Re: Recommended free secondary DNS?
>> Can someone recommend any free secondary DNS services? >> I've used Granite Canyon but need others. Granite Canyon can be tricky. I've found NS2 doesn't work, for years and years and years, but they require it be "advertised" in an NS record. Therefore: 1. Put NS1 in your domain registration. If you need another, list NS3. But there is no use telling the world to look for you via NS2 because it will just time out. 2. to satisfy the NS2 advertisement requirement, define a resource record of type NS but make it refer to a subdomain such as bogus.example.net (where your domain is example.net of course) and define RRs for NS1 and NS3 that work. In a BIND zone file, for example: @ IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com. bogus IN NS ns2.granitecanyon.com. @ IN NS ns3.granitecanyon.com. > http://www.twisted4life.com are very good. Meanwhile, I have had great success with Zoneedit.com and Mydyndns.org. The latter isn't free, but they have a huge well-run infrastructure and they donate $Ks to the free software movement. I put my most important domains there. BTW Pair.com donates to FS movement too. Also I have had good results with registrars Stargateinc.com and Gandi.net. If you register with them you get "free" secondary DNS. Ob-Debian: If you're running Debian's bind9, don't forget to change the rndc authentication string. -- Cameron http://greens.org/~cls/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet Access for Linux?
>[NetZero] say Windows or Mac are required. Then boycott them for being Linux-unfriendly. There *are* MS-Windows-only ISPs. They are the ones using unmaintained remote access boxes that are compatible with Microsoft's broken PPP but not with standard PPP. It's got nothing to do with whether they send you a CD with a customized Web browser on it. I got a $6/month Allvantage.com account. The email they sent assumed I had Windows 98, but the settings were complete enough for Linux: DN servers, SMTP and POP3 servers. Works fine. Here's a PPP chatscript for them. TIMEOUT 75 ABORTBUSY ABORT"NO CARRIER" ABORTVOICE ABORT"NO DIALTONE" "" \p\p\pATZ OK \p\p\pATH OK \p\p\pATDT5191182 ogin:\p\p\p[account [EMAIL PROTECTED] word:\p\p\p\q[dial-up password] You have to look up your local dial-up number on their Web site. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
patents, Re: Multi-user Debian
"csj" wrote: > Just because something's obvious doesn't mean it can't be > patented. That's true today, but only because the USPTO is broken. Long ago, when they were doing their job, the rules were: 1. No prior art 2. Not "obvious to anyone skilled in the art" 3. Useful and valuable. #2 meant you couldn't patent routine solutions to common problems, only truly ingenious ones. Cleverness was subject to the "reasonable person" test. #1 meant you couldn't patent something that had already been described by someone else, but it also meant you couldn't patent something you observed in nature or in human culture. That meant, among other things, mathematical algorithms couldn't be patented, because mathematics are discovered in nature, not invented. It also meant biological features such as genetic expressions. This rule was reversed when the courts added a new category, the "use patent", where you patent *the use of* something found in nature. Somehow prior art was overlooked in use patents, and it is now possible to observe primitive cultures using some herbal remedy they have been using for hundreds of years, and run home and patent the use of that herb to treat the same malady. It's completely out of control. Be afraid that someone will patent the act of typing on a keyboard, or of breathing in and out, and try to charge you a royalty. -- Cameron US Patent #5,663,634 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Holy Spam!
I read this "list" via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. Newsguy filters out all the spam. I have a large spam blocking list, http://www.greens.org/about/r.txt (tcprules format) and yesterday I blocked a big chunk of Global Crossing, because their downstreams send me so much spam and they ignore all complaints. I urge others to do the same. (Frankly I don't believe GBLX even *has* an abuse dep't.) But it turned out there was something called murphy.debian.org in there, which needed whitelisting. I tried reading this mailing list with an email client. Had to unsubscribe after a few hours. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?
