Re: .NET

2002-10-11 Thread Xeno Campanoli
ian wrote: > > I had the 'opportunity' of attending a micro$oft.net seminar > yesterday. Are they serious? From what i understand these people > intend to take over the INTERNET. They've invested a lot of money in > this venture and expects great returns. Many companies have already > jumped on t

New install doesn't see DHCP

2005-06-21 Thread Xeno Campanoli
estruction. Profit before environment equals doom. Xeno Campanoli, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DHCP problem where ip address is assigned to wrong NIC on reboot

2005-06-21 Thread Xeno Campanoli
efore justice equals destabilization. Power before truthequals destruction. Profit before environment equals doom. Xeno Campanoli, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get install won't recover from removal of apache directory in /etc/

2005-06-22 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Not only that, it seems to have deleted the one I stowed in /etc/old which I was gonna use to recover from.  xc   Truth before Power!  

RE: apt-get install won't recover from removal of apache directory in /etc/

2005-06-22 Thread Xeno Campanoli
y, June 22, 2005 5:19 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get install won't recover from removal of apache directory in /etc/ On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Not only that, it seems to have deleted the one I stowed in /etc/old which I > was gonna use t

I cannot get my X reasonably configured

2005-06-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
X configuration lousy. Please somebody suggest to me something to make a good X configuration for good graphic hardware. This xf86config POS just won't do it. xc -- Xeno Campanoli, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno Pride before justice equals destabilization. Power b

[Fwd: Re: I cannot get my X reasonably configured]

2005-06-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Original Message Subject:Re: I cannot get my X reasonably configured Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:52:00 -0700 From: Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: FreeSCOTER To: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Fwd: Re: I cannot get my X reasonably configured] - problem solved / thanks everyone for the help

2005-06-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
or both actions that got me there, but my workstation has a completely reasonably looking desktop at this point. Thanks to all for the feedback. Sincerely, Xeno -- Xeno Campanoli, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno Pride before justice equals destabilization. Power bef

Sound problem: My green output jack doesn't relay any data.

2005-06-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
t 288 0 (autoclean) (unused) piix7784 2 (autoclean) ide-disk 12448 6 (autoclean) ide-core 91832 6 (autoclean) [usb-storage ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk] unix 12752 221 (autoclean) joehill:~ #

[Fwd: Re: Sound problem: apparently I don't have the alsa modules up yet after all

2005-06-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
x27;t know if the test program I'm running is an alsa program. It's the "CD Player" in the multimedia pulldown, which seemed like the simplest one to try (and there is another thats a command line one I tried.) -- Xeno Campanoli, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno P

Re: [Fwd: Re: Sound problem: apparently I don't have the alsa modules up yet after all

2005-06-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
(autoclean) ide-core  108568   6  (autoclean) [usb-storage ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk] unix   14960 217  (autoclean) Cheers, Jonathan I think you guys don't like attachments, otherwise I could attach the entire modules.conf file. Thanks for any feedback.  Sin

Re: [Fwd: Re: Sound problem: apparently I don't have the alsa modules up yet after all

2005-06-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La Xeno Campanoli ha escrit, a 29/06/05 07:30: Have you run #alsaconf ? What happens when you do? It shows: │ intel8x0 Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5 │ │ legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips

KDE Two questions

2001-11-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
1. Is kdebase the main symbol for starting an apt-get install of kde, or if not what is it? 2. Is there a painless place to get ahold of this jdk-118 thingy? I try the internet address given, and it puts me somewhere which is bewildering, and I haven't found the download page yet. --

Re: KDE Two questions

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > >2. Is there a painless place to get ahold of this jdk-118 thingy? I try > > >the internet address given, and it puts me somewhere which is > >bewildering, and I haven't found the download page yet. > > Do you mean a java development kit (jdk) or a java runtime

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the diagnostic: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. I've tried several things with lilo on this, but I'm stumped. rdev indicates the root partition is /dev/hda1, which is what I ex

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Shaul Karl wrote: > > > As my subject line indicates, I'm getting the diagnostic: > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > > > when I try to boot up with my home grown kernel. I've tried several > > things with lilo on this, but I'm stumped. rdev indicates the root >

Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones don't. I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's because their ISA, but the 3c59x comes up fine with the modules kernel, and I can

Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I actually have 4 different NICs on this thing (it's a long story), and > though the two PCI ones get recognized, the ne2000 and 3c509 ISA ones > don't. > I presume there's something I gotta do for 'em in a file somewhere's >

Re: Kernel up, but no ISA NIC drivers

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Stephen Gran wrote: > > You can add the modules you want to bring up, along with any arguments > /etc/modules. Naw, this honestly doesn't work, even when I have modules turned on. I just went back and made sure the /etc/modules file had: ne io=0x240,irq=5 and it comes up saying it can't do an

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Ian Monroe wrote: > > A surprising about information is still locked up in books. Though some > are availible online, checking out your local huge bookstore is a good > idea. > > Ian Monroe > http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/ > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Lance Simmons wrote: > > > A book that's full

Failures trying to configure xserver_svga

2001-11-30 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I'm using "testing", and I recently tried to add kde, which may not be related. At any rate, when trying to re-install xserver_svga after picking reasonable parameters, I get: dpkg: error processing xserver svga (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exist status 10 Er

"testing" dist X won't come up functional

2001-12-04 Thread Xeno Campanoli
First of all, I've tried to use apt-get to give the "testing" distribution itself a chance to solve my problems, and have failed at it now for about a week. Second, every time I do an apt-get upgrade I get a dialog sequence to regenerate an X configuration, even when I say I don't want it on the

No functional xterm access from "testing" KDE

2001-12-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've had this problem now for some time. I seem to have gotten beyond some other problems which makes me think that something in this configuration is just left out. There is an icon of a terminal partly covered by something green but it doesn't bring up an Xterm at all. I also see no access to

Re: No functional xterm access from "testing" KDE

2001-12-07 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This is pretty easy. If you haven't messed with your .xsession file, > and KDE is starting as the default, do as root: > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Another odd thing here is that, though I now have picked afterstep, and I still get KDE, neither KDE,

Re: exim / rbl question

2001-12-14 Thread Xeno Campanoli
> your ISP's mail server, it won't work (FAQ at www.exim.conf) Hey, what is "www.exim.conf" supposed to refer to anyway? It doesn't seem to refer to any of my guesses for a web site. > -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install nslookup

2002-02-01 Thread Xeno Campanoli
> > i want to use nslooup > You really should use dig or host (use dig). nslookup is deprecated. > dig is fairly good to use. > > Cameron Kerr I can't find "dig" with apt-cache search. I do find something called "htdig". Is this basically the same thing? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [E

Is circus something people use?

2002-02-02 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I just installed it, but I can't get it to work, and the web reference to: http://www.nijenrode.nl/~ivo/circus/ gets the web page error: Sorry The reso

Warning: Type conversion failed

2002-02-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
cator though, which likely i would have remembered. Getting into afterstep is also a bit klunky, but I'll address after this bug is fixed. Thanks. Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.

Warning: Type conversion failed

2002-02-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
cator though, which likely i would have remembered. Getting into afterstep is also a bit klunky, but I'll address after this bug is fixed. Thanks. Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.

Re: [SLL] Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-02-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I'm trying to do the example on pages 13-14 of Rubini's Linux Device > inneal:~/study# insmod hello.o > hello.o: kernel-module version mismatch > hello.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.20 > while this kernel is version

Re: [SLL] Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-02-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 14:24, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > > I do this: > > > > inneal:~# cat /usr/include/linux/version.h | grep 2.2.20 > > #define UTS_RELEASE "2.2.20" > > > > and doing it with 2.2.19 finds nothin

Re: [SLL] Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-02-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 14:24, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/version.h > libc6-dev: /usr/include/linux/version.h > > Best guess is that the current libc6 in potato was built on a machine > running kerne

Hangman vocabulary all in German...?

2002-02-08 Thread Xeno Campanoli
It's been too long, and I may have accidentally asked for this and not remember, but my hangman vocabulary is in German. Is it possible this is a mistake? If so, presumably it's not the highest priority. This is on my stable install. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically

Re: Hangman vocabulary all in German...?

