[newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
rpm's on my installation discs. Ed Vaessen Disclaimer Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u

RE: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
As a general principle, viruses don't propagate on a linux system unless you connect as root. A few exploits exist to put in trojan worms, but if you stay updated you can avoid those. Portsentry is an intrusion detector which could be well enhanced by iptables. There are soe good,

RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
and found that a HD was not seen by the BIOS. I opened the case and discovered that a cable was going from IDE1 to the particular HD... and from there back to IDE4! I guess he wanted to be VERY sure that the HD was connected. Interested in hearing other horror stories? Ed -- Richard Urwin, Private

RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
on it. A roaring laughter was the answer. Ed Disclaimer Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te

RE: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time

2003-02-07 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2003 14:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time On Friday 07 February 2003 08:19 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: As a general

RE: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
without an OS on it. Wonder who made that law. Ed -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: dinsdag 28 januari 2003 7:56 Aan: NewbieMandrake-List Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Anyone

[newbie] Mandrake Powerpack

2003-01-27 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
Does anyone know if the Mandrake Powerpack comes with one or with two manuals? I ask this question because in some parts of the user manual things are mentioned that you can find in the so-called reference manual. Ed Disclaimer

RE: [newbie] /dev/dsp warning message

2003-01-23 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
The few times I heard about this problem of /dev/dsp being busy, the finger was pointed to this aRts thing being the cause of problems. But I forgot the details. Ed -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Damian Gatabria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: woensdag 22 januari 2003 16:47 Aan

[newbie] Internet security Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-23 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
security on a single PC? Ed Vaessen Disclaimer Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te

RE: [newbie] Internet security Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-23 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
and rule my machine?) Ed -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 23 januari 2003 13:14 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] Internet security Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 9:58 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: I

[newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
. The win32 codecs are all in /usr/lib/win32. Mplayer and kino work fine. Ed Vaessen Disclaimer Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per

RE: [newbie] No video with avifile

2003-01-21 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
! Could we consider starting a new religion? As my frequent contacts with Islamic and Christian websites reveal their utter lack of anything even closely resembling humour, I think we may hit a hole in the market. Nevertheless I will try your suggestions. Ed Disclaimer

[newbie] Software installer problem Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-17 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
packages too. Does anyone know about this problem and how to solve it? Greetings, Ed Vaessen Disclaimer Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit

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2002-11-02 Thread Ed Farias
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[newbie] More Sound Issues in M9

2002-10-26 Thread Ed Halter
had this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? Could these programs just be looking for libasound in the wrong place? Thanks in advance, Ed Halter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Agfa snapscan typo

2002-10-12 Thread Ed Tharp
I seem to remember a post within the last few weeks about a typo in the 9.0 snapscan config files, but damn if I can find it in teh archives, anyone else see that or can tell me where to find it? thanks in advance ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Agfa snapscan typo

2002-10-12 Thread Ed Tharp
thank you, Thank you, thank you The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it should work. hope this helps, Mudder Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2002-10-11 Thread Ed Tharp
gkrellm has many neat and configurable monitors includding ppp and ethx thruput graphs On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:36 pm, Miark wrote: knetload is a little kicker applet that I love. I haven't seen it in 9, but I know it's in 8.x. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Thanks

Re: [newbie] Can't open: modules.dep

2002-10-11 Thread Ed Tharp
if a mandrake, (you don't say) you need make mrproper On Friday 11 October 2002 07:34 am, In Labore Fructus wrote: Hello to every one. Yesterday I tried to update my kernel ... The steps I made are the following : Before all, I renamed the directory /lib/modules/2.3.7-10/ with

Re: [newbie] nevermind i got my sound working

2002-10-11 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 11 October 2002 01:33 am, Brandon wrote: it works! im a happy man may I make a suggestion, next time do not change the headers so the fact your problem was cured it shows as such in a view of the archives threads Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] crc error - unable to mount root fs

2002-10-11 Thread Ed Tharp
Mandrake should run on that old fine piece of stuff but you need to turn off plug and pray aware OS in the BIOS, and you need to tell the installer how little memory is left after subtracting for the video memory, so if you set the bios to use 4 megs memory, you will need to hit f1 (instead

[newbie] Sound Drivers in HardDrake

2002-10-09 Thread Ed Halter
. I'm using a vanilla Creative Sound Blaster Live in an Alienware system. Thanks in advance, Ed Halter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question444