I think I have a related problem. Invoking acroread on my (woody) laptop, I get an error message "Warning: charset of fontList (ISO10646-1) does not match locale (ISO8859-1)." Acroread displays little dotted boxes instead of characters in its menu bar. But if I use ssh -X to log into the laptop from my (woody) desktop, the laptop is able to correctly run acroread on the desktop's display. Interestingly, /etc/locale.gen on the desktop (acroread OK) is empty except for comments. /etc/locale.gen on the laptop (acroread broken) contains two lines: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 So it appears "locales" is not compatible with acroread for some reason. Can I safely remove and purge "locales"? Will it make any difference? Is "fontList" documented somewhere? Google shows http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200203/msg01994.html same question, went unanswered. I went "upstream" and got http://download.adobe.com/ pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-507.tar.gz and it's got the same problem. TIA Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable <-- bad idea
>On Tue, 27 May 2003 05:40:06 +0200, J F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Splitting the cable >I've seen a network set up with most of the cables were doubled up to >carry 2 10/100 connections over one wire. I don't think any of the >computers in the office were connecting at 100mb and the network had >major latency problems even at 10Mb. I've run two full-duplex 100BASE-T links through 25 meters of four-pair Category 5 cable and it worked fine. I suspect in the office where it didn't work so well, there was a wiring error, such as not keeping the pairs together or running a lot of unconnected pairs around. 10[0]BASE-T NICs talk on pins 1 and 2, and listen on pins 3 and 6. A good cat-5 cable for 100BASE-T either leaves pins 4,5,7,8 completely unconnected (two-pair crossover cables are made that way), or connects pairs 4-5 and 7-8 (the standard four-pair straight-through cable). A good NIC terminates the unused pairs to keep them from resonating. If you make your own cable it should not have any unconnected pairs in it, and shorting them is as bad as leaving them open. I've seen cables for sale at computer stores with wire pairs on pins 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8. I don't know what those cables are for, but it isn't Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Ethernet. They may work in some cases, but they'll be impaired becase the receive pair isn't a Category 5 hundred-ohm transmission line. Its impedance is too high and its common-mode rejection will suck. Maybe the PHYs will autonegotiate 10BASE-T to try to get by the impairment, but they shouldn't even do that. These cables will buzz out fine with a DC ohmmeter. If you buy a "cable tester" that says these cables are okay, ask for your money back. A cat-5 tester should tell you whether each pair is within 3% of 100 Ohms, and a cable where pins 3 and 6 are in two different pairs should fail that test. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive
"Iago Sineiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi. >> >> I have a hard drive that is damaged and the BIOS can't recognize it. Could I >> access using some tool of Linux? "Haioken" wrote: >Not if the bios can't recognize it. >There is very few pieces of software in existance that will help you, and >most of them cost the earth, Such as "Microscope". That depends on why the BIOS doesn't see it. If the drive has completely failed, it could be nothing can save it. But if you're really lucky, the failure is related to the high speed cable interface. In that case, BIOS might not see it, but Linux might do okay. I have a PC with a particular Award BIOS version that can't see the hard drive at all. I boot Linux from a CD and it works fine. I used to have a broken 1 GB IBM drive that no motherboard BIOS could see, but Linux could see it just fine when it was on a Promise 206xx card. Linux can see drives that some BIOSes can't. First, turn *off* automatic drive detection and sizing in the BIOS. Define the drive manually. Otherwise the BIOS might turn off the interface in ways Linux doesn't know how to turn back on. If you've been using an 80-conductor cable, try a 40-conductor cable. That will eliminate the Ultra-DMA 66/100/133 operating modes. If you've got another drive on that cable, move the bad drive to its own cable. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: splitting mbox files
For a screwy format like mbox, use a program designed to deal with the screwy format. Try something like this. mkdir tmp cat bigfatmboxfile | formail -s sh -c 'cat > tmp/$FILENO' Formail is one of those programs that keep getting more versatile as you learn more about them. It's in the procmail package. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody ?
I've got a Cardbus 10/100 NIC from Hawking. # cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEM556", "LAN + 56k Modem", "" manfid: 0x0101, 0x0556 function: 0 (multifunction) Socket 1: product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", "" manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 function: 6 (network) Woody's Card Services doesn't recognize it. # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02) 00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 (rev dc) 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 17b3:ab08 (rev 11) I'm having trouble finding the right documentation on how to get this going. Don't know which chip set is in the card. Don't know where the manufacturer and product IDs are defined for Card Services. Seems to be a very popular product, perhaps under another name. Google doesn't help because Hawking doesn't have any model identification on the thing. In fact, the markings on it are contradictory: it says "CardBus 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC Card" on the front and "Fast Ethernet CardBus 10/100" on the back. (The correct terminology is "PC Card" is the ISA-like interface, Cardbus is the PCI-like interface, and both are standards from an organization named PCMCIA. It doesn't make much sense for a product to say both "PC Card" and "Cardbus" on it. The PC Card interface isn't fast enough for full 100BASE-T throughput, but that didn't stop companies like 3Com from selling 10/100 PC Cards like the 3CCFEM556.) I've tried bf24 and my own 2.4.21. Can't load any PCI NIC modules because 17b3 and 0x13d1 are unrecognized. Anybody got one of these things working with Woody? How did you do it? TIA Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody
I wrote: >> # cardctl ident >> Socket 1: >> product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", "" >> manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 >> function: 6 (network) Jesse Meyer wrote: >[I've got the same card,] FCC ID of "MQ4C2K5MX" > [...] under the 2.4 debian kernel, I have > got the card to work, but only using the 2.4 boot floppy kernel and the > package pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4. The driver seems to be 'tulip_cb', > the regular 'tulip' driver in the kernel does not seem to work. I poked around some more. I never did get the hang of building "Debianized" kernels; I've always used the upstream kernel source. When I installed the current upstream pcmcia-cs, and Debian's hotplug package, the tulip.o in my /lib/modules/2.4.21 started working! For the record, it seems there are two ways to support PCMCIA cards. You have to choose the kernel's internal drivers -or- the ones that come with Dennis Hinds' pcmcia-cs. Debian uses pcmcia-cs, but packages the driver modules separately as pcmcia-drivers. Jesse reports tulip_cb from there works, and I can now report success with the tulip and mii modules from the 2.4.21 kernel. In my case, the hotplug package was the missing piece. (Perhaps this is a packaging issue. Maybe the Cardbus drivers should be in their own package, with hotplug a dependency.) The Cardbus Tulip is noticeably faster than the PCcard 3CCFEM556. 3Com discontinued the 3CCFEM556. It's too bad, because that card also contains the best modem I ever used. The 3CCFEM656B which replaced it uses Cardbus, but it's got a friggin' winmodem! Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody
I wrote: > >> # cardctl ident > >> Socket 1: > >> product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", "" > >> manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 > >> function: 6 (network) Works with 2.4.21 kernel drivers mii and tulip, but you need the hotplug package to get it recognized. Jesse Meyer wrote: > >[I've got the same card,] FCC ID of "MQ4C2K5MX" > > [...] under the 2.4 debian kernel, >Did your card have the same FCC number? Yes, same everything. Several stores' Web sites seem to think it's Hawking PN672TX. See also http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2002/01/25/0012.html >Also, what sort of laptop is it? Believed to be Asustek, but imported/branded Chem USA, model F7400. About five years old, 333 MHz Pentium II, Intel 440BX/ZX ACPI motherboard. TI PCI1220 Cardbus slot controller/bridge. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screens
Cees wrote: >after I installed [Woody] I get the error message "No screens found" Don't worry about it. In my experience the X Window System installed by Woody does that about half the time. That's one reason they're writing a new installer. >Can anyone tell me wath I dit wrong? You did nothing wrong. If it is easy for you to get local help or download more CDs, the easiest way forward is to use SOME OTHER DISTRIBUTION to create a file you can copy to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in your Debian intallation. For example, Knoppix almost always generates a usable XF86Config-4 file. You just boot the CD, wait for the xserver to come up automatically, and get a shell. Then use the command tar cf /dev/fd0 -C /etc/X11 XF86Config-4 to copy it to a floppy. Then boot Debian and run tar xf /dev/fd0 -C /etc/X11 to copy it in. If the Woody disks are all you have, there are various things you can try. Try running xf86cfg first. Run lspci to verify you have the right video chip set. Then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and give easier answers. Try the 600x400 screen format. Try opening /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and loosening up the sync frequency limits. Try deleting the line that specifies which bus slot your video card is in. Try posting your video card and monitor type in a general Linux forum and maybe someone with similar equipment will mail you a working XF86Config-4. A while ago someone posted a recipe here which involved getting "discover", "mdetect", and "read-edid" and then forcing a reinstall of xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common. This may cause the same thing to go wrong that gave you the "No screens found" in the first place, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work. The good news is getting a correct XF86Config-4 file is the most difficult thing in the whole installation. Once you do that, everything else is easy. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving /home to its own partition.
>Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap >and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. >Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap >and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on >the original hda. # Get a root shell. Commands follow. This is a comment. # New drive? Unsure of how it was handled? Scan it for defects. # This gives the drive a chance to swap bad blocks out for spares # before Linux ever sees them. It takes a while. Overnight for # a modern large drive. badblocks -w /dev/hdb # In a hurry? This is faster, not as thorough. badblocks /dev/hdb # Create a partition table. Rumor has it the first cylinders are # the fastest (maximizes MS-Windoze performance) so put swap there. cfdisk /dev/hdb # Create file systems and swap area. mkswap -c /dev/hdb1 mke2fs -c /dev/hdb2 # Activate new swap area just to see if it works. # Mount new /home temporarily. swapon /dev/hdb1 mkdir /b2 mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /b2 # Drop to single user; kills any pesky daemons writing stuff in background. telinit 1 # Anything here we don't understand? If not, proceed. cd /home && ls -la # Copy everything whose name does not start with a dot. cp -a * /b2 && sync # Move old /home aside. Move new /home into place. cd / mv home home-old umount /b2 && rmdir /b2 mkdir home mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /home # Make new /home mount and new swap next time. # Notice we are not deactivating the old swap. # The more swap spindles you have, the better. echo /dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 >> /etc/fstab echo /dev/hdb1 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab # Welcome to your new, larger machine. Restart daemons, X. telinit 2 # You don't have to reboot, but it's good practice to # test your new configuration, to make sure it boots okay. >how could you best utilize the space gained by >transferring data from the original /home to the new /home partition? Don't worry, /var/cache will use it eventually. You didn't move /var. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
