Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Stephen Powell : > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:08:11 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote: >> 2011/10/2 Stephen Powell : >>> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>>> i still get quirky about color instead of colour or centre vs c

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Hilco Wijbenga : > On 2 October 2011 08:47, consul tores wrote: >> Canadians use "native" and USians "indians" i think; we say >> "indigenous"; and in general American natives or ancestors. > > Actually, no, we (Canadians) call them

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Lisi : > On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:47:40 consul tores wrote: >> i am American too. > > Quite, I was acknowledging that!  As I say, I once spent 6 weeks in America > (Chile, in fact) but have never been to North America, though I did once have > an ambition to go

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Lisi : > On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote: >> i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only >> for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of >> Geography. it is the same with North Amer

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Stephen Powell : > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:22, Doug wrote: >>> (That's the American placement of the comma before the close-quote; the >>> Brits do it opposite.) >> >> I could never understand that, seems like wrong nes

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Stephen Powell : > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wrote: >> >> It's all rather simple really! >> English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect. > > Whether "American English" is a language or a dialect is not > the point.  The point is that the same words so

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/1 Scott Ferguson : > On 02/10/11 11:36, John Hasler wrote: >> Stephen Powell writes: >>> And I didn't know that the British sense existed.  Amazing, isn't it? >>> Two cultures divided by a common language. >> >> Look up the British meanings of "fanny" and "stuffed". > Fanny seems to move fr

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/1 Lisi : > On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote: >> In England, >> "tea" means a full meal. > > Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate.  I don't know how the numbers > pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is both regional > and class based.

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-11 Thread consul tores
Adding Slackware test information: bash-4.1# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 byte

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-11 Thread consul tores
2011/9/11 Scott Ferguson : > On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote: >> >> 2011/9/10 yudi v: > > >>> >>> -- >>> Kind regards, >>> Yudi >> >> I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try >> cfdisk

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread consul tores
2011/9/10 yudi v : > d-i uses parted (partman). >> >> I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors >> with partitions - but using the udeb from Wheezy fixed that for me - it >> could be fixed in a previous point release, and, it could be just a DOS >> partition table issu

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-09 Thread consul tores
2011/9/9 yudi v : > I would simply request for a hard disk replacement, >> >> you will rest more relaxed after that :-) > > I will definitely ask for a replacement as it's still under warranty but I > want to make sure it's not a software issue. > -- > Kind regards, > Yudi Have you tried # parted

Re: installing root-kit checkers

2011-09-09 Thread consul tores
2011/9/9 Lisi : > We seem to be being told that nowadays we should run a root-kit checker.  The > kernel exploit would indeed seem to suggest it.  I have tried rkhunter and > found that I couldn't make head or tail of it.  I then read that, for a > root-kit checker to work properly, you should inst

Re: OT questions about noscript and notscript

2011-08-21 Thread consul tores
2011/8/19 Scott Ferguson : > On 20/08/11 03:50, consul tores wrote: >> 2011/8/18 Scott Ferguson : >>> On 19/08/11 04:01, Paul E Condon wrote: >>>> I'm curious about the differences between noscript and notscript. > > > >>> >> >> So

Re: OT questions about noscript and notscript

2011-08-19 Thread consul tores
2011/8/18 Scott Ferguson : > On 19/08/11 04:01, Paul E Condon wrote: >> I'm curious about the differences between noscript and notscript. >> I ask here because this is the list on which I discovered the >> existence of (and the need for) these add-ons to web browsers. > > > NotScripts uses a uniqu

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-30 Thread consul tores
2011/7/30 Stephen Powell : > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:34:44 -0400 (EDT), Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: >> >> That's a pity. IIRC, lilo used to save that under /boot. > > It still does.  And lilo is still available.  And I still use it. > Unfortunately, it's too late for the OP in this case. > > -- >  .''

