Dennis M. It may be started, you will have to login and do a ps aux and see if it is running. also try iptables --list -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java in Mozilla
On Thursday 16 May 2002 5:40 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have LM8.2 and downloaded the netscape 6.2 recently. All of the java plugins work fine but my Mozilla does not seem to have the necessary java plugins. I prefer to use Mozilla since it is much faster on my machine. How may I import the java plugins from Netscape? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Locate the file libjavaplugin_oji140.so(or similar depending on your java version) which you will find in your java directory, (/usr/java/j2re1.4.0/plugin/i386/ns610 or similar ) and copy it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Thats it derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem
Title: RE: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Cox supplied a software package fot connecting a Surfer Or Toshiba Cable Modem here in Tucson. Simple installation! - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Does anyone use Cox cable and have a LAN set up? How hard is it to set up and where did you start the learning process? I'm going to switch over to Cox and hoping it is not rocket science. Any help is appriciated. TIA Dennis M. Thanks, I'll wait and see what they show up with. Sorry about the html again folks, my workstation here uses outlook and it seems to change back to html periodically. I never know when or why. Dennis M.
[newbie] Java in Mozilla
Dear All, I have LM8.2 and downloaded the netscape 6.2 recently. All of the java plugins work fine but my Mozilla does not seem to have the necessary java plugins. I prefer to use Mozilla since it is much faster on my machine. How may I import the java plugins from Netscape? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sympa... questo sconosciuto
Sto cercando di mettere su una lista x i miei amici e io e, dopo essermi letto tutto quello che trovavo su postfix e majordomo, mi sono accorto che la mia distro (mdk 8.1) cia' il sympa gia' installato! Ora, mentre x tutto il resto ho trovato vari howto (anche in italiano!) + che esaustivi, x quest'ultimo trovo solo quanto pubblicato sul sito francese di riferimento. Da una ricerca con google sulle pagine in italiano ho potuto rilevare che, pur essendo utilizzato da varie liste in cui si parla di mandrake, nessuno di quelli che hanno gia' implementato queste mailing list e' stato molto prodigo di suggerimenti con tutti coloro che lamentavano difficolta' e problemi con questo gestore... si limitavano a rispondere: questa lista e' implementata con sympa! (come dire: tant'e', come vedi funziona, quindi datti una svegliata!). Mah domani in ufficio mi stampo il manuale ufficiale (in francese?!?) poi, se ci capisco qualcosa bene, al peggio lo disinstallo e uso Majordomo! ;) P.S.: mi sono anche scaricato i manuali .pdf della mia distro ma di sympa neanche l'ombra. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need Quick Linux = Windows Integration advice
I'd recommend against showing off linux unless you really know how todo all this yourself. You may end up just giving everyone a bitter taste in their mouth about linux if everything doesn't work right off the bat. When introducing something new, it needs to be obviously better, not just working after many days of tweeking. Tommy Eaton wrote: Hi, one of our computers recently came with XP HOME installed... useless on our network... So, I figure this is a good opportunity to show off some Linux. Problem is I have no idea where to start. I would simply be installing it on one workstation so this is a fairly small (?) project. I will need the workstation to be able to access windows shares from an NT 40 server, work on Office docs, surf the web, run proprietary software, and receive email from a Microsoft Post Office or Exchange 5.5 server. Is this possible? I figure OO or SO might work for the Office apps, but I'm not sure beyond that... Any help would be appreciated! -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mosfet
Thanks --- Robert Whitney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:56 AM 5/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: This may have been addressed earlier but is it true that Mandrake uses a non-standard KDE file system layout? Would someone from Mandrake please comment on the paragraph below? I copied this from a statement by mosfet regarding the High Performance Liquid theme at the end of the change log updated 05/11/2002. Thanks. TC Try this: unpackage the files run ./configure --prefix=/usr from the directory you upacked into then make install Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs
Now i understand your point.But there is no switch for a usb controller in my bios(or is there another way that i dont know how to disable it?)With two other distros,JBLinux and Peanut i had no problem with the partition check process,it just printed a few messages and then went on.Nevertheless i think i would use one of the alt kernels for now.If you hear smth about the subject iwould be pleased to hear about it. Serkan - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Serkan Barut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:10 Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs Sorry: I probably did not make myself clear. It was not the presence of USB devices that prevented my installing Mandrake. It was the presence of the USB controller on the motherboard. Disabling usb in the BIOS resolved the problem for me. derek On Thursday 16 May 2002 5:02 am, Serkan Barut wrote: Well thanks for your answer first.I