Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 4:07 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Games. Most games are still written for Windows. It is changing > somewhat now (with UT, NWN and others being made for Linux as well). > But, it will still be a long time in coming before that aspect > changes. To be fair, you're

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
Aparenty Zaine is Kibo or something. All his screenshots are of porn. The mystery evolves: The Revised Standard Version is not distributed with any Linux software, or Windows Freeware, but the Oxford text is available from Oxford at: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/textinfo/1061.html and in another form

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-15 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
The only problem I can report with Dell will probably have nothing to affect you at all. My Dell experience has been with the PowerEdge servers which I've recently found an issue with GRUB installation from the boot CD when writing to a RAID5 array. Anyone else working with a RAID

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Siju George
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:07:43 -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just submitted a feedback on the e-Sword website. I encouraged > Rick to consider making the software available under an open > source license and even offered my help to port the software. > Hopefully this will

simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? Looking at "practicing" getting one installed, for future reference. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 180

Re: can't initially log in through KDM anymore [FIXED]

2004-12-15 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Removed KDM through synaptic (complete removal) and re-installed to get it to function again. -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tempor

yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:02:39AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > http://www.anova.org/software/ This is just bizarre. "Zaine Ridling, Ph.D." is listed as the "editor" in the PDF file. This same twit who put together this list of his favorite Closed Source applications and linked to the porn

OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:32:33AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > http://www.anova.org/sev/ > (The Koran will be up there "in a while" -- too) I don't know what to make of the link at the bottom of the page: http://www.anova.org/software/ which goes on to talk about Windows Software and then li

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-15 Thread Skylar Thompson
Norbert Gruener wrote: It's kernel 2.4.27 which is part of Sarge. Weird. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop with a Broadcom 4400 running Debian Woody with the v2.4. I'll see if I can take a look at the boot sequence when she's in town next week, and let you know what I see. I don't remember s

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-15 Thread Norbert Gruener
On Thu, Dec 16 2004, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Norbert Gruener wrote: > > > >My question is why do I get the message "No MIT transceiver present" > >right after the booting? > > > >This behavior makes it impossible to detect if I am hooked to the > >network and automatically startup my ethernet inte

What happened to kdebase-libs on Sarge?

2004-12-15 Thread Midnight
I'm running Debian Sarge and recently upgraded to KDE 3.2.3. As a consequence my sound no longer works. It is apparently looking for libkcm_arts.la which is part of Debian stable release and I'm on the testing release. Googling has not provided an answer. Linuxquestions.org and KDE bugs have been

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:14:29AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Again, this is not "all the scholarly Bible Research there is" -- > > this is "All the Public Domain scholarly Bible Reserach there is." Hoorah! The Oxford Text

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:36PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I'll have to start experimenting with Wine and see if I can get e-Sword > to work under it. According to the WINE application database, it works partially, but you need a Windows box to actually install it. http://appdb.winehq

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-15 Thread Vikas B N
Ed Sutherland wrote: Hi All, 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux using yaboot, or will I need to go through some BIOS mumbo-jumbo? i have no idea about yaboot, but grub or lilo will do fine. you could even try out xosl. 2) Does Debian support the Dell flatscreen

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Again, this is not "all the scholarly Bible Research there is" -- > this is "All the Public Domain scholarly Bible Reserach there is." Yeah, the more I look at this, the more I realize that both are presenting the same public domai

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:36PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > >>The one program I have found so far that I can't find anything even > >>close to in a Debian package is e-Sword, a Bible study package > >>packaged only for Windows. All the "Sword Data" is released under GPL: http://www.cros

Printing to smb shared printer on windows network

2004-12-15 Thread Vikas B N
Hi All, I am running debian sid at office. However, the only thing that I havent yet got to work is printing over the network. My requirement is to print to a printer which is smb shared. I have googled around. I know that the printing works from Linux because previously I ran Mandrake and i

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Check: bibletime, gnomesword, sword-comm-mhcc, sword-comm-pers, sword-dict-naves, sword-text-web, bible-kjv You can also try running e-Sword in WINE. -Roberto Sanchez Thanks to all who replied. Unfortunately I've looked at the programs available in De

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread ocl
William Ballard wrote on 2004-12-16 07:31: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:13:18AM +0200, ocl wrote: This opinion of mine will be valid (AFAIC) until a) there is a way to authenticate these PnP devices b) someone comes up a workable solution that enables per-user authorization for these PnP devices [i

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm basically a Debian noob yet. I've learned a lot in the last few months, but still have a long way to go. Especially in learning what all is available and possible in Debian. I have almost completely gone away from Windows for my desktop OS.

