Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for setting the mailserver (qmail) are written for Jessie. The mailserver has 2 NICs (one for local network, and one for Internet). In the past,

Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

2018-11-26 Thread Mark Neidorff
(I know this is not Debian specific, but I think it is useful info for the members of the list.) Admittedly, I'm spoiled. I've had a static IP and my own domain for nearly 15 years. I set up a mailserver which has run without missing a beat in all that time. It is time for me to give the sta

Re: internet outages

2018-12-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday, December 22, 2018 11:34:27 AM EST Jude DaShiell wrote: > Thanks for the script and the tool recommendation. > Has Linux got a tool to check up on the router and find out if the > router is doing its job? > Before I mail logs into comcast, I want to make sure I've done all due > dillig

vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move everything else over shortly. Right now, I've got two annoyances tha

Re: vim & kde questions SOLVED

2007-08-15 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:18 pm, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > > Mark Neidorff wrote: > >> First...vim. (Yeah, I'm old school) OK. I'm in text entry mode and > >> I want to navagate up/down/left or right. If I p

Re: /boot partition erased (help needed)

2007-08-16 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:32 pm, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I made a very stupid mistake two hours ago, I bought a new USB storage > disk and I was trying to test the speed: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 > > sadly I typed "sdb1" as "sda1" and that was the /boot partition, I > realiz

Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to bring up full time (currently using a different distribution...been a linux user for over 10 years). Here's an example of what this message is about: I've been reading the debian-user list for a bit, and I've noticed tha

Re: what is /command directory?

2007-08-30 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 25 August 2007 07:52 pm, Richard Lyons wrote: > I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. > I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. > Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number > of directories

Re: clamav: uptodate or not?

2007-09-09 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 06 September 2007 04:44 pm, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/06/2007 02:19 PM, Rody wrote: > > How can i tell if clamav is up to date? > > > > If i run freshclam as root it tells me that main.inc is up to date, but > > as all mirrors refuse to connect, i can't say if daily.inc and any other > >

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 06:48 pm, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm one of the few people on the planet without a digital camera. > > I have a tiny job to do on my wife's horn glasses if I can't get the > shop to do it. The hinges need changing and I'm told that its > impossible for the

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Neidorff
Excuse me. I don't want to appear rude, but are you a student at Cornell and are we doing your CS homework for you? On Sunday 24 February 2008 02:21 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there

Re: convert video to audio

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
I've used dvd-rip to do this. Works fine. On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:34 pm, laura eznarriaga wrote: > convert video to adio > > - > how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio > is their a program for this ?_ > > > > > - > > En

Re: Screen resolution amd64 and NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

2008-03-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 07:04 am, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > I just installed Debian etch 40r3 on an AMD64 PC. However, screen > > > resolution is set to 640x480. > > So is mine and i'm using 1024x768, how far does your monitor go? Did > 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' work? I have the exact s

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
OK. Try that search again. This time add ", windows xp" (the comma will give you 2 graphs on the same axes), or try ", windows vista". I don't think that this is a valid tool for predicting user base. On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:51 am, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:43:3

Linksys Router

2008-07-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, A while ago I got a Linksys wrt54g router. I was going to put it into place, then I noticed that the soft/firm-ware on it is open source linux based. After a bried search, I discovered that "openwrt" (also X-Wrt) is a replacement on the net for the default linksys software in the rou

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 14 July 2008 10:20 pm, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat > > reader performs a lot faster. > > Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise? > > (sorry for not answering your actual question

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 08:51 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hello, > Anyone know how to get VirtualBox to make a definition to book a Linux > host from a partition? The instructions I have found thus far reference > the partition as /dev/sda...blah.blah.blah That's great for when I > want to b

synaptic problem?

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi, I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I use synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to generate a package install script. So, I created a custom filter to show just installed packages and selected that filter. (cool) Then I selected a

Re: synaptic problem?

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:54 pm, Shachar Or wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:12, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I use > > synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to >

Re: synaptic problem?

