Re: Scrollpoint mouse scrolling

2007-01-21 Thread Skylar Thompson
ngled machines without PS/2 ports, but it makes me happy. :) -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Scrollpoint mouse scrolling

2007-01-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
t; Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection I've tested this on a computer running Windows, and it does work as I expect. If I push up on either side of the rocker, the scroll motion is up, and if I press down the scroll motion is down. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: initrd

2006-09-28 Thread Skylar Thompson
After flogging this for a while, I traced it down to my cpio format. I was using the old POSIX format. I switched to newc, and things worked fine. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

initrd

2006-09-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
but then promply kernel panics, saying that it is unable to mount root. Is this the accepted way to generate initrds without mkinitrd? I'd rather not have a system running the same kernel version as the project is going to be, although I could do this in a VM if I had to. -- -- Skylar Tho

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
using? -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
kernel, the module comes with it, so no effort at all. I have no experience with Toshiba laptops, but I had no problems getting the 2.6 modules loaded on the HP and Dell laptops. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
Skylar Thompson wrote: Norbert Gruener wrote: It's kernel 2.4.27 which is part of Sarge. Weird. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop with a Broadcom 4400 running Debian Woody with the v2.4. I'll see if I can take a look at the boot sequence when she's in town next week, and let

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-15 Thread Skylar Thompson
don't remember seeing it, but I've never looked for it either. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-15 Thread Skylar Thompson
booting? > >This behavior makes it impossible to detect if I am hooked to the >network and automatically startup my ethernet interface. > >Any help or any pointer would be appreciated. > >Thank you in advance > > Weird. What kernel are you running? I have a Dell Powere

Re: Which IMAP server should I use

2004-07-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
/imap/). If you want more complex (and configurable) setups, do with Courier or Cyrus. It all really depends on what you want to do. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ pgpl9MSYEYPNW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Name server choices?

2004-07-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:20:08PM -0700, Scott Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:33:23PM -0500, Skylar Thompson wrote: > [...] > > BIND 9, unlike previous version, is actually quite stable and secure. I'd > > recommend transitioning to that rather than to oth

Re: Name server choices?

2004-07-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
. BIND 9, unlike previous version, is actually quite stable and secure. I'd recommend transitioning to that rather than to other DNS servers, because (AFAIK) it is much more full-featured than any other OSS DNS server. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ pgpgJtpGPodXl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Debian-User] NTP problem

2004-07-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
tnames as ntp.isp.net, ntp1.isp.net, time.isp.net, or clock.isp.net exist. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ pgpom4O65wJGp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 3 gigs enough?

2004-06-21 Thread Skylar Thompson
l, you should be fine. The real disk hogs (GNOME and KDE) are also CPU and memory hogs, so you'll probably want to stay away from them. Go with something small as a window manager, like IceWM, XFce, or VTWM and you'll be fine. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earl

Re: Window Managers

2004-06-21 Thread Skylar Thompson
can find anything > on this subject I would take a look at http://www.xwinman.org and check out your options. I find XFce4 (http://www.xfce.org) and VTWM suit my needs fine. They run very well on all the machines that I regularly work on, which range from a 133MHz 486 with 32MB of RAM all the w

Re: Proxy question

2004-06-21 Thread Skylar Thompson
r whatever, to > detect if an incoming packet is a proxy request? > > Hope you understand :) Not AFAIK. If it's on a different port than port 80 (eg 1080, 3128, 8080), you might be able to assume it's a proxy request, but otherwise it's identical to a normal HTTP packet.

Re: Backup system!

2004-06-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:52:53AM +0530, Vijaya wrote: > Hi all, > Could anyone suggest a good backup software or a method to backup data from > Linux and Windows systems automatically... Check out Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/). -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: corrupt isos

2004-06-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
; thank you The ISOs should have MD5 checksums with them. Run md5sum on the ISOs and check the values you get from that against the MD5SUMS file. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ pgp7VDeZwiibj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing potato from remote CDs

2001-09-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
ill have to disable the disabled telnet (read: enable telnet) in /etc/xinetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d/telnet. -- --Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) `All that is gold does not glitter/Not all who wander are lost The old that is strong does not wither/Deep roots are not reached by the frost >From