Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:19:27AM -0500, dircha wrote: . > Well, I guess I didn't know what type of user you were. That you say you > will be doing a lot of coding, I assume, from what you said above, that > you are entering a Computer Science or Engineering program. . > If you run D

Re: ccing

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:13:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > A little pricier if you have to replace your entire machine to gat over > > the 48Meg limit because they don't make mamory that old any more. > > Hrmmm, how old would that be? Jus

Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

2004-06-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:07:25AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2004 18:30, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am running Debian unstable and updated to Gnome 2.6 this past > > weekend. After the update (and an update to the newest version of gdm > > 2.4.4.7-3) I can't

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:29:58PM +0200, Francisco Borges wrote: > > SpamCop works fine for my own email, where most people are whitelisted, > but is said [1] not to be suitable for a production environment and what > we have here is precisely that... > > [1]:http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml A w

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt() > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transistors doing > anything, so less power gets consumed. > > AFAIK, all modern i386 (AMD, Intel, etc) CPUs at least h

Re: Install won't recognise second CD

2004-06-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:13:53PM +0100, Rich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Sarge and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. > The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. > The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable im

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Jacques wrote: > Keith O'Connell wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks > >off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have > >been teaching myself over the weekend. > > > >I can pul

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how? As far as I know, every IP number from 127.0.0.1 ro 127.255.255.255 does a loopback. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

XFree suddenly cannot open /dev/psaux

2004-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
Sudden trouble with X. I don't know what I might have done, but is was all working yesterday. I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent success) but that shouldn't have messed up X, should it? I looks as if it can no longer open /dev/psaux, and it refuses to start up without its mouse.

cat cannot open /dev/psaux either

2004-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:44:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Sudden trouble with X. I don't know what I might have done, but is was all > working yesterday. I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent success) > but that shouldn't have messed up X, should it? I lo

It works now. Does anyone understand what'w really going on?

2004-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:51:28PM +0200, Eddy wrote: > Hendrik Boom a ?crit : > > > Sudden trouble with X. I don't know what I might have done, but is > > was all > > working yesterday. I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent > > success) >

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:26:12PM -0300, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, > > For several weeks now, I've been having X lock up on me occasionally, > and I'm a bit stumped as to where to start debugging it... Me, too. > > I'm running Sarge on a P4 3.2 HT, and my video card is a GeForce FX > 5200 u

Once a month I get this gibberish.

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
Once a month, the cron daemon sends me all this gibberish. Is there some point to it? Should I be watchin gout for it? What is it, anyway? On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:52:55AM -0400, Cron Daemon wrote: > /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper: > scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or dir

aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm running denian-sarge. When I try to install gcc using aptitude, I get the following lament: ftp://mirror.direct.ca testing/main gcc-3.31:3.3.4 [ERROR] Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/debian/pool/main//g/gcc-3.3/gcc-3. I get similar messages for several other files, such as cpp-

solved with minor glitch: Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
> On Sep 01, 2004, at 18:22, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >I'm running denian-sarge. > >When I try to install gcc using aptitude, I get the following lament: > > > >ftp://mirror.direct.ca testing/main gcc-3.31:3.3.4 [ERROR] > > Unable to fetch file, server said &

Re: knoppix vs standard debian?

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:11:58AM +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Thank you for your replies. > > So, there are security issues!! I suppose this means that the > declaration of Sarge being stable will force security conscious users > to migrate to Sarge ( a lot like Gates & Co forces people

Re: debian system download

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:22:27PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this glint of hope: > > > my father used to work with nasa in huntsville alabama.i'm in > > california but i want to use de

Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:20:55PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:19:09PM +, Will Ness wrote: > > Hello !! > > > > I have an X-Windows configuration issue, and it was suggested on IRC that I > > post the error log onto the mailing list for others to look at, and perhap

gnucash compatibility

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have machines running different versions of debian -- woody and sarge, to be specific. Can I use thg gnucashes in woody and sarge interchangably on the same data files (which are on an NFS-mounted volume). The question is really about file-format compatibility. Will gnucash 1.8.9-2 read and wr

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +0800, Li Daobing wrote: > Hello, > I have a linux server, the system is Debian sarge, kernel version is > 2.6.7. > I want to know how to make the PS2 keyboard hotplug. There may be confusion here -- is PS2 the hardwarey thing IBM came up with a few years ago for

Re: Making KDE my default GUI....

