Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
As I recall, with redhat( 7.2 ?), out of the box, there was a big warning in printcap to make no changes in the printcap file, since it was generated fresh every time something started up, I think the system or the printing daemon. I think that the configuration program ran automatically. You weren

Complaint against SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/6/32819/51827 One submission to Michigan's AG: The SCO Group 355 South 520 West Suite 100 Lindon, Utah 84042 USA Phone: 801-765-4999 Fax: 801-852-9088 http://www.sco.com/ The SCO Group has been engaging in legal threats, both electronically and in ha

Re: Cron idiosyncrasy

2003-08-14 Thread ronnie gauthier
>On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:36:02 -0400 - Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >the following >Re: Cron idiosyncrasy I use the following to kill runaways. Can be set to let a heavy app alone by increasing the loadtot and sleep time. !/usr/bin/perl sleep(5); $killcomm = 'kill -9'; # 0.00 to 100.00

Re: and now: quota

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Keith Morse: > > "man repquota" is not explaining all the columns. An example. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# repquota / > *** Report for user quotas on device /dev/sda2 > Block grace time: 24:00; Inode grace time: 00:00 > Block limitsFile limits > User

RE: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Some ninnies will... Mark my words Not all cautious people are > smart people, or even educated... And some smart people like to keep such a low profile that they will do whatever they are told by anyone in "authority". I married one such. She graduated with hon

Updated Step

2003-08-14 Thread Nobody
Bill Parker has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/security/pointers.html to incorporate the following: Updated ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/13/03 16:38, Joel Hammer wrote: Be careful. Some of the more advanced printing programs like to overwrite your manual printcap file from time to time. Redhat would do that, as I recall. No it didn't, unless of course you ran redhat-print-config. Of course if you're running redhat-print-con

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wilson
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:45, Michael Hipp wrote: > What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? > > Unfortunately, I'm looking for something comparable to 'Network > Neighborhood' or 'My Network Places'. > > Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq or Nautilus for such > (they're

RE: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Wil McGilvery
You could try http://www.pcflank.com/scanner1.htm It lets you add the ports you want scanned. I still think programs like nmap are best. Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager Lynch Digital Media Inc 416-744-7949 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-866-314-4678 416-744-0406  FAX www.LynchDigital.com -

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Burns MacDonald wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:04, Michael Hipp wrote: > We do quite a bit of IT Security work. Shields Up is OK for what it is, given the parameters it has to work under - it's not bogus, but it is lightweight. The usefulness of a site like ShieldsUp is that it gives you the ab

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Tom Wilson: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:45, Michael Hipp wrote: > > What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? > > > > Unfortunately, I'm looking for something comparable to 'Network > > Neighborhood' or 'My Network Places'. > > > > Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq

RE: Trip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Tim Wunder wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 9:15 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall > wrote: >> Quoth Joel Hammer: >>> C'est moi. >>> Actually, the picture was badly composed. I should have piled up all >>> three of the lobsters that I ate. >>> Yes, this was excessive, but, c'est la vie. >> >

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Joel Hammer wrote: Thanks for the scan. These ports I expected to be open, except for 1024 (kdm). I just wonder why ShieldsUp didn't detect these ports. It looks like I was inviting the world to log onto my X server. I have never found anyone doing this. It is password protected. I have to conclud

Re: Improved "pager" for man pages

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, I couldn't leave well enuf alone. I got annoyed by my new and improved man pager, since the calling shell can't be used until the acroread session is closed. So, here is the better mouse trap. It needs two scripts, not one. First script is called Man man -t $1 > /tmp/junk$$ [ -a /tmp/junk$$

Re: FS statistics on 2.6.0-test2

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/08/03 10:44, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Would you like to provide said information? I know you love XFS, but could you do an unbiased comparison for us? Sorry, i don't have the time, or the experience with Reiser. On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:58:21 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: More on the SCO pooch-screwing

