Re: [techtalk] Helpful security program

2000-05-22 Thread moebius
Hey Melissa, Thanks for the post, it's good to see others reviews. Bastille is a great program and now that it has support for rerunning it and also rollback prior to changes that bastille made I like it even more. Here is a e-book that may be of interest to you, since you seem to be using RH6.x

[techtalk] new Linuxchix list "volunteers"

2000-05-22 Thread Deb Richardson
Hi all... Earlier today I sent out a "call for volunteers" (to grrltalk and announce, I forgot to include techtalk) asking for people to help with the LinuxChix website and mailing list maintenance tasks. A fair number of people have already contacted me about wanting to help. Rather than me tr

[techtalk] spoke too soon (re: volunteers list)

2000-05-22 Thread Deb Richardson
Hi all... You know that mailing list I just mentioned? Well...there appear to be some configuration problems, and the gentleman who is responsible for the administration of that has already toddled off to bed. So, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list doesn't work yet, but I'll send a note when it is. So

Re: [techtalk] Helpful security program

2000-05-22 Thread Jeff Frasca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 May 2000, Melissa Plunkett wrote: > btw: If you enjoyed this post and found it helpful please let > me know. I have found a lot of neat software in my > "quest for the secure box" that I'd be happy to write reviews > and or shorts posts l

[techtalk] the volunteers list works now...

2000-05-22 Thread Deb Richardson
Hi. Just goes to show that I really shouldn't try to do administrative stuff when it's this far past my bedtime. The list works now...error on my part. There is still one small configuration thing, but it doesn't currently stop the list from working and we'll sort that bit out tomorrow. Than

[techtalk] Helpful security program

2000-05-22 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Hello all, I thought I'd share a really kewl program with all of you that I first tried out a few months ago. It's a program called Bastille Linux (http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/) and helps you to secure your Red Hat 6.0 box. The reason I am posting this is that if you are setting up y

RE: [techtalk] Need help finding scanner to use w/Linux

2000-05-22 Thread Davida Schiff
Hi Nancy, Here is a good scanner site. http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html Hope this helps, Davida -Original Message- From: Nancy Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 1:27 PM To: Linuxchix Subject: [techtalk] Need help finding scanner to use w/Lin

Re: [techtalk] New RH system...Cobalt

2000-05-22 Thread Nancy Corbett
I've seen this cobalt cube too. It's really kewl. And very reasonably priced. I want one, I want one, I want one!! On Mon, 22 May 2000, Stephanie Alarcon wrote: > actually, over here we're using Cobalt servers (www.cobalt.com). the > inital setup is really easy, just punch in an ip adress,

[techtalk] Need help finding scanner to use w/Linux

2000-05-22 Thread Nancy Corbett
I'm not very knowledgable about how to research which scanners have drivers which work well with Linux. I need to order a fairly good scanner (at least a 600dpi capability, able to handle grayscale & color). I've poked around on the web a bit but haven't found a scanner yet which boasts Linux co

Re: [techtalk] New RH system...Cobalt

2000-05-22 Thread Stephanie Alarcon
actually, over here we're using Cobalt servers (www.cobalt.com). the inital setup is really easy, just punch in an ip adress, netmask, and couple other things on the lcd display on the front of the thing, and the rest of the administration is done through a web interface. they are bright translu

[techtalk] New RH system

2000-05-22 Thread A. Morner
Hi Folks.. Brief intro: Tech Coordinator of a small accounting firm in NH, some experience in Linux, mostly user-end, but still learning as I go along.. Background: I've been asked to build a redhat box that will serve as our email, web and ftp server (among various other little tasks).. We

Re: [techtalk] getting ppp interfaces up

2000-05-22 Thread Caitlyn Máire Martin
Hi, Roopa, What version of Caldera OpenLinux Lite are you using? I don't want to point you to graphical tools that may or may not be there. Regards, Caity - Original Message - From: "Roopa Rani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:34 AM Subject: [te

Re: [techtalk] changing login shells

2000-05-22 Thread elizabeth ~
thanks to everyone who responded. i edited the line with my username in the /etc/passwd file to read /bin/csh instead of /bin/bash, and now i'm happily c shelling around my system. -elizabeth oh, no need to reply to the individual AND the list when responding to posts i've been getting m

[techtalk] E-commerce solution for Linux?

2000-05-22 Thread Britta Koch
Hi! A friend of mine asked me if I knew of any e-commerce solutions for Linux. My first thought was mysql and PHP3, my second one was zope, but those aren't specific for web shops, and he is looking for a solution that is professionally supported. So, apart from Intershop or PHP3 and Oracle, do a

Re: [techtalk] changing login shells

2000-05-22 Thread Nancy Corbett
If you go into your /etc/passwd file, the end of the line with your username designates what kind of shell your default is. On Fri, 19 May 2000, elizabeth ~ wrote: > hello, > > i recently installed caldera open linux 2.4, and i'd like to change my login > shell from bash to csh, but i can't

[techtalk] How to do dual screen (display)

2000-05-22 Thread Connie Waring
OK, it does work under some circumstances..the key deficiency is that the Nvidia driver does not support OpenGL in a multi-headed configuration I'm stuck having to use Nvidia ). I have RedHat 6.2 and two graphics cards ( one AGP and one PCI ) both with Nvidia Chipsets (TNT2 and GEFORCE). Us

[techtalk] really stupid flash question

2000-05-22 Thread Stephanie Alarcon
i'm kind of embarassed to even ask this... i don't usualy put much energy into happy fun toy game sound stuff so i'm pretty clueless. I just downloaded flash 4 for linux, and it seems to play the sound at double speed. i saw this on another person's machine once and it doesn't seem to be limited