Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-26 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:27, John Richard Smith wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 12:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:41, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...getting too close time for tea - wonder

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 25 March 2004 14:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-20 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
My Mom has a gateway from about 4 years ago. It came with Windows 98. I have gotten Linux to run on it fine, but to share your griefThere is NO FAN on the processor...Which is a celeron...Nice huh? After 20 minutes of being on you can feel the warmth from it...The power supply has a fan,

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-20 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:28, Marc wrote: Ahh well enough of a rant for now. Marc, did you try any of the partitioning tools - Partition Magic, or the like? If it's a hidden

Re: [newbie] Mail clients

2004-03-17 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:05:19 +1300 anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I suspect the general split will probably be between Sylpheed, Kmail, Moz Mail and Evo. mozmail for me. kmail seemed (3.1.3) a bit clunky, never seen sylpheed and evo is gnome. Cheers

Re: [newbie] Microsoft in trouble with EU

2004-03-17 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:53:13 + Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Heard a report on the radio that Microsoft are in trouble with the EU who are thinking of taking it to court it over its anti-competition practises or something. Regards -- John Willby Registered

Re: [newbie] Mail clients

2004-03-17 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:51:29 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your tecnical question. Do you mean you log in to X as root? That is a no no and unneeded. To set up email do it as yourself. To do tasks as root use su or sudo. However if there is some strange reason you have that

Re: [newbie] test

2004-03-17 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:52:18 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 08:38, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:20:45 +1100 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: AMERICAN-AUSTRALIAN. Well, okay, if you want. Didn't want to embarass you unnecessarily

Re: [newbie] howdy! solving problems this list,.....

2004-03-16 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:28:35 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:17, Asa Rossoff wrote: Hi there, everyone! I've asked a couple questions on the list but haven't had any replies. I've also asked those questions some other places - like

Re: [newbie] howdy! solving problems this list,.....

2004-03-16 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:42:12 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:32, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: You can tell I could use some sleep. I thought your last name was Bathroom. ;) I'm in a worse conditionjust having my first coffee and trying

Re: Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-03-07 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 06 March 2004 01:32 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:11:27 -0500 Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if only HP would sell desktops and laptops running HP-UX :) I can get Linux and install it, hell this is an HP Why? :) Another problem

Re: [newbie] vectorlinux?

2004-03-04 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Absolutely, but on

Re: [newbie] vectorlinux?

2004-03-04 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 04 March 2004 11:40 pm, Mike Fehse wrote: If you are an adventures type, you may want to consider Gentoo *Cringes* I really don't like most of there user base. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 27 February 2004 01:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/ SlackWareWolf wrote: Actually, it is entirely possible for you to be infected running Linux. The virii won't harm your machine much itself, but the virii CAN send itself out when you

Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-02-28 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:03 am, JoeHill wrote: Finally, SCO has made it easy for us Linux users to be all nice and legal, since we are of course using their intellectual property, which they've shown...in... Well, never mind that, get your license here:

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 27 February 2004 07:29 am, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:11:54 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious

Re: Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-27 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
If I remember right Gateway, Dell, IBM and I think HP will be selling new systems with Red Hat pre-install. That is one reason I tried Red Hat before Mandrake. Now if only HP would sell desktops and laptops running HP-UX :) I can get Linux and install it, hell this is an HP Pavilion running

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-26 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 26 February 2004 04:28 pm, Lanman wrote: On February 26, 2004 03:56 pm, Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE wrote: - Original Message - You sure that's coffee? I'v miss fired while playing slappy solitare before too ;) Yes Allen! I'm sure it was coffee! Do I even want to know

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
IF Windows 95/98 will run on a 486, I'm quite sure you could use a GUI in Linux on a 486, even if it's pure X without a Window manager. Might not look like much, but still, I think you could. Also, TWM might run just fine too. -- __ We Are 138

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-21 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
No one would trust a techie in a suit. Sir Robin Damn right. Any techie who has time to learn a fasion sence obviously didn't learn enough about what they do. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org

Re: [newbie] Test

2004-02-21 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 21 February 2004 06:54 pm, Bill Shirley wrote: Just testing that I can post to the list. Bill Shirley Roger that. Couldn't help it. I whipped some ass in Magic : The Gathering today :) -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com

Re: [newbie] Photo of the year ?

