Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations
I beg to differ. At the school where I am a technology coordinator, we have about half Macs. Our new machines are PCs, so all of our Macs are pre 10. Initially, when I was the tech coordinator, the Macs crashed hard and often. Once, though, I learned how to make them run properly, they ran wonderfully. In fact, i believe it has been at least 3 weeks since any of our 30 or so Macs has crashed. Usually, when they do crash, it takes just a simple reboot to wake them up. Quoting Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on 10/23/01 3:02 PM, Robert Pena at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hardly seen Mac crash but as far as multitasking goes I get the impression it is slower than Linux and Windows. What MacOS are you talking about, pre 10 or 10+? As a big time Mac fan I can assure you Macs using 9 and earlier crash. They crash often, and they crash hard :) They're less stable than Windows9x, which is pretty sad. Also pre 10, Macs didn't have preemptive multitasking. Multitasking was up to the software, not the OS. If a program doesn't give up his share of the processor, everyone else is SOL. This is not the case for 10+. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list
I think this is because most people know more about Windows than LInux. I know I do. If somebody has a question to ask and I know the answer(and I had the time to read e-mail that day), I answer it. jim Quoting John W [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes this is a Linux mailing list. I am often amazed at how many Linux questions go unanswered and how much time is spemt helping people with general windows questions. I have voiced my opinions about this and the answer I was given, Do you have a delete key? So if you are not happy with the attacks on the USA use your delete key and your filters!!! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Grub problems
yep, or if it's a win95 or win98 boot disk, it is on the A: drive. Quoting Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Adam, not two weeks ago I did exactly the same thing, and it was a weekend so I had no way of finding out how to fix it. you might want to wait for someone to confirm this answer, but you use a Windoze Boot disk get into the c drive ( dir c: and press enter) then fdisk /mbr this clears the Master Boot Record.biut like I said, wait for confirmation from someone else -Original Message- From: Adam Cripps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 September 2001 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Grub problems I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which would load a text bootloader fine. However, when I decided to uninstall, I deleted the lnx4win folder (in windows) and rebooted. Grub still starts and then, being a complete newbie, I don't know how to get past it. Is there any way of getting rid of Grub, so that the machine boots straight into Windows? Thanks Adam __ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
This is all assuming that it was bin Laden. If it was, we need to look at his motives. I think we will find that his motives are not much different from ours if we decide to go kill a bunch of innocents. Quoting Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: jennifer wrote: 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?? Hi Jennifer. I understand your concerns. However, IMHO, if a country or organization deliberately houses/harbors/shelters those who would do something like this, then all bets are off... Think about it this way...say it is the leading candidate right now, and he is in Afghanistan. We go in, do what is necessary, and as is the case many times (he will be hiding in some place with innocents around him, shielding him, like Hussein) some innocents die...BUT next year, this man, this monster is not able to repeat his actions and kill 10,000 or a 100,000 (what if he had used chemical agents? Do you think he is too moral to do that?) Is the gain not worth it? (all this is a supposing it is you-know-who scenario) I fully agree its a very hard subject and I have mixed emotions as well, but I fully support the action that REMOVES this threat. An interesting note on todays events.It's international peace day. God help us. There's some serious irony for you... ;-( Later... /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers
I'll tell you that I am planning on going 'school-wide' with Linux. But it's a gradual process. and we're a small organization. In our school, we have one computer lab with 20 machines and about 3-4 machines in every classroom. The lab is completely linux now, with all but two of t eh machines bootable to Windows. With the kids, when they hit 7th grade, they're mine and I teach them linux right away. They love it. The teachers are different. Even though I taught them how to boot into linux or windows in the pre-school inservice, most of them can't get tha figured out. then, when it comes to having them find a word processing document or even surf the internet, they have problems. Still, as we get new machines, these linux machines are going to be forced into the classrooms and they are going to have to learn how to use them. Eventually they will. They learned windows when I pushed out the macs. It wasn't much different. As far as teh different window managers and versions of linux, they are not that different. Last year, we used redhat on a couple of machines. This year, the kids that did that new exactly how to use mandrake. Some of the kids use gnome, some use kde, some use blackbox. They seem to take that transition easily. Then again, my business is teaching. I have all year to do that. jim Quoting Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I truly understand the advantages of all these different flavors of linux. I understand that Debian is the super secure, and Mandrake is the super friendly, and Redhat is enterprise oriented. But what I find is that flavors mean non-standard directories and other nuances. The only linux part of a flavor is