On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:22, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > > With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-)
> >
> > Or the 720k drives.
>
> Weren't they the double-density ones? I seem to remember 360k in the heady
> d
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:20 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800
>
> Aron Smith disseminated the following:
> > Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-)
>
> If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing
> excrement in all directions...
A
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-04-01-014-26-OP-CY
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Want to buy your Pack or Service
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:51 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> >
> >
> > :-)
>
> Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun
> just has to be had.
Couldn't help it - the old Atarian in me just lives for any excuse to wave the
"Never Say DIe" banner of those who (still)
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote:
> Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right there, but then again we get
> trolls here
> occassionally.
>
> /Anders
I know. It just seemed to "coincidental"... :-)
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On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote:
> I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I
> can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks !
> And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP,
> which I have never used.
> Linux has no future !
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:21 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote:
> Does anyone know a good way to check for IRQ
> conflict or have any other suggestion a to why it crashes.
Hi Malcom. Just do a "cat /proc/interrupts" and you'll get the output that
should help you determine if there is an IRQ conflic
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:20 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
> anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ?
Aron, you've got PLF setup (both free and non-free) as sources, right? If not,
do it. Then just:
urpmi mplayer
urpmi mplayer-gui
and all the dependencies will be taken care of.
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On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> Did you create that "Linux Stuff" directory in Konqueror ?
> If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't
> like spaces in file names.
>
> You could try to rename that directory to i.e. "Linux_Stuff" or some
> such.
>
>
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in
> ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled
> with an rpmbuild command (also as user).
>
> Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> First you should be installing as a user not root.
Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the
right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm
group?), from my understandin
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:36 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
> personally I wish someone would port Redneck Rampage to linux
> It's stupid
> it's violent
> it's funny
> hit bubba with a crowbar to advance to the next level :-D
Sounds like its on a level with Postal. There is a linux demo for it. :-)
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On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find many
> interesting packages once I click on them and read the description. Right
> now, I've just passed the packages start with 'b', phew..!
> I'm now installing
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:36 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> et wrote:
> > snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD..
> > one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab.
> > (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend.
> > just type a letter hit tab, and see
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:04 pm, Mr. Geek wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> > Go on Ronald, admit it. That wasn't really a photo of your house was
> > it? 8-)
>
> It was probably the guest house.
Well, actually it was my house. I guess I should have stood at an angle and
got the mailbox (with my name on
On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:35 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 04:23, Julie Sloan wrote:
> > I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/
> > which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some
> > lurker doesn't, there's the link.
> >
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> You won't believe this :
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247
> I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet.
>
> Kaj Haulrich.
By the Gods, Kaj - don't give them ideas! :-)
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On Monday 14 March 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and
> > > you need it t
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and
> > > you need it t
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you
> need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH
libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk
k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk
k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk
Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the pa
On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> You know, I've found that "occasionally" something will monkey with fstab,
> and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in
> the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab
> as soon as I
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> OK - that's out, then. What about the fstab line? It feels a long time
> since I used a 2.4 kernel, so I may be remembering wrongly, but is the
> cdrom really scd1? I would go to MCC > Hardware > Mountpoints and check
> everything there -
On Friday 11 March 2005 05:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > > The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel.
> > > It has "hdc=ide-scsi&q
On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel.
> > It has "hdc=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I thin
Well, I had a fully working k3b setup until I had a major problem with my
/home directory (don't ask - long story) and reinstalled.
Anyways, k3b now errors whenever I try to burn a DVD. I've got a Plextor 708a,
with the following software versions running:
libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk
k3b-0.11.9-0
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I never noticed it with the older version of kmail, but now I'm seeing that
> some kmail users are displaying Mandrake's footer message in full and
> others have it as an attachment. I presume there's a setting somewhere for
> this? I'd rea
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:49 am, Philippe Landau wrote:
> > This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an
> > EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there.
> > Would you like to volunteer?
>
> unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated
> by pe
On Monday 07 March 2005 02:01 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> > Stephen Kühn wrote:
> > >On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > >>Here's to democracy, EU-style :
> > >>
> > >>http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En
> > >>
> > >>In short : Th
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Did you click the "Proceed to step2" button before selecting your sources?
Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple
times - shak
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at:
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter
how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always
displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste sect
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:00 am, Julie Sloan wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:30 am, riccardo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:19 am, Julie Sloan referred:
> > >> handy, to have entire duplicate system
> >
> > ~ for example . . . have cron daemon, once-a-week, run script :-
>
> Thanks
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:59 am, Julie Sloan wrote:
> > Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux?
>
> Linux was harder, no question about it.
Just shows how truly different peoples experiences can be. I started out in
computing in 1983 with an Atari 800Xl. Moved up to the Atari ST line around
1
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote:
> On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800
> >
> > Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If your laptop was "happily running 10" and an upgrade screwed it
> > > up, I don't feel sorry for yo
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:50 am, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> Spamc is just a wrapper for spamd, so spamd has to be up and running.
>
> But if you want real email filtering you really need to be running
> spamassassin with more than just the basic rules. That caused me to
> fetchmail/maildrop/spamas
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server
> > configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part.
> > The doc says that you need
On Thursday 24 February 2005 05:16 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> I would be very interested to know if you get a response before your
> new membership expires. Care to place a small wager?
>
> Lee
Hey Lee - haven't heard from you in a while! :-)
Now - about that bet... I actually like low risk, high
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> How about contacting the one person that can help? The webmaster of
> MandrakeClub.
Thought about that. :-)
Just thought I'd see if someone knew an easy way to do it from the website.
Thanks Greg.
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On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Okay, it gave me a whole new account, which is okay, but I'd really like to
have my original one.
I tried going into my info, but it won't let me change my nick there, so I
went to mandrake expert. According to the b
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:14 am, Gica Strimbu wrote:
> Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an
> emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding
> a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks
You could try Wine or Transgamings'
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Er, well my bad. It says that I've got 171 days left, but I have alumni
status? i thought alumni was a former club member who had let their
subscription run out?
Any info appreciated gang! Thanks.
Er... never mind - I just ch
Well guys, I don't understand something. I just rejoined the Club (I've been
in it for a few years now off and on, mostly on) via their recent 25% off
offer.
I used that offer, paid by credit card (paypal), and just logged back on to
see what was what.
Only to find that my total remaining days
On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:30 pm, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > MS at its finest again:
> >
> > http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html
>
> Didn't the US authorities do something because they cut out Netscape
MS at its finest again:
http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html
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On Friday 18 February 2005 07:12 am, Lanman wrote:
> Rob Blomquist wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 February 2005 5:39 am, Lanman wrote:
> >>The only 'bug' is that Konqueror stays open after the request has been
> >>passed to Firefox. Is there a way to prevent this? If I open hyperlinks
> >>in any other p
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put
> > that "4" there. It accesses the entire Zip cart.
>
> No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th
> partition on it. But the 4th par
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mike Adolf wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >>Mike Adolf wrote:
> >>>After I did as you suggested, messages contained:
> >>>
> >>>Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy dri
On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:55 am, Hugh Dixon wrote:
> Beware anyone not called Stephen?
>
> H
and paranoid, conspiracy theory types. :-)
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On Friday 11 February 2005 08:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
>
> Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http
> address? For instance, consider the following address:
>
> http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
> PS: Since I am a GMail user, ple
On Friday 11 February 2005 09:25 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > > > On Friday 11 February 20
On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > And once again
> > > >
> > > > * NO * politics or religion.
> > >
On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > And once again
> >
> > * NO * politics or religion.
> >
> > :-)
>
> Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here?
>
> Anne
Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-)
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On Monday 07 February 2005 08:19 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> I'll fiddle with it until I bork the box...;-)
>
> Kaj Haulrich.
"Box-borker"...hmm, I think you've just coined a new, politically (in)correct
label...
Seriously, I hope you get it fixed soon.
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On Monday 07 February 2005 07:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> When trying to open shockwave flash apps, I can get the movie but no
> sound. The error says :
>
> "There was an error loading the module Netscape plugin viewer.
> The diagnostics is:
> Library files for "libnsplugin.la" not found in paths
On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote:
> > On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system.
> > >
> > > Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tell
On Friday 04 February 2005 01:23 pm, Lanman wrote:
> Personally, if I had to use the FUBAR howto, I'd rather just re-install.
