Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 05 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > | On Friday 04 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > | ... > | > |> If RMS is basing his ideals on the GNU charter, I don't think he > |> read it clearly enough. "Free: As in freedom". This should apply > |> whether a person want

dpkg emacs install failure

2008-04-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sat 05 Apr 2008 12:22:24 AM EDT ns:~# aptitude -y install emacs -r Reading package lists... 0% Reading package lists... 100% Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 50% Building dependency tree

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:00:44PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi, > > Here is my w,free, top results when my linux server's network become too > slow again ( it just happened). > > w output: > 19:41:19 up 1 day, 20:07, 6 users, load average: 1.46, 1.85, 1.86 > USER TTY FROM

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hal Vaughan wrote: | On Friday 04 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | ... |> If RMS is basing his ideals on the GNU charter, I don't think he read |> it clearly enough. "Free: As in freedom". This should apply whether |> a person wants to use pure

Re: [Not So Horrendously OT] Psychology, Economics and Debian Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 s. keeling wrote: | Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: |> Hal Vaughan wrote: |>> stay alive. Some, those generally at the lower levels of Piaget's |>> Hierarchy of Needs, will say survival is important while those focused |>> on the higher levels (f

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Pete Kay
Hi, Here is my w,free, top results when my linux server's network become too slow again ( it just happened). w output: 19:41:19 up 1 day, 20:07, 6 users, load average: 1.46, 1.85, 1.86 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT anne :0 -Thu23

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: ... > If RMS is basing his ideals on the GNU charter, I don't think he read > it clearly enough. "Free: As in freedom". This should apply whether > a person wants to use pure open source software, closed source > software, or a mix of both. This is f

Re: lost SD card with newer kernels

2008-04-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/04/2008 04:02 PM, Ernst Doubt wrote: I have a 2.6.18 (self-compiled) kernel that I can use to successfully mount an SD card from my camera, but when I built a newer, more trimmed down kernel, my SD card access is no longer available. I thought I had enabled all the correct hardware options

Re: apt-get errors

2008-04-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/04/2008 06:48 PM, hce wrote: Hi, I guess somehow my apt list is collapsed. Please see following sources.list and errors. I am not able to do apt-get install anymore. Please how can I fix it? deb http://packages.debian.org etch main contrib deb-src http://packages.debian.org etch main cont

Re: At last my built in card reader is supported (acer 5102 wlmi)

2008-04-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/04/2008 05:09 PM, Jabka Atu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy,... Hello I own acer 5102 Almira (special -v is added) and at last there is support few the card reader. I used 2.6.24-1-mad64 kernel with sdhci model. As far as i know this is the first kernel t

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Michael C wrote: | Chris Walters wrote: | Michael C wrote: | | Hal Vaughan wrote: | |> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: | |> | |>> Hal Vaughan wrote: | |>> | |>>> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: | |>>> | | Ivan Savcic wrote: |

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:13:23PM -0700, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi > I am running debian on PC with 1G of memory. Mostly it is running as > Asterisk server. > The problem is everyone once in a while ( after 2 -3 days ) , the Linux > server's network become so slow > that I need to reboot it. After re

Re: Alsa question

2008-04-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080404 22:07]: ... > My problem is when I setup /etc/asound.conf to this ... > anyone got any suggestions on how to make it work ? Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete Kay wrote: > Hi > I am running debian on PC with 1G of memory. Mostly it is running as > Asterisk server. > The problem is everyone once in a while ( after 2 -3 days ) , the Linux > server's network become so slow > that I need to reboot it. Af

Question about Email-to-Fax setup

2008-04-04 Thread Pete Kay
Dear all, I am trying to following the procedure from postfix faq but I have problem understanding how to do a few things specified: 1. How do advertise my fax.domain.com in the DNS? 2. I don't have /etc/postfix/transport file, do I just create it and add the entry there? 3. I don't have main.cf in

Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Pete Kay
Hi I am running debian on PC with 1G of memory. Mostly it is running as Asterisk server. The problem is everyone once in a while ( after 2 -3 days ) , the Linux server's network become so slow that I need to reboot it. After reboot, the network becomes normal again. Can someone tell me what prob

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:52 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 04/04/08 13:40, andy wrote: > > > >> Hello > >> [snip] > >> Google does yield some results about positions of signature block, > >but > AFAIK,

Re: /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size

2008-04-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
First read the contents of the paniclog file. If that problem still exists go and correct it. Then use touch on the paniclog file to make it have a 0 length and continue with your upgrade. On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After recent Exim4 setup on a new Debian 4.0r3 install

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/08 19:09, s. keeling wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > >>> AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be really and truly > >>> free -- it's the Gentoo

Re: [Horrendously OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread s. keeling
Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > stay alive. Some, those generally at the lower levels of Piaget's > > Hierarchy of Needs, will say survival is important while those focused > > on the higher levels (focused on self actualization) where, since it's > > Maslow Thanky

Re: [Somewhat OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: ... > There's the rub. There are practical/political impediments to the > exercise of genuine software freedom (the whole panoply of patents, > NDAs etc.) which no software license, no matter how "progressive", > could ever hope to effectively combat. So it

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 04 April 2008 11:33:00 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/08 12:27, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> difference compared to -O1 and i686 --mcpu/--march makes a difference > >> compared to i386. --fomit-frame-pointer also produced faster binaries. > > > > S, your machine was idling faster? 'r

Re: how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:56:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > > Millions(?) must have done this but googling left doubts. > > I'm thinking of upgrading my EP-8VTAI 32-bit mobo to an ASUS M2N-SLI > which is 64-bit. > > I now run one Sid system that is pure i386. > > What is best? > >

Alsa question

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
Hi On my machine I run squeezeslave (part of squeezebox/squeezecenter ), it is basically a deamon that is control from one location. I have to run it under aoss to get alsa access. when it is running I can run other applications that want to use the sound card. My problem is when I setup /etc/as

Re: Starting Evolution with work-online enabled [SOLVED]

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:52:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:23:11 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:46:09AM +0100, Robin wrote: > > > Package should be renamed network-mangler:) > > > > indeed. I wonder if this is just

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > >>to read. First she sent .doc files which

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:51:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, April 4, 2008 9:54 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:17:46AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Something in the process I am missing is. I have to be missing > >> something since my configuration, espec

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-04 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:51:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, April 4, 2008 9:54 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:17:46AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Something in the process I am missing is. I have to be missing > >> something since my configuration, espec

Re: pc compatibility

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:29:26PM -0700, remigio wrote: > I'd like to buy an Acer Aspire m1610 for a very convenient low price, > but before this I want to know the Debian Etch compatibility on this > pc. Have someone had an experience in this way? > Thanks very much. Don't know but if its hot-o

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 19:09, s. keeling wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: >>> AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be really and truly free >>> -- it's the Gentoo based U

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:33:27PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > > > Douglas writes: > >> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to > >> read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do > >> no r

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread s. keeling
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > > > AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be really and truly free > > -- it's the Gentoo based Ututo[1]. He talked about this in his talk he > > held in Belgrade, Serbia. > > I

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 18:00, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 04/04/08 13:40, andy wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an >>> Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3

Re: [Somewhat OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Michael C
Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Michael C wrote: | Hal Vaughan wrote: |> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: |> |>> Hal Vaughan wrote: |>> |>>> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: |>>> | Ivan Savcic wrote: | |> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, April 4, 2008 9:54 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:17:46AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Something in the process I am missing is. I have to be missing >> something since my configuration, especially this single ethernet >> card test, should work. I can't find

apt-get errors

2008-04-04 Thread hce
Hi, I guess somehow my apt list is collapsed. Please see following sources.list and errors. I am not able to do apt-get install anymore. Please how can I fix it? deb http://packages.debian.org etch main contrib deb-src http://packages.debian.org etch main contrib # apt-get install php Reading p

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 13:40, andy wrote: Hello I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. At pre

