Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake

2005-02-23 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:14, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks You just want to view normal, un-encrypted TV from

[newbie] windows-mandrake

2005-02-22 Thread Gica Strimbu
Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Isan emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks

Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake

2005-02-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:14 am, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks You could try Wine or Transgamings'

Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake

2005-02-22 Thread Gica Strimbu
Thank you - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:14 am, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program

[newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Roberts
From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 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

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 21:30, Simon Roberts wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 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;)

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread rikona
Hello H.J.Bathoorn, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 12:49:07 PM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: HJB On Thursday 02 December 2004 21:30, Simon Roberts wrote: These things will, by default, download and execute various things you probably didn't want. This is compounded by the average user's response to the

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:14, rikona wrote: Hello H.J.Bathoorn, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 12:49:07 PM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: HJB On Thursday 02 December 2004 21:30, Simon Roberts wrote: These things will, by default, download and execute various things you probably didn't want. This

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip Keeping Windows off the net is much better. I'm surprised how little uproar (actually total silence) there was here in the Netherlands when they rounded up a bunch of alleged Islamic terrorists who had threatened a right wing

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 03 December 2004 00:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: /snip Agreed.  At last Microsoft did something good. Kaj Haulrich. Actually I'm not all together thrilled at the idea. A large multinational enterprise (with a very stained legal and moral reputation) has more information than

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread rikona
Hello H.J.Bathoorn, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 2:45:12 PM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: HJB Downside is that calypso has a strange way of compressing it's HJB backups..if it realy crashes there's hardly a way to salvage HJB old mail archives. Oooo - wouldn't touch that one, I'm afraid. Got burned

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread rikona
Hello Kaj, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 3:03:04 PM, Kaj wrote: KH On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: KH snip Keeping Windows off the net is much better. I'm surprised how little uproar (actually total silence) there was here in the Netherlands when they rounded up a bunch

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 03 December 2004 00:27, rikona wrote: Hello Kaj, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 3:03:04 PM, Kaj wrote: KH On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: KH snip Keeping Windows off the net is much better. I'm surprised how little uproar (actually total silence) there

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread rikona
Hello Kaj, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 3:42:07 PM, Kaj wrote: KH On Friday 03 December 2004 00:27, rikona wrote: KH Agreed. At last Microsoft did something good. I'd have to disagree. It is a rather large invasion of privacy, which is a larger topic, but we should move this to the OT

[newbie] windows - linux authentication

2004-11-30 Thread Jan Rubbrecht
Hi, I have a mandrake 9.1 installed, and currently the system is configured that authentication happens against the /etc/passwd file on the local system. My linux pc is partly used as a fileserver for a couple windows XP 2K boxes that are in a WORKGROUP, no NT Domain. On all computers, the

Re: [newbie] Windows/Linux file transfers

2004-08-26 Thread Piotr Antczak
Dnia czw 26. sierpnia 2004 14:45, Peter Davis napisa: I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I can't seem to see a WinXP

Re: [newbie] Windows/Linux file transfers

2004-08-26 Thread Lanman
Peter, replies are inline with your text: Peter Davis wrote: I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I can't seem to see a

[newbie] Windows XP 2 - already broke

2004-08-20 Thread PM
Couldn't really make it up could you? A year late, billions of dollars, out less than 24 hours, and now: http://secunia.com/advisories/12321 Advise your friends running XP sp2 to turn off Active Scripting. -- pm ___ I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my

Re: [newbie] Windows XP 2 - already broke

2004-08-20 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:44:51 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Couldn't really make it up could you? A year late, billions of dollars, out less than 24 hours, and now: http://secunia.com/advisories/12321 Advise your friends running XP sp2 to turn off Active Scripting. I like this

[newbie] Windows boot disk

2004-06-18 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys I'm trying to have a play with vmware but need to create a windows boot disk to load XP. Unfortunately I don't have a windows system to create this boot disk on. Can anyone tell me how tp create one using mandrake 10. Before anyone asks, my wifes a bean counter and to get her to use

Re: [newbie] Windows boot disk

2004-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 00:20, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys I'm trying to have a play with vmware but need to create a windows boot disk to load XP. Unfortunately I don't have a windows system to create this boot disk on. Can anyone tell me how tp create one using mandrake 10. Before

Re: [newbie] Windows boot disk

2004-06-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys I'm trying to have a play with vmware but need to create a windows boot disk to load XP. Unfortunately I don't have a windows system to create this boot disk on. Can anyone tell me how tp create one using mandrake 10. Before anyone asks, my wifes a bean counter and