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread consul tores
2011/7/4 yazicivo : > Hi, > > I have an XFS partition, which is I have never used XFS, but it could be helpfull! If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. If you are not using Lilo, testdisk could be the appropriated tool. If nothing help, then you might use a hex editor as shawn mentioned. I am

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread consul tores
2011/6/24 Brian : > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well.  But I suspect >> most people will be content with the simpler configuration options >> offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-grub. > > That's m

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription

2011-06-11 Thread consul tores
2011/6/11 Anthony Campbell : > On 11 Jun 2011, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> Maybe it is time for big revolution in English language of XXI century >> - the revival of pronoun "one". >> For one thing, I'm still encountering pronoun "one", and it is quite >> often, so I wouldn't be so hasty to this judgm

Debian Squeeze Security (Iceweasel)

2011-05-16 Thread consul tores
Hello I have been tracing this problem for days, and at the end; the Squeeze laptop which i use to remote/local administration is sending www signal to web servers every time that i open Iceweasel to do other things. It does not matter if i connect by ssh or not during that session. Every time use

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread consul tores
2011/5/11 Andrei Popescu : > > I think of spammers like terrorist, abusing the internet. If defending > from them makes the internet less free then they won. > >> If preventing non subscribers from sending email is too big of a step >> you can always automatically moderate emails from non subscribe

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-03 Thread consul tores
2011/5/3 wolf python london : > On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote: >> Hello >> >> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and >> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use >> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios

multiboot grub2

2011-05-03 Thread consul tores
Hello i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can not recognize OpenBSD (what is not a problem), and it recognize Slackware, but can not start it. it only

Re: When installing from a CD image How to Gain Internet Access using a router and What is to Enter as Proxy information?

2011-04-18 Thread consul tores
2011/4/17 Varuna Seneviratna : > I am trying to install from a CD image of 180MB, On the way I am asked to > select a Mirror and also a proxy, I am Using a router to connect to the > Internet. I  selected a mirror and left the proxy information blank.The > Installation process displays a message th

Re: LoXneRTbyKmq user?

2011-03-15 Thread consul tores
2011/3/15 Hans-J. Ullrich : >> Hello list > >> Does somebody know what this "LoXneRTbyKmq" user in shadow file is? > >> Thanks > >> -- >>           Consultores Agropecuarios. >> Administracion, Produccion, Capacitacion. > > Hello, > > maybe you looked within X and using a command like su -, sux, su

Re: LoXneRTbyKmq user?

2011-03-14 Thread consul tores
2011/3/14 Leandro DUTRA : > 2011/3/14 consul tores : >> >> Does somebody know what this "LoXneRTbyKmq" user in shadow file is? > > No.  There should not be such an user.  What about running chkrootkit? chkrootkit= nothing rkhunter= nothing iptraf= nothing tiger= n

LoXneRTbyKmq user?

2011-03-14 Thread consul tores
Hello list Does somebody know what this "LoXneRTbyKmq" user in shadow file is? Thanks --            Consultores Agropecuarios. Administracion, Produccion, Capacitacion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Please help

2011-03-04 Thread consul tores
2011/3/3 Hal Vaughan : > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> In <20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>, Jason Hsu wrote: >>> I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your >>> first distro.  Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 5

Re: Proper way to restart network after modem/router reset

2011-02-13 Thread consul tores
2011/2/13 Joe Riel : > Occasionally I need reset the external cable modem/router that connects > our home machines to the internet.   After doing so, I frequently have > to reboot my machine to establish a connection.  Occasionally I've > been successful just doing Hello Joe I usually do not do a

Re: bug in the install

2011-02-13 Thread consul tores
2011/2/13 Wolodja Wentland : > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 04:39 -0500, Travis wrote: >> any ways, do an install with  b43 wireless card and don't feed it >> firmware.  this breaks the network and then the updates and then the >> voltial line in apt sources.  in other words if someone attempts to >> in

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread consul tores
2011/2/8 Geronimo : > Hello, >> The release notes are a hand-holding document.  If something is important >> enough to be a pitfall during the upgrade process, it needs to be described >> in the *upgrade* section of the release notes.  "implied" in the "what's >> new" doesn't cut it. > > Sorry, but

Re: Realtek 8185 chipset problem

2011-01-30 Thread consul tores
2011/1/30 Paul Scott : > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sb, 29 ian 11, 19:02:38, Paul Scott wrote: >> > >>I'm attaching a dmesg because this might help me get the Orinoco >> > >>Silver working again for >> > >>secured networks with a newer kernel.  It works fi

RTL-8187L problem after installation.

