Re: [techtalk] mozilla problems

2001-03-11 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Anthony Russello wrote: > > Does anyone here know if mozilla is capable of viewing secure 128 bit > encrypted sites? > > I've been trying to use it to view certain sites, and I just get an error > statng that the connection was refused. M

Re: [techtalk] Debian

2001-03-11 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:17:54PM -0500, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I thought that once a Debian distro was called "stable" there weren't really > any changes to it - whereas if it's "testing" or "unstable" newer versions of > packages are added until it freezes and becomes stable. So, I think t

Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

2001-03-11 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:07:55PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Angela Nash thought: > I don't have xinetd on my RedHat 7 system anymore...but I did at one time. > I believe to use the server_args directive you have to also use the FLAGS > directive. Check the xinetd man page for more

Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

2001-03-11 Thread Rick Scott
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:54:37PM +, Conor Daly wrote: > FIXED IT! Did an > > rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm > > UURRGH! Ever feel stupid? At the same time, sometimes this is like racking your brains for hours over why your car won't start. You're rooting about under the hood, che

Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

2001-03-11 Thread jenn
Rick Scott wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:54:37PM +, Conor Daly wrote: > >> FIXED IT! Did an >> >> rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm >> >> UURRGH! Ever feel stupid? > > > At the same time, sometimes this is like racking your brains for > hours over why your car won't start. Yo

Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0

2001-03-11 Thread James A. Sutherland
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You always find the solution in the last place you look Well, yes... unless you're a complete idiot :) (Let's face it: you'd have to be pretty dumb to continue looking AFTER you've found the problem...) James. __

[techtalk] Random serious freezes

2001-03-11 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi Folks, I've got a laptop (HP Pavillion N5195) which I adore, and have been using as my do-everything plus development box. Once in a while (like once every 2 weeks, although it is random, so it might go for weeks w/o this, then do it 3 times in one week), always while I'm in X (I run KDE

Re: [techtalk] Random serious freezes

2001-03-11 Thread James A. Sutherland
Hi Michelle! You might want to try enabling "Magic Alt-SysRq" in your kernel. This will give you a couple of useful features you can use to recover from most crashes - kill all processes, unmount disks, reboot, dump current status, etc. Did you build your own kernel, or are you using a prebuilt o

Re: [techtalk] Random serious freezes

2001-03-11 Thread carie cabal
FWIW, I had the exact same problem (also using KDE & XFree86 3.3)... after much twiddling I narrowed it down to being caused by leaving Netscape running for long periods of time (i.e. days) ... then I switched to Opera and have not had a freeze since. HTH, carie > Hi Folks, > > I've got a lapto