Re: how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> > 1. install the ASUS M2N-SLI into a new box and keep the old box. If by that you mean having 2 computers instead of one... Sure, why not? You can still mount your /home through the network. Try debian-amd64 list as well. HTH -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

At last my built in card reader is supported (acer 5102 wlmi)

2008-04-04 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy,... I own acer 5102 Almira (special -v is added) and at last there is support few the card reader. I used 2.6.24-1-mad64 kernel with sdhci model. As far as i know this is the first kernel that support it out from the box (2.6.22 didn't suppor

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-04-04 Thread Andrius
s. keeling wrote: Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: T o n g wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:21:17 am Andrius wrote: how to configure Sendmail to send a messages through ISP SMTP server? In

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> paragasu wrote: >> >> > AFAIK, >> > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. >> > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. Bu

lost SD card with newer kernels

2008-04-04 Thread Ernst Doubt
I have a 2.6.18 (self-compiled) kernel that I can use to successfully mount an SD card from my camera, but when I built a newer, more trimmed down kernel, my SD card access is no longer available. I thought I had enabled all the correct hardware options, but apparently I've missed something. My c

Wireless networking, building an AP using WG311T

2008-04-04 Thread andreas
Hello. I bought a Netgear WG311T not long ago and I am trying to set it up to become an access point for my other machines. So far I have failed though, using a Windows XP machine I can detect the network but fails to connect. Despite furious googling I have found no solution but I hope someon

pc compatibility

2008-04-04 Thread remigio
Hello, I'd like to buy an Acer Aspire m1610 for a very convenient low price, but before this I want to know the Debian Etch compatibility on this pc. Have someone had an experience in this way? Thanks very much. Remigio - visit www.sacraspina.it the site of Confraternita della Sacra

Re: belkin wireless PCI card

2008-04-04 Thread Angus Auld
--- Alle Meije Wink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Since my computer moved inside my house, I rely on a > Belkin "G+" 802.11g > Network card (that's all it says on the box). > > Used as I am to debian just starting DHCP without a > problem, I didn't > know what to do when the network di

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Mark Allums
Hal Vaughan wrote: stay alive. Some, those generally at the lower levels of Piaget's Hierarchy of Needs, will say survival is important while those focused on the higher levels (focused on self actualization) where, since it's Maslow -- Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Question about sendmail

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:18:17 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:53:13AM -0700, Pete Kay wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > I am looking for a solution to perform specific tasks based on email > > received. > > So, when emails of specific Send-to address

Re: Debian on Sun LDoms?

2008-04-04 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:59:29AM -0500, JW wrote: > I asked this on the SPAC list and didn't get an answer: > > I'm testing out a Sun T1000 with LDoms and want to try running Debian in a > guest domain. I'm not able to find any information about running Debian under > LDoms with google, althou

Re: [Somewhat OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Michael C wrote: | Hal Vaughan wrote: |> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: |> |>> Hal Vaughan wrote: |>> |>>> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: |>>> | Ivan Savcic wrote: | |> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackvil

belkin wireless PCI card

2008-04-04 Thread Alle Meije Wink
Hi, Since my computer moved inside my house, I rely on a Belkin "G+" 802.11g Network card (that's all it says on the box). Used as I am to debian just starting DHCP without a problem, I didn't know what to do when the network did not appear. Is this easy to add to my existing configuration?

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 13:40, andy wrote: > Hello > > I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an > Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. > running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. > > At present, I hav

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 14:46, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, April 4, 2008 11:57 am, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Is there a problem with that? (I must not be understanding your >> point...) > > Nope. The message I was responding to had responded to Paul stating > t

Re: Starting Evolution with work-online enabled [SOLVED]

2008-04-04 Thread Robin
On 04/04/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:46:09AM +0100, Robin wrote: > > On 04/04/2008, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > Resolved problem: apt-get remove network-manager > > > > > > there seem to be more and more posts t

Re: Debian on Sun LDoms?

