Re: [newbie] certs, semi -OT

2002-01-07 Thread Grant Fraser

Cool!
I've just started the basic linux course too!
This site has lots of good links.
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/linux.htm
As for certification I think that there are only two that I would consider 
worthwhile. Explore the sites. I haven't made up my mind yet.
SAIR Linux which is distro independant
http://www.linuxcertification.com/
LPI which looks like it has heavyweight backers.
http://www.lpi.org/
Also consider http://www.linuxdoc.org
and for inspiration try:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.htmlhowto.html

Grant

On Monday 07 January 2002 13:04, you wrote:
 Shane,

 You (and others) might want to check this out.

 Basic Linux Training course, at http://www.basiclinux.net

 I signed up for it, and it just started today.  He only accepts new
 students at the start of the course, which is just starting -- if you're
 interested write to him, you  might still be able to get in.  It is free
 and on-line, but it might be more basic than you're looking for.

 Randy Kramer

 shane wrote:
  well this isn't really on topic, but close.  ;)
 
  i used to be a network admin for a school system before becoming a stay
  at home dad for a few years.  anyway, i am hoping to keep up on some of
  my computer knowledge in the between jobs years by doing some studies
  in my huge amounts of free time.  (other parents heard the sarcasm in my
  voice)  i have (sadly) been reading through the MS certs.  but they are
  pretty simple, and empty of useful learning, so i am wondering about
  certifications for linux.
 
  linux being decentralized as it is, i am more worried about learning than
  actually get a paper that says i can pass a test.  so anyone out there
  have some experience in the area?  who teaches a linux course worth
  taking? online/home/do it yourself type learning only, i can't take the 2
  kids with me to classes.


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Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????

2002-01-04 Thread Grant Fraser

Well, so far the other shoe hasn't dropped.

As for a targeted mail campain it would suck. They failed to ask for our 
names. I won't even get one of those:

Dear  MR SMITH we have recently heard that you surf for FOURTY PLUS hours 
per week.

Kind of letters.
They could have collected email addresses just by sifting the archives. Less 
effort, more results.
As for the lack of a .edu email, I think only the staff would get those. I 
thought that this sounded like a continuing education thing.

Some of the universities in my province are:
www.sfu.ca
www.uvic.ca
www.cariboo.bc.ca
www.ubc.ca
Not a dot edu in the bunch. Guess they're not American eh? :)

Remember. You aren't paranoid if the world really is out to get you.

Grant

On Friday 04 January 2002 18:55, you wrote:
 Gidday Folks
 I saw this email and immeadiately thought, unsigned, hm.
 No mention of which school this student is at, h.
 What's in the properties? H!!!??? Not coming from a .edu address, hmmm
 RCN Mail!!!???, not really what a student would put for their identity.

 Am I just a suspicious cynic, or has someone found an easy way to get
 people to fill in a survey without realising? This is a quote from the RCN
 website

 Yet with $2.7 billion in cash and backing by Microsoft Corp. cofounder
 Paul Allen and telecom firm Level 3 Communications Inc., RCN appears to be
 in better shape to survive the grim stock and capital markets than many
 other newbies. Among the new players, RCN has set itself apart by targeting
 residential customers, not businesses, and by building a network- home by
 home- to deliver cable-TV, high-speed Internet and phone service.

 I'd suggest that 50 have replied via the list and probably as many replied
 direct. Lots of assumptions have been made.
 The request was genuine.
 The author was a young lad
 The teacher made the questions.

 To quote Julian Hey, what the heck: statistics are for marketing folk
 Who is going to put a filter on their email to see if they get spammed to
 join RCN and let us know if they do?
 Or should I just go away and bury my cynical head in shame?

 rgrds
 max

 (They're in bed with MS as well.)

 - Original Message -
 From: RCN Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:26 PM
 Subject: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.

  I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place
  would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be
  greatly appreciated.
 
  1. How many hours a week do you spend online?
  2. What is your age?
  3. Sex? M/F
  4. What type of Internet connection do you have?
  5. How many computers do you own?
 
 
  This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's
  a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I
  need a total of 50 people to respond.
 
  Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions.

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Re: [newbie] test

2002-01-04 Thread Grant Fraser

You know you're an email junkie when you click Get Mail and nothing happens 
so you click it again just to be sure.

Grant

On Friday 04 January 2002 20:41, you wrote:
 On Friday 04 January 2002 11:21 pm, Mick wrote:
  Hi List,
 
  Just a test to see if I can still post to the list.
  Mick

 Mick:
 Yes, you can.
 -- cmg


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Re: [newbie] OT - Delays

2002-01-03 Thread Grant Fraser

I'm in Canada and I notice the same thing. Sometimes my posts just float out 
in cyberspace for a few days until they bounce back undeliverable. Sometimes 
they had already been delivered before being bounced.
My mail client checks every 10 minutes. Some people who post have all 5 of 
their replys to different topics arrive at once even though they are supposed 
to be spaced hours appart. I have learned to be patient and wait for the best 
answer, not necessarily the first one.

