Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 18 Sep 2003 at 18:59, dep boldly uttered: quoth Philip J. Koenig: | On 18 Sep 2003 at 10:56, Collins Richey boldly uttered: | Homeland Security is scarcely the same as the Nazi SS. Where and | when, pray tell, have they descended upon any innocent group of | citizens, knocking heads

Redhat 8/9 hardware troubles

2003-09-20 Thread Ian Stephen
Hi list Been having trouble with IBM Aptiva Celeron 533 PC. Was running Red Hat 8. Troubles seemed to get progressively worse. Would work fine for a couple of days, then would have a crash, typically when shutting down. Would find that modules from XFree86 were missing. Re-install XFree86

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 18 Sep 2003 at 17:38, Collins Richey boldly uttered: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:59:46 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth Philip J. Koenig: | On 18 Sep 2003 at 10:56, Collins Richey boldly uttered: | Homeland Security is scarcely the same as the Nazi SS. Where and | when, pray

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread dep
quoth Philip J. Koenig: | [END OF CITATIONS] ah. one a.p. story citing one congressman and two some guy said quotes. | Open mouth, insert foot. your choice. -- dep Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. ___

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:46:44 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth Philip J. Koenig: | [END OF CITATIONS] ah. one a.p. story citing one congressman and two some guy said quotes. | Open mouth, insert foot. your choice. -- dep Don't waste bandwidth, Philip, DEP is always

RH 5.2 Printing

2003-09-20 Thread Ted Ozolins
I know RH 5.2 is anciant but that is what is used for accounting where I work. It is well hidden behind a firewall and seen only by the intranet. We've moved to a new location and have made a lot of changes. The intranet use to be in the 199.xxx.xx.xxx series and is now 192.168.x.xxx. The

Re: RH 5.2 Printing

2003-09-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Ted Ozolins wrote: I know RH 5.2 is anciant but that is what is used for accounting where I work. It is well hidden behind a firewall and seen only by the intranet. We've moved to a new location and have made a lot of changes. The intranet use to be in the 199.xxx.xx.xxx series and is now

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Terry Bassett
Terence McCarthy wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:46:44 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth Philip J. Koenig: | [END OF CITATIONS] ah. one a.p. story citing one congressman and two some guy said quotes. | Open mouth, insert foot. your choice. -- dep Don't waste bandwidth, Philip,

In case there were any doubts

2003-09-20 Thread Collins Richey
http://linuxtoday.com/news/2003092000226OSBZCD SCO's quarterly 10-Q report is out. Some points I would like to highlight: 1. Revenue for products is down 2. Revenue for services is down 3. During the three months ended July 31, 2003, Microsoft Corporation ('Microsoft')

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:37:54 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for a touch of perspective: http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes20.html Thanks for the reference. One of the most credible lines is this: The feds distinguish between ''credible'' and true. Now, if only the New

email attack

2003-09-20 Thread Chris Kassopulo
Greetings, For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which makes for a long download on dialup. Are there any filters that can delete emails at the server that have an exe attached. I can put up with a

Re: email attack

2003-09-20 Thread ronnie gauthier
ToolsCreate Filter Ruleswhatever there is a radio button for do not recieve, that might work for you. On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:26:48 -0400 - Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: email attack Greetings, For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files.

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:53:46 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the immortal words of murray gell-mann, if i have seen farther than others it is because i'm surrounded by midgets. -- I really think you believe this! Terence ___ Linux-users

Re: email attack

2003-09-20 Thread dep
quoth Chris Kassopulo: | Greetings, | | For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe | files. Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around | 150k which makes for a long download on dialup. Are there any | filters that can delete emails at the server that have an

Re: email attack

2003-09-20 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:10, dep wrote: New Category 3 Worm/Virus: Swen.A (Yes, that's 'news' backwards) http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yup. Also: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#swena Looks like it could be a nasty precursor to other attacks... it

Re: sshd restart - is this right??

2003-09-20 Thread Net Llama!
On 09/20/03 08:09, Michael Hipp wrote: Over the last couple of days I've been updating systems for the openssh exploit. Using RH's 'up2date' tool, I download and install the openssh updates, then do '/sbin/service sshd restart' to get the new code running. Weird thing is, my ssh session I'm

Re: email attack

2003-09-20 Thread Gerry Doris
On 20 Sep 2003, burns wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:10, dep wrote: New Category 3 Worm/Virus: Swen.A (Yes, that's 'news' backwards) http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yup. Also: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#swena Looks like it could be a

Re: Redhat 8/9 hardware troubles

2003-09-20 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 06:43, Net Llama! wrote: Could be a failing CPU too. If you've got a spare component on hand (PSU, CPU, cables, etc) i'd swap them in 1 at a time to see if it makes a difference. Easiest spare on hand was Mandrake 9.1. Have installed that to see if same trouble

Re: sshd restart - is this right??