2002-09-07 Thread ed tharp
On Friday 06 September 2002 04:47 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:37 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a lot of questions to ask, but this has cost me hard cash and I dont feel I'm getting the performance out of this card. If you are using the Nvidia drivers

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread ed tharp
tried evolution for the mail? df On 5 Sep 2002, at 22:06, ed tharp wrote: Mind if I repost this to the list? snip Well, here's a pocket review of my WalMart box, for what it's worth. I got the 1.3GHz Celeron with 256mb of SDRAM, 40 gig hard drive, CD-RW, modem, etc

Re: [newbie] bringing up and interface

2002-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Thursday 05 September 2002 05:06 am, you wrote: Reboot!!! This is not Windows you know! To assign an IP address just use ifconfig (see man ifconfig for syntax) To make the interface active ifup eth0 These settings will not be saved. Alternatively you could just run the

Re: [newbie] Error

2002-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Thursday 05 September 2002 09:22 am, you wrote: When I trying to instal Mandrake Linux I get an error message: cannot uncompress second stage ramdisk or somthing like this. What is wrong? do you have shared video memory? how much mem. do you have? if shared mem, you will need to hit f1 when

Re: [newbie] Servers working?

2002-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Thursday 29 August 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: Did this list die? Haven't seen anything for the last 5 hours or so. this is almost funny.. 5 hours... what twilight zone are you in.. less see... mail sent friday,aug 30, and on Thurs Sept 5, you only feel as if you have missed 5 hours?

Re: [newbie] test

2002-09-04 Thread ed tharp
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 11:43 pm, you wrote: - Let each one ask himself, Has not the Lord entrusted me with means for the advancement of His cause? ..Nothing

Re: [newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread ed tharp
On Sunday 01 September 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: i've been getting no messages from either newbie or expert list for almost two days now. is my subscription to the lists cancelled or expired in some way? is the list dead? am *I* DEAD???!! weird. well.. at this point... let's blame YOU!

Re: [newbie] a test message

2002-09-03 Thread ed tharp
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 10:13 am, you wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Good heavens no... There was a black-hole centered over the list servers over the weekend and there was heavy interference from the even horizon. It appears to have since cleared now. It appears not. I still loose some

Re: [newbie] a test message

2002-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Monday 02 September 2002 04:28 pm, you wrote: Just a test to see if my messages are getting through .. I sent 3 emails over yesterday and today, and have yet to see any of them. Thanks! oh,,, so it was _yOUr_ fault.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and USB Hubs

2002-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Monday 02 September 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: I don't know the answer to your problem, but attempts 2 through 4 have all made it to the list. Joe On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 18:42:06 -0400 Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, to try this for a 4th time ... hopefully the list will post

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread ed Tharp
my sugestion, purchase a powerpack from the mandrake store, to be delivered to his house, explain how to get the computer to boot from a CD, and point him to this list. thats about all... and don't forget, 50 ain't that old (shesh). On Monday 06 May 2002 08:17 am, you wrote: Hi all,

Re: [newbie] the sig file silliness continues

2002-05-03 Thread ed Tharp
On Friday 03 May 2002 11:50 am, you wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 02:55, Barran, Richard opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I HAVE to use Windows 8 hrs a day in the workplace - does that make me an idiot? I use Win98 at home - no Linux CD-burner comes

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread ed Tharp
what ever happened to the concept of average and reasonable as in; if the average and reasonable person believes they have purchased a CD when they pay their money and leave the store, and does not find out until after having broke the shrinkwrap that the did NOT purchase a CD but instead

[newbie] snipped- Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-01 Thread ed Tharp
Big honken snip The government should not be allowed to interfere in a free market, and certainly not to prop up a monopoly. Civileme (In my best SOOOUthern BAPitsttt voice) Amen brother, Amen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Let Us Part

2002-04-27 Thread ed Tharp
On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:37 pm, you wrote: What is a good partition scheme for a single hard drive to have Linux installed on it? Would it be best to have a swap partition and a single partition for everything else, to have an additional one for /home, or to have one for all the

Re: [newbie] Which CD's are which?

