Common home with multiboot

2008-03-26 Thread Sudev Barar
I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing. Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc. working when I switch from distro to distro. I solved thi

Re: Common home with multiboot

2008-03-26 Thread Juha Tuuna
Sudev Barar wrote: I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing. Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc. working when I switch from distro to

Re: Common home with multiboot

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
> also works. Is there any other directory I need to be linking? On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:09:27PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > I solved this by making a link to the following directories in my home > of second and third OS (note the ".") > .ssh > .mozilla > .mozilla-thunderbird > .gnupg > .tomboy

Re: Common home with multiboot

2008-03-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26/03/2008, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can even mount /home and use the same username/uid > on every distro. Fedora and Debian use different UIDs. Let's say that Fedora set up user "bob" with UID "1000". How does should Debian be configured so that "bob" is UID 1000 in it as

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-03-26 Thread Joost Witteveen
On 26/03/2008, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > That means I > > get to move up to 64 bit. In keeping with my personal > > > preference to *never* reinstall, I've got an opportunity to attempt to > > migrate a running system from 3

Re: wireframe tool?

2008-03-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:18:42 +0100 e s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone know a wireframe tool for prototyping interfaces, or > applications? Any other you use? (other than WireFrame on sourceforge) > thanks, > -e > > Wireshark maybe? Previously known as ethereal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Common home with multiboot

2008-03-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 26/03/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/03/2008, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can even mount /home and use the same username/uid > > on every distro. > > > Fedora and Debian use different UIDs. Let's say that Fedora set up > user "bob" with UID "1000". Ho

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-26 Thread cypherstrong
I have already try to change it manually but DB2 auto rewrite the shmmax value I have try to start db2 and after set the shmmax, but they still crash with same error. Perhaps it's a bug of the db2 v9.5 fixpack 0 of ibm soft because older version work fine without anything to do. They is a way to

Re: Apache running vbscript-ASP

2008-03-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Well, apparently nobody knows. Then I'm afraid I have to use IIS for this project. And yes I know it runs only Windows, but I am not going to convert that whole site in a decent language. Sjoerd Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to alter some vbscript-files for a website that is runn

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote on 2008-03-26 02:51: > On 03/25/2008 08:22 PM, David Fox wrote: >> Recently I'm getting a bounce message on every post to debian-user. I >> figure some of you who post a lot more than I do can see what is going >> on. I just got one aga

vmsplice bug, javascript vulnerable ?

2008-03-26 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1, relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ? Is it possible for remote programs, say a website that one is browsing with javascript turne

Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Wei Chen
Hi, The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. The Debian team should not focus only on the

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-03-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you don't came across: on the list linux.debian.ports.amd64 this was discussed several times, see, e.g., "Re: In-place upgrade from i386" http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2008/02/msg00155.html -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Problems after upgrading to Lenny

2008-03-26 Thread Michael
Hi list, i upgraded to Debian Lenny two months ago. Now i'm having some problems with my Computer. One of the most annoying is that the computer freezes from time to time without any hints. It just stops and i have to reboot. Another problem appears when the kernel boots: the computer just loos

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26 Mar at 1:22 Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] > > > P.S. Recently I ran apt-spy. It turned out ftp.at.debian.org is the best > > mirror for me. ftp.ro.debian.org didn't even make the top 5. > > Good tip - I'll try that - our co

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Simon Jolle
2008/3/26, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Hi Wei > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, > e.g. about 50% in

Gnome Network Manager appears disconnected when using Static IP...

