Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: > Klistvud: >> > I don't have a serious performance issue, though. There's an encrypted > LVM volume on top of it and throughput is limited by the CPU (Atom D510) > at about 20-25MByte/s. An unencrypted volume I just created for this > test yields 72M

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrew Sackville-West: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No. The kernel probably infringes dozens, perhaps hundreds of > > patents. Debian's policy is to ignore patents in the absence of > > evidence that the owner is likely to enforce them on us. > > Unfortunately, my understand

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike McCarty: > > > >No, you are confusing the patent system with copyright. A patent covers > >*an idea*, not an implementation. -- snip > Ideas are not patentable (in the USA). You are probably right, I must have confused this. Although I find the distinction not to be easy, at least when softwa

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

2006-01-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Matthias: > > I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > happening harddisk read/write operation. If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, this is normal and shouldn't stress your hard disk. J. -- When I am doing sex I wonder if my emotions can be detected by alien civil

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

2006-01-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Matthias Pfeifer: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Matthias: > >> > >> I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > >> happening harddisk read/write operation. > > > > If you are using a journalling file system like e

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sonixxfx: > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? aptitude logs its actions. apt-get doesn't. But may may already be happy with dpkg's logging mechanism. Caveat: dpkg in unstable doesn't log yet. I don't know about aptitude in stable. > I occasianall

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Craig M. Houck: > > You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan > on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. When you are using a Pentium M processor and have almost no load, it is intended behaviour that the fan doesn't run. That's the whole point of thi

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hex Star: > > /me wonders if your laptop may have died due to some messing around with the > fan acpi config? :P Fortunately not! It's just the power supply that is dead. ACPI worked fine for the past two years. J. -- My medicine shelf is my altar. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: OS and file system encryption

2006-04-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tigran Varosyan: > > I have read the Linux has software available that can encrypt the OS and the > file system to a degree that even with physical access to the HD, the data > cannot be extracted. I was told that this slows the systems down quite a bit > but that is it very functional. This sounds

Re: OS and file system encryption

2006-04-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: > Tigran Varosyan: > > > > I have read the Linux has software available that can encrypt the OS and the > > file system to a degree that even with physical access to the HD, the data > > cannot be extracted. I was told that this slows the systems down qui

Re: oracle non-free

2006-04-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Eugen Paiuc: > > I'm useing debian from last 5 years , and I like to know if installing > new non-free oracle.deb is a security risk for my systems. As fas as I can tell (only from following the usual IT news sites), Oracle doesn't exactly belong to the overly security conscious corporations. The

Re: setting up an encrypted filesystem..

2006-04-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Digby Tarvin: > > However it seems that I need to add an entry to /etc/modprobe.d in > order to get the device mapper module loaded. Or should it be > /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modules that I edit? Modules which you want to load at boot have to be named in /etc/modules (one module name er line).

Re: Udev problem when rebooting....no filesystem found

2006-04-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
miguel velasco: > > During the installation of th KDE 3.5 one packet named Udev was kept > back and it didn?t upgradeI thought it was no important and now I > suppose it was. Sure it was. :) udev creates your device files under /dev, that is probably why your root device wasn't found. I gues

Re: Debian DVD autostart

2006-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi Daniel, I don't think I can really help you but here are some suggestions for your consideration: Daniel L. McGrew: > > I'm using outlook express as the newreader and it's not lists.debian.org or > linux.debian.user... You will not make friends with many people, neither in mailing lists nor

Re: Please explain quote and trim...

2006-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrew Sackville-West: > > I think that should about sum it up for you. Intersperse your comments > where relevant. snip out irrelevant stuff and then bottom post > everything else. Generally this is a good idea, but Outlooks (in it's default settings) doesn't generate the quote signs, so this m

Re: Debian DVD autostart

2006-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike McCarty: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > >Just by the way: this list is not moderated. > > Au contraire, mon ami. There are some list admins around here who > do moderate. Not too long ago one made some threats about forcible > unsubscription. This is not what I wo

Re: Please explain quote and trim...

