Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Seeker5528 wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:12:18 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is also puzzling about this is that an entire working directory acts as if corrupted when moved from /root to a regular user's /home directory. I have tried this with 3 different regular us

Re: problem with microphone and alsa -> no sound?

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Martin A. Hansen ha escrit, a 14/05/05 20:48: | hi | | | i cant get my microphone to work with alsa. i need help :o) | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/maasha# dpkg -l |grep alsa | ii alsa-base 1.0.8-7ALSA driver configuration files | ii

proxy in woody

2005-05-14 Thread Brian Martin
Im using ccproxy on a winbox to connect to net. I set up Proxy's in mosiac and can surf the web. I need to set up a proxy in woody to enabe command line prompts ie ping yahoo or Apt-get Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.y

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 17:41: | Jonathan Kaye wrote: | | En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30: | | Is anyone else running across the following problem? | | | | Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for them

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:12:18 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is also puzzling about this is that an entire working directory > acts as if corrupted when moved from /root to a regular user's /home > directory. I have tried this with 3 different regular user accounts >

Re: cdrecord invocation under kernel-2.6.11

2005-05-14 Thread Robert Vangel
Ishwar Rattan wrote: I have a linux box with an IDE cd-rw on secondary master (/dev/hdc), some how cdrecord balks at this device: # cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc cdimage it does not like dev=/dev/hdc, so what is the correct device here? -ishwar This is exactly what I use (including the hdc, but

Configuring X on Intel 82845 gl board

2005-05-14 Thread shatam bhattacharya
Hi,   I am having trouble in configuring X on my system. I am using the following configuration -Intel 82845 GL motherboard -256 sdram -Microtek color moniter I also tried to install the driver from the intel site but could not do so. It said "installation failure". when i tried to recompile the

cdrecord invocation under kernel-2.6.11

2005-05-14 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I have a linux box with an IDE cd-rw on secondary master (/dev/hdc), some how cdrecord balks at this device: # cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc cdimage it does not like dev=/dev/hdc, so what is the correct device here? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Installing BOINC (Was KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing)

2005-05-14 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: > # boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu -attach_project > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu b151599a701963ef98f16ac804e1b9ee > bash: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: command not found The current directory is not in the default PATH environment variable (for security reasons). To run t

Re: Installing BOINC (Was KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing)

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 14 May 2005 23:04:04 -0400 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow me to go in to this one by one. Firslty, Boinc. > > Alright. Here is what I did. > > # cd /home/david/BOINC > # gunzip boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz > # chmod a+x boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu > # boinc_4.19

Re: unsubscribe

2005-05-14 Thread Kent West
Adam Hardy wrote: > On 13/05/05 10:02 Lars Schimmer wrote: > >> unsubscribe > > > Here's how to unsubscribe: > > First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. > Then follow these directions. > > The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on > requiremen

Re: Installing BOINC (Was KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing)

2005-05-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David R. Litwin wrote: > Allow me to go in to this one by one. Firslty, Boinc. > > Alright. Here is what I did. > > # cd /home/david/BOINC > # gunzip boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz > # chmod a+x boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu > # boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu -attach_project > http://setiathome.be

Installing BOINC (Was KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing)

2005-05-14 Thread David R. Litwin
Allow me to go in to this one by one. Firslty, Boinc. Alright. Here is what I did. # cd /home/david/BOINC # gunzip boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz # chmod a+x boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu # boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu -attach_project  http://setiathome.berkeley.edu b151599a701963ef98f16ac804e1b9

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread oceanix
Disks? Who needs Disks? http://www.bash.org/?98 i don't have hard drives. i just keep 30 chinese teenagers in my basement and force them to memorize numbers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:59:32PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > The format of the MBR and the fake partition table sectors is documented > in various books about PC hardware, and probably on the web, except for > the details of logical partition table chains which seem hard to find. > Hopefully you won

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Robert Vangel wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30: | Is anyone else running across the following problem? | | Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Marty
Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/13/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: > I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > partitions, created one single solaris partition. If you ever ran lilo on a root partition of the disk, then it probably saved a copy of the mbr in the /boot di