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 27, 2004 5:21 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 21:53

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 21:11, Yves Arsenault wrote: Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves Bear in mind that you're going to have to create a group - for users that use this machine or have accounts on this machine - and sync them with the windows users. It ain't really that

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 28, 2004 2:48 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Fri, 2004-05-28

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 03:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes Yves, I think you'll have fun once you realise how simple it really is; Samba is truly a saviour in as much as it can not only emulate an NT domain but control one better than

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 28, 2004 3:09 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 03:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes

[newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-27 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to run a Mandrake 10 server as a windows type domain controller for a local network? Yves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 21:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to run a Mandrake 10 server as a windows type domain controller for a local network? Yves Not that version matters, but my system here, a MDK 9.1+ setup with Samba 2.2.8a is an NT domain

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Thread JRH
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 09:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Er...I think we've been through this already (day late and a dollar short) NYAH! I rolled over and took it like a Man in the end I reinstalled, and whilst I was at it, set aside 3GB as FAT32, and reloaded '98 on my main drive. It's

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 01:55, JRH wrote: On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 09:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Er...I think we've been through this already (day late and a dollar short) NYAH! I rolled over and took it like a Man in the end I reinstalled, and whilst I was at it, set aside 3GB as

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Thread JRH
On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 19:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: So now you should be able to point lilo to the /dev/hda1 and boot - have you tried that now? Not yet. havent had chance! Just been setting up a Lexmark (spit) printer on my neighbours Windows (spit) computer. Once I have had a coffee and

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 05:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:07, Frank wrote: Good call Tina. ...ya ain't allowed to agree with her! (grin) (...reckon I'll sleep on the lounge tonight) stephen kuhn - owner I thought we were not supposed to agree with Joe! You can't have

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:41, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2004 05:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:07, Frank wrote: Good call Tina. ...ya ain't allowed to agree with her! (grin) (...reckon I'll sleep on the lounge tonight) stephen kuhn - owner I

[newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread JRH
Hi all. Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive without a Windows partition, but In reality, I cant. I have loaded up

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 21:06, JRH wrote: Hi all. Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive without a Windows

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread JRH
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 12:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: JRH After you edited the /etc/lilo.conf - did you re-run lilo? Ahh hold up Stephen. I used the GUI tool to alter things. looks like it hasnt saved it! I've noticed it has a habit of doing stuff like that, for example, when I copy

[newbie] Windows and LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread JRH
Stephen, Did as you suggested, and still no joy! I select windows at the lilo screen, and it just hangs there now have to use the reset switch to get it back again. I have pasted my lilo.conf file contents below. Doubtless to say, I'm doing something wrong here... but what?? :-)

Re: [newbie] Windows and LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:21, JRH wrote: Stephen, Did as you suggested, and still no joy! I select windows at the lilo screen, and it just hangs there now have to use the reset switch to get it back again. I have pasted my lilo.conf file contents below. Doubtless to say, I'm

Re: [newbie] Windows and LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Alle 14:35, domenica 25 aprile 2004, Stephen Kuhn ha scritto: try this as well: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:21, JRH wrote: Stephen, Did as you suggested, and still no joy! I select windows at the lilo screen, and it just hangs there now

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 01:36, jeb wrote: Ok, then..How do I do it linux to linux? If you're using Mandrake: Just ssh, Mdk has X forwarding enabled by default. Otherwise you need the X flag, thus: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] You cannot get the whole interface to run remotely (VNC does that well

[newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-13 Thread jeb
I have a question for the list, what do I need to send x via ssh to my windows box? I have a Mandrake 10 server running ssh and x, on my windows xp box, I am running putty with x11 forwarding on. However, I login fine but when I launch x as a normal user I get : [EMAIL PROTECTED] jebba]$

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:01, jeb wrote: I have a question for the list, what do I need to send x via ssh to my windows box? I have a Mandrake 10 server running ssh and x, on my windows xp box, I am running putty with x11 forwarding on. However, I login fine but when I launch x as a

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-13 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:01:48 -0500 jeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question for the list, what do I need to send x via ssh to my windows box? cygwin with XFree86 I have a Mandrake 10 server running ssh and x, on my windows xp box, I am running putty with x11 forwarding on.