connected my mouse through the ps/2 port via adapter so there was no device left on the usb(keyboard is ps/2),but it still can't pass partition check so it seems it is not related with usb.My mainboard is Abit BX6 rev 2.I never thought that i would have a problem at this stage.I thought that my mouse could be a problem during the install but could never have imagined something like this.Well with other distros partition check was no problem,i am really confused and it seems that there is nothing i can do except using a 2.2.x series kernel during install.Some other guy asked me about my filesystem but it just doesn't make sense,-who knows? - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Serkan Barut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 17:48 Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition Check Hangs I have had a similar problem on installing 8.2 on my Asus K7V motherboard. I resolved it as being down to the usb controller. If I disabled USB during the Mandrake install it would go through the partition check process no problem. I could then re-enable usb once the install was completed and then use Mandrake Control Centre to install my usb devices. derek On Wednesday 15 May 2002 1:22 pm, Serkan Barut wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake Linux 8.2 bluebird-i586 20020317 12:00 which is the downloadeble version,i guess.When i boot from the cd to install with the default kernel 2.4.18 the machine hangs at the partition check process.I waited a long time,more than 20 minutes and did not see any message.I played with my bios settings but that changed nothing.Up to now i installed other distros including slackware 8,redhat 7.1 and did not have any problem of this kind.There is the alt1 and alt2 with which i booted safely and at last saw the installation screen but this time my mouse and keyboard was not working(i have a logitech pilot optical connected to usb probably causing this problem).I have two Quantum ide hds.I have Windows98 on hda. If anyone can help i would be pleased,thanks. --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Thursday 16 May 2002 02:00 am, you wrote: you want to type: /demo demo1 I did do thatnothing happens except it goes back to the main menu... Dunno. Anyways, gonna try changing that line that another user suggested. Are we all gonna post our fps/res/depth just to see whats happening? (not another bragging rights contest - just to see how we are doing?) Thx! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VIA 8233A Audio Problem on MDK 8.2
On Wed, 15 May 2002 10:59:03 +0100 andyjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Triple checked that :) Andy - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: andyjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] VIA 8233A Audio Problem on MDK 8.2 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 09:33, you wrote: snip Well, it seems the snd-card-via8233 module loaded OK. However most This is the weird thing, I don't get any errors, and all applications seem to play, except there is no output. For instance loading a track in Xmms works fine and the track plays along nicely...just no sound comes out the speakers. If I turn on and off the PCM feed I can hear hiss coming through the speakers so there is something their Are you sure all the mixer LED's are bright green ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] But you can hear an audio CD via your soundcard? You must have raised the CD and master volumes for that. Another idea: install the alsa-utils RPM and use 'alsamixer', see 'man alsamixer' ;) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VIA 8233A Audio Problem on MDK 8.2
On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:12:14 +0100 andyjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange I'm sure they were missing last time I looked, however now the symlinks are present. I have; dsp /dev/sound/dsp mixer /dev/sound/mixer sequencer /dev/sound/sequencer sequencer1 /dev/sound/sequencer1 One thing I noticed during playing around with modules.conf is that the module pre-installed on the system is; /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/alsa/snd-card-via8233.o.gz And the new VIA 1.14 module I installed recently is at; /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/viaudio.o I'm guessing but I think that the kernel looks in both paths for modules? Just in case I guessed wrong I copied snd-card-via8233.o.gz to the same path as viaudio.o Now when I specify snd-card-via8233.0.gz in modules.conf I still get no audio other than CD-Audio.but In Sound Mixer it lists the module as Avance Logic AL C200/200P, checked the mobo and it's got a Avance Logic ALC201A chip. So I'm going to try Realtek's driver and cross my fingers :) Andy snip_original_post I think the Avance Logic ALC200/200P message comes from the ALSA 0.5.12a snd-card-via8233 driver. You have decided not to try the Realtek driver you say in a later post because it's based on an earlier version of ALSA. I suggest moving the snd-card-via8233.o.gz file out of the way and try the Realtek driver. It may have been modified by Realtek to support the ALC201A chip. You identified the chip on the mainboard? That's very good of you :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Logitech Quickcam
I want to get this thing to work... I did once, but it was very choppy. The method I used was I downloaded some driver from some little website, and it wasn't very good... Is there an easy way to do this in Mandrake? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SNF start up
