Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-12 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I would have been a Gold member if I could have had Mandrake charge by the month instead of by the year They should fix that So I can upgrade... ;) On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:45, Barran, Richard wrote: Morning all, I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this

Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems

2002-02-15 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
The partitions linux are in the following mode: hdd1 / hdd5 /swap hdd6 /usr hdd7 /home T+ --- Bryan B Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: can you give allot more info? like how many disks? scsi? ide? mixed? how is the partitions? On Thu, 2002-02-14

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

2002-02-14 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I don't think ReiserFS is worth crying about since it doesn't get smaller than 32MB... A partition that small (such as /boot) isn't getting much activity anyhow. So using a non journel FS is fine. Or, like you seggested, ext3. Fsck on 32MB is hardly even noticable. On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:23,

Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems

2002-02-14 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
can you give allot more info? like how many disks? scsi? ide? mixed? how is the partitions? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:33, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs,

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

2002-02-10 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
For a partition so small why on earth would you even use a JFS? If you are never going to touch it make it ext2 and mount it ro. journal a FS that is going to undergo many changes (basically an active FS) when you mess with your kernel (or ar messing with something in /boot) just run

Re: [newbie] NFS trouble mounting

2002-02-05 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
you might have a firewall blocking some ports? try: showmount -e [ip address] to see if your server is exporting the fs correctly also make sure you have nfs services started up on your client box. make sure portmap is running on both boxes. and you can communicate on those ports (no

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

2002-02-05 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I use Gnome. The main annoying reason was: For some reason KDE cannot handle very fast internet connections. In konqueror (spelling?) if I download a big file from the internet Kde becomes totally unresponsive till I get the file. It can't handle pulling 1-3.5MByte/sec over internet2 :(

Re: [newbie] Mail clients

2002-01-31 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
Try using the evolution mail client (if your looking for a GUI mail client). Ctrl-T toggles threaded view On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 10:48, Paul Kraus wrote: Are there any mail clients that will sort the messages like threads in a news group? That would organization and post reference so nice.

Re: [newbie] ebay

2002-01-18 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I still have the old Windows box to resort to w/Win98, but I was hoping for an Opera or Konq solution. I'm weaning myself off of MS one step at a time. Lee Try galeon... :) very nice web browser. Works with EBay also! :) -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and

[newbie] root email spam

2002-01-08 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
I'm am really really really sick of all the email that is generated every night and mailed to root. When programs are doing it? I tracked some down too logcheck... but whatr about the rest? Can someome please tell me what is generating all these security reports and emailing them to root every