Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-28 Per discussione Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 11:50:42 PM, you wrote: Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-27 Per discussione Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:31:22 PM, you wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 20:14, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-09 Per discussione Robert Walker
Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 3:00:36 AM, you wrote: Hello, I don't have it... This is the message written: Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM kernel drivers installed - check out the Linux Laptop-HOWTO

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Per discussione Robert Walker
Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 6:47:52 PM, you wrote: Example My P3 450 mhz with 120 megs ram running XP Pro would run circles around my wife's Laptop P4 2.3 Gz with 512 megs ram Running XP Home. Hi Ray, My understanding of the Intel processor architecture strategy to push more speed out of

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Per discussione Robert Walker
Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 12:54:16 PM, you wrote: What I use the 2 old 486 laptop for are simple tasks. If I am working on a computer that has some thing wrong with it, or working with new applications, OS as I am doing now. Instead of printing the instruction or documentation. I display

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-16 Per discussione Robert Walker
Monday, February 16, 2004, 3:33:37 AM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:22 am, Robert Walker wrote: Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello

[newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Per discussione Robert Walker
Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Per discussione Robert Walker
Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-06 Per discussione Robert Walker
On Friday 06 Feb 2004 11:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Hi Robert, Yes OK then, have done that, Incidentally the replacement is a new straight out of the box 350W, nothing special, as to make, just kept as a spare for just such test purposes. Unforetunately it makes no difference at

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-05 Per discussione Robert Walker
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 9:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I agree with what Tom is saying. But a CPU that isn't overvolted or overclocked should be OK at an idle temperature of 48C. I would still suspect a PSU issue. Its worth checking by borrowing someone else's just to rule this out.

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-04 Per discussione Robert Walker
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 3:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: That is so interesting Tom, I had wondered whether most of this attention to make and model would be mostly hype. I currently have an all ally evercool ND15-715CA it has a 70mm fan controlled by bios. I think the airflow seems

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-04 Per discussione Robert Walker
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot

[newbie] Get DJBDNS to compile

2004-02-04 Per discussione Robert Walker
Hi I am trying to compile the DJBDNS (aka TinyDNS) package to try out. However I get some linking errors about lack of 'errno'. Isn't that in the standard gcc libraries to translate system call error numbers?? Maybe this package doesn't include the correct libraries for the GNU C compiler??

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-03 Per discussione Robert Walker
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 1:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: CPU temperatures and cooling issues+ memory === I decided to start this thread again. The precious thread had become a bit rambling. Well, My cpu / heatsink and case temperatures are still

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Per discussione Robert Walker
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 8:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install LILO/GRUB

[newbie] MDK 9.2 - Lost my open windows applets on Gnome panel on my Desktop :-)

2003-11-30 Per discussione Robert Walker
Hi I tried to install the SUN Java add-in for web browsers and it went horribly wrong (it think it was meant for an old version of RH... Anyway I managed to lose the open windows buttons on my GNOME panel at the bottom of the screen. I know this is a bit stupid but I am new Linux and still

Re: [newbie] Getting CD sources back ( was: Update Doesn't Update)

2003-11-30 Per discussione Robert Walker
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