[newbie] left-handed mouse in 10.1
Hi! This question has probably already been answered, and if so, could you please direct me to the post? I tried googling it without any luck. thanks. I'm left handed and in 10.1 the option to switch the mouse buttons is grayed out in the configuration. Is there any way to enable the option? Thanks! JennHi __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] k3b - cd text
k3b will not burn cd text to my cds. My cd burner is a BPRec, I am using generic-mmc as the cdcrdao driver...Whenever I try to burn cd text on my cds, ,I get the following errors: Cannot set write parameters modee page writing failed cdrdao returned some error sorry, no error handling yet... It works fine aas long as I am not trying to burn text. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fixed k3b cd text
nevermind, I fixeed it, I changed the driver to generic-mmc-raw... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] k3b cd text again
okay, that still did nto fix it any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Test
Sorry, just want to make sure that people are seeing my emails .. have sent 3 in the last week or so, and got no responses, so I wanted to check to make sure people are in fact seeing them. Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Config / ESD Errors
hello, I have been unable to get my systems sounds working and am also unable to run sndconfig. Sndconfig reports that my sounds card is not supported at this time althought i do have the drivers installed. (Aureal Vortex 2) I aso get the following error about ESD. i'm not sure what ESD is or what the error message is really saying to me. I can play CDS, but I cannot hear system sounds. esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. Try -trust to force esd to start. esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd. -- 11:16am up 12 days, 14:57, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DHCP and 8.1
Well, I originally choose the lan and adsl conections to install. When I chose ADSl and entered my ISP name without the www. It showed up by default...but still no internet connection. I then turned off the ADSL connections and viola!, my connection worked using the 10.0.0.1 IP Address with the LAN connection. On Thursday 04 October 2001 10:45 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jennifer wrote: For my ISP I had to use 10.0.0.1 for my IP address with DHCP on a LAN connection, not ADSl or PPPoe. This was different from the connection I had set up for mandrake 8.0. I am now on 8.1 and very happy. So when the box came up for you to enter in your hostname, you put in 10.0.0.1? How on earth did you figure that out? I'll give it a whirl, a little later...I tried entering in my hostname (ool-18.dyn.optonline.net), but it didn't have any effect :-/ [rog@dyn rog] -- Jennifer RLU#221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] 8.1 is final!
Everybody all together now Thank You Civileme and the Mandrakesoft team! Now get some sleep! --- Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, I have been wondering if I should download it on the adsl connection, or just want till the powerpack I preordered arrives.. anyone who has bought one before, how long did it take to arrive??? If its going to be longer then two weeks, I might just download it... any ideas on a time frame?? I am in australia, but I guess any international country would have a roughly similiar time frame.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MacLean Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2001 8:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.1 is final! I must say to Charles that you put my role model Sonic the hedgehog to shame ;) thanks. now time to start downloading again.or do I wait until the powerpack arrives at my door? decisions decisions Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:08 PM Subject: [newbie] 8.1 is final! 8.1 final is now on many of the mirrors. This go around it is a 3cd set. Install, Ext, and Supplementary App CD. Charles (-: -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include knowledge.h void ignorance (it offers no value) */A freely given answer can offer enlightment to those who ask valid questions __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdplayer trouble in mandrake
Hi, I just installed mandrake 8.0 on a AMD 1.4ghz Abit KG7 with a soundblaster 128 sound card. I was able to configure the sound card to work and play the voice. I was then able to get the cdplayer software in KDE to play my music CD when I was logged on as root. However I am having trouble getting it to work as a normal user. Can anyone offer ideas as to what I am missing? Thanks, Dale Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TEST! was I thrown off the newbie list by Denis HAVLIK? is this a blow FOR Mandrake?
This was recieved by the list... I would like to extend the invitation to those would like to keep discussing our grief with members on this list to create a mailing list for that purpose. Email me and I will create a makeshift mailing list of those interested. Especially if you were accidently bumped (whatta jerk) off list by mr. havlik. This list *is* supposed to be unmoderated after all. On Friday 14 September 2001 15:05, etharp wrote: I have not received any mail from either the newbie list or the expert list since this morning, when I asked everyone to stay on the list to learn what we can. I hope we have not decided to take such measures at this time, when cool heads MUST prevail. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT?
We seem to have the same idea if you refer to one of my posts earlier. If we can't do this on -list , lets do it off-list. Charles, Since I am guilty of flaming you and contradicting myself about posting OT, I again, offer my apologies. While I do still think there is a difference about that topic and this, I no less humbly admit my own contradictions. (and change of heart) I hope that the majority of the poster to this list have not already been kicked off. I hope the show of hands support OT, but if not, I would be more than happy to join an off-list list. After all...silence is not a coping mechanism. On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:30, Charles A. Punch wrote: I have refrained from posting OT since Dennis HAVLIK posted about kicking people off the list. However, that was not the only one reason. The other is that I have had arguments in the past about posting OT, and I see some of the same people who flamed me about my opinion are now posting OT themselves, because this is not just another OT, this is different. This topic about the nation's tragedy is something that most people can't seem to ignore. Someone posted calling for a show of hands. I vote to allow OT. Someone else inquired if everyone had stopped because of Dennis HAVLIK's post. With all due respect to Mr. HAVLIK, the main reason I have refrained recently, is out of respect to those who feel so strongly against posting OT, that they have gone somewhat off the deep end emotionally and resorted to name calling. I don't want to be responsible for driving someone to that extreme. We have enough of a problem. The purpose of discussing the tragedy, is to try to work through it, not to create more of a problem. Unity is more important than my piddling freedom of speech. I offer an invitation to anyone who wants to discuss this, or anything else off list, until this is cleared up ( and I'll try to actually post off list this time). I have a great deal of respect for everyone on this list, even those whom I have had differences with in the past. At the same time I don't wan to stick a gig in someone who is already hurting emotionally. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user 3217118 Shalom does not mean peace (in the sense of absence of conflict). It means completeness and fulfillment. It could possibly be understood as peace of mind. Paraphrased from the exeGesis Paralell Bible, an Aramaic translation and transliteration by exegete Herb Jahn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Expand/collapse in kmail
I have been searching for a post regarding how to expand and collapse the subject groups in kmail's threaded messages. I would rather have my inbox set up so i would only see on message header for each thread instead of all messages in every thread. Similiar to using the plus and minus signs to the right of messages in Lookout?? Oh, I mean Outlook. I am fairly certain this has been addresed before. I also read on somewhere that there is a feature where you can highlight text in an email and when you choose reply, you will reply only to the highlighted text. Would anybody know how to implement this? -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expand/collapse in kmail
It didn't work for me...perhaps kmail is corrupted. Would you mind telling me what version of KDE and kmail you are using? I am using the version contained in the original build of mandrake 8...I haven't upgraded yet. On Thursday 13 September 2001 19:19, bascule wrote: hi, i highlighted this text (below the 'On Frid..etc) r. clicked and chose reply, voila! bascule On Friday 14 September 2001 11:40 pm, you wrote: am fairly certain this has been addresed before. I also read on somewhere that there is a feature where you can highlight text in an email and when you choose reply, you will reply only to the highlighted text. Would anybody know how to implement this? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expand/collapse in kmail
yes, I know how to thread my messages, what i don't know how to do is expand or collapse the threaded messages. For example, what i see is subject#1senderdate subject#1senderdate subject#1senderdate subject#1senderdate Subject#2---sender---date Subject#2senderdate Subject#3---sender---date What I am trying to do is only see: subject#1-senderdate subect#2senderdate subject#3-senderdate ...with the option of expanding and the subject group to view all messages with a specific subject header. Sorry if I can't explain it more clearly. Naw, it was me. My brained forked for a minute. However, the setting in the config was correct. Tick it to expand them or untick to close them. -s Your talking about ticking the little box with the plus or minus sign right? (i'm really not as stupid as my questions sound) It doesn't work for me. I am unsure whether kmail is corrupted or I have a different version. I am using KDE 2.1.2 and kmail 1.2. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Expand/collapse in kmail
Your talking about ticking the little box with the plus or minus sign right? (i'm really not as stupid as my questions sound) It doesn't work for me. I am unsure whether kmail is corrupted or I have a different version. I am using KDE 2.1.2 and kmail 1.2. No, there is a radio box in the settings to default all your threads to collapsed and then you use the + or - in the subject list to expand them. -s No, there isn't one...it must be my version...bascule has reccomended (with cuation) that I may have to upgrade KDE. So off to maual land I go to figure out how to do that. See ya all in a few days with i'm confused -How to Upgrade KDE questions Thanks for your help. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Think its time for farewell
Siavash, I just did a quick run through on my windows box using the following instructions: they are a little crude, but they worked. Try running through again and see if you can't get it to work Tools Rules wizard New Move messages based on content with newbie in the subject or body Move it to the newbie folder (make sure you have a newbie folder) Choose next Make sure with specific words in the subject or body is checked. look at the lower pane and make sure the info is filled in Next Make sure the move it the the speciefied folder is filled out look at the lowe pane and make sure the info is filled in Next Add any exceptions to the rule. Next Name rule Check Turn on this rule box Finish Then click run now Make sure the check box next to the rule you want to run is checked on the next screen. Also check the apply rules to and run in folder (inbox) are correct. the rule should now run. -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] a positive end to OT
Someone from Boston sent these sentiments out that I would like to share. I know that some don't want OT on this list, but lets end our discussions as friends... Subject: For the book... Yesterday's events have had a profound impact on me...especially once I got home last night and had no distraction to take my mind off of it. The 2 main thoughts I've had I thought were worth sharing with my people. One is a somewhat frivolous metaphor, yet it's accurate. The other...a more serious consideration. The metaphor is this. I was driving to work today and thinking about how yesterday Governor Swift said it's important to get back to business as normal. As I looked around at all the people heading into work, I started thinking that we're like the Whos down in Whoville. The terrorists are the grinch that tried to steal Christmas yesterday, but today we're holding hands and singing because we're not going to let them break our spirit. This led me to the second realization... Did any of you notice what I noticed this morning? No road rage. None from within my car and none from without. Today, for the first time in what seems like years, I felt something for my fellow man that was actually positive. I felt a connection as we all try to come to terms with this...as we all are simultaneously experiencing the exact same emotion. Suddenly, letting someone in front of me felt better than speeding up to spite them. Suddenly, the cars around me became more than just faceless enemies. I began to actually look at the faces attached to the souls within each vehicle and I realized they are just like me. Just desperately trying to make it through another day in an increasingly frightening world that sometimes makes us feel more vulnerable than we can deal with admitting. Perhaps if we as a society can hang on to this feeling...perhaps if we can smile at just one stranger today instead of glaring suspiciously at them. Perhaps if we can let just one person out in traffic...or back off the person in front of us by just 10 feet causing us to reach our destination a mere nanosecond later...perhaps then the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives yesterday will not have died in vain. If we can pull just one positive thing out of this staggering nightmare...maybe God...who's up there crying his eyes out right now...can smile again. Just a thought. --- -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT Attack on America
Well, I just got back from watching the events unfold in Copley Sq and 3 people in connection with the terrorism have been arrested. A scary thought...what were they still doing here in one of our hotels unless they were planning something else? I surely would left the city and went into hiding. Why are they sticking around? Nostradamus' prediction on WW3: In the year of the new century and nine months, From the sky will come a great King of Terror... The sky will burn at forty-five degrees. Fire approaches the great new city... In the city of york there will be a great collapse, 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb third big war will begin when the big city is burning = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include knowledge.h void ignorance (it offers no value) */A freely given answer can offer enlightment to those who ask valid questions __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sware I do NOT have the power to stop any of this. We did NOT elect this president. I am no more to blame for the things the Bush family has perpetuated on the world than the farmer in the field in Afganistan, only trying to feed his family. I have even elected to take my own personal vow of poverty to not accept anything that may have been ill gotten by my people. I am more than willing to remember and apologize for the genocide of American Idians, (and if reparations are to be considered, I would say that both White and Black Americans MUST put the indeginis people who's land we stole and whom the US goverment perpetuated Gernocide against FIRST. Then we can Apologize for the lesser crime of Slavery. (and while I do not thinks slavery is a small crime, I believe most folks would consider Genocide worse.) that Americans have elected. The American people have the power to stop this horror, yet they do not exercise it. Maybe you could expound on how we could stop it, I am ALL ears. Are you any better than the 'terrorists'? -- kiran -Original Message- From: nathan wainwright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA one thing is, if i am needed i will defend my country (cdn), and anyone elses from these bastards... sorry all, but when every anyone does something like this i hate them more so for childeren that had noe even started their lifes -- nathan From: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
No..thank you...all of you out there who offer your sympathy and support. At the risk of sounding ethocentric, we are the victims here. I think its time to give up the political nit pickings and rememeber those who are dead. On Wednesday 12 September 2001 17:01, s wrote: Thank you for this. One get a little weary constantly hearing how they are the bad guys. -s On Wednesday 12 September 2001 03:37 pm, jennifer wrote: This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, is worth sharing. America: The Good Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Come on!! don't blind your eyes!