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:12 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/13/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deboo ^ wrote: > > > I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > > > partitions, created one single solaris partition. > > > > If you ever ran lilo on a root partition of the disk

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 21:06 -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/13/05, Jeremy T. Bouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quite a pickle you've found yourself in, this is a good example > > for why not using root much is good. If at this time all you've done is > > repartition and save the partition t

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Robert Vangel
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30: | Is anyone else running across the following problem? | | Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions | due to a vulnerabil

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/13/05, Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:32:16PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Deboo ^ wrote: > > >I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > > >partitions, created one single solaris partition. > > > > If you ever ran lilo on a root partitio

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/13/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all > > partitions, created one single solaris partition. > > If you ever ran lilo on a root partition of the disk, then it probably saved > a copy of the mbr in the /boot dire

Re: GUI?

2005-05-14 Thread kenny B
oh...sorry, i hit the wrong button. On 5/11/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, don't top post. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting > > On Wednesday May 11 2005 7:02 pm, kenny B wrote: > > A!!! why couldn't Debian be EASY to > > install--like Xandros or Mepis...! >

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/13/05, Jeremy T. Bouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite a pickle you've found yourself in, this is a good example > for why not using root much is good. If at this time all you've done is > repartition and save the partition table then the data *should* still be > in tact on the driv

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:49 +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop s

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Stephen Patterson, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they start

[pecondon: need help with OOWriter under Debian, and embedded JPEG images

2005-05-14 Thread Paul E Condon
I am attempting to use OOWriter to open and edit a Word document that contains a small JPEG image. When the page display comes up in a box where the picture should be. It tells me exactly what is wrong, but I don't know what to do to fix the problem. It says: "QuickTime and a Photo-JPEG decompress

shutdown stopped by upsmon.conf

2005-05-14 Thread Vegard|drageV
After a dist-upgrade I did some months ago I startet getting this message when shutting down: sed: can't read /etc/nut/upsmon.conf: No such file or directory ## ## POWERDOWNFLAG is not defined in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf ## ##

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David Roguin wrote: > ls color is a easy one: > in your .bash_profile (or in the .bashrc if you prefer) > add "alias ls='ls --color=auto" > It is already in the default .bashrc from Debian. You simply need to edit it and comment out the relevant lines. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://fam

Re: cdrecord and kernel 2.6.8-2-686

2005-05-14 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 5/14/05, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 00:08 +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > I installed kernel image 2.6.8-2-686 today as an experimental > > substitute for kernel 2.4.27-1-386. > > > > When trying to run k3b, it hangs at splash image, and k3bsetup2 will > > no

Problem with NTFS drive

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Olson
Hello, Summary: NTFS drive corrupted in unknown way, seeking advice and perhaps a recommended data recovery/analysis tool or other next steps. Long version: I recently rebuilt my Debian box and included a second hard drive I scavenged from my old Windows system. The drive was 160GB NTFS formatte

Re: Network scan

2005-05-14 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 00:39 +0300, Alexandar Angelov wrote: > Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to > 92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. nmap -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Problems with Video Adapter

2005-05-14 Thread Romulo Sousa
Hi folks, I installed a GeForce4 64M Ti and load the module rivafb throughtout the modconf. I can't initiate the X server. And now I can't disable the "rivafb" from modconf cuz it is used even as single user. How can I fix that? Thanks, Romulo Sousa

Network scan

2005-05-14 Thread Alexandar Angelov
Hello, Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to 92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Marty
Glenn English wrote: The only thing I can think of is that something got bent in the power failure -- something that the Debian boot process doesn't look at and set, but BSD does. But I don't quite believe it, and I have no suspects for the "something." One thing a power failure (or possibly runnin

Re: Removing what a meta-package provided

2005-05-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:28:58AM +0200, Daniel Déchelotte wrote: [...] > I think that an history-independent behaviour makes senses for > meta-packages. Let's imagine a "prerm" script for package kde. On running > "apt-get remove kde", the user would see this warning: > > ,--

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 5/14/05, Ryan D. Egeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. > all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," > high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part > of a default install, but is there

