Re: [expert] winXP hosed partition table - help me recover vital files

2002-07-16 Thread FemmeFatale
Azrael wrote: I did a stupid thing. I'll admit that right upfront. Not at all, you just didn't realize how to fix this :) Can anyone help me recover my essential files? Is there a way to 'fix' the partition table? Is there a way to boot anyway and get to my files? Helllp!!!

Re: [expert] winXP hosed partition table - help me recover vitalfiles

2002-07-16 Thread FemmeFatale
hdb6 but not hdb3. I can't find the files I want in hdb6 ... big suspicion that they are in hdb3. Yet hdb3 must sit right next to hdb1 - I don't know too much detail about these things ... and so the changes of hdb1 might have overwritten the border of hdb3??? Any ideas? FemmeFatale wrote

Re: [expert] Making the power button a hybernate button

2002-07-14 Thread FemmeFatale
Raider wrote: Hello! I recently upgraded my computer from a k6-2 to a Duron and moved on from an AT power source to an ATX power source. I've seen that you can suspend your computer by just hitting the power button... and turn it back on by hitting the same button. I've seen this on

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' sameas 'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-07 Thread FemmeFatale
dfox wrote: And hardware that passes memtest86 may fail in a stressful session with gcc. :( Memtest is sequential and performs a selected set of tests on the memory, but it can't (or doesn't) simulate the somewhat random-like access to memory that gcc does. Then again, gcc doesn't randomly

Re: [expert] Fwd: mandrake install problems

2002-07-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Timothy R. Butler wrote: After try #3, which I said no to the updates prompt and finally made it through the installation routine, the box rebooted and gave me the graphical KDM login. All through the installation, my Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer worked perfectly... but after the

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-05 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Haha, Yes spawn of Satan who wishes to corrupt me to the Darkside! :P Femme Femme, it's nice here on the dark side. lots of interesting people to talk to and you don't have the license nazi's threatening to beat down yer door and take your stuff because you

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-04 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Chroot is good because as the connections come in to the ftp server they are literally jailed to the ftp server's file system. /var/ftp They can enter that part of the machines file system and can't get out to go anywhere else on the machine's file system. Many times

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-01 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:10:46 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority sounds like a cool ftp file program. stupid question: why is chroot a good thing? Jail? Scuse me i'm slow today :) Femme, saves some bandwith for the metred These are but a few

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-06-30 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Giant snip And I love the fact that it chroot, (jails) things by default, so there isn't any hair-pulling to get that taken care of. sounds like a cool ftp file program. stupid question: why is chroot a good thing? Jail? Scuse me i'm slow today :) -- Femme Good

Re: [expert] Linux irc channel

2002-06-26 Thread FemmeFatale
David Rankin wrote: Maybe I don't understand what the IRC channels are supposed to do. I've been the the Mandrake IRC rooms at utexas, and others, and what I've found is folks that just want to sit around and chat and who also have the technical aptitude of a turnip! James wrote: my

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-25 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Jason Guidry wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 22:33, daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same physical disk. Nope

Re: [expert] Quake3 was:An add I just recieved.

2002-06-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 04:17, FemmeFatale wrote: the Question being: can you still connect to 1.31 servers play on the Net? -- Femme The answer beingehno. BUT, recently I found that the Quake3-Aureal soundriver thing had been addressed and dealt

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: dear all, I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post here: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Femme, Yes, I believe it is as long as you're

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-20 Thread FemmeFatale
dear all, I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post here: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-20 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: dear all, I asked this on newbie list some time ago, no answer. so i'll re-post here: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Femme, Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-20 Thread FemmeFatale
Jason Guidry wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 22:33, daRcmaTTeR wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Is it possible to install Mandrake after copying the right files to a FAT32 partition? Yes, I believe it is as long as you're not using the same physical disk. Nope, this is possible. I

Re: [expert] Installing MDK From the HDD

2002-06-20 Thread FemmeFatale
Jason Guidry wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 23:39, FemmeFatale wrote: or you may want to know how to point the installer to the files on your hard drive. just make sure you know what partition it's on, I would put the files in your root directory (C: for windows) enjoy! Yes

Re: [expert] cpp0 not found

2002-06-16 Thread FemmeFatale
search teh expert archives for a thread on cpp0 there was one about 2 weeks back You don't happen to know the subject of the thread? I searched the subjects back to May 24 (oldest message in the archive!) but did not find anything. wobo Ugh... No Wobo... i'm sorry I don't :( I

Re: [expert] Mutli-head KDE desktop settings?

