RE: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files

2003-03-14 Thread Robert Wideman
There are a few howto's on the net but usually it is impossible to do. You have to generally know the area (inodes) on the HD that the files were on and you read a hex dump of those inodes to verify and then you cat that information to a file that you want to save it in. I have read a few howtos

RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
I would personally install qmail. http://www.qmail.org/top.html Its secure, 10k reward for first problem on it. Also its supposed to be super easy to setup. Sendmail is known as the largest damn program on the face of the earth. But other than that i would use sendmail. I know i am going to have

RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
The SENDMAIL package for MDK is only, ONLY 618k - wow - monstrously huge, ay? Actually, it's relatively simple - just a matter of following the defaults, but then again, someone that lives on Postfix will say the same thing...ditto on Qmail and every other mail package down the line (except,

RE: [newbie] Updating GTK

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Wideman
is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake 8.2-system, the thing is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although timewise I would have the time to fix that. This is a thing where I find the RPM-system inferior to for example FreeBSD's portsystem. OMG,

[newbie] vmware 3.2 w/ all scsi system

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Wideman
I have installed vmware 3.2 onto my all scsi system: p3-450mhz 512mb ram 2940u2w scsi card ibm 18g scsi HD pioneer scsi dvdrom I ran the vmware-config.pl script and it seemed to get me going. I created a new vm w/ 176mb ram and 4g space. The HD was setup ok inside the VM, but the cdrom was set

RE: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important for ogle, xine, and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. Go to http://rpm.pbone.net/ and get it there. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit

RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob PS-The link for the ad on

RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses the Linux kernel to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is because Linux did

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] USB hard drives? On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux

RE: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
The original posters problem might stem from not being 128-bit ecryption installed. I had the same problem the first time i tried linux and a secure site. Personally i have tried and tested Mozilla/Galeon with different websites. I have not had a problem with Galeon anywhere, even bank accounts.

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC Bios and it has USB support to boot from USB Mass Storage Devices such as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip. Find out more here: http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Want to

RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison.

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Wideman
If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux

[newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it

RE: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD movies On

[newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read

2003-03-06 Thread Robert Wideman
is sober. The moral of these true stories is I do not care if you drink...but give up your keys if you drove. Be responsible, be an adult. If you drink you take on these responsibilities automatically. Robert Wideman PS-Please pass this on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

RE: [newbie] how to list sources for urpmi

2003-03-05 Thread Robert Wideman
man urpmi. man 8 urpmi.update. I cant see where to output the list of sources to read. Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. See the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file to see the media sites/locations. Or just check the Sources Manager and

RE: [newbie] user mode linux question

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
Are you talking about a chroot environment? Have you used UML? It sure doesnt sound like it. Its a virtual machine (OS) inside file. Just like VMWare but better (depending on what your doing). Its built into the kernel and it has its own filesystem and everything.

RE: [newbie] iptables stopped

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
Firewalling/packet filtering/NAT is compiled into the Linux Kernel, it is not a service. You don't start it, you just configure it for operation. The iptables package that you installed is only a user-space configuration utility - again not a service. I would not worry if iptables does

RE: [newbie] IPTABLES manually

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
iptables-save and iptables-restore Also, put your rules into a script like /etc/rc.firewall and just add that to the end of rc.local adn it will start every time. Also there are lots of tutorials out there. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

RE: [newbie] user mode linux question

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Wideman
Please be a bit more patient with people on this list. I still haven't gotten over the id10t error statement that you made to someone on this list a while ago. Dood that was a IT Industry joke. Get over it. I do ID-10-T issues all the time. I even do PEPKAC issues myself. I just get over it

RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Actually Stephen is correct. Of all the iptables GUI or configurator applications Shorewall was the worst. It took me 30 mins after the first time of installing MDK9 was i able to figure out what the hell was going on with my box...not able to get out of the local box. I remember that

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software which is basic and easy to use (in most cases). To the

RE: [newbie] basic concept question

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Not just MDK, all any linux distro out there. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
That's the main reason that this machine is now 100% Linux. I've paid for all my previous Windows installs, but XP was a step too far. I decided to get off the wagon and get onto one going in a direction I agreed with. For those of you who dual boot, for GOD sakes, buy a $60 computer off

FW: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Forgot to say thanks for this info Stephen. Rob I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software

[newbie] PortSentry2

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
as well as using PortSentry2 for further monitoring. I know this company that used to make Port Sentry is here in Austin TX. The company psionic.com. Is it bought out by cisco now? Thats all that the website has on it. Also the searches on google pull up mailing list items and directs it to

