RE: [newbie] how do i get off this mailling list
Can you feel the love? -JD- -Original Message- From: Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how do i get off this mailling list Roger Sherman wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jay wrote: Without sounding too harsh...What the hell is a registered Linux User anyway? A linux user who is registered. Obviously, but where does one go to be a r.l.u.? http://counter.li.org/ But why would you care if it seems so bourgouis? And does anybody really care about that? If one had taste and class, perhaps... I wouldn't call it a matter of taste and class. Oh for christs sake...next time I wont forget the smiley. Maybe to you it is, but most people could care less what a r.l.u. is. I don't...as long as you use Linux, who cares if you are registered. That sounds so much like control to me. Registration = Control. Food for thought. You, my friend, are too tightly wrapped. I have it in my sig because it amuses me, nothing more, nothing less. I registered myself, and my machine, for the purpose of helping to put a concrete number on the amount of linux users there are. Lighten up. Go have a donut, think about a hot chick for a minute, play pacman, do whatever it is you do to relax. LOL...registration is control. Who was I trying to control with my sig file? Other than those with the pavlovian urge to bust balls over a sig file... -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 I am pretty tightly wound, aren't I? I realize that you meant this as sarcasm, but you got to realize that sarcasm is different on "paper". I am a VERY sarcastic person, but sarcasm only really works via the spoken word. I remember once on this list when a Brit busted me over my sig. So I know how you feel, my apologies. Let's shake and make up...or we can fight to the death :) -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com
RE: [newbie] Crystal 4235
Is that in an emachine? I have a 400i. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks, -JD- -Original Message- From: Spoonman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Crystal 4235 If I'm not mistaken, CS423x is already supported. I have a Crystal 4232 and it works fine. --Original Message-- From: Jeff Dickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie User List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 4, 2000 3:29:27 AM GMT Subject: [newbie] Crystal 4235 Does anyone know when the subject sound card will be supported? It's built onto my motherboard. I'd rather not have to install a second card for sound... -JD- Wishdiak +Ferris Saves+ www.wishdiak.com
[newbie] Posting to the list
I've noticed, that when posts are made to this list, and another list or email accout - multiple copies are sent out to this list. I didn't notice, but does Mandrake have a faq concerning this "feature"? -JD-
RE: [newbie] Virus on Linux?
Side note here on PMFIREWALL I installed it day before yesterday, ran the script. Was very easy - mostly I accepted defaults. Then I ran a scan on my system. Much to my surprise, I was wide open on ALL my udp ports... Reran the setup looking for what may have caused this terrible error, nothing about UDP ports... not a good way to start of a relationship. -JD-
RE: [newbie] Connection speed
Nah... Cable isn't obscenely fast... DSL is obscene! -JD- -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Connection speed On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Look Rog... ;) there's no reason to rub it in. you've got a cable connection and all you need to know is that your connection is obscenely fast! Nyah nyah! LOL ;-p -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719
RE: [newbie] Virus on Linux?
Eddie, I would very much like to have that URL - I've heard about it before, but no one seems to know where it was... -JD- -Original Message- From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus on Linux? On Tuesday 28 November 2000 11:22, you wrote: I realise that there are more secure firewalls available but Guarddog is so easy to set up for a newbie,with it's point and click panels it's straightforward to select/de-select options and go back in to change if you get it wrong, and requires little (if any) understanding of ipchains. BTW thanks for the heads-up re: the better check than ShieldsUp - I've been there and it finds things that ShieldsUp couldn't like port 23 is open and allows telnet port 80 is open and allows http port 8080 is open for http-proxy none of which I understand because as far as I knew none of these sevices were enabled - guess I've got some digging to do ! Poogle On Monday 27 November 2000 22:34, you wrote: On Monday 27 November 2000 12:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a newbie, I like Guarddog firewall, free and downloadable it's available for MD 7.0. 7.1 7.2 http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/ It doesn't close/filter ports as well as PMfirewall does. Looks nice, but it's less effective ipchains config. http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ and here's a better check than ShieldsUp! http://www.sdesign.com/cgi-bin/fwtest.cgi?APPLY=Scan+Me+Now Here is what I did. I found a website, I don't recall if Tom was the one that recommended it, that builds a firewall script for you and it's simple to setup and very detailed. I took what I made there and incorporated it into my pmfirewall. I did the sdesign.com tests and I show no ports open at all and I have all the functionality i need to have, even on irc. I'll try to dig out the site url and post it. P.S. BTW Tom, I'm in Pasadena. -- Eddie Torress www.veloct.net
RE: [newbie] Registered User
lol :) Thanks. -JD- -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 6:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] Registered User You send $1 to every person on this list and then we all get together in a quarum and decide upon what number to issue to you. then you point your browser at this site: http://counter.li.org -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 Dickman, Jeff had this to say! How do I become a registered Linux User? Thanks, Jeff
RE: [newbie] Mandrake on an old system - Firewall
