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KAddress Forgetting Data
Hi Guys, I am still sorting out the KAddress book problems I have had recently. I discovered that when I used Guarddog to...
ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5065
AAAAaaah yes... NOW I remember.... Your using the patented brain dead alanconnor system aren't you. No sane person...
ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5066
Nothing I care to read. Trollfarts are not my thing. Yes, there are Challenge-Response Systems (CRSs) for Linux. Google this string: "challenge response" OR "challenge-response" But be wary: The Web is like the...
ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5067
Junius Peacham People can run these systems, of course. I think they are worse than useless as they cause sending of spam to innocent bystanders, since most...
ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5068
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:47:21 +0100 This is what gets me, personally: I don't think I've ever gotten a misbegotten challenge, but the idea that someone, at some point...
ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5069
This alias has no posting history. I won't be reading any articles posted under it, nor any responses to them. It has been killscored here...
ChallengeResponse For Linux. Does It Exist 5070
Alan Connor Hey Alan - just for kicks I waited for your response...and I've come to the conclusion your news feed sux. My...
Linux parbreastion interferes with Win CD startup 5071
Sounds like when you installed Linux it formatted and used the entire hard drive. Windows Me does not know about Linux parbreastions (a choice...
Linux parbreastion interferes with Win CD startup 5072
the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: What you are saying makes no sense. First of all, you...
Linux parbreastion interferes with Win CD startup 5073
Here's exactly what I get when I type fdisk in Linux; bear in mind I don't have any important data, don't need to...
Linux parbreastion interferes with Win CD startup 5074
the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: In that case you would typically have a root filesystem and a...
SSH Tunneling of X protocol from noninteractive session
Mihai Osian I cannot use -X or -Y option, because I have to run *noninteractivelly* from computer C to display M. I plan to sumbmit script like export DISPLAY=C:1...
SSH Tunneling of X protocol from noninteractive session Distribution: world
But all -X or -Y do, when going from M to C, is open a tunnel from (typically) C:6010 to (typically) M:6000. Plus handle xauth protocol; without that, you'd need...
If you used FreeBSD before, why did you switch
Adam I used Bell Labs UNIX from Research version 5 or 6, to USG 3, to the various SVRs up to about SVR4.0 (IIRC, anyhow what they had current in house...
Dialer for KAddressBook
Last month, regarding KAddressBook, Stan Goodman ... and I responded: I'm using KAddressBook 3.4.2 running under KDE...
reparbreastioning an MSWin HD already in use, from Debian
I have this enormous, slow (USB 1) external hard drive, and a laptop with a broken internal HD, from which I just...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5080
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 06:59, Adam McCarthy stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: When I purchased my first own computer - an i386 - it had DOS...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5081
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:24:38 +0000, stan This depends on what you mean by "unix". What is, versus what is not, unix, is a long debate...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5082
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:22:33 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson Let's see what the Open Group has to say about Linux: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What about Linux®? Developed by...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5083
I moved (briefly) from UNIX to Windows 2.0 (or something like that) for one application...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5084
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:59:12 -0400, Adam McCarthy First, if you want people to respond, you probably should use a valid e-mail address. But, to answer your question, there...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5085
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:59:12 -0400 Because Linux better does what I want to do, not only in the base functional sense (gcc is a damn good compiler...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5086
Adam McCarthy Is you "Graduation Project" a homework buttignment? Was the buttignment to run a poll in UseNet? I use Linux almost exclusively. The reason...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5087
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:53:41 +0200, Michael Heiming staggered into the Black Sun and said: I think you meant "After you run Windows Update, you typically...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5088
Michael Heiming I think I run my machine under extreme load all the time, at least the processors are under extreme load. When I...
If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5089
Adam McCarthy To be pedantic for a minute, open-source versus closed source doesn't automatically...
iostat df k
Hi , Why does iostat not shows the all devices in df -k? df -k : Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted ondev-md0 12094968 7727300 3753272 68%dev-md1...
still having problems with X mouse and keyboard
I've recently installed debian sarge, and I'm still having a couple of problems with X (after the help I had from my last post). - There's a...
IO error with CD Rom fstab file needs adjusting
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:19:38 +0400 (MET DST), Edward S. Baiz Jr. staggered into the Black Sun and said: ??? When...
