Re: ATI Rage 128 and XFree 4.1

2002-06-22 Thread Walter Reed
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:35:01PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 17:41, Helgi Örn wrote: > > Hi > I don't know if you are running laptop or not, but I have two different > laptops (an old compac armada and a new ibm thinkpadx20) with ati rage > mobility and x4.1 and -2 w

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-20 Thread Walter Reed
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:04:40PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:29:04PM +1000, John wrote: > | There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever > | bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 > | > | We need a version > 1.2.1

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Walter Reed
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:46:57AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > Unfortunately, many sites I need to access EXPRESSLY DO NOT WORK with Mozilla > or Netscape 6.0. These are unfortunately some of the most important sites I > need to access, including some online banking sites, subscription based legal > r

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-06-05 Thread Walter Reed
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:25:09AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | Spam is not new. Everyone knows it's a problem. There is no excuse > | anymore to be ignorant. > > I recently learned something about open relays. Installing anti-virus > software (eg Norton) on your MS server (that isn't

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-05 Thread Walter Reed
> I would just like to point out the legal saying that "big cases make bad > law." We're all irritated by one moron's behavior; that's not necessarily > an argument for significant technical or policy changes. By all > indications he's gone, and in any case by the end of the day no fewer than > f

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-04 Thread Walter Reed
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:05:46AM +0200, Joris wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote: > > b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wasn't subscribed, how could he post? > > this would prevent many people who read this list as a newsgroup t

Re: Connect Linux to Windows XP

2002-06-01 Thread Walter Reed
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:02:57PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I already have pppconfig, but I don't know how to use it to connect to a > Windows box. I've only used it to connect to the internet by modem. > Any tips on how can I do this? If you are asking how to configure the Windows box for

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-06-01 Thread Walter Reed
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:00:39AM -0500, dman wrote: > No. Only if they choose to. They _could_ be checking an "inputs" RBL > and denying them the ability to abuse the swbell system like that. > > | I have a whole sh*t pot full of filter defs. > > Spamassassin is much more effective than that

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Walter Reed
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:19:54PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a Debian GNU/Linux potato server with exim configured. > I received a strange message. What can be wrong? > TIA,Paulo Henrique. > > > This message was cre

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Walter Reed
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:21:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Unfortunately, if I wanted a "hamburger" in Minnesota in February, > you wouldn't fire up your grill. Um, speak for yourself. Grilling is a year-round thing for some up us Minnesotan's! Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep us fro

Re: NAT and DSL internet access with dynamic IP and LAN clients

2002-05-30 Thread Walter Reed
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Baran wrote: Baran: The obvious problem you have is that you are running an old version of windows! You need to install the Debain version of windows which is newer than even Windows XP!! Lucky for you that you can download and install Debian Windows for

Re: jdk 1.4.0 ???

2002-05-28 Thread Walter Reed
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:32:31PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > opennms wants to start; but, now, it tells me that I need jdk 1.4.0. > > Where can I find this deb? > > What do you think? Don't know about the deb but just go to sun's web site and download it. It's VERY easy. -- To UNS

Re: General Java question

2002-05-27 Thread Walter Reed
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 09:00:44AM -0500, dman wrote: > Java isn't all that Sun's marketing folks say it is. I've crashed > jvms quite a bit. I'm no longer surprised when java applets don't > work all that well. (the VNC java applet works great, though) Yeah, true. There are multiple issue of c

Re: General Java question

2002-05-27 Thread Walter Reed
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:27:43AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >Which Java do you have installed? Kaffe? Blackdown? Sun? 1.2? > >1.3? 1.1.x? 1.3.1? > > > On this machine, "about|plugins" reports "Java(TM) Plug-in > Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS". > One the campus site I mentioned above, we are using a

Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-27 Thread Walter Reed
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:09:30AM -0500, dman wrote: > It's just a perl script that also includes lots of URL patterns for ad > banners. In squid.conf, specify it as a redirector_program. ... and much more. Not only does the author maintain a very complete list of patterns, you can also spec you

Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-27 Thread Walter Reed
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:31:41PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:02:49AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > > > Another reason to run squid: adzap. It's amazing how much it speeds up > > browsing > > on my IDSL line... > > What

Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-26 Thread Walter Reed
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:24:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Curiosity to see if its worth keeping squid duing a transparent proxy > now that our broadband came up (we were stuffed on dialup for four days > when the person in charge of getting everybody's share of rent and bill > money forgot th

Re: Debian laptop (vendors)

2002-05-24 Thread Walter Reed
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:26:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 23/05/02 Bill Wohler did speaketh: > > > No idea on whether IBM will install Debian for you. I installed Debian > > on my Thinkpad T20 without much fuss. The Cisco 802.11 card works out > > of the box too. I've been hap

Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread Walter Reed
I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm looking at sid. Sid doesn't have install disks yet, so I'm wondering what t