Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Now the question is, do you really need three motor vehicles, or are two >> of 'em a crutch for not leaning on your local officials to fix public >> transport? > > Paul, public transportation is a farce,

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Scott
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:12 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:55:47AM -0800, Jordi wrote: Hello Yesterday I was able to run my server. I have 2 computers at home, one is server and the other is not. Both are connect

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:14 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> A better question to ask myself is why do I need all this music and >> video in the first place? > > Because. Its available. Its cheap. > > Because it cheaply available and i

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> Obviously that kind of change can't happen overnight. Its an ugly >> problem, no matter how you cut it. > > And that doesn't even come close to talking about the problem that a > purely electric car has no range at all. I once scoffed at Ha

RE: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:59 +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > Ok, next questions: What have you tried? What error codes? Have you put > > the agent into debug mode? Has the server logs given you any errors? Are > > you getting "permission" denied or access invalid... what? > > > Have not tried an

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe Hart wrote: > Why? Because a) a bus comes every seven minutes b) I don't have to > deal with the traffic (which is bad at times). Every 7 minutes? So at 3:14am I can expect a bus by 3:21am? > Plus side, don't have to search for a parking space, minus side have to > lug the suitcases on

Re: konqueror is slow - X issue?

2007-03-01 Thread pol
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Is Konq using a proxy where links is not? No proxi. But i noticed that every time konqueror is slowing down, xorg is overloaded, taking 99% of the cpu time. So, is it an X issue? Any debian or ubuntu users suggestions to pinpoint and fix that? Thank you for you he

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/07 12:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] > Most people choose to live closer to work than you do, too. Some states > prohibit cities from sprawling far enough out to make commutes of that > leng

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 00:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> As in, the difference in speed between you and the tree you >> just smashed into after losing control because you were >> fiddling with the stereo. > > *eyes his motorcycle* Uh, what stereo

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Bob McGowan wrote: Caoilte O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) to dvds. I'll > have to tar it a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 00:19, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: As in, the difference in speed between you and the tree you just smashed into after losing control because you were fiddling with the stereo. >>> *eyes his motorcycle* Uh, what stereo? Besides, you kno

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread steef
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/28/07 12:59, Joe Hart wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Caoilte O'Connor wrote: Hi, I'm looking to backup my mp3 collection (50gig or so) t

How do I make debmirror download only src packages?

2007-03-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, In my great attempts to minimise BW usage, I'd like to download only src packages via debmirror, which doesn't seem to allow for that, or does it? Else, how can I succeed in this goal of mine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Josep . Llaurado
Hi, I'm currently using the Veritas Remote Unix Agent under several Debian hosts. Which kind of problem you have configuring it? Or you need a few guidelines about the installation? Best regards. "Julian De Marchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/03/2007 06:57 Para cc Asunto Veritas Remote Unix

Re: can't browse samba network

2007-03-01 Thread Ken Hu
well. I don't think the Nautilus can't do that. I use gnome desktop in office and it can browse the samba network . Ken 於 Wed,2007-02-28 於 21:35 -0500,Roberto C. Sanchez 提到: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:20:58AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > > Dear All: > > > > My platform is Debian etch with gnome as d

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Julian De Marchi
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:11 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently using the Veritas Remote Unix Agent under several Debian > hosts. > > Which kind of problem you have configuring it? Or you need a few > guidelines about the installation? > Not having any dramas, just in p

Re: How do I make debmirror download only src packages?

