[OT] Don't buy a Bestdata modem!

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
Just a note for anyone in the market for buying new hardware, but especially those that still use 56k modems. I recently purchased an external serial modem made by BestData from the local computer shop and picked it over an Actiontec model because it said on the box that it supported Linux. The A

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:36:03 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > > On 18 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: > >> > Also, what is the hostname I have to supply? The FQDN seems to be > >> > aca

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:31:00 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-02-18, Jacob S. penned: > > > > There is something called "round-robin dns", among other things, for > > the purpose of having multiple machines answer que

Re: Problem opening StarOffice files in OpenOffice 2

2006-11-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:18:32 + "Bruce M. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody else found that the Debian supplied OOo 2.0.4 (2.0.4-5) > in Etch will not open StarOffice 5 .sdw files? > > I first get a 'Filter Selection' window (as thoug

Re: strange email link

2006-11-14 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:14:57 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to contact county officials in Lewis and Clark County MT, > USA. > > They have a page: > http://www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/index.php?id=30 > > But the

Trouble reading a Windows cd

2006-11-25 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I have a cd of pictures that a friend burned for me on their windoze machine. Whenever I try to mount it though, mount gives me an error saying "mount: Not a directory". I know this is not a permissions problem, as I get the same error w

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:03:39 +0200 "Justin Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers > > that publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago > > (nothing more than 1 or 2 years

Openoffice.org 2.0.2-3 - problem opening files

2006-05-16 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I seem to be having some problems with OO.org 2. The program starts up fine, and I can get the file -> open dialog to come up and navigate to the apropriate directory, but when I select a file for it to open it hangs. When it hangs I am un

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:09:43 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > That's typical in elections except ties, and not surprising nobody > > bothered or wanted to check for absentee ballots. This is one of

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:32:27 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 02 June 2006 13:11, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > If good ideas did spread, sales tax would be unconstitutional in > > > more than Oregon and New H

Re: Openoffice.org 2.0.2-3 - problem opening files

2006-06-26 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:42:33 -0500 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Howdy list, > > I seem to be having some problems with OO.org 2. The program starts up > f

Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system

2006-08-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > José Alburquerque wrote: > > > My problem is that when I run 'apt-get update' I get these errors: > > > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/et

Re: mysqld is being killed by the kernel (in the parlor with a candlestick)

2006-08-04 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:31:38 -0400 Roan Horning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was hoping there was a magic setting for mysql, that would let it > run using less memory--especially since the databases I'm running are > small. It seems to spawn 4 or

Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system

2006-08-04 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:41:20 +1000 John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 August 2006 11:03, Jacob S wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 > [...] > > > > I have been experiencing this

Re: RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

2006-08-05 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:40:03 -0300 Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear people, > > I have some photos that I would like to preserve in a digital form > and I thought of using a scanner for this. > > Unfortunately, I my knowlegdge about s

Weird cursor problem in X11

2006-08-08 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I am having a strange problem in X11 that I have not been able to solve. First, this is on a AMD XP 1800+ on a Giga-Byte motherboard with a Via chipset and built-in video card. The video card uses the 'savage' driver in Xfree86. The machin

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-09 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:24:24 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/5/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CJ van den Berg wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:20:38PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >> For the alsa

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:41:00 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If no one knows, does anyone know where I can find documentation of > how to control this for Debian? > I'd like my ALSA to be in order so I can recompile my kernel, and

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:35:33 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > To have modules loaded in a certain order,

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:46:32 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Th

Where's the grub boot menu?

2006-08-18 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I'm sure this must be a simple problem, but I can't find it on Google. When I boot my server, grub always drops me into it's shell, instead of giving me a boot menu, or even booting the default. Having to type 3 lines at least 40 charact

Re: Where's the grub boot menu?

2006-08-18 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:24:45 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:14:33PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > I'm sure this must be a simple problem, b

Re: Where's the grub boot menu?

2006-08-18 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:38:12 -0500 "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/18/2006 01:14 PM, Jacob S wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > Howdy Jacob. > > > I'm sure this must be a simple problem

Re: Where's the grub boot menu?

2006-08-18 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:01:12 -0500 "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/18/2006 03:44 PM, Jacob S wrote: > > [...] > > title stable Xen 3.0.1 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel > > 2.6.12.6-xe

Re: Use of Debian Logo

2006-08-19 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:07:02 +1000 "Pranesh Medilall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To Whom it may concern > > My name is Pranesh Medilall currently study towards a Bachelors > degree in Netcentric Computing at Monash University,Melbourne > Victoria.

