[techtalk] TeX Resources?

2001-02-17 Thread Rick Scott
Hi all, Hoping to be able to complete reports and the like using vi instead of some $DIETY-forsaken word processing software, I've just taken the dive into learning TeX. (Debugging your philosophy paper is a novel experience...!) I've read a few online HOWTO-type documents, but now I'm looking

Re: [techtalk] Pine and new mail

2001-03-08 Thread Rick Scott
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:40:32AM -0500, Jason wrote: > My Pine mailbox doesn't seem to refresh itself as it should, or at least > as I'd like it to. Frequently I'll have a terminal window open with Pine > running, showing no messages in my inbox for several minutes, and then > when I quit to th

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] Printing to Deskjet printer

2001-03-15 Thread Rick Scott
(Conor Daly:) > > > Running an hp Deskjet 550C on an lpt port and an HP Deskjet 610C on a HP > JetDirect print server with rhs-printfilters-1.63-1 ... > The RedHat printtool program takes care of all the editing and spool > dir files but they can be done by hand. I can send these if you > wish.

Re: [techtalk] Gnome Panel items and TCP ports

2001-03-18 Thread Rick Scott
> A port scan conducted during my login session show that different > applets on the control panel use different ports on the system. I > have blocked these ports using ipchains. The bigger problem is, on a > different login session, the applets were using different ports. Is > this normal behavi

Re: [techtalk] HD Noises (was: problems with disk IBM 73 Gb)

2001-03-19 Thread Rick Scott
(ktb:) > > The noise your hearing "like a sewing machine" is probably just e2fsck > doing it's job. If you were hearing "clunks" that would be a dead > drive. While we're on the arcane subject of being able to interpret and diagnose various hard drive sounds, I'm told that a HD that sounds like

Re: [techtalk] Re: REJECT packet is logged as DENY....

2001-03-19 Thread Rick Scott
(Subba Rao:) > Mar 18 18:39:48 pasta kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth2 PROTO=6 > 24.24.63.86:62779 10.23.86.125:113 L=60 S=0x00 I=26383 F=0x4000 > T=52 SYN (#11) ^^ If I surmise correctly, this (#11) should be the number of the rule that's causing the packet to be dropped on th

Re: [techtalk] Re: REJECT packet is logged as DENY....

2001-03-19 Thread Rick Scott
(Subba Rao:) > > > >> Mar 18 18:39:48 pasta kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth2 PROTO=6 > >> 24.24.63.86:62779 10.23.86.125:113 L=60 S=0x00 I=26383 F=0x4000 > >> T=52 SYN (#11) (coldfire:) > if the kernel's logging it .. i'm assuming it's a 2.4.x kernel, and > therfore this person better be

Re: [techtalk] Re: REJECT packet is logged as DENY....

2001-03-20 Thread Rick Scott
(Conor Daly:) > Rick Scott thought: > > Subba didn't mention what kernel zie was running, but I've still > > got 2.2.17, and my logfiles look the same: > > > > shadow> ./packets > ^ > This "packets". A script yes? C

Re: [techtalk] Re: Odd firewall outputs (cont)

2001-03-24 Thread Rick Scott
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:31:04PM -0500, Angela Nash wrote: > If your connection is on cable or DSL, expect to get port scanned > every few minutes. You'll fill up your firewall logs very fast. As Clifto said when I posted about this in news.admin.net-abuse.email, `Raise the drawbridge and ma

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

2001-03-25 Thread Rick Scott
(Makiko Itoh:) > ...I've found that the discipline involved in learning another human > language is very helpful for programming. My first language is > Japanese and I learned English early, and have since tackled French > and German, and I can almost feel the same part of my brain working > when

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-11 Thread Rick Scott
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:05:09PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > Watching someone in a terminal room. Stuck in floppy. Started machine. > It went through virus-check. "Beep! This has a virus!" "Oh no!" cried > the student. "A virus on the computer!" He whipped his floppy out... > > ...and stuck it