Re: Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:57:38PM +0100, talie-18 wrote: > I want to instal colinux with debian could you please help me I am > using a windows 2000 pro it seems like the image file doesn't load I > want to use linux I have been trying for 2 weeks now this sucks but I > am not giving up What vers

Re: chroot: login console does not ask root password

2004-12-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Victor Munoz wrote: > > Hello. I've been playing with chroot + debootstrap to have some sid > environment in my woody machine, following the suggestions in > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html > > I got to the point of setting up login for chroo

Re: chroot: login console does not ask root password

2004-12-28 Thread Andreas Klein
> I got to the point of setting up login for chroot (Sec. 8.6.35.2). > tty8 is available now for login, but surprinsingly, I type root, and > I am logged in without password. I have created a normal user in the sid > environment, and when I try to login as such in tty8, I am asked for the > pass

chroot: login console does not ask root password

2004-12-28 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. I've been playing with chroot + debootstrap to have some sid environment in my woody machine, following the suggestions in http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html I got to the point of setting up login for chroot (Sec. 8.6.35.2). tty8 is available now for login, but

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Pascal Bonesh
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote: Your religious-right-wing crap belongs off-list, this is about debian and linux. I can understand how people cannot let statements like yours, full of prejudice and racism, stand not contradicted - tolerance is good, except towards the

Re: Wayward syslog items

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:48:11PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My syslog has failed items for pppd and chat. Just fine since I have > no pppd connection and no chat. Question is why I am getting this? I > did not see anything appropriate in /etc/init.d. Strangely enough I have the same thing happe

Re: ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-28 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
From: Alex Malinovic ncftp2 is the old ncftp client which many people really liked to use in scripts (a la wget). ncftp (3.x+) is a rewrite which focuses on using ncftp as a client application, not an automated scripting tool. If you prefer a CLI ftp client to a GUI like I do, ncftp (3.x+) is

Re: Installation

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:54:37PM +1300, YH wrote: > 1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor > is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found > the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I > selected S3virge driver. I

Re: jpeg package

2004-12-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:28 pm, YH wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry, I am new to debian, where can I found jpeg package from the 8 > CDs? I've read the FAQ, seems the command to install a binary package > is "dpkg -i libjpeg", is it right? > > Thank you in advance. > > Peace. > > Yuja I would u

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.28.1924 +0100]: > The closest thing we have in stock would be a $32 USB-to-USB > network adapter. I see this as having several drawbacks: I don't > know if they work in Linux, and we have 5-port Ethernet switches > for $2 more. Also, not ever

Re: jpeg package

2004-12-28 Thread YH
Hello, Sorry, I am new to debian, where can I found jpeg package from the 8 CDs? I've read the FAQ, seems the command to install a binary package is "dpkg -i libjpeg", is it right? Thank you in advance. Peace. Yuja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > The University of Northern Colorado [UNC] intramural basketball team is named > the Fighting Whities (aka the Fighting Whites That's intramural. There's a lot of ridiculous intramural names. It don't mean a whole lot. The official ma

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread saravanan ganapathy
My arch is 686 only. 686-smp testing version only supports highmem support. I 've installed kernel-image-2.4.18-smp (stable) which doesn't support highmem support Sarav --- Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 27 December 2004 8:15 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, I do. I still think it was stupid. Just name their new baseball > team the Washington Honky's and call it even. 8:o) The University of Northern Colorado [UNC] intramural basketball team is named the Fighting Whities (aka the F

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: [snip nested attributions, correctly I hope] > > Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is > > installed (on 2.6.8, as it happens), it will never get an upgrade to > > 2.6.9 (once it is rele

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 07:23:51PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, dorn hetzel wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:33:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > What the heck, I ordered a couple different cards to play with, > > just in case :) > > hopefully, you didnt get the

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Aube
Paul Gear wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Paul Gear wrote: >>>A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new >>>kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing >>>kernel-image package installed as well? >> ... >> If you are asking whether you can install (for

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Brad Sims
Try Mondorescue... It works great, and is GPL. -- Opium is the religion of the atheist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:58:38AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > It does have one or two negative references to Jews, as I have already said. > I can not recall anything negative in regard to Christians. > Please provide a reference. I didn't record the passage, and I don't want

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-28 Thread Katipo
Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with > the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. 2. Christians who commit > terrorist acts are in direct opposition to the Bible a

Re: [OT] Big Open Roads (Was: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 22:06 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Nate Duehr wrote: > > > >> Nothing like the exact same view for 8 or more hours of driving. ;-) > > > > > > I-10 across the southwest. *blink, blink* > > > > My favorite was coming west into Texas on I-10.