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Mart van de Wege
Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys, > > Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / hotplug > issues, getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, alsaconf, XF86Config-4 > etc. This was all to get a digicam and a flashdrive to be useful, or > to make sound/video work. >

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:13:18AM +0200, ocl wrote: > This opinion of mine will be valid (AFAIC) until > > a) there is a way to authenticate these PnP devices > > b) someone comes up a workable solution that enables per-user >authorization for these PnP devices [in a single-sign-on >envi

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread ocl
You should not use Debian. Find a less geek-oriented distro. We won't mind. Honestly. Heh heh - I was waiting for an email like this. Et tu, Ron? ;) First off, I was talking about a distro that non-techies could use. My initial inquiry was (to paraphrase): Is the need for manual configurat

Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
Boy, BootCD is one superslick package. Used it with a debootstrap chroot. It just works, seriously. I might finally be able to give my friends and family a LiveCD that will entice them to switch. A Kernel that works just for them, Fluxbox, Firefox, MPlayer, Java, OpenOffice, Eclipse, all gus

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-15 Thread Skylar Thompson
Norbert Gruener wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a "Samsung X10plus" laptop with the builtin ethernet interface >"Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT". I am running the "Sarge" snapshot from >Dec 5th. > >I have my laptop connected to the ethernet before I start booting. >After I had booted my system I submit the

raid Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> development:/etc# cat raidtab > >> raiddev /dev/md0 > >> raid-level 1 > >> nr-raid-disks 2 notice ... level 1 and number of devices > mdadm --stop /dev/md0; mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc not good ..

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:30 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Hi All, > > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > have some questions: > > 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Wednesday, 15 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >hi ya harland > >On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> development:/etc# cat raidtab >> raiddev /dev/md0 >> raid-level 1 >> nr-raid-disks 2 >> nr-spare-disks 0 >> ch

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya harland On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > development:/etc# cat raidtab > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > nr-spare-disks 0 > chunk-size 4 > persistent-superblock 1 > device /dev/hd

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joao On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > Image you're using software raid and 1 disk fails. You somehow get > alerted and , AFAIK, you > 1 - shutdown the machine (ok, this if you don't have a hot-swap system) > 2 - remove the failed disk > 3 - insert a new, "fresh-from-the-store"

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread SJS
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christian Convey wrote: > Hi guys, > Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / > hotplug issues, getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, > alsaconf, XF86Config-4 etc. This was all to get a digicam > and a flashdrive to be useful, or to make sound/video > work

Debian and Dell?

2004-12-15 Thread Ed Sutherland
Hi All, I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I have some questions: 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux using yaboot, or will I need to go through some BIOS mumbo-jumbo? 2)

RE: Installing Nvidia Drivers in Sarge(Solved)

2004-12-15 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Running the default installer with the -ae (expert mode) switch worked . (BThanks (B (B- (B .''`. Toufeeq Hussain (B: :' : Debian-Sarge User (B`. `'` Infosys,Chennai (B `- (B-- (B (B (B> -Origina

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:48:20PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Just out of curiousity, when was it published? I was under the > impression that most accepted serious biblical commentaries were > written long ago enough that they had passed into the public > domain. In the 1950s. I don't know

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:19:31PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I have almost completely gone away from Windows for my desktop OS. The > one program I have found so far that I can't find anything even close to > in a Debian package is e-Sword, a Bible study package packaged only for > Wind

RE: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > but, what if i write a file to /dev/hda6 (/home), then i mount /dev/hdc6 > to /mnt/hdc6 ... should i see the newly written file in the same > place on /mnt/hdc6 as was written on /dev/hda6 ? given that raid is confusing ... do NOT, do NO

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: | I'm basically a Debian noob yet. I've learned a lot in the last few | months, but still have a long way to go. Especially in learning what all | is available and possible in Debian. | | I have almost completely gone away from

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Nate Duehr
Christian Convey wrote: I'd really like to advocate Linux more to friends and family, but I just don't feel like I can recommend the OS to non-techies until dealing with hardware gets easier. A number of good other comments I agree with on this thread. An additional comment: Anyone wishing to fun

Re: complaints when gnome-based packages are upgraded.

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:45:16PM -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: > Recently, every time when I upgrade or install a package on a sarge box, > an annoying message always pops up: > > ** (process:9094): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 > (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion > `e

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: What I'd like is the Oxford Press Version of the Revised Standard Edition, which is a copyrighted work but the preferred text for scholars. Just out of curiousity, when was it published? I was under the impression that most accepted serious biblical commentaries were writt

complaints when gnome-based packages are upgraded.

