Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

> fun stuff RAID 1 is one strategy for getting 'faster' read going. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices (RAID) comes in various flavors. RAID 1 is a flavor where you take two disks of the same size and have the computer treat them as one disk. The computer mirrors the identical data onto b

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

MJ Inabnit wrote: > Greetings: > > I have read several opinions regarding AV for Gnu/Linux. The last one is Rick's > rant . However, the > information is dated. I want to thank everyone who took time to respond to this post. It was in

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

>From Roger Chrisman on Saturday, 2004-02-07 at 16:47:13 -0800: > > What command tells me most about my hardware? > > # lspci Better: lspci -vv Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:32:55PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: > > fun stuff > > RAID 1 is one strategy for getting 'faster' read going. > > Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices (RAID) comes in various flavors. > > RAID 1 is a flavor where you take two disks of the same size and have the >

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's - raid

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Roger Chrisman wrote: > > fun stuff > > RAID 1 is one strategy for getting 'faster' read going. http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/2329/fastrak66-14.html "its" linearly faster for reading ... but also linearly slower for writing :-) "it" is the proper raid

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 03:35:41PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >That's what procmail is for, though. > > No, procmail is what the tech demo mutt needs to act like a real mail > client. That's a deficiency in mutt. If I relied on the filtering in my MUA (if it had any),

Re:Knoppix is Not Debian

On Sunday 08 February 2004 01:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Re: Knoppix is Not Debian > From: Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:28:03PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > Once you do the HD installation, you have their, allbeit mixed, distro > > bas

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:52:27PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > With procmail, all the filtering is done before it hits my MUA, keeping > things nice and clean. That's what I'm saying...why limit yourself when you can make a simple move that makes i

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: > >The trouble is, you can't. If the list has changed the Reply-to header, > >it's thrown away what was there before. You could fall back to the From > >or Sender header, but that might not be where the sender reads

winmodem

On Saturday 07 February 2004 5:35 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: knip I think there are drivers available from Intel for your winmodem that can be compiles using the kernel-headers package. Go to to find more info. knip: should not this be linmodems.org ?? ch., stee

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +, Steve Hargreaves wrote: > Hi folks > > What would people recommend I start with (assume I'm a complete novice) that > will guide me through the basics of Linux (and more specifically, debian) > that I can get without trawling the web and spending se

Re: Problem getting sound to work

Hello Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:18:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: >>Mark Healey wrote: >>>On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:21:09 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >I have no sound. > >When I boot knoppix it uses v

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Re: nvidia driver compiling problem

Hello Steve Hargreaves (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2004 5:35 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> > I have installed the 2.4.24 kernel for i386 from www.backports.org >> > (I failed miserably trying to compile my own kernel), and since the >> > nvidia kernel module needs th

a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. (1) Which of the following should I have installed? $ apt-cache search "sensors|i2c" i2c-source - sources for drivers for the i2c bus libsensors2 - Libra

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Richard Hector wrote: If I relied on the filtering in my MUA (if it had any), it would get seriously screwed if I wanted to use more than one MUA against the same IMAP server or Maildir. I'd have to implement all the same filters in both. With procmail, all the filtering is done before it hits my

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Paul Johnson wrote: That's what I'm saying...why limit yourself when you can make a simple move that makes it way easier to switch MUAs when your tastes change? And when you're getting mail from a source that doesn't have procmail? We've gone over this dozens of times on this list. There are

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Richard Hector wrote: Sure you _could_ set the From: header to your work one, but that's arguably wrong, and I entirely sympathise with ISPs who don't allow it. How is i wrong? Past 5 years across 4 broadband connections to 3 ISPs I've never had to change my email address because I've never u

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 00:35): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>That's what procmail is for, though. > >No, procmail is what the tech demo mutt needs to act like a real mail >client. That's a deficiency in mutt. Nope, you could also use a *good* MDA instead of Procmail. Which shows why th