2004-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:40:07PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Will Ness wrote: > > > All you need is the appropriate line for your desired wm/environment. > > But KDM and GDM (yet another reason why the developers should be shot on

Re: gnucash compatibility

2004-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:08:16PM +0100, Steve Westwood wrote: > I've switched to GNUcash 1.8 from 1.6 because 1.8 has a number of new features such > as support for scheduled transactions. > > Version 1.8 can read your data happily, but you won't be able to read it with 1.6 > once you have sav

Re: apt-get upgrade changed desktop from kde to gnome

2004-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:49:20AM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: > I've been using KDE desktop on my system with Sarge. Last night did an > apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade before shutting system down. This > morning it booted up with Gnome desktop instead of the usual KDE, much to my > surp

Solved: Re: no executable in gtk-gnutella package for i386-etch

2007-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:55:15 -0400, hendrik wrote: > When I install gtk-gnutella, it installs just fine, except that > afterward there is no usr/bin/gtk-gnutella file. even though > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=gtk-gnutella&version=unstable&arch=

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:12:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:08:56PM +0200, Dan H wrote: >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:56:21 -0400 >> Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Good point. What I like about the rsync snapshots is that I can >> > "browse" back

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:43:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very >> simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the >> files in my home dir to the windows partition as

Re: using sizeof

2007-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:24:59 +, J HU wrote: > Dear all, > > Perhaps it's an easy/silly question but I don't understand how it works. > > (I'm working in a debian) > I have declared a structure and I'm using the "sizeof" to get the size of > this structure. > > After the call I get that the

Is there a package for mathml fonts?

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
At http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/ it tells me > On Linux with Xft-enabled builds, you should install the TrueType TeX > fonts and Mathematica 4.1 fonts (repeat: 4.1). To install TrueType fonts, > simply extract and copy the .ttf files in your ~/.fonts/ directory > (create it if you

Re: How to handle the bad sectors on the hard disk?

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:21:43 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:08:25AM -0600, Ninenineone Efx wrote: >> Programs freeze sometimes complaining i/o error, access failure on >> specific sectors. >> My hard disk begins to have bad sectors. It's 10-year old computer. >> >>

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:01:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0600 > Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Telly, > >> I wanted to know if some of you find it better to compile your >> programs or just apt-get install them? I've been thinking about just >

Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a small program that makes a time-varying pattern on the screen. It works fine with SDL_RESIZABLE, but not with SDL_FULLSCREEN. In full-screen mode everything is sheared off into wavy lines, as if the screen geometry I'm using is not the actual one. Now I understand that it may be unable t

Re: Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:39:47 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a small program that makes a time-varying pattern on the > screen. It works fine with SDL_RESIZABLE, but not with SDL_FULLSCREEN. I forgot to mention: I'm running this on a 32-bit AMD processor, an ATI all-in-wonder gr

Re: Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:58:07 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:39:47 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a small program that makes a time-varying pattern on the >> screen. It works fine with SDL_RESIZABLE, but not wit

Re: Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:03:29 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:58:07 -0400 > Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:39:47 +0000 (UTC) >> Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have a small

Re: Firefox entry prediction crashes

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:07 +0100, Jamin Davis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top >> of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm >> going to type next. I could do without i

xquery

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Is there an xquery implementation for Linux? Or is it time to implement one? Or is someone already doing it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xquery

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:27:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/18/07 13:08, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> Is there an xquery implementation for Linux? Or is it time to implement >> one? Or is someone already doing it? >

Re: Firefox entry prediction crashes

2007-08-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:10:18 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > If you're seeing your own /past/ search entries, you can disable > remembering form data in Preferences -> Privacy -> History 'Remember > what I enter in forms and the search bar' > > (This is in Firefox 2.0.0.6 from tarball.) Thanks. T

Re: xquery

2007-08-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:09:20 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > There are some links to various java implementation from Wikipedia's > xquery page. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/ looks interesting Yes, quite interesting. Using it got me to the point where I realized that xquery won't do rel

how find postscript for a Unicode character.

2007-08-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
Now I've written a program that takes minimally marked-up text and formats it as a Postscript file. I take the generated Postscript file and send igtto a Postscript orinter using xpp. That works fine for most of the text I have to print The minimal markup notation is pure nonstandard hackery. I

Re: flock, fcntl, lockf?

2008-01-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:33:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-01-14 23:50:35 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I tend to use fcntl because it is NFS safe and when the program dies > for whatever reason (even kill -9, which is not trappable to explicitly > remove the

Re: Using Lenny on production server?

