Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Huff
I emailed about it, and the thing is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not on the subcription list. So somebody probably made a .forward or some such to the cel account that responds improperly to the headers and bounces to From. right, but can't they do some filtering right on the list

Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Huff
But what should they filter? The list sends nothing to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so they can't filter that, and we don't know what the offending address is. And the responses we get from sms don't go thru the list... contact mandrake and they will have a look at it i think.the list is the

Re: [newbie] LOL! Microsoft buys ads for MDK 9.2?

2003-09-15 Thread Eric Huff
A very ealy or very late April-fools joke? Why else would they obviosly spell their names MundrakeSoft and MicroSCOff? you musta missed the humour topic... ;-) As did a bunch of the people who left comments! -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy

Re: [newbie] How do I read .wav files on CD on the CL

2003-09-15 Thread Eric Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# So how may I find out what tracks are on the CD on the CL ? If they are .wav files, they should show up. Since they didn't, it's probably a regular audio CD. Not sure what CL utilities would let

Re: [newbie] old mandrake 9.1 drive in new machine

2003-09-15 Thread Eric Huff
Is there a way to configure x from the command line? Or verify that I can get out? Am I on the right track? I think you want XFdrake Run it as root. Arrows move up and down, tab to get to the buttons, enter to click -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to

Re: [newbie] OT, was 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Eric Huff
Did I mention that I live in Australia? We try very hard to do what's called conserve energy here...as in drying our clothing on a line outside; as in having two different ways to flush a toilet Wow, a buddy of mine and i have always said we should have that. No need for a #2 amount of water

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Eric Huff
tom $ loci rute C'mon, tell us the alias! :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Downloading a huge file - burning an ISO

2003-09-13 Thread Eric Huff
Anyway, how do I burn an ISO image in Linux? You could use one of the gui's, but here is my favorite way (a la Tom Brinkman) If you burn a lot of iso's, make an alias: alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -dao' then biso file.iso You'll have to change speed and dev=x,x,x to

Re: [newbie] Linksys WMP11 Wireless PCI

2003-09-13 Thread Eric Huff
Ok, those are gone too now. But I can't find what's adding the reply-to line. It's nowhere in the .pinerc file! If you've got any ideas as to what's adding the line I'd appreciate knowing about it, so I can kill it off once and for all. Well, it is in there: X-X-Sender: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Linksys WMP11 Wireless PCI

2003-09-13 Thread Eric Huff
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:09:52 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, those are gone too now. But I can't find what's adding the reply-to line. It's nowhere in the .pinerc file! If you've got any ideas as to what's adding the line I'd appreciate knowing about it, so I can kill

Re: [newbie] Shered VS Delete

2003-09-13 Thread Eric Huff
Shredding it will overwrite the file about 20 times making it impossible to recover. Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been overwritten once? I imagine that if you measure the 1's and 0's with a device that takes an analog reading, you can tell wether it was

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-13 Thread Eric Huff
Don't forget The Rute Users Guide you can buy a copy or download either HTML or PDF version from http://www.programming-hub.com/Linux_Rute_Users_Tutorial_and_Exposition You can also rpm it! -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization

Re: [newbie] Article: 9/11-themed viruses hit the Net

2003-09-12 Thread Eric Huff
So, does that mean that in windows a jpg can contain a virus, too? I think they're refering to the attachment itself which probably has a double extension like xxx.jpg.pif Most ppl's wincomps don't show the second extension, and away they go. I suppose you could hide some executable

Re: [newbie] OT Somewhat (sorry!): How to change to top posting in Sylpheed,: Tangled threads Message-Id: 20030910164821.5cc9701c.heatheri@telusplanet.net

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
Mine does top post by default (i am this time leaving it as is for Femme's sake... :) Maybe the text in configuration -- common prefs -- quote -- reply format causes it: On %d %f wrote: %Q eric On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:17:30 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I want to top post

Re: [newbie] some question about tecnical

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
This is when I like to take the RedHat Mailing List Stance where the answers are short and sweet: * RTFM * GOOGLE is your friend * Open terminal, type man nameoffile * Format your system and go back to Windows * Ask JoeHill LOL! -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

[newbie] Upgrading glibc on mdk8.1? Possible?