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Moin, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 10:52): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>That's what I'm saying...why limit yourself when you can make a simple >>move that makes it way easier to switch MUAs when your tastes change? > >And when you're getting mail from a source that doesn't have procmail? Why wou

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 00:33): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>OK, then why does TB still have more in common than OE than a real >>mail client? > >Depends on what you call a real mail client. I see TB having far more >in commong with Sylpheed-claws and kmail than lookout. Mutt, on t

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Thorsten Haude wrote: Nope, you could also use a *good* MDA instead of Procmail. Which shows why the modular Unix approach is much more powerful than any catch-all application. You're presuming 2 things. 1: The person has access to install a decent MDA on said machine. 2: The person has access

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Thorsten Haude wrote: Why would I care? Most systems don't use Procmail on outgoing mails, and even if they would, how would the receiver be affected? Who said anything about outgoing? I said clearly, getting mail from a system that does not have procmail. You know, that whole POP and IMAP t

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but now it's obsolete. Thorsten -- People who thinks quotes are witty are fucking morons. - turmeric pgp0.p

Re: High ASCII via ssh

Hi, * Sascha Andres wrote on 07.02.2004 (23:05): > How did you get the thread lines drawn correctly? I tried > several ssh clients on windows based machines, but I never > got them drawn correctly... Found the answer myself. Translation to latin-x helped to view correctly. -sa -- sa at programm

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Thorsten Haude wrote: Funny you see it that way. For years Mutt's feature list was copied to the other clients todo list almost verbatim. Funny? That would kind of be the definition of a tech. demo. "Look, this is neat and can do cool stuff but it is incapable of doing anything serious or i

installing .fon fonts

Hi! Is it possible to install font files, which has a ".fon" extension? When I try to add these fonts in kde with Fontinst, it says that is doesn't support this file type. Is there any other way to install these fonts? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:34:07AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thorsten Haude wrote: > >Funny you see it that way. For years Mutt's feature list was copied to > >the other clients todo list almost verbatim. > > Funny? That would kind of be the definition of a tech. demo. "Look, > this is nea

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:29): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>Nope, you could also use a *good* MDA instead of Procmail. Which shows >>why the modular Unix approach is much more powerful than any catch-all >>application. > >You're presuming 2 things. > >1: The person has access to instal

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Nano Nano wrote: You're making tons of statements that just apply to you. I like mutt. I can make it think like me. It doesn't feel like a box. Oh, I can get mutt to work but only with a few hours of work. The same amount of work that would take me maybe 20m on a complette client. --

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:34): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>Funny you see it that way. For years Mutt's feature list was copied to >>the other clients todo list almost verbatim. > >Funny? That would kind of be the definition of a tech. demo. "Look, >this is neat and can do cool stuf

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:44:57AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >You're making tons of statements that just apply to you. I like mutt. > >I can make it think like me. It doesn't feel like a box. > > Oh, I can get mutt to work but only with a few hours of work. The same >

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Thorsten Haude wrote: * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:29): 1: The person has access to install a decent MDA on said machine. 2: The person has access at ALL to configure said MDA in the first place. I assume that there is a MDA installed yes. Why? QMail, Sendmail, Exim and I believe Postfi

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Nano Nano wrote: www.dotfiles.com Even with dotfiles. The maintenance costs alone on keeping everything up to date in the mutt method is a preclusion. BTW, personally I settled on Wills .muttrc as a template. It was the most modular of the set at the time (~4 months ago) but even still it

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Thorsten Haude wrote: Do you suffer from cognitive dissonance? Don't you see how many people use Mutt and are quite happy with it? Do you think they get money to say so? No. But they suffer from cognitive dissonance in saying that mutt (and procmail...) are the end-all, be-all solution to all

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:32): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >I said clearly No you didn't. >getting mail from a system that does not have procmail. You know, >that whole POP and IMAP thing? I see. As soon as I *get* mail, I may filter it, don't I? Why would filter A be better than filt

Re: apt.debian.org server to compute dist-upgrade needs

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:53:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > [Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must go to > town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to install it. > > Sure, we could do apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or use apt-zip, but > that creates

Re: recommended reading?