2008-04-04 Thread JW
On Friday 04 April 2008 13:40:14 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/08 11:59, JW wrote: > > I'm testing out a Sun T1000 with LDoms and want to try running Debian in > > a guest domain. I'm not able to find any information about running Debian > > under LDoms with google, although I did find some pages t

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 04/04/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just move all the $HOME stuff out of the way, and see what happens. If > you see that something important is gone, file movement is > reversible :). Important stuff like .kde I knew not to touch, but the ones that I did not know about I asked

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: > Ivan Savcic wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > > > <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Starting Evolution with work-online enabled [SOLVED]

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:23:11 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:46:09AM +0100, Robin wrote: > > On 04/04/2008, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ... > > > > Resolved problem: apt-get remove network-manager > > > > > there seem to be more a

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, April 4, 2008 11:57 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > Is there a problem with that? (I must not be understanding your > point...) Nope. The message I was responding to had responded to Paul stating that there is a 1-2% increase, measurable by the tools cited, if one compiled all programs and

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:34:26 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/03/2008, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFAIK, > > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. > > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:08:47 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > paragasu wrote: > > > > > AFAIK, > > > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. > > > the worst you will get i

Re: HP/Compaq dv6700z notebook

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:56:59 -0400 (EDT) ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am inclined to buy the above notebook: >-- the wireless is listed as Wireless LAN > 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth >-- I am not sure if Linux has a driver Not enough information; we need to know th

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:23:34 -0500 Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > When using public key auth, copy *only* your public key to the server. > (ssh-copy-id is a handy way to automate this.) So long as your private > key remains secure, there is very little risk to an attacker gett

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:54:29 +1100 Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:12:33 +1100 > > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> K

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 13:40, andy wrote: Hello I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. At pre

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Michael C
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: Ivan Savcic wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a problem with this. Debian

Suspend not working

2008-04-04 Thread Frank
I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first time ever I tried suspending the computer from the GDM menu...but nothing happened. I have auto login enabled so a few seconds later I was logged back in. Is there some config files that have to be changed/adjusted for suspend to work. I

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 13:40, andy wrote: > Hello > > I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an > Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. > running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. > > At present, I hav

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 13:48, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, April 4, 2008 11:33 am, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/04/08 12:27, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> S, your machine was idling faster? 'round here CPU time is rarely >>> a limiter. In fact I'm messing around

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, April 4, 2008 11:33 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/08 12:27, Steve Lamb wrote: >> S, your machine was idling faster? 'round here CPU time is rarely >> a limiter. In fact I'm messing around with setting up Xen to split up the >> functions of my main Linux box into 3 VMs. It's a

Re: Debian on Sun LDoms?

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 11:59, JW wrote: > I asked this on the SPAC list and didn't get an answer: > > I'm testing out a Sun T1000 with LDoms and want to try running Debian in a > guest domain. I'm not able to find any information about running Debian under > L

Evolution: Inserting image into signature block

2008-04-04 Thread andy
Hello I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. At present, I have constructed a signature block with the following components: an image (digitised hand

Re: how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 12:56, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > > Millions(?) must have done this but googling left doubts. > > I'm thinking of upgrading my EP-8VTAI 32-bit mobo to an ASUS M2N-SLI > which is 64-bit. > > I now run one Sid system that is pure i3

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 12:27, Steve Lamb wrote: >> difference compared to -O1 and i686 --mcpu/--march makes a difference >> compared to i386. --fomit-frame-pointer also produced faster binaries. > > S, your machine was idling faster? 'round here CPU tim

cupsys does not print

2008-04-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data light blinks (Samsung ML-1430) then the server stops making noise but the

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 11:24, Ivan Savcic wrote: [snip] > > But mixing branches (stable, testing and unstable) is a no-no, because > they depend on different versions of libraries. People quite often mix testing and unstable. Still, though, it's easier to stay

Re: postfix multiple domain total solution.

