Re: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request

2007-01-28 Thread John Talbut
Has anyone got any ideas about this? The full message as logged is: localhost kernel: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request and it is appearing frequently. From googling I found this: "This 268435456 value is "0x1000" hexadecimal. The code expects the value zero, and we have a

Re: Partitioning Safely?

2007-01-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:00:33 -0800 Mitchell Verter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the dual boot advice. > > Now I need to partition the disk and move the Linux partition to the > second partition > > I am looking at the Linux Partition HOWTO > (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/) and

Re: Sound on M/board

2007-01-28 Thread john gennard
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:34:25AM +, john gennard wrote: Hi John, sorry if I snap at ya. I'm used to the ocassional wipper-snapper who just asks something with out doing any research. It seems that your issue is a bit non-standard which caught me off-gard. Sorry, Ke

Re: USB Flash Memory permissions

2007-01-28 Thread John Talbut
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:49:39PM +, John Talbut wrote: >> As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes >> back settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked >> through the various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I >> cannot w

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sam, 27 Jan 2007, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > > Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but different. > > Can YOU please explain me what *important* differences there are? > > If you m

Re: Dell i600m - broadcom 4306 wifi problem in etch.

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Schledermann
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > # auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > pre-up ifconfig eth0 up > pre-up grep -q ndiswrapper /proc/modules || modprobe ndiswrapper > wireless_essid "moh

Re: How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-28 Thread WireSpot
I don't mean periodically, more like "random but often". Sometimes several times a day, sometimes not at all. The server is on an intranet, in a mainly Windows network, and cannot be accessed from the Internet. It holds little interest to anybody apart from myself. It simply doesn't hold any usef

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-28 Thread Chris Lale
Colin Perkins wrote: Hi everybody, I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which I do not have not have a clue as to how to use it ! I had expected a graphical interface to appear i.e. KDE or gnome - I was informed that KDE is supplied with Debian. Have I installed

Re: VMware?

2007-01-28 Thread Bhasker C V
All, I have used both VMWare and qemu with kemu accel. I find that VMWare is more easy if you want to do some quick emulation and do not want to waste time in understanding how to enable network device and other stuff. VMware is more faster too. I am not cancassing for VMWare here but i have u

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > > > Ex-Debian user... > > > ... back to the Gentoo > > > > If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is > > too much work for yo

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:19:44PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > > Ex-Debian user... > > ... back to the Gentoo > > If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is too > much work for you, Debian is definitely not a good choice for you. You Thats on

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:03:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/27/07 00:57, Oleg Verych wrote: > > Poor man ;) Seriously, i've had enough from mozilla/firefox long > > ago: screen, lynx, slrn, mutt are my friends. > > > > See? No hands... ups X Window, it's magic! > > So, what's it like

Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-28 Thread MeneM
Dear List, Could anyone tell me how to copy my current debian installation to a different external iomega jazz drive, and be able to boot from it in case of emergency? I'm figuring; reading some articles after some merry googling, that I need to copy /boot /etc /usr/sbin /usr/bin /sbin /de

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
"Piotr Dziubinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no longer firefox in debian etch, so after typing: > apt-get install firefox > I would like to see announcement: Firefox packages are no longer present in > debian distribution, please try iceweasel. > > Do you see a difference? Yes. Just p

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Mike Hommey wrote: > To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox to > iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to 2.0, and > there are substancial changes that some people dislike, myself included. > > Which means Piotr is actually probably complaining abou

Re: Java and Debian

2007-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:09:30PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:30:08PM -0500, Roby wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote: > > >>

From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Epprecht
Hello I have a Debian/unstable installation which is now used by other family members, so I want to switch it to Etch (now or when Etch becomes stable). I do not care too much if some things would not be exactly like in the coming stable Etch release, but I do want security updates (without the da

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:48:52PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > -- > In the west we kill people like chickens. > [Agree] [Disagree] No opinion. When I was in the west I didn't see any prople that resembled chickens. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 08:21, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > > I have a Debian/unstable installation which is now used by other family > members, so I want to switch it to Etch (now or when Etch becomes stable). > I do not care too much if some things would no

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:18:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Like the people who read the CNN article about sterilizing sponges > in the microwave? What about sterilizing sponges in the microwave? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Crean
If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of different methods, but which one might suit the following: I only want to encrypt a single folder with personal stuff in it. Around 200 files or so. (The

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:33:13AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:33PM +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > > Only Etch supports amd64, so I was forced to use Etch. > > > There is an unofficial Sarge release for amd64. I use it on a couple of > servers and many Debia

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 08:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:18:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Like the people who read the CNN article about sterilizing sponges >> in the microwave? > > What about sterilizing sponges in the microwave?

