Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Björn Olsson]

On Monday 1 Sep 2003 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As single user mode do you have to have those ports open? All I get is
> a black screen when I type "et" in a console. Yes I am behind a
> firewall, so is that the reason I get a black screen? A little help
> here, thanks,-- 
> Dennis M. linux user #180842
> 
Single user mode? You mean you are logged in as root when connecting to
the Internet? Isn't that a bit risky?
Anyway, I don't think this would make any difference as far as the ports
are concerned. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

When the game is started you are first presented with a menu, and I
don't think it it tries to connect to the net at that point. It doesn't
do that until you tell it to. So no, if you don't even get to the menu,
that probably has nothing to do with the firewall.
I have had this problem myself too. Usually everything works just fine
but occasionally I get a black screen. When I try again it works again.
Sorry, but I can't help you more.

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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Björn Olsson]

On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> wow .. mighty generous of ID to do this ...
> about the ports .. I'm not sure if I do this stuff right .. is it
> enoguh if in Mandrake Control Center I go to the firewall, advanced
> and do 27950/udp ?
> 
> & many many thanks for all the info .. atm this is the biggest free
> game available for download that I know of :)
>
Sorry, I don't use MCC for configuring the firewall so I wouldn't know.
One way to check which ports to open is to start with all ports closed,
run ET (or any other application) and then check /var/log/messages to
see on what ports it tried to connect.

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Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

[Inhabitant of Zion]

Hi

I assume you have it now? Let me know if you still want a copy I recommend
doing urpmi kopete-0.6.2.

I have gone back to the 6.2 version. I have no end of trouble with the
later versions causing sever instability. I suspect maybe its an issue
with some of the plugins on 0.7.1. 

Setting the thing up is fairly easy. You go into settings and select which
services you want then just plug in your details and connect.

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Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

[HaywireMac]

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:27:41 +0300
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> The vote on software patents in Europe has been deferred until 22nd
> September following the protests over the past week. It had already
> been put back from June because of MEPs' doubts.

wow, so direct action works, who'd a' thought it...

HUZZA!

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Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

[Anarky]

Paul wrote:

The vote on software patents in Europe has been deferred until 22nd
September following the protests over the past week. It had already been
put back from June because of MEPs' doubts.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39116053,00.htm

 

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Re: [newbie] TWiki question

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:29:08 -0500
Curt Tresenriter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> The dream team!

If only...

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Re: Games was Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 01:14, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
> I tried that cube game on my PC - graphic were so jerky I could not play it
> and this is a high spec machine (well it was a while back!) 2 x PIII 1Ghz,
> 500mb ram 128mb video card.

Been through this before myself - the idea, though, it to make
absolutely sure you've got the best video drivers for your box's
XWindows, then to make sure that THAT is tweaked out, then, after all
that is said and done, you can tweak out the games video/graphics
settings; I had problems for a while at first with sound being way
behind the action, then vice-versa - but just a matter of tweaking, and
voila - worked like a charm...

It's a fun game - and even more fun when you're doing the multi-player
bit - easy to setup and run a multi-player game on your home network...

stephen kuhn
==
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a kuhn media australia company
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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:58:24 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> It may be you have a mail in your list which is giving fetchmail an
> unexpected result code. When that happens fetchmail leaves the mail on
> the server.
> 
> If you stop the fetchmail daemon and run it by hand with 
> fetchmail -v -f /etc/fetchmailrc  you can see if there are any
> exception messages.

I run fetchmail as a regular user, so I ran it as:

fetchmail -v -f ~/.fetchmailrc

nuttin'.
 
> I had these sort of problems until I put  'antispam 501'  on the end
> of my fetchmail options.

Can I add that to .fetchmailrc, or is it a command line option?

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Re: [newbie] gaim

[crak600]

On Monday 01 September 2003 12:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> anybody knows gaim?
> you have the option to show a horizontal buddy ticker, it's a plugin. i
> __deactivated__ the plugin, but the ticker is showing after a few minutes
> again. i dont like this "feature"...
> i thought it could be that the settings arent saved, so i avtivated the
> ticker, exit gaim nicley, start it, deactivated the ticker and closed gaim
> again. but it's coming all the time. any idea?
>
> remo

all i did was go into preferences, general, and disabled the buddy ticker from 
there.  

i'm still using version 0.59, which is in the mdk 9.1 distro. i installed 0.66 
from the rpm and i can't find it and i've tried to install 0.67 through a 
terminal and i can't get it to work, although i'm missing one thing i still 
have to download for it i believe.  i've had a lot of problems trying to 
upgrade with something that should be relatively easy to do (and i followed 
the instructions in the 'install' document).

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Re: [newbie] DVD and Sound

[crak600]

On Monday 01 September 2003 05:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
>
> If you have both Aumix and Kmix turned right up full and have set them
> as such as default settings, maybe you need to look at gmplayer itself,
> there are a number of audio driver settings in preferences, if that does
> not work, then I would suspect you need better versions of lame. Mplayer
> is a very demanding programme, a hell of a lot of resource goes into
> playing moving pictures, some sound drivers may not work well with
> mplayer. I installed Ralph Slooten's,  lame-20030216cvs-1mdk.i586.rpm
> from his website.
>
> One last thought maybe you have aRts enabled ?  in MCC
>
> John

as far as i can see i don't have arts on here.  i checked for services running 
and it's not listed, i went to the uninstall software option and looked for 
it and didn't see it, and in a terminal asked 'which arts' and it says there 
are "no arts in" and lists locations.  did i miss anywhere to check?  

i've done the aumix and kmix volumes and it doesn't help.  i've tried 
different audio drivers in mplayer and from what i've seen only one works 
with my sound card.  i tried quite a few different ones already though.

what is lame for?  

Mike

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Re: [newbie] TWiki question

[Todd Slater]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:40:20PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:09 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
> > I was going to contribute to the twiki with info on bogofilter and
> > Mailman. For WikiWords, it suggests using two words run together
> > with initial caps. I would just like to do "Bogofilter" as that's
> > the programs name, likewise with "Mailman" (no "studly" caps). Is
> > there some sort of convention for naming new topics? I would assume
> > a short name is preferable to a long one. What should I
> > use--BogofilterSetup, BogofilterHowto?
> >
> Either would work, but what about BogoFilter ?

That's OK with me, too, but I wasn't sure if it would cause confusion
with the actual name of the program, which is Bogofilter (one word).

Todd

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Re: [newbie] mandrake downloads

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:30:25 +0300
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> I've taken a look at the official sites and, using gFTP, I'm looking
> at 10 days (plus time-outs).

not sure where you are located, but I'm getting 70KB here:

ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso

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Re: [newbie] mandrake downloads

[Paul]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:07, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:30:25 +0300
> Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> 
> > I've taken a look at the official sites and, using gFTP, I'm looking
> > at 10 days (plus time-outs).
> 
> not sure where you are located, but I'm getting 70KB here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso

Thanks,

just tried it, I'm getting 10K in Cyprus.

Still, 18 hours is better than 280.

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Re: [newbie] TWiki question

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:42:00 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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[newbie] msec ignores perm.local

[Avi Schwartz]

My machine currently uses level 4 security which sets the permissions 
on /var/tmp to 1773, however I need to make it possible for "other" to 
be able to read their files from this directory (i.e. mode 1777. so I 
added to perm.local the following line

/var/tmproot.adm1777

and then went ahead and modified the permissions on the directory 
manually to see what msec does:

chmod g+r /var/tmp

Unfortunately when I run msec it changes the permissions back to 1773.  
 Isn't perm.local supposed to allow me to override the default 
settings?  How do I achieve this?

Thanks,
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Re: [newbie] ssh

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

HaywireMac wrote:

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:40:22 -0400
Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
 

I used root and the root password and immediately had the run of the
box.
   