Title: SNF start up - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:49 PM Subject: [newbie] SNF start up Hi all, wondering if anyone has used Single Network Firewall? I have installed it on a K6-II 266mhz computer, an old gateway desktop case and 400mb harddrive. the install went fine but now I don't have a clue as to how it starts. When you boot it up with a monitor still connected it boots to the login prompt. I assume it is not started. The nearly 300 page manual does not indicate that you have to start it and then unplug monitor and keyboard or if you somehow start it when you access via the https://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:port# So I need a little help just getting into it to configure my cable modem setup. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Dennis M. You must log in using the admin account that was created during the setup and it'll prompt you to make changes to your Internet connection and internal LAN setup then you can do the rest of the configuration via a web browser using HTTPS://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:port# once this is all done you will be able;e to have it route your internet connection via IP MASQ. I tried SNF and I didn't find it did what I was looking for so I tried a few others and I found that the a-smith gateway worked best for me (www.esmith.com) but I had some very strange requirements. Socratez
Re: [newbie] Need Quick Linux = Windows Integration advice
On Friday 17 May 2002 12:16 am, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I'd recommend against showing off linux unless you really know how todo all this yourself. You may end up just giving everyone a bitter taste in their mouth about linux if everything doesn't work right off the bat. When introducing something new, it needs to be obviously better, not just working after many days of tweeking. I will second that ! - I certainly do remember my 8.2 install-feast : Being on linux for about 3 years and Mandrake from 7.0 -- 8.1 without any serious troubles I ordered the 8.2 power-pack and invited some friends of mine (who knows only a certain OS) to watch a full-blown-cutting-edge-up-to-date-sciddlelidoo - install of linux. Well, the beers were cold, the friends seated comfortably. I powered on the good old PC and injected the first, very fresh CD. Hisses and noises. Then, the usual : in second stage install.. . Fine ! Another round of beers. Everything seemed to go as usual, until : select packages to install ( or something similar). - No packages ! Well, - after another try with no more luck - I resorted to show-off 8.1. Succes ! Morale : Don't take it for granted that a new version is better. In my case it was a lot worse : the need to download patches for installation on K-6 processors (how do you do that from a defunct PC ???). Endless troubles with supermount ( you can't play audioCD's anymore, can't format a floppy, can't use the locate-command) , etc. etc. As the man says : If it isn't broke, don't fix it ! Kaj Haulrich Denmark Tommy Eaton wrote: Hi, one of our computers recently came with XP HOME installed... useless on our network... So, I figure this is a good opportunity to show off some Linux. Problem is I have no idea where to start. I would simply be installing it on one workstation so this is a fairly small (?) project. I will need the workstation to be able to access windows shares from an NT 40 server, work on Office docs, surf the web, run proprietary software, and receive email from a Microsoft Post Office or Exchange 5.5 server. Is this possible? I figure OO or SO might work for the Office apps, but I'm not sure beyond that... Any help would be appreciated! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3 frame rate...
shane wrote: On Thursday 16 May 2002 08:46, darklord opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Okay, I changed that line in the cfg file and it looks like I'm getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 - 100 frames per second (it bounces around, don't know why) errr, what line, i can't frames anywhere... ok, i am an idiot. in those files i sent you there is an autoexec.cfg file... put this line: seta cg_drawfps 1 in there. or put it in your baseq3.cfg file. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 15 May 2002 04:10 pm, civileme wrote: Well, I had to btreak down and get something that would give me a little experience supporting NVidia installs. As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary, which means those drivers don't get on the download edition, and since the driver's wrapper has to be recompiled for each new kernel, it is difficult to make the commercial offering work properly--since linux distros don't have the source, the installation is always non-trivial. After looking around, I decided to build something that could dual-boot for testing purposes and also fit in a small case with a CDRW/DVD as the only 5.25 drive, so I chose the ASUS A7N266-VM snip What kind of a box did you put it in? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Inwin 500D desktop with a heavy power supply for that size, 180 watts, and with two ATAPI UDMA5 drives with RAID0 across the entire linux setup, one RAID 0 for each of /, /usr, /home, /var, /opt. I don't recomend that setup yet as the installer program cannot run update on it, but with a little old 1G Duron it acts more like an XP2000+. I am less than happy to report that the manual must have been mistranslated, because There are drivers for W2K and WinXP on the drivers disk. THe Embedded network card is buried beyond the reach of anything but their driver, and they have no linux driver, (but their sound setup does have a linux driver on cd, which was unnecessary). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SNF 7.2 questions.
