Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) > appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not > actually abandoned won't compile with newer versions of compilers or > newer versions of glibc or both.

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Joe
Greg Folkert wrote: Yes, Laptops do have a battery for the BIOS. That maybe what kicked off the problems in the first place. That did occur to me when I saw the thread. My son's new motherboard seemed completely unusable, sometimes the BIOS would see the drives, sometimes not. Much of the tim

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:44:07 +0800 > Ken Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear All: >> >> I found myself in a strange situation. >> The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and >> there's no other removable

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I did try it, just for kicks since I already had Debian installed. It works just as advertised. It will detect which processor you have, and download appropriate net install (daily build if I am not mistaken) for Etch and then offer you a chance to install it next boot. The install works just

sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread michael
Folks I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box, so all help welcome. Full details are below, but essentially lspci sees the card but alsaconf gives firstly: "No supported PnP or PCI card found.

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Atis
Really? There is one particular aspect I'm concerned with: Will it really put Debian on its own partition or is it one of those Linux-in-a-file-inside-a-windows-partition crazy things? I looked a lot in the net for this information but I can't find it anywhere. Yup, it's a normal installer, al

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Ken Hu
Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP installation along with my new debian OS ? Ken 於 Wed,2007-03-28 於 13:07 +0300,Atis 提到: > > Really? There is one particular aspect I'm concerned with: Will it really > > put De

Odp: Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
> *** > Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP > installation along with my new debian OS ? > > Ken Yes, you may safely run dual-boot If you're not familiar with linux don't even try to delete WinXp until you get fully working system. regards zb

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Atis
On 3/28/07, Ken Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP installation along with my new debian OS ? Then you would need to resize windows partition first. Regards, Atis -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a week to configure how you

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Folks I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box, so all help welcome. Full details are below, but essentially lspci sees the card but alsaconf gives firstly: "No supported PnP or PCI card found.

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes a day to a w

3D acceleration

2007-03-28 Thread bart hendriks
Dear Madam, Dear Sir, I have a question concerning 3D acceleration on my Dell Inspiron 1501 AMD64 with a Radeon Xpress 1150 3D-capable Graphics card. Currently I am using Debian Etch 64 installed via Netinstaller. This went perfect and all went smooth. Now I installed the FlightGear Simulator,

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Ken Hu wrote: Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP You're never safe when using windows... /magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread michael
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Folks > I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to > work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box, > so all help welcome. Full details are below, but essentially lspci sees > the card bu

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:41:37AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:41:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > Which begs the question, "Is Debian made for me?" > > > Begging the question is a logical fallacy. What > you are talking about is "raising the question." Hell, l

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hell, lots of people are missusing that phrase. Which begs the question: Are they wrong? It raises the question. And the answer is yes. Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as everybody thinking something does not make it true. -- Chris. == Don't forget to c

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Siju George
Thankyou so much jose and Roberto for your Responses :-) On 3/27/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:03:11PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering for what amount of Load the default configuration of > apache2-mpm-prefork in Sarge is tuned? >

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Atis: > On 3/28/07, Ken Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. >> Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP >> installation along with my new debian OS ? > > Then you would need to resize windows partition first. You need to

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:41:37AM -0400, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:41:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: >>> Which begs the question, "Is Debian made for me?" >>> >> Begging the question is a logical f

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:03:08 +0300 Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/28/07, Ken Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. > > Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP > > installation along with my new debian OS ? > > The

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Kent West
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as everybody thinking something does not make it true. Curly, Larry, or Shemp (I don't remember): I'm positive! Moe: Only fools are positive. C|L|S: Are you sure? Moe: I'm positive! (I don't kn

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:55:23PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > The server i have is > > == > 1x Dual-Core Opteron 2210 (1.8GHz) on a Dual CPU Motherboard > > 2x 2GB RAM/PC3200 (4GB Total) > > 2x Onboard GbE LANs > > CD-RO

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Atis
You need to resize it, but you can do that during the installation process (or let the installer decide). /Should/ be no problem. But, as always, when fiddling with partitions: make sure you have a backup, just in case. If i would have a space for backup, i wouldn't resize, but just copy data th