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 09:38:41 +0100 Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +, Steve Hargreaves wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > What would people recommend I start with (assume I'm a complete > > novice) that will guide me through the basics of Linux (and

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:44): >Nano Nano wrote: >>You're making tons of statements that just apply to you. I like mutt. >>I can make it think like me. It doesn't feel like a box. > >Oh, I can get mutt to work but only with a few hours of work. The same >amount of work that w

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:57): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:29): >>>1: The person has access to install a decent MDA on said machine. >>>2: The person has access at ALL to configure said MDA in the first place. > >>I assume that there is a MDA installed ye

Re: apt.debian.org server to compute dist-upgrade needs

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:55:33 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:53:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > [Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must > > go to town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to > > install it. > > >

Re: recommended reading?

>From Steve Hargreaves on Sunday, 2004-02-08 at 02:54:53 +: > Hi folks > > OK - I admit it. I've been working with computers for over 20 years (IBM > mainframe, mini, micro(or PC as they are called, now), WinNT networks etc. > and an Amiga developer (not using C) - but this damn Linux busine

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Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Moin, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 12:04): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>Do you suffer from cognitive dissonance? Don't you see how many people >>use Mutt and are quite happy with it? Do you think they get money to >>say so? > >No. But they suffer from cognitive dissonance in saying that mutt (a

Re: a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and > Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. > I have successfully installed lmsensors, (using 2.2.23 and 2.4.24 kernels) and it works great

Re: apt.debian.org server to compute dist-upgrade needs

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:23:28 +, James Tappin wrote: > > Could be expensive though, I remember when I was using dialup, about > 1-hour/day connection at off-peak rates only cost only about £5 /month > less than I currently pay for ADSL 24 hours /day at 10 times the data > rate. > > James Hah

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:58:09AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: > >Sure you _could_ set the From: header to your work one, but that's > >arguably wrong, and I entirely sympathise with ISPs who don't allow it. > > How is i wrong? Well, it's not where you're sending from, is

Re: dhcpd trouble

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:40:50PM -0800, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Please let me know if you spot anything in the configs below. I am not sure about those - but have you set the necessary kernel options? that means you should have compiled the kernel with capabilites for dhcp. Unfortunately, I

Re: recommended reading?

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >>Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. > > Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but now > it's obsolete. > > > Thorsten Not by a

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:48:13AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: > >If I relied on the filtering in my MUA (if it had any), it would get > >seriously screwed if I wanted to use more than one MUA against the same > >IMAP server or Maildir. I'd have to implement all the same filter

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Richard Hector wrote: That's still filtering outside the MUA, right? How does that differ, in this context, from using procmail? Seive is configured through the client. Procmail is configured through a shell which isn't always present. (and please don't cc me on list posts) Sorry. I don

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 12:50): >On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >>>Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. >> >> Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but now >>

Re: RSS-Reader - toursst broken ?!

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:05AM +0800, Uwe Dippel said > Btw.: found and installed straw and liferea in the meantime. Both work, > but both are in need of polishing; with edges in usability, GUI, you name > it. If you can think of ways to improve them, I bet their authors would like to hear abo

Re: RSS-Reader - toursst broken ?!

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:52:28PM -0500, Andy Firman said > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:53:15AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > > > Anybody out there with a better alternative for RSS ? > > Yes in my opinion. Try this: > > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/rss2email/ > > RSS feeds come right into your em

Re: will php4 work in apache2 from .debs?

