Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

[Ralph Slooten]

Hiya Baka,


But when you loaded it (k-jofol) ... did the playlist also minimilise?
(/me is too lazy this evening to try, hehehe)


On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:34:27 +0200
Baka Tamás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The k-jofol skin didn't help as the next time I restarted, it showed
> the original xmms window... :-(

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

[Ralph Slooten]

Woops, wrong list ;-) .. I mean right list for the post .. but I'm using
Gentoo on this system with the problems .. so it seems that MDK and
Gentoo share some resemblance ;-)


On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:03:06 +0200
Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200
> Baka Tamás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from
> > the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the
> > playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok,
> > but upon restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's
> > main window
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> I'm guessing KDE? I recently installed kde and had this problem, so I
> eventually upgraded to 3.2.2 and it's still there :-( 
> 
> My guess is it's an xmms bug, but I cannot be sure. I am glad though
> that KDE is behaving OK now though ... 3.2.1 has some very annoying
> bugs. 
> 
> Does the k-jofol skin help with the minimising problem?

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200
Baka Tamás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the
> main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist
> simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon
> restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's main
> window
> 
> Why?

I'm guessing KDE? I recently installed kde and had this problem, so I
eventually upgraded to 3.2.2 and it's still there :-( 

My guess is it's an xmms bug, but I cannot be sure. I am glad though
that KDE is behaving OK now though ... 3.2.1 has some very annoying
bugs. 

Does the k-jofol skin help with the minimising problem?

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 8 May 2004 18:57:43 -0400
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Okay Ralph, this worked like a charm.  The only change I made was to
> add a MIN and MAX variable to use with the -m and -M switches of
> oggenc so I could prevent the bitrate of the tracks from drifting
> outside the supported range of my player.

Great ... it works, and it's easy to follow too ;-)

One thing I did notice though (in my own scripts) is the comment tag,
atm it is 
-c "=.

This should be changed (to what I'm guessing is the new standard):
-c "comment=...

Maybe you want to send me a copy of it some time and I'll get the
scripts eventually up on my website (after converting to using mysql for
everything I have been a bit lazy adding stuff like scripts).

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 19:01:03 -0400
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is a nice little script.  How are you licensing it?  I'd like to
> give it to a few other people.

GPL ;-) Sure Greg, please feel free to give it to all. It's just a
script I hacked together to do exactly the same thing as you asked about
... which originally was on my old website. I still have to add it to my
'new" one at some stage.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:13:14 -0400
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll take a look at it.  From first glance, the methodology
> looks like the way I thought it should get done.  First convert to wav
> and then re-encode at the lower quaility level.  I took a look at sox,
> and it might also work well because it can only encode oggs at 128
> kbps, which is exactly in the range I want.

You can edit my scrip to simply encode at 128kbps ( "-b128"  instead of
"-q4")... or just use sox ;-) .. Never used sox before, so I wouldn't
know.

> BTW, can I ask why you are using ID3 tags, since ogg supports a more
> robust tagging system that most software players support well.

I'm not following. What ID-system are you referring to? I use the
standard oggenc tag system, which do you use? Or am I missing the point?

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

[Ralph Slooten]

You can try the simple bash script I have attached.

Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a
folder called "converted" with your re-encoded ogg's at quality 4, and
in the comment it puts in the original bitrate.

Hope it helps,

Ralph

On Tue, 4 May 2004 20:55:12 -0400
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote:
> > >>If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and
> > >I want> them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do
> > >that directly> instead of converting them back to wav and
> > >re-encoding them with oggenc.>
> > >>I want to do this because my cd/mp3 player only supports
> > >96-160kbps vbr> oggs. 
> > >
> > >Yes, Sox.
> > >http://sox.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > >Sox is the ultimate swiss army knife of sound utils.
> > >
> >
> > You'd get much better quality if you just re-ripped/encoded.
> 
> Yeah, I know and I would usually do so, but I bought a bunch of tracks
> from audiolunchbbox (great site for indie music fans BTW, Ogg and mp3
> format, no drm) and the Oggs are Q6, and my iriver player only
> supports them at 96-160 vbr.  I can either convert the mp3's at 192
> kbps average vbr to ogg, or convert the higher quality oggs to a lower
> quality.  I think it will sound better to go ogg to ogg instead of mp3
> to ogg.-- 
> /g


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Re: [newbie] File Sharing

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:03:02 -0700
"Steve Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Any file sharing software that works with Linux?

DCgui-qt (Direct Connect) ... http://dcgui.berlios.de/


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:11:37 +1030
Stephen Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:23 pm, Philip Cronje wrote:
> > You could use GnuPG . It's got other nifty
> > uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting
> > e-mails, etc. etc.
> 
> Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the
> right GUI tools to go with it :-)

... which were?


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Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Ad-Aware

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:04:24 -0500
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey Ralph, nice to know yer still around. Been busy of late?

Very much so actually ;-) The last few months have been busy for me with
courses, job-hunting and so on ... Finally things seem to be settling
down.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Ad-Aware

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:51:17 -0500
David Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there any thing for Linux like Ad-Aware for Windows?

Not that I know of.

> Is there even a need for anything like Ad-Aware for Linux?

Shouldn't be. Most spyware that's "available" for linux is widely
documented iirc. Netscape (v6 I believe) has spyware in it, which was
uncovered within a day or so after it's release. 

I wouldn't worry too much about it though, as there are much bigger
concerns around I think. You check / delete cookies? Is your web-surfing
filtered properly stopping malicious sites? These would be things I
would be more concerned about (privacy) ... and not the fact of spyware
/ trojans.

> Never argue with an idiot.
> They drag you to their level and then beat you with experience.

Remember this before you flame me *ggg* :P

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Spamassassin resistance

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:45:46 +
Olivier Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Spamassassin is installed in the central server where I receive mail.
> I have not installed it locally. Almost no spam are caught anymore;
> all spams seems to have understand the trick and to hide somehow the 
> significant word (writing v.ia.gr@ for example). Has anyone
> experienced this problem? Are the most recent versions of spamassissin
> better?
> 
> Olivier Esser

Hello Olivier,

Strange that you should mention this today .. as I have exactly the same
problem. BUT, I found a better solution, which so far today has caught
18/18 spams received today! Spamassasin stopped working for me too
beginning of this year, when the majority of my spam was a combination
of random words. Seems from what I read somewhere that spamassasin has
big issues differentiating these mails from normal ones.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/

You have to "train" it too actually, and I was fully set up within 30
minutes, which included the installation, and reading the readme. If you
try it though, there is an error in the README's procmail entry though,
and it should read:

### begin sample two ###
# Invoke bmf as a filter
:0 fw
| bmf -p

# Filter spam
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$MAILDIR/spam

That is with a * before "^X-Spam-Status: Yes"

So far, with only 1 day's testing though it's been 100% accurate which
is great. If you need more info, please just ask.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Resubbed?

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:11:07 -0400
Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Test
Had the same prob myself.. also just re-subscribed and it's fine. I
wonder how long it'll take the others to catch on too...

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Download Managers

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:47:03 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ralph , something is bouncing emails to you, did you know ?
> 
> appologies to list.

John? I'm sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about here? Are my messages
bouncing, or are your e-mails bouncing, or is someone elses e-mail bouncing?

Noticed nothing here...

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:25:36 +
Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > And what a surprise, KorNET, the biggest wankers of 'em all but still,
> > I have many many more, and not only from KorNEt but also knows
> > spammer-ridden ISP's like China Net.
> 
> In my experience, china9988 gives up after about six months. I got my mail 
> server up around March and I was getting two or three attempts a day from him 
> and his mates. Now I very rarely see one.
> 
> Why worry? If your server is tied down tight those attempts are already 
> bouncing as hard as you could make them with IP rejections.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Urwin

Umm, six months of attempted abuse... naah, I don't like it one bit, and an nmap
of his IP revealed the following:

TCP/IP fingerprint:
SInfo(V=3.00%P=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu%D=10/30%Time=3FA161A4%O=113%C=1)

Oh lookie lookie ... our spammer is using MDK! It's not that he tried, but that
he might succeed one day, and another thing is he's trying. KorNet don't give a
shit about abuse reports via spamcop either. I just don't trust them one bit,
and would rather not even give them a chance to try. I get many users on my
webserver, mainly for dcgui rpm's, but the fact that some off these users may
also use KorNet doesn't worry me. An ISP with such a bad name should not be used
;-)

BTW, found something in connection to this:
http://www.sbslinks.com/Ipaddress.htm (just click cancell when it asks for
username / password a couple of times and you'll get huge (+- 3.5MB html files
with all the data)

Greetings
Ralph
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[newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges

[Ralph Slooten]

Hiya group,

I run my own private SMTP server for my mail, and just checking in the logs I
realised that these spam-ridden ISP's are trying to use me as a relay. They
fortunately aren't succeeding as I'm getting things like this:

Oct 30 15:14:54 axljab postfix/smtpd[27285]: connect from
unknown[220.116.201.113] Oct 30 15:14:56 axljab postfix/smtpd[27285]:
0863E5D923: client=unknown[220.116.201.113] Oct 30 15:14:56 axljab
postfix/smtpd[27285]: reject: RCPT from unknown[220.116.201.113]: 554
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied;
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oct 30 15:15:02 axljab
postfix/smtpd[27285]: disconnect from unknown[220.116.201.113]

And what a surprise, KorNET, the biggest wankers of 'em all but still, I
have many many more, and not only from KorNEt but also knows spammer-ridden
ISP's like China Net.

