Re: Setting up a firewall

2002-10-06 Thread bob
eBastille typed as one word with the exact capitalization. A script will run that asks questions about how you want to set up iptables and also harden your system. Bob Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread bob
blem, but I had random, frequent (once a day at least) keyboard & mouse lockups requiring a reboot starting soon after the XFree upgrade (via apt-get dist-upgrade). It was so frustrating I reinstalled testing. Before that, unstable would go for weeks without problems for me. Bob Scott -

Re: SPAM fiiltering

2002-10-31 Thread bob
for ready deletion after a cursory look see. And it's easy to add additional conditions as they occur. Bob Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dedicated Server on Athlon 1200 w/Debian

2002-11-13 Thread bob
now. Only problem is some distros (Debian for one) don't configure sound perfectly out of the box (but Mandrake and Knoppix do fine). I've had no problems with the built-in NIC. Make sure the vendor supplies an AMD approved CPU cooling fan. Bob Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Bob
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:59:06AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > We are re-releasing "slink" in a month or so w/ 2.2, new X, new pcmcia, etc. So potato will stay 'unstable'? -- Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Esmond, R

Re: Virus and file /proc/kcore

2002-09-04 Thread bob
x27;t take up any hard disk space. /proc/kcore is like an "alias" for the memory in your computer. Its size is the same as the amount of RAM you have, and if you read it as a file, the kernel does memory reads." Bob Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect error

1998-01-04 Thread BOB
I am a new user to Linux and whilst trying to install packages through 'dselect' I run into problems which return a message 'exit error status 1' Also not all of the packages selected will install. ie. half a package may install but the rest won't. Any sugestions??? thanks fingers -- TO U

Problem with serial port?

1997-09-17 Thread Bob
's. The kernel version is 2.0.29. I even recompiled the kernel with serial support built in as opposed to serial being a module as it is when first installing a new Debian system. Thanks in advance for any help anyone may be able to give me. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: Problem with serial port?

1997-09-18 Thread Bob
Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem was an incorrectly configured interupt for COM1. Needed to be int 5 instead of 4. Is there a way to find out what interupts are in use in my Linux system? I'm not sure of what is using int4 and would like to find out. Thanks again Bob On Tu

debian version 1.3.1 ?

1997-10-09 Thread Bob
I recently add X to my debian box. My debian version still shows 1.3 Shouldn't this now read 1.3.1?? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian version 1.3.1 ?

1997-10-09 Thread Bob
Thanks for the info. I never really thought in terms of security. Should the file /etc/debian_version show 1.3.1. Mine shows 1.3. I know this is a very minor point, I'm just curious. Bob On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Bob wrote: > > > I

reading excel documents?

1997-10-09 Thread Bob
I am sometimes e-mailed microsoft excel documents while running Linux. Is there anyway to read those files without booting into Win95? Thanks Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ftp status under dselect

1997-08-27 Thread Bob
Is there any way to have dselect show a status during the ftp of selected files? Something similar to the status indicator that ncftp uses would be nice. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread bob
hay nut case. take this bull shut some place else. this is not the place to be saying lies like that. You are so full of your own shit I can smell your rotten stink over the internet You have no idea what you are talking about. grow up and become a real member of the world -Original Message

News setup?

1996-12-28 Thread bob
that's available, Cnews, inn, etc... I am setting up a simple single user system so I really don't need anything elaborate. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Bob
o be any decent Java IDE's that come as a .deb package. Netbeans and Eclipse seem to be the two popular ones and ASAIK both come as .bin's so you could manually install them. OTher than that, you could use vi or emacs... Cheers, -- bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com http://www.bob

mounting over NFS not posible !

2000-09-15 Thread Bob
Hi everbody!. When I try to mount a remote directory over NFS, I get an error messege something like this :" mountd no registered to rpc" (not exactly but like that). I have previously run portmap, "rpc.nfsd" and "rpc.mountd", with no errors, I also chequed the /etc/rpc file and it seems ok (moun

name of howto's in debian potato?