It would be better, IMHO, to ssh in as a regular user, then su root when
needed, but other than that, Derek has everything covered. As long as
you are behind a firewall, configured correctly, you are relatively
safe.
Isn't there something in msec that keeps you from logging in as root via 
ssh?  It makes you log on as a user and then su to root.  You may want 
to increase your msec security level as part of your security lockdown.

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Re: [newbie] PHP Programming

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 01 September 2003 04:08 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Bryan Phinney wrote:
>
> Do you have a link for MovieCollector?

I have a link, but the page is no longer up.  I suspect that the author may 
have stopped supporting the application.  I have managed to make some slight 
alterations and I have it downloading the majority of info from imdb 
currently, just a slight parsing problem with cast and I am still not getting 
the plot summary in the download.  But everything else comes down okay.  I 
suppose my current version is workable although I may continue to hack at it 
to try to get the other stuff to work.

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Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:52:19 -0600
Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

|
|I'm not a club member... How may I acquire this KoPete
thingy?
|
|Can you send it my way?  with instructions on use or a
manual? :)
|
|ty
|
|I.AM.Femme


I'm not a paid member either but I just ran urpmi kopete
and there it was- simple to config too.

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Re: [newbie] ssh

[L.V.Gandhi]

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 12:04 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:

>
> Now you have ssh working try out one of its coolest features, X11
> forwarding. Just open an ssh session and start up a GUI based application
> and it will start up on the client machine.

How is the X11 forwarding done. Say I have two machines.
192.168.16.21 ps
192.168.16.31 dgm
I want to do ssh from dgm to ps. What needs to be done in both ps and dgm

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Re: [newbie] Ice cube

[Josenildo Marques]

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On Monday 01 September 2003 16:49, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:02:35 +0100
>
> Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK I downloaded cube, and I've got about 0.3fps (it says 9, but it's
> > lying.) I must admit that I haven't looked around too much, I don't
> > really know where to look, but as a first try how's this for a video
> > card, and a X setup?
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > VendorName "NVidia"
> > BoardName "GeForce2 Ti"
> > Driver "nv"
>
> You are using the default nv driver supplied by XFree86.
> This does not supply 3d hardware acceleration for the nvidia cards.
>
> The only way you will be able to achieve 3d accel is by using the
> proprietary NVIDIA driver.
> The latest driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
> and is available from
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496
>
>
> Charles

I'm running 9.1 with the default driver, so I also need to do that.

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greater.
How can I know which verson I have ?
Is the install as simple as rpm -Uvh driver ? Does it have any dependencies ?
I fear that something will go wrong and I won't be able to run X...

Thanks for any tip.

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Re: [newbie] PHP Programming

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Bryan Phinney wrote:

This is probably off-topic, but does anyone on the list know anything about 
php programming.  I have an open-source application that was developed to 
catalog DVD's and movies.  It pulls information directly from the Internet 
Movie Database to fill out key parts of the films.  Makes it very convenient 
to add new movies.  Anyway, IMDB appears to have changed its format and I 
can't seem to figure out how to alter the original program to fix it.  
Thought someone here might want to take a crack at it.  Let me know if anyone 
here thinks they are interested.

The software is called MovieCollector and was original developed by Olaf 
Stauffer.

Do you have a link for MovieCollector?

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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Björn Olsson]

On Tuesday 2 Sep 2003 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 's a lion :P
> I can't find the post you're referring to anywhere .. but I think 
> somebody did a bit of research (how the heck?) and found out that I
> live in romania where the currency is leu/lei (in translation that
> would be lion/lions) :P

You're right, IIRC ro in your address is the code for Romania. I didn't
know what it meant though. Is there a story behind the name?

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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Heather/Femme]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 09:57, Björn Olsson wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Björn Olsson wrote:
> > 

>  You
> won't have to spend a single leu (apart from the cost for downloading).
> Good luck, and see you in 1944
> Björn

Leu!? wtf is a Leu!?

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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Anarky]

Heather/Femme wrote:

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 09:57, Björn Olsson wrote:
 

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

   

Björn Olsson wrote:

 

 

You
won't have to spend a single leu (apart from the cost for downloading).
Good luck, and see you in 1944
Björn
   

Leu!? wtf is a Leu!?

's a lion :P
   I can't find the post you're referring to anywhere .. but I think 
somebody did a bit of research (how the heck?) and found out that I live 
in romania where the currency is leu/lei (in translation that would be 
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Re: [newbie] MCC and 9.2 RC1

[Eric Huff]

> mcc in a terminal works on my machine, I'm in kde, assumed you were
> too.
> 
> I don't know where the executable is, not even precisely what it
> is called,

You can always find a prog with which:

~ $ which mcc
/usr/bin/mcc

And to see if it is linked:

~ $ ls -laF /usr/bin/mcc
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Jun 14 22:31 /usr/bin/mcc ->
drakconf*

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Re: Spamassassin rule was Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[rikona]

Hello Inhabitant,

Monday, September 1, 2003, 12:33:13 AM, you wrote:

>> My ISP uses Spamassassin, and maintains the rules. It is about 99+%
>> effective if it is kept up to date. It does scoring, and places the
>> score in the email, which allows me to place 'probable spam', with
>> a marginal score, in a separate folder. This has been very helpful
>> in preventing the loss of good email.

IoZ> I have spam assassin on my server but I never noticed the option you
IoZ> mention. Which version is it you are using maybe its newer than mine?
IoZ> Sounds like a good idea to me. Or is it something you setup yourself?

This is done by my ISP, but they have set it up in a way that gives
users quite a bit of control.

I was initially considering disabling the ISP's Spamassasin and doing
my own. It is a bit of work to keep the rules current in the ongoing
spam wars. Instead, I started a few threads in the local ISP
newsgroups asking for much more control. They listened and did it, so
I use theirs.

In Spamassasin, you can put info either in the message text or in
headers. I find headers a bit easier to filter.

Re versions, I would plan on keeping very current. The spam wars move
fast, and you need to keep ahead of the latest spammer tricks. I used
to run Spam Bouncer, and found you needed to update quite often.

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Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 9:52 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:45, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > If you want to use Kopete 0.7.1 which now supports Yahoo and AIM
> > as well as all the others you need to use the cooker RPM from the
> > club. Its the only one I managed to get to work in anything like
> > a decent fashion.
> >
> > It does have a bug still that means you have to use Xkill to shut
> > it down however :-(
>
> I'm not a club member... How may I acquire this KoPete thingy?
>
> Can you send it my way?  with instructions on use or a manual? :)
>
Isn't it on your disks, Femme?  I didn't use the cooker version, and I 
had no problems.

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[newbie] MDK 9.2 RC1 CD boot problem

[Noah A Hicks]

Hello
I just downloaded MDK 9.1 RC1 and burned the CDs.  Booting off disk 1
gives the following message:
I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation disc in your CDROM drive
(Toshiba CD-ROM XM-1902B) Retry?

Selecting "Retry" gives the same message again.

The last few lines of the kernel message shows the following:
<4> hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
<3> hdc: lost interrupt
<4> Interleaved files not (yet) supported
<4> File unit size !=0 for ISO file (75776)
<4> hdc: status error: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
<4> hdc: status error: error=0x00
<3> hdc: drive not ready for command

This is the first time I have had a problem booting off a cd with
Mandrake.  It has happened with a few other distro's but I could not
figure it out.  Why is this happening and is there a way to work around
it?

I appreciate your time and answers,
-Noah

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Re: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List? Probs with mailman...

[Todd Slater]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:58:55AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:41:24 -0400
> HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> 
> > Suggestions for other topics are of course welcome, as well as tips on
> > how the 'ell to go about doing this.
> 
> Ok, I'm trying to get started with Mailman...
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./newlist
> Enter the name of the list: mdkgamers
> Enter the email of the person running the list:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./newlist", line 220, in ?
> main()
>   File "./newlist", line 154, in main
> list_pw = getpass.getpass("Initial %s password: " % listname)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getpass'

Did you install from CD or urpmi? That's probably the best way to go. I
wrote a brief howto for configuring Mailman:
http://clevername.homeip.net/howto/ and scroll down the mess.