.and I break my own rule on commenting on off topic posts on this list.. First off..as of right now we have absolutely no FACTS that state that this attack was caused by anybody outside the US. This could very well be disgruntled americans or canadians for all we know at this time. We have no right to assume it was another nation. And Nicolas, My post is not only directed to you but to the whole of what i have read. And I don't think that cuss words are a grammatically correct use of adjectives. Nor do they make your point any more emphatic. Thirdly, Come on men (and women) stop thinking and be with your families. Be glad you have them and pray that you will have them along time. Extend your sympathies to the all of those affected by this tradegy, no matter how far removed from the victims. fourthly, forgive me for breaking going back on my word and posting this-but if we are going to discuss something like this off topic I would hope that everyone could keep their chin and spirits up and not sucomb to doomsaying or hatred. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 20:46, Nicolás Gómez wrote: Hi ... Come on men Try to think just for a moment in the bifurcations of what had happened today... sit down and relax, get a beer from the fridge or any kind of drink and just for a moment... get out our fucking minds from computers and those kind of things. Moreover, I will ask to you some questions, not to response to meto only think them in your minds.. Do you realize thay maybe you or me could not be here tomorrow or maybe the next week due to the possible fact or a 3rd World War? In any fucking part of the world where you or me lives exists the danger of a suddenly dissapear of my country or of yours too. Come on men, get your mind out from bytes and those things and get into the possibilitie of the major threat of the millenium. This is by now what I can bring to you If I survive in the next days i will post another opinion God bless you all God bless America Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tcp port blackjack found open?
Well, I *think* that port 5000, not 6000 and blackjack are a result of the yahoo insant messanger games network. From my investigations port 5000 is labeled as network chess and always seems open when one is using yahoo IM along with their online games network. This isn't neccesarily correct, just all I could come up with using Nmap, www.iana.org's port list and a few web searches on google. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:52, Ben Bayer wrote: Blackjack is the yahoo instant messenger then? What a relief. It sounded sinister. Thought I might have had a virus or something. Thanks! Ben On Monday 10 September 2001 10:25 pm, you wrote: Do you use yahoo instant messanger? On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:08, Ben Bayer wrote: Hi everyone, I found these ports open this morning: tcp port 1024, blackjack, 6000, ssh udp port router, xdmcp What is blackjack? Should this port be open after setting my machine up for high (server-level) security, and setting up tinyfirewall to close everything but ssh ports? Thanks in advance, Ben Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Yes, i hear you about being scared...I'm from boston and was evacuated today from work. I just hope that fear does not drive us to succomb to the same hatred that has been bestowed upon us today. This is a delicate situation. I truely hope that it was a terrorist group and not a nation that attacked us. I certainly don't want friends or family to have to go to war over this. We have enough sadness to deal with. I think the best thing we can do is recover as quickly as possible. Send the message that we are stronger than they are...morally an spiritually. If we stay together as a nation, justice will prevail. This has certainly reminded me to value America and renewed my national pride. Ans thank you to all the people on this list from all nations who have shown support for us whether we were personally affected or not. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 23:50, nathan wainwright wrote: i now i added once.. im canadian.. and i am scared, and sorry for everything that happend for the man that talked to his wife before she died... to all the childeren that are dead, and the others that no longer have parents... i want those bastards to pay dearly for what they did, ill keep it simple President bush... go nuts -- nathan From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:48:14 -0400 Jon; Good sense is never Off Topic. Tell your sister that we're rooting for the quick return of her husband. Absolutley right by the way. Save the ones that can be saved, bury the dead and mourn their loss, then find the ones responsible. I'd like to think that Punish is a far lighter term than most of us would use, but you've got the right idea. Lanman On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:45 pm, you wrote: Firstly I would just like to say that my prayers go out to all the families on this dark day in America. I don't personally know anyone that was injured today. But to show just how much this affects people in many other ways, here is my story. My brother-in-law was working on a military base in NY today. He was on the roof of a building when it happened. He didn't hear or see it, but was told by the military that they had to leave. He couldn't contact us all day today, his first message wasn't until 6pm tonight. My sister was married on Sept. 1st of this year to a Marine. She is 19 and they moved to NC. This is her first time away from home. Her husband was called to the base tonight and the base was on lockdown, which means he can not go home to his wife, my sister. She is sitting at home all alone not knowing the future of her husband of 10 days. Lets not point fingers just yet. Lets first save those who can be saved and console those who are scared and have lost loved ones. Lets search and find the parties responsable for this terrible days attacks. Then we can punish them (the correct people) and anyone who tries to harbor them. Me. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tcp port blackjack found open?
Would a Netstat command show whats trying to talk to what? maybe block those ports in the the advanced properties in networking in the security tab. (I dnon't have my windows machine up so i can't give specific instructions...) then you you see what doesn't work and trace it back to that. I wish there were a better port list out there. I am curious...maybe its a general intant messanger port. That still leaves the blackjack thing as a open issue thou. On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:28, Maurice Vold wrote: This port is also open on my Windows 2000 Pro. It is firewalled so I have no idea what it was trying to talk to. I do not have Yahoo instant messenger installed but I do have MSN and ICQ, although they do not run on a regular basis. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein Maurice Vold Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Corporate Information Services City of Saskatoon Work Web Page: http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca Family Web Page: http://communities.msn.ca/CathieMauriceandJulianna/homepage Work Phone: 306-975-8145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jennifer Sent: September 11, 2001 9:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ben Bayer Subject: Re: [newbie] tcp port blackjack found open? Well, I *think* that port 5000, not 6000 and blackjack are a result of the yahoo insant messanger games network. From my investigations port 5000 is labeled as network chess and always seems open when one is using yahoo IM along with their online games network. This isn't neccesarily correct, just all I could come up with using Nmap, www.iana.org's port list and a few web searches on google. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:52, Ben Bayer wrote: Blackjack is the yahoo instant messenger then? What a relief. It sounded sinister. Thought I might have had a virus or something. Thanks! Ben On Monday 10 September 2001 10:25 pm, you wrote: Do you use yahoo instant messanger? On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:08, Ben Bayer wrote: Hi everyone, I found these ports open this morning: tcp port 1024, blackjack, 6000, ssh udp port router, xdmcp What is blackjack? Should this port be open after setting my machine up for high (server-level) security, and setting up tinyfirewall to close everything but ssh ports? Thanks in advance, Ben Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
Don't get me wrong...by justice I don't mean that be passive. I just think its wrong to go after (speculation) Afghanastan as a country and kill more innocents due to a faction of people taking refuge there. But how else to get to him? Its just a big dilemna...Does innocent Afgannies (sp?) dying mean justice for us if we get the man responsble?? An interesting note on todays events.It's international peace day. God help us. On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:30, KL, Kiran wrote: This is the most atrocious thing that could have happened. This surely is a cowardly act on the part of those who committed the act. As president Bush says, the guilty should not be spared. -- kiran -Original Message- From: nathan wainwright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA one thing is, if i am needed i will defend my country (cdn), and anyone elses from these bastards... sorry all, but when every anyone does something like this i hate them more so for childeren that had noe even started their lifes -- nathan From: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],nathan wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:16:32 -0400 Yes, i hear you about being scared...I'm from boston and was evacuated today from work. I just hope that fear does not drive us to succomb to the same hatred that has been bestowed upon us today. This is a delicate situation. I truely hope that it was a terrorist group and not a nation that attacked us. I certainly don't want friends or family to have to go to war over this. We have enough sadness to deal with. I think the best thing we can do is recover as quickly as possible. Send the message that we are stronger than they are...morally an spiritually. If we stay together as a nation, justice will prevail. This has certainly reminded me to value America and renewed my national pride. Ans thank you to all the people on this list from all nations who have shown support for us whether we were personally affected or not. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 23:50, nathan wainwright wrote: i now i added once.. im canadian.. and i am scared, and sorry for everything that happend for the man that talked to his wife before she died... to all the childeren that are dead, and the others that no longer have parents... i want those bastards to pay dearly for what they did, ill keep it simple President bush... go nuts -- nathan From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:48:14 -0400 Jon; Good sense is never Off Topic. Tell your sister that we're rooting for the quick return of her husband. Absolutley right by the way. Save the ones that can be saved, bury the dead and mourn their loss, then find the ones responsible. I'd like to think that Punish is a far lighter term than most of us would use, but you've got the right idea. Lanman On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:45 pm, you wrote: Firstly I would just like to say that my prayers go out to all the families on this dark day in America. I don't personally know anyone that was injured today. But to show just how much this affects people in many other ways, here is my story. My brother-in-law was working on a military base in NY today. He was on the roof of a building when it happened. He didn't hear or see it, but was told by the military that they had to leave. He couldn't contact us all day today, his first message wasn't until 6pm tonight. My sister was married on Sept. 1st of this year to a Marine. She is 19 and they moved to NC. This is her first time away from home. Her husband was called to the base tonight and the base was on lockdown, which means he can not go home to his wife, my sister. She is sitting at home all alone not knowing the future of her husband of 10 days. Lets not point fingers just yet. Lets first save those who can be saved and console those who are scared and have lost loved ones. Lets search and find the parties responsable for this terrible days attacks. Then we can punish them (the correct people) and anyone who tries to harbor them. Me
Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!!
