Re: Windows corrupts Grub on Dell

2005-07-26 Thread Kent West
Chris Bannister wrote: >On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:20:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > >>As long as I boot into Debian, no problem, but if I boot into Windows, >>the next time I reboot, grub just goes into an infinite loop of >>rebooting. I briefly see a mention of grub stage 1.5, then reboot. >

Re: apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Kent West
Joe Potter wrote: >I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when I then >run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. Each one yields >the message about failed to open the file. > > >I thought that if the server was down, update would fail; and if upd

Corrupt linux-source-2.6.12

2005-07-26 Thread Jason Edson
I've apt-get'd the linux-source-2.6.12 package and when i try to unpack it with with tar -jxvf I get this error: [snip] linux-source-2.6.12/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.

Re: MS Office 12 format

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 23:03 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > Also, they may not distribute the schema, and thus make it a DMCA > > violation to reverse-engineer said schema. > > That doesn't follow at all. Why not? -- --

Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:18:35PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x > > for 2.6.12? > > If I had to hazard a guess it is because Debian has other projects (Hurd, > BSD) which have kernels which are not the L

Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 23:15 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > >>> Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x > >>> for 2.6.12? > >> > >> > > > >If I had to hazard a guess it is because Deb

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:26:13AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > Sebastian Luque wrote (Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:12 am): > > > I don't know what's going on in the mirror system. I had some weirdness > > > over the last 3 or 4 days where I wasn't showing any new upgrades. > > > One or two da

Window$ asset monitoring

2005-07-26 Thread ms linux
Has anyone know the debian package ( or at least linux software ) with similiar functions as this freeware :   http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/PsTools.zip   at least the psinfo     Thanks,   --w.h-- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 1GB free storage!

Re: [solved] 2.6 kernel beating up the IDE controller on DMA test and requests.

2005-07-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #1827 thread entitled ' 2.6 kernel beating up the IDE ... on DMA test ' The 2.6 kernel seems to be testing the DMA option on bootup so severely that fsck finds errors and requests a reboot. This is a Gateway 500 with a Pentium III (500 MHZ).

Re: bizarre HW failures with DVD+R media cannot burn DVDs

2005-07-26 Thread [KS]
Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: > On 7/26/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>And the media you are trying to use is a DVD-R as shown by >>dvd+rw-mediainfo command. > > I'm guessing that report might be wrong if the firmware can't deal > with the media right? > > Joel The book-type of th

Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x for 2.6.12? If I had to hazard a guess it is because Debian has other projects (Hurd, BSD) which have kernels which are not the Linux kernel. Yep! In

Re: MS Office 12 format

2005-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Also, they may not distribute the schema, and thus make it a DMCA > violation to reverse-engineer said schema. That doesn't follow at all. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bizarre HW failures with DVD+R media cannot burn DVDs

2005-07-26 Thread [KS]
David E. Fox wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] growisofs -speed 4 -Z /dev/hdd=dvd.iso Your media supports upto 6.1x as shown by your dvd+rw-mediainfo command. However, if you do "man growisofs" it says that -speed=1 should be used if higher speeds mess up your media. > Executing 'builtin_dd if=dvd.is

[OT] Attn. All GMAIL users

2005-07-26 Thread Ali Milis
Hi, The default of gmail.com's "Reply-To: " is yourself. If you do not like that, you need to click "Settings" and fill "Reply-To: " with "< >". Do not forget that there is a space between "<" and ">". regards, -- Ali Milis.

