Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-08 Thread Philippe Landau
Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to

[newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can understand that it powers down

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Mecklin
from your description it would appear you have a grounding problem with your pc, or a defective hard drive. the electric flash as you plug it in (before the system can recognize/initialize it) should not be a control signal per se, but rather is likely extraneous current that improper grounding

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Joe Mecklin wrote: from your description it would appear you have a grounding problem with your pc, or a defective hard drive. the electric flash as you plug it in (before the system can recognize/initialize it) should not be a control signal per se, but rather is likely extraneous current that

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Joe Mecklin
assuming (i know that's a dangerous practice) the case/motherboard/power supply are all properly designed, the grounding will be builtin such that you really don't have to worry about it, but here are some things to look for: the power supply will have a black wire as part of its wiring harness

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Miark
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:23:03 +0200, Philippe wrote: when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread jdow
From: Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to USB, because it happens even when its power switch is off, but so far not

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to USB,

[newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found is that clicking on

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Mr. Geek
Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help. Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter. I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro. I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look it over. The problem I've found

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread julie
On Saturday, March 26, 2005, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help.  Tomorrow I have to install OOo under Windows for my daughter.  I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, from her use of Lotus WordPro.  I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that I can look

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:35, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne; Take a look at the title bar in OpenOffice. Go to ToolsOptionsOpenOffice.org, and open that section. Look for a subsection called External Programs and change the settings to match your preferences. I know you have to be logged in as the

Re: [newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition ~ OOps ~ error ~ tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt2; tar xvf - )

2005-03-23 Thread SnapafunFrank
riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:22 pm, David Anderson wrote: I want to be able to mount hda1 and sda1 and copy files from one to the other ~ if, I get the drift . . . you have booted from CD and neither hda1 nor sda1 are mounted? So ~

Re: [newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition ~ OOps ~ error ~ tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt2; tar xvf - )

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:22 pm, David Anderson wrote: I want to be able to mount hda1 and sda1 and copy files from one to the other ~ if, I get the drift . . . you have booted from CD and neither hda1 nor sda1 are mounted?

[newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition

2005-03-22 Thread David Anderson
Hi, I am sorry that this is a little OT, but I have a machine that will not boot up in Windows, and I want to be able to back up the HD. I have booted a live distro (MEPIS) and the disk is seen as hda (hda1, hda2). A usb disk is seen as sda (sda1, sda2, sda3) I want to be able to mount hda1 and

Re: [newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition

2005-03-22 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:22 pm, David Anderson wrote: I want to be able to mount hda1 and sda1 and copy files from one to the other ~ if, I get the drift . . . you have booted from CD and neither hda1 nor sda1 are mounted? So ~ make an extra mount

Re: [newbie] OT humour

2005-02-23 Thread jdow
From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 22 February 2005 09:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is old I apologise but it's new to me. http://nolte-net.de/en/article/unix_hotline.html I like the one on their site which will make sense if you are an Abbot Costello fan Unix

[newbie] OT humour

2005-02-22 Thread poogle
If this is old I apologise but it's new to me. http://nolte-net.de/en/article/unix_hotline.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] OT humour

2005-02-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 09:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is old I apologise but it's new to me. http://nolte-net.de/en/article/unix_hotline.html LOL post it to the OT list they could use some humor around now ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OT humour

2005-02-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 09:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is old I apologise but it's new to me. http://nolte-net.de/en/article/unix_hotline.html I like the one on their site which will make sense if you are an Abbot Costello fan Unix tech support

[newbie] OT websites

2005-02-17 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I have a server here at home that I mess around with running a none too interesting family site :-) I have a second site that i would like to get up and running. I was wondering if its possible to run two totally separate websites from one server on the same IP. Cheers -- John Willby

Re: [newbie] OT websites

2005-02-17 Thread et
On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:01 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I have a server here at home that I mess around with running a none too interesting family site :-) I have a second site that i would like to get up and running. I was wondering if its possible to run two totally separate

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-17 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:33, Amy wrote: Let me know if the original 10 offered are gone, I've got more than I can ever give out, and will be more than happy to share. ^_^ Why don´t you all get rid of these gmail invites at the site:

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Those things are gettng harder and harder to give away. -- /g

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Those things are gettng harder and harder to give

Re: [newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-16 Thread Amy
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:09:57 +1300, Rosemary McGillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:03 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off

