[newbie] isdn modem

2004-09-15 Thread Themis Themis
Hello everyone! My name is Themis and I am completely new to Mandrake Linux... For the time beeing I am using Mandrake Move as I want to solve some hardware issues first and then completely remove windows from my pc...I want to ask you how to configure my ISDN moden, with the drakconnect

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:33, aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2004 09:16 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:04:57 -0700 aron Smith disseminated the following: No ...Power is the guiding word I know, I know, I'm just yankin' the ol' neocon chain ;-) guess we'lll

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 00:45, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:40, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:26:47 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications then the most common, such

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Bob Read wrote: I use Mozilla mail heavily. (Mozilla 1.3) I normally use Inbox opened fully so that I can scan the incoming files quickly. A couple days ago, that screen seemed to have reduced the type font size so that it is now difficult to read. As a check, I counted the number of lines

Re: [newbie] isdn modem

2004-09-15 Thread aron Smith
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:33 am, Themis Themis wrote: Hello everyone!   My name is Themis and I am completely new to Mandrake Linux... For the time beeing I am using Mandrake Move as I want to solve some hardware issues first and then completely remove windows from my pc... I want to

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
I changed to Alsa drivers, that restored the sound, your suggestion for KDE appears to have worked. Thanks for the advice. David Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 22:06, David Trethewey wrote: I think I have messed up my configuration somehow. I have a Nvidia Geforce2 integrated

[newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name

2004-09-15 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Mdk10 box with smb 3.02 works fine for win98 users but if the clients want to reconnect to the server (eg they are shutting down their boxes at the end of the day and want to gain access to their folders next morning...) ther's no server available in the network neighborhood.. Actually, * the

Re: [newbie] Epson CX3100 multi-function printer, scanner, copier drivers available ?

2004-09-15 Thread Bac
Ad horas 05:10, mercoledì 15 settembre 2004, John Zoetebier Scripsit: Does anyone have the Epson CX3100 multi-function printer installed on Mandrake Linux 10.0 ? CX3200 indeed... works very well, I like it. Just 1 problem: if the computer boots when the printer is off, Mandrake does't see the

Re: [newbie] Rootkit Hunter

2004-09-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 08:50 pm, Chris wrote: The source is super easy to install, it has its own install script, takes about two minutes to run through the complete installation. By the way, I was going to start another thread but since we're on the subject of root killer, it reports

[newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name

2004-09-15 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Mdk10 box with smb 3.02 works fine for win98 users but if the clients want to reconnect to the server (eg they are shutting down their boxes at the end of the day and want to gain access to their folders next morning...) ther's no server available in the network neighborhood.. Actually, * the

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Anthony Cull
Good to hear... CDs ... costers.. may I suggest that you buy a usb flash it will be cheeper for you in the long run. This topic has lasted a while.. Quote Although only 14 years old, my daughter isn't exactly stupid At least she can use another operating system.. unlike most 14 year olds. -

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:08 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Charles Edwards' gpg Standard Operating Procedure is looking better and better all the time. If they do manage to usurp the public will on this and institute those measures, which are completely unecessary in my opinion, I wouldn't

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 13:12, Anthony Cull wrote: Good to hear... CDs ... costers.. may I suggest that you buy a usb flash it will be cheeper for you in the long run. This topic has lasted a while.. Quote Although only 14 years old, my daughter isn't exactly stupid At least she can use

Re: [newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name

2004-09-15 Thread Lanman
Harald T ZIPKO wrote: Mdk10 box with smb 3.02 works fine for win98 users but if the clients want to reconnect to the server (eg they are shutting down their boxes at the end of the day and want to gain access to their folders next morning...) ther's no server available in the network

Re: [newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name

2004-09-15 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Harald; You should consider using the Map Network Drive option for Sorry, but that's exactly what I did during installation of win98 client's network access to the mdk-box ;-) Obviousely this doesn't work at all - strange problem anyway those Win98 boxes. That way the shares that each

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Scott Mazur
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:42:51 -0400, JoeHill wrote Well, I guess it depends on how you define 'country', at least to me. If you mean the people around you, that you live with and work with, and all the people that share your goals and values, basic to most of us, like 'life, liberty, and

