Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Greg
Even tho i run linux I still want to keep my guard upYou are right i do want to know whats coming in or trying to come in to my box is netwatch hard to set up and where do i get it thanks gregLyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 01:37, Len Lawrence wrote: On

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Greg
Me too Thanks for the info You just have to love linux and this group Greg Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 04:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip The thing to remember is that if you are on a workstation, you shouldn't need to run xinetd for the reasons listed. And

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 02:29, Greg wrote: Me too Thanks for the info You just have to love linux and this group Greg Well, that's exactly why I post. Messages like this. Pretty much all the payment I need. :)) How about you, Kaj? You need any money? :) Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-22 Thread David Robertson
Like others, I find Opera fast, and I like the interface. The fonts look terrible, though - changing them in preferences doesn't seem to make a difference, so am I missing some other way? David -- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant

[newbie] carte memoire SD Camera

2004-05-22 Thread jacques
j'ai un appareil photo avec carte externe SD 128mBytes sur l'USB je récupère les images de la memoire interne sur /mnt/camera : OK , mais impossible de récuperer les images de la memoire externe SD (MDK 10 Community) Cela fonctionne bien sous Windows. Tests faits : Quand je branche la camera

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 02:25, Greg wrote: Even tho i run linux I still want to keep my guard up You are right i do want to know whats coming in or trying to come in to my box is netwatch hard to set up and where do i get it thanks greg

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-22 Thread Steve Mansfield
--- On Saturday 22 May 2004 09:50, David Robertson wrote: | Like others, I find Opera fast, and I like the interface. The fonts look | terrible, though - changing them in preferences doesn't seem to make a | difference, so am I missing some other way? Once you've selected your

[newbie] Samba server for shares

2004-05-22 Thread Tobias Cloete
Greetz all. Ive installed mdk10 with only a console and networking utils, selected samba as addon. Security mode is set to Highest. I want to use this server to store some documents from different usrs on our domain. Like their cvs, monthly claims etc I installed webmin afterwards,

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 May 2004 16:30, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:20:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: How about you, Kaj? You need any money? :) Sure, but if someone feels an obligation to pay a little dough, I suggest a donation to the Free Software Foundation :

RE: [newbie] Samba server for shares

2004-05-22 Thread Tobias Cloete
Ok. I had a type its port : 139/tcp for samba J -Original Message- From: Tobias Cloete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 May 2004 04:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Samba server for shares Greetz all. Ive installed mdk10 with only a console and

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread et
On Saturday 22 May 2004 10:54 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2004 16:30, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:20:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: How about you, Kaj? You need any money? :) Sure, but if someone feels an obligation to pay a little

Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-22 Thread Mike Adolf
On Friday 21 May 2004 02:52 pm, Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:17, Mike Adolf wrote: - --- FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5

[newbie] Modprobe nvidia

2004-05-22 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys I have to enter 'modprobe nvidia' after each boot to access kde. I'm not sure why my pc stopped booting directly into a graphical mode, but modprobe nvidia works. This is not convenient though, and I remember reading somewhere on the list about someone else having a similar problem,

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 03:29, Greg wrote: Me too Thanks for the info You just have to love linux and this group Greg And I just have to second that !!! -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * A televiso a maior maravilha

Re: [newbie] help configuring onboard net RTL8139 (10.0 Community, MS-6577 Mobo)

2004-05-22 Thread John Wilson
On May 22, 2004 04:43 am, Dexter N Muir wrote: OK, if it's in the load order, why hasn't mdk done something to detect slow-to-respond cards and introduced delays or order-reshuffles to compensate? Gates-Doze works every time, why not mdk? Why does the 8029 work, and the more modern 8139

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 05:57, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 02:25, Greg wrote: Even tho i run linux I still want to keep my guard up You are right i do want to know whats coming in or trying to come in to my box is netwatch hard to set up and where do i get it thanks greg

Re: [newbie] Modprobe nvidia

2004-05-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sun, 23 May 2004 16:46:38 +0100, Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I have to enter 'modprobe nvidia' after each boot to access kde. I'm not sure why my pc stopped booting directly into a graphical mode, but modprobe nvidia works. This is not convenient though, and I

[newbie] What have I done?

