Re: Where did my memory go?

2001-12-29 Thread P Prince
> Hi, Hi! > Here is the output of 'top' on my system : Cut this, mm mm > Can someone explain to me why (1) I am swapping even though the > RSS column adds up to a small fraction of 256MB (2) Why the summary stats Linux does preemptive swapping. AFAIK, you can't turn it off, and if

Re: Where did my memory go?

2001-12-29 Thread P Prince
emory would > cause the system to grind to a halt as pages are swapped out. I didn't realize the swapped pages would still really be in ram, so it always either helps or doesn't, but never hurts. Grand :P -Tech

Re: Where did my memory go?

2001-12-29 Thread P Prince
Hey, > In that case it sounds to me like there is a genuine problem on my > system. Even if the swap is cached in RAM, this doesnt explain the stats > reported by top : the 8M of swap + the total of the RSS column doesnt come > close to the 229M that is reported as being used. Are there any

Re: Where did my memory go?

2001-12-29 Thread P Prince
Woah, forgot to inset my message! What I was going to say: The used memory stat is buggy - it's never correct because it cannot compensate for shared libraries. Take a look at top, on my 256MiB system at idle, running X w/ Sawfish: -Tech

Re: Advice for fetchmail & exim config

2001-12-29 Thread P Prince
Hey, If you're on a workstation, you probably don't need to be [or IMO, shouldn't be] running an MTA at all. You can install ssmtp and fetchmail/getmail, and may find that you no longer need an MTA at all. ssmtp is a replacement for sendmail that uses your ISP's smarthost to send all mail sent u

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. Google is your friend. -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Petre Daniel wrote: > Well,i know Karsten's on my back and all,but i have not much time to > learn,and too many things to do at my firm,so i am asking if one of you has > any

Re: application level firewalling in linux?(was:ipchains...masq..spyware)

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, wsa wrote: > HI, Hey, > Maybe in my original mail i wasn't very clear judging from the > responses i got...so i'll try one more time. I don't seem to have your first mailing around, but no worries. > I wasn't asking what to do in windows...although i did mention > windows

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
Hello, On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:02, jernej horvat wrote: > > On Sunday 30 December 2001 18:46, P Prince wrote: > > > The eaisest and most failsafe way to secure bind is to install djbdns. > > > > If you have nothing to say

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
One phrase, sir: "WTF?!" You fail to make sense. -Tech On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > jernej horvat wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > And this is what djb has to say for zone transfers :-) > > > > "Zone transfers are an archaic alternative mechanism for copying DNS > > informat

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
Hey, On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:31:30PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > ``By combining all these tools, you can finally approach the > > functionality of a trivial rsync script. Wow.'' > > > > Enough said . . . > > by throwing away all your existin

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-30 Thread P Prince
This is well out of hand, and I've delt with it before, so this is my less mailing on teh subject. On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:34:32PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:31:30PM -0600, Michael D. Sc

Re: Virtual PC

2001-12-31 Thread P Prince
Certainly Debian will run under VPC *if* RedHat can. Are you running OS X? Consider running a rootless X server on your Mac native, and telling Linux apps to display their output, via the network, there. VPC can network with the host environment, right? If you need more help with this, I sugges

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread P Prince
logy is!) a boot block. Is this going to I am not familiar with this. > prevent the thing from rebooting? And if so, so I don't reach the boot > message that allows me to pick the Debian or Windows OS', is there > anything I can do? You can always use your rescue disk - eithe

Re: The right way to power off a computer as non-root

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
> Hello, Hello, > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. Well, what about su? [EMAIL PROTECTED] su [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] shutdown -h now > I had two ideas of making this poss

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
Simon, Is this thing still on, while you wait to see what to do with it? Just reboot it. It's not a problem. If it turns out to be a problem (5% chance), you can download a rescue floppy image from the internet and create a rescue disk with a Windows machine. If you have any Debian install cd'

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
Simon, rescue.bin is the size of an *unformatted* floppy. -Tech On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote: > That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has > 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The > rescue.bin file on http:///images-1.20/ will fi

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread P Prince
I, like at least 75% of people, don't run telnetd. _Tech On 2 Jan 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +, Simon R Tod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only. > > > > > My laptop's be

