Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
sync usage) might be a big win. I'm sure ZFS is a little quicker than that given that it's not done in perl. -- Tim Connors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.211611080.5...@dirac.rather.puzzling.org

Re: [OT] How to subscribe to this list but disasble receiving the mail?

2006-03-28 Thread Tim Connors
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:15:01 +0100: Hello Adam! The stapler is behind you! > On 2006-03-25, S. Keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I asked this of the list masters. They say just unsubscribe. > > > >> The first time you post to linux.debian.user, you shoul

Re: Poster to this lists email address not obfuscated? If so it makes this list a heaven for spam bots...:-(

2006-03-17 Thread Tim Connors
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:40:14 -0800: > Hex Star wrote: > > > Hi, I've noticed that in the archive of this list, the posts I made > > publicly contain my full email address instead of it being obfuscated > > like on other lists (e.g. they change email addresse

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:16:45 -0800: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote: > > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe > > as a *poster* as [EMAIL PROTECTED], while receiving > > the posts as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:56:25 -0800 (PST): > Tim Connors said: > > And I get 4 easily > > detected spam/erroneous subscribe messages in one page of headers. > > Since I go through the list with basically my hand on the

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:54:25 -0800: > Anand Kumria wrote: > > It is because the listmasters, of which I am one, > > Good, finally a name to go with this idiocy. Anand Kumria, clueless > list > manager. That's a good way to get your bogus opinions across

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:31:39 -0500: > In this case, there could be other solutions. For example, where do > people get the list address? If they find it on Debian web pages, it > would be possible to set up a form with a CGI script to allow > submitting an

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Tim Connors
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:46:38 -0800: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Because subscribing to the list *is* a barrier, and > > *will* prevent a good number of people from asking their questions. > > No, it isn't. It's called being responsible. > > > Open posting

Re: [OT]

2006-03-09 Thread Tim Connors
Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:55:43 -0600: > Sorry, I don't know anything about your problem, but you might get more help > with a more descriptive subject line. And you, conversely, may want to reply with context :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Connors
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:48:04 -0500: > Now for some reason, firefox remembers only one application per file > extension. For example, let's say, it knows to open pdf files in xpdf. > Now if I want to change it to acroread, I have to go through the > fi

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Tim Connors
L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:33:01 +: > I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times > system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. > In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various > points of time sequentially

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-15 Thread Tim Connors
Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:20:55 +: > --Sig_vfNrq=Y2HfpoNPqYUWCRL9. > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:09:30 +0100 > Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > if

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread Tim Connors
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:59:39 -0500: > Brent Bailey wrote: > >ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X > > > >I seem to have two xservers on my system (apt-cache showpkg xserver-XFree86): > > > >6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 > >4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 > > > dunno about the current x

Re: Can't get 1153x864 resolution with 865 video and i810 driver

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Connors
"J. Van Lierde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:40:02 -0500: > My problem is that I cannot get xorg to give me 1152x864 resolution. > Xorg.0.log says there is "no mode of this name". I know the hardware can > do this because Windows doesn't have a problem with this. Sounds like m

Re: openMosix vs openSSI

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Connors
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:55:54 -0200: > Hi! > > I would like to know how compares openMosix and openSSI. Apparently both > of them do the (more or less) same thing inside a cluster... I had a very brief play with openmosix, but not openSSI, but my unders

Re: different resolution on notebook LCD and VGA

2006-01-31 Thread Tim Connors
Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:35:45 +: > Unless your notebook actually has two display adapters built in, > I very much doubt that you can do what you describe. > > The only options I have seen are > a. image displayed on LCD only > b. higher resolution image dis

Re: Firefox 1.5: middle-clicking URLs doesn't work now.

2006-01-29 Thread Tim Connors
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:25:34 GMT: > On 2006-01-29, Noah Dain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > type: "about:config" in the url input field and hit enter. > > > > in the "filter" field, type middle ... > Not quite but very close! I had to set "middlemouse.contentLoa

Re: xterm not dealing with long lines of typing correctly

2006-01-27 Thread Tim Connors
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:59:30 -0500: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 at 10:19:52 -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>Recently I've noticed my xterm's doesn't seem to be handling line wrapping > >>of > >>commands c

Re: xorg resolution problem in testing with

2006-01-22 Thread Tim Connors
"J. Van Lierde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:45:54 -0500: > Hi, > > I've got Debian testing running xserver-xorg on a system running the > Intel 82865 graphics controller. Dunno anything about this graphics card, but if this is a laptop, does the symptoms match up with anythin