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread Hodgins Family
> Firewalling routers are $50 and do a reasonably > good job. Any recommendations? What are you using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 07:01, Martin Schulze wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox > > to iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to > > 2.0, and there are substancial changes that some people dislike, > > myself inc

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 06:43, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > > Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > > > > Ex-Debian user... > > > > ... back to the Gentoo > > > > > > If going to the Mozil

Re: Dell i600m - broadcom 4306 wifi problem in etch.

2007-01-28 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 1/28/07, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > # auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > pre-up ifconfig eth0 up > pre-up grep -q ndiswrapper /

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Danesh Daroui
Try PGP. It is the most secure and reliable way. You can also have your own signature and public and private key as well. It is suitable to be used in emails too. I use PGP in Thunderbird and they work perfect together. It is also very fast and efficient when you want to encrypt lots of files w

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:56:38PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Try PGP. It is the most secure and reliable way. You can also have your > own signature and public and private key as well. It is suitable to be > used in emails too. I use PGP in Thunderbird and they work perfect > together. It is

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 28 January 2007 02:42, Mike Hommey wrote: > To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox to > iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to 2.0, > and there are substancial changes that some people dislike, myself > included. I don't even want to get

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 09:08, Hodgins Family wrote: >> Firewalling routers are $50 and do a reasonably >> good job. > > Any recommendations? > What are you using? I use a Netgear RP614v2, but don't like it. The Linux geek fave is the Linksys WRT54GL, since it

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 15:03:59 +, Mark Crean wrote: > If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way > of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of > different methods, but which one might suit the following: > > I only want to encrypt a sing

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Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 15:03 +, Mark Crean wrote: > I only want to encrypt a single folder with personal stuff in it. Around > 200 files or so. (The Truecrypt virtual disk/containers idea sounds > ideal, but I don't want to use Truecrypt. It's not in the Debian > repositories and I'm looking

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:03:59PM +, Mark Crean wrote: > If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way > of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of > different methods, but which one might suit the following: > > I only want to encrypt a si

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread S. Sakar
Mark Crean schrieb: > If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way > of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of > different methods, but which one might suit the following: > > I only want to encrypt a single folder with personal stuff in it. Aro

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Stephen R Laniel writes: > PGP has a different usage model -- namely that you're communicating with > someone far away and you don't have a secure channel to pass a password > to him. In the case of encrypting your files, you don't need to worry > about that, and you can use a symmetric key with a

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread Hodgins Family
> I use a Netgear RP614v2, but don't like it. > > The Linux geek fave is the Linksys WRT54GL, since it runs Linux and > can be upgraded with 3rd-party binaries. It's a wireless access > port, but also has 4 RJ45 jacks and has a firewall. US$54 at Newegg. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Dell i600m - broadcom 4306 wifi problem in etch.

2007-01-28 Thread Mihira Fernando
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 1/28/07, *Jan Schledermann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 >

reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Easthope
At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:38 -050, Roberto Sanchez said, "Setup mutt on the machine and ssh in when you are travelling." Good idea! The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Is there a way to use the MAC address rather than the IP a

source for pegasus driver

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Easthope
I am interested to read the source for the Pegasus USB-Ethernet driver. Should I find the files in a Debian site, or in a Linux kernel site or in a device driver site. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Mihira Fernando
Peter Easthope wrote: At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:38 -050, Roberto Sanchez said, "Setup mutt on the machine and ssh in when you are travelling." Good idea! The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Is there a way to use the MAC addre

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread x_debian-user_x
> The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine > which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Sign up for an account with dyndns.org and create a domain name. Install and configure 'ddclient' to update dyndns each time your IP changes (e.g. using an ip-up script if you're on ppp d

Re: USB Flash Memory permissions

2007-01-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 08:15 +, John Talbut wrote: > I do not understand what you mean by "the source for gnome-volume-manager". > As > I wrote, from what I can find out about g-v-m it gets settings via pmount-hal > etc. If I'm not mistaken, g-v-m will call pmount-hal by default, and depend