MS Office 12 format (was Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'')

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:45 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:53:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:06 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:35:50AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > > [snip] > > > >and Microso

RE: Any recomendations on C/R spam tools for Debian

2005-07-26 Thread Steven Jones
Have a look at mailwasher on sourceforge Regards Steven -Original Message- From: Gerard Ceraso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2005 3:22 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Any recomendations on C/R spam tools for Debian Rishi wrote: >Hi > >I plan to

Re: Updates to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Katipo
[KS] wrote: Two main servers of debian.org are being relocated to HP while decision of their new hosts gets finalized. These server are very essential for DDs to upload new packages as one of them hosts the database. That might be whey we aren't seeing any updates since a few days. I read[1] t

Re: Any recomendations on C/R spam tools for Debian

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Ceraso
Rishi wrote: Hi I plan to setup a Mail Server for a customer and was planing to use Debian as the OS. Any recommendations for C/R spam tools available for me to plugin? I just downloaded spamresponder and was trying to figure out how to use / integrate into the system... http://www.think

Re: Synaptic claims deb files not at debian

2005-07-26 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 7/26/05, Edward C. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a PC with Debian unstable. synaptic has been giving me many > messages like: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/libice-dev_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb > 404 Not Found [IP: 216.37.55.114 80] >

Any recomendations on C/R spam tools for Debian

2005-07-26 Thread Rishi
Hi I plan to setup a Mail Server for a customer and was planing to use Debian as the OS. Any recommendations for C/R spam tools available for me to plugin? I just downloaded spamresponder and was trying to figure out how to use / integrate into the system... http://www.thinknerd.org/~ssc/wiki

bizarre HW failures with DVD+R media cannot burn DVDs

2005-07-26 Thread David E. Fox
I'm a fairly new person when it comes to burning DVDs - have had a dual- layer NEC drive (IDE) installed since earlier in the month. I have been able to burn dvd+rw media fine - but when it comes to DVD+R there seems to be recent errors -- the disk is not recognized by the drive, it seems. But I h

Re: Updates to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread [KS]
Ephemeral root wrote: > Am I the only one not getting any apt-get updates to the > unstable version of Debian? I decided to check the sources > list by hand and interestingly the dates of the lates > Packages.gz and Sources.gz is 2005-07-21. What gives? > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unsta

Synaptic claims deb files not at debian

2005-07-26 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use a PC with Debian unstable. synaptic has been giving me many messages like: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/libice-dev_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 216.37.55.114 80] My browser showed the file and wget downloaded it. What is the probl

Re: OT - DSL routers - (was "how to compute number bytes downloaded?")

2005-07-26 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:41:25 +0100 Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Waldner wrote: > > >Do `ifconfig -a`, note the sent and received bytes of the proper > > network device, do another after finishing with your "usual" network > > > > session. Compute. Watch out for 32-bit - counter ov

Re: questions about anti virus tools in linux

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday July 26 2005 12:23 am, Trace Green wrote: > Hi, > > I want to do some antivirus scan for my windows partitions in > LiveCD, so, i want to ask some questions about these tools. > > 1. As i know, clamscan and f-prot can do this work for me. but they > seems don't support NTFS. Why should

weird problem

2005-07-26 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm running etch, and this was happening with sarge as well. I have alsaconf working as expected. But after I let xscreensaver run, for more than 30 minutes, neither gaim, or xmms will work. I am forced to re-run alsaconf, which makes things correct. I've cat'd /var/log/messages syslog, dmesg, wi

Re: OT - DSL routers -

2005-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Doofus writes: > Any chance of an example or two of these "free-OS based" routers? I'm running a stripped-down Sarge on an old Aptiva. > I'm in the market for a new 802.11g DSL modem/router A modem, a router, and an 802.11g transceiver are three different things. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSC

Huge fonts

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I am having quite a strange issue. I updated my xorg.conf to use dual monitors and now I have these really huge fonts when I use fluxbox for firefox and thunderbird. If I use gnome though it works fine, seems to be only with mozilla stuff. Anyone have an idea? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Windows corrupts Grub on Dell

2005-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:20:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I have a Dell Optiplex 170L desktop machine, set to dual-boot Sid and > WinXP, using grub. > > As long as I boot into Debian, no problem, but if I boot into Windows, > the next time I reboot, grub just goes into an infinite loop of > reb

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Matthew Lenz
I think everyone should probably look at Dave Ewart's response. I tend to agree with him now that I've seen it in action. dpkg-reconfigure etherconf the only difference from etherconf and the sarge installer is that the sarge installer puts some guesses into the fields for you first. The onl

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking''

2005-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:53:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:06 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:35:50AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > [snip] > > >and Microsoft's reaction was to announce that the next version of MS Office >

OT - DSL routers - (was "how to compute number bytes downloaded?")