The fact that they aren't getting accepted is a small problem, but it doesn't
ease my feelings on this matter. I want to block totally, any connection ever
made on any port by anyone on these networks, plus a few more, but I need to
find out their ISP ranges.

Does anyone know where I can find such information, to ease my troubles? ;-) I
need to find out the full ip-ranges of certain ISP's.


Greetings
Ralph
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"...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux"


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Re: [newbie] Could anyone share md5's of he new 9.2 isos?

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:18:39 +0100
"Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You shouldn't need these at bittorrent should have checked it all for
> you already. I can send them but not until I get home (about 9 hours).
> 
> Tony.

Yeah, I know bittorrent does this, but I want to confirm something for my own
personal interest ;-) So yes, if nobody else has send md5's by the time you get
home, plese do.

Thanks Tony,
Greetings
Ralph
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[newbie] Could anyone share md5's of he new 9.2 isos?

[Ralph Slooten]

Hiya all,

Just a question to those who downloaded Mandrake 9.2 via bittorrent... Please
could someone post the md5 checksums of all the isos?

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Problems with a web site...

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:52:18 -0400
"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> anyone have any ideas?

Stop using that site ;-) ... Usage of crap Java is asking for problems... just
like we have on this site. Yes it crashes here too (Phoenix cvs)... 

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] rpm --rebuild querry

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:19:57 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb

Hiya John,

Install rpm-build ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:26:08 -0400
Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Try urpmi mp32ogg
> 
> That will install a nice converter.
> 
> Lee

The exact same reason I wrote this script .. I don't like that converter ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] mdk9.1 on notebook

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:10:34 -0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Just installed Mdk9.1 on a HP Pavilion ZE4430US notebook (mainly because 
> of ACPI and ATI Radeon support). Spec follows below.

I have a HP pavilion ze4268 notbook, and I'll tell you this:
You say Mandrake has radeon support? In what way, 2D? 3D is only supported in
the 2.6 kernel with the cvs version of XFree. If it's 2D you are after, then
it's just using the vesa driver, as this works well, providing you don't try
glxgears which shows a lousy 230fps rate.


> The installation was smooth. Congratulations! However, the boot was 
> unsuccessful. I've disabled pcmcia once it freezes the system. Switch off/on
> then systems freezes again. I have chosen also failsafe and nonfsb modes, but
> was unlucky also.

Chech yor /etc/lilo.conf .. the chances are that there is an command option in
there somewhere which is blocking your config, like "noacpi" in the lilo
options. Remove this, as it's hanging your system, considering if you can
actually start at all.

> The setup during installation included the use of acpi and grub to dual 
> boot XP.
> Below follows the hardware spec.
> 
> processor:Mobile AMD___ Athlon___ XP-M Processor 2400+ (1.8GHz) with 
> PowerNow!___ Technology 
> os:   Microsoft® Window® XP Home Edition Microsoft® 
> memory:   512MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB) at 266MHz;
> hard drive:   40GB enhanced-IDE 
> multimedia:   DVD+CD-RW Combo 
> display:  15.0" XGA TFT (1024 x 768) display 
> communication Integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector), 
> Integrated 54g wireless LAN 
> video:ATI MOBILITY___RADEON___; 4X AGP and 3D architecture 
> sound:16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio; Altec Lansing 
> internal speakers 

Sounds exactly like mine. I have Gentoo running on my laptop now, as it gave me
an extra 60 minutes of battery life (I shit you not). Acpi works, but acpid does
nothing for me. Take a look at the site I created for my laptop (also to remind
me what I did the first time if I ever reinstall *ggg*):
http://pavilion.axljab.homelinux.org/

I hope some of this helps at least ... else on my site you will find links to
linux-laptop sites too.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] avi re-code

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:25:29 +0200
Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to 
> re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I 
> should use?
> 
> thanks
> 
> raffaele

Mencoder (from MPlayer) .. but it takes quite a bit of reading to know what you
are doing ... check the docs from MPlayer, as reencoding is discussed somewhere
in there ;-)


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:50:44 +
Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files?

You can try a script I made (mp3conv.sh attached). It's a simple bash script,
which produces an ogg file at quality 4 of the mp3... I use it all the time. It
does however expect you to have all tage filled it, else they get inserted as
blanks into the ogg, and in the comment tag it tells you the origional bitrate
of the mp3 file (provioding it's not variable bitrate).

Normally speaking I only convert mp3's from around 192kb/s to ogg quality 4
(around 128kb/s), and the quality isn't noticiable, regardless to popular
beliefs.

I does it too on_the_fly to save space. Just open the script, and edit this
part:

mp3info=/usr/bin/mp3info# Full path to mp3info
mpg123=/usr/bin/mpg123  # Full path t0 mpg123 (Can also be mpg321)
QUALITY=4   # 1-10 (4=100-128kb/s)


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] grepping root?

[Ralph Slooten]

On 09 Oct 2003 07:28:42 -0400
ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i have this one for a desktop
> 
> "http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg";

Pitty your server sees to be down ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] OT: 18,000 and counting

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:20:49 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> get sent
> to /dev/null...along with from a few writers on the list

Oh goody goody, so you can't see I'm swearing at you *ggg* ;-)

Yeah, maybe it's an idea to /dev/null all posts beginning with "OT:", "test" and
a few more...

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Test

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:44:24 +0100
Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No need to reply to this (though there's generally at least one who 
> can't resist it)

OK, we won't reply then *ggg*

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Damn "newbie" user!

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:06:44 -0300
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What's up?
> 
> Whenever I send an email to Mandrake newbie list I get this:

Check the archives.. there was a discussion about this not long ago, and
personally I'm forwarding all my incomming mails from that address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is the only "admin" address I could find of that server
where it's coming from. I don't care anymore, as I sent them a informing e-mail
to which I got no reply at all, nor did they change anything.. so now they can
block my e-mail address. However if everyone would do this, they may even stop
and think about removing that forward / address / whatever for a change, and get
it totally off the mailing list. However until that time, you will receive for
every post such a reply.


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] VMWare

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:02:02 -0400
Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Proprietary programs really suck.

In theory yes, in actual circumstances I'd say vmware does about the best job
around for paid software on Linux.

> VMWare is the subject of this particular rant, but could be anybody.
> 
> I bought the package at a reasonable price, but:
> 
> Can't install what they sent because it only supports up to 9.0 mdk.
>  When I try to allow setup to build a vmon module, it asks for the
> location of the kernel headers after it looks to
> /usr/src/linux/include.

Yes, there are such things called linux-headers and your kernel source. These
are normally never the same if you upgraded at some point. These aren't even
ment to be the same version: even Linus uses very old linux-headers in
/usr/include.

BTW, what version is this that only supports LM 9.0? Version 3.x? Version 4.x
isout btw... many improvements over 3, and don't try upgrade though from 3 -> 4
... well I did, and muched up my windows install severely ;-)

I suggest unpacking the source of your current kernel into /usr/src and
sylinking it to /usr/src/linux, then run the configure script again for vmware.

> When I point it to /usr/include, where I think I found what it was
> looking for it replies, "The directory or kernel headers (version
> 2.4.21) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.21-0.13mdk)
> Even if the module were to compile successfully,. it would not load
> into the running kernel."

Contradicting what I wrote above, it seems you do have the same version, however
Mandrake has added a version number after it confusing the system into thinking
it's another version. Do it the say I said... as if I guess right, you installed
the standard kernel, so install the src.rpm for your kernel, and you should be
set.


> Questions:
> 
> 1.  Is there a mdk rpm somewhere for VMWare 4.something?
> 2.  Does this mean that all 8 of my boxes are stuck on this kernel
> forever? (Without the same bs 8 more times) when I do get it
> working?

Probably not, but I built vmware 4 perfectly on this machine, and it's running a
custom kernel.. I just gave it the path to /usr/src/linux/include, and things
went smothly.

> 3.  Who talked me into this anyway?

Probably someone wise ;-0  As much as I hate windows with a passion, vmware does
do (hands-down) the best job of running win shit under Linux. Wine / WineX and
any others cannot compare to it in terms of performance and stability (ignoring
the fact that Windows isn't stable to start with *ggg*). Yes, I know the others
are emulators, and vmware is a full OS installed, so I don't need explanations,
however I'm just simply pointing out that is you want to get any program from
windows running under Linux (so to say), vmware is always your best shot, that
is if there are no linux-equivelants.