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Re: [newbie] TWiki question

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:09 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
> I was going to contribute to the twiki with info on bogofilter and
> Mailman. For WikiWords, it suggests using two words run together
> with initial caps. I would just like to do "Bogofilter" as that's
> the programs name, likewise with "Mailman" (no "studly" caps). Is
> there some sort of convention for naming new topics? I would assume
> a short name is preferable to a long one. What should I
> use--BogofilterSetup, BogofilterHowto?
>
Either would work, but what about BogoFilter ?

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[newbie] THE infamous 'short message delivery report' issue

[Anarky]

   I keep getting these mails ("There is no such user (newbie).") ... 
have you got rid of them (not filtering, I mean really stopped getting 
them) ?? I'm starting to get them every couple of hours .. possibly even 
when I'm not posting to the mandrake newbie mailing list ... any idea if 
this plague will ever stop?


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Re: [newbie] How can I evaluate how fast a fast connection is ?

[Björn Olsson]

On Sunday 31 August 2003, Josenildo Marques wrote:

> I've got a ADSL connection now and I'd like to know if there is an
> app that would show me how fast the connection is.
> I'm running 9.1.
> Much obliged.

You might want to try out TPtest at
http://tptest.sourceforge.net/index.php. I haven't used it myself
since the half forgotten days of the dark ages when I used *the
other* OS. Maybe it's of limited use to an international audience, since
the test servers are located i Sweden. For those of you living nearby it
could be well worth a look though.

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Re[2]: [newbie] Mplayer Being Shut Down? [OT] Rant against European Parliment

[rikona]

Hello Margot,

Monday, September 1, 2003, 7:35:08 AM, you wrote:

M> No mention of medical qualifications on her website, so I assume
M> she is PhD.

In Political Science, perhaps? :-)))

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[newbie] TWiki question

[Todd Slater]

I was going to contribute to the twiki with info on bogofilter and
Mailman. For WikiWords, it suggests using two words run together with
initial caps. I would just like to do "Bogofilter" as that's the
programs name, likewise with "Mailman" (no "studly" caps). Is there some
sort of convention for naming new topics? I would assume a short name is
preferable to a long one. What should I use--BogofilterSetup,
BogofilterHowto?

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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Anarky]

Xuer wrote:

Enemy Territory is about 270M and totally free. It doesn't need original
'return to castel wolfenstein'.
woow .. incredible .. any idea why/how that happened?


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Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

[Eric Huff]

> > > This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it
> > 
> > Had the same one at 19.19h
> > It's contagious:o)
> 
> ya know, we really need to come up with a better 'excuse'. like...
> "gee, this means your winblows partition has the famous SMS worm, and
> if it takes longer than 'usual' to boot windows next time, it is
> eating the electronics of your IDE hard drives".

LOL!

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Re: [newbie] Apache: where to begin?

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

_nasturtium wrote:

First, my apologies, but I've been reading too much Chaucer.

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:51 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
 

You can also place files in your home directory to be served by Apache.
Create a directory called "pubic_html" in your home directory and start
adding files.  You don't even need root access to do this.
   

May I suggest "public_html" instead?
 

You can then view those file by going to
http://localhost/~yourhomedirectoryname/
Have fun.
   

Regards,
_nasturtium
ROTFLMAO! :-D

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Re: [newbie] Ice cube

[Charles A Edwards]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:02:35 +0100
Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OK I downloaded cube, and I've got about 0.3fps (it says 9, but it's 
> lying.) I must admit that I haven't looked around too much, I don't 
> really know where to look, but as a first try how's this for a video 
> card, and a X setup?
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> VendorName "NVidia"
> BoardName "GeForce2 Ti"
> Driver "nv"

You are using the default nv driver supplied by XFree86.
This does not supply 3d hardware acceleration for the nvidia cards.

The only way you will be able to achieve 3d accel is by using the
proprietary NVIDIA driver.
The latest driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
and is available from
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496


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Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

[Heather/Femme]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:45, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
> Hi
> 
> If you want to use Kopete 0.7.1 which now supports Yahoo and AIM as well as
> all the others you need to use the cooker RPM from the club. Its the only
> one I managed to get to work in anything like a decent fashion.
> 
> It does have a bug still that means you have to use Xkill to shut it down
> however :-(

I'm not a club member... How may I acquire this KoPete thingy?

Can you send it my way?  with instructions on use or a manual? :)

ty

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Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

[Eric Huff]

> > On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses
> > pics of the statue of liberty...
> 
> Wasn't it made in France & donated to the USA.

Yep. That's what they taught us in skewl.

"The Statue of Liberty National Monument officially celebrated her 100th
birthday on October 28, 1986. The people of France gave the Statue to
the people of the United States over one hundred years ago in
recognition of the friendship established during the American
Revolution. Over the years, the Statue of Liberty has grown to include
freedom and democracy as well as this international friendship."

Kind of ironic, given our present situation...  :(

> Was it a fair swap for software patents, etc.?

I dunno: i got chicken pox while i was in the statue...

Actually, it's quite interesting to walk around inside, if building
structure interests you at all.

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Re: [newbie] libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0

[linux]

i used a rpm from xmule.sf.net, its not the newest version. but this one worked 
in my last installation of mdk 9.1...
i dont know may be i do anything wrong when i'm installing mdk... :/ after 
every instaollation, there is another problem...*smile*

i tried to use mldonkey but i couldnt convert my downloads from emule to 
mldonkey. and so this client is not useful for me...

r.

Quoting HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Mon,  1 Sep 2003 18:17:42 +0200
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
> 
> > i tried to start xmule. following error is desplayed: 
> >  
> > xmule: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
> >  
> > i installed libwxgtk2.4-2.4.0-3mdk, nothing changed. is there a
> > configuration problem? 
> 
> how did you install xmule? from source? if so, it is probably not seeing
> the shared library where it expects them to be...
> 
> in the source dir of xmule, run ./configure --help for options which may
> allow you to specify the locations of said shared libraries.
> 
> if xmule is to access the donkey network, I would recommend MLDonkey
> instead, there are mandrake rpms avail thru urpmi, and it works
> flawlessly.
> 
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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[Inhabitant of Zion]

>
> And hell, if you cant play GTA vice city, how can I show you the
> neighborhood I grew up in?
> 

Oh dear! I think I may have clubbed to death your nephew. My apologies.

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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[Erylon Hines]

On Monday 01 September 2003 10:44 am, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:14:52 -0400
>
>
>
> What I really wanna do is give Bill Gates a kick in the nuts, but I
> guess that goes without saying...

Get in line, buddy.

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[newbie] Re: Ice cube

[Björn Lundin]

Richard Urwin wrote:

> Hi people,
> 
> OK I downloaded cube, and I've got about 0.3fps (it says 9, but it's
> lying.) I must admit that I haven't looked around too much, I don't
> really know where to look, but as a first try how's this for a video
> card, and a X setup?
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> VendorName "NVidia"
> BoardName "GeForce2 Ti"
> Driver "nv"
 ^

You should get the drivers from nVidias website.

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Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

[Paul]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:37, Eric Huff wrote:
> > |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess...
> > |
> > |only "C" choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada...
> > 
> > Wouldn't you qualify as North America?
> 
> Is Canada in northamerica?
> 
> On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics
> of the statue of liberty...

Wasn't it made in France & donated to the USA.

Was it a fair swap for software patents, etc.?

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Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

[Eric Huff]

> This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means?

> The originating domain is obviously false. The only "number newbie" I
> have tried to send anything to is this list.

> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This is from the same place as the other error messages we got recently.
 Evidentily, someone in russia signed up for this list on a phone or
something.

I just filtered it to trash...

