RE: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Johnson
check freshmeat.net or sourceforget.net... I think there is a nice one called Dia... -Original Message- From: Søren Neigaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] UML diagram tool for Linux Anybody know a

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Business Survey

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Johnson
I haven't check out the survey yet, so I might be putting my foot in my mouth, but I'm not sure it's clear how to make linux or for that matter Mandrake Linux more than just a hobbist platform/OS. You often hear Linux has proven itself in the (web) server market but this is a misleading

RE: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome

2001-11-13 Thread Mark Johnson
is it possible to take a screen shot using a command line utility? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13

RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-10-31 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't think you have to spend another $300 to move XP to another machine. I think you have to tell MS that you are moving it to another peice of hardware (or significantly upgrading the hardware) and they will deactivate the old hardware profile and reactivate the new profile -- for free. You

RE: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't think the outcome will be like that, I think the outcome would be a lot of pissed of IE users who will have nothing but bad things to say about your website and about our FSF/GNU/Linux community. I tend to agree with the guy that said you should make your web site browser friendly for

RE: [newbie] Installing Program Into Home Directory

2001-10-29 Thread Mark Johnson
edit your PATH variable and that should solve your problem. Check your /etc/profile and append the OO path to the PATH directory. something like: # /etc/profile # PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/OO/bin But I don't know what the actual OO path would be -Original

RE: [newbie] fromdos and todos

2001-10-29 Thread Mark Johnson
I would also think that you could go find the source code to the debian fromdos and todos and compile it for mandrake (I can't imagine and debian specific code required for that type of utility)... but, perl and sed is always an option... There is also unixtodos and dostounix that you might look

RE: [newbie] Suggestion to Mandrake

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Johnson
I agree 10,000% - I've been saying this for about a year now (since being heavily involved with linux). The typcial response to this is hey, it's open source, you should participate in the testing and give your feedback to Mandrake which is great, but like you I would like to see more formal

[newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm trying to write a bash script to install some files but it must be run as root. Is there a way that I can get my script to check to see if it has root priviledges and if not exit out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] attachments in every message??

2001-10-03 Thread Mark Johnson
yup. it sucks don't it... -Original Message- From: Carl Lafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] attachments in every message?? I recently signed back up to the expert and newbie lists for mandrake

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Agreed. You know it's amazing how many times we assume the worse in others when rarely it is ever the case that there was any harm intended. There are only a few people out there in the world that really enjoy making others miserable or really get their kicks by controlling others. The majority

RE: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Johnson
I was thinking a variation of this would be to track the ipaddress of my ISPs subnet and every night autodispatch an email to the support desk asking the ISP to contact those people affected by the virus... I wonder if it would have any effect? I wonder if this is something you could take up the

RE: [newbie] Samba Clients Passwords

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Johnson
Are you using Win95 or '98... if you are you have to set it up so that you enable logins on the Windows machine because if you don't it'll try to login to samba with an invalid user name. It's in the Samba docs, it just not real obvious - this is such a common problem I don't understand why they

[newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-21 Thread Mark Johnson
You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are affecting me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my weblogs. I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response time and connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully

RE: [newbie] SQL database for patient information

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
Hmm, I would doubt that you could find a generic application that you could for your purposes. Of course you could find something that was close and extend it to suite your needs but I would think the time and effort of understanding how the application was constructed and applying your

Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
This is not a gripe, just an observation, but it seems like for most people (including me) their linux system is usually in a constant state of broken-ness, or in some way always marginally handicapped. Why is that? I realize that software is difficult to write just in general and operating

RE: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Rymshaw Subject: Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome? On Tuesday 18 September 2001 17:16, Peter Rymshaw wrote: (..snip..) That's not

RE: [newbie] incoming telnet connection

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
you ought to use ssh (daemon is sshd) instead of telnet; however, i don't know off hand what port that is. Either way you'll need to open a port on your firewall if you have one, if you don't have you, your full open already... If you want to go the telnet route open port 23... -Original

RE: Polite software (was RE: [newbie] Is this a joke?)