Greetings
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Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 05:32:40 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> and slooten-rc is:
> 
> :0
> * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> {
> :0
> /dev/null
> }

Not sure if this will work with the /dev/null part ... as just the lines:

  :0
  * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

forward it to the info address ;-) But this is what I'm doing now stuff
them.

And damn, still some of my messages aren't coming back to me, even though they
are being replied it seems :-/ *sigh* oh well, I know what I wrote :P

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:57:59 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gosh, Ralph - that's a terribly complex conditional there - have you
> considered patenting it and then selling it to procmail users? I'd
> reckon you could get, say, $19.99 USD for that bit...even make up and
> RPM of the whole thing, ay wot?

LOL Stephen ;-) No, just fond ou the most simple rule which entails copying
and pasting for procmail users (I do presume that most users use procmail?). For
those with e-mail programs that download their mail, I'm sure forwarding rules
can easily be added in proggies like Evolution, kmail and Sylpheed, and probably
the rest too.. I don't know.

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Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

[Ralph Slooten]

Not here yet ;-)

On 15 Sep 2003 17:25:21 -0400
ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:56, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> > Umm, did my first post on this subject come through? I didn't get it..
> > strange, nor the annoying auto-responce from the sms shit thing either
> > 
> > Greetings
> > Ralph
> it will
> 
> 
> 


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Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

[Ralph Slooten]

Umm, did my first post on this subject come through? I didn't get it.. strange,
nor the annoying auto-responce from the sms shit thing either

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[newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:09:59 +0200
Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Now maybe is someone could point me out how to auto-forward a message from an
> address back to it for just that mail account (procmail), I'd be a very happy
> puppy ;-)

Worked it out:

:0
* ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]


What do you reccon.. worth the "effort"?

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Re: [newbie] LOL! Microsoft buys ads for MDK 9.2?

[Ralph Slooten]

LOL, My bad ;-)

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Re: [newbie] LOL! Microsoft buys ads for MDK 9.2?

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:19:44 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/2211215

A very ealy or very late April-fools joke? Why else would they obviosly spell
their names MundrakeSoft and MicroSCOff?


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Re: [newbie] 2.6 kernel

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:49:55 -0500
John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, I am running cooker, and I just merely installed the kernel from
> the mandrake rpm on the contrib source. I guess I wanted to try it
> because it is supposed to be faster in loading applications such as
> mozilla. I guess I'll just have to wait until everything has moved to
> the 2.6 kernel permanently.

Hmm, I wouldn't go as far as saying that just because you have the latest kernel
your apps run faster. It's all about your architecture on your computer, and
whether you specified your processor specs in your gcc when both the kernel,
libs, and all that goes with Mozilla was compiled. It's not justa matter of
upgrading a kernel and noticing a difference. If you are really into
performance, and you know what options to use / not to use in gcc, then I
suggest Gentoo, this way you can build a whole OS and programs specific to your
hardware, which will obviously be faster than per-compiled binaries for an
average system.


Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that Mandrake is slow (or I wouldn't
be using it either), but that if it's speed you want, then consider your other
options.
  
I know there was an article a while back on slashdot supposedly proving that
Gentoo isn't faster, but this has been argued till the point where the facts
remain that the tests were not run in a fair environment, the systems were not
running the same versions of the software tested, and that even the gcc versions
used to compile the binaries was different, umong many other points which
definitly makea difference.
  



As for your idea of waiting until 2.6 gets used as standard, well I would not
hold your breath John. The 2.6 kernel had had a total makeover, different
techniques of modules loading / creation / running. It is still way too unstable
to consider running a stable system on. It's more for the wanna-be geeks who
want to run the latest of the latest, and yes Isay wanna-be because a so-called
real geek would compile it himself, LOL, and deinitely not run a pre-compiled
beta of the heart of his system ;-)
It does supprise me though that Mandrake is including it in at least the betas
of the new release. I'm curios to know they intentions for this.

> Thanks anyway.

Sure, no problem. Btw, if my last post seemed aggressive, it was, but not at you
.. just had an irritating day of spam, spam, and more spam, umong a shitty
internet connection and so on ;-) .. my appologies for this if I offended you.


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] 2.6 kernel

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:28:00 -0500
John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How can I get ALSA to work with the new 2.6 kernel. Or any sound at all
> would be okay. When I first fired up the new kernel it had some sound
> errors. I cant remember any of the others, but there were some. I hope
> to completely migrate over to it if I can get everything to run nicely.
> I use Cooker (newest as of last night). Thanks
> 
> John Drouhard

John, did you install the new programs required to load the failed attempt of
2.6, or just blindly descide to download, compile and run it? I believe this
would be modutils, however the newer version cannot load old versions (2.4 etc)
and actually has problems loading the 2.6 too. But then again, I guess you just
blindly descided upon this. What are you trying to achieve by running an
unstable, incomplete and a very badly "talked-about" kernel version?

Just know what you are getting yourself into before doing it, as you are more
likely to run home crying that to get everything working the way you want ;-)
Many things do not work in the 2.6, and also many things work differently in
this release. It is not a matter of updating and running, but I guess you knew
this before hand ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] HTML Validation

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:02:28 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:45:05 -0400
> HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> 
> >  now I've only got 149 more to fix,
> 
> down to only 44, thanks to html-tidy, rpm's avail thru "urpmi tidy".

Hehe, then you are doing much better than slashdot.org ;-)  Want a challenge,
correct their site, hehehe.

Damn, what did you use to make your webpage, xmms? LOL ... 


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] HTML Validation

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:31:09 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Below is the source input I used for this validation:
> 
>1: 2: 
>3:  
>4:   OrderInChaos




OrderInChaos


;-) .. my pleasure ... PS: v3 is very old.. use at least 4.0
 
> Thanks guys!


 
> One thing, the web pages do not actually have the .htm or .html
> extension, they are .php, as I use one little bit of .php to display my
> uptime. Could that be the prob?

PHP == HTML in terms of output, the only difference being that PHP is a
scripting language too, so you can include many functions in it. However if you
have pure html in a PHP file, it works just the same ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] HTML Validation

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:46:41 -0400
HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hey y'all, kinda OT, but WTF, it's a simple (I hope) question.
> 
> I wanted to see if I could put one of them purty W3C validation tags on
> my site, but when I go to their site, it says that "<" is an invalid tag
> enclosure. WTF am I supposed to use?!

No, it's probably something in there somewhere, enclosed in the tags. There is a
pointer thingy showing where the error normally is, however this totally depends
on your used fonts and so on, else it's rendered incorrectly and it appears that
the bog is something else. < > are standard in html / php / xml, so that cannot
be the reason. Maybe posting the chunk of code around the error region to this
list would help you more?


> I followed the conventions according to the W3C tutorials and such, but
> they don't seem to like my version of < maybe? Is the a new version of
> <, LOL!

LOL ;-) As I said, < > are standard... no ways of making a page without it ;-)


Greetings
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Re: [newbie] Strange network behaviour

[Ralph Slooten]

Fixed.. it was my hostnames in my internal network, being my own servername with
a prefix ;-)


Greetings
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[newbie] Strange network behaviour

[Ralph Slooten]

Hello there all,

I have a server acting as router for my internal network. My 2 internal
computers are connected via this server to the internet, the sever running
apache among other services. Recently I discovered that my ISP had unblocked
port 80, so I just changed my webserver from port 8080 to 80, and opened up both
ports as Listening ports in Apache (to redirect users going to the old
addresses). This works great.

However I now have one small problem: In the internal network, whenever I type a
non-existant URL, I get my own main apache site, and not an error that the URL
does not exist, or cannot be reached. This does not happen from the server
itself (tested), only both computers connected through it.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? As far as DNS goes, I use my ISP's
DNS. It seems the dns returned for a non-existant URL gets translated in my
internal network as the IP of my own server, which is wierd.

It may always have been this way (I'm not sure), but previously as I mentioned,
my webserver was on port 8080, and 80 was blocked, so this may have been the
reason it always worked...

But now I have opened 80,, and as I said, any IP unresolved gets translated as
my own apache server on my own server :-(
Any ideas how to fix this, or maybe what the cause could be?

Any ideas would be great, thanks in advance.
Greetings
Ralph
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[newbie] Slashdot fix for Dillo browsing

[Ralph Slooten]

Hello there Dillo (http://www.dillo.org/) fans...

As you may have noticed, slashdot.org is impossible to render since about 2
weeks ago with dillo, namely being the fact that /.'s code has gone from bad to
M$ standards :-(

For those of you wanting to still read /. with Dillo, I have created a php
script which downloads it (main page only), and parses it through "tidy"
(htmltidy) and sed's a few things out, namely the cookie / name I use to log in.
Yeah, to get tidy to work, the only solution was to use my own cookie ;-)

NOTE 1: Only the main page works. URL's on the page are not parsed through this
script.

