Re: XP Licensing [was Re: an interesting experience]

2002-01-21 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 21 January 2002 09:20 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote : > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:00:17 -0500 > > Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Sometimes things like this get exaggerated, and since I only have second > | hand hearsay, I'd like to confirm if this is true or not. > > Don't know. I saw pir

Re: Congress to look at software liability?

2002-01-18 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 18 January 2002 09:16 am, Rick Sivernell wrote : > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:54:49 +0100 > > > for. While some foreign developers are very good, many are not. Those that > are not use their language as a hinderence in convering in US to avoid or > frustrate those who manage or use the soft

Re: opinions on this iptables script

2002-01-11 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 11 January 2002 01:49 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote : > just wondering if all the gurus could comment on this script (below) before > we move it into production. seems to work nicely on test box. thanks. > > skript klipped I didn't go over with a fine tooth comb, and I'm not anything near

quota help needed

2002-01-11 Thread John Hiemenz
I've got a friend who has a problem with quota. as a regular user, what are the methods for determining where files are that are causing one to exceed quota? Obvious files are easy, but there are some temp files created or . files and these are being elusive. I've thought of find, but sinc

Re: any steps or pointers to setting up CVS?

2002-01-10 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 10 January 2002 09:33 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote : > John Hiemenz babbled on about: > > This will get down fairly soon, as neccessity is pushing me.. I am > > reading info found at http://www.unixtools.org/cvs/server-how-to.html at > > the moment. > > deal

Re: any steps or pointers to setting up CVS?

2002-01-10 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 10 January 2002 09:14 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote : > John Hiemenz babbled on about: > > I come from many years of SCCS and want to try my hand at setting up a > > CVS server on one of our internal lans. > > > > Just thought I'd ask ahead of time to

any steps or pointers to setting up CVS?

2002-01-10 Thread John Hiemenz
I come from many years of SCCS and want to try my hand at setting up a CVS server on one of our internal lans. Just thought I'd ask ahead of time to see if anyone else has done this and if there are items to be on the lookuot for.. besides my spelling ability _

Re: Terminal Emulation

2002-01-10 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:35 am, Wil McGilvery wrote : > I am looking at Tarantella to centralize access to one of our Unix > servers. The people who are accessing this server are using a Terminal > Emulation program in windoze which I would like to eliminate. > > Does any one know of any oth

Re: Windows (OT)

2002-01-08 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 02:58 pm, Randy wrote : > Is it possible to get Windows NT and 2000 to coexist on the same hard > drive? I've heard that NT won't reside with another OS. > TIA, > Randy Donohoe well, I have a cd of Windows NT4 and a CD of Windows 2000 Pro sitting right here and they ar

Re: I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-07 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 07 January 2002 10:05 am, Net Llama wrote : > YOU: Your shit won't work! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! > ATI: What specifically is the problem you're having? > YOU: I don't have time to waste with you, fix your stuff now! > ATI: We'd like to help, but we need information on the pr

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 04 January 2002 12:17 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote : > anyone know of any hacks/methods/etc to limit a particular userid to only > one login at a time? > > i.e. admin #1 logs in as root to do something, meanwhile admin #2 sshes > into machine as root to do something, but is not allowed to

Re: in mandrake how does

2002-01-04 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 04 January 2002 08:07 am, Mike Andrew wrote : > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:48, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > Was it Keith Antoine who wrote on Friday 04 January 2002 08:33: > > > One call initrd after a recompile. > > > Get the update files downloaded and installed. I can see the

Re: grub and ext3?

2001-12-16 Thread John Hiemenz
What are you searching for? I have a COL system running stock 2.4.5 kernel with Win4Lin and ext3 patches applied. Granted, the filesystems were ext2 at one time, but my entire system is now ext3 and I use grub.. I have never had any hiccups or incidents whatsoever... what are you experiencing?