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Habashy
thanks..that was it...great i am still going throught this thing..will give you an update..when done. thanks again. mjh On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Ivan Savcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi...I have been foll

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: > >> Ivan Savcic wrote: > >>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > >>> > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install

how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Millions(?) must have done this but googling left doubts. I'm thinking of upgrading my EP-8VTAI 32-bit mobo to an ASUS M2N-SLI which is 64-bit. I now run one Sid system that is pure i386. What is best? 1. install the ASUS M2N-SLI into a new box and keep the old box. 2. install the ASU

Re: postfix multiple domain total solution.

2008-04-04 Thread Ivan Savcic
Argh, sorry, my bad: dovecot handles deliveries by itself; this setting is therefore probably completely unnecessary in main.cf. But to get Postfix not to complain about it, it either needs to be set to correct directory, or removed completely. (I based my previous assumption on my slightly modifi

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Michael C
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: Ivan Savcic wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is almost assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional f

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: > Ivan Savcic wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is > >> almost assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional freedom of > >> a

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:42:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 04 April 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > > > AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be

Re: postfix multiple domain total solution.

2008-04-04 Thread Ivan Savcic
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Ivan Savcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi...I have been followign this tutorial suggest by Ivan on debian-users. > > > > http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ > > I seem to be

Debian on Sun LDoms?

2008-04-04 Thread JW
I asked this on the SPAC list and didn't get an answer: I'm testing out a Sun T1000 with LDoms and want to try running Debian in a guest domain. I'm not able to find any information about running Debian under LDoms with google, although I did find some pages talking about running Ubuntu in an L

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do no run OO) although I could get th

Re: postfix multiple domain total solution.

2008-04-04 Thread Ivan Savcic
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi...I have been followign this tutorial suggest by Ivan on debian-users. > > http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ > I seem to be getting this error that is making my life miserable...can > anyone assist > I

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
> difference compared to -O1 and i686 --mcpu/--march makes a difference > compared to i386. --fomit-frame-pointer also produced faster binaries. S, your machine was idling faster? 'round here CPU time is rarely a limiter. In fact I'm messing around with setting up Xen to split up the fun

Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

2008-04-04 Thread Ivan Savcic
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 April 2008 01:50:02 am Ivan Savcic wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > > > Ivan Savcic wr

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Michael C
Ivan Savcic wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is almost assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional freedom of allowing the user to choose to use non-free software within the s

postfix multiple domain total solution.

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Habashy
Hi...I have been followign this tutorial suggest by Ivan on debian-users. http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ I seem to be getting this error that is making my life miserable...can anyone assist I am trying to setup multiple virtual domains email servers with postfix/mysql/dovcat etc.

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:35:57PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have had an accident on my Debian-Archiv-Server and unfortunatly the > files "Packages.gz", "Packages.bz2", "Sources.gz", "Sources.bz2" and > "Release" from the directories > > /debian/dists/${RELEASE}/main/binary-${AR

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 April 2008, Ivan Savcic wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is > > almost assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional freedom of > > allowing the user to choose t

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:17:46AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, April 4, 2008 7:51 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:09:09AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I think it does make some difference in that I don't specify an IP, my > > vif= lookslike this: > > > dhcp =

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:24:41PM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Might as well draw some attention with a good subject line ;-P > > > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > > > > > Wh

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I > do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she > send plain text. > > I don't run

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:42:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 04 April 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > > AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be really and truly > > > free -- it's the Gentoo based Ututo[1].

Re: Change the openoffice's UI Font?

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Yang
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/1/08, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > another problems for OO. The UI Font is so ugly that I want to change > > it. > > I've tried every solutions I can find in google, but nothing works!

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > Douglas writes: >> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to >> read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do >> no run OO) > > Try Abiword. s/b/nt/ :-) No complex library dependencies, no

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Ivan Savcic
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Might as well draw some attention with a good subject line ;-P > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > > > While we're on the topic, can anyone sum it up, what do people > > generally

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, April 4, 2008 7:51 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:09:09AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I think it does make some difference in that I don't specify an IP, my > vif= lookslike this: > dhcp = 'dhcp' > vif = [ 'mac=aa:00:00:00:00:22, bridge=xenbrDMZ' ] > but I u

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