NOTE 2: This page will also not read or use your own cookies at all, so your
presonal preferences will be ignored

NOTE 3: It will not allow any other browsers to use this. ONLY Dillo is
allowed to parse this page, as each time a refresh is done, my server
downloads a new copy of the index page of slashdot, and I wouldn't want to be
spamming their server. If you have another browser which has problems and
renders the main page black, let me know, and I'll see if I can include your
browser too into it's browser-detection technique

NOTE 4: This is a temporary page for until slashdot actually descide to read
their bug reports posted on sourceforge, and not mark them as fixed when they
actually are anything but fixed. When slashdot fixes itself, this page will be
offline shortly afterwards.

NOTE 5: This isn't a cache of the main page, it's a direct copy of it, with the
big errors taken out.

Hope this helps a few of you with /. with your favorite browser ;-)

Oh yeah, the URL: http://slashdot.axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ (again, dillo only)

Let me know how it works and if you have problems.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] MSN Messenger sutff

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:24:56 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Are you able to connect to MSN with kopete? I use various jabber clients
> and for the last week or so, since this MSN stuff came out, I haven't
> been able to connect to MSN (or Yahoo! for that matter) via the jabber
> gateways. I'm assuming the MSN snafu is a result of their commitment to
> standards and interoperability, but I'm stumped on Yahoo! Unless there's
> something up with my jabber server's gateways.

I haven't had any troubles connecting to them with my server (URL below). The
only annoying thing is that bloody message from MSN each time ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] dillo question

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:12:12 -0300
"Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings, I have downloaded dillo-0.7.3-1mdk.i586.rpm from Todd @
> clevername.homeip.net and installed on my Mdk 9.1 system. It works fine, but I
> can't seem to get the "open in external browser" option to appear in my right
> click menu. There isn't an option as such in .dillorc, but I tried adding:
> "external_browser=opera", to no avail. This version is patched to have this
> option, but I can't find how to enable it.
> 
> Can anyone help me out with this little problem? Any dillo users out there?
> TIA.
> 
> --Angus

Your config is good, meaning that your dillo isn't patched properly ;-) I used
to use this patch with my dillo, but have "moved up" using the tabs / frames /
iframes / https patches ;-) The patches make it very difficult to thow that
external patch oer, as it bombs out like a joke.

My advice, drop that version, forget about the external patch, and get the
version I'm using now. If you want a link, I'll put it up for download
(pre-patched).

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] video codecx

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:47:14 +0300
Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> if I wanted to install a new codec for mplayer ... where would I 
> find packages to do that? What packages? If there's this movie which has 
> a text file with the exact same name as the movie as the subtitle  
> and mplayer won't load it ... what do I do?

Depends totally on what codec for one. It helps to be a bit more specific.

As for your subtitles, try (in a console):
mplayer  -sub 


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Re: [newbie] Test Message

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:32:47 -0400
Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is a test message.  For some reason, my messages to the list are not 
> appearing (or at least I can't see them).  This is a test to see if an 
> alternate transport helps.

Gotcha here dude,
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:14:03 +0300
Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> r u serious? ogg actually compresses better than mp3? And it's also 
> free? r u serious? I mean I'm totally new to this ogg stuff. And what do 
> you convert with? Rezound? Or is there some batch conversion tool/script.

Ogg compresses better, sounds better, and is GPL 100%.
http://www.phataudio.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=134&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0

The above link (copy paste onto one line) is a comparrison of OGG, MP3 and AAC
formats for those intestested.

As for yout batch conversion, well I wrote a bash script for that (attached). It
does have it's limits, but it did the trick for my mp3's, and I still use it on
a regular basis.

OGG works these days with quality factors, and not bitrates like other formats.
It does end up as a variable bitrate though, so it can be compared, as qualiry 4
OGG is basically 128kb/s .. which is in my experience just as good sounding as
an MP3 at 192kb/s, but half the size roughly. You see, OGG is like MP3, it's an
audio compression technique, but it's compression technique differs totally to
that of MP3 or others.

More info on ogg at www.vorbis.com

Enjoy ;-)
Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:17:05 +1200
Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Wouldn't this be accumulating losses exponentially?
> Like 5% loss in original mp3. Convert to wav then 5% loss from wav to ogg =
> total loss of 25%. Of course i may be blowing smoke. 


It depends how you look at it I do it all the time actually... I download
mp3's of 192kb/s minimum, and reconvert them to quality 4 ogg format. Honestly,
I hear no difference at all, and save about 1/2 the disk-space doing it ;-)

Oooh, Ahh, I hear it already, "yes but have you really listened to it" .. the
answer is yes. I have an expensive headset with great qualiry sound, and my
computer is also hooked up to our sterio, and neither of them are bad-sounding
at all in any way.

The few cases I have noticed where the audio was bad, was simply due to a crap
mp3 encoder, and even though those files were 192, they sucked themselves, and
of course if the origional sucks, then the converted will too.

I wrote a script to convert mp3's to ogg's, and would be more than willing to
send it to anyone asking for it. 

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] a cd catalog

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:05:44 +0300
Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hi everybody. I'm trying to move to linux completelly for like 3 
> weeks now (I think) ... been flirting with linux for many years now .. 
> but this summer I've been the most determined (I'm pretty much 
> constantly in linux) .. but I'm still looking for software that would 
> fully satisfy me that I had in windows. Although I've configured XNC to 
> the bone it's still got problems for me ... so I'm thinking to try 
> Krusader again (I've tried as many file managers as I could find in an 
> attempt to find one as productive as Windows Commander). ...  .. but 
> I got sidetracked: is there a Linux cd catalog that's good? Also it 
> would be even cooler if this program had some way of exporting to a 
> format or something that a windows program could read too.
> thanks

If you have set up cups, then you have in /etc/cups/ppd the propper ppd file for
your printer, containing the info needed to print with.

Open spadmin (from OpenOffice.org), click "New printer".

Click "Import".

Browse to /etc/cups/ppd, clock "OK", and you printer should come up in the
"Driver Installation" ;-)

It will probably be added to the list, which will then let you add the fine
touches ;-)

Have fun

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: CUPS and OOo ...Re: [newbie] a cd catalog

[Ralph Slooten]

Oh ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL.. answered the wrong post.. Sorry about that,
hehehehe


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:34:58 +0200
Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:05:44 +0300
> Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > hi everybody. I'm trying to move to linux completelly for like 3 
> > weeks now (I think) ... been flirting with linux for many years now .. 
> > but this summer I've been the most determined (I'm pretty much 
> > constantly in linux) .. but I'm still looking for software that would 
> > fully satisfy me that I had in windows. Although I've configured XNC to 
> > the bone it's still got problems for me ... so I'm thinking to try 
> > Krusader again (I've tried as many file managers as I could find in an 
> > attempt to find one as productive as Windows Commander). ...  .. but 
> > I got sidetracked: is there a Linux cd catalog that's good? Also it 
> > would be even cooler if this program had some way of exporting to a 
> > format or something that a windows program could read too.
> > thanks
> 
> If you have set up cups, then you have in /etc/cups/ppd the propper ppd file
> for your printer, containing the info needed to print with.
> 
> Open spadmin (from OpenOffice.org), click "New printer".
> 
> Click "Import".
> 
> Browse to /etc/cups/ppd, clock "OK", and you printer should come up in the
> "Driver Installation" ;-)
> 
> It will probably be added to the list, which will then let you add the fine
> touches ;-)
> 
> Have fun
> 
> Greetings
> Ralph
> --
> http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/
> "...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux"
> 


Greetings
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Re: [newbie] Speed test: Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:37:40 -0400
Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Funny. So all that talk about Gentoo optimized compiling is a load of
> crap. 

No, if it was optimised, you would easily see it, but several Gentoo gurus
pointed out (in the forums on slashdot a week ago when this link was published)
that these guys were doing it totally wrong, and it was anything but optimised.
There were also flaws and so on with their innitial testing, like different
versions and so on. Turns out that the newer version of Gnumeric is a lot slower
than the older one, and so on.

But heck, if that's the only reason that people think Gentoo is great, then they
are mislead. It's also very stable, as everything gets built for your machine,
from your machine, with programs that are on your machine, manually configured
(if needed) by you.

It's a lot more work than a standard Mandrake install, I can promise you that,
but it does wonders on my laptop. To give an example:

When I first bought my laptop (4 months ago or so) the first thing I did was
Mandrake, as I've used Mandrake for years. Most things worked, however with the
same setup as I have now (Fluxbox, Firebird and so on [lighter programs than
Gnome / KDE, Mozilla) I was gettign a battery life of 2 hours on a full
recharge. Now, after installing Gentoo, I get just over 3 hours. Surely that
says something? Both kernels were self_compiled, and I had taken out any shit
from Mandrake that I didn't need. Just the bare essentials remained.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

[Ralph Slooten]

Hiya all,

Just to let you know, I see this interesting thread on DVD burning in Linux
(Gentoo), but for those interested it may be worth a read.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53190

Ok, Ok, I admit, I'm a traitor, I use Gentoo :P .. and Mandrake. Mandrake on my
workstation, Gentoo on my laptop. There, just had to clarify that... before I
get royally shat on, lol ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] mplayer configuration

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:15:18 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have the opposite problem. on call, gmplayer arrives small screen 
> size, and when I click full screen , it goes full screen but with a 
> small screen picture and black boarders.
> 
> I suspect a mplayer  problem with  video drivers.
> nvidia have reworked their drivers for M9.1 and I'm guessing mlayer 
> doesn't work well with it. Just a guess.

