Actually, I stay for steve's sigs ;)
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Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake
I think the main reason I
Having installed Mandrake (v7-9.1) about 30-40 times on various boxes in
both personal roles and for professional use - including high security
roles, I would offer that my initial reactions to these issues were
similar to those of your friend.
I'd run into one or another of the issues mentioned
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Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake
Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
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woow ... I really appreciate your experience oppinion ... you've
obviously done lots of installs ... I've done
Take a look at the two-nic firewall sample config.
It is substantially different from the one-nic config that many use.
I bet you'll find the issue there.
On a side note, the configs are very simple. Since I got familiar with them,
I haven't gone back to the MCC for firewall management.
HTH
their box owned.
Bill Gates didn't make people idiots, God did. Hate the user, not the
developer.
Next...
Brandon Vanderberg
www.clueless.m$killedmydoggy.andi'mgonnacry.whaaa.com
Linux User #34.5 | Linux machine
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Kernel
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 10:26, Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
Anyone dumb enough to leave a PC wide open with no protection,
and got hit
by this worm deserves it - Just as much as someone who runs
linux with no
security deserves to have their box owned.
Bill Gates didn't make people
Stirred up a hornet's nest didn't I? ;)
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:26:47 -0700
Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Anyone dumb enough to leave a PC wide open with no protection, and got
hit by this worm deserves it - Just as much as someone who runs linux
with no security deserves
Same setup here. IDE CDROM and SCSI disks.
Try getting into the SCSI BIOS. (With Adaptec, you'll see a Ctrl A prompt
after your PC BIOS loads.) There, you should be able to find the option that
makes it work. If it's not Adaptec, there should be something similar.
HTH,
~Brandon
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On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 19:05, Kou Shan Shan wrote:
Hi
To be frank, it took me a few months to set up some of the good stuff
in my three-month old mdk 9.0, like Exceed XDMCP remote login, Samba,
hardware, network... etc. Basically I just finished making it a handy
workstation and started to
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Monday 03 February 2003 06:49 am, civileme wrote:
rm -rf /
when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and
planted a paw squarely on the enter key
Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the
system as all the
I'm using XFCE on a 9.0 box, but have run it on 8.2 and never noticed any
mem issues.
It's always seemed very light. This machine only has 48MB RAM, so it has to
be for me.
Have you run 'top' and then sorted by mem usage? That'll tell ya what's
sucking up the memory.
~Brandon
I have tried E but i didnt like it too much. I have
browsed for alternatives and i like the look of
Fluxbox, its installed just not configured. I guess i
am just too darn picky.
Rob
If you like fluxbox, you might like waimea also.
very purty, and very light.
I use xfce, cuz i'm a
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:50, Anne Wilson wrote:
I finally got it - the great Nigerian money-laundering scam email. I haven't
seen one of those since I got it by fax years ago, though I knew they were
still around. :)
Anne
Who'd you get? I have 2 from Dr. Uba Jega. I'd be willing to part
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:50, Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
K, this has to be the most asked (and answered) question about
Evolution.
I click on a link in an email and it opens Mozilla. I'd rather it open a
new tab in Galeon.
I've read about 312 messages I found in Google and have gone
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 23:13, Rob Wideman wrote:
So it's safe to assume that you've rerun
mousedrake and all that jazz,
right?
I am using a MS Optical usb/ps2 mouse attached to an
Apex Outlook KVM when i installed MDK9. Once i got it
installe i used mousedrake and selected the generic
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 02:27, Vahur Lokk wrote:
On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:14, you wrote:
Getting rid of those debts is crucial - make no mistake about it - and
cannot therefore be seen as a waste of our money.
Sure but if Bens financial info is correct, there is no way to do it in
It is. There are a couple of ways to do it depending on your setup.
The cleanest way I've found is to install Mozilla on Windows and have it
import everything. Then copy that stuff to a Linux readable part. and
import to Evo.
