Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc

2003-06-20 Thread Steven Broos
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 18:19, Crak600 - Michael wrote: And one more question...what is ROOT and what is it used for? when would i ever have to use it and how do i get into ROOT? ROOT is used for adding programs or making changes, right? root is the superuser, as explained by all those nice

Re: [newbie] just when you think it's safe

2003-06-18 Thread Steven Broos
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 05:05, Aron Smith wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030617/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music Just when you think that Politicians can't get any dumber What a BS! I asked SABAM more information about mp3's and downloading music. (SABAM is the Belgian

Re: [newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:11, Glenn wrote: Can anybody tell me whether there's an easy way to recover the title bars for my apps in MDK 9.1? I got into a fix where I had a couple of Konsole sessions that wouldn't kill, and the process of attempting to kill them made the title bar non-existent

Re: [newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:30, Todd Slater wrote: I'm looking for a program/script that will generate a random playlist of all my oggs. Know of such a thing? Todd Can't you do this with xmms ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 23:55, Todd Slater wrote: I want it to generate a random playlist from all of my music (where I can specify a directory and have it recurse). Open the playlist in xmms, hold mousebutton down on the button '+file', you get a popup menu. choose +dir, choose your directory,

Re: [newbie] Help with gnome default browser

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:15, Terence J. Golightly wrote: if this has been discussed please excuse and point me ... Indeed, this is discussed before :-) I have changed my default browser from Mozilla to Opera from the Gnome configuration app. and edited Gconf directly no go. What can be done

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Broos
I don't think that's flash, but a Java Applet. (www.sun.com) Didn't get that working in galeon yet... but didn't try much :-) Steven On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:52, Chris Blake wrote: Greetings, With MDK 9 I installed a flash-player plug-in for Galeon, however, since moving to 9.1 (clean

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-12 Thread Steven Broos
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: Actually, that's not a java applet, it is flash - click on the jigsaw icon and see what it says it can't find the plugin for. embed src=selector.dcr pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/; width=650 height=650 sw1= Shockwave...

Re: [newbie] apache rewrite regex

2003-06-11 Thread Steven Broos
. means every character * means zero, one or more instances of the previous character. ^ means beginning of the line (or negation in some situations) $ means end of line The part of the regexp between the brackets will be returned as $1 So the first regexp ^(.*\/perl\/.*)$ says: - If a line

Re: [newbie] apache rewrite regex

2003-06-11 Thread Steven Broos
So a wild guess for the string you want to write: ^\/perl\/dl.pl(\/.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8200/perl/dl.pl$1 But I guess the regexp you wrote first will work to ! Steven forgot some comments. - I don't think the regexp I wrote is 100% correct - Also try: RewriteRule ^.*(\/perl\/.*)$

Re: [newbie] NTP Server

2003-06-11 Thread Steven Broos
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 02:42, Cody Harris wrote: As a second comment, this is over my head and i'm going to drop it. How do you uninstall? That's not the way... You don't want to learn things ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Zombie computer

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Broos
I noticed Flash loading my cpu constantly. As soon as I closed the page, cpuload was low again. Which process was using 97% of your CPU ? Steven On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 04:08, Aron Smith wrote: I was trying to get the flash player for mozilla and found the RPMs at http://sluglug.usc.edu Whil

RE: [newbie] root password expired.

2003-06-10 Thread Steven Broos
If someone has physical access to your computer, it's almost impossible to secure the machine for 100% Maybe encrypted partitions can do the trick (partially), but I 'm not familiar with it. Steven On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:00, Burrows, Scott wrote: What prevents anybody from doing this to gain

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Try kernel.org ? Or do you need specific kernels for mandrake ? (in that case, I don't know) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:46, Guy Rouillier wrote: Where can I find later versions of the kernel for 9.1? I'm experiencing the ldm_validate_partition_table problem. I've looked on both pbone

Re: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Can you give us more information about what you've done, what is in your config-files etc ? Some thing that goes through my mind now: - before restarting bind, open another terminal and do tail -f /var/log/messages It gives valueable information about possible errors. - Put your

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
#117650823 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Broos Sent: June 9, 2003 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] More about Bind... Can you give us more information about what you've done, what is in your config-files etc

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:59, Yves Arsenault wrote: Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: /etc/named.conf:12: expected port number or '*' near 'allow' Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: reloading configuration failed:

Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Install the nvidia drivers. You can find them @ www.nvidia.com there should be info about how to install... If you start X, you first get a NVIDIA splash-screen. If you don't see that, the correct drivers are not installed. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:36, Patrick Coffey wrote: My

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
I stopped reading half away, when i read MS Linux for the third time. I don't like that... Not at all ! What MS needs to do, is making its own applications open source, so they can be enhanced (and ported). What I don't like, is MS building on a linux platform. I think this will give a whole

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:57, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thanks Steven You know what, the small error on that line was the only thing causing the error... Thanks a million! I'm glad I finally could help someone. Most of my answers are too dumb to remember :) Steven Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Apache question

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
What exactly do you want to come up, when you type in what IP ? Maybe you can give an example or so ? Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:27, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello again, I'm pleased to report that my site now comes up, Bind works well, Apache works well. Now when I type in the IP

Re: [newbie] Apache security

2003-06-08 Thread Steven Broos
Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Then you can disable PHP easily if you really want to, and let a script create a HTML-file which contains the uptime. ah, I'm not that concerned. it's just: ?php include uptime.txt; ? I see the usual attempts at running windows scripts, but one

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-08 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 20:50, rikona wrote: Hello Steven, Saturday, June 7, 2003, 3:21:48 PM, you wrote: SB Windows is ordinar and almost everybody uses it, Linux is a SB challenge ;-) It is getting easier, and I think that is good. Best would be a very easy GUI - BUT, with the same

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
You can use the Sticky Bit Read this article: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/ch-acctsgrps.html Steven --Extract-- setuid used only for applications, this permission indicates that the application runs as the owner of the file and not as the user

Re: [newbie] Apache security

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
I think it's a little bit paranoia to say you may not run PHP. I find it weird CGI is OK, but PHP isn't... Both are dangerous for your system when they are not administered well. Apache has one parent-instance owned by root. The child-rpocesses are run from the account you specified. I

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true!

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
That's a very personal matter... But I'll give you my quick top-5: (didn't think of it for a long time, so please don't take it too serious) First of all, M$ is about money, Linux is about quality and consumer/user-needs. Linux distro's and most of the applications are FREE! Windows is kinda

RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:18, walt wrote: 1) runs faster 2) takes up less hard drive space 3) takes less time to load on to your computer and you practically have everything you need without loading a lot of other programs on it 4) dont need to keep rebooting I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 bootup, 'acpi' failed

2003-06-06 Thread Steven Broos
Press 'q' or ctrl+c They both apply for a whole bunch of cases. Steven On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 03:16, The Other wrote: 06/06/03 When Mandrake 9.1 is booting up, the list of services and whatnot scrolls by with everything as OK, with the one exception of 'acpi' FAILED. It hasn't done