John, your ouput video plugin is wrong. You are provably using "xv" as default.

Try `mplayer  -vo help` ... this will give you a list of possible
output drivers you can choose. with each possible one that works, try
full-screen. One will work I'm sure, and when founf, set this in yoru
.mplayer/config ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation?

[Ralph Slooten]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:59:26 -0400
Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> If you want to use Yahoo gaim is the one to use.  AFAIK Kopete doesn't 
> yet support Yahoo IM.
> 
> It also works very well with MSN, AOL, and Jabber.

I see on their page that Yahoo is supported in CVS, however I reccomend PSI
(Jabber client). There are many Jabber servers around that support all the majoy
protocols, hell, I even run one ;-)

This way you can use whatever you want, how you want.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

[Ralph Slooten]

On 31 Jul 2003 21:09:41 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 20:26, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> > On 30 Jul 2003 20:24:33 +1000
> > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > > I still say DC all the way, but not via mldonkey ;-)
> > > 
> > > What a "Ralph" thing to say! (g)
> > 
> > Hehehe, if you say so ;-) But what are you meaning exactly?
> >
> Just teasing ya cuz ya ain't been around much in the past few months
> mate...

Ahh, not I get it ;-) Sorry, bit slow I guess, hehe. Yeah, I have been very busy
recently with al kinda of stuff related to my job, or shall I say (since
yesterday) my ex-job. It doesn't stop here though, as I'm still employed, but
have nowhere to work, so it's a matter of time before the shit hits the fan I
guess... ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

[Ralph Slooten]

On 30 Jul 2003 20:24:33 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I still say DC all the way, but not via mldonkey ;-)
> 
> What a "Ralph" thing to say! (g)

Hehehe, if you say so ;-) But what are you meaning exactly?


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:10:18 -0400
James Henry Maiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   Price notwithstanding, why aren't 6G blanks available?  How can it be
>   that 
> only companies that record their precious copyrighted material have access to 
> these products?

Good point, but it's not just the discs that cannot support it, it's the
DVD-Writers themselves too. How they have managed so far I have no idea, but
from their aspect, so far so good ;-)

One reason for this might be that DVD hasn't actually been defined yet. Yeah,
believe it or now, Floppy got defined when it got introduces, same with the CD,
USB, IDE, SCSII, PS2 ... so on, but DVD still haven't been defined, as to what
can and what can't, and how.

This is the number 1 reason why prople all ove the world have problems with
certain DVD's. Using mplayer on the console it becomes very clear just how
different each DVD is. They all seem to use their own structure.

While DVD as we know it hasn't been defined, apparently DVD has been defined
recently, but this is the good part: The definitition of a DVD is a 30 Gig disc,
working like a DVD as we know it, but on another device. Yeah, it was called
something like "Blue ", and was supposed to become the new
medium, with 30 Gigs instead. The only problem is that current DVD players are
incompatible, so this is actually quite irronic :P


Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:19:12 -0400
Haywiremac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ah, the way I understood it was that with a new version, MLDonkey would
> be getting aroung that, sharing amongst all networks. I'll read it
> again.

Sharing on most networks, not all. On DC, these clients have a static "share" of
exactly 12MB, which is actually not even a share, but a so-called value which is
hard-coded. So it comes down to the fact that on hubs, all these *donkey users
are simple just leaching off others, which not giving anything back. These
clients also result in a shitload of traffic on hubs, with all their searches
and so on.

I believe the DC plugin will be called off pretty soon, due to the fact that
most hubs permanently ban Donkey users (in any form) due to their
useless-workings on a 2-way scale. If you take, you must give, but these clients
cannot give, so are not welcome.


> What do you find is the biggest advantage with DC? I only just migrated
> from gtk-gnutella to mldonkey...I have a feeling... :-))


The biggest advantage.. hmm, this is a good one. I'm not sure. I use DCGui-qt
(http://dc.ketelhot.de/), and am actively busy with it's development and
creation of Mandrake RPM's on my site. This client supports features beyond the
well-knows DC++ (windows) but has not really as of yet been well accepted on all
hubs, mainly due to the fact that these kiddie-scripters who write these bots to
monitor clients have the theory of "if it's not DC++, it's bad".

Direct Connect is a great fast system, but is aimed at users with fixed
connections (adsl and higher). It's a fast network due to the fact that, unlike
kazaa, all searches are local (the hub/s you are on), and not all on one central
server, and clients like DCGui-qt can add multiple sources for one file.

Now for my honest feelings of Direct Connect: Superior for large files (iso's,
films and so on), but sometimes a PITA for let's say an mp3 album. So, it all
depends on what you like, and what you use. Direct Connect is a chat program
too, kinda like IRC on every hub you are connected to. I like it, and will be
using it for a long time, as everything I need is on it, just it takes sometimes
a full (all) hub-searches (I have around 4000 hubs in my list) to find it, hence
the reason for a good connection ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:39:00 -0400
"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Just an observation to this thread. From whats been said, you can't do a 1 to 
> 1 copy of commercial DVDs but with 4.x gigs of data, you sure could use 
> Mencoder with very -high- settings to make a darn near perfect Divx file, 
> right?
> 
> I mean, considering that it makes very good quality movies from DVD that fit 
> onto a single 650 meg CD-ROM right now. :-)

Yes, technically very true. You could produce a DivX file with a bitrate of over
5000 if wanted, giving you picture-perfect quality. If it puts a heavier load on
the CPU, I can't be sure though, and you would not be able to play it in a
common DVD player either.

I thought about this one, and recconed that if you tried to hit 1 Gig per DivX,
you would be left with super quality, and could fit 4 movies on one DVD. But is
this worth it, I'm not sure either. DVD's (blank) have reduced in price, but are
not cheap yet here in Holland.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:29:39 -0400
Haywiremac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:48:30 +0200
> Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> 
> > 
> > Direct Connect (DCGUI-QT) all the way ;-)
> 
> There is a DC plugin for MLDonkey, and I heard whispers on their
> homepage that a new version of mldonkey will allow you to download
> seperate chunks of a file from *different networks*! WOOT!

Umm, yes, there is a DC plugin, but it won't help you much. The problem here is
edonkey, it's a leacher. Most DC hubs immediately block any donkey client trying
to connect, due to the reason that mldonkey cannot share, just leach in DC. I
totally agree with them, because any client made for this sole purpose is a
curse on such a network.

I still say DC all the way, but not via mldonkey ;-)

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:34:46 +0200
"Geert Stichelmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> For six months now, I'm 100% M$-free on my home machine, and would like
> to stay that way.
> Now, I just bought a Sony DVD RW-U10A, DVD+/-RW and installed it in
> mandrake 9.1. 
> Reading CDROM, writing CD-R, CD-RW (using k3b), playing video DVD's
> (using mplayer)..., all works perfect.
> 
> But now I wanna try to copy a DVD. Is there DVD-copy software available
> for linux?
> Anyone has experience with copying DVD's under linux?

Although I have never actually burnt a DVD in my life I do know a couple of
things. Firstly, cdrecord can burn DVD's, thus can most GUI's that are still in
development. But, and please note this: your DVD writer cannot burn 1:1 coppies
of most film DVD's you buy from the shop. The reason for this is simple. DVD's
sold with films have a capacity of well over 6 Gigs, and mostly they are filled
over the 6 Gigs, not because the extras are neccissary, or even because "the
client is king and wants to see it", but purely because the DVD's you can buy
(blank) and burn are limited to I believe 4.3 Gigs. So, to put it simple, you
can buy 1.4MB floppes with software, but if you want blank ones, you can only
write onto 712KB floppies ;-)

What I'm trying to say here is commercial DVD's are specificly produced over the
limit of blank DVD's to prevent coppying. The encryption technique has been
broken / hacked, and they did know this was bound to happen. If someone makes
it, someone will break it. But it's impossible to fit 6 gigs onto 4, that's a
fact, unless you start editing the origional DVD cutting out extras, remaking
the "toc" and menu system if wanted to run in a commercial DVD player. It is
possible, no doubt about that, but it's not easy from what I know. Actually, I
read an interesting article about someone who actually took the time and effort
to try this, and wrote a detailed description of everything they encountered
along the way. He concluded that for single copy of a DVD, he would far rather
just buy the origional. It was woth the money (just), but definitely not the
full day he was busy with it. Actually in this specific case, he was cheaper
buying the origional, as he messed up 2 blanks while trying to get it right.