Best Distro for Multimedia work
Practically any distro should support all of those apps. Find one you like. Personally, I'd recommend Debian, but that's just because I like it's package management...
Problems installing Slackware 10.2 with NFS
krazykatt Unlike Redhat, the Slackware installer can not use ISO images that it finds at the NFS mount. You will have to unpack the CD1 and CD2 because these contain the...
Data mirroring with locking
staggered into the Black Sun and said: Latency or bandwidth? Or do you know? If it takes many...
Mulbreastasking discriminates Mouse and Keyboard how to fix it 5096
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:09:26 -0700, Nebur I agree with the other posters; the issue is probably disk...
Mulbreastasking discriminates Mouse and Keyboard how to fix it 5097
Captain Dondo I remember a coupla decades ago, I worked for a large regulated monopoly that pretty much does not exist anymore...
Mulbreastasking discriminates Mouse and Keyboard how to fix it 5098
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:53:11 -0700, Captain Dondo staggered into the Black Sun and said: snip...
Mulbreastasking discriminates Mouse and Keyboard how to fix it 5099
Nebur I had this problem only when running Red Hat Linux 9 on a machine with only 64 Megabytes RAM and running X Window System, GNOME...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5100
Mark South OK - let's tell some experience of mine, why I did ask. In the late 1960's we built a computer in the...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5101
Tauno Voipio I did a similar thing. The computer already existed, but the vendor provided no OS. A friend wrote an "OS" that could read and write tracks to a disk drive. This...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5102
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:50:39 +0000, Unruh I'll try to expand on the question, since your answer shows that it may not have been as...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5103
Mark South You'd have to define "basic selection of tools" (it could could be busybox, a complete replacement for all *utils packages from gnu or something inbetween), but...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5104
I'm a scientist - that I'm also an engineer as well as a mathematician, logician, and computer scientist doesn't mean that I'm not a scientist (OTOH, plenty of engineers really are...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5105
In theory, you don't need GNU at all; but clearly that is not practical. In practice, you aren't going to get away from...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5106
Peter T. Breuer I do not know about strcmp(), but in the distant past, I rewrote strncpy...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5107
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:24:53 +0200, Peter T. Breuer But what else would you need to add to...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5108
You want a system that is able to replicate itself from source? Why? What's wrong with "cp"? Anyway, if you want to compile the kernel, you need gcc (I don't really believe that tinycc can...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5109
Mark South This is far out of my league, but what the heck; Look to Darwin, which is -- as...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5110
Mark South Sure. BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE CRAZY. Would you like to write all the GNU stuff (from alocal, addr2line, ..., zless, zmore, znew, and all the libraries...
Linux without the GNU toolchain 5111
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:31:25 -0400, Jean-David Beyer See note 1. Jean-David, I appreciate the sentiment but I am afraid that you may have placed a spin on my question before answering...
Linux at school with notebooks 5112
If the notebooks are new enough, they should support PXE, which allows computers to boot off the network (instead of disk-CD-floppy). You can then use the very old network-booting technique in Unix...
Linux at school with notebooks 5113
I don't understand what you want. There is no difficulty in running a linux o-s on a students notebook - give them a knoppix cd. But WHY? Why do...
Linux at school with notebooks 5114
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:25:53 +0200, Geir Holmavatn staggered into the Black Sun and said: I was wondering that too. (Geir, as a quick groups.google will show, Peter doesn't seem to...
Linux at school with notebooks 5115
It seems really unclear what you are trying to accomplish, but I'll make a couple of buttumptions and see if they mesh with what you want--- (1) students simply want to...
Linux at school with notebooks 5116
Indeed. One of the basic principles in security is that if you allow physical access then all the other policies-proceduressoftware...
Linux at school with notebooks 5117
This is just gibberish. EIther processes run on the client or on the server. If they run on the client, then...
parbreastions renamed from hden to sdan lilo multi boot problems
Hi, here is the situation: I originally had mandrake 10.0 installed on several parbreastions with (and henceboot) was ondev...
Recovering Really Old Zip Files
Hey Group ... it's me again ... like my grandpa used to say "why he's plumb near like a booger ya caint get offen yer...
Recovering Really Old Zip Files
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:59:14 +0200, Martin Blume Thanks for the pointer Martin. The single side double density 5-1-4 was 360 kB. I have some really old single side single density and some eight...
