AC97 on ICH4

2002-09-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
SCSI card which I really can't remove! Does anyone have any pointers on this one at all? -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

nvidia and console freeze

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, I know this has popped up before, but I have found a solution that works for me (P4, i845G, nVidia Ti 4200). Turn off APM in the BIOS. That's it folks! Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
> I build computers as a side line, and I usually install Windows 98. Have > you tried setting Windows up in an easy-to-use form which allows a > family to have an email address each from the same ISP and only > see/download their own emails, making sure the correct address is shown > in the 'from'

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
> Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:35:05 AM, Mark wrote: > > I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail > > separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle them both with > > one instance of a program. > > Convenience. There is no good reason not to, really. Why s

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
> > Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:35:05 AM, Mark wrote: > > > I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail > > > separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle them both with > > > one instance of a program. > > > > Convenience. There is no good reason not to, r

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
> No, I mean exactly what an MUA says it is. Mutt is an MUA but, to me, it > is not a mail client. A mail client is able to transfer and manipulate the > required data without need of other programs. A constant example I give, > which is flawed as all are, is web browsing. A web browser is,

Fw: Modem Troubles

2000-08-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to add to the details, I've just noticed that when dialling, the noises are louder under windows than under Linux: dunno if this will make a difference though. Matthew > Hay all. > > I'm having much trouble with connections. > Using: Potato, USR 3Com 56K FaxModem (external) > > I've got it s

fetchmail problems

2000-08-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all again! I have a POP3 mail box, into which goes all the mail for the domain sackman.co.uk. Emails that are for me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I want to download using fetchmail (the mail box is being used as a multi-drop mailbox). The problem is that using fetchmail's envelope "Received" option doe

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:51:50AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by > > region. They don't do it here (Denver, Colorado). Perhaps this is > > because DSL is so easily available :} > > One interesting thing that many providers are d

Re: Fetchmail & Sendmail

2001-02-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a > mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail > server to pass sent mail to. > > In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I

boot-floppies mirroring problems

2001-02-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
someone help please? Frustratedly, Matthew Sackman

apt-get, dpkg, sources lists and other exciting entities

2001-02-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi, About a week ago one of the reiserfs filing systems on my computer decided to go pop, and wiped off /var. No backups. So I was pretty much stumped and have spent the last week reinstalling from my potato disks. Last night I finally got my internet connection up and running properly, and as I'

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

2001-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi, I think that the major security holes are actually in the programs that you run, and have very little to do with the kernel itself. Certainly I use a 2.4.1 kernel which gives me access to the wonderful new firewalling system, thus I simply block all incomming connections on the ppp0 interface

Re: Which IMAP server to use?

2001-02-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi there, I use courier-imap which I find is fine: my big debian-user mail box often swells to >2000 messages and it takes about 12 seconds to fetch them all. I use postfix, delivering locally, the .forward file points to maildrop, which filters the emails into the correct mailboxes which I then

Re: Which IMAP server to use?

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
; On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:22:49AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I use courier-imap which I find is fine: my big debian-user mail box often > > swells to >2000 messages and it takes about 12 seconds to fetch them all. > > > > I

Re: MODEM LATENCY

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
I think you may be suffering from what I've come across lately: the modem gets stuffed up if the serial port baud rate is too high. Try setting the port speed (use pppconfig) down to 56700 instead of 115200, and I think you may find things start to work better for you. (worked here...) As for conf

Re: Printer recommendations

2001-02-27 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 07:56:33PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2001 19:36, Sean wrote: > > I would second the choice for a laser printer ... I believe they are > > often of better construction than inkjets, and the cost per page is > > significatnly less. Not to mention the ben

Re: IMPS/2 mouse protocol and XF86Setup

2001-03-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
- > Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Check out the most powerfull Linux desktop at www.kde.org !! > Check out the best Linux distribution at www.debian.org (www.linux.org) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsub

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
ced to reinstalling. Seeing as I track woody, and have potato disks and a 56k modem connection, it has taken some time to get back to normal. Sorry - no choice but to reinstall from scratch. -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
table - I find that the logitech's scroll wheel often jumps about which can be annoying when trying to open links in new windows in mozilla just my 2p (sorry - uk here!) Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re[2]: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:48:59 -0900 Ethan Benson > wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:58:36PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Weird - this is exactely what happened to me two weeks ago - I was just > > doing > > some simple scans of the hard disc and reiser

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:35:23PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:29:21AM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > /usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\! > > > > I'm a student = have no money for backup devices. Plus I'm still reall

Re: Reconstructing Var?