2005-07-26 Thread Doofus
Robert Waldner wrote: Do `ifconfig -a`, note the sent and received bytes of the proper network device, do another after finishing with your "usual" network session. Compute. Watch out for 32-bit - counter overflow. A tad more easily, start `iptraf` just before and look at the relevant output

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:06:15AM -0700, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > It contains equivalent functionality to LVM and more. > > > It makes me wonder whether it actually uses LVM, or has an independent > > implementation. > > > > From my understanding at one point they were competing technologies,

Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-07-26 Thread p
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:05:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Dear all, > > I am pleased to announce the availability of my new (English) book > "The Debian System", which Open Source Press[0] introduced at the > Linuxtag 2005. __deletia__ > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Sebastian Luque wrote (Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:12 am): > > I don't know what's going on in the mirror system. I had some weirdness > > over the last 3 or 4 days where I wasn't showing any new upgrades. > > One or two days I don't think anything of it, when it stretches to 3 or > > 4 I start to won

Re: apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Josh Battles wrote: > Joe Potter said: > > > > I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when > > I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. > > Each one yields the message about failed to open the file. >

Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x > for 2.6.12? If I had to hazard a guess it is because Debian has other projects (Hurd, BSD) which have kernels which are not the Linux kernel. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x for 2.6.12? Google didn't reveal a reason. Ron -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Facts do not cease to e

Re: apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Joe Potter
Josh Battles wrote: > Joe Potter said: > >>I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when >>I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. >>Each one yields the message about failed to open the file. >> >>I thought that if the server was down, update

Re: Replying (was Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 03:15 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >Is T-bird so primitive that it doesn't have Reply-to-List? > > > > > > Yes. Blech. Mutt has had it for, what, a decade? Did Netscape Communicator ever have it? -- -

Re: Re: newbie KDE screen resolution?

2005-07-26 Thread Roger Creasy
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --- Begin Message --- On 7/22/05, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- kamaraju kusumanchi <[E

Updates to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Ephemeral root
Am I the only one not getting any apt-get updates to the unstable version of Debian? I decided to check the sources list by hand and interestingly the dates of the lates Packages.gz and Sources.gz is 2005-07-21. What gives? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ [ ] Packag

Re: apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Josh Battles
Joe Potter said: > > I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when > I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. > Each one yields the message about failed to open the file. > > I thought that if the server was down, update would fail; and if updat

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-26 Thread Björn Johansson
At 00:03 2005-07-27, you wrote: On 7/26/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't afford to buy a router right now, so that's out of the question. > I have made progress! Now I can transfer files > through ftp from the pc to mac at the > same time as the pc has access to the inte

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-26 Thread Björn Johansson
At 00:03 2005-07-27, you wrote: On 7/26/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't afford to buy a router right now, so that's out of the question. > I have made progress! Now I can transfer files > through ftp from the pc to mac at the > same time as the pc has access to the inte

Re: New to Debian: Network support

2005-07-26 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I suscribe to this list? > What are the packages needed to configure/detect a > network > (router)? > > I just installed Debian Sarge on my laptop. My > laptop was > useless with window, it used to hung up every too > often. > Things

apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Joe Potter
Hello all, I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. Each one yields the message about failed to open the file. I thought that if the server was down, update would fail; and if update worked then u

Re: MS Access and .mdb files

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confronted with a need to see what is inside a MS Access database. > I don't need to change anything, just need to off-load table contents, > and, hopefully, read the sql of cataloged queries. I really don't want > to give money to BillG, and I have s

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
What's with my subject line here? Geez, I must have been drunk! :-). Better one above. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
I have an extremely annoying problem I hope someone can help me with, or at least make some suggestion. The environment is complex, unfortunately, but... I work remotely from home. I'm running Debian "sarge" on both the local and work systems. I do a lot of work in Emacs, and rather than start