2000-09-15 Thread Bob
Hi. Just a quicky. How are the HOWTO's called in debian potato. I have'nt got them installed and cant find them (there are too many file on the three CD's !) If someone could tell me their exact nemes I would very much appreciate it. Regards, Mark Mark Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Network unreachable !

2000-09-25 Thread Bob
Hello, hope you are well! I have a problem with a debian GNU / Linux 2.2 (potato). I tells me that network is unreachable, whatever I do. When I installed debian, I could not load the ne module (on io=0x280 irq=5). I only have lo interface loaded, so I follow these steps: modprobe ne io=0x28

network is unreachable!

2000-09-25 Thread Bob
Hello, hope you are well! I have a problem with a debian GNU / Linux 2.2 (potato). I tells me that network is unreachable, whatever I do. When I installed debian, I could not load the ne module (on io=0x280 irq=5). I only have lo interface loaded, so I follow these steps: modprobe ne io=0x28

how do i get sound working?

2000-07-14 Thread Bob
alright i've read the sound-how-to but it didn't help me. my sound card is a "Creative Labs Audio PCI 64V". im not sure what sound driver i should be using or how to set the irq, I/o port, and DMA settings... running pnpdump does nothing.

sound still not working

2000-07-15 Thread Bob
i did the cat /proc/pci step and it returned: "Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0). Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=12" i tried to compile in the es1371 driver with sound support into the kernel, but didn't detect my sound card irq. then i c

A solution

2001-02-19 Thread bob
Dear Friend, It is a blessing that I am able to reach you. I have some important information for you,it's about your future and your love life. I have the answer, to what is blocking you from having happiness and love in your life. You have been praying for an answer,wanting to know what is

RE: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Bob
Hi. In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would install all the "alien" software on your system. By alien I mean, Things that did not come prepared for your system, or things you compiled yourself. Ourdays it is quite rare (at least from what I see), to find 'thing

RE:changing route table ?

2000-12-04 Thread Bob
Hello Fellow Debin Users ! I used to have my debian box conected through a gateway, set up with route add default gw 192.168.0.1 Now that gateway ceased to exist, and each time I want to connect to internet I cant. I have to: route -n (otherwise it tries to resolve names through

Permissions - Newbie Style Question

2000-12-19 Thread Bob
: PARANOID line. Thanks in advance for any assistance bob

kernel version

2000-12-23 Thread Bob
what linux kernel version does the current stable debian release (2.2r2) run on. what kernel version does the current unstable version run on? Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.c

region settings

2000-12-28 Thread Bob
what command can i use to change to region settings? my clock in linux is ahead of the time setting i have in my CMOS. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail

OpenSSH over old nonfree

2000-02-19 Thread Bob
question works fine, on both local and remote systems. -- Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com at Esmond, R.I., USA This is..OpenBSD 2.6!

how do i know if it's a winmodem?

1999-12-18 Thread Bob
ok newbie question i got slink working on my computer but i can't get on the net. this is because my computer came with a winmodem, so im looking to get a nice cheap 56k modem that can work on linux. the problem is every modem i look at seems to be a winmodem they all that a title like "56k winmode

not cleanly unmounted?

2001-10-12 Thread bob
r a newbie? thanks. bob .: Meat is Murder :.

Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-17 Thread Bob
ng Sarge on it and don't mind reinstalling a number of times to try things out. So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by the Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers disks...

kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found

2004-05-31 Thread Bob
to comment out these lines but I still get the error. Any help appreciated! I guess the raid1 module is not required since it is compiled into the kernel? If you have any hints, please let me know. Thanks a lot! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found

2004-06-01 Thread Bob
blem: my kernel didn't have the raid modules and mkinitrd is being too smart, trying to add the raid modules anyway. Sounds like a bug to me. But this is good news too, since root-on-raid now works with raid modules and I can now use a stock kernel again! Thanks Bob "Justin Guerin"

Re: kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found

2004-06-01 Thread Bob
blem solved! Thanks Bob "Justin Guerin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Bob, > You are correct: a raid1 module is not required since you compiled it into > the kernel. Actually, because you compiled it into the kernel, no module > wa

How to check whether a RAID array is still consistent?

