Re: Secure browsing across insecure LAN

2003-02-18 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:27:20AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > In my workplace they just installed Internet access. However, I wish I > > could navigate privately some sites (for example, Dmoz.org, where I > > edit), at least privately from som

Secure browsing across insecure LAN

2003-02-15 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
In my workplace they just installed Internet access. However, I wish I could navigate privately some sites (for example, Dmoz.org, where I edit), at least privately from some personal in my company with access to the server. So I think in creating some kind of private tunnel between my work's compu

Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-15 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I'm trying to connect my PII 350 with Debian 2.2r2 potato (kernel 2.2.17) with my PIII 800 with Debian woody (2.2.18 recompiled) using a "laplink" cable. I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove anything, but..), I

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Cam Ellison wrote: > > Lars Knudsen wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Hello, Antonio! > > > > > > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating > > > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you > > > > This was true years ago

Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-16 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
(I was > setting up a new machine and ended up transferring the data via 100M > Zip disks).. > -chris > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to connect my PII 350 with Debian 2.2r2 potato (kernel > > 2.2.17) wit

Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP

2001-02-16 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Matthew Dalton wrote: > > I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already > > tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove > > anything, but..) > > It proves that the cables are okay. > > >, I still can't make this to work. I stop in the ping > > step. My potato

Re: XFree86 agpgart.o

2001-02-16 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I used the i810gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm and xfcom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm files from http://www.intel.com. Then I rpm -U i810gtt and alien xfcom_i810. Going to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE I rebuild agpgart.o for my running kernel, insmod it, and then dpkg -i xfcom's deb I just "alienated". I maked sure /etc/X11/X

Re: wine and woody

2001-02-19 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
David Purton wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 05:48, David Purton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > $ wine notepad.exe I get this error: > > > > > > Could not load graphics driver 'x11drv' > > > > > ack! any ideas? > > > > > > btw I had to install the xl

[Fwd: LILO w/ password and restricted tags]

2001-01-24 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > Has anyone been able to use passwords with LILO? I've tried the method in > the lilo.conf (where password tag is global) and the method on the man page > (where password tag is per image) , but neither work. Thanks in advance! > > Ben Pharr I tried the global password

Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the installation. If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it displays just fine. However, if I type it in console mode, or in a terminal inside X, it just beeps and doesn't show anything. Where could my

How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I used VMware without problems inside RH 6.2. Now I just upgraded to Debian 2.2, and I'm looking forward to reinstall my VMware. Is there any guide to how to do this inside debian?. I will try the tar.bz, but maybe there exists some installer like the real-player's one. Thanks for any suggestion.

Dnews in debian

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
> I just installed Dnews 5.4j in my recently installed Debian 2.2. However > I had to tweak some settings to make it work. Is there any way I can > make a debian package or something to automatize the process. I can > barely make a "program" in bash, and don't understand the package > documentation

About Debian documentation

2001-01-25 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I recently installed Debian 2.2 and I'm reading the documentation provided at debian.org. However, I believe it's a little disorganized (or I didn't knew how to read it), because I can understand many things yet. For example, Why are so many packages from older version of programs. For example X-c

Re: How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
; I've installed it from the tar.gz without encountering any problems > and it's working fine for me. I used the default setup or the files > paths > but you can customize (as i remember) some of them during the > installation > process > > Cheers > Fabio >

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Ok. So, I understand I can make the change and dselect will just get the new versions as updates without any problem? I will install debian in another (workstation) machine. Can I install directly the "woody" version on it? Thanks for your help "David B. Harris" wrote: >

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
When I first tried my current PIII 800 with a WD 30Gb and a Seagate 20Gb, both ATA66, I got troubles that yield me to repartition my secondary master (Seagate), using SC. I then switched to PQ, which worked fine until now. Coronya wrote: > > Hmmm... System Command is not a BAD boot manager... [..

