Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Paul Johnson wrote: > Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > >> There is actually an operational difference. In the about:config page >> the setting general.useragent.extra.firefox is set to >> "Iceweasel/2.0.0.1". Looks harmless, but it stopped me from logging >> on to a website. It would only let me in

Re: Re: Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Paul Johnson wrote: > Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> Angelo Bertolli wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. (I just figured it was for upgrades.) >>> Why put something in non-free if

Re: Problem with ATI Radeon 9200SE on Sarge

2007-01-29 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Bruno Vane wrote: > Hello, > I have an ATI 9200SE card and i can't get 3d acceleration. > I'm using Debian Sarge (3.1r4) with kernel 2.4.27 and XFree86 4.3.0. > glxinfo gives me "OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect" > What i have to do to get my card working? > Thanks in advice. Hi Bruno, Wo

Re: PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 04:01 +, s. keeling wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that > > are typically used (MITs and the other usual candidates) are responding > > terribly, horrifically slow. If they respond at

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have a question, if anyone here has an answer... > > Is it the intent of the Debian team that Iceweasel actually fork the > codebase, or are they just going to remove the nonfree bits and change > the name of each new Firefox release? I

Re: Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

2007-01-29 Thread John W. Foster
On Monday 29 January 2007 03:06 am, Dan H. wrote: > Hello, > > I've asked this question before in an OO forum, but didn't get any > useful result. > > After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I found > that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see > > http://www.nan

Re: Re: ndiswraaper install error.

2007-01-29 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 1/29/07, Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Thanks for your time. I have done this using m-a a-i ndiswrapper. > everything goes OK. My wifi interface is recognised as eth0 and > ethernet one as eth1. I don't know how this done. But any reference to > know is welcom

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Johnson wrote: Heh, here in the center of the Linux universe (Portland), lager qualifies as something from a can that's only suitable for killing slugs. Gotta get yourself one of them Henry Weinhard's or Widmer's Hefeweizen if you wanna do it right. :o) Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar. Go

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Johnson wrote: I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects browsing habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. Agreed. But there are many websites with that bug. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: newbie wanting debian...

2007-01-29 Thread Kent West
moggy wrote: > > i recently purchessed a debian disk "sarge" i think its called, it > also came with a live disk, that i thought i would have a look at > first to see how it works and how well i get on with it, however, > after restarting my pc and booting from the dvd rom and it does its > little

Re: PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately

2007-01-29 Thread s. keeling
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that > are typically used (MITs and the other usual candidates) are responding > terribly, horrifically slow. If they respond at all, timing out is > becoming more and more frequent. Nope:

newbie wanting debian...

2007-01-29 Thread moggy
i recently purchessed a debian disk "sarge" i think its called, it also came with a live disk, that i thought i would have a look at first to see how it works and how well i get on with it, however, after restarting my pc and booting from the dvd rom and it does its little thing, the screen go

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have a question, if anyone here has an answer... Is it the intent of the Debian team that Iceweasel actually fork the codebase, or are they just going to remove the nonfree bits and change the name of each new Firefox release? If the former, then it will become a new beast. It is only a ma

Problem with ATI Radeon 9200SE on Sarge

2007-01-29 Thread Bruno Vane
Hello, I have an ATI 9200SE card and i can't get 3d acceleration. I'm using Debian Sarge (3.1r4) with kernel 2.4.27 and XFree86 4.3.0. glxinfo gives me "OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect" What i have to do to get my card working? Thanks in advice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Recording audio with Debian - hardware/software suggestions

2007-01-29 Thread KS
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > The following are the questions which come to mind for the hardware: > 1. What kind of processing power do we need? Would a 2.0GHz PIV based > machine be OK? > > > If you don't intend to mix the tracks and apply heavy effects to them > (compression, eq,

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-29 Thread Marty
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.29.0403 +]: Why not mirror the whole drive? and then make it bootable with fdisk right? No, you use lilo or grub. If you mirror the drive, you also mirror the boot sector. You can only do this if the drives are the sa