2011-01-29 Thread consul tores
Hello all I am having a really weird problem with my RTL-8187L usb card, it is used during the installation without any problem, but after that, it stop working correctly, it stops connection and shows as if it were connected! i have to down it and up it, again and again. I did a test with older

Re: chips i3/i5 support

2010-11-08 Thread consul tores
2010/11/8 Andrei Popescu : > On Lu, 08 nov 10, 17:07:38, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> drivers, install Sid/"Unstable", then add "Experimental", I run >> "aptitude -t experimental " after each normal update & upgrade. > > Why don't you just pin experimental to something higher than 100? > > Regards, > And

chips i3/i5 support

2010-11-07 Thread consul tores
Hello I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14, which has 1 Intel Core i3 (330) or maybe 4. I installed Lenny amd64 having a few different problems, but i would like to install Squeeze on it. My question is, what should be the most suitable linux kernel for this laptop? Please tell me what specific infor

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-24 Thread consul tores
2010/10/23 consul tores : > 2010/10/23 David Van Mosselbeen : > >> Hi, >> Kinda late to reply on this, but yah... >> >> My wife own a Compaq laptop with Windows 7 preinstalled. A few days ago i >> have installed Debian testing (the daily netinst cd) on it

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread consul tores
2010/10/12 Ogya Chief : > Hi All, > > I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition > and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's > partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the > Windows partition? > > Kind regards, >

Re: Debian alternative kernels [OT]

2010-05-28 Thread consul tores
2010/5/27 thib : > consul tores wrote: >> If, we consider that the environment has changed; we have Red Hut, >> Ubuntu and Suse; pushing to include every thing into the kernel, what >> is the best for them, then we have a huge kernel; which is not the >> best for olde

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread consul tores
2010/5/26 thib : > consul tores wrote: >> We have lost the posibility to install from disquette, we have to add >> an initrd, SElinux have been added by default because of Linus, Linus >> kernels define what to do, and ad infinitum. > > Linux is still extremely tweakable

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread consul tores
2010/5/25 thib : > consul tores wrote: >> >> Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; maybe it is time to >> seriously  think about Debian kernels! > > Madness. > > -t Could you say why? We have lost the posibility to install from disquette, we have to

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread consul tores
2010/5/24 : > From:   consul tores > Date:   Mon, 24 May 2010 15:32:49 -0700 >> Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; > > For curiosity, what distribution does he use? I am not sure, but i read somewhere, that he usualy used Red Hut. >> maybe it is time

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread consul tores
2010/5/22 Sven Joachim : > On 2010-05-23 07:47 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> No, resist forced conformity.  This is Linux.  We have multiple choice with >> everything else, so we should darn well have our choice of boot loader. > > You're welcome to work on lilo so that can cope with the increas

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread consul tores
2010/5/9 Dotan Cohen : > On 8 May 2010 22:35, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/5/8 Dotan Cohen : >>> What useless information? I'd like to fix that if you will be more specific. >> >> Who are you figuring out you are, man? >> > A KDE contributor who is

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread consul tores
2010/5/8 Dotan Cohen : > On 8 May 2010 15:32, consul tores wrote: >> the windows are absolutely useless, i can not >> use many, they have all kind of useless information; > What useless information? I'd like to fix that if you will be more specific. Who are you fi

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread consul tores
2010/5/7 godo : > >> Please do not judge KDE4 by not being a copy of KDE 3.5. If that was the >> case, there would be no point in making a new version anyway. The >> important question is whether KDE lacks functionality that should be >> there (this includes, but is not limited to, functionality pr

Re: ssh warning!

2010-03-24 Thread consul tores
2010/3/24 Berni Elbourn : > consul tores wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I do not want to create panic, but playing with my Lenny Laptop, >> against Squezee and ArchLinux; i got (literaly) access without >> password. >> Conditions: >> New installatio

ssh warning!