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Caron
Hi everybody, Many times, when I want to install new apps (whether in rpm format or by building from source), I need a newer version of glibc. For example: error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) Is there a way to install these libraries without breaking the system? I don't

Re: [newbie] Article: 9/11-themed viruses hit the Net

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
Just gets worse, don't it? http://www.msnbc.com/news/965089.asp?0si=-cp1=1 So, does that mean that in windows a jpg can contain a virus, too? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion:

Re: [newbie] Downloading a huge file

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
I am trying to dl Knoppix so I can try it on a laptop we have. However, it gets to about 20 secs left to go then tells me that there is not enough disk space left. I am dl it to my home directory which is 19gigs (mostly free), the file is only 650megs. Can anyone tell me why this won't let

Re: [newbie] Tangled threads

2003-09-10 Thread Eric Huff
Hey. Lets start one on top posting. You know, I'd feel stronger about top-posting if people would only snip. When I have scroll down three page-fulls to get a one-line addition I could scream. Anne I was just about to make a similar comment... -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] nice link fer newbs

2003-09-10 Thread Eric Huff
I do have a comcrap, so that may be why... shudder OTOH the Athalon chip in that thing runs so hot you don't need a furnace in the house. there is no such thing as global warming --just millions of 'puters running win$ux on Athalon chips. Athalon?!? This thing has a celery! It

Re: [newbie] Blue Hash

2003-09-10 Thread Eric Huff
THONG = FLIPFLOP, btw... Man, i haven't called those thongs since i moved to california. :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development

Re: [newbie] preparing a hdd for a linux install

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
as the partition. Of course, the way out of that mess in Winblows is to defrag for a few hours and that will bring everything to the front of the existing partition. I have seen the windows defrag leave stuff at the end. Unfragmented, but lotsa whitespace in between... -- Mandrake HowTo's

[newbie] OT: dad got blaster on 1st day with new xp computer!

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
machine), so when his computer bogged to a crawl, sure enough blaster was there churning away. Let's all thank microsoft for putting out a patch to a problem, but not adding in virus removal. By now, they know which virus exploits the hole. Put the fix in the update! eric -- Mandrake HowTo's

Re: [newbie] 3 quick questions

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
I read (here i think) that you can turn off the module check, too, if you aren't changing anything. In MandrakeControlCentreSystemServices disable harddrake and auto kernel headers. That will speed up booting (obviously if your hardware is going to change you want harddrake on first or else

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
Here is another cool thing: you can have the prompt set the title of the xterm for you. This way, in the taskbar i see the path 1st, so when there's a bunch of them open, i know which is which. #PS1=\[\033]0;\w: \u\007\] -- sets title sets prompt -- #\[\033[33m\]\w \$ if test

Re: [newbie] nice link fer newbs

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
However, I disagree with the info that Linux is hard to install. It's not. ML is very easy to install. Depending on the hardware one has, difficulties may come up, but that's another issue... It can be easy, but we sure have seen a lot of people on here have trouble. For me, it installed

Re: [newbie] preparing a hdd for a linux install

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
I have seen the windows defrag leave stuff at the end. Unfragmented, but lotsa whitespace in between... There's an option in the winblows defrag to leave it all in front or at the end. If you don't set it it's very unpredictable. Kinda like Winblows itself. Kinda like Winblows prices

Re: [newbie] Blue Bash

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
assuming you use a taskbar, or even titlebar, you Pekwm traitor! ;-) Hah! I've seen titlebars in your screen shots... And c'mon, admit it: When it's dark, and no one's lookin, you fire up fbpanel... You sick B*stard! You know, pekwm has been so smooth for so long! I love it. I don't even

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-08 Thread Eric Huff
. I'll let you know if i hear back. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main

[newbie] can not connect video device(/dev/video0)

2003-09-08 Thread eric lin
and time sincere ERic _ Have you signed up for the World's Fastest Free Email ? http://www.Luxmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] A Serious Question - Do You Ever Stop?