2002-06-15 Thread FemmeFatale
Hoyt wrote: On Saturday 15 June 2002 02:44 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Check on the Matrox web page for drivers. They have drivers and the Powerdesk to setup the cards. http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm Hoyt wrote: Can anyone point me to info on where these

Re: [expert] again realtec 8139

2002-06-13 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: Femme, No I don't have an Idea but let me ask around. I might be able to find out the answer. I'm running a 3c905c-Tx (note the c) on both my boxes that have 3coms and that might be a reason but I doubt it. I'll ask around and let you know if I find out anything

Re: [expert] again realtec 8139

2002-06-13 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: Femme, One curious point. In Linux does your card grab the 3c90x driver or the 3c59x driver. Mine both use the 3c59x driver and can do 10/100 James Well..hm.. now you got me wondering! sheesh... would just a modprobe eth0 give me that info? Or... is there another

Re: [expert] again realtec 8139

2002-06-12 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:15:51 +0200 Hans ... If you have the two 3coms working I'd stick with them. Some benchmarks we ran at my old job had the 3c905 and the Pro100's as the two Nics with the greatest through put. realtek and linksys were nice but only about 80% of the

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-28 Thread FemmeFatale
nDiScReEt wrote: Thx for all you guys' help! I hope to get this working soon...lord knows I've learned alot since I asked what I thought was a simple question. Heh, never underestimate the power of linux to make it complex fast :) Femme As far as the apache maintenance, that would

Re: [expert] Getting Nautilus out of my system

2002-05-27 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 11:00, Raider wrote: Hello! I really dislike Nautilus. No disrespect for the guys who build it. But I don't like it. And even if I'd like it, it is too fat and slow for my system (a K6-2@300Mhz). Now I want to take it off my system.

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-26 Thread FemmeFatale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: Mount your win32/ntfs(ro) partitions (where the files reside) and either serve from them or symlink into the path if required. BillK On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 08:11, Femme wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 19:43:23 -0300 WOOkY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-26 Thread FemmeFatale
Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: Femme wrote: *giggles* Hacks are cool. Thx mucho James. I'll try your idea /or ndiscreets. Not sure which yet will yield better results. As an aside, any chance someone can point me to a newbie-fied apache install/maintenance URL? I'm pretty

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-26 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 22:25:10 -0600 *giggles* Hacks are cool. Thx mucho James. I'll try your idea /or ndiscreets. Not sure which yet will yield better results. As an aside, any chance someone can point me to a newbie-fied apache install/maintenance URL? I'm pretty

Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site

2002-05-24 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: and precisely how do i do that ? This ftp is running in windows ATM however...if you can give me an idea on how to do this on linux, please do so. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from

Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site

2002-05-24 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: Femme when you say hammered how is it being hammered? Have you tried a tcpdump (be sure and turn it off afterwords) redirected to a text file so you can see where and what kind of packets are hitting you? Finally does anyone know how to redirect a port? That way when Femme

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2002 23:15:52 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Load up the honeyport for Nimda and the shutdown script for codered and see what happens Civileme, Where can I find the tools you're referring to...? I have my own

Re: [expert] A time problem with ps?...

2002-05-23 Thread FemmeFatale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't address the rest but I do know some stuff about cracking *don't ask, and if you must ask do so pvtly*. I know that the first utils a cracker will replace/redo/delete/alter are: ps/ls/time/cp/rm those are fairly standard, and yes generating phony logs

Re: [expert] Wlan HowTo

2002-05-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Jason Guidry wrote: Jason: Hi, my name is jason, and I'm a big, shaved-headed buddhist idiot. List: yes, jason, we know you're an idiot, why do you bring it up now? Jason: well, I'm so used to vendors not providing support for linux, it never occured to me to look on the linksys

Re: [expert] A time problem with ps?...

2002-05-22 Thread FemmeFatale
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Anyhow here is an excerpt from /var/log/syslog from boot time to shutdown time on May 20. I also include /etc/crontab and a listing of the /etc/cron* directories in case they are relevant. Reminder: I am running LM 7.2. I asked because a reboot would be shown in

Re: [expert] WipeInfo - comporable for Linux?