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:54 pm, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I > > use > > > > synapti

New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, First time that something easy like this is tripping me up. I'm building a new system using Etch as the OS. I installed Etch on my SATA drive (no problem) using the on board video that came with my ASUS M2MPV-VM motherboard. The on-board video is GeForce 6150. System is running w

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:21 pm, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:55PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what additional steps I need to take to get video > > to output to the PCIe adaptor? > > Is there a setting to explicitly disable

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:36 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/29/08 12:18, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > First time that something easy like this is tripping me up. > > > > I'm building a new system using Etch as the OS. I installed Etch on my

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 02:39 pm, H.S. wrote: > Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:21 pm, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:18:55PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > >>> Can anyone tell me what additional steps I need to take to get vid

Re: etch upgrade breaks daemontools

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 05:14 pm, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > As noted, a recent upgrade of etch to grab security updates breaks my > djb stuff. Attempting to rebuild against the new libs gives: > > envdir.o: In function `main': > envdir.c:(.text+0x127): undefined reference to `errno' > > Anyone else hi

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-30 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 04:19 am, Owen Townend wrote: > 2008/7/30 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 29 13:49 -0500]: > >> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 02:39 pm, H.S. wrote: > >> > Mark Neidorff wrote: > &

Custom icon

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, (This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon file already. So here are the questions: 1. What format does the icon have to be in? 2. I noticed that there are different locations for icons/us

Re: Custom icon

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 25 April 2008 12:03 pm, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 25 April 2008 17:31, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > (This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed > > virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon fil

Re: Can'r record in audacity

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 25 April 2008 02:05 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I have been trying to record in audacity without success. Using > alsamixergui all the relevant controls are up and on. > Audacity plays back fine using the Alsa default, but none of the

Re: Can'r record in audacity

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 25 April 2008 03:08 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:47:22 -0400 > > Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 25 April 2008 02:05 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1

Error loading operating system

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi, I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of ram). I manually partitioned the SATA disk: sda1 /10Gb sda2 /usr 10Gb sda3 /var 10 Gb sda5 swap 1 Gb sda6 /tmp 1 Gb sda7 /home the rest of the driveabout 456 Gb and the installer formatted it for me.

Re: Error loading operating system [SOLVED]

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 07:10 am, Florian Kriener wrote: > On Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of > > ram). > > > > and the installer formatted it for me. All the normal steps...network, > > time(I

Re: Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:42 pm, John Hasler wrote: > M writes: > > i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling / > > Reduction. > > > > But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that > > could do the same job (for free). > > No. Not feasible. > -- >

Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation

2009-08-08 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 07 August 2009 10:33 pm, Sine 39 wrote: > Basically I have installed the latest > graphical version of Lenny. The installation process runs without a > hitch except for the fact it fails to detect my wireless network (I > guess I need to install a driver but this doesn't concern me too mu

Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation

2009-08-08 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:21 pm, Sine 39 wrote: > The setting for APIC Mode (which is currently showing as 'enabled') in my > BIOS appears in light blue with a cross next to it, meaning I cannot change > it. This may be because I need to change another setting in order to be > able to configure

Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to fix the problem. My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora Core 3 system, so it is not a Debian problem, per se.

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I > > still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell > > me how to fix th

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive. [SOLVED]

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 22 August 2009 08:47 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer [[[snip]]] Thank everyone for the advice. I now know what to do to solve the problem. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive. [SOLVED]

2009-09-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 23 August 2009 05:28 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:16:15 -0400, Mark wrote in message > > <200908222116.15752.m...@neidorff.com>: > > On Saturday 22 August 2009 08:47 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer > > > > [[[snip]]] > > > >

virtualbox:networking

2009-09-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm running Lenny-amd64. I set up virtualbox-amd64 from their deb. Works fine, butI have a network printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500) at 192.168.1.32 which is within my local network. The install of virtualbox sets up a network on the 10.x.x.x network for access between the guest OS and the

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 15 February 2009 11:25 am, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > My recent upgrade caused my sound card not working any more. Checking back > at my packages version log, the only related upgrade is that > alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-2 is upgraded to alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-4. > The rest are still the same:

USB networking

2009-02-20 Thread Mark Neidorff
I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect 2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista & XP only. If anyone has this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell me how to make it happen? Thank you, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:57 pm, Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi All, > > Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community. > Audience will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are > beginners. Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that > will make th

Re: failed fsck on boot

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 01 May 2009 01:02 am, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I'm using Debian Lenny i386 on my desktop. After every few months, my > computer would failed to boot properly (stuck on fsck). Then I need to > enter recovery mode then manually run fsck. A friend suggested that this is > caused by bad powe

