Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:19:29 -0600 Justin Grote disseminated the following: wrapper ...speaking of wrapping, any way you could keep the line wrap under 80 columns? Easier to read for all involved. Otherwise, very informative, thanks! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 20:51:11 up

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-07 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:12 pm, Justin Grote wrote: On 7/7/2004 at 7:39 PM, Michael Holt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alternatively, you can type: nmap localhost -p 0-65535 at the bash prompt (assuming you have it installed, urpmi nmap if not). and it will tell you what ports you have

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Getting online with DSL modem

2004-07-03 Thread Jeff Reid
Is it necessary to specify IP addresses anywhere at all? I'm not sucessfully online in Linux yet. Don't know what I'm missing. Thanks, Jeff - Original Message - From: Justin Grote [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 7:40 PM Subject: Re[2]:

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Getting online with DSL modem

2004-07-03 Thread Jeff Reid
to the error message, but the general idea. What is SIOCDELRT? I tried going to 192.168.0.1, but I got a connection refused error in Mozilla. Thanks, Jeff - Original Message - From: Jeff Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 8:51 PM Subject: Re: Re[2

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MSFT Connecting to MSN with linux

2004-07-03 Thread Asa Rossoff
From: Justin Grote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, don't forget to reply to the LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), not the SENDER (justin at grote dot name), so everyone can benefit from your questions :) Hi Justin :) BTW You have a reply-to header that redirects replies to your address...

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What Does The Document Contains No Data Mean?

2004-04-14 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:12:11 +0100, David Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Robin, This still occurs in Firefox 8 - looks like there is a problem that cannot be fixed by the developers - uness they don't care about the User Interface I don't think it's the fault of the browser

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

2003-12-14 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:20:39 +1300 Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to feel secure using Linux but I don't the level of security someone in business might need. At the moment I dont *feel* secure because I dont understand how the firewall works, and I can't begin to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
The first thing... about the modem... there are a lot of information about the real modems and the winmodems (or toy modems)... and because the winmodems are not based on standards of hardware and communications but on them own cheap technologi... is hard to make every winmodem works on Linux.

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] sensitive materials

2003-10-18 Thread Anguo
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 06:38 am, rikona wrote: It depends on HOW sensitive they are. You can easily download crackers for zips and Office (don't know about the linux versions, though). These are considered rather insecure. For industrial strength protection, use GPG/PGP and a 256+ key

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: Re[2]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:42, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:38, rikona wrote: Hello HaywireMac, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 4:58:29 AM, you wrote: H Good to know, thanks. Still, it is important to keep a wary eye on H MS, Big Media, and hardware vendors. If they see Linux

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] When will 9.1 dry up?

2003-09-28 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:24, rikona wrote: Hello Charlie, Sunday, September 28, 2003, 12:39:36 PM, you wrote: I got 9.0 in a box when 9.1 was just coming out. After a period of learning, I tried to get some additional programs for 9.0, but found almost all were for 9.1, and some did

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] When will 9.1 dry up?

2003-09-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 28 September 2003 03:24 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Charlie, Sunday, September 28, 2003, 12:39:36 PM, you wrote: I got 9.0 in a box when 9.1 was just coming out. After a period of learning, I tried to get some additional programs for 9.0, but found almost all were for 9.1, and some

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:49, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote: AS RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-) Took me six months to figure out that when a browser opened

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Richard, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote: RU apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y. Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same problem, although their overall integration of help is a

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:46 pm, rikona wrote: Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:02:46 AM, Bryan wrote: With China on the horizon to soon adopt Linux, I expect to see major market splits very soon. China may save us after all, since they will be making everything. :-) So we're depending on China

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote: Hello yankl, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote: y hence the end of my e-mail man -k. Have any one done their home y work? Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned. y By typing #man -k lilo one can see what command it

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-22 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:47, Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote: Hello yankl, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote: y hence the end of my e-mail man -k. Have any one done their home y work? Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned.