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Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

[ed tharp]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:54, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 19:19, Björn Olsson wrote:
> > This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means?
> > The originating domain is obviously false. The only "number newbie" I
> > have tried to send anything to is this list.
> >
> > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Had the same one at 19.19h
> It's contagious:o)

ya know, we really need to come up with a better 'excuse'. like... "gee,
this means your winblows partition has the famous SMS worm, and if it
takes longer than 'usual' to boot windows next time, it is eating the
electronics of your IDE hard drives".
who cares if you don't have a windows partition, and doesn't always take
forever to boot?


 
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Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

[Margot]

H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2003 19:19, Björn Olsson wrote:

This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means?
The originating domain is obviously false. The only "number newbie" I
have tried to send anything to is this list.
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Had the same one at 19.19h
It's contagious:o)
Got several of these today - must be this mailing list!

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Re: [newbie] Lost New Mozilla - FOUND!

[Margot]

John Richard Smith wrote:
Margot wrote:

HaywireMac wrote:

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:00:42 +0100
Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

How do I get the new version on to the K menu?




I'm no K expert, in fact I fsck'n hate the shite ;-), but isn't there a
K menu editor in the KDE config options?
Another option is to simply create a new panel icon pointing to the
loc'n.

Can you (or someone else who might be a K expert!) please explain, in 
VERY simple terms, exactly how I "simply" do this? I know how to drag 
and copy an icon from the menu, but as the menu icons no longer work 
at all, is it possible to create new ones from scratch?

Margot

Oh, don't worry, they can be put back in MCC 's menueditor where you 
went first off, it's a tab ,you click, and then choose the desired icon 
from the list and there are ever so many, sometimes takes a while to 
settle on one, but it doesn't matter if you make a mistake , just change 
it again until your happy with the one you like, and then save and exit. 
MCC's menu editor does everything, and when you get used to it you 
prefer the freedom and choice you have to put things exactly as you want 
them.

John

ThanksJohn and everyone else for helping - I've now solved the problem 
and the icons for new version of Mozilla are now sitting happily on my K 
menu, with copies on my desktop.

I'd put the paths in correctly in menudrake, and clicked save, and 
assumed it would save my changes. It didn't - until I went to the File 
menu in menudrake and clicked on "reload user config".

OK, I know, RTFM, take me out and shoot me now

Thanks again, all.

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Re: [newbie] cool games?

[Graham Watkins]

Anarky wrote:
Anarky wrote:

   Hi .. I'm trying to gather as many cool games as I can under Linux 


(snipped)

no more ? no other games? don't mandrake people play?


I like Kbounce - but then my taste in games is simple to the point of 
moronic.

Tower Toppler looks pretty interesting but I can't figure out how to 
play it successfully.

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Re: [newbie] libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0

[HaywireMac]

On Mon,  1 Sep 2003 18:17:42 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

> i tried to start xmule. following error is desplayed: 
>  
> xmule: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
>  
> i installed libwxgtk2.4-2.4.0-3mdk, nothing changed. is there a
> configuration problem? 

how did you install xmule? from source? if so, it is probably not seeing
the shared library where it expects them to be...

in the source dir of xmule, run ./configure --help for options which may
allow you to specify the locations of said shared libraries.

if xmule is to access the donkey network, I would recommend MLDonkey
instead, there are mandrake rpms avail thru urpmi, and it works
flawlessly.

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Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Monday 01 September 2003 19:19, Björn Olsson wrote:
> This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means?
> The originating domain is obviously false. The only "number newbie" I
> have tried to send anything to is this list.
>
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Had the same one at 19.19h
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Re: Games was Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:14:10 +0100
Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> I tried that cube game on my PC - graphic were so jerky I could not
> play it and this is a high spec machine (well it was a while back!) 2
> x PIII 1Ghz, 500mb ram 128mb video card.

have you tried Darkplaces? It has realtime lighting and shadows, and
runs quite smoothly on my old clunker, a P3866! It's just Quake, but it
looks really cool. Tenebrae looks even cooler, but you need
a freakin' Beowulf Cluster to run the GD thing!

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Re: [newbie] cool games?

[David E. Fox]

> > no more ? no other games? don't mandrake people play?
> 
> http://icculus.org/projects/twilight/darkplaces/

gtkatlantic. :)

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Re: [newbie] How can I evaluate how fast a fast connection is ?

[Greg]

testmtspeed.com  i think that it the name  
Greg

Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Sunday 31 August 2003 12:29 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote:
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>>
>> I've got a ADSL connection now and I'd like to know if there is an app that
>> would show me how fast the connection is.
>> I'm running 9.1.
>> Much obliged.
>>
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[newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

[Björn Olsson]

This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it means?
The originating domain is obviously false. The only "number newbie" I
have tried to send anything to is this list.

Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Re[2]: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[rikona]

Hello Todd,

Monday, September 1, 2003, 7:14:52 AM, you wrote:

TS> Why wouldn't fetchmail retrieve those messages? Is your ISP moving
TS> them to some other location for "holding" or something?

When my ISP set up Spamassassin, they set it up for the 'masses' who
wanted web access and wanted to make NO decisions themselves. It took
some fiddling with their settings to get it to work via POP, and to
give me access to the scoring info in a way that was useful for local
filtering.

TS> ISP's should *not* take it upont themselves to solve your spam
TS> problem for you, but should put something in the header or subject
TS> line so you can set up a filter if you like.

There was a long, very heated discussion about this when my ISP did
it. The vast majority of users did NOT want to put any thinking into
it at all, and did NOT want to have to set up anything at their end.
They wanted EVERYTHING done for them -- AND they wanted EVERY spam to
be filtered, and EVERY good email to come through -- automatically.

It was an uphill battle to get my ISP to add good configuration
options allowing moderate user control.

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Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List? Probs with mailman...

[rikona]

Hello HaywireMac,

Monday, September 1, 2003, 6:58:55 AM, you wrote:

> The documentation, from what I have seen, for Mailman on Mandrake is
H> sadly lacking, anyone got a link to a Mandrake specific howto?

If all else fails, you might consider majordomo. Plenty of docs
available for that ancient software. :-)

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Re[2]: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[rikona]

Hello HaywireMac,

Monday, September 1, 2003, 6:50:48 AM, you wrote:

H> It appears my ISP has implemented Spamassassin or something, and
H> fetchmail is no longer picking up my mail from any of the ROX
H> lists, it just sits there and builds up til I get one of those
H> warnings that my mailbox is almost full. I have yet to call the ISP
H> and inquire, but this could be a major PITA.

When my ISP started using Spamassassin, they set it up to do email via
a web interface. It seems most people wanted it that way, and so that
was the default. The M$ everything-looks-like-the-web approach is
producing a population that thinks the 'browser' IS the net. If it
doesn't look and act like IE, they are totally lost.

Anyway, getting off my rant, you might check to see if you have to set
up POP access as an option. Also check to see if you can adjust some
of the parameters.

H> For one, I can no longer telnet to my pop server on port 110, I have to
H> use Kshowmail to go in and purge. Any non-K alternatives to this KDE
H> crapola?

My ISP recently changed authentication. Perhaps they did this at the
same time as adding Spamassassin? Might need to talk with them.

H> X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-)
H> X-Spam-Report: -5.0/5.0
H> The original message has been attached along with this report, so
H> you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future.
H> See: //spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.

H> but I don't know for sure if that is coming from my ISP.

Probably. These are the score headers added by Spamassassin. You can use
them for additional local filtering to greatly improve the
false-positive problem.

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[newbie] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.

[H.J.Bathoorn]

Hello all,

I'm trying to get my wlan card to work in my laptop.
It's a "sweex pcmcia card" with rtl8180 chip.

Now realtek offers download for drivers but not specifically for the mdk 
kernel (I'm using the stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk with 9.1).
The closest are IMO the redhat9.0 and/or suse8.2
Anybody already been there, done that?