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:26:16 -0500: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:10:21PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > I don't think there is a fixed limit glob buffer. Are you sure you > > are not confusing this with the amount of space bash is allowed to > >

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:47:03 +1100: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > >> > >> > >>Why on earth would you want to put ls in back

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Tim Connors
Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:05:42 +1100: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > >I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but > >can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in > >batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! > > > > > I ca

modelines in new Xorg: (Was Re: DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000)

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Connors
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:28 -0800: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:49:18 +1100 (EST) > Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > G'day all, > > > > I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have wo

DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Connors
G'day all, I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: > lspci -vvv ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsys

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > Or what about > > automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again > > (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing > > this)? > > Kinda defeats t

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Adam Aube wrote: > Will Ness wrote: > > > I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works > > except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very > > end it says: > > > > Error! > > Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > > I did some googling an

Re: OT: Either not Eighther [Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar]

2004-10-31 Thread Tim Connors
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:35:03 +: > > --BFVE2HhgxTpCzM8t > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:35:45PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Sun, Oct

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? - raid

2004-10-31 Thread Tim Connors
Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:05:42 +0100: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:55:54 +1100, Tim Connors > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Get a proper client. That's what the References and In-reply-to > > headers are for. If your client

Re: TV recording (Was Re: nv vs. nvidia - video)

2004-10-31 Thread Tim Connors
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:05:16 -0700 (PDT): > > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Tim Connors wrote: > > Well, I could until I upgraded something, and now ffmpeg gives > > segfaults as soon as it starts recording. > > > > What reposit

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? - raid

2004-10-30 Thread Tim Connors
Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:07:58 +0200: > Hi, > > please don't change the subject too much during a conversation. It > breaks my threading and I would think that it does the same for quite > a number of other people too. Get a proper client. That's what the Refere

TV recording (Was Re: nv vs. nvidia - video)

2004-10-30 Thread Tim Connors
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:45:32 -0700 (PDT): > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > I wouldn't even attempt to watch a video on my K6-2 :) > > i have no problem watching/listening to *.mpg with mplayer/xine on my > k6-350 w/ 256MB of memory and 40+ xter

Re: Nvidia + 2.6 kernel

2004-10-05 Thread Tim Connors
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:56:37 -0400: > The rivafb module is incompatible with the nvidia driver; see > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian. This shouldn't be a > problem if you never load that module, but if it does ever get loaded > for some

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Tim Connors
Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:45:10 -0500: > I have installed sarge with kernel 2.4.26 on it -- no problem. Actually, > everything works fine on it, with KDE and Kmail and Mozilla-Firefox as my > choices (since that's what I'm using myself). The problem is that wit

Re: overriding files in nfs mount

2004-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
X-reply-to-bofh-messageid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Face: m+g#A-,3D0}Ygy5KUD`Hckr=I9Au;w${NzE;Iz!6bOPqeX^]}KGt=l~r!8X|W~qv'`Ph4dZczj*obWD25|2+/a5.$#s23k"0$ekRhi,{cP,CUk=}qJ/I1acc Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:41:46 +1000

Unidentified subject!

2004-09-10 Thread Tim Connors
X-reply-to-bofh-messageid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: overriding files in nfs mount In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Face: "/6m>=uJ8[yh+S{nuW'%UG"H-:QZ$'XRk^sOJ/XE{d/7^|mGK<-"*e>]JDh/b[aqj)MSsV`X1*pA~Uk8C:el[*2TT]O/eVz!(BQ8fp9aZ&RM=Ym&[EMA

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread Tim Connors
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:24:56 +1000: > Once upon a time Antonio Rodriguez said... > > When capturing a file from an url with the command > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile archive.rm -playlist url > > and other variants, by misplacing the option -rtsp-stream-

Re: Debian + ndiswrapper == Hair Loss!!

2004-09-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, overbored wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > > You didn't run out of disk in / or /boot, did you? > > Nope. This is a fresh Debian install on a 8GB partition. 1024 cyclinder limit? Does this one even apply anymore? Doubt it. Sorry, fresh out of i

Re: Debian + ndiswrapper == Hair Loss!!

2004-09-05 Thread Tim Connors
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, overbored wrote: > I posted to relevant lists. I tried to look for any rules on cross > posting but found none. > > The lines are correct; they were written by update-grub (I think; at > least that's what I ran). Anyway the exact problem was that it couldn't > mount the root FS

Re: Debian + ndiswrapper == Hair Loss!!

