Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Alexander Ruoff
How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been spoofing my address, like the one Tom Karen Pino got. The question is who? I

Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop

2004-10-26 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Angus Auld um 23:21: Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. Is there anyone on the list who has experience with this model and Mandrake Linux?? As best as I could determine, Dell laptops are relatively Linux compatible/friendly. Any

Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop

2004-10-26 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:21, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. Is there anyone on the list who has experience with this model and Mandrake Linux?? As best as I could determine, Dell laptops are relatively Linux compatible/friendly. Any feedback

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:32, Russell W. Behne wrote: Today at 00:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 05:57, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Hello, I've installed the 10.1 Community and I tried to install nVidia driver. It displays a warning about incompatibility with rivafb driver module (the kernel is set to run with). I don't have a Riva. How could I remove the rivafb

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: What do you do to verify discs? Do you still have the iso file ? Yes. Miark OK, simple enough. First check iso image file md5sum, you probably know how to do this anyway,but, In a terminal, cd path to iso image file directory enter md5sum iso image file check the

Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop

2004-10-26 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ordered new laptop Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:30:41 +1000 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:21, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just ordered a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1150. Is there anyone on

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Thanks! I'll do it this evening. But my question still remains: How could I remove/un-set a module (let say 'rivafb')? I don't want to rebuild the kernel... And another one: How could I recompile a kernel with the same settings as other? (if I have a new (minor) version and I want to keep -

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Dobrescu Mihai wrote: How could I remove/un-set a module (let say 'rivafb')? I don't want to rebuild the kernel... As root, from a terminal window: # rmmod module name To see the currently loaded modules: # lsmod For more info: # man rmmod raffaele

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. change the /dev/scd0 to whatever device setting your drive is on

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
I've tried this all the last evening. I have got no feed-back and the module wasn't removed. No modprobe changes even. I run an 10.1C. I am a newbie and I don't know how to find the reason (in a log or somewhere else?). --- Raffaele BELARDI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dobrescu Mihai wrote:

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:08, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle resizing well. Paragon Hard Drive Manager will handle Linux file

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I've tried this all the last evening. I have got no feed-back and the module wasn't removed. No modprobe changes even. I run an 10.1C. What does lsmod report? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
I am not sure... I coudn't test right now. But yesterday no message was displayed. --- Raffaele BELARDI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I've tried this all the last evening. I have got no feed-back and the module wasn't removed. No modprobe changes even. I run an 10.1C.

[newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hello friends... Until I installed 10.1 CE my Olympus C740UZ worked like a charm : Just plugging it into an USB port popped up a harddisk icon on my desktop (be it KDE or Gnome) and I could copy, move, delete and one thing and another, just as another mass storage medium. I could even use the

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:03 am, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I've tried this all the last evening. I have got no feed-back and the module wasn't removed. No modprobe changes even. I run an 10.1C. rivafb is not loaded if you don't have the card, you are just getting a warning that if you do

[newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-26 Thread Todd Slater
I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi by adding the ExecCGI in Directory /home/*/public_html which if I understand is not

Re: [newbie] module removal

2004-10-26 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Dear Sir, I understand that the rivafb is not loaded. I just want to learn how to remove a module I don't need and I took this example. --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:03 am, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I've tried this all the last evening. I have got no

Re: [newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-26 Thread frankieh
Todd Slater wrote: I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi by adding the ExecCGI in Directory /home/*/public_html which if I

Re: [newbie] ML and slow DSL

2004-10-26 Thread Marc
On Saturday 23 October 2004 11:05 am, Thereidos wrote: W licie z sob, 23-10-2004, godz. 16:54, Marc pisze: Maybe your ISP is messing about with IPV6 Try disabling it. Put alias net-pf-10 off in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and reboot. derek Maybe I am missing something but

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: This is exactly what used to work for me. The only difference I see is that with kernel 2.6 I'm no longer using scsi emulation. so I'm checking /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Miark Of course, the 2.6 kernels don't use scsi-emulation, so

Re: [newbie] movie player

2004-10-26 Thread Sevatio
Have you tried Xine or Mplayer? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with my mdk10 installed i can't play movie directly from a source CD especially the extension file is DAT or VCD format.. wat do i need to configure my totem media player? im using Gnome thanks...

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 04:56 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off.

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-26 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 09:54, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes shorewall will by default block pings from both the Internet and the local network. It will also block ALL traffic from the local network to the firewall. So if you want to run as a firewall AND as a server you must open up traffic to the local

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: OK, simple enough... Simple? I'll have to try this after work when I have a half-hour to kill ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 14:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello friends... Until I installed 10.1 CE my Olympus C740UZ worked like a charm : Just plugging it into an USB port popped up a harddisk icon on my desktop (be it KDE or Gnome) and I could copy, move, delete and one thing and another,

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:56:29 -0400, Adolfo wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. change

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 19:58, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 14:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello friends... Until I installed 10.1 CE my Olympus C740UZ worked like a charm : Just plugging it into an USB port popped up a harddisk icon on my desktop (be it KDE or Gnome)