2001-09-19 Thread Mark Johnson
to this type of framework would be effective. Would people pay to subscribe to a automatic trouble shooting repository. I'm guessing not... -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Johnson; '[EMAIL

[newbie] Telnet proxy for Windows; a Linux VPN work around?

2001-09-17 Thread Mark Johnson
One of the last reasons that I can't completely go 100% linux is that I must VPN in to work from home, and I cannot for the life of me get VPN on linux to work. So I had this bright(?) idea - if I could run a telnet proxy and start up the VPN client on my windows box then I should be able to

Branding (was RE: [newbie] Open source hits back?)

2001-09-11 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm a little late on this thread but I read the article Should Linux Start Playing Dirty? and when I suddenly read this sentence: This Web page can only be viewed using Linux I started thinking, what do you think of when you think Windows? I think Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Office.

RE: [newbie] Linksys router.

2001-09-10 Thread Mark Johnson
hmm... all I can tell you is first make sure that the machine is setup for DHCP. If it is, then remove the router from between the machine and the internet and see if you can get an ip address that way. If all else fails give the machine an ip address and tell it were the router is that

RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched. Both (K/G) are highly

[newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm not sure I truly understand the advantages of all these different flavors of linux. I understand that Debian is the super secure, and Mandrake is the super friendly, and Redhat is enterprise oriented. But what I find is that flavors mean non-standard directories and other nuances. The only

RE: [newbie] paste in console?

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Johnson
does the LSB address issues like this or is do they only concern themselves with directory structures? -Original Message- From: Matt Greer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] paste in console? on

RE: [newbie] keyboarding

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Johnson
check some of these out: http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeatq=typing+tutorsection=projects -Original Message- From: James S Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] keyboarding This year, at our

[newbie] How to cope with bad RAM

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
After running some memory tests on my RAM I have discovered that it had some bad parts, is there a way I can tell linux not to access those bad sections because right now things will spontanteously crash... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Mac OS X and display managers

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
My wife went out and bought OS X but I really don't know a thing about Macs or OS X. But I do know that OS X is running on some version of the BSD kernel. If that's the case does anyone know if it would be possible to: 1) access the linux desktop from the mac? 2) access the mac desktop from

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you can get a 256MB for about $33 now... This is a mom and pop shop down the street where I always buy my computer stuff... http://www.microchipcomputers.com/ -Original Message- From: Arthur H. Johnson II

RE: [newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Someone probably knows better than me, but if firewalls and VPNs do not get in your way you might be able to mount a share drive via Samba or NFS depending on your particulars. To mount with Samba from a linux machine to a windows machine: root@morpheus {/home/mjohnson} $ mount -t smbfs -o

[newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually

RE: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
use FTP in ASCII mode... it'll auto correct linux to dos and dos to linux for ya... Also, check freshmeat.net, they probably have a dos2unix/unix2dos utilities for linux. Solaris comes with this utility... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-08-30 Thread Mark Johnson
The Doorman kept crashing when I tried to upgrade the 1.4 I'm running Mandrake 8.0. Don't suppose anyone has any suggestions as to why it would be crashing. It crashes everyime it tries to apply my preferences... -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[newbie] Ximian mines for gold in Linux desktops

2001-08-29 Thread Mark Johnson
Just FYI... http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096249,00.html If you can afford it and it suites your needs I would encourage you to support Ximian and purchase their products. It would be a shame to see them go under like Ezeal... Think of it as a donation?!? However, it seems

RE: [newbie] Linux VPN?

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Johnson
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux VPN? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 August 2001 09:03 am, thus spake Mark Johnson: Isn't freeswan and poptop server side VPN? What I need (and I think

RE: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
This isn't really on topic here, but does anyone know of any sites the compare what UI aspects of Microsoft are poor in relation to Mac (and for that matter KDE and GNOME). I always hear the Mac's UI is superior than MS, but to tell you the truth, I've never heard that claim backed up. It's very

RE: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
Yup, I aggree... and this is also true of other scripting languages like PHP and PERL... but maybe I'm just being too much of a purist. I think you also have to understand that a lot of so called crappy programmers never had anyone show them how to write code so it's not their fault. My wife is

RE: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
FWIW: WNT is one letter away from VMS coincidence? -Original Message- From: Jim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

RE: [newbie] almost got it!

