Re: [techtalk] Re: Computer Books

2000-12-28 Thread Gina Lanik
for Dummies" but in fact I found out that it doesn't provide the information I need(ed) to -really- get into it and I quickly moved on to RTFM (about everything I could get my hands on, man pages, Running Linux/O'Reilly, etc.) ;-) cheers, Gina -- ## Gina Lanik - [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [techtalk] sound card

2001-01-07 Thread Gina Lanik
hm, sounds like a RedHat system to me... I got myself a SoundBlaster PCI512 which actually uses emu10k1, funny enough that kudzu (sp?) in RH 6.2 detected and configured the card automagically in Debian Potato (my main system now) it was a lot harder ;-) have fun, Gina On Sat, 06 Jan 200

Re: [techtalk] Oddness

2001-03-23 Thread Gina Lanik
234 time=163.0 ms --- ns5.kathweb.net ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 161.0/162.6/163.6 ms cheers, Gina -- # Gina Lanik - [EMAIL PROTECTED] # That's what I like about this place...no LART is so good that it can't

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Gina Lanik
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:47:24 +0100, Makiko Itoh writes: >Anyway, this is my first post here. I've enjoyed lurking so far. :) welcome! and finally someone from "central" europe! :-) cheers, Gina -- The correct plural of virus is "vi". Throw enough of the little buggers together and they neutr

Re: [techtalk] Problems with mouse and X

2001-03-24 Thread Gina Lanik
greets! what you can try for sure is look into the settings for gpm, they're usually not usuable/correct. I use debian potato here with a MS intellimouse. part of my settings of /etc/X11/XF86Config are: Section "Pointer" Protocol"IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxisMapping

Re: [techtalk] Slightly OT: My dopey sysadmin strikes again!

2001-04-04 Thread Gina Lanik
heh, you forgot the mumbling to self: "heh, (s)he tells me..." cheers, Gina On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:31:18 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >What did you say your IP address was?? > >j/k =) > >Kath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> We have a web based homework assignment doo hickey. >> >> He

Re: [techtalk] Latest deb of Exim?

2001-05-02 Thread Gina Lanik
On Tue, 01 May 2001 18:10:08 CDT, ktb writes: [...] >Are you positive your version is vulnerable to whatever whatever you >think it is? If you have a security line in your /etc/apt/sources.list >and run - ># apt-get update ># apt-get upgrade > >or maybe better - ># apt-get update ># apt-get -u di

Re: [techtalk] Large Disk/glibc/RPM Hell

2001-05-12 Thread Gina Lanik
hiyas! On Thu, 10 May 2001 15:15:26 PDT, Kai MacTane writes: >Hi. I'm seeking a way out of RPM hell, and it looks like it involves some >rather nasty installs from source. I'll try to describe the problem >concisely, but it's a fairly big problem. hm, have you ever thought about upgrading you

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #447 - 11 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Gina Lanik
other people on this list have said what I felt like saying, so there's only one thing left... if you're -absolutely- sure that you don't want this maintenance feature up you can go and change /etc/inittab accordingly (as it is done by default on a Debian system). cheers, Gina On Fri, 11 Ma

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #447 - 11 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Gina Lanik
hm, what I forgot - no I don't mean removing the entry for runlevel 1. relevant part of my inittab: # What to do in single-user mode. ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin HTH & HAND, Gina On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:59:26 +0200, Gina Lanik writes: > >other people on this list have said w

Re: [techtalk] Security, experience, knowledge, etc.

2001-05-13 Thread Gina Lanik
hiyas, On Sat, 12 May 2001 13:39:26 EDT, Michelle Murrain writes: [...] >But the only way to really make sure your server is secure, sadly, is >knowledge. hm, I wonder, why "sadly"? I'm having -lots- of fun gaining the knowledge =) cheers, Gina -- The correct plural of virus is "vi". Thro

Re: [techtalk] About prettyphysicslady on the linuxchix techtalk list...

2001-05-13 Thread Gina Lanik
- depends on the admin taking care of it! Gina -- # Sysadmin (oh - really?) # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Gina Lanik -- ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk