Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Ian Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:31:35 -0700 On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:41, Keith Antoine wrote: snip I can transfer files back and forth just as I can from a linux booted system. snip NO way! Windows files are not executable on Linux, so it is immune to win viruii, this is one

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a Workers Compaensation ruling

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:34, Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:21:23 -0700 Tom Marinis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: burns wrote: I've also just heard from my sister-in-law that they are under evacuation notice as part of the forest fires in Kelowna,

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread burns
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 18:21, Ted Ozolins wrote: I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a Workers Compaensation ruling requires that anyone fighting a forest fire must possess cirtification by the Forestry. The Army is

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 16:21, Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ted Ozolins: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a

Re: I've hosed my clock setup

2003-08-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Kevin O'Gorman: I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock. Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup thats usually once a day (no fault of Linux, I just have to shut this

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:49, Kurt Wall wrote: It's reassuring, in a sad sort of way, that in this case Americans and Canadians still share this in common. ;-) I'm all for one of us annexing the other. GDR I like to think we have more in common than that. Let's both give up and both ask to

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth burns: On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:49, Kurt Wall wrote: It's reassuring, in a sad sort of way, that in this case Americans and Canadians still share this in common. ;-) I'm all for one of us annexing the other. GDR I like to think we have more in common than that. We've more in

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Ken Moffat
burns wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:49, Kurt Wall wrote: It's reassuring, in a sad sort of way, that in this case Americans and Canadians still share this in common. ;-) I'm all for one of us annexing the other. GDR I like to think we have more in common than that. Let's both give

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread Ken Moffat
Alma J Wetzker wrote: If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected. The virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing. If the OS doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a windoze targetted attack unles wine responds, the virus never starts. -- Alma

Re: I've hosed my clock setup

2003-08-23 Thread Ken Moffat
Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Kevin O'Gorman: I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock. Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup thats usually once a day (no fault of Linux, I just

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread Tim Wunder
On Saturday 23 August 2003 9:26 am, someone claiming to be Ken Moffat wrote: Alma J Wetzker wrote: If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected. The virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing. If the OS doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 09:43, Tim Wunder wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 9:26 am, someone claiming to be Ken Moffat wrote: Are these sobig virii Outlook (express) specific, or are other mail clients, say Netscape (on windows) or eudora, vulnerable? If the user clicks on the executable

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
Myles Green wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. Amen to that! Over three hundred homes were lost to this fire last night! The officials that fumbled and bungled this should be taken out and

Re: OTRe: Thank you!

2003-08-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
Tim Wunder wrote: Looks like this is a sobig.F virus mail with the file attachment stripped... On Friday 22 August 2003 9:03 pm, someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details Yup sure looks that way. Ain't it great G -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C.

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Tom Marinis
Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a Workers

Opera question

2003-08-23 Thread MHeinrich
I'm running Opera 6.12 build 362 on a Mandrake 9.1 system. I love how fast it works compared to konqueror but it doesn't seem to load flash sites. Particularly barbie.com and pollypocket.com (my kids love the spongebob game at barbie.com). I've looked at the enabled plugins and shockwave

We Love The SCO Information Minister

2003-08-23 Thread Kurt Wall
This is just too funny. http://www.welovethescoinformationminister.org /me wipes eyes. Kurt -- The opossum is a very sophisticated animal. It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 p.m. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OTRe: Thank you!

2003-08-23 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:08:38 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: Looks like this is a sobig.F virus mail with the file attachment stripped... On Friday 22 August 2003 9:03 pm, someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details Damn, I missed

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Shawn Tayler
On 23 Aug 2003 08:50:08 -0400 burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: Let's both give up and both ask to be annexed to Australia. We could make Skip Prime Minister... the Right almost-honourable Sir Skippy, Member (and crystal balls) for Queensland and representative at moderately large for Big

Re: I've hosed my clock setup

2003-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Kevin O'Gorman: I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock. Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup

Re: I've hosed my clock setup

2003-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Kevin O'Gorman: I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock. Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup thats usually once a

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread Michael Hipp
burns wrote: However, there is a pseudo registry in Wine implementations. I checked the wine registry files in my Redhat 8.0 and the registry key that the worm looks for (according to CERT) is not present. That is not to say that the virus couldn't be modified to attack a wine-based Linux system,

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
Tom Marinis wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires

Re: Opera question

2003-08-23 Thread Tim Wunder
On Saturday 23 August 2003 2:54 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On 08/23/03 11:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Opera 6.12 build 362 on a Mandrake 9.1 system. I love how fast it works compared to konqueror but it doesn't seem to load flash sites. Particularly

Re: We Love The SCO Information Minister

2003-08-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
Kurt Wall wrote: This is just too funny. http://www.welovethescoinformationminister.org /me wipes eyes. Kurt Good one, I needed some humour to pick up this dayG -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: We Love The SCO Information Minister

2003-08-23 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Wall wrote: | This is just too funny. | | http://www.welovethescoinformationminister.org | | /me wipes eyes. | | Kurt Truth is stranger than fiction once again. - -- Andrew Mathews -

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:18 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote: Myles Green wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. Amen to that! Over three hundred homes were lost to this fire last night! The

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: ... Which pretty much removes ESR and RMS from the running. :-) That said, self-promotion notwithstanding, ESR is very good at making complex technical issues clear. However, this is not about complex _technical_ issues, but, rather, about IBM's alleged

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Keith Antoine: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:18 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: Let's both give up and both ask to be annexed to Australia. We could make Skip Prime Minister... the Right almost-honourable Sir Skippy, Member (and crystal balls) for Queensland and representative at moderately

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 09:00, Ted Ozolins wrote: Damn, things have changed a lot in BC since the mid 1990's. I never heard about this before, and I live here. Yup, I live here as well and untill now was not aware of it iether. SNIP My wife is originally from Nelson. Her Mom and Dad live

Re: We Love The SCO Information Minister

2003-08-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: This is just too funny. http://www.welovethescoinformationminister.org /me wipes eyes. This brings to mind one of my father's favorite questions which I would love to post to the SCO folks, ``are you as stupid as you appear to be''? Bill -- INTERNET:

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:44, Keith Antoine wrote: For those interested in this evolvingtragedy... Information first hand from the City of Kelowna: http://castanet.firewatch.net/ -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backing up windows

2003-08-23 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:51 am, Michael Hipp wrote: Since, IIRC, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer are reported to run near perfectly in Wine (or Crossover Office), it would be prudent to assume a virus would have access to all the right facilities to run as normal. But I'm

Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members

2003-08-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
Keith Antoine wrote: BTW was there loss of life or did they ALL get away in time. It does seem co-incidental that both continents seem to swap fire hazzard, again is arson part of it too as with us. Mind you Europe copped it this time as well and the death toll was bigger that we ever had.

Re: We Love The SCO Information Minister

2003-08-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:58:49 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: This is just too funny. http://www.welovethescoinformationminister.org /me wipes eyes. This brings to mind one of my father's favorite questions which I would love to post