2002-04-26 Thread ed Tharp
On Friday 26 April 2002 06:52 am, you wrote: Of the seven CD's in the Powerpack8.2 boxed set which are the three that would usually get downloaded? 1. Installation CD 1, Bootable CD 01SPP-8201 2. Installation CD 2 01SPP-8202 3. Commercial Applications CD 1 01SPP-8203 4. Commercial

Re: [newbie] networking

2002-04-23 Thread ed Tharp
what does your file /etc/hosts say? On Tuesday 23 April 2002 03:11 am, you wrote: how to configure NIC? Gave it a fixed IP-address (192.168.0.3) and hostname luc (name of the computer in the network) but keep getting error message hostname 'localhost' can't be found. The other computers

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-21 Thread ed Tharp
the DVD has MUCH more stuff than the download CDs and most of the rest is not GPL but is commercial software, the dvd-deal you had was a prepurchase and there were some prepurchase deals for 8.2 also. I guess knowing about the pre-release deals is one of the advantages of being on this mail

Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops

2002-04-21 Thread ed Tharp
And would www.civileme.com/mgm.jpg be a picture of you? Ron begin sarcastic remark area gee, if it is, does he have the face for radio or what /end sarcastic remark area just joking, and since I ain't volunteering my picture... we can all just guess that the uglier one is... Want

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 DVD

2002-04-21 Thread ed Tharp
On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:14 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:23:47 -0400 ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the DVD has MUCH more stuff than the download CDs and most of the rest is not GPL but is commercial software, the dvd-deal you had was a prepurchase and there were some

Re: [newbie] modem

2002-04-19 Thread ed Tharp
On Thursday 18 April 2002 03:47 pm, you wrote: Internal modems are not usually winmodems. maybe not, but HCF, HSP, HFC. are signs it is a winmodem, or at least if not a modem (not in MY book it ain't) then a Host Signal Processor. the H (meaning host, or the computer MOBO and CPU) means it

Re: [newbie] A real menagerie!

2002-04-18 Thread ed Tharp
On Thursday 18 April 2002 04:54 am, you wrote: Kathy, I think I only need Dave if I'm wanting the Mac to appear on Window's Network Neighborhood. For Mac to Linux connectivity, I was planning to use NFS / NIS. I believe that's all I need (haven't done it yet. Haven't bought the Mac yet -

Re: [newbie] /mnt devices slow

2002-04-14 Thread ed Tharp
are you running named, yppassword, bind, ypbind or a local name server? it sounds to me like you have a service running that you don't need and is miss-configured. how about sending the dmseg file also so we can try to figure what service is running that should not be. On Saturday 13 April

Re: [newbie] Dual CPU Query

2002-04-14 Thread Ed Tharp
gee, I have a two CPU linux box that installed MDK SMP right out of the box, and both of my cpus seem to be running all the time. (MDI d6vaa, P3 1ghz) - Original Message - From: Andrew Tuson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re:

[newbie] New USR External modem

2002-04-06 Thread Ed Tharp
I have been trying to get my brand new external USER modem working, it dials up but (in Mandrake 8.1) waits at expecting ogin as part of my connect script. it connects fine in M$win. I am guessing that I have some init (AT) or modem commands wrong, since it connects for years with a few different

Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?

2002-04-04 Thread ed tharp
On Thursday 04 April 2002 02:43, you wrote: Ha there folks, Well, a new machine and same result. I purchased the full bottle M8.0 and need to get SOME value back :-) Many people complained of it not being very successful and it failed for me several times on 3 machines. It would seem to

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread ed tharp
snip i don't think it is yet out from sun, so you won't find it. if you wish to join as a silver member at the mandrake users club you can get it and much more, but it will set you back $120 Really? I am a silver member, but when I joined I saw a thing that said the benifits were the same

Re: [newbie] OT CHEER UP Femme :)

2002-03-25 Thread ed tharp
this is an international list, as such some folks connect via a per min charge on the ppp dialup and a per min telco charge. we could respect that and take the discussions over to mandrakeuser.org. On Monday 25 March 2002 20:40, you wrote: Hey Femme, keep your spirits and your lovely nutty

Fwd: Re: [newbie] OT CHEER UP Femme, et. al.

2002-03-25 Thread ed tharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT CHEER UP Femme, et. al. References: 3CA019D1@webmailbackup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content

Re: [newbie] Support?

