Re: [techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:58:15PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Not configure, how do you do it;) I'm really glad you mentioned PWM, I > ditched window maker for it. It's light and I love the way you can > group at least Netscape and xterm into one window and toggle between > them with keys. > > I fin

[techtalk] (no subject)

2001-05-20 Thread penguina
Some other things one might consider are: -turning off ipforwarding entierely and running heavily logged proxies instead -turning off access from TROTW (The Rest Of The World) to things you need through hosts.deny/hosts.access rules -keeping up w

Re: [techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:13:56AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:50:28PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > Someone mentioned the window manager PWM the other day. There is an > > option in pwm.conf for grouping Netscape. I was wondering if anyone has > > gotten any other applicati

Re: [techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:50:28PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Someone mentioned the window manager PWM the other day. There is an > option in pwm.conf for grouping Netscape. I was wondering if anyone has > gotten any other applications to group like xterm or gnome-terminal? > I've tried various instanc

[techtalk] IRC security with Linux

2001-05-20 Thread Joseph Barney
This is such a newbie question but here goes. Someone in the IRC channel #linuxhelp on undernet told me about a patch I should get for IRC security (kernek patch) and I'm wondering which kernel needs to be upgraded for that. The server is running Caldera 2.4 and kernel 2.2.14. The client is ru

[techtalk] Star Office - failed to load necessary component

2001-05-20 Thread christina
Hi! I have a problem with Star Office 5.2 on RedHat 7.1. Star Office is being installed with the /net option on a local harddisk. The user's homes get mounted from an HP server via NFS. When a new user executes "soffice" for the first time, the user part of the installation process runs as it

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
From: Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Julie thought: > > Not to be the mistress of understatement, but I found a big > > difference between double-digit nets (16Mb token ring) and > > triple digit nets (220Mb glass). > >

Re: [techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:50:28PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Someone mentioned the window manager PWM the other day. There is an > option in pwm.conf for grouping Netscape. I was wondering if anyone has > gotten any other applications to group like xterm or gnome-terminal? > I've tried various instanc

Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:17:18PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > James Sutherland thought: > > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > > > > > Little problem here with hdparm and DMA. I'm using an AMD K6-2 350MHz on > > > some kind of amibios

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Julie thought: > From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:49:20PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > > Interesting something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to > put > > > /home on an NF

[techtalk] PWM grouping windows

2001-05-20 Thread ktb
Someone mentioned the window manager PWM the other day. There is an option in pwm.conf for grouping Netscape. I was wondering if anyone has gotten any other applications to group like xterm or gnome-terminal? I've tried various instances of - winprop "Xterm.xterm" { frame 10 } but can't ge

Re: [techtalk] My bad NT day

2001-05-20 Thread Scott
On Sat, 19 May 2001, coldfire wrote: > i guess if it's your thing, you'll really stand by it ;P i have a friend > who's totally into FreeBSD, but i always here him complaining about lack > of documentation and lack of support for some of his hardware. maybe he's > just an idiot though :) It do

[techtalk] Harping on Win 2K

2001-05-20 Thread Scott
Sorry to bring this up, if you are not running Win 2K ignore this. But I did some more research on the hack attempt on my home server the other day and found some interesting articles on a mailing list. It appears that even if you have installed the security patches--if you install SP2 you have

Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:17:18PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, James Sutherland thought: > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > > > Little problem here with hdparm and DMA. I'm using an AMD K6-2 350MHz on > > some kind of amibios mobo with "Ultra DMA Enabled" in CMOS but I cannot

[techtalk] New E-mail addy

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
Greets, For those of you who care, my new e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please update your address book. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] Re: [ILUG] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > Any thoughts? uh... DMA is disabled in the BIOS? :) eg, perhaps you've manually set the disks i9n the bios to PIO only? so try just setting them to "auto"

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
From: Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:49:20PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > > Interesting something comes to mind there... What will it cost me to put > > /home on an NFS volume over a 4-box 10Mbit network? It's gotta be slower > > than local disk but you get to carry

Fwd: Re: [techtalk] My bad NT day

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
I asked a colleague of mine who is/was using a FreeBSD box as firewall for comments. Here's what he said... Conor - Forwarded message from Steffen Higel - On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:42:52PM +0100, Conor Daly articulated: > > Did you get your FreeBSD firewall set up? Would you care to

Re: [techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > Little problem here with hdparm and DMA. I'm using an AMD K6-2 350MHz on > some kind of amibios mobo with "Ultra DMA Enabled" in CMOS but I cannot > set "using dma" for the drive(s). > > [root]# /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > setting using_dm

[techtalk] hdparm and DMA "not permitted"

2001-05-20 Thread Conor Daly
Little problem here with hdparm and DMA. I'm using an AMD K6-2 350MHz on some kind of amibios mobo with "Ultra DMA Enabled" in CMOS but I cannot set "using dma" for the drive(s). [root]# /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permit