RE: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Also DL the latest updates from Sun for SO6. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOfficenav= pub-patches Is the site to DL the updates. Roc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. Literally. I have 10 computers (4 are my roomates, and this is half

RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name to numbers. In your case that step is failing. Check your DNS server setting. Or just edit /etc/hosts. Lots quicker and is the first place that is checked for name-IP conversion. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
This isn't meant as an insult ,so don't take it that way. You sound like others I have heard. Almost apologetic about the fact that some distros made a profit, or intend to. As though they have somehow soiled the O.S. movement with money. Profit is not a dirty word. It is a necessary thing

RE: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I think there is some confusion. LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would be warned when you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Asked like someone from a small state:-) HAHA. I live in the largest state there is (atleast in the continuous 48 states)...Texas. Alaska is too far away from anything for me. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX Personally i will not buy ESC b/c they have jumpers to screw with. I

RE: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I haven't booted in 4 months. And this is even AFTER system/software updates. I don't think boot or load time is a fair comparison. S true. Again look at the # of times we boot in 4 months. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: I was trying to install the latest sources of

RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting with Java and Mozy. :P She has a ways to catch up with me this month if i keep on like i am. ROFL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.0

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 Codec. I am not sure what other information you might need out of the book. I am very new to Mandrake Linux. There is so much I don't understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda What motherboard do

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Tom: You bring up a good point. The only valid conclusion is that either they are perjurers and monopolists, or traitors and monopolists. Don't hold your breath waiting for John Ashcroft to announce that anyone has been indicted, though. I would say they are Traitors and Monopolists.

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Hush, rob, or we'll cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third largest state. LOLso true. Its weird that Alaska is double the size of Texas. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] port monitor sought

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other inside of which you can create rules for your firewall http://firestarter.sf.net Ok, this is what initially got me into

RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Do you have the kernel source installed Just install the rpm version that your using from the RC1 DL cd's. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Trainor Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] port monitor sought

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Well, i made my suggestion only because he was asking for a ZoneAlarm-like program. As you may already know, ZA is a software firewall for Win32, it notifies you of blocked connections as they happen, and can be set up with simple rules. To my eyes, iptables + firestarter are pretty much the

RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
CVS is what he was using. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote:

[newbie] user mode linux question

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I have played with UML with the basic FS's that are on their site. I have actually DLed the MDK 8.2 FS on their site and tested it on my MDK9 box. It came up with a bunch of errors, guessing b/c my box is all scsi. Ok, down to the real issue. The UML docs state you can install a distro into

RE: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
From /etc/mtab: automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN I dont use LN. I dont have those mount points. I guess it is LN that is

RE: [newbie] DIRECT CONNECT active mode and SHOREWALL

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper and wiser to ditch Shorewall and either manually edit the iptables scripts to allow for either ports to be opened or ports to be closed? Initially learning the basics to ipchains or iptables is a great thing for anyone to KNOW - as it is their city wall - and

RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
Shit - stats are down - I'm going to have to tackle Mr. Wideman...(grin) Lol. Good luck. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

FW: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
Shit - stats are down - I'm going to have to tackle Mr. Wideman...(grin) Lol. Good luck. I forgot to say that i am unemployed and have all the time in the world to reply to this list. If any of you guys live in Austin (or Dallas or Houston or San Antonio) and have jobs that are avail at

FW: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
-Original Message- From: Robert Wideman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:24 PM To: Newbie Subject: FW: [newbie] Unofficial February stats Shit - stats are down - I'm going to have to tackle Mr. Wideman...(grin) Lol. Good luck. I forgot

[newbie] Linux Virtual Memory Manager posted by kerneltrap

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
Dont know if you guys follow Linux THIS much. I know i do not, but if i were bored at 5am and not able to sleep I might be able to understand it with about 4 cups of java (that is coffee for some of you non-coffee drinkers) or your favorite expresso.

