Re: Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:26:41AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > If I hit "e" to edit headers, and add these headers in the right place: > In-Reply-To: > Yeah, just add the message you're replying to to the end of whatever reference header there may be. Th

Auto mount Windowz Share

I want to auto mount windowz share folder into my linux box. I add this line into my /etc/fstab: //192.168.0.4/shareit /mnt/windowzsmbfs auto,guest 0 0 This is what I've got in my log file at startup: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) SMB connection failed Wha

Re: fonts

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:32:38PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > Is someone familiar with font setup in X here, or shall I try somewhere > else? > > I am in the process of cleaning up my fonts installation (in Debian > Sarge). Could someone suggest how do I actually check which fonts are > *not* instal

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

On approximately Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:29:38PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > On 16 Dec 2003 at 22:56, Josh McKinney wrote: > > > > > http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html > > > > That worked quite well. Only thing that isn't working now is the on- > board nVidia NIC, which is wha

Re: GPM for mouse

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | > [...] | > | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with, | > | > Care to explain? (I disag

Re: GPM for mouse

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:31PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | > [...] | > | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with, | > | > Care to explain? (I disag

Compromised? (Was Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!)

michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:00:33 -0500: > Every time I perform a keypress at the console (command line, nano, etc.) I > can hear a tick from the hard disk. That's exactly what I had a week before the Big Debian Compromise. Didn't happen in X, only console. Also, tryi

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

On 16 Dec 2003 at 22:56, Josh McKinney wrote: > > http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html > That worked quite well. Only thing that isn't working now is the on- board nVidia NIC, which is what the cable modem is connected to. The on- board 3COM NIC works fine though. So it looks

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496) :-)

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:52:11PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > if they went away .. we'd have to bitch about ati/matrox :-0 > > We already had that argument. Matrox lost. And we had the ATI/3dfx > d

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:55 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: > >>> Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux > >>> perspective? > >>> > >>> I'm looking to buy a replacement

Re: Web server Partitions - bigmem

On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 20:02 America/Denver, Alvin Oga wrote: and if one uses lots of memory space ... one should patch the kernel for "bigmem" support too hehehe ... sorry.. couldn't resist Uhhh... isn't that what I said? ;-) Man, must be tired tonight... Nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: make-kpkg

on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:14:23AM +0800, Isaac To ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > And I don't consider Grub to be much less documented than LILO. See the man vs. info debate rehash here last week. That said, I use GRUB on my boxen. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://km

Re: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

On approximately Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:01:51PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Quite some time ago, I was trying to get Debian working properly on my > primary workstation, an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with 512MB RAM, Athlon 2500 > Barton, and GeForce 5600FX 256MB AGP Video Card. Back then, I was having

Re: Web server Partitions - bigmem

hi ya nate On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 17:10 America/Denver, Alvin Oga wrote: > > ( if one has 4GB of memory, in a large PC, does that mean > > ( we need 8GB of swap ?? ... nah.. not many apps need that > > ( much memory other that oracle and

Re: GPM for mouse

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > [...] > | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with, > > Care to explain? (I disagree, gpm is a piece of cake

Re: LISa (LAN Information Server) problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:52:22PM +0900, Doug du Boulay wrote: > Sorry about. Thought changing the subject was all there was to it. > Did you fix it or am I still hijacking, and how do I tell (using kmail). I didn't bother splitting it, figured spli

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:52:11PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > if they went away .. we'd have to bitch about ati/matrox :-0 We already had that argument. Matrox lost. And we had the ATI/3dfx debate. 3dfx lost. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL P

Re: is this the list for me?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:35:33PM -0600, James Miller wrote: > I'm a fairly recent "convert" to Linux (been using it for about 2 > yrs full time) who has finally settled on Debian as his distro of > choice. I often need to ask some pretty stupid ques

Re: Americas army

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please http://learn.to/quote/ Top posting is considered harmful. On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:48:49PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No > server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation The

Re: Americas army

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:09:46PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy Might want to get a sound card that can play more than one sound at once, or make sure nothing else that uses sound is camping on the sound