2010-03-23 Thread consul tores
Hello I do not want to create panic, but playing with my Lenny Laptop, against Squezee and ArchLinux; i got (literaly) access without password. Conditions: New installation in my testing box, from Lenny i was ready to edit sshd_config after intallation, and i opened a console, i did ssh r...@ip, w

Re: ssh

2010-03-07 Thread consul tores
2010/3/6 Tzafrir Cohen : > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:36:10AM -0800, consul tores wrote: >> hello >> >> If i do # ssh from Lenny against Slackware or OpenBSD, then i get only >> 1 key, but if i do # ssh from Lenny to Lenny, then i receive 2 keys! >> It happens when

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread consul tores
2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/3/5 David Goodenough : >> > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: >> >> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : >> >> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrot

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-05 Thread consul tores
2010/3/5 David Goodenough : > On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : >> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: >> >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. >> >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) >

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread consul tores
2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) >> ^Inative  capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) > > Is this a PATA drive, and from there, has a jumper on the back for LBA48? >

Re: DNS (BIND)primario y secundario

2010-03-03 Thread consul tores
2010/3/3 consul tores : > 2010/3/3 Stan Hoeppner : >> Camaleón put forth on 3/3/2010 8:50 AM: >>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:57:06 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>>> Are all Cubans this stupid?  Cosme, again, this is the _ENGLISH_ Debian >>>> Us

ssh

2010-03-02 Thread consul tores
hello If i do # ssh from Lenny against Slackware or OpenBSD, then i get only 1 key, but if i do # ssh from Lenny to Lenny, then i receive 2 keys! It happens when i am outside of my lan which has a router DLink as gateway, when i test it at inside, i recieve only 1 key for Slackware, OpenBSD and Le

Re: an old problem is back.

2010-02-18 Thread consul tores
2010/2/18 Frank McCormick : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:42:22 -0500 > Mark Neidorff wrote: > >> On Thursday 18 February 2010 06:38 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: >> > My syslog is filling up with these messages again. It seems to >> > have happened befo

Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

2010-02-06 Thread consul tores
2010/2/6 Stan Hoeppner : > What is your real question?  What are your goals in choosing a kernel?  If you > feel one might be better for you than another, then state the _reasons_ why > you > are on this "kernel searching" mission. > > -- > Stan I can not know what this person is asking for, but

2.6.32-trunk + Hardware failure.

2010-02-02 Thread consul tores
The Story: I did a new installation of Squeeze on a Compaq Presario V3019US using kernel 2.6.30, then it came an upgrade to 2.6.32-trunk; after that my wireless a PCI Express Minicard 802.11B/G HS - Broadcom 4311BG suddenly died. The OS gave me a message related to eec or ecc before it happen, and

Re: Konqueror browser very slow

2010-01-30 Thread consul tores
2010/1/30 Lisi : > On Friday 29 January 2010 17:11:50 consul tores wrote: >> It is why i asked in that way, it looks like an inherent part of >> Konqueror in Lenny-Kde! > > No - it must be something in your particular set-up.  I am running Lenny and > KDE and although I ha

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:13:43 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote: >> you, can not know if it is correct, just i can. > > Yes, of course.  But you *told* me that it was correct.  At least that > was my interpretation of what you meant when you said >

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:55:06 -0500, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : >>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:23 -0500, consul tores wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I am having a similar problem with a Celeron 800,

Re: Konqueror browser very slow

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/29 Camaleón : > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:19:42 -0800, consul tores wrote: > >> Does somebody know why Konqueror browser works very fast after >> installation, but after rebooting the system, its behaviour is very, >> very slow? >> I did not change defaults Lenn

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/28 Account for Debian group mail : > > Hello, > > On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS > root-boot file system. > > The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a Lenny > upgrade. But I cannot get grub to install on this XFS boot file syst

Konqueror browser very slow

2010-01-28 Thread consul tores
Hello all Does somebody know why Konqueror browser works very fast after installation, but after rebooting the system, its behaviour is very, very slow? I did not change defaults Lenny configuration. francisco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: need help on config openvpn in etch

2010-01-18 Thread consul tores
2010/1/18 Long Wind : > I am in China > I want to bypass government censorship > so I install openvpn > but can't figure out how to use it, > though I have read many documentation > > THANKS! shortly: 1. instal it. 2. creating keys. Read the readme at /usr/share/doc/openvpn, and man openvpn 3. wri

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-15 Thread consul tores
2010/1/9 s. keeling : > Tom H : >> >>  What is your 40... entry? > > Generic chainloader +1 stuff: > >   # OpenBSD 4.6 on /dev/hda1 >   title         OpenBSD 4.6 >   root          (hd0,0) >   savedefault >   makeactive >   chainloader +1 > This is on menu.lst: title OpenBSD rootnoveri