Re: debian

2003-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ny, Knoppix, and if you dig a bit, the Stormix installer. http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+graphical+installer Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Integrity, we've heard of it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Knoppix & Debian chroot install (was Re: debian, request help)

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
scription of this method. I would like to try it on an old box that > I have been unable to get working. Please be rather verbose. I am not > good at connecting dots. > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:01:41AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > There are a number of differe

Re: Network not enabled with upgraded kernel, 2.2.20->2.4.18, Dell Insp 4100 NB

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
/config-$( uname -r ) CONFIG_E1000=m ...shows me that my gigabit-ethernet card is configured as a module. If it yad been "CONFIG_E1000=y", then it's built into the kernel, if the line was commented or the value was 'n', it's not configured. Peace. -- Karsten M

Re: Network not enabled with upgraded kernel, 2.2.20->2.4.18, Dell Insp 4100 NB

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
net grep Ethernet /proc/pci ...is going to be useful to us here. Or install lspci and run it. I keep a system-info script at http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript ...running this and posting output would be useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROT

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
sing a stock kernel. - Copy Knoppix's X configuration file someplace, as a starting point. With this, the modestly skilled newbie should have few issues with a Debian install. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "G

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ituation continues to improve. There's information on SiS X driver support here: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml > Yet, both RedHat and Mandrake's graphical installers and Debian's penguin > logo display fine with *whatever* card I'm running -

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
nd scratch partitions, running Woody on the linux side. ...and you want to do...? > Thanks in advance. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
of Debian. But what about access to just the operating system > files without gigabytes of binary packages? The "operating system files" in general _are_ binaries, among other formats. What, again, exactly are you looking for, and do you intend to do? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
s ;-) Peace (by whatever means necessary). -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it" -- HHGTG pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
Need to get 0B/31.2MB of archives. After unpacking 3217kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SCO is the thief w

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
acceptable on the fastest, highest-end gaming systems, but little else. I get relatively smooth performance running in an 800x600 window, but the rest of my box bogs down. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&

Re: Window manager troubles in Sid

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
session manager (wdm) has launched both XFree86 (the X server) and WindowMaker (my window manager), which is running multiple clients. There should be a way to get the windowmanager spec from within the X environment, but I'm not aware of how. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debian chroot

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
and stop daemons as you wish. Note that these share kernelspace with daemons run outside the chroot, and may conflict on sockets or other resources. In general, I'd recommend against doing this intentionally. If you want to run jailed daemons, UML (user-mode Linux) is a better bet. Peace

Re: OT: Printing a monthly calendar

2002-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on. In addition to other options mentioned, gcal, which uses a 'calendar'-like syntax, though more flexible. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire:

Re: spamassasin - how to avoid further false positives and negatives?

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
over time (though it can also backfire). If you're using SA at the MTA level for incoming mail rejection, I'd strongly recommend setting your reject level fairly high -- ~10 is good -- and doing secondary filtering with personal mail rules. You'll also probably want

Re: djbdns breaking out of a chroot?

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
reating multiple filesystems and mounting them with permissions appropriate, and adequate, but no more than this, for the job at hand. Chroot is a good tool, but like much else, it's an additional level of protection, not a silver bullet. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>h

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
is a useful and effective monitoring tool. You might also look into audio alamrs, pages, and related type indicators, though the issue in this case is distinguishing actual alerts from false alarms. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wh

Re: Install with no removable media

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
o configure networking (/etc/network/interfaces) prior to running 'dpkg-reconfigure base-config'. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ive, statewide, outage, lasting upwards of a week, following the storm of Dec 13, 1995. 2. I sat in on a seminar on this topic at the Stanford Computer System Lab Colloquium, neat stuff: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/011128.html -- Karsten M. Self

OT: any Debian users near Collegeville / St. Cloud, MN?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ur contact information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Once in a while 'pon' just hangs without connecting

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
uld like to > resolve this matter. Try using / setting 'poff -a' as your modem disconnect setting. This should clear any other pppd sessions which are running. May or may not help with your problems. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>h

Re: install program cannot detect swap partition

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
a3, for the second partition of your first IDE drive, or 3rd partition of your first SCSI drive. will be, eg: hda for an IDE drive, sda for a SCSI drive. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Not getting the letter I press

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
"us" > Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > > How can I make it produce the ? character, which is adiaeresis on my > system? Where does the error lie? xkeycap may reveal what's going on. Look into it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Suggestions for faxing under Debian?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm considering switching to CUPS. If anyone's got stories/configs for fax setups to share, I'm interested. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free S

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
er than inkjet ($40/cartridge or so). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection ??????+??????=??????????

