[newbie] Java flaw.

Flaw in the Sun Java Plugin is elusive and very dangerous. Quoted from the virus threat centre. I am running 10.0 official. Does this apply to me, how do I fix it?? Thanks. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 Linux Kernel

Re: [newbie] Java flaw.

On Monday 06 Dec 2004 18:03, Paul wrote: What is the flaw? What is the URL of the site where you found out about this? Without some more info it is difficult to see if something is dangerous or not... The following link takes you to the article:

Re: [newbie] Java flaw.

On Monday 06 Dec 2004 19:00, Paul wrote: So if you are not certain, it is best to get the latest Java plugin and install that. Thanks for your advice Paul, I have done that now. Regards. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586

[newbie] Win 2000 install.

All you guys/girls out there who make their living of fixing M$, a friend is going to reinstall Windose 2000 on his box. Will he be OK behind a firewall as he downloads all the patches/updates. Any advice on security would be welcome. Thanks, Simon. (I am still hoping he will see the light!!)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 03:04, Jack wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:31 pm, Jack wrote: It apparently has a way to allow changing the default browser *that works*! Changing the htm file association in 3.23 does not work... That's the main reason, but there are other

Re: [newbie] Problem playing encrypted DVD using libdvdcss and Totem

On Sunday 07 Nov 2004 12:29, Thomas Ewender wrote: hey, just tried Xine and Ogle, neither of them shows more than the Goldwyn-Mayer - trailer :-( I got some more detailed debug messages from ogle, seems that Ogle can only read the first title of the DVD. I had a problem with the official

Re: [newbie] Updating Webmin.

On Friday 05 Nov 2004 14:51, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Simon Utley wrote: When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn

[newbie] Updating Webmin.

When I install the webmin update (webmin-1.121-4.2.100mdk.noarch) I find that I can access Webmin and all seems to work OK except I cannot access 'Scheduled Cron Jobs'. I get the following messageAn error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/cron/index.cgi: Connection to host

[newbie] Linking Thunderbird to Firefox.

Hi, in an effort to get my wife to migrate from Windoze I have set up Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox on my Mdk 10 box, she has got used to using them in place of IE and Outlook Express. She has one problem with the new setup, when attempting to access a url on a mail Konqueror opens the web

[newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a program that will open Lotus 123 files. I have tried OO org.calc and Kspread with no joy. - -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.

On Saturday 30 Oct 2004 12:10, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 30 Oct 2004 11:55, Simon Utley wrote: Hi, is there a program that will open Lotus 123 files. I have tried OO org.calc and Kspread with no joy. Sadly, those of us that loved SmartSuite are badly served. Few programs, even

[newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I know there was a thread on this not long ago but it didn't answer my problem. I am on Mdk 10 and in order to get my Traveling Disk 2.0 USB Flash Drive to work I had to make a directory /mnt/memstick then mount it using #mount -t vfat

[newbie] MandrakeMove Download edition config.

Hi, does anyone know if you can configure Shorewall on the download edition of MandrakeMove. I can open the files as root but when I go to save the newly configured file it won't allow me. Is this because I am reading the file off the CD Rom and am unable to write to it? I cannot get the MCC

Re: [newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 13:40, Lanman wrote: Simon, Check to see if you have hotplug installed and that it's starting at boot time, It was installed but not running or set to start at boot. I have now set it to run at boot and it is doing so. then make sure that you've configured your

Re: [newbie] USB Flash Drive Config.

On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 14:40, Simon Utley wrote: I rebooted and plugged in the USB drive, its led flickered but no icon on the desktop and when I checked the device had not been mounted I have created a Desktop icon that, when I am in my Desktop as root, enables me just to click

Re: [newbie] Adding media to MCC Media Manager.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 21:14, Derek Jennings wrote: Use urpmi.addmedia  --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom with CD1 in the drive. BTW: Do you really want your hostname to be your MAC address? Or is it getting set to that by your ISP against

[newbie] Adding media to MCC Media Manager.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am trying to add the 5 CD's of my mdk10.0 Distro into the media manager. With a CD1 in the drive this is the output from terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]# urpmi.addmedia -h -c -f CD1 removeable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS added medium CD1