2004-09-05 Thread Tim Connors
overbored <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:22:10 -0700: > Hi all, What's Debian's policy on crossposting to debian groups? Probably not posting to all Debian's groups :) > Furthermore, if I try to boot into my new 2.6.8 kernel, I get a kernel > panic (starting with 'VFS:') about b

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Tim Connors
Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:12:47 +0200: > "Fortunatly, linux.* *IS* a bidirectional gateway, unless your news > server is misconfigured.". > > I'm confused. Is the gateway bidirectional and is almost everyone's news > server misconfigured? Is everyone doing som

Re: Periodic HD acctivity

2004-08-31 Thread Tim Connors
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:35:58 +0200: > > --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is > > _

Re: Repeated forced fsck--Bug?

2004-08-30 Thread Tim Connors
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:14:28 +0800: > David Baron wrote: > > >After the requesite number of mounts, fsck ran. The auto-run failed so I typed > >in fsck -f. This proceded to uneventfully check all the file systems. Fine. > > > >At next boot up, the non-roo

Re: clock suddenly slipping behind

2004-08-27 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:21:44PM +1000, Tim Connors insinuated: > > Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:34:17 -0700: > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > &g

Re: clock suddenly slipping behind

2004-08-26 Thread Tim Connors
Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:34:17 -0700: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > over the past few days, i've noticed that my system clock gets about > > ten to fifteen minutes slow over the course of a day. this is really > > weird!

Re: can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"

2004-08-20 Thread Tim Connors
Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:53:16 -0400: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:01, Roel Schroeven wrote: > > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Aug 20, Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > du.au> wrote: > > >>Unfortunately, l

Re: can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"

2004-08-19 Thread Tim Connors
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:43:22 +0200: > On Aug 20, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose one is supposed to put both Message-ID's into the References > > header if one follows-up. > No. If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* gro

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-09 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:48:43 -0600: > On 2004-08-08, Tim Connors penned: > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 8 Aug 2004 > > 10:05:12 -0600: > > > > I suggest that gmane is t

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > > >I personally think that policies on mailing lists shouldn't dictate > >things like reply-to (not that this one has been made publicly known > >other than through your rants), because some people prefer to get a > >reply-to (me, for example - reply-t

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:05:07 +1200: > I think a better way to measure the number of debian installs would be > for security.debian.org to count unique IP addresses. While lots of > people won't have popularity-contest installed, a large majority of them > wil

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 08 Aug 2004 15:07:19 -0700: > Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > >'ello, > > > >I use popcon on my relatively new Sarge box. Problem is that there is a > >bug preventing the mails from getting out to Debian's machines. So it > >could be that even people us

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 8 Aug 2004 10:05:12 -0600: > On 2004-08-08, Tim Connors penned: > >:0 a: > > .duplicates > > > > Do I really need to repeat for the hundredth time that I read > debian-user through gmane, ie, as a

Ntp in sid doing strange things?

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
I apt-get upgraded my sid box at home a bit over a week ago (with at least these time related packages installed: adjtimex, ntp, ntp-doc, ntp-server, ntp-simple, ntpdate), and then noticed that the box was losing quite a bit of time, without a reboot having happened at all recently. It was losing s

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:02:12 +0200: > William Ballard wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > > > >>Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of > >>them sends reports) > > > > > > Why would you

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-07 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 7 Aug 2004 20:28:08 -0600: x> I don't know if that would even have a prayer of working, but I don't > want to do anything malicious; I'm just sick of getting duplicates! .procmailrc: # if testing, don't do duplicate test # avoid duplicate messa

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

2004-08-05 Thread Tim Connors
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:39:52 +0800: > Some years ago I used to boot off a Quantum LPS 170. It had some more > stuff on it, probably /tmp. > > It died and managed to hang a couple of process. > > I manged to reconfigure the system without taking it down,

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

2004-08-05 Thread Tim Connors
Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:13:42 -0500: > Hmm. So, the general consensus is that it's not a problem; and it > certainly doesn't seem to affect interactivity or performance at all. It's > my home box, not a server or anything, and it normally has very low loads,

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

2004-08-04 Thread Tim Connors
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:34:03 +0800: > Tim Connors wrote: > >Oh - and the waiting 5 seconds for your bash *shell* to echo a single > >character keypress. . > > At present I'm working from home by dialup. I frequently run gvi

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

2004-08-03 Thread Tim Connors
Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:03:12 +1000: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig162A5A009C607900848B2DE4 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > Hello ever

Re: CMOS battery

2004-08-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Bertrand wrote: > Hi, > > > At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the > > health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called this > > program, and it gave a few levels like "battery healthy", and "battery > > poor" (maybe it queried /dev/rtc or