Re: xfree 3.3.6 and 4.x

2001-01-26 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Xucaen wrote: > > --- "Timothy H. Keitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Potato is rock solid, woody is good enough > > for government work, and sid > > > is for the courageous. > > > > Or those who need XFree86 4.x :-( > > I'm curious, what has changed between

Re: CD-RW support

2001-01-28 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to make use of the second CD drive (CD-RW) in my Dell Dimension > XPS T700r. Here is what I added to my /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 > 0 > > This lets me *access* the drive ok, bu

Re: Boot prompt fails to show "other"

2001-01-28 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Kent West wrote: > > When I boot up and press the left Shift key, followed by TAB, the only > option listed is "Linux". This is despite the fact that I have Win95 on > another partition, and that I've configured /etc/lilo.conf to see it, > and have run "lilo", which reports "Adding Linux* / Adding

Sound using Gigabyte GA60XM7E Motherboard with SigmaTel AC97 (STAC97001) chipset

2001-01-30 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Does any body know if its possible to get sound from my Motherboard? Thanks. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: OT: new Nvidia drivers released

2001-01-30 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Romain Lerallut wrote: > > I had problems with sending mails yesterday so I'm re-sending it. > My apologies if it _did_ get through the first time > > -- Forwarded message -- > > Hi all ! > > I saw a post questioning about Nvidia drivers,and debs.I have not seen any > .debs of N

Re: Sound using Gigabyte GA60XM7E Motherboard with SigmaTel AC97(STAC97001) chipset

2001-01-30 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Casey Webster wrote: > > try > > modprobe ac97 > > and then sound should work for you. > > -casey > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > > Does any body know if its possible to get sound from my Motherboard? > > Thanks. Thank

Re: How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-30 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:51:13AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > Thanks. I was trying doing this (installing in /usr/local/ directories) > > but now it says my kernel-headers don't match my kernel. I got > > kernel-headers-2.2.18-1 and

Re: How can I install VMware inside Debian?

2001-01-30 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Thanks. The problem was I was using the include in kernel-header, not in kernel-source. Now everything works ok. Martin Albert wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > but now it says my kernel-headers don't match my kernel. I got > > kernel-headers-2.2.1

Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal

2001-01-31 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Martin Würtele wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:26:41PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the > > installation. > > > > If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it &

About Diammond Homefree wireless

2001-02-03 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I'm planning to buy one of this equipments for my two computers at home. I know there is some driver that let's you use them as tty. However, I was wondering if anybody has any experience with this equipment, and if it would be possible to use some kind of program that would let me translate this "

Re: About Diammond Homefree wireless

2001-02-04 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:04:26PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > > I'm planning to buy one of this equipments for my two computers at home. > > I know there is some driver that let's you use them as tty. However, I > > was wo

Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-04 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from tarball. I followed the instructions in NVIDIA_Linux.html, including renaming /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a, /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensi

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Bartosz Bobrek wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > > tarball. I followed the instructions in NVID

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-05 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:01:20PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > > XFree86 >=4.0

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-06 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/index.html > > it says basically: > install XFree 4 > install Mesa (apt-get) > remove mesa's libGL (be careful there are libGL* and libGL.*) > install Nvidia (make) > > HTH > Romain > > -- > Tux

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-06 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Mario Vukelic wrote: > > On 04 Feb 2001 20:01:20 -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from > > tarball. I followed the inst

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-06 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Bartosz Bobrek wrote: > > Romain Lerallut wrote: > > > You need to remove the libGL* files installed by mesa and to re-install > > the nvidia drivers that provide accelerated libGL* > > > > For more (any and all) info check the > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/in

Re: virus detection

2001-02-06 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
I KNOW there is one virus for my 15-year old Commodore 64. I just hope I never find it. Zac Epkes wrote: > > I was unable to see who said there where no Viruses for UNIX based systems, i > jsut > wanted to tell anyone and everyone, im sure there are Virueses for ALL > systems of > anykind, even

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?

2001-02-07 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:50:50AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > [...] > > (--) NVIDIA(0): Chipset: "RIVA TNT" > > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > &g

Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers? -- SOLVED!!

2001-02-08 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Dietmar Schultz wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:50:50AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > > > [...] > > > (--) NVIDIA(0): Chipset: "RIVA TNT" > > > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebu

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-09 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > >> Section "Files" > > >> RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > > >> FontPath "unix/:7101" > > >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" > > >> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/f

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Erik Steffl wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Section "Files" > > &g

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread Dr. Aldo Medina
Erik Steffl wrote: > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > > > > > > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > > > > >