Re: [newbie] Yet another question on Bastille iptables
Hi Mark You posted this URL on the 'newbie' list yesterday. I tried using it but it fails with 'unknown host'. Can I ask you to check it again, to see if there are any typos in it. Normally, I don't get too excited about broken links - I just move on - but your description of this tutorial as 'the best ever' has me intrigued. Thanks. Lance Dow The site listed below is THE best iptables tutorial I've seen yet. this fella really know what he's talking about and puts it in plain, simple english. you can't miss with this one. http://people.unix-fu.org/andreasson/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutorial .html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Yet another question on Bastille iptables
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Re: [newbie] Double-sided printing
Jim Dawson wrote: Does anyone know of a way to do double-sided printing in Linux? (by flipping over the pages and printing on the reverse side) Same as under Windows. I just had a quick look and Kmail, Kword and Open Office all offer the option to print odd or even pages. Abiword doesn't have the option so it's obviously program dependent. Lance Dow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page
On Thursday 29 November 2001 3:15 am, pesarif wrote: In Konqueror: Tools - Archive Web Page. I'm using KDE 2.2. My Tools menu only has Run Command..., Open Terminal... and Find file What am I doing wrong? Please help! Go to the 'Location' menu and use 'Save as...'. Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hi-fi mp3?
Hi I've just been re-reading the Jan/Feb 2001 issue of Maximum Linux which carried a very interesting article on mobile mp3. In it the author makes the bold claim that a player by the name of Splay sounded MUCH better than Winamp. He recommended doing a comparison. Splay was on the cover CD but I couldn't get it to work. Has anyone made this player work? Any pointers? Does it sound better? Anyone able to recommend a superior sounding mp3 player? Thanks Lance Dow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 2 computers 1 mail database ?
Joan I've bought a laptop and i'd like to be able to use from this one the same messages database i've got in my computer at home... what will be the best way to have that working? 8-? I'm using Netscape for my mail... Sounds like the way I've got my account set up. Here's how I do it. The laptop connects to the LAN at work so I've got Netscape set up to use that instead of dialing up. Messenger is set up identically to the way it is at home, with one important difference; messages are not deleted from the server after download. What this means in practice is that I can download and read all my mail from work. Messages I delete on the laptop are also deleted from the server. Messages that I leave in folders or in my Inbox, remain on the server so I can download them again from home and store them as normal. To set this up you need to go to: Edit - Preferences... - Mail Servers In the 'Incoming Mail Servers' window, highlight the one you want to use (if you have more than one), then Click Edit. Select the POP tab. Select 'Leave messages on server'. Click Ok and Ok. That should be it. I do this under Windows by the way (not fully Linuxed yet). From what I've seen Netscape is the same on both platforms so this should work for you too. If I can help further Lance
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Post-install problem - it works!
Mark wrote; try reinstalling and this time don't do the HDD optimization. I don't think with a drive that big and a system as efficient as linux that you're going to really need to worry about optimizing, and I suspect that there is a small , but apparently noticable enough hardware conflict going on there. I also suspect that it will all evaporate as soon as you install without optimizing. And evaporate it certainly did. You were all correct in spotting that this problem was of my own making! In my defence I'll say I was distracted by the fact that the installer didn't recognise all my RAM. I entered the correct value, probably clicking the HDD optimisation, then clicking Ok without fully reading the note. It went like a dream when I did it properly! So I spent this evening playing around with the KDE desktop... looking forward to the months of learning ahead. Sigh! My thanks to all who helped out. Regards Lance
[newbie] 7.1 Post-install problem - re-post!
Hi There I posted the message below to the list on Saturday. So far, I've had only one response which, unfortunatly, didn't take me forward in any meaningful way (thanks anyway Paul). I can't believe no one else knows the answer. Can sombody help me out... please? Lance __ Hi Guys Finally got 7.1 installed on my new system - Athlon 700, 128MB, 13.6G HDD - Linux only, no Windows. It all seemed to be going smoothly until it came to the first re-boot. It reached the point where it says; Starting hard drive optimisation for hda [OK] then it goes no further. I left it in that state for over an hour and it never moved. I could hear what sounds like disk accessing at round one minute intervals but don't see any activity on the HDD light to confirm this. Any ideas where I go from here? How do I go about tracking down what the problem might be? I created a boot disk during the install and, I suppose, I could use this to start the system. But I have absolutely no Idea what I'm looking for! One more thing. This message is part of the Interactive Startup (or Setup - not sure). Is this anything like the setup on Windows where you can step through the entries in autoexec.bat and config.sys at boot-up, choosing which drivers etc are loaded? If so, how do I do it under Linux? Is there a troubleshooting HOWTO that covers this sort of thing? All help gratefully received. Regards Lance Dow
Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to work differently in the UK, most "Free" ISP's cost money. i.e you pay a fixed rate for unmetered access, say £10 per month and are allowed to access what I suppose in the US you call a toll free number. I think you're confusing two things here. To the best of my knowledge, ALL free ISPs are actually free, i.e. you don't pay to use their service, but you pay for the phone call to access the service. Unmetered access is where you don't pay for the phone call. Some unmetered services are provided free of charge, some you pay a monthly subscription. You actually explained this towards the end of your post. Maybe you should have started at that end :-). Regards Lance
[newbie] Partitioning questions
Hi there In spite of all the horror stories I've been reading here in this forum over the last couple of weeks, I've decided to install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on my PC. In preparation for this event I've been doing a lot of RTFM-ing (reading manuals and HOWTOs, for those who need a translation). One idea that appeals to me is having separate partitions for /, /boot, /home, etc. While the FMs are full of useful detail, they all seem to *just* fall short of answering my question. So I turn to the Linux-newbie brains trust for assistance. Right. I have a 13.6G disk drive which I want to set up as a dual-boot system. Once I've got Linux running, I plan to copy the Windows files from my existing drive onto the FAT32 partition of the new drive. My Windows system currently has a 3.2G disk partitioned as 2G and 1.2G (roughly). I have a lot of spare room on this so I think I can get by with a single 3G FAT32 partition on the new disk. [On reflection, this might not work as I'm still using Win95. I seem to recall this not being able to handle partitions over 2G.] So, with around 10G at my disposal for Linux, my first question is "How big do I need to make the individual partitions to use this space efficiently and effectively?" The second question is, having created all these partitions, how does the install program know which is which, so that what needs to go into /home (for example) actually goes to the right partition? As a Linux newbie I'm likely to want to install everything that comes with the distro, and probably install and try lots of other stuff as the months go by. I'd like to create an environment that doesn't make this any more difficult than it needs to be. For what it's worth my current system is three years old and uses an AMD K6 233 with 64M of RAM. I expect to upgrade it in the next few months to something like an Athlon 700 with maybe 128M of RAM. I look forward to your learned responses. Thanks in advance. Regards (Another) Lance
