debian installer does not recognize uli sata controller

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Lampard
hy *, i am refering to a post from july 2005 in debian-user ("Debian Installer SATA detection"). i, too, have a shuttle st20g5 barebone which comes with a uli 1573 chipset (which itself runs a uli 5287 sata controller). the website of uli provides information about how to install the sata-control

Add 'suspend the computer' to logout dialogue?

2005-11-04 Thread leon
Hi there, I'd like to configure the logout dialogue in gnome to look like this: * Log out * Suspend the computer * Shutdown * Restart the computer By the way, how can gnome execute 'Suspend the comput

quick gpg key help

2005-11-04 Thread salahuddin pasha
hello i have create a gpg key for my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for very hight traffic i have create this account for debian) but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my main address. so should i use edit key and adduid [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my gpg --key to join http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint (i want

BMP PROBLEM

2005-11-04 Thread 张勇顺
hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13:59:42~#3]%beep-media-player (beep-media-player:4429): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit_set: assertion `string != NULL' failed ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:802:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave [EMAIL PROTECTED]:14:00:49~#4]%beep-media-player ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:802:(snd_pcm_dmix_

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win 98

2005-11-04 Thread Cubells
Hello: I usually do that: http://ubuntuguide.org/#restoregrubmenuafterwindowsinstallation (I have a Ubuntu liveCD...) See you... En/na calvesmit ha escrit: >Hello guys, > >I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when >something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Wi

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-11-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:43:07 + Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just stumbled over k9copy which may be what you want. going to give it a try soon, see how it performs vs. dvd shrink. -- David E. Fox

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 06:17 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Basajaun wrote: > [snip] > that addressed some of this. What I remember was basically that the > userland utilities were far better in Debian, but the kernel in Solaris > was more robust, at least when you get to "enterprise levels" (of > hardw

gnucash in testing - no longer broken

2005-11-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/4/05, I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  (gnucash, for example, is still broken.) Apparently, not any more - I _love_ testing.  Things come and go, but when they go, they come back awfully fast! Thanks to all of you who do this.  I can make an occasional contribution in "user-space" but what you

Re: JACK won't start

2005-11-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/4/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HiI just did a dist-upgrade in testing and have lost the use of JACK foraudio stuff  I normally use the JACK control gui to start it up, and itsimply tells me it can't start JACK rgh I did an aptitude update this evening and a bunch of JACK-re

JACK won't start

2005-11-04 Thread michael
Hi I just did a dist-upgrade in testing and have lost the use of JACK for audio stuff I normally use the JACK control gui to start it up, and it simply tells me it can't start JACK rgh Any help would be appreciated -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-04 Thread yzhh
Thanks for all your answers. There is an update today in unstable dist. I installed it and all things seem ok now. Only chinese chars displayed badly. But I think it's because the l10n-zh-cn pakage have not been updated yet. yzhh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Using USB and Visor module

2005-11-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:31 +0100, Patrick Mulder wrote: Dear experts, I am a bit stuck with connecting the Palm TX via the USB to my Debian system. I upgraded to the 2.6.13.4 Kernel and using an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. I am quite sure that the USB port is recognized c

Re: How to set default compiler to 4.0?

2005-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:52:44PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I have installed 3 versions og gcc: 3.3 , 3.4 and 4.0. How do I set the > deafult compiler to 4.0, using the update-alternative command? For some > reason I do not get a choice if I run "update-alternatives --config c > ++". Gee,

Re: Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Chris Boot wrote: > 1. Take 5/6 SATA disks for RAID 5/6/10 > 2. Allow them to be hot-plugged (with or without Jeff Garzik's > in-progress SATA hotplug patches) > 3. Do the work in hardware Then you certainly won't need any patch, as the hotplugging will be done by the SATA RA

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

2005-11-04 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 7/26/05, Rishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > http://tmda.net/ apt-get install tmda python-tmda > I just downloaded spamrespond

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > He has the choice to REJECT or to DROP. It's a bit different. > I'd vote for REJECTing. Or, for ssh attacks, TARPIT. It won't DoS your uplink, and it slows the attackers. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to br