The Fbi has already took possession of a car with virgina plates and what looks like luggage from logan airport here in Boston. On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:41, Franki wrote: Don't bet on it, if they went through so much effort as to plan an attack of this size and complexity,,, (ie training terrorists to fly very complex large airplanes like 767's and 757's got them in sequence and full of fuel,) do you think that they would leave a trail??? the FBI is already chasing somone they found on the passenger manefest,,, I bet its a false lead or a dead end. (you don't book a known terrorist onto a plane and use his real name if you are planing to hijack it... unless its a false lead...) It may even be a country that is a US ally, say for example Israel, the US doesn't give them enough help fighting the palestines (in their mind), so what better way to make the US wipe them out then to make the US think it was done by the palestines... I am not saying thats the case, and I really doubt it is... but it goes to show my point that there are more then two possible suspects... The only real hope I think is the black box's and the phone calls from the planes passangers to relies and emergency services. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tom Brinkman Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK Tom; once again, a very good point or two! First, I think that we should remember that the IT community probably lost many colleagues today, and that also hits home. Regardless of their O/S of choice, we're all people of a similar mind. We share a natural curiosity, interest in learning, and passion in our craft. I believe that the IT professionals working in the World Trade Center are (were?) probably some of the world's best! I hadn't thought about it from that angle Tom. Thanks! Sigh! Now I feel even worse about this whole mess! But in the long run, I think the terrorists just Shot themselves in the foot, because they just gave the U.S. Carte Blanche. A TV announcer on CNN ( I think ), said today, that this tragedy was this generations' Pearl Harbor, and we all know what happened with that one. This time, someone really Screwed the Pooch ! Notice how all the Allied Powers AND Germany are all denouncing the attacks today? Someone's in for a world of hurt! Right about now, Mass Religious Suicide is going to start looking pretty good to those idiots. You can bet that the U.S. is about to give them a major Wedgie. Then guess who'll be dancing and celebrating on the rooftops?? Lanman On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:08 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 07:15 pm, Franki escribió: There were alot of IT companies based in those towers, and some banks, this could effect the world ecomomy... especially if the US goes into a rescesion because of it... they were on the brink already... rgds frank My Thoughts had nothin to do with money, any denomination. The world runs on people and their thoughts, not just their produce materially. So I say again. Attacks by misguided cowardly punk assholes affects the whole world, specially those that deserve it least. Even this world's most unfortunate children took a big hit today. Those in the USA, and specially those suported worldwide by http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/ I doubt the zealot cowardly asshole mass murders who acted today were thinkin about anybody but themselves, and what they want. They left many chilren dead, or without parents ... or support. As much as I feel for today's victims, the children of the world are in greater need. Please help if you can God bless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linksys router.
Can you get connectivity to the internet with any machine or just the slackware? You might want to go into the router config (software based) and turn off DHCP and test a static IP config. If you get connectivity via a static IP address then the problem is most likely not the router. The linksys routhers i am familiar with will accept a DCHP assignment from your ISP via the WAN link and and the LAN links stay seperate. Lan links can be DHCP or Static and it has no affect on the WAN link to your ISP. On Monday 10 September 2001 12:20, nathan wainwright wrote: the main problem i have is that i am using a installer disk, (slackware bare.i boot disk, color.z root disk, network addon disk for drivers) its doesnt have dhcp (for some reason... they FORGOT to add the crap for doing dhcp on the installer disks... )and if i dont have dhcp how do i do nfs? some days i want to strangle some programmers (even tho iam one) so to put it short... how would i setup the slackware installer to manually give it a ip address? (remember this installer has pretty much net stacking all for stuff) -- nathan From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linksys router. Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:54:34 -0500 hmm... all I can tell you is first make sure that the machine is setup for DHCP. If it is, then remove the router from between the machine and the internet and see if you can get an ip address that way. If all else fails give the machine an ip address and tell it were the router is that hopefully should work... I've had really screwy problems with individual machines. For example, I had originally install a netgear card and for some bizarre reason would not get an ip address from my linksys router, I pulled my linksys card out of my other machine and tried it in the linux machine and it worked great. So I borrowed a 3com card and tried that and it worked great too... I don't get why the netgear card was giving me such a hard time. -Original Message- From: nathan wainwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linksys router. anyone that has installed slackware over nfs... how would i get a router to give the machine a ip address? my linksys router (which i did get runnniing... but i had to take that one back because of bad noises) will NOT give the machine that i want to install slackware to over nfs... a ip address... i tried powering down the router... changing cables... the cables are all fine... and i know the nic card works... and the router is brand new.? what am i doing wrong? -- nathan _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tcp port blackjack found open?
Do you use yahoo instant messanger? On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:08, Ben Bayer wrote: Hi everyone, I found these ports open this morning: tcp port 1024, blackjack, 6000, ssh udp port router, xdmcp What is blackjack? Should this port be open after setting my machine up for high (server-level) security, and setting up tinyfirewall to close everything but ssh ports? Thanks in advance, Ben Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already
On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and address and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code in return for your copy of the OS. While it does guarantee a reduction in piracy is is a flagrant disrespect on your privacy, forcing you to divulge information for the sake of using an OS you've already paid for! This is Totalitarianism at its utmost, placing to interests of the individual so far beind their own wishes. Obtaining a hack for Win XP does not necessarily preclude piracy but gives one the CHOICE of what information to divulge to the world-at-large. Of couse, there are lots more choices than that and they begin with Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc, etc, etc... Richie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this or are they only going to make their product availible to those who live in areas that have internet access? I know that there are huge areas in the southwest that still don't have internet access. -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers
Randy...I just read the first few sentences of that article and knew i had to respond. I work for a good size company (5000 or so users) and will tell you that not all of them are secretaries who use word, excel spreadsheets and the like. I also think it is condescending to subrscribe to that articles implied knowledge that secretaries are dumb, so secretaries would not know the difference I am an experienced windows user/professional desktop supporter and I have trouble with the basic functionality of linux. I can only imagine what it would be like to be desktop support for such an O/S. I wouldn't know where to begin let alone be a new user to all the programs that linux offers. I am here to learn the O/S, not how to create a spreadsheet in Koffice. Do you know how to do that with absolute proficientcy? Why expect your users to do so when they are the ones making million dollar investments so your comapany makes money and can pay you your salary? In mine line of work, the end user is the my money maker. Keep them in business and I get paid. Enable them to do what they do best is my job. Thier downtime hurts business. I work for them, no the other way around. That is not to say that linux is not right to rollout comapny-wide. It takes time, patience and knowledge. Could you imagine rendering a company useless to perfor high dollar trades on wall street becuase they couldn't recreate their all important calculates with Koffice? In my book the customers are all important. i work for no moron, no idiot, an no I D 10 T. I support a business and the people who run that business no mater what their staus Now mind you, I want to learn this O/S as well as I know windows. Challanges intrigue me. But, as a newbie, I must concede with Mark that On Thursday 06 September 2001 16:57, Randy Donohoe wrote: The sysadmin's words haunt me as I think about how to deploy a linux desktop environment for say a typical business dept. Does a linux desktop meet the usability requirements of a typcial user (as opposed to typical linux sysadmin/programmer). This should answer most of your questions. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239 Randy Donohoe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resolution / size of my screen
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:09, Marcelo Maraz wrote: How can I change my resolution. (today is 800x600) I have M8 installed thanks Maraz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resolution / size of my screen
For a quick fix use ctrl + alt and the plus or minus sign. If you want to permnatly change it use the mandrake control center, choose the display option. Test before you apply the changes, I have personally rendered X impossible to load. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:09, Marcelo Maraz wrote: How can I change my resolution. (today is 800x600) I have M8 installed thanks Maraz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] simple command line question
This happens to me all the time, but I am finnaly going to put the question to you guys no matter how embarassing it is. When I'm using bash, I sometimes hit the ' (comma) key instead of enter and then get brought into a loop I can't get out of. I imagine this is some sort of feature that would allow you to enter extra long command sequences but the enter key does not activate the command, nor can I find anyway to get out of the loop. (or shall i say in the loop because I don't have a clue smiles All i get is the charactor no matter what monkey business I try with the key bored. With humble humilty, jen -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness
Please keep this off list. Again, respond to me if neccsary, and Isaac off list. This is not the appropriate place to expounde your moral beliefs. This is a linux help list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness