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
IBM:http://lwn.net/Articles/43307/ RedHat: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/030805/linux_cloud_1.html SuSE: http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/sco_redhat.html Novell: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1210100,00.asp On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:

Re: 699 - 1399

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This was sent to me by a friend at work... That oughta give you nightmares. Kurt -- Sooner or later you must pay for your sins. (Those who have already paid may disregard this fortune). ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: Samba with no passwords

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Matthew Carpenter wrote: chmod 4755 `which smbmnt` In order to do the mounting operation, smbmnt needs to be suid root. Also, smbumount if you are using that one... Generally suid is considered to be A Bad Thing. Is this a case where it is a safe and advisable thing to do? Or just a last ditch

LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Look carefully at this picture of the Microsoft booth at LinuxWorld and you'll see that the Masked Penguin struck again... http://people.debian.org/~misha/lwce03/dscn0009.jpg Kurt -- If it's Tuesday, this must be someone else's fortune. ___ Linux-users

Re: Toshiba 2010 Install Help

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Shane Broomhall (CCI Aust) wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a new Toshiba 2010 Laptop, it has a USB Foppy and It can see USB > CDRom when Windows XP is running. That is great for Windows but I want > to put Linux on it. I have had problems with getting it to boot from > the USB Flo

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Randy Donohoe
> Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does > anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? > I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that > will make the thing fun and last the semester. > > -- Alma Mandrake and Kno

RE: M$

2003-08-14 Thread Mike McKinlay
"FITTING " ROFLMAO!!! pun intended I presume. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Myles Green Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:10 PM To: Linux Users Subject: Re: M$ On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:04, Collins Richey wrote: > Got this in a signature o

Re: LinuxWorld 2003!

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:44 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got back from a full day at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. This > was my 3rd LW, and in my opinion, this was the best of the bunch. I > arrived a half hour before the floor opened at 10AM, and already the > place was

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/09/03 14:10, Alma J Wetzker wrote: My personal interest is distributed applications, so a virtual machine running a database would be good. But we don't have the disk space to make it worthwhile. I hope to use more than one configuration before we are done. Well, there are alot of diff

RE: Recomendation

2003-08-14 Thread Wil McGilvery
Mandrake has never been an issue with people I have spoken with. I do remember a security alert about file system access though. I am not 100% sure - maybe check out their web site. Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager Lynch Digital Media Inc 416-744-7949 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-866-314-467

RE: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Kurt Wall wrote: > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html > > A desktop license is only $199; single CPU servers are $699. > After October 15th, prices go up, so act now! Fucking bastards. > > Kurt Of course. If you wait until October you will probably find that there is no merit to

Re: System Drag - Solved

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:09, Ian Stephen wrote: > Right now with Evolution, Mozilla, Konqueror, Emacs, Konsole and > OpenOffice.org all open under KDE top shows CPU 96% idle. That top > output you sent had CPU 0.0% idle. It is idle until you start loading a page. Using the Gnome System Monitor y

Re: transparency - the real thing

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Not surprising since you use Red Hat. I wouldn't use RH's KDE either :) On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:22:31 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and aterm. I think konsole can do it too, but since i don't have KDE > anywhere, i can't test it. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO scares me...

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:07:43 -0400 In the September issue of WIRED, Darl McBride in the HOT SEAT says... WIRED: Give me the summary brief. McBride: "The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns the IP rights to it, When you snap off a branch f

Re: Complaint against SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Matthew Carpenter: > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/6/32819/51827 > > > One submission to Michigan's AG: I've sent a similar complaint to Pennsylvania's Attorney General and to the DOJ in Washington. Kurt -- While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own for

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-14 Thread James McDonald
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:53:45 -0400 > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: >> > >> > In mozilla, does any one hear the pops? >> > >> >http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html >> >> Nope. > > Really strange, a lot of variation yes/no. Apparently even some folks > who

Re: For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:36:13 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xfce4 rc2 is pretty fabulous. They have a script that downloads, > compiles and installs is for you. > I've been using it (piror to rc2) for months - rock solid for what I need. The only drawback is no session manager

Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile doc

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote: > > > Is your /etc/modules.conf correct with the proper aliases, etc? > > > some mod names have changed. I just modprobe the ones I want anyway > > > via a script. > > > > Yea, the entries in modules.conf are correct, as they work just fine > > for 2.4.21.

SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030805/latu094_1.html A desktop license is only $199; single CPU servers are $699. After October 15th, prices go up, so act now! Fucking bastards. Kurt -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison _

FS statistics on 2.6.0-test2

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
Interesting article and lots of critiques at http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/715 The following extract shows the basic differences. This is German number notation with commas and periods reversed. reiser4 reiserfs ext3 XFS JFS copy 33.39,34

Re: odd email. Maybe OT, but not sure.

2003-08-14 Thread Gerry Doris
On 9 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Has anyone been getting an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where > your.domain is your domain)? > > It has text like this: > > Hello there, > > I would like to inform you about important information regarding your > email address. This email address will

How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semester. -- Alma

Re: For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth James McDonald: > Um, > > I have been trying to lighten the load on my PIII 600MHz w/ 512MB RAM. > > So for starters I went back from KDM to XDM. > From kwrite to nedit > From OpenOffice 1.0.3 to OpenOffice 1.1 > and From Mozilla to Thunderbird and Firebird > But the best improvement came f

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any experience/advice/interesting opinions about doing so? I am wondering if there is a good distro or any other wonderfulnes that will make the thing fun and last the semest

Re: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:49, David A. Bandel wrote: > If SCO loses (likely), all the suckers that bought licenses > (along with a whole slew of others) will sue SCO (SCO will, however, be > out of business and broke long before their trial). > We live in hope Aren't you glad you still don't work

Re: More on the SCO pooch-screwing, Government style

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/21384-1.html ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Can anyone name the bad penguin in this animation? http://www.opq.se/images/BadPenguin.gif -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ ·

Re: Needs fsck options

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/05/03 08:44, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Hi I have two machines under the router at home. One has windows setup and another one is totally a linux box. Yesterday due to thunder my linux box X-Term has been corrupted, while i am trying to connect my Windows machine to the lunux box it is giving

Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? Unfortunately, I'm looking for something comparable to 'Network Neighborhood' or 'My Network Places'. Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq or Nautilus for such (they're a "look but don't touch" browser)? Any recommendations apprec

Re: google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Wilson
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:45, Burns MacDonald wrote: > > Sounds like something straight out of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, > or should be. Which I might add, I am reading yet again. --Tom Wilson ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsu

Re: Samba with no passwords

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:38:34 -0400 Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > h This is still required to use smbmount... I'm not certain > about smbfs and /etc/fstab... > > Did you try the "password=" attribute? Since most people don't do a > blank password or a guest account, this

Re: OT: time waster, but also a question

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
ronnie gauthier schrieb: On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:14:25 +0200 - Klaus-Peter Schrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: OT: time waster, but also a question Right now, I can't tell you if there is any sound at all on my computer - last night I have been to a ZZTop concert in Hannover, s

[OT] SCO: The Iraq Connection

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
>From some of my friends back in Utah: http://www.xmission.com/~fozz/darlandsaddam.jpg Kurt -- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" ___ Li

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron Grewell
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 19:54:44 -0500 Ben Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> emitted these signals: > I set up a Mosix one about 2 years ago for a trade show. > Not a problem and I really liked it. > Another vote for Mosix. My office workstation is currently a Mosix cluster. I got tired of my compiles bo

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003, Michael Fakaro wrote: >My old OKI printer finally died and I went looking for a new one and >found a Samsung ML1750 c/w Linux drivers in the box. > >Brought it home and it was printing great in 5 minutes drivers installed >no problem. > >I just felt it was important to mention

Re: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Alfrey
The interesting thing is that this whole thing actually made the local public radio station with a story from National Public Radio (NPR). Of course, these sorts of public radio stories are always "behind the curve" but it described linux as being an operating system developed by a collective

Sound in XFCE 4

2003-08-14 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Hi All, Does anyone know if sound is supported in XFCE 4 ? I can get my Flash plugin working (and singing, etc.) on Mozilla 1.4, but I can't seem to be able to find a place to specify and enable system event sounds. I know it can be rather irritating sometimes, but it's better that the default

Re: Samba with no passwords

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:58:27 -0400 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/5/2003 11:52 AM, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:04:51 -0600 > > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0600 > >>Collins Richey <[

Re: LinuxWorld 2003!