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Katipo
William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > >> I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to >> Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, >> now he

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Nicolas de Sereville_, on 28/12/04 08:33,typed: I installed the kernel 2.6.9 through "apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.9-1-k7", but nothing is changing. When I plug in my stick and camera, the devices nodes are created in /dev but the devices are not mounted, neither as a user nor a

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 22:08 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Sam Watkins wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >>>The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium > >>>"dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, > >> > >>Cite? Ou

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Katipo
William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:17:47AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:22 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --snip-- > >> The difference is this: >> >> 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with >> the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. I

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, dorn hetzel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:33:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > What the heck, I ordered a couple different cards to play with, > just in case :) hopefully, you didnt get the manufacturer's that decided to honour the broadcast flag early :-) i'm curi

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: The difference is this: 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to the Bible and the Wo

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:18:19PM -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > I'll follow this thread with interest! > > I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great > for > games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's HDTV > via DISH-TV or DirecTV o

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:33:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 13:39]: > > > most cards after Dec 31, 2004 will no longer be legally able to > > > record hdtv signals ( silly broadcast flag by the broadcast in

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Sam Watkins wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium "dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, Cite? Outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't recall a detonation of any atomic or nuclear

Re: [OT] Big Open Roads (Was: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: Nothing like the exact same view for 8 or more hours of driving. ;-) I-10 across the southwest. *blink, blink* My favorite was coming west into Texas on I-10. A helpful trucker was giving his list of bears. He ended with "And one at mile-marker 3."

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
ABrady wrote: I don't care about the OT stuff, except when it goes political. It sickens me that so much uninformed claptrap is spewed based solely on emotion, lack of coherent thought, and on complete and utter sheep mentality. It wasn't that the topic had gone OT on the other list I left, it was

Re: bootsplash + debian Sid kernel 2.6.9 (initrd problem?)

2004-12-28 Thread Brian Pack
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 02:45 +0100, Gael wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian-kernel 2.6.9 and I try to use bootsplash. The > framebuffer is ok (vesafb 1024x768x16). Bootsplash works > anytime but at boot-time (each console has a picture and the > first console has an animation at shutdown-time.). Howe

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 13:39]: > > most cards after Dec 31, 2004 will no longer be legally able to > > record hdtv signals ( silly broadcast flag by the broadcast industry ) > > According to the EFF, the cutoff is actually July 2005, s

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 07:44:04PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:58 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Finally, a topic I'm qualified to speak on (living in northeast Nebraska and > all that). I've never been on I-80 west of Lincoln - is it really *that* > bad? As a fai

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to > > Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, now > > he doesn't because they m

Re: Moving from Woody to Sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:10:26PM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > Question from a newbie. I am currently using 3.0r1(Woody) and would > like to move to Sarge soon. I had to use a specific xserver-mach4 for > my ATI card. > > If I use Apt to do the upgrade to Sarge, do I need to re-do my xserver > or tha

Re: [OT] Weather Monitoring?

2004-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 28 17:44 -0600]: > Hi! > > This isn't really debian specific. > > Has anybody any experience with weather monitoring? > > I'm basically looking for some hardware to interface with my linux > system and so on. > > Any pointers as to what kind of har

Re: Problem with network after new kernel tryout

2004-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:46:07 +0200 (EET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when I booted It didn't work: > When I booted I got graphical login screen where I entered > username and password, but right after that I got error > saying something like: > Xsession lasted less than 10 s

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:34:36 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do I need hotplug installed for the kernel to see the drive? It's > > currently not installed. > > no, you shouldnt (although it is a good package), instead try a > different kernel. (either compile your own from

Fwd: its a matter of ssh and its not working for me

2004-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:56:01 -0700, Kent Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well sorta not working > > I have some automatic login stuff I want to do with rsync,etc.. one machine > works the others (recent installs) do not > > heres the rundown > I have the public keys placed in remote machines

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:20:36 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ABrady wrote: > > I came here to read, and maybe ask questions or provide answers, > > about linux. Anybody know anything about that? > > Sure. And to answer your question... > > Click on Configuration > Click on Fi

bootsplash + debian Sid kernel 2.6.9 (initrd problem?)

