Re: [techtalk] .rar

2000-01-12 Thread Sunnanvind
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, aprilk wrote: > Actually you can look for a program called "unrar" that will do just > what you want. The "rar" program only makes *.rar's. Thank you. Sunnan -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] man, more or less? :)

2000-01-12 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:25:01PM + or thereabouts, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > > I re-read man man (ahem) and spotted references to > > /etc/man.config. > > Thanks for telling me! > > I am not able to find this config file nor did I find > a way (at least not in man man) how to specify it.

[techtalk] crash, crash, crash

2000-01-12 Thread Jennifer Tippens
For the past two days my computer (dual proc p3 400, Redhat 6.1, usually running Netscape and gaim) has crashed more often than winows. Does anyone have any idea what might cause this? Is it likely to be hardware? Thanks, Jen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? Kelly -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! powered by OutBlaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Tarah Hofmann
Read The F*cking Manual :) Tarah Hofmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Network and Web Site Administrator Optimization Resources, Inc. http://www.optimiz.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of K

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Samantha Jo Moore
> What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? Read The Fing Manual!!! Samantha [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread J B
RTFM is a rude way of telling someone to check the documentation What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? Kelly -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! powered by OutBlaze [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Elaine Poulsen
It means Read The (appropriate F word) Manual K Kirby wrote: > > What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? > > Kelly > -- > > = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == > 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! > Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! > powered by OutBlaze > >

[techtalk] Xfree86?

2000-01-12 Thread Sunnanvind
How can I upgrade my Xfree86? I'm looking at ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/ and I don't know wich files I need? Sunnan (I got a rtfm on this question from someone who didn't know.) -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:01:01 +0800, "K Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? Read The F*cking (or Fine) Manual Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread jennyw
Read The Fine Manual. There are other interpretations of what the F stands for. ;-) Jen - Original Message - From: "K Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:01 AM Subject: [techtalk] question > What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble?

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Michelle
"Read The Fucking Manual" Like we really need MORE acronyms to confuse our day? *grin* Michelle -Original Message- From: K Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:23 PM Subject: [techtalk] question >What is RTFM? If it'

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Tech Docs
Read the Funny Manual :-) Cheers! Sriram - Original Message - From: Kelly Lynn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] question > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:01:01 +0800, "K Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >W

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Sunnanvind
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, K Kirby wrote: > What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? No trouble at all! It means "Read the fucking manual". It's the nineties version of the classic "Take your bed and walk". People say it and think that it solves all problems. NOTE - on the word "fucking": I hope n

Re: [techtalk] Xfree86?

2000-01-12 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 12-Jan-100 [techtalk] Xfree86? by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How can I upgrade my Xfree86? > I'm looking at > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/ and I > don't know wich files I need? http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/ says: Q.A6- What files do I ne

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
> > What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? > > Read The Fing Manual!!! > > Samantha > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > oh! Thank you. Kelly -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! Your FREE

[techtalk] thanks

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
I'm happy to say, that phrase would never have occured to me. Thank you for all your responses. Kakirby -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! powered by OutBlaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

[techtalk] cracked?

2000-01-12 Thread srl
Okay, i feel like a dumbass asking this one in public, but here goes. I've got a RH6.1 box at home connected to a MediaOne cable modem. It's not on all the time. I've been working on it when I can, trying to make it a masquerading firewall for my network. I haven't gotten to patching it yet (the

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Michelle
> NOTE - on the word "fucking": I hope noone here knows what it means, but I >think you all do. It's a rude word. Respect that people don't want to hear it. >Sunnan >-- my apologies on that one - it's the only definition I've been told and I could've at least used asterisks for subtlety when I po

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Birgit Schmid
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:01:01AM +0800, K Kirby wrote: > What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? > aehm... read the f* manual?! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] cracked?

2000-01-12 Thread Richard H. Fifarek
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, srl wrote: > A bit later, while doing something else entirely, i noticed that the logs > had cycled; the old /var/log/messages was now /var/log/messages.1, and > there were.. 6 or so "syslogd restarted" messages from around 4:01:20. I This is normal RedHat behavior.

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Brian Engle
better late than never, "Robert The Fanatical Masochist" However there's a subversive movement running tacross the internet trying to convince people it stands for "Read The Fscking Manual". You can replace the "s" with any letter of your choosing, it's like Alphabet Soup Brian > > What is R

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread jennyw
Oh, by the way, ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/ is the traditional repository of Usenet FAQs. A great source of info ... Jen - Original Message - From: "K Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:22 PM Subject: RE: [techtalk] question > > > What is R

RE: [techtalk] cracked?

