Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew -- getting desperate

2006-06-19 Thread hendrik
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1/drivers/video/nvidia/Makefile and a huge file tree under /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel Can I just delete all this /usr/src stuff? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew -- getting desperate

2006-06-19 Thread hendrik
video/nvidia > > /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1/drivers/video/nvidia/Makefile > > /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia > > /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic/include/config/fb/nvidia/i2c.h > > /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-amd

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-19 Thread hendrik
src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1/drivers/video/nvidia/Makefile > > and a huge file tree under /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel > > Can I just delete all this /usr/src stuff? Well, I did, and the system still boots. Now, when it tries to start X it complains that there isn't any

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-20 Thread hendrik
tarting with a new or emptied build directory every time they have a new version of nvidia-kernel-source (and meybe also when compiling for a new kernel) (2) cleaning out /usr/src if that's where they're building it. And they'll need instructions how to clean it, since the majority of

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-21 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:38:05PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Some requirements that might push someone back toward removable media > instead of disk are: DVD's are more likely to survive EMP. Relevant if your data have to survive a nuclear war if you do. -- hendrik --

Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg

2006-06-21 Thread hendrik
t hear. However, apparently they remove *different* information, and the sum of both removals is, I am told, something the human ear *can* hear. So don't do that. Don't convert mp3 to ogg. But acquiring new music in ogg format is fine, as long as it hasn't been converted fr

Re: tiger reports `-' listening on socket

2006-06-23 Thread hendrik
e. unfortunately my google > skills are not sufficient to get any info out of a search string with > `-' in it... > I get processes like this, too. Two of them, every time. Runnuing etch. -- hendrik > > > sid/2.6.16-k7 up to date within a day or so. > > A --

lilo refuses

2006-06-24 Thread hendrik
moved? Or has lilo become a hopeless case? -- hendrik Here's the complete output from lilo -t -v LILO version 22.6.1 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

2006-06-24 Thread hendrik
pure vanilla > version. Eventually I found successful manual edits to make the Wacom > tablet work. Could you post the *.conf that finaly got the Wacom to work? I have a friend with one and it stopped working properly with etch. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:36:59AM -0400, 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 world such as en, th, fr. > > The LANG variable

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-26 Thread hendrik
sking for, and I don't seem to be able to get to the proposed list of packages to be installed/upgraded/removed/broken without accepting its suggestions. Otherwise I might be able to resolve some of it myself. Maybe what I'm asking for isn't possible, but I find its suggestions just muddy the water and make it hard to investigate. - hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

2006-06-27 Thread hendrik
with cc -o frith frith.c based (presumably) on some build-in implicit rule. How can I get rid of all these implicit rules, so I only get the ones I speify explicitly? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread hendrik
with perl) and only after that was I to do an dost-upgrade. I also remember that it took more than two gigabytes of temporary disk space so that it could download all the packages before upgradeing any. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily resolved using aptitude's suggestions. First it wanted to install an xfree86 package to fix things, but the second alternative was xfs, which I chose.

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
ake multiple copies on different brands of DVD/CD blanks. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
is a problem, but I don't need all of my machines to be up 24/7. 23.95/7 is quote enough. In any case, I can put the cage in a lesser-used machine on my LAN and use NFS. Except my NFS is still choking on files > 4G. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SOLVED: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; fonts needed ocnfiguring

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed > > to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily > > resolved us

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote: > > > >i guess i was always under the impression that security updates were > >always for "stable" (sarge) ... sorry. It used to be that way. It changed recently. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
So, some measure of parallel operation to maintain stability. For normal use, I recommend for stability, specify the release as "sarge" (right now, anyway) For gradual continual change, specify "testing" For helping debug the latest Debian stuff, specify "sid

xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
k? After the crash (i.e., now), lsmod tells me that agpgart *is* loaded. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
n. Sorry to be dense, but what's a Breezy Badger? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?

2006-07-04 Thread hendrik
t might have made a difference... Now that I've got it up for a few minutes, I'll try install the 2.6.15 kernel, just in case that helps. -- hendrik On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:30:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After upgrading my etch to xorg7.0 and making everything up-to-da

Re: xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?

2006-07-04 Thread hendrik
AGP slot is missing. Now how *do* I "make sure > the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module."? > And why isn't it already happening? Or is the problem somewhere else? > Where should I look? After the crash (i.e., now), lsmod tells me that &

Re: xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?