2006-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Roberto C. Sanchez: > Rogério Brito wrote: >> On May 03 2006, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> Generally this is a good idea, but Outlooks (in it's default settings) >>> doesn't generate the quote signs, so this may be very hard to do with >>> O

Re: allowing mac address list

2006-05-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
S t i n g r a y: > > i want to allow only a certian list of internal MAC > address to access my nat server to access internet. > all other should be disallowed. > > what should i do ? In my opinion you should try to find a better authentication method than a MAC address. :) They can be spoofed ea

Re: Custom Kernel Build -- All Those Modules

2006-05-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: > > Since I am compiling it anyway, why not compile the modules that I need and > leave the others. A lot quicker and less disk space eaten up for stuff not > used! A good idea. > How do I know what to change from "m" to "no"? If it does not appear on lsmod? It depends. For hardwa

Re: Wireless Network Cards

2006-05-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bob: > > Is it as easy as pluging the card in and it all just working, or do I > need to install some other packages? I'm running Etch with a 2.6 kernel. It depends on your card. And most probably (if you go out and just buy some random card) it will involve some work. It may even be impossible i

Re: Etch: udev and wlan

2006-05-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jerome BENOIT: > > since my last upgrade (yesterday) of my Etch box, > I have troubles with my wireless stuff: > it appears that wlan0 was replaced by wlan0_temp, > I suspect that this is done by the udev package. Yep. Udev had a bug like this in unstable a few weeks ago. It should still be in the

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Florian Kulzer: > > Unfortunately I do not know if a "naked" CUPS has the same handy > pdfwriter with the option to downsample images, and I could not find > any command line tool to do this. apt-cache show cups-pdf I didn't try it, but it should downsample to printing quality and then make a ne

Re: apt-get update's messages

2006-02-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bruno Buys: > > I receive these "Ign..." lines, when apt-get updating. What do they > mean? Is this source being ignored? How do I fix this? It only means that the specific repositories don't have a "Packages" file. But since they have a "Release" file, it doesn't need to bother you at all. J. -

Re: Limiting scp access

2006-02-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nico De Ranter: > > The idea is to setup a server which is available from the Internet for 1 > specific user using scp only, but all other users can get full ssh > access when they are connecting from my internal network only. See man 5 sshd_config for the option AllowUsers. You can qualify usern

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL

2006-03-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stefan Bellon: > > I'm on unstable and up-to-date and I get mails from cron with the > following content: > > Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at > /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance line 49. calling vacuumdb on cluster 7.4/main > failed This has already been reported as bug #357237

Re: How unstable is Unstable?

2006-03-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Leonid Grinberg: > > Unstable, I know, does not have this problem. I think most packages are not considerably newer in unstable than they are in testing. But huge things like Gnome, which consist of a few dozen interdependent packages propagate slower to testing. > So I am wondering, how unstabl

Re: 2.6.16 and nVidia closed source

2006-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > I found that for *7* series drivers, the patch reported here: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62889 > works. It is: > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt Thanks a lot for sharing this information! I just tried to install 2.6.16 and was too lazy to googl

Re: Where to start

2006-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rocky Ou: > >1. I have ADSL access at the normal speed of 50kB/S. Do I need to >download full set CD? I saw somebody says Just need to download few of > them. >Which CD should I download? If you could give me a URL for downloading the >necessary CDS, I would really appreciate it?