BTW cardctl ident says it's a "Rtl8180" and not "Rtl8180L" (the latter is more 
problematic so it seems)

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Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

[linux]

other question: 
switzerland isn't in the EU, will the patnets be there too? :/ 
 
remo 
 
 
Quoting Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 
 
> > |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... 
> > | 
> > |only "C" choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... 
> >  
> > Wouldn't you qualify as North America? 
>  
> Is Canada in northamerica? 
>  
> On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics 
> of the statue of liberty... 
>  
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Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

[Eric Huff]

> |h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess...
> |
> |only "C" choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada...
> 
> Wouldn't you qualify as North America?

Is Canada in northamerica?

On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics
of the statue of liberty...

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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Björn Olsson]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Björn Olsson wrote:
> 
> >I have spent *far* too much time on Enemy Territory myself. It's
> >based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein so in a way it is a comercial
> >game, though it is given away for free. You can find more information
> >at http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/
> >http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownload&cid=7
> > http://www.enemy-territory.com/

> I can't figure out this game though ... is it comercial, is it
> free? 
> .. seems at one point there is only windows version ... and the
> general impression that it's maybe an addon for something like 'return
> to castel wolfenstein' and you can't play it unless you've got the
> game. Please clarify ... promissingly enough I see a big download ...
> is this really somethign that you can download, install & play and
> don't need anything else? Or is it just a demo?


ET was obviously planned as an expansion pack for Return to Castle
Wolfenstein, but for some reason Id Software changed their minds and
decided to make it a stand alone game and give it away for free. You
won't have to spend a single leu (apart from the cost for downloading).

There is a Linux version as well as a Windows one. On this page you'll
find links to several Linux download sites:
http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewsdownload&sid=2
The file you download contains a client as well as a game server, so if
you want to, you'll be able to host your own games with up to 50
participants.

The original game contains six maps, but custom maps have begun to pop
up as well. You can find many of them here: http://www.pcgamemods.com/4/

If you are behind a firewall you'll have to open udp ports 27950, 27951,
27952, 27960, and 27965.


Good luck, and see you in 1944
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Re: [newbie] MCC and 9.2 RC1

[Eric Huff]

> isn't it "drakconf"?

~ $ ll /usr/bin/drakconf
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1338 Apr 23 15:47
/usr/bin/drakconf*

~ $ ll /usr/bin/mcc 
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Jun 14 22:31 /usr/bin/mcc ->
drakconf*


Maybe his mcc link was bad?

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Re: [newbie] HD SATA

[Tom Brinkman]

On Tuesday September 2 2003 05:58 am, Eko Budiharto wrote:
> Hi,
> have anyone of you ever installed in SATA with MDK?
> Is HD SATA working with MDK?

   In 9.2 yes, I don't know about 9.1 an older.  I have a SATA port, 
but no SATA drive. So I can't say how well it works.
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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[Eric Huff]

> > I don't think you were spoofed: someone you know (or someone that
> > has your address) has the virus, which sends messages like that. 
> 
> I checked the full header, but I can't see anything to find out who it
> might be...
> 
> Plus, I only use joehill for mailing lists, and only Linux lists at
> that, which makes it all the more confusing...

I am not sure the header would help: IIRC the worm has it's own smtp
server built in.

And you probably saw now that the worm also harvests from the internet.

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[newbie] gaim

[linux]

anybody knows gaim? 
you have the option to show a horizontal buddy ticker, it's a plugin. i 
__deactivated__ the plugin, but the ticker is showing after a few minutes 
again. i dont like this "feature"... 
i thought it could be that the settings arent saved, so i avtivated the 
ticker, exit gaim nicley, start it, deactivated the ticker and closed gaim 
again. but it's coming all the time. any idea? 
 
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Re: [newbie] Floppy problems

[Eric Huff]

> in konqueror after i load a floppy, if i put a new one, what will
> appear will be the same conteud of the 1º first floppy
> how to fix?

Sounds like a mounting issue.

If you use a file manager, you might need to "refresh", or maybe go up
to the next level and then back down into the floppy?

Just a guerss...

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[newbie] libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0

[linux]

hi 
 
i tried to start xmule. following error is desplayed: 
 
xmule: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory 
 
i installed libwxgtk2.4-2.4.0-3mdk, nothing changed. is there a configuration 
problem? 
 
remo 
(sorry i dont know anymore...) 

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Re: [newbie] free software & frozen bubble & Linus Torvalds

[Eric Huff]

> only the author knows what he was thinking about.
> anyone who tries to
> explain what someone else thinks (like the author was in reference to
> Linus Torvalds, apparently the author believes he can know what Mr.
> Torvalds thinks) should be looked on with a great deal of healthy
> skepticism, imho. 
> possible fud, since actions (to me anyway) speak louder than words. 

This is true.

If the OP is interested in the topic, I think i have seen articles where
Linus himself spoke of the friction between FSF and himself, which does
exist.  None of the ones i saw, though, made me fully understand what
was going on...

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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:14:52 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> ISP's should *not* take it upont themselves to solve your spam
> problem for you, but should put something in the header or subject
> line so you can set up a filter if you like.

Looks like that's all they are doing, but I *am* also running
Mailfilter, which may be causing some confusion in the download process.
I will contact them later and also post on the Mailfilter mailing list
to see if they can shed some light on the subject.

What I really wanna do is give Bill Gates a kick in the nuts, but I
guess that goes without saying...

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Re: [newbie] Trolltech (was opera) [Resend]

[Bryan Phinney]

On Monday 01 September 2003 04:01 am, Keith Powell wrote:
> I sent three postings yesterday, but none of have appeared on the list. So
> here goes again.
>
> Sorry, Bryan, if you thought my posting was a knee-jerk action. It wasn't
> meant to be.

Anytime someone asks other people to consider abandoning a product in the 
marketplace that has had some measure of success without confirming all of 
the facts surrounding the situation, I would consider it knee-jerk.  I do 
think that your and a lot of other's hearts are in the right place, I just 
wanted to underscore the importance of supporting those developers and 
companies that have supported our community, and insuring that we don't cause 
damage to them and to ourselves by embarking on some crusade before we really 
know who the enemy is.

I would especially guard against the overriding nature of evangelism and 
activism that sometimes permeates the open-source movement.  If we want 
business support for open-source, it needs to be sold as a purely economical, 
practical, and value-driven proposition, completely removed from emotion.  
Goodwill and community contributions are all well and good, but the bottom 
line is that open-source makes good business sense.   Real companies are 
loathe to get involved in movements that are too emotionally driven, it 
alienates potential customers and offers them few benefits that are also not 
fraught with risk.  If open-source is seen as professional and practical, it 
will generate professional investments by companies.  If it is seen as 
activism, it will not.

> I had no idea that there was any link whatever between Trolltech and SCO
> until today. It came as quite a surprise!
>
> As SCO is regarded as "the bad boy" of Linux at the moment, I wondered if
> Trolltech should be too.

Trolltech is probably not the only company.  Canopy is an investment group, 
their sole purpose is to make investments in other companies and try to 
recoup their investment.  Every single bit of activity regarding SCO and 
Linux is solely for the purpose of Canopy recouping their ill-advised 
investment in old Unix code and licensing agreements.  I do agree that we 
should try to stop them from earning money using the underhanded methods that 
they employ but would caution against bringing other companies into the 
struggle who may not have any real connection to it, or may not choose to 
fight this particular battle.

>
> That was my reason for asking opinions of other members of the list what
> they thought of KDE and its use of QT. I wondered if, by using
> KDE/Trolltech, others thought we may be giving moral support to SCO.

Possibly, I picked up the thread at a late date, it is also possible that my 
perception has been colored by several other previous calls for boycotts 
before the originators had discovered the true extent of the connection 
between Canopy and Trolltech.  This is actually the fourth thread that I have 
seen in different places calling for some type of action against Trolltech.  
They have done the best they can to publicize, accurately, the current 
investment by Canopy in their company, they have assured everyone that Canopy 
has nothing to do with their business decisions and the operations of the 
company, and finally, that they do not agree with the actions of SCO towards 
Linux.