Grant

On Friday 04 January 2002 10:01, you wrote:
 maybe, im in manila and the internet connection here in the office is
 something like T3 (its also used for trasferring deliverables to our
 japanese counterparts).

 not all mails are delayed, or maybe i just dont notice them earlier. i only
 started to notice when i got my posts from the day before.

 ciao!

 On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:16:21 -0600

 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm getting blazing speeds - almost conversational , but I'm in the US.
  Where are you, the Philippines?
  Most likely a problem with your ISP.
 
 
  julian.
  ===
 
  At 09:31 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
  hi,
  
 am i the only one experiencing delay? i began noticing yesterday that
   the answers i post to some questions only gets delivered to me the day
   after. if that is the case, pardon for those who may be irritated by
   these seemingly 'late' answers.
  
  ciao!


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Re: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want.

2002-01-03 Thread Grant Fraser

On Thursday 03 January 2002 01:26, you wrote:
 I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place would
 be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be greatly
 appreciated.


 1. How many hours a week do you spend online?
20
 2. What is your age?
33
 3. Sex? M/F 1. How many hours a week do you spend online?
20
 2. What is your age?
33
 3. Sex? M/F
M
 4. What type of Internet connection do you have?
Cable
 5. How many computers do you own?
Two in use. Parts strewn all over the place.
M
 4. What type of Internet connection do you have?
Cable
 5. How many computers do you own?
Two in use. Parts strewn all over the place.


 This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's a
 wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I need a
 total of 50 people to respond.

 Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions.


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Re: [newbie] Rune errors my machine

2001-12-31 Thread Grant Fraser

Experience with Windows has taught me to NEVER run anything DEMO. Ever. I 
wont do it with Linux either. A demo is made by ripping a chunk out of a full 
program and cauterizing the dangly bits. 

I hope you liked the magazine.

Grant

On Monday 31 December 2001 03:47, you wrote:
 I got a Linux magazine that had a demo software CD on it.
 I tried running a game, Rune, and had problems.

 When I run the run_demo.x86 or the run_demo it locks up my system. It looks
 like it starts to launch the game but just hoses my computer.

 How do I troubleshoot this? What could be wrong?
 Is it my Mandrake8.0 config or the game demo?

 Thanks

 -Allen


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[newbie] SO 5.2 won't share

2001-12-31 Thread Grant Fraser

I am trying to install SO 5.2 from the 8.0 CD. The setup program is in the 
KDE menu. I want to put the program where it can be installed once and used 
by all. SO seems to want to have a full copy of itself in each user directory.
I have tried Network install and Workstation install. As root I can get the 
program to install to /usr/share/staroffice52
As user I cannot access it without the setup program running again.
How do I get the program files in one directory and the user files in 
another. I did not see that option.

Thanks, Grant



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Re: [newbie] problem with Software Manager

2001-12-30 Thread Grant Fraser

Here is something that I have noticed about software manager. It only works 
until the next reboot. Then you have to remove the old source and pick an new 
one that you have not used before.
Oh, and when it says 'Updating Lists' it doesn't. It only gets that 
information once. When you try to install a package that has been upgraded on 
the server SM can't find it. Say if SM was looking for package1_3_1 and it 
was now package1_3_2 it would just say that the package couldn't be found.
So far I havn't found the Get off your butt and recheck the server you 
stupid piece of crap button. I mean really, I have to wait while it reloads 
the information that it already has and is out of date.

On Sunday 30 December 2001 02:32, you wrote:
 This appears to be a common problem in 8.1 software manager.
 I have used the following solution after wasting 2 days of reinstalling,
 searching, reinstalling:

 delete all references to the ftp site in:
 /var/lib/urpmi

 Software manager should work again.
 Reload the list of security sites, and don't choose the offending site (nor
 the one I choose :  ftp. club-internet.fr ...)

 Good luck


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mr_tortoise (Nathan
 Pryor)
 Sent: sábado 29 de diciembre de 2001 18:19
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] problem with Software Manager


 Hello.  The Mandrake Software Manager freezes on startup when it attempts
 to refresh the security update source I defined (ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu). 
 I have checked the ftp site and can logon anonymously with no problem.  I
 did not provide a username and password for the security update source
 thinking it would logon anonymously by default.  Is there any way I can
 delete me current settings without running the Software Manager?

 -thanks


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Re: [newbie] KDE Dialogs Too BIG!

2001-12-30 Thread Grant Fraser

Two things.
Change your screen resolution up one level with mandrake control center. You 
can test before applying. If your fonts are then too tiny you can make them 
bigger.
Or
Click the arrow on the bottom left or right of the screen to move the toolbar 
out of your way.

On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:37, you wrote:
   Some of my program boxes in KDE are too big.  For example in KDE ~
 LooknFeel ~ Style, I can only see the top part of the box.  I know I can
 resize it to some extent.  I shrank it from the top down as far as it would
 let me (a good bit) and moved the box back to the top of the screen.  It
 was still too big to see the options at the bottom of the screen or the
 ok/apply/cancel/help checkboxes.

   Means I can't change anything that I _can_ see, as I can't apply them.

   This is at 800*600, my highest resolution.

   Thanks,
   Wes Gregg
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Registered Linux User # 252649


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Re: [newbie] Bandwidth Management - MAC Layer

2001-12-28 Thread Grant Fraser

I forwarded this to our local LUG. One of our members is from a local ISP 
that uses wireless technology. This was the feedback:

 hi,
 
 I remember the FreeBSD firewalling can govern bandwidth usage on an 
interface.


*** Yes it can...It's based on firewall rules in which you divert packets
to a pipe. It works well but currently it works with ip addresses and
not MAC. I'm hoping they'll add that feature soon :)



On Thursday 27 December 2001 03:30, you wrote:
 I didn't get an answer to my question when I posted to [expert], let me try
 [newbie].
 Is this off topic?...

 I want to build a Bandwidth Management box for my friends ISP. He tells me
 he is providing Wireless access and currently controls security by
 hardcoding the MAC address of each client (he owns the Wireless client
 hardware). He needs MAC Layer control over his clients.

 I have not done this before so this will be a learning experience for me.
 Can you do MAC Layer Bandwidth Management?

  Thanks

 -Allen


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Re: [newbie] Off topic? How things are going with Linux...

2001-12-26 Thread Grant Fraser

Well you know why Moses spent 40 years wandering through the desert?




Even back them men wouldnt stop and ask for directions.





On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:33, you wrote:
 On Wednesday 26 December 2001 17:26, Mark Weaver wrote:
 |  -
 |  If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do
 |  the first time!

 yeah... what is it with men?  ; )

 I have to bite my tongue (daily I swear) so as not to say I told you so
 or if only you'd listen! grin

 skinky


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Re: [newbie] New

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Fraser

Thanks for the vote of confidence.
There are many people on this list who can help you help yourself.
Most questions can be answered with a Google search. I.e. 
mandrake 8.1 brand of sound card
There are lots of instructions on networking as well. It would help to know 
what you consider a network. Just like if I were to help you bake cookies I 
would need to know what kind of cookies you were looking for.
As for wine, Transgaming is best but you have to pay. Everything else works 
with varying degrees of success. Search the message archives.

On Tuesday 25 December 2001 19:53, you wrote:
 Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is
 going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some
 troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting
 this from windows since I can get my e-mail working ether.

 I wanted to ask a question too. I heard of this program called wine. Can it
 realy let me play games like star craft on linux? Well I hope this listing
 helps me make the big step from windows to linux! Thanks  all  :)


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Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous?

2001-12-24 Thread Grant Fraser

There are two things I have noticed about Linux.

1) An inherent cheekiness in the documentation.
2) The assumption that you know what you are doing.

It has been said that with windows, it something doesnt work you can just 
keep poking buttons until you figure it out. With Linux that approach will 
result in a meltdown. Reading the manual is dull, unrecoverable errors are 
much more exciting.

On Monday 24 December 2001 12:25, you wrote:
 On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote:
  Maybe a warning dialog first like: This will delete your entire
  partition and all your data will be lost. OK?
 
  Call me crazy, but if I accidently hit the wrong button I would like at
  least one chance to take something like that back. :-)

 I think you actually still can at that point - just so long as you haven't
 actually hit Done. And when you do this, you get a pop-up saying that
 it's going to write new partitioning scheme to disk. So, there you go.
 Feel a little more secure now? ;-)

  doug
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001):
  On Monday 24 December 2001 16:58, you wrote:
   I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and
   one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the
   Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on
   the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate.
  
  What exactly do you expect will happen when you select an option called
  delete? Maybe ... that that particular partition will be deleted?
  
  --
  Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa)
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za   http://www.geocities.com/clasqm
  This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC
  
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Re: [Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh,ftp or telnet from network]

2001-12-24 Thread Grant Fraser

Try this:
In your bastille-firewall.cfg file add ssh to your INTERNAL_INTERFACES= part. 
Just keep re-reading the notes until you think you got it. In order to enable 
ssh and port 22 to be seen on the internet I added 22+ ssh+ to the trusted 
intefaces. There is a whole QA section at the bottom as well.


TRUSTED_IFACES=lo
PUBLIC_IFACES=eth+ ppp+ slip+
INTERNAL_IFACES=eth0+ ssh+

On Monday 24 December 2001 06:15, you wrote:
 Some further information on this problem.

 There are no entries in either the /etc/hosts.deny or hosts.allow files.
 So this isnt causing the problem.

 I can perform an iptables -F and then set all the default policies back
 to accept and everything works fine. Of course this leaves me with no
 firewall too. So it looks like it is some firewalling rule that is
 causing the problem.

