Re: [techtalk] Mandrake install problems

2001-05-03 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:05:03AM -0400 or thereabouts, A Kozic wrote: > I'd like to thank everyone who helped me out with my Mandrake stuff. > It still doesn't work. > I'm getting Debian. > > -- Avery, who wasted $30 on the pipe dream of "easy-to-use" If you actually spent the money, isn't the

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake install problems

2001-05-03 Thread A Kozic
Telsa Gwynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you actually spent the money, isn't there some form of support in > that? Yeah. They say they will respond to two emails. Hrmph. I am not holding my breath for a fix. But man, I don't just have $30 laying around to blow for the hell of it, you know?

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake install problems

2001-05-03 Thread jenn
A Kozic wrote: > -- Avery, the poor college student who will have to live on peanut butter > and ramen to support his increasingly expensive linux habit, and could > really use some free beer. > A Kozic| "Spare some change so I can > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |get a new distro?" U

Re: [techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

2001-05-03 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Thursday 03 May 2001 03:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You have the proxying module enabled. So yes, there is a proxying > function in apache that you're unaware of. It's not compromised > (well, not NECESSARILY compromised!), it's just that you left > an exploitable function on. They're

Re: [techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

2001-05-03 Thread James Sutherland
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2001 03:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You have the proxying module enabled. So yes, there is a proxying > > function in apache that you're unaware of. It's not compromised > > (well, not NECESSARILY compromised!), it's just t

Re: [techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

2001-05-03 Thread jenn
Michelle Murrain wrote: > I know about mod_proxy, and the general idea of proxy servers, etc. But how > does it make any sense in terms of saving bandwidth, for me, for example, to > relay through a different server, to fetch web pages? The web pages and > associated files are the same size,

Re: [techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

2001-05-03 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:46:10AM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I know about mod_proxy, and the general idea of proxy servers, etc. But how > does it make any sense in terms of saving bandwidth, for me, for example, to > relay through a different server, to fetch web pages? The web pages and

Re: Re: [techtalk] The manager to send flames to:

2001-05-03 Thread Tami Friedman
I am thankful I can't imagine why this idiot is on such a paranoid clueless power trip. When I was (and I really was - for 8 years) a sysadmin, we educated our users, and if necessary, ourselves. In retrospect, I was a most excellent (assistant)sysadmin. I wish there were more like me. Ask any

Re: [techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

2001-05-03 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > Martin Pool, at Linuxcare Australia is even developing a proxying method based on > rsync, so you can request only the changed data in a page based on exchanage of > checksums via the rsync algorithm. This is based on the idea that many pages, like > Slashdot have a great

Re: Re: [techtalk] Small Linux distributions?

2001-05-03 Thread Tami Friedman
I use Debin GNU/Linux on all my systems. I have a 3 disk cd-rom set for installs and I can use that over nfs to my laptops. Of course, that presupposes one has a cd-rom drive somewhere on the local net. If you do, any distribution that allows you to hand-configure your system should work just fi