2004-06-25 Thread Bob
these went unnoticed because they were covered by the RAID mirroring. So..: is there a way to periodically check whether RAID disks are still in sync? Preferable without unmounting the filesystem (similar to the background rebuilding after adding a disk to an array). Thanks Bob -- To

dselect and custom compiled package

2004-02-05 Thread bob
a custom version number. Anyinput would be appreciated.   Thanks to all Bob

dselect and custom compiled package

2004-02-05 Thread bob
custom version number. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

2007-03-09 Thread Bob
Hi, I'm trying to get my etch MythTV Backend to shutdown automatically if either the CPU or the Hard drives overheat. My motherboard is an ECS K7S5A which has a it87-isa-0290 sensor chip from sensors-detect # Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f # Trying family `ITE'...

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

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-12 Thread Bob
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:21:38AM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi, Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above 600GB? I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me kno

Re: Printer setup problem in Etch

2007-03-12 Thread bob
/localhost/printers/deskjet500 D [12/Mar/2007:12:06:59 -0400] print_job: auto-typing file... D [12/Mar/2007:12:06:59 -0400] print_job: request file type is application/postscript. D [12/Mar/2007:12:06:59 -0400] add_job: requesting-user-name="bob" D [12/Mar/2007:12:06:59 -0400] Adding defa

Re: Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

2007-03-13 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: 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 > Hi all, I have similar worries since I run a fanless EPIA. If load &

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Bob
Tarek Soliman wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confident I will be. Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questio

Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-17 Thread Bob
Hi, How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a certain time (grep sed?) vi ./list to delete lines for packages you want to keep (running kernel, less, hddtemp, whatever...) pass the ./l

Re: Installing Debian from a memory stick

2007-03-17 Thread Bob
andy wrote: Hi all A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in whether or not the BIOS will recognise the USB stick at boot, and

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Bob
Joe Hart wrote: Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: Hi, How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a certain time (grep sed?) vi ./list to delete lines for packages you want to keep (runnin

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Bob
r minute on that day to use as the cut-off. Note that I have no idea what you're doing, or how dpkg works, I just wanted to see if I could figure out a solution to the immediate problem with sed and awk! Now that's what I call a command! Good job Tyler. I hope Bob likes it.

Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-19 Thread Bob
Joe Hart wrote: Bob wrote: 8< snip the how leave the why As for why I'm doing this, well I have a PC which is ultimately earmarked to be a headless MythTV BackEnd but I've been using it to experiment with packages to figure out which ones I like for my personal desktop a

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-20 Thread Bob
Joe Hart wrote: Bob wrote: 8< snip That's sort of what I'm doing, I do a base install without even going into the task selector or configuring apt sources then I vi /etc/apt/sources.list and enter deb http://192.168.4.99:/debian/ etch main # deb-src http://192.168.4.9

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-20 Thread Bob
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:15:29AM +0800, Bob wrote: As for why I'm doing this, well I have a PC which is ultimately earmarked to be a headless MythTV BackEnd but I've been using it to experiment with packages to figure out which ones I like for m

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-20 Thread Bob
swm wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:00, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I have a 486 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus NIC, currently running Sarge. Now that Etch RC2 is out I'm starting to plan for the future of this box. The Etch install manual says that it needs 64 MB ram. I know that Sarge will con

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-26 Thread Bob
8< Snip original thread, to see it in all it's glory go here http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/d273b566e1a761d5/3bb0f539cdd82281? Thought I'd update the list on my progress on this, *WARNING THIS WILL BRAKE YOUR INSTALL* but the reasons are interesting # make a l

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-26 Thread Bob
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: 8< Snip original thread, to see it in all it's glory go here http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/d273b566e1a761d5/3bb0f539cdd82281? Thought I'd update the list on my pro

