Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:34:52AM +, ben wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:15:14 GMT > Ken Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wot? > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:45:39 +0100, E. Tijseling wrote: > > >?ik heb een vraag over het instaleren van debian op een 486 met een > > >?128 mb hd. max

Re: backporting question

2003-11-20 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:06:53PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:26 PM > Subject: Re: backporting question > > > > > > Erm, sometimes, but it depends ho

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread hendrik
I won't get any acceleration. It does come up with xdm properly, then crashes when I log in. The mouse pointer moves nicely, but it doesn't register clicks. I tried the drivers from ATI, but they did not work. Even the shell script that was supposed to tell me which

Re: X won't start

2003-11-30 Thread hendrik
t; >I tried the drivers from ATI, but they did not work. Even the shell script > >that was supposed to tell me which version of the ATI driver to use > >crashed, with an error that suggested it wasn't a valid shell script. > > Where is this ATI dri

Re: X won't start

2003-11-30 Thread hendrik
you to a congratulations page. > A "n" would take you to a software diagnostics branch. > > A "n" would take you to a software diagnostics branch. > > Of course a real life one would much more elaborate than this. Ther

Re: radeon and X: was X won't start: Resolved

2003-12-06 Thread hendrik
geek. Being in theology, if it happens to be Christion theology, you should probably know greek. But, in a sense you are right. It wasn't greek. It was geek. -- hendrik > > Peace, > DAVE > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:19:37 -0600, Dav

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-06 Thread hendrik
on does not share my values. I hear that British COlumbia is planning to use a random scheme to select members of the commission that is going to propose a mechanism for proportional representation or other more equitable election system. The result to be ratified in a referendum. -- hendrik

defence against the dark arts

2003-12-06 Thread hendrik
t out. Of course, it would not help against undetected compromises... -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread hendrik
r hand, getting the things he wrote declared to be in the public domain might be OK. I don't know what jurisdiction he was in, but in the United States I'm told that copyright reverts to the widow upon an author's death, to such an extent that she can renegotiate all publicati

keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread hendrik
: this machine is in use 18/6, if not 24/7. How do I set it up to make sure I stay with woody and do not automatically upgrad to the new stable? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (OT) Re: Godel

2004-01-08 Thread hendrik
x27;s conjecture as an axiom: that all real-calued functions on the reals are measurable. That's inconsistent with the axion of choice, but if you're doing analysus, it's a lot more useful tnan the axiom of choice. Yes, there's no set of rules to decide what is discoverable, w

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-27 Thread hendrik
Not to mention the energy losses in the transmission of energy from the power plant to the wheels, of course) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-27 Thread hendrik
s, they were hotly controversial, a blight on the countryside. Now there are preservationist societies dedicated to preserving the lovely windmills, and each one that burns up or falls apart is considered a major cultural loss. - hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:03:43PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > We really are off topic now aren't we? > > > > Off-topic from an off-topic thread? What an oxymoron. Well, the thread is entitled "Re: a dumb query? pls humor me" -- hendrik >

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread hendrik
g > > me in, that's one I'll be sure to not forget. > > > Sometimes I think Linux is nothing but random acronyms. Usually > recursive, random acronyms. You mean RRA's? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread hendrik
the founding fathers were not Christian, did not form a > Christian state and that 90%+ of all scientists in the US are Atheist. I thought it was only about 75%... -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:23PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:24:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:40:03PM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:14 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > > > I've only used Mu

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
lawful -- according to law thus a self-defence killing may be lawful, but it in not legal. A law-court may be legal, but if the judge and jury are crooked it will not be operating lawfully. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
ter in the universe to the gravitational potential energy (which happens to be negative), that the sum of the two is "suspiciously close to zero" (to quota a famous physicist whose name I can't remember). -- hendrik > > > > Which is more fantastical? > > &g

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
a blasphemer (one of the greatest offenses against Allah in Islam) > since he claimed to be God (though I think that they conveniently left > that out of the Quran). Just where did Jesus claim to be God? I've heard lost of people say that Jesus was God, but I haven't seen the place

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
esents the persoective or content of a later or different tradition." -- hendrik > > So, if you believe Jesus, then the others *must* be wrong (excepting the > OT Jews, which were under The Law). Of you don't believe Jesus, you can > just believe whatever makes you feel go

Re: who/what uses my CPU?