2008-07-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:19:34 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > So: What do people think about the wisdom of running a clean install of > Lenny in a production server environment at this time? I am not a bank, > I don't need five-nines uptime, but I would just like to know if the > system is generally

Re: IP forwarding drops out -- more data

2008-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:03:09 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:11:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have my network front end running Debian sarge (yet, it's time to >> upgrade at lest to etch). It's connected to the rest of the net by a >> DSL line. I've

Re: Re[2]: Video Adapter intel965

2008-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:10:08 +0400, Сергей Овчар wrote: >> > In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported >> > yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably >> > in package xserver-xorg-video-i810. >> >> Uhm. >> >> Is this a different i965 card I don't rea

Re: IP forwarding drops out -- more data

2008-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:15:53 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > have a look at /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ Thanks. I linked my port-forwarding start script to /etc/sbin/ipmasq. It should stay up now if 00ipmasq actually gets executed when ppp0 comes up. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Uninstalling djb daemontools, djbdns

2008-07-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
Ages ago I installed daemontools and djbdns from the installer on http://cr.yp.to Now I;d like to replace that installation with one that uses the Debian packages. How do I go about uninstalling the djb versinos? Just removing the /packages and /command directories didn't work. I get regular me

Re: Uninstalling djb daemontools, djbdns

2008-07-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:09:19 +0300, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> Ages ago I installed daemontools and djbdns from the installer on >> http://cr.yp.to >> >> Now I;d like to replace that installation with one that uses the >> Debian packages

NFS unexpectedly starts timing out diring mount

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
At home we have a file server (called april), which provides a central filesystem (called /farhome) containing everyone's home directory. It's been working fine for years, until yesterday, Suddenly one of our machines (called shadow) cannot mount /farhome, ans instead gets mount timeouts. Anothe

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:42:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > At home we have a file server (called april), which provides a central > filesystem (called /farhome) containing everyone's home directory. > > It's been working fine for years, until yesterday, > > Suddenly

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2008 22:13, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Sunday 03 August 2008 13:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > While mfs mounting wasn't working, our LAN was disconnected from the >> > wider internet. Altho

Re: Wiki

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:40:57 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > [ oops - replied to OP ] > > You'll probably get a different answer from each person, but I think > ikiwiki is one of the best ones since it is very flexible and you can > easily get your data out of it again should you want to (unlike > m

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:04 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: >> >> > [snip] > >> /usr 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) > &

website front-end

2008-04-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of the URL. But then I thought, surely that must have been done already? And sure

Re: website front-end

2008-04-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:38:00 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would >> only look at incoming http requests and forward them to other >> processes, possibly on other machines, dependin

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:10:25 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close > X with ctrl-alt-del. Isn't it ctrl-alt-backspace that's supposed to close X? -- hendrik > Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:05:49 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >> > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:11:28 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 10:42]: >> On Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >> > console a month or two ago. Now I have

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:52 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >> console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to >> it excpet for regular u

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious. Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an operating mode where it acts as a front-end to aptitude? :-0 -- hendrik -

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> >> I have been upgrading. Could it be that three revisions of kernels have >> passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better &g

What is the apt cache good for?

2008-04-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
I can get some space back by doing apt-get autoclean. I can get more back by apt-get clean. This deletes lots and lots of files from my system. Judging from du's output, /var/cache/apt/ takes a bit more than a third of my disk space. Now I've been keeping these files around, just in case. But

Kernel panic when rebooting etch AMD64

2008-04-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
About two out of three times I get a kernel panic when booting etch on my AMD64 system. It started a few days ago when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64. The rest of the time it comes up normally. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux april 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:50:19 UTC 2008 x86

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

2008-04-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:23 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Most of that space is stored in /var/cache/apt/archives. The rest of > /var/cache/apt can be deleted but it'll be recreated next time you run > apt; it's a binary cache of data that's used to speed apt up. > > I think it's mostly

Re: Kernel panic when rebooting etch AMD64

2008-04-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:04:45 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:10 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> About two out of three times I get a kernel panic when booting etch on >> my AMD64 system. It started a few days ago when I upgraded from kernel >> 2.6.18-3-amd64.