Title: SNF 7.2 questions. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a system that is running the Mandrake SNF 7.2 build, and I have some specific routing questions. First off. I have the SNF system placed within the following diagram: Internet | (eth2) [FW] (eth0) --- [Cisco 2621] -- [2621] | [2621] Now, the problem that I am having is I don't know how to configure nor use gated or routed. I asked some other people on another mailing list, and someone suggested that I use zebra. Well, I tried to install zebra with no luck (and, yes, I did remove gated and routed before trying to install zebra). I am at the point where I just want to add static routes, but I don't want to have to add a route every single time I reboot the firewall. So, how would I go about adding static routes a script, or the network script? Also, how would I go about creating aliased interfaces during startup? Does anyone have a better link to the SNF instructions other than the HTML pages on Mandrakes site? Thanks, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.1 Comment: Public Key Signature for Chris Lynch iQA/AwUBPORmsEr5pFJx+BQ5EQJydgCfT+koWIsRAc3E9+3n55UmgFr1n3YAoJDs aJb92fH6HMY2e07ZKeoXXPH/ =QU26 -END PGP SIGNATURE- PGPexch.rtf.asc Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need Quick Linux = Windows Integration advice
For the email, look at Evolution at: http://www.ximian.com/ -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Wed, 15 May 2002 12:23:18 -0400 Tommy Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, one of our computers recently came with XP HOME installed... useless on our network... So, I figure this is a good opportunity to show off some Linux. Problem is I have no idea where to start. I would simply be installing it on one workstation so this is a fairly small (?) project. I will need the workstation to be able to access windows shares from an NT 40 server, work on Office docs, surf the web, run proprietary software, and receive email from a Microsoft Post Office or Exchange 5.5 server. Is this possible? I figure OO or SO might work for the Office apps, but I'm not sure beyond that... Any help would be appreciated! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test message .. are these getting through ok?
Coming through fine. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On 15 May 2002 14:10:07 -0400 Terry S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a test message everyone .. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ASUS A7N266-VM
On Thursday 16 May 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: Don't hold your breath ; Besides the Special relationships and binding contracts, nVidia is a major chip supplier to you know who. I seriously doubt nVidia would risk M$'s rath and subsequent loss of market (eg, video chips for the Xbox). M$ doesn't want hardware working correctly on other than their OS. Not to mention that M$ could kill nVidia just by slowing info that nVidia needs to write their Windoze drivers. It's a fact of life that they're willing to threaten, arm twist, and bully to keep it so. IMO, a much greater crime than the integration of the IE browser and Media Player. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynewsStoryID=95928 1 I was afraid of something along those lines. I would just love to see somebody (like Nvidia) publicy tell just what MS does... I mean, make a commercial along the lines of: Well folks, today we are releasing all of our code and making it open source, according to the guidelines of the GPL. We've not done this up until now because we feared what MS would do to our business. Here are memo's and other (various) messages from Redmond showing just how they have been threatening us. We finally just became sick to death of all this and decided to tell you, the buying American public, just what they have been doing. Naturally now, we will be a target for them to use, abuse and withhold vital information from, just so they can teach us a lesson. In fact, they will probably destroy us. Is this right? You decide - and let your elected officials know just what you think... Thank you for your time Ah well - guess nobody else sees that if they did this, then MS would be forced to leave them alone, because of the scrutiny that would be brought to bear on them... I can dream, I guess... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 questions.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Never mind. I have finally found the documentation on how to use routed. I finally found it on the FreeBSD MAN pages. If anyone is interested, you can read it here, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=routed=8. Chris - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Lynch Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] SNF 7.2 questions. - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a system that is running the Mandrake SNF 7.2 build, and I have some specific routing questions. First off. I have the SNF system placed within the following diagram: Internet | (eth2) [FW] (eth0) ---> [Cisco 2621] --> [2621] | [2621] Now, the problem that I am having is I don't know how to configure nor use gated or routed. I asked some other people on another mailing list, and someone suggested that I use zebra. Well, I tried to install zebra with no luck (and, yes, I did remove gated and routed before trying to install zebra). I am at the point where I just want to add static routes, but I don't want to have to add a route every single time I reboot the firewall. So, how would I go about adding static routes a script, or the network script? Also, how would I go about creating aliased interfaces during startup? Does anyone have a better link to the SNF instructions other than the HTML pages on Mandrakes site? Thanks, Chris - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.1 Comment: Public Key Signature for Chris Lynch iQA/AwUBPORmsEr5pFJx+BQ5EQJydgCfT+koWIsRAc3E9+3n55UmgFr1n3YAoJDs aJb92fH6HMY2e07ZKeoXXPH/ =QU26 - -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.1 Comment: Public Key Signature for Chris Lynch iQA/AwUBPOR5rUr5pFJx+BQ5EQLmcQCgijxMVKq1bxjxhCvMiNwplNhqFnIAoMVM XB8vX/BuHqWvG79HThtKxt5H =bz9t -END PGP SIGNATURE- PGPexch.rtf.asc Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware issues