Re: 3D acceleration

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 06:26, bart hendriks wrote: > Dear Madam, Dear Sir, > > I have a question concerning 3D acceleration on my Dell Inspiron > 1501 AMD64 with a Radeon Xpress 1150 3D-capable Graphics card. > Currently I am using Debian Etch 64 installed via N

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 03:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: > > [snip] > >> There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) >> appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not >> actual

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Hu escribió: > Dear All: > > I found myself in a strange situation. > The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's > no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on > that notebook. > The only way

LDAP 2.3 with etch

2007-03-28 Thread stefan weber
hi, my os is "etch" with "openldap version 2.3.30". if I liked to provide the ldap-data base with "smbldap-populate" I get the message: failed to add entry: Can't contact LDAP server at /usr/sbin/smbldap-populate lin e 471, line 21. Please provide a password for the domain root: Can't conta

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Siju George
Thanks a million Roberto for the Quick Reply :-) On 3/28/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The hardware specs look good. How much bandwidth will the server have going to it? I mean is your ISP connection a dedicated T1, T3, or something else? T1 burstable they say. That is

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:21:56PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Thanks a million Roberto for the Quick Reply :-) > No problem. > On 3/28/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >The hardware specs look good. How much bandwidth will the server have > >going to it? I mean is your

Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Joerg Lange
Hi all, is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool that samples every minute or every few minutes (e.g. in a cron job) the system load and reports any issues to the user in a simple way like this:

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-28 11:50:42 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc > color body brightred brightdefault > "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" [...] But how can you do this for log messages only? For instance, I'd like to do the same thin

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:31:16PM +0200, Joerg Lange wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? > Perhaps something SNMP-based? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature

Re: 3D acceleration

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Would it be possible that you could tell me how to get the 3D > acceleration operational so that I can use the whole potential of the > Notebook? Perhaps at http://dri.freedesktop.org you'll find some helpful hints. There's details on http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building for building drivers

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > It raises the question. And the answer is yes. > Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as > everybody thinking something does not make it true. Except, of course, when it comes to language, especially idioms, where a large enoug

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails > > through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just to do some filtering. > > Getmail can do this on its own just fine (well not the actual > > filtering, but then neither does exim/postfix), no need

xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Arvind Marathe
Hi all, I had a debian etch running on my system for the past few months. Today the system was working fine, i was out for a while for tea, when i came back, it had hanged and when i force-rebooted it after everything else failed, x-window-system does not start at all. I had put runlevel 5, but it

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant Didn't I say you folks were brilliant?! Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid off. Here's what I finally settled on that works: LBA Mode = Enabled 32 Bit I/O = Enabled Transfer Mode

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Joerg Lange
On 3/28/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps something SNMP-based? Hmm I have briefly looked at that now, but it seems to be quite an overkill for what I want to archieve, or am I wrong? For system traffic monitoring I use "vnstat" at the moment, which is a very small and

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:50:04AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > It raises the question. And the answer is yes. > > > Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as > > everybody thinking something does not make it true. > > Except, of

Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm having a problem getting my PDC to join a domain as per the Samba By Example chap. 5 instructions. In particular, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root[5887] net rpc join -S DANA -U admin Connection failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Password: Connection failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Unable to

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You need to resize it, but you can do that during the installation > > process (or let the installer decide). /Should/ be no problem. But, > > as always, when fiddling with partitions: make sure you have a > > backup, just in case. > > If i would have a space f

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-28 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > put on a server?" > Realy good question... >...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 160 Servers! That's a shame. There are some slick rackable displays,

Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Arvind Marathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I had a debian etch running on my system for the past few months. > Today the system was working fine, i was out for a while for tea, > when i came back, it had hanged and when i force-rebooted it after > everything else failed, x-window-syst

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:24 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > > put on a server?" > > Realy good question... > >...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 16

Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? Thanks! -- Zhengquan Zhang Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing,P.R.China. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant > > Didn't I say you folks were brilliant?! > > Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid > off. Here's what I finally settled on th

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Siju George
On 3/28/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:21:56PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > OK. I am not sure if a connection that small can handle a slashdotting, but I guess you will find out :-) alright :-) > May I Know why Is ther any problem using Sarge? >