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Questions

Quite some time ago, I was trying to get Debian working properly on my primary workstation, an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with 512MB RAM, Athlon 2500 Barton, and GeForce 5600FX 256MB AGP Video Card. Back then, I was having all sorts of problems getting anything on the MB to work and getting the nForce

Re: Web server Partitions - simple partitions

On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 17:10 America/Denver, Alvin Oga wrote: ( if one has 4GB of memory, in a large PC, does that mean ( we need 8GB of swap ?? ... nah.. not many apps need that ( much memory other that oracle and cae/cad simulations ( and bunch of special app

Re: Web server Partitions

On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 16:23 America/Denver, Braxton Neate wrote: SWAP1 - 1GB SWAP2 - 1GB Apparently the kernel can balance loads between 2 swap partitions like it can with multiple processors, so it would make sense to have 2 1GB partitions rather than a 1 2GB partition. However this machine

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

Michael D Schleif wrote: Are those PDF docs optimized for Acrobat 6 (as opposed to Acrobat 5)? -Roberto No. As a matter of fact, my résumé on my website was created prior to v6, and I cannot cut-&-paste from that. What's the URL,so I can take a look at it? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Americas army

Paul William wrote: [SNIP] The output of glxinfo follows: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No [SNIP] That is your problem. You do not have hardware 3D acceleration enabled (and hence, no GL_EXT_bgra extension). I'll bet that if you can get

Re: Web server Partitions

On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 14:23 America/Denver, Magnus von Koeller wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: SWAP - 1.5GB Rule of thumb:  1-2x RAM. I never understood that rule... In what way does it make sense that I need more swap because I have more RAM? Seriously, I'

Re: mod_perl ???

Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:16:12:23:53-0600] scribed: > Is anybody else having problems with recent libapache-mod-perl? > > I have two (2) debian systems that segfault on apache startup, as soon > as I insert the LoadModules line into /etc/apache/httpd.conf. > > I have opened

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:16:19:56:53-0500] scribed: > Michael D Schleif wrote: > >Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:16:16:43:11-0500] scribed: > > > >>Patrick Lesslie wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > >>> > >>> > O

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

hi ya On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:04:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've had the same thing; the drivers that I nabbed from nVidia have been > > > rock-solid and quite functional, whereas the Debian packages...besides, > > > why is it a 'cra

Re: Next Step web server

Em Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:31:47 -0500, debian escreveu: > I like > to set-up the Debian as a web server apt-get install apache -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Belo Horizonte, Londrina, SÃo Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra

Re: Nautilus won't die

Em Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:04:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self escreveu: > inherited some mounts of NFS from client machines, bad >> practice indeed. On your advice have eliminated them. Now I would need >> to wait and see if the problem reoccurs... > > If these are read-only mounts, you might try the "so

Re: woody - crash.

on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:55:06PM +0100, qba ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Helo. > > My woody - with 2.4.22 crashed today. > > When i came to see it , keyboard was blinking with diodes. > What i had on the monitor was kdb debugging sth. that Oops'ed. > Unfortunaetly due to lack of time ( i had t

Re: debootstrap

on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:03:54PM -0700, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm in the process of trying to

Re: $HOSTNAME is not exported

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: > I found out, that $HOSTNAME is not exported by default in latest unstable: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $HOSTNAME > mars > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env | grep HOSTNAME > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > Is it a bug? It might be a change in behavior, but I woud

Re: password length > 8

on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:34:02PM -0600, Jacob S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0300 > Diego Crivelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I created a user on my woody box with adduser and when prompted for > > the password I wrote a word with more than 8 characters. B

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

> > > Local software is childish, dangerous and nonsense. Yes > cause, flooding mail servers, writing DDoS attacks, etc! Which is why > my proposal specifically called for not allowing users to own or use > their own machines. In fact, attempting to subvert this should be > punishable by deat

Re: Web server Partitions

Bijan Soleymani writes: > Many programs are huge but only small parts of them need to be in memory > the rest can be maintained in swap. Executables are not swapped out. They don't need to be because they are not altered and so can just be read back in from disk. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Americas army