So why are there illegal DVD's around, which have been coppied? Well, because
someone takes the time to carefully do all this shit, but not for one copy, but
for hundreds. Then, and only really then does it become worth-while.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that, if you bought this DVD writer for
the sole purpose of coppying easily DVD's, you were far mislead, as many are.
DVD's seem only handy for backups really. This would be for me the only reason
why I would ever maybe buy one at it's current restriction. 

> What I'm really looking for is an easy way (gui or command line) to
> create an image of a dvd-disc, put it on my harddisk, and burn it on a
> DVD+R or DVD-R.

Explained above ;-)

I hope this may clear up some facts here. Although you probably should not quote
me exactly, what I have written here is fact to a point. Just check yourself.
The DVD's you have (blanks) are 4.x Gigs, right. Mount a DVD, and do `df -h` ...
unless it's either a documentary where they weren't bothered, or a b-rated film,
chances are it's above 6 Gigs.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] help! MLDONKEY makes my system crash!

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:13:26 +0800
Xuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I want to find something to replace the win32 eMule. At first I tried 
> lmule, which is so vulnerable  and unstable that it crashed and made 
> core dump files so often. Then I found mldonkey , I downloaded the 
> source code and compiled it as what its homepage told me to do.
> After 'make install', I run it by using 'mldonkey', it looks fine and 
> the mldonkey-gui works fine too. But sometime later( sometime means 1 
> hour, or 5 minutes ), the system crashed. Even keyboard and mouse made 
> no response, and the CapsLock and ScrollLock blinked.
> 
> Now if I start mldonkey core, the system will crash soon, undoubtedly.
> 
> What's the matter? Or, maybe you  could tell me some other edonkey alike 
> software , my friend?

Does EDonkey download by any chance PublicHubList.config.bz2 files from servers
for hub lists? I don't know e-donkey well enough though, however I do know I
used to run suck a list on my server, but stopped it in January this year. Since
then I still get hammered to death sometimes for a file that isn't even on my
server, and when I say hammered, I mean thousands of hits per hour. Since
yesterday I put this "list" back up to get rid of these users, however the list
is jigged, and crashes DC++ *evil grin* ;-) Yes it sounds cruel, but if people
still haven't realised this, and still choose to flood a server with requests
for a file that is long gone, it's their choice.

Maybe MLdonkey is downloading it too? I doubt it, but it a possibility I think
(maybe).

Check your options or whatever for the entry on
http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/PublicHubList.config.bz2 , and if it's there,
get rid of it immediately ;-) This file, being *jigged* is very small compressed
(less that 2KB now), but uncompressed it's 450MB's, and will eat your system
resources like a cupcake :P  Sounds cruel doesn't it, but after months of
blocking abusers with my firewall, and trying to contact people from hubs
abusing this, I give up. This seems the only way I can do it.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] divx 5 and player

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:24:04 +0200 (CEST)
David Hlacik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi. I am just wondering ... i am trying to run divx 5.05 from
> divxnetworks.com under some linux player. Has anyone some ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> David Hlacik

Have you tried MPlayer? The releases come with libavcodec, which does support
DivX 5 too, and so far I have had no problems at all with any DivX.


Greetings
Ralph
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[newbie] HP Pavilion ze42* laptop

[Ralph Slooten]

Hi there everyone,

Just a quick question. Does anyone of this list have a HP Pavilion ze
with installed Mandrake on it?

The reason I ask is because I have the ze4268 model (european model..l. actually
it seems only like the Dutch model to be honest), and although I can use the
default mandrake kernel, or the one I have recompiled myself, I cannot get USB
working. I have tonnes of info if needed, but before I start to attach big files
and create a 40KB e-mail I think it's wise to ask first.

>From what I read on the internet there were problems back in Decebmber 2001 that
caused some hardware to get the same IO address... this may be my problem too,
I'm not too sure. And if this is the case, the patch I found doesn't help as
it's for an old kernel version, which I will not resort to as the rest of my
hardware will not be supported :P

So, if there anyone with experience here?

Many thanks in advance,
Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Sound 9.1 - Via QT apps in Fluxbox

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 02:48:33 +0200
Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I tried mp321 but it seems to have conflicts
> with my system.. so I am open to suggestions. It seems an mpg123 problem here,
> and if I remember correctly, it may have been the reason I switched last time.

Confirmed.. rebuilt mpg321, installed and now everything works (mpg that is) ...
next solution "play" .. 

Sigh, oh well, this seems to be more a lapse in my memory here, cause after I
got it working, I remembered that this was the solution to LM9.0 too hehehe,
took me longer to work out second time around. I must be getting old :-)

Thanks anyway

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Sound 9.1 - Via QT apps in Fluxbox

[Ralph Slooten]

On 06 Apr 2003 08:11:45 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey Ralph - I know I'm probably preaching to the choir, but did you
> check out your /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/profile to make sure that all
> system and library paths were straight and that bits and bobs were added
> to your /etc/ld.so.conf?
> 
> Just checking mate...

Hey Stephen, I'm glad for any advice dude ;-)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] axllent]$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt3/lib


What does yours say? Maybe I'm missing something there? I have no idea. Maybe
/usr/lib or whatever...

Let me give it a shot, and get back if it works.. naah, I'll do it now ;-)

Ok, added /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib and ran ldconfig, but still no change
after restarting the programs :-/

Damn Damn Damn.. this is pissing me off! 9.1 seems to run great, but I always
seem to have a separate issue with every distribution, and this is the case with
this one too, but the solution is probably so obvious I can't see it ;-)

I just tried xmms as my player, and it works great... but heck, I don't want
xmms to run every time I get sent a message ;-) LOL. It'll bugger up my
listening pleasure. Just tried mplayer as the player, and it works too, but
rather not a bloated player for an mp3 file of 3KB's ;-) I was just looking for
a simple and small console player. I tried mp321 but it seems to have conflicts
with my system.. so I am open to suggestions. It seems an mpg123 problem here,
and if I remember correctly, it may have been the reason I switched last time. 

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Sound 9.1 - Via QT apps in Fluxbox

[Ralph Slooten]

Hi there all,
I just reinstalled with 9.1 (clean install, thus not an upgrade), and now I'm
having problems with both psi and dcgui using external sound applications,
namely "play" and "mpg123".

PSI is coredumping when trying to use mpg123 (with the full path given), unless
started via the console which does work. The command and file work fine in the
console though.

As for DCGUI, same problem, using "play". Works again manually in a console, but
no matter how it's started (via the console or fluxbox menu), it doesn't work
(no coredumps though).

Nowhere can I find any extra info, and before I start to make debug versions, I
thought that maybe someone else had another idea.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Movie making.

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:32:18 -0500
James Henry Maiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   Does anyone have an opinion about the best package to make a movie 
> out of a series of stills?  I've been playing with bcast, but am 
> unsure of it's (and my) abilities.
> 
>   In a related vein, My digital camera records (medium poor) video 
> which is saved as a *.mov file.  There is microphone, so sound is 
> absent.  Any information on how to get a sound file welded on would 
> be appreciated.
> 
> -Jim M.

Hi,

A series of stills? You mean pics... OK. Mencoder has this option to make a
video of png and I believe jpeg files, maybe even more formats, and you can also
add in external audio files. It does take alot of reading and so on, but it's a
great program.

Oh, mencoder is part of MPlayer, and there are huge docs attached to the files
to help you.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] cdwriter

[Ralph Slooten]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:19 +0100
"Jan Verstuyft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Can you help me

If you tell us maybe what writer you have ;-)

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Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:37:35 +
Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> John Rye wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:24:52 +0100
> >Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>And how many countries have e-mail's ending in .co.uk? ;)
> >
> >Three - England, Scotland and Wales
> >
> >:-)
> >  
> >
> Make that four - add Northern Ireland!

Ok, my bad hehe, would it make you all happy when I say "What's the
difference"? hahah, LOL .. just kidding there... No really, I am, and no, I'm
not pouring and petrol on any fire.. so no, there is no need for 500 replies ;-)

Yes, I spoke too fast, I admit it. I was sitting with a dilemma here at home on
my server, getting bombarded by more than 6000 hits per day (and I'm not
kidding), running a webserver I'm not supposed to be. Somewhere inbetween the
cricis of: uploads almost totalling 1 Gig of just one 120kb bzipped file in
11 days (this month), are bound to not go unnoticed on our network, and : Which
country's have .co.uk   ... I must have made a tiny judgement error ;-)

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Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:11:01 +
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Yes I'm in UK. Are you psychic? 
> 
> No - I just remember your connection problems 

And how many countries have e-mail's ending in .co.uk? ;)

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Re: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:51:10 +
Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way round this?

Recently I also opted in for Online banking here in Holland. I was worried about
the possible Window$-only thing, so I searched and searched, but there was no
mention of it. I always reccon that if there is no mention, I could always get
my money back for it... 

However, Mozilla / Phoenix both run it very well... so I would say to use
Mozilla, as it is the most developed browser out there adhearing to the rules of
the internet `laws` (yes including IE).

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Re: [newbie] msn messenger voice through mandrake gateway?