2006-07-05 Thread hendrik
> > > > Very good. I imagine X *might* have trouble reaching the video card > > > if the driver for the AGP slot is missing. Now how *do* I "make sure > > > the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module."? > > > And why isn

Re: xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?

2006-07-05 Thread hendrik
loaded before the radeon kernel module. > > > (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRICloseScreen > > > > > > Very good. I imagine X *might* have trouble reaching the video card > > > if the driver for the AGP slot is missing. Now how *do* I "make sure > > > t

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-07 Thread hendrik
be doing backups. > > so IOW, don't do that? ;) NONONO. IOW, make a backup. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-13 Thread hendrik
ne partition, and then you install a 32-but Debian in another, and it sets up grub, will the 32-bit installation recognise the already present 64-bit installation, and will the presumably 32-bit grup properly boot it? -- hendrik > > Dave. > -- > Please don't CC me on list mess

Re: Evolution, a Maildir style mailbox, and folders

2008-06-18 Thread hendrik
understand why IMAP > > needs to be in there. I'd like to use Evolution as a local GUI and mutt > > remotely, on the same maildir. I shouldn't really need to have > > something else between the MUA and maildir. > > > Hi Owen, > if you used ssfs to mount a remote dir

How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch?

2006-07-16 Thread hendrik
modules do I have to install/configure/modprobe or whatever to get the 32-bit system to recognise this stuff. I don't remember any such problems when I installed the 64-bit system. But that was months ago and my memory may be shaky. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
e 32-bit grup even boots the 64-bit alternate boot partition OK. (i've got an AMD64) But I'd like to use lilo to set up a boot floppy -- just in case. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch?

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
ions somewhere. Maybe if I do that it will figure out what has to be installed for it? I'm interested in getting the thing going, but I'm also interested in why it didn't work out of the box, so to speak. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
o them. Or is my whole analysis completely > >wrong? /boot is on a reiserfs. Could that be the problem instead? > > There's no problem to use reiserfs on /boot Good. > > > > >grub boots OK. The 32-bit grup even boots the 64-bit alternate boot > >partition O

Re: RAID, mdadm shift dev point

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
? I seem to remember that just this point was sicussed on debian-user in the past month or two -- something oabout specifying the volume label or other kind of unique colume ID in the udev rules. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch: SOLVED

2006-07-18 Thread hendrik
the RAID to be recognised, you likely need lvm-common, lvm2 and lvm10. (Don't know for sure; I didn't try uninstalling them to see it fail after I got it all working) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/X11/X already customeizes on a fresh install

2006-07-18 Thread hendrik
done any such thing. Perhaps the test for customization is wrong? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't ping

2006-07-19 Thread hendrik
onnect to my provider with "pon dsl-provider", with ifconfig I can > see that my ppp0 has a dynamic IP address. With plog I also see that > I have been assigned two DNS servers. However, I can't ping any > domains or surf in the internet. Can you ping the DNS servers by ex

Re: Old versions

2006-07-23 Thread hendrik
there's no longer any point in trying to use RPM. I have a > directory full of the original source tarballs just to keep track > of what's installed and where it went during 'make install'. Backports work within the package manager. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread hendrik
everse-engineering issue. Multiprotocol between open protocols shouldn't be that hard. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread hendrik
o be closed-source? Maybe it's just traditional on Windows. Maybe somebody decided that children don't know what to do with source code. Maybe someone wants to keep the source code to himself so that he can make umpteen free games to attach to childrens' magazines and charge

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread hendrik
n memory wasn't anything like the RAM we all know nowadays. Main memory was a magnetic drum. Each instruction got to specify *when* in terms of drum rotation it was to be executed, and *when* the next instruction was to be fetched. Timing was everything. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-26 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:32:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > hendrik writes: > > Before that, an IBM 1620... > > Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it > but submit FORTRAN decks, though. It was actually a Bendix G15d I started on --

Re: GRUB; reboot; next partition selection

2006-07-27 Thread hendrik
rtition? (/dev/hdb1 instead of /dev/hda1) > > There are two versions of Grub NextBoot on KDE-Look.org. Check them > out. States that it requires kdesu it's not available; sudo works fine. How does it do it? Rewriting the boot sector? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-27 Thread hendrik
n out of disk space halfway through the upgrade. Also: when the time comes to do the upgrade, read the upgrade instructions before you start. Although in theory a dist-upgrade should do the trick, a specific upgrade may require special actions. For example, the upgrade from woody to sarge requir