2004-05-22 Thread Ian
I am getting the following error when I click on either of my CDrom drives. Error -KIOExec Retrieving data from devices is not supported I realise I must have done something silly, but could someone point me to where it is? I can still access the drives by going to file:/mnt/cdrom or

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 22 May 2004 11:35:14 -0400 et disseminated the following: I bought a Silver Club membership, does that count? Absolutely, Joe. Kaj Haulrich. Joe, when did you buy that membership? durring the first part of May? Can you check the account the funds were drawn on? Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:46:10 -0300 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: Took me awhile to find that. It was tough, I couldn't remember how I got it last time. It's the same version as the one on my system here, so although the site above does not disclose the version of Mandrake

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:09:24 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:44, The Other wrote: My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS. Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control all of the system's memory. When I turned off

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check: PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set it to NO And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically detected and installed: Parallel Port Mode-- set it to ECP+EPP (or at least ECP or

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:25:33 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it me or is Opera, for mail and web browsing, looking better and better? It uses far less memory and is much faster while running on Linux. Anyone else have any feeling on it? FWIW, I like and use it. The Other

Re: [newbie] Samba server for shares

2004-05-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:49:30 +0200, Tobias Cloete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetz all. I've installed mdk10 with only a console and networking utils, selected samba as addon. Security mode is set to Highest. I want to use this server to store some documents from different usr's on our domain.

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-22 Thread Steve Mansfield
--- On Saturday 22 May 2004 15:55, Greg Meyer wrote: | On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:38 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: | Anyone else have any feeling on it? | | Love it (I don't use m2 though). Worth every penny. | | Is there a specific reason you're not using it for mail? I'm

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 12:34, The Other wrote: Greetings LX, I'm running a circa 1998 system with Mandrake 9.1 (in the process of building LFS {Linux From Scratch} 5.0) on the following hardware: Asus P2B AGP motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and Award BIOS (IIRC, I know it's

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Chris
On Saturday 22 May 2004 03:57 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 02:25, Greg wrote: Even tho i run linux I still want to keep my guard up You are right i do want to know whats coming in or trying to come in to my box is netwatch hard to set up and where do i get it thanks greg

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 14:00, Chris wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2004 03:57 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 02:25, Greg wrote: Even tho i run linux I still want to keep my guard up You are right i do want to know whats coming in or trying to come in to my box is netwatch hard

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 22 May 2004 05:20 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sure, but if someone feels an obligation to pay a little dough, I suggest a donation to the Free Software Foundation : http://member.fsf.org/ Makes one sleep better, laugh louder and cry less. Kaj Haulrich. Been an associate member

Re: [newbie] Samba server for shares

2004-05-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 00:49, Tobias Cloete wrote: -- Greetz all. Ive installed mdk10 with only a console and networking utils, selected samba as addon. Security mode is set to Highest. I want to use this server to store some documents from different usrs on our domain.

RE: [newbie] Samba server for shares

2004-05-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 01:02, Tobias Cloete wrote: -- Ok. I had a type its port : 139/tcp for samba J ...port 137, 138 and 139 should be opened. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

[newbie] X problem Strange Activity revisited?

2004-05-22 Thread Terence Golightly
List, Below I have attached an excerpt of dmesg from the other night. Of particular interest is the messages from X about an illegal attempt to access hardware. I left my machine with the desktop locked and was doing other things. I returned and found a login screen. I tried to log back in

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 13:18, JoeHill wrote: ...betcha gotta be root to access eth0, most net traffic monitors I've used were like that. Absolutely right ! Thanks ! -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Well begun is half

[newbie] Swapon failed - invalid argument: Solved

2004-05-22 Thread Paul
Hi all, A while ago I posted a question about how to proceed with the following error message when trying to upgrade 9.1 to 10.0 I just gave it a shot and removed the second (small) swap partition. That was all. The upgrade is installing now (on the test-pc). Paul -- Conscious is when you are

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:36 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Would you do me a flavor?  In the interests of Science?  To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off, and see if your system

