Hi all,
can a swap partition be shared among several Linux installation (all on
the same computer - so only one of them running at the same time)?
Are the any restrictions (same kernel level, distro, anything else)?
-pu
Hi,
not too long ago, I was asked about PCs with Linux preloaded.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49641
This Heise (german) article tells about Carrefour, who sell
a 300 EUR PC with Mandrake 10 - AMD Duron 1.8GHz, 256MB RAM,
40GB harddisk, graphics not good for gaming. No DVD-ROM (i.e.
CDROM only), no screen included.
Carrefour sells these machines in Belgium, France, Switzerland,
Luxembourg and Monaco.
While I love to see PCs with Linux preloaded, I'd personally
rather see "normal" machines instead of ultra-low-end (the
above machine can today be considered that - the Durons
being replaced with "Sempron" and all, and the equipment is
sufficient for simple stuff, but that's it...).
Greets Eric
Especially the Windows-Sysadmins poor-sports tend to block everything
they think isn't useful to the "normal" user with their clickorama
firewalls. Why should they block an ssh outgoing connection?
It is possible to run an sshd or telnetd on a different port. So what
well-known ports do you think are normally not blocked by the admins of
universities and internetcafés? I thought of maybe IRC or something else
which people like to play with and would get angry if they couldn't.
What do you think would be the best choice?
Hi all,
whenever I go to http://www.linuxpackages.net and try to enter something
in the SearchPkg box (top left), my Mozilla 1.7 dies.
Where can I find a log of what happens?
-pu
I am not sure I should really do this, there's been too much arguing
already. But, looking at this from a different point of view, I am
curious to know who uses *which* distro for *what* purpose.
So would you care, if you wish to participate, to send _one line per
distro you use_ to this mailing list, in the form:
distro 1: purpose 1
distro 2: purpose 2
[...]
Disto in the sense of Unix/Linux flavour.
A few days ago, I believe someone was speaking about Coditel's internet
services. For those who have it, what has been your experience with Coditel?
My primary concerns are 1) quality of the service (unexplained down time,
mail servers down, too many users on one shared segment...) and 22) does the
USB modem that they offer work with linux or would I have to go out and get
myself a nice little linksys or Cisco router?
Mike
Hi all,
after a major system upgrade, I can't switch from X to text mode anymore
([Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F1-F6]). Changing resolution with [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[+] and
[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[-] isn't working either. I'm using the last X in Debian
unstable, fluxbox 0.9.9, although I don't think the problem lies within
the window manager.
Anybody got a clue or a similar problem? Googling didn't help.
__
Juri
Hi,
a while back, we had quite some discussion about blocking of port 25
traffic by ISPs.
If you look at last night's Slashdot article "Comcast Port 25 Blocks
Result In Less Spam", I guess you'll understand better why ISPs do
such a thing - and that it is indeed a good thing (tm).
Greets Eric
Hi,
> .................................................
> .................................................
> I wonder if PT actually guarantees you the "relay
> service", or if they
> were just to lazy to configure their SMTP server
> otherwise (as I know PT
> I suspect that the latter might be true).
Provider mail servers are meant to be used to send your mail, whatever
the from email address is, because many mail providers _don't_ even have
smtp servers (at least in the past). I always send all my emails
through the service provider's smtp server I'm currently connected to.
> Also remember that any PT customer is able to send
> mails using your ETH
> address though the PT relay.
> Thus even by examining
> the mail header, I
> can not verify that this mail is really coming from
> you (if you do not
> signature your mail)! As long as your mail has not
> been relayed by ETH's
> mail servers the authenticity of your mail is
> questionable.
As long as the email is not digitally signed, you can never be sure who
sent you the email, and you shouldn't really rely on the outgoing mail
server.... (hint: check this email's mail server)
> Ok, I know
> that it is possible to fake the headers by spoofing
> ETH's IP addresses,
> but this is outside the possibilities of infected
> PCs and spammers.
In order that an email is send, data has to be exchanged between both
participating parties.... To my knowledge, if you spoof your ip address,
no data gets back to you, so you get no TCP connection to the server.
> We need SMTP authentification over SSL, there is no
> way around this. The
> other solutions are temporal at best.
> Prepare that PT will block all non @pt.lu mails
> sometime in the future.
Well, maybe in a 100 years..... ;)
> Hope that they will warn you on time!
> Greeting, Patrick Kaell
Thibaut