Hi By killing esd it removes the sound error message but it still get this error: GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out. History: Exiting due to error I am using the propriety nvidia driver. There is no entry for GL_EXT_bgra in glxinfo. Do I need to install an alternative GL library? The

Re: email client

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#offlist (You sent a private-mail reply to my attempt to help you on a mailing list, and failed to mention having done so.) On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:32:07PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > kmail or mutt are the de-fa

Re: ssh & X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

Anonymous coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I am getting an error while trying to use ssh to bounce from one >server to another. I do login after I enter my password but the error >exists and I would like to resolve this. Help / Ideas are appreciated >! Thanks ! > >Situation... [very detailed

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

- Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 19:49 Subject: Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:04:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:55:48 -0500 Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > >> Kent West wrote: > >> > >>> Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? > >>> > >>> I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard . . . . > >>

Re: Web server Partitions - swap

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:55:27PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > 30 years later, its easier/cheaper to just add a new stick of memory > - having "some swap" prevents your system from doing a > random self-reboot or hanging forever whenever it runs out > of "virtual memory" Don't know

Re: Nautilus won't die

on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:19:05PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Em Ter, 2003-12-16 ??s 17:30, Karsten M. Self escreveu: > > on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:34AM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria > > Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Nautilu

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:34, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ] Did you have a look a Lindows? ... and this might be important, too, when mentioning Lindows: Excerpt: - "MICROSOF

RE: Web server Partitions - simple partitions

hi ya braxton On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Braxton Neate wrote: > I tend to agree with you that Adding more partitions, doesn't make the > system more manageable. yup.. it does make it more manageable per se but it does allow you the luxury of fixing the system if ti goes bonkers by having / be 128MB

Re: Americas army

Paul William wrote: Hi all I downloaded and installed Americas army. When I run it I get the following error: open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out. History: Exiting due to error I am running unstable with the official nvidia drivers. What can

Re: Web server Partitions - swap

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > SWAP - 1.5GB > > > > Rule of thumb:  1-2x RAM. > > I never understood that rule... In what way does it make sense that I > need more swap because I have more RAM? Seriously, I'd rea

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

Michael D Schleif wrote: Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:16:16:43:11-0500] scribed: Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

Kent West wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard . . . . I can tell you that there are currently unresolvod issues with the timing on an AMD/nForce combination. There are pat

RE: Web server Partitions

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Braxton Neate wrote: > After pondering a few reply's I'm thinking of the following: > /boot - 50MB geez .. that should give you room for about 20-25 kernels > / - 23GB (remembering that /usr & /home etc. will be directory's > underneath this) hummm ... you're asking for t

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:07PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > com> wrote: > > >on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:27:09PM -0800, Raquel Rice ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >net) wrote: > > > >> I have a block of static IPs.

DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:09:18PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:34:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > A mailserver can harm _others_. > > > > I totally agree. Which is why I'm

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

that point is/was not lost on me ... i just did not articulate. At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ca> wrote: >On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:42:07PM -0500, charlie derr wrote: >> Debian User wrote: > >> >maybe i missed something in a previous post... isn't it the purpose >>

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:15:43 -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > * No one should be allowed to eat more than one meal a day. > And no asking for seconds, Oliver. Wesley, I've thoroughly enjoyed the wit which you've brought to this thread. Thank you very much. -- paul P

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:16:16:43:11-0500] scribed: > Patrick Lesslie wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > >> > >>>Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-&-paste?

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:34, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ] > > Did you have a look a Lindows? > > ... and this might be important, too, when mentioning Lindows: Excerpt: - "MICROSOFT BLOCKS DISTRIBUT

Re: password length > 8

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 that works perfect, thanks!. On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:34:02 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0300 > Diego Crivelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I created a user on my woody box with adduser and w

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:42:07PM -0500, charlie derr wrote: > Debian User wrote: > >maybe i missed something in a previous post... isn't it the purpose > >to soecify hosts you are allowing to relay w/ the host_accept_relay > >setting in exim.conf? this will allow you not to be an open relay >

How to combine multiple repositories?