Gnome sound server

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 and rhythmbox from playing sounds. Is there a better way to configure gnome's sound server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote: ... > The actual things removed: > > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/fulltree/iceweasel-1.5.0.7-g2/remove.nonfree > > Most all of them are Graphics related, except for the auto-updater > for Firefox...err Iceweasel and a Platforms Debian does not support

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 18:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:36, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Martin Schulze wrote: > >> > Mike Hommey wrote: > >> > Maybe not, because the name change makes it visible for him that > >> > there has been a change indeed. Cha

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 18:50, Paul Johnson wrote: ... > > Oh, and everyone that uses e-mail spends their time reading every > > RFC out there. > > I don't expect them to. Though I do expect them to learn Damn you're demanding, aren't you? > > Remember you're always going to be dealing with ne

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 21:06, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > The rectangular, artificial grocery-store sponges smoked up the > > whole house. > > A writes: > > Don't those all come with some kind of anti-bacterial crap in them? > > that may effect the outcome. > > It would probably

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects browsing > habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. This is a battle you, and anyone else who thinks like you, is going to lose. Opera has had user agent munging for it's entire existence

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:57:48PM +0100, Kristian Lampen wrote: > Hi, > I plan to set up a home network, a little bit more than a DSL-router-box > with the PC's connected to it. I could do so, but for reasons of fun > (hobby), the learning aspect and be in touch with future technologies, I > want

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> >> I think his point wasn't so much the version number as the name in >> front >> of it. Websites don't know what Iceweasel is, they do know what Firefox >> is. >> > I think that such a thing is b

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:42, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Stephen R Laniel wrote: >> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> Please quit top posting. >> > >> > Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which >> > surely needs much i

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Sam, 27 Jan 2007, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: >> > Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but >> > different. >> >> Can YOU please explain me what *important* differences there ar

Re: Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Angelo Bertolli wrote: >> >> >>> I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though.  (I >>> just figured it was for upgrades.) >>> >> >> Why put something in non-free if trivial changes to the name and artwork >> makes it free? >> >

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: >> On Sunday 28 January 2007 07:01, Martin Schulze wrote: >>> Remember the Cola tests? Blindfolded have preferred Pepsi over Coca, >>> with eyes open the result they preferred the Coca variant. > >> Funny. Blindfolded I took the same as I did without the b

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:24:09 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > howdy folks. > > > > > > > > > > > As I understan

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:36, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Martin Schulze wrote: >> > Mike Hommey wrote: >> > Maybe not, because the name change makes it visible for him that >> > there has been a change indeed. Changes from 1.0 to 1.5 or 1.5 to >> > 2.0 may be accepted as upstr

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson wrote: > The rectangular, artificial grocery-store sponges smoked up the > whole house. A writes: > Don't those all come with some kind of anti-bacterial crap in them? > that may effect the outcome. It would probably make them slightly conductive. Just the thing to set them on fire.

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > ... >> > Do you see a difference? >> >> You could have cancelled and looked into why that is. iceweasel >> provides firefox because it *is* firefox. There is no functional >> difference between firefox and iceweasel. Yo

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread Max Hyre
Peter Teunissen wrote: > Best would be to have another NIC on the router for the WAP (or use a > PCI WLAN card), so you can have stricter rules in the FW for wireless > clients. And remember to use WPA2 (or WPA if you have some devices without WPA2 capability) with a good passphrase. You shou

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Kristian Lampen wrote: > Hi, > I want to prepare an PC as a DSL-firewall-router for a small > home-network, five PC (some windows, some debian). I have not found a > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. > I use debian since five years, and know something about networking, but > i would like t

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Max Hyre wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> Angelo writes: >>> It was reiterated by Mozilla that if it doesn't do this, it will lose >>> some ability to protect its trademarks. IANAL, but somehow it just >>> doesn't sound right to me. >> >> It needn't be right in order to be true. Trademark law is l

Re: Router doesn't recognize Debian system

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Brian Hostetler wrote: > I recently migrated my home server from SPARC Solaris to PPC Debian. The > transition was remarkably smooth and I have been humming along for nearly > a week. Sometime late Saturday, however, my Debian box "dropped off" as > far as my 2wire DSL router is concerned. It no l

PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that are typically used (MITs and the other usual candidates) are responding terribly, horrifically slow. If they respond at all, timing out is becoming more and more frequent. Even many web-interfaces timeout regularly. I'd like to

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:06:18PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > howdy folks. > > I've recently abandoned my increasingly unwieldy bogofilter > implementation in favor of spamassassin: I'm no longer the only one > getting mail through this server; and the bogofilter databases were > gradu

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:31:31PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:24 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:24 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > howdy folks. > > > > > > > > > > > As I understand it, and frmo a litt

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 17:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its uid to > > 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a problem as it > > tries to update the AWL a

Re: Adaptec 1540CF (aha1542) not detected

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:57 -0500, Oliver Twist wrote: > greetings... :) > > I am trying to install etch RC1 on a old machine with an Adaptec aha1540CF > ISA SCSI card, but cannot seem to get debian to detect the controller. Being an ISA card it needs to be initialized by the PNPISA stuff, perha

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > howdy folks. > > > > > > > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its > > uid to 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. Th

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 29 January 2007 17:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its uid to > 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a problem as it > tries to update the AWL and bayes database files in its $HOME with is > nonexistent. One rec

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > howdy folks. > > > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its > uid to 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a > problem as it tries to update the AWL and bayes database fil

spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
howdy folks. I've recently abandoned my increasingly unwieldy bogofilter implementation in favor of spamassassin: I'm no longer the only one getting mail through this server; and the bogofilter databases were gradually getting out of whack. So aptitude install spamassassin, works like a charm.

Adaptec 1540CF (aha1542) not detected

2007-01-29 Thread Oliver Twist
greetings... :) I am trying to install etch RC1 on a old machine with an Adaptec aha1540CF ISA SCSI card, but cannot seem to get debian to detect the controller. My system: ASUS P2-99 with 433MHz Intel 256MB ram AGP 4MB vid card 1 - 40 GB IDE HDD Adaptec 1540CF with SCSI CDROM attached. I hav

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread H.S.
Kristian Lampen wrote: Hi, I want to prepare an PC as a DSL-firewall-router for a small home-network, five PC (some windows, some debian). I have not found a suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. I use debian since five years, and know something about networking, but i would like to have t

Re: Multiple copies (was Re: howto for setting ...)

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Hodgins Family wrote: > > > Anybody else get 3 copies of this? > > > > I've gotten 2 copies of some list emails for the past couple of days. > > Oh, well then. Lucky me! > I got to read it 3 times. > Guess I win. bummer, I only got 1. guess I lose. I t

OT: sponge burning! [was Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!]

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:04:20PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/29/07 08:47, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:44:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >>> You would think that after as long as we have had microwave ovens these > >>> days > >>> that people would be

Re: packet forwarding

2007-01-29 Thread Francis Healy
Andrew Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma }Hello everyone, I am trying to set up a debian proxy such as this: USERDEBIANINTERNET The debian box will have two network cards. How c

Problem connection using pptp over cable

2007-01-29 Thread Micha Feigin
My ISP upgraded their pptp server last week and I can no longer connect using pptp. Thursday night they upgraded their system (don't know more details) and since then I can't connect using linux anymore. Windows works fine, so it's not a hardware issue. I tried two machines, one debian stable (pow

Re: Multiple copies (was Re: howto for setting ...)

2007-01-29 Thread Hodgins Family
> > Anybody else get 3 copies of this? > > I've gotten 2 copies of some list emails for the past couple of days. Oh, well then. Lucky me! I got to read it 3 times. Guess I win. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/07 08:47, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:44:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>> You would think that after as long as we have had microwave ovens these days >>> that people would be aware that microwaves require m

Multiple copies (was Re: howto for setting ...)

2007-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/07 17:52, Hodgins Family wrote: > On Mon, 2007-29-01 at 18:02 +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: >> On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: >>> I have not found a >>> suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. >> May be becau

a few dumb questions about apt sources.list file contents....