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:16:04 +
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When signing on for a Jabber service be sure to pick a server which supports a
> gateway into MSN.
> 
> A list of servers and their gateways is here
> http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php?PHPSESSID=8b4fe60ed2135dd6c813d627cc4b30d4

Yeah... as many of them are blocked from others like AIM and so on. I run a free
jabber server on my server (if anyone's interested, link is in my footer), which
you are welcome to use too. It supports Jabber (obviously), AIM, ICQ, MSN & MSN
Conference, and Yahoo, and you can log in with ssl if you want.

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Re: [newbie] Hams on the list

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:45:55 + (GMT)
Chris Slater-Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Chris M0BOP
> 
> 73
> 
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith Powell wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 24 Feb 2003 8:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote:
> >
> > >>> Big snip <<<
> >
> > >   Also BTW Dan your email address looks like a ham call Great to see
> > > another amature radio fan on the list. I wonder how many more hams are
> > > here.
> > >
> > > Enjoy
> > > Marc  KM5KW
> >
> > Add me to the list!
> >
> > Cheers (or should I say 73)
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > G4JVX

Umm, maybe a dumb question, but what is a ham/s?


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Re: [newbie] FPSE2k2 - Apache help..

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:55:22 -0900
Robert Lamunyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> linux-mandrake.org

The mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Yes .org works, but messes up everyone's filters ;-)

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Re: [newbie] Another fluxbox/ROX convert: [was] This is personal!

[Ralph Slooten]

On 14 Feb 2003 21:24:37 -0500
Terry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
> 
> xscreensaver -no-splash &
> bsetbg -f /home/terry/Photos/uploads/IMG_0464.JPG
> rox --left=PANEL  --pinboard=PIN
> 
> This will startup xscreensaver, set a desktop background and invoke the
> ROX-filer. The options for rox include a left side panel (where I dock
> frequently used application icons) and a 'pinboard'. The latter allows
> you to place icons anywhere on your desktop. I've got a few
> frequently-accessed directory icons on the pinboard just above the
> bottom-center fluxbox toolbar. Simple, but effective.
> 
> There is an issue with passing the commands to the fluxbox root menu (rt
> button) through the pinboard but there's a patch and some workarounds.
> 
> Write if you have questions.
> 
> Terry

Hi Terry,

I have been using Fluxbox for more than a year now, and stepped over to rox
about 3 months back. Works great, but there are some issues with Rox and Fluxbox
that mabe you can answer?

With the Rox "--pinboard=PIN", I have great icons, handy too, but when I send a
window to the back (3rd mouse-click on the title bar), it jumps to behind
everything, including the rox background, and is nowhere to be seen till the
background is clicked somewhere and everything that was hidded springs forward.
I hope this explains what I mean, and it's total greek to you ;-) Do you know a
solution to this, I mean more along the lines ofa solution to keep windows
infront of the backdrop?

Second question is this: With the backdrop enabled, I can access my fluxbox
menu's, but nothing works  at all. I set the "send backdrop mouse clicks to
windowmanager" (or whatever), and can access the menu, but nothing works at all.
Solution is patch you talk about, wbut what is this patch for, rox or fluxbox,
and where could I find it?

3rd queston (and the last), my startup script doesn't work here. Is that maybe
because I'm starting with gdm, or do I have to add a particular line to
.fluxbox/init ?

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Re: [newbie] ogg/mp3 tag tool

[Ralph Slooten]

http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ is another great one ;-)

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:48:35 -0500
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here's a great little program you can use to batch rename oggs and mp3s to
> a common format. The files need the ID3 tag to begin with, and this tool
> lets you rename them based on those fields.
> 
> http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0251296501/tagtool/
> 
> Todd

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Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from 
> Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must 
> open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666
> 
> God luch!

And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like
Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect
(scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I
haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a
web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your
files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client
that it's become the "Nazi of file-sharing programs". I'm not trying to start
yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing you
;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct
Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due
to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to
make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey,
leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers.

I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I do
have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind of
scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-)

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Re: [newbie] xmms weirdness (multiple instances)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:09:02 -0500
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just did some security updating in 8.2, and now when I open xmms, I
> have four instances running. Not four players on the screen, but if I
> do "ps-Af| grep xmms" it reports there are 4. I noticed this because
> the info-pipe I use to tell the last 5 songs lists the same song 5
> times. 
> 
> I'm using xmms 1.2.4. Has anybody else seen this?
> 
> Todd

Wow, you're lucky, I have 6 ;-) Using Mandrake 9.0 here. No idea why,
but I have 1 instance really running.

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Re: [newbie] xmms et netscape 7.0

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:58:14 +0100
Rooms Frederic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When I surf on the internet with netscape 7.0 and use at the same time
> Xmms, my browser freezes: the page is not downloaded. I have to stop
> to play music (I don't even need to quit Xmms) and it works fine. Has 
> anyone the same problem or a clue to solve this problem ?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Fred

Hi there,

Are these by any chance pages including flash? If so, upgrade your Flash
plugin, as this was a common problem.

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Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:22:20 +
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Ralph.  It's one of the oddities of this list that I've seen your
> reply before my question has appeared :)

Before it appeared to you... hehehe, it appeared here obviously before I
could answer, but I too have noticed this several times in the past. I
think the mail server tries briefly on a very regular interval to post
the messages, and if your mail-server was even briefly for a minute
down, it'll skip it and try again 2 minutes later. Just my guess... I
can't be sure.

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Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:42:36 +
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Just one last question on this - I've got the pdf, and with Acrobat
> I'm now printing the A4 pages onto A5 paper, properly scaled -
> brilliant.  But each time I send a batch of paper to print I get back
> the message (generated by Acrobat)  
> 
> KDirWatch:  /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file.  Use addFile!
> 
> Everything appears to work fine, but I have no idea what this is
> about?
> 
> Anne

I also have no idea. To be honest, I have never seen this as far as I
can remember, but doing a `cat /etc/security/fileshare.conf` gives me:
RESTRICT=yes

I have no idea either...

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Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:26:20 +
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I thought I had cracked this one.  I took an html file, and opened it,
> I think, in Ghostview (I can't see any other front-end for
> Ghostscript, so I guess it must have been this).  I wrote it as a ps
> file, then did ps2pdf filename.  At least, that is the way I think I
> did it.  It worked, and I was left with a suitably small test pdf
> file.  
> 
> So then I went to what I really wanted to convert.  I can't get any
> html file to open in Ghostview, getting error messages as attached. 
> Can enyone help, please?
> 
> Anne

Hi Anne

Try Openoffice.org ;-) Via the Writer, you can open an html, and then
you can print it to the PDF converter (created by spadmin in your
openoffice.org)

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Re: [newbie] MPEG2 to .AVI conversion

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:37:02 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
> 
> Yes I thought so too, but the case I exampled is a large .mpg file
> derived from a
> uk terrestrial digital tv box .

How big is ths file? There is always the problem with large files, and
mplayer can be compiled with "--enable-largefiles" to enable
file-support for over 2 gigs. I didn't find any config options for lame,
so this may be mplayer-dependent or something.

> These devices have the facility to
> store the tv output
> onto your hard drive via a usb connection, admittadly in windblows
> with the aid of a
> piece of software, but it acts like a TV card programme.The file is
> then accessed in the
> usual linux/windblows fstab setup and processed.
> 
> I tried something like ,
> mencoder   -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o
> film.avi

This seems right here, so I would think your mpeg file is over 2 Gigs?

> but all it did was complain something about mp3lamecodec or something
> not accessable.
> I guess the options are wrong. or else it does not like the
> pathtosource in that position.
> 
> Any thoughts.

Well, just see how big that mpeg is, and if I'm right, just recompile
your mplayer with the --enable-largefiles, and you should be set (I
believe) :-)

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Re: [newbie] MPEG2 to .AVI conversion

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:44:22 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What if the mpeg2 is a large .mpg file on the haddrive.
> What sort of command line would achieve conversion to .avi in mencoder
> ?


Hiya John,

Well, again you would need to know the bitrate required to get your
final size (divxcalc for example). Then you would rip it just like you
would a DVD, but instead of "mencoder-dvd 1 ", you would
"mencoder  "... nothing different ;-)


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Re: [newbie] MPEG2 to .AVI conversion

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:13:41 +
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Is it possible to convert mpeg2 to .avi with any linux programme
> like mencoder
> 
> Andrew

Yeah, with mencoder (part of MPlayer)

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Re: [newbie] IDENTD

[Ralph Slooten]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:34:24 -0700
"Boulytchev, Vasiliy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ladies and Gents,
> Im trying to get identd running (irc).
>  
> identd[2890]: Failed to bind to port 113: Permission denied   
> is the error when I try running a self-compiled
> daemon,
>  
> when run as root, /usr/sbin/identd -d everything works,   I can even
> telnet to port 113 from remote machinges and attempt to communicate,
> so its not a firewall issue. IRC is still giving me no response from
> identd daemon.
>  
> Also, when trying to start identd from RPM pidentd, I got this in
> logs: identd[32758]: fopen("/proc/net/tcp", "r"): Permission denied

Ports under (I believe) 1024 can only be run as root (safety)

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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:47:48 +0100
Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> This should be it. Please not you HAVE to use your real e-mail address
> ;-)

Sorry, it should read: Please NOTE you HAVE to use your real e-mail
address


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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:53:00 -0500
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey Ralph,
> 
>  From the way his log file read it sounds as though it's already too 
> late and he should just do a reload.
> 
> -- 
> Mark

I'm not sure Mark, The logs are logging connection attempts, thus not
allowed, but if they maybe found an open one, I can't be sure.