the kernel. This is actually pretty annoying because one can never truely say I know linux in a deep sense; all one really knows is one's particular flavor of linux. My impression is that if you switched flavors on somebody they would be nearly as lost as they would be if you switched their PC for a MAC even though it's still linux. Is this flavor thing good for linux in a long term sense? This goes for window managers too: if the Window Manager is the gateway to the system switching WMs on somebody is pretty close to switching the OS on them. One of the main reasons that I bring this up is if you were to choose to deploy linux desktops for your company, you should probably think long an hard about the flavor and the WM that you are going to standardize on because if you let people run different WMs willy nilly (much less flavors) it would be a adminstrative nightmare. You can't really count (never will be able to count) on any baseline functionality of access points amongs WMs can you...? Has anyone deployed linux desktop company-wide before? Do you have any juicey stories to tell about what worked and what didn't? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] keyboarding
This year, at our small rural North Dakota school, we pretty much have made the change to Linux in our computer lab. There is one problem, though, the fifth and sixth grade teacher wants to bring her kids in to practice their keyboarding skills. I don't want to buy windows for these machines so that they can run Mavis Beacon. Does anybody know of a keyboarding program for linux? It doesn't have to be a real good one. Anything will do. jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] keyboarding
Thank you very much to all who responded. I will be checking them out. jim Quoting Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: check some of these out: http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeatq=typing+tutorsection=projects -Original Message- From: James S Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] keyboarding This year, at our small rural North Dakota school, we pretty much have made the change to Linux in our computer lab. There is one problem, though, the fifth and sixth grade teacher wants to bring her kids in to practice their keyboarding skills. I don't want to buy windows for these machines so that they can run Mavis Beacon. Does anybody know of a keyboarding program for linux? It doesn't have to be a real good one. Anything will do. jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Damn Radeon
I thought that was Radon, no e. jim Quoting Richie de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Remember when having Radeon in your basement was a bad thing? But more to the point, has anyone out there had any success using an ATI Radeon AGP card with Xwindows 4.1.0? X starts up and runs, it even starts KDE but there is absolutely no video signal (I know KDE starts because that pompous little symphony starts up-- I gotta switch that off someday...). Without the video signal the monitor just switches into power-saving mode. If it was a bad refresh setting, the monitor would go wonky or give me a warning, or so I figure. Since there's multi-outputs on this card (SVGA, LCD and CATV) I'm wondering if the radeon driver needs to know which output to use-- any suggestions out there? Richie Ignorance is underrated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] reiser vs.ext2
I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason? I have a bunch of machines all formatted ext2. Is there a way to convert it to reiser without reformatting? I went into linuxconf and just changed the filesystem type on my /home partition, just to see what would happen. It seems that nothing happened. What can I do? Anything? jim Ignorance is underrated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not
A little trick I learned, from a command line: supermount -i disable Reboot Locks should be gone. Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount? jim Quoting Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom? I had the same problem you are having. To solve my problems I got rid of the supermount option and changed the lines for my cdrom. Can you post your fstab? From: Mitchell, Edmund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:31:36 -0700 Hello all I have two boxes running LM8, and the floppies CDROM's in each work great for about two hours, then not. If I cd /mnt/floppy, I get an error message like: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: Input/Output Error In the graphical file browser, it shows my floppy and CD as having little locks on them, and if I click on them, (even from a superuser window) it says I don't have enough permissions, although a check of the permissions reveals that they are wide open. I tried umounting then mounting as root, and that allowed me to go a place called /mnt/floppy, but it was not my floppy, because there were no files there, and the floppy drive had made no sound, so it was clear the system didn't even try to access it. The floppy disk in question worked 1 minute later on a Caldera box... Thanks for any help Edmund _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Ignorance is underrated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not