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread David Roguin
ls color is a easy one: in your .bash_profile (or in the .bashrc if you prefer) add "alias ls='ls --color=auto" for the other stuff maybe you shoud try 'linuxlogo' package (still ugly for me) if you use gdm-themes packages. If you want a bootsplash (high-resolution console bootup) you need to rec

Re: zabbix

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi guys, On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:28:10PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050512 16:18]: > > Does anyone know if zabbix will be available on debian via apt-get in > > the future ? > > www.zabbix.org > > > > I use it

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Deboo ^ wrote: > I have lots of data on it, useful data and lots of linux things I > wouldn't like to lose. Can someone help? I've had luck with gpart[1] in the past, it'll scan the disk and find any partition boundaries (oh the fun of accidentally writing a rescue floppy image to /dev/hda). [1

Re: zabbix

2005-05-14 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050512 16:18]: > Does anyone know if zabbix will be available on debian via apt-get in > the future ? > www.zabbix.org > > I use it now for over a year and it's really a great program! There has been an ITP (intent to package) to create packages. See http://bu

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Bob Freemer wrote: > Wrong. NTP will fail to update the clock if the hardware clock skew is > too large. NTP cannot operate without a reasonably stable internal > hardware clock. Although there is an option to force ntp to set the clock, however large the difference is. -- Stephen Patterson [E

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > reality otherwise. ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started making vacuums. -- Stephen Patterson [

Re: DNS lookup problems.

2005-05-14 Thread Kevin Buhr
Christopher Rueber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Okay, I've been looking for an answer for this for a little while, and > have been unable to find one. Here's the problem: Have you tried to Google for: dns actiontec "1.0.0.0" It looks like a common issue with the Actiontec 701 modem.

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-14 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 10.05.2005 at 08:29 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Why not make (i)mappings for insert mode to do what you want, using > Alt plus the other keys? E.g. Mapping your own chosen combo is a good idea too. I use a double semi-colon as a replacement for Esc: imap ;; Dave. -- Please d

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 02:25 -0400, Marty wrote: > I don't want to argue if you are happy, but it doesn't sound fixed > to me. NTP should keep your clock on time to within a few miliseconds. > If you notice any abrupt changes that means NTP is definitely not > working. That's what I was trying t

problem with microphone and alsa -> no sound?

2005-05-14 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i cant get my microphone to work with alsa. i need help :o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/maasha# dpkg -l |grep alsa ii alsa-base 1.0.8-7ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-oss 1.0.8-1ALSA wrapper for OSS applications ii alsa-utils 1.0.8-4ALSA utilitie

Setting gamma on Epson Stylus Photo 780 under Linux?

2005-05-14 Thread John Conover
According to the docs, the Epson Stylus Photo 780 can have its gamma changed from a default of 1.8 to the sRGB standard of 2.2. Does anyone know if this gamma correction is done in SW, or HW, and if so how to change it in Linux? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://w

Re: Presenting photos on CD/DVD with transitions and sound?

2005-05-14 Thread steef
Agustin wrote: Hi, I am a Linux Debian user, and I am looking for an application which will enable me to prepare presentations of photos using transitions and audio, to be recorded on CD-ROM/DVD. With Windows I have successfully used software by Magix, which is ideal for a beginner like me, but I n

Re: What BackUPS?

2005-05-14 Thread Roel Schroeven
Bill Day wrote: Well we had some rain and lightning and thunder and winds yesterday and i was asleep in my chair... lost all of my uptime becuase my old BackUPS was dead. In many UPS's it is possible to install a new battery instead of a completely new UPS. Finally the question, what BackUPS

Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-14 Thread Nacho
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:45:41AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Not that munging helps in the least. > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful Interesting link, thanks for it. > > I have spam filters and so, and also my email address for this list > > is just for this and for nothing m

Re: Gaim not connecting to Yahoo [Solved]

2005-05-14 Thread [KS]
B S Srinidhi wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:13 -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >>Time to upgrade to be safe. I'm running 1.3.0 (latest version), and I'm >>having no problems. >> > > > Thanx alot for the tip. Even I was not able to connect to Y! this > morning. Just now upgraded and it works g

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2005-05-14, Ron Johnson penned: >>Prettier??? Is that what's keeping your SO from using Linux? > Stereotype much? Heh, I was wondering where the hell he came up with that one, too. Hehe. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm

Re: What BackUPS?

