Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:56:51PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: > > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:44:46 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ben > > Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > > > I'd love to use the Etch > > installer...if I could ever get it.> > I> > > > used the etch installer > > last nig

Re: Sad...

2007-03-11 Thread CaT
e only logical conclusion I can come > >to, and this is that your end has nothing to do with the situation and > >it must be my lousy email client. > > > Oops. Sorry, CaT. I meant to post that last message to Ben, not you. Hehe. No worries and it's not your client. Mine dis

Re: Sad...

2007-03-11 Thread CaT
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:00:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Let me show you what your message looks like on a plain text client > > (for example). Your paragraphs are single lines, but that's not much of > > a problem in the end. What is more of a problem is that your mail client > > does not

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:38:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > However, realize that some programs create a file /tmp and then promptly > > unlink it, thus causing the file to take up space even though it does > > not have a directory entry. > > How's that? UNIX does not deallocate disk space u

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:25:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > tmpfile() > Return a new file object opened in update mode ("w+b"). > The file has no directory entries associated with it and > will be automatically deleted once there are no file > descriptors for

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread CaT
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:56:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > All in all I think you're making a mountain out of flat grass-plains > > here. There is nothing inherently faulty, false or wrong in what the > > zebra do there. For one, it makes sure that it is truly temporary. If > > the app exits

Re: Why this crontab does not work?

2007-07-18 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:13:42PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Dear all, >I have a crontab like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # crontab -l > # m h dom mon dow command > * 0,12* * * root/root/update.sh If this is in roots personal crontab then you don'

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread CaT
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:47:52PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > So it looks as though they are objecting to Linux per se, rather > than to the browser. I'm not sure what url you accessed as you did nto state but watching a video off video.yahoo.com.au wfm using Seamonkey under Debian. -- "T

Re: Apache dying weekly

2006-11-26 Thread CaT
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:23:59PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm running 1.3.33-6sarge3, and have been noticing that apache is not > restarting when the logs are rotated every week. The logrotate script > doesn't seem to be directly at fault, but I can't understand why it's > not restarting. >

Re: Mounting an ext2 filesystem at mount point with specific uid, gid

2007-09-21 Thread CaT
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:15:49PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 2 storage storage 4096 2007-09-19 17:42 store > > Which is of course empty. After the mount, which is successfull, the command > "ls -al /home/storage" yields: > > drwxrwsr-x 10505505 4096 2007-09-21 16:03 st

Re: automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread CaT
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:21:30AM -0400, Peter Smerdon wrote: > Hello everyone. > > What is the preferred method of starting an iptables script at boot time > on Debian hosts? I have come across two common ways, one with a pre-up > command that calls the script from /etc/network/interfaces and th

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread CaT
trange for me, so I changed to what you have :) > mentioned... Thank you :) A better way to do the above, if you must, would be to use renice on $$. -- CaT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread CaT
"$@" > } > runprogram command1 | command2 This is one of those, once you see it it'll be the most bleedingly obvious things I think. :) runprogram command1 | runprogram command2 :) -- CaT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-20 Thread CaT
mix and match controllers, hd types and even network hds and it'll just deal. Hope this helps. :) cat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread CaT
you go to work or other fun stuff (and set apt-get to download only). For really common stuff you might just want to grab the first dvd too. Sure it's not the instant access the monkey within craves but it works and I always found it not to be that much of a hassle. Generally you don

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread CaT
losing its users, > >> e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. > > > > Link to this statistics? > > Oh. Sorry. This page: http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian *looks outside* It's dark! This can only mean the sky has fallen! Eep! cat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:06:56AM +, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:01 +0800, Magicloud wrote: > > I don't think so. Obviously, if the network is broken, it absolutely does > > not mean that there is NO packages, just aptitude can not know. > > That's by far the most round log

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:41:09AM +, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:19 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > I believe that would be the point the original poster was getting at. If > > aptitude is really doing that then it is in the wrong. > > I understood it, bu

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:22:59AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Still there should be an option to turn this behavior off, since it is > very annoying for people with low bandwith and frequent network > problems. In apt-get you can set APT::Get::List-Cleanup=false to avoid > erasing the list files

