I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in
Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be
able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever
file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to
reverse-engineer that file
- Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you
probably don't have one.
NETBIOS name to IP resolutin is (or can be) done by a WINS server (which
SAMBA will emulate, if you tell it to), or - optionally - from an
LMHOSTS files (not LMHOSTS.SAM - that's a SAMple file).
-
I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz
0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget
why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ...
which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng,
since many apps
clueless newbie wants to switch to KDE. I've got gnome running. How
do I
change it?
Can someone point me to the documentation?
If you have kde installed then just logout and click on kde and log
back in..thats it :-)
IF you log in graphically, yes. However, not everyone does login
It's not safe, and you NEVER should connect as root. For much the
same reasons you should NEVER use Windoze to connect at all. In both
situations, anybody has root capabilities
This is not 100% correct.
If you use Win9x/WinME, it is correct. All users have root privleges.
If you use
Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
name=YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr
followed by giberish. I tried to reply but it bounced. I am trying
again by removing the underscore. Could just be a spammer.
It's a Windows virus. The gibberish is the encoded virus executable
itself.
--
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want it that much there is a kernel on Mandrake Cooker version
2.4.13-2mdk in which supermount works. However I do not recommend it
since when I tried it my computer would hang on unloading usb drivers.
Compile USB core support directly into the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Read: THEIR standards.
Specifically, their use of VBScript, I believe. IE supports it; other
browsers don't (or don't support it well). So when they start getting
around to using VBScript to dynamically write the HTML part of the page,
other browsers (probably) won't
I have an Epson Photo Stylus 870, and I used to have a program that
performed the same duties as the command line escputil program that is
included with the gimp-print drivers for CUPS - it would show ink
levels, etc.
But escputil is a command line program, and this would show inklevels
From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The closing sentence of a San Francisco Chronicle writeup on the virus
said that server users should contact Microsoft for patches :).
It's yet another instance of the Outlook Virus Transmission software.
Not quite.
Nimda can and does propogate via
As far as what the activation process does, I'm just going on the
article I read a few weeks ago... Right or wrong when I read the
articly it was the last straw for me and I'm glad I've taken a step
away from the Microsoft universe.
Yeah, I'm not planning on running it at home, either - and none
I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access
is supposed to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this
You are offered the choice to register over the Internet, or read off
the code to MS over the phone, who will then read you out the activation
code, which you will
..There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking
a fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have
unique serial numbers and Win XP gathers them all up with your name and
address and sends them to Redmond, WA so you can get an unlocking code
in return
From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But if you're just an ordinary user who surfs the web, does word
processing, this kind of thing, you don't need Windows at all.
Ordinary (home) users usually want to surf and play games. Also
electronic banking/bill paying. I haven't seen a good Linux
When logged in as root everything works fine. I think the solution has
something to do with permissions but I've no clue how to fix it.
Had the same problem with my USB Epson.
Try doing (as root) a chmod a+r and a chmod a+w on the device that
the scanner uses. For me, that was
Does someone have any idea where I can find these libraries:
libSDL.so.0
I used the
libSDL1.2-1.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
libSDL1.2-devel-1.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
available from KDE's site. http://www.rpmfind.net should have them,
too.
libpcreposix.so.0
libpcre.so.0
libpcre0-3.4-4tex.i686.rpm
I'm running KDE 2.1.1 on 7.2 (I installed using the RPMs at kde.org, so
I have X 4.0.3-1; QT 2.3.0-2; and KDE 2.1.1).
I'd like to have a go at the new KDE 2.2, but I tried it once, and so
totally screwed my system, I had to reinstall from scratch (even GNOME
wouldn't load; when I screw things
Yes, I'm curious to. I suspect it was Code Red or some other
Windoze email worm embedded in the HTML that couldn't have caused any
Code Red is *NOT* an email worm, and has *NOTHING* to do with HTML.
It is an MS *SPECIFIC* infector, altho web servers on other OSes may
have problems, due to
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux has had IPv6 support for quite some time, and I beleive that
Win2K has it as well (because they stole the TCP/IP stack from
FreeBSD).
They did NOT steal it. The license ALLOWED them to use it. It was
perfectly legal, if a bit hypocritical.
--
I am always getting confused on this issue. In short:
Lin4Win - http://www.netraverse.com/
Lnx4Win - Tool to install Linux-Mandrake on a Windos partition
So I was right this time :-)
SO close! But the NeTraverse product is Win4Lin, not Lin4Win.
--
Netscape is a clone of Mozilla from way back.
Nope; Mozilla is the open source REWRITE of the original Netscape
Navigator code. And it's so much better now than the original code, that
Netscape has thrown away their old code, and used the Mozilla code.
In fact Mozilla is one of the grandaddys
Hi folks,
For years as President of the Queensland Internet Development
Society Inc. I trained people to turn off HTML in their Emails
and graphics in their Browsers.
Simple logic:
1. Only brochures (usually spam) come via HTML
Anyone wanting something more visually interesting than plain
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uli)
Subject: Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?
I have got wine from www.codeweavers.com, I think it's different from
Mandrake's wine. I start winword and other windows-progs by wine winfile in
a KDE-konsole. Then I start the windows application by
/dev/hdb6 15G 9.5G 5.5G 63% /mnt/f
Trying to open MFT
/dev/hda5 2.0G 1.7G 267M 87% /mnt/nt
Notice the Trying to open MFT sandwiched in the middle?
What does it mean? Is it important or a warning or something?
MFT = Master File Table; it's an MS thing. Is that
These lists are also heavily censored. I was once having a look at some
messages in an Intel newsgroup when the topic of overclocking was raised.
Intel eventually filtered out all messages with mentions of overclocking.
I'm
sure Microsoft would act in a similar way in similar circumstances.