My display card seems to not want to install properly. It's a Trident display card, I got it used for reasonably cheap. I'm running a Pentium 200 MMX, 128 Megs of RAM, Trident display adapter, SoundBlaster AWE 64, RealTEK networking card, and I'm running Mandrake 8.2. It started out as my inability to get past the log-in, to which I found the answer in the archives. I tried it, and it didn't work, so I emailed Derek about it, and included what the errors that I was given. He said that it was X server not liking me, essentially. I also told him that when the install got to the configuration area, it went to a blank screen, and that was it. I figured that I could try configure it later. He reccommended that I run XFdrake to get things rolling, but all it asked about was my monitor, not my display card. All of this, as well as my prefious experience leads me to believe that Mandrake doesn't like my display card for some reason. If anyone gets this and has an AIM account, I'm Bloodwulf42, and I'm on my parent's computer, usually after about 10 PM Mountain time. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I'm going to try running the Expert mode of the installer, and see what happens. If that fails, I may try running HardDrake, and see what happens there. But I'd far rather have some idea of what I'm getting into before I go mucking about in HardDrake. Thanks in advance Iceburgh69 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem
It is a very easy setup. I live in Phoenix and currently have four machines on three different platforms running on it using a router I picked up and a hub for about $150.00 if I remember right. Cox told me to run a firewall and I said that was no problem since I run linux. take care, eric l. mcclure On Thu, 16 May 2002, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Cox supplied a software package fot connecting a Surfer Or Toshiba Cable Modem here in Tucson. Simple installation! - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: [newbie] LAN and COX cable modem Does anyone use Cox cable and have a LAN set up? How hard is it to set up and where did you start the learning process? I'm going to switch over to Cox and hoping it is not rocket science. Any help is appriciated. TIA Dennis M. Thanks, I'll wait and see what they show up with. Sorry about the html again folks, my workstation here uses outlook and it seems to change back to html periodically. I never know when or why. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
D. Olson wrote: On Thursday 16 May 2002 02:06 am, you wrote: Its a Geforce2 i'm running quake normally, nothing special no winex And you only get 20fps? You installed the NVidia drivers properly? That's messed... No, I get a 20fps drop in linux... so in windows if i avg say.. 80FPS, in linux I get 60fps. Go figures -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Winex Supported Games
*Pounces in cat-like fashion.* THANK YOU! You just eliminated any need for me to install WinBlows at ALL! I was SERIOUSLY hoping that I wouldn't have to deal with it's discount fertalizer again. And now I don't have to. *Happy tiger-dance.* This is a good thing. Once I get Mandrake working right, you can bet that I'll be on top of this in a heart-beat! Thanks again. Iceburgh69 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ? Kaj Haulrich Denmark There's no intimation here that this is an isolated case, Kaj. I just don't have any comprehensive data on other government's right or wrong doings. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 20:09, FemmeFatale wrote: No, I get a 20fps drop in linux... so in windows if i avg say.. 80FPS, in linux I get 60fps. Go figures I've got an Athlon running at 964 mhz with an Abit Siluro MX200 and 128 meg of Mushkin memory. I'm getting 90-100 fps with Quake3 set to normal graphics mode; no other mods. LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] InteractiveBastille
I have stepped up from 7.1 to 8.2. IPChains just always seemed beyond me. Now i have InteractiveBastille as an alternative i am willing to give it a try. Is there any newbie traps with answering the complex questions wrong? Better still is there a really good FAQ for it, or a manual that runs through what each thing does, why you want / don't want it, when you want it, etc. ? I have some knowledge of ports, but some less familiar terms (read - huh!) stump me half way through these things. I then want to back out and find out what it is talking about first, rather than continue. I have a desktop that i have loaded many services on (most of them are running, and i am sorting which ones i should turn off). I do intend to connect other computers in to this one on a LAN shortly. Also i play with some web work and having Apache and PHP (even HTTPS) available to the LAN only is desirable. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 05:12, civileme wrote: Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Microsoft has (or had) in Win9x and WinNT cruyptographic keys for cryptographic services and no services would work without passing the appropriate key. This was to comply with export restrictions at the time (128 bit encryption was considered a weapon). This is when I took serious interest in Linux. I was just plain tired of having to update and then still not know if there was a backdoor for the NSA or MS or whoever. I realize computer security is an ongoing practice regardless of OS, but I sure feel safer with Linux than I did with Windows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quake 3 frame rate...
darklord wrote: Okay, I changed that line in the cfg file and it looks like I'm getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 - 100 frames per second (it bounces around, don't know why) Is that average/good/great? Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Pretty damn good ;) It jumps b/c maps have different spots where more vertices intersect thus making it harder on your vid card to process the numbers. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