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-03 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:55:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Changing topic: what ensures that the kernel will always see that > device as sda, instead of sdb? udev afaik. -- "Police noticed some rustling sounds from Linn's bottom area and on closer inspection a roll of cash was found prot

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:03:04PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Hah!, my mail client is stupid, it responds in kind, so my last message > (and this one, too) may have been sent in MIME and HTML as well. Sorry No, no they haven't. :) > about this, I will try to fix it, so that it won't happen ag

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 06:12:51PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > However, since my MUA is _not_ sending HTML out of my computer (my BCC copy > from my mail server confirms that), my MUA's HTML vs. text settings and my use > of them are not the problem. > > I suspect that a mail server or gateway

Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!

2006-08-20 Thread CaT
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:15:06AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:47, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > >> I heard the purpose of the law was to create jobs. > > > > > > Nope. By order of the Department

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-22 Thread CaT
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:00:09PM -0600, edwardsa wrote: > He should get a clue, and you should get a life! > > If you look at this > list over time, you will find a rich history of OT threads. They can be > cathartic, offering another kind of support-- relief from boredom and > a place to run y

Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

2006-09-08 Thread CaT
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:52:45AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Unless the ncurses installer is *deficient* in some manner, the mere > "GUI-ness" of the other installer does not enhance the installation in any > way. They both do exactly the same job in exactly the same way. If they > don't, then

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-08 Thread CaT
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:20:35PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > I'm using Debian testing and I was thinking about switching to unstable. Is > Debian unstable, stable enough for a Desktop system? Are there broken > dependencies in unstable? There might not be today but there may be tomorrow. I th

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-09 Thread CaT
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:04:36PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 18:51, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > qmail has the least Debian support, due

Re: gcc-4.1

2006-09-11 Thread CaT
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:58:49AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Others have given you good replies. I would add that do not name your > output file (the executable) as "test". A "test" command already exists > in Linux. I don't believe it matters much. Only the crazy and the inept have . in their $PATH

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-03 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:16:56PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > a distro debate. I have used something similar as such with a gentoo mate. So how did mating Gentoo go for you? cat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-05 Thread CaT
t's what I use (infact for me it's mutt in screen over ssh in urxvt :) and the above looks like what may well be Hebrew. The other thing you may wish to make sure of is that you are using a UTF-8 locale. For me that's en_AU.UTF-8. If you don't you'll probably see a lot of

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread CaT
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/13/08 22:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:45:48AM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > > > >> wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of > >> the debian vs the i386 version of debian?

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread CaT
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:14:38AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> You may also not be able to access all your RAM, > >> Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has PAE. > > > > With a performance hit. :) > > You conveniently snipped the part where I agreed with the RAM > p

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-29 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:19:39AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed > > software would be to ship each pc with a bootable CD with custom Dell test > > software. Linux would make a convenient base for such a CD. > This is somethin

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-29 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:38:04PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:19:39AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed > > > software would be to ship each pc with a bootable CD with custom Dell test &

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:49:35PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > quality), and I tried again. Then with a better recharger. I eventually gave > up and put the batteries away. One year later, I looked at the batteries and > realized why they did not work. > They were Sony batteries. O

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:13:44AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:38:04PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:19:39AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed > > > &g

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:11:06AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > tech support folks stop saying 'but you need to use windows for us to > > > diagnose the problem before we can authorizes this' or similar. > > > > FWIW, the diagnostics, etc CD that Dell ships with servers is Linux > > based. > >

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-02 Thread CaT
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:34:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/02/07 03:19, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Sunday, 01.04.2007 at 16:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Most people I know pronounce this "post-gress" (dropping/ignoring >

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread CaT
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > You know that Etch is about to release. This means that new features and > software will not get into it any more. > > So what is a better choice now, to stick to Etch or to switch to the > next testing? I am not sure which is more import

Re: Replacing a HD

2007-04-08 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:07:35AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > My system boots from hda3 using grub. hda1 and hda5 are swap partitions. > > > > Whats the best way to get an exact copy of my two Linux systems onto the > > new drive? > > Put the new drive into your PC and use dd to copy the w

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > caching is still okay to use. Why else would manufacturers put cache > ON-BOARD the hard-drives if it was BAD... do you think they LIKE > SPENDING MONEY on things that won't be used? They would rather just not > include it and save mo

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:43:54AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:39 +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > DB monkies generally like turning it off as it has proven to cause data > > loss in certain

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread CaT
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > > There exists a gentoo-user mailing list. If a post to debian-user > > would be exactly as on-topic if posted to gentoo-user, then it is > > offtopic on *both* lists, and belongs on neither.

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread CaT
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:05:10PM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote: > I personally think that everyone has a right to post, and who am I to tell > someone else not to exercise their right to freedom of speech. I You know... we should just merge every mailing list on the net into one list and see just how

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-20 Thread CaT
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:38:51AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > It's not a big deal, but undoing her mucking of the desktop is > > something I'd rather not have to waste time with. > > What if you have the login script recreate /home/guest each time? Indeed, though I'd rsync on logout from somep

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007-05-21 Thread CaT
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:19:34AM +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box > with a small hard disk: > df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / ... > /de

Re: Objective data instead of subjective wooliness (was Re: Slow web browsing redux)

2007-06-04 Thread CaT
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:56:33AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > Try http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp > > That is a great "benchmark" page for any browser. That took 10 seconds from the moment it got over its data gathering hump (ie the download). Using SeaMonkey 1.1.2 under Linux here. Still on

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-13 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote: > This is on Etch with "Desktop Environment" de-selected on install (no > Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg > before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be > no web browser it cou

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-13 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > aptitude -R install foomatic-filters-ppds > > > > And what does apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds get you? > >--- > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ dpkg -L foomatic-filters-ppds | wc -l > 2696 That

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui > > ... > > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > > lprng > > ... > > ... > > toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui Thank yo

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as > required? Or something similar. I gave up on aptitude within a few minutes of trying to use it during my upgrade to sarge. It completely refused to, getting lo

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:05:59AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:50:58PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as > >

wajig (was: Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-))

2007-06-17 Thread CaT
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:10:15AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I gave up on aptitude long ago because it kept trying, and sometimes > succeeding, to remove lots of things it shouldn't. I now use apt-get > via wajig, which seems to be one of the best-kept Linux secrets. Interesting. I'll try t

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > >SQL in the early 1970s. It just didn't become an ISO standard until 1987. > > > >Follow the link I gave you. > > I replied to your message AS WRITTEN. If you don't mean to imply > that MicroSoft doesn't predate 1987, then you should

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >>> The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is >>> that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:32:27AM +0100, karun wrote: > Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming > the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Actually, I'd say it was a side-effect of pine in the unix world and any graphical client everywhere else. I

Re: lenny upgraded but some 50 packages not upgraded?

2009-04-15 Thread CaT
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:24:29PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Just done etch -> lenny upgrade and wondering why apt-get upgrade won't > upgrade the following, when some of them might be nice to have (and > synaptic seems to find no reason not to give them to me): Try apt-get dist-upgrade instead

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-16 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:26:57PM +0200, Dirk wrote: >> Install nullmailer, I'm pretty sure that's what you're looking for. > > i thought so too.. but it doesn't seem to do what it name implies... > it's config kept asking where to redirect the mails too... and > "/dev/null" wasn't an option :

Re: date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:59:39PM +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > > why isn't working? :S > > if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before 10h"; > fi; Because > is a string comparison. Do help test in bash or man test -- "A search of his car uncovered pornograph

Re: Etch (7.4) -> Lenny (8.3) PostgreSQL upgrade issues

2009-04-19 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:51:17AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > So, what do I need to do to recover from this? Not had this problem myself but at a guess... put a deb-src line for etch in your sources.list file, then apt-get -b source postgresql-server-7.4 Install all the needed things, then o

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a complete > directory tree? hash everything and then hash the result? (if you don't care about metadata that is - if you do add a nice stat of everything into the final hash)

Re: Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread CaT
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:12:08PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Can someone please explain why the BLEEP support was removed? It was probably removed because the BLEEP is mostlikely non-BLEEP and as such would violate the BLEEP. But that's just a BLEEP. -- "Police noticed some rustling sounds f

Re: flashplayer v10

2008-11-06 Thread CaT
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:03:28AM -0600, gary turner wrote: > The only things I found were > /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/npwrapper.libflashwrapper.so > /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashwrapper.so Try running ldd on them. --

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread CaT
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:07:06AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > You're probably right. But I was expecting at least the > lobflashplayer.so (v10) from Adobe's site to work! Adobe didn't compile it with the libs that are avail in etch. -- "A search of his car uncovered pornography, a homema

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-19 Thread CaT
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:15:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > An automated voice told me that my (non-existant, of course) > Jefferson Parish[0] Credit Union Visa card has been blocked. > > I immediately hung up on it, of course, and am slightly unnerved > that "they" are now calling people at

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-05 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote: > Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like > this would be helpful. Whilst not an direct answer to your question, try xfce. It's meant to be lightweight and, on my EEE it works great. You can install gnome

Re: (Partly solved)Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-09 Thread CaT
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:43:21AM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > Are you kidding? I think you meant: "Wow. Thanks. That does exactly what I need." Or similar. -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribute." - High Court Judge Michael Kirby

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-22 Thread CaT
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:04:11PM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > right (to your tastes)? Why spin off instead into this silly "I'm > right and everyone else is evil!" diatribe? It's hard to stop breathing. ;) -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribu

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread CaT
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:48:53AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> > >> How big's your post-MBR gap? > > > > I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do I > > go about fi

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread CaT
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:18:32PM +1100, CaT wrote: > Felt that was a bit too many packages (182 new i386 packages) to be installed > so: > > apt-get purge ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk > > For you this will get rid of more packages than you may want. Make a note. > For me skyp

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread CaT
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 02:17:55PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Thanks for the answer, Andrei, > but something is still not completely clear. > > > > When you purge a package (any package) all its files should be removed > > by dpkg, but sometimes packages generate files on install and don't >

Re: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-18 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:26:17PM +0200, Andrei Hristow wrote: > Hi, I have 8 GB RAM Which version will be better for my i381 or amd64 amd64. Go native and get full access to your ram at full speed. If you need i386 for anything you can go multiarch (you may aswell install wheezy at this stage I

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:29:35PM +0800, lina wrote: > -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar > -? ? ? ? ?? try.pdb > -? ? ? ? ?? try-c.pdb > -? ? ? ? ?? test_xtc2pdb.f > -? ? ? ? ?? SUB_UTILITY.o > -? ? ? ? ?

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread CaT
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:11:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > It's very easy to install XFCE. Drill down in the graphical installer > > to other desktops and make your selection > > Or: > > sudo apt-get install xfce4 x

Re: Changing to lvm from ext4

2013-05-28 Thread CaT
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:30:09PM -0400, To Ro wrote: > What would be the best course of action to switch my system to lvm? This is > what I have: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail > Use% Mounted on > rootfs

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-20 Thread Cat
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:20:15PM +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > If this is true and it is a doddle to convert an ordinary debian install > with systemd running on it to the old sysvinit format then why is there all > this sturm und drang and spam on this subject...?? Fanaticism. For some

Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-17 Thread CaT
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 07:10:34PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I was just wondering if I _really_ needed it. You don't -really- need it. I haven't seen it bring anything of worth to me yet other than bluetooth audio. If it wasn't for that I'd ditch it as it just adds complexity. Since you'

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

2015-08-30 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:21:26PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? > Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? > Am I missing something important? Does 'dmesg' show that the drive is seen and a /dev device is allocated to it when you plug it into the USB3 card? >

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

2015-08-30 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:34:41PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:21:26PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? > >> Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? > &g

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread CaT
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > It is, once ntpdate has slammed the correct time into the system at boot > time, then ntp takes over. Unless I misremember, you don't even need ntpdate. Starting ntp with -g will do just fine (and it's the default config - I add -N).

