Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-07 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Interesting... I've seen a huge speed increase in using mozilla over using netscape here at work (pII 400 w/64MB RAM). It renders pages much faster (especially pages with lots of tables), it reads mail faster, and it's all around "faster" in general (by eye, not by benchmark). The only thing t

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-07 Thread Marie Fischer
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jeff wrote: > Anyway, ditch communicator would be the best option. I'm about to do > some upgrades on my computer, and I'll also be doing a fresh install. > So instead of netscape, I'm going to try suffering through the latest > Mozilla milestone :) I heard it is getting rat

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:44:54PM -0500, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: > Hi, Conni, > > The main reason I switched from Gnome/E to KDE/kwm, aside from the fact the > E was a resource hog, was the kind of problem you described: Netscape > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Robert Siemer conjectured: > From: "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ... Netscape > > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome > > (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape still > > hangs sometimes (4.71), but it doe

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Robert Siemer
Re! From: "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... Netscape > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome > (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape still > hangs sometimes (4.71), but it doesn't take X or the OS with it. The OS? - Whe

Re: [techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Conni, The main reason I switched from Gnome/E to KDE/kwm, aside from the fact the E was a resource hog, was the kind of problem you described: Netscape freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape

[techtalk] bizarre

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
The last 2 nights around 10pm, my system has been freezing up totally. What I was doing at the time: case a (sat): seti@home on tty2 pppd running, modem connected. enlightenment/gnome netscape xchat everybuddy ssh in terminal 'make' as su for xmms install. it froze right after i told it to 'make'

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread wizard111
Ever heard of hardware failure such as a HD going south? Does the same thing, eventually the OS hangs and begins running properly again on disk access. The final end is when it hangs forever due to not finding a sector to read or even report the error to... > In general, if you're using a stabl

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread wizard111
FIRST do an e2fsck on your drives, perhaps you have a bad HD that has a spreading corruption (read; bad part of the media that's spreading (surface "sluffing", was a rather common problem with conner HD's back before Seagate bought them out). Second, re-verify your init.d files, make certain th

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
fnord. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Conrad Golightly wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:52:04 -0600 > From: Conrad Golightly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > Seagate Eagle hard drives have a

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Conrad Golightly
Seagate Eagle hard drives have a jumper that makes them read-only; keep RPM and the MD5 checksums of your system stuff or anything else that you could use to investigate a break-in on one of those puppies. You simply CAN'T modify anything when its physically write protected. =) > Yup. The intru

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer Red Hat, Inc. fnord. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:15:10 -0500 (EST) > From: Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > &

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- they're just not in the > database, so they won't get checked. You might want to find setuid/setgid Of course, the cracker could alw

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:59:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- [snip] > If you're not running a distro with RPM ... (almost anything except > Slackware, Debian, Corel (Debian derivative) and Stampede IIRC). I knew I bookmarked thes

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Cynthia Dale wrote: > 2. If your are running Red Hat Linux, run rpm -Va >rpmlist and check that > out for a few things: > MD5 sums > missing files > added files You won't catch added files with rpm -Va -- they're just not in the database, so they won't get checked. You might

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Kudlak
Subba Rao wrote: > On 0, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it > s

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
e: > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:14:14 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. FIRST check your > daemons, make sure something isn't running that

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Cynthia Dale
gt; From: Jenn V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. > > > > Okay, so today I was usi

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 Re: [techtalk] bizarre by "Jenn V."@simegen.com > Except that it looks like the problem occured while she was > offline. Well, it's possible that it happened when she was online, and she only noticed next time she dialed up.

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-12 Thread Jenn V.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial,

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-12 Thread wizard111
Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system. FIRST check your daemons, make sure something isn't running that SHOULDN'T be. THEN check to make sure that what IS running is the proper file (replacement of a valid program with a trojan). THEN check your outbound mail for something that shouldn't be

[techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-12 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uh" and tried aga

Re: [techtalk] bizarre kde problem

1999-10-08 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: >I can't get the menu or panel to launch anything anymore. I completely >uninstalled and upgraded KDE and it still doesn't work. If you switch back to the console you started X from after trying to start a program, are there any informative error messages there? I'

[techtalk] bizarre kde problem

1999-10-08 Thread Nadine
I can't get the menu or panel to launch anything anymore. I completely uninstalled and upgraded KDE and it still doesn't work. Where did I go wrong? Nadine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://anacaona.org/home http://tww.tao.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org