Re: Past versions of the kernel in GRUB

2005-07-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Leonid Grinberg: > > The bottom line is, is it normal to have two parallel kernels > installed (is that even what is happening?) Yes, you have 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 installed. And that's no problem whatsoever. Debian is even specially prepared to handle that. There is a script called 'update-grub' tha

Re: GUI touchpad application

2005-07-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Clinton V. Weiss: > > I'm having a hell of a time finding a thread related to the subject from > approximately a month ago. A package was mentioned that contains a > touchpad gui setup application, and I'd like to find and use this > package. Does anyone remember this thread? If you are talki

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Benjamin Sher: > > 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, > including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work > fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and > sound card. Where precisely are they listed? I am not sure whether it is wha

Re: lspci -- all devices recognized

2005-07-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Benjamin Sher: > > My thanks to everyone. lspci detected all of my devices correctly, > including my Nvidia video card and my SoundBlaster 5.1 sound > card. Thanks so much. Note that the output of lspci does not give you any information on whether the device is actually working or supported at

Re: Upgrade going to remove ALOT of packages. Why?

2005-07-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rodney D. Myers: > > I'm running Debian Sarge. Are you sure? > xserver-xorg install X.org is not part of the official sarge release which means you have either unofficial backports or Debian testing/unstable in your /etc/apt/sources.list (and didn't tell apt to ignore it). Please show u

Re: Upgrade going to remove ALOT of packages. Why?

2005-07-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't CC me on replies. Rodney D. Myers: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rodney D. Myers: > > > > > > I'm running Debian Sarge. > > > > Are you sure? > > deb http://mail.linuxvar.it/~gianluca/athlon-xp/ testi

Re: xorg in sid

2005-07-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marc Wilson: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:42:49PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > Yes, i386. aptitude here doesn't think so. I'm trying to work around it. > > Yes, but we all know aptitude is crap, with ideas about dependency > resolution different from the known universe, so if you're going to use

The latest regularly recurring flamewar topic: aptitude (was: xorg in sid)

2005-07-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: > > apt-get is all I use - there's too much for me to deal with in the GUI > programs, and combined with a bunch of single-key commands, I find it > difficult. I use > > apt-get install x > apt-get remove x > apt-cache search x Besides replacing apt-get (not apt-cache)

Re: why ports 111, 113 and 772 are open?

2005-07-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
askar k: > > As a firewall I use shorewall. Describe your setup! Do you have a single machine with some internet connection or are you behind a NAT box? > In rules of shoreall there's no line accepting connection for ports > 111, 113 and 772. > But when I nmap myself I have: What is 'myself'? F

Re: why ports 111, 113 and 772 are open?

2005-07-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
askar k: > > > As a firewall I use shorewall. > > > > Describe your setup! Do you have a single machine with some internet > > connection or are you behind a NAT box? > > I'm using shorewall. This is not what I asked. :-) What's your network layout? > > > In rules of shoreall there's no line acc

Re: On using Mozilla instead of Firefox (was: Re: Disappearing text in Mozilla)

2005-07-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rogério Brito: > > Excited with the promise that it would "shrink" in size in comparison to > the suite/Seamonkey (which was one of the main arguments that they were > using in the Phoenix 0.4 or so days), I started to use it as my main > browser and also advocating its use for fellow people and t

Re: On using Mozilla instead of Firefox

2005-07-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rogério Brito: > On Jul 19 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > And it is not only memory usage. I rarely use Mozilla these days (and > > only the browser part), but when I use it I always notive that it feels > > generally faster than Firefox. > > I am back

Re: Samsung 1710 printer

2005-07-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rajiv Vyas: > > Is there an "apt-get" driver for ML 1710? If not, what's the easiest way to > get this working with Sarge. If you want to run CUPS you need foomatic-filters-pppd. That includes a PPD file for your printer. PPD files are something like "drivers" for CUPS (I am not sure about correc

Re: mutt crashes

2005-07-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Joachim Fahnenmüller: > > I have a fresh install of debian testing. > Mutt crashes every time I try to write a new message (or reply to one) > at the moment when it should open the editor. No error message, it just > freezes. I have this behaviour, when my signature generator (signify) is not y

Re: Samsung 1710 printer

2005-07-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Brendan: > On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:35 pm, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Rajiv Vyas: > > > > > Is there an "apt-get" driver for ML 1710? If not, what's the easiest way > > > to get this working with Sarge. > > > > If you want to run CUPS

