RE: Hardware and soft modem

2002-05-30 Thread Sridhar J
Satish Considering the fact stated here, you should have attached the file as a text file, not just a file. I run windows here and the file came up as an unknown format, since there was no file extensions. So better send such attachments as .txt, since mostly people don't reject .txt attachments.

Re: HD Woes

2002-05-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
See below. At 03:57 PM 5/30/02 -0500, docv wrote: >Fellow Newbie listers, > >I am running a dual boot (RH7.3 & WinME) box. Due to the purchase of a new >Digital Video Camera and the firewire board to transfer videos, I have >also had to purchase a new 40Gig 7200RPM HD. For some unknown reason,

HD Woes

2002-05-30 Thread docv
Fellow Newbie listers, I am running a dual boot (RH7.3 & WinME) box. Due to the purchase of a new Digital Video Camera and the firewire board to transfer videos, I have also had to purchase a new 40Gig 7200RPM HD. For some unknown reason, I can not mount any partition from the new 40Gig drive

Re: Open Office - printing

2002-05-30 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:21:57PM -0700, Dan Bentson-Royal wrote: > I feel foolish - I am trying to print from OpenOffice and started > reading the built-in help. The very Ffirst thing I am told to do is > "Click the New Printer button." and I absolutely cannot find that. Hmmm... Hadn

Re: Related to thread: which UNIX to use, but offtopic

2002-05-30 Thread Bob Batson
At 9:55 AM +0530 5/30/02, Sridhar J wrote: >Hi > >Something offtopic, but one question, what is a hardware modem and what is a >software modem? Check the site called "Winmodems are not modems; Linux Information Page" at http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- Bob Batson

Re: Intrusion detection

2002-05-30 Thread Petre Bandac
On Tuesday 30 May 2000 13:57, Seth Callen wrote using one of his keyboards: > 1) Can anyone recommend a good program or utility (and where to d/l it > from) that can detect things like port scans, and attempts to hack into a > linux box ? for portscans - portsentry - www.psionic.org if I rememb

Re: Hardware and soft modem

2002-05-30 Thread Haines Brown
satish, You send a mail attachment to the list related to the topic, but I suggest you consider alternatives. Because attachments are often carriers of virii or wormen, many people configure their mail readers to reject anything with attachments, and some mail servers block any mail with attachme

re: Intrusion detection

2002-05-30 Thread Seth Callen
1) Can anyone recommend a good program or utility (and where to d/l it from) that can detect things like port scans, and attempts to hack into a linux box ? I;ve heard of packet sniffers, but do they actually detect, or just capture massive amounts of data ? 2) also what basic methods can

Hardware and soft modem

2002-05-30 Thread SATHISH.J
Hi sridhar, Please go through the attachment. Regs, sathish Hi, The following talks about Hardware and Software modems. *** Modem Taxonomy: -- A modem is a peripheral device that enables compute

Re: Shutdown / Halt Problem - Bad EIP Value

2002-05-30 Thread Steven Smith
> I'm not sure if I can capture the console messages as the system is shutting > down. If you compile a kernel without ACPI or APM support, the messages will just sit on the screen long enough for you to copy them out by hand. You should be able to get the same effect by editting the shutdown scr

Re: which UNIX to use (was: Re: which distribution to use?)

2002-05-30 Thread David Benfell
This, being a Linux list, is a horrible place to get into this discussion... On Thu, 30 May 2002 00:59:15 +0300, Raider wrote: > Bottom > line - OpenBSD doesn't even bother with the usability. > In what sense are you referring to usability? Where I've never been able to make sense of Linux's p