2007-03-01 Thread Julian De Marchi
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:21 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > In my great attempts to minimise BW usage, I'd like to download only > src packages via debmirror, which doesn't seem to allow for that, or > does it? Else, how can I succeed in this goal of mine? Hi, I would suggest buildin

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Julian De Marchi napisał(a): Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the Veritas Remote Unix Agent working under debian. So far my google searches have told me that it is not supported in debian. Any work around ideas if that is the case? It might be not supported, but it wo

Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Graham Smith
I tried to do an update this morning and ran into the problem below when it came to installing the kernel. I've looked in /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst and the new kernel 2.6.18-4 hasn't been added (I'm running 2.6.18-3 and that is the top kernel in the list). Any ideas what's gone wrong? dpkg: de

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Why? Because a) a bus comes every seven minutes b) I don't have to >> deal with the traffic (which is bad at times). > > Every 7 minutes? So at 3:14am I can expect a bus by 3:21am? Well, no. The buses do

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:12:10 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An odd situation: When I start Fluxbox (or any other WM) from GDM, I > get to use the font and cursor set by GDM. > > If I start fluxbox with 'startx' I am given another font and cursor. > > If I knew which font and

Re: Network access fails unless tcpdump is running?

2007-03-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:10:43 -0500 Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I can not ping a remote host successfully unless I have "tcpdump -i > eth0" running, in which case, my network access works fine. > > I am running Debian etch on a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. The et

Re: Upgraded to 2.6.18-4-686, trouble.

2007-03-01 Thread Giacomo Montagner
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:05 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Whenever I boot into the 2.6.18-4-686 kernel everything works fine, > but when it starts loading hald I get: > > Buffer I/O error on device sr0 > > It says this about 8 times. I tried reinstalling hal but that didn't > seem to change anyt

Does Etch supports Dell SAS 5iR RAID card?

2007-03-01 Thread askxuefeng
Hi, all, I want to buy a Dell 1435 AMD64 server, is there anyone could tell me if etch can be installed properly with SAS 5iR RAID card (PCI-Express)? Thanks! Yours, sincerely, Xuefeng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Repository

2007-03-01 Thread Jon Dowland
Please do not cross-post non-laptop related questions to the debian-laptop list. On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:16:24PM -0800, Baz wrote: > Hello. I need help getting into my source.list to delete > some lines. How do I change the permissions? I've tried > Synaptic, but the lines I need to delete a

Re: Upgraded to 2.6.18-4-686, trouble.

2007-03-01 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:03:30PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:25:32PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:04:02PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > Whenever

Re: question about dns server at home

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hello, I think I will abandon the idea of running my dns this time. I better buy the service and name in some provider of those that you said. Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newie questions about security

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hello Greg > Please tell us what Model and make of router you have. My router is Thomson Speedtouch 530v6. In the future I would like to change to a model with wifi, but maybe I will ask this in future in another thread. Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel binary images is documented, other than looking thru the config files or the descriptions of the packages. When I install Etch

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hi Greg > > Further question: What model of router do you have? My router is Thomson Speedtouch 530v6, has 2 ports: ethernet and usb. I asked for 2 ethernet ports but my isp sent me this. They took 85 days to do this, so I better buy one myself next time. Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hi again Greg > > 1) Must I disable this shared folder? > > 2) Must I remove samba from my server? > > 3) Should I better use SCP allways? > > 4) Or can I leave that shared folder in the server and just use for > > non-vital,trivial files? > 1) no > 2) no > 3) no > 4) yes Do you all people agree

Install driver for 3w9650SE at install time

2007-03-01 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to install Etch on my server. The server have only 3w9650SE raid and can't use the 3w9xxx driver that is on the install CDROM. I wonder if someone have compiled it for Etch? - -- Regards Jon Ingason -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Is my libpcap properly installed?

2007-03-01 Thread anonymous
On Mar 1, 1:00 pm, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:29 -0800, anonymous wrote: > > I am trying to compile a package which requires libpcap. When I > > do the following: > > *WHAT* are you trying to compile? > > Don't be ashamed to tell us. We can only help you if y

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread George Hein
Two years ago I ripped all my CD's to 4GB .ogg for my laptop. I backed all this to a single DVD. All classical music and operas. Recently, did it again to highest fidelity using ogg onto a 500GB-HD. Then I backed this up on 5 double layer DVD's. I did not need tar as I had no problems with

Re: static IP

2007-03-01 Thread pobox
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:54:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Try it from outside > your LAN -- use a friends machine or a library machine or get yourself > a free shell account somewhere and use links from that. Where can I get free shell account with enabled newtworking(links)? --