Re: in.telnetd

2001-05-16 Thread ray p
What OS is your freind using it is the OS of evil might I suggest the latest dev build of putty. It does not require that she be able to install anything. Standalone .exe the dev build has support for ssh2 public key auth. On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Jon Hughes wrote: > In order t

Re: Best way to install tuxracer on testing

2001-05-18 Thread ray p
The best way to do it is to either add unstable to your sources do a apt-get update and then an apt-get install tuxracer and then change your sources back and do an apt-get update again. You could also just go to www.debian.org and do a search on the packages download the right debs and install

Re: 2.2 to 2.4

2001-05-24 Thread ray p
Do you still have the config file that you used for your 2.2 kernel? If so put it in the 2.4 source tree named .config and run make oldconfig. That will make sure that you have all of the same config settings that you had before and either confirm that is is a configuration problem or prove that

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread ray p
And of course updatedb will rebuild the database which depending on your system may be a short time or a *very* long time. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: > "locate -e" limits your output to files in the database which still > exist. > > > "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMA

Re: LAME not included in Debian

2001-05-26 Thread ray p
But if by chance you do want to use lame to make MP3s (I think that in addition to being patent free that ogg also sounds better) you can get unofficial debs from deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:57:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On the LAME

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread ray p
Make sure that you have the non-us lines in /etc/apt/sources.list uncommented then run apt-get update and then do apt-get ssh. Also it might be a good idea to tr another mirror. On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:10:55PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote: > I just installed Debian potato (2.2r0, I think; got

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread ray p
There is a version of SSh in non-free also. The client/server created by the ssh.com people. I would suggest the openSSH version and of course as far as that goes you are dead on. Also I don't know how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato but that would give you SSH2. O

Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation

2001-06-04 Thread ray p
You need to remove the directory that you made and install the kernel drivers first. The Removing all old and conflicting files message is normal let it do what it wants to. Just install the kernel drivers first and they should work fine for you. On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner

Re: Linux vs Windows NT?

2001-06-07 Thread ray p
There are some good whitepapers on the subject of what is good about Linux and some head to head type stuff at htpp://www.linuxcare.com If this friend is dealing with business or manager types a lot of this stuff is written in their language. On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:05:29AM -0400, ANDREW PE

Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-11 Thread ray p
The newest drivers work fine here and fix the problem you are having. On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:11:04PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:55:23PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > > Hello friends, > > > > This is already bothering me for a while, but I never really > > cared. But n

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread B P
Hey, As far as I know the emu10k1 drivers that are included in the kernel will not work for the audigy. Go here for an explanation of the emu10k1 alsa drivers: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Creative+Labs&card=Soundblaster+Audigy+Platinum&chip=Audigy&module=e

Re: via-rhine & dhclient

2003-07-02 Thread B P
Piero wrote: Each time I turn onmy computer, I have to give commands: modprobe via-rhine dhclient How can I have them authomatically executed at every boot? I guess it's simple, but I cannot find the solution in any handbook or any man page. Thanks. About dhclient I'm not too sure, but for via-r

using both mutt with netscape mail

2003-07-31 Thread P. Kallakuri
hello this is not so much a debian problem as it is a general mail config one. i still hope someone can tell me what's going on. i alternatively use mutt/netscape mail from work and home to access mail. my mail file is in /var/mail/. according to the default mutt config., there is a $HOME/mbo

Re: hostname

2004-06-06 Thread p s
Tom Allison wrote: How do I set the hostname correctly? I tried using the hostname command, but it never sticks around. After a restart, it's the old hostname. have you tried to edit /etc/hostname file? P_S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

when and how???