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:21:16PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "George Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection > > sssh? sssh -ctp -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

gnome 1.4 rather than 2 w/ unstable?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
major systems, a'la Perl, Python, glibc, etc.? TIA. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Runaway vim on SSH disconnect

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
that can become disconnected from the > process. > | Does anyone know a workaround (other than a script that seeks and > | kills runaway vim sessions...)? Use 'screen' for remote sessions. Article in this month's LJ, or apt-get install screen. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &l

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:57:50PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:10:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > | On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:37, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | > on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:01:24PM -0600, Alex Malinovi

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
h as DMCA Anti-circumvention for enforcement. Anyone have experiences / further information on this? And note that I may be half-remembering or rumormongering here.... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&quo

Re: OT: duplex entry in printcap

2002-12-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
re currently > doing by hand. a2ps includes switches to embed the duplex flags into a document. My own preferred setting is duplex, 2-up. Uses 1/4 the paper of full-sheet single-sided, and binders well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself

potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
hange: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend -

Re: potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
xserver-mach64_3.3.6-44_i386.deb xutils_4.1.0-16_i386.deb Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? CARP smells fishy -- keep Internet Radio alive: http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/03/11

Re: How to pass in a password to the ssh command line client?

2002-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
re using KDE you may find that ssh-agent is already started, and > all you need is to call ssh-add. ssh-agent is highly recommended, and as David notes, you'll likely find you need only supply it with your passphrase. If you need to run unattended sessions or operations, you might also look in

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on your path with the following content: #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin lynx -dump $@ ...and make it executable. Should work, does for me. Frankly, I'd far prefer using w3m as my surfraw browser, as it's then possible to follow links, etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[E

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
something like 'w3m -dump', though ... That doesn't work, I tried with 'lynx -dump'. Surfraw doesn't take options to the browser command. Looking at /etc/surfraw.conf, though, I note that there is a line: def SURFRAW_text_browser_args none ...which is awfull

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
ve to use them all, but it's a hell of a lot easier than repartitioning later), slightly larger /tmp, and you've got the right idea for /home. Note too that you'll need extended partitions to fill this out. Details: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Peace

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
have at least one extended partition, and the remainder are logical partitions within the extended partition(s). In practice, I generally use 3 primary, one extended, and the remainder logical, partitions. > - i *do* need to specifically partition /home as its own partition, > right?

Re: Can only login as root

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
; > > > There is something wrong with autentication. > > > > What can I do to trouble shoot this issue ? > > Whatd does 'ls /etc/nologin*' say? I had this problem once, and it > turned it out to be because of this. Removing them should fix it... Mo

Re: keyboard problem

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
eral times on the mailing list. I'd suggest searching archives at http://www.debian.org/, or Google. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: Help needed to steal Knoppix settings, etc

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
teway, Knoppix uses DHCP. For modules, etc., check /proc/modules. Add an additional linespace between your paragraphs, makes reading your posts easier. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
s your root session executing? - Are you local or remote on this box? If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local display *and* merging xauth records, as root: # export DISPLAY= #

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
erver software is gratis, at least so long as you take the stock build. Oracle's trying to break into this market. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? How to unwedge / disa

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ts to the new mountpoint once you've created it: $ sudo bash # cd / # mv home home-bak # mount /home # cp -pdR home-bak/* /home > i mean, i'm going to go back and initialize it and /tmp just as soon > as i figure out how, but i'm kind of confused. You&#x

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open disl

Re: users and x/gdm

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
) the xserver? In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config: allowed_users=console You should be able to manage this setting with: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common man 5 Xwrapper.config for more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:25AM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open disl

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
e it doesn't stand out at all. > > No. You probably want the time program in package "time". It'll live at > /usr/bin/time. In bash and other modern shells, 'time' is a builtin. The 'time' package provides 'time' for shells which don'

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:15:08PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:15 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open disl

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
nals in one, and unless you really *need* Tektronix 4014 emulation. The advantage offered by xterm clones such as xvt and rxvt is that they drop this (almost always) useless baggage, while retaining most of the useful aspects. On a less-capable or heavily loaded system, the decreased memory and swa

Re: man pages as user

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
. i've > configured my locales ... and i've seen this recently on debian-user, > so i'll keep googling for that one. First fix should hit this as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" d