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Waldner
Do `ifconfig -a`, note the sent and received bytes of the proper network device, do another after finishing with your "usual" network session. Compute. Watch out for 32-bit - counter overflow. A tad more easily, start `iptraf` just before and look at the relevant output just after. Anyway,

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-26 Thread Christian Henz
On 7/26/05, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't afford to buy a router right now, so that's out of the question. > I have made progress! Now I can transfer files > through ftp from the pc to mac at the > same time as the pc has access to the internet. > > To make the mac share t

Memory Stick Pro USB reader error "usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using address 2".....

2005-07-26 Thread bellis
Hi Debian users, I'm using debian testing, kernel 2.6.7 on an IBM T41 laptop. I have a Sony digital camera with a 256 MB Memory Stick Pro. To read this, I have been using this a usb device: PNY Memory Stick reader. This has enabled me to mount the stick as an external drive with the follo

Re: MS Access and .mdb files

2005-07-26 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Not sure if there is a debian package, but check out: http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ -Joel On 7/26/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confronted with a need to see what is inside a MS Access database. > I don't need to change anything, just need to off-load table contents, > a

MS Access and .mdb files

2005-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
I am confronted with a need to see what is inside a MS Access database. I don't need to change anything, just need to off-load table contents, and, hopefully, read the sql of cataloged queries. I really don't want to give money to BillG, and I have scrupples about breaking the law. Does anyone on t

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The non-us repository is not used any more so this is expected and you > should remove non-us from your sources.list file. You're right, I just found this out. I came across http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00719.html that cleared that

Re: X server security defaults.

2005-07-26 Thread Douglas Ward
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 08:15, pier wrote: > wim wrote: > > Doesn't kde has a "run-as" function? There's such a function in gnome... > > In Gnome is gksu. > Or you could use sudo. > > > Pier Also, in KDE the [Alt]+[F2] dialog has a "run as user" option under the "Options" button. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: minimum RAM for a sarge intall

2005-07-26 Thread Doofus
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:21:29PM +0100, Doofus wrote: After trying to install small command-line system over the net onto an old tosh laptop with 16MB of RAM and a 2GB drive, the installer tells me a minimum of 22MB is required. I'm guessing this is for the new i

apt-get update problems

2005-07-26 Thread Jan Schledermann
I am getting this sort of messages a lot the last month or two, while running apt-get update: Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages 99% [Packages bzip2 0] [Query] bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0723 19:23]: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:46, Dick Davies wrote: > > The OP asked 'how do I read MS Project files', and the response was: > > 'use less, hur hur' > > > > That's not newbie bashing, that's trying to be funny and sounding like an > > ass >

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:13:04 -0500 Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's been about a week since I can't solve this problem, despite trying > several different mirrors. This is what I see: > > ,- > | Get:10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [197B] > | Get:11

question

2005-07-26 Thread Raff
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Re: problem with a device >2TB

2005-07-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:52:09AM +0200, christian gattermair wrote: > i use debian sarge with 2.6.8-2-686-smp and like to use an raid device (sda) > with 3 TB. > > i have read in the internet and found that there is an kernel feature called > LBD. it is activated > > but with cfdisk: > > cfd

Re: Reference to your work

2005-07-26 Thread Tom Vier
I got one of these emails about my "wipe" app, and told them sure, go ahead. I got a reply, which could have been automated, but i doubt it (it referenced my decision). -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: use knoppix to rerun lilo

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Peterson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:28:19PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Anyway, usually I can easily fix this by booting Knoppix (3.1 in my case), > mounting the root filesystem /dev/hda2 (it's all on one partition), > and running /sbin/lilo from a chroot-shell (chroot /mnt/hda2 /bin/bash). > But when I d

Re: use knoppix to rerun lilo

2005-07-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:28:19PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Anyway, usually I can easily fix this by booting Knoppix (3.1 in my case), > mounting the root filesystem /dev/hda2 (it's all on one partition), > and running /sbin/lilo from a chroot-shell (chroot /mnt/hda2 /bin/bash). > But when I do

