Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Brett W Tippet
Cheers Gary .. Tried this ... unfortunatelly ... doesn't seem to alter the issues .. Thanks for the idea anyway. Brett. - Original Message - From: "Gary Hodder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [expert] ip addressing on la

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Gary Hodder
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 14:29, Brett W Tippet wrote: > Thanks to all who have replied to this issue so far .. > > Unfortunatelly, I'm still up the putt. > > Here's the output of my configs below. > > Someone suggested I may have a config issue with shorewall .. but I don't > have an /etc/shorewall

Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-19 Thread bascule
rob you're going to lose info if you don't rerip whatever you do, the way that ogg and mp3 compress audio is different in that although they both 'lose' sounds that are 'less important' they don't lose the same parts, this means that a wav decoded from an ogg has stuff missing compared to the o

Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-19 Thread antonovich
Rob Blomquist wrote: Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. With the help of a Higher Power. If th

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Brett W Tippet
Cool .. I just did that The RX and TX didn't increase ... but the "dropped" went up to 300. Still got me confused, because I've tried 3 cards that r doing the same thing. Brett. - Original Message - From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 2

Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-19 Thread Markus Ueberall
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am going to try to NOT use ogg2mp3 as to go from one lossy to another is way too > lossy for me. > I am wondering if a better path would be to use oggdecode, and to pick up the > wave file in mp3encode or lame. Though the latter is the path I would

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Bill
Notice the TX and RX packets for eth0 in the output from the ifconfig command. They show 0. Try pinging 192.168.0.200 and see if they increase or not. There may be an issue with the card. Check that the link lite is on, on that card by looking at the rear of your pc. On Star Date Sunday 19 Octo

[expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. I am going to try to NOT use ogg2mp3 as to go from one lossy

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 22:13, Eric Huff wrote: > > > But why is the OS running attachments in an email w/o the user > > > saying so? > > > > Mozilla, Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Scripts and Plugins, > > she's probably got them enabled for mail and news reader. If that > > isn't enabled, then th

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
> > But why is the OS running attachments in an email w/o the user > > saying so? > > Mozilla, Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Scripts and Plugins, > she's probably got them enabled for mail and news reader. If that > isn't enabled, then they shouldn't be able to do anything, but if > it is enable

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:33:46 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:06, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:36, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > ...> > > > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux > > > with win2k on VMware. He hasn't m

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:16:16 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 09:31 pm, rikona wrote: > > >>> snip > > > Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST > > do it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in > > linux. > > Goo

[expert] Flash Broken (FYI)

2003-10-19 Thread Dave Seff
I noticed that The Flash player from Macromedia.com is broken in 9.2 because of a missing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 I couldn't find it in any package so I symlinked it from libstdc++.so.5.0.5. It appears to be working but I am always thought symlinking the different versions was a ugly hack. Anyw

Re: [expert] how to restore startx

2003-10-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:49 pm, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > After my last attempt at accelerated DRI, I believe I have 'defaulted' my > startx; so that I get a default X desktop. I can type gnome-panel and > kdesktop and get back the functionality; almost; but still a few things > missing. SO, I

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:06, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:36, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > ...> > > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with > > win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days (and > > counting). That may be a record. > > > > Sav

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-19 Thread Brett W Tippet
Thanks to all who have replied to this issue so far .. Unfortunatelly, I'm still up the putt. Here's the output of my configs below. Someone suggested I may have a config issue with shorewall .. but I don't have an /etc/shorewall .. so I assume this isn't going to be a cause. This all looks fin

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 19 October 2003 09:31 pm, rikona wrote: >>> snip > Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do it, > and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client?

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Fred Albrecht wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ top quote snipped ] I went to the club site, clicked the "Downloads" box, and then the "MandrakeClub mirrors script" link (which is the first link in the text on the page), which gets me to: http://www.m

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:33 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello Eric, > > Sunday, October 19, 2003, 6:16:05 PM, you wrote: > >> It's the one that adds the number in brakcets to the subject line. > > EH> Why *does* it do that? > > It's the default, but does seem to confuse some clients. If you all > would

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-19 Thread Fred Albrecht
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [ top quote snipped ] I went to the club site, clicked the "Downloads" box, and then the "MandrakeClub mirrors script" link (which is the first link in the text on the page), which gets me to: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.p

Re: [expert] msec???