Right. And that's what mine do when supermount is working. Sometimes, though, it does not and those locks do not come off. When supermount is disabled, I never see locks. jim Quoting Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know if this helps, My CD and floppy behave just as you describe when the drives are empty (ie Input/Output error, you do not have access rights, little padlocks showing) However when I insert media into the drive the locks go away and everything works fine. My fstab lines are:- = /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 == petew On Monday 13 August 2001 04:04, James S Bear wrote: A little trick I learned, from a command line: supermount -i disable Reboot Locks should be gone. Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount? jim Quoting Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom? I had the same problem you are having. To solve my problems I got rid of the supermount option and changed the lines for my cdrom. Can you post your fstab? From: Mitchell, Edmund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:31:36 -0700 Hello all I have two boxes running LM8, and the floppies CDROM's in each work great for about two hours, then not. If I cd /mnt/floppy, I get an error message like: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: Input/Output Error In the graphical file browser, it shows my floppy and CD as having little locks on them, and if I click on them, (even from a superuser window) it says I don't have enough permissions, although a check of the permissions reveals that they are wide open. I tried umounting then mounting as root, and that allowed me to go a place called /mnt/floppy, but it was not my floppy, because there were no files there, and the floppy drive had made no sound, so it was clear the system didn't even try to access it. The floppy disk in question worked 1 minute later on a Caldera box... Thanks for any help Edmund _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Ignorance is underrated Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Ignorance is underrated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not
You won't lose functionality, I don't believe. I believe it is a security thing. I've been running mine this way for quite some time based on advice from somebody from this list. But, you'll notice, there are a lot of i believes in my advice. Please, somebody correct me if I'm wrong. jim Quoting Mitchell, Edmund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to both of you, I will try those tips. What is supermount? What is it trying to do? What will disabling it do to my system? What functionality will I lose, and how can I replace it, or work around it's loss? Thanks again! Edmund P.S. -Donnie, I brought my fstab to work with me today to post, and now I can't find it. I'll post it tonight, if that's OK... -Original Message- From: James S Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:05 PM To: Donnie Green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not A little trick I learned, from a command line: supermount -i disable Reboot Locks should be gone. Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount? jim Quoting Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom? I had the same problem you are having. To solve my problems I got rid of the supermount option and changed the lines for my cdrom. Can you post your fstab? From: Mitchell, Edmund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:31:36 -0700 Hello all I have two boxes running LM8, and the floppies CDROM's in each work great for about two hours, then not. If I cd /mnt/floppy, I get an error message like: bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: Input/Output Error In the graphical file browser, it shows my floppy and CD as having little locks on them, and if I click on them, (even from a superuser window) it says I don't have enough permissions, although a check of the permissions reveals that they are wide open. I tried umounting then mounting as root, and that allowed me to go a place called /mnt/floppy, but it was not my floppy, because there were no files there, and the floppy drive had made no sound, so it was clear the system didn't even try to access it. The floppy disk in question worked 1 minute later on a Caldera box... Thanks for any help Edmund _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Ignorance is underrated Ignorance is underrated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux
Last time I said this, a lot of people yelled at me, but download a utility from the drive manufacturer and do a low-level format. jim Quoting Greg Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else having this problem? Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Intel 810 accelerated i810 X server
Before you hear what I have to say, I would take it to heart that graphics acceleration has never been an extremely high priority on my end. I've got two machines with an 810 video card and four with an 815(I believe is basically the same). When I first installed mandrake, the first thing I wanted to do was play tux racer. It was horrible. Choppy. I couldn't make it past the first level because I couldnt see what was coming next. However, when I rebooted, it was fine. It was the same with all my intel boards. Why? I don't know. Logic? Somebody who knows more about it than me might know. jim Quoting Ant 'DS Boulton' Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: g'day, Mandrake 8 happily picked up my i810 onboard video, one thing however, is that i think the gl support or 3d support isn't too snappy, and so i looked into it at intel's site (bless their hearts =P) and they had an X version for d/l that would support the i810 better, and so forth. i d/l the file, also d/l a rpm that contained the intel agpgart module, and some instructions (linux_release.pdf) i believe (a search of i810 linux at support.intel.com will get you there). anyhoo, after following the instructions it says to recompile the agpgart rpm, but whenever i type rpm --recompile i810etcetc.rpm it just spits out the rpm parameters. if anyone has ANY ideas, i would be muchly muchly obliged. basically, i just want my X server to pick up my graphics so i can have a hope at possibly having a game of Q3 or CounterStrike or something with decent acceleration. cheers to all, ant Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] portmap services
One of my machines, an AMD 1.2 ghz processor box with 256 mb of ram, a SCSI drive, two NICs, and an optical logitech mouse(It's just fun to give specs, okay?)Has problems shutting down. It always hangs on Shutting Down Portmap Services. I've got a hunch it has to do with two NICs. Regardless, I don't use portmap services and have no need to shut it down. Where can I find the shutdown scripts? jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Win2k