2002-05-22 Thread FemmeFatale
Albert E. Whale wrote: Norton utilities as a command called Wipe Info. Is there a comparable utility for Linux-Mandrake? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP closest I found was Shred iirc -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-21 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:13, FemmeFatale wrote: I have a pic of one I can scan that was opened like a can of beans if you want it... offlist of course. -- Femme Yes...very interested. Master Jedi Dfox may be interested as well. ;) Thanks, Femme! LX

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-21 Thread FemmeFatale
FemmeFatale wrote: The Article I referred to appeared in the March issue of Maximum PC. Its an article on how to hack you TIVO PVR. I have made it available as a zip file for anyone on this list who wishes it. Its on my ftp, which I will leave up for a week 24/7 for those who wish

Re: [expert] The tides of time (slightly OT)

2002-05-21 Thread FemmeFatale
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: By this experience I learned that looking over your tea-cup's rim is not so bad, sometimes it can be a most pleasurable adventure. Ahem,...that doesn't mean I will be changing to XP to learn something new after my years of Linux! Thanks for reading wobo Very

Re: [expert] OT to whomever just connected to the ftp

2002-05-21 Thread FemmeFatale
I had not yet put teh tivo file up. :P Had to rescan something, so please try again Sir/Madam. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-20 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 01:40, dfox wrote: Hmm. Any idea what the set-top boxes might use (tivo, dish network, mp3 players etc.) ? One would seemingly want to have at least as good (if not better) reliability because these drives can easily get more usage (in terms

Re: [expert] The simplest possible email server

2002-05-13 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: OK, following James' recommendation for MailScanner (I liked it when he said he just installed the RPM and it worked), I installed that and the Sophos virus scanner. Seems like it all just worked, but now I have a problem - nobody sends me any viruses!

Re: [expert] Printing

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Ken Hawkins wrote: Current problem: Using 8.2 beta 3 My current source of grief is an IBM 4029 laserprinter. I have tried all flavours of drivers, and even some HP and Lexmark drivers, and all I get is garbage across the top of the page, and the printer has to be reset. The printer

Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Mike Rambo wrote: I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs

Re: [expert] X - I give up!! - What's a good video card for 8.2

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
David Rankin wrote: That's it, I've had it, I'm ripping that sucker out by the RAMDAC. Then I'm going to see how far that square frizbee will fly! I've given up trying to sort out the #9 Imagine 128 video problems with X4.2 and X3.3.6 (for now). Why it works under LM7.2

Re: [expert] problem Mounting NTFS

2002-05-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Martin Ignacio Lange wrote: Brian, Why is it unsafe to write in NTSF from linux?. The thing is that even putting rw in the command line of mount, I cannot write in the disk. How would be the line with the user statement. AFAIK It amounts to NTFS turning the files you write into garbage

Re: [expert] Problems mounting NTFS

2002-05-05 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: I have heard that there are utilities to do this, but haven't wanted to use them myself. There has been some discussion here or on the newbie list which has mentioned some possibilities. You may like to check the archives.

Re: [expert] The hacker just got hacked

2002-05-04 Thread FemmeFatale
skidley wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:09:14AM -0400, Brian York wrote: everything gone, what you do to others will come back to haunt you! ahh yes, the principle of reciprocity at its finest! -- Chad Young Linux User #195191 So who did you piss off today? :) -- Femme Good

Re: [expert] Hardware Suggestion ?

2002-05-04 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: There were some comments about Tyan boards a little while back either here or on newbie. You may like to check the archives for those. Seem to remember some problems, but at the same time the board was highly rated for performance. That would have been pre-8.2 though,

Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws

2002-05-02 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: do you have libpspell4-0.12.2-4mdk pspell-0.12.2-4mdk Installed? Also did you set the default dictionary to en-american-pspell (or the English you speak) it's under the Configuration Common Preferences Spell Checker tabs. First I had to enable spell checking then

Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws

2002-05-01 Thread FemmeFatale
jipe wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:09:47 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well this is ver. 0.7.2, the one that came with LM8.2. The exact error message is that it can't Find any suitable wordlists for the tag none. I changed the dictionary *I thought* to a different one, and below

Re: [expert]OT, WARNING TO NEW COMP PARTS BUYERS!

