Re: Robert Alan Soloway Arrested

2007-06-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops. Sorry, Paul, I accidentally hit "Reply" instead of "Reply All". My bad. Paul Johnson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Hurray! Hopefully, he'll get put away for a while. Charged with SPAMming, money laundering, fraud, etc.

Re: Strange behavior of network

2007-06-01 Thread Andreas Theofilu
Am Wed, 30 May 2007 10:29:42 +0200 schrieb Andreas Theofilu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The machine works fine, except network programs using UDP protocol. > Currently the machine is in an intranet. If I start "portmap", it > takes a long time and the following errors were found > in /var/log/messages:

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:57:54PM -, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > What about FreeBSD? I may stick that on an old machine just to try it. > I don't follow the politics, but maybe they would be your cup of tea? My ISP, Panix, uses NetBSD on their hosts. So far as I know, zero crashes due to inst

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Deboo ^
On 6/1/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before attr, getfattr or setfattr would work, I had to add the user_xattr flag to the drive's entry in /etc/fstab and umount/mount the partition. Then I could define my own "file note" like this: attr -s user.comment -V "Just testing..." my.t

Debian unstable and radeon 9550

2007-06-01 Thread marcelo
1) Download the ati driver from https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/64bit/ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run 2) make the package as root ./ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/unstable 3) install the source dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-src_8

Re: [OT] Offtopics and community (was: I also am AAAAANGRY)

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Atis wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Include offtopic@ in to, the same way as you include [OT] in subject. > If you also answer on topic, just include both MLs. Doesn't that entirely defeat the purpose of seperate mailing lists? Wouldn't that also add an

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Matt Price wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am > planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on > purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that > ran Free so

Re: [OT] Offtopics and community (was: I also am AAAAANGRY)

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Atis wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > What i have to propose - create separate ML for offtopic discussions. Read the archives. This has been proposed many times with the same rejection already: With the OT discussions go the users who can help. If you w

Re: How to "force" Iceweasel to remember login

2007-06-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/01/2007 04:45 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: There is a site I visit frequently that requires a username/password combo. However, the text in the page doesn't trigger Iceweasel's offer to remember the password. Is there some way to force it to store it? Yeah, I'm lazy... - Nate >> I use

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:03:06PM +, Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process > itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not > bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the ke

Re: installing package from unstable

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what: > > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep unstable > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > $ sudo apt-ge

Re: Robert Alan Soloway Arrested

2007-06-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mike McCarty wrote: > > Did I mentions that one of the charges is aggravated identity theft? > Anyway, they said on the evening news that someone estimated that > he's been responsible for 10 billion (that's 10^10) SPAM e-mails. > I also heard that 40% of all e-mail traffic is SPAMmed, and that >

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/07 18:38, Ed Jabbour wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: Ed says. OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two, RealPl

Re: How to "force" Iceweasel to remember login

2007-06-01 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-06-01T16:45:18-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > There is a site I visit frequently that requires a username/password > combo. However, the text in the page doesn't trigger Iceweasel's offer > to remember the password. Is there some way to force it to store it? There is an attribute that some

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote: > Ed says. > > > OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows > > up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure > > at CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two, RealPlayer works fine. > > Wel

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Jun 1, 3:10 pm, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. You and a few others here helped me decide. Thanks very much. > I have Debian on two machines and Ubuntu on two others. I have to say that I prefer Debian on a work machine, because it doesn't break. Stable means something, etc.

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:35:24 -0500 Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or, if I am totally off base or going in the wrong direction for > getting a Linksys wmp54g wireless working then let me know. I'm still > sort of a Linux newbie. Two thin

Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Patterson
I am in the process of trying to get a Linksys wireless network card up and running. I have downloaded the DriverLoader from Linuxant. The file I am using is 'driverloader_2.37_i386.deb'. When I try to install this package by "dpkg -i driverloader_2.37_i386.deb" I get the following error; No pr

Re: how to undo e16keyedit config in enlightenment?

