RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-29 Thread JM5379
there was also little billy --- Original Message --- From: "Lawson, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem. >Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. > >-Original Message- >From: Wolfgang Bornath

Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign

2003-10-16 Thread JM5379
--- Original Message --- From: Sebastien Routier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign >Got this from an other list: >--- >One of my dwindling requirements for Windows is that our family likes >Shockwave games on a few

Re: [expert] Re: Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-16 Thread JM5379
--- Original Message --- From: "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Re: Firebird, Thunderbird >On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:43:52AM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: >> If you mean for Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3, then I don't think >> anything is up yet. But las

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread JM5379
--- Original Message --- From: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website >On Friday 10 October 2003 18:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> this would allow even the >> newbie-est to find and install whatever flavor tickles their >> t

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread JM5379
>I think that is the direction, at least partially, I'm leaning. All >joking aside about Stephen's infamous 404 page, I certainly don't wish >to paint all *nix users as ill-tempered ideologues, but at the same time >what is the point of a quick redirect that people will simply ignore >anyway? > >Y

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-15 Thread JM5379
>> No. That's *not* what I'm saying. Maybe I need to differentiate >> more: Mandrake makes one Linux distro, but many products. I've tested >> the distro, as packed in the product "9.1 download edition". I liked >> what I saw. It's a good distro. So I want to use it. At the same time, >> I *do* a

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-10 Thread JM5379
and on that track... on every SMP system, each CPU would only be running a percentage of a given install so ech CPU could only be charged a percentage of a single CPU licensing fee *g* --- Original Message --- From: Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Oh

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread JM5379
i don't use mozilla but do use the new mozilla firebird and it does save where i tell it to, in addition to being smaller and seemingly faster on page generations. you might try that instead. --- Original Message --- From: Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert]

Re: [expert] kbd and X lock and crash

2003-07-24 Thread JM5379
a couple of possibilities: 1. telnet or ssh into the box and as root, do a "ps ax |grep dm", notice the command options listed, kill the display manager (gdm, kdm, mdkkdm, whatever) and restart it as it was listed in the ps output. 2. from your remote login try running the displaymanager command

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-17 Thread JM5379
if i remember correctly, fat32 has a 4gb limitation --- Original Message --- From: David Hlacik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] create fat32 file system >Hi, when i type mkfs.vfat /dev/hdb1 it says ..Attempting to create too >large file system. Why? /dev/hdb1 is 20GB

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread JM5379
thanks all who responded. between 2 mailing lists, there were 7 votes for APC, 1 for Tripp-Lite... if anyone's interested. joe --- Original Message --- From: KevinO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] UPSs >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >James Spa

[expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread JM5379
I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and relatively inexpensive UPSs for a single Linux server. Thanks in advance for all help, Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-30 Thread JM5379
neither did Italy, yet they - along with a few lesser nations - were part of a well known and globally acknowledged partnership known as the "Axis", while the opposing nations were collectively known as the "Allies". it was a single global war comprised of numerous nations on both sides (both, as

Re: [expert] hosts.allow format question

2002-12-19 Thread JM5379
it shouold have been just hosts.allow. it brings up a manpage for me, must be a difference in distros or versions. Here's a small sampling from my man output... /etc/hosts.allow: ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu hope this hel

Re: [expert] hosts.allow format question

2002-12-19 Thread JM5379
"man /etc/hosts.allow" should give you everything you need --- Original Message --- From: Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [expert] hosts.allow format question >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >I have been running a security

Re: [expert] Mozilla and sound - what's up?

2002-12-03 Thread JM5379
don't know what the differences may be. i'm behind a firewall but that shouldn't affect how the browser reacts to Real handling data from an established connection. it was only a nuisance, never important enough to worry about, just thought i'd throw in the additional experience to see if a broad

Re: [expert] Mozilla and sound - what's up?

2002-12-03 Thread JM5379
as an aside, i noticed the same problem a while back when i would try to get live feed from online radio using realaudio; the browser (galeon here) would hang until i killed Real, then it would work fine. this on 9.0 also. --- Original Message --- From: Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: exper

[expert] OT: dlink dp-601m replacement

2002-11-15 Thread JM5379
totally off-topic but hopefully no one will mind too much... i have a dlink dp-601m internet server that my sons and their mother use to share a dialup connection to the internet. it has rj45 ports for the PCs to connect to, and an rj11 (with builtin modem connection) for access to the isp. appa

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

2002-11-08 Thread JM5379
the new memory should be recognized upon reboot; you shouldn't have to do anything at all. --- Original Message --- From: Stefano Pogliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Memory upgrade >Should I modify some parameter in my MDK installation if, after having >installe

Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379
try: lsof | grep /net lsof = list open files, searching for the string "/net" in the output --- Original Message --- From: Manuel Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs >How can I find which program is using the file system. I

Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379
just a wild guess from what i've seen in other postings here... it looks like you have nfs running and have a "cd" into one of those directories (/net/...), or a program running that is accessing an nfs share/directory. as long as a mounting is "active" in one of those ways, it can't be unmounted.

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9......Mozilla Quickstart?

2002-11-01 Thread JM5379
personally, i wouldn't/don't want countless programs loading automatically and unnecessarily, and this all begs the question - which programs are to do this own their own? if mozilla nad openoffice, why not every single program loaded on every available storage medium? unless each program has a d

Re: [expert] where's pine?

2002-11-01 Thread JM5379
at its most basic: vi (or vim; in mdk, vi is just a link to vim) i (for insert mode) Esc (exit insert mode, return to command mode) :wq (: = enter command line, "w" = write file to current filename, "q" = quit vi(m)) 4 commands from beginning to end. the "horror" of vi comes with

[expert] proxy definitions

2002-10-23 Thread JM5379
i'm experimenting with a perl module (lwp:simple) with the following commandline: perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint 'http://cpan.org/RECENT'" i'm going through a firewall and get the 500 error (paraphrased): 500 Can't connect to network.path.som:30080 (Bad hostname 'network.path.som') http://cpan.

Re: [expert] root

2002-10-10 Thread JM5379
no, i had the same problem when i installed. wonder if putting /root in after / may be the culprit? never has been before, though. --- Original Message --- From: Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] root >Hmm, I just installed 9.0 a few days ago, on two

RE: [expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0

2002-10-03 Thread JM5379
never mind on crontab... apparently 500MB for the /var partition is not enough. Now, any ideas about how to reset the timezone for my date & time? Thanks for the leads, Randy. --- Original Message --- From: "Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE:

RE: [expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0

2002-10-03 Thread JM5379
-rw-r--r--1 root root 299 Sep 30 07:55 /etc/crontab I changed it to -rwxrwxrwx1 root root 299 Sep 30 07:55 /etc/crontab* just for kicks and it had no effect. It's now back to the original settings. --- Original Message --- From: "Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA"

[expert] crontab -e AND date in 9.0

2002-10-03 Thread JM5379
I have 9.0 "final" loaded and have 2 problems currently... when I run crontab -e to add an entry (as root or a normal user) it creates a temporary file such as /tmp/crontab.24908. When I finish my entries, do :wq and try to verify my entries with crontab -l or by rerunning crontab -e, the tempor