[newbie] how do I kill teh firewall in Mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-21 Thread hendrik
My question is, how do I get rid of it (and, for that matter, how did I ever install it? I don't remember asking for it). The entire subnet the machine is on is in fact behind another firewall, and I don't need one on the Mandrake box. -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Thread hendrik
output. Of course, you'd have to have two CD drives for this if you were comparing two CDs. Or else copy one to hard disk. -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: The SCO UNIX Lawsuit (from Windows & .NET M agazine)

2003-06-11 Thread hendrik
diately for advice. There are two quetions here: whether Laura Dido is right, and huge sections of code have indeed been lifted whether this is relevant legally, considering the amount taken, its significance, and whether the code has

RE: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-10 Thread MARTIN HENDRIK RAD
nths worth of work (worth thousands of $$$) because of a virus, you will also discard your Windows CD in utter disgust and turn to Linux. Regards, Hendrik > -Original Message- > From: RichardA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread MARTIN HENDRIK RAD
#x27;s what it looks like... I'd rather stick to Linux which is a serious computing environment. Regards, Hendrik Martin Disclaimer: http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm <http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm> Want to buy your Pack or Services

RE: [newbie] great domain name for sale!

2003-06-02 Thread MARTIN HENDRIK RAD
Sell it to Microsoft... ask what you want, they'll take it! Hendrik Martin > -Original Message- > From: Technoslick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 June 2003 4:44 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] great domain name for sale! > > On Sat

RE: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-28 Thread MARTIN HENDRIK RAD
of command line box, maybe one that remembers recent commands so you can select from a drop-down box. Regards, Hendrik Martin > -Original Message- > From: John Drouhard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 May 2003 22:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Can

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
OS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to te

Re: [newbie] Kernel compile from src ques.

2003-04-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:50:42PM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday March 30 2003 11:08 am, Angus Auld wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Tom. I am very confused as to the process > > here. I have upgraded my kernel once in 8.2, and again in 9.0. I > > thought that the idea of a src rpm was to r

Re: [newbie] Problem with firewall

2003-04-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:23:45AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 12:42 am, Pedro Alves wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I live in a student residence in Aachen in Germany. > > > > I have internet access in my room, the problem is that the firewall they've > > installed is confi

[newbie] what is hdlist, anyway?

2003-04-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
, anyway? -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Second HD

2003-04-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
o have /boot be near the start of a HD on the first IDE chain, and the rest of the Linux system could be anywhere. With modern BIOSes, all is different, of course. Things changed when they started booting from -- gasp!! -- CDROMs. -- hendrik. > > I don't remember the details since it was

Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: > > > what does "cat /etc/hosts" say? what does "cat /etc/resolv.conf"

Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: > > > what does "cat /etc/hosts" say? what does "cat /etc/resolv.conf"

Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
to boot Mandrake again (this machine is used as internet gateway by a number of others, so I can't just reboot and check it right now. But so far, while runnung Mandrake, the net connexion is off. Could it be that mounting a CD requires a net connexion? Does MCC require a net connexion? Is it

Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:35:16PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS. Is this normal? > > I have a slightly faster system (dual Pentium 233 MMX) and yes, DevFS > takes forever during boot. Don'

[newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
configure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but I'll ask+anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

can't find mirror list (WAS:Re: [newbie] 9.1 final has been released)

2003-03-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
ember. But when I follow the link "MandrakeClub Mirrors script, it just brings me back to the same Mandrake Club page where they announce Mandrake 9.1, which does not contain a mirrors list. Is this a bug in the web site, or is there something I should know? -- hendrik > Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Slighty OT: Strange Computer Noises/Cold Boot Issues

2003-03-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
tart to go wonky, and it died completely in the three days it took be so set up a backup system. I lost a lot of stuff. I had to recreate a bunch of financial information from original documents and get an extension on my tax filing date -- the people at the tax department were very understanding about

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
ure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but I'll ask anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? -- hendrik > > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:11:45 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:45:19PM -0500, Miark wrote: > > > It&