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-12 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:47:15 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Heather/Femme, snip HF For now, seeing seniors use linux or any segment of the population HF that is of the mindset a comp shold be like a toaster (it just HF works), is a pipe dream. Actually, The seniors I know are

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-12 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 23:47, rikona wrote: Hello Heather/Femme, Thursday, September 11, 2003, 10:44:15 AM, you wrote: HF Have to agree with Anne. Till linux becomes more pervasive, ppl HF who can only turn the comp on nothing else (and most don't want HF to know more) won't use linux

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:03:42 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello robin, Sunday, September 7, 2003, 1:17:15 PM, you wrote: r There is also the factor that the average Linux sysadmin is a lot r more savvy than a point-and-click NT sysadmin. And both are almost infinitely more

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Upgrade from 9.0-9.1

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:44, David Anderson wrote: snip But what happens to web server pages, samba config, mail config, mySQL databases? That stuff SHOULD be upgraded without a hitch (they have for me) - but always make a backup of your

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Upgrade from 9.0-9.1

2003-09-10 Thread HaywireMac
On 10 Sep 2003 13:10:40 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Don't know about a straight *upgrade* 9.0-9.1. FWIW, however,if you decide instead to go for a clean *installation* of 9.1,then 'tar' /home, save it elsewhere (e.g. on a windows partition) and you can copy it back

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] This is just sickening

2003-09-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:56, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 1:00:03 PM, you wrote: BP In the seven weeks since the RIAA announced that they intended to BP sue file traders, CD sales have declined by 54%. I'm really glad to hear that. Serves 'em right - they

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-08 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:15, rikona wrote: Hello Douglas, snip I couldn't sign up via the web either - tried the email and it worked. I've had that happen in the past with the newbie list.But the e-mail doesn't work either, for the expert list for me. What kind of response are you getting?

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Torvalds feat. Colifornia

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
EH So, would the new name be Linifornia? Not bad... How about CaliforGNU? There are certainly a lot of gnu things that seem to happen in/to California. Or maybe CNU: Califronia's Not Unix Califronia's Not U.S. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Autopsy or I killed my favourite mdk install

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 06:23, rikona wrote: Are the oz taxes at all similar? If there are some similarities, the above spreadsheet might be a starting point. After doing biz for years back home in the US, I tend to reckon that Oz taxes are now even easier to deal with than they've ever been in

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Another list member needs cleansing!

2003-09-04 Thread David
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 18:22, rikona wrote: Hello David, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 10:04:21 AM, you wrote: D I swear I only sent one message about this - :-( What's in the sent box? Just one message! Got this message a couple of times returned from sympa...I think in response to my

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:52, rikona wrote: Hello Stephen, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 1:07:27 PM, you wrote: SK I managed once to un-install wife but ended up getting another SK installation less than ten years later. Hmmm... I've got one too. These things sound like a virus, or maybe

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] infected list posting

2003-09-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 4:49 am, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 2:47:49 PM, you wrote: BP It is trivial to spoof the machine name when sending out mail but BP spoofing the IP address is NOT trivial. If the virus sets up a stack that is *completely* independent,

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

2003-09-03 Thread Frankie
[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List? On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:30:36 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Does your ISP allow lists? If so, this might be easier and it is likely to be able to get mail all the time. Somehow I'd doubt it, but I'll check on that, thanks! -- HaywireMac

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:15:45 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, I have mailman, permanent connection and static IP/domain name.. I can run the gamming list if you like.. To be honest with you, that might be a good idea. I still am not even sure I could get it to work with my

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

2003-09-03 Thread Frankie
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of HaywireMac Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 8:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List? On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:15:45 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, I have mailman, permanent connection

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:18:13 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: you can be an admin if you like Haywire... stop the spammers and stuff. Kewwwlll... Just one thing, no political discussions or 6000yo earth discussions.. :-) Are you kidding me? I avoid those like the plague these

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

2003-09-03 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 06:29, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:18:13 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: you can be an admin if you like Haywire... stop the spammers and stuff. Kewwwlll... Just one thing, no political discussions or 6000yo earth discussions.. :-)

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Gaming Mailing List?

2003-09-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:30:36 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Does your ISP allow lists? If so, this might be easier and it is likely to be able to get mail all the time. Somehow I'd doubt it, but I'll check on that, thanks! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Mplayer Being Shut Down?