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
I think I'm getting addicted to Mandrake. Learn a little more, add a few things here, change a few things there...you know what I mean So, is this going on forever? Constantly adding and changing, I mean... Do you ever get to a point where you say this is a usable system, I'm going

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
it to him. I'm not sure if he is the official contact, or just helping out, so i don't want to post his eddress here. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join

Re: [newbie] Viruses..........

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
sure i understand this. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main

Re: [newbie] Can not choose to log as 'root' anymore in graphic mode

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
I've tried, only that I have no place to type in'root'. The first dialog is for choosing the user (apparently by icon clicking). There is no edit box for typing. However, I've clicked the dialog and type 'root'. No effect. It is best not to log in as root in the GUI. There's just so many

Re: [newbie] Viruses..........

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
a patched system will not proof you if someone on your system runs the executable.. Yeah, of course. patching a system only helps against works like blaster that do a remote infection.. if someone double clicks an attachemnt, all bets are off in windows. So in the case of sobig, it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Viruses..........

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
I just want to make sure i understand this. I was under the understanding that with out making regular payments to BG's boys, it was against the law to understand what windows is doing? G Hah! That's true. :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the

Re: [newbie] I want to ditch windows

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
I have one problem tho and that is my bank will not allow me to log in on anything but ie is there anything which i could use that would fool I usu fire up opera on a site that requires it, and then email the company and explain/complain that requiring microso*ft is a bad thing. Konqueror has

Re: [newbie] beginners guide to users?

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
I just logged out and back in again after creating a new user, but it just puts me back in as myself. Can anyone tell me where to find the instructions to make it ask which user to log on as? This is in 9.1, so you'll have to see if it is the same in 9.0: You can do it with mandrake control

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ oh, man, you did like I did and gave waaay too much space to /. I don't remember actually asking it to

Re: [newbie] Virus - let's go over this again, shall we?u

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
Although, the irony is that MS selling Anti-Virus software is sort of like the Mafia selling insurance against extortion. Yeah, no kidding! So are we going to see more holes for virii now that they will benefit from the FUD? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
Perhaps the problems I was having installing MDK 9.1 was due to my hardware being below minimum specs for 9.1 My current hardware: ASUS P2B motherboard with 350MHz PII and 128MB Ram So I have two options: 1) locate a previous distribution of MDK that will work with this 1998

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
How can I tell if I have the HD space? df at the cli -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion:

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? Well, if you have broadband, you can set up main with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I bet someone who still uses removable media on here could copy and paste their URL and Relative Paths into an e-mail as easy as I could, though

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Torvalds feat. Colifornia

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
EH So, would the new name be Linifornia? Not bad... How about CaliforGNU? There are certainly a lot of gnu things that seem to happen in/to California. Or maybe CNU: Califronia's Not Unix Califronia's Not U.S. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 49G 2.2G 44G 5% / /dev/hda6 8.1G 406M 7.7G 5% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ My HD is supposed to be 60G, but 49G

Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
Well, if you have broadband, you can set up main with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php I've already done this - although I don't have broadband so it took a long time. Are you saying that everything that is on the CDs is also on main, so I therefore don't need to restore the

[newbie] sms@kaluga.mts.ru

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
messages (ie not addressed to newbie). eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main

[newbie] Viruses..........