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread macondo
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/28/07 08:21, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > Hello > > > > I have a Debian/unstable installation which is now used by other > family > > members, so I want to switch it to Etch (now or when Etch be

preventing parport, parport_pc and lp frpom being loaded at boot

2007-01-28 Thread Andreas Berglund
Hi! I wish to prevent the modules mentioned in the subject from being loaded at boot. None of them are mentioned in /etc/modules so I don't know why they are getting loaded. I have read the manpages for modprobe, module-init-tools, update-modules and all the relevant programs I could think of

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:07:28AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Use a dynamic IP hosting service like no-ip.com or dyndns.com Or everydns.net -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistake

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:42:21AM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:38 -050, Roberto Sanchez said, > "Setup mutt on the machine and ssh in when > you are travelling." > The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine > which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan

Re: VMware?

2007-01-28 Thread Carl Fink
I just wanted to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. I was about to start evaluating alternatives for virtual setups for two of my boxes, and you've collectively made my job much easier. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingbl

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Peter Easthope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine > which has a dynamic address assigned by cablelan. Is > there a way to use the MAC address rather than the IP > address? Or you could install a dynamic IP updater (like ez-ipupdate), and register f

CPU fan control

2007-01-28 Thread Manu Hack
I've installed etch on my laptop. During the time I used Windows, I feel the CPU temperature is lower. And now the CPU fan works when the CPU temperature is higher than 70C and stops (or runs at a lower speed) when it's 55C or lower. I'd like to know if it's possible to adjust the threshold tem

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Epprecht
macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 01/28/07 08:21, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> > I have a Debian/unstable installation which is now used by other >> > family members, so I want to switch it to Etch (now or when Etch >> > becomes stable). I do not

Hardware (was Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux)

2007-01-28 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 January 2007 21:52, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > That's great, isn't it?  My latest box is a PIII-733 that I picked > up for C$69.00.  I paid C$3500.00 for the same thing new in a > laptop five years ago.  With

Re: VMware?

2007-01-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:20:56PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I just wanted to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. I was > about to start evaluating alternatives for virtual setups for two of my > boxes, and you've collectively made my job much easier. > -- > Carl Fink

Recording audio with Debian - hardware/software suggestions

2007-01-28 Thread KS
Hi all, We are planning to have a setup so that we can record the upcoming talks (happening every weekend for several weekends at a stretch). The equipment which is already there comprises of 4 microphones, a mixer (with 12 inputs I think) and an amplifier for the speakers. The following are the

sound card problem

2007-01-28 Thread anthony givens
I have a als62m sound card the chip is a als4000 chip I can't configure it for sound I try looking in different places (like linuxquestions and other places )and can't configure my sound card the error message I get is device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) one do I need to upgrade my

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > I've suggested that iceweasel provides+conflicts+replaces firefox, > which AFAICT would instead produce the output: > > Note, selecting iceweasel instead of firefox > [...other stuff about packages...] > Do you want to continue? [Y/n

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:03:59PM +, Mark Crean wrote: > If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way > of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of > different methods, but which one might suit the following: > > I only want to encrypt a si

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:42:21AM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:38 -050, Roberto Sanchez said, > "Setup mutt on the machine and ssh in when > you are travelling." > > Good idea! > > The puzzling detail is how to address the home machine > which has a dynamic address as

Re: preventing parport, parport_pc and lp frpom being loaded at boot

2007-01-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:31:38PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > Hi! > I wish to prevent the modules mentioned in the subject from being loaded > at boot. None of them are mentioned in /etc/modules so I don't know why > they are getting loaded. I have read the manpages for modprobe, > module-

Re: Recording audio with Debian - hardware/software suggestions

2007-01-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:38:03PM -0500, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > We are planning to have a setup so that we can record the upcoming talks > (happening every weekend for several weekends at a stretch). The > equipment which is already there comprises of 4 microphones, a mixer > (with 12 inputs I t

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:07:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/28/07 08:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:18:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Like the people who read the CNN article about sterilizing sponges >

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:44:05AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:32, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > (Teenagers do not have an unalienable right to do have > > Myspace pages > > Personally, I'm fine with letting teens on MySpace and similar > wastelands. Let them have pl

Re: XVth Int. Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows, June 6-10 Rhodes, Greece