Re: Tiger Auditing Report for april.topoi.pooq.com

2006-07-28 Thread hendrik
e that happening, though -- I'd presume tiger is started late in the boot process, or is it just confused? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-30 Thread hendrik
es. I am especially grateful for the advice from > "hendrik" to "keep a copy of the currently-operational system" What I said (or should have said) was "keep an *operational* copy of the currently-operational system". I actually used extra partitions to store the

Re: Can't access usb

2006-07-30 Thread hendrik
ernels should be different packages (just as the kernels are different packages) , so you can install multiple udev's when you have installed multiple kernels. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-31 Thread hendrik
upgrade a few weeks later. Before etch becomes stable, all this kind of glitch should have been ironed out. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't ping

2006-08-04 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:38:33PM +0200, Helge Stenstr?m (KI/EAB) wrote: > I can't ping either. I have Debian Sid, and made a system upgrade in late > July. Is the cause the same? > > pinging other machines on the same subnet works. > > The route command takes very long time (40 seconds), but g

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2

2006-08-05 Thread hendrik
poor net access. However, the online repositories may not give you the sense of security that comes from having the entire Debian system on a bookshelf in case the internet goes permanently, irrecoverably down. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-07 Thread hendrik
video drivers open source in order to have a competitive advantage over nvidia and ATI, but they hadn't yet done it. I also heard that at that time the Intel chips were available on motherboards, but not on plug-in cards. Has the situation changed? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-09 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you > prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair > your system. Everybody ought to keep a GRUB boot CD handy! How do you make a grub bo

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-09 Thread hendrik
he same reasons > changing a motherboard without opening the case requires high > explosives. :o) uhh.. wouldn't the high explosive open the case? And how *would* you use lightning to measure the power supply's wattage? -- straight-man hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: debian

2006-08-11 Thread hendrik
taller aalso gives you nearly immediate feedback whether you really have chosen the one that works with your CPU. If it boots, you got it right. And you haven't wasted time downloading 15 or so CDs for the wrong machine. -- hendrik > > J. > -- > I am no longer prepared to

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-12 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:07:43AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Friday, August 11, 2006 10:39 PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > I also don't like > > it when people completely ignore the accomplishments of Microsoft > > with Windows and rip them to shreds as if their operating system i

Re: Possible bug in apt-get

2006-08-12 Thread hendrik
ommon 1:7.0-035+1 > [88,4kB] > ... > > Not sure if it is a bug though... It may be a serious bug in any language where the word for 'no' starts with a y or the word for 'yes' starts with 'n'< -- hendrik > > -- > -- Jhair > > > --

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-14 Thread hendrik
and have to call in the expert. If you are lucky, the computer store that preinstalled WIndows for you will still be in business. I have had running Linux systems for a very long time now. But when the Windows on one system failed for the second time, it became uninstallable. If I hadn

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-15 Thread hendrik
and they still day you're on your own with Linux. The day the average computer store asks its customers, Do you want to pay $250 or so for Windows or get Linux free isn't here yet. (whereupon the customer will say, what's Linux?) -- hendrik > > -- > Paul Johnson &

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-15 Thread hendrik
as usually to a VAX. IN one case even a PDP-11 runing Unix was superior to a CDC mainframe) will they realize what a trap they had been in. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-15 Thread hendrik
y just won't believe things could be > > better with another system. > > It's called: > the Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't know. > > A very powerful, and often practical, mindset. > But it often works out as the Devil you know is bette

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-15 Thread hendrik
g the BIOS update? Or is the BIOS update governed by another nonupdatable BIOS? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-16 Thread hendrik
file or two, > >>don't quite remember-- to a CD ROM, pop that in your drive, hit F8, pick > >>the CD ROM containing the BIOS cd and your on your way. > >> > > > >Do you happen to know how screwed you are if the power fails during the > >BIOS update? Or

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-21 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:19:37AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >No. I'm insinuating that *I* don't have my beloved box plugged into a > >high quality APC UPS? > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > > Is that a state

ON TOPIC: comparative distros (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))

2006-08-23 Thread hendrik
ell > it apart from all the other hundreds of recent posts?? > > ;-) > > cr > I have debian on most of my machines here. I'm currently running Ubuntu on my fastest machine because X keeps crashing in Debian (yes, I've reported the bug). Except for that one

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread hendrik
o any list on murphy? that I'm subscribed > to. posts weren't dropped IIRC. They were just delayed 24 hours. -- hendrik > > > > ? murphy.debian.org is the FQDN for the list server. > > -- > Paul Johnson > Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:36:23PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-08-15 20:26:30, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Do you happen to know how screwed you are if the power fails during the > > BIOS update? Or is the BIOS update governed by another nonupdatable BIOS? > > Asus use Crash-Free

Makefile question -- one comoand makes two files.