2002-03-24 Thread ed tharp
On Sunday 24 March 2002 00:57, you wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0300, Damian wrote: criticism is out of order here, if you don't like something about Limux-Mandrake, we do not need to hear it, and it's probably not really up to us to change it. if you want to tell someone how

Re: [newbie] Powerdown problem(problem restated)

2002-03-22 Thread ed tharp
what was the last shutting down x messaage on the computer? whils I ain't running 8.2 yet, I did notice the errita page for 8.1 does mention a shutdown problem related to USB. have you tried that yet? On Friday 22 March 2002 02:32, you wrote: Hi, I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.2, and yes I

Re: [newbie] Spam Control (was: Living in the johns world)

2002-03-21 Thread Ed Kasky
Have a look at SpamAssassin. I installed it a few weeks ago and with a little tweaking it's getting nearly 100% of the spam that comes through my machine Ed ~~ At 06:45 PM Thursday, 3/21/2002, you wrote -= * shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Mar 02 17:10]: also they should not include any

Re: [newbie] This got bounced don't remember subject

2002-03-21 Thread ed tharp
my guess jon is bouncing some of us back to the list, the list notifies you it got bounced somewhere... (just like me to blame the last person to leave the room for stealing my keys) but it got thru to the list the first time... are you bfiltering somewhere with a bounce? On Thursday

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-19 Thread ed tharp
damn Jon, you are Certainly full of your self. CivilMe is one of those that understand and make the company work. Only a self sold salesman would be so damn blind to the real world to make a statement that the only folks that count are salesman. have you considered that _your_ (and I do

Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions

2002-03-19 Thread ed tharp
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 11:34, you wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Mandrake Newbie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is OK. Put the actual servers behind that one. There is a package called Mandrake SNF (Single Net Firewall) which has all those components and is configurable from

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread ed tharp
if you wanted a hotter version of a news reader, you sure should try out pan. the commands are a little different, but I loves it... I believe that by itself, it is reason enough to leave windows, for the time you are using a news reader anyway. On Sunday 17 March 2002 09:24, you wrote:

[newbie] mem opinion please.

2002-03-15 Thread ed tharp
I am building a box and the MOBO allows either ddr, or sdram. so in y'alls experiance, wheich would be faster, 256mg ddr, or 320 sdram Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Apache user directory

2002-03-14 Thread ed tharp
were you on a local lan or thru the internet? what are the permissions or the folder /home/username/public_html? is apache configured for virtual domains? On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:57, you wrote: I tried to set up my Apache web server that all the user can have their own web pages under

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
I hate to debate. However you're sucking me in. *Sigh* shane wrote: the real point here is that you can have the full KDE or the CL only and about 20 flavors in between. how many can you get on most other operating systems? ok now how many of those come with it? Yes I'll agree

Re: [newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma. NOW NUTZ BOLTZ

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
well if you would ever ask a question, instead of acting so damn know it all, you might get an answer that will at least get you started in the direction of getting your box to run the way you want. if all you are willing to part with is I still have a Full Box 8.0 which failed on my old

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
yes, any wintv pci card should work great, as long as the card supports PAL the software will too, the brooktree drivers (BTTV84X chips) work fine in my mandrake setup, and have in every version since 7.0, right out of the box. On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:10, you wrote: System: Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-12 Thread ed tharp
you know Jon, I do remember you, and I bet you do remember me too, but you had filtered out my remarks because I did not give you blanket approval to use my postings in your for your personal profit book. and in fact I suggested you should check into the legalities of coping this list as a

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-12 Thread ed tharp
Monroe North Carolina, and Miami Fla. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:59, you wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping would _not_ be a good idea. can see a bunch of rowdy linux geeks in one bar? ;-) LoL... ever hear of Pigdog?

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-12 Thread ed tharp
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:06, you wrote: 4. Pro Geek. Makes an actual living as technician in the field. Highly paid for his (rarely her) work, if ANY good at all, due to general great lack of competence in the technical area. Always extremely busy. Extremely poor communicators. Need to

Re: [newbie] video conferencing

2002-03-11 Thread ed tharp
On Monday 11 March 2002 09:36, you wrote: I have set up video conferencing on windows machines but not linux. This was a college project from 2 years ago -- I'm not a pro -- that I set up videoconferencing among 4 homes over the Internet. But I did learn a few things. Are you using wine? Not

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread ed tharp
On Monday 11 March 2002 10:03, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:30:04AM +, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: What do you think StarOffice and OpenOffice do? I haven't found a ppt,xls, or doc file that it can't read yet, keeping the format intact. There is more to word docs than just the

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread ed tharp
On Monday 11 March 2002 02:48, you wrote: about the taking or not taking on M$ .. don't you think that all those people ( i.e. me ) that leave windows and use linux are growing in number because of this kind of competition? M$ has blown away every single competitor till now, using