I would think, and I really hope somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, but I am confident that you could install W2K, without touching HDB, and then reinstall linux without formatting anything and it should get you back and running without messing with any of your files. There is probably an easier way, like just running a fdisk /mbr under fat, but if you do not format any of your partitions, you should not have any problems this way, either. Quoting Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I have win98 of HDA and linux on HDB. I want to format my Fat32 partition and install Win2k on it. Will lilo still work or will WIn2k kill it and if so, how can I restore Lilo? Robert Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Mandrake and pci/ide adapter cards
I don't believe it would be a hassle to put the web page on the ide drive, but the reason scsi's are expensive is because they are faster. They have, in effect, a processor of their own with their own memory and are much better at translating data. If your web server is going to have a lot of traffic, it's probably not wise to use an IDE jim Quoting Mark E. Crane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We've got an IBM netfinity server with SCSI, and an extra Maxtor 80gb drive lying around. If I put in an pci/ide adapter card, and use the 80 gig drive on this machine, will Mandrake/Linux 8.0 be able to recognize it? And more importantly, would it be a big hassle to configure Mandrake to use that drive to hold webpages and user accounts, as opposed to the smaller boot SCSI? Them SCSI drives are eeexpensive! Thanks, MC http://www.louisville.edu/~mecran01 Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Maybe I am under-paranoid or under-informed or something, but all this talk of viruses is getting to me as well. I see the time spent worrying about viruses as being better spent backing up data or playing with kids or something. People spend more time and money (not as accurate in the linux world) on viruses than they would ever spend fixing a virus problem. I've been doing this computer stuff for about 5 years now and have never had an anti-virus program or a virus. Just a thought jim Quoting alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All All this talk of viruses is getting to me. Which virus programme do I need, if any at all. Here is my system: My machine - stand alone mdk8.0, at home, dialup isp. Using kmail with direct pop connection to isp to retreive mail and direct smtp connection, in this case to mail.metroweb.co.za to send mail. The same system is used if I use Netscape. No virus programme is used. M$Win98 on hda, mdk8.0 on hdb. # The anti virus programmes, it seems to me, are used in conjuction with fetchmail/postfix/sendmail/qmail/procmail/etc where the mail is intercepted before being received or sent. Am I right in this assumption? # If I am wrong then what is the most efficient way to set up kmail or netscape direct dial system to incorporate virus protection for my linux sys and as a secondary consideration, my M$Win98 sys I do have Win98 on my first hd that I occasionally access via linux to retrieve files or archive mdk files. Sometimes I use Win98 directly. I do not access the internet form my M$Win98 drive (at the present). # Is it possible for a Win virus to migrate to the win98 hda when accessing it using a file manager assuming that I do not directly copy an email or attachment to the Win98 hd? # If I did want to copy the contents of an email to the M$win hd would it be okay if the contents where copied to a text file and the text file copied across for use in say Corel WP8, I do not use M$ Office at all, at all! # Recently however I archived my kmail and netscape 'mail box' on the win98 hda whilst I changed the file sys over to reisersFS - could a problem arise in a case like this? Sorry for the verbosity but I sometimes think that I have all straightened up in my mind when one of the mails on the list says, /var/spool/mail/ . . . , then I know that the list is talking about something else and not a direct connection to the Internet from the mail programme. Thanks and regards Alan Smith PS just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] win95 gone
If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt directory, use linuxconf to access a local drive and find it--and delete it. If windows is a boot option, you can go into Mandrake Control Center(if it's mandrake) and then pick boot--once you are in your boot options, click advanced. Here, you will see windows. click it, modify it, and remove it. That's how I'd do it, but I'm pretty new at this. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I re-installed my computer and decided that I didn't want win95 any more. I was wondering how can I make sure windows is totally gone? Any idea's would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] microsoft gone
Children's software is a good reason to leave w95 on your box. jim Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix this. I will also have to find out howto ajust the time as my clock says 8:22 am and it is 8:22 pm right now. I am useing gnome. Is there educational software out there for children? Were can I find a good flight sim that will work on mandrake 7.2. My computer is a 6x86 cyrix p200 harddrive 1 gig harddrive 6 gig 40 megs ram 4mb video 32X cd supra express 33.6k modem Any idea's on software for children espcially would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Apache help
Quoting Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But how do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory /var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error message when i click on the link, my link is: http://ip number/var/www/media/file.zip is this because of directory permissions? Isn't your index.html filein /var/www/html/? If so, your file should be in /var/www/html/file.zip Then, it should work just like your index file. jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie]