2004-08-19 Thread J P
when do i install the new 446mb of updates?...during the main Debian installation of the 7cd's during apt?or afterwards in root#.if so, is the command apt-get install updates..??? if i'm wrong, could someone confirm??? ___ Do y

CD writing problems with latest kernels

2004-02-24 Thread Frederiks, P.
Title: CD writing problems with latest kernels Hi fellow Debian users, Like others[1] I am experiencing problems CD burning problems with the latest kernels: 2.4.24 with ide-scsi and 2.6.3 without ide-scsi. I am able to burn again at 12-speed. Because of the complexity of the software involv

2 questions from debian noob

2004-01-27 Thread Timmy P.
with my hardware, and i liked it myself, before i buy it. My other question, does debian work with AMD processors? I believe they are intell compatible, but i can't find them mentioned on the debian site...so i figured i would ask the list. Thank you for your help. Tim P. Newark, DE (ru

Re: Future of "his" packages in Debian

2022-01-21 Thread P J
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:05 AM Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> > >> > >> Can someone post what Norbert Preining actually wrote without omissions > and rather frivolous additions by other parties? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > > > >>From Norbert's blog, aggregated on Plane

Help me Linux

2018-10-30 Thread P M
Hey, this is Piyush M. I am a computer science graduate from 2015. It was 2009-10 when first time I heard about Linux. Although in my area there was only Microsoft but I managed to download Linux. My first Linux was ubuntu. I was very happy to see its function and its working. I enjoyed that time w

Re: switch gateway automatically

2023-03-11 Thread p...@ymail.ne.jp
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: You need a Router with two WAN ports! On a router I would configure two Static Routes one default router for the main DSL and one for the backup DSL that is weighted to a lower priority. This is known as surprisingly Weighted Static Routes. I currently have tw

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-11 Thread p...@ymail.ne.jp
Richard Hector wrote: Thunderbird? Works on Debian as well, so you can keep using it when you upgrade 😄 second on thunderbird. where you can quote the specified messages and reply. regards Yong

Re: home server for email box

2023-03-12 Thread p...@ymail.ne.jp
Jeremy Ardley wrote:  * TLS connection with certificate that can't be verified postfix can work with this way. MTA to MTA doesn't require a valid certificate (Said by postfix's author on the list). But HTTPs does require. Yong

Debian docker image for development

2023-03-13 Thread p...@ymail.ne.jp
Hello, Do you have a reference for the image of Debian devbox? Which would have the most modern development tools included, such as C/java/python/golang/node etc. I just don't want to re-make the wheels if there was already one. Thanks & regards, Yong

Installing Debian on SSD

2019-03-11 Thread Iman P.
Dear Sir/Madam First thanks for your time. I have an Acer laptop (Aspire E1, x64, amd i7, ram 16, vga 2). My base tasks are using virtual machines. I use dual boot for Win10 & Debian 8.6 & the type of Bios boot is “Legacy”. I gonna change my HDD to SSD & install just Debian 9.8 (so need at lea

a lot mail

2019-03-19 Thread Iman P.
Dear Sir/Madam I have received lots of mails in my inbox. I checked account setting, but didn't find any item about it. how can I cancel this flow of e-mails? lots of thanks Peyvand

Re: a lot mail

2019-03-28 Thread Iman P.
so thanks brother have a nice day Peyvand On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:47 AM David Wright wrote: > On Wed 20 Mar 2019 at 03:45:23 (+0330), Iman P. wrote: > > I have received lots of mails in my inbox. I checked account setting, but > > didn't find any item about it. > >

Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

2020-03-08 Thread Dimitris P
Hello all today I got my new pc that includes AMD Ryzen 3 3200G and has Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, there is no other GPU. I have install debian through netistall and upgrade it to debian testing. I have installed the firmware-amd-graphics and when I am booting I am getting a black login prompt and no

Re: Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

2020-03-09 Thread Dimitris P
Well I run X -config /root/xorg.conf.new and the output is (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices (EE) (EE)

Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

2020-03-09 Thread Dimitris P
I m getting (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices Στις Κυριακή, 8 Μαρτίου 2020, ο χρήστης Dimitris P έγραψε: > Hello all today I got my new pc that includes AMD Ryzen 3 3200G and has > Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, there

Re: Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

2020-03-09 Thread Dimitris P
I am getting error Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices

Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

2020-03-09 Thread Dimitris P
I tried it too and even kernel from experimental with no luck Στις Τρίτη, 10 Μαρτίου 2020, ο χρήστης Dimitris P έγραψε: > I m getting (EE) > Fatal server error: > (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all > framebuffer devices > > Στις Κυριακή, 8 Μαρτί

Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

2020-03-11 Thread Dimitris P
as I got fear of (at least works with my kernel 5.4.0-4-amd64 ) . Thanks all people who for replies it can be sticked as SOLVED Στις Τρί, 10 Μαρ 2020 στις 1:57 π.μ., ο/η Dimitris P έγραψε: > I tried it too and even kernel from experimental with no luck > > Στις Τρίτη, 10 Μαρτίου 2020, ο χρ

Re: serial console - working, then "stuck" output and can't login

2007-03-29 Thread Daniele P.
his in /etc/inittab # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100 Regards, Daniele P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel modification and CONFIG_HIGHMEM issue

2007-06-28 Thread P Kapat
On 6/28/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:50:27AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > >learn to use 'apt-cache search' and 'apt-cache show'. > > I am not sure what is intended here, but I did search around (mostly >

Re: Kmail - satellite server error...

2007-08-07 Thread P Kapat
On 8/6/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:40:28PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Subject copied over to Kmail... > > > > Kmail works with the satellite server now? A long online chat and Kmail > > works > > a treat as ever. Phew > > > > Thanks to

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-07 Thread P Kapat
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..snip..] > If I want an environment variable available all the time, I should place it > in > either /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile, right? Yes. Preferably ~/.bash_profile and export it. -- Regards PK --

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-07 Thread P Kapat
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use > ~/.bash_profile instead? For the simple reason that you wouldn't want (or prefer) to mess with the system's defaults unless otherwise forced to. Moreover, think of a machine where you

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-07 Thread P Kapat
Hello Mannon, On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi PK, > > On 8/7/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip...] > > For more on bash startup see > > /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples. > > > I ain't got

where is grub installed?

2007-08-18 Thread P Kapat
Hi, Suppose my hard disks are setup as: IDE (Master) /dev/hda1 -- ext3 -- 10 GB /dev/hda2 -- ext3 -- 100 GB /dev/hda3 -- ext3 -- 50 GB SATA (connected to SATA 1 controller on the mobo) /dev/sda1 -- ext3 -- 50GB -- / /dev/sda2 -- ext3 -- 500 MB -- /boot /dev/sda3 -- ext3 -- 100 GB -- /home

Re: where is grub installed?

2007-08-18 Thread P Kapat
On 8/18/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 04:38:33PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > Suppose my hard disks are setup as: > > > > IDE (Master) > > /dev/hda1 -- ext3 -- 10 GB > > /dev/hda2 -- ext3 -- 100 GB > &

Re: where is grub installed?

2007-08-18 Thread P Kapat
On 8/18/07, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P Kapat wrote: > > Hi, > > Suppose my hard disks are setup as: > > > > IDE (Master) > > /dev/hda1 -- ext3 -- 10 GB > > /dev/hda2 -- ext3 -- 100 GB > > /dev/hda3 -- ext3 -- 50

how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-29 Thread P Kapat
Hi, Firstly, this is not a Debian specific question, but hopefully the solution should be universal. I have a machine (running RedHat EL4) on which I do not have administrative access, just a normal user access. I have extracted some rpm binaries in my home directory. I want the following paths to

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-30 Thread P Kapat
I forgot to "Reply All" my previous mail. Here it is: Hi Michael, On 8/29/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/29/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the following lines in .bash_profile (bash is my default shell): > > export LD

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
ust the bad habit of using pine and then switching back to gmail's UI :( > On 8/29/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not quite sure about that because I have a lot of other variables > > and things in .bash_profile which is available from konsole or xter

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No I am not sourcing any other file... I can provide the two files here if > > necessary.. > > T

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
Here is some more information: On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... > > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip...

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager, > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen > is locked with a screen-saver. I do not quite understand the issues!! (1) What go

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... > > Here is .bashrc: (kindly bear with the unnecessary aliases and may be > > broken lines. Also

Re: Opera vs Kmail, Kontact, Konversation

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
On 8/31/07, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Notice, that Opera can do all of this (email, usenet, rss feeds, irc, web > surfing, contacts... and more, inside one app, and all at the same time. And also download torrents!!! > Now that I said that is anyone running Opera using All of its abil

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
I do not use Thunderbird and never tried Lightning, but this is what I found with some after trying both and little bit of 'find'ing... On 8/31/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my > > home comp

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-09-01 Thread P Kapat
On 9/1/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Presumably, you have something like .kde, .kderc, or Desktop in your > > > h

Re: RAM slot info?