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??
or you haven't explained it well enough. You should feel lucky that you have
this kind of free community-based support -- you'll never have it in the M$
world. There, you'll have to pay through
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] moving drives
While it's possible in some cases to run windoze on a partition
other than hda1, it's certainly not the norm,
True.
and almost always won't work. Windoze won't tolerate it,
Not (quite) true.
You can do this
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Install error
On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:15 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any
(functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason
something (in Windows)
Here is my comp : Motherboard Soyo 7vca , video geforce 2mx , ram 128mb ,
cpu intel pentium 733 , windows Windows 2000 Pro .
I have 2 hdd's and the first is partitioned into 2 . Both are 20,5 hdds.
C: SYSTEM (this is the first partition on my 20,5 hdd , there is win2kpro)
D: ARCHIVE
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:45, Solver wrote:
As for the permissions, no offence taken. But, you'll be very
surprised to know that I am a sysadmin. Additionally, I often repair
stand alone PCs. My network currently runs W2K, which I hate for
everything except the increased security, but I'll
Here a link for ya'.
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
-s
On Saturday 26 May 2001 07:10 pm, you wrote:
Hi there,
I recently upgraded my Linux system to Mandrake 8.0 and boy it works
like a charm. I went on the web site called www.linux-usb.org and it
mentioned that my scanner
type at a terminal
wine --managed /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Microsoft\
Office/Office/winword.exe
or whatever your program path is
This might work, if you've got a Windows partition. If not (I don't, for
example), you'd have to run the Word setup under WINE to try and install
Word onto
Anybody know what Ximian's plans for releasing the
official Gnome 1.4 via Red Carpet are? It's been out for a couple of weeks, but
there's no mention of a target date of it becoming available via Red Carpet yet,
on Ximian's site. RC is still listing the beta version of 1.4.
Hello all.
I'm using KDE 2.1, on XFree86 4.0.1. I want to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1,
from
sunsite.uio.no/pub/kde/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS.
I realize I need all the k*.rpms (well, not all the other languages),
and all the qt*.rpms. BUT .. are the XFree86 updates actually
THINGS I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IN LINUX (Can linux do it?)
Be able to use WINE with all the trimmings (including full 3d rendering).
I've never gotten WINE to work with anything useful, and I seriously doubt
it will do 3D rendering. By useful, I mean Word, Photoshop, IE, etc.
The customized
Original Message -
From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) I notice that you have selected /dev/ttySO. Are you sure. That's
usually reserved for the mouse.
Not really. /dev/ttyS0 (note: that's a zero, not an O) is equivalent to
COM1: in Windows. If you have a PS/2 style mouse (as
- Original Message -
From: "abe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:55 AM
Subject: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration
Does this work? Any body have this working on their machines? I
reinstalled to convert to ReiserFS
Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
the truth is that unsolicited e-mail IS Spam
Uhmmm ... no. Spam is unsolicited COMMERCIAL email (UCE). Auto-replies
are not spam; they are not (by definition) commercial - in the sense of
"commercial solititation".
Still ... he could certainly have phrased his
I will add only one thing. Worms are not written in C, particularly the
windoze versions. The difference between a virus and a worm is this:
A virus has a "leg" to stand-on, self-executing. A worm do not, it needs
to use the programming language of the host system. Javascripts and
Visual
From: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] eh?
I must confess to being an absolute 'newbie' on Linux. I have managed
to
install lm7.2 correctly. all my devices see to be working ok except my
usb
On 10 Feb 2001 05:11:13 -0800, wrote:
When you re-compile you'll need to 'make mrproper' before 'make
xconfig' and edit the Makefile to at least uncomment the line
export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
No, you don't have to do "make mrproper" before you re-compile a kernel.
This will also
Can anyone tell me how to get my sound blaster x-gamer running?
I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed and have tried many online tutorials
on
how to get a SB live running and have had no luck.
LM knows it's there but when I try hard drake it errors out.
I would like to upgrade the kernel to
I have a pci Sound Blaster Live and /usr/sbin/sndconfig did mine! Sounds
great too with my Altec Lansing speakers. It sounds as good as it does
under
windows with Creatives' bloated drivers and software.
Well no, the Linux version does not really sound as good (IMO). Mostly
because I
On 16 Jan 2001 10:25:03 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 03:20 am, s wrote:
I hope it wouldn't be too rude of me to ask that the people posting
especially with MS Outlook Express to turn off their HTML. Most ngs
and mailing lists don't like it for security reasons and
On 16 Jan 2001 19:27:42 +, GrUnTiE GoOdInE wrote:
Just wondering if anyone can point me two a web page that lists Linux
Compatable modems??
Any external modem. Any modem that does NOT say WinModem is pretty much
guaranteed to work. if it is a winmodem,try http://www.linmodems.org.
On 17 Jan 2001 00:12:24 +0200, Leonidas Papadopoulos wrote:
In my business, i have a server with Novell, and 2 computers running Windows
98, and pluged with the server.
Can i replace Novell with Samba(Linux)?
Samba imitates a Windows server, not a Netware server. Use the mars-nwe
software to
On 16 Jan 2001 20:47:09 -0500, Dan LaBine wrote:
Actually, unless you are stuck with Novell for some specific requirement,
No, I don't think so.
I'd lose the SFTIII (mirrored failover servers); I'd lose the Zen (that
software install from server is NICE); the directory support is not
nearly as
On 14 Jan 2001 13:40:31 -0500, Jeff Norris wrote:
Ditto on the U.S. Robotics modem, 7.2 on the Linux.
ALWAYS get an external modem. Pay the extra money, and avoid all those
potential problems about WinModems, IRQ conflicts, etc.
I like USR and Zoom modems, myself.
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