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I struggled with the premature end of script headers for 3 days, I figured out the the cgi stuff was being run under suexec, if you rename suexec to say suexec.sav then restart apache this should get rid of your problem. Addmittedly, this is not the correct solution, but I don't know how to get

[newbie] RE: Usability in linux

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Usability in linux (was RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to Why can't programmers put informational error messages in there

[newbie] anybody use jed?

2001-08-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm trying to use jed with brief emulation. I added this to my .jedrc file: () = evalfile (brief); but it doesn't seem to take... any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Johnson
Can someone help me with this error? It seems like every installation of linux is unique. I've got 4 machines with MySQL and each one has it's own special MySQL problems all machines were installed from the Mandrake 8.0 cd arrrgh [mjohnson@ripley mjohnson]$ su Password:

RE: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Johnson
and http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/u/Automatic_start.html cheers! -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:12 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/ var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

RE: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Charles Punch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?! manuels would have aquired. It would seem to me, that if someone

[newbie] How do you uninstall something?

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Here at work we have 3 linux machines. I was trying to do something with php and mysql. Php installed fine on 2 of the machines but on the third I couldn't get the php-mysql rpm to install. It turns out someone installed v11 of mysql on the 3rd machine (whereas the first two are running v10).

[newbie] php and apache

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Johnson
Ok, i installed php ( rpm -ivh php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm ) and created an index.php and when I try to hit it, the web browser prompts me as if I was tryint to download a file. In my httpd.conf I have: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi Default.htm

[newbie] Apache won't execute scripts in /home/~mjohnson/cgi-bin

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Johnson
I have scoured the internet for help on this is it's all the same: make sure your permissions are correct on your cgi-bin dir and your script or make sure your a outputing the correct headers It's like only 3 people in the entire universe has had this problem and

failed to open log file Premature end o f script headers (was RE: [newbie] Apache won't execute scripts in /home/~mjohnson/cgi-bin)

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Johnson
/~mjohnson/cgi-bin -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 August 2001 08:46, thus spake Mark Johnson: This makes the http://tux/~mjohnson work fine, but if I try to do something like, http://tux/~mjohnson/cgi-bin/myscript.pl it just dumps the code to the browser

RE: [newbie] Samba problem!

2001-07-13 Thread Mark Johnson
Just look at the /etc/smb.conf file it's got a ton of examples and get your company to go buy you Using Samba (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924495/qid=995029338/sr=2-1/ref= aps_sr_b_1_1/103-6289178-7490252) it is definitely worth the $30. If they don't buy it for you, go buy it for

[newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)

2001-07-12 Thread Mark Johnson
I heard recently (from my wife, can't confirm the specifics) that MS is suing a very poor public school in Philadelphia for making copies of Windows for its students to run in its classrooms. It seems that for such a school (and really any school) that linux would be just a perfect fit.

[newbie] Question about virtual web stes and DNS

2001-07-10 Thread Mark Johnson
I setup up some virtual web sites on my machine at home port forwarded 80 and tested the virtual web sites at home from work. It worked great, only I had to map the web sites in my local hosts file at work. How would this work if you had a domain name? Let's say that I had a domain name:

RE: [newbie] Unix multi-user capabilities: how to use them

2001-07-03 Thread Mark Johnson
I think on the 333 you can type: xhost + ... then on your 486 you can telnet into the 333 and run Xwindow apps via telnet... -Original Message- From: Olaf Marzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Unix

[newbie] sshd caused SLOW internet...?