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 02:36:04PM -0500, Kevin Coyner said > > I alluded to this question in a different post, but since the subject > matter is a bit different, I'm asking the question here more directly: > > Will php4 run with Apache2 if both are installed from .debs? The Debian php4 package

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: > [...] the dvips command now prints. I'm glad it worked. > My plain text files print darker than my .ps files, and I did not see > anything in info dvips to suggest one could control that, probably > because this is an issue for the printer itself. But

Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

Hi all! The recent MS viruses has been bothersome for quite a few of us, I presume, because of the noise it creates. I have configured my Exim4 install to reject MS executables at SMTP-time, so I don't see a lot of the actual virus. But I suppose I get a few bounces, like everyone, because My

Re: recommended reading?

On Son, 2004-02-08 at 12:24, Conrad Newton wrote: > > OK - I admit it. I've been working with computers for over 20 years (IBM > > mainframe, mini, micro(or PC as they are called, now), WinNT networks etc. > One of the best books available, both on the web and in print is > Paul Sheer's "Rute U

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Son, 2004-02-08 at 04:57, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Never mind that the kernel can do 90% of this on its own, and a wonderful > first step should *always* be finding out why it HASN'T. > > People who write hdparm HOWTOs need to be hung up by their toenails. I've > yet to read one that tried to

Re: will php4 work in apache2 from .debs?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:08:16PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote.. > The Debian php4 package does not include support for apache2. Even if > it did work, though, it would only work in the rather boring > apache1-style modes; why is apache2 so compelling? It's not that it's so compelling, but I ha

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:37:38 +0100 Conrad Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Roger Chrisman on Saturday, 2004-02-07 at 16:47:13 -0800: > > > > What command tells me most about my hardware? http://www.linuxmafia.com/pub/hardware/system-info -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -

watching DVD movies on Linux

Hi, am I right to say that all I need to watch movies on Linux regardless of region is to use libdvdcss? Also, if the DVD drive is of RPC-1 type, libdvdcss is not needed? Thanks in advance. TH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Logitech diNovo support

Hi, I would like to buy the Logitech diNovo keyboard and Mouse system. I tried to understand the Linux Bluetooth implementation. Based on the Howto: http://bluez.sourceforge.net/howto/node1.html and based on: http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/hid.html it seem that the keyboard should be s

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

Hi, * TTH wrote (2004-02-08 14:18): >am I right to say that all I need to watch movies on Linux regardless of >region is to use libdvdcss? You should use a player application. >Also, if the DVD drive is of RPC-1 type, libdvdcss is not needed? Nope, the DVD is scrambled in any case. Thorsten

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

Sorry, I already have xine installed; I am watching VCDs with no problems. So I am inquiring about additional packages that I need to install for DVDs. So, with xine and libdvdcss, I don't have to worry about RPC-1/2 DVD players. This is correct? Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * TTH wrote (2004-0

Re: recommended reading?

Steve Hargreaves, Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +: > > What would people recommend I start with (assume I'm a complete novice) that > will guide me through the basics of Linux (and more specifically, debian) > that I can get without trawling the web and spending several pound on printer

OT: list-etiquette and cross-posting

in the munging-headers thread, someone posted a link to http://marc.merlins.org/perso/listreplyto.txt - which includes this: > - "Reply-To munging adds additional functionality, it actually increases > freedom of choice" > *cough* bullshit *cough* > For one, it prevents a thread across two l

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

> Is it possible that the font your text files come out as (as rendered > by the printer) is a thicker or heavier font than the font you are > using in your TeX/LaTeX documents? I assume when you print plain text > is comes out in some default printer font, whereas when you print > postscript, I t

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

You have no business trying to access files in any account that is not yours, much less the system administrator's account of a system that is not yours. Grow Up. If anyone on the list can read french, please forward this jerk's message to the administrator at nordnet.fr - I tried to get an

strange problem with php4_module and apache 1.3

I banging my head against the wall on this one ... Using 'dpkg-reconfigure apache', if I select mod_php4 from the module selection screen of dpkg-reconfigure, then once dpkg-reconfigure completes, apache does not start (and cannot be started manually with /etc/init.d/apache start). However, if I

