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  1. ip masquerading, ip alias. a fake ip address.
  2. my first mandrake was 7.0. 7.0 seemed alot like red hat something or other (back when they used ncurses). i then went to 8.0 and kept going. i installed 9.2 (did the upgrade option). 9.2 had to be the easiest install i have ever seen. only lycoris might give the simplicity any competition. 9.2 installed itself. when i went to reboot, i had no X at first. no big. pull up BitchX, and go to #mandrake (didnt know about #musb). all i had to do was edit XFree86Config to contain "nv" instead of "nvidia". from there it was a breeze. as far as picking packages, i gotta learn not to pick so many . i litterally select everything. i dont select the box thats "supposed" to select everything in that catagory, i open up that box and one by one make sure everything IS selected (ended up with way to much international support ). i think mandrake has the right idea. the upgrade option DOES need to be ironed out alot however.
  3. thats who it was intended for. the whole point of my post was to remind us that change is inevitable, so quit whining. i dont mind answering questions (if i know the answers). i'd rather see questyions posted, so that we, the community may contribute and help out. it also gives me (and others) a chance to learn things we may not have known. you can, but then you missed the point. then ask the questions, and lets see if we know how to resolve it. i personally believe there is a solution, a fix for everything, its about asking the right questions, and getting the people who know the answers or are willing to find the answers. whining is never the way. i dont even whine about windows. i am certainly more educated about windows. i was troubleshooting windows long before i switched to linux. i just never took the time to really dig into M$. when i do talk about M$ i try not to sound whining and give clear logical reasons as to why i dont like M$ windows. i beta tested XP, then went out and bought XP. now i almost never boot into XP and am real close to deleteing that partition (if i ever figure wine out). my experience with mandrakesoft has not been good, but i still like the distro. mandrake does have a couple bugs, most of which i have been able to work out. i still got some others that need working out, and i've had this particular bug (or configuration error) since about 8.2.
  4. i would suggest you do some reading on setting up a dhcp server. you basically set the server to your router. that ip address is that of your router. the subnet is also that of your router. changing it from 10.0.0.0 to 192.168.1.1 wont help.
  5. i have to chime in here. it amazes me how people so quickly jump on a band wagon. "mandrake 9.2 is a lemon", mandrake 9.2 was rushed", whatever the case. first of all, the issue of mandrake was not mandrake exclusive, just mandrake got all the publicity. the problem was LG. they do not support linux. a kernel patch was made and resolved the problem. thats a tribute to the community abroad and to mandrake in specific, for getting it resolved so quickly. each version number has its little quirks. DONT go in expecting it to be like before. i remember when people were upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1 and couldnt find kppp any where. change is change, deal with it. i have tried a number of distros over the years. i setttled on mandrake. i started with slack, but when i got my new box (3 years ago) slack wouldnt configure X, leaving me with out a gui. at that time i was only on dial up (thankfully not a winmodem). i was a newbie. i didnt even know dos commands (what the hell was i thinking). from there i tried red hat, but i didnt like how red hat configured things. i tried freebsd. freebsd was like slack (except X configured). i tried lycoris, conectiva, suse, and mandrake. do i have some gripes with mandrake? sure. but i sure as hell wont leave over a couple little changes such as what has been described here. thats like complaining about how M$ changes things in windows. or how Mac changes things in the Mac OS. every OS version gets changed. deal with it. when your next distro of choice pisses you off by changing things so you dont like it any more, are you gonna leave them to? what will be left? i do understand linux has sometin like 180 distros, but thats alot to go through. didnt you ever notice that the headlines read something like "mandrake kills cd roms"? how biased is that? how many of you verrified the story? so then that leaves what? little inconvient changes, such as menu's? give it a rest already. cant you edit the menu? if having the menu changed from one version to another bothers you so much, why switch, where your garunteed more than a menu change? have you forgoten that we ARE the community. we are to mandrake what economics calls "supply and demand". if we clamor loud enough what we want, it will be done. if i were to call anything a lemon, it'd be M$'s windows. theres only so much you can do to fix that. with linux, your only limited by what you know, or dont know. instead of complaining about these little inconviencances, why not do something constructive? like, let mandrake know what you think, help newbies out, write howto's, and if you know how, write code.