2003-09-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 01:36, rikona wrote: Hello Lyvim, Sunday, August 31, 2003, 11:46:16 AM, you wrote: LX What about representative government? Haven't they heard about LX people that vote? Yes, but people vote according to what they hear in the media. Money rules, because it is

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux Apps - Firewalls

2003-08-28 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:53:49 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't think you can get this with ANY configuration in Mandrake because, as I understand it, iptables is NOT application-aware as are several firewalls for Windoze. IMHO, this is a great oversight in protecting individual

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux Apps - Firewalls

2003-08-28 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:14:00 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Some things, like app-awareness, seem to be better in the Win FW's. Like I said earlier in the thread, the prob with app awareness is that a lot of trojans will either: a) disguise themselves as the trusted app, say IE, or

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-07-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:54:59PM -0700, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? I checked out glimpse. It is a text indexer, and can do some sophisticated searches. It requires a plugin to handle Word Excel I see. I haven't explored this. If

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-07-01 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? Hello dfox I found some info onthe web, but nothing foe Mandrake. Is there a Mandrake versoina available? I haven't seen one. glimpse is a fairly old tool afaik. Sorry about the lateness of the reply. urpmi (i have

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-07-01 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? I checked out glimpse. It is a text indexer, and can do some sophisticated searches. It requires a plugin to handle Word Excel I see. I haven't explored this. If you look for 'indexing' on sourceforge.net there are a

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-28 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
I've had exactly the same problem with just a single Windows PC connected to 2 printers (both installed on the system) through a data switch. Print with the data switch switched to the wrong printer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Cancel the printing - no effect Delete the print job at the print

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:55, rikona wrote: Hello Robin, Friday, June 27, 2003, 1:53:54 PM, you wrote: RT Watch what you say about the Taliban, mate. They might not take RT too kindly to being compared with Microsoft ;-) True. :-) Hitler maybe? After all, M$ is a master of Nazi

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Image Win partitions from linux floppy?

2003-06-19 Thread Derek Jennings
OK I have taken a look at partimage. (I was confusing it with 'parted' the partition maker) It looks like it does just what you want. And it IS on knoppix. I just checked. Knoppix is really awfully good. Just stick the CD in a Windows machine and 60 seconds later it is running a 'real'

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-19 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:13, rikona wrote: Hello Technoslick, Monday, June 16, 2003, 12:00:42 PM, you wrote: T No, thankfully. It just has to be an executable that shows itself T in calling for services through ports that need to be opened. Are you certain that it actually knows that

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Max HD size backup?

2003-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 5:04 am, rikona wrote: snip BF You could use rsync to do backups to a removable drive. Sounds interesting for the data backups. Thanks. I'm still snooping for a reliable way to do complete (and reliable) disk image backups of the ext3's I have. It seems some programs

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread bascule
although this isn't the solution you want, netstat can still be your friend :) to see what is happening on your machine (assuming you haven't been rooted but then all approaches are moot) use: netstat -tuap to see all connections that are tcp or udp but not unix sockets, this will show both

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:34, rikona wrote: Hello Technoslick, Monday, June 16, 2003, 3:50:17 PM, you wrote: T My Linksys is a BEFSR41. Four fully Switched ports, Cable Modem or T DSL capable. It looks as though the Linksys may be getting the app info from Zone Alarm, which MUST be on

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Its on the club site: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kdeedu-3.1-5mdk.i586.html John . ,snip KH Why not use the newest version ? -I have kstars 0.9.1 running KH fine on my 9.1 box. Where did you get that? I can't find a Mandrake rpm for 9.1

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-14 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Mind you there is a list of dependencies as long as your arm... all the best! ROTFL John . ,snip KH Why not use the newest version ? -I have kstars 0.9.1 running KH fine on my 9.1 box. Where did you get that? I can't find a Mandrake rpm for 9.1 anywhere.

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] How contained are crashes?

2003-06-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 3:38 am, rikona wrote: Hello Jason, Monday, June 9, 2003, 4:20:48 PM, you wrote: J Just ocassionally have a look around for .core files and delete J them. I did, and didn't find any. J A core dump is data from that program that was in RAM at the time J of the

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

2003-06-10 Thread Miark
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 19:05:07 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set it to plain. Why do people not use HTML stuff anyways? See http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml What would websites look like without HTML? Crap. On lists, content is everything, not

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Spammers

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 11:24 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Dennis, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 2:38:24 PM, you wrote: DM Well I don't get much spam, but spamassassin has now been set up DM to use bysean (spelling?) algorythms and has caught 100% of the DM spam I have been sent. A question: does SA

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 21:52, Frankie wrote: Hi Rikona, You are quiet right, for normal browsing you have (or should have) the right to be nobody. but for any sort of shopping, you are hurting youself more then anyone else by blocking any means to make sure you are who you say you are.