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:42:51AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > >From man top: > > wa -- iowait > Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete. In other words, the CPU is idling, waiting for something to do. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
; theories to work. > > Note that I'm not saying dark matter does not exist; I'm merely saying > that they really don't know how much matter is in the universe. My info was from before all the dark matter theorizing, without magic fairy dust. -- hendrik -- To UNS

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
my Father are one." - John 10:30 Much clearer! > > "Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, > but on him that sent me. And He that seeth me seeth him that sent > me." - John 12:44-45 > > Those are just out of John. There are

Free Physics Textbook (was: Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
hnical fashion. Though there is the technical stuff, too, for those that want it. Look at random chapters; they're diverse in style. -- hendrik > A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free Physics Textbook (was: Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-28 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:34:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:26:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > physics: > > > > http://www.motionmountain.net/ > > > > cool thanks You are very welcome. -- hendrik -- To UNSUB

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-01 Thread hendrik
re of velocity, whereas momentum varies linearly. So it;s even worse. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-01 Thread hendrik
ried to rent a van for vacation. It turned out to be impossible unless I had reserved it almost a year in advance. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
idea. > > Big misconception (pardon the pun) about that... > > Onanism isn't masturbation, it's coitus interruptus. More specifically, it's refusing to make your brother's widow pregnant. How times have changed. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
; is that somehow magnetization of impurities in the label and aluminum > > layers will cause the laser to fail more frequently, thereby invoking > > Since when does aluminum get magnetized? Since they started mixing it with nickel and cobalt. I doubt they do this with CDs, though. -

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
al* media in order to get "realm of gestalt" better sound, > >> doesn't mean it's true. > > > > 1. I didn't say it's true, just that I read about it. > > 2. Try to explain to a non-geek the differences between vim and emacs. > > S

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
t; > > > > Shouldn't the answer to the general question of backup media include the > concept of 'archival'? I've always considered the questions of backup and archiving to be orthogonal, even though the tools used are often the same. If you don't back up your archive, you risk losing it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: static IP

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
d its discussions on this mailing list, then moved to debian-doc. Have a look. You might be able to contribute, even if you don't have time to do it all. -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
but in fact, the examples only need > minor editing for use. > > You could just use iptables directly, but _that_ is complicated. I've never had any problem using iptables directly -- except when I upgraded from woody to sarge -- suddenly there was a firewall of sorts introduced

Re: [SOLVED] Re: sound in iceweasel

2007-03-02 Thread hendrik
t; Mozilla. Would you mind posting just exactly what you did to the /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc file? -- hendrik > > Now fixed, except for when the site requires something proprietary. > > Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-03 Thread hendrik
esuming you're looking for a CMS on a Debian system -- or else that you are a Debian user). It's the messages talking about winning money sending emails or enlarging their penis that are off-topic. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT]

2007-03-03 Thread hendrik
uction of [other] > 'human life and happiness'? That's when government gtes difficult. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-04 Thread hendrik
nd to forget that X is a networked protocol. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

separating x client from x server (was: Firestarter VS Shorewall)

2007-03-04 Thread hendrik
his on a closed LAN where there are no particular security problems? One way that is apparently compatible with today's paranoia appears to be to use an option on ssh (I believe it's ssh -X) to get ssh to carry the X protocol. I'm not sure of the details, except that it appear