Re: Linux on a Router

2007-07-11 Thread Bob
ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:20:09PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: The problem with DD-WRT is that as far as I can tell it only works on WRT-routers, I don't have one of those I can mess with. As far as I can tell, there isn't a

Re: problem: SATA performance drop down

2007-07-18 Thread Bob
GUO Zhijun wrote: Hi all, It's a Tyan S2925 with single AMDx2 4800+, 4xWD2500YS, 4x1G DDR2 box. Running etch 2.6.18-4-amd64, soft raid5 and soft raid 1. It's serving web request for static files and nfs export its storage to other boxes. go here for thread http://groups.google.com/group/linux

I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-30 Thread bob
I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket takes off!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA PCI

2006-11-24 Thread Bob
Martinez Perez Alberto wrote: Hi! I'm planning to add a SATA PCI card to a system which as no SATA support on motherboard. Does debian support any of these cards or I have to take care with the model I purchase? Thank you! Get one based on the Sil 3124-2 for Sata II, it's not supported by

Re: Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset

2006-12-01 Thread Bob
Oleg Verych wrote: On 2006-11-21, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [] How about 2.6.18 from sid? If also bad, try bugzilla on kernel.org, or lkml. Is it possible to do this without migrating the whole system to sid? I can't see a backport, one option would be if someone could post t

Re: Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset

2006-12-03 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Oleg Verych wrote: 8< 8< snip Sorry for the delay, RL has been rather demanding of late. I've installed 2.6.18 from sid but it's displaying the same problems. As a test of CPU power I've been decompressing the kernel tree, with a UP 2.6 kernel this takes

Re: SATA PCI

2006-12-03 Thread Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:11 +0800, Bob wrote: Get one based on the Sil 3124-2 for Sata II, it's not supported by older kernels and the driver hasn't been backported to 2.4 yet but it's an open documented design an it's good to buy from manufacturers tha

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-12-08 Thread Bob
8< 8< snip 8< 8< threadjacks On a more general note, is there a laptop with good OS drivers for everything, that has a DVI port and SPDIF out (in would be nice but not essential) as well as all the normal USB, FireWire, WiFi, lan, etc... ? Defiantly want OS graphics drivers so I think that

Re: SATA PCI

2006-12-08 Thread Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:43 +0800, Bob wrote: Sorry delay RL. http://www.stardom.com.tw/others%20satacard.htm 4 port PCI-X Nice! I lilke the e-SATA express card - solves a few minor storage headaches for me! Hans I have no experience with the PCI-E card, it's a 2

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-06 Thread Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:40 -0500, Marty wrote: Nevetheless, I seem to recall not getting full memory bus speed specifically with the 1800+ on the KX400+, but I could be mistaken. The only reason why you wouldn't have been able to get the full memory bus speed is if the me

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-09-03 Thread bob
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > cothrige wrote: >> This is pretty easy if you have either mplayer or audacity installed. >> If you happen to be playing from BBC 7 it is particularly easy, and all >> you have to do is right click on the listen link and save the ram file >> to your drive. Then you just re

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-16 Thread Bob
Malte Forkel wrote: bUg. wrote: for example deb file:///home/debian/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free Malte Forkel пишет: I recently installed Etch by booting a machine from the net using PXE and specifying a local mirror of ftp.debian.de to the installer. All went well but I not

Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates

2007-09-17 Thread Bob
Malte Forkel wrote: Bob schrieb: 8< snip etch installer slow as it grabs updates from nonlocal mirror Just don't let it update at install time but wait until after first boot when you can hand tune /etc/apt/sources.list alternatively you could edit the hosts file of your firewa

questions on apt-pinning

2007-09-19 Thread Bob
Hi, I just tried Lenny and MergeFB is busted for that combination of xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video-ati, for the moment the fix is install xserver-xorg-video-ati from experimental, so I have to delve in the world of apt-pinning. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420628