[newbie] [OT]10 Gmail Invites

2005-02-15 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Hi there, I have 10 gmail invites going spare, so if you would like on just email me (reply off list please.) 1st come 1st served. Ta, Jamie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

[newbie] [OT] Google mail

2005-02-10 Thread Alberto Omar Rodrigues
Just five invitations for open a account on it: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-a556dae520-55a42f7b16-cc48ee4dd1 --- http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-a556dae520-0af2f56c8f-4e5f7073f5

[newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

2004-12-21 Thread Al Yaemes
Hi all, I have to setup a Win XP box. I think I remember somebody on this list saying something about what services should be shut down and which software firewall / antivirus / anti spyware should be installed prior to allowing said box access to the internet. But I can't find it in the

Re: [newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

2004-12-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 17:14, Al Yaemes wrote: Hi all, I have to setup a Win XP box. I think I remember somebody on this list saying something about what services should be shut down and which software firewall / antivirus / anti spyware should be installed prior to allowing said box

Re: [newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

2004-12-21 Thread Ne0StOrM
hear are some links for help with windows xp...i use norton anti virus and zone alarm for a firewall http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/ you can read on that website and there are some steps under custom to tweak out your windows xp

Re: [newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

2004-12-21 Thread Ne0StOrM
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/ very good website for what to setup with windows xp...norton antivirus is good and zone alarm is good for a firewall

Re: [newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

2004-12-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 11:14, Al Yaemes wrote: I have to setup a Win XP box. Famous last words. I think I remember somebody on this list saying something about what services should be shut down and which software firewall / antivirus / anti spyware should be installed prior to allowing

Re: [newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

2004-12-21 Thread Ne0StOrM
hear is just one other program good for start with winxp http://www.windowsstartup.com/ and its freee its a good thing not sure on another player for linux i am very new with mandrake but this will help what boots up when you boot your winxp

Re: [newbie] [OT] Bookstores in South Florida

2004-12-15 Thread et
On Sunday 12 December 2004 07:57 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: My wife is spending a couple of days in South Florida and I asked her to buy me some Linux books. She went to Barnes Noble and found some of them but others are still missing. I wonder if there is in South Florida any bookstore with a

[newbie] [OT] Bookstores in South Florida

2004-12-12 Thread Adolfo Bello
My wife is spending a couple of days in South Florida and I asked her to buy me some Linux books. She went to Barnes Noble and found some of them but others are still missing. I wonder if there is in South Florida any bookstore with a good stock of Linux books. If so, please, could you mail me

[newbie] OT: Bravo Mandrake Lists!

2004-12-06 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi folks, Finally I've got my confirmation that I'm invited to attend the Asia Source workshop/conference on Open Source Software in Bangalore-India 27/1-4/2 2005. I plan to make/get involved in discussion about 'building open source awareness in schools and it's community' during the event.

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Duncan Anderson wrote: Hello Graham Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:35:31 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be No, no, it's just pining for the fjords... If you hadn't screwed it to the case it would be pushing up the daisies by now.

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Duncan Anderson
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Guys, First off, apologies for posting from a Windows box. I'm slowly rebuilding a system after a major hardware catastrophe (see earlier post). After looking at a few options for data recovery from a linux system, I finally opted for the System Rescue CDROM at

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Duncan Anderson wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: It may be a while before I get a new linux box up and running as I'm pretty busy just now. But when I do, I shall be moving up from 9.2 to 10.1 Community. I'm looking forward to it. Cheers, Graham When you do get around to it, have fun! cheers

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-03 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 03 Dec 2004 00:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks Dennis. I just spent a few hours surfing around my local (Danish) resellers, found hundreds of USB sticks, but no one - that is NO ONE - specified anything but Windows or Mac. Then, my

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 03 December 2004 10:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 Dec 2004 00:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks Dennis. I just spent a few hours surfing around my local (Danish) resellers, found hundreds of USB sticks, but no one - that is NO ONE - specified anything but Windows or Mac.

