[newbie] HD.......
Hi, recently when i've been browsing the internet i have noticed, particularly when scrolling on a webpage that my hard drive is working a bit harder than usual, just seems a bit noisier and working overtime, it's like it's just spinning faster when i scroll...i'm running AMD K6-2 450mhz, 128meg Ram, 6.4 gig HD, dual booting win98/linux. If i haven't explained this properly please tell me, any help would be greatthanks in advance. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
Talking about MS Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix. Robert. From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500 In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge - especially a full blown productivity app... -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!! hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or at work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running somewhere in that company. Just a thought here. Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine. If you dig very deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux. Could there be a connection? Spin is everything these days it seems. Just thought I'd suggest that this story might have a positive spin in the end. Cheers --- Larry _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] Netscape browser...
Hi, can anybody tell me how i can get colour on the netscape browsers interface, it's grey and the pic's on the buttons are black...if their's supposed to be colour that is. Any help would be great, thank's in advance.. Robert. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Hacker on Licq
From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hacker on Licq Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:47:49 -0500 Hi, are you running a firewall, if not you should take the time to get one set up on your box, configure it properly and this should keep people out, although a good hacker will still get in, your firewall should alert you if someone is scanning your system. Change your passwords to upper and lower case with a mixture of symbols, even with this your password can still be cracked but it would be a bit harder. If you are using icq or some sort of messenger..beware, when talking to someone, you and that person have a direct connection with each other, all that person has to do is run netstat -n on the command line and bingo..he has your IP address..easy as that, from there they can scan to see what ports are open on your system, hence the firewall so you can guard those ports. If you are getting regular attacks from the same person, you could be infected with a trojan, when you go on-line the trojan that sit's in your machine will send your IP address back to that hacker and then he will hack you again. This is just a brief outline, there are many way's that it can be done. Personally i don't use my linux box to go online as i don't feel it's secure enough yet, as i'm still learning linux, i use my windows box cos it's like fort knox...if you get mail from someone that you don't know and it has an attachment, don't open it [delete it] for all you know it could be a virus, soon as you open it, your infected...Oh yes, see all the stuff at the top of this e-mail, their's enough info there for you to be hacked..worrying isn't it...by the way, don't get the wrong idea...i'm not a hacker..i just study alot. Hope this helps...Bye. On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:29:59 -0700, Robin wrote: Yesterday, some hacker from Spain got into my system and started to hacking away at some of my linux files especially in Licq files. --- Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:38:15 I am sorry Robin that I don't know enough to be able to help you, but I have a question How long were you online that gave the bad guy opportunity to do damage...are you continually hooked up online? The reason I ask is I am using the fly low approach of hit, get the mail/info, and get off the phone line ... I feel sort of naked while I am doing it -- Olly P Biloxi Mississippi "when I lay down to sleep at night, I see little images of my computer screen...they must be burned into my retina? I wonder if they make contact lenses with little screensavers?"op _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:59:16 -0300 Hi, i've got a U.S. Robotics aswell, my speaker don't work either, i'm new to this, when i was setting up my connection, the only thing that stopped me getting connected was not putting the right DNS servers addresses in, soon as i corrected that, i was connected in no time. If this is the problem you should be able to get the addresses from your ISP or go into MS-DOS Type WINIPCFG You should then get a pop up telling you your DNS address along with alot of other stuff. Well hope this help's...good luck. Robert Griffiths I can not get this modem working wit Linux not sure why though, It works just find when running windows. It is a sportster 33.6 ENT FAX modem and I find I like the little thing ;). The problem I am having is that when I go to call out, it finds the modem says it is ready then starts to initialize and goes no father. My modem is in COM port 1, I used dev/ttyS0 instead of dev/modem. I also tried it the other way as well. It once said that it was setting speaker volume but stopped there. Speaker does not mean that much to me anyway since I can not seem to get my sound going hehe.. Dam sound it built onto the Mobo it is ESS and SB compatible but still does not seem to work. Anyway and help would be great. Thanks! Stephen _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] ISP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ISP Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 11:19:20 EDT Isp for linux, you mean one that works with your linux box, they all do i think, when i signed up or my isp , they sent me all my account info e.g. DNS server info to put in my configuration settings and i connected without any problems, don't know if that's what you mean, might help though. Robert. where is there an isp for linux, and dont send me to whatever.UK im referring to the states, near chicago, in this god forsaken naval base _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] whois nslookup..