Re: CD Burner

2005-07-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rajiv Vyas: > > I am looking for a simple straight forward CD Burner. Any suggestions? If you are not afraid of command line interfaces, 'burn' is the rigth tool for you. It's a Debian package with that name. If you prefer GUIs, I recommend gnomebaker. As a sidenote: as I was dissatisfied with th

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel McBrearty: > > I instaled putty with apt-get on the deb box - it comes up but when I > try to connect to anyone it never gets there. I just get an empty > terminal window. It never comes up with the warning that you get on > first connection; nothing. No warnings or errors either. I've trie

Re: gnome-sound-properties

2005-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
MJang: > > Is there a configuration file associated with gnome-sound-properties? > I'm assuming all Linux utilities update some text config file, but I > can't find one associated with this utility. AFAIK all the Gnome stuff is handled by gconf. You can use gconf-editor to edit it. J. -- Whenev

Re: Optimize iso images, find duplicates

2005-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Josep M.: > > I would like ask what package can I use for optimize an iso image, I > explain, when you have a CD with several files with identical content but > different name the program detect this and only copy one file in the iso > image and the rest of is a link inside to the iso image, this

Re: apt-get: Command not found.

2005-08-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
James A. Donald: > apt-get: Command not found. Very strange. apt-get is not deprecated and it should be in /usr/bin. > and manually starting the daemons with > nmbd -D > smbd -D In Debian, for every daemon or service there is an init script in /etc/init.d. All of them take at least the argumen

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steven Pasternak: > Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? > (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) If you are after a hard disk player (as opposed to flash memory), I recommend the already mentioned Iriver H120 (20GB) or the H140 model (40GB). They are quite robust, r

Re: WElche Version?

2005-08-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi Eberhard! Eberhard Momberger: > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Bloß nicht so förmlich. Hier ist Internet, hier gilt das 'Du'. :) > ich möchte mir gerne eine Debian Version herunterladen. > > Ich habe etwas gelesen von i386 usw. welche Version brauche ich? > > Pentium ist glaube ich i386. i

Re: Firefox and Tabbrowser extensions: hard to enable some Javascript pop-ups.

2005-08-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Funk: > > I quite like the "Tabbrowser extensions" extension except that it > seems to interfere with enabling desired pop-ups that come from > clicking links that run Javascript commands. I cannot comment your specific problem but I'd like to mention that the mozilla.org people strongly disc

Re: security updates in testing

2005-08-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina: > > what's the security policy of Debian testing? Generally, security updates will propagate through unstable just like any other update. Since the release of sarge (or a short time before that), there is also a repository with security updates for testing. Current

Re: Touchpad problem after upgrading to 2.6.12

2005-08-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
ctrlER: > > I'm having a problem with double tap on my touchpad since i upgraded > from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12. I am not sure whether your problem comes from the new kernel or X.org, but I guess you have a synaptics touchpad. If you install xfree86-driver-synaptics (it works for X.org, too) and set it

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rishi: > > Does anyone know of hardware ogg players (usb) that I can buy? This question was answered just a couple of days ago. Search for "Portable OGG Player". My recommendation: Iriver H120 (or H140, for 40GB instead of 20). J. -- I frequently find myself at the top of the stairs with absolu

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote: > > > > > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12", > > With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!! It doesn't fit on my screen either. Bu

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 15:18:43 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my screen (14" > > laptop, 1024x768). > > Ditto here. Unfortunately, with size 9, two side-to-side xterm's don't > fit on m

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > I don't agree but size 8 is way to small on my display anyway. There is > > always a tradeoff between screen usage and legibility and most of the > > time I prefer the latter. > >

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

2005-08-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vincent Lefevre: > On 2005-08-15 10:56:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Fiddling with the DPI setting can cause weird font display. > > No, this can just cause the font to be slightly larger or smaller. > This can be seen as a zoom factor for the fonts. Ok. I thought maybe th