Hi I'm trying to combine several package repositories, some of them are marked as stable, some as unstable. All those repositories contains various versions of some packages. I use origin tag from Release file to pin priorities to packages from this repositories. Here is snippet from my /etc/ap

Re: password length > 8

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0300 Diego Crivelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I created a user on my woody box with adduser and when prompted for > the password I wrote a word with more than 8 characters. But I can > login by supply only the first 8 characters. I tried changing the > 'maxlength'

Next Step web server

Now that I have Debian basic and xwindows going I need to setup the server What I like to do is I have two machines one Debian and one win2000 I like to set-up the Debian as a web server for my win2000 Do you guys have a HOWTO for that or how do I do that? -- Gruessle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: Web server Partitions

David, I tend to agree with you that Adding more partitions, doesn't make the system more manageable. As this is a web server not a shell server with 100's of users. All the important data is in /var. All the important data being websites, logs, MySQL data. The only other important data really is t

password length > 8

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi! I created a user on my woody box with adduser and when prompted for the password I wrote a word with more than 8 characters. But I can login by supply only the first 8 characters. I tried changing the 'maxlength' value on login.defs, didn't

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:43, Kent West wrote: > > This is nearly always a protocol problem. The answer depends on if > you're running gpm or not; I'll assume you're not. Not true! I had the same issue on a optical mouse, on a completely black mouse mat, no gpm installed at all. If this is an o

[Solved] Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

Apparently, _H. S._, on 12/13/03 17:44,typed: Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: The problem seems to be my fonts setup in Debian. I had installed some true type fonts and changed the

Re: xcdroast

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:20:56 -0500, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:17, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > This is what I get. > > > > 1# uname -r > > 2.2.20-idepci > > Was this supposed to be meaningful to someone, or just for fun?

Americas army

Hi all I downloaded and installed Americas army. When I run it I get the following error: open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out. History: Exiting due to error I am running unstable with the official nvidia drivers. What can be done to fix it?

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:48:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > We'll leave it as an exercise for the students to discover why xsane > only works well under su. Neither my Epson 1650U nor my HP PSC 750 requires root under xsane. IJW. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Web server Partitions

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:50PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > SWAP - 1.5GB > > > > Rule of thumb: ?1-2x RAM. > > I never understood that rule... In what way does it make sense that I > need mo

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:32:10 -0500, Antonio Rodr wrote: > I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are > rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason provided, it seems > that some have blocked the ips in my block, or that they are > blocking all dinamic ips. Some isps ar

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

Mark Ferlatte wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0600: I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this: su export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11 xsane exit from script Note: su insists on running from a terminal window. How do

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

"Abhay Watwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harshwardhan/All: > > I made a mistake in my original message. I used the following command to > make linux.bin > dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 > > So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same > error. > > Abh

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

"Abhay Watwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard > drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I > installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine > does not have a floppy d

Re: right kernal for AMD

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:00:00 +0200, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't know what cpu that is but for amd you would want the k6 kernels > for duron and k7 for athelon ..they both want the k7. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Ar

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Debian User wrote: > i have to use a friend's open relay as smarthost to get aol-bound > email off my server. That probably won't work long... Just wait till that server gets on the Open Relay block lists and then nobody'll get your email anymore. Apart from th

Re: Web server Partitions

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > SWAP - 1.5GB > > Rule of thumb:  1-2x RAM. I never understood that rule... In what way does it make sense that I need more swap because I have more RAM? Seriously, I'd really like to understand this. -- --- Magnus von Koeller --- e

Re: Tarballs, backports... and dist-upgrade?