  6. could this be the cure all for linux? the answer newbies have been lookin for? one thing is for sure, it is an exciting development! http://autopackage.org/
  7. in my recent and on going study of networking, i have come to find that not only can linux do NAT (network address translation, also call "ip masqueracding"), but linux can do PAT (port address translation). this information is in the ip masquerading howto.
  8. i thought they got it backwards. linux should be the red pill, as M$ is the monopoly. i also thought that they were trying to advertise their new scratch pad ability. where you can literally write (by hand) a letter. its a good thing the matrix wasnt made based off of that or i would never have watched it. M$ has openly admited that linux is the 2nd largest threat. whats the 1st largest threat? economics!. yet in the desktop area linux holds maybe about 5%. aparently 5% is grounds to loose sleep over, over at M$. in the server area the story is very different. M$ only holds about 40% (i think). out of that, linux is picking up 20% or so. the market has greeted M$'s latest products (windows server 2003 and office 2003) with little more than a yaw. yet M$ makes most of its money here (office products). windows longhorn is still a couple years out.
  9. i have used both gnome and kde. as to which i prefer, i havent made up my mind yet. my wife, a rea noobie, prefers kde. probably cuase thats what we use the most. i have done some configuring on kde. heres a screen shot of how mine is set up.
  10. rpm is the hard way of doing things. use urpmi. it fetches dependancies so that if something is missing, such as in your case, it fetches it and then installs the packages in the appropriate order. if your worried about iptables from 9.1 not working with 9.2, use urpmi. http://www.urpmi.org/en/index.php for help on urpmi.
  11. how do you disable 3d acceleration? my X windows, from boot to log in take like 4 minutes :o it isnt the /etc/hosts . i already checked that.
  12. arno's fiorewall is a script for ip tables "Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's (single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading (NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support for VPNs like IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS attacks), support for UPnP, and much more. It's easy to configure and highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script (fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable." http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptables-fir...l/?topic_id=151 why do i bring this up? i would like to make an rpm out of this, so that it places the script in the right place and perhaps auto configures it (ie. modem or eth0), the problem is....i have no idea how to do that.
  13. no out put from terminal. what i found out is, gtk-gnutella when done downloading things adds .OK to the end of the file. apparently xmms doesnt like this. noatun ignores it. i went and renamed all my mp3's to not contain .OK. its now working great. now if i could get gtk-gnutella to connect
  14. i had xmms 1.2.7 on my system until i upgraded to texstars xmms 1.2.8. now the mp3's that worked in 1.2.7 no longer work in 1.2.8. i cant figure out why for the life of me. i checked permissions, but the permisions of the mp3's didnt change. all i did was upgrade to 1.2.8. we're using noatun for the moment, and it works. in someways better, but my wife prefers xmms.
  15. linux_learner

    Browser Leaks

    i really enjoy konqueror and opera for reasons such as this. i can set not only the browser ID but also make sites think i'm running winblows :P . i can actually fool M$ sites into thinking i'm in windows. i dont worry about that part. i also found that there is a way where you can change your OS ID. dont ask me how right now, i dont remember. :woops:
  16. i have been participating in the forums at desktoplinux.com for almost a year now. there is a thread there that i thought yall might enjoy http://desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/board/Ultr...Page=0&Session= especially in light of some of the posts in the sco subpeona thread.
  17. unless your running a server, all your ports should be "closed". arno's firewall is a good script that will easily acomplish that. if you dont like scripts, there guarddog, and many other front end (gui) firewalls. kde has one out now. investing in a router might not be a bad idea, since routers can be used as hardware firewalls, and are easily configured. check out ip aliasing, ip masquerading, port forwarding, and iptables. learn these. learn what they are and how to use them. disable services you dont need. port 6000 i believe is X. you can disable that, with out disabling X. tell X "tcp-no listen" or something like that. think of it this way, ports are ways to get into your system. you want them blocked. you want to be able to surf and such, but dont want to be vulnerable. with firewalling there are 3 rules. accept, reject, and drop. drop is like stealth. the information is sent to you, but the sender doesnt know you received it. reject is where you send information to the sender letting them know you are refusing.