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 12:09 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 04:56 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 20:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks, H.J. Right now I'm a little reluctant to plug in my camera again, because it makes my 10.1 completely unusable.  If nothing else shows up, I may have to, and will let you know. lsmod doesn't show anything about a camera. And

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 19:58, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 14:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello friends... Until I installed 10.1 CE my Olympus C740UZ worked like a charm : Just plugging it into an USB port popped up a harddisk icon on my desktop (be it KDE or Gnome)

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: I always use CLI to burn my CDs too. cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -dao archivo.iso What is new to me is the use of dev=ATA:1,0,0. I'll try it in next burn. Using Mandrake 10 fully updated. Thanks, Adolfo dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels where the devices

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Can you decipher that ? Thanks in advance... Kaj Haulrich. Not realy, except that it's disconnecting and reconnecting...but why it's doing that, dunno:( Did you try supermount -i disable so as to be sure it's not creating this muck?

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: H.J. - Now I dared to connect my camera, but with the usual result : my system went completely bezerk. Here I the output from /var/log/messages : Oct 26 21:05:45 0x50c63c55 kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread Jack
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:08 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle resizing well. Norton Ghost ver.9 (actually Drive Image since

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread Jack
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:11 -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: Paragon Hard Drive Manager will handle Linux file systems, including reiserfs and does pretty much the same thing as most other commercial drive image programs. If you have to go commercial that is. Paragon also has an Image

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:23 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels where the devices are set up as ATA devices. dev=1,0,0 is for most 2.4 kernels where the device is scsi-emulated. I use much the same cdrecord Cl as you. Whilst I'm not against the

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:40, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: H.J. - Now I dared to connect my camera, but with the usual result : my system went completely bezerk. Here I the output from /var/log/messages : Oct 26 21:05:45 0x50c63c55

Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update

2004-10-26 Thread Margot
Jack wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:47 +0100, Margot wrote: Community versions of Mandrake do not have updates or update source media - the updates are contained in the media which you have already added as sources. To obtain the updates, instead of using the GUI you must use urpmi. Open a

Re: [newbie] OT: A Virus Plague

2004-10-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 23 Oct 2004 12:27, Erylon Hines wrote: I just put them in my missed_spam folder and run an sa-learn on them (I use spamassassin as my spam filter). After I did that a few times, 90+% of them are tagged as spam and go to the trash. Worked for those bounced virus messages from mail

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Russell W. Behne wrote: Friday at 18:39, Tom Karen Pino wrote: To anyone this may concern, I received this notice from my ISP today. A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Russell W. Behne wrote: Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check out the headers - that's what tells the truth. I recently

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Ghost in the machine ??? --- Aliens from outer space ??? Kaj Haulrich. Trust you to find a white raven:( ... --- Naah, just kidding;) There's something very wrong on the way this USB device initiates and the kernel

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Friday at 18:39, Tom Karen Pino wrote: To anyone this may concern, I received this notice from my ISP today. A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus.

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 23:15, Tom Karen Pino wrote: I, too, would love to know how to trace these things and perhaps send them a present. Don't even try! It would double the (negative) effect of exactly that what it is trying to douse up our bandwidth and incriminate non-M$

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:53, Jack wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:08 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. It can certainly handle resizing well.

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:19, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 01:14 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:40, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: H.J. - Now I dared to connect my camera, but with the usual result : my system went completely bezerk. Here I the

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 02:50 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Ghost in the machine ??? --- Aliens from outer space ??? Kaj Haulrich. Trust you to find a white raven:( ... --- Naah, just kidding;) There's

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:52:03 +0200 Alexander Ruoff disseminated the following: How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been

Re: [newbie] movie player

2004-10-26 Thread rabellan
not yet, i just simply used totem player but if Xine is much better then, i would greatly appreciate if you can give me infos about configuration. thanks... |-+--- | | Sevatio | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:15, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russ, I was sure that this was spoofing. Most of the crap that we get is. The perp probably gets the names from the archives. Consider asking your ISP to implement Sender Policy Framework. It effectively nullifies the ability of

Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update

2004-10-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 25 October 2004 10:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks Margot... this seems to have done it.  So this means that I can't use the drakes to update, right? - Jack There is a problem with the hdlists on the 10.1 mirrors right now too.   Messages have been posted to Cooker about this,

[newbie] Need some help with updating.

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Theel
I am running Mandrake Community 10 and I'm having a problem when I try to do updates from the Mandrake Control Center. No matter with mirror I goto it says that the hdlist has failed to download. Why is this? Thanks in advance for your help. Mike

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Hi Tom, No, that message isn't from me. I never use the word `Hello' on the Subject: line. Someone obviously spoofed my email address. If you can bounce a copy to me I'd appreciate it. And if anyone knows how to find out who actually did it, and

Re: [newbie] Need some help with updating.

2004-10-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 6:35 pm, Michael Theel wrote: I am running Mandrake Community 10 and I'm having a problem when I try to do updates from the Mandrake Control Center. No matter with mirror I goto it says that the hdlist has failed to download. Why is this? Many sites are pretty flakey

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2004-10-26 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread Miark
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:07 -0500, Tom wrote: Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on my system