RE: [newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name

2004-09-15 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Bill, many thanks for your hints. If you don't have any MS domain controllers, you should add to No, just a small office without any _MS Domain Controllers_... But I am courious: the new entries in the global section are useful because... os level = 33

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what is configured wrongly? David David Trethewey wrote: I changed to

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:05:43 -0600 Scott Mazur disseminated the following: Well, I guess it depends on how you define 'country', at least to me. If you mean the people around you, that you live with and work with, and all the people that share your goals and values, basic to most of

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Lanman
Scott Mazur wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:42:51 -0400, JoeHill wrote Well, I guess it depends on how you define 'country', at least to me. If you mean the people around you, that you live with and work with, and all the people that share your goals and values, basic to most of us, like 'life,

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:09:19 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, David. Alas... as Lyvim pointed out, she _has_ to use Derive in order to cooperate with her classmates. Oh well :(. And you know what ? - Although only 14 years old, my daughter isn't

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread David Trethewey
After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:29:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thanks for the roses for my daughter. Actually she grew up with Linux, and when she got her brand new WindowsXP computer, her first remark was : good heavens, what a childish system ! (In fact, her Just don't get

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 19:26, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:29:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thanks for the roses for my daughter. Actually she grew up with Linux, and when she got her brand new WindowsXP computer, her first remark was : good

RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread dgordon8
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Trethewey Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread Bob Read
John Richard Smith wrote: Bob Read wrote: I use Mozilla mail heavily. (Mozilla 1.3) I normally use Inbox opened fully so that I can scan the incoming files quickly. A couple days ago, that screen seemed to have reduced the type font size so that it is now difficult to read. As a check, I

[newbie] GTK and KDE

2004-09-15 Thread Thereidos
Hi 'all. I've just reinstalled my mdk (after crashing my partition table yesterday) and noticed that when using gtk and glib supplied from mdk's cds (2.2.4 I suppose) gtk themes works fine whilst using 2.4 series (I've used this before the reinstall) they doesn't. I've tried this with both

RE: [newbie] Win-Clients 'forget' samba server name

2004-09-15 Thread Bill Shirley
'man smb.conf' will give a much better explanation than I could give you. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harald T ZIPKO Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Win-Clients

Re: [newbie] Rootkit Hunter

2004-09-15 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 14, 2004 18:17, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2004 12:35 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On September 14, 2004 07:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: ... urpmi rkhunter I have contrib defined (using proxad.net, b/c all the North American mirrors seem to be unreliable),

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: snip If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) /snip What about updating ? - Your Mozilla 1.3 is quite old by linux standards. Besides, there are a few security flaws in

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:11, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 19:26, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:29:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thanks for the roses for my daughter. Actually she grew up with Linux, and when she got her brand new

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:08 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: You are living INSIDE of a closed society that carefully monitors what you see, hear, read and experience - therefore, you cannot perceive what I have seen in the past five years of NOT living INSIDE of that closed society. I don't

[newbie] Red Screen of Death

2004-09-15 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
I've been having a strange problem with my Mdk 10.0 Official install since last Friday. Often when it sits for a while, it goes to a dark red screen, with no text or graphics, and no mouse pointer. Also, sometimes when someone is using it, it freezes. At these times, it won't respond to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: snip If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) /snip What about updating ? - Your Mozilla 1.3 is quite old by linux standards. Besides, there are a

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Travis Crook
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:08 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: snip Since this is already off-topic and to lighten the tone a bit, you should check out: http://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm ROFLOL!!! snip Granted, I have a pretty black

[newbie] What the hell is promiscuous and how do I turn it off?

2004-09-15 Thread Chris
The subject says it all. RKHunter reports I have it turned on. I'm running no servers, that I'm aware of. I've checked google and google/linux for an explanation and I haven't found a good explanaton. Thanks -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:49pm up 7 days,

Re: [newbie] What the hell is promiscuous and how do I turn it off?

2004-09-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:52 pm, Chris wrote: The subject says it all. RKHunter reports I have it turned on. I'm running no servers, that I'm aware of. I've checked google and google/linux for an explanation and I haven't found a good explanaton. If you are running an intrusion

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 04:24 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:11, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 19:26, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:29:59 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And thanks for the roses for my daughter.