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:44 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Notably absent this year was Google. Granted they're not really selling > anything that is Linux specific, but they were there last year, and were > quite popular. This is a down time for most companies. If they

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Just how does this this thing spread? I have a couple of windows boxes behind my linux firewall. I have almost all privileged ports blocked. Will that be enuf? Joel On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0700, Gary Wilson wrote: > If you are in an all-Linux place, you are damn lucky. > > We are b

transparency - the real thing

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how gorgeous the entire OSX UI is. But what really blew me away was the fact that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this: http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Showcase/screen_shots/03.28.CocoaNTerminal.jpg That means that eve

Re: System Drag

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/10/03 14:15, burns wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 11:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found that installing RH9 cured the problems I experienced with RH8, which were very similar to what you describe. IMHO, RH8 was like the typical RH x.0 release and RH9 behaves more like a RHx.1 or x.2 releas

Photoshop on Linux, love Disney

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Involves Wine, but a big win for many... including some of my "harvest fields". http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1210083,00.asp ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-

Re: System Drag

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 burns wrote: | On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 13:03, Andrew Mathews wrote: | | |>I'd check to make sure up2date didn't leave any errant processes |>running. I notice this happening when I have a bunch of kio_http |>processes running, but that may be kde relevant

RE: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:35, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: > However, I haven't looked at the Microsoft logo often enough to know if this > is usual. Look at the major Microsoft sign above the booth. Where the 's' > meets the preceding 'o' it looks like there is a divot in the 'o', very like > the

RE: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Any judge in their right mind will be able to see through this. - -- Oxymoron. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 Interfere not in the business of Dragons, For y

Re: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
> > I bet this sells about as well as Yugos! Prior to the war, the Yugo was a huge success. The war killed it. So, for SCO, this is their Boznia. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 00:25, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > SuSE 8.2 pro comes with all types of clustering software. I believe there is even a > scientific cluster software included, although it is not Beowolf. > Also: http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/as/cluster/ Oracle offers a high-end c

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/13/03 16:04, Michael Hipp wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: Thanks for the scan. These ports I expected to be open, except for 1024 (kdm). I just wonder why ShieldsUp didn't detect these ports. It looks like I was inviting the world to log onto my X server. I have never found anyone doing this. I

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ted Ozolins: > On Slackware 8.1, I had printing (lpr/lprng) using a Canon BJC-210 > working nicely. I did the upgrade to 9.0 and now I can not get it to > work no matter how or what I do. I then decided to setup printing on > another machine with a clean install of Slackware 9.0 and still

Re: google fun

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT) http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight The story goes that at NASA a management droid was briefing some senior engineers using a bewildering array of terms and units. The engineers were obviou

Re: Trip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/12/03 15:24, Joel Hammer wrote: BTW, if you are hot and bored (Our ac is out right now here in Maryland), and have a cable connection, you might enjoy seeing a few pictures of Maine. We just got back from Maine after a weeks vacation there. The weather was lousy, just overcast. I posted some

Re: SCO Sucks

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
No, but I can say "SuSE!" Seems that SCO unloaded a lot of their Linux-friendly employees there. Darn nice of them, if you think about it :) On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:53:39 -0400 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes I am, Burns. I would already have quit, though, once they started > this n

AvantGo

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Evenin', list, Does anyone here know of an AvantGo alternative for Linux? Thanks, Kurt -- Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Re: LinuxWorld 2003!

