Re: [OT] Debian Sig

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:43:06 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debian+logo+ascii+art > > > > leads to: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/07/msg00686.html > > > > HTH > Thanks Bob, That's truly amazing! >

tuxonice in lenny amd64 kernel

hi guys, i am just about to install debian lenny on my new laptop (dell d430). i intend to put 64bit system there, and since it features only ssd disk i won't create any swap partition (the machine has 2 gb of memory so i should hopefully be able to live w/o swap). since it is a notebook, it

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [[Sorry Bob, hit the wrong reply button!]] Bob Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:53 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> I've seen a ASCII art sig on this lis

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:41:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 18:57, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 16:04, Ale

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On 09/11/08 00:51, Dave Patterson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:41:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Guns? There's no law mandating you must own a gun in the US. Although, visions of Angelina Jolie packing heat are quite interesting... Indeed. No, I take that back. Kennesaw, Georgia and Ge

Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 18:49, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: Then that should be: $ patch --gen-diff $ patch --apply-diff The diff command predates the patch command by many years (it was in System III) and does far more than generate files suitable for application by patch, which was writt

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 22:17, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:31:51 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right,

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:52:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > There was a time when he commanded a huge army... Not just (a) huge army, but LOTS of huge armies. He commanded kings. Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | Linux - Das System fuer schlaue Nonthaburi |

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 22:22, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:41:01 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... The one place where I might disagree with the Declaration of Independence is where Rights come from, since I want to think that rights come from the barrel of a gun. You do? > Or

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:41:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Guns? There's no law mandating you must own a gun in the US. Although, > visions of Angelina Jolie packing heat are quite interesting... Indeed. > > No, I take that back. Kennesaw, Georgia and Geuda Springs, Kansas > mandate that

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On 09/10/08 18:57, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On 09/10/08 20:13, Dave Patterson wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:57:39AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: :) I am allergic to guns, plus I love it down under That won't be the last time an American suggests that a solution is to be an American, I'll wager.. but that's okay, we'll just route aro

Re: rsync over lan

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:08:44 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > As root: > # cat /etc/shadow >/dev/null > # > > Faking it: > > $ fakeroot cat /etc/shadow > cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied > > Darn, fakeroot still does not fake me a set of configuration files :-)

Re: rsync over lan

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:17:14PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:57 + > Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Be careful with fakeroot: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/ | grep -v root > > total 2156 > > -rw-r- 1 asterisk asterisk 4500 2008-08-12 23:31 am

Re: problem with gnu emacs

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:51:16 +0200, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2008-08-12 08:43:00 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2008-08-12 05:51 +0200, Zach Uram wrote: >> > When I run emacs I see this error: >> > >> > emacs: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information >> > avail

Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

Yes, I can see many levels for different resolution, there is a drop down list. But all of them are under 1024x768 (800x600, 640x480), smaller than my laptop 1280x800. Only parts of my laptop screen are shown on the second screen. I didn't see any options that let me to set second screen resolutio

Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

2008/9/11 Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I tried "nvidia-setting" to detect the display, it works and can detect the > connected display. > > But there is another issue about the resolution: > My laptop (DELL D630) is 1280x800, the connected LCD monitor is 1024x768, > thus only parts of laptop

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:41:01 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The one place where I might disagree with the Declaration of > Independence is where Rights come from, since I want to think that > rights come from the barrel of a gun. You do? > Or, maybe, that those unalienable

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:31:51 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: > > We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because > > of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this > > right, not from the arbitrary

Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:52:30 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed,10.Sep.08, 14:24:07, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > Thanks, Andrei for the response. Checked out #s and yes they have > > changed. > > So I need some further guidance... "In case of any doubt use > > labels." An

Re: grammar tool in linux ... perhaps in emacs

gary turner wrote: > Going back to DOS, I had (and still have on an old Win98 box) an app > called RightWriter, which applied the rules from Strunk & White's > /Elements of Style/. It even came with a copy of the book, and each > comment referenced the rule by number. > > It was/is superior to G

Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:23:55PM -0400, abel wrote: > Hope the attached file helps. Commentary is appreciated, even expected ;-) > Another method that can be more robust in a security context is to mount the partition with the filesystem's UUID as a specifier, instead of the label. This is p

Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

Thanks so much for your help. I tried "nvidia-setting" to detect the display, it works and can detect the connected display. But there is another issue about the resolution: My laptop (DELL D630) is 1280x800, the connected LCD monitor is 1024x768, thus only parts of laptop screen are shown on the

Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:52:30 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed,10.Sep.08, 14:24:07, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > Thanks, Andrei for the response. Checked out #s and yes they have > > changed. > > So I need some further guidance... "In case of an

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:57:39AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > :) I am allergic to guns, plus I love it down under That won't be the last time an American suggests that a solution is to be an American, I'll wager.. but that's okay, we'll just route around them until they grow up...

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

Are there any known problems / gotchas with OpenDNS? I do know that they redirect google queries through their own servers and return ads in place of unregistered domains, but those 'features' can be turned off. Anything else that I should be aware of? Sorry for shameless plug, but OpenNIC does

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> What's this? >> >> guessing australia -> us undersea cable > > I'm surprised that Google doesn't have a data center there in Oz. > > Anyway, the solution is obvious: move to the US! Hah! Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: rsync over lan

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:40:08 -0500 Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also I use rsnapshot. It uses rsync to download the data each time into > a separate directory and all the files that have not changed are hard > linked back to the older directory. That away you can have multiple > sna

Re: rsync over lan

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:57 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be careful with fakeroot: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/ | grep -v root > total 2156 > -rw-r- 1 asterisk asterisk 4500 2008-08-12 23:31 amportal.conf > drwxrwxr-x 4 asterisk asterisk 4096 2008-09-10 13:57 a

Re: diff display

Ron Johnson writes: > Then that should be: > $ patch --gen-diff > $ patch --apply-diff The diff command predates the patch command by many years (it was in System III) and does far more than generate files suitable for application by patch, which was written by Larry Wall in 1984. -- John Hasle

Re: diff display

Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 18:28, gary turner wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. That would sanely be called "patch", no

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/09/08 20:47, And

Re: grammar tool in linux ... perhaps in emacs

John Hasler wrote: > ->HS writes: >> I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in >> Linux. > > IIRC there used to be such a program in BSD. > >> ...that such a tool aids in catching silly mistakes and helps >> significantly in proof reading. > > Copy editing, not proof re

Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 18:28, gary turner wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. That would sanely be called "patch", not "diff". See man

Re: diff display

Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. That would sanely be called "patch", not "diff". See man patch. diff consists of differences betw

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Inter

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: > My Internet access has been gett

Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

On Wed,10.Sep.08, 14:24:07, Jack Schneider wrote: > Thanks, Andrei for the response. Checked out #s and yes they have > changed. > So I need some further guidance... "In case of any doubt use labels." > Any pointers to an appropriate "howto" Question 2 What's the > impact on FSTAB set

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

On Wed,10.Sep.08, 13:53:00, nate wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > But how can I prevent a possible attacker to abuse this setup to access > > my laptop? > > What's the likelihood an attacker will even care that the > system can access your laptop? What's the likelihood that an > attacker will

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping google.com PING google.c

Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: James A. Donald wrote: Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the way they do in windows? I am surprised that no one has told this till now. The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert chang

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: >>> >>> $ ping google.com >>> PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(

Re: diff display

James A. Donald wrote: > Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the > way they do in windows? I am surprised that no one has told this till now. The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. The output pro

Re: rsync over lan

tyler wrote: Hi, With some help from the good people on this list, I got a simple home network setup, and I'm now using it to backup my laptop to my desktop using rsync. I have one question though - I'm backing up /etc, /home, /opt, and parts of /usr and /var. I want to preserve ownership, but i

