Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread judd
On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:14:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Actually, our invasion of Iraq is much more likely to lead to a >> broader war in the Mideast than Saddam was. >> > I have a real hard time believing that. The First Gulf War also

Re: HT shows two cores

2007-03-09 Thread Cassiano Leal
Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 14:02 -0500, David A. Parker wrote: Anyway, as you probably know, hyper threading is not the same as having a second core. To the best of my knowledge, a dual-core CPU will always show 2 cores regardless of whether it supports hyper threading. I don't think

Re:

2007-03-09 Thread Damien Ferrand
On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: > The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a > 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in > 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I never use the Intel > website, you cannot trust

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Ben Humpert wrote: Here it comes ;) dr02g:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU3060 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 2400.240 cache size : 4096 KB

Re: Debian and X fonts

2007-03-09 Thread Matej Kosik
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/08/07 17:01, Matej Kosik wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote: Friends, I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid. When I start `xmms' I get ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*". Similarl

Re:

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I never use the Intel website,

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed > this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I > can't print in the forward direction until I quit the program and > restart it.

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 13:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:14:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Actually, our invasion of Iraq is much more likely to lead to a >>> broader war in the Mid

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread judd
On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:35:57AM +0100, steef wrote: >> > >> yeah. first bomb them down on false premises and lies and then tell >> them: o jeez: you cannot do it without us: you have no functioning >> economy. >> > Ummm, the premises were not false. Th

Re:

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
David A. Parker wrote: Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I neve

[OT] Speaking of Sweden... (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 10:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > You can if you want, but I don't see a point. > Sweden's population seems think Sweden is functioning quite well. > That's what matters to them.. http://www.thelocal.se/66

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-09 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 09/03/2007 18:10, Florian Kulzer wrote: I don't know any details, but from a quick grep through the Debian changelog in Sid I get the impression that there might be an additional ACL patch that you have to apply if you compile yourself. Here are the Uh... I'm afraid you (both) are right.

Re: 65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 3/9/07, Niklaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood > > >many of the concepts , please correct appropriately. > > > > > > 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max > > >65535 outbound connections >

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 20:33:51 +, Marco De Vitis wrote: [...] > I built from the latest official stable rsync sources from the official > rsync home page, if this means "upstream". > Could I build and install the Debian Etch/Sid sources on Sarge? How > should I proceed? You can download

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:49:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:14:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Actually, our invasion of Iraq is much more likely to lead to a > >> broader war in the Mideast than Sadda

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 14:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Congress certainly could have questioned the intelligence; there > was some conflicting evidence available publicly that they should have > been aware of. Some members of congress did state tha

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely because such threads have tended to be short-lived. However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to have taken this to mean that this list is appropriate for any and all discussions b

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:33:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Brits were worried until we told them that "the intelligence > will be fixed around the policy", remember. And the reports which > congress saw (both parties), were the "fixed" ones. > > Congress certainly could

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Joe Hart wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I can't print in the forward direction until I quit the program and restart it. What happens when you use ghostvi

Re: sendemail with gmail?

2007-03-09 Thread Bruno Buys
Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:59:33PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: [...] Hi Juergen, thanks for replying. I tried your line, and here's the output: Mar 09 14:58:26 cestudos sendEmail[3111]: WARNING => Name/Value pair [tls=yes] will be ignored: unknown key [tls]

AIOT: American Idol for OT??

2007-03-09 Thread John -
I'm still a newbie at Debian (I started when Woody was in Testing), and I owe a lot both to this list, and also to several of the OT activists, one of whom gave me invaluable help off-list when I first posted here. And I surely approve of folks taking an active part in arguing about matters controv

Re: 65535 outbound connections

2007-03-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:00:20PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Yes, there can be multiple connections to one port. Each connection is > uniquely defined by local IP, local port, remote IP, remote port. So, you > only can not have to connections between the same IPs and same ports, but

[OT] Re: AIOT: American Idol for OT??