2001-07-03 Thread Mark Johnson
I just did a fresh expert install and noticed that when doing FTP to either a machine on my LAN or on the internet doing an ls or a get would just hang for what seemed like forever before returning a response. I aslo noticed that connecting to Samba shares took forever too. And doing a ping to

[newbie] how does the rc#.d work

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Johnson
Am I right to assume that based on the run level that you set in your inittab that that determines what series of rc.d scripts will get run? For example, if I have my run level set to 3 (non-graphical login), then the scripts in rc3.d will get ran, if I have it set to 5 (XWindows) then rc5.d

RE: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Johnson
I try really, really hard to do things under my account but inevitably I have su'd to root within 3 to 5 minutes... I think it's just a problem with me not knowing how to setup my access properly. -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001

[newbie] How come the mouse wigs out during install

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Johnson
Have y'all ever noticed that when you are setting up the wheel mouse during the install and disappears off the screen for about 60 seconds, during which time you have to kind move the mouse around till it shows back up?

RE: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm spending most of my time installing the system, installing RPMs, and configuring files I can't figure out how to install an RPM as myself, is that possible? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] curious ....

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Johnson
In short, I agreee. -Original Message- From: PENA FAMILY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] curious I enjoy Linux and I have spent hours learning and playing with it, but frankly and with all due

RE: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel

2001-06-25 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Michel Clasquin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel Hmm, that's a funny name for a thread ... On Monday 25 June 2001 16:51, Mark Johnson wrote

RE: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Johnson
rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2001 12:28 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:22:33 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote

RE: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake

2001-06-20 Thread Mark Johnson
What are the the differences betw. Mandrake and RedHat... any sigificant differences? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:46 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001

RE: [newbie] Backup/Upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Mark Johnson
I second this, having a spare hard drive in removeable bays is the way to go -Original Message- From: poogle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Backup/Upgrade On Monday 18 June 2001 19:45, you wrote:

[newbie] How to edit modules.conf

2001-06-19 Thread Mark Johnson
I read the man page on modules.conf and I understand in theory what to do with it, but I don't understand how I know what to enter. For example, I needed to activate appletalk and so the entry is: alias net-pf-5 appletalk But how does one know that you need to add 'net-pf-5' for the alias

[newbie] OT: anybody ever built a custom rack chassis

2001-06-19 Thread Mark Johnson
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I was wondering if anyone has attempted to build a custom chasis for their linux machine. I want to put mine in a rack, but rack chassis are too expensive. I thought about going to the local hardware store and buying some aluminum strips plexiglass to build my

[newbie] Netatalk+asun for Mandrake

2001-06-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I went to rpmfind.net to try to determine which RPM to download for Mandrake for netatalk+asun, and I didn't quite understand how to figure out which one to down load. I didn't see any that were netatalk+asun for Mandrake. And what looked like the ones for Mandrake were all 1.5pre. Mandrakes

RE: [newbie] Samba ....

2001-06-17 Thread Mark Johnson
Also, I've found that you need to set the WORKGROUP in the smb.conf to the right name or else it won't show up in your network neighborhood. -Original Message- From: Michael D. Viron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 3:35 PM To: Tuan Duc Tran; Newbie Subject: Re:

[newbie] Recompiling the kernel

2001-06-17 Thread Mark Johnson
I have installed 8.0 and everything was fine. I went to rebuild the kernel to add appletalk to it. I created a bzdisk and tried to boot from that and now the eth0 and some other things fail to come up. Appletalk protocol was the only thing i changed. I reinstalled the OS and them just did a

RE: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Johnson
I think we forget that Linux is not a commercial product and Windows is -- consequently, there are different priorities. So it's really a hard to make comparisons. Windows listens instently to what users want as well as tries very very hard to predict what users want (for good and bad).

RE: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Johnson
You know another thing that I find a bit irritating is that sometimes the linux folks will ignore an actually good innoviation because it came from MS instead of just accepting that, hey, that was a pretty neat idea. And instead, they will try do think up a variation that doesn't quite work...

RE: [newbie] Mysql! How do I set the root password from a base install?