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Thomas wrote: > recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. > A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. > > What would be an adequate reaction to repeated ssh bruteforce attacks? Once I tried to do something about it, just

Re: Sound on Opliplex GX150

2005-11-04 Thread micro_thangs
alsaconf did everything for me @ the same machine i have here am using DeMuDi/AGNULA which is based on Sarge you can tune it as Debian so why not start from that distro? > So I have come to the same conclusion as you, that it must be a > hardware > problem. I would just buy another sound card and

Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-11-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > How am I supposed to use this modified lm85.c?? > The nearest to compiling i went is just to replace the same file > in my kernel source tree (2.6.24-1-686). There is no 2.6.24 :) I assue you mean 2.6.14. The file is for 2.6.13.4, just replace the o

backups RE: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, David Christensen wrote: > In any case, I back up compulsively -- important data in four places: current > image, nightly tarballs on another drive in the same box, tarballs rsync'd to > another box nightly, and tarballs burned to DVD monthly. very good .. you're

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

2005-11-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:22:23PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:46:34AM +0530, Rishi wrote: >> >> >Any recommendations for C/R spam tools available for me to plugin? >> >> I use TMDA. It's not actively supported these d

How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-04 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, Somehow during my Debian upgrade I managed to trash my Cyrus 2.1 IMAP server, it  no longer boots. I ended up rebuilding the system on the second drive and, luckily, I can mount the old /var filesystem which contains all the IMAP data. How can I migrate user mailboxes from the old serve

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
I use iptables with the recent module. Chain INPUT target prot opt source destination ACCEPT tcp -- localnet/24 anywheretcp dpt:ssh ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywherestate RELATED,ESTABLISHED,UNTRACKED tcp dpt:ssh DROP t

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I pretty much think it _must_ be a corrupted DB, but rescanning has no > effect. I really have to take the time to figure out how to put the DB > into MySQL, because I really do like Amarok, otherwise (though it should > really let me add .wav files t

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: > I just wanted to add -- I've seen at least one post questioning whether this > is on topic. It may not be exactly on topic, but that begs the question: if > Debian and Linux overall is part of the discussion, when does it go off > topic. Stock answer is that this is a

RE: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread David Christensen
Bruno Buys wrote: > To me, simply there is no clear pattern on what brand is good or bad. Agreed. Eventually, they all die. Predicting when "eventually" will arrive is an exercise left to the reader. ;-) I'm now using the best hard drive mobile docks I could afford (vibration isolation, all-m

RE: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread David Christensen
k l u r t wrote: > I didn't buy a larger capacity drive because I don't have a need for > a lot of storage on my desktop and the price was right A larger drive is going to have more heads/surfaces, so I believe the transfer rates are going to be higher (especially if the drive is only partially fi

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > I'm running on a Compaq Presario 2.7MHz machine. The lockups I've had > with Linux have, AFAICT, not been hardware related, and I would be > one who should know. I'm not so sure. I mean you are talking to a list on which many people could provide countering anecdotal evi

Re: Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-04 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:27:36PM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: I've used 3ware SATA RAID cards (8xxx and 9xxx series) for a long time, in several servers, and I love 'em. They work far better than Yes, they work very well. The 8xxx series uses IIRC PATA-to-SATA adapater, so they are no real S

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation - common

2005-11-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bruno On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Bruno Buys wrote: > To me, simply there is no clear pattern on what brand is good or bad. My > _insert_ drive manufacture here_ is seagate. bingo .. i don't think there is a single good or bad manufacturer or drive model i claim, it depends on where you bought

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

2005-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'd meant this as an off-list reply but, well, the TMDA supporter apparently doesn't post his valid address (or has a creative one supplied). on Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:22:23PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:46:34AM +0530, Rishi wrote: > > >Any reco

Install failure

2005-11-04 Thread Earl Eiland
I'm trying to install the minimal version (debian-31r0a-i386-netinst) on a (Linux host) VMware5.0. Part way through the install, my machine locks up, with the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights flashing. I cannot recover with either VMware's switch, or soft reboot . How do I get around this? E

Re: Calling on Toshiba users

2005-11-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:49:08PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > On November 4, 2005 03:42 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > [I am not on -laptop, so please CC me when replying from that list] > > > I maintain the Debian package for toshutils. I have prepared a new > > version for upload. However