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:33, Amy wrote: snip I remember there was a thread where one of the members of our list was struggling with a windows computer for something school related for his daughter. In the process of the discussion, someone mentioned a site that one could download all

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, my daughter uses her Windows box completely disconnected from everything.  When she wants something from the net, she uses her account on my Mandrake box and transport it via floppy or CD to her box. (Maybe a USB memory stick could

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Andrewd
If you do get a USB stick , Mandrake should detect it with no probs. I picked up my first USB stick yesterday, plugged it in and Mandrake detected it and created and icon for it on the screen automatically. Currently I am playing a few MP3s from it right now. On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 20:10,

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:10, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, my daughter uses her Windows box completely disconnected from everything.  When she wants something from the net, she uses her account on my Mandrake box and transport it via

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better with 32mb of ram and a 1 gig drive. Does not need a moniter or keyboard once set up This setup will be more than powerfull enough to protect a home network. Then run a decent av

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 21:24, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a Windows XP box running on my LAN, default

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 December 2004 04:38 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 December 2004 21:24, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. ...I must say though (not bragging, by any

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread mikkel
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better with 32mb of ram and a 1 gig drive. Does not need a moniter or keyboard once set up This setup will be more than powerfull enough to protect a home network. Then run a decent av

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread mikkel
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:10, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: BTW : Do you know a USB memory stick (about 512 MB) that works with Linux ? Kaj Haulrich. There are at least 3 brands that work listed on http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org and I think most others work. I have tried 3 different brands so

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 December 2004 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:10, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: BTW : Do you know a USB memory stick (about 512 MB) that works with Linux ? Kaj Haulrich. There are at least 3 brands that work listed on http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 15:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe overkill but had the bits lying around so why not, originally ran it on a 486 DX 120 with 32Mb same Hd and a 56K modem. On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows box contact with anything outside her room. You are;) Confined to the LAN can't really hurt can it, especially with static IP and a dedicated router/firewall. Then

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:51 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows box contact with anything outside her room. You are;) Confined to the LAN can't really hurt can it,

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Do you know why not? -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 19:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:51 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:11 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Actually, they do. My boss and I both have Sandisk Mini Cruzers (256 megs), and they work like a charm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ mount /mnt/sandisk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$ df /mnt/sandisk/

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 19:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:51 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Do you know why not? no -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:22 am, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:11 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Actually, they do. My boss and I both have Sandisk Mini Cruzers (256 megs), and they work like a charm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandrake]$

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:46 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: i gave mine away to a windows user (where it worked fine [xp]) when it locked up 9.2 as soon as i plugged it into the usb port. i replaced it with a kingston data traveller which has never required any special handling on 9.2 10.0

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Don't know what you are talking about. I have a Sandisk 512MB mini cruzer, works just fine, automounts and everything. -- Bryan Phinney Want to

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:22, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Actually, they do. My boss and I both have Sandisk Mini Cruzers (256 megs), and they work like a charm: Thought as much, that's why I asked. I mean how far can any vendor f**k_up a vfat formatted chip connected to a USB plug? --

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:46, Alan Shoemaker wrote: i gave mine away to a windows user (where it worked fine [xp]) when it locked up 9.2 as soon as i plugged it into the usb port. My laptop did that too every now and then. Turning off harddrake as a service at boot was the solution. --

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 02 December 2004 03:26 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:10, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, my daughter uses her Windows box completely disconnected from everything.  When she wants something from the net,

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 03 December 2004 00:53, you wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 03:26 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:10, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, my daughter uses her Windows box completely disconnected from

[newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Amy
Okay, so here's what's going on. I had ~thought~ I'd sold my dad on letting me install Mandrake for him instead of windows when we formatted his box to take care of the serious infestation he has going in the thing... however, since I'd gotten him to agree, he's changed his mind *Grumbles* So now

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Simon Roberts
to their tests simply by installing that NAT box). HTH, Cheers, Simon -Original Message- From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 1, 2004 4:33 PM To: 'Drake Newbies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related) Okay, so here's what's going on. I had ~thought

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 19:33, Amy wrote: So what I need from you guys? I remember there was a thread where one of the members of our list was struggling with a windows computer for something school related for his daughter. In the process of the discussion, someone mentioned a site

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: Then, install win, leave the modems and net cards disconnected, install all of those apps along with the patches and then you should be okay for about 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. LOL! You always give

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:33:53 -0800 Amy disseminated the following: however, since I'd gotten him to agree, he's changed his mind *Grumbles* I know he's your dad, and you want to help him, but there is a term you may be familiar with: 'enabler', and you may or may not want to be one of those.