2003-09-06 Thread Eric S. Dye
Lindows installed. I have the Mandrake 9.0 as well, but it is not installed at the moment. Having gotten a number of viruses from the Newbie list, I am surprised because I thought Linux was pretty much impervious to viruses. I don't know which of the above programs can be used with Linux. Eric S. Dye

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
nothing complex either pls! I have enough probs learning with just perl, don't need to add to my masochism. :D vi does that. What part of Simple did you miss dear!? :D Vi is NOT simple IMO. NEXT! Oh, well, if you want simple, try emacs. :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] Nigerian Free Money Scam Please

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
No, and don't call me Shirley... Name that movie! Airplane! -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion:

Re: Beware!! - Re: [newbie] Re: Re: My details

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
At least that b sms message doesn't carry the virus g Could you fill in a couple of the *'s ? My British isn't so good these days... b** = bastard Ahhh b was abbreviated :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
/emacs twiki on the site... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main

Re: Beware!! - Re: [newbie] Re: Re: My details

2003-09-04 Thread Eric Huff
At least that b sms message doesn't carry the virus g Could you fill in a couple of the *'s ? My British isn't so good these days... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion:

Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

2003-09-03 Thread Eric Huff
I have sent mail to a couple diff accounts that should make their way to an admin, but no luck. One was this morning, so i'll give it a few days. I don't use the club as I ought to - somehow never seem to have time - but someone said using the forums - troll section, I think - should

Re: [newbie] Fw: cheval-de-frise:______ __________ __________

2003-09-03 Thread Eric Huff
Oh, great. Now popfile will think this crap is ham... :) Will it? On mine, [newbie] is set as a magnet, and therefore not scanned. That crap would only be accepted inside the [newbie] protection. I just looked thru the docs, and i can't tell if magnets *prevent* learning or if they

Re: [newbie] THE infamous 'short message delivery report' issue

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
them) ?? I'm starting to get them every couple of hours .. possibly even when I'm not posting to the mandrake newbie mailing list ... any idea if this plague will ever stop? If somebody ever figures out how to get in touch with the list admin. I guess i'll try again. It's been awhile... --

Re: [newbie] No such user

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
Every time I send a message to this list, I get this email (Yet my emails go through). Anyone know why? Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] This has showed up many times lately on this list. Apparently, someone in russia signed up on ther cel-phone. -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] supported Hardware list

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
I am looking for the published list of supported hardware, but I cannot access anything from here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3 Yep. The page seems to be broken. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Fw: cheval-de-frise:______ __________ __________

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:04:35 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has *got* to be the most inscrutable piece of spam I have ever received...LOL! Oh, great. Now popfile will think this crap is ham... :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
I really wish Mandrake-admins would just zap these idiots off the list when they do boneheaded things like this. I haven't been able to contact the admins... I have sent mail to a couple diff accounts that should make their way to an admin, but no luck. One was this morning, so i'll give it

Re: [newbie] More email protection! NKVIR-RC

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
I'm trying to figure out mailman, procmail, virtual hosts, dynamic IP for my domain, ... :-P Cool! These will make great additions to the twiki. :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
only the author knows what he was thinking about. anyone who tries to explain what someone else thinks (like the author was in reference to Linus Torvalds, apparently the author believes he can know what Mr. Torvalds thinks) should be looked on with a great deal of healthy skepticism, imho.

Re: [newbie] Floppy problems

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
a guerss... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
I don't think you were spoofed: someone you know (or someone that has your address) has the virus, which sends messages like that. I checked the full header, but I can't see anything to find out who it might be... Plus, I only use joehill for mailing lists, and only Linux lists at

Re: [newbie] MCC and 9.2 RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
isn't it drakconf? ~ $ ll /usr/bin/drakconf -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1338 Apr 23 15:47 /usr/bin/drakconf* ~ $ ll /usr/bin/mcc lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Jun 14 22:31 /usr/bin/mcc - drakconf* Maybe his mcc link was bad? -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
|h, can't sign it unless I live in EU I guess... | |only C choices were Cyprus and Czech Rep., no Canada... Wouldn't you qualify as North America? Is Canada in northamerica? On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics of the statue of liberty... --

Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
. Evidentily, someone in russia signed up for this list on a phone or something. I just filtered it to trash... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Software patent petition

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
On another note, it's kinda funny that the site for EU patents uses pics of the statue of liberty... Wasn't it made in France donated to the USA. Yep. That's what they taught us in skewl. The Statue of Liberty National Monument officially celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28,

Re: [newbie] Interpreting an e-mail

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
This mail just arrived in by inbox. Can anyone make out what it Had the same one at 19.19h It's contagious:o) ya know, we really need to come up with a better 'excuse'. like... gee, this means your winblows partition has the famous SMS worm, and if it takes longer than 'usual' to

Re: [newbie] MCC and 9.2 RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
mcc in a terminal works on my machine, I'm in kde, assumed you were too. I don't know where the executable is, not even precisely what it is called, You can always find a prog with which: ~ $ which mcc /usr/bin/mcc And to see if it is linked: ~ $ ls -laF /usr/bin/mcc lrwxrwxrwx1 root

Re: [newbie] UI for removing URPMI sources?

2003-08-31 Thread Eric Huff
issue the command : urpmi urpmi.setup Cool! (btw, urpmi.setup is shown on the twiki site: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#urpmi_setup) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Moving Entire Directories

2003-08-31 Thread Eric Huff
Now I have another question. I installed Thunderbird in my home directory but was wanting to move the entire directory into my /usr/local/bin directory. How might I do that? I tried mv but it doesn't seem to work on directories. only files. mv will move directories, but only within

Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed!

2003-08-31 Thread Eric Huff
My joehill address has been spoofed apparently, cuz I'm gettin' bounces from invalid addresses, apparently receiving whatever.pif (sobig?) from moi. Is there anything I can do, or just an annoyance I have to put up with? Anyone else been getting this? I got a couple of those. I don't

Re: [newbie] another defragmentation question

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
if the defrag or scan disk (most likely scan disk) screw with the last sector of the partition, it is possible, if the next logical partition starts right away, that the next partition start sector will be fubared, and not allow access to that partition. I was thinking that it might

Re: [newbie] Compaq is just plain weird

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Huff
in fact, there never is a blinking cursor, the first thing that comes up is the red and white Compaq logo and an hourglass thingie. I hit F10 repeatedly, from the moment it powered on even, and all I got was akeyboard error... Well, that is the proper methind: hit F10 repeatedly, hoping the

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Huff
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mention from time to time, we have http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org pointing there right now. (if you are wondering, I own mdklinuxfaq.org). Don't worry, Anne reminds us *every chance she gets*...nag nag nag... I have laughed out loud many times in

Re: [newbie] TWIKI was: Really great site for how-to's and a lotmore

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Huff
How big is the twik site (data storage wise) ? Is it being backed up? It sure would suck to lose it... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: defragmentation]

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Huff
shrinking a partition, too. Even after defragging, mandrake said the partition was too fragmented to shrink... eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Huff
How do I make win2k default boot? (lilo) as root: edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the default line, then run lilo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: defragmentation]

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Huff
A few days ago I ordered Linux for PPC 9.1 and Norton's Utilities 8.0 My plan is to split the 40GB hard drive on my PowerBook G4 into equal partitions. You have no reason to defrag a linux file system. Send Norton back. I htink maybe he wants to dual boot with the mac os? Does

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Huff
this is Haywiremac (alias SchmoFill) Man, how many aliases does this guy have? :) There does exist the possibility that he has an infinite amount of aliases - and the probability that everyone on this list aside from me is actually he - is quite high. You've figured me out! Does

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
I just took a look at my filter logs, it is *filled* with these bloody SMS bounces! This has got to be stopped, but how? I have tried in the past to email the address listed in the welcome message, but get no response. Does anyone know a valid address to get in contact with a list admin

