Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6 *almost* trojaned

2003-11-12 Thread Chuck Vose
HaywireMac wrote: One thing that occurred to me, thinking about Eric's adage, there are really *no* eyes on the Windows kernel (or whatever you call it). How many unknown/deliberate backdoors could be in *there*? Some time ago I was speaking to a MS employee at a party, he mentioned that MS

Re: [newbie] many perl things broken

2003-11-12 Thread Chuck Vose
Symlinks are cake, do a `man ln`. You're looking for the -s option (Symbolic Link) Basic usage in your case would be ln -s /real/path/to/perl5.8.0 /usr/bin/perl5 It certainly looks like it's looking for perl 5.6.1, try the new symlink and see what happens. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Phoenix bios

2003-11-12 Thread Chuck Vose
One might try asking in the correct mailing list. Or as an alternative try googling for the answer since it's most likely already been asked about 400 times. /Polite RTFM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Electric circuit design apps

2003-11-02 Thread Chuck Vose
It exists, I know that much. I can't remember the name but at one point (maybe a year or two ago) I was playing with one that came with KDE. Sorry I've not been more informative but I wanted to give you a little hope :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] mldonkey dork

2003-11-02 Thread Chuck Vose
Todd Slater wrote: I heard about this new-fangled p2p stuff and thought I'd check out mldonkey. urpmi'd it and mldonkey-gui, launched it, but can't seem to get any satisfaction. Connects to 4 out of 80-some servers; I find a file to d/l, but it just kind of sits there and pulls it at less than

Re: [newbie] Password Expiration

2003-10-30 Thread Chuck Vose
Michael Holt wrote: Matt Winer mused: I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do I prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec levels? Thanks! man chage If you're ever

Re: [newbie] Raw tree installation of mdk 9.2

2003-10-30 Thread Chuck Vose
Mukul Sabharwal wrote: Hi thanks for the reply. Well I want to know (before starting) that I have Mandrake 9.2 RC2 installed, and I have WinXP running too. Basically if I do the floppy boot, and let it run, I won't be able to do anything I presume. Anyway, that seems ok. The problem is that will

[newbie] digest mailings

2003-10-27 Thread Chuck Vose
Is there some way to receive this list as a daily or twice daily list? I feel overwhelmed by the amount of mail pouring in. -Chuck Vose Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com