Re: CMOS battery

2004-08-02 Thread Tim Connors
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:11:08 -0700: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:46:23PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the > > health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called thi

CMOS battery

2004-08-02 Thread Tim Connors
At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called this program, and it gave a few levels like "battery healthy", and "battery poor" (maybe it queried /dev/rtc or looked at the memory location where cmos is). Was I dreaming

Permissions for console devices

2004-08-01 Thread Tim Connors
I have a need for a console device (/dev/tty11) to be chmod 666. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any file where I can set these permissions, other than /dev/MAKEDEV. So If I change the perms manually, upon next upgrade, debian helpfully resets my perms, and my app breaks. What is the acce

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Tim Connors
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:36:34 -0500: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:08PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > > I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is > > ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it never warned me of immanent destruction so I was > > very concerned.

Re: Cups can't start with error 98

2004-07-27 Thread Tim Connors
CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:56:44 -0600: > I believe I'm starting to know more about CUPS than I really want to. > If the following solves your problem, we both need to RTFM better ;-) > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:09:56PM +

Re: Cups can't start with error 98

2004-07-26 Thread Tim Connors
CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:56:12 -0600: > I don't see any answers so I'll try (not really good with CUPS though): > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 05:52:29PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > I haven't used cups in a while, and tried to

Cups can't start with error 98

2004-07-24 Thread Tim Connors
I haven't used cups in a while, and tried to today. It fails at startup, with error code 98: E [24/Jul/2004:17:39:06 +1000] StartListening: Unable to bind socket for address c0a80102:631 - Address already in use. c0a80102==192.168.1.2==the box I am trying to start cups from That was fair enough

Re: What's this mounted temporary drectory? /tmp/autoKVio9R

2004-07-23 Thread Tim Connors
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:41:36 +0300 (EEST): > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Ryo Furue wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I recently found the following: > > $ df -k > > [...] > > /tmp/autol8wP90 37483560 2742148 32837312 8% /tmp/autoKVio9R > > $ > > which I'

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-23 Thread Tim Connors
Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:44:34 +0200: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:24:01PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > I second that recommendation. I always prefer to have passwords with > > the following features: > > > > Minimum of 8 characters > > At least 1 capital l

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread Tim Connors
Mathieu Ducharme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:33:48 -0400: > I'm pretty sure dictionary attack also look for this. (?) > > Use other characters that will make the word absolutely not dictionar- related > > x[([EMAIL PROTECTED])~(w0rD)]x > > Still as easy to remember (longer to

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Tim Connors
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:27:58 +0800: > H. S. wrote: > > Any suggestions? Or any alternate methods? Then there is also the > > option of using a Windows programs to do this. But I am familiar with > > those. > > Unscientifically proven: a destructive badbl

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-29 Thread Tim Connors
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:52:17 +0200: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:22:12PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:45:20PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > > > ppower4 (for incremental build of pages

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-28 Thread Tim Connors
"Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:04:19 +0100: > I used LaTeX way back in 1991 and found it pretty easy to learn and use. The > results blew the pants off anything else at the time, and I suspect would > still blow the pants off anything windoes could muster today. OK, it's not

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-28 Thread Tim Connors
"Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:04:19 +0100: > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", > > > as he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that > > > latex thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some > > > reading

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transis

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:54:55 +1000: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:04, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > > By far the most false-positive entries I have had are from > > > postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org an

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Tim Connors
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:58:38 -0700: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > A transistor dissipates heat when it is in the process of switching on > > or off - when it is fully on or fully off, there is ve

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-18 Thread Tim Connors
"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:22:43 -0400: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > ... > > and they do require more cpu, eye candy takes cpu power to draw (either > > real cpu or graphic card cpu, either way, battery power). > > What fraction of CPUs these days can switch to lo

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Tim Connors
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Michael B Allen wrote: > > Although, I hope you never do this on a machine you sysadmin where you > > have other people using it. > > > > I have to contend with a stupid SuSE system at work where the > > /etc/profile* scripts are so absolutely full of cruft > > Well we're not

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-17 Thread Tim Connors
Christian Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:54 +0200: > Hi, > > On 17.06.2004 15:40, Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL wrote: > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d > cat 98login-shell-settings > > # Debian specific environment settings > > source /etc/environment > > # Global settings just like

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Connors
Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:45:51 +1200: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:14, CaT wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} free > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > >

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Connors
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:14:37 +1000: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far > > > too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run. ymmv. > >