> I certainly don't want to tarnish the name of such an excellent company as
> KDE.
>
> Thank you for putting the record straight and explaining the Trolltech
> set-up.
>
> Sorry if I have offended any one- I didn't mean to, and apologies to you,
> KDE and Trolltech!.

No harm, no foul, I just wanted to make sure that the real story was known 
before anyone went riding off to joust at windmills.

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Re: [newbie] ssh

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:09:48 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> 
> When you ssh with a key, you do not need to give a password at all
> because the host has a copy of your public key and will know who you
> are.

I gotcha, thanks for clarifying!

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Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 12:06 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> > On Monday 01 September 2003 07:50 am, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> O.K.  I can answer my own question here.  Dec 31, 1969 4:00 PM is
> GMT minus the sender's meridian (which happens to also be my own). 
> Jan 1, 1970 00:00 minus 8 hours equals the Pacific Time Zone (West
> Coast USA for me, West Coast, Canada for the sender).
>
> I'm thinking it is the sender's format that is causing the problem.
>  Something in the timestamp is faulting Kmail's clock and returning
> an arg 0.  0 UT, minus 8 hours and all the messages are Dec 31,
> 1969 4:00.
>
Sorry - I hadn't scrolled down to the rest of the message.  I guess it 
all ties together now.

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Re: [newbie] ssh

[Derek Jennings]

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 2:28 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:34:09 +0100
>
> Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > If you want greater security it is possible to configure ssh so that
> > only people with matching encryption keys can connect. This is
> > described here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php
>
> I assumed this was the default config...the first time you "ssh
> 192.168.0.3" or whatever, it automagically creates the key, at least it
> did for me, to prevent "man in the middle" or other exploits?

Not quite. It is not creating a key. It is putting the IP address of the host 
in the 'known hosts' file as well as the 'host key' of that host. If the host 
key changes you will get an alarm when you try to connect. (Possible 'man in 
the middle')


The host key is created when you install ssh. It is not the same as the users 
ssh key.

When you ssh with a key, you do not need to give a password at all because the 
host has a copy of your public key and will know who you are.

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Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 01 Sep 2003 11:15 am, Erylon Hines wrote:
> > >On Monday 01 Sep 2003 3:49 am, Erylon Hines wrote:
> > >> O.K. guys, help me solve this.  My wife gets forwarded
> > >> messages from a server for a group that she belongs to.  Each
> > >> one of these has the date, Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM
> > >>
> > >> Other people on her list get the correct date with their
> > >> e-mail readers, but Kmail gives the bogus date.
> >
> > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
> > >I assume that this comment is linked -
>
> What do you mean by "linked"?
>
Since the dates are just one day apart, that would possibly be 
explained by time-zones, if the cause was the same.

> > >Most of the mail |I get in kmail is correctly dated, but from
> > > time to time I get one dated 01 January 1970.  I have seen the
> > > 31 December 1969 as well.
>
> At least my wife isn't the only one, then.
>
No - but I only get it very occasionally, and I really don't know why.  
I have always presumed that it was something wrong with the sender's 
setup, but maybe not.

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Games was Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[Inhabitant of Zion]

I tried that cube game on my PC - graphic were so jerky I could not play it
and this is a high spec machine (well it was a while back!) 2 x PIII 1Ghz,
500mb ram 128mb video card.

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Re: [newbie] Mplayer Being Shut Down? [OT] Rant against EuropeanParliment

[Margot]

Aron Smith wrote:
Margot wrote:

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 9:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:

On Sunday 31 August 2003 06:46 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:



What about representative government?  Haven't they heard
about people that vote?  Is anybody demonstrating or raising a
ruckus as of right now, outside their doors?  There's got to
be something that can be done, surely. (?)
LX




Actually there's a demonstration scheduled for tomorrow at the
European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Only the European
Parliament is nothing but a *Mickey Mouse*-parliament, a place
where to dump incompetent, fouled-up and compromised politicians
from all over Europe. Wether they cast their ballots for or
against something doesn't matter. The real power lies with the
Commission. And they are a very big target for lobbyists, so go
figure.
Kaj Haulrich.




At a risk of getting dangerously off topic. Can anyone name their 
European Member of Parliment? I certainly cannot.

Yes. Dr Caroline Lucas (South East England) 


What kind of doctor is she, a real Doctor Md or Vet or is she a Named 
doctor PhD

No mention of medical qualifications on her website, so I assume she is PhD.

Margot


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Re: [newbie] Mplayer Being Shut Down? [OT] Rant against EuropeanParliment

[Margot]

John Richard Smith wrote:
Margot wrote:

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 9:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:

On Sunday 31 August 2003 06:46 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:



What about representative government?  Haven't they heard
about people that vote?  Is anybody demonstrating or raising a
ruckus as of right now, outside their doors?  There's got to
be something that can be done, surely. (?)
LX




Actually there's a demonstration scheduled for tomorrow at the
European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Only the European
Parliament is nothing but a *Mickey Mouse*-parliament, a place
where to dump incompetent, fouled-up and compromised politicians
from all over Europe. Wether they cast their ballots for or
against something doesn't matter. The real power lies with the
Commission. And they are a very big target for lobbyists, so go
figure.
Kaj Haulrich.




At a risk of getting dangerously off topic. Can anyone name their 
European Member of Parliment? I certainly cannot.

Yes. Dr Caroline Lucas (South East England)

Margot


That's good Margot , I cannot remember mine, but more importantly , how 
do I find out, prefereably on the net if at all possible, and how do we 
start letting them know what we think about the new ledgislation.

Although I'm aware of the protest etc  via these websites, how on earth 
am I a Joe soap going to present a case for my MEP to put to the 
Commisssion ?

John

Caroline Lucas has 2 email addresses on the contact page of her website 
which is www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk (found through Google!)

Presumably other MEPs have similar arrangements for those who live 
outside South East England, or who prefer another Party!

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Re: [newbie] xine-dvd

[Pilagá]

El Lun 01 Sep 2003 06:43, Remo Liechti escribió:
> hi
> i installed the dvd plugin for xine, but only three dvds of my entire
> collection is compatible with this player... if i'd like to watch the other
> dvds, they just don't start. the xine logo isnt showing on the windown
> anymmore, but it is still black. nothing happens. i press the play button,
> the play sign in the left top corner is showing, but after a half second,
> the stop sign is deisplayed. xine is unable to play most of my dvds. any
> other player supporting dvd? or is this only cause xine doesn't have a dvd
> license?
>  remo

Remo: Launch xine from a console, and also xine-check, and post the outputs.

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Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

[Erylon Hines]

>
> On Monday 01 September 2003 07:50 am, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:17:57 +0100
> >
> > Isn't the December, 1969 date the beginning of Unix Time???
> > Mike
>
> O.K., then Kmail isn't reading the hardware clock for the date stamp.  But
> I thought Jan 1, 1970 was the beginning of Unix Time, so where does Dec 31,
> 1969 4:00PM fit into the picture?  And why is all the mail from this one
> source stamped the same incorrect date by Kmail?  If the date can't be read
> in UnixSpeak, then the default date is stamped to the beginnning of Unix
> Time minus a few hours?
>
>
O.K.  I can answer my own question here.  Dec 31, 1969 4:00 PM is GMT minus 
the sender's meridian (which happens to also be my own).  Jan 1, 1970 00:00 
minus 8 hours equals the Pacific Time Zone (West Coast USA for me, West 
Coast, Canada for the sender).  

I'm thinking it is the sender's format that is causing the problem.  Something 
in the timestamp is faulting Kmail's clock and returning an arg 0.  0 UT, 
minus 8 hours and all the messages are Dec 31, 1969 4:00.