2006-08-24 Thread hendrik
Let's say that the comoand chop onion makes two files, tears and pieces How do I describe this in a Makefile? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Makefile question -- one comoand makes two files.

2006-08-25 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:36:54AM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > On 08/24/2006 11:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Let's say that the comoand > > chop onion > >makes two files, tears and pieces > > > >How do I describe this in a Makefile? > > > >

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-27 Thread hendrik
and I have toe dicuss how to get it runnin again on this mailing list. -- hendrik > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Is "common sense" really valid? > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that > whites are superior to blacks

Re: Backing up whole disk

2006-08-28 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:48:50PM +0200, T wrote: > Hi > > I tried to backup my whole partition with tar: > > tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz . > > but when testing the archive result with > > tar -tzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz > > It ends with the following error, without explaining what's wro

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:51:27PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I've yet to fathom a need for a 2 million message mailbox. Not to mention > the support structure behind it since 2 million would break or strain both > maildir and mbox. Perhaps reiserfs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
nalyze the headers and put them > in thread-order, and that would just be a beast. > > Besides, how does one manage a 2*10^6 email folder? My 21" monitor > running at 1280x1024 can only display 45 email subjects. That would > be *44,445* screens of emails. Totally unmanageable by humans. Maybe one pixel per message? :-( -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Solved] Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
hen dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg And I was still informed xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X: file has been modified. ls told me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/X11/X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-07-02 12:42 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ and /usr/bin/sorg is a directory. Why would it want to modify a directory, anyway? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
d, by echoing tha characters typed onto the screen. Even control-alt-delete is nicely echoed. Is this a known problem? Is there a known fix? It isn't mission-critical, but I sure would like it fixed before etch goes stable. My workaround is to run sarge instead. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:36:02AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Hendrik. > > > I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles > > configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is > > 1G. CPU is an athlon. > &g

Michelle Konzack's sex (was: Email programs that work.)

2006-09-01 Thread hendrik
ing to make his points as best he can in a language which is not ^^^ > his first. Actually I think he did a fine job. ^^^ ^^ Do you know something I don't? I always thought that Michelle was female. -- hendrik P.S.: Sorry for the provocat

Windows, alas! (was: KDE being removed?)

2006-09-04 Thread hendrik
s just copying all the files (using Linux tar) and running lilo hasn't sufficed. There seems to be some essential information outside the file system, as far as I can see. I mamaged to do this long ago with Windows 98 SE, but as far as I know that time the boot information had not bee

Re: Michelle Konzack's sex (was: Email programs that work.)

2006-09-08 Thread hendrik
pecifically thinking that it was odd for a man to have the name > Michelle. Obviously I was mistaken... Well, evidently you did know something I didn't ... As my father used to say, it ain't the things you don't know that get you -- it's the things you know damn sure th

Re: saving digital photographs

2006-09-11 Thread hendrik
> anyone has any suggestions on how best to do this. If you want to keep them longterm, burn them onto several DVDs, made by different manufactureres, in different proce-ranges, and then check then regularly. DVDs aren't forever. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

flash problem? with Battle Star Glactica webisodes

2006-09-13 Thread hendrik
r happens. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flash problem? with Battle Star Glactica webisodes

2006-09-13 Thread hendrik
correct! > The mozilla firefox that comes with sarge. It identifies itself as: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20060629 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge9) And aptitude tells me i --\ flashplugin-nonfree 7.0.25-5

Re: laser printer recommendation for personal use?

2006-09-15 Thread hendrik
mmendation for an inexpensive, *very* *reliable* colour printer that's good enough for a graphic artist and is completely Linux-compatible. I doesn't have to be fast. I'd appreciate a waterproof ink. My epson 777i tended to clog, wasn't very Linux-friendly (my Windows mach

IP forwarding drops out.