I can see that this may get out of hand. I just realized that Mr. Curtis Re-posted his comments from another thread to this one because people were ignoring him. For the sake of the list I ask that we not encourage this angry teenager with more replies. I replied to him below off list because this is precisely where all our comments on the subject belong-off list. I remind everyone that this is a linux help list , not a self help list. (Or political/moral discussion list) If you have comments for Mr. Curtis or myself, please respond privately off-list. To Mr. Curtis, please refrain from using this list as a political forum. There are more appropriate newsgroups for your Robin Hood-ish agenda. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:40:07 -0400 From: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notice I am replying only to you and not the list. I do not believe your musings of such attitude and malformed jugdement are worthy of this list. Nor do they belong here. The only thing in your comments thus far the has anything to do with linux is that you stole a linux book. This list should not be used for advertising your anti-capitalism beliefs. It is a linux help list. Per your comments, I will only say this. One, karma is not an act of God as you mistakenly imply. Two, there is a minimum wage law in this country which garantees all workers a living wage. If you do not believe this wage is appropriate, you should redirect your efforts toward the goverment and try to create *positive* change. So far, the only consequence of your actions are price jacks for people like yourself. No wonder you can't afford the books. Oh, as a side note, you infer that your community has such a demand for books that they have a need for 5 bookstores, only one of which is a mom and pop shop that you have no problem supporting. Again, perhaps you should redirect your efforts and create positive change by helping THEM meet the consumption demands the community. Ask them to special order your books. Help them set up a website. They obviously could use product suggestions for the community so that people will buy from them instead of Borders. If they don't carry the products, it is their own fault that Borders is taking over the town. On Thursday 30 August 2001 03:21, Isaac Curtis wrote: jennifer wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 17:09, Isaac Curtis wrote: This is a bottom-posted new thread, I encourage anyone interested to please skim the quote for context before reading below. (from the thread Re: [newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin) Ron Bouwhuis wrote: --- Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP. Either buy/order them from a locally owned bookstore or, if you don't have the hefty $75 combined price tag, take the five-finger discount at the nearest Borders (the place is less secure than Windows ME) and buy a few magazines back at your hometown shop to support local business. SNIP What the hell is a five-finger discount? I *HOPE* you mean you go to Borders, buy a coffee and maybe a pastry, sit down in one of those lovely corner sofas and read the excellent Linux references you mention (careful not to get sticky fingers on the pages). You then write notes to yourself on a pad and put the book back on the shelf when you're done. Regards, Ron. Dear Ron, Borders ran four of five local bookstores out of my hometown. Borders bookstores all across the country have illegally interfered with union organzing within my union and others. Borders pays their workers a lousy wage so that ignorant high-brow yuppies can come in and get their books for a few bucks less than they could at the shop that has been in their community for three generations. I will not pay for a book from that store. I am on a very tight budget and can occasionally afford a tech magazine or some cd-r's on which to burn software and the latest downloads. When I purchase these things I get them from local business and support the people that have been supporting my community since before I was born. When I need something I can't get from local business, either because of price or because they aren't able to get it shipped within a month, I will go to Borders and take it. When I have to resort to that, I make a point of spending as much as I can afford at a local bookstore. Last week I picked up Learning the Bash Shell and DNS and Bind for free from Borders, so I went to a local store in downtown and bought two history books and a fiction book which I donated to my local public library. I actually spent more on the donated books than I would have on the ones from Borders, but I am comfortable with that decision because what I did supported my community and helped strike a(n admittedly small) blow at Borders and everything it stands for. I am not suggesting we
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
I *believe* that tiny firewall is native to mandrake. (i could be very wrong here) But, if you want a very in depth Firewall setup I would recommend interactive Bastille. It will take about a half hour to set up. Every question-setting is accompanied with a detailed explaination and allows for granular control over your firewall setup. I found it was fairly intuitive to set mine up, but I could defnately see where some might not know what to do with some of the settings. Again, there is very good documentation accompanying each setting. On Thursday 30 August 2001 09:51, you wrote: howdi is there a better config program for tiny firewall than the one in mandrake setup thing (the purple computer icon) - i'm away from my machine now and can't remember it's name - I need to allow ports for network gaming (eg Quake 3 and UT) to be opened, but I want to close things like FTP, SMTP, POP etc... Thanks Robert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k */Please don't feed the screaming idiots #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
I *believe* that tiny firewall is native to mandrake. (i could be very wrong here) But, if you want a very in depth Firewall setup I would recommend interactive Bastille. It will take about a half hour to set up. Every question-setting is accompanied with a detailed explaination and allows for granular control over your firewall setup. I found it was fairly intuitive to set mine up, but I could defnately see where some might not know what to do with some of the settings. Again, there is very good documentation accompanying each setting. On Thursday 30 August 2001 09:51, you wrote: howdi is there a better config program for tiny firewall than the one in mandrake setup thing (the purple computer icon) - i'm away from my machine now and can't remember it's name - I need to allow ports for network gaming (eg Quake 3 and UT) to be opened, but I want to close things like FTP, SMTP, POP etc... Thanks Robert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k */Please don't feed the screaming idiots #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Console Mail Readers
Tim, I installed mutt becuase i am curious to learn a console based editor (and emacs) From the man page it seems that i should have a ~/.muttrc file in my home directory but I do not. I tried a locate and didn't vcome up with anything. My ? is if this fle gets created by the install, where it lives, and if i have to create it myself, could you or another member provide my with a sample I could annotate? Thanks so much, Jen On Wednesday 29 August 2001 15:30, Tim Holmes wrote: You can set up Mutt to use any editor that you'd like in the .muttrc. I don't see why you couldn't use emacs in there instead of vim, which is what I use. set editor=vim -c 'set wm=9' # editor to use when composing messages That's the line I have in my .muttrc. I don't see why you couldn't put the command for your emacs in there instead of that. :0) But I know and love vi, so I haven't bothered to try and learn emacs. tdh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k */Please don't feed the screaming idiots #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi
Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. TIA, Jen On Monday 27 August 2001 17:25, you wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:34, Paul wrote: In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:01:00 -0400 (EDT) a few days and it seems to me that vi is a lot easier thus far. The CTRL-D/DEL thing in emacs is a real hassle. I know that vi is intended for C programming and emacs for command interpreting/bash programming, so is it best for me to use both? What are the advantages of each tool under different circumstances? Pick one and stick with it. Some like vi, some like emacs. And some like gedit/nedit/whatever. I think it is good to have a choice, figure out what's the best for you, and then use it :) Paul Hmmm, well the ingredients of a jihad have we when first we seek to compare and contrast emacs and vi. emacs has a more complex command structure and a MUCH better tutorial as well as bindings for many languages that gives you auto-indent, color-coding, and even function stubs. As an editor it is not for speed typists so much as for folks who concentrate on content. On the typical power outage crash your loss in emacs will be the last two words typed or so. For vi, it may be larger. Actually you cannt really compare the two. Emacs can do shell things and help you debug programs without ever getting out of the dark slate gray (that sure looks pine green to me) screen while vi cannot. Whether this is an advantage or disadvantage is a matter of taste, but I can tell you this-- You can run X with just an xterm and you can call vi from it and you have to exit to the xterm to do bash things, but you can run emacs as a window manager/desktop environment and you can read mail and browse th web and debug without ever exiting. vi was designed as a great improvement over the older blind text editors like ed and ex which were really designed for efficiency on a teletype style terminal. I remember using it and thinking how much better it was, then I ran into MINCE (Mince Is Not Complete Emacs) and never looked back. vi has more than one mode which some like and some hate. When you come to the decision, it is a matter of taste. There are also others out there, like joe which can be emacs-like or pico-like or wordstar-like, and jed, which also can customize bindings. Look at each of them a little while, learn how to change their styles, then go get nano of nedit and look at them. An editor is a personal choice. Cooledit is liked by some as well, and SIAG offers xedplus to further confuse the issue, then if you want language independence or internationalizaion capabilities the one to use is yudit. Forget it, it's too complicated to decide. Break out your Ada manual and write one that can't be buffer overflowed, and make it your very own :-D Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Jennifer #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include wisdom.h void ignorance (it offers no value) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install header files for sound?
Hello, I am getting the following error when trying to install aureal vortex sound drivers: [root@quasar aureal]# make install cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8830 -mpentium -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pi pe -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c In file included from au_vortex.h:55, from au_audio.c:49: /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-hea ders system headers, /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an appropriate ker nel-source make: *** [au_audio.o] Error 1 These are the instructions I followed: 1. Unpack the distribution: tar xvzf aureal*.tar.gz 2. Change to the driver directory and become root: cd aureal* su 3. Edit the Makefile to suit your system (SMP, CPU type, etc) 4. Type the following install commands: If you have an 8830-based (Vortex 2) card: make install *note that in step one i ommited the f arguement due to an error. I am assuming that the error message is saying that I don't have the header files installed. Is there a way i can install them from the mandrake CD? I checked out the software manager but i don't know what i'm looking for. Any and all help is always appreciated. Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot su
I just ran into this same problem. While I see that the C+A+F1-4 keys will work log in as root, it is inconvenient to not be able to browse through X. If there is no work around to be able to log in as root via X and use X, would anybody know what setting I choose in InteractiveBastille to revert this security feature? On Monday 06 August 2001 06:44, etharp wrote: While I do not have the correction (execpt running InteractiveBastille again) I can assure you that was the cause. It is considered a security enhancement. now when I need to be root, I Ctrl+Alt+f4, login, and do what I need to then Ctrl+Alt+f7, back into my Xwindows session On Monday 06 August 2001 00:50, Hugh Cecil wrote: Hi I've been using Mandrake 8.0 for a few months and enjoy it very much. However, today I find I cannot su to root anymore from a user account. In a terminal I su, type in root password, and get this: [user@localhost user]$ su Password: File Size Limit exceeded [user@localhost user]$ Similarly, when I try KDE su in File Manager (Super User Mode) I get an alert box which says: Conversation with su failed My security level has always been set at 3. I did recently have a play with InteractiveBastille, but I'm not sure whether that caused it. Any enlightenment appreciated.
Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?
I just ran into the problem of not being able to SU after installing InteractiveBastille and believe that maybe it was InteractiveBastille that changed the behavoir of my ctrl+alt+Fkeys. i would be curious to know if users who do not have interactiveBastille installed and configured are able to Ctrl=alt+fkey to different terminals or if it brings their system to the state I described below. (this certainly will make me learn the command prompt ; )) On Thursday 09 August 2001 02:11, Paul wrote: C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) These are normal. The crash message in tty2 should not be there I think. But if X works after you hit ctrl-alt-f9 that's fine. C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I know there is a text screen that shows the messages from the Xwindow server. And you found it ;) C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away These are extra sessions where X can live. When you log into tty3, you can start another X session which will live under ctrl-alt-f10, etc. C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its booting) Never saw that, I'll try it someday :) Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What different from my system that this doesn't work?? And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X?? Nope, that is pretty standard. Has nothing to do with PortSentry. Paul
[newbie] ping port 7?
I *think* that port 7 being the echo port is reserved for ping related packets. If I closed off that port who I appear unreachable, request timed out? Would I be able to ping others if I closed that port? Would there be any other adverse effects?