2004-12-28 Thread Gael
Hi, I have a debian-kernel 2.6.9 and I try to use bootsplash. The framebuffer is ok (vesafb 1024x768x16). Bootsplash works anytime but at boot-time (each console has a picture and the first console has an animation at shutdown-time.). However there's nothing during the boot on the first console. He

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:58 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: Finally, a topic I'm qualified to speak on (living in northeast Nebraska and all that). I've never been on I-80 west of Lincoln - is it really *that* bad? As a fairly new resident of the state I'm not too well acquainted with the south

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to > Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, now > he doesn't because they messed up. God used to like Christians, now > he doesn't because they

Re: Strange LVM on RAID Behaviour with Sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Gear
Lucas Barbuto wrote: on 29/12/04 00:58, Leni Mayo wrote: Lucas Barbuto wrote: > ... > I get this error at the top of dmesg (repeated many times): > >> devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc I saw the same error message on a sarge installation with a 2

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the > teachings of Mohammed and Islam. > 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to > the Bible and the Word of

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-28 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > >The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium > >"dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, > > Cite? Outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't recall a > detonation of any atomic or nuclear dev

Re: Strange LVM on RAID Behaviour with Sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Lucas Barbuto
on 29/12/04 11:46, Lucas Barbuto wrote: > What about installing udev as a replacement for devfs? Nevermind, there's nothing on my Sarge system related to devfs, so I guess it's only in the kernel. Perhaps a custom built kernel is the only way to avoid these messages? Or I can wait for Debian's 2

[OT] Big Open Roads (Was: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Duehr wrote: Nothing like the exact same view for 8 or more hours of driving. ;-) I-10 across the southwest. *blink, blink* My favorite was coming west into Texas on I-10. A helpful trucker was giving his list of bears. He ended with "And one at mile-marker 3." I quickly replie

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
ABrady wrote: I came here to read, and maybe ask questions or provide answers, about linux. Anybody know anything about that? Sure. And to answer your question... Click on Configuration Click on Filtering Click on "Define" on the Condition line. Match type: Subject Value: \[OT\]|\[.*off topic.

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Darryl Clarke wrote: As for timeframe into when 1.0 will be in... I have no idea. It's suprisingly not even in Unstable yet... The maintainer has 1.0 on his private repository presently and is working on getting it into unstable soon. Ah, here's the message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-use

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 13:39]: > > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, jeff elkins wrote: > > > I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great > > for > > games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's > > HDTV > > via DISH-TV or Direc

Re: Strange LVM on RAID Behaviour with Sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Lucas Barbuto
on 29/12/04 00:58, Leni Mayo wrote: > Lucas Barbuto wrote: > > ... > > I get this error at the top of dmesg (repeated many times): > > > >> devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to > parent for /disc > > I saw the same error message on a sarge installation with a 2.

[OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 15:01]: > There is *no* good way to cross Nebraska. SWA #2062 crosses over its length in about an hour on the way from MDW to OAK =) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, t

Re: Installation

2004-12-28 Thread Kent West
YH wrote: 1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I selected S3virge driver. I am not sure that caused the problem or not, how c

Re: Installation

2004-12-28 Thread YH
Thanks Kent, I am using vim, it has been installed. Now, there are two other problems: 1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Adam Funk wrote: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386 kernel-image-2.

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: "hda: lost interrupt".