2007-01-28 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:41:41AM +0100, IWNMNNF Organizing Committee wrote: > XVth International Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows - > IWNMNNF 2007 > > Dear Colleague! > > The objective of IWNMNNF-2007, June 6-10, 2007, Rhodes, Greece > is to bring together researchers at t

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 14:02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:44:05AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:32, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > (Teenagers do not have an unalienable right to do have > > > Myspace pages > > > > Personally, I'm fine

LVM on RAID5, lvextend fails

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list. I recently completed a migration of my home fileserver form LVM on two ide disks to LVM on RAID-5 with 4 ide disks. I attempted to extend one of the logical volumes, but it failed with this message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lvextend -L+25G /dev/mommadisk/video Password: Using stripesi

Re: Modem connection dropping Debian Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:55:54AM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > >John Kerr Anderson wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I have a very annoying problem. I am trying to download some new > >programs via aptitude and notice that my modem connection keeps >dropping > >out after 5 - 10 minutes. The

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:21:07PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: [snipped preamble about downgrading to etch from sid] > > Or is there more involved? When is the best time to do the switch? > just to say it, as others seem to have answered your questions. The best time to do the switch was abo

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
The choice of words by the OP was unfortunate, to say the least. But among all his blathering there was the germ of a valid point. Debian IMHO should carefully weigh the advantages and disadvantages of adhering --uncompromisingly-- to the letter of its doctrine. The renaming of the programs certa

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:56:02AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > >I used to run chrony (with difficulty) but ran into a problem with my > >new box: it couldn't access the hwclock. If I told it not to, (so > >that > >the hwclock shutdo

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The Linux geek fave is the Linksys WRT54GL, since it runs Linux and >> can be upgraded with 3rd-party binaries. It's a wireless access >> port, but also has 4 RJ45 jacks and has a firewall. US$54 at Newegg. > > Thanks! Make sure you buy v4 or below.

Re: sound card problem

2007-01-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:21:36AM -0600, anthony givens wrote: > I have a als62m sound card the chip is a als4000 chip I can't configure it > for > sound I try looking in different places (like linuxquestions and other > places )and can't configure my sound card the error message I get is > de

Re: XVth Int. Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows, June 6-10 Rhodes, Greece

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > But what on earth is *non-Newtonian* fluid mechanics The mechanics of fluids with strain-rate dependent viscosity. Silly putty, for example. Or oobleck. > Fluids so heavy that general relativity is needed? Flows in quantum > phase space? That would be more interesting, would

Re: How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:48:36PM +0200, WireSpot wrote: > I don't mean periodically, more like "random but often". Sometimes > several times a day, sometimes not at all. I know you've said this before, but is it the same files? or the same directory? if it is, in that you can narrow down the sco

Re: LVM on RAID5, lvextend fails

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Bird
On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I recently completed a migration of my home fileserver form LVM on two > ide disks to LVM on RAID-5 with 4 ide disks. I attempted to extend one > of the logical volumes, but it failed with this message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lv

Re: USB Flash Memory permissions

2007-01-28 Thread John Talbut
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 08:15 +, John Talbut wrote: I do not understand what you mean by "the source for gnome-volume-manager". As I wrote, from what I can find out about g-v-m it gets settings via pmount-hal etc. > >Sven Arvidsson wrote: If I'm not mistaken, g-v-m will call pmount-hal by d

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Epprecht
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:21:07PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > [snipped preamble about downgrading to etch from sid] >> Or is there more involved? When is the best time to do the switch? > just to say it, as others seem to have answered yo

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 13:32, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> The Linux geek fave is the Linksys WRT54GL, since it runs Linux and >>> can be upgraded with 3rd-party binaries. It's a wireless access >>> port, but also h

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 22 January 2007 16:49, Bruno Voigt wrote: > Hi, > I'm running debian/unstable on my laptop and often the LAN/WLAN is not > connected (yet) > when the system is starting up - including NTPD. > > NTPD then seems to discard all unreachable server entries and ends up > with no peers left. > I

Re: Netinstall via bridge

2007-01-28 Thread celejar
On 1/27/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:08:39AM -0500, celejar wrote: > Hi list, > > I plan to do a netinstall on a new laptop (Acer AS3960). There's > internal wifi, and I have an Atheros PC card, but I have to assume > that neither will be supported