Re: KDE vs GNOME

2005-08-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Leonardo Sá: > > Like most first-time debian users, i started using gnome, mainly because it > was the "default" option when i did my first graphical login. After I got > used to the system (i was a slackware user) i noticed things getting slow. > Apart from firefox, which eats no less than 50mb

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stephen Tait: > At 14:33 26/08/2005, Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann wrote: >> >> Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? >> My rio karma crapped out and they just gave me my money back, now I >> don't have a player any more. :( > > > My friend and I have been very

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Katipo: > > Just for all the sound people. > How do you find flac as a medium, compared to ogg? Well, it os uncompressed, so quality is excellent, but the files are quite large. :) And I cannot claim to hear the difference between high quality OGG fies and FLAC. But nevertheless - Rockbox on Iriv

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: > Katipo: > > > > Just for all the sound people. > > How do you find flac as a medium, compared to ogg? > > Well, it os uncompressed, Of course that is nonsense. What I meant was "is lossless", not "os uncompressed". Sorry for that.

Re: Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

2005-07-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonathan Kaye: > > I'd personally suggest you download the netinst version of "testing" > (known as Etch). It may sound scary but it's really quite steady. No, it is not. At least the installer is not yet ready to be released to newcomers. And running Etch shortly after a release isn't exactly an

Re: mutt rocks

2005-09-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dave Ewart: > On Tuesday, 06.09.2005 at 05:48 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Would be interesting to see users posting well commented muttrcs. > > Try here for starters: http://www.dotfiles.com/index.php3?app_id=27 > > I personally found Sven Guckes examples very helpful when setting up >

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: > > The problem with gnome is that it stalls on startup for about 3 to 5 > mins with certain window managers: wmaker, uwm, blackbox, icewm I don't use Gnome but I tried it with IceWM and it didn't stall back then. > I think it lies with either gnome-proxy or gnome-session, I'm not s

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
William Ballard: > > Sit tight on Sarge through at least this winter? Check back next > Spring? That depends on what programs you are using and how good you can deal with apt. I have been tracking sid all the time and had no problems so far. There was just a quite large number of un-updateable p

Re: how to use mailing lists

2005-09-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
linux: > > is it just me or is this mailing list useless? It's probably not just you, but for the majority of subscribers it is not useless. :) > i posted my question ages ago and have recieved nothing but heaps of > responses to other questions that i don't understand > are mailing lists meant

Re: lightweight iconbox

2005-09-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ganeshram Iyer: > > i am using a very slow PC with Debian Sarge with low HD and RAM. Can > anyone suggest a lightweight iconbox that I can use with icewm-lite? i > currently use "rox -t=PANEL" which uses about 15MB of RAM. can > anything get lighter than this? What exactly is an iconbox? Do you kn

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
rosetta: > > I am using the kernel-2.6.11-1-386 and grub. > In boot menu, I have choosed the "recovery mode". But while the > system boot completely, it prompt "Give root password for > mantenance(or Control-D to continue):". > If I press ctrl+d, then it will use normal runlevel. It's a fea

Re: apt-get: how to remove old config files?

2005-10-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stefan Salewski: > > To remove old config files reinstallation of the packed > and subsequent removing with option --purge should work. > Is there a better way? You can 'dpkg --purge $package' at any time. $package doesn't have to be installed. J. -- I lust after strangers but only date people

Re: Using both Mutt and graphical email client with maildir

2005-10-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Antony Gelberg: > Ric Otte wrote: > > > > My mail is saved in maildir format, and one problem seems to be that > > many graphical email clients don't seem to support maildir. For > > example, I looked at Thunderbird, but I believe it does not support > > maildir format. So, does anyone have any

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
David R. Litwin: > > ake-kpkg --append-to-version "-1-686-smp" --revision > 2.6.12-1-686-smp--config old configure > I note that you are using the --revision flag with the value > 2.6.12-1-686-smp. > However, the ./debian/changelog file exists, and has a different value > 2.6.12-1-686. > I am conf

Re: Why need Debian?

