a Sun
box next to me running Mandrake Corporate Server. As I tell my boss, when
it is
time to do some real work, I use Linux.
With that intro, I say hello again, drop by my email and say hello back
when you
get a chance.
-Scott
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ld do some processing there and then redirect back.
I am thinking of doing some of the work in Java. Since my experience with
Java is limited,
has anyone else used Java heavily for web based applications?
-Scott
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e conversion
done!
>I haven't tried any server-side stuff in Java, but that would also be a
>good way to stop your clients being so locked in to MS...
A lot of clients are concerned with the new MS license policy and this might be
a nice way to help.
-Scott
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>On Thursday 17 May 2001 04:48 am, you wrote:
> > i was just curious what the window manager of choice is on this list :) ..
Depends on the distribution. I am just trying SUSE for the first time and they
seem to favor KDE, as does the Mandrake versions I have tried. Red Hat seems
to favor Gnom
At 11:03 AM 5/17/2001 -0400, Caitlyn Martin wrote:
>Yes, but they give you the choice of KDE or Gnome at install. You can
>install both, but choose either as your default. I chose KDE and had no
>problems, other than an overwhelming need to rearrange their menus. Mandrake
>is much better at sub
Now, my question would be, I know I can run select statements on the data,
the problem
is the sql guys here write a ton of stored procedures and I need to call
them instead to
get my info. The asp code is very ugly. Has anyone run into this with
PHP? I can send
asp examples if that helps.
Nicole-
My experience with Solaris is on the Sparc machine, I assume PC is the same,
but you have to choose No DNS during install, then add it after the machine
is up. Thinking..there is a file called..thinking again.. You
know what,
let me check my Solaris book at home and I will
Hi!
I was using Mandrake 7.2 for Internet Connection on my home PC's. They are
sharing
a modem there since I can not get DSL or cable yet. I had to convert the
machine to
Win 2K for work reasons and I am using the Internet Connection Sharing
built into Win
2K and in a word--it sucks. I want
Many thanks Dan! I am more awake after reading that! Bravo!
At 01:07 PM 5/17/2001 -0500, Daniel Manrique wrote:
>Damn :)
>
>Tis a pretty long rant, hope i don't get everyone snoring here.
>
>well, in the beginning there was X. X by itself basically provides a way
>for a server to communicate w
I tried following the HOWTO verbatim on my Ultra Sparc running Mandrake
Corporate Server and no luck. I was using my lap top running Win 2k to test
it. The lap top was not able to get out on the net. I will play with it some
more and let you know.
At 07:42 PM 5/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
That
as i'm sure others would too :)
> quick question .. are you using ipfwadm, ipchains, or iptables?
>
> abe
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Scott wrote:
>
> > I tried following the HOWTO verbatim on my Ultra Sparc running Mandrake
> > Corporate Server and no luck. I was
If you are running Linux or anything other than Win 2K this morning, feel
good about your choice. This is an email thread on the Win2K bug track
email list this morning.
NOTE: before applying Windows 2000 SP2, our system (W2K DC running Exchg2K
PS: I was hoping to get a lot of stuff done this weekend on my Linux
Internet Connection Sharing machine, but instead Win 2K Service Pack #2 has
managed to kill the ASP engine I work with and all SQL Server connections.
At 09:46 AM 5/18/2001 -0400, Scott wrote:
>If you are running Linux
Welcome Sue--
At 12:01 PM 5/18/2001 -0700, Sue Jackson wrote:
>I've been a PC user on Microsoft software for 12 years and I'm wanting to
>make the switch to linux on my home pc.
Ring the bell!
>Here's the specifics on the box
>
>Pentium 200mhz
>64 meg RAM
>6 gig HD
>33.6k data/fax modem
>ether
So, yesterday was not a good NT day for me. First off, the server that I
develop on at work had Service Pack #2 installed on it Thursday. Friday
morning and IIS and SQL Server stopped working. The machine can browse
the web and that is about it. Can not see other machines in the network
and is
Thanks for the thoughts. I used to use BSDI at an ISP I worked for and
they now run FreeBSD. The box will not serve any other purpose, so I do
not need X. This box will simply have a modem hanging off it to share the
connection.
I was able to use the Mandrake internet connection sharing wizard
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Angela Nash wrote:
> If the second box running SP2 was hacked, check your permissions. Sounds
> like you have a configuration problem somewhere.