 I attached a copy of my bastille-firewall.cfg file to see if anyone sees
 a problem with it. I don't see anything in there that could be causing
 this.


 Thanks,
 Ian K. Harrell
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Dragon . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Try this, I couldn't connect with SSH from anywhere and I swore up and

 down

  that Bastille was setup correctly.  Look in the hosts.deny file.  I

 found an

  entry with ALL:ALL...  I deleted that line and everything worked fine.

  I

  could still browse to FTP and HTTP when the line was there but I

 couldn't

  connect via SSH.  Its another place to look.
 
  From: Ian K.Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from

 network

  Date: 21 Dec 2001 09:42:11 EST
 
  Hi all,
 
  I installed 8.1 the other day. (3 disc set from cheapbytes). Then use
  Interactive Bastille to configure firewalling, internet masquerading

 and

  basic system security.
 
  The problem is that while i can connect to the machine locally
  (http://localhost) noone can connect to it over the lan with either
  telnet, ssh, ftp or http. These servers are running and I told Bastille
  to leave these ports open to the internal network.
 
  On the public network i left ssh and 80 open so i could connect in over
  the web from home and so we could host a small company web site. Still
  noone can connect to them from the internet BUT i went to www.grc.com
  and ran the port probe and it showed the ports as being open. This

 makes

  me wonder if it is a firewall rule that Bastille put in there or is
  there something else going on?
 
  Right now the only thing that is working over the lan is internet
  masquerading.
 
  Any ideas?
  Ian K. Harrell
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 
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Re: [Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh,ftp or telnet from network]

2001-12-24 Thread Grant Fraser

One more thing. Is ssh running? Try opening a console and log in as root. type
service sshd start
see if sshd is part of your boot up process.

On Monday 24 December 2001 15:19, you wrote:
 Try this:
 In your bastille-firewall.cfg file add ssh to your INTERNAL_INTERFACES=
 part. Just keep re-reading the notes until you think you got it. In order
 to enable ssh and port 22 to be seen on the internet I added 22+ ssh+ to
 the trusted intefaces. There is a whole QA section at the bottom as well.


 TRUSTED_IFACES=lo
 PUBLIC_IFACES=eth+ ppp+ slip+
 INTERNAL_IFACES=eth0+ ssh+

 On Monday 24 December 2001 06:15, you wrote:
  Some further information on this problem.
 
  There are no entries in either the /etc/hosts.deny or hosts.allow files.
  So this isnt causing the problem.
 
  I can perform an iptables -F and then set all the default policies back
  to accept and everything works fine. Of course this leaves me with no
  firewall too. So it looks like it is some firewalling rule that is
  causing the problem.
 
  I attached a copy of my bastille-firewall.cfg file to see if anyone sees
  a problem with it. I don't see anything in there that could be causing
  this.
 
 
  Thanks,
  Ian K. Harrell
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  Dragon . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Try this, I couldn't connect with SSH from anywhere and I swore up and
 
  down
 
   that Bastille was setup correctly.  Look in the hosts.deny file.  I
 
  found an
 
   entry with ALL:ALL...  I deleted that line and everything worked fine.
 
   I
 
   could still browse to FTP and HTTP when the line was there but I
 
  couldn't
 
   connect via SSH.  Its another place to look.
  
   From: Ian K.Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from
 
  network
 
   Date: 21 Dec 2001 09:42:11 EST
  
   Hi all,
  
   I installed 8.1 the other day. (3 disc set from cheapbytes). Then use
   Interactive Bastille to configure firewalling, internet masquerading
 
  and
 
   basic system security.
  
   The problem is that while i can connect to the machine locally
   (http://localhost) noone can connect to it over the lan with either
   telnet, ssh, ftp or http. These servers are running and I told Bastille
   to leave these ports open to the internal network.
  
   On the public network i left ssh and 80 open so i could connect in over
   the web from home and so we could host a small company web site. Still
   noone can connect to them from the internet BUT i went to www.grc.com
   and ran the port probe and it showed the ports as being open. This
 
  makes
 
   me wonder if it is a firewall rule that Bastille put in there or is
   there something else going on?
  
   Right now the only thing that is working over the lan is internet
   masquerading.
  
   Any ideas?
   Ian K. Harrell
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
  
  
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Re: [newbie] FYI - can anybody spare a few moments to help set up assh connection?

2001-12-23 Thread Grant Fraser

I did manage at last to get port 22 to open. The file you need to access is 
/etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg
There is a lot of information in there about how to open and close ports and 
whether this is a good or bad idea. If you want to access it you need to log 
in as root.

On Saturday 22 December 2001 16:30, you wrote:
 Yes, but only port 80. I cannot seem to get tinyfirewall to disengage.

 On Friday 21 December 2001 16:14, you wrote:
  On Saturday 22 December 2001 05:37 pm, you wrote:
   I cannot seem to get the firewall to switch off.
   My IP is 24.67.229.176
   temporary user name - dufus, password - dufus
 
  If you were at another computer outside your network, can you ping your
  IP?