Re: [newbie] MD 10 success story

2004-05-22 Thread rikona
Hello Thomas, Friday, May 21, 2004, 1:10:57 PM, you wrote: TW That great! I have had similar luck. I think MDMDK0 is TW fantastic as well and only maintain a window$ TW partition in case I get caught out in the world and TW need it. Someone's network??? a particular download TW that only works

Re: [newbie] spyware, cookies, etc

2004-05-22 Thread rikona
Hello Stephen, Friday, May 21, 2004, 2:21:44 PM, you wrote: SK On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 19:02, Michael Tienhaara wrote: I've been following the recent thread about virus and Linux. Under Windows I constantly had to search and destroy unwanted spyware apps. What are the risks of spyware and

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:40 pm, The Other wrote: -Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check: - -PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set -it to NO - -And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically -detected and installed: -

Re: [newbie] MD 10 success story

2004-05-22 Thread robin
rikona wrote: Hello Thomas, Friday, May 21, 2004, 1:10:57 PM, you wrote: TW That great! I have had similar luck. I think MDMDK0 is TW fantastic as well and only maintain a window$ TW partition in case I get caught out in the world and TW need it. Someone's network??? a particular download TW that

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-22 Thread Chris
On Saturday 22 May 2004 01:33 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: There was a new source file uploaded last night http://www.slctech.org/~mackay/netwatch-1.0bplay.tgz I was having problems installing the previous version, Gordon came up with a fix immediately. How's that for service? ;) Gordon

[newbie] How to fix linmodem for 2.6 kernel

2004-05-22 Thread murallo
Hi, I'm an improving newbie - that means I can do most of the things that linux deems to be essential like downloading weird libraries and recompiling kernels without having to ask too many questions from the helpful folk online. However I'd appreciate it anyone out there can answer this one. I

[newbie] creating an audio CD without pre-gaps

2004-05-22 Thread Josenildo Marques
Suppose you have some mp3s or wav files lying on your HD and you'd like to burn a CD with them without those 2-second stops between the songs. Here's what you could do. 1. if you have mp3s, then you have to turn them into .wav files. 2. fire up your favourite text editor and create a .toc file

[newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread John
I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there other

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:21, John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is

Re: [newbie] X problem Strange Activity revisited?

2004-05-22 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:11, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Below I have attached an excerpt of dmesg from the other night. Of particular interest is the messages from X about an illegal attempt to access hardware. -

Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-22 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 13:38, Mike Adolf wrote: size of the second partition) BUT I FOR GOT TO RECOMPILE and was running the same a.out. Dah! Oops- that is embarrassing! :) Happens to us all sometimes... Thanks for you time. No problem at all- glad you found the problem! A.

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread robin
John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough or are there

[newbie] undelivered mail notices

2004-05-22 Thread John
I am having problems getting through to the list. I keep getting undelivered mail notices. I have sent several e-mails to the postmaster at mandrax.org but have yet to receive a response. I have posted and had replies and then received the notice. Help please john

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-22 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 22 May 2004 09:53 am, Steve Mansfield wrote: --- On Saturday 22 May 2004 15:55, Greg Meyer wrote: I'm with you there. I'm running SpamAssassin to filter out junk, but before mails get to the SA filter in Kmail they first go through a bunch of others. Kmail's

Re: [newbie] undelivered mail notices

2004-05-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 22 May 2004 03:51 pm, John wrote: I am having problems getting through to the list. I keep getting undelivered mail notices. I have sent several e-mails to the postmaster at mandrax.org but have yet to receive a response. I have posted and had replies and then received the notice.

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-22 Thread John
robin wrote: John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as before. Is 128mb of ram not enough

Re: [newbie] undelivered mail notices

2004-05-22 Thread Margot
John wrote: I am having problems getting through to the list. I keep getting undelivered mail notices. I have sent several e-mails to the postmaster at mandrax.org but have yet to receive a response. I have posted and had replies and then received the notice. Help please john This happens to

[newbie] Help with on-board AC97 Audio (mdk10)

2004-05-22 Thread Dexter N Muir
Hi all I have an hp pavilion 713a machine, with Microstar MS-6577 Motherboard. This has an Avance AC97 audio chip on board, which works fine under the pre-loaded XP. I'm trying to migrate it to Mandrake (10.0 Community), and running into the odd obstacle or two... Firstly, the drivers