Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-15 Thread kev
Well I am one happy chicken at the moment! :-) I changed my modem to IRQ 5 last night (with setserial), and got an internet connection without any problem. Bye bye Windows! I can't wait to format the Windows half of my hard drive :-) Many thanks to everyone who helped me get this sorted over the l

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread kev
Anyone got HotJava running? What's it like? - Kev Mike and Mary Anne Cox wrote: > Well color me red. I know that I saw a version for Win and one for Linux > at http://download.com. > > However, in effort to track down the direct link, I can no longer find > either of them. I also went to neop

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread Lillann Henriksen
> Anyone got HotJava running? What's it like? I have the HotJava browser on my Solaris machine, but I don't use it very often... It's an OK browser, but apprears a bit slow to me... But it can run WebNFS - and no other browser does that. (that I know of anyway) Did that answer your question?

Re: Viruses for Linux -- Was [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-15 Thread Janus
At 08:16 PM 10/14/1999 -0400, Laurel wrote: \>themselves..) As long as its done right, there's no reason a virus >can't be cross-platform and portable. (Ok, this is nontrivial. but it >is possible.) > Actually, there are over 3,000 "cross-platform" viruses -- the MS macro viruses (about 45 of

RE: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread Cathy James
>>Anyone got HotJava running? What's it like? >It's an OK browser, but apprears a bit slow to me... It's dog sloow. I find it unusable even on fast boxes. --Cathy James [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread kev
Lillann Henriksen wrote: > > Anyone got HotJava running? What's it like? > > I have the HotJava browser on my Solaris machine, but I don't use it very often... > > It's an OK browser, but apprears a bit slow to me... > But it can run WebNFS - and no other browser does that. (that I know of anyway

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1

1999-10-15 Thread Jack Baker
>Anyone install RH6.1 yet? I downloaded the iso image >and installed it here at work (fresh install on new >drive). VERY easy/fast install, except now the mouse >has gone nuts (jumps and skips around randomly - not >usable at all). It works fine if I boot to the older >install. Tried 2 m

Re: [techtalk] mozilla was:Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread Jack Baker
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Re: [techtalk] mozilla (was:Netscape and Java)

1999-10-15 Thread kev
Jack Baker wrote: > Sorry for the last...miskey. > > Has anyone tried the Mozilla browser? Could you explain what this is? How is it different to Netscape? I though Mozilla was just the name given to their source code. - Kev > I realize it is still bleeding edge > tech, but I know there are a

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread Aaron Malone
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 07:32:40AM -0400, Cathy James wrote: > > >>Anyone got HotJava running? What's it like? > > >It's an OK browser, but apprears a bit slow to me... > > It's dog sloow. I find it unusable > even on fast boxes. Same here. I tried it on an UltraSparc, and it was s

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-15 Thread Jenn
Its looking for the files in /usr/include/*linux*/limits.h On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote: > > Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 [techtalk] pine 4.2 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or > > > directory > > > > This is strange. It's

RE: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-15 Thread Jennifer Tippens
slww... It's not my preference, anyway. I don't have it on my linux box though, it came with Solaris, so I guess milage may vary. -Jennifer > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kev > Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 4:37 AM

Re: [techtalk] mozilla (was:Netscape and Java)

1999-10-15 Thread Jack Baker
Sorry for the last...miskey. Has anyone tried the Mozilla browser? I realize it is still bleeding edge tech, but I know there are a few developers on the list. I have used the Gecko engine on Windows...and was impressed. Had a tendency to lock, but that is to be expected, it did not support

[techtalk] Introduction

1999-10-15 Thread Jennifer Tippens
Hello all, I'm Jennifer. I'm a webmaster and sysadmin for a shopping portal on the web. At home I run Mandrake Linux and BeOS. At work I administer Solaris 2.6. The first time I installed Linux was Thanksgiving 1995. I spent the entire Thanksgiving holiday entranced and was so proud when I go

Re: [techtalk] mozilla (was:Netscape and Java)

1999-10-15 Thread Jack Baker
It is different from Netscape in that it is the first browser to develop an all new engine (Gecko). It is also open source. Mozilla is the name of the organization that Netscape started to develop open source software, and they have quite a list of items under development (they all look to be