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Old question, but ... on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:56:49PM +0200, Nobrin ;-" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Great! That's what I'm looking for. Do you know any text about this? Kernighan & Pike's _The UNIX Programming Environment_, Prentice Hall, 1985 (or thereabouts) is a dated but very good refere

Calling on Toshiba users

2005-11-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[I am not on -laptop, so please CC me when replying from that list] Greetings, I maintain the Debian package for toshutils. I have prepared a new version for upload. However, there are some changes to allow it to compile with gcc-4.0 (the current version was released upstream in the latter half

Re: Sound on Opliplex GX150

2005-11-04 Thread mulvihill
Chris Bannister wrote: > Did the "Analog devices AD1885 Integrated Audio" driver install ok in > Windows? > > Seems like a h/w prob if Windows says its ok but it still won't play. > > Speakers in right plug? > Speakers ok in another computer? > ... Sorry for the long delay before replying. Yes,

Re: Using USB and Visor module

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:31 +0100, Patrick Mulder wrote: > Dear experts, > > I am a bit stuck with connecting the Palm TX via the > USB to my Debian system. I upgraded to the 2.6.13.4 > Kernel and using an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. I am > quite sure that the USB port is recognized correctly > (exc

Re: Icon zooming disappeared?

2005-11-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 4 2005 02:46 am, marc wrote: > After applying the testing update to KDE 3.4, a large number of my > settings have been trounced. Most I've been able to recover, but I > cannot find the icon zooming feature when hovering over icons in the > taskbar (panel/kicker). Instead it has been

Problem setting the screen resolution with Gnome and X-Windows

2005-11-04 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm having some trouble setting the screen resolution on the Debian Sarge box I have installed at work. (I did get it inside, working with my workstation's monitor and keyboard, and running on the switch. Now I can just toggle back and forth between the two computers!) Gnome shows only two resolut

RE: GRUB & Sarge & Win 98 (Try #2)

2005-11-04 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! Someone's been putting grapefruit juice in my grapefruit juice again! :) I'll just repost with the page reference and hope no one notices...how's that? I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. S

Re: finding files by content from the command-line

2005-11-04 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Matt Price wrote: > Having checked out beagle and quite liked it, I seet here ae also > various graphical file-finding tools outthere, e.g. the gnome "search > for files" program, that allow content searches (e.g., "contains the > text"-type searhcing). In many cases similar

Re: wrangling screen and btdownloadcurses [solved]

2005-11-04 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >Greetings all, > >I have a custom GNU/Linux live CD that I am offering for download via >bittorrent. I have been using a "screen" session to run >"btdownloadcurses" to seed the download on my Web server. This works >just fine for a while and then stops working until I kil

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win 98

2005-11-04 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon! I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. Since that I can`t boot my Debian Gnu/Linux System. So here is my question: -"How do I reinstall Grub in MBR the way I`ll can boot both systems again?"

Re: Icon zooming disappeared?

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Friday 04 November 2005 05:46 am, marc wrote: > After applying the testing update to KDE 3.4, a large number of my > settings have been trounced. Most I've been able to recover, but I > cannot find the icon zooming feature when hovering over icons in the > taskbar (panel/kicker). Instead it has

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 04 13:20 -0600]: > Sounds like a crime to me. In Texas, at least, such an act would be > criminal. Perhaps so, but I'm not in a position with my company to pursue that. > And this has what relevance to the thread about Solaris? Since this thread is a

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 November 2005 15:37, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: >Hi, > >Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett: >> Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms >> that you are indeed there. I'd much druther just be a black hole, a >> bottomless bit bucket per sei. > >Please com

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 November 2005 11:15, Jon Dowland wrote: >On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:30:30AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Sorry, I don't agree. Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms >> that you are indeed there. > >Unless you are rejecting all traffic on all ports (so that rules out any >serv

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
John, John M. Gabriele wrote on Nov, 4: > http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Library-related_Commands_and_Files And thanks for this wiki link. I hadn't heard of it. It's in my bookmarks now ! Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-04 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/4/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to probe the list to see what hardware RAID solutions people > can recommend that will: > > 1. Take 5/6 SATA disks for RAID 5/6/10 > 2. Allow them to be hot-plugged (with or without Jeff Garzik's > in-progress SATA hotplug pat