2007-03-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 16:54:12 -0500, John - wrote: > I'm still a newbie at Debian (I started when Woody was in Testing), > and I owe a lot both to this list, and also to several of the OT > activists, one of whom gave me invaluable help off-list when I first > posted here. And I surely approve o

doubt in using sed

2007-03-09 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have made a script like this as test1 #!/bin/bash line="3IINFOTECH,2005042200,118,118,96,98.1,8260440" olds=$(echo "$line"|cut -d, -f2) echo $olds da=${olds:0:8} echo $da echo "$line" > temp1 sed -e 's/$olds/$da/' temp1 >>temp cat temp1 cat temp When I run get as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.qtstalk

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-09 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 09/03/2007 22:20, Florian Kulzer wrote: to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Furthermore, there are Debian tools which automate the build process, see for example here: http://wooledge.org/~greg/sidfaq.html#11 Thanks, I tried it, but I got in a typical dependency nightmare: the deb package I cr

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:12, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard > to say: >> Do you really mean that societies >> are better off when governed by tyrants than when governed by >> democratically elected governments? > > Actually, what I said was "monarchy and oligarchy

Re: AIOT: American Idol for OT??

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
John - wrote: > Will others join me in playing Simon Cowell in treating OT postings > like auditions on American Idol? Let's not sink to new lows by thinking American Idol should be a role model for anyone, anything, anywhere, at any time... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: doubt in using sed

2007-03-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. L.V.Gandhi, 10.03.2007 00:01: > I have made a script like this as test1 > #!/bin/bash > line="3IINFOTECH,2005042200,118,118,96,98.1,8260440" > olds=$(echo "$line"|cut -d, -f2) > echo $olds > da=${olds:0:8} > echo $da > echo "$line" > temp1 > sed -e 's/$olds/$da/' temp1 >>temp You want

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> We had 1% unemployment in the clinton years. It's several times that >> now. > > Nice lie, Paul. 1%? Where? Oregon. >> State of Oregon Department of Employment. > > Not clear on the separation between Federal and State governments, are > yo

Re: Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:18:59 +0100 Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:02 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:29:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Zoho Vignochi wrote: > > > > Also if I maximize a window, the edge of that window d

Re: doubt in using sed

2007-03-09 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 15:01 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have made a script like this as test1 > #!/bin/bash > line="3IINFOTECH,2005042200,118,118,96,98.1,8260440" > olds=$(echo "$line"|cut -d, -f2) > echo $olds > da=${olds:0:8} > echo $da > echo "$line" > temp1 > sed -e 's/$olds/$da/' temp1 >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: >> I'd think that someone in the military would at least be aware >> of concerns that the current situation may lead to a broader regional >> conflict between Sunni and Shia. It has certainly affected the balance >> of power in the region, with Iran being the big winner to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/09/07 14:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] >> Congress certainly could have questioned the intelligence; there >> was some conflicting evidence available publicly that they should have >> been aware of. Some members of congress did state that they had >> reserv

Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc... One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible. I

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:49:24PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 03/09/07 14:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > >> Congress certainly could have questioned the intelligence; there > >> was some conflicting evidence available publicly that they should have > >

Re: grml can - Solved: Debian can

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde > and hdf. They are mountable and usable. > > > I complied a kernel from Debian linux-source-2.6.18. On boot up the > system fails to find the dvdrw an

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 16:45, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> I'd think that someone in the military would at least be aware >>> of concerns that the current situation may lead to a broader regional >>> conflict between Sunni and Shia. It ha

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 16:48, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > 50th (Idaho) for federal money reinvested in the states. Bush has a > vendetta against Oregon that isn't exactly unstated. See, W isn't *that* stupid. > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Re: debian on an NAS server

2007-03-09 Thread tubedriven
Steve, I'm currently stuck on the console redirection once setup starts. What were your steps to alter the configuration to redirect everything to serial for PXE boot? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

2007-03-09 Thread Bob
David A. wrote: On Mar 9, 9:10 am, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my etch MythTV Backend to shutdown automatically if either the CPU or the Hard drives overheat. 8< snip I've seen people recommend using sensord to shutdown on overheat but can't see howto, also this wouldn

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/09/07 16:45, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> I'd think that someone in the military would at least be aware of concerns that the current situation may lead to a broader regional confli

change vga reasolution on the fly

2007-03-09 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello list, I bought a VGA to s-video converter, this converter receive VGA input of resolution 640x480. I bought this converter in order to connect my laptop to my TV. In the other way my external LCD receive VGA input of 1024x768. So ..., that is my problem: There are any way to use the same

Can't run shorewall with kernel 2.6.20.2

2007-03-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried upgrading to kernel 2.6.20 and 2.6.20.2 but shorewall refuses to start. The only error I get is: (from /var/log/shorewall-init.log) [...] Shorewall configuration compiled to /var/lib/shorewall/.start Starting Shorewall Initializing... Clearing Traffic Control/QOS Deleting user chains.

