Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-09 Thread joy_ping
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, civileme wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:38, Michael D. Viron wrote: At 05:01 PM 09/08/2001 +0200, joy_ping wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Ron Johnson wrote: Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make sure no ghosts from the past remain

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-08 Thread joy_ping
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Ron Johnson wrote: Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make sure no ghosts from the past remain to cause problems. this is a mandrake thing i think. cause they have some misteries directory organisation, and they changed it so hard, that it is

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN-cards (802.11)

2001-08-23 Thread joy_ping
i would say lucent orinoco would be a good choice. i have got just two lucent orinoco silver cards and they work well with linux. one good thing at these lucent cards is that they have a connetctor for external antennas. on this way i setup a wireless wan-network. one important thing is that you

Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall

2001-08-20 Thread joy_ping
hi, i would say get off of this bastile-crap and use pure iptables-scripts. dont know if bastille uses iptables, but you learn more, and it is really no magic to set up your firewall by hand. it is easy to configure, you can set special rules for special ports, and you know what you do, and some

[expert] realplayer

2001-07-12 Thread joy_ping
hi, im running LM 8.0. i installed realplayer on it, but realplayer wont start. i installed it several times, but it doesnt work. it starts half, means some buttons could be seen, the rest is black. sometimes after reboot it works, but now it wont work anymore. has someone a idea or the sam