2002-05-01 Thread FemmeFatale
Before you consider OCZ or Central Computers *CenCom* Please read this site's forum list! http://discuss.madonion.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=Board=techotherhardwareNumber=700509page=0view=collapsedsb=5o=0fpart=allvc=1 Thx Much, a friend had given me that link from what i've read Seen it is for

Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws

2002-05-01 Thread FemmeFatale
Joseph Braddock wrote: Mine, also has a bunch of *.map files, but it also includes seven *.pwli files all beginning with en- (for English) and having aspell somewhere in their name. I assume these are the actual dictionaries for English (British, Canadian and American). If you have aspell

Re: [expert] Sylpheed Claws

2002-05-01 Thread FemmeFatale
James wrote: I set mine to /usr/share/pspell and it works great. James Thats the default its giving me a headache. Were it not I wouldn't have posted ;p Thx though for your input -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) -- Femme Sounds like what I'm after. Is this in Galeon? Can't see it here. Blind again??? Brian *hands Brian some glasses with New IMPROVED 3D capability!* Yes its in there...

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread FemmeFatale
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:31:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »FemmeFatale« sagte am 2002-04-29 um 22:38:44 -0600 : User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) However, quite some pages are not using simple UA detection. Alexander Skwar

Re: [expert] Linux for Kids

2002-04-29 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: i'm still having a hard time believing that the computing public at large allows businesses like MS to behave in such a way. all it would take is for all the people who are tired of them doing business the way they've been doing it to say so. i think the point would be

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Sevatio wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site uses some javascript that doesn't work in Netscape and some other browsers, but I'd be surprised if

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?, OT FileManager

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Damian G wrote: i know that's not too much, but in windoze i couldn't get a third of that.. Anyway this Floppy issue is not a Linux problem but a KDE (Konqeuror) one. so i read a very interesting thread about filemanagers and ended up getting to know filerunner... Konq went straight to the

Re: [expert] Linux for Kids

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Cool thing I found at Seul.org for those with children: http://www.seul.org/ Bottom of the page is an ISO for LInux for Kids. I thought was kind of cool -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. -

Re: [expert] Linux for Kids

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Jason Guidry wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Cool thing I found at Seul.org for those with children: http://www.seul.org/ Bottom of the page is an ISO for LInux for Kids. I do have a young one and I ran over to this site, too bad the ISO hasn't been touched in 2 years. but through

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?, OT FileManager

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Damian G wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:47:27 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fwiw, I have run Konq, I hated it. I tried filerunner Found it overly complex. Civilme *Bless his little heart* Suggested Krusader. Its on the cd's you get. Wonderful program, no bugs

Re: [expert] Raw_add: partition table full error

2002-04-27 Thread FemmeFatale
I can't tell you how to unfoul your partitions but I can give you a copy of PM that I currently own. If that will help that is. I have an ftp connection I use *simple DSL* which you're welcome to use to get the files. Femme -- Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go

Re: [expert] Raw_add: partition table full error

2002-04-27 Thread FemmeFatale
FemmeFatale wrote: I can't tell you how to unfoul your partitions but I can give you a copy of PM that I currently own. If that will help that is. There are days it doesn't pay to get outta bed... I have a legit copy of PM am willing to part with it by cd or ftp...whichever. I don't use

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 and Wordperfect 8

2002-04-27 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Schroeder wrote: I had a search through the newbie archives, but couldn't find it. Can you remember anything that might give me a hint of where to start? Brian. From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Schroeder wrote: Has anyone got the free download version

Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Hoyt wrote: Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line: ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune floppy=daring and undo all the hdparm settings. The best way is to duplicate the LILO stanza and add the above info in case it locks up your computer. -- Hoyt Dumb Q but

Re: [expert] Mdk Update Locking!

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: I can't use mdkupdate anymore! It locks on ftp-linux.cc-gatech.edu !!! It locks on 49% !! Which file should I edit to remove it and make it work again? I can't even install any soft from the CD's! Using mdk8.1 TIA Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Damian G wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. Try to copy files

Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
lorne wrote: hahahahaha... disappointingly easy somehow doesn't come to my mind when it is easy. :) Well I got it home today. My wife was most displeased. She is threatening to send me out to the garage with all my junk. BG It is pretty derned big! about 3 feet tall. It has 4

Re: [expert] Mdk Update Locking!

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Femme: KMail's Sender column says that you're Unknown. Obviously, it hasn't been paying attention. Or is there some sort of configuration problem (probably at your end)? -- cmg Not a flying clue. This is coming from Nutscrape its email client in winblows.

