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Ianw, until such time as I can find a NAT router, is there a shorewall alias firewall you would recommend for MDK 10.1? My hardware chap is a Windows type who knows nothing about Linux. It is possible, of course, that NAT, whatever that is, is something used on both. The web site of the service with which I've signed up says the service will configure my LAN card: but that too applies only to Windows, since there's no mention of Linux anywhere. More important, it says that since I'll have a direct connection to the Internet, some sort of security is advisable.

OK, Ianw, though why a bicycle should be given different names on different streets is beyond me. Devries, I see what you're driving at, and I'll look at what's readily to be found here. Thanks.

Ianw, the person with whom I've been dealing (signed up yesterday) is a sales type who readily admits that his technical understanding is something like nil. He put me in touch with a "technical" guy who seemed to think that installing and configuring meant the same thing. Somewhere else in the city, though, sits the chief of the technical wing of the organisation; and I should get something from him or her. I have never been overly concerned about Net security, since I am off-line when I work on things which need to be secure and put them in a safe place, outside the machine and encrypted, when I go on-line. No encryption is perfect, but mine's pretty good. False scents and all that. I will, though, look into fire-walls as you say I should. What's a "shorewall"? Devries should know if it's a dyke of the kind they have where he lives. With holes for small boys' fingers, perhaps.

No ordinary fibre, Devries: braided horse-tail. Good to see you again. Is it not possible, Ianw, to have hubs each of which covers a 2 km. (or whatever) radius? I'll have to read up on the security part of this business.

Ianw, all I know at this time is: direct fibre optic cable; LAN card; static IP. No other hardware said to be needed. Does it tell you anything that the speed promised is "up to 75 Kbps"?

Scarecrow, thank you. Ianw, they say they will give me a static IP address, and I understand that no USB port will be involved -- so, it seems, no modem problems. There's no mention of a router either: all they speak of is a fibre optic connection. Moderator: I got no notification of these two replies to my query. Moderator: My Netscape.net address was registered here. It has been giving trouble, and I have changed it to a Gmail one. Things should be all right now, and you were not to blame in the first place.

I've been on dial-up all this while because none of the broadband providers in the city had a reputation for being reliable. Dial-up hasn't been perfect, and it has been getting worse (apart from being slow), so I am thinking of changing. The trouble is that the broadband provider I have zeroed in does not know a thing about Linux. I shall need what they call an "Ethernet LAN Card (10/100 Base T) with TCP/IP support". All that the man told me was that this would have to be configured separately for Linux -- which should be obvious, since Win and Lin are on different partitions. He did not have the ghost of an idea how that was to be done. Nor do I. Help appreciated.

I've had Sunbird 0.2a on my MDK 10.1 partition for months. Installed without a hitch. Unfortunately its functionality is limited. Last week I saw that 0.3 alpha 1 was out and decided to give it a try. Couldn't find a way to uninstall 0.2a other than by deleting its directory tree. The 0.3 had come in bz2 form. Opened up with no fuss, but said nothing about installation. In particular, there was no mozilla-installer file of the kind that other members of the family have. Typed [./sunbird] and was confronted with a series of complaints: This seems to be installed already, That seems to be here. So I wiped it out and reinstalled the older version. Again, without a hitch. It had left data files heaven knows where, since it behaved exactly as it had done earlier, showed the information it had shown earlier.

Thanks, GeekBrains, John (how are you, young friend?) and Ianw. One way or another, I might just get things the way I want them.

This question must have been asked dozens of times before, but I haven't been able to find the answer. How do I make Firefox (rather than Konqueror) the default browser and Thunderbird the default mail program? In Netscape 7.2 this is no problem, since everything remains "in the family", so to speak. MDK 10.1, I should say.

Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.6 on MDK 10.1. On clicking "send", I get an error report -- but the message reaches its destination all right. This is the sequence: Authenticating Sending Sending DATA Quitting Error occurred The end of the log reads: < 354 Go ahead > .(EOM) < 250 2.0.0 OK..... > Quit There's something about the message being saved to the Drafts folder, but it doesn't show up there.

Thanks, Dexter. Will make a note of this for problems which may crop up in the future. For the present, I have re-installed Claws and will struggle to get that to work right. The "plain" Sylpheed I downloaded kept asking for this file or that and I ran out of patience.

I am on 10.1 (yes, even now). Sylpheed-Claws was behaving strangely, reporting an error on send but sending the message. I removed it, thinking to install Sylpheed. S-C still appears in the menu (Internet -> Mail), without an icon, but there's no trace of it in Menudrake. How do I remove something which only half exists?

I have so far lined them up to grid manually, but there's no control over which goes where. I shall have to look for how this lining up is done automatically. In Windows I have a program which saves icon positions and, if they get moved about (Safe Mode, for example), with a single click puts them all back where they were.

I'm used to finding icons on the desktop where I saw them last, that is, where I put them. All was well until some days ago, but now I find that some or all icons have moved each time I boot into 10.1 OE.

Thanks, both. You'll see me around -- literally -- if something blows up.

Thanks, Devries, I thought you'd look in. The place to which you direct me is the one from which I got the files I have, one of which is XInstall-v201.src.tar.gz. It's the "src" that terrifies me.

Dexter11, it's precisely the site with install.sh which has links which lead nowhere. Yes, it does not speak of source code. Everyone must start everything as a newbie. Not attempting something because you haven't done it before is not exactly a recipe for progress.

For months I searched for Axene Xclamation, a DTP package which was made free. The site was and is around, but the download links led nowhere. Finally I found a place where the entire suite, Axene Office, was to be had. I have downloaded all the files, but they are source and I have no idea what to do now. Any help appreciated, or else a pointer to where I might find the procedure I should follow.

I will blame the site, Devries. It speaks only of 1.1, nowhere of 1.1.0 or 1.1.1 or 1.1.2. I wonder, though, whom or what I should blame for the fact that the link you sent me turned out to be a 404. I shouldn't think, Arctic, that I accidentally or mistakenly downloaded a Mac version: I had clicked on the link which Firetrust sent me, and I had told them clearly enough that I used MDK 10.1 OE. However, all may now be well. Today a different person from Firetrust support sent me a link to a MDK RPM, which I have downloaded but not yet installed.

Thanks very much, Devries. It's a pretty badly organised site, except perhaps for Windows users.

No go, Devries. I get the same messages with "chmod 777" as I'd got with "chmod a+x": "StuffIt command not found" "<junk characters> command not found" "Syntax error near unexpected toke" I've tried as root and otherwise. I've tried with the earlier version still installed and after removing it. Makes no diffference. Cannot find the 1.1.2 RPM on the Firetrust web site.

Thanks, Devries. I tried "chmod a+x <filename>" earlier, which I had found on another site. Didn't work. The Firetrust people sent me a link to the file I named, not to an RPM. Maybe I should search.

In 10.1 OE, I currently use MailWasher 1.1.1, which came as an RPM package. It does not behave as it should with Netscape web mail (it is fine in Windows). Nor did the earlier 1.1.0, which came as an RPM.TAR.GZ. I have just downloaded 1.1.2 but am unable to install it. Its name ends with PKG.SIT.BIN. Help appreciated.

Strange, BVC, but I've always (in theory, anyway) thought Linux to be more flexible in dealing with Windows than the other way around. I did my original partitions from Win, of course, leaving MDK to handle its own. What is the cholesterol content of a fried CD-ROM? Will do, PMPatrick. Except there's a bloody great power supply dangling from the ceiling which doesn't let me reach anything. And man, these dust bunnies reproduce far more prolifically than the long-eared kind.