Re: administrivia: new editor added to our staff

2001-12-07 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 07 December 2001 01:17 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote : > I'm pleased to announce that as of today, Klaus-Peter is now an active > editor of the Linux StepByStep. He's currently working hard on properly > translating the site to German, and he has proved himself and his > contributions inval

Re: /etc/whois.conf

2001-12-07 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 07 December 2001 07:41 am, you stated : > On Friday 07 December 2001 7:14 am, Chang wrote: > > no. it did. > > > > # man whois > > > > > >        RIPE-specific  options  are ignored when querying non-RIPE > >        servers. > > > > Files > >        /etc/whois.conf > > Must be that you'

Re: accessing the net

2001-12-04 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 07:23 am, you stated : > Keith Antoine wrote: > > > > > Err am using XP and as I really do not know windows where can i gat a > > command line in XP?? > > AFAIK there aint none. > > Start-Run-Command > works in Win2K, FWIW... > I'm ashamed to know this, but: Start-Pro

Re: new virus?(was Re: IRQ Sharing)

2001-11-30 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 30 November 2001 11:59 am, you stated : > On Friday 30 November 2001 15:56, you wrote: > BTW, is there some new virus going around? I'm getting mail from people > with a suitably technical subject line (Answering something I hadn't asked) > with gibberish (40K or so) with an audio/x-wav

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:47 am, you stated : > Quoting Susan Macchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just tried it and find it has much improved performance over 5.0. Don't > > care > > so much about it being larger in size since I have 384mb. If you want a > > fast > > reliable browser, Opera

Re: Can't remember which list...

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:08 pm, you stated : > s-n-f 2006+'s... anyone have a 6 or 7 bay scsi-2 tower forsale? I've got a 7-bay here. In great (almost new) condition other than one of the 50-pin (centronics) connectors is a bit kaput. I have a terminator plugged into that end, since I c

Re: argh...no init found

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:58 pm, you stated : > --- John Hiemenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Your mount points/names are different between the two boxes? > > (if I'm right, do I get a chocolate bar?) > > Yes, the mount points & names do di

Re: SOLVED! Re: argh...no init found

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:02 pm, you stated : > Bingo! User error strikes again. Wrong root= for the new kernel. > Thanks. > Hersheys Symphony with almonds ;P ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo

Re: argh...no init found

2001-11-27 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 04:48 pm, you stated : > > So, i'm at my whit's end. Anyone have any ideas? > > Your mount points/names are different between the two boxes? > (if I'm right, do I get a chocolate bar?) > ___ forget I said anything. I re-re

Re: argh...no init found

2001-11-27 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 04:34 pm, you stated : > I'm incredibly stumped at a weird kernel related issue. I've got two > boxes with identical hardware in them (other than the CPU speed, however > both are PIII). > On 1 box, i've successfully built a 2.4.14 kernel with patched xfs > support. I

Re: tutorial for find?

2001-11-27 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 26 November 2001 09:43 am, you stated : > Does anyone know of a good simple introduction to the find command which > supplies numerous example of how to use it? > It looks like it would be a great command to know how to use, but I need to > see a lot of examples of different find command

Re: Printer Recommendations

2001-11-26 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 26 November 2001 03:38 pm, you stated : > Anyone care to recommend their favorite Linux-compatible color > inkjet printer? I'm in the market for a new one. I don't *have* > to own a color printer, but it would be nice. If a good yet > inexpensive laser printer can be had for under $300,

Re: disabled text menu on Konquerer

2001-11-21 Thread John Hiemenz
r informed now for the next time I forget. On Wednesday 21 November 2001 10:35 am, you stated : > Right click the on the bar with the icons, choose Text Position, > choose Text Under Icons. > > I don't use Konqueror any more, but I think that's it if memory serves > me right.

disabled text menu on Konquerer

2001-11-21 Thread John Hiemenz
Somehow I disabled the text menu items on my Konquerer browser. Only have icons now. Anyone know how I can re-enable the text menu items? (File/Edit/etc) ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-us

Re: Windows RG

2001-11-20 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 01:37 pm, you stated : > :-) > > Someone had too much time on their hands. > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:58:41 -0800 > > "Condon Thomas A KPWA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Flash demonstration -- works just like the real thing. > > > > http://fterral.free.fr/divers/275

Re: Reading material..