Any code gurus have more insight into this?

e.

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RE: [newbie] enemy territory

[Jamie . Kerwick]

According to the official web-site
(http://games.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/index.asp?section=et) The
game is 'A Free, stand-alone, downloadable, multiplayer game..' 

There are links to a Linux version on the official web-site.

Jamie



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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] enemy territory


Enemy Territory is about 270M and totally free. It doesn't need original
'return to castel wolfenstein'.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Björn Olsson wrote:
>
>> I have spent *far* too much time on Enemy Territory myself. It's 
>> based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein so in a way it is a comercial 
>> game, though it is given away for free. You can find more information 
>> at http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/
>> http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownload&cid=7
>> http://www.enemy-territory.com/
>>
>>  
>>
>I can't figure out this game though ... is it comercial, is it
> free? .. seems at one point there is only windows version ... and the 
> general impression that it's maybe an addon for something like 'return 
> to castel wolfenstein' and you can't play it unless you've got the 
> game. Please clarify ... promissingly enough I see a big download ... 
> is this really somethign that you can download, install & play and 
> don't need anything else? Or is it just a demo?
>
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[newbie] mandrake downloads

[Paul]

Where can I find the quickest downloads of 9.2 RC1?

I've taken a look at the official sites and, using gFTP, I'm looking at
10 days (plus time-outs).

As a subscriber to the club, is there anywhere there - searches show
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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[Todd Slater]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:50:48AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote:
> Well, looks like there's a new wrinkle in this which *is* very annoying.
> 
> It appears my ISP has implemented Spamassassin or something, and
> fetchmail is no longer picking up my mail from any of the ROX lists, it
> just sits there and builds up til I get one of those warnings that my
> mailbox is almost full. I have yet to call the ISP and inquire, but this
> could be a major PITA.

Why wouldn't fetchmail retrieve those messages? Is your ISP moving them
to some other location for "holding" or something? ISP's should *not*
take it upont themselves to solve your spam problem for you, but should
put something in the header or subject line so you can set up a filter
if you like.

> anyone else here on the ROX lists?

Not anymore. Good luck!

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Re: [newbie] PING John Richard Smith

[John Richard Smith]

Todd Slater wrote:

Hi John,

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:20:26AM +, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

Todd Slater wrote:

   

The last script I sent was garbage. This is much cleaner and more
efficient.
As it currently stands, calling the script with "-n yourname" names
pictures "yourname-001.jpg, yourname-002.jpg" etc.
Calling it with "-d" names pictures "-MM-DD-001.jpg" etc.

Calling it with "-n yourname -d" names pictures "yournameYYMMDD-001.jpg"
etc.
(When naming pictures by date, I like to have year as , but I can
see how you wouldn't want that if tacking it on to some other text
description.)
Todd

 

Thanks Todd,

In Europe we numerise dates in the fashion DDMMYY, or DDMM, but for 
obvious reasons we prefer to keep it short in this case. So todays date 
is 010903

Can I switch things around in your script ?
   

You sure can. Look for the lines where the pictures are renamed (they
start with "mv $image . . ." and just change the order of date variables
to $day$month$year.
Normally in the US we would write MMDD. I prefer MMDD for easily
finding and listing pictures on the computer, but of course you have the
choice of format.
Todd

 

Good I will do that, I'm tied up currently , wife bought new 80gig 
harddrive, under threat of horrible things if I don't get her OS's on it 
by nightfall, but I'm coming back to this later.

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Re: [newbie] cool games?

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:19:30 +0300
Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> no more ? no other games? don't mandrake people play?

http://icculus.org/projects/twilight/darkplaces/

http://icculus.org/

http://tuxgames.com/

http://www.linuxgaming.net/

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Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

[Andy Davidson]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:15:21AM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote:
> 
> O.K., then Kmail isn't reading the hardware clock for the date stamp.  But I 
> thought Jan 1, 1970 was the beginning of Unix Time, so where does Dec 31, 
> 1969 4:00PM fit into the picture?  

I can't answer the other problems, but I would assume that the
timezone here is -8 from GMT, so Jan 1, 1970 minus 8 hours is Dec 31,
1969 4:00PM.

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Re: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

[Anarky]

HaywireMac wrote:

I am thinking of a little project, starting my own mailing list.

One idea I had was another OT list to balance out the right-wing
fanaticism on the existing one, but I've had enough of that and have no
interest any longer in that side of things.
Another idea, one I would enjoy much more and would cause me less
stress, would be a gaming-specific mailing list.
I don't see a lot of gaming related posts here, but would ask any
serious to semi-serious to occasional gamers to let me know if you would
be interested in such a list.
 

well, I'm totally into promoting games in Linux. I would certanly 
subscribe :)

Suggestions for other topics are of course welcome, as well as tips on
how the 'ell to go about doing this.
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Re: [newbie] enemy territory

[Xuer]

Enemy Territory is about 270M and totally free. It doesn't need original
'return to castel wolfenstein'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Björn Olsson wrote:

I have spent *far* too much time on Enemy Territory myself. It's based
on Return to Castle Wolfenstein so in a way it is a comercial game,
though it is given away for free. You can find more information at
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/
http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?op=viewdownload&cid=7
http://www.enemy-territory.com/
 

   I can't figure out this game though ... is it comercial, is it 
free? .. seems at one point there is only windows version ... and the 
general impression that it's maybe an addon for something like 'return 
to castel wolfenstein' and you can't play it unless you've got the 
game. Please clarify ... promissingly enough I see a big download ... 
is this really somethign that you can download, install & play and 
don't need anything else? Or is it just a demo?



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Re: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List? Probs with mailman...

[HaywireMac]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:41:24 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> Suggestions for other topics are of course welcome, as well as tips on
> how the 'ell to go about doing this.

Ok, I'm trying to get started with Mailman...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./newlist
Enter the name of the list: mdkgamers
Enter the email of the person running the list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./newlist", line 220, in ?
main()
  File "./newlist", line 154, in main
list_pw = getpass.getpass("Initial %s password: " % listname)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getpass'

I have Python installed, which is supposed to be the main dependency,
and Apache is configured and running, and google.ca/linux, my usual holy
grail for info on error messages gives me nothing of use.

The documentation, from what I have seen, for Mailman on Mandrake is
sadly lacking, anyone got a link to a Mandrake specific howto?

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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[HaywireMac]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:00:49 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> 
> My joehill address has been spoofed apparently, cuz I'm gettin'
> bounces from invalid addresses, apparently receiving whatever.pif
> (sobig?) from moi.
> 
> Is there anything I can do, or just an annoyance I have to put up
> with?
> 
> Anyone else been getting this?
> 

Well, looks like there's a new wrinkle in this which *is* very annoying.

It appears my ISP has implemented Spamassassin or something, and
fetchmail is no longer picking up my mail from any of the ROX lists, it
just sits there and builds up til I get one of those warnings that my
mailbox is almost full. I have yet to call the ISP and inquire, but this
could be a major PITA. 

For one, I can no longer telnet to my pop server on port 110, I have to
use Kshowmail to go in and purge. Any non-K alternatives to this KDE
crapola?

When I look at the mail on he server, I see this:


X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-)
X-Spam-Report: -5.0/5.0
The original message has been attached along with this report, so
you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future.
See: //spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.

but I don't know for sure if that is coming from my ISP.

anyone else here on the ROX lists?

I'd mail the ROX list, but...