There are also some apps written that'll do the same thing. Outport is
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:11, Dennis Myers wrote:
I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how slow
her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built firewall
machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need to do to
make the
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 18:27, Adolfo Bello wrote:
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, Rich wrote:
you can change time settings in mcc.
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~Brandon
http://www.vanderberg.net
Linux 2.4.19-16mdk
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I'd love to go out with you,
I had the same issue. My policy drops unwanted traffic already, but it
notifies me every time it does. This is what I want normally. However,
there's SO much coming from Asia, I've added the following rules. This
way, drops from addresses issued from APNIC never show up in my log.
DROP
But, obviously, HTML should be avoided.
Yes, and I want to download 9.1 with Xmodem. Anybody got mandrake's
modem number?
Support your local bulletin board, shun the Internet with it's new
fangled formats and protocols. We got as far as we need to go in 1986.
Who needs java, mp3, or avi. We
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:52, Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
But, obviously, HTML should be avoided.
Yes, and I want to download 9.1 with Xmodem. Anybody got mandrake's
modem number?
I generally take this in the light spirit
Hi Jody,
Looks like what you want is MS SFU (Services for Unix 2.0 or 3.0).
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/techinfo/administration/20/nis.asp
You may already have 2.0. I haven't been able to determine if it was
included. 3.0 is available
Cat 5 cables are pretty standard. Any store that sells hubs, should also
carry them.
There are no adapters to be concerned with. One end of the cable goes
into a nick, the other end into the hub.
Now with your firewall, one nic is going to be connected to the
dls/cable modem, but you'll need a
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 03:20, Ralph Slooten wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:54:34 +0100
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:43:02 +0100:
Is there an linux equivalent for Windows Media Player? I'm using
latest
Some servers require an ident response (see pidentd) for access.
But before looking at that, I'd try a different server.
If you still have trouble, feel free to contact me via email directly,
and I'll do whatever I can to help.
~Brandon
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 12:30, Terry Sheltra wrote:
Pardon
Where's the best place for this. In the net-up script? I can't remember
what that is, or if it's executed when the computer gets a new lease. I
don't see a dhcpc script, just an exe.
I use a dyndns service with an updater running as a daemon, and it works fine.
It just periodically
Some people may have hurt your feelings - well that's sad. But your country is
going to _kill_ people - not just hurt their feelings.
Is it better to kill than to cope with opposing views and maybe discover that
you are wrong?
Bones,
Nice post. I'm sure there will be sweeping policy
I connect to IRC servers everyday without having to use an ident server.So I
dont know that is the problem.I consider them a security risk and wouldnt use
one unless I had to.I am on Freenode now without one.So your rejection might
be caused by something else.
I've just noticed that some
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:19, Jerry wrote:
SNIP
Starlink looks fine, but it only has one server in Europe. :(
BTW, Eggdrop 1.6.13 works like a champ on mdk 9.0, they fixed some old
bugs in this new version.
I'll check out a couple of the other smaller nets and see if i can get
Hi all,
I'm using DHCPCD on a 9.0 box (2 actually) with my broadband connection.
I'm also using a dynamic dns service.
I need to get my boxes to update the dns when the ip changes.
Now I've already got a script that does the updating and it works great,
and it's in a cron job running hourly.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:33, Kesav Tadimeti wrote:
On the other hand, I believe Bush is going to war in the hope that it will
revive the economy. Preperations for the war will boost the defence
industry, and when the war is over lots of contracts (notably petroleum
ones) will go out to the US
I think this would be a good point to end this thread, there are many who
hold strong views about this subject and I fear that to continue to express
them here could lead to a falling out of members.
It goes without saying that it is a very emotive subject, many of us will have
strong
Me too, but I tried it again later and it's working now.
