[PLUG] 1st Open PC avail end of Feb!

2010-01-25 Thread Mike Connors
"The first PC built by the community for the community." It's kind of neat to that they took a customer survey and mostly built it out according to the results. It ships w. OpenSuse, which I'm not all that crazy about... http://open-pc.com/ Feats & Specs: consumer ready, perfectly preconfigure

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub

2010-01-25 Thread Dwight Hubbard
When the grub menu comes up, hit escape to stop it from booting. >From here you can install a grub boot block on the second drive: Hit 'C' to enter command mode, then enter the following 2 commands (assuming the linux /boot partition is the first partition on the second disk). root (hd1,0) setu

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks! I will check it out. Mark On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Tony Rick wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > > Tony, > > > > Thanks. After all my efforts to "fix grub", then move disks around > failed. > > I > > finally had to resort to booting with Knoppix

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-25 Thread Steve D...
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steve D... wrote: > >>> Do you see this as an accurate assessment? >> >> Pretty much...  Your available choices are: >> >> 1) Deal with it... You many have to "ifconfig up" your eth port from >> time to ti

Re: [PLUG] Pine

2010-01-25 Thread Joe Pruett
the option you want to change is the rsh-open-timeout. set it to 0 and it should stop trying rsh. On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Michael Robinson wrote: > >> How do I disable pine's attempts to access TCP port 514 which according >> to /etc/services is the shel

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steve D... wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> >> Thanks for all the information.  You have saved me from a fruitless >> bunch of tests.  I do not claim to have gotten my head around all the >> stuff in those links, but I have th

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-25 Thread Steve D...
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > Thanks for all the information.  You have saved me from a fruitless > bunch of tests.  I do not claim to have gotten my head around all the > stuff in those links, but I have the impression that if the NIC is > misbehaving during the auto

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub

2010-01-25 Thread Tony Rick
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Tony, > > Thanks. After all my efforts to "fix grub", then move disks around failed. > I > finally had to resort to booting with Knoppix and doing a grub-install on > the drive with the existing Linux distro which moved from hd1 to hd0. > Sho

Re: [PLUG] Step away from the PHP

2010-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Tim wrote: > A warning for those PHP developers and app maintainers who aren't on > the security mailing lists: Does PHP stand for Pretty Heavy Problems? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.o

[PLUG] Step away from the PHP

2010-01-25 Thread Tim
A warning for those PHP developers and app maintainers who aren't on the security mailing lists: Yet another major security screwup on the part of the PHP project: http://samy.pl/phpwn/ And some related fun: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Jan/214 tim __

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Phillips
Tony, Thanks. After all my efforts to "fix grub", then move disks around failed. I finally had to resort to booting with Knoppix and doing a grub-install on the drive with the existing Linux distro which moved from hd1 to hd0. Should have done that in the beginningswitch the drives, run a Knop

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub

2010-01-25 Thread Tony Rick
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have two ide drives in one machine - drive 1 is a Windows drive and drive > 2 is a Linux drive. Using grub, I can boot into either windows or debian. I > want to remove the windows drive and replace it with a larger, blank drive > for backu

Re: [PLUG] Pine

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Michael Robinson wrote: > How do I disable pine's attempts to access TCP port 514 which according > to /etc/services is the shell service? It doesn't need to access port > 514 for imap access but it still tries. > > shell 514/tcpcmd #like exec, but auto

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub

2010-01-25 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Fred James wrote: > Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have two ide drives in one machine - drive 1 is a Windows drive and > drive > > 2 is a Linux drive. Using grub, I can boot into either windows or debian. > I > > want to remove the windows drive and replace it with a l