[techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

2000-02-17 Thread Dan McGarry
Up till now, I've stayed with MS Outlook Express because of laziness (and several hundred MB of stored messages). Some recent problems with it have sent me looking for a decent X-based mail client. I'm looking for: * Something that isn't netscape mail. * Supports multiple user accounts on

Re: [techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread Tania M. Morell
Dakota Surmonde wrote: > > hmm..first, can you talk from it to your other servers? > Yes. > second if you can, then can you talk to it from machines on the same > segment? I don't know... what would be the same segment? > > Vinnie > Jeff Dike wrote: > > Run ifconfig and make sure that

Re: [techtalk] SSH/Open SSH client on Windoze or equiv?

2000-02-17 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Mandi wrote: >I use an SSH client for win32 called PuTTY. I don't think it's >opensource, but it was freeware; got it on download.com... It _is_ open source... Last time it was brought up, one of the list members confessed to being a personal friend of the author. The main

Re: [techtalk] Address Stealing

2000-02-17 Thread moebius
Hey Davida, The problem appears to be that someone hardcoded their IP addr instead of letting DHCP assign it. This becomes problematic if DynIP's are shuffled quite often. If you can, make sure that everyone is using DHCP not going into TCP/IP properties and setting their addr. The main reason p

Re: [techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread moebius
Hey Tania, > I'm trying to get my desktop computer at work (which > is connected with an ethernet card and has a static > ip) 'visible' from the outside (but not necessarily > outside our firewall. > > I can't connect to it from other servers here, it's > natted, or whatever you call it. Can you

Re: [techtalk] Address Stealing

2000-02-17 Thread Laurel Fan
The bogus ethernet address is probably a known problem with the eepro100 driver, which is fixed in the newset driver, which you can find at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/. After you get rid of the hw address problem, dhcp will probably work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

[techtalk] Address Stealing

2000-02-17 Thread Davida Schiff
Howdy, Strange thing is happening when I am installing 6.1 on (work) Pentium III's. During install, I choose dhcp (using Tier 1 NIC with eepro100.o Module). When the install is finished and the PC reboots...dhcp gives it an address that is static for another PC. ifconfig shows a bogus Ethernet a

Re: [techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread Jeff Dike
> I'm trying to get my desktop computer at work (which is connected with > an ethernet card Run ifconfig and make sure that it has the right ip addr: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:20:06:FC inet addr:198.99.130.20 Bcast:198.99.130.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 which

Re: [techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread Dakota Surmonde
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Tania M. Morell wrote: > I'm trying to get my desktop computer at work (which > is connected with an ethernet card and has a static > ip) 'visible' from the outside (but not necessarily > outside our firewall. hmm..first, can you talk from it to your other servers? second i

Re: [techtalk] KDE & Big Brother

2000-02-17 Thread Sunnanvind
On Pungenday, Chaos 48, monashee wrote: > After I ripped out the aliases which Red Hat put in Bash, I > was supremely happy about a system which let me make up my > mind and suffer the consequences. Then when I started > exploring the world of KDE and Gnome, I find the same old > assumption that I

[techtalk] Getting a computer on a network.

2000-02-17 Thread Tania M. Morell
Guys, I'm trying to get my desktop computer at work (which is connected with an ethernet card and has a static ip) 'visible' from the outside (but not necessarily outside our firewall. I can't connect to it from other servers here, it's natted, or whatever you call it. I've been playing with i

Re: [techtalk] irc client?

2000-02-17 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Linda Gentile > > There is one? There is. > Could somebody please point me in the correct direction for finding one? Hmm. IRC client wars... I use tkirc. It's a front-end for ircii and is very simple to use. It also seems to have zero bugs, though I'm sure someone's found one... It hasn't

Re: [techtalk] KDE & Big Brother

2000-02-17 Thread Linda Walsh
> > Asking for confirmation on deletion of anything is always a good > thing, unless you get to a point where-as you know the system, and it is > just annoying. Anyway, in GNOME (KDE, not sure) your looking for (In the > file browser) Settings > Preferences > Confirmation. > --- Also

Re: [techtalk] Re: Blondes???

2000-02-17 Thread Tami Friedman
I actually enjoyed the quotes, especially the one from our old friend, General Westmorland. :) .Tami .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] irc client?