2005-05-14 Thread Nacho
> Finally the question, what BackUPS do you use that Debian interacts with. I have configured many APC UPS with Debian, just use the serial cable to conect the UPS to the server and the apcd package to monitor it. I remember that the server also booted up automagically once the electricity came

Re: GD module in PHP4 / Apache - Working

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Satterwhite wrote: | Under Sid | | I'm having a problem with the GD module in PHP4 with Apache. phpinfo() | doesn't show it as present. I've installed php4-gd (even tried removing | it and reinstalling it), but GD doesn't show as present. I foun

Re: md5sum input/output errors with large files

2005-05-14 Thread Marty
Pollywog wrote: When I do a md5sum check on large files (500MB or larger), I get this sort of error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/RO$ md5sum RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip error processing RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip: failed in buffer_read(fd): mdfile: Input/output error Does anyone know what is going on? thanks 8) B

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-05-14, Ron Johnson penned: > > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 09:55 -0400, Bob Freemer wrote: > >> high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be >> part of a default install, but is there a simple meta-package or >> something that could customize the system scripts to make things

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/13/05, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Lee Braiden, > > On Friday 13 May 2005 18:32, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > Since it's not yet formatted, I would think there must be a way to > > > recover all the data still. I could install this knoppix on the small > > > 3 GB hdd and co

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Daniel Déchelotte_, on 13/05/05 05:34,typed: > Hi, > > H. S. a écrit : > > | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a > | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] > | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, etc)?

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 09:55 -0400, Bob Freemer wrote: > Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. > all have very nice login prompts, Besides [gxk]dm, does it really matter? > default color for "ls," Already in there. > high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agr

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Marty
Bob Freemer wrote: Marty wrote: Glenn English wrote: Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge

ZDNet UK: Microsoft OneCare gets a bashing

2005-05-14 Thread debian-user
This ZDNET UK story has been forwarded to you by: debian-user (debian-user@lists.debian.org). They have added these comments: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39198263,00.htm Microsoft OneCare gets a ba

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Jonathan Kaye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30: | Is anyone else running across the following problem? | | Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions | due to a vulnerability I've been unable to i

Re: DHCP & VPN solved

2005-05-14 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:01:24PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: The following solved the problem: > - edit the /etc/dhclient.conf: request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, domain-name, \ host-name, domain-name-servers; supersede router-discovery 0 -- Regards, Paul ->->-> D

Re: What BackUPS?

2005-05-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:55:34AM -0400, Colin wrote: > Bill Day wrote: > > Well we had some rain and lightning and thunder and winds yesterday and i > > was > > asleep in my chair... lost all of my uptime becuase my old BackUPS was > > dead. > > > > Finally the question, what BackUPS do yo

Re: What BackUPS?

2005-05-14 Thread Colin
Bill Day wrote: > Well we had some rain and lightning and thunder and winds yesterday and i was > asleep in my chair... lost all of my uptime becuase my old BackUPS was dead. > > > Finally the question, what BackUPS do you use that Debian interacts with. > The > last one I had had no inter

Re: Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30: | Is anyone else running across the following problem? | | Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions | due to a vulnerability I've been unable to install any themes or |

realtime - Had it again, Lost it again

2005-05-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I have recompiled my 2.6.8 kernel numerous times in the last three days seeking a configuration allowing use of a USB dvdrw device. In the process I lost realtime. I believe there are at least three ways to install the realtime module: unpack realtime-lsm.tar.bz2 and follow the instructions

Firefox extension and themes install

2005-05-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Is anyone else running across the following problem? Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions due to a vulnerability I've been unable to install any themes or extensions as a regular user. I can install them if I su to root and start Firefox from the bash shell

Re: how to remove debian

2005-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:19:31PM -0700, Charles Li wrote: > On one of my pc, I have debian and winXP dual boot, > with XP on the hda1. > I would like to remove debian, can I just delete the > partition? What about grub, can I still use it just > for XP or do I need to restart XP's boot loader?

Re: hdparm init.d script?