RE: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Wideman
You compiled from source, correct? Look at the source code. Do a search for /net or /miscjust cat the files cat file.c|grep /net That should be the best way. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Kaplan Sent: Saturday, March 01,

[newbie] RE: [ctl-linux] GUI Perl Editor with color coding

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Wideman
Don't forget about gvim. vim.org WOW, i like this. HEHEHE. Something i just noticed is the VI and VIm both point to VIM Enhanced. I used which and file commands and traced it back. How hilarious. I thought VI was VI and VIm was VIm. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] dmg file in ~/ directory

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Wideman
Was wondering what these files are for and do. They are in my home directory (/home/rwideman) -rw---1 rwideman rwideman 13M Feb 19 09:09 gtk2.dmg -rw---1 rwideman rwideman 6.8M Feb 19 09:09 qt3.dmg Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Opera7

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Wideman
now, if only i can wean myself off Outlook Express for my email. I am with you on this one except i am using Outlook. I cant find any way to move data over. However i havent setup an IMAP server, then moved my email to that and then pull open evolution/sylpheed/etc and then pull it down. Any

[newbie] urpmi updates

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Wideman
I have 2 systems with MDK9 installed. One is my workstation that has been running for a few months and urmpi/grpmi have contrib/updates/plf/unsupported sites listed and working just fine. Reading the man pages for urpmi it uses the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file as the configuration file of the

RE: [newbie] Opera7

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Wideman
I'm not sure this will answer your question. i'm not sure this is your question, But with Kmail you can import Outlook Express mail. File / Import. I didnt see anything about PST files. I have attachements on a lot of my emails. Maybe i will give this a try since it is just a copy/paste

RE: [newbie] urpmi updates

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Wideman
You have to copy over the lists created for these sources on your system to the other server as well. I can't remember which directory it is, but search the archives as this has been asked before. (At work and Linux box at home) Ah, no wonder. Thats ok. I installed the sources manually via

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Wideman
Subject: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete? Very similar to www.linuxbios.com capabilities. There are a few companies starting to use Linux kernel as its bios now. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] DVD::Rip (Video-DVDRip-0.50.3-1plf.i586.rpm)

2003-02-23 Thread Robert Wideman
Has anyone gotten Video-DVDRip-0.50.3-1plf.i586.rpm installed without installing the gazillion transcode PLF libraries? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] plf src rpms

2003-02-23 Thread Robert Wideman
:20 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to install DVD::Rip from the PLF's. The problem is i would like to get the src rpm. Does anyone know where i can find them? For DVD:Rip the src.rpm can be found on any of the PLF mirrors. Look in the src directory

RE: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-23 Thread Robert Wideman
http://sun-apple-microsoft.msconnectix.msjava.microsoft.com/j10-l imited-edition/beta5/eula.html HAHA. Funny. Next will be www.mslinux.org is for real. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] lots of perl scripts?

2003-02-23 Thread Robert Wideman
Is there a site, i know there is just dont know remember it, where there are lots of perl scripts? I have seen a developers site for scripting but cant find it anymore. TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Wideman
Try TightVNC. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harv Nelson Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:27 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake Is there a Mandrake specific vnc... .RPM? Can't seem to locate one

[newbie] rpm installed but not showing up

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Wideman
I have mysql-3.23.52-1.3 installed as an rpm but its not showing up when i do rpm -qa|grep mysql'. I did a rpm --rebuilddb but nogo. I was thinking that doing a rpm -Uvh --force mysql-file.rpm would get it to show up in the DB. Any thoughts before i do that? I dont want to mess up my DB. Rob

RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Wideman
I don't like installing programs from source confuses me too. So how would you update a program if it was installed from source? I have always wondered this. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] GUI Perl Editor with color coding

2003-02-19 Thread Robert Wideman
You might like to try kate (KDE advanced text editor), you've probably used it in it's lightweight incarnation kwrite. The feature I think you want [syntax highlighting] is: Document-Highlight Mode-Script-Perl (hence proving it is not a programming language :-)). Wow. Dont use

[newbie] Apache and running cgi scripts

2003-02-19 Thread Robert Wideman
Apache and Perl/Mod_perl are installed. The perl scripts work it i run perl zipcodes.cgi. Basically i am going through Graid Hunts Apache Server 1st Edition by Charles Aulds. The scripts work fine, they arent the issue. Basically you type in a zip code into the text box and then it runs a perl

Re: [newbie] mysql

2003-02-18 Thread Robert Wideman
[root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u root mysql ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) It should ask you for a password here (note that it said using password: no). The only reason I know why it wouldn't do so is when you have somewhere defined to use an empty

RE: [newbie] inetd.conf

2003-02-18 Thread Robert Wideman
/etc/xinetd.conf inetd has changed in recent months. It used to be all configured in inetd.conf/inetd, but it has changed to xinetd.conf/xinetd. Inetd was all a single file, xinetd has separated out each service into its own file in /etc/xinetd.d/ directory. There you will find the samething,

[newbie] GUI Perl Editor with color coding

2003-02-18 Thread Robert Wideman
I am writing a bunch of perl scripts for setting up on apache on linux. I am currently creating them in windows using editors b/c of the colors of words and such. Is there such a thing for Linux? Obviously it is GUI. I love the EditPlus v2 GUI which is what i am using to do it in windows.

