Re: C++ development tool/platform

2005-12-10 Thread David Koski
> hope it's not vi Proficiency is almost always earned. A tool that is very easy to use has its limitations. It is like learning to type: "hunt and peck" is easier than keeping your eyes off the keyboard when learning to touch type but once you earn the proviciency of touch typing... An IDE (k

Re: Video recording Software

2006-01-21 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:19 am, Doug Wiltanger wrote: > I'm having a hard time locating software to record from my 8mm video tape. > I can't get lavrec to work, keeps failing with an audio error. > > **ERROR: [lavrec] Error initializing Audio: Audio task died. Reason: Error > mapping aud

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread David Koski
I don't see the original post so I might be missing something but I did an install of AMD64 and it too did not boot. I found that grub was using (hd0,0) where it should have been (hd0,1). I edited the line with grub interactively and it booted. Regards, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Change fqdn

2006-01-25 Thread David Koski
To get hostname to work for myhost.example.com do this: * Make sure /etc/hostname has myhost. * Put this line in /etc/hosts: 1.2.3.4 myhost.example.com myhost David On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:01 pm, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > Hello. > How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? > No

Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?

2006-04-08 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 08 April 2006 07:08, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: > Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/" > partition)? To add to reasons already given, if you want to run software RAID5 (or RAID0 or ...) on root you have to have a separate boot partition because you c

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-10 Thread David Koski
After upgrading to 1.9.1 I noticed that when composing, pasting my usual way is broken. A popup comes up asking for an attachemnt! One of the features I really like about Linux vs. Windows is the ease of copying and pasting with a "click-swipe-click": click the left mouse button and swipe the text,

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-16 Thread David Koski
On Sunday 16 April 2006 10:24, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > hi, > The fluent software is to expensive for our small > institute, I am looking software which is around it, > not necessary having all that properies. > thanks for help > best regards > bela Was this translated with software? Probabl

Re: X-Server

2006-02-05 Thread David Koski
On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:01 am, Lothar Droll wrote: > Hallo, > > i try to install debian 3.1r1 for 4 times. Every time with the same > error. The x-server will not start. I tryed differend things (vga, > vesa...) without any differences. Have you tried "X -configure"? David -- To UN

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-19 Thread David Koski
address can change. However, you still can do DNS with a service like dyndns.org has. Even so, if your cable is Adelphia, port 80 (www) is probably blocked. Regards, David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Need help installing RAID 0+1

2006-02-20 Thread David Koski
What is the partition ID of the RAID0? David On Monday 20 February 2006 08:47 am, Morgan Reed wrote: > Fresh install of Debian 3.1 on a box with 4 SCSI 18.2 GB HD. SCSI > card is a non-RAID adaptec card. > > I am trying to set up the 4 drives as 2 RAID0 of 36 Gig each mirrored > (RAID1) >

Re: PHP4 - Java recompile error

2006-03-13 Thread David Koski
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:08 am, Cem Kamil Külekçi wrote: > Hi all, > make[1]: *** [ext/yp/yp.lo] Segmentation fault > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/php4-4.3.10/apache2-build' > make: *** [build-apache2-stamp] Error 2 Perhaps something is corrupt or you have a hardware (memory) pr

Re: OT - dvd recording differences

2006-03-25 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:17 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Debian etch/testing. > > My dvd writer, BenQ DW1620, which is supposed to write dvd + & dvd -. I > can burn the + with no problem using; > > growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-video /home/rodney/dvd/BK > > I've also tried; > > growisofs -Z /dev/h

Re: how to reconstruct MD RAID device?

2005-08-24 Thread David Koski
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:31:37 +0200 Jukka Salmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clive Menzies --> debian-user (2005-08-24 15:08:11 +0100): > > On (24/08/05 15:53), Jukka Salmi wrote: > > > Clive Menzies --> debian-user (2005-08-24 14:22:39 +0100): > > > > On (24/08/05 14:45), Jukka Salmi wrote: > > >

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread David Koski
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 06:36 pm, Grant Thomas wrote: > > And love the mouse gestures. Mouse gestures are awesome. And now you can get mouse gestures for FireFox. But I still like the feel of Opera better. Opera also has goot support for customizing the mouse in other ways too. For example,