2008-03-26 Thread El Amigo De La Playa
Hi List, I am using Debian Testing with Gnome on a i686 desktop. Perfect install (well, almost...) On the top bar, in the right-hand corner, next to date & time, is the "nm-applet 0.6.5", which is the Network Manager icon, you know, the one with 2 little blue monitor... When the network is not

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-26 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 03/25/08 19:00, s. keeling wrote: > > David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> I've one seriously cheapo Concord Eye-Q 1000 (1.3 Mpx res.). This > >>> model is not listed in gt

Re: Apache running vbscript-ASP

2008-03-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/26/2008 04:11 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi all, I need to alter some vbscript-files for a website that is running on an IIS installation. I am not going to be able to change that, so I will have to be able to actually run that site. Is there any way to do so under Linux? I found that

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/26/2008 04:14 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote on 2008-03-26 02:51: On 03/25/2008 08:22 PM, David Fox wrote: Recently I'm getting a bounce message on every post to debian-user. I figure some of you who post a lot more than I do

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you informed sculpture.cz or wherever the mail originated? I'd > rather have them know that they have to reconfigure their mail system. I CCed the first message to their Postmaster, maybe that will help. If

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote on 2008-03-24 13:12: > Patrick Wiseman: >> rm /etc/alternatives/acroread >> ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread > > The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use > update-a

Re: vmsplice bug, javascript vulnerable ?

2008-03-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/26/2008 04:51 AM, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: Greetings, Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1, relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ? Is it possible for remote programs, say a webs

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: >> > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to tunnel an

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Simon Jolle wrote the following on 03/26/2008 06:06 AM: 2008/3/26, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Hi Wei The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates t

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Jolle wrote: > 2008/3/26, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, > > Hi Wei > >> The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the >> recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most >> famous search

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote on 2008-03-26 12:55: > I'm just a user. I meant that I configured my mailreader to ignore such > messages. But yes, someone (not I) should inform sculpture.cz of the > problem. It's probably futile though; if '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' bounces

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 11:43:37 pm Wei Chen wrote: > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, > e.g. about 50% in the la

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:55:41 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mumia, > problem. It's probably futile though; if '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' bounces, > the network isn't competently run. The messages are sent *from* [EMAIL PROTECTED] The address that _bounces_ is [EMAIL PROTECTED] At

Re: vmsplice bug, javascript vulnerable ?

2008-03-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:51:25PM +1200, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1, > relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not > enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ? > Is it possible for r

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 07:43: > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its user

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:28:12PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > >> The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > >> recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > >> famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, > >> e.g.

how to determine from script if/where X is running

2008-03-26 Thread Martin Kraus
Hello, is there a standard way in debian to determine on what VT and display is X running? Say I have a script that does something and I need to return output to the user, but the user can be in linux console or in X or X doesn't have to be running etc. So I need to determine if/where I should po

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Juha Tuuna
Wei Chen wrote: Hi, The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. Do 'losing users' correlate

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 14:28: > > Oh. Sorry. This page: http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian - From this [1] it would appear, that debian is presently outperforming suse and fedora, but all three are strongly outperformed by ubuntu [2]. Since

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-21 00:32:11, schrieb Andrei Popescu: > This is very much a reality in my country. I had friends laugh at me > when I told them Linux is free (piracy in Romania is estimated to be > more than 90%). :-) Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-17 20:05:43, schrieb Ron Johnson: > Except when that $90 bottle of wine is really vinegar, but wine > snobs insist that it's delicious. :-/ > Or that Windows is s much better than Linux, because Linux is cheap. Hmmm, IF I count the time, I have invested in my beloved Debian GNU/Li

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:22:55PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > Recently I'm getting a bounce message on every post to debian-user. I > figure some of you who post a lot more than I do can see what is going > on. I just got one again: I think such occurrence should be reported to the listmaster. Re

Re: how to determine from script if/where X is running

2008-03-26 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello Martin, On 2008-03-26 16:25 +0100, Martin Kraus wrote: > Hello, > is there a standard way in debian to determine on what VT and display is X > running? Say I have a script that does something and I need to return output > to the user, but the user can be in linux console or in X or X does

Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-26 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that the job executed successfully. I'd prefer not to get the mail. I

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:43:37PM +0800, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing i

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I agree with the last sentence. However, no one can expect that the > state, that their mail server is misconfigured would ever improve, as Well, all I did was CC the postmaster account when I posted that query, but at least I haven'

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-26 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:27 AM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) phreaque /home/keeling_ gphoto2 --auto-detect > Model Port > -- > (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ So it doesn't detect it at all, then. Bumm