Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Tim Haynes
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:03:55PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Because it is actually "netstat -anp" that will (also) list the > > services. The reason for using nmap is that it is a popular tool > > for ... mapping other's people machines. As such, you may want to > > know about its existen

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:37:32AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > No problem. The PReP boot scheme uses a PC partition table. However, the > bootstrap code area in block 0 that contains the table is not used. It > seems clear to me now that since the mac table allows for a PC partition > table in i

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:36:20PM +, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > My thought of the day: why nmap localhost, rather than netstat -a > > or -an ? > > Because it is actually "netstat -anp" that will (also) list the > services. The reason for using nmap is that it is a popular tool > for ...

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:20:40PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:13:30PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > yes there is something there, but not much: > > > > 000 4552 0200 1e44 0001 0001 > > 020 > > * > > 0

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > My thought of the day: why nmap localhost, rather than netstat -a > > or -an ? > > Because it is actually "netstat -anp" that will (also) list the > services. The reason for using nmap is that it is a popular

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Sergio Brandano
> My thought of the day: why nmap localhost, rather than netstat -a > or -an ? Because it is actually "netstat -anp" that will (also) list the services. The reason for using nmap is that it is a popular tool for ... mapping other's people machines. As such, you may want to know about its exis

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Tim Haynes
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:01:26PM +, Gareth Bowker wrote: > It's quite a useful document, certainly. I've only got one comment on it, > which is to explain what the changes are that are being made: i.e. > disabling tcp listening for X means that you can't run remote X sessions > from the mach

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Sergio Brandano
Thank you Gareth. I certainly will improve that article as time allows. Please feel free to actively contribute to it. If explicit text is sent to me, I will include it in the new version, and your name will appear in the list of contributors. Thank's again. All the best, Sergio

Re: New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Gareth Bowker
It's quite a useful document, certainly. I've only got one comment on it, which is to explain what the changes are that are being made: i.e. disabling tcp listening for X means that you can't run remote X sessions from the machine blah blah, but that crackers can't blah blah. It just makes it cl

New info on how to install your laptop

2000-03-23 Thread Sergio Brandano
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~sb/PowerBook.html Feedback and improvements are very welcome. Thank you for your past contributions. Sergio

bochs lgpl'ed

2000-03-23 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... have you seen that mandrake has just bought out bochs and released it under LGPL ? time for making a debian package of it, isn't it ? the info is at : http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/announce-bochs-20000323.php3 Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:13:30PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > yes there is something there, but not much: > > 000 4552 0200 1e44 0001 0001 > 020 > * > 760 55aa > 0001000 > > > that is the firs

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Then there shouldn't be a problem. Of course I have this vague memory > of a Block0 on HFS disks... yes there is something there, but not much: 000 4552 0200 1e44 0001 0001 020

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:47:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > The HFS partition isn't at block 0 on the media is it? That's where the > > > PReP header (which is merely a PC partition table) sits. PReP firmware > > > re

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > The HFS partition isn't at block 0 on the media is it? That's where the > > PReP header (which is merely a PC partition table) sits. PReP firmware > > reads the first two 512 byte blocks on the media, looks up an entry in > >

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 04:44:50PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > So, with a tremendous effort from Ethan Benson, I now understand how to make > > new-world bootable CDs. A conversation with Ben told me my problem with > > floppy-

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Matt Porter
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > So, with a tremendous effort from Ethan Benson, I now understand how to make > new-world bootable CDs. A conversation with Ben told me my problem with > floppy-booting on oldworld, so that should be fixed soon also. At that > po