Re: last Thursday's meeting November 9, 2000

2000-11-15 Thread Michael Smith
I guess I'll have to do some research. Christopher Allen wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Ericsson R280LX > > > > Limitations: > > The web stuff is a sort of "canned world," or at least I haven't figured out how to > > read slashdot yet, so maybe it's not that the tech is

Re: last Thursday's meeting November 9, 2000

2000-11-15 Thread Christopher Allen
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael Smith wrote: > Ericsson R280LX > > Limitations: > The web stuff is a sort of "canned world," or at least I haven't figured out how to > read slashdot yet, so maybe it's not that the tech is bad--it's the user. It isn't using WAP like some of the other Ericcson phones

Re: last Thursday's meeting November 9, 2000

2000-11-15 Thread Michael Smith
This is for Seth, too, since he wanted to find out how to make funky dial songs: Ericsson R280LX The finder is part of the web browser functionality, and it can also check mail in pop mailboxes, which is almost too cool. That means that Mike can go fishing more often, and can check up on his sys

RE: X problem

2000-11-15 Thread Jim Darrough
I also have that card  but external (PCI). Regards, Jim At 09:57 AM 11/15/00 -0800, you wrote: Thanks Seth It is a ATI Mach64 rage I/II built into the MB on an aptiva It is on the list on drakconfig the error messages say $DISPLAY is not set and can't open display :0 among other things

Re: X problem

2000-11-15 Thread Jim Darrough
I suspect mine was the first, eh Seth? Regards, Jim At 01:25 PM 11/14/00 -0800, you wrote: >Mandrake 7.2 uses Xfree 4.0 and I bet the video card is older and >unsupported by 4.0, only 3.3 > >On the other hand, this is the second case of this I've heard of, so >maybe 7.2 does have a bug somewhere

Re: last Thursday's meeting November 9, 2000

2000-11-15 Thread Christopher Allen
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Michael Smith wrote: > You missed it last night when I was looking up addresses on my phone using the web > browser function and the business finder utility. I can even get directions to > these places because the phone knows where it's at. Mmm As I recall, it Than

Re: last Thursday's meeting November 9, 2000

2000-11-15 Thread Michael Smith
You missed it last night when I was looking up addresses on my phone using the web browser function and the business finder utility. I can even get directions to these places because the phone knows where it's at. Mmm As I recall, it was out-geeking even some of the hardcore geeks prese

last Thursday's meeting November 9, 2000

2000-11-15 Thread Timothy Bolz
Thursday November 9, 2000 There were about 20 people. There was 4 computers being worked on. I didn't take many notes so I'm remembering this. Corey was there. He was working on his laptop. I don't know what he was working on. Mike was kicking back in a chair smiling contently reading hi

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Nov 15 Advanced Linux: Jay Beale from Bastille Linux

2000-11-15 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I'm on my way there now; Max to Beav TC, 76 S to Tigard. A ride back to either a Max TC or Downtown Portland area would be most appreciated. See you all there.

Re: Furby successfully hacked. Only took 2 years...

2000-11-15 Thread Seth Cohn
And, BTW, yes, I DID just order one of this hack kits. $73 including shipping. Seth Cohn wrote: > > http://www.afu.com/furby/winner.html > and > http://www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo232.htm > and > http://www.furbyupgrade.20m.com/ > > Make your Furby speak for real...

Furby successfully hacked. Only took 2 years...

2000-11-15 Thread Seth Cohn
http://www.afu.com/furby/winner.html and http://www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo232.htm and http://www.furbyupgrade.20m.com/ Make your Furby speak for real...

Re: Linux commands

2000-11-15 Thread James S. Kaplan
I gave Jim a CD with all man pages reduced to .pdf's. Gawd knows where I got it, but perhaps he can copy it or donate it to the cause. At 12:05 PM 11/15/2000, you wrote: >http://www.powerup.com.au/~squadron/ > >http://www.ezlinuxproducts.com/downloads/demos/linux_card.pdf > >There are MANY more

Re: Problems with rlogin

2000-11-15 Thread Garl R. Grigsby
Well I fixed it. I have no idea what I did, but now it works. One thing I did do was to remove the remote tools rpm and reinstall it. It didn't work right after that, but after several other things (and a reboot) it now works. I guess I got lucky. Thanks to all, Garl "Garl R. Grigsby" wrote: >

RE: Problems with rlogin

2000-11-15 Thread Cory Petkovsek
I've never used the r services, but here are some suggestions: are the r servers actually running? pa ax, etc are your ports open? nmap 127.0.0.1 Can you rlogin to 127.0.0.1 Can you telnet to the r-server ports either remotely, or to 127.0.0.1 When I was using mandrake, I noticed that they did s

Re: Problems with rlogin

2000-11-15 Thread Garl R. Grigsby
Yes the 'r' services are running in inetd.conf. There is nothing in host.deny. Yes I want to enable this. I running this machine on internal network and we are sitting behind a checkpoint firewall so attacks from external sources are not a concern. Internal attacks I am not too concerned with as

Re: Linux commands

2000-11-15 Thread Seth Cohn
http://www.powerup.com.au/~squadron/ http://www.ezlinuxproducts.com/downloads/demos/linux_card.pdf There are MANY more try a google search for 'cheat sheet linux' Seth Timothy Bolz wrote: > > Seth > Could you post the sites for Linux commands. You said you know a few. I'll > print some

C++ Programmers: Time to Party!!!

2000-11-15 Thread Enchantir
Borland is introducing a RAD tool for C, C++ and Delphi programming in Linux. This rocks!!! Finally I can do my bigger project development on my Linux box (I don't hand write gui's!). The package is called 'Kylix'. I am researching it and will post again when I know more. Ron Computer Guru to

Re: Problems with rlogin

2000-11-15 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:02:06PM -0800, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > >Afternoon all, >I haven't seen much tech talk lately so I thought I would post a >couple of questions that have been bugging me and something really neat >I just found. First for the questions. > >Question 1) No matter what I

ANNOUNCEMENT: Nov 15 Advanced Linux: Jay Beale from Bastille Linux

2000-11-15 Thread David Mandel
Announcing the continuation of the Portland Linux Users Group Advanced Topic Meetings. *** Sponsored by MandrakeSoft *** The Second Talk is Jay Beale of the Bastille Linux Introduction (from their web page): The Bastille Hardening System attempts to "harden"

RE: X problem

2000-11-15 Thread Barker, Gerald A (MD)
Title: RE: X problem Thanks Seth It is a ATI Mach64 rage I/II built into the MB on an aptiva It is on the list on drakconfig the error messages say $DISPLAY is not set and can't open display :0 among other things -Original Message- From: Seth Cohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: X windows glitches, window controls off-screen

2000-11-15 Thread Ben Barrett
I use G/K/enlightenment on suse, but I think this is somewhat standard: use alt-key binding while dragging windows to move them ie, hold down the alt key whilst left-button-dragging anywhere in a window; for me, it moves -- when alt is pressed, the window does not pass along th mouse info to the p