2001-06-07 Thread Mark Johnson
http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/e/Default_privileges.html shell mysql -u root mysql mysql UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new_password') WHERE user='root'; mysql FLUSH PRIVILEGES; -Original Message- From: h3rb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:00 AM

[newbie] wanting to upgrade my system, looking for recommended online stores

2001-06-06 Thread Mark Johnson
I would like to update my system but the stores around town don't seem to carry what I'm looking for. I have never bought computer stuff online and I'm relunctant to do that since I've heard so many horror stories. Can anyone recommend a trustworthly online computer store for buying

RE: [newbie] Running two DNS on network

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Johnson
I've already got permission from the IT group. I should have mentioned that originally in my post. I'm just trying to figure out if it's feasible. -Original Message- From: Jeanette Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:23 PM To: Mark Johnson; LinuxNewbie (E-mail

[newbie] apache php

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Sorry, this is probably a really newbie question. It doesn't appear that I have PHP enabled for apache. Is there a way that I can check to see if Apache is compiled with PHP support or is there a flag that I can pass it to enable php? I'd like to avoid recompiling this kind of stuff because it

[newbie] Running two DNS on network

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Is it possible to run a local DNS on my linux machine at work in addition to the corporate DNS? What I think I want to do is setup my own DNS so that I can resolve names without having to bother the IT group. For example, what I would like to do is on my windows machine setup the secondary DNS

[newbie] KVM switches

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Johnson
Could anyone recommend a good 2/4 port KVM switch?

[newbie] Linux Certification

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Johnson
I was thinking about going for my linux certification because I figured that would allow me to really learn linux and be systematically taught by some people that really understand the system. But perhaps I'm begin naive. Any thoughts about the value of linux certification?

[newbie] Deciding whether to buy Mandrake 7.2 Professional

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Johnson
Is there any real advantage to buying the professional version of Mandrake. My wifes company asked me to help them install linux. I said I would prefer to install Mandrake since I'm most familiar with it but we are trying to decide between Mandrake and Redhat Any suggestions? Is the

[newbie] Single user login

2001-05-22 Thread Mark Johnson
Somehow I accidently enabled the single user mode which logs my username directly into Enlightenment for some reason at boot up. How to I put things back into multi-user mode.

[newbie] Accessing Linux shares from a Mac

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Johnson
Is it possible to setup shares such that both Windows and Mac machines can access them. Can SAMBA work for both OSs? I need a solution because my office is half Windows 98 and half Mac 9.0 and currently the file server is a Mac using PCMacLAN. We won't to move the shares onto a linux machine

[newbie] Confused about procmail, sendmail, and postfix

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm confused about the relationships between procmail, sendmail, and postfix. Sendmail is an SMTP agent for sending mail while procmail is a mail filter which filters incoming and outgoing mail, however, postfix is the actual mail daemon that allows you to check mail via POP3 and allows you to

[newbie] How to setup paths so that cron will operate properly

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Johnson
I keep running into cron problems because it can't load the correct libraries, for example: Your cron job on neutron /home/mjohnson/source/LabelMaker/Client/lmclient labels.txt produced the following output: ld.so.1: /home/mjohnson/source/LabelMaker/Client/lmclient: fatal:

[newbie] How to configure linux to retrieve email from ISP

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Johnson
Is there a way that I can configure linux (daemon) to retrieve mail from for the all users on the machine from their ISP so that the just have to point their email client to the linux box instead of the ISP.

[newbie] Redhat vs Mandrake

2001-05-09 Thread Mark Johnson
My wife's company has asked me about installing a linux server to relay mail within their local LAN and also out to their ISP. They'd like to run apache and mySQL. They wanted to know whether they should install RedHat or Mandrake. I'm not sure how to answer them why would one be better

RE: [newbie]

2001-05-03 Thread Mark Johnson
i've noticed that when I do a regular install telnetd doesn't get installed by default. Usually if your try telenting to your box you'll get a connection refused. I have always attempted the telneting from another box on so I'm not sure what would happen if you didn't have telentd running and

[newbie] [OT] Question about HUBs

2001-05-02 Thread Mark Johnson
Sorry for the off-topic message, but I figured y'all would know this off the bat. If I have an 8 port hub that doesn't have an WAN or Uplink port and I want to connect it another hub ( a LinkSys Router actually ), do I just need to connect, for example, port 1 on the LinkSys to port 1 on the

RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will.

