dual head on asus laptop

2008-02-19 Thread Rich Healey
tryingt o fire up a dud X config every 30 seconds). Cheers Rich Healey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

2008-02-24 Thread Rich Healey
contrib non-free and apt/preferences == Package: * Pin: release a=lenny Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 499 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 501 I'm sure that with tweaking the Package: directive could be made better for kde4, but thi

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Habashy wrote: > i agree - > > this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as > well. > For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me > back out. > I uninstalled gdm package, i am left

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Rich Healey
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Habashy wrote: >>>> i agree - >>>> >>>> this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server > as >>>> well. >>>&

C Compiler cannot create executables

2008-02-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think i did something stupid accidentally apt-get dist-upgrade'd for the first time in 6 months with a compile going in the background, and now when i go to build E the autogen script tells me that gcc can't create executables...? What else CAN it d

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frenchguy wrote: > Hello, > > I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort > of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista > look, these are nice as well... > > But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
, but not their exclusive domain, more publicity can never be a bad thing. Sorry, this rant has gotten way out of hand, the underlying point being that yes, i think a mascot is a good idea. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with M

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > ... >> Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even >> though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only >> usin

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its >> uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the >> sysadmin/programmer end o

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: >> I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that >> just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > >> If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600,

My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. Cheers Rich -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: >> On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: >>> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to >>> me as well? the solaris

Re: My own emails

2008-02-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:55:27 +1100 > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Rich, > >> Ah cheers, i'll dig through gmail's settings and see if i can get it >> sorted out. &g

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool]

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
--- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/02/08 19:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller >>> will do just fine. Simply

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hhding wrote: > Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe? > Not only stdout,stderr. > > Chris Henry wrote: >> Hi, >> You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename >> >> Chris >> >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 joseph lockhart wrote: > Luis Maceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I see all the messages > generated by > a bash command (configure make make install, > for example) to standard output(computer screen), > and at the same time make sure that all

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T spill liquid on the keyboard. >> My daughter accidentally spilled a glass of water, some of which (I >> don't know how much) hit the keyboard. > > I hav

Re: My own emails

2008-03-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:29 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/29/08 15:14, Celejar wrote: >>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:11 + >>> Brad Rogers <[EMAIL P

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: > On 3/5/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >>>> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>>> >>>>> My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T s

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Owen Townend wrote: >>> Staying off-topic :) >>> Nam

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Nelson Castillo wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is >>> no need for an elaborate keylogging me

Re: Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed March 5 2008 08:24:33 Carlos Parada wrote: >> I don't find X.Org 7.2 on Backports. Is there any other way of upgrading >> X.Org but keeping Debian Stable distro? > > The library versions in Lenny are different, so you're unli

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Pursell wrote: > I couldn't find the correct place to interject this question in > the thread, so I fairly randomly selected this location... > > As far as I can tell, the following 4 commands should > all behave the same, but the last one han

Re: uninstall vmware-player

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hce wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to uninstalled a vmware-player, but got following errors: > > # ./vmware-uninstall.pl > Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Player. > > Unable to find the tar installer database file (/etc/vmware/locations) > >

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +1300, Lesley Walker wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: >> >> >> After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills >>

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael mozenko wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but Linux sounds > great and I want to try it out. I have already partitioned my hard drive to > accept the new OS, and I downloaded the “alpha” version of De

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 00:30, Rich Healey wrote: >> michael mozenko wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user >>> Thanks in advance, >>> &

Re: foxconn arch, should been specific

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregg Jansen van Vuren wrote: > for this architecture, which debian package? > > yeah i shoudl,ve been more specific, > > my pc specs are basically > > foxconn mb -doesn't matter you say. > intel pentium 4 3.00ghz processor, > radeon ati video c

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band? > > Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing > I've ever heard! I am going to recycle

kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've moved most of my machines from mandriva to debian, hada few hitches, but god move i think. however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing any media (dvd, file etc) It seems to have too much yellow also, but i'm not sure

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: > On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing >> any media (dvd, file etc) > > I haven't noticed anything l

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: > On 3/8/08, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> nope, vlc looks fine.. should i get kmplayer from the debian multimedia? > > Minor correction - kmplayer is indeed from debian testing repo here. > >

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-09 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: > On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Correct. I don't OC over every bit of trivia. >>> >>> However... If I were 20yo, and my case were a not-se

Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii sun-java6-jre 6-04-2 Su

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:59:54 +1100 > Jaime Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rich Healey wrote: >>> I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg

Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
ut forcing dpkg to remove all the xserver-xorg* packages despite deps, and then just using apt to isntall the testing ones, then apt-get check? Good idea, bad idea, suicide? This is my work machine so my usual tolerance for breaking stuff in the persuit of knowledge is suspended. Cheers Rich He

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 21:17, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/10/08 19:24, Rich Healey wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> I found this (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java) it's e

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 postid wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: >> >>> For the second time in a month I got an error message >>> indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. >>> >>> I've had bad inodes before not l

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: >> Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the >> unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this >> as well. > >

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But wouldn't that also remove every X application i haven't built from source as well, due to dependencies? Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 23:54, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich H

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. > > I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, > it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard > nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna rep

Re: Migrating from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 in Etch

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
unexpected repercussions with 2.4 code. I >> would leave changing the symlinks/alternatives to the developers and >> release engineers. >> > > You are right, I will leave the symlinks/alternatives to the devs. Thanks for > your reply. > > Amit > > Just upg

Re: ssh to Vmware linux on a MS Window machine

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hce wrote: > Hi, > > Can my debian box ssh to a Vmware linux on a MS Window machine? Both > debian box and the Window in the same subnet, I can ping the Window IP > address, but I cannot ping the Vmware linux IP address from my debian > box. How can I

Re: acpid

2008-03-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Byron Watkins wrote: > I am running Debian testing on amd64. About a week ago acpid began > reporting an error status whenever I "apt-get upgrade" or use synapsis > from gnome: > > Setting up acpid (1.0.4-7.1) ... > Loading ACPI modules > Startin

Re: DCHP

2008-03-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cassiel wrote: > Hi you all, > > I am a LAN member and I am experiencing a strange behaviour with dchp ip > renewal. > > Every time I restart my Lenny I obtain a new ip addr from one of the 2 dhcp > servers. We have a 1 month lease on this servers an

Enigmail not compatible with icedove?

2008-03-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just copied all my settings accross from thunderbird on this machine (debian, but icedove installed a 1.5.x with apt, so i just build thunderbird from the mozilla repos) to my other debian machine, (just installed icedove, 2.0.0.9, like this machine)

Re: Enigmail not compatible with icedove?

2008-03-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/15/08 09:06, Rich Healey wrote: >> I just copied all my settings accross from thunderbird on this machine >> (debian, but icedove installed a 1.5.x with apt, so i just build >> thunderbird from the mozil

Re: KDM not working

2008-03-16 Thread Rich Healey
will now click send and Icedove will shut down!) >> God is telling to to move off Stable. > > Probably! How do I do that? Where is the Migration Guide?? > > Thanks! > Dennis > > Might i suggest subscribing? Also, I would just build entrance (www.enlightenment.org) If

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:57:27AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > >> Second enlightenment! >> >> It's worth noting that enlightenment is not a DE, (they call it a >> desktop shell), but real

libgconf2 dependencies..

2008-03-17 Thread Rich Healey
inet.net.au unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.20.1-3 0 500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au lenny/main Packages [xenia:/home/richo]# Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail

[OT] VT's

2008-03-17 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 22:24, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> [snip] >>> My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been

Re: libgconf2 dependencies..