Re: ssh

2007-03-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-28 17:17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:29:11PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > > I use this method, (without passphrase) to be able to run script (with > > cronjob) from one machine into other, if I put a passphrase that is > > not going to work, am I

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic > data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer and > distributor

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Ed Curtis
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:39 +0100, Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Julian De Marchi napisał(a): > > Hi All, > > > > I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the Veritas Remote Unix > > Agent working under debian. So far my google searches have told me that it > > is not supported in debian. Any wo

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 02:50, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/01/07 00:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > As in, the difference in speed between you and the tree you > just smashed into after losing control because you were >>

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 00:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: As in, the difference in speed between you and the tree you just smashed into after losing control because you were fiddling with the stereo. *eyes his motorcycle* Uh, wha

Re: Newie questions about security

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:21:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Firestarter and other Linux based firewalls are when you want to build a > firewall for your network. You cannot build a firewall for just the > computer you want to firewall: Firewalls, by nature, must be on dedicated > hardware

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:48:20PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Being a former Marine, there is no real need to glamorize it. I joined > mainly due to the honor involved. > True. Glamorize was a poor word choice. > You notice I didn't type "ex-marine" there are few such creatures. I > persona

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:25:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:26:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> It would be pretty difficult for a dirt-poor Mexican to sneak into > >> Sweden... > > > Sweden at least enforces their immigration policy. >

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 04:04 -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hi again Greg > > > > 1) Must I disable this shared folder? > > > 2) Must I remove samba from my server? > > > 3) Should I better use SCP allways? > > > 4) Or can I leave that shared folder in the server and just use for > > > non-vital,trivial fil

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Ed Curtis napisał(a): I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the Veritas Remote Unix Agent working under debian. So far my google searches have told me that it is not supported in debian. Any work around ideas if that is the case? It might be not supported, but it works for me (2 debi

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:43 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:39 +0100, Mariusz Kruk wrote: > > Julian De Marchi napisał(a): > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the Veritas Remote Unix > > > Agent working under debian. So far my google sear

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:48:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/07 22:14, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> > > Precisely. The ROMANS crucified Jesus, NOT the Jews. > > Of course, because they were the ones in power. > > *Certain* Jews, ones who owed their power to the Romans and who were > th

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread judd
On 28 Feb, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:58:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> Now the question is, do you really need three motor vehicles, or are >> two of 'em a crutch for not leaning on your local officials to fix >> public transport? >> > Now the question is, do y

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread judd
On 28 Feb, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Now the question is, do you really need three motor vehicles, or are >> two of 'em a crutch for not leaning on your local officials to fix >> public transport? > > Paul, public transportation is a farce, plain and simple. It > comes down t

Re: ssh

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:18:40PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-02-28 17:17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > This is not correct. With keychain, you can set it up to hold the ssh > > keys in memory after you log out until the next time you log in. The > > idea is that if an a

Re: Mount CIFS share as user

2007-03-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/03/07 10:26), Greg Vickers wrote: > I want to mount a Windows share using CIFS and an entry in my fstab like so: > //server/share /media/mnt cifs rw,user,noauto,workgroup=one,username=two Here's what I do: set up .smb_pass in each user's home dir cat .smb_pass username= password= use the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Mitja Podreka
Steve Lamb wrote: Mitja Podreka wrote: It can comfortably run at speeds which are within the speed limits and is probably as safe as Hummer and similar monsters. If you think "well within speed limits" and "safe" are one and the same, you're sorely mistaken. What a lot of politic

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread judd
On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> Where I live, it is the _bicycle_ that is the preferred method of >> transportation. Not so bad when the weather is nice, but I'm too >> Americanized to use it for my grocery shopping (although there are a >> lot of Dutch who do). > > Which

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:39:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > By the way, isn't air travel an example of fairly efficient (and > government subsidized) public transportation, at least long distance > flights? > Oh great. Here go with a discussion about how corporate welfare is keepi