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:10:34AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Hello, > > The topic says it all... > I'm using woody on all machines here. Ofc, I'm tempted to install > backports of some software, or sometimes from tarballs. > > How will this affect the eventual dist-upgrade once sarge g

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 21:56, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > A DDoS attack is something you _want_ to do. You will not do that > accidently. Are you sure? Look at this: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-27.11.03-000/default.shtml [Site's in German, though.] -- --- Magnus von Koeller -

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

Incoming from Debian User: > > or, just tell your friends who are using aol, earthlink, snet, etc. > , that you cannot send email to them because their isp is uptight ... And their ISP is "uptight" because in the past, they've been blacklisted left and right for having _sent_ spam. AOHell has b

Re: Can't mount floppy as USER

Hi Paul, On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 04:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:53:31AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > (remark: I also tried > > /dev/fd0 /floppyautoowner,user,noauto 0 0) > > You want... > >

Re: What is going on here? Re: FW: eject won't work any more

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:03:13 -0500, ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:05:21PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > > > > What is this going on? How come my mail is being forwarded by this > > guy "Sreelal Chandrasenan"? Or is it something to do wi

Re: Nautilus won't die

Em Ter, 2003-12-16 Ãs 17:30, Karsten M. Self escreveu: > on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:34AM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria > Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Nautilus will freeze on all terminals at the same time, and refuse to > > display icons, open windows or refresh already open

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard . . . . I can tell you that there are currently unresolvod issues with the timing on an AMD/nForce combination. There are patches available, b

Custom kernel problems: PCMCIA

I've recently compiled a new kernel to bring woody up to a 2.4.23 kernel. In the process, I lost USB access, and now can't boot with the vortex PCMCIA nic plugged in. Plugging it in prints a message referring to a text file in Document/ that doesn't exist, and no ping returns when pinging a numer

Burning bad CD-RW hangs sys.

Hi list! My Maxwell CD-RW's do not last very long. Got an error running apt-get with one. Still had the .iso file so during the cdrecord run on woody, the light on the CD goes out and you hear him making wheeling noises inside the CD, but the whole system freezes solid. I unplugged the power t

XP-LINUX Dual Boot

Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to

Re: GPM for mouse

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > [...] > | gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal with, > > Care to explain? (I disagree, gpm is a piece of cake) > It does have problems with handling more

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

Kent West wrote: Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard, but this one has this chipset, and that one has that on-board video, and the other one has the other southbridge, etc, and I can't keep one mobo straight from another

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:33:59PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 2:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > Let's turn this around: why should *I* be forced to accept mail > > coming from a dynamic IP, when statistically such mail appears much > > more likely to be spam or vir

Re: xcdroast

Hello Mark Roach (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:17, Gavin Seddon wrote: >> >> This is what I get. >> >> 1# uname -r >> 2.2.20-idepci > > Was this supposed to be meaningful to someone, or just for fun? ;-) It means that he replies to a message, but started a new thread

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-&-paste? Also, which allow searching for text and phrases? xpdf allows cut and paste. It feels funn

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:42:06AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > My mouse is acting funny, jumping not doing what it supposed to do at > all. > Something with the install is wrong I guess, where should I start to > look > > BTW I like to thank everybody > 5th installation and I got it working I GOT

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

Kent West wrote: Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? Ah, looks like http://www.linuxhardware.org/ might be a good starting place. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 2:34 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Di, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Wesley J Landaker um 22:15: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > Don't do somethink risky if you not /really/ need that. And you > > > absolutely don't need a mailser

Problem cross-compiling windows apps from debian, can't link to wxwindows libraries

Hi. I'm trying to build wxwindows apps for windows from debian and I'm having problems linking with the wxwindows libraries. I'm using the wxwindows cvs source,after installing the libraies in /usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/ I have: libwx_base-2.5-i586-mingw32msvc.a libwx_base_net-2.5-i586-mi

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 2:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:34:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > A mailserver can harm _others_. > > > > I totally agree. Which is why I'm all for only allowing arb

Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard, but this one has this chipset, and that one has that on-board video, and the other one has the other southbridge, etc, and I can't keep one mobo straight from another. If there's som

Re: loopback interface down - solved

* A.L.Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-16 12:56]: > Thanks a million, Lou! You're a genius. Small cause, big effect. > Whew! Did you post a bug report to the inetutils-tools packagers? > No cause as far as I could tell the inetutils-tools package was from unstable which means it can't be tru

Re: Debian Box and ADSL

Hi! [First of all don't send me questions privately. I think there are more people who would like to know the answers to your questions since no question is unique and the list archives are public searchable ;-)] On Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 09:21:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > It is working. User

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