My logitech optical wheel mice work fine. I had them on on install, but I think using harddrake they are easily configurable. Quoting Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seeun William Umboh wrote: I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working great but the wheel isn't working. How do I get it to work? Browsing without the wheel is really troublesome. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp There is an 'imwheel' rpm on your install CD's for the MS Intelli Mouse. It may also work for the Logitech. I haven't tried it myself because I have a 3 button mouse. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong? Barry
Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection
Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim Quoting Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alan wrote: just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? You don't panic at all. In order to get infected, you have to open the attachment that contains the virus. I assume you don't open attachments you weren't expecting to get and that you check ALL attachments, regardless of file type or who sent them, with at least one up-to-date antivirus program before you open them. SirCam comes with an odd e-mail message--something like hi I'd like your advice about this (I don't remember the exact wording). I've gotten messages with SirCam attachments, AnnaK, ILoveYou, and everything else that's made the news, but have never opened a single one and have never had a virus in 14 years of using computers. --Judy Miner Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] X server troubles
I don't think it's that your questions are stupid or that this is volunteer work, I think it's that the people who would respond are not exactly sure how to solve your problem, so they haven't responded. I know that's true in my case. jim Quoting Gonzalix le Druide [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all ! I have posted some problems here without answer. I know this is a volonteer work, and may be my questions were too stupids, but I will appreciate some attention because I'm on stall for many weeks. I have LM 7.2 on a Pentium II. I've had many problems. Right now is the X server. As my monitor didn't work with XFree, some guru told me to install the FBDev server. I succeded once, but after some manipulations with DrakConf on KDE I had a mess. So I reinstalled. Then I can't make X work, even with the installation of FBDev. I'll appreciate any ideas G le D --- Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] virtual hosting
My apache web server is working fine. We are a public school and we have a domain issued by the state. So, this works great. I set my server name to www, and then my web page comes up with www.domain.com(or whatever). It's accessible and everything is grand. However, now I would like to set up at least one virtual host. What we wanted to do is set up a page for the community with it's own domain name. We purchased it and told dotster.com to point the name at our server--www.domain.com(or whatever) and also gave them our IP address (not at dotster, they didn't let us, but for a different domain for experimental purposes). Using netconf, I created virtual hosts of the domain names that we purchased and gave them directory. For the longest time, when I typed httpd restart, it would hang and then say it couldn't resolve the host of my virtual directory. So, then, I created virtual IP numbers and modified the /etc/hosts file. I put: 192.168.10 www.domain.com www 192.168.11 www.otherdomain.com www (in both cases using the actual domains we purchased) Now, httpd restarts fine. But the web site still doesn't start. Why not? Anybody know? jim Ignorance is underrated
RE: [newbie] win95 gone
Civileme said a low-level format might do more harm than good if it was a potentially bad drive. However, this is the best way to return the drive to factory status. If it's a good drive, it does much good and is quite often the only way to restore a drive. If a person formats using fat or ntfs or ext2 over and over again, eventually your drive will come up as being non-existent. I've done this several times and the only way to restore it is doing a low-level format. Sometimes, as well, a Linux distro will not recognize a FAT partition if it is slightly corrupt or vice versa and the only way I have found to do get rid of it is to do a low-level format. I have found that doing a low-level format always ensures that the operating system will operate smoothly. I have never had it damage anything. I am only talking from experience, but I am quite certain that's the best education. It's a public list, there's no butting in involved. jim Quoting Adams, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry to butt in here... are we all sure about this low-level format thing? im sure i heard civileme say that it can do more damage than good in certain circumstances. If you are going to stick with Linux and get rid of Windows im sure that the standard format in the Mandrake install process will do the job just fine. Just a thought, correct me if im wrong.. -- Jamie -- From:James S Bear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:01 August 2001 02:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] win95 gone If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt directory, use linuxconf to access a local drive and find it--and delete it. If windows is a boot option, you can go into Mandrake Control Center(if it's mandrake) and then pick boot--once you are in your boot options, click advanced. Here, you will see windows. click it, modify it, and remove it. That's how I'd do it, but I'm pretty new at this. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I re-installed my computer and decided that I didn't want win95 any more. I was wondering how can I make sure windows is totally gone? Any idea's would be helpful. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Ignorance is underrated _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
Re: [newbie] Strange X problem I have never had before. (damn thing crashed again.)