Re: questions on apt-pinning

2007-09-20 Thread Bob
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 14:20:27 +0100, Bob wrote: Hi, I just tried Lenny and MergeFB is busted for that combination of xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video-ati, for the moment the fix is install xserver-xorg-video-ati from experimental, so I have to delve in the

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-04 Thread Bob
Eric Estes wrote: Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a replacement asap. I've been looking into MBs and really like the look of. Sapphire Pure CrossFire 3200 Adv. http://products

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-04 Thread Bob
Michael Acklin wrote: Bob wrote: Eric Estes wrote: Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a replacement asap. I've been looking into MBs and really like the look of. Sap

Simultaneous AC3/DTS passthrough & stereo analog output

2007-10-08 Thread Bob
I'm using an Audigy2 in one PC and an SB Live value in another and I output to a 5.1 speaker system over S/PDIF coax and to my headphones (via the TV) over analogue stereo. I have AC3 passthrough working when I call mplayer with -afm hwac3, (I think DTS will work but can't find a test clip) an

Re: Simultaneous sounds, again

2007-10-08 Thread Bob
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Trying to get multiple simultaneous sound streams working on my Sid system, I got as far as the following: mp/s mp/a xmmsyoutube skype mp/s OK N/A XXXX mp/a N/A X XXXX

Re: Simultaneous AC3/DTS passthrough & stereo analog output

2007-10-08 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: I'm using an Audigy2 in one PC and an SB Live value in another and I output to a 5.1 speaker system over S/PDIF coax and to my headphones (via the TV) over analogue stereo. I have AC3 passthrough working when I call mplayer with -afm hwac3, (I think DTS will work but can

Re: PCIe Video and Open source 3D drivers

2007-10-08 Thread Bob
Wakko Warner wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10/7/07, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please keep me CC'd, I've not subscribed to the list yet. If a card is supported, it shouldn't matter if it is AGP or PCIe, just as with older cards, it does not matter if they are PCI o

Re: Simultaneous AC3/DTS passthrough & stereo analog output

2007-10-10 Thread Bob
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:39:41AM +0100, Bob wrote: Bob wrote: I'm using an Audigy2 in one PC and an SB Live value in another and I output to a 5.1 speaker system over S/PDIF coax and to my headphones (via the TV) over analogue stereo. I hav

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-11 Thread Bob
Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:45 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MSI K9A Platinum http://products.amd.com/en-us/MotherboardDetail.aspx?id=28 I use this board with an AMD 3800 X2 . No problem. Ditto here. No issues

Re: Trying to find 80wire ide extension cable in France

2007-10-11 Thread Bob
Nigel Henry wrote: Sorry for posting this here. I've got one fixed drive, vertical on the front of the machine. the other drives are accessed using a 5 1/4 slot hard drive caddy. This is a carrier that fits in one of my 5 1/4 slots, and I have numerous harddrives in drawers that slot into the c

Re: "Dual Booting" linux thin client or windows

2007-10-13 Thread Bob
Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.

Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel

2007-10-17 Thread Bob
Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi guys, I have an dual-head ATI AGP card that I had working great on my AMD64 box, except for a square mouse one side (which I could live with. But I wanted to view Flash stuff which isn't supported in AMD64 yet so I put the card in my Athlon box. I copied over the same

Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-24 Thread Bob
if you type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s whereas dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0932449 seconds, 5

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Bob
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: if you type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s whereas dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-28 Thread Bob
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at

Re: gateway with one interface

2007-10-28 Thread Bob
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:54:57AM +0500, meekaaku kaaku wrote: I have a small LAN with about 3 windows machiens, 1 debian server (etch), and adsl router with 4 ports. Currently, I am using the router as a gateway (192.168.0.1), and the debian server is 192.168.0.254.

