Re: [SLUG] Something happened at about 4:30 this morning...

2007-02-08 Thread nornagon
I read a story about an attack on several root DNS servers recently -- maybe the same botnet was pushing a lot of spam, and got taken offline for one reason or another? On 2/8/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...that was when I saw a sudden drop in the level of spam attempting to

[SLUG] Re: Something happened at about 4:30 this morning...

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi I read a story about an attack on several root DNS servers recently -- maybe the same botnet was pushing a lot of spam, and got taken offline for one reason or another? For a full discussion have a look at http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2007-February/subject.html so after

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Ben
On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal and free as in beer access to all the multi-media drivers / codecs / other fru-fru that one needs to compete

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last version of winders where loadlin works is 95 or 98. So you can expect it to not get much attention anymore. Wots wrong with PXE? see http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ My lappie F12 = boot menu, option PXE. Loadlin may not even work

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Jacinta Richardson
Ben wrote: installing automatix in Ubuntu is very easy (no command line needed) and addresses all the non driver, free like beer stuff. I've heard nasty reports about it, but it's been fine on every system I've put it on (four so far with Ubuntu 6.10), and probably is only an issue if you're

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:09:29 +1100 Jacinta Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben wrote: installing automatix in Ubuntu is very easy (no command line needed) and addresses all the non driver, free like beer stuff. I've heard nasty reports about it, but it's been fine on every

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Is SLUG down?

2007-02-08 Thread grove
Hi everyone, Some of the root nameservers in the US were the victims of some sort of attack the past 48 hours. This is causing several DNS caches around the world to become polluted and all sorts of name/addr problems are arising as a result. For example some well known DNS names are not

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal and free as in beer access to all the multi-media

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread jam
On Friday 09 February 2007 06:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal and free as in beer access to all the multi-media drivers / codecs / other fru-fru that one

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-08 Thread jam
On Friday 09 February 2007 06:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last version of winders where loadlin works is 95 or 98. So you can expect it to not get much attention anymore. Wots wrong with PXE? see http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ My lappie F12 = boot menu, option PXE. Loadlin may not even

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 09/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, the reason I pointed you at rom-o-matic was their wealth of options eg grub: boot windows boot pxe or CDROM pxe boot or CDROM network boot (tagged image) or HD versions of above etc Point of LTSP is that your stately

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:21:17 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 February 2007 06:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal and free as in beer access to all

[SLUG] Re: Brand New User - Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - BEWARE

2007-02-08 Thread bill
A couple of days ago I tried to install Kubuntu Feisty herd 3 (Live CD)on my laptop ( triple boot XP Home/XP Pro/Kubuntu 6.10) and the partition creation part of the Install hosed my hard drive. I've installed Ubuntu/Kubuntu many times ( I have it currently on 5 PCs) and had no problem with

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Ben
On 2/9/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops, I meant Automatix. Use EasyUbuntu instead of Automatix. I shall try it on the system that I'm installing for a friend now and for my second office PC :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] Edgy install frozen while resizing NTFS

2007-02-08 Thread Ben
I'm part way through installing Ubuntu 6.10 on a friend's PC using the LiveCD graphical installation tool. Windows was using roughly 3-4GB of a 40GB HDD and I told the installer to resize it to 50%. The mouse cursor won't move and the progress cursor is not animated.There doesn't appear to be