I've had this same problem. The only way I've found to cure it is to do a low-level format and start all over. This brings to my mind a question: How efficient is the formatting of ext2? Compared to a dos format, it takes next to no time. I've always been taught that haste makes waste, but I understand that possibly it is just easier to format ext2. Can anybody explain to me why it takes so much less time to format ext2? jim Quoting Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi guys, just wondering if anyone can give me any ideas on this: The system: 200 Ppro 64mb ram. S3Virge 2MB ReiserFS The Problem: System boots in vga=788 mode with Aurora perfectly. when starting x, (after using drakconf and trying progressively lower res and color) the system locks up tight.. monitor starts flashing no sync signal and CTRL-ALT-DEL, or CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or anything else works either.. altough the number lock and caps key lights are still working, so it doesn't look like a total lockup.. can't switch to another terminal either.. Latest problem, after another crash, this time haing tried 640x480 bit,,, the system is reporting this no boot (unsucessful boot I might add. INIT: version 2.78 booting INIT: /etc/inittab[6]: id field too long (max 4 characters) INIT: /etc/inittab[7]: id missing action field a heap of other stuff like that,,, then : Enter runlevel: no mater what I select, it tells me INIT: no more processes left on this runlevel anyone know how to fix that? I have just reinstalled this thing 3 times, don't want to make it 4 if it can be avoided.. The daft thing was, I had KDE running perfectly, had upgraded the kernel to 2.2.19 and did all my usual config stuff.. Then I tried to load aurora, got that working, then X disappeared, and now it appears that I have had a data coruption as well. This is not going well at all... any help, suggestions, general cursing,, anything at all is most welcome.. regards Frank Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] webmin, portmappin
WEll, because I have been a windows person for a couple of years and old habits are hard to break, I rebooted to see if that would help my webmin dilemma. When it went to reboot, on its way down, it froze at the portmapping shutdown. I don't know why, but got a hunch they are related. When the machine started back up, I had the same issue. anybody using comanche? Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] webmin
I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me from a browser go to http://localhost:1/ Okay, I did that. In Konqueror, now it tells me that connection to localhost is broken. Okay. So, then in type in my localhost:901 for CUPS, it works fine. Well, I did a bit of exploring and ran the install for webmin, but it still does the same thing. Why? I don't know. Do you? I did issue a start command with success. Mozilla tells me that transfer completed, but it stays at the previous page. help, please. Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] locked drives
This sounds like a lie, but it really is not. I expressed my sadness about the fact that I filtered some of you intelligent linuxers out of my e-mail. Then, I posted a few questions and have yet to receive a response. I am sure somebody did, but Ifiltered them out. For this reason, I have been trying to de-filter my mail,but I have no control over the mail server because I am part of an educational institution. Their server is not allowing this at this time. So, please, I would really appreciate a response from somebody who did not respond before. My CDRom and my floppy drive keeps getting locked. I manage to unlock them by different maneuverings of fstab or mounting and unmounting, but it gets to be a pain and I would really like to know why this occurs and how I can fix it more easily. I would appreciate any response. Thanks jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] root user is no-no?