  18. i saw this article 3 hours after it came out. all i can say is "Go Linux!" :D asia is the largest market, and it would seem their dumping M$ (yay!). now if the bloody americans would get smart, things would be peachy. if you wish to stay current on the news, there is 1 site you need. http://news.google.com/ run a search on whatever you like. linux, sco, microsoft, whatever. the google news site just rocks
  19. security is as much a process as it is a design. one must always be vigilant. linux is by design more secure than windows, but if you dont take the time to secure it, then the process breaks down. thats not the problem of the OS, but of the administrator. i have recounted a couple times how i made windows secure. anyone else do that? or know to do that? what about linux? what about commenting out securetty, or telling X to no-listen on tcp, or setttting permissions properly, sticky bits, file attributes? what about having iptables configured properly? an IDS? even with out iptables and IDS, just by setting permissions, sticky bits, file attributes and so on, i can make hacking linux a virtual nightmare. now i am finding out about ip masquerading, ip aliasing, NAT, ipsec, port forwarding and so on. as i said, security is a process. one in which is continually evolving, so you must evolve with it. preferably faster than the hackers. in order to make something secure, you must think like a hacker, and out think the hacker. thats security. windows does have basic design flaws. poor permission structure (user is given administrative priveledges by default). windows uses VBS. the windows update site scans your pc using VBS. most viruses are written in VBS. activeX, while it can be used for good, in the wrong hands its a trojan. activeX gives the signer (the source you got it from) a back door into your pc that you authorised. this signer has administrative priveldges. msn messenger had a security vulnerability due to an activeX problem. IE is tied to the kernel. so if some one causes a buffer overflow, or a virus due to IE macros, or just hacks in to the system, they have access to the kernel itself. linux is modulated. the linux kernel, then X, then the window manager, then the DE, then the apps. thats good security right there. i could go on for quite a while, but my best advise is to get the book "hacking linux exposed second edition".
  20. say what? :unsure: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1378274,00.asp
  21. no virus has come as activeX. activeX is digitally signed software. it acts kinda like a trojan. IE and Outlook and Outlook Express use Macros. this Macros makes use of VBSscript, most viruses are written in VBS designed to exploit the Macros. viruses have and can exploit activeX. in general i removed all activeX components from my windows. ofcourse i probably did more than most people would even consider.
  22. there are a few things you can do to make winblows secure. i run a dual boot so having a working pc is imperative. i have a router and software firewall. what i did with windows was; remove activeX, remove VBSscript, IE, windows messenger, MSN Explorer, Windows media player, MSN messenger, Outlook Express, MS Office XP, IIS, and a few other things. basically its winblows by name only. thats step 1. step 2 is to make a limited account and dont give the administrative password out. this way she cant disable things like the firewall. (btw, i should mention that removing VBSscript will make norton anti-virus not work. it will say to install IE, even when you install IE it will still say that as its looking for VBSscript) since most viruses/trojans/worms are written in VBS, removing VBSscript renders them useless. when the blaster worm and such was goin on i stayed out of windows (i rarely boot into windows any way). even with all these precautions i have take, i still dont trust MS security. in linux.....well, i have that nicely configured. reading "hacking linux exposed 2nd edition" helped alot.
  23. i dont see why yall are worried about speeds over 10Mbs. comcast is just now starting to do 3Mbs. (i work for comcast). the 3Mbs isnt in all areas yet, so the areas that it isnt 3, it would be the speed it has been, 1.5Mbs. obviously even a nic card at 10Mbs would be more than suffiecent. same with cabling (cat5, cat5e, coax, and so on) personally i wouldnt go wireless due to the security issues of it, but thats me.
  24. i knew novel was behind linux, but isnt this a bit much? red hat is discontinuing their support of desktop linux. red hat it looks like, will only persue the enterprise. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8...tnG=Search+News
  25. the .92 and .93 are to kde 3.1. i went to the kde site looked at the mirrors and the current "unstable" version is 3.1.93. http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=u...nstable/3.1.93/ i also compared this to the original url posted here. the version in that for 3.2alpha are 3.1.92 and 3.1.93
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