The 7.2 image has a special install for i486. I remember reading about it on the Mandrake website...Sorry-not muc help beyond that... -JD- Linux Registered User # 196176 -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake on an old system - Firewall On Monday 27 November 2000 09:59 am, Eugene C. Zesch wrote: I've heard rumors of people running mandrake on a 486, but never persomally seen it. Mandrake is compiled for a Pentium class processor, so the binaries may have instructions a 486 doesnt hve. You have several options: Compile Mandrake for a 486 or find a 486 version. Linux-Mandrake 7.0 ISO image for i486 and higher processors. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#486 -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] partition info destruction
Get Norton Utilies, it has a partition repair program (on the emergency disks) - little advanced, but you can change it back to a DOS Part -JD- -Original Message- From: Kelly, Christopher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 10:44 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] partition info destruction It sounds like it overrode your winblows partition. Ouch! -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] partition info destruction That partition is gone. You should never have told it to install there. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 6:34 PM Subject: [newbie] partition info destruction Ok, this is what happened... I was running Windows, and bought Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I installed it with the custom option, as i had already installed 7.1 a couple of times. when it got to the point to decide how to install it on my harddrive, i chose the option "install to free space on Windows", which i thought would create the necessary partitions, and 'steal' the space from windows. Beforehand i had defragmented windows. when i clicked into the "install to free space on Windows" option, the system froze.(AI could move the mouse, but the system would not respond to the mouse or the keyboard navigation of the options... I proceeded to press ctrlaltdel. the system rebooted, but instead of booting normally it asked for me to enter the location of my command.com file, i entred c:\windows\command.com but to no avail. When i booted with my win 98 boot disc it told me that it had not found a valid FAT16 or FAT32 partition on my drive, and that i should use fdisk to make one. i used fdisk and it told me that there was the windows partition (i could tell because of the size), but that it was a non-DOS partition. I tried using norton disc doctor, but that didn't help because it could not see a drive to examine... I desperately need help, because i've got important stuff on the windows partition... I started Lnx-mdk 7.2 setup again, just to see what the partitions looked like etc. but the 'only' option of how to install was to use all the space (ie. no option to use the space that was not being used by windows - win does not use all the space on my harddrive; the rest is empty) I know this is not exactly a linux question, but my guess is that some of you will also know something about windows. Thanx a lot... creaktop -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
RE: [newbie] DOS 6.2 question (HD size?)
MS-DOS 6.2 is actually limited to 2GB Partitions. You can probably get a driver from WDC to allow access to the other 8GB...(that used to be the way we did it...) -JD- Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, with HD prices so low, I bought a 2nd (20 gig) Seagate hard drive. I added it to my current system, and decided to make a dual-boot system, using my old 10 gig WDC as the boot HD, for DOS stuff, and the new 20 gigger for my precious Linux stuff. I'm not going to go into a huge lengthy narrative here, but it works, except that with DOS 6.2, I get 2 gigs out of 10 available on my 1st hard drive. I know that if I installed Windblows, I'd get the full benefit of the drives space, but I refuse to have it on my system. Note that I'd also much prefer to have DR-DOS on my first drive, if anyone out there has experience with it (and pointers for getting/installing it?) I found some stuff on Caldera's web site, but its all bigger than the 2 gigs I've got on my 1st HD. Any idea on how to get the other 8 gigs from DOS 6.2, until I can get DR-DOS installed? (and does DR-DOS find my full 10 gigs as well?) Thanks in advance! ;-) Ronaldyour question made me curious. I have Caldera DR-DOS 7.01 on my primary IDE drive, but I'v only partitioned the 1st 200mb for it. It is the home for Partition Magic 6.0 and BootMagic. I bought it from CheapBytes (it's in the book section) for about $25. Anyway, I booted up on DR-DOS and fiddled with the fdisk program for a while. I appears to max out at 8 gig (the 1024 cylinder limit). So I suspect that 8 gigs might be your limit on that 10 gig drive. But perhaps, if you were to partition it with Linux fdisk, DR-DOS might be able to use the space anyway. Good luck.
RE: [newbie] Boot Defaults
Joel, You can open a terminal window, type init 3. This will shudown X and take you to a text logon. or On the logon screen there is a button that says shutdown. When you click on that, it should give you 4 options. One is Console mode. Select that and click OK. IMO the second way is the better way to do it. That should do it. -JD- -Original Message- From: Joel B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Boot Defaults I currently have linux booting directly into the x-windows logon screen instead of the standard linux login screen ie; Kernel 2.2.15-4mdk on an i686 login: How do I exit x-windows completely and drop me to my shell prompt? As of now my only option is to 'logoff' which will simply drop me back to the x-windows logon screen. Thanks for your help in advance, Joel newbie
RE: [newbie] Staples 7.2
Just curious, what was the price on the boxed set with books? Thanks, Jeff -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Staples 7.2 Mandrake was forced by Wal-Mart to get the boxed version of 7.2 out early (under threat of not putting it on shelves at all until after the new year). Wal-Mart had them by the cojones, and they did what just about anyone interested in keeping them would do: cried uncle. Dave At 10:48 AM 11/22/2000 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: I found today in Vancouver at Staples Mandrake 7.2 The box contains 7 CDs and it says that includes KDE 2 Beta. Is this the same version as Wall Mart was selling in the States??? The boxed release doiesn't seem like it will have the KDE2 final yet only the d/l version, its a ruash job by mandrakesoft to get boxed pkgs out for christmas- marketing tactics :( and even the Final is buggy I gave up on it, its trying to copy a winblows interface too much in my opinion anyhow. I hate it. -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
[newbie] Registered User
How do I become a registered Linux User? Thanks, Jeff