2003-09-20 Thread Keith Morse
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Over the last couple of days I've been updating systems for the openssh exploit. Using RH's 'up2date' tool, I download and install the openssh updates, then do '/sbin/service sshd restart' to get the new code running. Weird thing is, my ssh session

cryptplug fails lin

2003-09-20 Thread Dennis Veatch
It wants gpgme-0.3.x as a dependency- Checking dependencies for cryptplug cryptplug: Adding required dependency gpgme-0.3.x Checking dependencies for gpgme-0.3.x + downloading module gpgme-0.3.x + Skipping download of gpgme-0.3.14.tar.gz for module gpgme-0.3.x (in cache) Building gpgme-0.3.x

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Alma J Wetzker
dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:37:54 -0400 for a touch of perspective: http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes20.html My last comment on this topic. I lived in Missouri while Ashcroft was Governor. I met him several times working with youth in government. While Ashcroft

Re: Program Snapshot

2003-09-20 Thread Ben Duncan
Unfortunately, the program was not compiled with debug, so that is out of the question. What I am wanting to do, is like the OLD Gasp debug program that was in MS-DOS, where you could step thru and OR see the ASM code. I am wanting to follow what the program is doing, and it is a foreign binary

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Gerry Doris
Shouldn't this thread be in linux-general? -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Ken Moffat
Alma J Wetzker wrote: My concern is the steady encroachment of law against liberties that has taken place over the past decade. With people afraid, our liberties can dwindle faster, if we let them. The concern should not be ashcroft or bush or the present, but rather the possibilities for

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Hemus
Philip J. Koenig wrote: On 18 Sep 2003 at 18:59, dep boldly uttered: quoth Philip J. Koenig: | On 18 Sep 2003 at 10:56, Collins Richey boldly uttered: | Homeland Security is scarcely the same as the Nazi SS. Where and | when, pray tell, have they descended upon any innocent group of |

Re: Program Snapshot

2003-09-20 Thread burns
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:44, Ben Duncan wrote: Unfortunately, the program was not compiled with debug, so that is out of the question. What I am wanting to do, is like the OLD Gasp debug program that was in MS-DOS, where you could step thru and OR see the ASM code. I am wanting to follow

Re: RH 5.2 Printing

2003-09-20 Thread tom marinis
--- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know RH 5.2 is anciant but that is what is used for accounting where I work. It is well hidden behind a firewall and seen only by the intranet. We've moved to a new location and have made a lot of changes. The intranet use to be in the

X fonts

2003-09-20 Thread Collins Richey
I, too, am straying from the ot path. Is there a standard way to list all the fonts currently available to X, perhaps with selection only for standard ISO8859-1 encoding? Also with most apps, I only see a limited variety of the defined fonts. Is there a standard method of changing this for

Re: X fonts

2003-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: I, too, am straying from the ot path. Is there a standard way to list all the fonts currently available to X, perhaps with selection only for standard ISO8859-1 encoding? For CLI, xlsfonts: $ xlsfonts -fn -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Joel Hammer
Geez, they just arrested a Muslim army Chaplain (West Point Grad, Asian American, studied in Syria), who worked with the Muslims held in Cuba. They are seeing spies under every bed, now. BTW, a big difference between WWII and now is that German Americans were strongly and DEMONSTRABLY supportive

Re: Program Snapshot

2003-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: Unfortunately, the program was not compiled with debug, so that is out of the question. What I am wanting to do, is like the OLD Gasp debug program that was in MS-DOS, where you could step thru and OR see the ASM code. A debugger, such as gdb. Kurt -- Boy, life takes a

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 20 Sep 2003 at 11:37, dep boldly uttered: for a touch of perspective: http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeser/cst-edt-roes20.html I found little of interest in that article. Lots of accusations and name-calling, an attempt to compare it to the FDR administration's (probably misguided)

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 20 Sep 2003 at 18:36, Alma J Wetzker boldly uttered: While Ashcroft is a political animal, he is also a man of deep religous conviction Yes. He's a Pentacostal, a fundamentalist christian sect which believe in miraculous healing and speaking in tongues. A little perspective on

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip J. Koenig wrote: | On 20 Sep 2003 at 18:36, Alma J Wetzker boldly uttered: | | | While Ashcroft is a political animal, he is also a man of deep |religous conviction | | | | Yes. He's a Pentacostal, a fundamentalist christian sect which |

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 20 Sep 2003 at 22:54, Joel Hammer boldly uttered: Geez, they just arrested a Muslim army Chaplain (West Point Grad, Asian American, studied in Syria), who worked with the Muslims held in Cuba. They are seeing spies under every bed, now. They say he had in his possession some