Re: [newbie] ipchains vs. iptables
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:20, jen wrote: L's and G's, This is my first time setting up InteractiveBastille and I must admit, It is a little nerve-racking to not know exactly what your doing. While I do undertand the premises of services, ports and basic TCP/IP-acks-denies and so-forth, I do not understand why most of these questions advise me that if I use Iptables, I should not worry about most of these settings. I did choose the I want to spend an hour learning my system option But half of the questions tell me I don't need to worry if I'm using iptables. Would someone be kind enough to tell me smiles or tell me where I might go to better understand the differences in the kernels. I never have dealt with anything other than 2.4.X (mandrake 8.0) as always, thanks in advance. j OK the difference in ipchains and iptables besides some obvious syntax in the rules is that iptables is _stateful_ while ipchains is not. And it looks like we got there with it just in time for people to start using it. What does stateful mean? It means that sending a packet changes the state of the engine handling packets. There are many ways to crack a TCP connection or to put intruder packets into a system. Most of them require the attacking system to have raw socket capability. With raw sockets, a machine can claim its packets are from any IP address and are of any protocol. It can also malform the packets sent for various purposes, as is done with the famed tear drop, bonk, ping of death: and nestea attacks to knock a computer off the internet.. Until recently, the easily compromised systems did not have raw socket capability, but now, this October, there will be WinXP with full raw socket capability and the famous nonexistent Microsoft security. Script kiddies will be recruiting new soldiers by compromising these systems, and their attacks will be extraordinarily potent. The windows machines recruited in the past could basically send pings and huge UDP packets to attack other machines, but now they can come in saying, Hi, I'm the packet from your best friend's machine, right in the middle of a trusted dialogue. Or, here is the nameservice information you requested, (return address is in fact that of your nameserver). With ipchains, you have NO defense against such rogue packets--they come through and try to do whatever it is they came to accomplish (not very much on a linux system, but if you are using your linux to protect a network of windows machines...) With iptables, the answer is, I beg your pardon, there was no dialogue? or Sorry, I have all answers I was looking for from nameservices In either case the rogue packet is dropped on the floor. With kernel 2.4.3 there is an iptables hole regarding ftp packets at the moment. We are testing a kernel udate which should plug this hole. Civileme * Thank You...this is good information and will help me know where to look for more info. Aren't you supposed to be on Vacation? va·ca·tion (v-kshn, v-) n. A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee. A holiday. A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities. Archaic. The act or an instance of vacating. Thanks again! = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include knowledge.h void ignorance (it offers no value) */A freely given answer can offer enlightment to those who ask valid questions __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] unknown sender
Did it look anything like this? Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks But a reply does not bring up an email address in the TO: field? If so it is virus attempt. Albiet harmless to Linux. I believe the address part of the code is simple HTML which strips the senders info. One thing you can do however is to take a look at the long headers on the email and you can find out what domain it was sent from. In fact, a computer name and ip address should be there as well. For example, This is from an email sent from my home coputer: Received: from quantum (user-uivefem.dsl.mindspring.com [165.247.xx.xxx]) by hall.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA09183 HTH. Jen --- chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just recieved an exe file from an 'unknown' sender. How is this done, does anyone know? I cannot reply to him as the machine recognises no address. I can only assume it is a virus. but the lack of an address is puzzling. I am using kmail = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k #include knowledge.h void ignorance (it offers no value) */A freely given answer can offer enlightment to those who ask valid questions __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: Hi Try ctrl+alt+F keys Peace Amien On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 alf+F2 to 9 won't work so I am stuck with just one screen. How can I make them available? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Whoa!!! Leave it to a newbie to randomly try out the advice on this list!! I tried out the cntrl+ALT+ F 1,2,3,4,5, etc keys together while in X. lemme tell you, the results were not what I expected. C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its booting) Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What different from my system that this doesn't work?? And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X??
Re: [newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?
On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:40, jennifer wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:58, Amien Salie wrote: Hi Try ctrl+alt+F keys Peace Amien On Wednesday 08 August 2001 00:25, emammendes wrote: Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 alf+F2 to 9 won't work so I am stuck with just one screen. How can I make them available? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Whoa!!! Leave it to a newbie to randomly try out the advice on this list!! I tried out the cntrl+ALT+ F 1,2,3,4,5, etc keys together while in X. lemme tell you, the results were not what I expected. C+A+F1 = non graphic login screen (no big deal) C+A+F2 = x server crash message (I don't know where these logs are so i can't share) C+A+F3-6= nongraphic login screen (same as 1) C+A+F7 however, brought up what I imaginge is my ports entry log. (i don't know where it lives yet so can't share) But, X went away and I had a portsentry alert of a UDp scan by host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx C+A+F10 -11 brings up a blinking curser after x goes away C+A+F12 brings up the graphical state of the system.(just like when its booting) Of course, C+A+F9 brings back X no matter what I tried. Strange...What different from my system that this doesn't work?? And is this a cool feature of portsentry that you can simply press C+A+F7 to see your log and then C+A+F9 to enter back into X?? I forgot to include A+C+F8 That brings seems to start the postfix deamon.
[newbie] portmap services \Kmail
Hi: I am frequently reinstalling Lm8 for various reasons, but I have noticed that on 2 occasions my system hangs while halting the portmap services on every shutdown. On both of these occasions I chose to use Kmail as opposed to Netscape mail. In short, my question is this...could someone give me a base understanding of portmap services and whether it is reasonable for me to blame kmail for these portmap shutdown errors? Is there a portmap or shutdown log somewhere that might also assit me in fixing/avoiding this problem? Thanks in advance. = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Bastille-firewall hangs on startup
I installed Mandrake 8.0 about a week ago and a couple of days ago after a system crash it started showing problems when the system starts up. I get all the way through the boot and the initial startup to the point where the default console mode login displays; then the system tries to start Bastille-firewall and hangs at that point. Any ideas? Thanks Steve Lewis
Re: [newbie] No system sounds.
Hi guys, Sorry to bust into your problem, but I am having a similiar problem and was hoping that 2 may benifit from this thread! I have an ISA Crystal audio sound card and have never been able to get it working. When I run hardrake (as root), it seems that the system recognizes my card but on exit I get the following error: modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp. I realize that this is probaly a ISA plug and play problem, but the only info I have found on how to fix the problem is this:: First piece of info: Geof Steichen wrote: All mixer settings are at max. Geof **88 On Friday 13 July 2001 05:32 pm, Miark wrote: G/D, If the master volume is way down, and the individual sources are too, it just be that they're being played, but you can't hear them. Double-check the volume controls to make sure they're high enough. Miark - Original Message - From: Geof Steichen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] No system sounds. Yes, sndconfig finds the card and plays a message although it is very low volume. The system log shows it finds the card just fine also. It plays the cd ok, but still no system sounds. I re-booted and checked the system log again. The messages are still there. They occur when I login as a user (geoffs in this case). See below: Jul 13 16:25:27 lancelot kde(pam_unix)[1205]: session opened for user geoffs by (uid=0) Jul 13 16:25:27 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Jul 13 16:25:27 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Jul 13 16:25:32 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Jul 13 16:25:32 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Jul 13 16:25:32 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Jul 13 16:25:32 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Jul 13 16:25:44 lancelot kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jul 13 16:25:44 lancelot kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Jul 13 16:25:44 lancelot kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Jul 13 16:25:44 lancelot kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Geof * On Friday 13 July 2001 04:04 pm, you wrote: have we ran (as root, in a text console) sndconfig? did it work? On Friday 13 July 2001 18:48, Geof Steichen wrote: I can't seem to get system sounds to work now...they used to work. I see the following messages in the system log...What do they mean and how do I fix them? Jul 13 14:42:58 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Jul 13 14:43:01 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Jul 13 14:43:01 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Jul 13 14:43:01 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Jul 13 14:43:01 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Geof
[newbie] DSL/konnex connector
This is not really a Mandrake question, But I was hoping one of you might know whether or not I can use a konnex connector to be able to dial over a DSL line. My company currently does not support VPN and because I have DSL, I cannot dial my employer. My computer is in a room without a phoneline, so having a modem and ethernet connection is not feasible. I know that Konnex works with the digital phone network at work to allow dial-up connections, but I am unsure how I might be able to do the same thing from home. Thanks in advance, = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.