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32:00AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
, which happens by default with ide (ie, hda being ide primary master). using fstab with uuid's would mean that the same physical disk always mounts to the same place, which is of no use if he swaps a new disk with the same data as the old one (so would want to mount it i

Limit X tunnelling

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, on one of my etch machines that heaps of people have access to (via samba within my house and shells over the web) i want to limit X tunnelling to those people on my lan. One solution would be to limit it to the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, which i thin

Re: LCD screen flickering

2008-03-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ji ZhengYu wrote: > Johan Marklund wrote: >> Ji ZhengYu skrev: >> >> >>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Andrea Ferraresi >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:54 +0800, Ji ZhengYu wrote: >> >> > Hi, everyone >> >

Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-22 Thread Rich Healey
d run iceweasel at the bash prompt, which takes forever, but then finally *opens a local iceweasel!!!* Why would it do this?! Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozde

[OT] N73

2008-03-22 Thread Rich Healey
ROTECTED]> wrote: >> i need a software to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro >> controller PIC16F877A. >> any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with GNOME.. >> >> thanks.. >> > > Hi Alphonse, I have a N73 also, do you

ATI all in wonder 9600

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Healey
on debian testing) it was a really simple aticonfig option, but i've tried all the obvious ones. Any help appreciated. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6GIeLeTfO4y

Re: dual boot install from debian 4.0r1 net install cdrom

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Channon wrote: > michael wrote: > >> i've just used the default and expertgui debian net install and there >> is an option for manually controlling the partitioning process > > Yes *is* there but perhaps not clearly enough. > > Maybe this wi

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: >> > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: iBook multimedia keys and KDE

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > I recently switched from GNOME to KDE on my iBook G4, but don't know how > to get the multimedia keys working. > > They worked fine under GNOME, but under KDE only the monitor brightness > keys work, albeit with no v

open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
eeBSD machine, my gentoo box and etch desktop, it still asks for my password. Ideas? Thanks guys Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH7C+ELeTfO4yBSAcRAgexAKCaIOucQg+MLhWI6CowUF+93bfXjQC

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff D wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, i've got a whole bunch of linux machines (mainly debian, with etch, >> testing, sid, and a frankenstein machine wit

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:46:43PM -0600, "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Was 10.1 bad? I wouldn't know. I went straight from 10.0, which >> was a fairly decent system, to 10.3. Although, the da

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
sid machine, my freeBSD machine, my gentoo box > and etch desktop, it still asks for my password. > > Ideas? > > Thanks guys > > > Rich Healey >> >> Thanks Bonnel, The problem was lax permissions on my home directory though, openSsh cleverly realised that

[OT] Old Laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:38:32PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> 9.2 was the only version i ever used (and didn't totally hate), it was >> the only distro that everything worked off the bat with my ancie

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: >> Chris Bannister wrote: >> >>> Where are your bottlenecks? >> currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the >> MTA. i installed "if

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > My current network configuration is > > ISP --> wireless router ---> comp1 > ---> comp2 > ---> comp3 > > The wireless router is wrt54g. The computers might be running Debi

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: > I am cleaning our $HOME and I was wondering what these directories and > files are: > > ~/.fullcircle/ (I know it is the mozilla feedback agent. I use Tbird > and Firefox. Can I erase this anyway?) > > ~/.java/ (java is a system-

Re: how to reset desktop env. config?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> paragasu wrote: >> >>> AFAIK, >>> you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden >>> files. >>> the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you >>> can login >>>

debian build tools

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
a pissing match, you both produce great software that i enjoy using). So any guides on how to do this would be great (A "do x,y,z" would be handy short term.. but really I'm looking for docs). Sorry if these exist somewhere obvious and I haven't found them. Rich - -- Ric

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
"|xmessage -nearmouse -file -` is simple enough. > > cheers, > Owen. > > My housemates and I use msn for talking crap, and my irc network for shouting abuse at each other in a more readable way. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - Op