I just use root. In fact, my four year old uses root. Of course, once my wife deleted /etc, but never did anything happen that a simple reinstallwouldn't cure. jim Quoting Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I've seen every Linux book and manual and doc say that using the machine as Root is a big no-no. All suggest creating an extra user. Okay I create extra user. But what should his settings be? What group should he belong to? I'm hoping that there is something as powerful as root (so I don't get messages that say please log in as root - or only a few messages), but I can't stuff up my machine. Many Thanx Robert MacLean Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] locked drives
I've got something that is really starting to irritate me. It seems like quite often, for whatever reason I just don't know, that my floppy and my CDRom drive gets 'locked' and I cannot access it. I go through and do my things like mount and unmount it and delete stuff out of fstab and eventually get them to unlcok, but I want to know of the proper way to do this and why does this happen? jim Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] httpd, proftpd, squid, innd
Okay, I am still a bad kid, but I have another question. On my box, httpd, proftpd, squid, and innd do not start. They cannot start at boot or using the commands. I believe the problem is that my DNS server isn't working--at least correctly. In North Dakota, all the schools are connected in a nice big network. My NT server has an address of monty-server.montpelier.k12.nd.us When my machine set itself up, it gave me montpelier.k12.nd.us as the search domain. It gave me the proper IPs as well. Now, from my machine, I can try to ping monty-server, and it works--without listing the domain, just monty-server. My linux box that I am working with then, I assigned a host name as amd1.montpelier.k12.nd.us Thought it wowould work. I can't ping it from anywhere. I don't have any IP addresses assigned to it, because our big server uses DHCP(and this is why I need MAC addresses). But I did try to ping it from the dynamic IP given to it and it does work. I can connect to the internet and my printers fine. Ihaven't tried doing any of the network sharing as of yet. I thought it was probably necessary to get this resolved first. Any help would be great. jim Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] qwest.net and dsl lan setup question
You know, I am sure this is what they said and it may be true, but if that external dsl modem costs more, I would get the PCI card. I think the problem isthat they don't want to do any supporting of anything other than windows, but other than that VIA chipset, I haven't come across anything that worked on Windows that didn't work on Linux. But, that's just me. jim Quoting Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Congratulations! As a current user of Qwest dsl, I was told (before I signed up) that the internal modem they supply is Windows-compatible *only*, and that I would need to get the external dsl modem if I wanted to work with any non-Windows OS. This is what I did, and everything works fine. The DSL modem/router becomes your default gateway, as well as dhcp server, so you can get rid of any fixed IP addresses on your LAN. All PCs on the network then access the Internet directly through the gateway (the dsl modem). My dsl config is Qwest Deluxe service, always connected, using ppp and a dynamic IPP address. I can upgrade to a static IP at any time. Don't get the cheaper Select service, as it will hang up on you every two hours -- unless that's not a problem. My wife does freelance web design from home, so she needs a stable connection. Dave Sherman At 11:14 PM 7/23/01 -0500, Dave wrote: Hi all, I am so happy--- just configured my very first network! (Other than AS400 stuff) I am definatley a newbie when it comes to networks so please forgive me if this seems like a silly question.. I have just connected to the internet using my linux mandrake 7.2 box.. and set it up to share the connection made with the internal us robotics 56k modem it has in it. I successfully connected with my box to the 3 com hub with my 3 com ethernet card.. I also connected to my hub with a laptop running win98 with a pcmcia ethernet cardand i can connect thru the Mandrake box.and surf the net. with the laptop and the linux box...wow.this is so cool(If you can't tell I am having a lot of fun right now! :) ANYWAYhere is my question...(finally--sorry for the long story.. but I was just really happy!) I am in the process of getting QWEST.net dsland was wondering if the mandrake box could work the same way it is now with the 56k modem? I am sure that the modem I will get from qwest will be a pci type... (will it work?) or do I have to get an external dsl modem for this? Mandrake was definately easy to set up for internet sharing.. I just hope it is as easy to use dsl as it was the 56k modem. This is going to end up as a basic 4 computer home network sharing 1 dsl line through a 3com hub(If that makes more sense) Any ideas / suggestion / comments / internet links / recommended reading... will be read with great appreciation! Thanks, -- Dave Registered LInux User #204085 M$ is not the answer. M$ is the question. The answer is Linux ! ...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor 1:23-24) Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Sound Card and Printers