 
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Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network

2001-12-23 Thread Grant Fraser


I did manage at last to get port 22 to open. The file you need to access is 
/etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg
There is a lot of information in there about how to open and close ports and 
whether this is a good or bad idea. If you want to access it you need to log 
in as root.

On Friday 21 December 2001 08:47, you wrote:
 I am in the process of installing Mandrake on my systems, but I think if
 you check the inetd.conf file, this is on my FreeBSD computers, then you
 can see what ports are open.


 - Original Message -
 From: Ian K.Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:42 AM
 Subject: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network


 Hi all,

 I installed 8.1 the other day. (3 disc set from cheapbytes). Then use
 Interactive Bastille to configure firewalling, internet masquerading and
 basic system security.

 The problem is that while i can connect to the machine locally
 (http://localhost) noone can connect to it over the lan with either
 telnet, ssh, ftp or http. These servers are running and I told Bastille
 to leave these ports open to the internal network.

 On the public network i left ssh and 80 open so i could connect in over
 the web from home and so we could host a small company web site. Still
 noone can connect to them from the internet BUT i went to www.grc.com
 and ran the port probe and it showed the ports as being open. This makes
 me wonder if it is a firewall rule that Bastille put in there or is
 there something else going on?

 Right now the only thing that is working over the lan is internet
 masquerading.

 Any ideas?
 Ian K. Harrell
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]






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Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link

2001-12-23 Thread Grant Fraser

Yup, that nicely sums it up. 

If they had done the expert install they would have found even more 
irritating mouse overs. Rather, only half of the default files have a mouse 
over explanation. I always use the custom, expert, or advanced options when 
installing software. With 8.0 the OS tends to by default load all kinds of 
software that isn't needed.

Very well done indeed.

On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:12, you wrote:
 Layne -

 I went directly to killertux and found it under recent reviews.

 http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreq
=showcontentid=14

 You had Reviewfile - SB Reviewsfile

 Ed

 At 02:59 PM Sunday, 12/23/2001, you wrote -=

 Ed,
 
 That should be the correct link.
 
 Since you've been so kind to reply, go to http://www.killertux.com
 directly - click on the link - because it looks right to me. And I was
 able to follow the link in the reply email from newbie.
 
 Curious. Any else see where I've made a mistake on the link?
 
 Warm Regards,
 Layne
 
 On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 14:47, Ed Tharp wrote:
   no better
  
   On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:39, you wrote:
Oops, bad link !
 
  http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=index;
 
 reg=showcontentid=14
 
  http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexr
 eg
 
   =showcontentid=14
   
   
The original link will not work because the 's' is missing in the
word Reviews.
   
Sorry -
   
Evolution version isn't cutting and pasting from Konqueror or Mozilla
- so I typed this out ...
   
  Happy Holidays.
  Layne

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link]

2001-12-23 Thread Grant Fraser

http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreq=showcontentid=14

On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:06, you wrote:
 OK,

 I'm not sure what I've typed wrong.  Therefore, let's try this ...
 simply go to http://www.killertux.com and then follow the link to the
 review that is at the top ... maybe that will work.  Not sure why the
 link I sent is wrong.

 Must be my fingerz !

 Forwarded message:
  On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:39, you wrote:
   Oops, bad link !
  
 http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=in
dex reg=showcontentid=14
  
   http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=index
  reg =showcontentid=14
  
  
   The original link will not work because the 's' is missing in the word
   Reviews.
  
   Sorry -
  
   Evolution version isn't cutting and pasting from Konqueror or Mozilla -
   so I typed this out ...
  
 Happy Holidays.
 Layne
   
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Re: [newbie] can anybody spare a few moments to help set up a sshconnection?

2001-12-21 Thread Grant Fraser

Yes, but only port 80. I cannot seem to get tinyfirewall to disengage.

On Friday 21 December 2001 16:14, you wrote:
 On Saturday 22 December 2001 05:37 pm, you wrote:
  I cannot seem to get the firewall to switch off.
  My IP is 24.67.229.176
  temporary user name - dufus, password - dufus

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[newbie] FYI basic training

2001-12-15 Thread Grant Fraser

If you are a newbie like me but dont want to be anymore, check out this free 
course.

http://www.basiclinux.net/

The next term begins Monday, 7 January 2002. Registration for that class 
closes Saturday, 5 January 2002; if you're not subscribed to the mailing list 
by then you will NOT get in until March ;-)



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Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE on Mandrake 8.0

2001-12-11 Thread Grant Fraser

Yes, I did the upgrade. No, its not a problem. My machine still thinks its 
running 8.0
You get a few more icons too.
When you do the upgrade make sure you download all of the developer files 
too. It doesnt matter if you are a developer or not, the files seem to take 
care of a lot of weird dependencys.

Grant

On December 11, 2001 11:27 am, you wrote:
 I'm trying to upgrade KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2.1 on Mandrake 8.0 - I only want the
 updated Knode! but I'm being told that I should install Mandrake Desk 8.1.
 Will this damage my install of 8.0? (Everything else is working fine at the
 moment!)