2005-10-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > > A few times I have statements in the ubuntu website that there can't > be Ubuntu if there's no Debian. This statement seems to me like it's > only relevant to Warty, but why should they continue taking debian > sources, especially considering that Ubuntu's main is normally

Re: An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?

2005-10-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
All Nicks Are Taken: > > Hey... I've just swapped from the regular 'startx' method to GDM, and I'm > looking for some way to launch all my apps (panel, wallpaper setting, xrdb > -load ~/.Xdefaults etc...). GDM can launch various different sessions. You can choose one of them in the "Session" menu.

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
James Caldow: > > I was happy like this for a while and was loving everything about > Debian. Then I began to get adventurous. I wanted to see what I was > missing with Debian Sid. I liked the idea of more up to date software > and a more current development environment to play with. If you pl

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
eed that in the first place. Sorry again. James Caldow: > Jochen Schulz: > >> Of course it is too late now, but: except for downgrades or totally >> hosed systems, there is no need to reinstall. Upgrading to sid or etch >> is as easy as adding the appropriate lines to

Re: Examining Swap

2005-11-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Thomas: > > Is there a way to move the contents of the swapfile back into the (free) > mem manually? Sure: # swapoff -a && swapon -a J. -- I worry about people thinking I have lost direction. [Agree] [Disagree] signa

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Realos: > > Mike McCarty wanted us to know: > > >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss > > > > I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable > to this security hole/worm? > > As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to > disable both portmap

Re: Tools to manipulate PDFs

2005-11-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Christian Christmann: > > are there any tools that allow one to > split, merge and append PDFs? apt-cache show pdfjam Needs tetex. J. -- If I won the lottery I would keep all the money and wallpaper my house with it. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: help needed for converting strings in a file

2005-11-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sourabh Bora: > > In a web page the hyper links are written as > > href="http://www.micronux.com/catalog/"; > > i want this particular string to convert to > > href="./micronux.com_catalog" You are searching wget (--convert-links). J. -- It is not in my power to change anything. [Agree

Re: Window manager/desktop environment that's not RAM-intensive

2005-11-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Robert Waldner: > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:23:03 GMT, Andrew M.A. Cater writes: > >> Any suggestions? > > >Icewm / fluxbox > > I can't figure out how to put shortcuts to applications on the desktop. > With both of them. IceWM doesn't have desktop icons. Instead, you can use one of the numero

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rogério Brito: > > If anybody knows of anything similar to what news.individual.net were, > please let me know. What have they been that they aren't anymore? Ok, they are charging for their service now, but I think 10 Euro per year is something even most pupils or students can afford. J. -- Whe

Re: where should i report this error

2005-11-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
scottybwoy: > > Current Minimal Requirements > > > Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've > encountered a bug! > o Gnu C 2.95.3 # gcc --version [...] > o reiserfsprogs 3.6.3

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel L. Miller: > > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack against > me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? Some kind of dictionary attack. :) They are around for at least a year now.

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Gerorge Reece-Howe: > > I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of directories a > single directory could hold? I assume the number of directories would > be the limit (if any) to the number of databases MySQL could handle. Does MySQL really use a directory in the filesystem for every

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Note: I am reposting this to the list where I guess you wanted to reply to. I hope you don't mind. Please don't send copies to me directly, I am reading the list. Gerorge Reece-Howe: > > "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >Anyway, the maximum n

Re: Copy protected DVD

2005-12-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michael Ott: > > I bought the new System of a Down CD. And this have a DVD at the other > side. But i have no DVD-Player and TV to watch them. Now i want to see > the Video on my SID box. mplayer, totem and xine does not want this DVD. Maybe mplayer's console output will help us to help you. I gu

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