2002-02-08 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Andreas Goesele wrote: > > It's been too long, and I may have accidentally asked for this and not > > remember, but my hangman vocabulary is in German. Is it possible this > If an English dictionary is available you then can choose it. If not, > you have to install one. > > Andreas Gösele Got i

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

2002-02-12 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Thomas Cook wrote: > > I fixed an identical problem recently by getting new RAM - my old stuff > had gone bad. > > apt-get install memtest86 I'm using potato, and I can't do the above command successfully. There is something called hwtools, but the only binary looks like it's for MS: inneal:~#

PAM and /etc/security/access.conf

2002-02-13 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I have the following entries in /etc/security/access.conf: +:ALL tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5 -:ALL tty6 -:wheel:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL I reboot and try logging into tty6, and I still can. Am I missing something? What do I do to make sure that PAM is working here? I'm using Potato with 2.2.19 kernel. A

Re: PAM and /etc/security/access.conf

2002-02-13 Thread Xeno Campanoli
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > >I have the following entries in /etc/security/access.conf: > > > >+:ALL tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5 > >-:ALL tty6 > >-:wheel:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL > > Have a look at the files in /etc/pam.d/. In login, you&#x

PAM Critical error, but no logging

2002-02-18 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've honestly been looking at this for a couple of hours now (and have been reading about PAM for a couple of days) and have mainly established that I myself am not crazy. I have a new configuration for the file /etc/pam.d/passwd as follows: authrequired/lib/security/pam_pwdb.

Re: PAM Critical error, but no logging

2002-02-18 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to say this was on stable, using 2.2.17 and then moving to 2.2.19. > I've honestly been looking at this for a couple of hours now (and have > been reading about PAM for a couple of days) and have mainly established > that I myself am not

Re: [Fwd: PAM Critical error, but no logging]

2002-02-23 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Okay, (Doh!) it looks like I don't have the cracklib_dict.pwd file installed on the system where PAM doesn't work with cracklib. I've tried apt-get remove-ing and re-installing any crack-related packages I've been able to find using apt-cache, but still no *_dict.* files. I've also searched the o

chkconfig --add equivalent

2002-02-23 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Okay, I'm swinging on thin rope here, but I'm looking at a line that says: chkconfig --add fwconfig on 467 of Mann's and Mitchell's LSS book (where fwconfig is a setup script) and it says this is supposed to put in all the nice startup and kill connections in your rc*.d and init.d directo

Looking for .deb containing *_dict.* for cracklib

2002-02-24 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Perhaps I wasn't clear before with my headlines. Sorry. Does anyone know why I might not be getting these *_dict.* files installed? Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Okay, (Doh!) it looks like I don't have the cracklib_dict.pwd file > installed on the system where PAM doesn't w

Re: Swap space

2002-02-24 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Another thing to think about is where to put them. If you have multiple drives, you'll want swap on each drive to give the OS a better chance to do paging where it's not already doing I/O. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-371

Re: pam-watch?

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Luke Scharf wrote: > > > > I'm a system administrator attempting to install an application that > > relies on PAM (apache + mod_auth_pam). Is there any way that I can get > > a log of what PAM is doing? Ideally, I'd like t

shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
On my machine that's not doing PAM, I'm noticing after I took out cracklib-runtime and cracklib2, and then try to reinstall cracklib2, I get a bunch of diagnotic messages saying: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory But

Re: shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Kurc, Marcin A." wrote: > > Try to install not from the directory that is removed while Good point. The shell-init messages have now gone away, but I still run: apt-get install cracklib-runtime for only a few seconds and I get no /var/cache/cracklib/*_dict.* files. Again, this works

Re: shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Kurc, Marcin A." wrote: > > how do you remove it? > dpkg --purge package-name? Yes, I do dpkt -P cracklib-runtime on both machines, then I do dpkg -P cracklib2 on both machines, and then I reinstall with apt-get install cracklib2 and apt-get install cracklib-runtime. On the purge, the machine t

Ah, this is a known bug: #54214

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
My apologies for being oblivious to the Debian site's bug tracking resource. It turns out a Mr. Billson turned this one in in January 2000. Wah! So the trick to my problem is that something called "wordlist" is needed for the cracklib-runtime install to work, and apparently there is no strong de

Potato default and ip_always_defrag=0

2002-02-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
If the "ip_always_defrag" is in my /proc/sys/net/ipv4 directory, and the value is "0", that means the facility is in the Kernel or available as a module and I just need to turn it on with echo "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag, right? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physical

Multiple portfw for multiple resources

2002-02-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Has anyone set up port forwarding for multiple resourses, say multiple webservers, for instance? I'd like to actually go to two separate machines from my firewall, and I think I want them to be really really separate, not just parallel support of the same thing. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [

Re: Potato default and ip_always_defrag=0

2002-02-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > If the "ip_always_defrag" is in my /proc/sys/net/ipv4 directory, and the > value is "0", that means the facility is in the Kernel or available as a > module and I just need to turn it on with echo > "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/

Re: IPMasq disturbing Fetchmail?