I checked all the permissions on all files. I rescanned the event logs
and it appears that the asp.dll file is corrupt. Still c
fyi--
Best Buy has Mandrake 8.0 on the shelf! $65.00 for the 7cd power pack.
Here is my experience with it so far:
The install took about 20 minutes. Very clean and very friendly. They
did change the pick and choose software option somewhat, my verdict is
still out on the change. They have b
Sorry to bring this up, if you are not running Win 2K ignore this. But I
did some more research on the hack attempt on my home server the other day
and found some interesting articles on a mailing list. It appears that
even if you have installed the security patches--if you install SP2 you
have
> just an idiot though :)
It does come down to what you are most comfortable with. When I moved
from BSDI to Linux I had a rough time dealing with /home/scott instead or
/usr/var/shell/scott, but I was able to get it over it quickly.
The bottom line is that we support each other and to improve t
Tell me I am crazy, but I have been thinking of this idea for several weeks.
A new way to stream audio on the web. Work's like this:
1)The master machine take's the input of the music, it would have to be a file
based format, translating a line input would be hard at first.
2)The master server b
At 07:09 PM 5/24/2001 +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
>8.0, updated a few days ago. I'm not blaming Mandrake for breaking Perl in
>an update - Debian managed to break sendmail not too long ago, as Michelle
>found; every distro breaks things occasionally. What I *AM* ditching
>Mandrake for is replac
Not sure if any one on the list get's Tech TV, but they have a 90 minute
call in geek show
nightly called The Screen Savers. Last night they did a show from Austin
and one of
the segments was a tour of the University of Texas at Austin computer
center. They
showed off one of their main networ
At 09:33 AM 5/25/2001 -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote:
>I think that Mandrake is great for Linux newbies. I think it's arguably the
>best distro for newbies. But I think it's also easy to outgrow. I'm getting
>to the point now where I'm feeling like I either want Debian or Slackware -
>nothing else
At 08:26 AM 5/25/2001 -0500, ktb wrote:
>I was wondering if this is an attempt at break in or just a scan? This
>person has run this on two separate occasions. Looks like they are
>trying to do something to an NT server. Doesn't do them much good on a
>Linux box;)
>
>oz:/var/log# grep /scripts/
At 08:54 AM 5/25/2001 -0500, piglet wrote:
>I notice that no one ever mentions Corel as a newbie distroI'm
>surrounded by RH folks, and I work on RH boxen at work, but it's always been
>confusing to me. Now that I'm running linux on my normal workbox, I opted
>to go with Corel because it seem
I tried, I really tried. I work in a 100% MS shop. I bagged my Linux
distro recently
in favor of Win 2K Server to keep up with what I was doing at work. I
thought this
way I will not spend time with Linux and spend more time with Win 2K to
improve my
work. Phew--I was wrong. I have wasted
At 02:28 PM 6/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I use realaudio quite a bit, and my Linux box runs it MUCH better. Not
>only do I never lose my connections, but I get 3X the bandwidth. This
>is vs. Win98, though, not Win2K.
It makes a HUGE difference and I have tried it on Win 2K and 98.
I also tried an
An interesting read on Extreme Tech talking about Linux and Win 2K and
which is best for your
needs.
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,2299,s%253D1027%2526a%253D2166,00.asp
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At 10:25 AM 6/12/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well... I suppose it's interesting if you like a pro-Microsoft bias and an
>article that ignores mainly of the problems with running Windows and
>ignores. For example, in the discussion of IIS vs. Apache, no mention of
>security issues is
Why do I bother reading this stuff?
Want Linux on your desktop? Nine reasons to forget about it
By David Coursey, AnchorDesk
June 11, 2001 9:00 PM PT
URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2773365,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews02
Linux is an important part of the computing landsca
. Guess the author never took the time to look at the page his
article
was displayed on, the extension was .php.
I will stop sending those articles here, but do think it deserve's a good
look if
you have the time.
-Scott
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From: Kintar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 2:40 PM
Subject: XWindows on a Compaq LTE5300
>I'm having difficulty setting up X on a Compaq LTE 5300 laptop. The
>XConfigurator finds PCI entry CL 7543 and r
- Original Message -
From: Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 12:21 PM
Subject: Modprobe soundcore
Dear all;
I want to get sound running on my notebook computer, and I found this page
at
http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/ that had a
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
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
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
(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.
> 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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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
(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
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
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