 Thanks

 Gordon



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Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

2001-12-06 Thread Grant Fraser

I have the same chip and a similar problem I have just about every sound 
utility installed. I can play music cds only if the volume control is all the 
way up and the speakers are cranked.
When I try to play a midi file with KMid I get 'could not open /dev/sequencer 
Probably another program is using it.'
What sort of error messages are you getting?

Grant

On December 6, 2001 07:46 am, you wrote:
 I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 with built in audio.  The card is a Crystal
 Audio card.  I'm running Mandrake 8.1 which found the CODEC and MPU-401
 for it, but I can't get any sound.  The card is NOT disabled in either
 BIOS nor Mandrake.  Neither is it muted.  There is nothing in Sound
 Mixer when I open it.  Anyone have any ideas?

 Ben Lee



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Re: [newbie] Intel or Realtek?

2001-12-04 Thread Grant Fraser

I have installed cicero cards (on win 98 and LM8.0) that turned out to be 
realtek 8139's. Installation was flawless and the box even came with a 24hr 
1-800 support number. It said something like Before you take this card back 
to the store please call.
No opinion on Intel.

Grant

On December 4, 2001 12:32 pm, you wrote:
 I use Realtek, and have been using them for about a year now with
 absolutely no problems. The other I don't know, but I would say quite
 openly that the Realtek cards are great :-) Both are used here at home with
 1 computer running Mandrake, and the other redhat... so there are no
 problems there.

 Good luck :-)

 Ralph

 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Eric Caron

 wrote:
  Hi everybody,
 
  I need to replace one of my network cards and I was wondering which model
  would be better between one that has the very popular Realtek 8139 or one
  that has the Intel 21143 (is that the one called 'Tulip'?).  Both are by
  Intellinet and they are in the cheap and affordable category of product
  (because I'm on a tight budget right now).
 
  Any advice would be appreciated on which would work best under Mandrake
  and/or Red Hat.
 
  Thank you!



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[newbie] losing eth0 on reboot

2001-12-03 Thread Grant Fraser

Sorry if this has been flogged to death.
When I reboot the machine eth0 fails to initialize. The cure so far has been 
to go through the mandrake control center network setup and the security and 
firewall setups. The first attempt to run the security and firewall setup 
gives the error message 'see if its installed'.
I dont make any changes, I just click through all of the screens and save. 
Now I can log in, log out, and restart x and the network will work. If I 
reboot the information will still be there, just not useful until it gets 
resaved.

Any ideas on the cause and cure?

Thanks, Grant



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Re: Re: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why? NOWVIRI LERT

2001-12-02 Thread Grant Fraser

I got one from him too. Only it says


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followed by giberish. I tried to reply but it bounced. I am trying again by 
removing the underscore. Could just be a spammer.


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Re: [newbie] XFree upgrade question

2001-12-01 Thread Grant Fraser

I have installed the packages below and restarted x. When I use mandrake 
control to change the display configuration it only lets me choose between 
trying xfree86 3.3.6 and xfree86 4.0.3
What happened to the xfree86 4.1.0 choice? Now that I have the files, how do 
I actually use them?

I normally update 8 pkgs:
   
XFree 86
XFree 86-libs
XFree 86-server
XFree 86-devel
XFree 86-Xnest
XFree 86-xfs
XFree 86-100dpi fonts
XFree 86-75dpi fonts
   
I also normally use rpmdrake to download and install, you simply need
add a Cooker source.
   
You do not need all the pkgs I have.
If you use rpmdrake just select the XFree 86 rpm and it will auto add
the others that you Must have.
   
Once they are installed, log-out and restart X ( you do not need to
reboot.)
   
   
   Charles
  
   LOL, that almost worked. It took trying all the mirrors twice before I
   finally didn't get the an error occured when adding this source then
   I figured kewl, I'm finally gonna get it, and now 6 tries later I'm
   getting error fetching package on all of the packages.
 
  If you are still using the stock rpmdrake you need to manually download
  and install the lastest release from cooker: rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk.i586.rpm
  I usually have good results from this site:
  ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
 
  Once you have it installed you should not have any problem adding a
  Cooker source.
 
  Or if you prefer you can manually also dl the XFree rpms into a special
  directory such as /home/jon/xfree.
  Once you have dled all the rpms you need, cd to /home/jon/xfree, su to
  root and rpm -Uvh *rpm and this will install all the rpms residing in
  that directory.
 
 
 Charles

 Well that just blew things up...lol Broke the netowrk connection. Ended up
 having to reinstall 8.1. I did notice that Auruor or whatever it is called
 is installed by default. I choise not to install it and I guess we will see
 what happens now. Thanks for your help though.