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-13 Thread jeb
Ok, then..How do I do it linux to linux? Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:01, jeb wrote: I have a question for the list, what do I need to send x via ssh to my windows box? I have a Mandrake 10 server running ssh and x, on my windows xp box, I am running putty with x11

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:36, jeb wrote: Ok, then..How do I do it linux to linux? SSH. (That is, if you're using the same version/distro) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

RE: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-27 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
I'am having the same problem with Mandrake Move can't change the screen resolution. -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen Dear All Some

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
with a USB storage device, your changes will be lost when you quit MMove. -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen Dear All Some windows are bigger than

[newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread frankieh
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Hold down the ALT key and drag the window so you can access the buttons.. -- rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:57:15PM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! It probably depends on your window manager, but try

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread bmobile40
Set your screen resolution to a higher DPI. I recommend 1024 X 768. That should fix the problem. Jim On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Frank Bax
At 11:57 AM 3/24/04, Paul Smith wrote: Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? 1) Buy a bigger monitor 2) Change resolution 3) Memorise how many times you need to hit tab key to get to 'OK'

[newbie] Windows Services For Unix--free

2004-01-14 Thread Miark
Used to be $99 and is now free. Shock of shocks. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/1738230 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] windows networking

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Savchick
I have Mandrake Linux 9.2 up and running on a PC I hope to use as a file server. I have two additional PCs running Windows 98SE in a peer-to-peer network configuration. One of them also supplies an ADSL connection to all PCs in my network (I used to have 3 running 98). The ADSL PC runs WinRoute

Re: [newbie] windows networking

2003-12-03 Thread cdrack
Hi, on my prior Mandrake sistems (9.1,9.0,8) if you whant to use the DHCP option, you must have a HDCP server that provides you the control of the addresses over youre net. So if you don't have it, the easyest thing you can do is use the static ip address assigned by youre selfe. For using

Re: [newbie] windows networking

2003-12-03 Thread Raffaele Belardi
To set up a file server for windows machines you need to install the samba server package - it's on your MDK installation disks, use Software Package Management from Mandrake Control Center. To configure samba server you should read the Samba-HOWTO, just to know what you're doing. To check if

Re: [newbie] windows networking

2003-12-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 03 Dec 2003 3:35 pm, Raffaele Belardi wrote: To set up a file server for windows machines you need to install the samba server package - it's on your MDK installation disks, use Software Package Management from Mandrake Control Center. To configure samba server you should read the

[newbie] windows network connected

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Savchick
Thanks for the replies. I have my linux PC successfully connected to my network with internet access now. I think I was selecting linux-secure from the bootloader instead of linux. That locks everything down doesn't it? If so, that was my problem. Now on to Samba! Chris Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] windows network connected

2003-12-03 Thread cdrack
just a thing... the linux secure option from the boot loader means some thing like on windows fail proof mode... where you have running only the escential services and is used to fix some thing that doesnt work... like video settings or services that hang the system. the secure option doesn't

[newbie] Windows vs. Virus'

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-115 Is Windows a Virus? No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do: * They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that. * Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

[newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet, quarantined, and otherwise shut out, wherever possible, until MS decides to

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 08:08 am, HaywireMac wrote: The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet, quarantined, and

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
Specially since a lot of Windoze users refuse to believe they're infected, or do anything about it even if they are. Usual response is I'm not havin any problems. Besides I have a virus checker and use Zone Alarm. If microsoft was smart, they would, upon discovering these security holes,

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:37:48 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Still if I showed up to them as a false positive, I can only wonder how many infected Winblows users they miss detecting. OTOH, disconnecting many Winsuz users, even just the infected ones, would put any ISP out

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:08:15 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet,

Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread rikona
Hello Tom, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:37:48 AM, you wrote: TB I can only wonder if I might have showed up in SBC's logs as TB receiving infected email from Winsux users. Perhaps someone spoofed your address and SBC doesn't know/care who really sent it. -- rikona

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 01:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Tom, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:37:48 AM, you wrote: TB I can only wonder if I might have showed up in SBC's logs as TB receiving infected email from Winsux users. Perhaps someone spoofed your address and SBC doesn't know/care

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:41, rikona wrote: Hello Tom, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:37:48 AM, you wrote: TB I can only wonder if I might have showed up in SBC's logs as TB receiving infected email from Winsux users. Perhaps someone spoofed your address and SBC doesn't know/care who

Re: [newbie] Windows version of Konqueror and Kmail.

