[newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-28 Thread J. David Boyd
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

[newbie] Re: re konqueror

2005-01-25 Thread J. David Boyd
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

[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread J. David Boyd
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

[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread J. David Boyd
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

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-22 Thread J. David Boyd
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 _

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-21 Thread J. David Boyd
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

[newbie] Re: FYI - ssh security

2004-12-21 Thread J. David Boyd
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

[newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-12 Thread J. David Boyd
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing > Queen' and the like. Is this safe? The more important question would be "is it legal"? If you are speaking of going to one of the commercial download services, and purchasing copies o

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:41 am, J. David Boyd wrote: > > "Paul Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Hi all: > > > > > > > >Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am goi

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread J. David Boyd
"Paul Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >Hi all: > > > >Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS > >reader. > > > >I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before > >making a decision. Any suggestion? > > > > I've stopped using Evolu

[newbie] Re: Telnet

2004-10-12 Thread J. David Boyd
"Elliot Somers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am new to linux, I need to telnet into the server at school. Can someone > tell me if I need a seperate telnet client or what commands might one use to > telnet? > You use the 'telnet' command. You also need the address to telnet to, then you