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:42:31PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 13:50:05, François Cerbelle wrote: > > [...] > > > Now, you have to protect the admin box from an attack initiated from the > > NATted box (mother's). Because this box is unsure. So, you set iptables > > rules on

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:50:05PM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Mar 9 septembre 2008 13:39, Alex Samad a écrit : > [...] > > don't see the difference between connectivity via the internet or via an > > openvpn network, if your rule states only allow ssh (+ related traffic + > > only if i

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

Andrei Popescu wrote: > But how can I prevent a possible attacker to abuse this setup to access > my laptop? What's the likelihood an attacker will even care that the system can access your laptop? What's the likelihood that an attacker will even get access to the other system? Your paranoia goes

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Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:30:15 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 16:00:11, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > > -- Hi, all > > > > I created my own problem. I think! > > I have a dual boot Dell M60 laptop. Running Lenny, linux kernel > > 2.6.26-1-686. I have/had

one dual port ethernet card vs. two single port cards for clustering - any advantages/disadvantages

I'm looking to setup a cluster for out uni lab and am debating at the moment for the internal network between the cluster machines (4 machines which are supposed to be all connected to each other) whether to use on dual port pci-e ethernet card + one single port pci-e or the onboard card vs. using

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

On Wed,10.Sep.08, 19:50:04, Dexter Filmore wrote: > I use a virtual machine for support and have my router forward ssh there. > Something simple with fluxbox or even no X at all, should fit a 32MB VM and > come up within a blink of an eye. For extra paranoia you can revert to a > clean snapsho

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

On Wed,10.Sep.08, 17:15:41, Chris Davies wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't see the benefits compared to a ssh > > tunnel. > > You have already pointed out that you can't use an ssh tunnel. > > Your mother's PC is behind at least one layer o

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT - VM for support

Am Montag, 8. September 2008 23:48:21 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > Hi, > > Recently my mother (running Lenny) switched ISPs and is now behind a > NAT, which makes direct ssh access impossible. A reverse ssh tunnel can > solve this, but having her type a passphrase every time is hmm... > unrealistic. >

Re: when dpkg can't get a lock

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 06:30:00 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate? I was doing some > reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested > was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking > for packa

Re: NVidia GeForce 6150 Go

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 21:53:29 -0700, consultores1 wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:42 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 18:38:57 -0700, consultores1 wrote: > > > hello > > > > > > I am using 1 portatil compaq presario 3000 amd64x2, it has 1 nvidia > > > geforce 6150 go v

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 09:39, Rob McBroom wrote: On 2008-Sep-10, at 7:31 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary

Re: Getting Minimum Required Packages from Windows

[ Please try to turn off the HTML. ] On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 17:04:20 +0530, Himanshu wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an easy way to get a package and all the packages it depends > on directly or indirectly, from Windows. I have a limited monthly internet > quota and I want to download just the mi

Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:51:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to > start > at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's > (Youtube, NYTimes, etc.) The video's fail with a message that > Macromedia Fl

Re: Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

I would suggest reporting this to the ath9k-devel list: https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel especially if it is reproducible. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

On 09/10/08 11:15, Chris Davies wrote: Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't see the benefits compared to a ssh tunnel. You have already pointed out that you can't use an ssh tunnel. Your mother's PC is behind at least one layer of NAT, so any connection

Re: central logging host vs. reliability of receiving a message

Martin wrote: > I know that it uses udp so the reliability part must be somewhere in > the application (that is for standard syslog). According to > http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/features/ syslog-ng > supports sending messages over TCP so that would solve the problem but > I re

central logging host vs. reliability of receiving a message

Hi, I'd like to centralize our companies logging infrastructure. Our current situation is that log messages are stored locally on each node where they are just waiting to be logrotated and thus are quite useless since most of the time noone bothers about collecting all the info and rather tells pe

Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to > start > at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's > (Youtube, NYTimes, etc.) The video's fail with a message that > Macromedia Flash 9 m

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't see the benefits compared to a ssh > tunnel. You have already pointed out that you can't use an ssh tunnel. Your mother's PC is behind at least one layer of NAT, so any connection must be instantiated from there. Star

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:17:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Firehol You may be blocking some outgoing traffic with the wall, which is perfectly sane, or you may have a permission issue with traceroute or ping that doesn't allow a non-administrator to get results from mtr. Again, that woul

Re: grammar tool in linux ... perhaps in emacs

David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 22:47:14 debian-user-digest- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> well >> i know just queequeg, which works with the console... >> i once made a small tutorial for making it work for a professor, so maybe >> you can do something with it! >> >> http://www.g

Re: rsync over lan

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Celejar wrote: [ Snip stuff about password-less root login, with which I agree ] > B) Fakeroot can apparently more or less do what you want; install it, > and read README.saving. It claims to be usable with rsync to do > exactly what you want (although

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

Dave Patterson wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:01:38AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: and how come when I do that I only get: HOST: debian Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev and zip. My firewall? Hugo More'n likely. What are you using? Firehol Hugo -- T

Re: rsync over lan

Sorry about the previous (useless) message. On 2008-Sep-9, at 9:17 PM, tyler wrote: In order to preserve the ownerships, I have to run the above command as root, which requires that I configure sshd on the desktop to accept root logins. Even behind a NAT router, that doesn't seem like a good id

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

On 09/09/2008 03:13:52 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:08:10AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > This is not unusual here. Here being? Somewhere in +0300 is kinda broad. :D -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004

Re: rsync over lan

On 2008-Sep-9, at 9:17 PM, tyler wrote: In order to preserve the ownerships, I have to run the above command as root, which requires that I configure sshd on the desktop to accept root logins. Even behind a NAT router, that doesn't seem like a good idea. Am I missing something? --- Rob McBro

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

On 2008-Sep-10, at 7:31 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:53 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian swirl.. but can't > nut out what to google to find it! > > If anyone's got it that'd be great.. http://www

Re: grammar tool in linux ... perhaps in emacs

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 22:47:14 debian-user-digest- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > well > > i know just queequeg, which works with the console... > > i once made a small tutorial for making it work for a professor, so ma

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:01:38AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > and how come when I do that I only get: > > HOST: debian Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev > > and zip. My firewall? > > Hugo More'n likely. What are you using? Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:52:38AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I wonder why your packets have such a longer trip than mine do. And > what's the story with hop #13? As we say here, TIT (This Is Thailand) - you get weird hops as you cross borders and such. Gummint tries to intrude as well, but

Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?

I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to start at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's (Youtube, NYTimes, etc.) The video's fail with a message that Macromedia Flash 9 must be installed. I can't do this because the system is booted with

Re: rsync over lan

Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tyler wrote: > > [I use my lan to] >> do the backup from my user account as: >> >> rsync -av --include-from=/home/tyler/rsync_includes / >> etch.mynetwork:/home/tyler/laptop >> >> Then the ownerships all get set to tyler tyler, even when they are >> ori

Re: Getting Minimum Required Packages from Windows

Le Mer 10 septembre 2008 13:34, Himanshu a écrit : > Is there an easy way to get a package and all the packages it depends > on directly or indirectly, from Windows. I have a limited monthly internet > quota and I want to download just the minimum necessary packages. > I am connected to

[OT] Debian Sig

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian swirl.. but can't nut out what to google to find it! If anyone's got it that'd be great.. Cheers Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems

Getting Minimum Required Packages from Windows

Hi, Is there an easy way to get a package and all the packages it depends on directly or indirectly, from Windows. I have a limited monthly internet quota and I want to download just the minimum necessary packages. I am connected to the internet only from Windows and I couldn't setup th

[OT] was Re: diff display

On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: > We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because > of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this > right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. > > http://www.jim.com/ James A. Donald I am happy t

when dpkg can't get a lock

Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate? I was doing some reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking for package updates. If that's possible what might have enabled it in all the

Re: MRT HOW TO?