> It's less painful and allows me to get rid of unwanted stuff in the
> process. Of course, I back up my important stuff everyday, just like
> everyone else on this list, r
On Friday 04 February 2005 12:32 am, Aron Smith wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:33 pm, Lanman wrote:
> > Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has
> > some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and
> > applications. You might want to
On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:33 pm, Lanman wrote:
> Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has
> some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and
> applications. You might want to have a look. It seems to deal with
> Mandrake 10.0, but I susp
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:47:43 -0800
jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mandrake is not ready for Aunt Tilly. Although it does install and
> come up usable.
This may be true, but I would not know since I do not have an Aunt Tillie.
I did have a stepmother over 90 years of age who used Mandrake th
Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get
> "Environment variable TERM not defined!" So if I
> "TERM=vt100" and then "export TERM" all is well.
> Unless I close and open it again, that is.
>
> How do I make this change permanent without affecting
> ot
Dave Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with
> info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i
> supose it will be like going to school again
> dave..
>
How much memory do you have in your m
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:55 pm, Paul wrote:
> IP-forwarding the hard way, I guess ;-)
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Paul
I like your indomnitable spirit though! :-)
Seriously, find better mirrors, then try it again.
Patience may be required. I've had this same problem, then a day later, the
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:33 pm, Paul wrote:
> A lot has been said about urpmi already, these days, but still I dare
> ask: how do I update the urpmi database?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
If you have good reliable sources Paul, then usually:
(as root)
urpmi.update -a
works fine here.
HTHs.
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Thanks ... I knew it something obvious!
Adam
On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:05 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2005 00:00, J Latham wrote:
> > Hi all ...
> >
> > Just wondering how to go about turning off (or
> > changing) the default sounds in KDE. F
Hi all ...
Just wondering how to go about turning off (or
changing) the default sounds in KDE. For example, the
startup and exit music ...
I looked in System-Configuration-KDE and then the
various submenus but didn't see anything appropriate
... But perhaps I'm missing the obvious ...
Any/all
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses.
Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine.
Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux,
everything looks great.
I press ESC to see the verbose startup report (M
My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M
memory.
When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap space"
rule.
Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M.
How do I double the memory size for swap space?
Is there som
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Hi Tom.
>Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to
> limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very
> careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent
> file) by really clueless Win
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Any crash you walk away fromright? :-)
>
> Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be
> doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady
> in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you go
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote:
> /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to
> the completed file?
As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on
/home that it d/ls the file to.
I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> Just a guess : the message "bad info on file" + shorewall stopped
> could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other
> file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware,
> uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order t
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:30 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> What I would have done is to boot with the installation CD and do a
> "linux rescue" - then run the reiserfsck all ReiserFS partitions. I
> experienced something similar a few months back on a workstation here -
> bootup reiserfsck choked
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message
> say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set
> your firewall to open for torrents ?
>
> Kaj Haulrich.
It does, doesn't it? The error message was some
As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-(
I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error
message. I had to kill it via . Nothing seemed to come of
this for a few moments - then I started losing my system. I couldn't
right-click on the desktop and get a popup m
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:20:46 -0500
et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time,
> > maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power
> > supply and it cut off. Oh well, I think this one is beyond me.
> >
> > T
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote:
> > I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've
> > actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when
> > he knows you use Mandrake.
> >
> > Oh well,
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no
> video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be
> the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes.
You know, I'
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities
> ;-)
>
> Anne
Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws?
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On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote:
> I wish my mother in law used linux :)
I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon
with! :-)
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Hi All,
I'm trying to install MNF on my system.
It's booting up, and the it comes to:
Partition check:
hdc:
And that is where it stays. there is a white rectangular cursor
immediately after the colon, that blinks, and nothing else happens,
regardless of how long I leave it.
I have tried boot
Hi All,
Owing to a serious operator error yesterday (me doing something daft!),
I have had to reinstall.
Basically, I installed a VERY basic 10CE ( just IceWM), and urpmi'd up
to 10.1OE.
I'm still setting up, and as usual, I have no sound, and I went into
harddrake to set the c
Hi all,
I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my mailer these days, and as yet, I
cant fault it.
However, when I click on a link in a mail (usually for SpamCop), it used
to open up Mozilla as the browser, which on my modest specced machine,
slowed things down severely. I have since Uninstalled Mozil
Simon Roberts wrote:
in a terminal: cd to the directory that has your java install; change to the subdirectory
"bin"; type "./java -version"
If that doesn't run java and tell you stuff about it, it's either not
executable (which suggests you did the install wrong, or not as root perhaps)
or real
Edward Holcroft wrote:
As you can see I changed the reference in JAVA_HOME to point
to /usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_05/jre/bin/ instead of at the symbolic link
(/user/java/j2re1.4.2_05). This is probably not the most elegant solution and
I am not even sure why there were symbolic links used in the first p
Hi All,
I've just installed J2RE 1.4.2_06 on my machine.