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 02 May 2009 12:54 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,02.May.09, 10:26:45, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the me

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 02 May 2009 01:41 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,02.May.09, 13:07:10, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Yes, I mean that the memory is reported by the bios. > > Ok > > > #2: > > $dmesg | grep Memory > > Memory: 901968k/917504k available (1501k kernel

how to fix where grub boots from

2009-05-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, A system that I am building has 2 HDDs--one is EIDE the other is SATA. Etch is installed on the EIDE drive and an almost complete update from Etch to Lenny is installed on the SATA drive. Normally grub boots from the SATA drive. Last night there were power problems and today the syst

Re: how to fix where grub boots from [solved]

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 18 May 2009 03:01 am, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 18. 05. 2009 00:23:05 je Mark Neidorff napisal(a): > > Hi all, > > > > The first thing I'd try is make the SATA drive bootable (or "active") > and clearing the "active/bootable" flag from th

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 25 May 2009 01:55 pm, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone tha

Re: [OT] Linksys wireless router on debian

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 25 June 2009 04:27 am, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I bought a LinkSys WRT54GL wirelss router and I am going to configure > it to extend my DSL connection at home. > I am not new to debian but network(ing) skills are modest. > > Does anyone own this device and running debia

Upgrade 32bit to 64bit

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
I have an updated etch system running a 32 bit kernel that I want to upgrade to a lenny 64 bit kernel, etc. I have printed out the release notes, but they do not address this upgrade. Should I just upgrade or are there particular steps I need to go through to get my system to run 64 bit first?

Re: Upgrade 32bit to 64bit

2009-07-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 04 July 2009 12:47 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:20:01PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,04.Jul.09, 11:44:09, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > I have an updated etch system running a 32 bit kernel that I want to > > > upgra

DVD download

2009-07-05 Thread Mark Neidorff
This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails sha1sum. I have now downloaded the same file-- debian-

Re: DVD download

2009-07-05 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 05 July 2009 05:07 pm, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-07-05 22:42 +0200, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 > > > > Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from > > debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it

Re: DVD download

2009-07-05 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 05 July 2009 05:45 pm, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: > Mark Neidorff ha scritto: > > This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1 > > > > Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from > > debian.org's site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum ve

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a > complete directory tree? > > -- > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer Tar the tree and then calculate the sha1sum of the tar file. Easy, no? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Grub overkill

2008-09-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 27 September 2008 10:04 am, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 04:30:55 schrieb Amit Uttamchandani: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400 > > > > John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is more of an annoyance than a serious problem but whenever I > >

Recording from XM radio

2008-10-26 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi Folks, I'm currently running Etch and KDE as my desktop. I'm considering changing my Internet (and audio/viedo) setup. The goal is to save some money. I currently have a static IP which I get via DSL (so I can run my mail and web servers). One of my hobbies is collecting a radio show that

ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi All, In case I have to say it, I'm very frustrated trying to get ALSA sound working on my Debian ETCH (up to date) box. My motherboard has built-in sound. Needless to say, I want to hear sound. I also want to be able to record sound from the stereo headphones jack of my radio and the stere

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration SOLVED (to a point)

2008-12-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 29 November 2008 07:20 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:11, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Kelly. > > > > I did see the Etchnhalf 2.6.24 kernel when looking at synaptic. I only > > suggested the musix one, as I have it installed, and know it

Re: lost my desktop

2008-12-07 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 07 December 2008 08:35 am, Frank McCormick wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Frank McCormick wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Kelly Clowers wrote: > >>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 17:22, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>> wrote: >

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration SOLVED (to a point)

2008-12-07 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 01 December 2008 12:39 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,01.Dec.08, 05:19:05, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Now I need to compile some kernel modules for VirtualBox so I need the > > kernel source. Of course, it is not listed in synaptic, so now I'm in > > the pos

Re: VirtualBox won't start

2008-12-14 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 14 December 2008 06:39 pm, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote the following on 12/14/2008 08:51 AM: > > Dennis Wicks wrote: > >> I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. > >> > >> I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to > put files on multiple dvds. > My k3b works grea

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 04 January 2009 09:39 am, Joey L wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I feel like I'm chasing a moving target. Lets nail down the specs that > > you want. So far what I understand is: > > > > file by file copy to some

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 04 January 2009 08:21 am, Joey L wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Joey L wrote: > Sorry - I missed a point here.I would like mondo to just copy the files oto > the dvd for me.So when I am on windows or linux - i can just insert the dvd > and see the files as they are transparentl

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Neidorff
> > Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. > 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on > iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. > > Does anyone know how to change that ??? > > 2). Mondoarchive - does the job - the issue i

Re: an old problem is back.

