Re: How to download source only?

2009-11-11 Thread David Cottrill NCH Software
Hi, This sort of thing should work for you. I assume you have several GB of bandwidth. On the live (or standard) system : dpkg -l > packages.txt cat packages.txt> some stream filter eg: sed > packages_clean.txt cat packages_clean.txt > apt-get source David surreal wrote: i cannot imagine w

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

2009-10-27 Thread David Cottrill NCH Software
It may chew up an old computer but a new one won't really do more than sniffle. It goes on an endless loop sending short messages to itself which aren't very long. If you wanted to kill a modern computer with that script you'd have to set ma=some large number. It can't kill off a modern mult

Re: Live CD display issues

2009-10-15 Thread David Cottrill NCH Software
TNT2 - use 'nv' driver - the proprietary ones just won't work. Voodoo - If all else fails use vesa driver for both. Try manually configuring xorg.conf: From root terminal: X --configure then follow the instructions it gives you David On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:13:26 dave boland wrote: > I ha

Re: Video not working on 5.01

2009-08-05 Thread David Cottrill NCH Software
I have found this with normal Debian (ie: not Debian-live) on similar hardware ( TNT2 16MB ). The fix for me was to reboot into Windows and then I could reboot again back to Debian and it would work correctly with no configuration changes. I never did find the root cause of the problem but I s