2006-12-01 Thread Daniele P .
On Friday 01 December 2006 10:49, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all! > Is there a way to know : > - how many memory slots are empty > - if not empty, which is the size of each memory bank installed? > > Of course, without open the case :-D !! Hi Mirco, Try with lm-sensors using sensor hwinfo using hwin

cant i mount fixed drive with write access??

2007-10-12 Thread P Kapat
Hi, I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal user? Here is the relevant line from fstab: /dev/sdb1 /media/backup ext3user,noauto,rw0 0 $ ls -l /media/backup drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 40

Re: Konqueror File Association Pattern

2007-10-12 Thread P Kapat
On 10/12/07, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > in a fit of "click before you think" I mistakenly assigned a file > association pattern to Kile for directories (thinking I was clicking on > a .tex file). Now, when I click on a directory, Kile is opened, which of > course make

Re: cant i mount fixed drive with write access??

2007-10-12 Thread P Kapat
Hi, On 10/12/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/12/2007 05:03 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > P Kapat wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a > >> fixed (internal SATA

Re: cant i mount fixed drive with write access??

2007-10-12 Thread P Kapat
Hi, Thanks for the response.. On 10/12/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P Kapat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a > > fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal us

Re: cant i mount fixed drive with write access??

2007-10-12 Thread P Kapat
Hi, On 10/12/07, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 12 October 2007 00:32, P Kapat wrote: > > I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a > > fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal user? Here > >

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-18 Thread P Kapat
On 4/18/07, Dusty Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 15 Apr 2007 01:52:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > So my question is, would anyone be interested in something like that? Yes. I would love it. But it'd need to support both dual-monitor (1280x2048) setups as well as a single widescreen (1280x

Re: Fullscreen on dual monitors

2007-04-19 Thread P Kapat
Hi, On 4/19/07, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, I am using two 19" LCD screens on a Radeon 7000 card, using the radeon driver (not fglrx, it does not support this card). I have it set up using MergedFB which gives me one big desktop that is 3D accelerated too. I have Windows

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread P Kapat
Hi, On 4/19/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, I do the opposite! I have a simple bash script that calls rsync with all the options I require to do the actual sync. It mounts my external backup drive, tells me how much space is left, does a dry run of rsync so that I c

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread P Kapat
On 4/19/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P Kapat wrote: > Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very > similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite > satisfied. No warranties 8-) Sure. Thanks for the file. The man pag

Re: No Dual monitor support for S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)

2007-04-20 Thread P Kapat
On 4/20/07, malik martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a dual-head video card in my laptop. well i have 1 extra VGA out on the back. in windows, when i plug a monitor in, i get two different screens. just like a dual monitor setup. i cant seem to get this to work in debian. i've read I sup

Re: versions of packages available in other branches

2007-04-23 Thread P Kapat
> apt-get install devscripts > rmadison $PKG Exactly what I need. Thanks. Well, same here... Was looking for this for a long time... But I am on Sid, and there is a clash with the licensecheck script. It is based on a script provided by kdesdk-scripts... So, is it safe to use "--force" while in

Re: versions of packages available in other branches

2007-04-23 Thread P Kapat
On 4/23/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P Kapat wrote: >> > apt-get install devscripts >> > rmadison $PKG [snip] > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/devscripts_2.10.3_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/bi

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
You probably need to create the user for Samba too, via smbpasswd. As I said, please send your /etc/samba/smb.conf if you want more help. As Dave was suggesting, you need to modify smb.conf. There are a few GUIs that do that for you (http://us4.samba.org/samba/GUI/). Its easier to edit the file

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
Might be a little OT, but here is the question: Suppose I plugin an USB drive (small pendrives, or may be a big backup external disk), KDE pops up a box to choose the action to mount/cancel the new drive. What if I don't want to mount it this way (why? i'll explain later **). I want to go back to

Re: Dis-upgrade using apt-get

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
On 4/25/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > I have a small debian-3.1r3 system. I want to upgrade it to > debian-4.0r0. Well, you are changing the distribution completely. So, it is always better to use a consistent way to do that, rather than end

Re: Newbie Samba help (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
On 4/26/07, John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:03:47 -0400 "Jan Sneep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interestingly from the Win Xp machine I can see a whole bunch of > files and folders with names that start with a "." that I can't see > from the Gnome desktop.