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

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
I can set it to plain. Why do people not use HTML stuff anyways? What would websites look like without HTML? Crap. html belong on websites text belongs on mail lists Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-06-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 08 June 2003 03:10 pm, Cody Harris wrote: At 12:29 PM 6/8/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Cody, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 4:45:30 AM, you wrote: CH I can install windoze in my sleep. But i spend hours with Linux. CH Maybe that's just me. There is a learning curve, as with anything

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 04:42, rikona wrote: Hello Stephen, Saturday, June 7, 2003, 2:35:43 PM, you wrote: SK Listings about linux virii: SK http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslistfind.asp?findWhere=011findTxt=linux There is mention of an ELF file type. What is that? ELF and AOUT are

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

2003-06-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 06:10, Cody Harris wrote: My friends all have Windoze. They send me windoze programs and we play Windoze games and run Windoze stuff. So if this is the consensus of this thread - that you're not just asking people's opinions about why they're running linux - then what is

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

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

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-08 Thread Frankie
Hi Rikona, I worked for a payment gateway.. and was costantly having to adjust our apps to handle blocking firewalls and stuff that end users have (and we did NO tracking of our clients customers at all other then what was necessary for security) The problem is that we need to ensure that

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-05 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 20:15:06 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: A question: many viruses are nothing more than an executable script. In Win, it is rare that one needs to run a script, and a 'good thing to do' is to simply disable the scripting capability. But - in Linux, scripting looks

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:30:45 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: linuxconf doesn't want to run at cli. I get - 'error message from remadmin: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server' 'error message from remadmin: Xlib: no protocol specified' And a few more lines like the above,

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME amp; DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread eric huff
linuxconf doesn't want to run at cli. I get - run it in curses mode, I had to too. If you read man linuxconf it explains the switch you need to use. It's kinda like text mode but with menus and all that. I tried running it on a different X server, like :1.0, 2.0, it wouldn't go. That's

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Support questions

2003-06-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 31 May 2003 3:31 am, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 1:57:49 AM, you wrote: DJ I think ,( but am not sure) that your Powerpack purchase entitles DJ you to temporary club membership. Run drakclub as root to register DJ and set up the club urpmi source. It

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-31 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 30 May 2003 01:37:14 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two basic ways to compile an app. In the first you start off with a 'tarball' (A .tar.gz compressed file) containing the source code. You run ./configure to configure it for your environment, and then

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 30 May 2003 12:51 am, rikona wrote: Hello Derek, DJ kio_locate - A kio slave plug in for konqueror. There is an RPM in DJ contrib and in texstar so 'urpmi kio_locate' is all you need to DJ install it. I was looking around for this but couldn't find it. I found several references to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 3:05 am, rikona wrote: Hello Joeb, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:58:13 PM, you wrote: J ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be J all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Thanks very much for the tip. Maybe should have waited, but

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:37:11AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread bascule
#slocate --help shows that '-r regexp' is probably what you want bascule On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:49 am, rikona wrote: I just tried this - works OK, and is fast, but gives me too much. Is there a way to use more complex search expressions (or regex?) to nail down exactly what I'm after?

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 09:05 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Joeb, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:58:13 PM, you wrote: J ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be J all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Thanks very much for the tip. Maybe should have waited, but

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Redirecting in KMail

2003-03-01 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 01:53 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote: On Friday, February 28, 2003, 7:27:35 PM, et wrote: Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them? e in the main (KDE Mail Client window) setting, configure filters, As far as I understand, it will allow

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my mouse pointing into this /mnt? To others, no problema. Do

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread et
On Friday 07 February 2003 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my

Re: Re 2 : [newbie-it] Terminale

2003-01-14 Thread tom
Scusate se mi intrometto nell argomento..ma visto che stiamo parlando di caratteri di escape in PS1 volevo chiedervi.. anche se metto \$ questo sembra non aver efetto.. quando faccio pippo@|$ su passw... root@,,,|$ come faccio a far tornare il caro # al root ?

Re: Re 2 : [newbie-it] Terminale

2003-01-13 Thread Matteo Leccardi
Ah, dimeticavo. Sia da X che da modalita' testo, cosa ti restiuisce il comando echo $TERM Matteo bash-2.05b$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash bash-2.05b$ echo $PS1 \s-\v\$

Re: Re 2 : [newbie-it] Terminale

2003-01-13 Thread Matteo Leccardi
bash-2.05b$ echo $SHELL /bin/bash bash-2.05b$ echo $PS1 \s-\v\$ Ciao Corrado, ci stiamo incamminando nella direzione giusta. Vedi l'output di echo $PS1 (\s-\v\$) ? Bene. Ed ora guarda questo estratto dal tuo bashrc che hai postato. [ $PS1 = \\s-\\v\\\$ ] PS1=[\u@\h \W]\\$ In pratica,