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Re: [newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1

2001-11-29 Thread Grant Fraser

Thanks for the tip. No I havent backed it up. No point. I've spent so much 
time tinkering with the OS I haven't  actually found a use for the computer. 
Played a few games of freeciv. Cant play tuxracer, opengl not supported. Ive 
upgraded the kernel, and lots of other things. 
I even managed to pound xfree86-4.1x into it. Cant use it though. When I go 
to change the display properties it still only lets me choose between xfree 
3.3.6 and 4.0.3.
My scanner is not supported and sound will not work.
To get my computer to run well under linux I need an new video card (SiS = 
bad), sound card (crystal audio codec is an unknown device), Scanner (Mag = 
twain only) and a new monitor (VeiwSonic 15es has the wrong refresh rate ???)
So far this free software has cost me $60.
I'm not worried about reformating, I've already done it 5 times.

Apparently Mandrake does not yet support upgrading to kde222. They have some 
use at your own risk info

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1418mode=threadorder=0thold=0


On November 29, 2001 03:52 pm, you wrote:
 On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:17, you wrote:
  On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote:
   On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Grant Fraser wrote:
 I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to
 upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup
 which conflicts with bash and I cant force it.

 Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still
 takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do
 that I just got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money
 for an OS.

 I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy
 video, no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset?
  
   I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake.  First time it agressively
   overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse.
  
   For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a
   SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff.  The only thing not working is
   accellerated video.
  
   My 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy
   twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers,
   which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal.
  
   Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade?
  
   30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on
   disk2.
  
   Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and
   Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run
   in Xv mode.
  
   I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team?
 
  You did backup your system before doing an OS upgrade... right?!?

 It is best not to use upgrade on the installation disks when going from a
 lower distribution to a newer one.  The best thing to do is an expert
 install and know before hand the partition you have on your disk as /home.
 i.e. /home is hda6 on my hard drive. Then when you make the change from one
 such as 7.2 to 8.1 use the same partitions and do not reformat /home when
 it indicates what partitions will be formatted. If the /home partition is
 yellow click on it to make it no color and then let the install format the
 other partitions. You then have all your old info like bookmarks and
 address book but a new OS on the machine.  Even this is not 100%
 satisfactory but it is better than totally reformatting and starting from
 scratch. The other way is to make a seperate partition as a back up for
 /home and call it say /backhome and then reformat everything but backhome.
 You can then go into backhome and get your lbookmarks etc and place them in
 home and voila a whole new world. HTH


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[newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Grant Fraser

I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 
2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install setup which conflicts with 
bash and I cant force it.

Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 
hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just got bad 
disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS.

I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, no 
opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset?

Grant.



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[newbie] kde 2.2.2

2001-11-25 Thread Grant Fraser

Anybody else out there able to get it to install? I keep running into 
circular dependancies. ie file A needs file B needs file A. Is there a magic 
first file that will just install? Trying to install 10 at at time doesn't 
seem to work, it just generates a longer error message



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Re: [newbie] rpm manager corrupted

2001-11-25 Thread Grant Fraser

I managed to use k package manager and did the install one at a time starting 
with the developer package. I did try command line, didn't work. On that 
particular install I learned my 101 things.

If you do it right the first time you've learn one thing. If you get it wrong 
a hundred times and then get it right you've learned 101 things.

In Windows I'd learned milliions of things:)

Grant

On November 26, 2001 06:09 am, you wrote:
 On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:59:18 -0800, Grant Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

I am having difficulty updating some software. RPM says that the package
 can be updated but then says it has already been installed. How do I fix
 the damage?


 hi,

   just noticed this email and did not see any reply so here is my two
 cents...


   did you try using commandline rpm commands? i usually resort to them when
 the rpm manager refuses to work (especially with opera). you can try rpm -U
 [package] to upgrade your applications. you can try upgrading your rpm
 manager with one of the packages in the cooker sites. not much use though
 if you have the latest version.

 HTH


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[newbie] opengl not supported

2001-11-23 Thread Grant Fraser

I am running LM8.0 with a motherboard that has the sis620 chipset. The video 
driver is xfree86-3.3.6 experimental 3D. It did not want to work with 
xfree86-4.0.6
There is supposed to be another driver but everytime I look for it I find 
only dead links.
I seem to have the latest glibc files installed as well as all 5 libSDL1.1 
files.
When I try to run xtraceroute I get 'opengl not supported' even though I have 
all the files.
I downloaded the libSDL1.2 files but cannot seem to install them due to some 
cryptic dependancys.

Anybody else gone down this path before?



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Re: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...

2001-11-21 Thread Grant Fraser

Promiscuous mode?
I've never heard of promiscuous mode. Does that mean it sneaks past your 
firewall at night to find cheap thrills on the internet?

On November 21, 2001 07:16 pm, Steve Weltman wrote:
 Hi Derek,
 Thanks for the fast response.  I am using the 3c905TX, which is a PCI card
 (in a standard PC).  NFS is not defined.  No, I haven't tried stopping the
 network yet (but I will this time).