There is a product called Everybuddy that will link up Yahoo, Aim, and MSN all within the same Client. However, Because MSN and AIM are constantly trying to twart efforts to have other software makers access their systems, you will need to D/L the beta version for the MSN support. (M$ has recently changed how clients access their system and the beta version contains the new code to allow access.) WWW.everybuddy.com --- Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Anyone on the list know if there is a Linux app that accesses the MSN Messenger system? All my daughter's friends use MSN Messenger and I am trying to find a Linux alternative that she can use to chat with her MSN Messenger using friends. Cheers, Brian -- = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness
Perhaps this is off subject and I certainly would not want to start a linux is bad, very very bad war,but it seems to me that in my few short weeks apart of this list, I have seen more questions around things, like fonts, sound cards and video cards. Now, I know hardware support is not Mandrakes fault, but the font thing does sort of blow my mind. Althought it does not *seem* like a usability issue, it has certainly hindered my abilility to solve my own problems. For instance...I want to download the reference manual off of mandrakes website. I visit the page and can't read a thing. Fonts are messed up. So I join a mailing list that gives me advice on how to fix my fonts. (xfree86 file) Great, that helps, but I still can't see windows fonts. (or mandrakes webpage) Mailing list advice: Import windows fonts. But I can't do that, I don't have windows installed on the same machine. Mailing list advice: I get links to websites to download Font files. Can you guess what happenes next? They files are all executable or in windows format And don't tell me to run WiNE! I can't even download a manual to tell me what WINE is!!! My fonts are still not perfect. Ans what really gets me is that the Mandrake web-developers created half their site in the unreadable-by-linux-Arial font face I did finally find instructions on the mandrake website on how to rememdy this problem. But I had to copy the text from the unreadable arial-font-faced webpage and copy it into Star-office.And the instructions are timeconsuming...at least for someone who justs want to surf the web after this whole ordeal. All this hassle just to be able to read information from the manufacturers website. By no means take this as Linux-bashing. I love the system and enjoy learning all it quirks. The moral of my story is: Sometimes pretty colors and good-looking fonts make computing a whole lot easier. smiles And don't call me Judy! --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake is already rejected by many who like to think of themselves as l33t, but I don't believe we have lost that much of the power of linux. The point is this; we believe that a system can be powerful, flexible, and user-friendly. The power and flexibility are built-in for linux so much of our work is on user-friendliness. We therefore welcome input on it. We don't happen to believe that Microsoft has necessarily found the best solution to any one problem associated with use. (Who would intuit that you press the Start key to shut down?) It is a major force because many people are familiar with it, but the style it provides is not necessarily the best. We may have no better idea what is intuitive and what is not than they do, so that is where the folks here can help us. Think carefully, when confused, and note the steps you take to do things with your computer. We know we're producing a counter-intuitive interface when a lot of folks are reporting errors we cannot reproduce. This happens frequently with software manager right now. If people would take notes of a session they had with software manager, we would be able to see where their intuition leads them (we are spoiled by being close to its design and implementation, so what we do [wihout thinking much about it] is already trained to a certain procedure) and we would be able to make the software more truly intuitive in its user interface. I hope you get the idea. help us help you, by taking a few notes on your steps, either as you make them (preferable) or when something goes wrong. Microsoft would like you to think theirs is intuitive, and Apple would like you to think it is them instead. But the fact is, no one to my knowledge has done the interfaces with lots of user feedback where the users consciously participated and statistics were used routinely to study the data and come up with something that is close to what people want. The next question of course, is does such a solution exist? Or do we have many that will be considered roughly equally intuitive? I know one way to discover that answer. :-) Civileme = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness
How is one to tell?? I mention that I recently came across the instructions on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had the time yet to sit down and really understand them. From the advice I got in other groups, I can simply copy all the true type fonts from my windows machine (burn them if neccesary, I didn't think of doing that)and they were good to go on my linux box. Do you all see what I mean?? This is alot of trouble to go through just to be able to read the type face on the manufacturers website...You would think that Mandrake would cater to their own community and either include the Arial font, or compose their website in linux-readable format --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful to do this only for fonts which you have the legal right to use on other computers. Randy Kramer Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: What I did was to burn the xxx fonts on a CD and install then on all MDK computers using the MDK font installer. Easy to do. = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness
LOL, well, I'll take it upon myself and make the decision that although I only have windows installed on one machine I'll install the fonts anyway since my linux box was purchased with a forced installation of windows and license. even if the system is not super-user friendly, the users are Thanks for the help! --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jennifer wrote: How is one to tell?? Well, as is usually the case, I don't have the whole answer to that. My biggest concern was giving people the idea that it might be OK to copy Windows fonts and then having them get into trouble. My understanding is that many of the Microsoft fonts cannot be used except on a machine that has a valid licensed copy of Windows. (Usually those discussions reference a dual boot setup, but I don't know that Windows would have to be installed, only that a valid licensed copy existed for that machine.) For other fonts, I have little or no knowledge. (Although I think some of the Postscript fonts are proprietary, which is why someone has created a non-proprietary alternative.) Sorry I can't be more helpful. Randy Kramer I mention that I recently came across the instructions on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had the time yet to sit down and really understand them. From the advice I got in other groups, I can simply copy all the true type fonts from my windows machine (burn them if neccesary, I didn't think of doing that)and they were good to go on my linux box. Do you all see what I mean?? This is alot of trouble to go through just to be able to read the type face on the manufacturers website...You would think that Mandrake would cater to their own community and either include the Arial font, or compose their website in linux-readable format --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful to do this only for fonts which you have the legal right to use on other computers. Randy Kramer Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: What I did was to burn the xxx fonts on a CD and install then on all MDK computers using the MDK font installer. Easy to do. = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ = Jennifer Registered Linux User #221463 Yahoo IM: jlynn2k __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] nbtstat equivilent?
Michael D. Viron wrote: Jennifer, What does nbtstat do? Is it anything like netstat? Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:00 PM 07/01/2001 -0400, JENNIFER wrote: Is there a NBTSTAT eqivilent in the *nix world? From my understanding, it resolves an IP address to an FQDN. I have only used the -a and -A switches. Here is the syntax: C:\nbtstat /? Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP). NBTSTAT [ [-a RemoteName] [-A IP address] [-c] [-n] [-r] [-R] [-RR] [-s] [-S] [interval] ] -a (adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its name -A (Adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its IP address. -c (cache) Lists NBT's cache of remote [machine] names and their IP addresses -n (names) Lists local NetBIOS names. -r (resolved) Lists names resolved by broadcast and via WINS -R (Reload) Purges and reloads the remote cache name table -S (Sessions) Lists sessions table with the destination IP addresses -s (sessions) Lists sessions table converting destination IP addresses to computer NETBIOS names. -RR (ReleaseRefresh) Sends Name Release packets to WINs and then, starts Refr esh RemoteName Remote host machine name. IP address Dotted decimal representation of the IP address. interval Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds between each display. Press Ctrl+C to stop redisplaying statistics. C:\
Re: [newbie] nbtstat equivilent?
civileme wrote: On Monday 02 July 2001 00:00, JENNIFER wrote: Is there a NBTSTAT eqivilent in the *nix world? Wow a DOS command-line type person! Well, yes and no. I think the closest would be LinNeighborhood, which is graphical. You are looking for a samba equivalent of what *NIX users get with the host command, i do believe. Since samba networks are TCP/IP, you might try host on th IP of the Samba node. Civileme yes, I'm an odd duck. But how else would I get anything done?
Re: Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] Sound In Yahoo! Messenger???
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Curtis/Civileme: Some companies require the usage of the Out of Office AutoReply feature, and it appears that Compaq is one of them. IMHO, it's a Very Good Thing in a corporate environment, although it can be a nuisance if the person is on a maillist. Since I'm retired now and no longer have access to Outlook Explorer (ain't that a damn shame), I don't know if there are settings that will prevent replying to some messages based on e-mail addresses, but stopping these messages at the source is probably the best remedy. Regards, Carroll Best thing about retirement: Every day is Saturday. civileme wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 02:56, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: I also get this message from this fellow everytime I post to the mailing list, does anyone know how I can stop getting these as they're annoying as heck. TIA Curtis From: Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip snip Well, you might have a filter capability with hotmail. I have never used them, so I don't know. If you have a pop3 type account and you use anything from pine to Kmail to pick up mail you have either filter rules or the name to drop into a kill folder. But the best way to deal with the situation is to write to the person who set up the autoreply, as soon as he is back in his office and inform him _courteously_ of the problem he probably wasn't aware he was causing. Civileme LookOut, I mean Outlook, does not have a feature to my knowledge to not reply with OOO to a specific sender. The best way I have found to rememdy this situation is to set up a free pop account for mailing lists. At some companies, though not mine, you can configure Lookout, doh, Outlook to recieve internet mail via the POP account into a seperate mail file with in...you guessed it! Outlook.
Re: [newbie] Whois looking for lost email address
Romanator wrote: Hi all, Is there such a thing is looking up an email address? I have an address but the whois feature cannot find the web page. You can respond to be directly. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility I'm not sure I understand. Do you want to verify that the email exists without notifing the user? Or do you want to verify what domain (smtp server) it is being sent through?
[newbie] Re: Use of Linux thread-off subject
Paul wrote: Tim wrote: Even when I'm doing something that does require root access, I may edit the file as another user, then as root go in and paste in my edits, or quickly su to root, do what I have to do and then log off as root. That latter is how I manage my box also. There's a bunch of xterms open on each virtual desktop, so I can always quickly su, do the root thing, and exit out of there. But I'm the kind of person that does 80% or more of his work via the console. I'm just not a GUI kinda man! (lol) My GUI needs are also very basic. I am lost without a prompt ;) I even start things like quanta and gimp from xterms... Much faster than all the mouse action. Paul I must agree with you. But, being new to Linux, there is not much I *can* do without the GUI. Is there a resource out there for Mandrake/KDE that would detail all the keyboard shortcuts you can use?? I know a volume could be written about something like VI or Emacs, but I'm more interested in some of the basic tasks like windows Key (or penguin key, if you so desire) plus something else to bring up an xterm. What about bringing up the SU-xterm very quickly?? I'm sort of like a crack addict that can wait for the lighter to spark. Very impatient.
Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux
Randy Kramer wrote: I can't resist either -- sorry! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can't resist this one. to add further to John's response, why are you having to su so much? the only time i have to su is to install programs. i just tried this, i can su type in a password in 4 seconds. you do this so often that it results in a fair amount of lost time? i'm sure i'm not the only one who would be curious to know what you are doing to that computer. For me (and I'm not the original poster), the four seconds does not account for all the lost time or inconvenience. Usually I first try something as user. Then I realize (when it doesn't work) that I should have been root. Then I su to root. Then I try to remember the commands I typed before, and I can't use command history to scroll back to them -- they're in the user account command history. At first, I couldn't even cut and paste them from the user to the root command line (now I keep two konsoles open and I can cut and paste one command at a time, and I suspect there is something better I can learn to do in the future). If I haven't completely lost my train of thought by now, I do soon. I'm (conservatively counting) on about day 120 into my Linux sojourn, and my coworkers used to be amazed (at least sometimes) by what I could do at the dos command line. And yes, a lot of my time so far has been spent trying to get programs installed and running, so I needed to be root. Day One: I hate M$. I think I'll try Linux. Day Two: This crap sucks. It isn't Windows. Windows is not Linux, Linux is not Windows. Decide which you want use it. No -- try to get the best of both worlds, and try to go beyond the best of both worlds if possible! Randy Kramer One thing thing thats great about logging in as a regular user and SUING when you have to is that you really begin to understand the inner-workings of that system. personally, being an all to trusting Admin in a NT environment, I feel too comfortable with the rights. You don't know exactly what you can do and the user can't, which foroges the purpose of security in a network. I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for setting up a critical system share only to give everyone and their alter-ego permissions to it. (I hate being called to the office...I had enough in high school) smiles In any event, forgive me if this point has already been made, I honestly did not read through the entire thread before responding. But if your purpose is for a insecure user friendly internet machine, stay with windows...no harm done. But if you want to get intmate enough with the system to adminster its every move, learn how it works and manipulate it. (apologies for the last comment...I think I just gave out one of womens biggest secrets on how to control men) smiles
[newbie] nbtstat equivilent?
Is there a NBTSTAT eqivilent in the *nix world?