2007-06-01 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 5/31/07, Jason Dunsmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'd like to configure keybindings using the ~/.enlightenment/keybindings.cfg file, but I've previously used e16keyedit and I'm having trouble undoing the changes made by it. I'm trying to restore a few keybindings that I deleted using e16

Re: can not startx

2007-06-01 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:32:54AM +, rocky wrote: > > My debian stable installation works fine before we shifted our office. > Before shifting I did mv /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm to /etc/rc2.d/_S99gdm to > prevent the computer from starting X automatically. This morning > startx gave me the below erro

How to "force" Iceweasel to remember login

2007-06-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
There is a site I visit frequently that requires a username/password combo. However, the text in the page doesn't trigger Iceweasel's offer to remember the password. Is there some way to force it to store it? Yeah, I'm lazy... - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Su

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > hi, > > i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am > planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on > purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that > ran Free software, or was at l

Fonts quality in Desktop with Iceweasel

2007-06-01 Thread Josep M.
Hello to all. I have in the same machine centos 4.4 and debian etch, in centos, when using firefox fonts are much better quality than debian, in both I have added the same Microsoft fonts, Arial, Tahoma,Verdana... ad all fonts are much better displayed in Centos than Debian when using Iceweasel or

Re: Robert Alan Soloway Arrested

2007-06-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Hurray! Hopefully, he'll get put away for a while. Charged with SPAMming, money laundering, fraud, etc. s/put away/executed/ Did I mentions that one of the charges is aggravated ident

Slightly faster h.264 decoder

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a 720p h.264/AC3 video file that my PowerPC 7447A (1.67GHz) can *almost* decode in real time. I am using mplayer with the ffmpeg libs from Christian Marillat's repos. Is anyone aware of a PPC or AltiVec-optimized h.264 decoder that could give me

Re: test email

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Tony Heal wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > This is a test as I am not getting these emails any more. Please don't spam the group. If you have problems getting this list by email, try using it by nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user instead. --

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Ok. You and a few others here helped me decide. Thanks very much. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Robert Alan Soloway Arrested

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Mike McCarty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Hurray! Hopefully, he'll get put away for a while. Charged > with SPAMming, money laundering, fraud, etc. s/put away/executed/ -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Carl Fink wrote: [snip] In fact, at the time of the naming (1776), there were no other recognized "states" in the Americas. Just colonies. No, there were also indian governments. True, they weren't States. However, the colonies were not the only entities with governments, which is what your

Re: How to handle the bad sectors on the hard disk?

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > That said, yes you can keep the filesystem from writing on bad blocks by > running a fsck on the filesysem while its unmounted, and select the > appropriate badblocks option. Be sure you have a long time

Re: Yahoo chat client for Debian

2007-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On 05/29/07 14:56, Paul Johnson wrote: >> KS wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >>> arnuld wrote: > On 5/29/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok and i

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread Max Hyre
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > I'm sorry, mate. But not everyone in this list and/or using Debian is > from the USNA. Semi-touche'. I pointed in particular to our politics so no one would think I was denigrating anyone else's. > Well, that may seem weird to you, but there *are* real politician

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matt Price wrote: i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian & ubuntu based ma

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:52:56 -0400 "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone done this/have a suggestion? Bluetooth GPS + gpsdrive[0]. Most GPSes that have some kind of serial interface (Bluetooth, RS232, PCMCIA, or USB) emit NMEA data, wh

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread magikman
Matt Price wrote: hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian & ubuntu bas

gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Matt Price
hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian & ubuntu based machines. we wi

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 30, 12:40 pm, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am really ANGRY at Debian. So put on a suit of armor and attack a hot fudge sundae. Or use Ubuntu, but why rant? As long as they keep including vim I'm happy. rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Manon Metten
FileNote update After a lot of googling and reading, I finally managed to set some "file notes". I found the following pages especially useful: http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1352241&tid=113&tid=70&tid=89 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes http://www.sq

Re: [OT] Offtopics and community (was: I also am AAAAANGRY)

2007-06-01 Thread Atis
On 6/1/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What i have to propose - create separate ML for offtopic discussions. Yes, but offtopic threads evolve from on-topic ones. It would be very annoying to see posts like this: ... this is I could do to help

Re: [OT] Offtopics and community (was: I also am AAAAANGRY)

2007-06-01 Thread andy
Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:23:08 +0300 Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/07, Peter Gruessing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list?> Yes, this is, but there is often accusation, that this is list for users of Debia

Re: [OT] Offtopics and community (was: I also am AAAAANGRY)

2007-06-01 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:23:08 +0300 Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/1/07, Peter Gruessing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list?> > > Yes, this is, but there is often accusation, that this is list for > users of Debian, and as such, may contain any