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

2007-03-28 Thread getzjd
I am trying to do something similar with SBC Netopia 3546 with a sonicwall behind it. I want the SonicWall to have an external IP We have 5 IPs. I am xxx.xxx.xxx.161 to xxx.xxx.xxx.165 The IP the Netopia pulls with PPoE is xxx.xxx.xxx.166 According to this documentation http://www.netopia

Re: Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Workshop
On Wed, 2007-28-03 at 06:45 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:47:15 -0500 > "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have downloaded (apt etc) and "installed" truetype fonts which > > Sarge placed in file: > > > > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries

Re: gdm and intel G965

2007-03-28 Thread Anson Gardner
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 07:21, Platff wrote: > I'm on the same situation. > > vesa driver works in e520 configuration but this is not the solution > because of its low performance (I'm using it now) > > After lot of Googling, I tried to modprobe intel agp modules and I tried to > create by hand /d

Re: BellSouth DSL with

2007-03-28 Thread getzjd
As I wrote this, i realized what I did. DOINK... Follow that document link above and you should be working -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Solved] Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Arvind Marathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems like something happened to your mouse (do you have a > > cat? :) ). Check cables and try replacing it with a known good > > mouse. > > Couldn't figure out why the usb mouse suddenly died (must be a stray > cat, took 6 lng months to find

Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] >> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice >^^ >> No such file or directory. >> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device >> (EE) PreInit fa

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:21:13PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-03-28 11:50:42 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc > > color body brightred brightdefault > > "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" > [...] > > But how can

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. > But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? I usually use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ -- Cheers, Sv

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On 3/18/07, Jeff Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an removing method if wanted latter. Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Joe
Ron Johnson wrote: There seem to be a few OCR projects in the Debian repository. Don't know how good they are, though. As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with large, clear characters. Whi

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 27.03.2007 at 23:25 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been > > thinking about] > > > > Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your > > servers running stable? An example which springs to mind would be

Re: cron.d works, but cron.daily doesn't

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 28-mrt-2007, at 4:27, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: On 3/27/07, Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've got a strange issue with cron. I try to run a simple script that calls tar to backup my wiki. I can run the script using sudo, it runs fine from an entry in cron.d but refuses to r

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with > >--prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an > >removing method if wanted latter. > >Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Anson Gardner
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:06, Siju George wrote: > > > > Etch will be released any day now. You will save yourself much grief if > > you just start off with Etch than starting with Sarge and trying to > > upgrade to Etch. There have been some very major changes. > > Which means Security upda

Double mounted partition icons on the gnome desktop

2007-03-28 Thread llimaa
Hi, i hope anyone can help me with my problem or maybe bug? Description of the problem: GNOME show me two mounted volume icons on the desktop for the same hard disk and the hard disk is correctly added to fstab. "/dev/mapper/hdb1_crypt/bstorage ext3 defaults0 2" I've read that

problems with accessing X apps with ssh

2007-03-28 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm having a problem accessing X apps from FC2 to Debian Etch using ssh. I can ssh in to Etch ok, and can display stuff like lsmod on FC2's CLI, but if I try to run Gedit, Kwrite, or any other Xapp it's a no go. I tried in /etc/ssh_config on Etch uncommenting the line. ForwardX11Trusted yes Thi

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:02:19 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-18 22:36:12, schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez: >> Are these the same Muslims who are blowing innocent men women and >> children in markets schools and other public places? > > It seems you do not know anything

Re: problems with accessing X apps with ssh

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem accessing X apps from FC2 to Debian Etch using > ssh. I can ssh in to Etch ok, and can display stuff like lsmod on > FC2's CLI, but if I try to run Gedit, Kwrite, or any other Xapp it's > a no go. I tried in /etc/ssh_config on Etch unco

List access

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Johnson
I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not appear to have been received. So this is a test. thanks tim -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palmer, Alaska, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:13 +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not > appear to have been received. > > So this is a test. > thanks > tim You mean the "USP drive performance" e-mail? -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a c

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Folks > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to > > work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box, > > so all help welcom

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread judd
On 26 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> >> Waitaminnit! >> >> We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" >> > Ahh, but something must have been used to design Emacs (it did not > evolve by itself), and s