GRUB & Sarge & Win 98

2005-11-04 Thread calvesmit
Hello guys, I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. Since that I can`t boot my Debian Gnu/Linux System. So here is my question: -"How do I reinstall Grub in MBR the way I`ll can boot both systems again?" Tha

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Block
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:26:21AM +0800, Heimdall Midgard wrote: 2005/11/4, Yuriy Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [trimmed] I do agree with Lars regarding Solaris being on edge of advanced technologies. Besides S10 now open sourced (visit www.opensolaris.org, download and try yourself, also pl

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-04 Thread Ricardo Teixeira
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Ricardo Teixeira wrote: Hi, Since I updated to 2.6.14-1-686, hda is in PIO mode, and when I do hdparm -d1 /dev/hda i get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted". says the kernel doesn't like your ide chipset ... - lspci | grep -i

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF. My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good. My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months old and failing. Tha

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/04/2005 06:30 AM, Thomas wrote: > Hello there, > > recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. > A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. > > What would be an adequate reaction to repeated ssh bruteforce attacks? > > Should i contact th

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
Heimdall Midgard wrote: I think it's time we emphasize the fact that Debian is not (just) Linux. Debian also comes in BSD and GNU/Hurd flavors. If Open Soalries is free as well as open, you can be sure some develepors are already working on a Solaris port that will make the claim moot. Hal Vau

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett: > Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms > that you are indeed there. I'd much druther just be a black hole, a > bottomless bit bucket per sei. Please compare: This host does not exist: # ping 192.168.0.123 PING 192.168.0

Re: finding files by content from the command-line

2005-11-04 Thread mikepolniak
On 10:36 Fri 04 Nov , Matt Price wrote: > Having checked out beagle and quite liked it, I seet here ae also > various graphical file-finding tools outthere, e.g. the gnome "search > for files" program, that allow content searches (e.g., "contains the > text"-type searhcing). In many cases simi

Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-04 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, I'd like to probe the list to see what hardware RAID solutions people can recommend that will: 1. Take 5/6 SATA disks for RAID 5/6/10 2. Allow them to be hot-plugged (with or without Jeff Garzik's in-progress SATA hotplug patches) 3. Do the work in hardware 4. Be fast and reliable A

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Heimdall Midgard
2005/11/4, Yuriy Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [trimmed] > I do agree with Lars regarding Solaris being on edge of advanced > technologies. Besides S10 now open sourced (visit www.opensolaris.org, > download and try yourself, also plenty of blogs by different > categories) to community and Sun i

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang, > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:09:20AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hello, > > > With the current ABI transitions, I have noted a lot of mention about > > > soname changes, always wondering what it means. Could someone >

Re: How can I add my startup programs to gnome session

2005-11-04 Thread James Strandboge
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 03:14 +0800, 张勇顺 wrote: > hi > > > How can I add my startup programs to gnome session > > > i am add the /usr/share/gnome/default.session No. These files are not meant to be edited by the user, as they will get overwritten on upgrade. Instead, from within gnome, go to

Re: Asterisk Problems

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:07 +0200, John Oxley wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get asterisk running on a Debian sarge box with a Zaptel > card (:00:09.0 Network controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX > Modem/ISDN interface) in it. > > I have installed the zaptel drivers and they load fine

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
bad news for you from http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/faq.html, QEMU does not compile. Why ? It is likely that you are using GCC 4.x: it is currently not supported by QEMU. You must use GCC 3.x. not hard of course : CC="gcc-3.4" ./configure worked for me. ./configure --cc="gcc-3.4" should

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 04 November 2005 02:24 pm, Andy Streich wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > > On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison, > > IMO Solaris is superior. > > > > No flames, please. ... > As Mike wrote: No flames, please. But I'd be v