I'm sorry I read it though. The best part for me was reading the responses
to his article. ;)
~Brandon
Kernel Version 5.00.2195
DOGBOY has been up for: 8 day(s), 10 hour(s), 59 minute(s), 5 second(s)
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switching the plugs, but I was hoping to try
something easier.
Thanks,
Ross
From: Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:38:16 -0800
I've got the same setup and haven't noticed any issues
Straight, hot coffee and a command line.
~Brandon
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Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?
El Jue 02 Ene 2003 21:49, Todd
I
haven't had any troublesinstalling Mandrake on a disk with an
existingWindows 2000 NTFS partition. It wasvery
clean.Obviously, you want to take your time and be very
careful.
On a
side note, Iwould never have tried it even once without my important data
backed up. I'dseriously think
I've got the same setup and haven't noticed any issues.
Did you install linux with the kvm attached? If so, could the os see the
mouse during install?
If you didn't, you might wanna go into the control center and see if you can
try different mouse types/settings.
HTH
~Brandon
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Adding sources and disabling supermount are two different things.
To disable supermount, it was something like 'supermount -i disable', then
'mount -a'.
The main thing was adding the other sources. Now you have a choice. If you
have a slow cd like I do, then you don't
How strange, last night I did the same thing with an old pc.
The pc is a very old Pentium 100 or 200 w/ 48meg of ram and a 6 gig disk. I
didn't know about the 64meg requirement, but xfree86 (ver 4) and KDE came up
and loaded fine with 48. It wasn't a speed demon, but it worked well. This
was with
Hi,
To enable DCC through a firewall, I did the following:
Configure Xchat to use 2 ports (say 1087 and 1088) for dcc. You can use
more, but not less.
Configure my firewall to allow 2 ports for dcc.
~brandon
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Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 6:17 AM
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Subject: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:28, walt wrote:
I plan on supporting Mandrake in
Hi all,
I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight.
The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the
more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to
Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:50 AM
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On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote:
Hi all,
I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight.
The more I work with Mandrake
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From: Aaron Mehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I have a dual boot mandrak 9.0 and w2k.
Even with all the complexity of linux I much prefer it over w2k.
Did you look a win4lin?? This is not a toy like wine is. The problem with
vmware is the price and I tried the demo and
Hi folks, sorry for the FAQ. But, I've read lots of howto's and tons of
threads on the subject in various boards, and am more confused than when
I started.
The trouble is with my IDE CD-ROM burner. I'm not trying to burn at this
point, just read data CDs reliably. Right now it's hit and miss. An
Option 1.
You can connect two computers together with a x-over cable. This
does require a 2nd NIC in your 8.2 box.
The advantage is that you don't have to buy hub or switch. Also, you
only really need to worry about having a firewall on the 8.2 box. It
will protect the
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:41, Joseph Braddock wrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:31:46 -0500
Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It appears that when you removed KDE2.2, you also removed the KDM it was using.
When you installed KDE3, it installed the KDE3 version of KDM, but your system
Mine's working well also. I had that problem in 8.0, but with 8.1 (clean
install) everything has worked much better.
Copying the CDs to the drive helps a lot with speed and keeps me from having
to carry my CD pack around all the time. This is on a laptop.
On Friday 19 October 2001 13:13,
used it fine with mandrake, no issues.
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Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:21 PM
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Subject: [newbie] Diamond Stealth III S540 agp videocard
Are there any known linux
agreed. I got fed up with my linux installation and blew the whole damn
thing away and installed win2k. I started at 10:40pm, it's now 11:05pm.
Default install, i got sound (good sound -all the time, right out of the
box), good screen resolution, detection of EVERYTHING, networking configured
to
, is there?
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Brandon Vanderberg
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http://dogboy.insanediego.com
Though perhaps a bit off subject, I'm hopeful that someone will be able to
point me in the right direction. I've been playing with Linux for a while
(several different builds of Mandrake and RedHat), and am pretty happy with
my new Mandrake 7.2 system. What I am missing from from my Windows
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