2003-10-19 Thread Michael Holt
Jack Coates mused: > Start by read the /usr/share/msec/perm.* files, then apply changes > to > /etc/security/perm.local. > > Next, did you know that all the msec stuff is in script? Read it, > quite > enlightening. /usr/sbin/msec is the wrapper that figures out what > to do, > then calls python an

Re: [expert] msec???

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:25, Michael Holt wrote: > Ok, I´ve read all the posts I could find and it looks like no one > has had any luck with msec? I´ve been doing fine forever at > ´high´ security; now a friend from work is dogging me about making > things more secure. Since he´s an m$ guy, I wan

[expert] how to restore startx

2003-10-19 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
After my last attempt at accelerated DRI, I believe I have 'defaulted' my startx; so that I get a default X desktop. I can type gnome-panel and kdesktop and get back the functionality; almost; but still a few things missing. SO, I was wondering if anyone had the default startx , or perhaps point m

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Tim, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 6:37:40 PM, you wrote: TS> I liked Tiny Personal Firewall when I ran win2k. Very simple to TS> use, and quite secure. When first installed, it prompts you for TS> every attempt for incoming or outgoing traffic, so it can be a TS> little annoying, but it requ

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:25 am, many eyes noted that John Wilson wrote: > No, Zone Alarm does not blacklist email, at least the free version doesn't. > The paid for one claims to though I've heard varying reports of how well > or poorly it does that. > > As someone has pointed out, have your daught

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:27, Eric Huff wrote: > > > I don't understand how she gets them on mozilla. i thought > > > mozilla was smart enough not to run stuff w/o permission? > > > > > > What are the virii taking advantage of? Is it an html issue? > > > > There are virii that use Java, Javascrip

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:38, Kwan Lowe wrote: ... > List swap usage, statistics, etc.. > vmstat ... Another nifty trick with vmstat is vmstat [interval] [number of loops]. It outputs a nicely formatted table of memory, cpu, and disk subsystem activity. Very good for isolating performance problem

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
> > I don't understand how she gets them on mozilla. i thought > > mozilla was smart enough not to run stuff w/o permission? > > > > What are the virii taking advantage of? Is it an html issue? > > There are virii that use Java, Javascript, Flash, you name it, and > then there's the evil code ma

[expert] msec???

2003-10-19 Thread Michael Holt
Ok, I´ve read all the posts I could find and it looks like no one has had any luck with msec? I´ve been doing fine forever at ´high´ security; now a friend from work is dogging me about making things more secure. Since he´s an m$ guy, I want to prove how much better *nix can do things and so I am

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 15:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... > > > > Gotta go rescue a neighbour that's been suckered for the third time in six > > months. After being told not to "click here" or install. > > > > Let's see...what should I charge him; it's Sunday, he was warned at least > > twi

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:33, Eric Huff wrote: > > My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She > > carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine > > > > mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she > > keeps getting virused emails in from the

Re: Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
> EH> Why *does* it do that? > > It's the default, but does seem to confuse some clients. If you > all would rather have it off, I'll turn it off. The only time it causes trouble is when i delete parts of threads. After that, the mails get grouped in different places. No biggie, but would be a l

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:36, Lee Wiggers wrote: > ...> > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with > win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days (and > counting). That may be a record. > > Saves a mint in upgrades (win and anti-virus junk), and protects

Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Eric, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 6:16:05 PM, you wrote: >> It's the one that adds the number in brakcets to the subject line. EH> Why *does* it do that? It's the default, but does seem to confuse some clients. If you all would rather have it off, I'll turn it off. How about using the name

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-19 Thread Joeb
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 00.02 19/10/2003, you wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. > > Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only the 9.2 iso's that aren't available al

Re: Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Mike Carter
I use pegasus a good freebie for my mail on windows. It allows you to look at your mail on the server before you download it and delete what you don't want. Some how or other I got my windows xp infected with swen probably a double click while tired and avg freebie told me I had it and to run avg

Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
> I have receive over 100 of these today alone. Nothing i've tried with > procmail recipes has worked. I cannot stop this nonsense. The from > address > is my own fetchmail-daemon: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am considering having all fetchmail-daemon emails sent to dev/null but > fear > the repe

[expert] Where has the program gone which allowed pccard removal?

