Re: RH8 System locking up when using CDRW drive

2003-08-14 Thread Lee Flier
Gerhard Magnus wrote: I too had these same weird symptoms -- complete with the locking CAPS and SCROLL keys -- on my system running RH8, and have been unable to get past them. I had the same thing under RH8... since upgrading to RH9, no more problems. --Lee -- redhat-list mailing list

TrueType fonts and the GIMP

2003-08-14 Thread Lee Flier
Hey folks, I'm a little confused about fonts under Linux, and reading more only seems to confuse the issue more. :-) I have a bunch of TrueType fonts that I used for web page design under Windoze, which are not available as Type 1 fonts, but I figured there was a way to get them to work with

Re: I need WAV editor, with some basic features? Where can I getone?

2003-08-14 Thread Lee Flier
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:18, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: I am looking for a good easy WAV editor. I have RH9 and I am aving problems with some packages I found, since RH9 has newer stuff that is not recognized. Any suggestions? Have you tried Audacity? http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Re: OT: Apache blocking

2003-08-09 Thread Lee Flier
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 19:00, Sean Estabrooks wrote: How can I block direct access to images displayed on a web page? In other words, I won't want someone be able to hit the image by typing in its URL, but I do want it displayed when they load the page containing said image. Hi Sean, Here's

Re: Apache, Mysql central-european charset

2003-08-08 Thread Lee Flier
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:10, Alex wrote: I have a rh9 installed on a server that runs a forum (phpbb) and I need to use local translation (romanian). The thing is that I can't see special caracters like and such... I understand that I have to modify the settings for mysql and maybe apache,

Re: Comcast Routing

2003-08-03 Thread Lee Flier
Ed Wilts wrote: What I do is connect a Linksys router/firewall to the cable modem. Yes, that seems like it would be the best solution. Thanks for the suggestions all. --Lee -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Comcast Routing

2003-08-02 Thread Lee Flier
I will soon have a similar situation... I have two computers at home. One is the one I'm using now which is currently dual boot RH9/Windows 98. It's connected to the Internet via cable modem (RCA) and has a static IP address. What I would like to do is install RH9 on a second computer, have

Re: Comcast Routing

2003-08-02 Thread Lee Flier
Otto Haliburton wrote: Yes, what you are wanting to do is doable, but remember that in general you will not get support from Comcast for linux, Yes, I'm aware of that. :-) I already have it working fine with Linux on my dual boot machine, it's just making the two private IP's work with the one

Re: Comcast Routing

2003-08-02 Thread Lee Flier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, maybe this is just semantics, but you do not need a proxy server. (did you mean connection sharing?) A proxy catches web requests and checks to see if it already has the page in its cache. This will speed up web access in some situations enormously but I've

Re: P2P Software Recommendation?

2003-07-22 Thread Lee Flier
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 09:57, David Hollister wrote: As a developer on Furthur, I'm compelled to respond and say Furthurnet. :) Of course, this would only interest you if you are interested in the bands that Furthurnet allows trading of, and those are only bands that allow the free

Re: Session Timeout for Apache?

2003-07-21 Thread Lee Flier
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:42, John Nichel wrote: Since the browser caches the username and password with the authentication realm, as described earlier in this tutorial, this is not a function of the server configuration, but is a question of getting the browser to forget the credential

Up2date and security

2003-07-17 Thread Lee Flier
Robert Day's post about the latest Microsoft snafu brings up a question. Now that Red Hat and other distros contain a lot of tools to make installation, upgrades and other stuff easy for newbies/desktop users (which is all to the good in helping Linux replace M$), what is being done to prevent

Re: Up2date and security

2003-07-17 Thread Lee Flier
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 15:31, John Aldrich wrote: Well, you can always use one of the other replacements for this, such as apt4RPM, or YUM or something like that... Someone even wrote a nice GUI interface to APT to make it easier -- it's called Synaptic. So, you're not limited by the tools

Re: Up2date and security

2003-07-17 Thread Lee Flier
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:12, Ed Wilts wrote: It's known as open source. Microsoft-like domination can not exist. Of course not, in theory, and as long as the average Linux user remains as tech savvy and eagle-eyed as most are now. In practice, as Microsoft proved, a huge percentage of people

Re: Evolution Copy/Cut/Paste

2003-07-15 Thread Lee Flier
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:25, Edward Croft wrote: I used to hate trying to copy text from a message. I would select a portion of the message only to find the whole messages pasted. However, since upgrading to 1.4, I have not had that problem. The fonts look cleaner. I like it a lot. I'd like

Re: Evolution Copy/Cut/Paste

2003-07-15 Thread Lee Flier
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:46, George Nicholls wrote: I find that their red-carpet is the best way to keep ahead on Evolution. Go to http://www.ximian.com and download, use and install After Ed said his upgrade was clean, I just upgraded using their installer, from a mirror site (didn't join Red

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-13 Thread Lee Flier
Just wanted to thank you guys for answering my questions... my RH8.0--9 upgrade went perfectly. All of my previous settings appear to have been retained, and I'm quite impressed. Red Hat Network also recognized automatically that I had upgraded, and subscribed me to the RH9 channel. About the

Re: possible postfix security issue

2003-07-13 Thread Lee Flier
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 22:22, Lorenzo Prince wrote: Then I ran across another problem just a few days ago. Seems I sent a message that I really didn't send to an email address that I had never heard of. I received an email messge warning me that the message I sent (which I didn't

Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Lee Flier
Hi all - I am new to the Red Hat scene, and I'm a bit confused by the upgrade and support system. It's a bit hard to tell what's going on by looking at the web site. I originally purchased RH 8.0 and then subscribed to the Red Hat Network for a year. I've been getting the live updates as they

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Lee Flier
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:14, Ed Wilts wrote: Within a given release, like 8.0, Red Hat guarantees binary compatibility. That means that the primary focus for the Red Hat Network (RHN) is security patches, and not feature releases. Ah OK, that clarifies things quite a bit. It just