Re: exploit ??

1998-06-30 Thread Tim Pickering
ir passwords which is annoying. it did give me more ammo to throw at the solaris admins to convince them to start running ssh. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-24 Thread Tim Pickering
r OS's. it also has a lot more different libraries by default than other unix variants which, to me, is a good thing. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up? Haiku

Re: Xircom PCMCIA

1998-06-23 Thread Tim Pickering
ust s 16-bit pcmcia card. it will not work at all with RH 5.0. the pcmcia in RH 5.1 (3.0.0) has rudimentary cardbus support, but i don't think many cardbus cards work with it. 3.0.1 is better and i think at least the 3com 10/100 card sort of works. see http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/p

Re: partition problem - DUH!

1998-06-12 Thread Tim Pickering
i'd think they'd do a mke2fs as well to finish the job. set up a little ramdisk, chroot to it, and scorch earth. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up? Haik

Re: 17" monitor recommendations

1998-06-09 Thread Tim Pickering
ou. to get this back on topic, i don't know if the Xconfigurator in RH 5.0 or 5.1 will set you up with 1280x1024 at quite that high of a refresh. here's the modeline i use: ModeLine "1280x1024" 150 1280 1320 1480 1728 1024 1029 1036 1077 +hsync +vsync tim -- Time is

Re: 17" monitor recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Tim Pickering
ses an aperture grill type screen which i love (very sharp and flat), but others hate (two faint horizontal lines). YMMV. tim -- Time is like fingers A| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up? Haiku |

Re: 3D accelerator?

1998-06-04 Thread Tim Pickering
d. a web search should turn it up somewhere at threewave.planetquake.com. the readme files it comes with should tell you what else you'll need and need to do like grab the latest mesa and glide libraries. i got it all working on a friend's machine a while back and became quite jealo

Re: RH 5.1 NFS install bug

1998-05-27 Thread Tim Pickering
r and the machine getting upgraded was aspc125.as.arizona.edu. i specified NFS install, gave chester as the NFS server host, and /home/tim/redhat as the directory. worked like a charm. tim -- Time is like fingers A | Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Qua

Re: AMD K-6 Questions

1998-05-27 Thread Tim Pickering
the K6 isn't as fast as a pentium II, but a pentium II can't be had for under $100. for linux use, a K6 is an excellent and very economical choice, IMHO. tim -- Time is like fingers A| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Ob

Re: PS/2 mouse jitter

1998-05-11 Thread Tim Pickering
it was something dodgy with sharing the PS/2 port between two pointing devices, but apparently it isn't necessarily that. FWIW, i haven't personally seen this happen on any other machine with a PS/2 mouse, though most machines i use heavily have serial mice. tim -- Time is like fi

Re: boot error L 80 80 80 80 80

1998-05-03 Thread Tim Pickering
u have a problem with "LI" or "L 80 80 80 80", you can always boot from the redhat boot floppy by saying: vmlinuz root=/dev/hdxx at the boot: prompt where the xx is replaced by the appropriate letter and number for your linux root partition. hope this helps, tim -- Time

Re: matrox

1998-05-02 Thread Tim Pickering
.2, and a sony 19" monitor and it's also near perfect. here's the modeline we use: ModeLine "1280x1024" 150 1280 1320 1480 1728 1024 1029 1036 1077 +hsync +vsync hope this helps, tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for m

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Pickering
ouple of other people in the dept have deskstars now that fry's is relatively nearby and carries IBMs for reasonable prices. very quick and so far reliable. too bad i don't have room at home for any more drives else i'd get one, too. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Ti

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Pickering
and tend to cost a little more. i kinda worry sometimes that reliability is taking a back seat to all of the price slashing on HDs. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up?

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Pickering
ould support it fully when it comes out. hopefully that'll be by the time i get my own pentium ][ tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up? Haiku | Tucson, AZ

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Pickering
on the software. I suspect that with the few minor > changes you've all suggested, this system will be "plug and play" with > Linux. linux is as happy as the hardware it's run on. it may take a little messing around to get the latest kernel and XFree going to make full u

Re: Will this hardware work with RH 5.0?

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Pickering
ll *probably* work. The ATI video card may be a bit too > new. Any thoughts on all this will be appreciated. the video card is always the big sticking point. matrox has become a pretty safe bet and has the advantage of much better performance across the board than the recent ATI cards i've

Re: startx on toshiba tecra 500cdt

1998-03-26 Thread Tim Pickering
> paul i second what he said. i got X running on my 500CDT without a problem. be sure you're using XFree86 and not metro-x. metro-x does not support the C&T chipsets like the one in the toshiba very well and may be your problem. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Picke

Re: 2.3 kernel code for pppd 2.3.3?

1998-03-17 Thread Tim Pickering
al or anything like that. so i guess pppd 2.3.3 is fine with 2.0.x and kernel ppp 2.2.0 as long as you're using it in basically 2.2.0 compatibility mode. i think that diald is probably still preferable anyway if you want to demand dial. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pick

Re: GIMP Question

1998-03-15 Thread Tim Pickering
animated and otherwise, just fine. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to stop -- Quake | UA Steward Observatory Why is the sun up? Haiku | Tucson, AZ 85721 520-621-6523 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Er

Re: Canon BJC-4300/4550/4650 and Ghostscript

1998-03-05 Thread Tim Pickering
tscript. people tell me the epson st600 and st800 are the low-cost color printers of choice for linux. i have not used them personally, though, and i don't know if they support A3 size paper. tim -- Time is like fingersA| Tim Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gesturing for me to sto