2003-10-19 Thread Mike Carter
In prior mandrakes' there was an icon on the taskbar which activated a program to turn off pccards. Can someone tell me how to put it back on the taskbar. cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:52:45 + Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My sister currently has 1479 messages on her ISP's POP3 server waiting to > be downloaded, probably 99.9% Swen, so 100K each on a 40K dialup line. > She's ditched the ISP and gone to Compu$erve (argh!). Currently she sti

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
>Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process,I know >that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot >process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can I check >if swap is on? How can I check how much of swap linux is using and

Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Richard, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 5:52:45 PM, you wrote: RU> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: RU> My sister currently has 1479 messages on her ISP's POP3 server RU> waiting to be downloaded, probably 99.9% Swen, so 100K each on a RU> 40K dialup line. She's ditched the IS

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:04 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Ed, > Probably a number of ways to do this but two quick ones. > At a command line run "top" (without the quotes) you'll see your swap > usage there. > > Second way as root run "cat /proc/meminfo" (no quotes) and you will > see the

Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello John, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 3:25:27 PM, you wrote: JW> I first spotted this scam on the newsgroups, oddly enough. As I JW> don't run a news client on windows I was safe so I peeked. With TheBat, you'd probably be safe too. First, it would be quite visible, and you could look inside, s

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
> rikona uses The Bat!. > It's the one that adds the number in > brakcets to the subject line. Why *does* it do that? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
> Even quicker is: > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] appname > > ie: > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] drakconf > > The username is only required if you have a different username on the > remote box. Works even slicker if you are using ssh keys. If you're not launching from an xterm and you're not using k

[expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have receive over 100 of these today alone. Nothing i've tried with procmail recipes has worked. I cannot stop this nonsense. The from address is my own fetchmail-daemon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am considering having all fetchmail-daemon emails sen

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Gary Hodder
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 18:42, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > > Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process, I know > that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot > process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 01:42, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > > Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process, I know > that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot > process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can

Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 2:25:21 PM, you wrote: AW> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 8:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: >> October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> >> As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort >> of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for tha

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:42 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:27, Anne Wilson wrote: >Can't find the link at the moment. But there is a windows e-mail > reader called Bat. (as in Batman.) I've a few windows developers I > know who swear by it. It looks acts and fee

Re[2]: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 12:18:33 PM, you wrote: AW> Quite apart from the time I spend on this, it makes me very angry AW> that she takes every precaution a non-geek can be expected to AW> take, and yet still she suffers this regularly. My suggestions - Remove **ALL** M$ software

Re: [expert] Orinoco gold driver problems

2003-10-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I downloaded the orinoco-0.13e drivers, patched them with the monitor patch, and replaced the default kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk orinoco drivers with them. They sort of work. If I run "iwpriv" I get "monitor" as one of the available options but trying

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
On October 19, 2003 04:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > In fact if you go to just about any main page at M$'s website they have > huge warnings about this scam and a statement saying "We haven't, we > don't, and we never will send out a virus warning in this manor". > "manor"? As to "the manor

[expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Although I can't remember the message on the beginning of boot process, I know that it says something about swap not being turned on. Later in the boot process, swap seems to be turned on but I want to be 100%. How can I check if swap is on? How can I check how much of swap linux is us

[expert] (Solved) e2fsck -b 8193 won't help!