Re: Sarge 3.10

2005-11-04 Thread ke6isf
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, List wrote: > Is there an easy way to get X Windows working out of the box on Debian Sarge? X, when installed here, Just Worked. What are the symptoms? -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread loos
Em Sex, 2005-11-04 às 11:24 -0800, Andy Streich escreveu: > On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > > On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison, > > IMO Solaris is superior. > > > > No flames, please. > > You are wise to include the "no flames" request

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread Bruno Buys
Gnu-Raiz wrote: On 19:14, Thu 03 Nov 05, Stephen Patterson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? I've had an IBM deskstar runni

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-11-04 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > Still, what about gnome cd-burner? Is there a way to make it work? > > As root do: > > > > dpkg-reconfigure --plow cdrecord > > Oops! > > dpkg-reconfigure -plow cdrecord Thanks! BTW, dpkg-rec

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Andy Streich
On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison, > IMO Solaris is superior. > > No flames, please. You are wise to include the "no flames" request. As always this is as more of an emotional issue for many people than

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread k l u r t
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF. My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good. My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 04 08:55 -0600]: All the "Enterprise Level" features in the world fall flat on their face when one cedes control of one's hardware to an outside company. Several years ago we were installing phone switches from a well known sup

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Mike McCarty
James Strandboge wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: I used Solaris for many years for serious embedded development work, [snip] I have to reboot my Windows machines). I only saw Solaris crash two times in over five years. Probably depends on what you are doing

How can I add my startup programs to gnome session

2005-11-04 Thread 张勇顺
hi How can I add my startup programs to gnome session i am add the /usr/share/gnome/default.session Default] num_clients=7 0,id=default0 0,Priority=10 0,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --sm-client-id default0 1,id=default1 1,Priority=40 1,RestartCommand=gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1 2,id=defaul

Re: openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:10:52PM -0800, yzhh wrote: > Hi,all > > Today I get openoffice 2.0 in debian unstable and found most of the > components can not start. oowriter, oocalc, oobase and ooimpress all > popup with a dialog asking me whether to recover an document > "untitled1" (this should ha

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 02:53, Fri 04 Nov 05, Basajaun wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On 11/4/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:19 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Did you check the sun.com website which claims that Solaris 10 is the > > > > mos

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Matt Price
On 11/4/05, derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:23:44PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > ... > > /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574: error: unable to > > find a register to spill in class 'GENERAL_REGS' > > /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574:

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-04 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 19:14, Thu 03 Nov 05, Stephen Patterson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? > > I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the

Re: Sarge 3.10

2005-11-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:18:11PM -, List wrote: > Hi > I have loaded ubuntu and got a working desktop system. I have loaded debian > sarge and got a broken desktop system. > > Is there an easy way to get X Windows working out of the box on Debian Sarge? > I have recently installed Sarge o

Sarge 3.10

2005-11-04 Thread List
Hi I have loaded ubuntu and got a working desktop system. I have loaded debian sarge and got a broken desktop system.   Is there an easy way to get X Windows working out of the box on Debian Sarge?   Regards   Chris

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 04 08:55 -0600]: > All the "Enterprise Level" features in the world fall flat on their > face when one cedes control of one's hardware to an outside company. Several years ago we were installing phone switches from a well known supplier. About the same

kernell panic

2005-11-04 Thread Luigi Albert
ciao a tutti, ho appena installato linux sul computer, lasciando una piccola partizione per windows, ma ho un problema: quando accendo il computer, dopo la schermata GNU GRUB, se lascio partire subito linux si blocca tutto. quello che leggo è:  hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompl

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread James Strandboge
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:11 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > I used Solaris for many years for serious embedded development work, > as well as an embedded operating system. I've used Linux for just > about a year. All the GNU tools can be compiled for Solaris, and > it has a few which Linux doesn't ha

kdeaddons install dependency problem (etch)

2005-11-04 Thread marc
I do not have the kde meta-package installed, because I do not want kde- amusements installed. All other components of the kde meta-package are installed... except kdeaddons, which is stuck. Here's the result [1] of # aptitude install kdeaddons The following packages have unmet dependencies: k

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread derek
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:23:44PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: ... > /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574: error: unable to > find a register to spill in class 'GENERAL_REGS' > /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574: error: this is the > insn: > (insn:HI 18 17 19 0 /ho

wireless access suddenly broken not fixed

2005-11-04 Thread Paul Scott
I still don't have wireless access from sid potentially from an upgrade. This was discussed in a recent thread with no conclusion. I have no idea for further diagnosis. ifup eth1 gives: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device. Error for wi