Re: [expert] just an early morning test

2002-04-19 Thread FemmeFatale
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Larry Sword wrote: Or maybe the electromagnetic spectrum;-) Hey, hadn't even thought of that! Gosh, can we get some Van Allen belts involved here too? I always thought the pictures/diagrams of them, following the curvature of the Earth - from the poles, was just

Re: [expert] just an early morning test

2002-04-19 Thread FemmeFatale
Ronald J. Hall wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: Or her way of saying to us, If I'm here, YOU'RE here insert evil laugh here. I'm firmly of the belief Gaea isn't what all the nature lovers think She is :) You decide what I think. Femme Oh, the old Its not nice to fool Mother

Re: [expert] just an early morning test

2002-04-19 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I have absolutely no idea who or what Gaea is. (?) I suppose I have been under a large monocrystalline silicon rock or something. Left out, LX Yes you have however we'll forgive you. Gaea=Earth Mother or Goddess. Femme -- Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do

Re: [expert] Microsoft - The settlement that isn't

2002-04-17 Thread FemmeFatale
ken wrote: Do you know our fundamental problem in Canada is? We SHOULD have inherited: British Culture, French Cuisine, and Yankee Knowhow.. Instead we got: Yankee Culture, British Cuisine, and French Knowhow... Ken. I hate to say it but you're correct Ken. And I'm french... Go

Re: [expert] OT--And now for the comic relief

2002-03-30 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 02:59, civileme wrote: http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/020329nt2000hole/ Why isn't this news exciting? Civileme Civ, I just got another newsflash that you might find interesting. Excerpt--

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for thefilesystem

2002-03-28 Thread FemmeFatale
J. Craig Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Craig, I spoke with an XFS developer the other day on the (what else) #xfs channel. Same server as hosts the #mandrake channel. We discussed what you just now brought up; file attributes. I found out several things, one was that the

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for thefilesystem

2002-03-28 Thread FemmeFatale
J. Craig Woods wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: The server is irc.openprojects.net yes the channels are #mandrake #xfs. Femme Wow! you are good. Thanks, -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Thx. I knew because

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a bit more stable.

Re: [expert] auto login on 8.2

2002-03-26 Thread FemmeFatale
Dodd, David J wrote: I have just loaded 8.2 and so far it is working, got my orinoco card to work without a hitch. One question though maybe I did this on installation but when I boot up it auto logs into my user directory. How do I change this so it will ask for a password. I looked in

Re: [expert] Why Linux?, OT cocoa with honey!?

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Amen LX. :) Honey in cocoa though Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 17:17, FemmeFatale wrote: whats cocoa? That stuff you mix with honey so you can make some hot chocolate. Cup of 2 parts milk, 1 part halfhalf, microwave for 2 minutes (YMMV). Spoon cocoa and honey mix

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
care to give me a stepbystep? :) I've never done this. Femme Darren King wrote: it's not hardtypical configure, make, make install sequencethe only tricky thing is modifying the X startup files. Darren On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 10:51, FemmeFatale wrote: K thx Darren. Going

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Ty Darren. You're a doll ;) Femme Darren King wrote: I gonna do it tomorrow ...Ill post my findings and a step by step.. On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 21:18, FemmeFatale wrote: care to give me a stepbystep? :) I've never done this. Femme Darren King wrote: it's not hard

Re: [expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
see?? Some smooth liar you are! K Ty. Was curious to see if it'd be useful to me. I don't think so. Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: You mean there's supposed to be some other reason besides bragging rights? Incredible. During the winter I've

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
well love, of couse! someone has to troll for the newbs ;p Femme daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:16:17 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Please do join the Newbie list...much more lively. And we can always use a Sys Admins ideas

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Where do I find 8.2 nvidia drivers? the rpm's on nvidias site don't work. I don't think anyway, cause I tried them. Femme civileme wrote: OK, try to tweak some things run XFdrake and configure _down_ your colors to 24 bits and see what happens... Try Option nobitblt Option

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Evangelization at its best? :) Nicely said Simon Femme Simone Riccio wrote: Well, i put 8.2 on 5 PCs (ominbook xe2, omnibook xe3, 2 PIV 1.6, Athlon 1.2) them all in a network environment and wih all different NICs. I had no trouble at all in networking (SMB, Netware, NFS), and i found

Re: [expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some Mandrake users might be interested in this: Last Thursday (3/15/02) our local Linux user group (http://www.flux.org) had a speaker demonstrating how to setup a Beowulf. It was a small cluster consisting of only three machines, but apparently could

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
*smiles* Nice response Kwan ;p I love it. :) Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? The penguin logo is pretty nifty.

Re: [expert] was:8.2 cd burning issues, OT now: new list pls! complaints here!

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
*blushes* Is it that obvious!? :P Femme Michael Scottaline wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:50:18 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: *raises her hand* Can I run it be a list nazi??? PLASEE! Any excuse to put

Re: [expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
I tried smalllinux. Didn't work well for me...but I even got an Xwindow app for it. Femme Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, I have recently come across an old project in my travels called Xdenu that is a very minimal distro which provides the Linux kernel and an Xserver along with

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
whats cocoa? Personally i'm looking to replace windows with it. Except for gaming that is. So, I write, listen to music, surf, do heavy research, tweak fiddle with it. *shrugs* its a tool for me that doesn't crash. Femme Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Ugh.. Figures. Thanks for the HUD. :\ I am going to ask some friends about this. If its true, we're in trouble...cause Intel is getting too cosy in bed with M$! :( Everyday I hear new reasons to go to an Athy chip. Femme Gérard Perreault wrote: It is obvious to me that Linux and product

Re: [expert] YaBQ: Yet nother burning question

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Try redownloading the ISO's or get MD5Summer. Nice program. it'll compile its own sums...and is a nice GUI to tell you if they don't match Femme Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, A burning question in a double sense. Hardware: Plextor CD-R PX W4220T (SCSI CD-RW) DawiControl SCSI

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
K thx Darren. Going to have to figure out to do that now ;p Merci Femme Darren King wrote: I've never got the rpms to work. Download the source and build. I have had good luck doing that. Dazz On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:23, FemmeFatale wrote: Where do I find 8.2 nvidia drivers

Re: [expert] was:8.2 cd burning issues, OT now: new list pls! complaints here!

2002-03-22 Thread FemmeFatale
*raises her hand* Can I run it be a list nazi??? PLASEE! Civilme knows i'll be good I promise *innocent smile* Femme J. Craig Woods wrote: Jason Guidry wrote: my patience with this constant barrage of complaints disguised as questions is wearing thin. no one

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread FemmeFatale
Please do join the Newbie list...much more lively. And we can always use a Sys Admins ideas :) Forewarning: Its messier (as in more msgs a day). Femme Darren King wrote: Nice attitude guys. You're right maybe I should be on the beginner list. I've been using linux since kernel 0.9...I

Re: [expert] How to install 8.2 with USB devices

2002-03-21 Thread FemmeFatale
, then reconfigure them as usb after the install. just a thought Dave On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:27:45 -0700 FemmeFatale said onto me: I have a keyboard mouse, both usb. The mouse is plugged into the keyboard, the KB is plugged into the tower. I posted this on the Newbie list

Re: [expert] How to install 8.2 with USB devices

2002-03-20 Thread FemmeFatale
I have a keyboard mouse, both usb. The mouse is plugged into the keyboard, the KB is plugged into the tower. I posted this on the Newbie list, but not many helpful answers. :) Thought I'd ask the Experts here. :) What basically happens is that if I boot the CD, i get that screen Hit F1

Re: [expert]How to clone a drive

2002-03-19 Thread FemmeFatale
If You need it don't mind buying software, get Drive Copy. Its from the guys who make Partition Magic. Great s/w so I understand, at least one of the best hardware mags I know of that I buy uses it regularly before testing systems. :) Femme On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 16:44, James wrote: Ok

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-19 Thread FemmeFatale
Were you in Edmonton I'd gladly help, I have xtra parts lying around collecting dust atm. Femme David Guntner wrote: I've got 256M of RAM in the machine, to answer your (implied) question. I don't know anyone with memory that I could borrow. :-) As I mentioned in my earlier message, I've

Re: [expert] Links for secure programming, OT

2002-03-18 Thread FemmeFatale
I don't know if it was this list or the Newbie one, I will cross-post it though. For the fellow who wanted to dabble in OGL programming, I recently was reading a book on security. Here is a link for how to secure your programs when you write them, and I'm sorry if the list doesn't want/need

Re: [expert] geforce go

2002-03-16 Thread FemmeFatale
Look at LM's Doc section on their main site under Mandrake User, or MUO as its called. It has a very easy How-to. Femme Mark Dvoo wrote: Just wanted to know if anyone had had any luck with the geforce 2 go ? mark

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