Re: USB external hard drive spin down problem

2007-11-05 Thread Bob
Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:15:44AM -0400, Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote: >>On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to >>be automatically spinning itself down after a

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client software

2008-02-03 Thread Bob
Typhoon wrote: Sorry for breaking the thread, but I have just joined the list. You don't need the same client on Windows and Linux. I would use SIP phones since I have found them the most reliable and the most widespread. That will change as IAX becomes the norm (I think). There are two ways t

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-03 Thread Bob
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello, I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping away. The base technology predates my IT experience. My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the higher

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-04 Thread Bob
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:18:50AM +0800, Bob wrote: I'd get a modern ish server and underclock it, that way you'll be able to get more RAM and bigger hard drives, the Athlon XP was fairly easy to get down to 300 MHz with the FSB still @ 133, I never t

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

2008-02-04 Thread Bob
Joona Kiiski wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using debian a couple of years (still a newbie for most of you hackers, though), but never installed it in laptop. Soon I'm buying a new laptop and want to make sure it works smoothly with debian. I assume the biggest problem is the screen controlle

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

2008-02-04 Thread Bob
David Palmer wrote: Bob wrote: I'm looking for a laptop with a dual core AMD64 CPU, AMD GPU with dedicated (non-shared) GRAM, built in webcam, user changeable Harddrive & battery, high RAM capacity, large high quality screen, a nice keyboard and good linux support for all the pow

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-18 Thread Bob
Bob McGowan wrote: Bob, I've been working with a couple of SCSI based systems recently, with the testing release (etch). Possible issues could be: are your SCSI disks on one host bus adapter; do you have any USB (or other interfaces) that set up SCSI emulation mode, and if so, do you

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-18 Thread Bob
on? I really don't have a clue, this is so far beyond my knowledge it's not funny. Cheers, -- bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com http://www.bobarnott.com/ "Crash programs fail because they are based o

Re: Wireless Network Cards

2006-05-18 Thread Bob
pset is uses, but I bought a Linksys WMP54G card. One of the reviews said they'd got it running under Kubuntu via native support. I'm assuming I'll still need to install this wireless-tools package. Does anyone now what other kind of config I'll need to do, or will Debian just pic

Re: Problem booting anfter reinstall...

2006-05-19 Thread Bob
could boot from a live-cd (knoppix) and chroot into your system and rebuild the initrd to include the proper modules in the initrd. I think its dpkg-reconfigure yaird or initrd-yaird. Others will know this. I think I might just down load a DVD image and try installing from that... Cheers, -- bob

Re: usb camera for skype & etc.

2008-06-18 Thread Bob
PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, Video in Skype works well for friends using Imacs and MS-Win. I'm thinking of buying a camera. USB webcams must use USB 2 by now. So does a Firewire camera retain any advantage over current USB cameras. Some, they're apparently better supported and better qualit

Re: usb camera for skype & etc.

2008-06-19 Thread Bob
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 18/06/2008, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I used Skype video conferencing yesterday and the quality was nowhere near as good as SIP, though in all fairness it is a bit easier to setup. Yuck, Skype. I've been earnestly looking for free a

drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-14 Thread Bob
2... going into maint. mode i've tried ef2check -f and it shows filesys clean... (again on /dev/ sdb1) /dev/drbd0 doesn't exist until drbd is loaded; but if I load drbd, there's no way I can fsck /dev/drbd0 because "it's busy". anyone have any idea's ??

Re: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-16 Thread Bob
load & work fine, if I manually continue past the boot issue. Any other thoughts/suggestions? TIA - Bob On Jul 14, 1:00 pm, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > running debian etch; drbd v0.7; along with HA; under ext3 filesystems; > > both system were running fine, and drbd work w

Re: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-17 Thread Bob
o I'm still a bit lost... Bob On Jul 16, 11:20 am, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a followup to my own post - > > I've since tried inserting drbd into /etc/modules, and /etc/initramfs- > tools/modules (and updated initramfs). > > But nothing I do seems to caus

Re: Resp.: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-17 Thread Bob
o_failback on nodelintest nodelintest2 respawn hacluster /usr/lib/heartbeat/ipfail <== On Jul 16, 3:30 pm, "Lucas Mocellin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I can't help you with your trouble, but I'm interested in drbd, can > you pos

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