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Brian Kimball
Matthew Lenz wrote: > rather than grep xarging /etc for occurances of the ip and hostname > is there a proper "debian way" of changing them? Others have already led you in the right direction. To summarize: 1) change IP address: edit interface information in /etc/network/interfaces 2) change h

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread Joseph Haig
--- michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs > would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean > 1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way > to > track amount of data downloaded per sess

Re: Firefox Segmentation Fault

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi, > Hi, > > My firefox keeps dieing with a segmentation fault. First question is: > what's a segmentation fault? Second: what can I do to find out what is A segmentation fault occurs when an application tries to access memory it is not allowed to access (similar to an access violation on other

use knoppix to rerun lilo

2005-07-26 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I upgraded from woody to sarge and since the release notes say that dist-upgrade wouldn't touch the kernel, I tried to go without calling /sbin/lilo before rebooting. Afterwards, lilo couldn't boot anymore (it stops after the first 'l' was output). why is this the case? If this is possible, s

Debian + GDM/KDE

2005-07-26 Thread Loopy
I'm trialing out Debian in a VMWare virtual machine (before I actually take the plunge and partition my hard drive -- had some bad experiences, which I won't go into.) Anyway. I have downloaded Debian (Sarge I think is the latest one), and also tried to download Gnome/GDE and KDE via apt-get and a

apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, It's been about a week since I can't solve this problem, despite trying several different mirrors. This is what I see: ,- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get update | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable Release.gpg | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable Release | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable/main

Re: Debian Installer SATA detection

2005-07-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/07/05 13:37), Grant Thomas wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:41:35 -0500, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:52:16 +0100 > >Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On (25/07/05 22:30), Grant Thomas wrote: > >>> I have a problem getting the Debian Insta

Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

2005-07-26 Thread Björn Johansson
At 00:58 2005-07-25, you wrote: I didn't review this before posting, but: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html helped me a whole lot. its not Deb specific, but should work. When I was using this setup it worked great, so long as the main computer was on... ;-) . simplest

Re: unsubscribe

2005-07-26 Thread 2501
Xinjiang Lu wrote: > I failed to unsubscribe this mailing list via the website. > Anybody help me out? sure... see attached unsubscribe-email.png send an email with the following content from: to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in this case...) subject: unsubscribe after you've succeessfully sent away t

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread michael
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 20:05 +0100, Doofus wrote: > michael wrote: > > >I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs > >would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean > >1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to > >track amo

Re: problem with a device >2TB

2005-07-26 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 09:52, christian gattermair wrote: > i use debian sarge with 2.6.8-2-686-smp and like to use an raid device > (sda) with 3 TB. > > i have read in the internet and found that there is an kernel feature > called LBD. it is activated > > cfdisk /dev/sda > FATAL ERROR: Cannot ge

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread Doofus
michael wrote: I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean 1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to track amount of data downloaded per session? For anybody that's interest

New to Debian: Network support

2005-07-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I suscribe to this list? What are the packages needed to configure/detect a network (router)? I just installed Debian Sarge on my laptop. My laptop was useless with window, it used to hung up every too often. Things look better with Sarge. Therefore, I concluded that Linux is definitively

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread michael
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 19:38 +0100, Doofus wrote: > michael wrote: > > >I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs > >would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean > >1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to > >track amo

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-26 Thread S. Massy
Did you experience the same thing with cdrdao though? Thanks, S.M. On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:14:22AM +0200, Krzysztof Wilk wrote: > Hello, > > > scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 40 00 > > Info fld=0x10, Current sd0b:00: sns = f0 3 > > ASC=15 ASCQ= 0 > > Raw sense d

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread Doofus
michael wrote: I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean 1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to track amount of data downloaded per session? For anybody that's interest

Re: Debian Installer SATA detection

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Thomas
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:41:35 -0500, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:52:16 +0100 Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On (25/07/05 22:30), Grant Thomas wrote: > I have a problem getting the Debian Installer to recognize my SATA > controller. > My computer is a ST

Re: how to tell the refresh rate of current display?