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:44 -0700 > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Notably absent this year was Google. Granted they're not really selling > > anything that is Linux specific, but they were there last year, and were > > quite pop

Re: [OT] SCO: The Iraq Connection

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:39:26 -0400 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From some of my friends back in Utah: > > http://www.xmission.com/~fozz/darlandsaddam.jpg > OK, I'll bite. Who's the non-Arab in the picture. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yest

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, since I am fairly certain they are selling printers for less than it costs them to make one, I can't complain. They are just trying to survive economically. People like me who don't do high volume printing appreciate having a cheap printer that works with linux. Joel On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 a

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:25:44 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. That port is blocked, so I won't worry about updating anytime > too soon. > Joel > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:33:30PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > > On 08/12/03 14:28, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > Just how does this t

Spam redux

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Jackson
I came in late to the spam discussion. Just let me add 2 things: - if you are really interested in spam fighting there are 2 e-mail lists I would recommend, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/ and for sys admins : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ssh key pairs

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Morse
Got a situation that driving me slightly batty. I cannot get a ssh key pairs to work in a particular situation. local host remote host either : rh 7.2 Cobalt

LinuxWorld 2003!

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
Just got back from a full day at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. This was my 3rd LW, and in my opinion, this was the best of the bunch. I arrived a half hour before the floor opened at 10AM, and already the place was packed. IBM & HP had the 2 'superbooths' to the right & left of the main hall e

Re: SCO's first licensee

2003-08-14 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:23, Net Llama! wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > > The unnamed Fortune 500 company is apparently the first to sign up for > > a SCO Unix intellectual property software license under a program > > started just last week. > I doubt its Sun. They ca

RE: [OT] worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
I sent the info on this worm to a friend whom I know to be running a mix of Linux and Windows at home. His response may be of interest to the list: Yep -- as near as I can tell, only my XP laptop is vulnerable. I downloaded the patch for it without problem (I thi

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Moffat
Michael Hipp wrote: What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? Unfortunately, I'm looking for something comparable to 'Network Neighborhood' or 'My Network Places'. Haven't been particularly happy with using Konq or Nautilus for such (they're a "look but don't touch" browser)? Any r

Re: Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
I have been very happy with my lexmark z53. However, does lexmark even make this printer anymore? More importantly, is lexmark making its new printers linux friendly, that is, supplying drivers for them? Joel Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:19:28AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003, Mich

Samsung printers support Linux out of the box

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Fakaro
My old OKI printer finally died and I went looking for a new one and found a Samsung ML1750 c/w Linux drivers in the box. Brought it home and it was printing great in 5 minutes drivers installed no problem. I just felt it was important to mention because of Samsungs support of Linux. I know many

Re: Sound in XFCE 4

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know if sound is supported in XFCE 4 ? I can get my Flash > plugin working (and singing, etc.) on Mozilla 1.4, but I can't seem to > be able to find a place to specify and enable system event sounds. I > know it can be rather irrit

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread ronnie gauthier
It must be getting bad. Charter just send a mass mailing about the worm and specifically mention port 135. I run an NT box at home and since day two it has not an email client nor does RPC work, I disabled it to manual. I do get an event error at boot but NT does not need re-booting much so it real

Re: Best LAN browser for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
Have you looked at LinNeighborhood? It isn't quite 'My Network Places'--sort of a "browse, mount, but use your filemanager to mess with files" proposition, but it works. At 11:45 AM 8/12/03 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote: What is the best browser for SMB shares under Linux? Unfortunately, I'm looki

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Precisely. On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:50:32 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Wall wrote: > > > Quoth Matthew Carpenter: > > > >>IIRC, it's 135, the RPC port. > > > > > > It exploits a vulnerability on TCP port 135, used by DCOM RPC > > services. You should also block TCP port

Re: How to setup clusters

2003-08-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:03:34 -0700 On 08/08/03 20:38, Alma J Wetzker wrote: "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:26:25 -0700 On 08/08/03 15:04, Alma J Wetzker wrote: Our IEEE chapter at school is going to setup a linux cluster. Does anyone have any

Re: Stopping and deleting a print queue in cups

2003-08-14 Thread Harry Giles
Sorry. I didn't know that one worked for cups. Thank you! Harry On Wed August 13 2003 10:26 am, Net Llama! wrote: > lprm ? > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Harry Giles wrote: > > I messed up, and need to delete a rather large file in queue for a > > printer. What is the command for doing this when usin

Re: For some reason I would like to say XFCE rocks.