2004-12-15 Thread Xinjiang Lu
Recently, every time when I upgrade or install a package on a sarge box, an annoying message always pops up: ** (process:9094): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed bt

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/12/04 21:11,typed: Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/12/04 20:57,typed: Apparently, _Thomas Adam_, on 15/12/04 19:42,typed: --- "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I change their permissions to root:cdrom and reboot, the permissions again are set to root:disk. Remove 'disc

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve Lamb wrote: * A machine whose sole purpose is to host UMLs being the one case I can think of that would require the OS to not use cache. This is because the UMLs themselves are caching the files thus there is no need for the host OS to cache the same files. Uggh... I ran into that when expe

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Wednesday, 15 December 2004, you wrote: >On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > >> Ok, Alvin, as far as I understand when you said at the top "for sanity >> ... i always fdisk the new disk to be the same as the remaining disk" >> you mean limiting it's size, as you say here at last few

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm basically a Debian noob yet. I've learned a lot in the last few months, but still have a long way to go. Especially in learning what all is available and possible in Debian. I have almost completely gone away from Windows for my desktop OS. The one program I have

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-15 Thread ghcbc
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:36:26PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: [snip] > > ... and I had to use acroread to convert the PDF to PS before using it. [snip] > I suspect the problems with pstoedit had more to do with acroread's > conversion to PS, but I'm not sure. [snip] Let me preface my sugges

e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I'm basically a Debian noob yet. I've learned a lot in the last few months, but still have a long way to go. Especially in learning what all is available and possible in Debian. I have almost completely gone away from Windows for my desktop OS. The one program I have found so far that I can't

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/12/04 20:57,typed: Apparently, _Thomas Adam_, on 15/12/04 19:42,typed: --- "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I change their permissions to root:cdrom and reboot, the permissions again are set to root:disk. Remove 'discover'. -- Thomas Adam Did that. Removed: libdis

Re: Prefer to use chroot without using login

2004-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > recommends using login to chroot because otherwise "lots of > environment varibles" are left around and has "other issues." /bin/su - should be just as good. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows - kernels

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 2:51 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > when you play with linux, you have 2**N possible kernels > > > where "N" is the various modules that is turned on or off > > > > No, still one kernel, different drivers. > > i suppose, i

Re: scary mmap output in syslog ....

2004-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Walter Tautz wrote: > Bad page state at prep_new_page (in process 'cron_idreg', page c19a29c8) I haven't read the other messages, so please excuse me if I am repeating what others already said. Test your memory using memtest86+ for at least 24h, immediately. If you have appl

Prefer to use chroot without using login

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
8.6.35.2 at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot recommends using login to chroot because otherwise "lots of environment varibles" are left around and has "other issues." I don't want to switch to a different TTY to mess with my chroot. I want to use it in an X-Term

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Thomas Adam_, on 15/12/04 19:42,typed: --- "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I change their permissions to root:cdrom and reboot, the permissions again are set to root:disk. Remove 'discover'. -- Thomas Adam Did that. Removed: libdiscover2, discover, discover-data. This had no

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > Ok, Alvin, as far as I understand when you said at the top "for sanity > ... i always fdisk the new disk to be the same as the remaining disk" > you mean limiting it's size, as you say here at last few lines, right? i manually partition the new disk

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Viktor Horvath
From: Christian Convey [...] By "easier" I mean, for instance: - All digital photo apps are able to see a camera. Wait a minute. This is a new demand. Here you can see how Debian differs from the mentioned "non-geek" distros, and I'll try to explain that there is no arrogance in this distinction.

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread feanor7
Thanks to Roberto and Adam. The suggested changes under my sources.list will be done right now. feanor7 Em Qua, 2004-12-15 às 22:19, Adam Aube escreveu: > feanor7 wrote: > > > Actually my servers have cron-apt installed and every night they do > > "apt-get update". At morning I check the possibl

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Thursday, 16 December 2004, you wrote: >Thanks for the reply, but I still haven't cleared my doubt. >I'll cut the relevant part of the reply (relevant for what I'm trying to >understand) and comment at the end: > *snip* you mention mirroring partions. i have the entire disk mirrored, not th

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Joao Clemente
Harland Christofferson wrote: [snip] but, what if i write a file to /dev/hda6 (/home), then i mount /dev/hdc6 to /mnt/hdc6 ... should i see the newly written file in the same place on /mnt/hdc6 as was written on /dev/hda6 ? Yo Harland, you're getting all messed up For what I've understood,