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread P Kapat
On 4/24/07, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My sense is that it's typical for universities to do the standard lock-in thing for desktop environments, i.e., most people use Windows so we do too. However, most universities also run more serious systems for servers, enterprise computing, an

edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-26 Thread P Kapat
OK, this is just a small nitpicking, to which even I am guilty of in the past, but I wanted to know the right mailing etiquettes. The agenda is: When replying to a mail/thread it is best not to modify the Subject line, like adding "(solved)" or something similar. Because that breaks the thread, w

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread P Kapat
On 4/26/07, Andrew J. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Claughton wrote: > Ah, makes sense. I've never used LILO, only Grub. yaboot (bootloader for powerpc) also uses symlinks. -- Regards PK -- http://counter.li.org #402424 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread P Kapat
On 4/26/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > Lo folks, [snip] > > So I discover the list.debian.user group on usenet - yey! However... > can I remove myself from the mailing list and still post here us

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/27/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:04:36 -0400 "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:21:39PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > OK, this is just a small nitpicking, to which even I am guilty of in >

Re: edit the subject line of a thread [EDITED]?

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying actions.. It seems like gmail uses "subject" for threading the conversations. Kmail uses something else (i guess, In-Reply-To). Not just that, when you change the s

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/27/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debian-User is not in any way shape or form, moderated. Well, I take back my words. Apologies for the wrong information. But to be a little fair to myself, I was mislead by a KNode (KDE's news reader, integrated into Kontact) pop message when

Re: edit the subject line of a thread [RE-][EDITED]?

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On Saturday 28 April 2007 12:46:48 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:52:26AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying > > >actions..

Re: webcam model for etch

2007-05-01 Thread P Kapat
On 4/30/07, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I have installed etch in a sony vaio notebook with success. Now, I want to install a webcam on it. I have looking the Webcam HOWTO http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO that seems to be an old HOWTO.. see this: http://mxhaar

Re: webcam model for etch

2007-05-01 Thread P Kapat
here is a little bit of OT info regarding the person behind gspca... (driver supporting many many webcams...) http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39291 -- Regards PK -- http://counter.li.org #402424 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SUB_MODIFIED] Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-05-02 Thread P Kapat
On 5/2/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you get a broken thread now because I have added stuff to the subject? Interesting.. This time, inspite of a changed subject line, the thread did not break in gmail. So what is driving the threading? There were a few "References" headers

Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?

2007-05-02 Thread P Kapat
On 5/2/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for the long lines... Well according to: ffmpeg -formats [snip] I am sorry if I didn't get it, but what was the point of the "long lines"? Note, the names of encoders and decoders dont always match, so there are several cases where th

Re: edit the subject line of a thread [EDITED]?

2007-05-02 Thread P Kapat
On 5/2/07, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2007-04-28 00:52:26, schrieb P Kapat: > OK, heres I am "replying" to my own mail from gmail, after editing the > subject line... This is NORMAL if you edit a Mesage in "gmail". You should only hit &

Re: getting a pdf document to print

2007-05-10 Thread P Kapat
On 5/10/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/10/2007 12:46 PM, andy wrote: > Hi all > > I have received a multipage pdf document that has been locked so it > cannot be printed. I would like to be able to print this document so > that I can read it "on the road". Any ideas for by-passin

kernel modification and CONFIG_HIGHMEM issue

2007-06-26 Thread P Kapat
Hi, I am running Debian unstable on an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor and a MSI K8N Neo4 Mobo. Problem: Kernel does not recognise all the RAM, it sees only 1GB. $ uname -a Linux *** 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I had two 512MB modules, recently I added two 1 GB mo

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