Re: Revert Back to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2

2003-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Several other packages reflect this, though most are development or interpreter packages (e.g.: Perl, Python, etc.). The distinction and interoperability are significant enough that it matters in this case. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
or SASWORK, SASSSORT, or other temporary or scratch space, really loads up network traffic. Discourage this if possible. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software fr

Re: Command line apt bot

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
org #debian. I don't know the answer, staff there might ...though your friendly neighborhood IRC client is one means. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire:

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
; i am looking for a browser that will load quickly, have bookmarking > ability - preferably with folders. Again, my pick on anything remotely resembling modern HW is Galeon. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:34:55PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:51AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have been asked to help with gettin

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
t of space: # cd /var; du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n ...will show you the directories in /var in descending size. You'll want to comb through these to find where you're using excess space. I try to allocate ~1GB for /var on a typical workstation. For server purposes, you may want to carve out

Re: opera or other fast browser

2003-01-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
s are buggier'n shit and suck. Opera leaves me cold, though some people like it. More info: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
John Lettice, and Andrew. Shankland's an old Unix admin, though I don't know what he runs these days. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
y not recommended. It can be possible, but raises headaches. If you want testing/unstable packages, go to testing/unstable. - Because the delta between testing and unstable is far smaller than that between stable and testing, it's more feasible to pin between testing/uns

Re: Queue Task Software on Linux ?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
re looking for. They can be set up across a cluster or a single system, and offer finer-grained control than the traditional cron/at/batch GNU/Linux job schedulers. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
e technical considerations for marketing ones, so it doesn't. This is IMO a reflection of the broader lessons of free software. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the so

Re: Need witnesses

2002-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
he site is known internationally: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/doj/econ/10-16econ-b.asp ...and elsewhere: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=313202 http://www.consumerfed.org/jeclet.pdf http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/schmal/fbfootnotes.asp ...

Re: Partition Scheme

2002-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
Variants might include carving out a few partitions for reserve or testing. I'd rather chuck in a new drive when time comes for this. 40 GiB is about as many dollars, and gives a lot of play room. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netco

Re: second X-session only as root

2002-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
-- :1 -dpi 32 vt8 Just glancing, that should work. What do you have in your local user or system (.)Xsession file(s)? Try starting X with 'X' rather than 'startx'. If that works, you've got config file issues. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http:/

Re: DOS on non-x86 systems?

2002-09-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
virtual 386 mode of an x86 CPU. It won't work on other architectures. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/ msg02413/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

make-kpkg 2.4.19 kernel: Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.

2002-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
rectory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed. Hit return to Continue? real0m18.567s user0m14.080s sys 0m3.240s ---

Re: make-kpkg 2.4.19 kernel: Module /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs failed.

2002-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 23, 2002, Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > #include > Karsten M. Self wrote on Sun Sep 22, 2002 um 09:26:33PM: > > Kernel configuration options: > > Kernel-tree PCMCIA support is enabled. > >

Re: DPKG: status file broken

2002-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
You should have up to six backup copies in /var/backups as 'dpkg.status.[0-6]', higher numbers gzipped. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? How to unwedge / disable yo

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
damage). http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info The 'si' package is similar, though it doesn't do a good job of capturing partition information, IMO. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&

Re: bochs v. vmware

2002-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
ps accesses to hardware > > devices and emulates just those in software. > > The free software equivalent of VMWare would be Plex86. No, last I recall, that's the FS equivalent of bochs, which is source distributed, but not free. See the above comments on machine emulation vs.

Re: bochs v. vmware

2002-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:10:51AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Leandro Guimar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Em Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:40:23 +0100, > > > Colin Watson &

Re: installing debian linux as a vm guest

2002-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/DebianChrootInstall.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Redqueen: I love the way the flesh shrivels in my hand. msg03627/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
pt-get updates, readily run in a matter of several minutes, once or twice a week. > I have not experienced SuSE for several years; rather, I've spent most > of my time with debian. Can't help you much there, though I've been working with RH a lot of late. My strong preference

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
wiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers ...and with Debian, handling the deps for Galeon is a breeze. Support's been rock solid for the past two years, no breakage that I can recall (this wasn't always true). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.ne

Re: lv vs. more as PAGER

2002-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
le of displaying multilingual streams. Some people may not be familiar with it. The screen-clearing behavior of man is configurable when using less as a pager. I'd suspect it's also tunable using less (see the '-X' option). I'd look at the lv manpage for a similar

