Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 1:25 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. I preferably would want a CLI tool...s

Re: [OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 5:45 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: I have set up vim to add these lines automatically whenever I create a php/tex/c/whatever file I create. Share details please :-) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darw

[OT] was Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

2008-01-31 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: My desktop has more memory than some of our old still-in-service workhorse Alphas. A friend has more RAM and a faster processor in his video card than I do in my laptop. Brian -BEGIN PGP S

Re: 2 Network Cards

2008-02-04 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1-Feb-08, at 11:59 PM, Raquel wrote: I think that I understand what you're saying. However, what's the difference? If the machine is capable of handling 15 VirtualHosts with 1 nic and 1 IP number, why can it not handle 15 VirtualHosts with 2 n

[SOLVED] Proper font and colour in telnet session....

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah I know - a solution without a problem before. But this was such a pain I wanted to document it for the poor sap who hits the same wall. Problem A telnet session from an Etch (or Ubuntu Gutsy) box either doesn't display pop up window

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-Feb-08, at 12:37 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I have libflash-mozplugin installed but not flashplugin-nonfree. As far as I can tell, they're both Flash 9. I figure the sites that don't work are Flash 10, which isn't available for Lin

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-12 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm wary of using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [1] seems to reject many of the PDF files I've just tried because they are "linear

broadcast printing

2008-02-13 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'd like to set up a printer queue in cups that actually prints to multiple printers. I see where there's an option to put multiple printers in a queue so that it prints to the next available one, what I want to do is print

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Feb-08, at 12:51 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: Does GIMP support layers ? If it can parse the PDF as an image perhaps that might be the way to go ? I personally don't know as I don't use GIMP. Would work fine for one page only and the te

Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-02-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 4:33 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:30:32AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird. :-) Do they require a "special" spanner? :-) Well, since the problem is almost a

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 11:38 PM, Zach wrote: I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on the modem but I still don't see any network connection.>

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What ar

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: Hello, Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud clicking noises co

Flash removed from etch - process explained?

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going to that link I see that they have removed flash Closed source and no security support It also says The

Re: Flash removed from etch - process explained?

2008-02-28 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 5:54 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:16:16 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going

Re: Printer driver

2008-02-28 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haven't used that Dell model, but it looks roughly like a Lexmark e230. If you don't have a specific driver for it, (and dell doesn't provide them?) try a generic postscript which should work. Point your browser at it and it'll probably have link

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-29 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28-Feb-08, at 6:49 PM, Kent West wrote: I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem is that the Terastat

Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap

2008-03-05 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console keyboard. I'm trying to use this keymap on gutsy and etch. I gather both of them have converted to the cons

Re: Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Mar-08, at 12:32 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: Hi All, The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the

Re: Failure of Ethernet link with Belkin adapter & Netgear hub.

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Mar-08, at 4:07 PM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub, communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. T

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Mar-08, at 1:33 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey inside; not ju

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Mar-08, at 5:10 AM, Andrius wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Andrius wrote: One more question. How to megre several pdf files to one file using command mode please? pdftk is what you are after. Sample command looks like pdftk in1.pdf i

Re: install debian usbdisk through ide cable

2008-03-12 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Mar-08, at 9:20 PM, jeffry s wrote: i am not very sure this one can be done. i have a old computer at home without hardisk. it is quite old computer and only support 2GB hardisk since 2GB hardisk is quite rare this day. I am planning to in

Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

2008-03-18 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote: Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 - How I loathe thee

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Mar-08, at 2:43 AM, 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 take heart - IE is already dead! http://w

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-03 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Unless they take the time to successfully factor the public key, Can you expand on that sentence? I'm not sure what you meant by it. Other than that I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion to use

Fwd: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-19 Thread Brian McKee
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to > the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's > boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by > SSHing in and havi

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-20 Thread Brian McKee
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/20 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Does 'sudo wall' work for you? I don't have a machine handy to try - > No, wall is inappropriate because she is in KDE, not a terminal.