2000-01-12 Thread Linda Walsh
If you are worried about cracking before you have everything setup, you could always ifdown the interface to the outside world unless you are testing or 'ready for the world'. That's assuming you aren't using it for anything like email yet, of course... -linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

[techtalk] RTSP with FWTK

2000-01-12 Thread Jennifer Tippens
I'd really like to be able to proxy RealAudio. I use the Firewall Toolkit and I downloaded the Reference implimentation of the RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) proxy. It compiled easily and I moved it where they suggested to move it. Great. Now how do I use it? in netperm-table I have: rts

[techtalk] System CRASH - one solution

2000-01-12 Thread Robert B Benson
Greetings all, With intermittent faults, memory (SIMMs, DIMMS, etc.) is the first place to look. Next, large scale chips like the PCI bus manager (device that manages all) could be the fault. The fault behind the cause is of course HEAT. Heat sinks and more air movement around heat sources coul

RE: [techtalk] cracked?

2000-01-12 Thread Tarah Hofmann
It's also very possible that your ISP already has a firewall of some sort up on the gateway. I'm not sure about cable modems, but I know that I had to convince the sys admin at the ISP I used to work at to open all the ports on my subnet (using DSL), because I was going to handle the firewalling

Re: [techtalk] Xfree86?

2000-01-12 Thread Beverly Guillermo
Look at the release notes for version 3.3.6 or use this link http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES10.html#14 Beverly On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote: > How can I upgrade my Xfree86? > I'm looking at > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/ and I > don't kno

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] question

2000-01-12 Thread aprilk
Actually it isn't much trouble. RTFM means "Read The FAQ's & Manuals" K Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble? > >Kelly >-- > > >= http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == >10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! >Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! >po

Re: [techtalk] thanks

2000-01-12 Thread Esther Lumsdon
I bought a great t-shirt from the local Society for Technical Communication chapter which says "Read the Flying Manual" on the back, and has a cute cartoon of a bird reading the manual for flying. STC is a professional society for technical writers. I'm not one, but I thought their t-shirt was a

Re: [techtalk] Xfree86?

2000-01-12 Thread Sunnanvind
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Laurel Fan wrote: > http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/ says: I feel silly; being so stumblingly close. Thank you immensely. (Thanks to anyone else who replied; haven't read all yet). Sunnan. -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Tarah Hofmann
april - Does it? Hmm...this may be one of those acronyms that strays from the original meaning, kind of urban-legendy. Maybe all of us are just too eager to cuss! > Actually it isn't much trouble. > RTFM means "Read The FAQ's & Manuals" [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linu

Re: RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread aprilk
Actually I made it up, just then April Tarah Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >april - >Does it? Hmm...this may be one of those acronyms that strays from the >original meaning, kind of urban-legendy. Maybe all of us are just too eager >to cuss! > >> Actually it isn't much trouble. >> RTFM m

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oh, by the way, ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/ is the traditional repository of Usenet > FAQs. A great source of info ... > > Jen > Thank you..I'll bookmark that url.. kakirby -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply,

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
-Original Message- From: Brian Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > better late than never, > > "Robert The Fanatical Masochist" > > However there's a subversive movement running tacross the internet trying to >convince people it stands for "Read The Fscking Manual". > > You can replace the "s

Re: [techtalk] thanks

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
-Original Message- From: Esther Lumsdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:13:09 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk] thanks > > > I bought a great t-shirt from the local Society for Technical Communication >chapter which says "Read the Flying Manual" on

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] question

2000-01-12 Thread Jamie Walker
K Kirby wrote: > > "Robert The Fanatical Masochist" > Thank you, Brian... I like your > first explanation best.. I chuckled too... If we're making them up, then we could say that to a lot of mean and nasty newsgroup readers who like jumping down people's throats for this sort of thing, it mean

RE: RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Tarah Hofmann
hahahha :) wow, had me fooled! I was trying to make up one, but the best I came up with was "Rude To Forge Manuals" Tarah Hofmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Network and Web Site Administrator Optimization Resources, Inc. http://www.optimiz.com

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Sunnanvind
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Michelle wrote: > > NOTE - on the word "fucking": I hope noone here knows what it means, but I > >think you all do. It's a rude word. Respect that people don't want to hear > it. > >Sunnan > >-- > my apologies on that one - it's the only definition I've been told and I > could

RE: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Sunnanvind
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Tarah Hofmann wrote: > april - > Does it? Hmm...this may be one of those acronyms that strays from the > original meaning, kind of urban-legendy. Maybe all of us are just too eager > to cuss! > > > Actually it isn't much trouble. > > RTFM means "Read The FAQ's & Manua

[techtalk] LC II and 386

2000-01-12 Thread Tarah Hofmann
Any advice as to which dist I should put on this Mac LC II that I have in my Older Computer Fun Land (otherwise known as my closet)? Or my old Compaq 386 (pretentiously upgraded to 486), that is, if I can get it to boot after my boyfriend took the clock out. Yep, you heard right, he wanted to fi

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread K Kirby
-Original Message- From: Jamie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I chuckled too... > > If we're making them up, then we could say that to a lot of mean and nasty newsgroup >readers who like jumping down people's throats for this sort of thing, it means >"Right, This Fella's Mincemeat!". :-)

Re: [techtalk] question

2000-01-12 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Tarah Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 6:37 PM Subject: RE: [techtalk] question [quoting readjusted for readability] > > Actually it isn't much trouble. > > RTFM means "Read The FAQ's & Manuals" > > april - >