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:10:11 -0500 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: 2 weeks before the machine gets compromised. ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a Windows XP box running on my LAN, default install, *no Service Packs installed*, just running AVG, and

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:24, JoeHill wrote: ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a Windows XP box running on my LAN, default install, *no Service Packs installed*, just running AVG, and it's never been in any way compromised, not even with spyware. I can

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:41:33 +1300 Brenda O'Hagan disseminated the following: On your LAN? That's usually the difference. A windows boxen behind something else (such as a router, or a linux box) is much much safer than a windows boxen with an internal connection to the internet (such as an

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
it depends... if there's something there claiming that port, and you trust that software, then why not??? open port 80, and send it to apache on windowsdoesn't do any harm. (though why you'd want to run apache on windows i dunno). it's all the other RPC ports that the worms exploit. (at least

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:19:23 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Joe, let me ask you at least one more question, I've got postfix working in this manner: Nov 26 19:00:02 cpollock postfix/nqmgr[2195]: 3D2E3584005: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=5272, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 26

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-27 Thread Chris
On Saturday 27 November 2004 08:52 am, JoeHill wrote: which is forwarding all my spam that I receive at my EL address to EL's junkmail address. I guess its possible that I don't have much else to do with it except possibly add in the procmail call? Okay, you just zoomed right by me in

[newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Guys, My Box died today :-( I was having some problems with a hard drive on the way out and was in the process of backing up my significant data when it froze and I had to do a hard reboot. After this, the machine would not start at all (It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be). With

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:35:31 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be No, no, it's just pining for the fjords... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:12:37 up 6 days, 7:22, 10 users, load average: 0.33, 0.13, 0.06

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread Duncan Anderson
Hello Graham Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through a new Mandrake

[newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone can help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list Nazi after me :) -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:19pm up 22 days, 20:47, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.12, 0.15

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone can help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list Nazi after me :) I don't see this as OT at all, though it's been covered

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 November 2004 23:23, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone can help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list Nazi after me :) I don't

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 November 2004 05:23 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600 Fetchmail is pretty simple. Install it, run 'fetchmailconf', yer done. If you have Postfix installed ('urpmi postfix' if you don't), then you've already arrived at the point where you can start the

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:10 pm, Chris wrote: Status: U Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now whats wrongback to having kmail check until I get this straight. I'll reply to my own msg here since I did notice one thing amiss, normal messages have a 'Status: R, this one I see has a

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:22:09 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Now whats wrongback to having kmail check until I get this straight. I'll reply to my own msg here since I did notice one thing amiss, normal messages have a 'Status: R, this one I see has a Status: U, meaning

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:56 pm, JoeHill wrote: Sorry, I'm not familiar with how this would work with skipping the Postfix step in the process. Perhaps KMail isn't seeing the mail in /var/spool/mail/chris as new mail, and so is not delivering it to your inbox? Also, check in the KMail

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:01:39 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide? I wouldn't touch anything that begins with a 'K' if you paid me ;-) I *am* encouraged by kdeinit committing suicide, it's finally realized it has no reason to live. Go here:

Re: [newbie] [OT] fetchmail procmail spamc help

2004-11-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 November 2004 06:56 pm, JoeHill wrote: Postfix does not add much 'overhead' to the process, in fact the anti-spam processing is going to take up a lot more. Why not save yourself the headaches and go with a process that works off the bat? Postfix also gives you the opportunity

[newbie] OT ssl certs

2004-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
I recently bought an ssl certificate for a domain and everything is cool with browsing the site with https://. Now I'm reading up on Courier IMAP and using SSL with it--can I use the same certificate for web and IMAP, or do I have to buy another one? Todd -- Name that tune #14: There's a room

[newbie] OT: gnupg version 1.2.4 or 2-1.9.10

2004-11-05 Thread Dan Gordon
I see that gnupg 1.2.4 is installed by default, but also see that for some things like S/MIME in kmail it seems version 2-1.9.10 is needed. Is it safe to install the latter version ? I have always had problems understanding why there seem to be more that one version of pgp available. Any

Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address

2004-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 30 October 2004 03:50 pm, Amy wrote: Then I suppose it's time to bug the gmail team. Very weird though, considering it's let me select a blank field for the replyto address. Oh well, I'll bug them about it now. Thanks for checking for me though. ^_^ Well, I replied to the

Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address

2004-10-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 14:04, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I use Kmail and simply tapped the 'L' key to reply to the list. The 'R' key would've replied only to you Amy. If I chose to use a mail client without this simple feature, the responsibility to reply properly is still mine. The

Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address

2004-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 31 October 2004 08:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 14:04, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I use Kmail and simply tapped the 'L' key to reply to the list. The 'R' key would've replied only to you Amy. If I chose to use a mail client without this simple feature,

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