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /et

Re: [OT] OpenGL Experiance

2001-03-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
dard. However, their drivers are not Open Source and are slightly trickier to install than other manufacturers. I use an NVidia TNT2 M64 and am very happy with Quake III performance!! Things are pretty stable with a 2.4.2 kernel, XFree86 4.0.2 and their 0.95 drivers [patched for 2.4.x series kernels]. T

Re: non-Debian package

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
d the package will be installed. The package database will be kept current. Hope this helps. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Need Window Manager recommendation

2001-03-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
. I know this sounds like a blatent plug, but it really is how I feel: I've looked at kwm, xdm, fvwm, bb, window-maker, sawmill, but none are as good in terms of functionality (IMO) as uwm. Try it. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Need Window Manager recommendation

2001-03-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:44:51AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > At 09:42 PM 3/8/2001 +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:21:39PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > >> Eric Richardson wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > I

Re: IMAP and Exim

2001-03-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
; > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > -- > Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 > pub 1024D/3516D372 2000-06-05 Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Key fingerprint = 3BE1 6591 C78C 2AA4 31DD AEEF 6406 0227 3516 D372 > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: RDram

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
and need to match the > speed. Is there some guide somewhere as to what the numbers mean? > Thanks Not meaning to be rude, but does this have anything to do with debian? -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
to > install a kernel module that I have built.... > > > System info > > Debian unstable > TNT (Diamond Viper V550) > kernel 2.2.19pre11 (was 2.2.15 until a couple of days ago) > Pentium 2 350 > > > > > > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: RDram

2001-03-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:33:16PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:48:44PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I have the unfortunate task of upgrading one of my users' systems

Re: changing from twm to ??????

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:16:03AM -0800, Simon Harvey wrote: > hello : > does anybody know what file tells X11 what window manager to use, ive looked > around and i cant find it. > thanks > simon > ~/.xinitrc controls which window manager is loaded by X11 on startup --

Re: security line for source.lists

2001-03-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
they are normally fairly small updates so do not consume vast amounts of bandwidth, ii) mirroring the security site is a bad idea because a) it slows the propogation of the updates and b) there is more risk of hacks which would rather negate the purpose of a security site! Matthew -- Matthew Sac

Re: Access & Permissions

2001-03-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
tory (which is probably not desireable... ;-) Hope this helps, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

AMI RAID Express controllers

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
lling the drivers and creating the array and then transfering everything across. Just wondered whether anyone had any comments regarding these cards/ drivers? With thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

kernel 2.4.0 test 9 unresolved symbols

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I've downloaded the 2.4.0 test 9 sources, and have configured the compile options using make menuconfig, then a make-kpkg clean, followed by make-kpkg --revision=custom_0.1 kernel_image and then dpkg -i kernel-image... However, when dpkg is installing, I get an unresolved symbols on ev

NVidia kernel module won't compile

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all (again)! I'm using a 2.4.0 test 5 kernel, which is working fine, I've build and installed kernel headers, and set up /usr/src/linux to point to the headers. I'm trying to compile the NVidia kernel module so that I can make use of /dev/agpart and dri infrastructure, and the advanced NVidi

Re: NVidia kernel module won't compile

2000-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to add a little more info, the kernel modules are NVidia_kernel 0.95-1 and also (but with fewer problems!), the corresponding GLX module. I am trying to compile both from .tar.gz. My vidio card is a NVidia TNT2 M64. Matthew On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote

Compiling kernels

2000-11-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I've possibly asked this one before but have not got any where, and am still puzzeled as to how to dort this one out! The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have downloaded the kernels from ftp.kernel.org, unpacked them. Configured them using menuconfig, and then cleaned

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Monday 06 November 2000 20:25, David Z. Maze wrote: > Timo Benk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TB> Hi, > TB> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > MS> The problem is that my kernels refuse to install. I have > MS> downloaded the kernels from ftp

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-11-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Monday 06 November 2000 22:57, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Thank you so much for this info: /usr/doc/kernel-package/README (and other > files) give NO info regarding this 'make-kpkg buildpackage'. The man pages > only briefly mention it. > > I'll let you know whether

SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
-- Using intelligent power: RISC OS, Be OS, Debian Linux Enjoying computing.