2001-11-20 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:20 am, you stated : > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:01:32AM -0600, John Hiemenz wrote: > >Just noting a (unusually high) number of linux articles in the latest > >Computerworld. > > > >http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcheadlines &g

Reading material..

2001-11-20 Thread John Hiemenz
Just noting a (unusually high) number of linux articles in the latest Computerworld. http://www.computerworld.com/itresources/rcheadlines I generally agree with the articles Nicholas Petreley writes, but this week he makes exceptional sense. ___ Lin

Re: problems with my NIC

2001-11-19 Thread John Hiemenz
15 > minutes before). Oh, BTW, the NIC in this box was a 3Com 3c509. > > --- John Hiemenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem with my NIC losing 'connetivity' on my boxen. > > > > The nic uses the 'tlan' module, and eth0 comes u

Re: Cable Net Access

2001-11-19 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 19 November 2001 04:48 pm, you stated : > Okay, so now I have cable access -- it's a beautiful thing after > dial-up purgatory -- with a static IP. Theoretically, even though it > isn't permitted, I can run server services. The installer set up one > of my Windows boxes and gave it this

problems with my NIC

2001-11-19 Thread John Hiemenz
I have a problem with my NIC losing 'connetivity' on my boxen. The nic uses the 'tlan' module, and eth0 comes up fine at boot. After a period of time that I haven't been able to determine, the networks goes kaplop and I can't connect to or from this boxen anylonger. I tried taking eth0 down a

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 19 November 2001 08:13 am, you stated : > On Monday 19 November 2001 7:38 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently > > using Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something "better" out > > there. So, who's using what? I

NIC/route/network keeps dying

2001-11-16 Thread John Hiemenz
I've got a system where my network connections will stop. (of course, for NO reason at all) System is a Compaq Proliant 1500, 224MB ram, COL3.1, and is using the Compaq NetFlex/3 PCI card, (tlan module). (for anyone remembering me mention this sytem previously, I finally got COL3.1 installed.

KDE 2.2.1 Konqueror and .htaccess passwords

2001-11-13 Thread John Hiemenz
Konqueror 2.2.1 on KDE 2.2.1 and I have the following problem: Whenever I visit a site that requires authentication (.htaccess file style), Konqueror will continuously prompt me for the user name and password for every file/image underneath the authenticated directory. Let's say the file in

Re: noisy modem with wvdial

2001-11-13 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:02 am, you stated : > Does anyone know how to turn off, or decrease the volume on > the internal speaker when dialing with wvdial? > The man page mentions it can be done, but how? > It your modem is 'hayes compatible' try adding M0 to the setup string. (M zero, not

Install COL to EISA-based system

2001-11-12 Thread John Hiemenz
This might be a wakeup to an older thread of mine, but I'm determined to run COL vs another distro on my EISA-based system. The computer is an ancient Compaq Proliant 1500, Dual P166, 224MB RAM. It has EISA Mach32 video, EISA NetFlex/3 NIC, EISA Inter EtherExpress Pro NIC, EISA Smart-2/E RAID

Re: Loading Linux

2001-11-12 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 12 November 2001 08:02 am, you stated : > Building a multiboot machine. 500 Celerion CPU 512 Meg Memory with an > Intel Mother board with an Intel 810 chip set and 2 hds (1.3 gig > secondary 16 gig primary) have wIn 98 loaded on head of Primary hd and > Mandrake 8.0 on the secondary hd.

Re: SO 6?