2004-02-20 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 20 February 2004 08:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 21:07, Dan Gordon wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:27 + Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200402201316 26966 Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 %

Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings

2004-02-19 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:58 pm, Mike Begin wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Virtual drive and messed up the screen settings (color / resolution). Can I change that back at the command prompt? On bootup? It is very hard to see the screen at the moment. Thanks, Mike Hold

Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings

2004-02-19 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:38 pm, Mike Begin wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolution Settings On Thursday

Re: [newbie]

2004-02-17 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:22 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 01:49 am, Happy wrote: subscribe newbie subscribe expert Happy: This won't work. The correct way to subscribe is to send separate emails as follows: If he didn't subscribe right, how was he supposed

Re: [newbie]

2004-02-17 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:52 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:08 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue

Re: [newbie]

2004-02-16 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 01:49 am, Happy wrote: subscribe newbie subscribe expert ... *Bangs head* -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-15 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:08 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I will want to be looking to construct afresh. Whats your thinking about 64 bit architecture. I read recently AMD have a chip that runs both 32 and 64bit though I

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-15 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Sunday 15 February 2004 12:05 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:40:17 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slackware in text mode makes a wonderful server on a 386 right up to 9.1! That's for sure. I haven't used a 386 in years, but I had early versions of SLS and

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-14 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 14 February 2004 08:29 am, lanman wrote: On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it seem

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
Slackware in text mode makes a wonderful server on a 386 right up to 9.1! Slackware 9.1 runs on 486 and higher, but 9.0 and back will rn on a 386. If you needan install helper I wrote a complete tutorial on installing it step by step. -- __

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-13 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:17 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: How would I go about installing Mandrake such that I have a triple boot environment? When it boots up from the CD, you need to resize SuSE. If you have Reiser FS it may be hard, but don;t give up. You need the SuSE partition to be

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:58 pm, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:33 pm, anton wrote: Yay Tux! -=-=- ... Pardon me while I laugh. Lol. Yea it does seem weird. But then again I'm an elitist about this kind of stuff. I have about 54 OSs, all of which I know how to use, and I STILL use Linux. Damn near 10,000 dollars in

Re: [newbie] 2.4.22 kernel source rpm

2004-02-11 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 01:02 pm, GV wrote: many thanks for your valuable help. On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:40, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: GV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:32:54 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 2.4.22 kernel

Re: [newbie] Will any thing change with mandrake

2004-02-11 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
I have never understood why people think Mandrake is a desktop distro, and RedHat is a server distro. All the server apps you could possibly want are included, mostly with sensible defaults already set up in their configuration fiiles. Mandrake also gives you several choices. For example

Re: [newbie] 2.4.22 kernel source rpm

2004-02-11 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 04:53 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Wednesday 11 February 2004 2:13 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: whack I thought the new kernel with all security fixes was 2.4.24 ? That's what I'm using on here. It's Slackware Linux 9.1. The new kernel with all

Re: [newbie] OT: Port Scan?

2004-02-10 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
Hmm, you should have this DROP packets. Denying allows them to see you're at least up. dropping keeps them guessing. I have this same router. You should set it up for dropping packets insted of denying. :) -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com

Re: [newbie] Microsoft: Research shows DRM won't work.

2004-02-10 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
You know, Gates may have money, but his reputation is about as good as Osama Bin Laden's. Both crash more than they need to. I say we lock both in a cage and gas it. ;) Please do not take offence to my odd sence of humor. -- __ We Are 138

Re: [newbie] OT: Port Scan?

2004-02-10 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
Damn, sorry. Didn't see someone already told you to just drop them. Oh well, it's almost 6 AM and I'v had a whole 5 ours sleep in 3 days. -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/

Re: [newbie] OT Humor - - Fwd: Re: IE Phishing flaw has been fixed with a good twist (Humor)

2004-02-10 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
Does anyone else just get a kick out of how they fix one thing but break another with their patches? -- __ We Are 138 http://www.suse.com http://www.slackware.org http://www.bsd.org http://www.daemonnews.org/ http://www.cannibalholocaust.net