2003-08-14 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:39:48 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:36:13 -0700 > Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Xfce4 rc2 is pretty fabulous. They have a script that downloads, > > compiles and installs is for you. > > > > I've been using it

State of the GnuCash project: A call for help

2003-08-14 Thread Benoit Grégoire
This is an article I wrote after several discussions about GnuCash's future over the last few weeks. I believe that it is important for everyone to take the time to read it completely. - STATE OF

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Burns MacDonald
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:04, Michael Hipp wrote: > It's not bogus. Mr. Gibson is well respected and his site is widely > used. Dunno why it didn't work properly on your system. I might guess > that it misidentified your IP address, or perhaps the fact that the > Internet has been only half work

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/12/03 17:36, Collins Richey wrote: Not being even an XP lightweight - how does one find out whether ports are open or blocked on WinXP? From your linux box, run nmap against it :) I think win2k & XP also have netstat, but i wouldn't know for sure, nor would i trust its output. --

Re: AvantGo

2003-08-14 Thread Susan Macchia
I've used AvantGo on linux. I use Jpilot and used the syncmal plugin. But there is an alternative. It is called Plucker - www.plkr.org Kurt Wall wrote: > Evenin', list, > > Does anyone here know of an AvantGo alternative for Linux? > > Thanks, > > Kurt = ___

Re: Printing

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, no FUD meant. If your printcap states do not edit manually, then there might be a problem. I know I had this problem with Redhat. Joel On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:36:19PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > On 08/13/03 17:28, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > As I recall, with redhat( 7.2 ?), out of the box,

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Matthew Carpenter: IIRC, it's 135, the RPC port. It exploits a vulnerability on TCP port 135, used by DCOM RPC services. You should also block TCP ports 138, 445, 593, and UDP port 69 (TFTP). You should block *every* port that doesn't absolutely, positively have to

RE: Trip to Maine

2003-08-14 Thread Jack Berger
Nice Pix. The pix of the stream remind me of my recent trip to the Big Horn Mts. in Wyoming. -jhb- > -Original Message- > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Trip to Maine > > > C'est moi. > Actually

Re: System Drag

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
Burns, Running top gives no clues? Then I suspect a driver issue. If you built a modular kernel, start turning off services and unloading their associated modules. When/if the system begins to run like you expect, it's a sure shot you found the issue. Steps taken after that are pretty simple, r

Re: LinuxWorld, a la Microsoft

2003-08-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/10/03 20:36, Kurt Wall wrote: Look carefully at this picture of the Microsoft booth at LinuxWorld and you'll see that the Masked Penguin struck again... http://people.debian.org/~misha/lwce03/dscn0009.jpg Penguin Computing's booth was directly opposite M$'s. -- ~

worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Gary Wilson
If you are in an all-Linux place, you are damn lucky. We are being bombarded with the Backdoor and Blaster worms and anyone who hasn't gotten their Microsoft updates in the last two weeks is being blown away. It's an epidemic. My Libranet box is just fine. But its my job to make sure that all tho

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
IIRC, it's 135, the RPC port. On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:33:30 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > port 137, the RPC port. Of course keeping up with M$ security updates will > help too. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise I

Procmail rule

2003-08-14 Thread Swapana Ghosh
Hi Thanks for your reply... >>First of all, does it make a difference? In general, it has no difference. But demand is from client...:-) So client does not want that his maill will be in the mail box as @www.domain.com - he wants *To address* in his mail box will be always shown as @

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