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-21 Thread Brian McKee
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/20/08 17:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> While I agree that every user of a machine should have his own home >> directory, I am not a user of that machine. I am an administrator >> (ha!) of that machine. > > So what? Since y

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

2008-06-26 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:58 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I recently bought a Cowan D2 to replace my dead iPod mini - Ogg right out of the box as well as a pretty good selection of other formats too. Mounts as a standar

Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client

2008-07-06 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow 192.169.2.* > That looks weird when the rest of your file seems to be referring to a 192.168.1.0/24 subnet Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client

2008-07-06 Thread Brian McKee
> # Only listen for connections from the local machine. > Listen localhost:631 > Listen 192.168.1.10:631 > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock Oh - and I meant to point these lines out. It 1.10 is the server than I believe it won't listen to your client. Try Port 631 instead of those first two Listen

anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All I'm confused about running anacron and cron at the same time. I was under the impression that it was either/or, but I see on a server running here that it has both cron and anacron. IIUC, anacron keeps track of jobs it runs, and marks down the completion time so it knows when it needs to

Re: anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does anacron know that > cron already ran that job and it doesn't need to? Found my answer - there's a script called 0anacron in /etc/cron.daily that runs 'anacron -u cron.daily' whi

Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client

2008-07-08 Thread Brian McKee
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not see what is wrong with that, Listen specifies a (local) interface to > listen to: > http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#Listen Ahh... reading that link I see I didn't understand the Listen directive correctly. Y

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From desktop I can to open web page on my apache web server, but only > with IP address: 192.168.2.100. If I try to access it with FQDN: > csanyi-pal.info then I can't open it. Then it sounds like a DNS issue. Changed the s

Fwd: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Brian McKee
g - missed reply to all (again) -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM Subject: Re: resurrecting dead mouse To: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PR

Re: pc doesn't start

2008-07-27 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Claudius Hubig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Lóránd Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>...and the pc is in a wooden box:D but the connector is grounded, could that >>be the problem? > > I have a similiar problem with my desktop PC: After running for a > while and t

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-28 Thread Brian McKee
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18:14 Mon 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Go to: Edit -> Preferences -> Security -> Remember Passwords for Sites >> then remove the public library from the "Exceptions..." list > > the site in question is not liste

Re: hard drive problem

2008-08-05 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote: >> >> On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> >>> I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into >>> another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-07 Thread Brian McKee
On 7-Apr-08, at 3:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I believe the technique you're looking for is "greylisting". I know the concept of greylisting. Are you sure, that we do want greylinsting on debian? Do we want that poor lads on dial-up have to dial-up several times in order to send a simple,

Adding entries to kicker from commandline

2008-04-08 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All I'd like to add a shortcut/alias/launchthingy to the panel on a KDE desktop from the command line. I've created a .desktop file, dragged it into the kicker panel and did a 'find' on it - it showed up in .kde/share/apps/kicker/ which seemed to make sense. But, when I copy that .desktop f

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-10 Thread Brian McKee
On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Everyone, Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic "rich text" output. I actually use a wiki currently - tiddlyWiki - and I edit the text in it with Vim using the I

Re: trans

2008-04-10 Thread Brian McKee
On 10-Apr-08, at 12:02 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually you ARE allowed to pump diesel in Oregon; just not normal petrol--go figure. So if you drive a Mercedes 300D, you can pump your own fuel, but if you drive a MB 300 you can't.

system not using hosts file

2008-04-10 Thread Brian McKee
I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1 ==> host -v fred Trying "fred.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com" Trying "fred.realdomainname.com" Trying "fred" Host fred not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Received 97 bytes from 192.168.0.2#53 in 0 ms ==> cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 l

Re: system not using hosts file

2008-04-11 Thread Brian McKee
On 10-Apr-08, at 9:21 PM, Sudev Barar wrote: On 11/04/2008, Bernardo Dal Seno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/04/2008, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 17:02:14 -0400, Brian McKee ([EMAIL PROTECTED] heb.com) wrote: I don't understand why 'hos

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-14 Thread Brian McKee
On 12-Apr-08, at 6:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Everyone, Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic "

Re: Reg Blind

2008-04-14 Thread Brian McKee
On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on most boxes and comes up with voice prompts automatically. Ideally, it would be a whole new installer with ques

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-15 Thread Brian McKee
On 14-Apr-08, at 9:47 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:34:00PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 12-Apr-08, at 6:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Inspired by the easy to

Re: Firewall froth..