[newbie] open and shut case
i don't if this article has been shared with you all yet, but i found this interesting article at the econmist site. thought some of you may find this of interest. jennifer An open and shut case May 10th 2001 From The Economist print edition What is behind Microsoft's attack on open-source software? BEWARE of open-source software, those nefarious free computer programs written online by groups of volunteers. The licence that comes with most of this code could turn a company's intellectual property into a public good. More important, it undermines the livelihood of commercial-software developers, putting a brake on innovation. This, in a nutshell, was the message that Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief software strategist, tried to convey on May 3rd in a headline-making speech at New York University. Open-source disciples were quick to dismiss Mr Mundie's speech as just another example of Microsoft's trademark strategy: spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt to undermine rivals. To Mr Mundie, research and development seem to be driven mainly by intellectual-property rights, commented Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, a popular free operating system, "which is entirely ignoring the fact that pretty much all of modern science and technology is founded on very similar ideals to open source." Mr Mundie's message played cleverly to the prejudices that are still held by many corporate technology officers. Most open-source software is "viral"the licence that comes with Linux, for instance, says all changes made to the program must be made freely available. But this does not mean that a company using Linux is forced to give away any application it writes for the operating system or, worse, its business processes. And while it is true that open-source software competes with commercial programs, open-source and similar online groups have been at least as innovative as software firmscreating, for example, most of the technology underlying the Internet. Yet Mr Mundie's speech and the reaction of the open-sourcers have some value, because the exchange has sharpened the debate within the software industry over the relative merits of two rival approaches. One way to write software, the proprietary approach, is best epitomised by Microsoft. The firm hires the most driven programmers, pays them a lot in share options, works them hardand then sells the product in a form that customers can use, but not change (because it comes without the "source code", the set of computer instructions underlying a program). The other approach is open source. Motivated by fame not fortune, volunteers collectively work on the source code for a program, which is freely available. Most of these projects are overseen by a "benevolent dictator", such as Mr Torvalds. Although no panacea, open-source software has several advantages over proprietary programs, besides being free. Most important, it tends to be more robust and secure, because the source code can be scrutinised by anyone, which makes it more likely that programming errors and security holes will be found. In contrast, hardly a week passes without headlines about a new security hole in a Microsoft program. The day before Mr Mundie's speech, it was reported that a potentially serious security flaw had been found in one of Windows 2000's server programs. Open source is not so much the ideological cause of anti-Microsoft hackers as a profound effect of the Internet, which means that it is here to stay. The emergence of free, open-source alternatives to costly proprietary software will undoubtedly hurt Microsofthence Mr Mundie's speech. In a further swipe at open source, Microsoft this week launched a new range of server software that, it claimed, offers "sup
Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
Thanks, I look forward to your continued support :) Romanator wrote: You can learn a lot from trashing and rebuilding your Linux box. It's good practice and great way to learn about your OS and mistakes. I know I did. (lol) After a bit of time has passed, you will editing your files rather than always reinstalling the Linux OS. It's great! Roman jennifer wrote: I agree. The fact that micro$oft prevents its users from being able to understand the source code is disconcerning. Users can go to school and learn everything there is to know about operating the system, but they will never understand the intimate details of the source. You shouldn't trust what you can't understand. (before I'm flamed...yes, I know nothing about the linux source code, nor how to use my system. At least with linux, you have the opportunity to discover everything about the system. Although all the dual-booters can attest that windows is easier to operate, I'm sure that as they get more familiar with linux, they will understand how powerful they can be over the system, and not the other way around. (As soon as I learn how *not* to trash my system, I won't use windows at all, but as it stands, I'm very good at trashing and rebuilding my Linux box!! :) Where's the control panel?? I can't find my cdrom!!, lol) Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That reminds me of a bug that was found in Win95 and 98. Apparently after 50 days of continuous uptime your system will crash -- no matter what. Your machine could be sitting there idle and it would still crash. What puzzles me is how someone actually managed to find this bug. How can anyone get a day, let alone 50 days, of uptime out of their Windows machine? On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 00:15, jennifer wrote: If you think thtaa micro$oft having your password is bad, think of this One company, huge monopoly, solely responsible for the source code on the worlds business and home computers for the past 20 years What if they were secretly implanting code in all there Os's that could shut down all systems on a specified date, unless we, the people submitted to Mr. Gates demands. Far-fetched yes, but impossible? My worry is not about micro$ofts monopoly...It is with the stringent secrecy in which the develop their products. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 21:32, Solver wrote: Just as a note - I wouldn't mind if MS had my password. I would only mind if they could erase hard drive. If they had your password they COULD erase your hard drive. They could get your e-mail, your credit card deails (if you ever typed them into your computer) -- in fact anything they wanted, from you. And if you didn't use a variant of NT (Win 95/98/ME) you wouldn't even have a password. You would be left wide-open for any script-kiddie to exploit. And if you DID use a variant of NT, you would still be vulnerable, since everybody knows that MS has a bad track record with bugs, security and virii. I hate when I reboot it twice a day, too. I reboot my computer once a week on average (i.e. I get about a week of uptime). This rebooting is not due to any problem, it's just because I feel like it. In my two years of using GNU/Linux I have only had a few system crashes. Sure, individual applications crash, but this doesn't affect the rest of the system, and I can just restart that programme and work as before. I have Office XP, and the voice recognition really helps. Can't wait for it in StarOffice. IBM ViaVoice, which is FAR better than the voice recognition in XP (IBM and Dragon are the best in the field), is also available for GNU/Linux. BTW, did you actually PAY that much money for Office XP? I can't remember when I last paid for software (I think it was 1998, when Windows came pre-installed on my then-new machine). When I bought a PC, I was asked, do I want it's C: drive formatted, and said yes. Bill Gates said that the fact that everyone can recompile the source code is what he doesn't like about Linux. Perhaps he's right. Are you KIDDING?! What is wrong with being able to do that? That has got to be Linux's greatest strength! You can compile a kernel (or even a whole system) to suit YOUR own machine, not some thing that MS wants you to buy to get optimal performance. I can customise my kernel to have what I want, making it fully optimised for my particular combination of hardware. For example, Mandrake's RPMs come pre-compiled for an i586 (Pentium-class) procesors. I can squeeze a bit of extra performance by recompiling the SRPM to an i686 binary, since I have a Pentium II. If I have a multi-processor system, I can compile for SMP, and take
Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
I agree. The fact that micro$oft prevents its users from being able to understand the source code is disconcerning. Users can go to school and learn everything there is to know about operating the system, but they will never understand the intimate details of the source. You shouldn't trust what you can't understand. (before I'm flamed...yes, I know nothing about the linux source code, nor how to use my system. At least with linux, you have the opportunity to discover everything about the system. Although all the dual-booters can attest that windows is easier to operate, I'm sure that as they get more familiar with linux, they will understand how powerful they can be over the system, and not the other way around. (As soon as I learn how *not* to trash my system, I won't use windows at all, but as it stands, I'm very good at trashing and rebuilding my Linux box!! :) Where's the control panel?? I can't find my cdrom!!, lol) Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That reminds me of a bug that was found in Win95 and 98. Apparently after 50 days of continuous uptime your system will crash -- no matter what. Your machine could be sitting there idle and it would still crash. What puzzles me is how someone actually managed to find this bug. How can anyone get a day, let alone 50 days, of uptime out of their Windows machine? On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 00:15, jennifer wrote: If you think thtaa micro$oft having your password is bad, think of this One company, huge monopoly, solely responsible for the source code on the worlds business and home computers for the past 20 years What if they were secretly implanting code in all there Os's that could shut down all systems on a specified date, unless we, the people submitted to Mr. Gates demands. Far-fetched yes, but impossible? My worry is not about micro$ofts monopoly...It is with the stringent secrecy in which the develop their products. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 21:32, Solver wrote: Just as a note - I wouldn't mind if MS had my password. I would only mind if they could erase hard drive. If they had your password they COULD erase your hard drive. They could get your e-mail, your credit card deails (if you ever typed them into your computer) -- in fact anything they wanted, from you. And if you didn't use a variant of NT (Win 95/98/ME) you wouldn't even have a password. You would be left wide-open for any script-kiddie to exploit. And if you DID use a variant of NT, you would still be vulnerable, since everybody knows that MS has a bad track record with bugs, security and virii. I hate when I reboot it twice a day, too. I reboot my computer once a week on average (i.e. I get about a week of uptime). This rebooting is not due to any problem, it's just because I feel like it. In my two years of using GNU/Linux I have only had a few system crashes. Sure, individual applications crash, but this doesn't affect the rest of the system, and I can just restart that programme and work as before. I have Office XP, and the voice recognition really helps. Can't wait for it in StarOffice. IBM ViaVoice, which is FAR better than the voice recognition in XP (IBM and Dragon are the best in the field), is also available for GNU/Linux. BTW, did you actually PAY that much money for Office XP? I can't remember when I last paid for software (I think it was 1998, when Windows came pre-installed on my then-new machine). When I bought a PC, I was asked, do I want it's C: drive formatted, and said yes. Bill Gates said that the fact that everyone can recompile the source code is what he doesn't like about Linux. Perhaps he's right. Are you KIDDING?! What is wrong with being able to do that? That has got to be Linux's greatest strength! You can compile a kernel (or even a whole system) to suit YOUR own machine, not some thing that MS wants you to buy to get optimal performance. I can customise my kernel to have what I want, making it fully optimised for my particular combination of hardware. For example, Mandrake's RPMs come pre-compiled for an i586 (Pentium-class) procesors. I can squeeze a bit of extra performance by recompiling the SRPM to an i686 binary, since I have a Pentium II. If I have a multi-processor system, I can compile for SMP, and take advantage of features like multi-processor threading far better than a pre-compiled Windows. Similarly, if I want to run GNU/Linux on a i386, I can compile for that. What is WIndows XP optimised for? My guess would be i686, i.e. a Pentium II or III. Try running it on anything lower, and it will work painfully slow -- not just because it is bloated and not designed for those processors, but also because it is not and cannot be compiled for these processors. Similarly, if I had an Athlon or a Pentium IV (or an Alpha
[newbie] Run as command??
Would anyone out there know if I can configure a program to run in super user mode while logged in as a regular user? Specifically, I would like to run nmapf as root while logged in as myself.
Re: [newbie] stupid yahoo ads, can kmail or linux filter them?
hullo! there is a program called adsubtract, it filters out adverts on various websites (yahoo, excite etc). i don't know if there is linux version of this though. and i had a question of my own, i was wanting to dual boot linux with winme, but i keep getting an error saying it can't write to the drive or some nonsense. jenn Chubby Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/28/01 09:52AM Hi I realy hate how kmail displays those damn gif ads from hyahoo or somethingm and I would like to block them from getting into my kmail, every time I see those stupid idiotic things I want to poop. Would some kind sould *Please* help a linux brother out? I tried putting rd.yahoo.com in /etc/hosts.deny but that did bugger all. Many thanks if you help.