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-19 Thread Rich Healey
;d see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically illiterate housemate. That and putting xeyes all over his desktop remotely is hilarious. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-21 Thread Rich Healey
in from outside. > > Even if, in this instance, there's no "harm" (she's you're wife, > after all), it's still Bad Practice, and that makes for Bad Habits. > > In 15 seconds you can create user "dotan" on that machine, and log > in as it,

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/21/08 22:23, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>>> 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>>> Well, it is a

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
.0 is in unstable. 1.0rc2-1 is in > testing. Unstable does not play well with others: Don't try to pull > unstable sources on a testing box. > I've never had any issues mixing them...? After all, testing is just week old unstable anyway. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >> il

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >> il

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote: >> s. keeling wrote: >>> Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >>>

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread Rich Healey
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 15 21:21 -0500]: > >> In 1990? Seems like it would have been a close-out deal. > > I bought it from a friend at the tech school I was attending. > >>> That computer served me very well for several years. >> Leading Edge D? > >

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Rich Healey
H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines > installed) and wanted to reinstall

[OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to filter all my mail so i don't get all my listmail in my inbox on my phone. Gmail's filters/labels don't wo

Re: [OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Rich Healey escreveu: >> I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against >> my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to >> filter all my mail

Re: installing a package from lenny on an etch machine...

2008-08-02 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/01/2008 12:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> [...] >> As you can see, the "doc" package installed OK, but the "server" >> package needs a later version of some basic C libraries. >> >> I'd rather not upgrade the Etch machine to Lenn

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Rich Healey
way insurance is paying up but that person still goes to jail). Perhaps he gathers some information on the clandestine party, perhaps he helps them come to justice. Perhaps nothing bad happens! He's behind a nat gateway, and long before he's offering services, his box needs to become pub

Re: need help with cc

2008-08-23 Thread Rich Healey
r you. > >> If you get a segmentation fault, that suggests that the code being >> compiled is faulty. > > Blame the compiler That's a CompSci 101 mistake. > Erm.. I believe he was blaming the coder :P - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

Re: [OT Tangent to the plane] Elitism...

2008-04-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walters wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > | On 04/03/08 19:19, Chris Walters wrote: > |> Ron Johnson wrote: > |> | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: > |> |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |> wrote: > |> > |> |

Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) But now apt won't upgrade, it complains about skype's missing libs. Can i remove skype from apt's db without removing it? --

Re: Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: >> I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long >> story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) >

Re: grep trick

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon April 7 2008 16:03:28 Chris Bannister wrote: >> export GREP_COLOR=33 >> alias grep='grep --colour=always' > > This will break any scripts which assume that the output > of grep has not been annotated with color escape sequenc

Re: vncserver automation

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Pazarena wrote: > I am having trouble getting vncserver to automatically start after a > reboot. > It seems that setting a script in rc.5 doesn't work. signing on to the > CLI after > a boot, and it starts up fine. (executing vncserver on the CLI a

Re: TR: How to verify package integrity after they have been downloaded?

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > [Redirecting to debian-user, because this has nothing to do with > debian-security] > > Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-07 22:15: > Please try not to break threads. >> Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-7 at 21:54 UTC+1 : >

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/10/08 13:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 04/06/08 15:51, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 02:20

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard >>> utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root >>> filesystem to

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: >> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, >> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps >> that were installed an

Re: checking life of battery?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1) Is there any way to check the life of a battery on a Dell Inspiron 6400 > E1505? I am using Debian Etch. > > 2) How to find out the number of cells in the battery? The manual says it > can be "6-cell smart lithium ion

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > >> I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable. All of the *nix >> tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex >> understanding. > > One can ge

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote: >> I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you >> want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could >> probably use '

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael asked for source.. So my stroke of genius follows... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://e

[OT] openWRT (was: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box)

2008-04-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 biaAlex Samad wrote: [snip] > I would also suggest make the adsl modem (routers?) in bridged mode and > firewall up the debian box and do it all there. Similiar to what I have done. > The only > difference right now is i use openwrt (linux distro for

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