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are referred to by the main index.html. One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. Is there a "slurp" application that walks through the file and downlo

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:31:39AM -0700, Peter Gruessing wrote: > I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list?> Yup. I was just complaining about off-topic postings, too. My apologies. OTOH, don't top-post. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:28, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:26, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > > > I can listen to it by just clicking on the "listen" link at > > > > http:/

Re: Etch dhcp3-server "no interfaces" problem

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Lueck
Suggestions? Seems I had the answer all along... Andrew Pollock wrote: > If you lifted /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf *and* /etc/default/dhcp3-server from > your production server... I forgot that /etc/default/dhcp3-server exists, and that had a blank interfaces entry. That solved it! -- Michael Lue

Re: Etch dhcp3-server "no interfaces" problem

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Michael Lueck wrote: On our first install of Etch, we are having difficulty getting the dhcp server running. It keeps complaining in syslog that it does not have an interface to listen on. The "stock" file we base on works fine with Sarge. It is as follows: ddns-update-st

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:16:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The Iroquois Confederacy existed before European Colonization, and > were called the Five Nations. However, Wikipedia says "at the > height of their power in the seventeenth century, (there was only) a > population of around twelve

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Daniel, On 6/1/07, Daniel Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AmigaOS via the workbench also has a nice interface to view and edit notes on files... If I was going to implement "File notes" I'd want them integrated into konq or something ^^. You're right. Coz I almost never use it via Workb

Re: Multimedia working in debian?

2007-06-01 Thread Graham Evans
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:41:54 +, * charles wrote: > hi all, > > anyone know of a how-to to get all the multimedia stuff working in > debian latest version? > > thanks, > charles. just add software repositories debian-multimedia and debian-unofficial I believe you can find all the in

[OT] Offtopics and community (was: I also am AAAAANGRY)

2007-06-01 Thread Atis
On 6/1/07, Peter Gruessing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list?> Yes, this is, but there is often accusation, that this is list for users of Debian, and as such, may contain any discussions of Debian users. What i have to propose - create separate ML f

Etch dhcp3-server "no interfaces" problem

2007-06-01 Thread Michael Lueck
On our first install of Etch, we are having difficulty getting the dhcp server running. It keeps complaining in syslog that it does not have an interface to listen on. The "stock" file we base on works fine with Sarge. It is as follows: ddns-update-style none; authoritative; DHCP_INTERFACE = "

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are referred to by the main index.html. One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. Is there a "slurp" application that walks through the file and downloads the pieces? Tha

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:18:26 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Fink writes: > > As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd > > miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. > > Try Privoxy for blocking ads. I use Privoxy, but

Re: in search for a groupware

2007-06-01 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Marcher skrev: > Hello, > > i'm looking for a groupware that integrates nicely (somewhat at least) > in our setup it should have the following features: > > * calendar with notifications (e.g. inviting people over mail > automagically) > * ica

in search for a groupware

2007-06-01 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, i'm looking for a groupware that integrates nicely (somewhat at least) in our setup it should have the following features: * calendar with notifications (e.g. inviting people over mail automagically) * ical/webcal interface (read only is ok, but r/w would be better - so outlook, apple ica

Fwd: Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Peter Gruessing
I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list?> Note: forwarded message attached. Peter Gruessing CEO/President www.powanga.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. -

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/07 06:36, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:16:46AM -0500, Klein Moebius wrote: * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-31 21:58:47 -0400]: In fact, at the time of the naming (1776), there were no other recognized "states" in the Americas. Just colonies. I think Hopi,

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel Palmer
Manon Metten wrote: BTW: IIRC from C-programming (has been a very long time ago), AmigaDOS uses a FileInfoBlock structure and that's where the file note (alias comment) is stored. The structure looks like this: AmigaOS via the workbench also has a nice interface to view and edit notes on files.