For all those that helped me with my traceroute problem...thanks. I've been trying to locate 'whois nslookup' which i can't find although i've seen fwhois on the installation cd, my question is, is nslookup on the cd under a different name because i can seem to find it, also is there a whois instead of fwhois, as kpackage tells me that there is a difference between them. I know this is a dumb question but any help would be great. Thanks in advance. Robert. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] Browser Fonts...
Hi, when i'm surfing on the net all the fonts on web page's are tiny and a horrible font type, i can put up with it but if anybody knows how to change them, i would be grateful, there kinda hard to read on certain pages. Thanks in advance... Robert. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] Firewalls...
I'm back again, it's question day to day, anybody point me in the right direction for a good firewall or ways to secure my linux box, any help would be great. Thanks in advance... Robert. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:42:15 -0700 I've got U.S. Robotics external, it works great, most externals work, but most internals don't although i heard somebody say somewhere that they had an internal U.S. Robotics and it was okay. Dunno about the sound card though, i didn't try to get mine working, it just worked. I used partition magic before installing mandrake, it comes with the boxed pack, it does everything for you including a swap partition, i'm new myself, so i hope this helps. Robert. I'm not sure I understand, but are you trying to install ON TOP of windows? Linux is an OS in it's own right so you don't need to do that (if that was your plan). Repartition your drive to give some empty space for Mandrake to live and then install. I'm using Win2k pro, server, Win98 and Mandrake on the same machine without any problems. If you need further instruction, send another message and we'll see if we can get you going =) Mike Is there a way around the idiotic no MS-DOS program installed to demoralize users on Windows Me, aside from uninstalling? I just bought this thing, mainly because I wasn't that impressed with Red Hat. However, I can not install due to Window's Me. I'm thinking I could just boot from CD and install that way, like I did with Red Hat, but not totally sure, as there is two CD's and don't want to mess anything up.. Oh, for clarification's sake, here's my specs AMD K6/2 500 Mhz ASUS P5A Mobo Diamond Viper V770 (AGP) 32 MB Diamond Multimedia Sound II (MX2000) U.S Robotics 56K v.90 160 MB SDRAM PC100 15 GB HD 3.5 GB HD (Empty, where I want to put Mandrake) Generic IDE 40X CD-ROM Microsoft Force Feedback Pro Joystick I think that about covers it, I think the only problems with my Hardware will be the Sound Card and the Modem, didn't see 'em in the compatibility list. Though if anyone knows of a patch or other technicall thingie, it would be most appriciated. First things first though, I need to get the 'lil bugger installed *winks* Thanks, John _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
[newbie] Traceroute...
Hi, when i try to use the command 'traceroute' i get a command not found reply but i searh for traceroute i find it in /usr/sbin/traceroute, I've only been using linux for a couple of days so help would be great, also does 'whois nslookup' come with linux cos i get command not found with them aswell...i'm running mandrake 7.1. If you can help, thanks in advance. Cheers... _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] CDROM tray won't open when prompted to insert the Extension CD
I can't answer your question but i've installed twice and even when i'm running linux normally my cd rom drawer is always slow in opening, it opens eventually though, the light stays on for a while then it opens. Anyway just to let you know your not the only one...sorry i can't help. Good Luck Robert. From: A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED], "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDROM tray won't open when prompted to insert the Extension CD Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:44:02 -0400 On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: I've tried on two different machines to install 7.1 and when it gets to the part to insert the disk 2 Extension CD, the CDROM tray won't open up. I have to cancel out of that part of the install and continue with the normal one. Has anyone had this same problem? Any suggestions... It works, just wait a few minutes. It seems like it displays the message then does some more processing before unmounting the cd. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
