Re: [expert] portscans - standalone stealth operation

2002-11-01 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 12:53, Bill Beauchemin wrote: I went and applied evry single security patch that mandrake had using MasndrakeUpdate and remembered I had Snort running. I found a huge portscan.log file and tooka look to find that the day before my system was hacked it was portscaned by

Re: [expert] Completely OT - to the sys admins, is there aspammer's blacklist for child pornography?

2002-10-30 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 03:18, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:34 -0500, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: Yea, I know international law and jurisdiction, not to mention enforcement. Yea, I know you cannot police the electronic wild west. I'm living in Europe and the German

Re: [expert] Completely OT - to the sys admins, is there aspammer's blacklist for child pornography?

2002-10-30 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 04:04, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:34 -0500, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 03:18, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:34 -0500, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: Yea, I know international law and jurisdiction, not to mention

RE: [expert] Display messed up after install

2002-10-29 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:29, Tim Werner wrote: Mike, Thanks for the info and advice. I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot manager, so that part I'm happy with. As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried all sorts of

[expert] Completely OT - to the sys admins, is there a spammer's blacklistfor child pornography?

2002-10-29 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
There is quite a bit of expertise in this group and I would like to call upon it to help with this particular problem. Hey I like pOrn like the next guy but we are talking about kids (3-9). When you have spread eagle shots it is sexual exploitation, period. This is on the ngs and it was even

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-28 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 18:36, Jack Coates wrote: Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset.

Re: [expert] PROBLEMS: /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-20 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 17:20, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi again, well, i followed all the directions of wobo (thanks wobo for the tips, i've learned a lot), but it seems that it has problems with names that have underscore (like labo_verano) because if i try to look at them after the burning it

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 11:07, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi all, i want to make one little question. Here it is... :) - I would like to make backups or my user folder on the home, that is, i want to make a multisession CD that i could go creating folders with the contents of my /home/gonzalo like

Re: [expert] /home/%user backup in multisession CD

2002-10-19 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:06, Michael Holt wrote: I've also found that cd/rw's can be a risk - they do on a occasion, corrupt information. I have proof of that sitting on my desk. The problem is that you don't know ahead of time when that's going to happen, so I would make sure to use a

Re: [expert] Curious anyone have experience with gettingMandrake/Linux to run on Shuttle's Barebone systems?

2002-10-17 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
5) It's put together really well. Certainly not a gold-plated case, but much, much better than the Fry's bottom-of-the-barrel specials that I've played with before. Something that is impressing me... well thought out design which is lacking in many products. Not to mention a positive

Re: [expert] CLI

2002-10-16 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 20:44, ET wrote: Elitism really bugs the hell out of me. anyone familiar with the Mensa Conundrum? if you are smart enough to be invited to join Mensa, aren't you also smart enough to recognize that elitism in any form is basicly wrong? and isn't Mensa an elitist

[expert] Curious anyone have experience with getting Mandrake/Linux to runon Shuttle's Barebone systems?

2002-10-16 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
For those who don't have a clue what I am talking about... http://www.shuttleonline.com/spec.php3?model=ss51 Nice little toy to play with. This particular model has an AGP slot. Home entertainment control center anyone? It looks like the SiS chipset would cause problems. Thoughts and Opinions

Re: [expert] Curious anyone have experience with gettingMandrake/Linux to run on Shuttle's Barebone systems?

2002-10-16 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 23:40, Barry Rountree wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2002 08:18 pm, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: For those who don't have a clue what I am talking about... Nice little toy to play with. This particular model has an AGP slot. Home entertainment control center anyone

Re: [expert] recommended graphic-cards in mdk except ATI

2002-10-08 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:12, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi, once again I wanna ask this question : which graphic-card can be recommended for mdk 8.2 i.e. 9.* because have done now a big try with a few ATI's, noone is running without problems. But all are running in my RH-box and does NOT

Re: [expert] New video card advice (plus tv card info)

2002-10-06 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 06:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, My son would like powerfull games runing in my double Win98/Mandrake 9.0 desktop computer and my wonderfull Voodoo3 3000 is now having some problems to run properly some of the games hi likes. Conclusion: I am thinking

[expert] trying to change default browser in evolution from mozilla to galeon

2002-10-02 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
the question is how checked evolution, no option to reclaim url-types adjusted gnome preferred application to galeon looked in gconf-editor under url-handers but it isn't obvious what handles http So where is the configuration file? And what is the change I am looking for. Gabriel

Re: [expert] trying to change default browser in evolution frommozilla to galeon

2002-10-02 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:31, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: the question is how checked evolution, no option to reclaim url-types adjusted gnome preferred application to galeon looked in gconf-editor under url-handers but it isn't obvious what handles http So where is the configuration file

[expert] gprintf command not found

2002-07-09 Thread phoenix
gprintf is missing [root@horace init.d]# locate gprintf [root@horace init.d]# [phoenix@horace phoenix]$ gprintf Hi bash: gprintf: command not found [root@horace root]# urpmf gprintf [root@horace root]# I've worked around this before but I can't remember how. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your

Re: [expert] gprintf command not found

2002-07-09 Thread phoenix
be interchanged ... See this thread here http://www.sgmltools.org/todo/85.txt from somebody with the opposite problem. Could it be a matter of ln -s printf gprintf ? James On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:03:55 -0400 phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority gprintf is missing [root@horace init.d

Re: [expert] gprintf command not found

2002-07-09 Thread phoenix
It used to be in the gnu sh-utils (I think). My memory is shot. Jim On Tuesday 09 July 2002 02:22 pm, you wrote: phoenix wrote: gprintf is missing [root@horace init.d]# locate gprintf [root@horace init.d]# [phoenix@horace phoenix]$ gprintf Hi bash: gprintf: command not found