2005-07-26 Thread Wayne Topa
phyrster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Debianers, > > I have already configured in xorg.conf a default entry of modeline line. My > question is: > > Which tool can tell me the refresh rate of current display? In other words, > how do I know this modeline is working? Have yo

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:46, Dick Davies wrote: > The OP asked 'how do I read MS Project files', and the response was: > 'use less, hur hur' > > That's not newbie bashing, that's trying to be funny and sounding like an > ass Now I must protest; you have gotten it all wrong. I attempted to ki

how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread michael
I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean 1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to track amount of data downloaded per session? For anybody that's interested the main thing

changing passwords on an ldap client machine with passwd?

2005-07-26 Thread ryan
I have setup a debian sarge ldap+samba server and for the most part it is working well. All the windows clients work fine (so far), just the problem arises when users logging into linux machines try to change their password. All users can login to the client with username/passwords stored on t

Re: how to tell the refresh rate of current display?

2005-07-26 Thread Mike Applebaum
phyrster wrote: > Hi Debianers, > > I have already configured in xorg.conf a default entry of modeline line. My > question is: > > Which tool can tell me the refresh rate of current display? In other words, > how do I know this modeline is working? > > System configuration: xorg, fluxbox, sarg

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Josh Battles
Hal Vaughan said: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 11:04 am, Josh Battles wrote: >> Hal Vaughan said: >> > We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless >> > newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite >> > ways to say RTFM, but it seems to many are

Re: unsubscribe

2005-07-26 Thread Gene Heskett
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2005-07-26 Thread Xinjiang Lu
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Re: pam userdb auth issue (pam_userdb can't open database) Sarge

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Peterson
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:12:21AM -0300, Tom wrote: > > Im with the same problem (but in woody). I saw no one answered you > here. Did you solve the problme by some another way? The shadow password file is readable by the 'shadow' group. Make sure that any users (e.g. the user your progr

how to tell the refresh rate of current display?

2005-07-26 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers, I have already configured in xorg.conf a default entry of modeline line. My question is: Which tool can tell me the refresh rate of current display? In other words, how do I know this modeline is working? System configuration: xorg, fluxbox, sarge regards bxuef -- dhammapada

Re: xfce4 dependencies in stable

2005-07-26 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi Paolo, On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:42:02AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I just installed xfce4 in stable version. i noticed that the package > xfce4 has not a dependecy requiring that a X server is installed, is > it a bug or a precise policy? > If it is a bug what should i do? I see you've a

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 11:04 am, Josh Battles wrote: > Hal Vaughan said: > > We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless > > newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite > > ways to say RTFM, but it seems to many are in a hurry to shout RTFM

Re: Keyboard with german layout (XORG )

2005-07-26 Thread Mohammad Halawah
On Monday 25 July 2005 19:09, Wackojacko wrote: > As it seems only to affect Konsole and happened after upgrading to xorg I > would suspect a problem in xorg.conf. Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg to check the correct keyboard layout and type? I have done that, but I am not quite sur

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0705 16:05]: > Hal Vaughan said: > > > > We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless > > newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite > > ways > > to say RTFM, but it seems to many are in a hurry to shout

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Martin McCormick
"Josh Battles" writes: >Another list I'm on is *brutal* about that. If you pose a newbie question, >the responses you get (if you're lucky enough to get a response) are either >"RTFM" or "check the archives." This list isn't all that bad in comparison. It really isn't, but we are all new

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
> It contains equivalent functionality to LVM and more. It makes me wonder whether it actually uses LVM, or has an independentimplementation. >From my understanding at one point they were competing technologies, and used different kernel modifications to achieve their goals, but now they are coo

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Josh Battles
Hal Vaughan said: > > We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless > newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite ways > to say RTFM, but it seems to many are in a hurry to shout RTFMA and excuse > themselves as "just trying to tell them what

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