2002-03-01 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:10:24PM +0100, joe user wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Is it possible that IPMasq can disturb fetchmail? > > The retrieving of messages always stalls when a message is between 2434- or > > 2448 bytes in size. I'm no expert on this, but is it po

portfw to multiple machines, same port

2002-03-01 Thread Xeno Campanoli
As near as I can tell from the documentation I've read so far, you can't (in 2.2.x) ipmasqadm portfw a port to multiple servers of the same port. For instance if I want to go from the ip address on my cable connection to four separate webservers, say one an apache, one a boa, a dhttpd and a roxen,

Package of a file in debian?

2002-03-02 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Is there a similar command in apt or dpkg to this thing with rpm that allows you to figure out the package of a file? That really would have helped me recently. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.--- Begin Message -

Re: portfw to multiple machines, same port

2002-03-02 Thread Xeno Campanoli
ng packets? Also, can I use both portfw and mfw in a configuration, for instance mfw with the web servers and portfw with the ftp server? TIA > > Mike > > On 01/03/02 Xeno Campanoli did speaketh: > > > As near as I can tell from the documentation I've read so fa

Disabling interactive init on Debian

2002-03-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
In the Trinity OS security recommenation they say to disable the ability to run init interactively by setting prompt=no in a file called /etc/sysconfig/init, but that file doesn't exist on my Debian Potato, and I don't find one that has "prompt=" in it (well, there is one, but it's a binary calle

TCP_wrappers and firewall

2002-03-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I'm not digging up a comfortable explanation to this. It looks like TCP_wrappers just restricts usage of TCP access to daemons and doesn't affect packet filtering at all in the kernel, so if I am configuring a firewall with only local access, for instance, I could just leave the hosts.allow file e

rc.local equivalent

2002-03-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Say, is there a catchall equivalent in Debian of the rc.local file? Once again I'm trying to interpret a recommendation from the TrinityOS HOWTO on setting up security. He suggests putting: dmesg >> /etc/info/dmesg at the end of the rc.local file, which presumably executes last in a Red

rc.local equivalent

2002-03-03 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Say, is there a catchall equivalent in Debian of the rc.local file? Once again I'm trying to interpret a recommendation from the TrinityOS HOWTO on setting up security. He suggests putting: dmesg >> /etc/info/dmesg at the end of the rc.local file, which presumably executes last in a Red

Re: rc.local equivalent

2002-03-04 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:39:29PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Say, is there a catchall equivalent in Debian of the rc.local file? > > Once again I'm trying to interpret a recommendation from the TrinityOS > > HOWTO on se

Re: home directory permissions

2002-03-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have just used the command adduser to add some users to my system. I > > have noticed that each user added has read rights to other users home > > directory. Why is this? how can i stop adduser from creating home >

Re: home directory permissions

2002-03-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Actually, I think you just change the permissions in the file Sorry! I meant in the directory /etc/skel! Bleh! > /etc/skel. I'm not sure though, so let us all know if that works. > There may be a umask thing you'll want to change too. -- http://w

Re: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-06 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Michael Marziani wrote: > As I was recently told by a posting by Cameron Kerr: ~# update-rc.d usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove update-rc.d [-n] [-f] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] [-f] start|stop NN runlvl runlvl . ... -n: not really

Re: I seem to be in a Kernel Warp

2002-01-14 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I just successfully installed the 2.2.19 kernel. I just now checked, > and this is the latest available in the 2.2 sequence from my stable > package sites, but then in trying Rubini's example on page 14 of his > book at the insmod hellomodule.o step

Test module: Version conflict on a hello.o

2002-01-29 Thread Xeno Campanoli
output, either in the log, or interactively. Anyone know what's going on here? I am using Debian, and I've onlyu installed kernel stuff for 2.2.19 and I don't know where the 2.2.20 number is coming from unless it's an intentional break for security reasons for the stable distribution...?