Re: [newbie] problem with Linuxconf 'Help' window height

2003-03-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
here. I'll finally be able to use Linuxconf. It does leave me to wonder why the boxes are so huge: a lot of them have a lot of really empty space. -- hendrik > > -- > > ( ) ( ) > ( 0 0 ) > ---( )--- > o > > "Linux is not The Ans

Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux

2003-03-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
m backup. Of course yopu't better make sure you have a Mandrake bootdisk first, or you won't be able to get to Linux at all after the reinstall. -- hendrik > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts >

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
I even tried a reboot, so I would be *sure* that it used the entries in the fstab. -- hendrik > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
1 2 - cot here No mention of supermount anywhere. -- hendrik > > Miark > > > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:41:45 -0500 > Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I solved this problem by disabling supermount on my removable drives.You can

[newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
mation waiting for the CDROM drive, but leaving it that way overnight provides no progress. Experimentation and exploration is too tedious for words because of all the mount delays. Under the circumstance, the remainder of Mandrake is a little hard to install or configure! -- hendrik Want to b

Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?

2003-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-2.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-3.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-4.tar --file=/offsite/lovesong/win_c-5.tar /mnt/win_c -- hendrik > > -- > If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, > thou wilt speak twice the better for it. > -Wil

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:36:52AM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. > > Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any > command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? > > TIA Actually, it might be nice to be able to access the

[newbie] gnucash

2003-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
other packages, I'd rather not go through the trials of compiling my own if Mandrake is going to come up with one soon! -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
if there's a newer version, though. > > Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? > > Rob I thought that the big difference between VMware and Win4Lin is that Win4Lin does not provide a virtual machine? Am I wrong? -- hendrik > > > > >

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:46:50PM -0500, et wrote: > and a good chance to introduce you to a "kwel" feature in most linux shells. > autocomplete. "kwel"? Don't you mean "kewl"? I know many people can't spell "cool" correctly, but please,

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake > 9.0 > > > Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as Secondary > master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's are on "Auto". Some systems will only boot from drives on the *first* IDE

Re: [newbie] chmod and higher security level

2003-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
It would be nice to have a clear description somewhere about the various security levels. It would be even nicer to have this information available during installation (perhaps in the printed manual) so that I could make a sensible choice at that time. -- hendrik On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:55

Re: [newbie] Installing RC2, never asked for CD2 or CD3

2003-03-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
mi? > > No. > > You should be asked for CD2/CD3 during the package install (the part > that takes most time :-). Did you sucessfully pass this step? If so, > apparently you managed to only select programs that are on CD1.[1] > > HTH, > > Benjamin. I had the sam

Re: [newbie] OT: colonoscopy (was: Epson printer warning!)

2003-03-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
s happen, but not often. Incidentally, they had the fibre optic camera inside me connected to a big monitor that I could see. It was kind of fun, like exploring a cave, but without the claustrophobic fear of a rockslide. I even got to see where my appendix started, from the inside! -- hendrik > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
the printer runs out of ink is not acceptable (2) Without a floppy dri

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
e tape drives > and tapes. > > Another strategy you'd care to suggest? You can get a hard disk caddy that plugs into a drive bay in the PC. I put an extra HD in one, and back everything onto it. No need for an extra whole PC. Only I have to power teh machine down to put it it or take it

Re: [newbie] HD

2003-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
g that matters on your 10G drive in the / partition. You might want to copy it to your second drive and make sure you can actually boot boot from it there (use Lilo to set up a dual boot -- original linux or copy of linux) before you delete and resize / on your 10G drive. -- cautious hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO

2003-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
gt; You will have to configure most of anything you do. > If your looking for an easy email server.there isnt one. I used to be happy with smail, until it started relaying other people's spam. -- hendrik. > > Rob > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO

2003-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
red Mail > server. (It is a drop in replacement for Sendmail) So unless you have a > preference for Sendmail you might find Postfix convenient to install. How "drop-in" is it? Does it use the same configuration files? If it does, I imagine it can't be much of an improvement! -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
o than women; women are more auditorially > > oriented). OTOH, there are still tons of ppl out there on very lowed comps > > with very simple email programs on those computers. For them, HTML email > > is a PITA & just chokes their bandwidth/computers. Only one in t