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windows version of Konqueror and Kmail. Hi, Is there a windows version of Konqueror or Kmail? I am dual booting and I want the same browser and mail program on both systems. I can use mozilla

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Miark
Dennis, As a rule of thumb, if your firewall is running NAT (and they usually do) and you're not forwarding ports to Windows machines on your side of the wall, then you're safe from outside-in attacks. Miark On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 31 July 2003 02:45 pm, Miark wrote: Dennis, As a rule of thumb, if your firewall is running NAT (and they usually do) and you're not forwarding ports to Windows machines on your side of the wall, then you're safe from outside-in attacks. Miark On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Haywiremac
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm didn't the DHS *just sign* a multi-gazillion dollar deal with MS? -- HaywireMac If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.

[newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Dennis Myers
http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm The above is a Govt. warning on Internet attacks on Windows systems. I don't know a great deal about that kind of attack, so if I have the windows machine behind a router and a linux firewall will this afford some protection

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm didn't the DHS *just sign* a multi-gazillion dollar deal with MS? I believe they did. Another demonstration that *only* the

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 31 July 2003 02:12 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm didn't the DHS *just sign* a multi-gazillion dollar deal with MS? I

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 04:12 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm didn't the DHS *just sign* a

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 31 July 2003 04:12 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm didn't the DHS *just sign* a multi-gazillion dollar deal with MS? I

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:03, Dennis Myers wrote: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm The above is a Govt. warning on Internet attacks on Windows systems. I don't know a great deal about that kind of attack, so if I have the windows machine behind a router and a

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 31 July 2003 02:55 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 31 July 2003 04:12 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Haywiremac wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:03:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm didn't

Re: [newbie] Windows vulnerable again

2003-07-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 31 July 2003 06:21 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:03, Dennis Myers wrote: http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/Potential7302003.htm The above is a Govt. warning on Internet attacks on Windows systems. I don't know a great deal about that kind of

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 9:51 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 22 March 2003 10:30 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 21 Mar 2003 11:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 March 2003 11:38 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Anne, when I edited fstab to include umask=0 0 0 the problem went away. Kaj

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread Frank Bax
At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement permissions the same way - so a chmod wouldn't have any effect, and

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-22 Thread et
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:51 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 12:49 AM 3/22/03, David E. Fox wrote: That - of course - triggered my filthy phantasy. I tried to=20 become root and change the permissions by issuing the=20 command : chmod 777 * . That's because FAT32 doesn't implement

[newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is needed here : My box is set up with 4 users : My ever-beloved

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Kaj, Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired it. Until that moment mandrake could again write on the windows

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Miark
Kaj, You can't change permisions on VFAT filesystems from the commandline. You have to specify it at mount time. Make sure your fstab entries have umask=0 0 0. Miark On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:08:02 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 21 March 2003 11:38 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Kaj, Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread et
On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or form. Only Mandrake 9.0. Well, a modification is

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:09 am, Miark wrote: Kaj, You can't change permisions on VFAT filesystems from the commandline. You have to specify it at mount time. Make sure your fstab entries have umask=0 0 0. Miark Thanks Miark - that did the trick ! Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Windows more secure than Linux

2003-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 March 2003 12:44 am, et wrote: On Friday 21 March 2003 05:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hi all... For the last 7 years or so I thought that Windows had no security at all. Until today. But first things first : I don't have Windows on my box. In no way, manner, shape or

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:22, Guy Rouillier wrote: Both of these statements are untrue for Win2k/XP. I read somewhere (sorry, don't remember where - I'm pretty sure it was on the ext2 project page) that there is an apparently fairly stable filesystem driver for Win2k/XP that allows it to use

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:22 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot Winblows don't support any Linux

RE: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread Ken Walker
. One way round it for us is to install XP on fat32, create the ghost image and then convert from fat32 to NTFS. -Original Message-From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 10 March 2003 7:12 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual BootSo

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:20, et wrote: I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important data just cause I wanted to try stuff out that said

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:35 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:20, et wrote: I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:30, et wrote: this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is what # df says; Filesystem 1K-blocks

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:38 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:30, et wrote: this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread Brian
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 08:38 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:30, et wrote: this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is

Re: [newbie] Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 - Dual Boot

2003-03-11 Thread Brian
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 02:12 pm, Brian wrote: Why are you so insistant on ntfs? The security aspects get blown out the door by installing Linux, so I cannot imagine that the speed is that much better to make it a requirement. Greg, Again, I am looking to continue to use

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