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 06:44 Fri 01 Jun , Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are > referred to by the main index.html. > > One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. > > Is there a "slurp" application that walks through the f

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are > referred to by the main index.html. > > One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. > > Is there a "slurp" application that

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Klein Moebius
* Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-31 21:58:47 -0400]: > In fact, at the time of the naming (1776), there were no other recognized > "states" in the Americas. Just colonies. I think Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Apache, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Sioux, Blackfoot, and a host of other peoples I've failed

slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are referred to by the main index.html. One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. Is there a "slurp" application that walks through the file and downloads the pieces? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:16:46AM -0500, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-31 21:58:47 -0400]: > > > > In fact, at the time of the naming (1776), there were no other recognized > > "states" in the Americas. Just colonies. > > I think Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Apache

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:05:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/31/07 20:53, Carl Fink wrote: > >Actually, I just uninstalled three plugins and everything seems to be > >dramatically faster. I may have been right in my initial guess. > > Sooo, which three plugins? Media Pirate, the defunct

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Ron, On 6/1/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Extended Attributes might be what you are looking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_attribute#Linux http://acl.bestbits.at/man/man.shtml http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/attr Thanks for the tip. I'm gonna check thi

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Deboo, On 6/1/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing manually when creating a file or a directory. I make a eradme.txt in every directory where I put info about t

Debian on IBM DS4300/boot on SAN

2007-06-01 Thread Ulrich David
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 40r0 amd64 on a Blade Center (HS20) with a DS4300 a storage subsystem with boot on SAN. During the installation everything works well, the storage volume is accessible. But on reboot, root partition could not be mounted. Is their something special to add t

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-31 21:01:44 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? > > Say I have a link which points from mylink to A, made by > > ln -s A mylink > > and I want to make the link point to B instead. I can of course do > > rm mylink > ln

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/07 05:14, Deboo ^ wrote: On 6/1/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's my note on the File Notes theme. Greetings, Manon. Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing manually when creat

Re: how to revert my system to a particular date...

2007-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > Today after sid upgrade, I found that my collins cobuild dictionary under wine > is unable to load.. I want to revert my system to the day before yesterday. > I tried to reinstall the dictionary and reinstalled wi

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Deboo ^
On 6/1/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's my note on the File Notes theme. Greetings, Manon. Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing manually when creating a file or a directory. I make a

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 20:58, Carl Fink wrote: [snip] And if you don't like it, stick it in your pipe and shove it where the sun don't shine. But that doesn't justify being stupidly scatological. How is my belly button scatological? :) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-06-01 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/31/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Assuming that your apt cache represents a significant download time then it makes sense to spend some time to 1) verify their integrity, then 2) assemble them into a repository-like unofficial CD that you can use during the install. I d

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 20:53, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: I have about ~20 or so plug-ins installed, all running simultaneously without problems of any sort. Speed is good, and there's no latency in terms of closing down tabs, even when I have l

Re: how to revert my system to a particular date...

2007-06-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: Today after sid upgrade, I found that my collins cobuild dictionary under wine is unable to load.. I want to revert my system to the day before yesterday. I tried to reinstall the dictionary and reinstalled wine but the dictionary still failed to launch. Now

how to revert my system to a particular date...

2007-06-01 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
Today after sid upgrade, I found that my collins cobuild dictionary under wine is unable to load.. I want to revert my system to the day before yesterday. I tried to reinstall the dictionary and reinstalled wine but the dictionary still failed to launch. Now I want to restore my system to a previ

Problem with jumbo frames and dhcp

2007-06-01 Thread Patrick Cummings
Hi, I'm trying to set a MTU of 9k for my gigabit network. All works well for that, however it doesn't work with DHCP. In the dhcpd.conf file on the server, I put "option interface-mtu 9000;" and then in the /etc/network/interfaces file on the clients I put "iface ethx inet dhcp", however when I

Mysql and SMP

2007-06-01 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, In debian stable/testing system, how to force mysql to use multiple CPU (I have Core2 Duo)? I host a Database and all queries are issued by a single user/pass (the frontend). When monitoring the server, mysql never span to the second core... How to? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: etch/powerbook G4 wlan/wpa not working

2007-06-01 Thread Bin Zhang
On 6/1/07, Georg Heinrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I don't get wlan with wpa working on my powerbook g4 with etch. This is the lspci output: 0001:10:12:0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) This is my /etc/network/interfaces fil

can not startx

2007-06-01 Thread rocky
Hey, My debian stable installation works fine before we shifted our office. Before shifting I did mv /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm to /etc/rc2.d/_S99gdm to prevent the computer from starting X automatically. This morning startx gave me the below error after debian logo showed off for about 10 seconds. --

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-06-01 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:44 +0200 > Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? > > Try using the -f switch on ln. Thanks! I had seen the -f switch in