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Mitja Podreka
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Mitja Podreka wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: U Have a head-on crash with a Hummer, or 3/4 ton 4-wheel drive pickup and see who survives Then let's try a head on crash with a concrete wall. A 4-wheel car which is made for driving it off road (like Hummer)

sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Folks, I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this list can point me at the right TFM. I'm also somewhat inclined to vent. The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot record - but I don't even know the righ

Re: static IP

2007-03-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:10:22AM +0100, pobox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:54:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Try it from outside > > your LAN -- use a friends machine or a library machine or get yourself > > a free shell account somewhere and use links from that. > > Where c

Etch with kernel 2.6.19 or later [Was: Install driver for 3w9650SE at install time]

2007-03-01 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Ingason skrev: > I need to install Etch on my server. The server have only 3w9650SE raid > and can't use the 3w9xxx driver that is on the install CDROM. I wonder > if someone have compiled it for Etch? After litle search I found out that the Linux

Re: Going out

2007-03-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.02.07 11:08, André Müller wrote: > From: André Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:08:34 -0300 > Subject: Going out > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hello. I want to go out from this e-mail group. header of every message in this list, and bottom of every clear text

Re: Installing Debian

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Lale
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Thomas, I am taking this back to the list. It is generally considered bad form to reply presonally and not to the list, unless what you have to say is not appropriate for the list. On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:20:08PM -0500, Thomas A. Blair Sr. wrote: I am new at us

Re: making the smartest use of SE Linux

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:53:02PM +, andy wrote: > Dear all > > I noted with interest that Etch seems to automatically include SE Linux > as part of the packages, and I was wanting a bit of a steer about how I, > as a user on a small home LAN,

Re: Emailing the system messages to me

2007-03-01 Thread Joe
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:49:52AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: On 3/1/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 00:36 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: Hi, I have a Debian Etch as my desktop PC, and i want to configure it so the system mess

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:28:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Point being that the momentum of a meatbag traveling at 120kph is > much higher than that of one going at 95kph Technically, it's the energy of the meatbag that measures the likely damage. energy varies as the square of velocity,

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 08:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Feb, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:58:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Now the question is, do you really need three motor vehicles, or are >>> two of 'em a crutch for not

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:35:09PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > And actually, if we had the means to turn over our vehicle fleet to an > all electric option, that would be okay because we could then affor > dto rent the long-range car for those times we need it. I once tried to rent a

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 08:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >> [snip] > the public transportation is much quicker there. I doubt that any road > design could compete with a good public transportation system in areas >

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Thanks Greg, I am feeling really confused now. It is supposed this is a router, and has a firewall inside. I would need to read more about all this. > I'd change my answers to all "yes" until you get a proper firewall. In that case, I will disable the shared folder and use scp. > I am sorry, b

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 08:30, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Mitja Podreka wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Speed is not nearly as dangerous as the *difference of speed*. > What I meant is: "why do you need a car which can go 250km/h if your > country do

Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hello I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? Just this Thanks Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:54:14AM +, Graham Smith wrote: > I tried to do an update this morning and ran into the problem below when > it came to installing the kernel. I've looked in > /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst and the new kernel 2.6.18-4 hasn't

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer a

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this list can point me at the > right TFM. I'm also somewhat inclined to vent. > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > sarge.

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > > I saw two good firewalls: > - Firestarter wich is easy > - Shorewall wich seems versatile > > Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall > worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? > Pers

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 10:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:35:09PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> And actually, if we had the means to turn over our vehicle fleet to an >> all electric option, that would be okay because we could t

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? > what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? > Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own filesystem. Regards, -Roberto -- Rober

How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
I have done a bit of posting here during my attempt to get sarge running smoothly, and my experience has shown me that I need to learn a bit on how best to use this list. I use WinXP and Gmail to communictate to the list (still struggling with debian on another box). I have been advised to reply

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > >> why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? >> what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? >> >> > Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own

[SOLVED] Re: sound in iceweasel

2007-03-01 Thread andy
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hi all My wife has run into a problem using iceweasel to access a site like 123greetings.com - none of the cards are playing a sound. She is using KDE. When she's tried using konqueror it simply borks and displays a dialog box asking whether she wants to use gxi