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 2:05 PM To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com Subject: RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will. I am not sure I understand this,,, If what I understand is right, its

RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will.

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Johnson
But isn't the MS whole plot is to have you rent or lease software from the .NET and ASPs. What they seem to be doing is making harder and harder for someone to buy and install software on their own machine. They don't want anyone to control the software and the PC. I would not doubt that in a

[newbie] Intelligent Installs: a suggestion to Mandrake

2001-04-16 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm posting this here initially because this suggestion might be a bit naive and I don't specifically want to bother Mandrake if it is; I'd rather bother you folks :P I installed 8.0 last night, and as per many suggestions in the past I didn't to an upgrade I just did a full blown re-install

[newbie] PDF to ASCII test utility

2001-04-03 Thread Mark Johnson
does anyone know if there is a linux utility that will convert PDF to a plain ol' text file?

[newbie] Confused about the differences between RedHat and Mandrake

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
I thought that Mandrake was an optimized version of Redhat. Which encompassed the removal of legacy code for pre-Pentium machines? Is that right? What are the side effects effects of this optimatization? The reason I'm asking I'm starting to get intersted in embedded linux and it looks like

RE: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't know of any... You might check around http://www.freshmeat.net, this would be really cool. -Original Message- From: marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux Tax Software? Dear All, It is tax time and I

A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?)

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
This got me to thinking. I really like the idea of open source, however, it confounds me on it's viability. I think it's really admirable that so many programmers donate their time to the whole GNU/FSF movement. I cannot believe the effort put into things like KDevelop which is offered free to

RE: [newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
do you mean you CAN ping your win95 box from your linux box using the IP address of the win95 box, but you *CAN'T* ping your win95 box from your linux box using the name of the win95 box? If this is what you mean, the problem is probably because you don't have a DNS to resolve the local names.

[newbie] IR comm ports?

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
Does anyone know if it's possible to get an IR com port card for my motherboard for use with PDAs that can sync via IR?

[newbie] Anybody using a PDA w/ Linux?

2001-03-30 Thread Mark Johnson
In a couple of months I plan to get a PDA. I keep flip flopping between the Palm and the Visor and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I saw that the iPAQ could run linux, but i think once you get linux on it you can't restore the device to it's original OS state, which kind of sucks

RE: [newbie] Anybody using a PDA w/ Linux?

2001-03-30 Thread Mark Johnson
Yes, this looks promising. The thing I don't like about Palm, Visor, et al. is that they are glorified organizers. I want a general purpose computing device. BTW, do you have any idea if Midori (http://midori.transmeta.com) would fit in with the Agenda VR3? -Original Message- From: s

RE: [newbie] Linux is draggin' A$$

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Johnson
Is this actually the cannoncial way of setting up your machine: ... and add an entry for it in /etc/hosts, etc. to add the machine name to your hosts file? I'm just asking because I did that, but I just did it as a last resort. I didn't know you *had* to do that and I was thinking I was just

[newbie] traceroute for linux

2001-03-24 Thread Mark Johnson
it looks like mandrake didn't come with traceroute, it that true aor am i just not looking for the write file Anyway, I tried to find one on freshmeat but they don't have a plain vanilla traceroute. Any suggestions? I'm off to look on rpmfind now...

RE: [newbie] traceroute for linux

2001-03-24 Thread Mark Johnson
never mind! I tried doing a find / -name trace* but didn't turn up but I found it under /usr/sbin jus the same... grrr -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:19 AM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: [newbie] traceroute for linux it looks like

RE: [newbie] samba and win2000

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Johnson
You need to make a simple registry change. Do a search for samba.reg. After you install the .reg file you need to reboot. I forget the actual entry, it's something like SendClearTextPasswords=YES... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

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