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-04 Thread hendrik
m the rest of the world, I have been losing respect for the United States because it fails to ensure a minimum standard of living for its people, and sends out armies to interfere in how the rest of the world runs its lives. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread hendrik
only token participation) while the US protects them and > renders massive aid to the victims of natural disaster. > I was specifically replying to Freddy Freeloader's words "has declined ... in respect by the rest of the world." -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread hendrik
tes because it fails to ensure a minimum standard of living > >for its people, and sends out armies to interfere in how the rest of the > >world runs its lives. > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > > > What does your personal internal paradigm have to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:36:09AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > It's a little disingenious to hide behind the success of World War II to > whitewash over the utter failure of every military action since. Not *every* military action ... Are you foirgetting the invasion of Grenad

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Yup. You can blame that on your precious UN. Bush's hands were > basically tied by a resolution that was written with language only > authorizing the liberation of Kuwait, when it should have called for the > ouster of Sad

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread hendrik
e (the three > largest users) is about 735,000. Did I misunderstand or did you miswrite? 390,000 trips per year would be reached if slightly over half that population took just one trip a year. - hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread hendrik
> > be reached if slightly over half that population took just one trip a > > year. > > > > - hendrik > > > > > > My bad. That should be 390,000,000 trips. The population number > is correct. That's better. But hey, what are a f

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread hendrik
change that. > > Except for the fact that Canadian doctors are coming down here to make > more. Free Market forces pretty much help that whereas your socialist > policies would not. And a fair number are coming back because they've discovered they like to be free to treat patients

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-07 Thread hendrik
ends, anyway? > > > > > > You're not a theoretical chemist or physicist, are you? :-) No, but I first heard that line from a physics professor! -- hendrik > > -Chris > > --

no executable in gtk-gnutella package for i386-etch

2007-03-11 Thread hendrik
grade. On the amd64 etch platform, though, this procedure works, and gives me a properly executable /usr/bin/gtk-gnutella Is this a known problem? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firefox entry prediction crashes

2007-08-17 Thread hendrik
Perhaps an option in an configuration file, or in one of firefox's maze of configuration menus? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
ftware I've had the pleasure of portinh where this issue came up was written for a nonmultiprogramming machine in which it was reasonable to allocate all of memory. No one else was available to use it anyway. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
h 2.6 kernel's > for some reason. Are you running a 2.4 kernel there by chance? Don't know what he's running, but it works for me in sarge with a 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux lovesong 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PR

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
eed this > much number of CDs? I have heard that Debian has the most extensive collection of packages for any Linux in existence. Anyone know if that is true? > > OR the .deb packages are not as much efficient and do not use good > compression to > squeeze them all in a fewer CDs? > > > > That said, a list of which CDs contain which packages would still be > > useful. > > > > -- hendrik > > Again, still awaiting some insight into the above issues. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACM TechNews; Monday, November 13, 2006

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
had not known about. > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,72104-0.html > Anybody care to hazard a guess about how many of these censorship tools are open-source free software? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs and ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
wide convention, tools don't know about it and it doesn't work. I'm tryin to run a clean UTF-8 system, and I want my non-UTF-8 abberations to be converted and treated as UTF-8 henceforth, instead of converting them and having them treated as non-UTF-8. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/dev/fd0 gone

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
43 vcs5 Where is my floppy drive? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs and ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:26:22PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > hendrik writes: > > > This is an emacs-specific add-on question. If it has seen a file in one > > encoding system, and I run a program to change it to another (in my > > case, getting my accente

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
followed Sun's spec. That was the core of their lawsuit with Microsoft. But they nevet, to my knowledge required anything but conformance to a spec, never line-by-line approval of code changes. This if it no longer conforms to spec, you have to change the name. Has that changed? Is that acceptable under DFSG? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Typing characters with byte value greater than 0x7f.