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Joao Clemente
Thanks for the reply, but I still haven't cleared my doubt. I'll cut the relevant part of the reply (relevant for what I'm trying to understand) and comment at the end: Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: Image you're using software raid and 1 disk fails. You somehow get a

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 10:56, Christian Convey wrote: > Hi guys, > > Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / hotplug issues, > getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, alsaconf, XF86Config-4 etc. > This was all to get a digicam and a flashdrive to be useful, or to make > soun

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread Rob Bochan
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:10 pm, feanor7 wrote: > But when the great day arrives, and sarge becomes stable, what will > happens when "apt-get dist-upgrade" runs? I'm afraid that all systems > will be forced to a massive software upgrade (kernel-image, mysql, exim > ...) and some incompatibl

Re: Trackball Problems

2004-12-15 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, tech wrote: > I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel > Trackball. > As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. > Any help would be appretiated. > > I have the same trackball and it works fine, including the wheel

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I change their permissions to root:cdrom and reboot, the permissions > again are set to root:disk. Remove 'discover'. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.ne

RE: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Wednesday, 15 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> I am curious about how to know if it is working. If cat-ting /proc/mdstat >> is knowing all about the raid array, then so-be-it. > >when you think its working .. > >p

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Wednesday, 15 December 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >hi ya joao > >On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > >> Image you're using software raid and 1 disk fails. You somehow get >> alerted and , AFAIK, you >> 1 - shutdown the machine (ok, this if you don't have a hot-swap

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread Adam Aube
feanor7 wrote: > Actually my servers have cron-apt installed and every night they do > "apt-get update". At morning I check the possible changes and decide > which packages should be upgraded. Most of time I do a "apt-get > dist-upgrade" and life continues. > My /etc/apt/sources.list points to st

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
feanor7 wrote: Hi, I have some Debian Woody servers running in production environment. All is going fine and I'm very happy with Debian. I'm following the sarge progress and that is the reason of my question. Actually my servers have cron-apt installed and every night they do "apt-get update". At m

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:51:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file > > from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start > > responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but the happiness > > didnt last

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:26 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:34:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:24 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses? > > > > You can't. By

Trackball Problems

2004-12-15 Thread bill
I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel Trackball. As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. Any help would be appretiated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Adam Aube
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: > how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses? > > i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but > after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system > virtually unusable and i got to umount/mount the drive to > keep working You don't say

What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread feanor7
Hi, I have some Debian Woody servers running in production environment. All is going fine and I'm very happy with Debian. I'm following the sarge progress and that is the reason of my question. Actually my servers have cron-apt installed and every night they do "apt-get update". At morning I check

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Robert Parker wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:28, Christian Convey wrote: But to be fair, that hasn't been my experience with Windows XP at all. So I'm doubtful that the users' simplicity offered by Windows has crashiness as a necessary consequence. To be equally fair, Windows XP is a lot m

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Robert Parker wrote: My son installed the next but latest Suse. It does just work so far as it is concerned but it will give trouble if you are dual booting Windows. It leaves the Windows partition unbootable because it rewrites the CHS record to something Windows doesn't like. Likewise Fedora 2

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: Operating on huge files will always cause the kind of problems you describe. Why? Because when you run the cp (or dd or what- ever) command, the OS takes and starts loading that file into cache, while writing it out to the destination. So what? The Last In, First Out algorith

Trackball Problems

2004-12-15 Thread tech
I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel Trackball. As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. Any help would be appretiated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

how to set GS_FONTPATH or how do i get rid of /invalidfont?

2004-12-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i am still trying to get my Aculaser C4100 working, and since only cvs esp Ghostscript supports it (at least i hope the font problem as shown in http://bboett.free.fr/scan.jpg is due to the gs driver...) i compiled a new gs... compiling went fine, installation too, no noticable errors,

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Joao Clemente
Alvin Oga wrote: if you have to touch the keyboard to make it work, than its NOT working only "cat /proc/mdstat" is allowed any other raid commands says the raid is not working c ya alvin Hi Alvin. I'm just wondering this: Is this true for software RAID aswell? My doubt is about so

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Robert Parker
On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:02, Christian Convey wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You should have a go at Mandrake, never had any problem with recongnizing > > hardware. Very good for easy-peasy installations and for friends and > > family who do not want to have hassle. > > Thanks, I'll l

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Robert Parker
On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:28, Christian Convey wrote: > > > But to be fair, that hasn't been my experience with Windows XP at all. > So I'm doubtful that the users' simplicity offered by Windows has > crashiness as a necessary consequence. To be equally fair, Windows XP is a lot more difficu

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:26:14PM +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: > At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file > from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start > responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but the happiness > didnt la

xml viewer?