I think I'm supposed to say something about this package bug...

2006-05-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install jamvm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've wondered about that. Why aren't "modern" systems just moving straight to Unicode? Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real wor

Re: A Phone in Every Classroom Of Your School

2006-09-22 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:26:37PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Pre Bett Show Release wrote: [snip] This email is an advertisement. To be removed from our list please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as your subject line How apropos, given t

Re: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-07 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Neil Darlow wrote: > > On 3/7/02, 12:42:05 PM, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > > How is creating the symlinks yourself any less clean than using a > > program to create the symlinks "automatically?" I think this is mostly > > a difference of opinion. > > Simply, that by using update-rc.d no kno

pg_ctl not found on my Potato with PostgreSQL

2002-03-14 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Anybody know postgreSQL? Does the version that runs on 2.2 kernels just have some other administrator program, or is this broken? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.

Re: pg_ctl not found on my Potato with PostgreSQL

2002-03-14 Thread Xeno Campanoli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Anybody know postgreSQL? Does the version that runs on 2.2 > > kernels just have some other administrator program, or is this > > broken? > > Try /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl. Plenty of postgres goodies > in that directory... Yeah, I've already looked there. It

browser tries to download php test file info.php

2002-03-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Say, I'm stuck making PHP go. As per instructions on page 43 of Converse and Park, I made an info.php file, but when I specify it's URI, the browser just tries to download it. I've got the Addtype(s) in Apache, and I've got valid /etc/php4/*/php.ini files (the * gives "apache" and "cgi" directori

Re: browser tries to download php test file info.php

2002-03-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
ktb wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:05:09PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Say, I'm stuck making PHP go. As per instructions on page 43 of > > Converse and Park, I made an info.php file, but when I specify it's URI, > > the browser just tries to downlo

Re: browser tries to download php test file info.php

2002-03-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
My AddType line was somehow wrong. I took Osamu's version and deleted some of my stuff and now it goes. Thanks everyone. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A.

Re: Attn. Accounting/President

2002-03-20 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Rob Weir wrote: > > [wrapped for your viewing pleasure] > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:08:56PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My name is Aaron Welch . I am Vice-President and Co-Founder of The > > Source-Funding Group. After visiting your website and researching >

Re: ip checksum (offtopic)

2002-03-20 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Tim locke wrote: > > Hey, Can someone show me an working example on how ip > checksum is computed? I'm having a hard time figuring > it out... > > thanks > > please CC me if you guys don't mind > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - live colleg

NOSQL (was Re: simple database?)

2002-03-25 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Is anyone out there actually using "NoSQL"? It looks interesting to me. -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

I want Source Files for Dselect and DebConf

2002-04-16 Thread Xeno Campanoli
And I can't seem to find it on the Debian Website. Any suggestions? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

NOSQL

2002-04-16 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in German. Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, what kinds of projects is it used for? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717,

Trouble with default stable kernel upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Say, I had problems with my default upgrade this afternoon. I'd already installed an earlier 2.2.19 kernel, and it wanted to put a new one in. It did give a warning, but the upshot was I got a modules directory that wouldn't talk to the NIC on my laptop (Toshiba 2715XDVD Satellite; the NIC is Xir

Say, I'm not seeing my postings today

2002-04-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
What's the buzz? Is the mailer slow again? -- http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physically I'm at: 5101 N. 45th St., Tacoma, WA, 98407-3717, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NOSQL

2002-04-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > I asked this before, and the only answer I got was some obscure crack in > > German. > > > > Is NOSQL still a useful thing, and/or is anyone using it? If so, w

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
> I did. I didn't find the answer to my question. Can you tell > > me which section explains the reasons why Debian still uses a > > 2.2.20 kernel by default instead of a 2.4 kernel like most > > other distros? Actually, I can't get 2.2.20 by default. I don't see it on stable, and last time I a

Printing on an MS printing network at work...?