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, Here is my apt sources.list file; localhost:/etc/apt# more sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1 (20061110)]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-3 (20061110)]/

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Hodgins Family
On Mon, 2007-29-01 at 18:02 +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: > > I have not found a > > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. > > May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing. > Dealing for five yea

X crashes randomly

2007-01-29 Thread Normand
Since the last 2 weeks approximately, I'm experiencing crashes in graphical display: I can move the mouse pointer but clicking on anything has no effect, or has a strange effect, e.g. clicking on an icon in the toolbar will bring up a completely unrelated window. If I close X with ctrl-alt-back

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Thompson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:18 +0100 Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Best would be to have another NIC on the router for the WAP (or use > a PCI WLAN card), so you can have stricter rules in the FW for > wireless clients. For instance, allow only certain (DHCP per mac > address assigned

Re: ls and globbing and full pathnames

2007-01-29 Thread Bob McGowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f this will not work, except you only have one non-dot entry in /var/www - the first argument can only be one directory, where /var/www/* will be expanded to list of all files/directories (except those beginning with a dot) in /v

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.29.0403 +]: > Why not mirror the whole drive? > > and then make it bootable with fdisk right? > > No, you use lilo or grub. If you mirror the drive, you also mirror the boot sector. You can only do this if the drives are the same size though.

Re: Raid trouble

2007-01-29 Thread martin f krafft
> > I'm still learning here, and from what I understand I need to do > > > > mdadm --assemble --scan > > > > to get the /dev/md[x] to appear in my unstable installation (see > > my setup in the first post), and then I can safely You need the auto flag, either in mdadm.conf or on the command line

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing > > blocks

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 29-jan-2007, at 21:57, Kristian Lampen wrote: Hi, I plan to set up a home network, a little bit more than a DSL- router-box with the PC's connected to it. I could do so, but for reasons of fun (hobby), the learning aspect and be in touch with future technologies, I want to do it more fl

Re: Re: configuring ntpd to respond to rdate

2007-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:42 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > gf> You also need to configure your machine that you are referencing to > reply to requests. > > gf> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html > > gf> Usually, you need to allow local only clients/networks. > > That is more h

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-29 Thread celejar
On 1/28/07, Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firewalling routers are $50 and do a reasonably > good job. Any recommendations? What are you using? I believe that just about any home wireless AP / switch / router these days does stateful packet inspection and NAT, making it a decent H

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread celejar
On 1/29/07, Kristian Lampen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I plan to set up a home network, a little bit more than a DSL-router-box with the PC's connected to it. I could do so, but for reasons of fun (hobby), the learning aspect and be in touch with future technologies, I want to do it more flex

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +, John K Masters wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800 > "Mitchell Verter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web > > for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. > > > >

gmailfs

2007-01-29 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Hello, I am having problems with gmailfs. I am using Debian testing amd-64 and gmailfs 0.7.2-2. Apparently I can log in and send files to gmail but I can't list the gmail mount catalogue and copy files from gmail to my computer. My account is OK as I can use it with firefox gmail space extension.

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Easthope
Tyler & others, tmd> install a dynamic IP updater (like ez-ipupdate), and register for a dynamic DNS account somewhere (shameless plug: www.yi.org). Thanks. I created an account in yi.org and installed ez-ipupdate on my debian system here. These lines in the syslog appear OK. Jan 29 11:51:37 j

Re: Unable to use a new USB drive.

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:12:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The second drive is testing out fine -- so fat. I did a mke2fs -c -c on > it, and it's been checking bad blocks ever sing Friday. First writing > blocks full of 0xaa, then reading them back, then repeating with -x55 > and

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:57:48PM +0100, Kristian Lampen wrote: > Hi, > I plan to set up a home network, a little bit more than a DSL-router-box > with the PC's connected to it. I could do so, but for reasons of fun > (hobby), the learning aspect and be in touch with future technologies, I > want

Re: Re: ndiswraaper install error.