Trouble is, I'm trying to install LimeWire (the P2P program), and I keep
getting told that there is no VM on my machine. Thats crap! I know
full well there is! :-)
Now, It's installed to /usr/java (where I always used to install it),
Benjamin Pflugmann writes:
> Another thing I would change is to avoid changing host.deny
> directly. You can make hosts.deny look into other files like this:
>
> sshd: /etc/host.deny.foo
>
This is a great idea, and thanks. I much prefer this.
Dave
_
Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, my little script is very quick and dirty but after about a week of
> being hit multiple times every night, I haven't yet found it parsing logs
> wrong on my system but that doesn't mean much beyond my system.
I just had some different text in mine
Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here is a script I wrote to work around SSH probes. It is NOT elegant, very
> quick and dirtyish but it does seem to work and it can be run from a cron
> job fairly often without problems.
>
Hi Bryan, pretty cool, the only thing I would suggest is usi
>Oh yes... Works so well we forget all about it
Mandrake has something going for it..
Try subbing to the Fedora mailing list. :-)
Lets just say you need bandwidth to cope with the sheer volume of mail from
people wanting assistance!
JRH
- Original Message -
From: "Richard Urwin
Continuing this Thread..
I have just been hit with a netsky laden email, and the from address was
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guess what? I have parsed the header, and it originates from tpg.com.au
I have sent the TPG abuse department a nice little email, along with a copy
of the headers, asking them
.
Every time I try to mail a Chinese ISP, I get "sorry, mailbox over quota"
Humph.
JRH
- Original Message -
From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail
> Fr
JoeHill wrote
Takes more time, but in the long run,
if everyone did this, well, it would totally destroy the cost/benefit ratio for
spammers.
I do this religiously, using SpamCop...
Trouble is, virtually all the pharmacy/porn sites are either on Brazilian or
Chinese servers. they have abuse ad
JoeHill wrote:
Actually, I've found several times that AVG catches malware that Norton doesn't,
and it's free, and got a *way* smaller footprint than Norton's bloatware.
I use Avast! antivirus for Windoze. seems to be quicker than AVG,
and it's free!
They also offer a version for Linux ser
On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> It was bound to happen, as it's being used for film and music sharing as
> well as legitimate uses. I can't see it succeeding in Europe, as it is
> just the agent, and it is the use that can be illegal. It would be like
> suing the Post
Danesh Daroui wrote:
I see... :-)
Well, I hope so, because Mandrake Linux is at least more userfriendly
with nice user interface. But you know, the problem is that I can not
update it at all. It always says that there is problem with contacting
mirror sites and last time it says that update agen
Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hi,
I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut
dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always
crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is
version 10 more stable ?
Thanks,
Danesh Daroui
Hi Danesh.
I c
Hi All,
Had a power failure, and now this:
execve failed for /etc/X11/x (errno2)
giving up
xinit: no such file or directory (errno2) unable to
connect to x server
xinit: no such process (errno3): server
error
Any ideas? I have tried to remove and reinstall
xfree, but it wont budge..
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:25 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is really got me into my nerve.
> I've made Firefox 1.0 as my default browser using KDE menu > File
> Association
>
> > txt > html, and use %U in the application command so that it can open url
>
> correctly from Kmail.
>
Hi,
Can somebody help me before I ditch Linux
altogether??
I have just installed 10.1CE, and it looks very
nice etc, but as usual, I am having trouble getting it onto the web with my
speedtouch USB ADSL modem.
Mandrake was fine up until 10OE, and it just
wouldnt work. I tried various m
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:43:44 +1100
Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> Well for one thing I would suggest that you not share /home as it provides
> plenty of possibilities for seeing problems arising from incompatible
> contents of hidden folders. That won't prevent it running, but i
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:24:15 -0600 (CST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Mikkel,
One more question please.
> >
> You can share /home, /boot, and swap between the two, as long as /boot is
> large enough for all the kernel versions you are using, along with the
> inital RAM disk inages. (It is h
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