SSL in mozilla M18 and Netscape 6

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all. Firstly apologies for posting an empty email... agh! - wrong key strokes! Without wishing to spark off another bitching match about netscape 6 vs mozilla M18, I would like some help regarding https. So far I've been using Netscape 4, and mainly without fault. I use squid on my box, a

Xfree 4

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
dear all, this is very urgent as an upgrade is hanging in the balance here - a fast responce would be very much appreciated. Basically, where is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults supposed to point to in Xfree 4.0? Using woody with 2.4.0 test 10 kernel. Please could someone quickly let me know.

Re: Xfree 4

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
Well I think there was a problem with the xlibs .deb, as I had the symlink set up correctly - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults was pointing to /etc/X11/app-defaults, but xlibs decided it was wrong and removed it. Then when it tried to update its settings it died due to a broken pipe. So I mkdir

mySQL-server segfault

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I have been using Pronto for some time with the mySQL server running without problems, and providing very fast access to my many emails. However, on a recent apt-get dist-upgrade, the newly installed mysql-server refuses to install properly, and when trying to start the mysqld, I get a

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
ed by root with mods of 0644. You might want to try changing the ownership of the files in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ - you could have a fetchmail script owned by each user on the system, then only their script would be run when they dial up (though I'm not sure if this will work - try it!) Hope this

Re: mysql-server broken

2000-12-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
This is the quick fix: edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf remove the line about network listening and then resave the file. start up mysqld as normal - it should work! Apparently a fixed version will appear very shortly. Matthew On 16 Dec 2000 00:54:37 -0500, Jens Gecius said: > Hi folks! > > This tim

Re: CD Audio tracks/file system

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yep, that's exactely what I've done - both /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc* are chown root.cdrom Then make sure that you are adduser cdrom, and everything works as it should! Matthew On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 10:31:27 -0500, Scott Patterson said: > > > > >I had done that, but overlooked one small fact

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 00:03:15 -0900, Ethan Benson said: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id > > uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro),

perlqt module (off topic)

2000-12-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
I need to develop a new application and it's going to need a GUI. I was hoping to write it in Perl (cos it's easy!) and was hoping to use the PerlQt module, but there is no debian packaged version. I'm fine about installing it manually, I was just wondering whether anyone has had any experience wi

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-30 Thread Matthew Sackman
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > You don't need KDM in order to start KDE, nor do you need GDM to start > > GNOME. Either of these display managers will allow you to choose a > > "session" from a menu when you log in. > > If I understand you right, it is probably b

Bar code scanners

2001-01-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
Dear all! I have been asked to start looking into providing an EPOS system for the shop that I work at. I am hoping to be able to develop all the software myself (using Perl and the GTK+ bindings). However, I have no idea about how well or otherwise bar code scanners work under Linux. Does anyone

AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
Please help someone, and quickly!! I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and putting a whole load of file system errors on other file systems. I have run through with fsck and it reports a : Error readi

Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
he Seagate that is less than 6 months old. I'm fairly furious that it has developed an error this quickly. With thanks, Matthew On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:01:11 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +, Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >

Re: GNOME Mail Client

2001-01-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:16:09 -0500, David B. Harris said: > To quote Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Brad Burns posts: > # > # > Can anyone recommend a good GNOME Mail Client ? > # > > # > # U mean a mail client based on the GTK libs ? > # Plump for Sylpheed. It is good. > >

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:49:46 -0800, Ross Boylan said: > At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without > uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this, > so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available under the GPL. > > I've since discovered t

Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
In a stats colum in linux format this month, it said: 64,000 is the maximum number of users that could connect to a linux box before kernel version 2.4 With a 2.4 kernel, you can have 4.3bn connections. I'd image that the structures to handle this number of user ids must be implace otherwise this

Re: hi all

2001-01-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
In a stats colum in linux format this month, it said: 64,000 is the maximum number of users that could connect to a linux box before kernel version 2.4 With a 2.4 kernel, you can have 4.3bn connections. I'd image that the structures to handle this number of user ids must be implace otherwise thi