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: this is Haywiremac (alias SchmoFill) Man, how many aliases does this guy have? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
http://www.linuxlookup.com/ Now added to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences Anne Anne, thank you for being so diligent and adding stuff like this to the twiki. eric PS i plan to start helping, too, soon.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] List Probs

2003-08-25 Thread Eric Huff
ya, I know my posts tho are getting thru in many cases, because people are replying to them, but I never actually *see* my post weird... Check your filters. That could theoretically be the problem, but it is known that some posts don't make it to everyone. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] List Probs

2003-08-25 Thread Eric Huff
Anyone know the emoticon for the single finger peace sign? | / That's the best i can do... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Menu madness: apps stop launching; can't add apps

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
You could try running update-menus As for menudrake, if you run menudrake (can be done at cli) it is pretty straight forward to edit it. eric Why are app items in menus failing to launch apps? They launch okay from a terminal window. Should menus work the same in both KDE and Gnome

Re: [newbie] archive

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
It was a trick question, since there's three archives (that i know of ) for newbie alone! Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? In fact, now that I just looked, it's right up to date! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Am I reading this right? SCO running linux and apache. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sco.com Of course they are. They *own* it! :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
This is somewhat of a hijack, but could be useful for all of us who are suddenly nmapping: ~ $ nmap 127.0.0.1 snip 8081/tcp openblackice-icecap Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1 second [2]+ Exit 107perl popfile.pl .popfile.out

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Might I add that this was not always true. I still remember being flamed on this list three years ago for top posting. Is top posting when you write the new stuff on top, or leave the old messageon top? I get sick of scrolling down thru pages of unedited stuff to read a one line answer. But,

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Of course they are. They *own* it! :) Er don't you mean they *claim* to own it? Yeah, i forgot the (sarcasm) type cast... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
thing. Not sure why. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT hijacked: nmap and port crashing/id'ing Blockedports

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
nuke it. 8085/tcp openunknown This time, no guess as to the service eric more interesting man nmap info: - nmap should be run as root when- ever possible (not setuid root, of course). snip It should also be noted

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Damm, I just got the same thing, are our posts now going through Russia? I believe thats what the .ru is. From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such user (newbie). Maybe someone in russia that is a member of the list messed up a spam filter or something... Want to buy your

[newbie] dropped emails

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Wow, it is really bad today. Since people were talking about it, i have been watching one of the archives. Messages i did get don't show up there, even though newer ones do. One message i sent three times hasn't made it to the archive or to me. I think there may have been one that i saw on

Re: [newbie] How to remove header from printouts?

2003-08-23 Thread Eric Huff
Do you have cups runnin? http://localhost:631 It looks like if you go here http://localhost:631/printers/ and click configure, the banners at the bottom may be what you want. It's a weird list of banner titles... or maybe webmin would will do it: https://localhost:1/lpadmin/ Thanks for

Re: [newbie] dillo question

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Huff
link does not show up when you right click a link. You have to rmb somewhere else, and it will send the *current* url to a new browser. Is that the problem? eric Greetings, I have downloaded dillo-0.7.3-1mdk.i586.rpm from Todd @ clevername.homeip.net and installed on my Mdk 9.1 system. It works

Re: [newbie] POPFile plug

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Huff
.popfile.out 2.popfile.errors cd ~/ 3. in /home/huff/bin/popfile/popfile.cfg html_port 8081 pop3_port pop3_secure_port I just chose 8081 cuz it's different than the default (8080 i think) Where is some port 1024 4. Adjust your email program's pop3 port to eric Miark

Re: [newbie] Files disappear from CD

2003-08-21 Thread Eric Huff
Been intending to look at rox ever since you first mentioned it to me, months ago. When I tried it tonight, though, there were quite a few packages that it wanted to uninstall first. Do you have IceWM installed? Were the probs with the gtk packages? I always had that problem. Evidentily

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