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1 - almost solved

1999-10-15 Thread Michelle Leonard
Thanks Kir! Mouse was misbehaving in both console and X The ps command returns gpm -t imps which is not right, since I switched to a generic ps2 mouse. So after reviewing gpm manpage, ran killall gpm gpm -t ps2 Now mouse works in both console and X (Yay!) My question no

Re: [techtalk] mozilla (was:Netscape and Java)

1999-10-15 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:35:10PM +0100 or thereabouts, kev wrote: > Jack Baker wrote: > > > Sorry for the last...miskey. > > Has anyone tried the Mozilla browser? Yes. I get the milestones, My husband grabs nightly CVS snapshots and I've used some of those. It's been improving since M10, still

[techtalk] DeadRat and other pet names ;)

1999-10-15 Thread Amanda Knox
> > It may be time to slap your forehead, roll your eyes skywards, and utter > an > > expletive. I think Dead Rat is rhyming slang for a certain popular distro. > Or > > were you joking about not having heard of it? Apologies if that's the case > :-) > > > > - Kev > > I'm serious, either I've

[techtalk] Duh. Slight self-correction

1999-10-15 Thread Telsa Gwynne
I actually proof-read this before sending. Now I get it back I see this: > Netscape's code for Navigator and Communicator was proprietary. > In 1988 they made lots of the code for Navigator 4.0 openly available. That would be 1998, of course, since the web wasn't around in 1988. Now I'm wonderi

Re: [techtalk] Duh. Slight self-correction

1999-10-15 Thread kev
Telsa Gwynne wrote: > I actually proof-read this before sending. Now I get it back I > see this: > > Netscape's code for Navigator and Communicator was proprietary. > > In 1988 they made lots of the code for Navigator 4.0 openly available. > > That would be 1998, of course, since the web wasn't a

Re: [techtalk] DeadRat and other pet names ;)

1999-10-15 Thread Beverly Guillermo
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was confused by the "name". =) This is the only time I've heard RedHat referred to as Dead Rat. Beverly > > > It may be time to slap your forehead, roll your eyes skywards, and utter an > > > expletive. I think Dead Rat is rhyming slang for a certain popular di

[techtalk] storm linux

1999-10-15 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
Has anyone fiddled around with this distro? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1 - almost solved

1999-10-15 Thread Lyta Alexander
looks like /etc/rc.d/inet.d/gpm calls /etc/sysconfig/mouse to determine the mouse type On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Michelle Leonard wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:08:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: Michelle Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [te

[techtalk] Fw: [grrltalk] question about remote root access

1999-10-15 Thread Beverly Guillermo
- Original Message - From: Deb Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:49 PM Subject: [grrltalk] question about remote root access > > Hello, > > I got a question and since I've dug around all morning with no answer, I >

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-15 Thread Gail Allinson
Steve Kudlak wrote: > Curious because everyone I have talked to explictly, and I have made my > noises I want to install LINUX here, in Wheeling, WV, full of low computer > knowledge people, I most often here "Go with Red Hat". I am kind of > checking it out now. > > Have Fun, > Sends Steve I'm

[techtalk] Digest problem

1999-10-15 Thread Patricia Jung
Hi Deb and all, hope I don't bother you too much with this mail but as a digest reader I find it quite difficult to handle the list: Other lists generate their digests as Multipart MIME messages which is very convenient because one not only gets a table of contents to choose the interesting posti

RE: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-15 Thread JoAnn Elliott
sorry, what I have is a builtin modem. Not a pcmcia card but in the event I do get ont of those, I am saving this very nice set of instruction, thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Beverly Guillermo Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 10:59

[techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Walt
I have just been asked to get pricing together to set up a password-access only website. I currently have cable-modem internet access and definitely do not expect traffic demands to exceed my 512k bandwidth. (at least not initially) My questions are: 1) What kind of server hardware am I looking

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-15 Thread jenn
Gail Allinson wrote: > > Steve Kudlak wrote: > > > Curious because everyone I have talked to explictly, and I have made my > > noises I want to install LINUX here, in Wheeling, WV, full of low computer > > knowledge people, I most often here "Go with Red Hat". I am kind of > > checking it out no

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Walt wrote: > 1) What kind of server hardware am I looking at having to buy for > this project? (I would NOT expect more than 100 simultaneous > users or, as I said above, to exceed my 512k) Probably not that much..If you want to go intel and by new, I'd spec out something