Re: Defeting Crappy Bios

2002-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
tstrap GNU/Linux via LOADLIN.EXE. Google for further info. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for

Re: booting off of reluctant cd

2002-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
s a bootable filesystem on /dev/cdrom. If you've got a cloop compressed loopback filesystem (e.g.: KNOPPIX, LNX-BBC), you've got other problems. > (if the cdrom is the master on the secondary bus) right? would > that leave anything fuxnored? or is the voodoo elsewhere? 2M == /de

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
wadawful. > I'm not sure how much of this is true or how much matters right now. > > But it would be nice to know if I should disable devfs and move on, or > not. That's my suggestion. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.co

Re: Sociological question about Debian, GNU, and Linux

2003-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
Siobhan O'Mahony's Stanford PhD dissertation: http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahony.pdf ...not exactly a page-turner, but there's some interesting stuff in there. Some of her follow-up articles have been more accessible. http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.ed

Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
uct includes this guideline: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct # Make sure that you are using the proper list. Note that there _is_ a debian-curiosa list. There are also many cesspits dedicated to discussions of drugs, politics, and religion. Please use one. Peace. -- Kars

*plonk* (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] *plonk* -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you u

References (was Re: *plonk* (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium))

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:11:18PM +0100, Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:05:33 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > *plonk* > > Sadly, all that you'll get from plonking a participant of a hig

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
a graphic login. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt"

Re: virtual terminals become unusable when starting x on sid

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
eweb.com/) or Google (http://www.google.com/) will help set you on the road to resolving your problems. While others can offer suggestions, guidance, and experience, we cannot see into either your mind or your machine's state. This is very much a case of "you have to help

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
h just the software & libs necessary for the printserver. - Use a more capable system. - Use a bootable distro (e.g.: LNX-BBC), though I suspect the memory requirements will kill this. - Use a netboot (e.g.: Linux Terminal Server Project) to boot a printserver. Peace. --

*plonk* Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
ulation frustrates me endlessly. I'm offended both as a proponent of > the Liberal Arts *and* as one who believes in the importance of science > and technology; attacked on one side, flanked by disbelievers on the > other... > > -- > M. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

*plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -0800, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [...] > > > As several (in or out of the) closet anarchists have replied > > that self-control is apparently beyond their mein

Re: How to install ?

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
nux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SC

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
intrusive, yet with nice > features. Eye candy is good. The screenshots of openbox look good, > but I don't know if it has the features I want. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Another Clock for my Gnome?

2003-11-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
In my case, my ISP is based on the merger of several regional ISPs. I found a timeserver via a shell hack: $ for h in time.{netcom,mindspring,earthlink}.{net,com}; do host $h; done ...which turned up time.mindspring.com is an alias for brickbat0.mindspring.com. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:05:03AM -0800, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >SA has an "autolearn" feature, where mail scoring above 6, and below > >0.1, will be "autolearned" as spam and ham. That is, the Baysian >

Procmail virus recipies (was Re: Mimail Virus.)

2003-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
Train spamassassin :0c | sa-learn --spam --single :0: Virus/ } -------- Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unsubscribe

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
359 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Permissions Issue

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
TP clients support this operation. Better for you: install ftp-ssl, or have your friend use sftp, ssh, or rsync-over-ssh, if possible. The last is especially neat over a slow link, as it only transfers the parts of files that have changed, for files that have changed. Peace. -- Karst

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
rouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a way to turn this off, BTW? I find it somewhat annoying. I'd prefer just having spam tagged as such, without the extensive mods. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "Fix your date" error report

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
out (rmail, postfix) with any date other than > the system time? I seem to recall one post of yours which was two days postdated, though I must have deleted it. Looking better now. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Inconceivable! - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: X Broken

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
e config file. My hardware is listed in > my .sig. Try: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 In Knoppix: copy the XF86Config-4 file it uses, and diff it against your own. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&qu

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
s an Internet gateway would also be useful. Alternatively, hunt around for a deal on a PC with 2-4 years on it, but still serviceable. Say, a PIII-500 MHz or better system. You'll get far, far faster hardware, much more space, will pay ~$50-$100 US for the privilege (about the same as a PCMC

Re: Q about corrupt windoze filesystem

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
that I'd like to be able to recover. > > Does anyone have any guidance for me for making the filesystem > mountable and/or bootable? If I can mount it from Knoppix I know > that I can copy the data elsewhere before I restore the disk > image. Backups. Peace. -- Karsten M

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