Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/07 18:12, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Roberto. > > Roberto C. Sanchez, 13.03.2007 00:06: [snip] >> I read on Slashdot a while back that Seagate announced 37.5 TB >> drives will be available in a few years. > > Ouch. I?m thinking about get

Re: PayPal - Limited account access -

2007-03-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:24:55 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tbird/Icedove showing the *real* link down in the status bar is *the* great security feature of Tbird/Icedove. I always use Thun

Re: trouble connecting to some wifi access points

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:03:16PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2007 10:53, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:45:49AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > I am having trouble connecting to one of the wifi APs in my neighborhood. > > > Following is my connection script. >

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged portable computer

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:57:27PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (12/03/07 16:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > I'm going to be travelling in semi-wilderness and would like to take a > > > computer with me. Primarily fo

Re: usb audio device & sound card

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Greetings Mark: > This script would set your on-board card (CS46xx) to be your default > card for alsa regardless of which card it is in the system (0 or 1): > #!/bin/bash > # > # The awk statement should get the first "word" (the card number) > # from the line which contains the text (the car

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged portable computer

2007-03-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:31:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:57:27PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (12/03/07 16:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > I'm going to be travelling in semi-wilde

Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-12 Thread A. F. Cano
I don't know what else to try. I have tested the following in /etc/modules.conf: alias snd-cs46xx off blacklist snd-cs46xx install snd-cs46xx /bin/true(found this on a web site) in /etc/discover.conf-2.6 and /etc/discover.d/alsa-base skip snd-cs46xx A kernel boot parameter: snd-cs46xx.bl

A request for your input.

2007-03-12 Thread lmth
Hello My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University Australia. I am currently researching the boundary between work and leisure activities directly related to the open source community and open source program development. As part of this I am running a survey at the foll

Solved: Re: no executable in gtk-gnutella package for i386-etch

2007-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:55:15 -0400, hendrik wrote: > When I install gtk-gnutella, it installs just fine, except that > afterward there is no usr/bin/gtk-gnutella file. even though > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=gtk-gnutella&version=unstable&arch=

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged portable computer

2007-03-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:32:54PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:31:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:57:27PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (12/03/07 16:10), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:44:46PM -0400

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged portable computer

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/07 21:32, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] > > I've had two laptops. Once clone died when my house got hit by > lightening while I was using it. I figure induction from the > current in the metal roof fried the display. The ThinkPad frie

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged

2007-03-12 Thread pinniped
There are rugged laptops aimed primarily at the military but also commonly used in industry. Occasionally you can pick them up at ex-govt auctions for next-to-nothing and in great condition. Failing that, how fast a beast do you want? You can get something like a LBC-GX500 from WinSystems (

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> >> My position comes from the fact that companies try to push their >> proprietary formats down our throats. PDF is a perfect example of a >> file type that I have disliked since I moved to Europe where the pap

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] This is a limitation of the tools, not the file format. There is no such problem with other files. Unfortunately, PDF has become a standard. Luckily there are gpl tools that can handle them, but I d

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. Er, when wasn't it a

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:01:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ever worked with RHEL or Fedora (or Red Hat before that)? They have I don't run Debian. $ uname -a Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686 i686

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 01:16, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > Since you know so much about PDF files, let me ask you another > question. Does PDF have DRM capabilities built in? They can be password encrypted. Don't know about anything else. > > Joe > -BEGIN

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 01:51, Mike McCarty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM >>> that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about >>> being "stuck" with it. Here is a

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 01:56, Mike McCarty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:01:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ever worked with RHEL or Fedora (or Red Hat before that)? They have >>> >>>

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