Re: Re 2 : [newbie-it] Terminale

2003-01-10 Thread Matteo Leccardi
Ciao Corrado, il tuo bashrc e' a posto e, se mi non sbaglio, appartiene a una MDK 90. Ad ogni modo se export | grep PS1 non restituisce alcun risultato... :-/ fai un'altra semplice prova. Dall'utente che presenta il problema e da uno con la shell a posto prova a digitare questi due comandi:

Re: Re 2 : [newbie-it] Terminale

2003-01-10 Thread Corrado
Il ven, 2003-01-10 alle 14:05, Matteo Leccardi ha scritto: il tuo bashrc e' a posto e, se mi non sbaglio, appartiene a una MDK 90. Ad ogni modo se fai un'altra semplice prova. Dall'utente che presenta il problema e da uno con la shell a posto prova a digitare questi due comandi: echo

Re: Re 2 : [newbie-it] Terminale

2003-01-09 Thread Corrado
Il gio, 2003-01-09 alle 11:38, Matteo Leccardi ha scritto: Tornando al tuo problema, ti consiglio controllare questi file ed evenutalmente provare - magari dopo averne create copie di backup - i file di configurazione della tua utenza. export | grep PS1 non restituisce alcun risultato...

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] services not starting

2002-12-17 Thread Nikunj Bansal
Glat that helped. No idea why its not working with 9.0. I am not running 9.0 yet. --- Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Nikunj, Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 4:29:10 PM, you wrote: NB What is the initlevel you are booting into. Check in NB /etc/inittab for a line beginning

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 12:25 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Derek, I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:07 am, you wrote: snip Thank you for the answer, but I set the lowest security level at install (I think it was Medium). So what do I neeed to do? Commment out the last line? No I do not think that would help. You have to 'pass' a test to get access to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-15 Thread Flux
Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across the Login Manager. Its kinda hidden

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Thread RichardA
Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:47: Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-15 Thread Franki
, then perhaps the chaos you long for will ensue... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of RichardA Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert Roman Korcek, Tuesday 15

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] mdk9.0

2002-09-27 Thread Franki
I just found a weird issue somewhat like that... I installed 9 just fine, but while in KDE, I tried to install Wine with urpmi wine It asked for CD2, which i gave it, and it gave an error message can't stat wine.xxx.xx. and failed.. and yet the install used CD2 for ages with no problems..

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] mdk9.0

2002-09-27 Thread s
On Friday 27 September 2002 06:49 am, Colin Jenkins wrote: msn I would also bet you burned them too fast. I've done this a time or two before. msn 4x burn is the safest bet. although I have had iso's burned at 6x and 8x msn work fine too. just reburnt at 4x.. still the same...if I use

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] vnc

2002-08-25 Thread Stormjumper
as i said, i'm pretty much a newbie *grin* so my value as a source of help is pretty much limited. but offhand, i've 2 suggestions regarding the font path problem. 1. if you think you've messed up certain vnc scripts, remove vnc and vncserver (with rpm/rpmdrake/software manager), and install it

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Aug 2002 1:54 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi Derek, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub The most popular RPM requests (and their status) as of 29 July 2002: KDE 3.0.2 done Wine testing

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:54:02 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I wonder, can non-club members download those RPMs, too? Absolutely. During the 'testing' period they are on the club server, and afterwards they go in 'Unsupported' on the ftp mirrors. In any case the

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] normalize

2002-07-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday July 31 2002 09:42 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Tom, Thanks for your answer. I have read the manual thoroughly. I suspected you did, but it was a 'public' answer I'm a normalize fan ;) IMO, store bought CD's, ripped to wav's and normalized -m, then re-burned, sound better

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-28 Thread Scott
On Sunday 28 July 2002 06:59 am, you wrote: I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz dp .20mm for $190 Anyone know anything about it? Also, its not listed on the Samsung USA site or the rest of the site even under obsolete models! Sorry,

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] chmod and chown on vfat

2002-07-28 Thread Damian G
Sorry, don't have it here at hand, but you just need to append quiet at the end of the options part, eg.__ /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,exec,users,quiet 0 0 -- HTH Roman cool, thanks a lot! ;o) Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:40 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: What happens if you Ctrl-Alt-F1 and open a dir with MC? And if you shut down X ie go to runlevel I think 3 (someone please coorect me if I am wrong)?

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:39, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey, You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and

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