Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-09 Thread AZ Rune
I will try the recovery mode, thanks Ryan Another question: WHY AREN'T YOU USING APT FOR ISNTALLING THAT DRIVER?? apt-cache search nvidia it'll be nvidia-glx-XXX where XXX is a version number for the gfx card you want (legacy use 73, middle level 96 and cutting edge cards use... 176? the

Re: BlenderCAD 05-10-09

2009-05-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Matthew, I can't come to BlenderCAD, but I have a few cards you can pick through? Also, if you give me ssh access, I can setup your NFS. 503-754-4452 On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Matthew A Coulliette matthew...@cox.netwrote: Hi everyone, Just a reminder to everyone that this Sunday is

Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Hoy
I'm working on a relative's computer. It was dual booting at one point. Windows and Ubuntu. Then one day he decided to delete the Linux partition from inside Windows (through disk management) and reformatted it. He did so because he needed the hard drive space. It was fine until he rebooted the

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Donn
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Mike Hoy mho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a relative's computer. It was dual booting at one point. Windows and Ubuntu. Then one day he decided to delete the Linux partition from inside Windows (through disk management) and reformatted it. He did so

RE: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Charles Jones
-Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Donn Sent: Sat 5/9/2009 11:22 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Grub problems On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Mike Hoy mho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a relative's computer. It was

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Jason Holtzapple
--- On Sat, 5/9/09, Mike Hoy mho...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mike Hoy mho...@gmail.com Subject: Grub problems To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 11:10 AM I'm working on a relative's computer. It was dual booting at one point.

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Mike Hoy wrote: Then one day he decided to delete the Linux partition from inside Windows (through disk management) and reformatted it. It was fine until he rebooted the laptop. Now grub throws an error and we can't get into windows. Copy a

Linux Twitter Command Line Updates

2009-05-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Easy Twittering: In Ubuntu, install curl with apt-get install curl, then create a file paste the line below into it, modify the username and password strings: curl --basic --user username:password --data-ascii status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'` http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json; Save or copy the

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty Update Pop-Under

2009-05-09 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 03:13 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: I just finished reading the most INFURIATING (yes, I'm looking right at you, Ted, even your responses had an uncharacteristically arrogant tone to them, and most everyone else from Canonical had a tone so arrogant it made me sick)

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
What is the grub error? Might try these suggestions: http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2009/02/how-to-safely-uninstall-linux-when-dual-boot-installed-with-windows-xp.html On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Mike Hoy mho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a relative's computer. It was dual booting at

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Well, only linux type people would try to hammer down a vague requirement (cox use) out of sheer ethical intent, when the rest of the world equates stipulations this non-specific as a license to steal! On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:06 PM, James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote: I don't remember them

Re: Linux Twitter Command Line Updates

2009-05-09 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: Easy Twittering: In Ubuntu, install curl with |apt-get install curl|, then create a file paste the line below into it, modify the username and password strings: |curl --basic --user username:password --data-ascii status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Hoy
What is the grub error? Might try these suggestions: http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2009/02/how-to-safely-uninstall-linux-when-dual-boot-installed-with-windows-xp.html error #17. According to that link you must boot to a win98 floppy or a xp cd. Then at the command prompt type 'fixmbr'. That

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 17:29 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: What is the grub error? Might try these suggestions: http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2009/02/how-to-safely-uninstall-linux-when-dual-boot-installed-with-windows-xp.html error #17. According to that link

Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-09 Thread Andrew Tuna Harris
Helloes. Yes, another thread about the Chinese. Okayso over the past couple days I've been seeing things like this: /var/log/messages:May 9 11:00:10 (none) sshd[688]: Connection from 200.111.157.187 port 51751 /var/log/messages:May 9 11:00:10 (none) sshd[688]: Did not receive identification

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Nadim Hoque
To get windows to boot again I would reinstall the windows boot loader on the windows disk (the version of windows that they are using) by booting to recovery and run the bootrec.exe /fixmbr. This is how I did it, but this is for vista xp and such is going to be different. This should work until u

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-09 Thread AZ Rune
I guess I need to find out what the run levels are now in Ubuntu 9.04? Brian --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Yes, you don't even need to boot to the disk, should just be able to run it. On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Nadim Hoque nadimho...@gmail.com wrote: To get windows to boot again I would reinstall the windows boot loader on the windows disk (the version of windows that they are using) by

Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Be afraid, very afraid! You must put that IP in your firewall! There's a good chance they already go in, if you didn't put in iptables brute force controls? On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Andrew Tuna Harris t...@supertunaman.comwrote: Helloes. Yes, another thread about the Chinese.

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Jim March
You know, if we've got grub problems, think of all those starving children in Africa... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-09 Thread Andrew Tuna Harris
Excerpts from Lisa Kachold's message of Sat May 09 20:17:24 -0700 2009: Be afraid, very afraid! Oh hamburgers! You must put that IP in your firewall! Done. There's a good chance they already go in, if you didn't put in iptables brute force controls? OH SHI- How'd they get in? What's

Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-09 Thread Kurt Granroth
That seems... unlikely. I have had thousands of unique IPs hit some of my hosts, many to never repeat after a round of attacks. The more plausible route is that they have a botnet of pwned boxes numbering in the hundreds of thousands and they just use them for random dictionary attacks.