Re: OT: list-etiquette and cross-posting

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:29:21PM +, Josh Robinson wrote: > to me, at least, these seem mutually incompatible. indeed, can anyone > explain why cross-posting is such a bad idea? it's all very well to > describe it as 'clueless and rude', but i've not managed to find a FAQ > that explains why i

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

Hi, Please send me every mail only once. Please don't use tofu mails. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html * TTH wrote (2004-02-08 14:40): >Sorry, I already have xine installed; I am watching VCDs with no problems. > So I am inquiring about additional packages that I need to install for > DVDs.

Re: OT: list-etiquette and cross-posting

Hi, * Josh Robinson wrote (2004-02-08 15:29): >indeed, can anyone explain why cross-posting is such a bad idea? The people visiting one of the two lists do not see the other list. So you will get your answer twice, wasting the time of the people trying to help you. There is one best place (list

Re: wine from vmware

Hi, On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:50:52AM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:19:52PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > There aren't any MSWIN4 in my /path_to_diskfile.vmdk, therefor nothing > find the grep. > > >2. > >$ mount -t vfat -o loop,offset=32256 /path_to_diskfile.

Re: OT: list-etiquette and cross-posting

On Sunday February 8 at 03:56pm Rico -mc- Gloeckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ## > > Please don't cc me: i'm subscribed > > Make use of Mail-Followup-To: then. >From http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ Code of conduct When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules: ...

Re: wine from vmware

Fiodar Bandarenka wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:50:52AM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:19:52PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: There aren't any MSWIN4 in my /path_to_diskfile.vmdk, therefor nothing find the grep. 2. $ mount -t vfat -o loop,off

Re: Old x486 as thin client

> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an > X server without an OS? Or do they get a base Debian install? You need at least a minimum OS installed to provide an infrastructure for X. A li

umask

Where does umask get set when using kdm/X I have changed it in /etc/login.defs and ~/.bash_profile from 22 to 27 However, starting up konsole in kde and checking it - it still says 22. Somewhere, there must be a file which gives sets its initial value. Question is where. -- Alan Chandler [EM

Re: wine from vmware

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 05:17:39PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > This is also the file defined like 'Disk File' in the 'Virtual Machine > Control Panel->Hardware' You may add new disk to VM with request size, but unset 'Split disk into 2Gb files' and set 'Allocate all disk space now' than move

Re: recommended reading?

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:38:57 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 12:50): >>On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. >>> >>> Pleas

Re: nvidia driver compiling problem

Steve Hargreaves wrote: >Hi there, > >OK - after getting most of my H/W working with debian - the last two >exceptions are the dedicated nvidia driver for my card, and the modem >drivers for my Intel 536EP modem. > >I suspect I may never get the modem working, so I'll concentrate on the gfx >c

Re: can't get php in woody to work

> > "... when loging from another machine it doesn't work, even worse, can > read only the default index." Do you mean another machine is logging to > the server with Apache on it or is there something on the server that > you're logging into from another computer? > > What is the error you're s

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:40 am, TTH wrote: > Sorry, I already have xine installed; I am watching VCDs with no problems. > So I am inquiring about additional packages that I need to install for > DVDs. > > So, with xine and libdvdcss, I don't have to worry about RPC-1/2 DVD > players. This i

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

* Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040207 18:05]: > > I think there is a place for Knoppix in introducing newbies to Debian. I'm not a Debian newbie, but in the past year I've used Knoppix for new installs on a few pieces of unfamiliar hardware. When an old laptop falls into your hands, and yo

Re: umask

Hello Alan Chandler (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Where does umask get set when using kdm/X > > I have changed it in /etc/login.defs and ~/.bash_profile from 22 to 27 > > However, starting up konsole in kde and checking it - it still says > 22. If you open a console window, the normal invocat

