Re: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot. What is this?

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Richardson
bad, or when the driver wasn't really suitable for the card. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody vs. quota

2002-10-20 Thread Jim Richardson
report also gives a workaround, namely to use the command quotacheck -acF vfsold explicitly to create quota.user instead of aquota.user. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSU

Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Jim Richardson
s/Name: //p' ) hostname $hostname echo dhclient-exit-hooks: hostname is $( hostname ) You could update /etc/hostname too if you like. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: galeon "personal security manager" needed?

2003-01-16 Thread Jim Richardson
; ... Maybe potato is different, but on woody $ apt-cache search PSM | grep PSM mozilla-psm - Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Manager (PSM) Note that the galeon package requires mozilla-browser, and mozilla-browser recommends mozilla-psm. -- Jim Richardson Schoo

Re: gnomecal coredumps on startup

2002-10-03 Thread Jim Richardson
nd address book for GNOME. This or something similar has happened to me too, and apparently to lots of other people. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83840 which says "Should be fixed in 1.4.7". How can Debian stable users easily upgrade to that version? -- Jim

Considering switching to debian

2001-03-08 Thread Jim Richardson
either/or? 4) How difficult is it to build deb packages from tarballs? ie ./configure;make; -> make a deb. Since I am likely to want to play with code that has no current .deb 5) Can I "downgrade" packages easily if they cause probs? That should cover it

Re: Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread Jim Richardson
) says it supports the D-360L. Might try that. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Rich text format.

2001-03-13 Thread Jim Richardson
ported to work properly in RTF im- > and export. But possibly there are as well some converters around. > > Also, Ted works with rtf fine. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Mirror

2001-03-13 Thread Jim Richardson
unintentionally, please do not use the contents > herein and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. > > http://cdimage.debian.org has instructions on this I think. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 and modules

2001-03-18 Thread Jim Richardson
ing kernel sources > no problem > But when I mauch modconf or modprobe, my computer is unable to find the > modules. > Have I forgotten to do something? > > compiling the modules themselves is a seperate step from compiling the kernel. Did you "make modules;make modules_

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-19 Thread Jim Richardson
, just fork over the cash, but they (or at least the agenda) are 'not ready for prime time' yet. I got the agenda, and it's fun to play with and dev for, but it's not replacing my palm pilot anytime soon. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.co

Unstable, sid woody, what?

2001-03-19 Thread Jim Richardson
Can someone give me a quick crash course on what the relationship between the names (sid, slink, etc) and the dev_status. i.e. Is sid the stable tree? woody is testing? I am a little confused here. Thanks -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-20 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:05:50PM +0800, csj wrote: > On Tuesday 20 March 2001 12:13, Jim Richardson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:30:30AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Now that you two mentioned them, I find it curious that both the > > > YOPY and the Agenda VR3 (fo

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
be configured to reply to the List, even if the mail was from a persons account, provided that the headers included a list address I was subscribed to (or aware of) Look in the help docs for mutt. For other mua, I have no idea -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
such processes easier. Monitering all processes from a give group of users etc. Anyway, good luck -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
ompared to evolution. But is well worth the learning. Together with a good procmail setup, you can do just about anything with the mail. www.mutt.org is the place to go for info on mutt. There are a couple of maillists there also Evolution is supposed to be more than just an mua yes? how'd y

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
but I have little experience with them. Ipaq, (expensive and hard to get) can use linux, I don't know how well they work as a pda though. Anyway, for price and convenience, go with a visor or palm. Just my $0.02 worth. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: PCMCIA modem card recommendation

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
he network or phone lines, the jacks are build in. Downside is that it takes all the space in the pcmcia port. "There can be only one" -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
n through less. > In a related question, can one force sort by rows instead of by > columns, ie, "a b c\nd e f" instead of "a c e\nb d f"? I say related > because when viewing copious output through a pager, it would be > useful to have sort by rows instead of by

Re: Routing problem...

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
ore complicated with bridging as well as firewalling, but ta-dah! there's also a bridging+firewalling mini-howto :) note that both the above mini-howtos are a little on the old side, but (AFAIK) still work with current kernels (2.2.x, not sure about how iptables affect things.) Good luck. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
it's just not as useful imho. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
ing on your machine, this is like blood in the water to the dumber variety of script kiddies. (the vaguely smarter ones figure out that an ip with a dozen backdoor exploits is probably not really running them) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:54:42AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Jim Richardson wrote: > > > the older IIIX(E) series, the new m100 is smaller) If all you are going > > to do is take notes, then you can get the cheaper 2MB visor, but if you > > Yes, just notes. I assum

Re: Viewing html-attachments with mutt

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
in your homedir, what about the system wide one (in debian is it in /etc? ) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Jim Richardson
n the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it moves into stable? That is, if I begin following woody with apt, will I continue to follow woody as it stabilizes? Sorry if this is an obvious one, I haven't actua

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:54:47PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JR> I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to > JR> use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it > JR> moves

Re: PPPD problems

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Richardson
to gateway are checked. I am afraid that I can not help with specifics on wvdial as I don't use it. But the routing tables are the first thing that springs to mind with this sort of problem. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Richardson
o understand about forth, is that no word means what you think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you weren't looking :) On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa

Re: mount a mounted filesystem

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Richardson
, but re-export is an option. (This is for the userland nfs server.) Also man mountd shows a re-export option that includes nfs and smb volumes. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Richardson
re all the servers > are...) you hear, "Hey! What the [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Or do the same thing by hitting the up arrow key one time too many followed by return... Anyone know how to make bash history *not* keep certain commands? :) -- Jim Richardson Anarc

Forth (was Re: pyton & perl)

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Richardson
it means that you can write a program under just > JR> about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa > JR> :) > > Yeah. Forth is really cool! What's a pity it is not popular nowdays. > On the otherhand, postscript is very much like forth in many

Re: signing off

2001-04-02 Thread Jim Richardson
prime > time > > So why the drive by posting? If you choose to use something other than Debian or linux, are we supposed to beg you to reconsider? It's a free world, use what you want. "Ask not if Debian is ready for you, ask if you are ready for Debian" -- J