2008-04-15 Thread Brian McKee
On 15-Apr-08, at 11:42 AM, Digby Tarvin wrote: The problem I am having is that the messages from the firewall really flood /var/log/messages to the point where I am concerned they may cause me to miss other important things. ... Perhaps I should redirect the firewall logs to a separate file?

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Brian McKee
On 17-Apr-08, at 10:31 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. [...] I) Use static network configuration, rather than DHCP, for edith. The problem is that edith needs to get my ISP's nameservers from gwen, which normally occurs through DHCP. Several su

Re: smartctl Vs lm-sensors

2008-04-18 Thread Brian McKee
On 18-Apr-08, at 1:22 PM, Bhasker C V wrote: I want to monitor the harddisk temperature since I/O task in my system is very high and usually heatsup the harddisk. I get two different values viz. one from lm-sensors and other from smartctl smartctl gives me very large values like the one b

Re: badblock can not be detected

2008-04-21 Thread Brian McKee
On 21-Apr-08, at 2:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. maybe you are right. when I tried to use different usb to ide adapter to connect the hard drive, things became different. but there still has some errors when reading or writing. Note that modern hard drives remap bad sectors whe

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-22 Thread Brian McKee
On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I would then like to press and have the text replaced by [

Re: badblock can not be detected

2008-04-22 Thread Brian McKee
On 22-Apr-08, at 6:06 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive

Re: Which backup package?

2008-04-22 Thread Brian McKee
On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any sugges

Re: smartctl shows hard drive problem

2008-04-28 Thread Brian McKee
On 26-Apr-08, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I checked the hard drive, but the output seems strange. 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 097 097 000Old_age Always - 393216 this is a laptop, and I just put it on the desk and play some music loudly. Why s

Re: Backup requirement

2008-05-01 Thread Brian McKee
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I am looking at Mondo , etc. Kindly give suggestions. I've never used Mondo. I tried once only to find that the mondo kernel couldn't boot my machine. I figure that if I found a machine it wouldn't boot that ea

Re: Backup requirement

2008-05-01 Thread Brian McKee
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: New business venture: send a datacentre to mars with enough redundancy and tape libraries to be great off-site backup Not a new idea :-) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200789,00.asp from 2003 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally s

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-02 Thread Brian McKee
On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text console a month or two ago. Today the vertual text consoles are back. No explanation. Doug Tutty gave up trying to instantiate t

Re: Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny

2008-05-05 Thread Brian McKee
On 3-May-08, at 2:07 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:28:33 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: May I ask how to resolve errors (sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code 1) about exim4-daemon-light at exim4 bsd-mailx mailx as the result of upgrading i386 from etch to len

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-05 Thread Brian McKee
what does this error below mean?? E: exim4: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured this is what I get when I went to install xorg-dev(among other things..): The following partially installed packages will be configured: exim4 exim4-daemon-light and when it was over: exim4 depends on

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-16 Thread Brian McKee
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apple doesn't give a rats ass about integrating with KDE, nor should they. > They > do, however, consider rich text editing a priority, and KDE isn't as > concerned about that. This is the one statement I think could be

Re: blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-20 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the > present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. > > WordPress rapidly is increasing in complexity because features are > being adde

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Brian McKee
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, if you sat down to use the mouse you'd find it worked just as you > expected. Oh come on... I've got a Mighty Mouse in my travel laptop bag because it's the most expendable mouse in the building. I and everyo

logging a bash script using sudo and time

2008-09-24 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All I regularly run a script with time and sudo. e.g. > time sudo echo 'hi mom' I've set up the sudoers file so that one script (represented in my example as `echo`) can be run as sudo by my user account without a password prompt. Now I want to log the entire output to a log file as well as

Re: logging a bash script using sudo and time

2008-09-24 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian McKee wrote: >> I regularly run a script with time and sudo. e.g. >>> time sudo echo 'hi mom' > [snip] >> Now I want to log the entire output to a log file as we