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
hrough the multitude of google hits but cannot seem > to find an answer. I have a similar question -- how to enter arbitrary unicode characters. My system is configured (to the extent I've been able to do it) UTF-8 only, but I still have only the usual characters on my keyboard, and don&#

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
ut non-free constraints on the documentatin license? Or is it all a big misunderstanding? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread hendrik
uidelines. > > Those rules are for Sun dealers. Debian is not and will never be a Sun > dealer. Redistributing Java will not make Debian subject to those rules. But if a Sun dealer were to install Debian's Java package, would he still be subject to these restrictions? And would

Re: EFF call for help against restrictive patents

2006-11-15 Thread hendrik
t/wanted/prior.php?p=ideaflood> > and more on the Patent Busting Project is here: > <http://www.eff.org/patent/> > > I am not expert enough to help them, but I am sure someone here is... > > Apologies for OT again OT? If this isn't of interest to Debian

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
ry to be marked "for deletion", but for the allocation > > not to be released to free space until the last process > > has closed the file. I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
for and inode editor? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
les containing inages of reiser file systems. I don't know if it has other problems, but the rumours are not encouraging. So: Backup first. If you have trouble backing up that file (isn't that where some of this discussion started?) you might use the parameters tar has to

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
confd-jmccarty/lock/0t1161529398ut556742u500p3630r1806880270k3220436076 > (deleted) > nautilus 3678 jmccarty 27r REG 8,65 1250 2097341 > /mnt/usb/home/jmccarty/projects/restoration/Tubes/0DataSheets/Sylvania_1951.txt >

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:21:40AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > hendrik writes: > > I thought that a deleted file that was still being read *was* unlinked > > from the directory, just not removed from the disk until it was closed. > > The directory entry is deleted

Re: /dev/fd0 gone

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
> > If udev, then the module for your floppy drive is not inserted so it > doesn't know about the floppy drive so it doesn't make a node. In this > case, use modconf and find the module. Thanks. It turned out that the 'floppy' kernel module was missing. -- hendr

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist [SOLVED]

2006-11-16 Thread hendrik
ou are! I did, excluding the directory containing the troublesome > file. Glad it worked for you. Also glad reiserfsck worked. That backup warning is for real. I've heard of reiserfsck getting confused and causing severe file-system damage. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-21 Thread hendrik
but to do that > it needs a lot more CPU overhead. So on my hardware, JFS has been > faster than reiserfs. > > So I use JFS for everything. > > Doug. I'm at the point of replacing one of my reiserfs's on an NFS server with something else for reliability. (reliability is

Re: Debian sub-menu gone from Gnome---Never mind!

2006-11-21 Thread hendrik
u. Sounds like a bug, anyway. You shouldn't *have* to reboot unless you change the kernel. -- hendrik > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-21 Thread hendrik
gainst power failures. I believe that power failures have been the ultimate reason why one of my etch systems dies. But that's ext2, not ext3. Mind you, reinstall isn't all that successful either; I'm hitting bugs in the new installer ... -- hendrik > > Doug. > >

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-21 Thread hendrik
reliability? On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems it appears that jfs joesn't kournal file contents, although apparently both reiser3 and ext3 can be made to. > > I suppose for ultimate security there's three-disk raid1 in sync? (Why > doesn't m

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread hendrik
ed_ packages is > 227MB, while it is gonna use around 1.5MB of disk-space?? > > Kinda weird..I don't understand. I would simply download the single 1.5MB > Package, right? Any chance that the to-be=fetched package is compressed, and it has to be uncompressed during installat

The danger of dishonest disk drives (WAS:Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist)

2006-11-22 Thread hendrik
p://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html http://lwn.net/Articles/157209/ The latter of the two is a commit message that commits changes to a file called blk-fixes/Documentation/block/barrier.txt Now if I could find the rest of that file, things might be clearer. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread hendrik
MB > > Package, right? > > Any chance that the to-be=fetched package is compressed, and it has to > be uncompressed during installation to be useful? OOPS! Stupid reply! I misread your post as 227KB instead of 227MB! -- hendrik > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSU

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-23 Thread hendrik
rtition is working adequately. Unless that one is long-term dead (as now), when I still need the security fixes. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The danger of dishonest disk drives (WAS:Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist)

2006-11-23 Thread hendrik
is unclear to me: > > > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html > > http://lwn.net/Articles/157209/ > > > > The latter of the two is a commit message that commits changes to a > > file called > > blk-fixes/Documentation/block/barrier.txt > > No

Re: Reportbug - Does it work?

