[newbie] Forcing application to use SSH tunnel

2004-11-24 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
As the subject reads, is there anyway to force an application to use an SSH tunnel if the application doesn't know how to use proxies? I'd like to be able to use some chat software from behind a firewall at work. The software doesn't allow for a proxy, and the address it needs to connect to is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
6 - I spent the $170 or so bucks to become a silver club member, but not once have I received an answer from Mandrake when I found myself stuck. I was also forced to install Bit Torrent to download the new ISO's after have waited for over 2 weeks (in vain) after my request for FTP access.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:47:57 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:45:36 -0500 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: trade union groups Excellent explanatory post, very good description of Bittorrent. However, I don't know if would quite characterize the RIAA

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-10-27 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks promoting competing

Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?

2004-10-19 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:39:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:45, Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi, Folks, Just several minutes ago, I had a power off in my institute. What surprised me was that when I tried to access some web sites (I intentionally did

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:23:17 +0200, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is too early for 10.1, but is it possible or is it worst to migrate from the Community Edition to the Official of the same versions? What is the experoence with 10.0? Regards... Bela I can't tell you

[newbie] Shrinking an ext3 partition

2004-09-22 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
I think I have the steps down, but I wanted to verify before I tried. I've got a large hard drive (hdc) that I'm going to be moving to another system soon. It's currently mounted as /home on my system and is one large partition. It's about half full right now. What I'd like to do is resize it

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-16 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:34:35 -0500, Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 11:06, Eric Scott wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 14:42, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 08:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 22:45, Ronald J. Hall

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term web based ? Is it for web pages only? Does it require a server or will it work on a LAN? This is probably way elementary to a lot of

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:02:18 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 11:31 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:33:50 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When looking at software to install/download, what is meant by the term

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-13 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:14:45 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next time someone tries to come at you with the old 'well, Microsoft has helped the economy by creating jobs and expanding IT' crap, you can throw a number back in their face: $60 Billion. That's how much MS has sucked

[newbie] Budgeting software

2004-09-13 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
Anyone use good budgeting software for home use that works well with gnucash? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] download and install MDK 10

2004-09-12 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
Hmm, much trickier without a CD burner. Yes, you can download the iso from http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-us/ but that is of marginal use without a burner. You can do a network install but again I think you'd need to burn at least one image to a cd... How big is your hard drive? You may be

Re: [newbie] Samba and WinXP Ok, now Internet

2004-09-11 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:04:48 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, I am really happy. Even though I am a newbie, I managed to Setup a Samba server that works from WinXP. I can now access both computer from each other. I even can surf my local website in Linux from WinXP. The next step

Re: [newbie] Setting up a print server

2004-09-11 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:09:13 -0700, aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 boxes runing Mandrake 10.0 9.2 and (shhh win 98) I need to have one of the boxes act as a print server how do I set it up? TIA Samba and cups, both of which can be configured in basic ways through the

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-10 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:05:31 -0700, Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 Sorry, I left out that the above line should be in your /etc/hosts.allow

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:00:09 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, This is strange. In my office I still have 2 pc's with MS on them. My laptop and my pc have Mandrake 10.0 and all are set up on my LAN. Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use to see each other. and to clarify, when you mean see which tool do you mean? Have you tried pinging back and forth, and checked

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:58:56 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:15 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: Both, my laptop and my pc can see all the files and hard drives on the MS pc's, however my laptop cannot see my pc and my pc cannot see my laptop. They use

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-09 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:40:19 -0400, BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 04:18 pm, Ryan Steffes wrote: SNIP What does the following give you: 1) cat /etc/hosts.allow cat /etc/hosts.deny SNIP hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which

[newbie] Xorg keyboard troubles.

2004-09-07 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
Searching for this came back with lots of causes in other distrobutions but I couldn't find what to DO about it. I compiled xorg 6.7.0 from the CVS tag to run the gatos drivers against. When Xorg comes up, my keyboard won't work. A hint may come from xorgconfig: xorgconfig: error while loading

[newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything other than urpmi before, so I have no clue why it wouldn't work. [07:19:31 rpms]$ rpm -qa|grep php mod_php-4.3.4-1mdk php-ini-4.3.4-1mdk

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:38:51 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:26:27 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:28:39 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:02:09 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: [07:55:13 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod_php no package named apache-mod_php [07:55:38 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod-php no package named apache

[newbie] More of a poll - Software upgrades worth it?

2004-08-03 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
When /. ran an article saying that Crossover Office would be supporting iTunes my last reason to hold on to Windows is fading away. Now I want to put some real effort into getting my linux box not just to the point where I like it, but to the point my wife is willing to use it. What I'm

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade and IPv6 default

2004-07-07 Per discussione Ryan Steffes
I'm already running with nolapic because of some issues with my mobo not playing nice, so no luck there. There doesn't seem to me to be any disernable difference between running the one kernel and the other, it's just that the new kernel doesn't work.