Re: logging a bash script using sudo and time

2008-09-26 Thread Brian McKee
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >time sudo (echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom) ==> time sudo (echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `echo' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

removing inaccurate LVM info

2008-09-26 Thread Brian McKee
I have a working installation of linux that was running LVM but when I restored from backup I changed to regular partitions and UUID. The LVM info still shows up if you do a pvdisplay or vgdisplay etc. even though it's not actually there anymore. ==> sudo vgscan Reading all physical volumes. T

Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All, I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find lots of references to this procedure > Backup installed package list on current machine > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and > install pac

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: >> I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find >> lots of references to this procedure >> > Backup installed pa

Fwd: Fwd: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Brian McKee
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rob Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:24:08PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: >> I was actually doing it here >> for a bit, but my CRT distorts colours when you put it on it's side. > did you find all colors d

Fwd: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Brian McKee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM Subject: Re: xrandr -o left To: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >

Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > like to avoid using it. Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. >So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of > ne

Re: squid cache ssl

2008-12-01 Thread Brian McKee
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does squid3 come with SSL support compiled in? I don't know, but I do know that you don't traditionally cache SSL as you'd have to make yourself a trusted man in the middle... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cupsys installation

2008-12-13 Thread Brian McKee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: >> Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11 >> libraries? >> >> I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the >> resources availab

Re: Audio: How to Cut out Seconds of Silence

2008-12-15 Thread Brian McKee
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 19:26:34 -0700, wauh...@yahoo.com (wauh...@yahoo.com) > wrote: > >> I have an audio file (wav or mp3 format), which consists of sequences of >> useful audio-data - after a few seconds interrupted by about two seconds >> of

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-08 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > For my backups, I bought a DVD burner and a pack of DVD+RW's but I'm stuck > with one major issue. > > The upside of the DVD+RW's is kind of a yellow-gold-bronze color and I can't > seem to find any way I can write anything on them. > > Does any

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-14 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I do this because I want to > store large files on a HD whose hardware interface > limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger > files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) As the others have pointed out - that doesn't seem

How to regenerate a popularity-contest UUID

2009-01-15 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All I have a group of machines I was going to enroll in popularity-contest, but since they were created by cloning them via mondo-rescue, the UUID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf is all identical. I've looked at the FAQ and the README, as well as the man page and the website, and the only thin

Re: How to regenerate a popularity-contest UUID

2009-01-15 Thread Brian McKee
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-01-15 17:45 +0100, Brian McKee wrote: > >> I have a group of machines I was going to enroll in >> popularity-contest, but since they were created by cloning them via >> mondo-rescue, the UUID in /etc/popula

Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-08 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All First post - pretty new to Debian, less so to linux in general. I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when us

Re: [debian-user] Debian Repository Usage

2008-01-08 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Jan-08, at 4:46 PM, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: I obtained the full set of Ubuntu disks, installed the desktop stuff and now have a working system without SERVERS. It seems the servers come on another disk separate from the LIVE/I

Re: Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-09 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote: I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 2:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As comparison to hard-disk scenario is the a

[SOLVED] Re: Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-15 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Scott Lair wrote: Brian McKee wrote: On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn&#

Re: Configure postfix to send out emails on local machine

2008-01-22 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22-Jan-08, at 2:16 AM, rockymaxsource wrote: Hey, Our company has a domain www.ourcompany.com registered and the site is hosted at a hosting company. The company does not provide SMTP service neither does my ISP. But I will need to send out e-ne

unresponsive system

2008-01-23 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. Now it's running a wee mite slow time top -n 1 > output.txt real 67m42.116s user 0m0.008s sys

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-24 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Jan-08, at 9:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm really gettin' old! Have you yet bitched and

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-24 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-24 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 12:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:50:26AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: On 23-Jan-08, at 9:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The last time I had an actual real-live

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:51 AM, Federico Lazcano wrote: El Jueves, 24 de Enero de 2008 12:24, Brian McKee escribió: On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 3:06 PM, Chris Lale wrote: Brian McKee wrote: [...] I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article

Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread brian mckee
I have a work station. If I put debian on it. I want it to have 5 monsters. 5 key boards. 5 mice. So 5 people can long in. At same time. What Verizon should I download Get Outlook for Android