Re: LVM on RAID5, lvextend fails

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:18:07PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I recently completed a migration of my home fileserver form LVM on two > > ide disks to LVM on RAID-5 with 4 ide disks. I attempted to extend one > > of the logical volumes

problems with keymap in Xorg

2007-01-28 Thread Tomas Davidek
Hello, I noticed two problems in Xorg: 1. mistake in setxkbmap (or xkb-data ?) Recently the the following command to set US and CZ keyboard stopped working: setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout "us,cz_qwerty" -variant ",bksl" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" The prob

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:18:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Like the people who read the CNN article about sterilizing sponges >> in the microwave? > What about sterilizing sponges in the microwave? T'hell with the sponges, how does one read CNN, exactly? --

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 07:01, Martin Schulze wrote: >> Remember the Cola tests? Blindfolded have preferred Pepsi over Coca, >> with eyes open the result they preferred the Coca variant. > Funny. Blindfolded I took the same as I did without the blindfold. Coke > either way

Re: sound card problem

2007-01-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 January 2007 21:10, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:21:36AM -0600, anthony givens wrote: > > I have a als62m sound card the chip is a als4000 chip I can't configure > > it for sound I try looking in different places (like linuxquestions and > > other places )and

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 15:04, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:18:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Like the people who read the CNN article about sterilizing sponges >>> in the microwave? > >> What about sterilizing sp

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 15:06, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: >> On Sunday 28 January 2007 07:01, Martin Schulze wrote: >>> Remember the Cola tests? Blindfolded have preferred Pepsi over Coca, >>> with eyes open the result they preferred the Coca variant.

Re: USB Flash Memory permissions

2007-01-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:07 +, John Talbut wrote: > Am I right in understanding that you are suggesting I go the the g-v-m source > code, alter that and then recompile it? If so, I have some difficulties: I > only > download the .deb packages so for the moment I do not have the source code,

Re: LVM on RAID5, lvextend fails

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:45:50PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:18:07PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I recently completed a migration of my home fileserver form LVM on two > > > ide disks to LVM o

Re: XVth Int. Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows, June 6-10 Rhodes, Greece

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/28/07 13:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:41:41AM +0100, IWNMNNF Organizing Committee wrote: [snip] > But what on earth is *non-Newtonian* fluid mechanics, assuming it has to > do with the real world? > > Fluids so heav

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:04:11PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:21:07PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > [snipped preamble about downgrading to etch from sid] > >> Or is there more involved? When is the best ti

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:47:45 +0100 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The choice of words by the OP was unfortunate, to say the least. > But among all his blathering there was the germ of a valid point. > > Debian IMHO should carefully weigh the advantages and > disadvantages of adhe

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:04, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:18:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Like the people who read the CNN article about sterilizing sponges > >> in the microwave? > > > > What about sterilizing sponges in the microwave? > >

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-28 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:28:24 -0500 "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Define "most". In all of the email clients I have ever chosen to use not > a single one exhibits the behavior you describe. Pine, elm, mutt, PMMail/2, > PMMail2000, TheBat, Sylpheed-Claws, Thunderbird just to nam

Re: Raid trouble

2007-01-28 Thread Land Haj
Thank you for this reply! I'm still learning here, and from what I understand I need to do mdadm --assemble --scan to get the /dev/md[x] to appear in my unstable installation (see my setup in the first post), and then I can safely mount /dev/md2 /mnt/raid cp -a /mnt/raid/anything . umount /mnt

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 18:48:04 +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > macondo writes: [...] > I have a couple of partitions and will try an etch install later on, > but I do not want to lose my working sid system... Well I can always > clone it to another partition and try to downgrade it to etch. >

howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-28 Thread Kristian Lampen
Hi, I want to prepare an PC as a DSL-firewall-router for a small home-network, five PC (some windows, some debian). I have not found a suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. I use debian since five years, and know something about networking, but i would like to have the important things for

Re: source for pegasus driver

2007-01-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:50:06 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > I am interested to read the source for the Pegasus > USB-Ethernet driver. > > Should I find the files in a Debian site, or in > a Linux kernel site or in a device driver site. You can install the (kernel|linux)-source package corresp

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > The choice of words by the OP was unfortunate, to say the least. > But among all his blathering there was the germ of a valid point. > The only potential valid point I saw coming out of it was that maybe "transitional" wasn't the way to go. I don't know what other o

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