Re: Where's the grub boot menu?

2006-08-19 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:41:04 -0500 Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob, > > Is it possible that GRUB is looking for "/boot/boot/grub/menu.lst", > instead of "/boot/grub/menu.lst"? The "README" makes reference to > this when "/boot" is a se

Re: Weird cursor problem in X11

2006-08-20 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:54:07 -0500 Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Both in gdm and after logging into an x session, a copy of the mouse > > pointer will 'freez

Re: macromedia new windows version problem

2006-08-21 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:32:49 -0400 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:49:12AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson > wrote: > > On Monday 21 August 2006 08:01, Stephen wrote: > > > > If it were closed source, then implement

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

2006-08-21 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:34:16 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2006 11:07, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I do not have a right hand gas tank, so I get > > to sit in a long line and look at the other, empty lane, being >

Good video card?

2007-05-26 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, I'm looking to purchase a new video card to replace a dying Radeon 9200. The 9200 was relatively easy to install - load the kernel module and set the correct driver in the xorg.conf file and it was good to go - - no compiling drivers or ke

Re: Good video card?

2007-05-27 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 May 2007 06:19:12 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/27/07 00:58, David Fox wrote: > [snip] > > Fortunately, a friend gave me an Nvidia Gforce FX5200, has 128 megs > > o

Recovering an lvm partition

2007-05-28 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, An unnamed person was trying to learn LVM and add storage capacity to my fileserver while I was gone and messed up the partition a bit. Doing a vgdisplay vg_name would cause it to error out about a missing device. (The new drive had been r

Re: Recovering an lvm partition

2007-05-28 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:08:18 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:01:32AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > I managed to fix that part of it, eventually, using vgreduce > > - --rem

Re: Recovering an lvm partition

2007-05-28 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 May 2007 09:51:47 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:40:33AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:08:18 -0400 > > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

AGP & DRI on a Radeon Xpress 1150

2007-06-05 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, I'm trying to setup Debian Etch on a new Dell Inspiron 1501. X is working great so far, except that I cannot get DRI enabled. I can modprobe radeon and tell the xorg.conf to use the radeon driver, but glxinfo still reports no DRI. Looking

Sarge -> Etch = udev problems

2007-06-08 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, This being gone at school for 5 months and then trying to fix 6 computers when I get home all at the same time is getting old. :-) My latest problem is on a Thinkpad that I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. The upgrade installed a 2.6.18-*-486

Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-16 Thread Jacob S.
Howdy List, In doing some googling to get Debian setup on a Dell Inspiron 1501 I found some people had better success with the contrast/brightness function keys if they downgraded the bios to an older version. So, I tried this but Debian started hanging with an error message about "unexpected irq

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-19 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:05:45 +0200 (CEST) pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (quote) > I then upgraded back to the bios version that came with the laptop, > but the unexpected irq trap persists. (end quote) > > Did you enter the BIOS setup and

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-19 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:51:23 +0100 "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:53:11PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > Howdy List, > > > > In doing some googling to get Debian setup on

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-21 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > Good thought, but "acpi=off" did not make any (noticeable) >

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-22 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:47:04 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Watching google videos?

2006-10-17 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:35:38 + "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the answers: The download link works fine - because > it says "Windows/Mac" I was under the false impression that I > get some obscure file. The "video downloader"

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Sat, O

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet > traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from > the vpn. > > my situati

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-22 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:27:40 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > > > I'm fairly certain that you know enough to keep it f

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-22 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:48:35 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:58:27AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I

OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-03 Thread Jacob S.
Howdy list, Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good sources for a socket A motherboard w/SATA (the computer currently has an Athlo

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-03 Thread Jacob S.
> Jacob S. wrote: >> Howdy list, >> >> Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my >> computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough >> money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good >&g

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-03 Thread Jacob S.
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/03/07 19:16, Sam Leon wrote: >> Jacob S. wrote: >>> Howdy list, >>> >>> Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since

Recovering files on lvm/reiserfs partition

2007-12-20 Thread Jacob S.
Howdy list, So, I did something stupid. (Again.) My desktop went down, but I needed a backup off of it for a different computer on the lan, so I took out the lvm drive and put it in my other backup server. Only problem was, the lvm drive I put in and the lvm drive I pulled from the working ba

Kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 and Nforce2 audio problems

2005-12-10 Thread Jacob S
Howdy list, I recently apt-get installed linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 so that I would have a recent enough kernel for udev (running Debian Unstable). Yes, I'm just now trying to take the plunge and upgrade to udev. But before I could start learning udev, I found the 2.6.14 kernel isn't loading the driv