Re: [newbie] What the hell is promiscuous and how do I turn it off?

2004-09-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 12:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: From the web: 1) In a network, promiscuous mode allows a network device to intercept and read each network packet that arrives in its entirety. This mode of operation is sometimes given to a network snoop server that captures and saves

Re: [newbie] What the hell is promiscuous and how do I turn it off?

2004-09-15 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:01 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:52 pm, Chris wrote: The subject says it all. RKHunter reports I have it turned on. I'm running no servers, that I'm aware of. I've checked google and google/linux for an explanation and I

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread Bob Read
John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: snip If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) /snip What about updating ? - Your Mozilla 1.3 is quite old by linux standards.

Re: [newbie] GTK and KDE

2004-09-15 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 21:47 +0200, Thereidos wrote: Hi 'all. I've just reinstalled my mdk (after crashing my partition table yesterday) and noticed that when using gtk and glib supplied from mdk's cds (2.2.4 I suppose) gtk themes works fine whilst using 2.4 series (I've used this before the

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Never mind Barbie. Check this out: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=314966pfp=BROWSE After all, shouldn't a Mickey Mouse operating system be run on a genuine Mickey Mouse computer? -- cmg Wow...I thought

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:24 pm, Travis Crook wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:08 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: snip Since this is already off-topic and to lighten the tone a bit, you should check out:

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread John Wilson
On September 15, 2004 07:42 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:25:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: I love my country but I fear my government Amen to that. I think that's something that most people have in common, to varying degrees, all over the world. Having

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread David T Battler
How about the typical American Shite in this email? I thought this was a discussion list regarding Linux. I am a Canadian, and proud of it; and I find this kind of garbage offensive; and this email list to be worse than useless. Some people never grow up. I will be withdrawing from this list

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 10:42 am, David T Battler wrote: How about the typical American Shite in this email? I thought this was a discussion list regarding Linux. I am a Canadian, and proud of it; and I find this kind of garbage offensive; and this email list to be worse than useless.

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 22:35, John Wilson wrote: On September 15, 2004 07:42 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:25:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: I love my country but I fear my government Amen to that. I think that's something that most people have in

[newbie] Web hosting 101...

2004-09-15 Thread Eric Scott
Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also have an ol' Mandrake

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread John Wilson
On September 15, 2004 08:42 am, David T Battler wrote: How about the typical American Shite in this email? I thought this was a discussion list regarding Linux. I am a Canadian, and proud of it; and I find this kind of garbage offensive; and this email list to be worse than useless. Some

Re: [newbie] Web hosting 101...

2004-09-15 Thread frankieh
Eric Scott wrote: Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway) is the only computer with the static IP. I also

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-09-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 08:12 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 19:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Never mind Barbie. Check this out: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=314966pfp= BROWSE After all, shouldn't a Mickey Mouse operating system be run on a

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread aron Smith
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 07:00 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:24 pm, Travis Crook wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:08 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: snip Since this is already off-topic and to

Re: [newbie] Web hosting 101...

2004-09-15 Thread Eric Scott
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 23:57, frankieh wrote: Eric Scott wrote: Yo. I'm done some experimenting with web hosting, but I'm really quite new at it. I have a little home network with a single static IP. The internet server (Windows 2000 Server... I'd prefer a Mandrake box, but anyway)

[newbie] Amd64

2004-09-15 Thread andres . kaaber
Hi I wanted to ask about 64 bit version of Mandrakelinux. Is it commercial, because I coudn't find amd64 iso-s from mdk mirrors. I subscribed to mdk64-cooker list and no activity there at all. The latets cooker/x86_64 net install is broken - says error The modules for this kernel

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: | Bob Read wrote: | I use Mozilla mail heavily. (Mozilla 1.3) | I normally use Inbox opened fully so that | I can scan the incoming files quickly. | | A couple days ago, that screen seemed to | have reduced the type font

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-15 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:35:30 -0700 John Wilson disseminated the following: Actually, it's Peace, Order and Good Government which you, of all people should know, Joe. I was a Poli Sci major ;-): Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: 7. Everyone has the right to life,