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread ed tharp
On Monday 11 March 2002 18:04, you wrote: I hate to debate. However you're sucking me in. *Sigh* shane wrote: the real point here is that you can have the full KDE or the CL only and about 20 flavors in between. how many can you get on most other operating systems? ok now how many of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-09 Thread ed tharp
still will need to recompile w/Capts. Kirk' Pickard's Kernel (the Enterprise kernel) On Friday 08 March 2002 22:05, you wrote: Try passing an argument on boot through LILO with something like: vmlinuz=mem 2gb ? FF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the limit is for

Re: [newbie] Sharing resources between linux mandrake machines and windows

2002-03-08 Thread ed tharp
do you have a correct /etc/hosts file on the linux box? On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:47, you wrote: Hi all! I have a bus topology network of 6 pc's on windows 98 and using winproxy (set up on NAT) on one of them to get them out on the internet. The network is working fine on windows

Re: [newbie] root / su passwords different?

2002-03-08 Thread ed tharp
do you have numbers in you password? is the num lock light on when you type the password and are you using the numberpad keys? On Friday 08 March 2002 17:19, you wrote: Paul F. Fraley wrote: I DL'd and upgraded with the MDK 8.2 beta4 cd-ISOs yesterday on a working 8.0 installation. i am

Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))

2002-03-07 Thread ed tharp
might be nice to know what program or command line you were using to install the rpm? On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:06, you wrote: Well - after struggling for hours, and lots of help from the kind folks here, I got gaim reinstalled from the rpm. In case any other newbies are in the same

Re: [newbie] gaim crash - won't go away!

2002-03-06 Thread ed tharp
open a text console (or term) to log in (as root you if you need to kill a program started as root, type su [enter] root [enter] type password for root, do not expect to see anything echped to screen as you type the password) type top [enter] (without the quotes) and look for gaim there are a

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread ed tharp
? or what? Femme ed tharp wrote: yep, it's how mine allways has been On Monday 04 March 2002 23:38, you wrote: Ya but that Term with the Hooks msg, looks as if it has hung, and won't go further. Is that normal!? Its the F12 Term IIRC. Femme Ed

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-04 Thread ed tharp
March 2002 19:42, you wrote: I hope that subject line is correct. It was Ed Tharp I believe who is to blame for telling me to re-post if i have a similar problem on a new install of LM8. Well, I do. I used reiserFS this time as a filesystem, and all went well. Except, when I tried

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-04 Thread Ed Tharp
clueless? Btw, F6, F7, F9-11 don't function completely. F10 Gives me a blank screen with a cursor blinkin in the upper left corner? Femme ed tharp wrote: are you saying that you can not get back to the gui (Xwindow) reguardless of which f(num)? key? I do no longer have quickly available

Re: [newbie] uninstall

2002-03-02 Thread ed tharp
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:57, you wrote: hello , i asked this about a half year ago , but the answers were deleted and i hadnt time to deal with it . A keyword search of the list e-mail archives is sometimes quicker than typing a question, in my opinion. ok , i need to know how to

Re: [newbie] domain registration

2002-03-01 Thread ed tharp
__ Abbonati a Tiscali! Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800http://byphone.tiscali.it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] domain registration

2002-03-01 Thread ed tharp
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Re: [newbie] Sound trouble with Dell Optiplex GX1

2002-02-28 Thread ed tharp
might help to know what version of kernel and distro you are running, what you have tried and what symptoms and errors you get. On Thursday 28 February 2002 05:56, you wrote: On 27 Feb 2002 07:04:55 -0800 James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I can't for the life of me get

Re: [newbie] Acer 342T soundcard problem.

2002-02-28 Thread ed tharp
what command are you using to create the links? On Thursday 28 February 2002 09:14, you wrote: Hello: I have this same problem. The sound devices are in /dev/sound but are not linked to /dev. I also have problems creating links from /dev/sound to /dev. If I get a solution, I will post

Re: [newbie]: help with EXT3 other Terms?

2002-02-24 Thread ed tharp
of junk, thx Ed. ;0 no i haven't tried that don't know how to. In the end, my windows partition melted as it was, so i just deleted linux will reinstall (once again). If it occurs again though, how would i try your suggestion? And this only seems to happen with EXT3 partitions. Femme ed

Re: [newbie] Single Network Firewall

2002-02-24 Thread ed tharp
SNF is advertised as a specialized secure distro for one connection outside the local lan (external to the world and internet), and ONE connection to the internal lan (_must_ be IP #192.168.0.1) On Sunday 24 February 2002 07:14, you wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:47 am, Robin wrote:

Re: [newbie] Digest?