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-10 Thread Jacob S
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:26 -0300 Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kemp wrote: > > apt-cache search rar unrar > > > > Gives you this in the output: > > > > unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files > > unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) ^ > Thank you so much

Re: Kernel 2.6.14-2-k7 and Nforce2 audio problems

2005-12-13 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:29:36 -0500 Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 10 December 2005 01:56 pm, Jacob S wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > I recently apt-get installed linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 so that I would > > have a recent enough kernel for ud

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:08:29 +0100 Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/13/05, Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on a good quality > > laptop. I bought a Dell desktop for my mom almost a year ago and > > it wasn't such a good deal. So

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have made two Sarge installations within the past > few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one with a 2.6 > kernel. I installed Realplayer on both of them, but > sound is obtained from .ram only with the 2.4-kernel

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:34:28 -0500 Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll second the recommendation for IBM thinkpads. But as Wim said, > > they are more expensive than other laptops. > > If th

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:09 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) > Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have made two Sarge installations within the past > > few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one w

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:00:04 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If, indeed, this must be done--this provides hotplug functionality as > well. > > Does it need to be in control? As of now, many things are modprobed > before hotplug and hotplug says "already loaded". Might be quite > di

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:47:39 -0800 (PST) Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:09 -0600 > > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -080

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On 14 Dec 2005 22:41:27 -0500 David Zelinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and > > 2.6.14 (which must have udev). > > When I upgraded from 2.4 kernel to 2.6.14 I also installed udev along > t

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:55:58 +0200 roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody got any ideas how to get mail out of a POP account that > claims to have no mail. > > I've... > > - read the doc's > - tried KMail, Sylpheed and Thunderbird > - tried to contact Gmail > > ...but still can't d

Re: X on a USB Disk under Windows

2005-12-16 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:34:10 -0500 Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a somewhat unique situation. > > You see, I have a fairly large USB Disk (512 MB), on which I placed > PuTTY. Then when I am at school (which uses crappy Windows XP), I > simply plug in the USB driv

Re: Booting Proliant 800

2005-12-23 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:49 +0100 Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I've just bought a cheap Proliant 800 PII 450 and would like to > install Debian on it. But it will not boot anything. It only tries > to boot from a damaged Windoze NT install on it's disks but fails

Udev and storage devices

2005-12-28 Thread Jacob S
Howdy list, I just installed udev on a Debian Sarge box. Everything's working great, but now I'm trying to write some rules for a digital camera and a usb memory stick. I created a file named 010_local.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d that contains the following: # Olympus D390 digital camera BUS="scsi

Re: notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:09:33 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there > is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is > considered annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this > feature. N

Re: notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:05 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:09:33 -0500 > kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there > > is a new version of acrore

Re: Udev and storage devices

2005-12-30 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:52:39 + "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/28/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > I just installed udev on a Debian Sarge box. Everything's working > > great, but now I'

Re: Udev and storage devices

2005-12-31 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:26:28 -0500 Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > It took a lot of experimentation and playing around, but I finally > > got a working combination. My /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules > > file now looks like this: > > >

Re: Udev and storage devices

2006-01-02 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:55:16 + "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/31/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I would agree with you, except I found autofs wouldn't work with > > symlinks. It wanted to be pointed at

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:41:09 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Katipo wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >> We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. > >> Debian can print a test page, but applications like > >> web browsers can't make anything come out. > >> > >> > >>

Re: Apache, Debian and Mysql

2006-01-07 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:54:29 +0800 "Jon Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to make apache2 authenticate against a MySQL > database on a Debian Sarge system? Want to create a login dialog box > for users trying to access the web

Re: can i be sub'd but not receive posts?

2006-01-12 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:09:54 -0800 "David M. Besonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > just sub'd to this mailing list. > > i would like to be able to post and i would like to > have no posts delivered to me. i'll read the list > from gma

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:33 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system is Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel. We have a Verizon DSL > connection. I can send and receive email with Mozilla and receive > mail with fetchmail but I have not

Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so I created this problem for myself. But now I can't figure out how to fix it. The problem comes because I simply dropped a .gnupg directory along with it's pubring, secring and trustdb into my ~/ directory so that I could use my gpg keys. Excep

Re: Live CD for Headless Box

2006-01-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:27:37 -0800 Stephen Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know of any livecds specially targetted towards headless > computers? I need a livecd that I can drop into a computer and > immediately get SSH access to the syste

Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-15 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:12 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob writes: > > So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so > > that I can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I > > don't know what it is

Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-19 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:05:35 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:12 -0600 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ja

Re: What is gaim upto on my system?