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote: > Probably not that much..If you want to go intel and by new, I'd spec out > something like a pII whatever (doesn't matter that much) with 64 or 128 MB > ram (depends on how price sensitive you are, obviously) and a few gigs for > hard drive space and a

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread jenn
Walt wrote: > 1) What kind of server hardware am I looking at having to buy for > this project? (I would NOT expect more than 100 simultaneous > users or, as I said above, to exceed my 512k) Dancer said: "that tells me he needs a 486-66 or better, possibly up to a state-of-the-art Pentium depen

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Walt
At 06:48 PM 10/15/99 -0700, Vinnie Surmonde wrote: >On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote: > >> Probably not that much..If you want to go intel and by new, I'd spec out >> something like a pII whatever (doesn't matter that much) with 64 or 128 MB >> ram (depends on how price sensitive you are

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As Vinnie said: apache, check out .htaccess. I *think* that's > clear-text passwords, I'm not sure. There's almost certainly something > in the apache documentation for more security - or maybe someone here > knows something. :) http only does clea

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Walt wrote: > There may be some slight database overhead (i.e., time users > spend logged-in must be kept track of for monthly billing.) logged into the box, logged into the website, or logged into a nationwide dialup network (I've done the last one, so it's not *that* far

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Walt
At 07:13 PM 10/15/99 -0700, you wrote: >On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Walt wrote: > >> There may be some slight database overhead (i.e., time users >> spend logged-in must be kept track of for monthly billing.) > >logged into the box, logged into the website, or logged into a nationwide >dialup network (I

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...

1999-10-15 Thread Walt
Jenn V. wrote: >Dancer said: "that tells me he needs a 486-66 or better, possibly >up to a state-of-the-art Pentium depending on how many zillion databases >they want to run on the box." That is good to know, but I'm not showing _that_ to the money-man! I want to get _some_ kind of new system out

RE: [techtalk] whas up wid da GIMP? [from Updated Enlightenment (more @debian, GIMP and COREL DRAW*)]

1999-10-15 Thread Walt
At 04:45 PM 10/14/99 -0400, Steve Kudlak wrote: >me the real basics, like how to save an image. But the GUM (Gimp Users >Manual) at http://www.gimp.org is remarkably easy to understand. And it's >color section explains things that have been locked away in the heads of >people at LucasFilm, and not

Re: [techtalk] Duh. Slight self-correction

1999-10-15 Thread Emily Cartier
At 04:36 PM 10/15/99 +0100, you wrote: >I actually proof-read this before sending. Now I get it back I >see this: >> Netscape's code for Navigator and Communicator was proprietary. >> In 1988 they made lots of the code for Navigator 4.0 openly available. > >That would be 1998, of course, since t

Re: [techtalk] whas up wid da GIMP? [from Updated Enlightenment (more @debian, GIMP and COREL DRAW*)]

1999-10-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:07:49 -0400, Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I'm confused about the usefulness of explaining CMY to RGB to HSV >relations and not supporting it. What is the big BLOCK in the way of >CMYK or LAB(or HSB or HSB or LCH or whatever you wanna call it) >support in GIMP? (Also, why

Re: [techtalk] Secure web server...What's Your Favorite color??

1999-10-15 Thread Steve Kudlak
Has Anyone Read the RED BOOK (not the mag:) the DOD's read NSAs security manual, and does it have useful material better that the standard Network Security References? Have Fun, Sends Steve [EMAIL PROT

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-15 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote: > I thought I covered that? (not to be condescending, just wondering if I am > just on drugs) I was using ./build lnp which is the "correct" build for > RedHat according to comp.mail.pine :o) Could be. they keep changing it, who can keep track?? -- wow, this

[techtalk] Rpms install after floppy boot

1999-10-15 Thread Victor Stratan
Hi All, I have upgraded my kernel and stuff and accidently forgot to install some rpms. Can I boot from floppy and install rpms into my hard drive rpmdb ? The problem is i am trying to boot from hard and when it checks the root fs for errors it says it is broken and needs repairs, asks for r

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-15 Thread Nicole
> > I thought I covered that? (not to be condescending, just wondering if I am > > just on drugs) I was using ./build lnp which is the "correct" build for > > RedHat according to comp.mail.pine :o) > > Could be. they keep changing it, who can keep track?? I noticed... for pine4.10, the pine-port