Re: [newbie] A little security....
WolfRyder wrote: We've been told by a couple of people on the net that this product sends info on all sites you've visited to their tracking site. Don't know if it's true or not, but different ppl have told us this. You might want to look at "Conseal" at www.consealfirewall.com. There's a 15 day trial before purchase. We've also used LockDown 2000, but are going with a different product today. Carol Holy cannoli! I wish I would have known this about Zone Alarm before! I installed it on my PC a few weeks ago. Oh well, you get what you pay for, and Zone Alarm is free. I thought you liked LockDown? What product are you changing to? Anyone else out there have a suggestion (besides installing Linux-as-a-firewall on an old 486) Thanks, Kathleen
[newbie] Trendware?
Found something curious in my surfings this evening. www.trendware.com claims to offer Linux device drivers for their products. Don't think my modem is one of their devices, but maybe the info could help someone out there. Has anyone tried any of their drivers? I am quite curious about this, just on general principal!!! Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] off topic
Hi Oder, It is alt.os.linux mandrake. I have it on the news server that my ISP subscribes to. Note the space between linux and mandrake. Sometimes those news servers can be finicky. Maybe that's why you aren't finding it. Did you try running a search at deja.com? Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
Alan, Doh! You are right! I did install Mandrake when there were no other drives even hooked up--I was having a lot of trouble, and was beginning ot think it was my ribbon cable, so I unhooked my Windows hard drive and attached that connection to the Linux hard drive. Anyhoo, I will reinstall Linux. There are some things missing from the recommended install that I want anyway. Thanks, Kathleen
[newbie] LILO and modem issues
First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) who intended to install LinuxPPC about this time last year. I never got around to it. About three weeks ago I bought a PC and decided to make some use of it by getting a second hard drive and installing Mandrake on it. Call me crazy, but the idea of partitioning something I use every day scares me. I have heard too many stories about partitons breaking down, I suppose. After much gnashing of teeth and general hassle, I got the thing mounted (damn these cheap micro ATX cases!) and just finally got Mandrake installed, after trying four times. It is a 10GB Western Digital, if that matters. My Windows 98 hard drive is primary master. My Mandrake hard drive is primary slave. I have nothing for a secondary master. My CD-ROM is the secondary slave. First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first. Any ideas/suggestions? Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy. It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem webpage? Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me. Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"! Thanks, Kathleen
[newbie] To Vernon Stilwell, whoever you are!
Located on a dusty dirt road, running roughly parallel to the information highway. Awaiting BellSouth's efforts to bridge the "digital divide". Mr, Stilwell, your little sig file here made me and my co-workers laugh and generally feel better. I work at a smallish I.S.P. in Colorado. We fight with US West DAILY about bridging our digital divide. Hell, we don't even the option to offer DSL to our customers here. In a way, it's kinda nice to know it's not just USWest that bites. Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) and Michael responded: You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?) Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the extension manager, but it's certainly not the same thing. In a way a person has less control while using a Mac. But a perosn can allocate programs more or less memory, which is cool. And resetting the PRAM--now that's fun! Once a Mac geek, always a Mac geek, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
Yup, I tried it. I ran "lilo" at the command prompt after I saved it and it told me /dev/hdb is not a regular file. Maybe this is a good excuse to get a whole new and different box?! Any excuse, any at all... An iMac, eh? Cool. Mine is grape and is quite neglected since this Linux thing came around. Thanks, Kathleen