[newbie] setting up external modem
i can't seem to get my modem to work. it is connected properly (via serial port). when the lights are on showing that it is ready, but when i rund the hard drake it does not detect it. and every other method i have used for modem detection is the same. i have zoom v56, is there somehthing special i have to do to it. it has the setup cd that you would use and info for windows, but for any other os it just no info can be found. this modem is supposed to be compatible, am i doing something wrong or forgetting to do something, or do i just need to rerturn the modem and get my money back. jenn
[newbie] software and upgrade questions
first of all, thanks to everyone who had an answers for me. after all was done, i think the install may have knocked windows out, i am not that bothered since my important things that i am working are stored elsewhere anyway. i have new questions: i had asked about dual booting- should i go ahead and get the 8.0 (and is the avail by box or download) versus using the 7.2? also, does anyone have any recommendations for web design programs and the like for linux. with windows i was using frontpage (which i didn't really like to begin with), there were a couple of things bundled with it- but i was looking for something a bit more full bodied. and one last question, on the 7.2 there is a graphic art program called cameleo that for the life of me i cannot get to install. i get to the little install icon and won't do anything. :0 jenny BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Jennifer Williams TEL;WORK:588-6028 ORG:;KUPI Internal Medicine TEL;PREF;FAX:588-4060 EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:[EMAIL PROTECTED] N:Williams;Jennifer TITLE:Secretary I END:VCARD
Re: [newbie]Linux Isp
I came across this back when I was doing dialup with Slackware. I switched over to ADSL just before I started using Mandrake, so I am not sure if their help is terribly useful. It is from my old ISP. They claim that they don't support Linux, but maybe the documentation could help someone. http://www.comnet.ca/support/connections/linux.shtml jenn
[newbie] Setting up a new user account remotely
Hi, I was wondering how one goes about creating a new account from the console with Mandrake 7.2 (probably other versions as well). On Slackware, which is what I have my server on, it is easy, I just type adduser and answer the questions. With Mandrake it seems more complex. if I could figure that one out, I would convert it over to Mandrake as well. Jenn
RE: [newbie] Word doc reader in linux?
You will find that abiword, which comes with 7.1 and 7.2 is pretty good too. A 99MB download of Star Office may be too much for some computers Jennifer Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Claudio wrote: Do you run X? In that case just open the file with Staroffice (download free from http://www.sun.com ) C. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens michael Verzonden: donderdag 29 maart 2001 19:42 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [newbie] Word doc reader in linux? I am trying to read a .doc file. In mc, I hit f3 and get : Error /tmp/mcextUXczIm: word2x: command not found then Empty output from child filter Any idea how to do this in linux? -- -m-
RE: [newbie] Word doc reader in linux?
Yes, I used abi to read and edit word files. One feature it lacks that I do miss are the styles. If you are merely reading, it should not be a concern. Jennifer Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Claudio wrote: Does abi read word files? C. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Jennifer Davis Verzonden: donderdag 29 maart 2001 20:29 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: RE: [newbie] Word doc reader in linux? You will find that abiword, which comes with 7.1 and 7.2 is pretty good too. A 99MB download of Star Office may be too much for some computers Jennifer Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Claudio wrote: Do you run X? In that case just open the file with Staroffice (download free from http://www.sun.com ) C. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens michael Verzonden: donderdag 29 maart 2001 19:42 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [newbie] Word doc reader in linux? I am trying to read a .doc file. In mc, I hit f3 and get : Error /tmp/mcextUXczIm: word2x: command not found then Empty output from child filter Any idea how to do this in linux? -- -m-
[newbie] emailing the ifconfig file
I seem to use my computer as much remotely as I do locally. In addition, I use PPPoE to run my internet connection and there are times when it gets wonky. I was just wondering if there was a perl script or something out there that I could set in my crontab to mail me me ifconfig file every 15 minutes or so to tell me what my ip is. I also use a dynamic dns service dnsq.org, but if let's say my hotmail account got these messages, then I would know then network connection was okay. Will puting a .forward in my /root directory do the trick? Thanks jenn
Re: [newbie] Hard drive not found?
Someone may be able to answer this better than me, but I believe that linux must start in the first 4000 blocks, or maybe it's the first 4 gigs of a hard drive in order to boot. I ran into this problem myself when I tried to get win98 and slackware to share a large hard drive. Jennifer On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Peter Guzikowski wrote: Hi I'm trying to install 7.2 on an AMD Thunderbird with an ASUS A7V mother board. I have a hard drive where 20 out of 30Gb are used for Windows, which is working just fine. I have saved the remaining unpartitioned 10Gb for Linux. When I try to install 7.2 however, I get the following message when I reach the point in the installation program where I'm supposed to partition the hard drive and set up the filesystem: "An error has occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the couse of this problem". And then I can't do anything else than just exit the install. I've tried to boot directly from the CD, from a boot disk, I've tried to run text mode install and in expert mode, but nothing works.
Re: [newbie] double messages
I would try unsubscribing, make sure you don't get any messages for a day or so and then re-subsribe. -Original Message- From: DragonLord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2001 9:38 Subject: RE: [newbie] double messages Funny, but its getting a bit tiresome when downloading my mail and it says over 400 emails and most are duplicates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Ashman Sent: 04 February 2001 04:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] double messages On Saturday 03 February 2001 20:14, you wrote: have just signed up to the newbie mailing lists when the mails come down, I'm getting 2 of each and ideas DragonLord Yep, delete one and read the other. Or if the first one confuses you, read the second also. :) -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com
[newbie] Start KDE
Just installed Mandrake 7.0, how do I start kde?
[newbie] Compile
When I ran the 'make dep' step I got an error of "invalid option-- preferred stack boundary=2"So I changed /usr/src/linux/makefile to read 'preferred stack boundary=1"That let me through the 'make dep' step, but then I get the same error as before when I go to 'make zImage'. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions? Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
Absolutely. freewwweb.com lets you log on for free as long as you keep your home page set to their page. Go to their website and find the section for "Already have a Browser" The address is www.freewwweb.com I think they are in conjunction with Juno. Chris --- George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Downloader for X
I have Downloader for X installed, but when I use it to download Star Office, it dies on me. I even tried putting my username and password on the download screen, and the same thing still happened. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [[newbie] no sndconfig?]
I lowered my security the way you did, and the supermount error disappeared, too. Thanks :) I wonder why it happens, though. --- Noah Body [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw the supermount kernel error as well. Im not sure how to fix it, but it seemed when I lowered my security, it worked? Could I be wrong? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [[newbie] no sndconfig?]
I ended up reinstalling the whole thing (I don't think it was anywhere in my system at the time, because I was doing locate *con* in practically all possible directories). After reinstalling (I chose Custom/Normal this time), sndconfig was there for all the world to see. I'm thinking that maybe I didn't install the package. So when I tried to correct the error by checking for the package in the CD (as ppl in this list suggested), I realised I couldn't access my CDRom (see below), so I had to reinstalled the whole thing. Now, my problem is (I could swear I saw this problem a few days ago, asked by someone else, but I must have deleted it :( ), everytime I try to mount my cd rom, this error comes out: mount /mnt/cdrom hdd: driver not present hdd: driver not present mount: /dev/dcrom is not a valid block device Could anyone help me with this? Also, everytime init starts, a message to the effect of :supermount, not supported by kernel, appears. Would someone explain this to me? Thanks. Jen --- Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:04 17/01/00 -0500, you wrote: Jennifer Villafranca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mandrake 7 (Air) on my PC, and I can't seem to find sndconfig anywhere! I looked in /usr/sbin/ for sndconfig, and it's not there. Is there any way I can configure my sound? Jen From a console try "whereis sndconfig" w/o the quotes, of course. If for some reason it's not installed, look on the CD. Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## My son found he had to run "soundconfig" w/o quotes ( not sndconfig )which then starts lothar. HTH. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. Dennis Robertson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia PH/FAX: 61 7 5474 2343 - Phone before sending fax. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Wheel Mouse
I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse product number 83351-577- What does it take to make the wheel part of it work? Chris Reeder Moscow, Idaho __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] no sndconfig?
I just installed mandrake 7 (Air) on my PC, and I can't seem to find sndconfig anywhere! I looked in /usr/sbin/ for sndconfig, and it's not there. Is there any way I can configure my sound? Jen __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] dvd
Let's say I want to run a dvd player from Linux. What players are compatible with Linux? SCSI or IDE? What drivers do I need? Chris Reeder __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Icons to Large
Thanks for all your suggestions but at the root I cannot execute XF 86 Setup or xf 86 config or find /etc/X11/XFConfig file. If I find one of the files suggested what is the best way to edit it and how do I start an editor. I am running Mandrake. Thanks Jennifer Alan Shoemaker wrote: Jenniferfirst off, I recommend you boot into level 3 and not level 5 to do this. If you are currently booting directly to the gui desktop then that is level 5. The way to change it is to (as root) edit the /etc/inittab file by changing this line: id:5:initdefault: to this: id:3:initdefault: You can change it back when you're done. Now, in the console mode (reboot if you need to), edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and look for the section that is something like the below excerpt at the very end of the file: # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64 # I128, and S3V) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "ViewSonic PS790" Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "800x600" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Make sure that the ViewPort is set at 0 0 and Modes is set at the resolution you want as default. Save the file and test it by starting the x-server by typing startx on the command line. If it errors out you can put the errors in this list for more help, if not you'll be in your gui desktop at the resolution you wanted. If you're successful then you can change the /etc/inittab file back to the way it was. If not you probably will want to change the /etc/X11/XF86Config file back the way it was first. Good luck. Alan Jennifer Ricki Wise wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
Re: [Re: [newbie] Icons to large]
Tried it. Received the message command not found. Michael Scottaline wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip I would recommend that you reboot the system, and type "linux 3" at the prompt. Then, log in as "root" when you get the prompt. Then, type "xf86setup" (minus quotes on all of these) and re-select your resolution and such. snip John Remember, case sensitive though: XF86Setup ;o) Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Icons to Large
I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
[newbie] Icons to large
I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there any way to change the screen size to something like 800 x 600. Thanks Jennifer ICQ:6765592
[newbie] RE: Source Code
I tried to take a look at the source code for Mandrake using the source code cd. I was unsuccessful, I tried to open it in Borland C++ but could not find any files that would display anything. Could someone please tell me how I can see the source code and which language it is written in. Thanks and Season's Greetings Jennifer Wise ICQ:6765592