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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:26:14 +0100
Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> MOHAA (which is coming I believe).

there's a beta already available, works pretty well, the sound is the
main bug.

check here for more info and updates:

http://www.linuxgaming.net/

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XFCE was Re: [newbie] Trolltech (was opera) [Resend]

[Todd Slater]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:05:33AM +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
> On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 9:58 am, Anders Lind wrote:
> > > Ah well, there's always IceWM or Gnome.
> >
> > XFCE 4 is gonna be off the chart, use that instead ;o)
> >
> > /Anders
> 
> Hello Anders.
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I have tried XFCE for the first time, and have mixed feelings about it. It may
> be because I have not got to grips with it, but it seems to be rather limited
> in what it can do. Comparing the program as supplied on Mandrake9.1 with the
> documentation, most of the utilities seem to be missing. I'll give it a longer
> tryout and see if I can sort it. XFCE certainly appears to be one of the most
> popular lightweight desktops.

If you're using the program that came on the 9.1 CD's then you're not
using XFce4. XFce4 is still in development (rc3 released about a week
ago) and I don't know if anybody is working to include it in the MDK 9.2
final release. I don't know what would be involved with that, but
probably some sort of menu integration script etc. 

Also, there are many extras/goodies/plugins that are not part of the
official release. These include a systemload plugin, netload plugin,
showdesktop, minicmd (small textbox for the panel for launching
commands) and so on.

If you need to quickly build a root menu, MenuMaker can do that for
XFce4.

It provides a configurable and customizable lightweight environment:
panel, taskbar, background manager, root window menu, desktop margins,
pager. What else do you need?

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Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:28:01 -0600
Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> but ya if you wanna play I'll install it again & kick your ass after a
> warmup. :P

I don't doubt it...I couldn't even beat the bots last night on
"nightmare", used to be no problem

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Re: [newbie] ssh

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:40:22 -0400
Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> I used root and the root password and immediately had the run of the
> box.

It would be better, IMHO, to ssh in as a regular user, then su root when
needed, but other than that, Derek has everything covered. As long as
you are behind a firewall, configured correctly, you are relatively
safe.

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RE: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

[ed tharp]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:27, Frankie wrote:
> >-Original Message-
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Margot
> >Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 5:49 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!
> >
> >I know what you mean - it just makes me so angry. My godmother is 76 and
> >is a writer and teacher. She mainly uses her computer as a glorified
> >typewriter, but uses email occsionally to communicate with friends who
> >live abroad. I made sure she has antivirus and firewall running, but she
> >is still scared to check her email unless I'm there with her. So far, no
> >viruses, but increasing amounts of spam, mainly offering her access to
> >porn sites - in Italian! She teaches Spanish, and I don't speak either
> >Italian or Spanish, so when these messages started arriving I naturally
> >assumed they were from Spanish friends - until she pointed out that they
> >weren't Spanish,certainly weren't from friends, and roughly translated
> >them for me! I've set up filters to try to prevent them, but they keep
> >getting through by using different email addresses. Isn't the internet
> >wonderful?
> >
> >Margot
> >
> FRANKI:
> 
> The internet is wonderful... its just evolving abit now, spamassasin or
> some other variant has become a necessity nowdays and pretty soon all ISP's
> will run some form of email virus scanning like many of us do on our own
> mail servers.
I think whitelist service should and will be added to every non-M$ mail
client within the next year or so, only allowing mail from those who's
email addresses you know are real, or are real people, to be transfered
even as far as the pop server.

seems like a service worth running, even, the web server end to verify
the e-mailer is a person.
> The internet is such a wonderful source of resources. I couldn't handle my
> work without it now.
I still think the only ones (besides p0rnographers) that really 'make
the Internet work for them' are still computer professionals. without it
for a source of drivers and other people with the same headaches in
hardware and code, but as the 'brick and mortar' start to use it more
and more, they will begin to catch on, and they have just barely gotten
beyond the 'brochure' stage, into if you make an analogy to other media,
the magazine stage, and when they get to to the 'epic tome' level, shit
like M$ virus transport agents will be a foot note. if the choice you
make is to only have 4 letters in your alphabet to make it easier to
use, (like winblows is crippled to make it easier to use) you soon have
to realize the folks on the other side of the river with 20 letters have
an easier time figuring out what each others messages mean. 

> Its the a$$holes that try to turn it into a cash cow by spamming anyone
> that can find, or the losers that think its cool to write virus's (sorta
> like the losers that graffiti walls). 
I sure do agree with that analogy, and consider it the same 'mindset'.

> Finially the losers like M$ that make
> software that just lends itself to the cause of any miscreant that has a
> need to spread misery. :-)
like M$ is building walls that _beg_ to be be painted with graffiti, and
hiding cans of spray paint in the corner,in case M$ ever wants to paint
the wall. When it could just as well build walls where the graffiti
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Re: [newbie] cool games?

[Anarky]

Anarky wrote:

   Hi .. I'm trying to gather as many cool games as I can under Linux 
.. I know we can't really compete with comercial windows games .. but 
still I'd like to have as many games as possible that I can be proud 
of in Linux. thus far the Linux games I am proud to have are:

 Transfusion, Chromium, Frozen Bubble, Tux Racer, Clanbomber, 
Armagetron

  Yes I know there are many many many games out there .. but I'm 
looking for non-card games, non-(mainly)mind-games(with poor graphics) 
... please help me build up my repertoire of cool Linux games (let's 
try to avoid comercial ones).
   thanks,

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Re: [newbie] PING John Richard Smith

[Todd Slater]

Hi John,

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:20:26AM +, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Todd Slater wrote:
> 
> >The last script I sent was garbage. This is much cleaner and more
> >efficient.
> >
> >As it currently stands, calling the script with "-n yourname" names
> >pictures "yourname-001.jpg, yourname-002.jpg" etc.
> >
> >Calling it with "-d" names pictures "-MM-DD-001.jpg" etc.
> >
> >Calling it with "-n yourname -d" names pictures "yournameYYMMDD-001.jpg"
> >etc.
> >
> >(When naming pictures by date, I like to have year as , but I can
> >see how you wouldn't want that if tacking it on to some other text
> >description.)
> >
> >Todd
> > 
> >
> Thanks Todd,
> 
> In Europe we numerise dates in the fashion DDMMYY, or DDMM, but for 
> obvious reasons we prefer to keep it short in this case. So todays date 
> is 010903
> 
> Can I switch things around in your script ?

You sure can. Look for the lines where the pictures are renamed (they
start with "mv $image . . ." and just change the order of date variables
to $day$month$year.

Normally in the US we would write MMDD. I prefer MMDD for easily
finding and listing pictures on the computer, but of course you have the
choice of format.

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Re: [newbie] ssh

[HaywireMac]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:34:09 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> If you want greater security it is possible to configure ssh so that
> only people with matching encryption keys can connect. This is
> described here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php

I assumed this was the default config...the first time you "ssh
192.168.0.3" or whatever, it automagically creates the key, at least it
did for me, to prevent "man in the middle" or other exploits?

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Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

[Erylon Hines]

> >On Monday 01 Sep 2003 3:49 am, Erylon Hines wrote:
> >> O.K. guys, help me solve this.  My wife gets forwarded messages
> >> from a server for a group that she belongs to.  Each one of these
> >> has the date, Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

> >> Other people on her list get the correct date with their e-mail
> >> readers, but Kmail gives the bogus date. 

> Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
 
> >I assume that this comment is linked -

What do you mean by "linked"?

> >
> >Most of the mail |I get in kmail is correctly dated, but from time to
> >time I get one dated 01 January 1970.  I have seen the 31 December
> >1969 as well.

At least my wife isn't the only one, then.

> 

On Monday 01 September 2003 07:50 am, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:17:57 +0100
>
> Isn't the December, 1969 date the beginning of Unix Time???
> Mike

O.K., then Kmail isn't reading the hardware clock for the date stamp.  But I 
thought Jan 1, 1970 was the beginning of Unix Time, so where does Dec 31, 
1969 4:00PM fit into the picture?  And why is all the mail from this one 
source stamped the same incorrect date by Kmail?  If the date can't be read 
in UnixSpeak, then the default date is stamped to the beginnning of Unix Time 
minus a few hours?   

Still no clues on how to fix this, or even what is causing the problem, but 
thanks for the insite, so far.

e. 


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