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread judd
On 25 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > ... > > And I understood that you have yet to provide actual proof of war > crimes. You ramble on about the GCs and NATO treaties, but you have > yet to point out even one *specific* instance which when brought > before a court has a reasonable chance as b

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Mike McCarty wrote: ... If power fails during a write, and the drive scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed. But the disks almost surely don't scribble on the disk in a spiral pattern. (They'd detect that power is fail

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:13:27PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not > appear to have been received. > > So this is a test. If you are refereing to the "USP drive" email that Greg mentioned, then your mail is getting through. The problem is

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Johnson
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 20:10, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:13 +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not > > appear to have been received. > > > > So this is a test. > > thanks > > tim > > You mean the "USP drive performance" e-

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-28 Thread Cassiano Leal
Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 27.03.2007 at 23:25 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been thinking about] Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your servers running stable? An example which springs to mind would be

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread michael
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:05 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > Folks > > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to > > > work in another Debi

What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread wix
Greetings; It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, but how do I upgrade? I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build init.rd worked, so that was a few hours wasted. I have a working install of stable/sarge running. Can I start from there some

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joerg Lange wrote: Hi all, is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool that samples every minute or every few minutes (e.g. in a cron job) the system load and reports any issues to the user in a si

Re: What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:34:23PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings; > > It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, > but how do I upgrade? > > I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build

Re: Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Some additional info. I've discovered this clip from the log about a page before the error message appears: UNIX token of user 0 Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups [2007/03/28 16:12:42, 5] smbd/uid.c:change_to_root_user(275) change_to_root_user: now uid=(0,0) gid=(0,0)

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? I usually use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldc

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 10:53, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. > But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? The date(1) CLI app will do what you w

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
> >>I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the > >>world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a > >>future time? This seems to work: $ TZ=EST date -d "2010-12-26 16:20 PST" Sun Dec 26 19:20:00 EST 2010 Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Okay, got it... Commented out the auth methods and it works. Details details. later, -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:22 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-19 18:18:46, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:04:52 -0400, Roberto wrote in message >> > Of course, this raises the following question: >> > >> > "If Allah is all powerful, why could he

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 15:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 25 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] > Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a > war crime. Other actions which may be war crimes: > > Torturing prisoners. > Usi

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:37:30PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joerg Lange wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? > > > >For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool > >that samples every minute or every few minu

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 10:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails >>> through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just to do some filtering. >>> Getmail can do this on its ow

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yeah, but Oregon still doesn't trust me to pump my own gas. Of course, with some of the crap I see around here, that's probably a good thing. Is it that they don't trust you to pump the gas safely, or is it protectionism for gas-station worker as I think it was in

Re: What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, > but how do I upgrade? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include source lines for etch, run 'aptitude update && aptitude upgrade', then 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. During the last stept you have to make sure ap

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:06:34 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-19 02:04:42, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: >> ..as EU members? The EU has its own (token) military force, but I am >> not aware of any Swedish troops in Afghanistan. > > Me too... > >> ..peace. First we need

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/28/07 10:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails > >>> through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 09:31, Joerg Lange wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? > > For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool > that samples every minute or every few minutes (e.

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:36:28PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > Which means Security updates for Sarge will stop soon right? > And I will need to upgrade all the Sarge servers on the net soon :-) > Security support for Sarge will continue for 1 year after the release of Etch or until the release

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > >> I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the > >> world. > >> But what should I use to see what time is at anot

Re: problems with accessing X apps with ssh

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:29:46PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm having a problem accessing X apps from FC2 to Debian Etch using ssh. I > can > ssh in to Etch ok, and can display stuff like lsmod on FC2's CLI, but if I > try to run Gedit, Kwrite, or any other Xapp it's a no go. I tried > in /

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable > price, once it was scriptable the price increased by more tha

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:01:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 26 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> > >> Waitaminnit! > >> > >> We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" > >> > > Ahh, but s

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:30:56PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:05 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Folks > > > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster

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

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Greg Folkert wrote: ...> The Celsius Thermometer wil drop significantly slower the the Fahrenheit one. Only if it has more insulation. Otherwise, the temperature drops at the same speed. Of course, yes, the _numbers_ change at different rates. :-) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

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