2000-02-17 Thread sara korhonen
> There is one? > > Could somebody please point me in the correct direction for finding one? > > Linda Gentile i have a very nice ircii-script, made by my ex-boyfriend mostly and somewhat by me. =) xchat is a nice x irc-client. sara [better to sow horses than swim steps backwards -- an old,

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2000-02-17 Thread resonate
I use BitchX. Its console ircii and working in xterms, eterms, gterms, *terms. Godlike is another irc client for linux in beta test form right now. But it has really great features. -resonate [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

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2000-02-17 Thread Patricia
I use ksirc, comes with KDE works great -- HTH :) Patricia http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig) Kernel 2.2.5-15 8:00pm up 6 days, 1:19, 2 users, load average: 1.74, 1.42, 1.30 Thu Feb 17 20:00:01 CET 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.l

Re: [techtalk] SuSE -> Mandrake?

2000-02-17 Thread Wendt,Andrew
> I picked the /usr/X11R6/bin directory for my test. There were 384 [...snip...] >What does it mean: SSE had more files that were smaller, but overall >SSE's total byte count was about 20-25% greater than MDK's. Both were >running V11.0 of X (as shown by xdpyinfo). Just for your informat

RE: [techtalk] irc client?

2000-02-17 Thread Ji Lee
Hrmm. There are many clients. Bitch-X is one. x-chat is another. ircii .etc.. But I think you should just try www.freshmeat.net searh for word "irc". Freshmeat should have almost every gnu app available. Also, try www.tucows.com Tucows also have lots of apps with ratings. -- O O _

Re: [techtalk] SSH/Open SSH client on Windoze or equiv?

2000-02-17 Thread Mandi
I use an SSH client for win32 called PuTTY. I don't think it's opensource, but it was freeware; got it on download.com... I don't know what version of SSH it runs, though, I used it to ssh into a system that was running a way old ssh version, so I don't know if it works with up to date protoco

Re: [techtalk] irc client?

2000-02-17 Thread Cynthia Dale
I use panasync's BitchX (: Cindy On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Linda Gentile wrote: > > There is one? > > Could somebody please point me in the correct direction for finding one? > > Linda Gentile > > __ > > http://www.annwn.com > Annwn, the Wild Wyrd Web Site > > Latest Musings : "There's a Snak

Re: [techtalk] irc client?

2000-02-17 Thread Shad Young
Try http://idirect.linux.tucows.com/index.html Click on software chose your flavour Good luck Shad Linda Gentile wrote: > > There is one? > > Could somebody please point me in the correct direction for finding one? > > Linda Gentile > > __ > > http://www.annwn.com > Annwn, the Wild Wyrd W

[techtalk] irc client?

2000-02-17 Thread Linda Gentile
There is one? Could somebody please point me in the correct direction for finding one? Linda Gentile __ http://www.annwn.com Annwn, the Wild Wyrd Web Site Latest Musings : "There's a Snake in my Boot!" (04 Feb) No Pain, No Gain (11 feb) New for Imbolc: Banner Ads Being Removed!!! :-) and

Re: [techtalk] SSH/Open SSH client on Windoze or equiv?

2000-02-17 Thread Jenny Brown (was Gable)
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote: > Anyone know of anything, preferably Open Source, that provides OpenSSH > connections from Windoze (specifically NT)? I sometime need to telnet > home from my work machines and certainly don't want sniffers to see > passwords and such on the lin

Re: [techtalk] SSH/Open SSH client on Windoze or equiv?

2000-02-17 Thread Raven Brooke
I like putty for ssh from windozeNT. It is available from: http://zedz.com rav3n On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone know of anything, preferably Open Source, that provides OpenSSH > connections from Windoze (specifically NT)? I sometime need to telnet > home

Re: [techtalk] KDE & Big Brother

2000-02-17 Thread Luke Woods
John, They are there for a good reason, because, possibly unlike yourself, many users are fumbling cretins. :) (No offense to any fumbling cretin that happens to read this.) Asking for confirmation on deletion of anything is always a good thing, unless you get to a point where-

[techtalk] SSH/Open SSH client on Windoze or equiv?

2000-02-17 Thread Samantha Atkins
Hi, Anyone know of anything, preferably Open Source, that provides OpenSSH connections from Windoze (specifically NT)? I sometime need to telnet home from my work machines and certainly don't want sniffers to see passwords and such on the line. thanks for any leads. - samantha *

[techtalk] KDE & Big Brother

2000-02-17 Thread monashee
One of the things which annoyed me most about DOS-Windows was the asking whether you really do want to delete a file. Of course I wanted to delete it or I wouldn't have pressed the stupid button. Did I ever delete a file by mistake? Yes of course but I am sure I never stopped on the second window