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread David Koski
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:39 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > ..go on shopping sprees every weekend or so. My cousins were dumped into > daycare as soon as they hit the minimum age (6 weeks-- I kid you not), and > are the most undisciplined kids I've ever seen. Preachers kids are almost > always b

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-02 Thread David Koski
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:21:53 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote.. > > > I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home > > of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. > > Great idea b

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-10 Thread David Koski
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:39:57 +0200 Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm finally back after getting a nasty project on my back, and I have a > question... I'm thinking about buying a hardware RAID controller for my > desktop. The main reason I don't want to go with softwar

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread David Koski
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:28 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. > Mainly for servers. > Tar? > Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? > > Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? > Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread David Koski
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:50 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > Rsync? > > rsync is extremely bad idea because: I think rsync is an extremely good idea for data backup. > - whatever caused your main server to die will propagate > itself on your backup server when you use rsync Huh? >

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread David Koski
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 03:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Apply for a job with a TLA, they have the > > equipment to do this. > > You must be inferring a secret government agency, because I work > for a company that has a TLA, and they don't have any such equipment. Must be another Three

Re: WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

2005-09-25 Thread David Koski
lease, do tell me what I should do. apt-get install madwifi-drivers-2.6.11 (or whatever version). I have an A85-S107 with madwifi. That is the easy way. You may need to to apt-get.org to find the package. I don't remember. David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

wanpipe and friends

2005-10-12 Thread David Koski
Where are the drivers and tools for Sangoma cards? Where are the debian packages wanpipe, etc.? David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sangoma woes

2005-10-16 Thread David Koski
Anyone have a Sangoma installed in Debian? I have a couple of boxes that use CF (compact flash) instead of hard disks that I am trying to develop a Debian system with Sangoma (A101) support for. It looks like there are no .deb packages for Sangoma, at least for Sarge. David Koski [EMAIL

root raid

2005-10-23 Thread David Koski
, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 107 root(hd0,0) 108 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/md2 ro md=0,/dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1,/dev/hde1 109 initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 110 savedefault 111 boot Any ideas? Regards, David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: root raid: SOLVED

2005-10-23 Thread David Koski
directory: mkcramfs initrd initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 That should do it. No need to add kernel parameters. David On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:54 am, David Koski wrote: > I have compiled raid drivers into the kernel to get raid on root working. > But now I am trying to get another kernel without d

Re: root raid: SOLVED

2005-10-23 Thread David Koski
I forgot to mention: add raid1 to /etc/mkinitrd/modules. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

install fails on new hardware

2005-11-02 Thread David Koski
unstable it fails on mkinitrd. Regards, David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install fails on new hardware

2005-11-03 Thread David Koski
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 11:27 am, Sanjay Debian wrote: > So what is new hardware? Asus P4P8X. After numerous attempts to install Debian of different versions and kernels, I installed Ubuntu. It just works. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 05 November 2005 11:54 am, Wackojacko wrote: > The stock debian kernels are designed to boot with 'initrd' so you need > to add the initrd (man make-kpkg as i don't use them) option to build > the initrd in the deb. Furthermore, if you are not running a stock kernel (for example you

apt-get install xutils: remove 259 packages!?

2005-11-18 Thread David Koski
I did a dist-upgrade to unstable from stable and am left with only a couple of packages that were held back after manually installing several. But now apt-get install xutils wants to remove 259 packages including kde and friends. Now what? Regards, David Koski [EMAIL PROTECTED] island.com

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-24 Thread David Koski
On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:34 am, belbo wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like > this solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian? If you mean the Ubuntu live CD, you can access root with "sudo su -". David -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: List files of installed package (apt?)

2005-11-24 Thread David Koski
On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:37 am, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > Is there a way I can list all files of an installed package in Debian - > > something similar to rpm -ql [package name] in Red Hat. > > $ dpkg -l > then pipe it with a grep if you want a special pattern... > Or install

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:16 am, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the > third resulting string? > > Sincerely, > echo -n "3 ===";echo -n ${MD5PW} | tr ' ' '\n' | while read char ; do awk \ > '{printf("%c",$char)}' ; done ; ec

where to find kernel packages for i386

2005-12-03 Thread David Koski
I am looking for 2.6.12 for i386. apt-get does not show anything available and google finds it for other platforms. Where can it be found? I don't want the generic and I don't want to have to "make menuconfig" but am looking for a standard config file. Regards, David Ko