Re: Iceape Problems - Is there hope for Squeeze?

2009-10-18 Thread CaT
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 08:35:24PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I decided to give your approach a try. The installation of Thunderbird > went well and on start up it recovered all my saved emails and my > account settings. The Firefox installation has not been so successful. > The program sta

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. It's fun danger time. :) They're sma

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-03 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:31:22PM -0400, Mike Viau wrote: > Hello List, > > I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been > experiencing in regards to the new Western Digital 4K Advanced format > drives? Has any one tried using one of these drives on the 2.6.26 > (64/32 bi

Re: Restarting network

2010-07-06 Thread CaT
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:15:35AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Apparently '/etc/init.d/networking restart' is depricated. It is not > doing the job any more on squeeze. > > '/etc/init.d/ifplugd restart' ignores virtual interfaces defined in > /etc/network/interfaces. > > So how do I get my vir

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:56:51AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > don't want to use a switch for just two machines, but I am wondering if > a crossover cable has any speed disadvantages as opposed to a small > switch. These machines will constantly be transferring data, so I would A switch will giv

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:16:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:55:05PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:56:51AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > don't want to use a switch for just two machines, but I am wondering if > >

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread CaT
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my > preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian > right this moment.) Oh well. I didn't like the fact that there wasn't a 'Neither' or 'Other

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-21 Thread CaT
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1100, Arafangion wrote: > Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the test > should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial distributions, that How is being willing to pay for something because you feel you have to (for exam

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-12 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. It should just work[tm]. What error messages are you getting from mutt? Are there any entries in you

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:36:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > OTOH, if you are Joe Consumer getting your i'net connection from > an ISP, then no, It Won't Work. He'll need to send all email thru > his ISP's smtp server. s/need/might have to/ This is where the error messages are important. Just

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-16 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:26:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > This response almost makes me angry. I said specifically > A PROCESS. I didn't say what kind of process. The file system > should not generate writes out of nothing. Somewhere there > is A PROCESS (an instance of a running program, may

Re: / full?

2006-04-10 Thread CaT
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:16:25PM -0400, Chris Parker wrote: > I have filled up the / partition. a copy of fstab is below: Without actually knowing what you did to full up / I recommend two things: 1. clean out /root if you're using it and don't use it again for anything but the bare minimum. i

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

2006-04-14 Thread CaT
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:18:17AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:32 -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > >> > >> Yes, there is. As example here is part of the output of mdadm: > >> > >> Array Size : 468872448 (447.15 GiB 480.13 GB) > >> Device Size : 156290816 (149.05

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-16 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:52:25PM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > >* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 16 04:13 -0500]: > >>On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > >>>Ron Johnson wrote: > And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k > >>

Re: Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc

2006-04-22 Thread CaT
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:27:30PM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote: > If I do 'chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc' I get: chroot: > cannot execute mount: No such file or directory > > If I just 'mount' it lists the mounts ok. If I /target/mount it also > lists the mounts ok. > > 'chroot /target' r

Re: Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc

2006-04-22 Thread CaT
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:20:27PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:27:30PM +0100, Robert Hulme wrote: > > If I do 'chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc' I get: chroot: > > cannot execute mount: No such file or directory > > > > If I just

Re: 2.6.16 and iptables changes

2006-03-22 Thread CaT
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:51:31AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi list, > > In 2.6.16 iptables was rearranged in the kernel Kconfig. > So if you roll your own kernel you cannot just copy over the .config > from 2.6.15 and get iptables support: Does make oldconfig not help? -- "To the e

Re: How to play Audio CDs via XMMS?

2002-04-20 Thread CaT
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:23:10AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've got the CD Audio Player 1.2.5 plugin enabled in xmms, but I don't > find anyway to access the audio CD. If I try mounting it from an Eterm, > the mount fails (presumably because mount expects a data CD rather than > an audio CD).

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread CaT
d that while recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on Terror is not over yet." - http://www.zip.com.au/~cat/misc/txt/waronterror.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread CaT
ms of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on Terror is not over yet." - http://www.zip.com.au/~cat/misc/txt/waronterror.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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