Re: ssh

2007-03-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-01 09:28:47 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Right, but with keychain they persist even after you log out. This is > nice because then your keys *can* have a passphrase and you can still > use them for unattended things like cron jobs. Of course, if the > machine suts down, you need

Re: making the smartest use of SE Linux

2007-03-01 Thread andy
Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:53:02PM +, andy wrote: Dear all I noted with interest that Etch seems to automatically include SE Linux as part of the packages, and I was wanting a bit of a steer about how I, as a user on a sm

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Thanks Roberto I will do then the effort and try to install and use Shorewall. Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:36:38PM +0100, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > >> why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? > >> what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:26 -0800, Jordi wrote: > I hear most people around me using all those modem/router as > synonims. That's probably because sometime they are both. My modem (the one supplied to me by my ISP) is also a router. It's an Actiontec GT701-WG, "DSL Modem with Wireless Gateway."

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own filesystem. Regards,

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Kent West
On 3/1/07, Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I don't know is how to reply to the list so that I don't create a separate thread with each e-mail. If I use the "reply" button in Gmail, the reply goes to the sender, and not to the list. It would be infinitely better for me to keep simila

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
I saw that shorewall can have a GUI if I also install Webmin. Is Webmin a good tool to install? has some kind of disavantage? Is it better to not use webmin? Thanks Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Start over with Speedtouch was (Re: how to send ...)

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:26 -0800, Jordi wrote: > Thanks Greg, [...snip a whole lot of cruft that need not be paid attention to...] Okay, let us start out with a fresh understanding. I finally found the proper documentation of the Thomson Speedtouch 530v6. Yes, this particular device is an ADSL

who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Pardon my ignorance on the subject: flow of X connections etc The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. The problem is that he doesn't get authority over :13 since :13 is occupied by another user running VNC :13 (which seems

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > Hello > > I saw two good firewalls: > - Firestarter wich is easy > - Shorewall wich seems versatile > > Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall > worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? The fa

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread John Stoffel
Jordi> I saw two good firewalls: Jordi> - Firestarter wich is easy Jordi> - Shorewall wich seems versatile Just to be contrary, I like and use m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch) at home in a WRAP board. Very nice, very quiet, plenty of performance. Nice web based interface, boots off compact flash,

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:55:45AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > On 3/1/07, Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >What I don't know is how to reply to the list so that I don't create a > >separate thread with each e-mail. If I use the "reply" button in > >Gmail, the reply goes to the sender

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:50:02AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > I saw that shorewall can have a GUI if I also install Webmin. > > Is Webmin a good tool to install? has some kind of disavantage? Is it > better to not use webmin? > Personally, I don't like webmin as it insulates too much from you. If you

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:08:25AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > >>why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? > >>what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? > >> > >U

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-01 Thread Jordi
Hello Michael I liked the description of your network, was very clear. So those called router-switch maybe be a router that comes with a switch inside to do what you've done. Jordi On 1 mar, 19:10, "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 08:26 -0800, Jordi wrote: > > I he

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:09:16PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Pardon my ignorance on the subject: flow of X connections etc > > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. The problem is that he > doesn't get authorit

Re: linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel > >>binary images is documented, other than looking

Re: Kernel install problem

2007-03-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:03:07PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:36:38PM +0100, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > > >> why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the defau

IPTables Port Forwarding

2007-03-01 Thread Johnno
Hello Need a little bit of help here... eth1 = Internet, eth0 = LAN, will this work? iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.50:80 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 80 -i eth1 -j ACCEPT Anything on port 80 to goto a internal server on

Linux and firewire drives

2007-03-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within Linux .. I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the WD My Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire... Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Linux and firewire drives

2007-03-01 Thread dd-b
> Hi there, > > What is the current state of support for firewire attached drives within > Linux .. > I would like to use Sarge, standard PC - and attach something like the WD > My > Book Pro 1TB drive, ideally via firewire... I'm using individual drives in external cases attached to a Sarge syste

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