RE: [newbie] services reports failed but working

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Wideman
when i do. #service network restart it will show Shutting down interface eth0[FAILED] Shutting down interface eth1[FAILED] . . . and it will bring up of course but all it says [FAILED] If it never shutdown then it would obviously not start up since it is already started. Have

[newbie] mysql

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Wideman
I just installed 3.23.52 along with the requireds. I logged in and changed the password. Rebooted and now i cant login. [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u root mysql ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u mysql mysql ERROR 1044:

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
You can use Knoppix as well. Very easy to get hands on. True, havent tried it yet. Have seen it in Linuxformat the last couple of issues. Isnt there another bootable distro given out by LF lately? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
Dont know about others but i miss about 1/5 of the mailing list emails. If you go read through the archives you will notice that you do NOT get a lot of them. I gifured this out about amonth ago. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
Civileme = expert everyone else(self included) = newbie As always, the = operator flows to the left. SOO true. Thanks civilme for all the help you give. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:25

[newbie] problems with MySQL and i just installed it

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
I just installed a crap load of rpms (maybe like 20) to get Mysql installed and updated via rpmdrake. Its running and everything BUT rpm doesnt show it do be installed, nor in rpmdrake. MySQL 3.23.52 was installed at the same time as gmysql too. [root@rwideman2 myproj]# rpm -qa|grep mysql

[newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But there are still some security measures that you would want

[newbie] sound in MDK9

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I have finally installed a soundcard (Live Value) into my linux boxthere is a first for everything. I installed the XMMS rpm and it plays sound fine. The only problem is when i switch to my windows box the windows box plays sound LOUDER than my linux box. I know that when i had windows on

RE: [newbie] letting users use root commands

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
My issue is resolved. i had tried this before but didnt work at the time rpmdrake has 755 permissions on it by default. I had to change this to 775 AND add the user to wheel group. Also i checked the groups out by group username and made sure i was listed as correct Working fine.

RE: [newbie] sound in MDK9

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
In KDE: K - multimedia - sound -kmix. Great, thanks. Working. Now its blowing MS out of the water. Also can be used in Gnome. Just type kmix in the CLI and an icon window opens. Right click it and select configure kmix. Also left click it shows the master volume. Thanks Rob Want to buy

RE: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it

RE: [newbie] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? Get the src files and rebuild them. Rob Even guys that started of with 9.0 now have to be club members to get kde3.1. This is a sad development. I see Mandrake more and more slip away from being a free os distributor. I understand they

RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
we are not going to read anything from RW that is using so many caps. so there. PPPPpppthst. I am just trying to get others to understand that the link that i send should not be used. Which it seems noone, maybe a very few, are not actually using it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] Tkinter widget layout question

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I have ordered books about this, but they take a while before they get here and I would like to get along a little in the mean time. (I know, patience is a virtue. ;) Instead of waiting on them i usually go to BN store or something and read them till i get them. Rob Want to buy your Pack

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? M$ knows nothing about security. I dont even think its in their dictionary. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] choosing a new hostname

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'm just a desktop user running MDK 9 but I would like to change the hostname that appears by default. [cyberhades@localhost cyberhades]$ Is it possible and easy ? hostname new-hostname will do it until you reboot. If youw ant to change it for good edit /etc/sysconfig/network. Then just

RE: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I just wish the route was shorter. Totally understand that one. I used to be happy with smail, until it started relaying other people's spam. Wow, that sux. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
If Iraq refuses to comply, then Bush will give him a helping hand. As with many Americans, he has my support. Nuc IRAQ, NUC Iraq, Nuc IRAQ. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] compiling lame

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Actually I was raised in Atlanta, GA. I've just lived in TX for 30 years. Came here in my mid 20's after a coupl'a years in Alaska, I doubt I'll ever leave. Ya got'a have soul to live in The Republic of Texas ;) GO GO GO the Lone Star State. Rob Austin, TX Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Another thing, when is america going to compensate the families of those who died in the terrorist attacks in england at the hands of the IRA which america supported, funded and supplied military weapons to for decades??? When is Germany and the Axis powers from WWII going to compensate the

RE: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2 different jobs and functions. locate uses the DB created by

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