Re: [newbie] Linux + Mainstream

2000-01-12 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
Josh McCaffrey wrote: Seth Gibson wrote: Greets all! In real life i work at a Costco Warehouse, for those who dont know, its a warehouse store similar to Sam's Club. As i was walking the floor today i noticed that we started selling MacMillian(sp) Complete Linux 6.5. Right

[newbie] message log question

2000-01-07 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
I found the following messages, many of them, in my /var/log/messages file - kernel: packet log: input deny eth0 proto=17 207.226.173.193:137 208.194.173.26:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=22928 F=0x T=117 There are many of these with differant numbers after the : . I recognize the second ip number, it's

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-07 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
I downloaded the files with ...1.1.2-... so I believe those should be the correct files. When I tried rpm -e kde* I got an error - error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm And when I tried rpm -uvh kde* I got the message: rpm: only one major mode may be specified I cannot run kpackage, it

Re:[newbie]Happy Holidays....

1999-12-23 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
it glosses over some sections such as using comanche and the section on firewall rules and kfirewall and gfcc, both of which have sparse help files. I'll have to get a book on these subjects, maybe for christmas. -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achie

Re: [newbie] Kernel

1999-12-20 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
not be a programer, but if there is something I can do to help I sure will do it. Just my two cents worth. Thanks to all on this list! Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Paul Benjamin wrote: I had

[newbie] Corrupted library file - Maybe someone here will help?

1999-12-20 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
on bootup and of course shutdown. I can't get this machine connected to my network at all till this is fixed. -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy

Re: [newbie] Good FTP prog

1999-11-24 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
it from, though it must have been one of the main download sites, maybe linuxberg or tucows. -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy

Re: [newbie] unsupported! try your luck!

1999-11-24 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
Check the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List). One should always check this before changing operating systems. It's in most new user Linux books and on some Linux web sites. -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
? -- Chip Wiegand Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy

Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic

1999-11-23 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
privilege, then we take action to bring this to a stop, on an individual basis though. -- Chip Wiegand Computer Services Simrad, Inc Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly Robert F. Kennedy

RE: [newbie] eth0

1999-11-22 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Its plugged in from my 'puter to a 4-port hub *shrug* I think the answer given yesterday was to turn OFF DHCP. I never have any problems 'cause I *always* use a static IP for my system 'course I'm using an ISDN router

Re: [newbie] Re:

1999-11-21 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
with me here? M H - Original Message - From: Mike J. Kesow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 11:43 AM Hey Chip Wiegand, you claim you hate people who whine, well, what do you think you are doing?

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-13 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
I beg to differ on the point regarding following a hyperlink in a newsreader. I us KRN 0.6.0, standard with Mandrake 6.0, and I can follow a hyperlink in a message, it opens in KFM. Sure, KRN aint Agent, but it works well enough to keep me from booting into winblows. Chip On Fri, 12 Nov 1999,

Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-11 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
Amaya, Oh MYA! What a mess it makes of web pages in Linux! I tried just yahoo and my companys web site. Yahoo was somewhat navigable, at least I could change to various pages. My companys website was all screwed up, and it is supposedly backwards compatible to the 2.x web browsers. Chip On Thu,

Re: [newbie] Build a small home LAN

1999-11-10 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
I am using the Linksys network kit plus several other nics on my home network of 5 pc's. I have 3 lynksys nics and 2 3com, and they all work great. One pc has one of each in it and I had no problem with Linux recognizing both on boot-up. They both use the native drivers in Linux also. Chip On

Re: [newbie] virtual consoles can't start x-server

1999-11-07 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
Hi, I am interested in this too, but when I tried this with just alt+Fanynumber it didn't work. On my installation of Mandrake 6.0 I have to use ctrl+alt+Fwhatevernumber to make it work. Chip On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Axalon

Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
I installed two nics in my mandrake 6.0 sometime back. I just stuck the second one in and fired up the machine, and it was recognized right off the bat. I haven't had to do anything other than 'turn it on' in netconf. One is a linksys and one is 3com, both are pci. There was no 'forceing'

Re: [newbie] Office Suites

1999-11-03 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
I use SO for my personal stuff and I use the html editor. I believe it is good enough as is for general home use, and probably for most general business use. My wife does occasionally have a problem with documents going between SO and M$ Office 97. SO always opens them fine, but sometimes the

Re: [newbie] Re: your mail

1999-11-02 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
think this will work. What do you think? Do I still need my isp for basic internet access, or is there a way for me to get that access without the isp? chip On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 09:43:22PM -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote: I am interested in this also. I have apache

Re: [newbie] Re: your mail

1999-11-02 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks. I have a static ip from my isp already. allowing port 80 access will be no problem, as I am going to set up another pc just for the purpose of hosting my web site, on the world side of the firewall, this way there

Re: [newbie] Removal from lists

1999-01-17 Per discussione Chip Wiegand
What's wrong with these people always bitching and moaning 'how do I get off this list?'? All they have to do is read the instructions on the email they got when they subscribed! Maybe they're the types that throw away the instructions before putting together the new bbq, or whatever, then can't