2002-02-23 Thread ed tharp
On Friday 22 February 2002 23:10, you wrote: On Friday 22 February 2002 10:28 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:51:23 -0500 Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words snip It's a once a day posting of all the days messages in one email -- Gerald

Re: [newbie] Shell question

2002-02-23 Thread ed tharp
page up? num lock off, number pads, key 9 On Saturday 23 February 2002 07:28, you wrote: How do you get the last shell command you called to come back up? Example: I type: cp index.php /var/www/html I don't want to keep typing this. In windows you can do something (hitting F3 or

Re: [newbie] thin clients with linux as terminal server

2002-02-23 Thread ed tharp
sure On Friday 22 February 2002 18:05, you wrote: Is it possible to set up linux to as a terminal server for the thin clients? Thanks Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]: help with EXT3 other Terms?

2002-02-23 Thread ed tharp
terms sounds correct enough to me... some folks might call them ttys or vty or text console. I likie console... have you tried starting at run level three and correcting the xconfig? On Friday 22 February 2002 18:19, you wrote: I think they are called terms... when you press ctrl-alt-F*.?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake not booting correctly

2002-02-21 Thread ed tharp
so let mae ask, is this 8.X or 7.x? what kernal are you booting and what xfree version. next what keys do you use to go ack to the previous session ( [alt-f7] or [alt-f9] )? as I understand it, boot should work from ext3, there are/were so problems under some conditions when a ReiserFS (or

Re: [newbie] Digest?

2002-02-20 Thread ed tharp
Matt... how can you help out from a digest we are all here to help each other. there are archives. On Wednesday 20 February 2002 15:23, you wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:40 pm, you wrote: Is there a digest for this list?..I usually like to be on digests.. Matt: No, it's

Re: SV: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-19 Thread ed tharp
I STILL think that a service mis-configured is the most likely slowdown. whomever is expericencing the slow down should post their dmesg file under the subject: slow CPU -dmesg and go from there. On Friday 15 February 2002 09:09, you wrote: Another thing to really consider is the memory and

Re: [newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?

2002-02-10 Thread ed tharp
makes me wonder what services you are running also. does this ONLY happen when connected to the internet? and what sort of connection do you have? (cable? 33.6 dial-in? 56K dial-in?) do you have routed or named running? are you on a local network? proxy service? On Saturday 09 February 2002

Re: [newbie] Linux Architecture

2002-02-07 Thread ed tharp
might help to have some clue as to your skill level otherwise try linux for dummies On Wednesday 06 February 2002 21:31, you wrote: Hello all, I am looking to understand the underlying linux architecture and I was wondering if anyone could reccommend some sites / books. I am mainly

Re: [OT] SASA ( was Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?)

2002-02-04 Thread ed tharp
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 09:43, you wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:34:40 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Chris Keelan wrote: Oops. The dangers of plain text humour. There is no metric setting for TCP/IP packet sizes. I was kidding. Back in the day

Re: [newbie] Am I being hacked?

2002-02-03 Thread ed tharp
this is code red or nimda worms (or some worm close to it) and the solution is to run linux. then, if you care, block the IP sending the requests. since you don't run IIS, you will not have a problem other than the bandwidth used by the rouge windox. you could try and figure out the admin

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]

2002-02-02 Thread ed tharp
On Friday 01 February 2002 03:58, you wrote: How come many of you have server up times of many days and even months? I find that after approx. 2-3 days I need to reboot my MDK 8 box else the modem will not respond when I use kppp and the Software Manager only partially displays. I have 64 Mb

Re: [newbie] networking internet woes...

2002-02-02 Thread ed tharp
disable routing. you have the default route set to eth0 and not PPP0 On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:02, you wrote: Hi all, I have one of those usb alcatel modems, which works perfectly. my problem is that when i have eth0 enabled as well, i loose dns resoloution, i can ping the outside

Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often

2002-01-29 Thread Ed Kasky
inherent memory leaks that seems to continue to plague Microsoft products.. Ed At 09:34 PM Tuesday, 1/29/2002, Jesse Angell wrote -= I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious now that I've

Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP

2002-01-26 Thread ed
page will pop up Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Andre Dubuc wrote: I'm not even sure how to ask this: that's how abysmal my knowledge of servers. I would like to learn scripting

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