2006-01-20 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:03:52 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday 20 January 2006 07:02, [KS] wrote: > > > > > >>I had noticed a few days back that gaim had around 5 or 6 processes > >>and was surprised. I kill

Re: Very poor apt source speeds

2006-01-23 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:16:22 + Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > For over a month, I'm seeing extremely poor apt-get download speeds, > I'd be *very* lucky to get 5kb/s and occasionally 25kb/s if it > connects at all, and I

[OT] Speakeasy static ips

2006-01-23 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone on the list have a static ip from Speakeasy? I'm wondering if their static ips are listed in any of the blacklists that block all (or most) dsl connections. TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DB

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:39:06 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok you Debian experts, I think I'm on to something with this printer > sharing thing. My last update is included at the end if you need to > refresh your memory :-) > > Basica

Re: [OT] Speakeasy static ips

2006-01-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:11:10 -0500 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:08:52AM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > > > Does anyone on the list have a static ip from Speakeasy? I'm > > wonderin

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not having any problem "seeing" the Linux printer from my Mac. > It shows up in the CUPS interface and app print dialog on my Mac. In > fact adding either or both of your su

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:37:30 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:01:53 -0500 > > Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Jacob

Re: debian source philosophy

2006-01-26 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:01:09 + Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a general question on Unix/Linux philosophy/configuration > on which I would be curious to know what the Debian view/situation > is > > I am a big fan of having

Re: Strange PPPoe problem

2006-04-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:44:11 -0600 anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 25 March 2006 09:24 pm, Jacob S wrote: > [snip] > > > > # ping longbow.arroway.com -c 1 -M do -s 1472 > > > > PING longbow.ar

Re: something like dreamweaver

2006-04-04 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:49:10 -0700 (PDT) belahcene abdelkader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a tool like "dreamweaver". > Is there on linux a tool better than bluefish or > quanta. > Theses tools are great but for someone coming fr

Re: Installing a 3Com EhterLink Driver

2006-04-07 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:28:25 -0700 "Redefined Horizons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still relatively new to Linux, but I'm learning :] I've been using > Debian for a few months, and I'm ready to connect to the internet. > I've got a Debian box at

Re: Multi server package management

2006-04-07 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:21:46 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon wrote: > > Hi There, We are gathering quite a few debian servers now and have > > just started testing a debian xen server, thus giving us more debian > > serve

Re: HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:49:42 +0100 Toby Satchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it > didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. > (Its only a home server and more o

Re: [OT] gpg check

2006-04-14 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:52:02 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:53, S. M. Ibrahim wrote: > > Please check my mail if gpg works here :) > > It is signed and seems to verify that the message hasn't been altered

Sensord messages in syslog

2006-04-20 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I've been getting some messages in syslog the past couple days like the following: Apr 20 04:19:10 jacob sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip w83627hf-isa-0290: +3.3V: +3.22 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.47 V) [ALARM] Apr 20 03:58:10 jacob sensord:

Re: weird fam/samba problem

2006-02-02 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:06:26 -0500 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >maybe there is a setting in fam.conf that is tying up the shares? > > Maybe, I just found one that w

Re: Redirect hostname to internal box

2006-02-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:24:27 +0200 "Clifford W. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Firstly I'm not sure if this is the right place but here goes: > > I'm using Debian 3.1. > > I have dyndns with wildcards enabled, and I'd like to h

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

2006-02-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:52:30 +0530 TAC Forums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > We just got a new requirement: To automated the backup of the all the > data on the network with the option of being able to retrieve/restore > a file upto any 7 days. >

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

2006-02-05 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:47:12 -0500 Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Hello folks. > > > > I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find > > a tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smart

Udev & Usbkey problems

2006-02-06 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, I just upgraded Sid to the latest packages today. I also got my usbkey back from warranty repair by the manufacturer. I have tested the key in OS X on an iBook and it works great. However, when I plug it into my Debian Sid box, syslog fi

Re: weird fam/samba problem

2006-02-07 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 02:07:04 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:05:36 -0600 > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fam was started by /etc/init.d/fam on my Sid machine. (I say was > > because it appe

Re: Udev & Usbkey problems

2006-02-07 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:13:59 -0700 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:02:13PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > >

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-08 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:30:44 +0100 Renato Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check: > > $> glxinfo > direct rendering: No > > Well, I dug and dug, and here's what I got: > > For a func

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