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
I've just install (yesterday) uwm and found that it created a softlink from /usr/doc/uwm to /usr/share/doc/udm, so the documentation is easily findable on my system. Anyway, I'm really glad I read this list otherwise I'd have never come across uwm. It really is excellant. If you're bored by the si

Re: video card suggestions

2001-01-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
I've got an Nvidia TNT2 M64 in my machine and am more than happy with it: the 2D is not as good as Matrox cards, but the 3D is very good, so long as you are using a 2.4.0 kernel with the patched drivers and an X 4 server. You also have to do some manual removing / re linking of the various mesa

Re: IMAP MUA and filtering

2001-01-17 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yes, Postfix does support .forward files, so this works well (I've just installed maildrop and things seem to be working). I had no idea that mutt supported IMAP folders, so this comes as a very pleasent surprise. However, when changing folders, it is a little cumbersome to have to type in {hostna

Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator

2001-01-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
I'd just like to pledge my support for this, and if you need any help then please do get in touch! On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:45:35AM +1100, hogan wrote: > > the boot floppy disk)). Most documents found do not suite debian to > > 100%, that would not be the case in that generator. > ... > > and a

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. What is going on here? I figured that perhaps there was a problem wit

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
t get this message when I remove that bit. Many thanks, Matthew On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:13:08PM -0800, Jim Nutt wrote: > Matthew Sackman writes: > > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > > and am having exactely the same problems: th

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Is there a way to convert an existing partition to reiserfs? Or does > one have to create a new reiserfs partition and copy stuff over? Is > there documentation outlining the procedure? > > Dan You have to have a spare partition

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:12:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > >> I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Netscape > >> somehow started crashing my machine hard. I must say that it's a very >

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:02:06AM +0100, John Travis wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2001 13:12, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > (Where was the link?) > > > > > > IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the > > > DFSG se

Win4Lin 2.0

2001-02-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay! Has anyone had any experience installing win4lin 2.0 on a debian box? Does it work? Is it any good etc? Anything particular to look out for? How well do applications that are not those listed on the win4lin site work under win4lin? Any info most gratefully received. Matthew

Re: Win4Lin 2.0

2001-02-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
Sorry - just found the last thread on this - ignore this thread please. Sorry, Matthew On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:10:01PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hay! > > Has anyone had any experience installing win4lin 2.0 on a debian box? > > Does it work? Is it any good etc? Anyt

RAID port on SCSI-chiped motherboards

2001-02-12 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all! Basically, I'm in the process of setting up an entry-level server and need some info on the various raid options supported in Debian. I'm thinking about using a supermicro dual PIII 440GX board which has a built in SCSI chipset with support for a RAID port. The adaptec pages for the RAID

client-server backup using NFS and tar

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
how do you set the remote system up (in this case the server) to allow the tar process access to the device? Many thanks for your help, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Re: client-server backup using NFS and tar

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
> but how do you set the remote system up (in this case the > server) to allow the tar process access to the device? > > Many thanks for your help, > > Matthew > > -- > > Matthew Sackman > Nottingham, > ENGLAND > > Using Debian/GNU Linux > Enjoyin

Re: mod_ssl vs. apache-ssl

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
a --with-layout=Debian That's how I do it... Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux. pgpj5Qh3OBDw7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Squid - a bit off-topic

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
rnal machines and DHCP then you should be able to set up a subdomain for the machines that can connect to the net and then authenticate on this. Or, if you use fixed IPs then you can just authenticate on that. HTH Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
in /bin), but I'm not really sure. In the interests of maximising hard-disc usage, I once moved the contents of /lib to another partition (non-root) and created a sym-link. An hour later I had repaired the damage - it really don't like it!!! :-( Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingha

woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
listed in the email announcing the unofficial images, but even there they are not in the 'correct' place. Any help is much appreciated? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux. pgpHabPnJrrT3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hmm, I seem to have realised that the images are only available as images and not as a package tree. Is this correct? Matthew On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:00PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a pseudo image for woody on > my localhost, and ha

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
ing winXP could discover that they have access to a new internet. With 100 million users Cisco would have to be pretty dumb not to move quickly to make sure a non-crippled internet was available otherwise who'd get the blame? Surely not Microsoft? I hope it won't happen. Matthew Sackman

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
of other things too When I use a graphical filemanager, I use ROX - very fast and very straight- forward. http://rox.sourceforge.net It's based on the RISC OS filemanager. HTH Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Re: ARRGH!!! Tulip card again

2001-11-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
ine. If it is possible, go with the latest kernel revision > (2.4.14). > > There is a linux-tulip mailing list if you get really frustrated. Kinda related... I had big problems with the natsemi driver until I compiled it as a module - it seems it's a lot more stable as a module

[OT] Dual head console?