Re: Can't run shorewall with kernel 2.6.20.2

2007-03-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:00:34AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried upgrading to kernel 2.6.20 and 2.6.20.2 but shorewall refuses to > start. > > The only error I get is: (from /var/log/shorewall-init.log) > > [...] > Shorewall configuration compiled to /var/lib/shorewall/.start > Starting S

Re: issues after installing Etch

2007-03-09 Thread subopt
On Mar 8, 8:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My new install of Etch has a few issues. > > [1] Even though my keyboard mapping is correct, xterms and rxvt's > don't have the Alt key mapped to Meta, like other apps do > (emacs/xemacs, etc). Checked the keymapping in xkeycaps, and it was > right. Ho

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Very probably. Better question: Would we be paying trillions of dollars to > make it happen and get blamed for destabilizing the region when Saddam died > left to his own devices? Even better question, how many more trillions of dollars would we have spent to clean it u

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Oregon. Bully for you. And Oregon is the only indicator in the US for unemployment or might there just be 49 other data points to consider? I'm pretty sure if we decided to go state-by-state or county-by-county during the Clinton years we could find places that have wha

Re: XEN: monitor domU cpu, ram and disk activity under cacti

2007-03-09 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:25:31AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: > I'd like to monitor the cpu, ram and disk activity of xen domU servers, > under cacti. > > Since I do not manage the domU servers myself, I'd like to be able to do > that from the dom0 exclusively. You are not going to be able to mo

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Resorting to ad hominem attacks already? Of course I've read it. You really need to bone up on your terminology. See, if I had stopped there it would be ad hominem. However I didn't stop there. That wasn't an argument, that was an expression of disbelief. >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Yes, I can tell the difference. I think your assumption is based on the > > idea OPEC isn't profitting massively. > > > Wow. You really don't get it. > [..] > > Now, please demonstrate that you have a semblance of a clue, g

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:47:05AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Failure, we've hired warlords to hunt warlords again. Didn't we learn from > working with bin Laden in the first place that you just can't trust > warlords? The "warlords" et al are only scapegoats. -- Chris. == Don't forget t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > Yup. You can blame that on your precious UN. Bush's hands were > > basically tied by a resolution that was written with language only > > authorizing

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:32:46PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/06/07 20:43, Al Eridani wrote: > > On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > Not at all. What the rest of the world wants is less interference fr

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:20:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's just not true. This world, particularly the West, already > produces enough food to feed *everyone*, even while paying them not > to grow food. Ummm, so nothings dumped in the ocean for economic reasons? -- Chris. == Don'

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these: > - Xoops > - Joomla > - e107 What is wrong, if anything, with PHPWCMS http://www.phpwcms.de? I haven't looked at it myself, but someone was praising it over a coupla beer

Re: update-initramfs question

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:48:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [..] > >>But how does he know that initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 is the 'newest kernel' > >>as the man-page has it? > > > >-uThis mode updates

Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:36:14PM -0500, Michael Lueck wrote: > I saw this article online: > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html > that leads me to believe the patch is available for Testing and Unstable, > but not Stable/Sarge. > > I have not seen this weekend's time change mentio

Re: change vga reasolution on the fly

2007-03-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:36:53PM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello list, > > I bought a VGA to s-video converter, this converter receive VGA input of > resolution 640x480. I bought this converter in order to connect my > laptop to my TV. In the other way my external LCD receive VGA input

Re: Graphical bittorrent clients in etch

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Liam O'Toole wrote: > I am looking for a graphical bittorrent client for etch. My > requirements are that it supports encryption and integrates nicely with > the GNOME desktop. Here are the ones I have evaluated so far. Given your constraints, none. Linux BT clients are sorely lacking which i

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Very probably. Better question: Would we be paying trillions of dollars >> to make it happen and get blamed for destabilizing the region when Saddam >> died left to his own devices? > > Even better question, how many more trillions of dollars would

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed >>> this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I >>> can't print in the forward dire

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > $0. US responsibility ends at the border. Yeah, we saw how well that went in WWI and WWII. You do realize that if the lid isn't kept on we'd be facing the same situation? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Johnson wrote: (snip) Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I read in one of the textbooks (forget which one, sorry) that US actually did try switching to kmph (kilometers per hour) from mph (miles per hour) in regards to road signs etc., But then people had a hard time following it. The government

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