2008-06-05 Thread hendrik
system logs and not found anything suspicious. But probably I don't know which logs to look in, or what to look for in them, and it would be as plain as day if I did. If this is a known sarge problem, of course upgrading to etch would be the solution. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

confused. (was: Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel)

2006-09-21 Thread hendrik
oc? > > > > > as far as i know preemtive kernels do enhance the response time of the > > > system but on the other hand hurt performance for some server tasks > > > > > > and debian is to my knowlege more widly spread on the server side then > > > on the desktop side... I guess I'm confused. I thought the debian kernel was preemptive, and has been as far as I can remember. Am I wrong? Or do I have a misunderstanding of what "preemptive" means in this context? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamcop

2006-09-22 Thread hendrik
r. Perhaps spamcop should try some reverse spamfiltering on their spamtrap to identify subscription response messages that intended to poison their spamtraps. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lockd: cannot monitor

2006-09-25 Thread hendrik
base is locked. > > Which is strange, because the database in question is a temporary one > that was just created a few milliseconds before. > > > > mtn found at /farhome/hendrik/install/monotone-0.30/mtn > ^^^ > But you probably are running on

Re: debian forum

2006-09-25 Thread hendrik
se this > scarce resource more effectively, so I am fearful about giving it a > try. What happens if the 'good answer people' stop paying attention > and stop noticing to pleas for help? Not good. Maybe a project to index the mailing list the way dmoz indexes the web? -- hendrik >

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-26 Thread hendrik
I have an AMD64 whose Debian crashes although its Ubuntu runs fine. All the reat of my Lan is 32-bit Debians. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

message-receipts (was: Package server)

2006-09-27 Thread hendrik
this mentioned several times, but don't know what it means, nor how it annoys. Presumably there is some message-receipt protocol. (a) How does won request or not request receipts? (b) How do receipts bother one -- I've never noticed it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-28 Thread hendrik
D64 + some virtual machines on > Windows) works in Ubuntu. Well, I find Ubuntu somewhat mysterious, and avoid stressing it too much. But not *everything* works fine. In particular, I am unable to get NFS locking to work. Until a few days ago I could live with it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
a nuisance. With a proxy, I'd just have to IP-forward to the proxy (or not, if it was the gateway machine). -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why...?!

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
is I suppose quite > new. Indeed, I avoided SATA drives because they are so new on my AMD64, though I have all the sockets for them on my motherboard. I still eventually gave up on sarge because so much if the hardware was not supported, and went to etch, which did install (though I've

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
nly they were all be sorted out before sarge became stable. But just repeating the dist upgrade three times resolve most everything, and the remaining few cleared up in a few weeks with an ordinary upgrade. I imagine it's the same story between sarge and etch right now. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBS

Re: bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
o IP-forward to the proxy (or > > not, if it was the gateway machine). > > > > Why not just ssh in to the machine and then use screen and > btdownloadcurses or just btdownloadheadless? Probably because I hadn't heard of them. I'll look then up. Thanks. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why...?!

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
ATA-II drives in software RAID-1. Worked like a charm with the > unofficial Sarge installer. Given that sarge did not support my graphics chip or my ethernet chip, I thought it would really be tempting fate to try on a SATA drive as well. Maybe I was wrong. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-02 Thread hendrik
tegory of repositoris between free and nonfree ... Merely considering reams of documentation to be nonfree is not the long-term solution. We need something positive as well. - hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backing up a new laptop

2006-10-02 Thread hendrik
f actual information, split bwtween Windows and the rescue partition. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:06:16PM +0100, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: > Hi! > > I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Over my shoulder, I hear the words, "Make sure he doesn't put his swap file on the pen drive. That would be very bad for the pen drove.&qu

Re: Getting Linux and XP to cooperate on the BIOS clock settings

2006-10-02 Thread hendrik
... > > Is there a way I can get these two operating systems to agree on how to > set a clock? It's possible to tell Linux that the hardware clock is set to local time. I get asked whether I want to do this on installation, so it probably can be configured somewhere. -- hendr

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-03 Thread hendrik
ract or otherwise. This has little to do with copyright, though. He can sign that away, no problem. By the way, I'm told that when the U.S. "ratified" this convention, they added a clause to the effect that this inalienable right can be signed away, thereby making the whole conce

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-03 Thread hendrik
and free. Doesn't the GPL require you to maintain the copyright notice? Does that make it nonfree? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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