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of xml documents... thx,m matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

Re: M$ Frontpage Replacement ?

2004-12-15 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 22:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 1:22 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:20:27AM +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: >> > I have heard about quanta but I want to update >> > my knowldge that there are more options. >> >> There's a

Re: Sun (was Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows)

2004-12-15 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Sam Watkins wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:55:55PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: being GPL is "dangerous" ... the big boyz with $$$ can do and will do what they want with all the (free) r/d work for the past few decades Huh? I thought the GPL was s

RE: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > I am curious about how to know if it is working. If cat-ting /proc/mdstat > is knowing all about the raid array, then so-be-it. when you think its working .. power down .. pull one disk out ... power up .. write a 2GB or 4GB file on

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:34:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:24 +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses? > > You can't. By design, it's totally dynamic. > > > i'm using an external usb hd for playing

Re: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd?

2004-12-15 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:12 -0500, Charles Read wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I just installed Debian and I can't figure out how to start and stop > sshd. I have tried all the 'usual' stuff to no avail. Any help? /etc/init.d/ssh start /etc/init.d/ssh stop By the way, what is the "usual" stuff??

OT: Windows XP theme

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:00 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > I thought Win2k was *very* easy to install. It's the best version > of Windows I've used: it fixed the bugs in NT4, without adding > the cheesy GUI of XP. You do know you can turn on Classic view in that case, right? Usually the fir

RE: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Thursday, 16 December 2004, "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] nz> wrote: >mdstat shows quite well that all the disks are on line, or not, it is >simple and effective IMHO. > >When you mount one side of the mirror you may actually be corrupting it. >possibly preventing it being written to

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-15 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very mozilla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun (was Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows)

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:55:55PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > being GPL is "dangerous" ... the big boyz with $$$ can do and will > > do what they want with all the (free) r/d work for the past few decades > > Huh? I thought the GPL was supposed to prot

Re: 2-D Drawing Programs ?

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am looking for a 2-D drawing program which includes the ability to > select an object, display its dimensions and anchor point and edit these > values from the keyboard. I have tried several and tgif comes the > closest with an option to peek

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-15 Thread Roel Schroeven
Norbert Gruener wrote: Hi all, I have a "Samsung X10plus" laptop with the builtin ethernet interface "Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT". I am running the "Sarge" snapshot from Dec 5th. I have my laptop connected to the ethernet before I start booting. After I had booted my system I submit the command

Re: Installing on an Abit AN7

2004-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Beattie wrote: I am trying to install on an abit AN7 and I cant get the network card to work. I think I remember having it working before on this computer, but I think that was on a custom kernel that I dont have. And I dont have a way to get any kernel sources or anything without the ne

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows - kernels

2004-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > > when you play with linux, you have 2**N possible kernels > > where "N" is the various modules that is turned on or off > > No, still one kernel, different drivers. i suppose, in my view, "one linux kernel", but with the gazillion modules, which make

2-D Drawing Programs ?

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas H. George
I am looking for a 2-D drawing program which includes the ability to select an object, display its dimensions and anchor point and edit these values from the keyboard. I have tried several and tgif comes the closest with an option to peek at these values but I have not found a way to edit them

Re: M$ Frontpage Replacement ?

2004-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 1:22 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:20:27AM +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > > I have heard about quanta but I want to update > > my knowldge that there are more options. > > There's also bluefish. > http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ How does Bluefish

RE: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd?

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Jones
I would suggest, /etc/init.d/ssh restart or /etc/init.d/ssh stop ; /etc/init.d/ssh start regards Thing -Original Message- From: Hanspeter Kunz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 11:21 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd? On

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:34 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 12:01 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christian Convey wrote: > > > > > I don't think I agree. I'm talking about cases where a good driver > > > exists in both Windows and Linux. My questio

Niet op de VU

2004-12-15 Thread via the vacation program
Ik ben tot 6 januari 2005 niet op de VU! Voor vragen over de opleiding Aardwetenschappen en Geoarcheologie, kijk eerst goed op: http://www.falw.vu.nl/aardwetenschappen http://www.falw.vu.nl/geoarcheologie Als de antwoorden daar niet opstaan, kun je mailen met studenten Wisse Beets ([EMAIL PROTEC

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