2001-11-09 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 09 November 2001 01:16 pm, you stated : > Anyone using SO 6. I am pretty much happy with 5.2, with the exception of > it being such a resource hog. I think I heard somewhere that SO (Open > Office) no works by loading just the app you need like Koffice instead of > loading the desktop? >

Re: I figurd it out! (ISO throttling)

2001-10-31 Thread John Hiemenz
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: > wookoo dialup speed!! > > On Wednesday 31 October 2001 10:29, you were heard blurting out: > > It wasn't mod_throttle that I needed. It was mod_bandwidth. And after an > > hour of hacking, I got it working. The ISOs available at > > http://hunley

install woes

2001-10-30 Thread John Hiemenz
I am getting stuck trying to install COL3.2 Workstation on a Compaq Proliant 1500 with a Smart-2/E RAID configuration. I have been following any and all information I can find and can only get about this far: (working with downloaded iso image, installed from this iso to 2 other systems, so

Re: NEC Versa boot problems

2001-10-29 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 26 October 2001 09:37 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2001 04:32, John Hiemenz wrote: > > I have a NEC Versa 2435 portable, P133 12GB, 40MB circa 1995-96 > > Why are you using initrd? What's the need for it? If you can force boot the > existing disk kerne

NEC Versa boot problems

2001-10-26 Thread John Hiemenz
I have a NEC Versa 2435 portable, P133 12GB, 40MB circa 1995-96 The BIOS only 'sees' 8.4GB hard drive, I have installed the following on this sytem at one point or another: (I like to 'test' things out here I guess) Caldera eServer 2.3 Caldera eDesktop 2.4 In COL2.3, I needed to immediately

Re: OT somewhat

2001-10-25 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 25 October 2001 02:18 pm, you wrote: > List > > here is an interesting site: http://lindows.com/ linux with wine pre-installed? ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: CD-RW install puzzles

2001-10-25 Thread John Hiemenz
> > IIRC, both of these drives are actually IDE and you're doin' > SCSI-emulation, right? And, you did some mknod's on your own, right? > From your previous post: > $ mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0 > and > $ mknod /dev/sr1 b 11 0 I never saw this snippet before, but this is obliviously (sic) an error

Re: CD-RW install puzzles

2001-10-25 Thread John Hiemenz
Without seeing a full ls report of /dev/sr? and/or /mnt it's hard to say. Just reading what you wrote sounds like /mnt/cdrw is linked to /mnt/cdrom One of you satements also lists /dev/cdrw, if that is correct, what is /dev/cdrw linked to? /dev/sr0? /dev/sr1? What are permissions on /dev/sr1?

Re: url help

2001-10-24 Thread John Hiemenz
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:41 am, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > can someone go to > http://www.americaneagletradingco.com > I set this domain up and all seems ok but the client says they cant reach > it from their ISP. Works fine via Mindspring/Earthlink out of Milwaukee. How much time had elap

Re: Barbie.com and KDE 2.1.2

2001-10-03 Thread John Hiemenz
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 07:54 am, you wrote: > On 10/2/2001 Mark wrote: > > When my girls try to visit Barbie.com using Konq the screen won't load. Is > this a "windows" site? They don't have any problems accessing the site in > windows (using ie or netscape). Is there anything I can do to

Re: Webcal help

2001-09-21 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 21 September 2001 11:15, Tim Wunder wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > What happens? Are you prompted for a password? Are you NOT prompted > > for a password? Is the password not accepted? > > When attempting to login to the admin account, I get promted for a > username/

Re: KDE2 - removing applet from kicker

2001-09-20 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 20 September 2001 13:16, John Hiemenz wrote: > KDE 2.1.2 > > Adding an applet to the kicker (taskbar) is simple enough, but is > anyone able to clue me how to remove an applet from same? Never mind.. My eyes are getting blurry

KDE2 - removing applet from kicker

2001-09-20 Thread John Hiemenz
KDE 2.1.2 Adding an applet to the kicker (taskbar) is simple enough, but is anyone able to clue me how to remove an applet from same? -- The Universal Joint - Connecting Unix, Linux, and that other OS Operated by Linux user #201684 1:15pm up 12 days, 22:25, 3 user

Re: CNN poll

2001-09-20 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 20 September 2001 07:35, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: > CNN (http://www.cnn.com) is currently running a poll on their front > page concerning whether you'd be willing to let the government > control more of your life in exchange for a sense of security... > Everyone please go register your op

Re: this message is infected

2001-09-06 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:11, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: > attached is a FAKE EICAR executable. It should not have made it to > the list, but instead should have been caught by Amavis ;) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="EICAR.COM"

Re: HP to buy Compaq?!?