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 11:44:21 Tammo Schuelke wrote: > I think you're confusing MRT (Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit) and MRTG > (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher). > > > -Original Message- > > From: Clifford W. Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11

Repository-problem

Hello, I have a very simple test-repository: deb http://www.vandervlis.nl/debian/ ./ It works, but it was not signed. Now I try to get the signing OK, but when I do an apt-get update I get this error: Failed to fetch http://www.vandervlis.nl/debian/./Release Unable to find expected entry Packa

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 22:38, Dave Patterson wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping

RE: MRT HOW TO?

I think you're confusing MRT (Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit) and MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher). > -Original Message- > From: Clifford W. Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:35 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

Re: MRT HOW TO?

On Monday 08 September 2008 06:53:24 GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote: > Greetings to the list! > > Does anybody have access to a good MRT (Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit) HOW > TO? I have searched the web and the debian.org pages (as well as merit.edu > - apparently the original maintainer) but I

Re: diff display

On 2008-09-10 11:18, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:52:49PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > >> Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the >> way they do in windows? > > You can also look ast colordiff > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/colordiff/). I have not used it

Re: MRT HOW TO?

On 2008-09-08 06:53, GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote: > Greetings to the list! > > Does anybody have access to a good MRT (Multi-Threaded Routing > Toolkit) HOW TO? I have searched the web and the debian.org pages (as > well as merit.edu - apparently the original maintainer) but I can't > find a

Re: diff display

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:52:49PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the > way they do in windows? You can also look ast colordiff (http://freshmeat.net/projects/colordiff/). I have not used it though. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Te

Re: diff display

On 09/10/08 04:04, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: [snip] Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the way they do in windows? If you insist that things in linux should be just like in windows, why bother using linux? And he uses "in windo

Re: diff display

On 2008-09-10 09:52, James A. Donald wrote: > Under windows, diff usually works like windiff - you see > the two versions side by side, with the differences > highlighted by color > > git-gui, however gives me a diff where I see a single > stream annotated with + and - > > I find the single strea

Re: suspend/hibernate in gnome-lenny

El Wednesday 10 September 2008 02:51:42 Cassiano Leal escribió: > Did you check that your user is in the powerdev group? > > $ groups > > Check that powerdev is in the list of groups. If not, > > $ sudo adduser powerdev > > Log out and in again, and retry. > > Cheers, > Cassiano Leal Thank you f

Re: diff display

Le Mer 10 septembre 2008 09:52, James A. Donald a écrit : [...] > Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the > way they do in windows? I use Mercurial instead of GIT, but it is very close. I use it under Unix (Solaris and Linux) and Windows. And I use KDiff3 under Unix and Windows too.

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

On 09/09/08 22:38, Dave Patterson wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping google.com PING goog

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008/9/10 nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Are there any known problems / gotchas with OpenDNS? I do know that >> they redirect google queries through their own servers and return ads >> in place of unregistered domains, but those 'features' can be turned >> off. Anything else th

Re: diff display

On Wed,10.Sep.08, 17:52:49, James A. Donald wrote: [...] > Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the way they do in > windows? I'm almost sure it can be done by combining git with a tool like vimdiff (vim actually, but I'm sure emacs has something similar). Regards, Andrei --

Re: diff display

I recommend meld package See you later ! On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Under windows, diff usually works like windiff - you see > the two versions side by side, with the differences > highlighted by color > > git-gui, however gives me a diff where

diff display

Under windows, diff usually works like windiff - you see the two versions side by side, with the differences highlighted by color git-gui, however gives me a diff where I see a single stream annotated with + and - I find the single stream display really obscure, ugly, and confusing. So if I had

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