Re: [techtalk] Intro kinda and RedHat que

2000-03-07 Thread Cynthia Dale
I don't remember the exact story, but I believe it's because Marc or Donnie's grandfather wore a red cap because of his favorite baseball team. I believe the story about it is on the site someplace, but not sure where. (: Cindy On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Lisa Dickson wrote: > Hello everyone. I've been

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] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread Cynthia Dale
Hey y'all (: Here's my plan: I'm moving my mom in with me, and paying her a salary. She already cleans and cooks when she comes to my house, and right now, she is working as a waitress, which is too hard for her at her age, and too stressful. I realize that not everyone gets along with their mo

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-15 Thread Cynthia Dale
Is curiosity a good enough reason? (: And if gender doesn't matter, what fun would going to a swimming pool be? heh. C Dale On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, srl wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Tania Morell wrote: > > > > Rik > > > > > > > It really is very hard to decipher who is male and > > female by

Re: [techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

2000-01-17 Thread Cynthia Dale
vi -b works too. Cindy On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, K. Ziel wrote: > > If you're using VI, you can use :l (colon small-L) while on a suspect line and > it should show you the invisible characters...hit and it will return to > normal > > Alternatively, you can use :set list ( colon set list) and it wi

Re: [techtalk] cracked?

2000-01-12 Thread Cynthia Dale
Most likely you didn't get hacked. It looks like your logs rotated via cron, as is SOP nowdays with Red Hat. I am not sure why syslogd restarted so many times or why it isn't logging as it did before, though. I'd check the following: rpm -Va >rpmcheck and look at the rpmcheck file /etc/passwd t

Re: [techtalk] Xfree86?

2000-01-12 Thread Cynthia Dale
If you use Red Hat Linux, please see http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/XFree86-upgrade/XFree86-upgrade.html. I admit that it's a bit outdated as far as the version numbers are concerned, but the same philosophy applies. We're in the process of upgrading all our documents on the support sit

Re: [techtalk] A bit o' tech advice..

2000-01-11 Thread Cynthia Dale
I've used that before and have not had such happy luck. It will "white screen" at times, loosing info from the tech and/or customer. I love the way it's laid out and organized, and the way it works when it does work, but if you don't want to lose information, don't use it. Cindy On Mon, 10 Jan

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-29 Thread Cynthia Dale
I haven't tried it, but I hear mc (midnight commander?) is good for this type of thing. Cindy On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Britta Koch wrote: > On 29.12.99 at 14:06 Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > >A nice enough solution (you forgot to claim that you followed the advice of an > >earlier thread about sys-

Re: [techtalk] linux + disk

1999-12-28 Thread Cynthia Dale
Hi! There is some Y2K info on our support site: www.redhat.com/support Cindy On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > Does anyone know if Red Hat 5.2 has any Y2K problems? > > Also, I seem to remember there's a way to find out how large a disk I > have without having to open my box and l

Re: [techtalk] Apache Question

1999-12-23 Thread Cynthia Dale
Hi! Here's something I just put up: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/webserver.html It covers lots of bases, so it should help you out. As a BTW, BTW, I am working on this part of the site a lot, so ya might want to keep an eye on it for additions. (: Thanks, Cindy P.S. I think the gui-ba

Re: [techtalk] not 8 bit clean?

1999-12-18 Thread Cynthia Dale
This is from the HOWTO (which is a bit old -sigh-): 18.3.1. You are not correctly logging into the server When your chat script completes, pppd starts on your PC. However, if you have not completed the log in process to the server (including sending any command required to start PPP on

Re: [techtalk] dosemu and KDE

1999-12-16 Thread Cynthia Dale
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Cathy James wrote: > Last night I attempted to use dosemu on OpenLinux 2.2 > for the first time. Typing "dos" gives me a DOS window, > but it isn't running DOS -- it's running some weird kind > of cut-down DR-DOS 7.03, and it can't see my FAT32 > drives, even though they are

Re: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Cynthia Dale
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > One of these days I'm going to get my "distributed renderer" going. :) > > Kelly > That's a great idea. I'd give up some CPU for that, and my room mate would drool also, because he just got an SGI and is starting to get into graphics. I guess a

RE: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Cynthia Dale
I would like to be involved in whatever does anything good for the Linux community. This one will get some funds for Apache Software Foundation. Are there benefits to the community like this with any other projects that you know of? Thanks, Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer

[techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Cynthia Dale
A LinuxChix team would be cool. (: Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] OSWG

1999-12-15 Thread Cynthia Dale
Who is it who's on this list who's involved with the OSWG project? Thanks, Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Cynthia Dale
Sounds like false advertising to me also, and really would have been a few months ago, when there was NO technology available to make winmodems work under Linux. I always suggest to people to go to Red Hat's HCL (www.redhat.com/hardware) to check before they buy anything. Just because something'

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
I didn't think that version looked familiar, so I looked around and nope, it's not a kernel we we either shipped or put out as an update. For 6.0, it was 2.2.5-15, with an update of 2.2.5-22, and 5.2 had the 2.0.x kernels. But all you should have to do is just compile a 2.2.2 kernel and turn off

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
The same idea works with CD-ROMs, so you can use RPM binaries from a CD-ROM. A tool I like to play around with is Trinux, which is actually a very small Linux OS. (www.trinux.org) It's basically a kernel and a few tools like netstat and stuff, but the lovely thing about it is that you can add w

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
Yup. The intruder could have done any number of things, which is why I suggested reinstalling. The other stuff I suggested was just to try to find out how it was done, so it could be prevented in the future. Nothing worse than getting hacked and not knowing how... Cindy Cynthia J. Dale Technic

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
Hi! I'm kind of new to the list, and have been lurking, but it's time to get out and say hi! Security is one of the most intriguing aspects of the internet to me, but I like to keep it to the hobby level so I can still enjoy it (read that: I haven't learned much about encryption. heh.) Anyhow, I

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
Well, if the person who got it also killed syslogd (which of course they would), she wouldn't've noticed until it dialed again. C Cynthia J. Dale Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jenn V. wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:42:12 +1100 > From: Jenn V.