Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-03-27 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:17:34AM -0800, David Guntner said: > Glad I was able to provide some useful information. Unfortunately, even > though othe US congress is (slowly :) moving into the electronic age, they > don't take as much note (if any, really) of E-Mail. It's easy to send, and > t

Re: [expert] java "plugin" and mozilla 0.99 - OT

2002-03-27 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:56:12PM -0800, James said: >X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) > Old fart bad eyes. for reasons unkown I had it set to 20 . > arrgh my apologies. > > James > > > now THAT's what i call word wrapping >;oP > > I usual

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-29 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I see that LM 8.2 Beta is out, and I was just wondering if anyone here > > > knows if the final release will be delayed long enough for KDE 3.0 to be > > > included? It seems ashame for a new release to come out without t

Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1

2002-01-29 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:42:26PM -0500, daRcmaTTeR said: > > no, as a matter of fact I didn't. As far as I know that isn't necessary when > adding a new rule to the firewall. of course I could be wrong in my > understanding too. It's happened before. ;) > > i'll give it a try and see what happ

Re: [expert] SSH TCP connection problem

2002-01-20 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:01:50PM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > At 07:17 PM 1/19/2002 -0600, G. T. Francisco, III wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:58:06AM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > >> I can get an SSH session from the intranet but not from the internet. > >> A port

Re: [expert] SSH TCP connection problem

2002-01-19 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:58:06AM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I can get an SSH session from the intranet but not from the internet. > A port scan shows TCP port 22 open but the connection is refused when > trying to connect to my Linux box from

Re: [expert] Wireless networking -- what's your take?

2002-01-15 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:07:00PM -0800, Charlie Bebber said: > > I've been thinking about it for a while now but never had the desire (or > money) to delve too deeply into it. > > I was at Fry's the other day and almost bought one of the wireless access > points, however I thought I'd do some

Re: [expert] How to get to command line from kdm?

2002-01-15 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Kyle McDonald - Eagle CAD said: > I don't know about linux specifically, but the Solaris login screen has > this same 'command-line' feature. > > The way it works in Solaris is that if 'root' (or anyone really) was > logged in on the console and started t

Re: [expert] How to get to command line from kdm?

2002-01-11 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:46:58AM -0600, Jason Guidry said: > > This is my new favorite trick. you can even do this while you're logged in. > > type Ctrl-Alt-Fx where x is a number 1-6. this will bring you to one of the 6 text >only cosoles. hit Ctrl-Alt-F9 to get back to X. > Thanks. I'm

[expert] How to get to command line from kdm?

2002-01-11 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
I usually boot to a non GUI prompt. I login as root, type kdm and I get the KDM screen. However on 8.1, I noticed that while on the KDM screen, the "Shutdown" option only gives 2 options: Shutdown and Reboot. On 8.0, there was a 3rd option: "Command Line" I tried going into say KDE, opened an xte