Good. IF you do not have CUPS, install it. Then, I run it through netscape by typing in http://localhost:631/, I have found that if immediately after installing CUPS, this doesn't work. I am sure there is something you could change to make it work, but to me it is easier just to reboot. Once you have the CUPS administration tool running, click on 'printers'. From here, you can add a printer. You can give it whatever name you want. From here, you click continue and you have to pick a device. What works for me, even though I have HP JetDirect cards, is to pick lpd/lpr host or printer. Here, it asks for the URL. It says lpd already, append to lpd and make it lpd://10.88.65.2(or whatever the IP address would be) Then, you have to pick the models and such of your printer. You should then be done. If you do this on one computer that is on all the time, that is all you should have to do to your system if your DNS is working properly. Mine isn't, so right now I have done this to all my computers and the printers on other computers show up, but I can't print to them. It is irritating stuff. But I am sure you are better off than me on this subject. Quoting Alwan Sadagopan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah the printers do have an IP address. -alwan James S Bear wrote: Do the printers have an IP address? Quoting Alwan Sadagopan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, A couple of clarifications: 1. Sound Card - When i configure my sound card using sndconfig my sound card gets detected by the utility. It then displays a message that it plays a 8 bit sound for test purposes. The problem occured here - the voice kept on repeating and the system hung with keyboard and mouse both not responding. 2. Printer - How do i configure printers? All the printers in my office are a part of a domain in a Win NT network. How do i configure for these printers. Regards, Alwan Ignorance is underrated Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Java works fine. In fact, Opera was the first browser to support java 2, as far as I know, but I know it was before netscape or explorer Quoting Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Opera 5 for Linux works great for me, although I think Java does not work yet. Dave On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25, thus spake Ravi Malghan: Hello: I have Mandrake 8.0 and use the default browser Netscape which comes with it. But this sucks specially on pages where there are some applets. I tried installing Netscape 6.0, it works great but crashes very often. Does anybody have any suggestion on which broswer works great? Thanks Ravi - Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: - - -- Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.) - - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Vv1nOiMJhTaLf3MRArnZAKCcqjzm0FZjOdDHusa1/tdKGklNyQCfbyVC lISEbSzUkfKJmWJqCRMbgSc= =w5H9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] One boot off and one boot on
W2K first, but to make life easier, format the drive as FAT32, not NTFS. The mandrake installer will make it simple to dual boot. don't try the MS dual boot with Mandrake, as far as I can see, it's not even an option. Quoting idea.list [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone help please? I installed mandrake on an old 32mByte machine with two hd's. I have win98 on first (8gig)hd and put linux on second (4gig)hd. Linux did not work so am going to reinstall it on my main 512mByte, 17gig machine. I Intend to partition the 17gig and dual boot with win2000pro/linux. On the old machine, I have tried to reclaim the 4gig harddrive and give it back to win98. Have deleted formatted the hd but did not know how to immobilize the dual boot process - I thought I would deal with that later. That time has now arrived :-) When I now boot the machine the dual boot menu does not appear and it simply boots to display grub as the prompt. Please bear in mind that I am completely stupid where linux is concerned and not much better at windows (although I did my stint with assembler, c and basic in the 8080 days - had to put that in :-) - don't like to appear too stupid ) My questions: On the old machine, how do I immobilize the dual boot process, get rid of the grub prompt, and simply boot straight into windows? On my new machine: will an 8gig partition be large enough for mandrake 8 and do I install mandrake first and win2000 second (win2000 sets up multi boot with w98 fine but will it recognise or 'see' linux) or, do I wait until I learn how to set up multi boot from within linux? Obviously I would prefer that win2000 does it for me so that I can then get into linux quickly and start to learn all these clever linux things :) It's a chicken and egg situation if win2000 won't 'do the dual bit' for me. Help appreciated Sorry if the above is a bit garbled. TIA Dave S. idea.list Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] Printing
I've got a printer on the network with an IP address. How do I print to it? It is an HP color laserjet 4500 N. thannks jim Ignorance is underrated
[newbie] dial-up
Not only do I have two NIC cards on my machine, but I also have a 56K modem. Into my network, I have a T1 line. How can I configure my machine so that I can dial into it and get the internet service? Ignorance is underrated
Re: [newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)
We're a very, very small school but have about 1 machine for every 2 kids K- 12. Last year, all of our PC's were dual boot, winders and redhat. This year, I switched to Mandrake and our new machines are straight mandrake. Dropping winders on the new ones saved enough cash to buy another PC. I like that. Quoting Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All of Mexico and Montpelier Public School in Montpelier, ND--where I teach. jim All of Mexico I read on www.theregister.co.uk that they also go after a similar setup that is based in Australia. A PC's for the poorest project, bringing PC's to the poor people (with winders installed) for free. And M$ wants a large fee from these poor people. Unfortunately the article disappeared from the register site. Paul Ignorance is underrated