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
any ideas or is this just not possible? Using 2.4.13 and woody. As always, any help is much appreciated. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s)

Re: NIC Netgear FA311 : how do i make it work ?

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
le. Note that gateway is critical as it determines the routing of packets going out of your machine. You may well need to initially use the route command to display the routing tables and/or modify them. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: pgprD20cKFark.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nfs woes

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
that you have a lot of this already going. The problem is that your setup to too complicated IMHO, simply use the 10MBit card to boot, then drop 10mbps and start everything on the 100mbps. I'm assuming that you're using a boot chip on your 10mbps card to tell it where to get the kernel etc, in which case it should just be a matter of redesigning the initrd image. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Bogon emissions pgpJJoJydmE6n.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
x that when something screws up... The fact that they come with no firewall tools and have telnetd enabled by default should be enough to scare off anyone with any sense! ;-) -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Your/our computer(s) had suffered a memory leak, and we are waiting for them to be topped up.

OT: BOFH sig gen

2001-12-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
@text) { if ($_ =~ /Your excuse is\: (.*)/) { $bofh = $1; } } my $sig = q/ Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: #bofh# /; $sig =~ s/#bofh#/$bofh/msg; #print $sig, "\n"; open(FILE,

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
pect are attributed to them. Plus when one machine is under high load, an ssh can take up to 15 seconds to connect. I don't know any of the more expensive ones - can't afford them myself. At work we use Intel and 3com nics in the big machines and realteks in the small machines. Switches are

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-02-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
od" Load"glx" Load"pex5" Load"record" Load"xie" Load"bitmap" Load"freetype" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe&

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:15:20PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:48:21PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > I've now got a pair of realtek's which are a damn site better, but I still > > have problems with enbd under high load, wh

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
and exciting that makes your usage of your computer more productive. Just a few pennies. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Too much radiation coming from the soil.

Re: user homedir chroot jail..

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
So yes, the best solution is chmod 711 /home; chmod 750 /home/* and then set the umask for all users to 027. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Interference between the keyboard and the chair.

Re: Ask Slashdot: How Well Does Windows Cluster? Turned around

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
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Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
? rox (rox.sourceforge.net): *The* fastest file manager. Also, for ages I've been using uwm/ude as the wm, but eventually got bored with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. Have fun. Matthew

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and >

imaps - using courier and stunnel

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
pointers to good documentation would be a start. With thanks, Matthew using a 2.4.2 kernel and versions as in woody. -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing pgpGPuvnECT3G.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] Cordless MouseMan Optical

2001-03-30 Thread Matthew Sackman
well, this is new and seems wonderful: a cordless optical. But, does anyone already use it / have any comments regarding it? Also, it has 4 buttons. How useful is this? Is there software under linux to actually be able to make use of it? Any info gratefully received. Matthew -- Matthew

Re: [OT] Cordless MouseMan Optical

2001-03-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
'd got it set up wrongly in Linux, but it turns out it was actually broken. I guess I'm really just curious as to whether it's possible to actually put the fourth mouse button (under the thumb) to any use. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing pgpyeG7yBZUt6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-04-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
ht want to take a look at www.supermicro.com. They make some excellant motherboards, all of the newer ones use variable speed temperature control feedback - the temperature of the CPU is available off two pins on the CPU which is then used to control the speed of the fan. You may want to contact them to

WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

2001-04-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
Does anyone know whether these faults can be fixed? I've tried reiserfsck to no avail: it doesn't even report a fault. But I'm sitting here wondering just how much time I'll have before the whole thing goes Despondantly, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, EN

Re: WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

2001-04-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 03 Apr 2001 22:48:57 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Does anyone know whether these faults can be fixed? I've tried > > reiserfsck to no avail: it doesn't even report a fault. But > > I'

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