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 14 May 2005 10:08:04 -0400 "Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Marc Wilson > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: hdparm init.d script? > >Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:20:58 -0700 > > > >On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:38:01PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote: > > > Is t

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 14 May 2005 09:55:06 -0400 Bob Freemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, > etc. all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," > high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part > of a default i

Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Ryan D. Egeland
Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part of a default install, but is there a simple meta-package or something that could customize th

Wrong block device when trying to mount a usb flash drive

2005-05-14 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, When I try to mount my flash drive I got the following message: mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Then I asked myself if I had the right device. While trying to find what could be the right device, I found that maybe my system got the wrong usb driver by taking a look

Re: hdparm init.d script?

2005-05-14 Thread Thomas Chadwick
From: Marc Wilson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: hdparm init.d script? Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:20:58 -0700 On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:38:01PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote: > Is there an /etc/init.d/hdparm script out there somewhere that I should > be using? Apparently the one the h

Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Bob Freemer
Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part of a default install, but is there a simple meta-package or something that could customize the sy

Re: On-the-fly raidtools2 -> mdadm upgrade

2005-05-14 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:52:46PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: } I'm running a multi-user server, where /home is on a software raid. } I've just found that it is still managed by 'raidtools2' package from woody } (while most packages installed on the server are from sarge). } } Is it possi

Re: unsubscribe

2005-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
On 13/05/05 10:02 Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 unsubscribe Here's how to unsubscribe: First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then follow these directions. The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on requirem

On-the-fly raidtools2 -> mdadm upgrade

2005-05-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
I'm running a multi-user server, where /home is on a software raid. I've just found that it is still managed by 'raidtools2' package from woody (while most packages installed on the server are from sarge). Is it possible/safe to replace raidtools2 package with mdadm package while server is running

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Bob Freemer
Marty wrote: Glenn English wrote: Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge into getting it's a

What BackUPS?

2005-05-14 Thread Bill Day
Well we had some rain and lightning and thunder and winds yesterday and i was asleep in my chair... lost all of my uptime becuase my old BackUPS was dead. Finally the question, what BackUPS do you use that Debian interacts with. The last one I had had no interaction with anything, it just be

Re: [OT] Hotmail calls mail from my server spam; how do I contact them?

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 13 May 2005 21:10:54 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-05-14, Jacob S penned: > > On Fri, 13 May 2005 19:58:07 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks! I sort of had a small clue about DNS stuff long ago, but > after I decided to

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-14 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Kamaraju Kusumanchi a écrit : | Daniel Déchelotte wrote: | > H. S. a écrit : | > | > | I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a | > | CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. [...] | > | What options do I have to solve this problem (ifplugd, guessnet, | > |

Re: Firefox and MIDI

2005-05-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday May 14 2005 05:02, Jim Hall wrote: > A user needs MIDI to work in Firefox. I installed > kernel-image-2.6.8-686, then ALSA. Ran alsaconf. Everything seemed fine, > but no MIDI in Firefox. Can't find a plugin. Is there any way to make > Firefox recognize and use ALSA? Can you play MIDI

Re: Debian and Bootslash, a Paradox?

2005-05-14 Thread raid517
No I followed that advice exactly - and unfortunately it didn't work. (Even though I did an apt-get remove --purge ".*bootsplash.*" and then reinstalling it via apt-get). After doing this I still get the same output: dpkg: error processing bootsplash-theme-newlinux (--configure): subprocess p

Re: md5sum input/output errors with large files

2005-05-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:30:12AM +, Pollywog wrote: > When I do a md5sum check on large files (500MB or larger), I get this sort of > error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/RO$ md5sum RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip > error processing RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip: failed in buffer_read(fd): mdfile: > Input/output

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Re: Help with apt-move

2005-05-14 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > Can you tell me exactly what apt-move command you were using when you > got that error message? It was apt-move get, IIRC. (not in the office now...) Cheers, -- W. Borgert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: how to remove debian

2005-05-14 Thread Cyprien
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Charles Li wrote: > > >On one of my pc, I have debian and winXP dual boot, > >with XP on the hda1. > >I would like to remove debian, can I just delete the > >partition? > > > > Yes, but that will leave you with a blank partition. You mi