2001-09-04 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:13, Net Llama wrote: > --- DOUGLAS HUNLEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As you've all no doubt heard by now, HP is gobbling up Compaq for > > $25billion (US) making them #2 in the market... > > > > What does this bode for Dell? What will this mean for future Linux

Re: Credit Card CDR's (was: SOLVED! Re: I'm in LILO hell)

2001-08-22 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:04, Net Llama wrote: > not able to boot the box. So i booted off of a very, very handy > Linuxcare Emergency boot CD (think Tom's RBD on crack). Its a 40MB > CD the size of a business card that has basically 95% of /sbin, /bin > & /usr on it, making it a mini-OS on

Re: Mandrake, anyone?

2001-08-21 Thread John Hiemenz
Thanks for the thoughts. Just finished installing 7.1 (helium?) on the portable and the _first_ thing I noticed was the aliases. Ick. I am hoping to get 8.0 on a DAT later this week, I downloaded it to a co-workers system because he has a leasedline vs my dialup. On Tuesday 21 August 2001

Mandrake, anyone?

2001-08-21 Thread John Hiemenz
Anyone out there running Mandrake (any version) ? Thoughts, comments? I was thinking about plopping it onto a portable I've got here just for playing around with, but am interested in thoughts of anyone that has run it or is running it.. -John -- The Universal Joint - Connecting Unix, L

Re: SOLVED! Re: I'm in LILO hell

2001-08-21 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:04, Net Llama wrote: > Linuxcare Emergency boot CD (think Tom's RBD on crack). Its a 40MB > CD the size of a business card that has basically 95% of /sbin, /bin > & /usr on it, making it a mini-OS on a CD. Anyone interested in > getting an ISO of this CD, let me know

Caldera EW 3.1 ISO issues (your morning humor story)

2001-08-17 Thread John Hiemenz
I've downloaded the Caldera EWorkstation 3.1 ISO, burned to a CD, and used the RPMS from it to upgrade a pre-exisiting eDesktop 2.4 system. Things seem to be working fine on that system for a while now. Yesterday I took that ISO and went to do a fresh install on my NEC laptop system. The wh

Re: MS gets a security clue?

2001-08-16 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 16 August 2001 11:05, Net Llama wrote: > Microsoft > Personal > Security > Advisor > requires > Internet > Explorer > version 5.0 > or greater. > obviously they first need to create a security flaw in order to get into your system in the first place. #! _

Re: delete email from server

2001-08-16 Thread John Hiemenz
On Thursday 16 August 2001 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neither. I use KMail all the time. I'm finding it more pretty than > useful, however, and am looking for a good IMAP client. I've been > playing with Althea lately but have heard of one from the Kompany > called Aethera (or something

Re: Administrivia - Everyone please read!

2001-08-14 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 16:42, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: > On Tuesday 14 August 2001 16:44, Terence McCarthy babbled: > > I think I may have to unsub myself, Douglas, if you have to take > > similar action again, because of what appears to be a few people's > > reactions. One of the things I cann

Re: suggestion for step-by-step site

2001-08-14 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:37, Net Llama wrote: > --- Linuxism Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should we start keeping stories of success > > stories about linux in the SxS site? > > > > I mean to dupe the whole page, quoting the source, > > time, date and have a tag on the sidebar. > >

Help with ADI Pivoting Monitor

2001-08-01 Thread John Hiemenz
I have an ADI MicroScan 17X pivoting monitor. I can pivot the display so I am looking at the screen aka portrait mode vs the landscape stying of conventional monitors. (1024x768 becomes 768x1024, the screen is taller than its width) This is very useful when writing documentation and nice wh

ujoint.org mirror offline

2001-07-25 Thread John Hiemenz
The SxS mirror at ujoint.org is offline until Sept 1, 2001. I'll send another notification when I have things up again. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-use