2003-10-19 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Just to say that I fixed the problems of resizing ext3 partitions with Partition Magic 8. Linux asks for e2fsck -b 8193 but the correct command for 4k filesystem is e2fsck -b 32768 in case someone else runs into trouble. Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:52, James Sparenberg wrote: > Yes on SSH ... just check your config files in /etc/ssh and make sure > forward X11 is set to yes. (should be by default.) To verify ssh to the > box and type xclock. If the clock pops up your working. (note this > won't work coming fr

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:06, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have > installed Gnome as the interface. > > In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that > graphical tools were available. > > What is a good

[expert] OLD ALR server

2003-10-19 Thread lorne
Say, I seem to remember awhile back that Mandrake has removed old Pentium support? I have an old ALR 4 processor 200MHZ pentium Pro. It locks up just as it is trying to load the drives for the Mylex DAC960 Controller card. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.m

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 16:25, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi James > well in a way I'm glad it was'nt my imagination. > > What screwed me up was he had autologin set, so once X started It had > gone past the point of no return.. > OK , I should have used the 1st cd as a rescue disk, and got into his > ho

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > Tell your daughter to use Pegasus Mail. Once upon a time when I was using > Windows I found it the best mailer for that O/S. I never ran antivirus > software continuously and never got infected, though I received viruses as > attachments regularl

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:06, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have > installed Gnome as the interface. > > In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that > graphical tools were available. > > What is a good

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 15:25, John Wilson wrote: > On October 19, 2003 11:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: > > > > Last Network Security Update > > Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 > > From: "Microsoft Internet Security Center" > > <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:27, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:36 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with > > win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days > > (and counting). That may be a record. > > > > Saves a

Re: [expert] wine

2003-10-19 Thread deedee
On 16 Oct 2003 23:42:52 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > So its try wine, the version I have is wine-20030115-4mdk, but I cant > find the config file. > Looks like it did'nt install. > Where is the normal place for wine.conf in MDK ? and should it have > installed the conf file when the rpm was loaded

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
Hi James well in a way I'm glad it was'nt my imagination. What screwed me up was he had autologin set, so once X started It had gone past the point of no return.. OK , I should have used the 1st cd as a rescue disk, and got into his home dir and deleted all .gnome* files. To be honest this autol

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread John Wilson
On October 19, 2003 11:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: > > Last Network Security Update > Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 > From: "Microsoft Internet Security Center" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Microsoft Consumer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mi

Re: [expert] Complete freeze with kernel 2.4.22 and Intel Speedstep activation

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:55:14 -0700 (PDT) rode vriendje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just thought I post this here, because I can't think > of a better place. I hope that's OK. The BugTracker would be the best place: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ > I have had problems with my Dell Latitude C640

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread J.P. Pasnak
Kwan Lowe said: > >> I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have >> installed Gnome as the interface. >> >> In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so >> that >> graphical tools were available. >> >> What is a good way to do this? Can I run

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wanted us to know: > Forgot to say earlier, a big "Welcome Back" We've missed you. I'm here in bits and pieces when I have time. I try to read Expert and Cooker every other day, but it's usually only weekends when I have time to r

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:51, Charlie M. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > October 19, 2003 12:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: > > > > Last Network Security Update > > Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 > > From: "Mi

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 03:39 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > I'll eventually attain knowledge enough to be as helpful as some others > > on these lists. Maybeif my head doesn't explode. (-: > > > > My mission at the moment though is to see how long I ca

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 03:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort > > of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that infection > > transport agent that comes with Windows as an e-mail client?

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:06, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: > > >Thank you. Unfortunately, for some reason it isn't working. These messages > >are coming into my inbox from my fetchmail-daemon (From: > >[EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] The 9.2 Upgrade Problems for me

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 hh:07, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > 1. Sound not working, and I haven't figured this out yet. > > 2. KDE Terminal-Emulation button has no terminals, and they don't seem to > > be installed. All I have right now is RX VT. > >

[expert] Complete freeze with kernel 2.4.22 and Intel Speedstep activation

2003-10-19 Thread rode vriendje
I just thought I post this here, because I can't think of a better place. I hope that's OK. I have had problems with my Dell Latitude C640 laptop and Mandrake 9.2, kernel 2.4.22 (the default kernel). When the powercord is plugged/unplugged the whole machine freezes (forced powerdown + reboot is th

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:08, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi > There is definitely a problem when upgrading 9.1 to 9.2 when gnome is > the wm unfortunately you have to lose the .gnome* files in your home directory. I noticed this as well (no autologin) and once I wacked my personal configs... all was we

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:21, Charlie M. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > October 19, 2003 06:11 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > [...] > > > >Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees > > before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure ther