Re: umask

On Sunday 08 February 2004 15:56, Andreas Janssen wrote: > If you open a console window, the normal invocation for non-login shells > is used. If you use bash, it will read ~/.bashrc, but not > ~/.bash_profile. You should add the umask line to ~/.bashrc and tell > ~/.bash_profile to read ~/.bashrc

Re: will php4 work in apache2 from .debs?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Kevin Coyner said > > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:08:16PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote.. > > > The Debian php4 package does not include support for apache2. Even if > > it did work, though, it would only work in the rather boring > > apache1-style modes;

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 16:37): >On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:38:57 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> I use Linux for a couple of years now, and usually know my way around on >> various Unix systems. Most of the tools described in the book were unknown >> to me because they are no longer used

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:00:35AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > It was the most modular of the set at the time (~4 months ago) but even > still it took me over an hour to a basic level of functionality. I have to admit, I'm wondering what for you is a "basic" level of functionality. Out of the box,

Software RAID on a single partition?

Say I've got the following files: * Some small files that I want to keep safe, eg. document backups, databases, etc. * Some big files that I don't care much about losing but need to read quickly, eg. video Can I use software RAID-1 (mirroring) on a partition containing the first type of file

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > When an old laptop falls into your hands, and you don't have any > documentation on it, it's easier to use Knoppix and then upgrade to > Debian than it is to do the work needed to install Debian directly. So > long as the end result

Re: Better program than Putty?

On 2004-02-07, Paul Johnson penned: > > Your tab-indented lines are over 80 columns... > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:01:30PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >Open up mutt and look at the thread arrows. 8:o) >> >> *sigh* Fine, be that way. >> >> Yours: http://www.dmiyu.or

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:58:03PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Son, 2004-02-08 at 04:57, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > Never mind that the kernel can do 90% of this on its own, and a wonderful > > first step should *always* be finding out why it HASN'T. > > Nevertheless I still have to l

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

* Steven Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:02:08:09:47:45-0500] scribed: > You have no business trying to access files in any account that is not > yours, much less the system administrator's account of a system that is > not yours. Grow Up. > > If anyone on the list can read french, please forwa

Re: Software RAID on a single partition?

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:30:10 + Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Software-RAID-HOWTO kind-of implies that you can do this by > specifying a partition number in the |/etc/raidtab file, but the > description refers to "devices" throughout, not "partitions". The "devices" are

Re: Problem getting sound to work

On 2004-02-07, Mark Healey penned: > > How do I do those? It also doesn't work as root. And, another bit of > information. When I try system sounds there is nothing. When I try > xmms it hangs (xmms, not the system). Hrm. I have noticed that xmms hangs if it's using the enlightenment sound da

Re: nvidia driver compiling problem

Bill Kalebaugh wrote: > Hi > > I compiled 6 different 2.4.xx kernels and I could not get any of them to > work with nvidia or my LAN card > on my AMD computer, it would work with 2.2.20 but I wanted something newer. > I found that it easy to get everything working with kernel 2.6.1 and > runs gre

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's - raid

Mike Fedyk wrote: > > These fancy tricks might not be worth it though if your system bus is > > 33MHz. My two PIII servers have 33MHz system bus (PCI host bridge). So I > > don't think it would be worth the trouble on my servers. > > > > Someone who knows more about RAID please tell me if I am mist

Re: Better program than Putty?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:26:48AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux > terminal to look the most like putty? /duck You could use PuTTY itself. :) Simon has done a Unix port, which started with splitting out the terminal handling

Re: sed trouble: "\'a to á" etc

On Fri 6 Feb 2004 16:47:07 +(-0500), Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > #Trying with sed: > #To change \'a into á and so forth > echo "File name to process please:" > read archivo > cp $archivo $archivo-copia > > sed -e 's/\\'a/á/g' -e 's/\\'e/é/g' -e 's/\\'{\\i}/í/g' -e 's/\\'o/ó/g

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