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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:18:59 -0500
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
> 
> Thats a cool site. Actually the first time I'd ever seen it. However,
> I couldn't find where you signed up to become a member.
> 
> -- 
> Mark


http://spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml

This should be it. Please not you HAVE to use your real e-mail address
;-)

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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:59:58 +1300
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I didn't think I'd inferred they were coming thru the list. :-)
> they're not. This address is only used for maillist traffic, so it was
> a thought that maybe others on this list were getting them too.
> 
> My ISP service doesn't do any scanning (says it's the enduser
> responsibility!!), so I filter everything suspicious elsewhere and
> take a wee peek now and then.
> 
> Just as a statistic I've received 170 of these things since 15
> December, 87 from the same IP group.
> 
> I'm not very concerned as there's no chance they'll get executed - no
> windows in this cabin!!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John

Received one today ;-) How about that. Sorry, I thought you meant to the
mailing-list. Try a "whois ", and report it to their ISP,
explianing the quantity you are getting. I think that may help. This
person sending it to you probably doesn't even know it.

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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

Not me. I know my mail is scanned automatically on the server for
virusses, but I always get a warning, so no, it's not comming though
this side. Are you sure it's the mailing-list that he's sending to?

Greetings
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:50:00 +1300
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> While on the subject of trojans etc
> 
> Is anyone else on this list getting repeat mailings from a user who
> appears to be using a node on 'cwpanama.net' ?
> 
> This mail includes a variety of windows executables with .exe .scr and
> .pif extensions all of varying size.
> 
> A check with a demo version of the RAV virus scanner for Linux says
> they're mostly Klex, Nimbda and Yaha
> 
> I've been getting up to 8 of these a day since mid December, despite
> several pleadings to the ISP to do something about it (And we all
> thought Cable & Wireless had some credibility!!)
> 
> I'm not to concerned about them as they're filtered to the
> bit-bucket..
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
> 
> 


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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:10:19 +1100
Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The following is a third of my logfile.  Is this not normal for you
> folks?  Why do so many people get so worried when something shows up. 

Why? well just read what I added to almost all your submitted port
attacks. Sorry to say this, but this is ignorance. You are being probed
from all sides my trojans, and you don't realise it.

> It did, it does and it always will while ever the Script Kiddies that
> Stephen loves so much are around.

Therse aren't scrip-kiddies, but documented trojans, probably most are
from Windows, but like the one I had... Redhat Linux. It's not normal
for people to try ftp into you, or fetch mail from your server... but
look at the list of trojans... there are many for those 2 ports.

> From my DI-704P Ethernet Broadband Routers Log:


port 137= (UDP) - Bugbear, Msinit, Opaserv, Qaz
port 1433   = Voyager Alpha Force
port 1524   = Trinoo
port 21 = ADM worm, Back Construction, Blade Runner, BlueFire, Bmail,
  Cattivik FTP Server, CC Invader, Dark FTP, Doly Trojan,
  FreddyK, Invisible FTP, KWM, MscanWorm, NerTe, NokNok,
  Pinochet, Ramen, Reverse Trojan, RTB 666, The Flu, WinCrash,
  Voyager Alpha Force
port 22 = InCommand, Shaft, Skun
port 25 = Antigen, Barok, BSE, Email Password Sender , Gip, Laocoon,
  Magic Horse, MBT , Moscow Email trojan, Nimda, Shtirlitz,
  Stukach, Tapiras, WinPC
port 3128   = Reverse WWW Tunnel Backdoor , RingZero
port 3389   = 
port 443= Slapper
port 445= Nimda
port 515= MscanWorm, Ramen
port 6346   = 



Just thought I would let you know ;-) Let's just hope you have the
non-logged ports closed ;-)

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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:37:46 +
"H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just checked my SmoothWall stats, can't find any extraordinary
> activity there lately. Not like you're getting, anyway.
> 
> That should get the lists off the hook=:o)
> 
> Good hunting,
> Harm

No connection attemps on port 635 at all?


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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On 19 Jan 2003 10:51:14 +1100
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've already contacted the ISP locally here - on both of their
> available addresses. Tomorrow (being Monday for us) I'm going to be
> "in their neighbourhood" and will call, and if necessary, stop in with
> a printed report.
> 
> I like this stuff. And I love the looks on their faces when ya go
> waltzing into their "offices" with print-outs in hand...(and a heavy
> yank accent to boot)

Hehe, you must get a kick out of this Stephen ;-) But thanks again for
all the effort. Just to let you know I got another "attack" about 3
hours ago 61.68.96.127 (I was still sleaping), from the same
connect.com.au, so it seems like it's really a once_a_day thing. I just
can't work out what the connection is to my computer from this one. I
mean maybe this person is trying every day to access my site, but thinks
it's offline or something, I really don't know. Maybe the server that's
infected has me in it's hosts file, or whatever, but it sucks. I cannot
imagine I'm the only one, and so this is a wise move as noone has
replied to the initial post yet with "it may be me", or "I suspect it
may be my provider", or "sorry, problem discovered, thanks for the
warning".

I don't know of course for sure if they are on this list, and scanning
through all my archived mail for an IP-range isn't my amusement for
sundays or any day for that matter ;-) I just took an intelligent guess.

Greetings
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:44:44 +
magnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Oh ok, call me an old softy but I've removed my reply-to entry now ;-)

LOL hehe, I guess 2 comments about it in 8 hours was enough :D


Thanks, Works great now
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:43:54 -0500
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ralph,
> 
> Thats something I've not yet done. Just exactly how does one do that
> to an incoming connection. I'd be real interested to learn.
> 
> -- 
> Mark

Well, I use portsentry
(http://www.psionic.com/products/portsentry.html), which basically
watches the incomming connections, and if certain ports are accessed,
then it drops all connections (on any port) from that IP.

Give it a try, as it works great. I am presuming here you use iptables
for your firewall? Whether you use firestarter or have an iptables
script it doesn't matter, portsentry overrides it all with a block. The
idea behind it is to block hackers, like when they portscan you to check
what's open, or trojans from spreading info / data. I have a script that
sends me an email with every attack.

Actually while I'm writing this, I just got another attempt, but this
one is from Canada (yeah, who is it?!?):


Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:49:35 +0100 (CET)

Portscan on 635 detected from 216.208.52.104  
Blocking all connections from host

Log History
===
Jan 19 00:49:33 axljab portsentry[25540]: attackalert: Connect from
host: HSE-Kitchener-ppp78693.sympatico.ca/216.208.52.104 to TCP port:
635 Jan 19 00:49:33 axljab portsentry[25540]: attackalert: Host
216.208.52.104 has been blocked via wrappers with string: "ALL:
216.208.52.104" Jan 19 00:49:33 axljab portsentry[25540]: attackalert:
Host 216.208.52.104 has been blocked via dropped route using command:
"/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s 216.208.52.104 -j DROP"



Whois Report:
=

OrgName:Bell Canada 
OrgID:  LINX

NetRange:   216.208.0.0 - 216.209.255.255 
CIDR:   216.208.0.0/15 
NetName:BELLCANADA-4
NetHandle:  NET-216-208-0-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType:Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS3.BELLGLOBAL.COM
NameServer: NS4.BELLGLOBAL.COM
Comment:ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate:1999-03-12
Updated:1999-09-10

TechHandle: PD135-ARIN
TechName:   Daoust, Philippe 
TechPhone:  +1-800-450-7771
TechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

OrgTechHandle: SYSAD1-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Sys Admin 
OrgTechPhone:  +1-613-785-0886
OrgTechEmail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Hope this helps
Ralph
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Re: [newbie] Trojan alert - Australian IP (connect.com.au)

[Ralph Slooten]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:37:53 -0500
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ralph,
> 
> have you done the leg work in tracking these connections and reported
> to the ISP they're coming from yet? That _should_ be the first place
> to begin. If your theory is correct then the sooner they know about it
> the better for all concerned all the way around.
> 
> -- 
> Mark

Hi Mark

Yeah, I know the ISP and IP and times and ports and so on... I just
thought I would alert the list as I figured that the person is probably
on this list. Rather they clean their system than get a nasty letter
from their ISP, as I'm guessing this trojan is not intential. But to get
back to the point, Stephen has just helped me out with the reports, now
to see if they respond to it (ISP).

Thanks
Ralph
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