2006-11-25 Thread hendrik
If they don't choke and talk to me in like language I know they're OK. I settled on dsl.ca as my ISP. Every time they are taken over ny a bigger organisation I get to worry for a while. Currently, I believe they're called magma.ca, and seem to be aprt of primus. -- hend

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-30 Thread hendrik
delete it. Therefore, use apritude interactively and *always* look through the packages it proposes to delete. If you want one of them, it's very easy to stop the deletion -- just explicitly requset it! Otherwise, aptitude uses the same underlying package management tools as apt-get.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a > > Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98 > > apps with no problem. > > Sadly this does not include any

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread hendrik
ore important than the license. Code > trumps license. No code, no need to even use or have a license... > whatever it is. > > Nate Code without licence tends not to propagate. Linux wasn't the first Unix-compatible one to have been written. It seems to me there was a Unix-compatible kerlen written in the language TURING sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. But it didn't have a free license, and -- well, have any of you ever heard of it? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-03 Thread hendrik
s Freedom. Both are restricted. Otherwise they wouldn't be > licenses. > > If you simply do what you wish with whatever code you have, and accept > the consequences, whatever they might be, you don't need a license. The potential consequences are what generates the fear. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-05 Thread hendrik
but it's not clear which was which. Has this situation changed? If not, it essential to keep the older storage formats. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
in the > late 70's or early 80's. But it didn't have a free license, and -- > well, have any of you ever heard of it? I remember its name -- that Unix-compatible kernel was called TUNIS. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
ompression, and, say, a single bit gets changed to the compressed archive, decompressing it will likely not yield a block with a small amount of damage; it will more likely yield total gibberish -- and ECC on that is not likely to help. If you add ECC after compression, and a single bit gets change

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
urvivability of the private GPG keys of the owners of the servers. If they lose their keys, the entire backup system is worthless. How are the keys backed up? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
ability of error on any given bit is greater than 50%, > then there is no way, by adding additional information, to make > the eventual error rate be less than a single copy. The additional > bits are more likely to be in error than the original. Speaking pedantically, if the probab

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
backup data goes > >to is the bank vault archive. > > If the issue is a drive, then you need more than one drive. If the > drive itself fails, then you are SOL. And maybe a second bank with a separate vault. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
ch is to be sync'ed to monotone repositories elsewhere (still setting this up). -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
orrection software ahould happen to be unusable in several years, your errors will not be easy to corrected. Did you ever write any code in the 1970's that can't be run any more? I did. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
and a list of 18 packages that have problems. Should I try again tomorrow in the hope that package dependencies will sort themselves out? Or should I just give up and try another way of installing tomorrow? Can't think of one now, but one will probably come to me it I think hard enough. --

Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
lling it to try grub, but I'm afraid that that might change something that the sarge-installed lilo uses when I boot from floppy. If the etch installer's grub fails like its lilo, I'm kind of afrais that I will have no way of booting at all. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
> > > After various attempts to solve the problems, I am left with a huge > > number of packages to be deleted/upgraded/installed, and X that won't > > work, and a list of 18 packages that have problems. > > > > Should I try again tomorrow in the hope t

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
at there was no funding available to do this. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
n the lexical analyser, but most of it is still readable. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
10x easier to write and read. Datamation once published an article describing the computed COME FROM statement. :-) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
sarge system I have on > > another partition into my etch partition, and to try to upgrade the copy > > to etch by changing /etc/apt/sources to read 'etch' where the old one > > reads 'sarge', starting aptitude, and upgrading. > > Hi Hendrik, > >

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
then install. > > The hard part is to identify the key packages that are blocking all the > rest. It seems to me that there must be a better way of organising all this. Has anyone done any kind of mathematical analysis of package repository management? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
My question was really whether the two conflict anywhere *else* but the MBR. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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