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Funk
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the > > 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: > > > > kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 > > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386 > > kerne

its a matter of ssh and its not working for me

2004-12-28 Thread Kent Andersen
well sorta not working I have some automatic login stuff I want to do with rsync,etc.. one machine works the others (recent installs) do not heres the rundown I have the public keys placed in remote machines under the correct user account .ssh/ etc.. both sshd_conf files are identical (machines

Re: [Way off topic] babble babble bubble

2004-12-28 Thread John Hasler
Please stop changing the subject of this thread. It makes it hard to keep it killfiled. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread ABrady
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:02:44 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, folks; perhaps it's time to start tapering off (or quitting > cold-turkey) with this very off-topic, non-Debian-related thread? > > -- > Kent Amen! I already unsubscribed from one group when this sort of crap star

[OT] Weather Monitoring?

2004-12-28 Thread Darryl Clarke
Hi! This isn't really debian specific. Has anybody any experience with weather monitoring? I'm basically looking for some hardware to interface with my linux system and so on. Any pointers as to what kind of hardware there is out there that can hookup to a PC would be wonderful. Please reply

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:42:56PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > > Of course, the keypunch was the true first object oriented > programming tool :) I had tons of reusable code objects, > wrapped in rubberbands, filed in cabinets :) Fortran made it > nice and easy to re-tool the subroutine stateme

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:45 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > > > checkout my picture: > > > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian

Re: Correct syntax for mkinitrd command?

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Vangel
If "the debian way" isn't your preferred cup of tea (so you can also use it for future systems which may not be debian..) I have always used what was in the original email [mkinitrd -k -o /boot/initrd-2.6.9_custom.img -r /dev/hda4 2.6.9custom] And I compile the root fs (actually, I do all fs's but

Re: names good for marketing

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:45 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 at 18:12:18 +, Sam Watkins wrote: > > > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named > > > > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. > > > > > > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:45 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > > checkout my picture: > > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png > Thanks, but I cannot access the above picture

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 12:42 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I prefer AMD and "open" drivers (sorry, nVidia), > > Please email nVidia as well about this, they need to know they're losing > customers because of retarded licensing. I wou

[WOT] Big, Open Roads (was Re: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:36 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * dorn hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 28 16:24 -0600]: > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > > > >Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake > > >

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
dorn hetzel wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! The phrase I-80 strikes terror into the hearts of those who've

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:30 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > --snip-- > > You'll find in really large cities, they run out of loop numbers 2, 4, > > 6, 8 and have to change the last two digits. Chicago is an example of > > this, if I remember correctly.

Re: running Debian on a nokia cell phone?

2004-12-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rainer Bendig aka Ny wrote: > is there any documentation how to run a minimal Debian on a Nokia > 6600? And yes i know that this is a silly idea :-) And I know it that > i'll maybe loose the possibility to make calls with the cell phone ^^. i think everybody has a few cell p

names good for marketing

2004-12-28 Thread Mauro Darida
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 at 18:12:18 +, Sam Watkins wrote: > > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named > > > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. > > > > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu." > > I think Ubuntu is a g

names good for marketing

2004-12-28 Thread Mauro Darida
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 at 20:12:43 +, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote: > > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing > > > named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. >

Re: what is experimental?

2004-12-28 Thread Mauro Darida
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > checkout my picture: > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian.png Thanks, but I cannot access the above picture (?) -- On this laptop no Windows system survives and LINUX POWE

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:30 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: --snip-- > You'll find in really large cities, they run out of loop numbers 2, 4, > 6, 8 and have to change the last two digits. Chicago is an example of > this, if I remember correctly. I can't think of any roads that change the last two dig

Re: Exim4 config help request

2004-12-28 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:31:59PM -0500 or thereabouts, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I just installed ProMepis and it installs by default exim4 > SMTP service. I am looking for a simple working configuration for > exim4 (I have been using Sendmail and have tried Postfix too!). > > Requirements is that

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* dorn hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 28 16:24 -0600]: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > >Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake > > >City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! >

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Ed Sutherland
With more than 90 percent of the desktop market, we cannot realistically expect Windows to vanish in the face of Linux. That being the reality, creating a more secure computing environment cannot be accomplished through abandonment -- 'security through obscurity.' Instead, we see that education