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-06-04 Thread Tim Connors
Tristan Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:53:23 +0100: > Then of course American English developed its own idioms and useage > patterns independently from those developed in the UK (eg pissed: in the > UK it means drunk, in the US it means angry). And in Australia, you have to

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-02 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:24:20 -0600: > On 2004-06-02, Tim Connors penned: > > > > If challenge response ever becomes ubiquitous, then spammers will > > trivially be able to verify the responses without providing t

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

2004-06-01 Thread Tim Connors
richard lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:36:59 -0400: > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:29, Tom Allison wrote: > [...] > > They are also a pain in the neck when you get a CR sent to a > > mailing list. > > > > But most importantly, and this is from personal experience here, > > they

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-26 Thread Tim Connors
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 26 May 2004 22:34:19 -0700: > Prolly something to do with the commies :-) I didn't even know "In God > We Trust" was added to the money in the 50s, just thought it was always > like that. No doubt the commies. Incidentally, do American's associa

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-26 Thread Tim Connors
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 26 May 2004 10:47:35 -0700: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:36:48PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this > > That's poetical language. Plus, it's half the time of the way back. > >

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-26 Thread Tim Connors
cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 25 May 2004 19:50:18 +1200: > And in English (I mean 'British English', though that term always strikes me > as tautological if not oxymoronic) Don't get me started on wenglish. I was about to submit a very angry bugreport that my dictionary changed to American

Re: Another shell scripting question

2004-05-21 Thread Tim Connors
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 21 May 2004 01:39:55 +0200: > > --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > also sprach Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.05.20.2126 +=

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Tim Connors
Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 20 May 2004 21:39:35 +: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:25:24PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: > > And about the idea that Bill Gates floated out there, about solving a > > computer puzzle that would require 10 seconds or so of CPU time to send > > the

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-18 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Because all software sucks. And if it doesn't the hardware sucks. And > > if *it* doesn't, then the firmware must

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-18 Thread Tim Connors
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 17 May 2004 22:37:44 -0700: > dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd venture to guess: > > We're sorry, but we can not presently justify the costs of maintaining > > a Debian port. Perhaps if one of our larger customers express an > > interest in it

Re: suddenly only root can login -- ANSWER

2004-05-12 Thread Tim Connors
Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 12 May 2004 12:51:32 -0700 (PDT): > I found the solution in a posting to lkml from 1998. > Somehow the permissions on the / directory had changed > to: rwxr-x--- > > They need to be: rwxr-xr-x > > Any ideas on what would cause the permissions on the /

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-03 Thread Tim Connors
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 3 May 2004 15:03:41 -0700: > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:55:40PM +0100, Michael Graham wrote: > > Clive wrote: > > > > > > I can't answer your question but what does gb localisation will give > > > you? I've installed firefox and haven't found any n

Re: mozilla 1.7 rc1

2004-05-01 Thread Tim Connors
hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 01 May 2004 06:27:08 -0500: > Hi! > > Mozilla 1.7 rc1 is out. > It says for new features: > > Linux GTK2 builds have improved support for OS themes. Great. So when are they going to start improving the speed? Furffu. Fscking goddam fscking theme

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-23 Thread Tim Connors
"Linux Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:27:14 -0400: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000__01C4287E.4AEC3180 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Sorry top poster for

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-23 Thread Tim Connors
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:11:02 -0700: > diego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > El jue, 22-04-2004 a las 08:52, Paul Johnson escribi=F3: > >> DO NOT USE XHOST! xhost is considered harmful, use google for a few > >> trillion reasons why. Just use ssh -C -X to get

Re: Xinerama across Network

2004-04-20 Thread Tim Connors
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:53:16 -0400: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > } Hi all, > } I'm looking for a way to see if its possible to have real Xinerama > } across the network some how. What I'm talking about is more than x2x or

Re: Emulating a dual monitor system over X?

2004-04-20 Thread Tim Connors
Brent Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:56:02 -0700: > Hello everyone. Like many on this list I'm sure, I end up being the > recipient of old computers that friends and family unload on me every > time the latest and greatest new thing comes out. A friend of mine just > gave me

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-20 Thread Tim Connors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Massey) said on Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:14:05 +1000: > want the very latest and are willing to sacrifice stability." Or > something like that. Explain what the release names mean more accurately, > rather than use new names that will still need explanation. And one thing that re

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-09 Thread Tim Connors
Frédéric Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:55:20 +0200: > > >That's to be expected. It's the framebuffer. It exists because it > >works better for some people. > > Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. > not really a 'must' but console looks

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