2010-02-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 18 February 2010 06:38 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > My syslog is filling up with these messages again. It seems to have > happened before. > > Can anyone help? > > > Feb 18 18:26:06 squeeze dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port > 67 What IP does your DHCP server listen on?

Nouveau's 3D NVIDIA drivers

2010-02-19 Thread Mark Neidorff
Just "for your information" on an open source driver for NVIDIA video cards. http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html enjoy (but, please...don't blame me. I'm just posting interesting information), Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

New Motherboard/CPU/net ports/etc/etc. How to transfer packages?

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi, I have installed etch using an older cpu/motherboard. Now I've gotten a new cpu/motherboard and my thinking is to re-install etch. Is there a way to get the list of packages that are installed on the etch system into a file? I would then want to reinstall etch and havesomething (apt-get?)

increase space in /tmp

2007-11-30 Thread Mark Neidorff
Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance? I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy. It wants to have about 8 gig free in the /tmp partition, but when I set the system up, I gave /tmp much less than that. k9copy wants to

Re: increase space in /tmp [SOLVED]

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 30 November 2007 01:29 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:45:35AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the > > backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance? > > > > I

Re: ATTN Mondo users - pse help cdrom Mondo probs

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Neidorff
John, This reply was posted on the Mondo Devel list. Sorry that you missed seeing it. I hope it helps you. I had a similar problem. I created a Mondo DVD (from Debian Etch   stable) and received the same "copy to floppies" message when   attempting to boot. I solved the problem by creating a ne

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:51 pm, Larry wrote: > I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting > pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have > absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a > connection I don't even understand how

Re: VirtualBox and USB

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 02 September 2012 1:03:47 am T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I created my VirtualBox VM using the script from > http://www.halfdog.net/Misc/TipsAndTricks/VirtualBox.html > > in which it adds USB support like this: > > # Add usb if needed > vboxmanage modifyvm "${_setup_vboxName}" --usb on

Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created > a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership > (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems > as the user. >

Re: Modoarchive - Again

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 28 October 2012 8:06:11 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > > Any Ideas?? > > I am having problems w/ Mondoarchive. > > 1] For some unknown reason the system thinks that the hard drive is sda. > Maybe, the file system was corrupted and I ran fsck wit

Re: switching distributions, but keeping KDE... how do i migrate my email?

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 6:54:08 pm salamandir wrote: > i am switching from kubuntu 12.04.1 to debian squeeze 2, but i'm keeping > KDE, > > in the past, i have had considerable difficulty getting my email to migrate > successfully when i upgrade, and i'm wondering if there is a "preferred" > wa

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 10:00:06 am Andrea Neroni wrote: > > I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it > > still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the > > graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. > > Hi and thanks f

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Neidorff
> Dear list - > > When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message "SSDT not found." > How do I fix it? > > Thanks. > > Ethan > > Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it > passedthe MD5SUM or other test? > > > I bought this lap

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 17 March 2013 3:13:58 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: <<>> > > PS Please define "Good Questions (TM)" I'm new at this, and do not want > to step on anyone's toes. Please read the following web page. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Follow the guidelines there and you'v

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 12 June 2012 5:55:21 pm Karen Lewellen wrote: > ...it is also the bit that does not work, which is why I asked here. > Karen, who is playing catch up, and profoundly appreciative of all the > wisdom shared here today. > Karen, Have you contacted U of Toronto for help with your problem

Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 12 July 2012 1:47:14 pm Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > I hear newer versions of android no longer support the usb mass storage > > protocol. They use something called Media Transfer Protocol. The libmtp > > package (and associated utility packages) should help, but I think they > > are

Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-14 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 12 July 2012 1:47:14 pm Miles Fidelman wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > Ken Heard wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me how I can transfer files between my Samsung tablet > >> with Honeycomb and my Debian boxes with Lenny or Squeeze, using either > >> a > >> USB or Bluetooth connection betw

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 23 July 2012 2:07:42 am Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote: > > So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You > > don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the > > main partition. > > Nope, what I really need is

Re: Alternative to tar?