Re: Network FUBAR

2008-04-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:05:41 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > One: Device name. Maybe the interface isn't "eth0" anymore, > because of the hardware change. This seems improbable to me, > because you said the interface was up and in the routing table. > I *have* seen a system come up with only one n

What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UTF-8) conversion -- I mean the weird file format. Or documentation about this file format

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. >> >> Does anyone have any

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> > back to m

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> > back to m

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:50:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. > > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the > EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UT

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
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. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new > Debian package. Anyone ha

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 02 May 2008 16:27:10 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > 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. > >

Image compression

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've noticed that some 40K byte jpeg files are very good, as good as ones ten times the size, and that others are awful. The question naturally arises about the proper way to further compress the large images to save disk space. What image compression programs have people found to give good re

Image comparison

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
A similar question has been posted before about identical pictures. There are programs that search through a large collection of files (like, myriads of files) and find duplicates. Are there programs or algorithms that will do something similar for images and still recognize one image as the s

Re: Image compression

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:04:41 +0100, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 20:02 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I've noticed that some 40K byte jpeg files are very good, as good as >> ones ten times the size, and that others are awful. The question >> naturally aris

Re: Image comparison

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:15:39 +0100, Joe wrote: > findimagedupes Looks good. I'll try it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Image compression

2008-05-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:50:56 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/21/2008 03:02 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I've noticed that some 40K byte jpeg files are very good, as good as >> ones ten times the size, and that others are awful. The question >> naturally arises about

Re: Image comparison

2008-05-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 22 May 2008 01:23:48 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:15:39 +0100, Joe wrote: > >> findimagedupes > > Looks good. I'll try it. > > -- hendrik It works! Thank you. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: youtube also crashes iceweasel

2007-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:17:16 -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > On 3/17/07, Vasil Benov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My system is Debian Etch, Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 (if this is of any >> relevance), I use the Gnome desktop environment. >> >> I think this might be a bug either in the mozil

Re: mozilla-vlc plugin keeps crashing iceweasel

2007-04-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:17:16 -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > On 3/17/07, Vasil Benov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My system is Debian Etch, Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 (if this is of any >> relevance), I use the Gnome desktop environment. >> >> I think this might be a bug either in the mozil

Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some other mechanism I should know about? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-07-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
This is in testing (currently squeeze, I believe). I log in using gdm. My default window manager is icewm. I click on the little square icon on the bar at the bottom (the one that says "XTerm" in a white box when I hover the nouse over it), and nothing happens. I do this repeatedly, and still

Re: can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-07-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:38:41 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: >> This is in testing (currently squeeze, I believe). >> >> I log in using gdm. My default window manager is icewm. I click on the >> little square icon on the bar at the bottom (the one that >> says "XTerm" in a white box when I hover the no

FIXED: can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
I upgraded everything to current yesterday, and booted with kernel 2.6.30-1-486, and now the terminal comes up properly. I have no idea which of these updates made it work, but it works now. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

nameserver during install

2009-09-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
Is there any reason why the installer shouldn't contain its own nameserver? It's certainly possible for a Linux system to do its own nameserving, so why shouldn't the istaller? It would remove one step that's tricky for beginners from the installation process. And how can one discover what na

Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last week, and used it to install testing. Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened. How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root co

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried usin

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:29 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:24 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote: >> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability >> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find >> it and change it. > You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 >

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:08:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,14.Sep.09, 03:07:04, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after insta

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:24 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote: >> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability >> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find >> it and change it. > You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 >

Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have successfully identified and decommissioned a failing RAID partition -- my RAID1 was then running properly with only one of its two twinned partitions. Every timr I booted, I got a message complaining that it was deficient. The drive with the failing partition was indeed defective, and

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:31 +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > HI, > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > use that language instead of the other. > > In many situations we can use anyone,

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:29:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: >>> >>> >>> Original Message >>> From: m...@allums.com >>> To: ron.l.john...@cox.net >>> Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 >>> 12:32:26 -0600 > [snip] >>

Re: Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:43 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hendrik Boom [2009.02.17.1747 > +0100]: >> But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to identify >> them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at boot time to >> asssemble th

open source GMA 500 graphics -- Is there a glimmer of hope?

2009-02-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Has there been any progress with getting open-source drivers for the GMA 500? Last I heard it was lost in a tangle of confusion, with no one actually blocking such drivers, but no one able to find proper source code or specificatins either. Is there at least some clarity about the situation?

Further paranoia: LVM and a decommisioned RAID member.

2009-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:31:48 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:43 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > >> also sprach Hendrik Boom [2009.02.17.1747 >> +0100]: >>> But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to identify >>> them a

Secret newlines in openoffice

2009-02-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm trying to store openoffice test files in a format that's friendly to revisino control systems -- thus text should be broken up into reasonably short lines so that edits are likely to be on different lines and not conflict during a merge. Che compressed zipped directories are, of course, no

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:26 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:41:10 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hendrik Boom: >> >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I&#

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