Urza9814

Either some form of encryption or MAC address filtering. I would say MAC filtering would probably be best, because encryption is gonna slow down your connection a bit. Of course, the router is probably gonna have a much faster connection than your internet connection anyways, so it probably doesn't really matter.

could just be a PEBKAC issue... :)

I'm a KDE user...but....nautilus and konq are both unstable as hell. I get bombarded by error messages any time I open one of them. Fresh install of mandriva, everything else works great.

yea...nautilus is horrible. Konquerer ain't much better though..... any error message if you try to re-open nautilus from the command-line (whatever it is for you gnome users...heh)

aww man, don't tell me my keyboard is screwy! I paid good money for this keyboard...it's a 1980-something Model M! heh I dunno...I was getting this weird thing popping up (really quite annoying, it was appearing in the middle of my Gaim window) that had something to do with the keyboard settings....I tried to stay away from it, but I mighta hit something accidentally. Stupid KDE....heh

Hmm...it seems to have gone away on it's own....which is even more confusing...but....

it's already installed....

O? my keyoard settings got screwed up somehow. Whenever I type something like e followed by a period, it'll give me ?, and if I typ? say, a followed by an apostroph? I get á. ...what did I do??? heh

Aight, I've got an HP PSC 1350 printer hooked up to a windoze box, shared, and I wanna print to it from here. I tried using MCC's printer tools, but I couldn't figure out how to do anything with network printing from there, so I'm using webmin. My computer sees the printer, knows it exists, so the first thing I tried is setting up CUPS for remote windows server, put in the IP and printer name, and set it to no driver. Didn't work. So then I looked through the driver list...it's not there. I tried setting it to 'HP LaserJet 1300 Series Postscript (recommended)', but that didn't work either. Anyone got any ideas? I now have three jobs in my print queue, all ID number 981, and when I try to cancel any of them I get the following message: Failed to cancel print job : lprm failed : lprm: Job or printer not found!

haha...I suppose...but I like it. Just the little things that KDE has that ones like flux or IceWM don't have....transparency, the little symbols next to the names on the programs menu...heh...animations...oh, and the easy config. I used to use flux and IceWM all the time...but then I got a computer that could actually handle a full, massive, bloated WM...and I like it. I'm a bit of a sucker for eye-candy...heh :)

Personally, I like mine very minimalist. Running KDE, taskbar auto-hides, also have left-click on the desktop bring up the programs menu. Some transparency and stuff, but that's not usually noticable. Here's a screenshot :P

Mandriva I've found actually has really nice support for wireless. I'm currently using a Trendnet TEW-423PI, which I bought when my Belkin died...bought it because it was cheap, but it's working great right now, full 54mbps. But that's really all the help I can give you....all I know is from what I have. As for your router...personally I like Belkin. It doesn't really matter which one you get, because almost all of them are configured through your web browser, so you don't have to worry about drivers or software or anything. Just make sure it's the right protocol (most are b/g now though, so that shouldn't be a problem)

Partitioning it isn't creating a new drive, it's splitting the drive. And you have to put them both on separate partitions. You can't install Linux and Windows on the same partition. Yes, if you partition it, windows will show it as two separate drives. But it's wrong...heh

My computer is in my router's DMZ (port forwarding never works right) and I'm running webmin, apache, and sometimes ProFTPD. And I used to have 4 different firewalls on this computer. I'm paranoid.

Well, umask 0 is write access, which I don't need. 0022 is read-only, but it should still work.... I still have to play around with the MSEC settings to see if I can get it working...since I have to wait an hour to see if it works, it's going quite slow...heh If nothing else I can disable the hourly checks, but I'm trying to get it working without that.

ah, that's quite helpful. Thanks :)

well...I dunno what msec is...I googled it, found this: http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/msec.htm so I'm assuming you mean what security level did I choose during the install....I kinda thought that might be a problem..um....I did 'paranoid'...because I am paranoid, and that's what I always choose and it's never been a problem...I did notice the message saying you wouldn't be able to access windows drives, but the only setting that didn't have that was 'standard', and I didn't wanna go that low (I do run several servers off my computer sometimes, so....)

/dev/hda6 /mnt/winE vfat umask=0022,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 I don't think it's a problem with the partition...I don't have to mess with that at all, I just have to chmod /mnt....but hey, of course I dunno what's wrong, that's why I'm asking you :P

I have all my music stored on a windoze drive, so instead of copying it all over, I just run it straight from /mnt/winE. But after a while (half hour to an hour I believe), the permissions on /mnt get reset, and it says it can't find the files until I do a 'chmod 777 /mnt' Anyone know how to make it stop resetting the permissions? I have permission to everything under the winE folder and stuff, but I need read permission for /mnt too, which won't stay. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Two parts to this one: First of all, how secure is webmin? If I leave it open to internet access with a 20 character randomly generated password, will I be ok? What are the chances of someone finding another way in? I don't know much about the webmin project, so does it focus much on security? And is it well known enough to be a target? Also, how is the security of the various servers, specifically Apache and ProFTPD? I'm a bit paranoid if you haven't noticed :) Also, is there any way I could change my firewall settings (or at least turn it on and off) from the command line, so I can schedule it to allow me through only at certain times during the day?

Well, a little before Christmas I bought an IBM Model M keyboard, and because of the keycaps I was finally able to rearrange the keyboard into Dvorak, which I'd been wanting to learn for a while but it was too hard to learn Dvorak while continually trying to look down to a QWERTY keyboard. Well, due to needing to print and getting Black and White II, I've been using Windoze for a while...so I'm finally back in Linux due to the rediscovery of Project Looking Glass and the discovery that it actually runs at a decent speed on Linux...but the probem is, though I have KDE using Dvorak, the CLI doesn't...meaning to login I have to use QWERTY, which is EXTREMELY difficult (I have to pull out an old keyboard and look off of it)... So...how can I change it for, like, the whole system and not just KDE? I'm currently using Slackware 10.2. [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

Ok, I've got slackware running on a Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop, with an internal DELL Wireless 1370 MiniPCI network card. I tried Ndiswrapper, and tried the 1350 (the closest one listed on their site to work) and the 1370 driver from the DELL website, but it doesn't work. Here's from dmesg: hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting mtrr: no more MTRRs available ndiswrapper version 1.5 loaded (preemt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,05/26/2005, 3.120.27.0) loaded ndiswrapper: request for irq 1 failed Trying to free free IRQ1 ndiswrapper (miniport_init:767): couldn't initialize device: C000009A ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_start_device:1441): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001) ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_add_pci_device:200): couldn't start device [moved from Networking by spinynorman]

Well, I installed slackware instead...works fine, except the wifi, but that's a different topic...

Yea, the mouse is weird because it's a laptop...I don't see what that has to do with XOrg, but I'll try to find a USB mouse somewhere...it doesn't have any PS/2... here's the error message: Failed to load module "/usr/X11RC/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once-only module, 136033795) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) Found No devices Detected. Fatal server error: No screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on K server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Ah! my camera! good idea! heh well, here it is.... xorg.rtf