Exim4 config help request

2004-12-28 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I just installed ProMepis and it installs by default exim4 SMTP service. I am looking for a simple working configuration for exim4 (I have been using Sendmail and have tried Postfix too!). Requirements is that it should send to and receive from remote domains (office box connected to Internet via

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake > >City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! > > The phrase I-80 strikes terror into the hearts of those who've gone

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 12:42 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > I prefer AMD and "open" drivers (sorry, nVidia), Please email nVidia as well about this, they need to know they're losing customers because of retarded licensing. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/ pg

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake > >City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! > > The phrase I-80 strikes terror into the hearts of those who've gone

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 01:36 pm, Nate Duehr wrote: > Nothing like the exact same view for 8 or more hours of driving. ;-) So, what, like driving I-5 through California, except people speak English? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/ pgpfcZiqC1wY8.pgp De

running Debian on a nokia cell phone?

2004-12-28 Thread Rainer Bendig aka Ny
Hi, is there any documentation how to run a minimal Debian on a Nokia 6600? And yes i know that this is a silly idea :-) And I know it that i'll maybe loose the possibility to make calls with the cell phone ^^. cheers, Rainer -- --

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Gear
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: ... A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? ... If you are asking whether you can install (for instance) kernel 2.6.8, kernel 2.6.9, and kernel 2.

Re: ot, changing screen numbers

2004-12-28 Thread cga2001
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:04:54 +0800, "Robert Vangel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > So now we have: > > 0. bash > 1. irssi > 2. centericq > 3. bash > 4. irssi > > If I close screen 3, is there a way for me to renumber screen 4 back to > 3 (so that if I open another screen, the NEW one will

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, jeff elkins wrote: > I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great > for > games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's HDTV > via DISH-TV or DirecTV or none at all. My understanding is that MythTV and > other linux

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Nate Duehr
Nate Bargmann wrote: Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! The phrase I-80 strikes terror into the hearts of those who've gone East of Cheyenne, Wyoming on it. I thought "I-80" translated to, "oh look

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:18 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 20:58, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > > What are the plans for T-Bird 1.0? I want to make it the company > > standard email tool, but I need some features in 1.0. > > Why do you want to make it the standard too

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Nate Duehr
Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 03:42 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: ObUselessGeographyLesson: East/West numbered high/free-ways in the US are even numbered. North/South are odd numbered. They are numbered low-to-high from south-to-north and west-to-east. Not any more. OR-551 runs nort

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-28 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:18:58 +, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 20:58, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > > What are the plans for T-Bird 1.0? I want to make it the company > > standard email tool, but I need some features in 1.0. > > Why do you want to mak

amanda

2004-12-28 Thread Glenn English
Does anybody here use amanda? On my spanky new Sarge system, apt-get's amanda-server simply doesn't work. It gets installed as user:group backup:backup, and amdump won't run unless the user is amanda. Among other things. Compiling from source (from amanda.org) doesn't work either because .config

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:11:37PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:13:52 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have one of those D-Link USB network interfaces, which are > > wonderful. Plug it in, get a regular 10/100 Ethernet interface, > > supported by Li

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 20:58, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > What are the plans for T-Bird 1.0? I want to make it the company > standard email tool, but I need some features in 1.0. Why do you want to make it the standard tool if you do not know what features it has. Why aren't to evaluat

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread jeff elkins
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 3:42 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > Ok, the time has come for me to build a digital PVR. Based on Debian > and using Libre software, of course. > > I prefer AMD and "open" drivers (sorry, nVidia), can someone suggest a > good quality main board and video card combination? I'v

Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-28 Thread Christopher L. Everett
What are the plans for T-Bird 1.0? I want to make it the company standard email tool, but I need some features in 1.0. -- Christopher L. Everett Chief Technology Officer www.medbanner.com MedBanner, Inc. www.physemp.com -- To U

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:53:21PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Something I proposed a while back: A workable backtracking mechanism in apt. I'll post version 2.0 of my script that does this, with some documentation, here presently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:13:52 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one of those D-Link USB network interfaces, which are > wonderful. Plug it in, get a regular 10/100 Ethernet interface, > supported by Linux and working just fine. However, right now I am in > dire need to estab

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