 Syslog...
 Nov 20 10:41:30 sweltman33 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
 Nov 20 10:41:32 sweltman33 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
 Nov 20 10:41:56 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
 Nov 20 10:41:56 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
 Nov 20 12:20:06 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
 Nov 20 12:21:56 sweltman33 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
 Nov 20 12:21:56 sweltman33 network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
 Nov 20 12:22:21 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
 Nov 20 12:22:21 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
 Nov 20 20:46:42 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
 Nov 20 20:46:42 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
 Nov 21 08:34:51 sweltman33 kernel: eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
 Nov 21 08:34:51 sweltman33 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

 Nothing else though..

 Let me know what else you need to see.

 Thanks again!
 Steve Weltman

 On Wednesday 21 November 2001 11:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
  Hmm... Thats a 3com driver isn't it. I'm using that one without any
  problems. Is it a PCMCIA card?
  You do not have NFS defined do you? That can cause hangs on power down.
 
  Have you tried stopping the network before you shut down?
 
  What are the last messages in the syslog. Any clues?
 
  On Wednesday 21 November 2001 18:09, you wrote:
   Hey group,
  
   I am still crashing every time I need to power down the PC.  I am
   greatful that Linux has the sense to do a fsck when it reboots, or I'd
   be screwed. Well, I have changed the lines in the /etc/modules.conf to
   read--
  
/etc/modules.conf file
   pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
   alias usb-interface uhci
   alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
   probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
   alias eth0 3c59x
  
   I think I need to ask the machine to issue a SIGHUP to the eth0 on
   exit, but even if I did, I can't remember which 'S' file to put it into
   (or the run level to put it in).
  
   Sugestions anyone?
  
   Thanks!
   Steve Weltman
  
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[newbie] bash problems

2001-11-20 Thread Grant Fraser

There are some games that came with LM 8.0 that refuse to run. (ie. penguin 
command. The screen turns black then goes away and I am left with the 
desktop) A terminal window pops up then goes away. This is made more anoying 
because there is a game that I downloaded that I wanted to try but I am 
getting the same error. If I go to the directory where the program is located 
and type 'exec ./file' the terminal window disapears.
I have tried looking at 'man bash' but it is 84 pages long and assumes that I 
know what it is talking about. Does bash have to be configured? It talks 
about a `./bash_profile' file but I cannot locate it and do not know what it 
should contain.



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Re: [newbie] Hack My Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Grant Fraser

http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/
This link was posted nov 5.
Be afraid
Be very afraid

On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote:
 Hi!

 I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it
 secure.

 Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ?



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Re: [newbie] Hack My Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Grant Fraser

Thats a good question. I did a google search for 'test all ports' and found
http://scan.sygatetech.com
They have various tests you can try.

Grant

On November 19, 2001 11:16 pm, you wrote:
 Strange you never find a portscanner that can scan all your ports, have
 your ever seen souch one?

 /Søren

 On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 05:25, Grant Fraser wrote:
  http://www.mycgiserver.com/~kalish/
  This link was posted nov 5.
  Be afraid
  Be very afraid
 
  On November 19, 2001 05:04 pm, you wrote:
   Hi!
  
   I have done some secure issue in my Linux Server. How can I know is it
   secure.
  
   Is there a tools to trying to hack my Linux Server ?
  
  
  
   Best Regards,
   SKLIM
 
  
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Re: [newbie] Nice new NEWBIE website for Linux users

2001-11-16 Thread Grant Fraser

So I realize that I'm going to have to give up and learn the command line 
stuff :(
Does each distro have a different set of commands?
What book or website would you recommend? Keep in mind I do know DOS.

Thank you, Grant


On November 16, 2001 05:34 am, you wrote:
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[newbie] multiplayer games

2001-11-15 Thread Grant Fraser

Looking for a replacement for freeciv. Does anybody out there know of a free 
MPG (strategy) that runs on linux and windows?



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[newbie] just what does that restore session thing do anyway?

2001-11-03 Thread Grant Fraser

If I check the box restore session the next time you log in the only 
difference that I notice is that it takes longer to reboot. It seems to be 
one more step added to the loading of kde. I haven't checked it off lately 
because I haven't found an advantage in using it.

Things are only useful if you know what they're useful for.

Grant



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Re: [newbie] Questions,questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Grant Fraser


 1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system?
 AMD-K6-2-500
 64MB RAM
 SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM
 ES-SOLO on-board sound card
 Does Mandrake support the drivers for my devices?

I have LM8.0 on my system. Bear in mind I have only been at this a few weeks. 
Under videocards I have listed:

SiS 530 530 host
SiS SG86C201 5591/5592 AGP
SiS 620 6306 3D-AGP

Graphics look fine, fonts look like crap.  That might be due to a firmware upgrade I 
ran while still using win98
As a work around I use the Clean font.

I have a different onboard sound card (Crystal PnP) that is not recognised. I 
have not cared enough about sound in order to fix it.

Grant Fraser



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