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 4:53:51 am Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know of any lighter/simpler alternative to the tar program? > tar preserves permissions, time stamps, etc. and this is great in some > cases. But in other cases, one just wants a simple way to concatenate > files. > > Any id

Re: SD slot read card failed.

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 26 July 2012 3:43:43 am lina wrote: > > > You worte: > >> I wonder, is it possible to read without the card reader. > >> > >> Thanks with best regards, > > > > After such errors I would w/ built-in card-reader, I would restart > > whole the machine - for needs to be reset (the reader

Re: Guarddog causes intermittent system hang during boot

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 01 April 2011 10:07 am, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel. > > When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message: > "Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger: > command not found". Then the system hangs. That

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

2018-02-20 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2:07:29 AM EST deloptes wrote: > Hi, > <<>> > > I am a long time kmail user. I have noticed significant improvment in > > stability and the filtering of incoming mail. I use the filtering > > extensively. > > Before the last release, at the beginning of a KDE sessio

Re: KPatience cards too small

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday, June 2, 2018 11:14:13 AM EDT arne wrote: > Hi, > > Looks like a bug in Kpat, the cards are way too small: > Screenshot: > > https://i.paste.pics/652e13761f68299de40c01f409392284.png > > To find the cards: top center > > Debian Stretch amd64 up-to-date > 4k monitor > Nvidia GeForce

New install of Jesse for backuppc use

2016-06-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
It has been about 7 years since I've been on the list. I decided to implement a comprehensive backup solution and chose backuppc. I also built a new mini-ITX PC for this use--Intel Core i3, 8 Gb RAM, 750 GB HDD, wired networking---and Debian Jesse for the software. To be fair, before I decide

New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hello, I'm building a server PC to perform backups of the PCs on my local network. The server has 2 HDDs--750 Gb and 2 Tb. The intention is to use the 750 Gb drive for the OS and the 2 Tb drive for the backup data. I'll get there in stages. I'll be using backuppc to do the actual backups. I

Graphics issues debian 8.6

2016-10-11 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm building a backup server which will be tucked away. For the odd times that it needs administration, I want to be able to see the server's desktop (XFCE) remotely. The server has a Gigabyte GA-H110N (Intel H110 chipset) motherboard, an i3 CPU, 8 Mb of RAM. It is using the on-board Intel gr

Re: Graphics issues debian 8.6

2016-10-11 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday, 10/11/16 03:25:30 PM Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/11/2016 03:10 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > In a post on the mailing list, a user suggested installing: > > > > #apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree-xserver-xorg-video-intel > > > > but I can't se

Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system

2016-10-21 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi, In setting up a new system, The new system is a UFEI one. I started with an internal 750Gb SATA drive for the OS, and a 2Tb drive for backups. I tried a couple of distros and finally settled on Debian Jesse 8.6. I had installed a distro on the 2Tb drive, and a couple of others (one of

Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system

2016-10-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday, 10/21/16 10:19:47 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 21/10/2016 à 20:56, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > > So, the next step was to clean out the other distros. I used gparted to > > delete no longer needed partitions and to expand other partitions to fill > > the sp

Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system **SOLVED**

2016-10-23 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday, 10/23/16 10:05:43 AM Laruibasar wrote: > Em sábado, 22 de Outubro de 2016 22:17:35 WEST, Mark Neidorff > > escreveu: > > On Friday, 10/21/16 10:19:47 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Le 21/10/2016 à 20:56, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > >> > So, the

Package update problem...

2016-12-09 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates available. I select the package(s) and then I'm asked for authentication. I type in the root password, but it is rejected. I also try my user password, but that is also rejected. (

Re: Package update problem...

2016-12-12 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday, 12/11/16 02:45:41 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I'm running Jesse 8.6 with a KDE desktop. > > > > I get a desktop notification that there is one or more package updates > > available. I se

Re: Plasma: keyboard crash

2016-12-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday, 12/12/16 09:41:20 PM Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > from time to time in plasma 5 I have the problem, that the keyboard stops > its function. Is there a way to restart the keyboard without restarting > plasma? > > Thanks for any hints. > > Best > > Hans More info. please. Is this a de

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