Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

2005-01-04 Thread Icebiker
e box). /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Karsten Bolding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Necati DEMiR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 08:03 Subject: Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK Hi On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:17:44PM +0200, Neca

Re: which mouse?

2004-12-10 Thread Icebiker
'm using a Logitech 2 button + wheel mouse, it must be 2-3 years old. Seriously, I'd try a different KVM if you can lay your hands on one. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "todag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10,

Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly [SOLVED]

2004-12-08 Thread Icebiker
ither XP or Linux and the mouse wheel always works on Linux. It's been extremely well behaved for the last 4 weeks. I don't know how to generalize this, except perhaps that newer KVMs might be more Linux friendly (my DLink was 3+ years old). /icebiker - Original Message -

Choppy sound when playing MP3s with arts

2004-12-02 Thread icebiker
encoder. All I did was download lame, built it and plunked the binary in /usr/local/bin. Is there additional magic required to make arts happy? arts seems so opaque . . . /icebiker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Icebiker
ile) feeds. Although such systems may not be "real time", a 5 minute time warp can make for funny reports. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 200

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Icebiker
it's worth, knoppix runs on my P4P800-VM, which uses the 865 chipset. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Syed Huq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 13:03 Subject: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support Hi, Can you pls tell me

Re: Linux on HardDrive

2004-11-23 Thread Icebiker
this was done by the Debian installer. I would have thought that it would be less troublesome to do the install on the target machine, using CDs or copying packages. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Ronny Aasen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" &l

Re: Beginner's?? Question

2004-11-22 Thread icebiker
Thanks. That indeed does it. Did not know how to use tail here. Now, how do I use it in a script, such as $LASTFILE = ? do something using $LASTFILE LASTFILE=`ls -ltr | tail -1` where ` is the backward quote (on the ~ (tilde) key on my north american keyboard). /icebiker -- To

How do I know what sound system I'm using?

2004-11-03 Thread icebiker
OSS. - the KDE Info center says I'm using ALSAv1.0.4 emulation mode - lsmod says I've got snd_mixer_oss loaded, but I think that's an alsa module. So I think I've got alsa, but I'm afraid to install alsa-utils in case I break something. /icebiker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kernel-source and kernel-header?

2004-11-01 Thread Icebiker
s added to the grub boot menu. I thought that was pretty darned intelligent. /icebiker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT, dvd player playable jpeg pictures

2004-10-28 Thread Icebiker
1500x1000 pixels. I have to say, I've only tried it once. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Tong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 14:31 Subject: Re: OT, dvd player playable jpeg pictures On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:51

Re: OT, dvd player playable jpeg pictures

2004-10-28 Thread Icebiker
cking around. Secondly, the displayed pictures were extremely contrasty and lacking in a lot of detail. In all, I thought it was pretty unusable. A more expensive dvd player might resolve some of the issues. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Tong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread Icebiker
What an enabling piece of information! Got a huge /home partition now. Thanks - icebiker - Original Message - From: "Mark Lanett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 14:26 Subject: Re: Formatting an unused partition :: I

Re: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-20 Thread Icebiker
d get wiped (yeah I know, backup)? The mkfs and mkfs.ext3 man pages don't say anything about this. I'm betting that it's probably safe, but haven't been able to get up the nerve to go for it. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PR

Re: how to see a .pps file with linux ?

2004-10-20 Thread Icebiker
Openoffice works pretty well, though I've never asked much of it. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Gerard Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:22 Subject: how to see a .pps file with linux ? Hello, I&

Re: Secure Password Storage

2004-10-14 Thread Icebiker
there are infrastructure issues, but it really works for me. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Jacob S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 19:18 Subject: Secure Password Storage Ok, so I know that using key based authentica

Re: How does a linux dhcp client know it's name?

2004-10-11 Thread Icebiker
- Original Message - From: "Rob Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 00:45 Subject: Re: How does a linux dhcp client know it's name? icebiker wrote: Hi, : snip original post : What is in /etc/hostname ? Usu

Re: How does a linux dhcp client know it's name?

2004-10-09 Thread icebiker
Alec Berryman wrote: begin quotation of icebiker on 2004-10-09 18:24:56 -0400: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ hostname -i hostname: Unknown host This (along with its omission in your email) leads me to believe you've overlooked /etc/hosts. 'man hosts' for more information.

How does a linux dhcp client know it's name?

2004-10-09 Thread icebiker
seem to know about /etc/hostname, which I thought was the way a Linux system named itself. So, I'm missing something here. Is there a way to tell the resolver to look /etc/hostname? How does this stuff get tied together? /icebiker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly

2004-10-06 Thread icebiker
some KVM vendors' offerings and the support databases, but none of them really address this issue. I can't even get a sense of whether more expensive units handle this better. I guess I'll just have to be careful. I'll research gpm, I wasn't aware of it. thanks - ic

Re: Making my mouse wheel work on the fly

2004-10-06 Thread icebiker
Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:48:49 -0400 icebiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I've got an XP and a Debian sarge system sharing the keyboard/mouse through a D-Link DKVM-2 KVM switch. The problem is that when I switch from Linux to XP and then back again, my mouse wheel st

Making my mouse wheel work on the fly

2004-10-06 Thread icebiker
27;m quite lucky in that my mouse is otherwise well behaved (i.e. not erratic). Is there a utility I can run to reinitialize the mouse/mouse driver? I can live without the mouse wheel, but it would be nice if I could get it back without bouncing X. /icebiker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Icebiker
Doh, you are absolutely right, I meant XP. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Marc Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 18:06 Subject: Re: parallel port using lots of CPU On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:42:30PM -0400,

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Icebiker
. I imagine it's the same for Linux. Your printer appears to support USB, why not give it a whirl? /icebiker - Original Message - From: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday,

Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

2004-08-30 Thread Icebiker
they're called) set me up with my .ca in a couple of days. This was about 18 months ago. I dunno why it was so easy, maybe coz I'm in the Toronto phone book. /icebiker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loading kernel modules at startup

2004-08-09 Thread Icebiker
ction? In any event, I'm much further ahead than I was before. Thanks. /icebiker - Original Message - From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 02:00 Subject: Re: Loading kernel modules at startup > In