Re: [newbie] Mail Client for the CLI

2003-02-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
nd even adapts if I resize my CLI window while mutt is running. -- hendrik > > "No mail for adolfobello" > > -- > __ >/ \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > / // // /\

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
me pointer test.denic.de. > 76.96.246.194.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer board.denic.de. > > Although they made the effort to list all the reverse lookups, they > missed www.nic.de in their list. So if the server makes a connection > as www.nic.de (which they probably don'

Re: [newbie] Correction to "More on Alas and Alack'

2003-01-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
now of an alleged witchcraft wart cure: the witch buys warts from you! -- hendrik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dell Optiplex

2003-01-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
t was illegal to sell a box without > windows on it. This was when I was buying a replacement box for my > granddaughter. I stuck out, saying that it certainly was not, quoted my > registration code, and insisted. What registration code would that be? --hendrik > After severa

Re: [newbie] Re:Printing

2003-01-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
are picky about re-initialising properly after > this, so it's trial and error to see if it works for you. > > Anne > I find after an lprm, I also have to simultaneously power down both the printer and the computer. Rebooting the computer isn't enough! -- hendrik > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?]

2003-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
t the U.S. seems intent on building a world empire, I suspect everyone will have to deal with US politics. Even places as remote from technological civilization as Afghanistan! Afghanistan uset to be the proverbial end-of-the-earth when I was little. -- hendrik > > -- > Sun Jan 5 15:25:0

Re: SV: SV: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis

2003-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:25:20PM +0100, Anders Lind wrote: > LOL, the woman is not even good looking IMO, anyway those shallowness aside, I've been meaning to ask this for a while now. Lust what does "LOL" mean? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Monitor setup

2003-01-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:40:41AM -0600, David Reynolds wrote: > virtual screen - larger than my display. I was aiming for 1024x768, and > apparently that is what I got...sort of. Alt-Ctrl +/- got me into a stable > situation, and I had to resave the session a few times. How did you get alt-ctr

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 never asks for another CD during installation

2002-12-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
x27;s already there, you'll see how to do the others. > > > ~Brandon > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:2

Re: [newbie] When is root not root?

2002-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:56:40PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > Although I practically never log in as root, there are many things that > require root priveleges, so opening File Manager (Super User Mode) or a root > console is a common task. > > Why is this not as dangerous? Should we be closin

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 never asks for another CD during installation

2002-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
to a tarfile and then untarring them all into the same directory? That way there would be no separate CD to think of mounting. > > ~Brandon > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Friday, December

Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Booting

2002-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:43:48AM +, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:09:00 CST Steve Spears > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Grettings: > > > > Was wondering if anyone had a good site that explains > dual booting Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I have 9.0 installed > and want to dua

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Automated Backup

2002-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 12:19:59AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > Rob Lindsay wrote: > > My home system is a PIII 733 with two 20GB Internal IDE hard drives. The > > office system is a G4 400 with internal and external 20GB drives. Also have a > > PI 200MMX networked with the PIII [Don't like getti

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 never asks for another CD during installation

2002-12-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:52:48 -0800 > Spencer Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:22:49 -0500 > Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 15:04:43 -0800 > > Spencer Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I think you will find that the

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-29 Thread Hendrik Martin
t; > Hmm, blank page...oh one of those membership only javascript > script sites, anyone have the crack/password? -- Hendrik Martin www.uilspieel.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Slow internet connection....

2000-04-20 Thread Hendrik Martin
OK, I finally got a working connection to my ISP. But its very slow, not so much on netscape, but when I download mail (using either kmail or netscape mail). What could it be? Hendrik

[newbie] Setting up ppp

2000-04-10 Thread Hendrik Martin
my settings (dns etc.) from my service provider.   How can I troubleshoot? (I know about route and ifconfig - the output looks OK)   The /var/log/messages file does not give a clue.   Am I missing something?   Regards, Hendrik