2006-04-04 Thread Xeno Campanoli
ually, but I'm presuming the Ubuntu one is like Debian, and once I get that perhaps I can extrapolate for Fedora. All feedback is of course appreciated. Sincerely, Xeno xc -- Xeno Campanoli: http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno If at mid-stream your horse's nose is two feet under water, you d

Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

2005-07-09 Thread Xeno Campanoli
politics in the world. Anyhow, if anybody out there could get me a little further with this additional information, I'd sure appeciate it. I'd like to know I can really use this machine before the takeback time (next Friday is the last day) comes due. Sincerely, Xeno Campanoli --

Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

2005-07-09 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, it has been over a week since I had time to work on this. Please accept my apologies, but I've been busy. The previous title was: I was UNsuccessful at making the sound work by commenting out the "above.*oss" lines from my modules.conf

Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

2005-07-10 Thread Xeno Campanoli
9%] [on] Front Right: Playback 50 [79%] [on] joehill:~# amixer | grep 'Simple mixer' Simple mixer control 'Master',0 ... I guess it looks like something won't let the settings change. Is there a thing to turn on that allows writing to settings? Thanks once again for a

Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

2005-07-11 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Am I perhaps reading this amixer output wrong? It looks like it's unresponsive. Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, I booted it up in the distribution version of Windows and got to the sound test, and the sound test worked. So, hardware is okay and my connections are okay. Also, I tried a

Re: restore default permissions to /usr/bin /usr/sbin

2005-07-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: phyrster wrote: Hi Debianers, Hmm. Does that make us all Debianaire? After an installation of Realplayer in /usr, I noticed that file permissions under this dir is changed. Particulary, users can't read into /usr/bin and I suspect that /usr/sbin is affect

Every fifth character blurred in text and window manager too large

2005-09-04 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've got this install of Debian on my brand new emachine T3985 Desktop PC that never has been very good, and I'm finally forced now to work with it because my SuSE system had a disk failure. I've got the following problem with this Debian install: 1) still no sound, but this is the lowest pr

Re: Every fifth character blurred in text and window manager too large

2005-09-04 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: Kent West wrote: Xeno Campanoli wrote: I've got this install of Debian on my brand new emachine T3985 Desktop PC I have no idea what a T3985 is, or what hardware it has. Ok. Thanks. Here is the hardware it says on the box (and I include a web site

Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if there's another word I should use for google searches? Can anyone make a suggestion? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

[Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text]

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
--- Begin Message --- Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if ther

Re: Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
David Niemi wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 09:49 -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Sorry, I keep sending to personal rather than debian-user.  David's suggestion worked.  Thank you David.  I've got much better video now, and good window sizing. xc email message attachment

I cannot configure my thunderbird signature.

2005-09-10 Thread Xeno Campanoli
The Account Settings / Composition and Addressing area has the signature field set to read only. I cannot find anything else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My pulldown windows have the options text whited out when the mouse is over 'em.

2005-09-10 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Is there some way to fix this, or is it just a standard feature of Debian perhaps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My pulldown windows have the options text whited out when the mouse is over 'em.

2005-09-11 Thread Xeno Campanoli
it's under 'applications'-> 'desktop prefrences' -> 'theme'. That stopped firefox's menu from turning white for me. -- Xeno Campanoli: http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno The real disaster is ANY TIME WE GET A BUSH FOR PRESIDENT! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: My pulldown windows have the options text whited out when the mouse is over 'em.

2005-09-11 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Yeah, I still don't have a solution to my thunderbird pulldown active option whiteout. Anybody else seeing this? Xeno Campanoli wrote: Sorry, but I'm only getting the problem on Thunderbird pulldowns it looks like, and the Desktop / Theme option doesn't seem to fix it. xc

Intermittent freezeup started this month, and is getting gradually more frequent.

2005-09-18 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Presumably I've got a memory leak. Anyone have a new and improved method to scope out this kind of problem? I had a long weak at work, and I cannot seem to remember what I might have added that would take up memory or do this otherwise. xc -- Xeno Campanoli: http://www.eskimo.com/

Re: This seems impossible, but this formala is on the bottom of page 471 in CRC SMTaF...

2005-10-01 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Well, I wanted to insert a file and send it, but Thunderbird on Debian is S BRAINDEAD that the pulldown doesn't have that option. Sht! Bill Warner wrote: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StatisticalMedian.html Xeno Campanoli wrote: CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae,

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