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:05, Kwan Lowe wrote: > 2. Run X over SSH. ssh into the server and run the client X11 application. > a. ssh -X w.x.y.z > b. On remote, launch X11 application. Even easier: On Mandrake -X is applied by default (or alias)...you actually have to use option -x to disab

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:28, Anne Wilson wrote: > That's one I hadn't thought of. Thanks Here's another one: Calypso, it has some very nice features in it including filtering on the server. And it has good looks;) The only mailer I advise to Win sufferers. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Lin

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Huff
> My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She > carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine > > mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she > keeps getting virused emails in from the people who are on a > mailing group that she must use -

Re: [expert] Re: Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:41, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > T. Ribbrock wanted us to know: > > >> QMail is a great example, Gee lets put all > >> of our executables in /var and the forbid the user to change it. > >I seem to remember that there is reasoning

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:05 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > > Tell your daughter to use Pegasus Mail. Once upon a time when I was > using Windows I found it the best mailer for that O/S. I never ran > antivirus software continuously and never got infected, though I > received viruses as attachments regula

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 9:36 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with > win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days > (and counting). That may be a record. > > Saves a mint in upgrades (win and anti-virus junk), and protects us >

Re: [expert] Re: Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:32, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: > [...] > > > Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close. > > > > Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and b

Re: [expert] Re: Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:32, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: > [...] > > > Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close. > > > > Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and b

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 8:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort > of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that infection > transport agent that comes with Windows as an e-mail clien

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 19 October 2003 12:26 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > OK, so how might I setup procmailrc to have any/all messages from this IP > be dumped into /dev/null? Since sending my message to the list, I have > received 8 more of these damn things in my trash folder. Create a recipe for that IP

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
> I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have > installed Gnome as the interface. > > In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so > that > graphical tools were available. > > What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a g

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anne, On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:18:33 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses: >My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She >carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as g

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:18:33 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:51 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > > > > > While I was away several people told me that they were just > > > doing something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And > > > I had done what Microsoft s

[expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
I finally built up a server box that can support X windows, and I have installed Gnome as the interface. In order to configure the server, I would like to run X across my LAN so that graphical tools were available. What is a good way to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a good VPN cli

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Thanks for an opportunity to join a rant Anne. (-; > > > > The sad part is that so many people will be taken in by such > > transparent "social engineering" crap. I spend more time de-worming > > infec

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:27:12 -0700 Tim Sawchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only other thing is that DigitalDJ that integrates with Grip will not > play under ALSA. All my other Audio/Video apps are fine. Anyone know a > trick to get Ddj to run with ALSA? Nothing on the Grip / Ddj home pag

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:51 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > > > While I was away several people told me that they were just doing > > something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had > > done what Microsoft said in their message'. I know it's > > ridiculous expecting virus writers to play fa

Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Bown
Hi There is definitely a problem when upgrading 9.1 to 9.2 when gnome is the wm I upgraded my friends, after 1.5 hrs it was upgraded, he had autologin enabled, as gnome 2.4 started the machine froze. Did so againso fresh install, saved the home partition all well and how doi put entries back

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have just received the latest version of the fake M$ mails: > > Last Network Security Update > Date: Sun Oct 19 17:55:27 2003 > From: "Microsoft Internet Security Center" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mi

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:45 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Anne Wilson schrieb am Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:19:43 +0100: > > While I was away several people told me that they were just doing > > something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had > > done what Microsoft said in their message'. I

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:38:02 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tim Sawchuck wanted us to know: > > >The one thing I cannot determine is in MCC Services, is do I need Sound > >as well as ALSA? I have ASLA on at boot. I have tried A

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Anne Wilson schrieb am Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:19:43 +0100: > While I was away several people told me that they were just doing > something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And I had done > what Microsoft said in their message'. I know it's ridiculous > expecting virus writers to play fai

Re: [expert] Sound Services Question

2003-10-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Sawchuck wanted us to know: >The one thing I cannot determine is in MCC Services, is do I need Sound as >well as ALSA? I have ASLA on at boot. I have tried ALSA On, Sound Off, and >ALSA On, Sound On, and can see no difference. This is my home

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