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Tshepang, > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:09:20AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hello, > > With the current ABI transitions, I have noted a lot of mention about > > soname changes, always wondering what it means. Could someone > > explain... thanks This is where I very recently learned what

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
qemu didn't mind, it was kqemu's request that i use gcc-3.4, but my kernel was compiled by gcc-3.4. ok, this makes sense. i'm trying to compile it right now, but: gcc -Wall -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -falign-functions=0 -fno-gcse -fno-reorder-

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:48 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. > > A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. > > What would be an adequate reaction to repeated ssh bruteforce attacks? > > Nothi

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Basajaun wrote: I hope anyone in the list is more enlightened than me, and can make, for example, a brief comparison of Debian Etch and Solaris 10. _That_ would be way more usefull than just calling you "naïve". I read something recently (wish I could remember where and w

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread derek
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:57:26PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > >i needed libsdl-dev. that's a virtual, provided by libsdl1.2-dev. > >i also ended up needing gcc-3.4. kqemu was picky about that. so my > >configure line look like, > >$ ./configure --cc=gcc-3.4 > thanks, i'll give it a try. > > it di

Using USB and Visor module

2005-11-04 Thread Patrick Mulder
Dear experts, I am a bit stuck with connecting the Palm TX via the USB to my Debian system. I upgraded to the 2.6.13.4 Kernel and using an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. I am quite sure that the USB port is recognized correctly (excerpt from /proc/bus/usb/devices ) * T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
i needed libsdl-dev. that's a virtual, provided by libsdl1.2-dev. i also ended up needing gcc-3.4. kqemu was picky about that. so my configure line look like, $ ./configure --cc=gcc-3.4 thanks, i'll give it a try. it didn't compile with gcc-4.0? what about the kqemu module? my kernel is compile

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread derek
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:36:34PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > ERROR: QEMU requires SDL or Cocoa for graphical output i needed libsdl-dev. that's a virtual, provided by libsdl1.2-dev. i also ended up needing gcc-3.4. kqemu was picky about that. so my configure line look like, $ ./configure --cc=g

Re: qemu & vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
you will need the source for qemu too. for example, if i'm in /usr/local/src and i have the two sources downloaded... $ tar xzf qemu-0.7.2.tar.gz $ cd qemu-0.7.2 $ tar xzf ../kqemu-0.7.2.tar.gz $ ./configure this gave me the following error message: ERROR: QEMU requires SDL or Cocoa for graphic

Re: What is a soname?

2005-11-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:09:20AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > With the current ABI transitions, I have noted a lot of mention about > soname changes, always wondering what it means. Could someone > explain... thanks > I just googled soname. The top hit is a performer of contemp

Re: busybox in debian

2005-11-04 Thread Kent West
S guo wrote: > Has anyone used the busybox in Debian? I read the introduction to the > package "BusyBox" in Debian and thought it would be quite easy to use. > However, I installed the package busybox, which is just BusyBox > binary, and tried to run "busybox --install" in the directory where I >

Re: Getting Apache to transfer .sh file instead of trying to execute it as CGI

2005-11-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:03:26PM +0100, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > Does anyone here have any idea about how I can persuade Apache to treat > this shell script as a normal text file ? I believe it is a mime-type issue. Try putting the following in a .htaccess file in the same directory:

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:30:30AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sorry, I don't agree. Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms > that you are indeed there. Unless you are rejecting all traffic on all ports (so that rules out any server then) they'll know you are there anyway. > 2 of those g

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread John Hasler
Gene Heskett writes: > Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms that you are indeed there. They already know you are there. If you weren't the upstream router would have told them so. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: one user space progamming problem

2005-11-04 Thread Mariusz Kruk
weiyun lv napisał(a): If you want to simply check stdin, use select or poll. If U want to use other libraries to handle terminal (ncurses? slang?), U'll have to check it's docs to find apropriate functions. if( feof(stdin)){ kbd(); } read(...); this way doesn't work, kbd() is

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