2007-01-29 Thread Angelo Bertolli
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Thanks for your time. I have done this using m-a a-i ndiswrapper. everything goes OK. My wifi interface is recognised as eth0 and ethernet one as eth1. I don't know how this done. But any reference to know is welcome. I could get connected also by the script as given by me ea

Re: Re: bad anti-aliasing; what thinks my CRT is an LCD display

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Bransford
Yes, subpixel rendering / subpixel hinting is what you need to turn off. It is detected by X. In my case, I can override my display driver (radeon) and force it to see a CRT on primary head and None on Secondary. The actual setup is LCD-panel in primary, CRT on secondary (laptop). Just as well

Re: Re: configuring ntpd to respond to rdate

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Easthope
Hello Greg, gf> You are confusing rdate and ntp. I understand that they are distinct programs. gf> rdate (traditionally) does not even speak the protocol of ntp. I am trying to follow the instructions in 16.4.1 here. (Join the following two lines.) http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ system

Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-29 Thread Kristian Lampen
Hi, I plan to set up a home network, a little bit more than a DSL-router-box with the PC's connected to it. I could do so, but for reasons of fun (hobby), the learning aspect and be in touch with future technologies, I want to do it more flexible and controllable. This is my plan:

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Kristian Lampen
Rakotomandimby Mihamina schrieb: On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: I have not found a suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing. Dealing for five years with Linux and networking and not

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/01/07 20:24), Michael Fothergill wrote: > OK I ran apt-get install base-config > > base-config supposedly doesn't exist, but something called locales does. > Sounds Spanish. has anyone used it? locales is to set your geographic/language set and won't give you apt-setup: [EMAIL PR

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: does apt-setup exist? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:30:09 +0200 On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:10:46 + "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's in the ba

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: > I have not found a > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing. Dealing for five years with Linux and networking and not knowing how to share an internet conne

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: > I have not found a > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing. Dealing for five years with Linux and networking and not knowing how to share an internet connec

Re: howto for setting up an debian home network router

2007-01-29 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote: > I have not found a > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task. May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing. Dealing for five years with Linux and networking and not knowing how to share an internet connec

Sendmail's greet_pause

2007-01-29 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello all, We have been using Sendmail's feature "greet_pause" for quit some time and have been happy with this feature. But as of late I'm wondering if this feature is having a problem on our mail server. I've been seeing a LOT of mail servers rejected because "due to pre-greeting traffic". Wha

Re: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Demou
2007/1/29, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Nick Demou wrote: > Someone else did the installation and included the GUI by mistake. >[I want to remove it] Tasksel is what installs software during the install, and it can also be used post-install to remove it. Just run tasksel, unselect the desktop

Re: Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:12:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:39:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:04:22PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > > > > > > Is this a good plan or am I making fundamental mistake in combining non

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:04:54PM +0100 or thereabouts, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Hello, > > I have got some trouble posting to this list using my prefered MUA mutt > (1.5.13-1.1) and MTA exim4-daemon-light (4.63-12). I'm using pretty much the same setup, and didn't do anything special in regar

Re: After Sarge->Etch update: Computer doesn't boot. Wife unhappy.

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:06:31AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hello, > > After I did a sarge->etch update on the weekend the machine frequenty > hangs during bootup with the message: waiting for root filesystem. All I > can do is type "reboot" at the (initramfs) prompt, then it reboots and > usu

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:10:46 + "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's in the base-config package > > > >$ apt-file search apt-setup > > I tried apt-file search apt-setup but it didn't work. I went on Did you 'apt-file update' first? > Synaptic to look for base-config but c

Re: Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:39:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:04:22PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > > > > Is this a good plan or am I making fundamental mistake in combining non > > raid and raid partitions? > > > There is nothing inherently wrong with

Re: ndiswraaper install error.

2007-01-29 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 1/29/07, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just used NDISWrapper to get a netgear wg111v2 fob to wifi... I have only done this with the 2.6 kernel, never 2.4. I also indicate the rev's I used, you may find different revisions. Get the source ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net sourceforge.n

Re: Sid + nVidia + Compiz == no good?

2007-01-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/29/07, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 18:01:58 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: >On 1/25/07, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi Magnus! >> >>On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to get Compiz to run on my Debian Sid sys

Re: packet forwarding

2007-01-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:24 -0200 cassiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of which... > > How do I de-activate logging to stdout in shorewall? It´s very > annoying to have all firewall logged activity popping out on > whichever tty I´m working on... This is in sid (etch is probably the s

Re: Sid + nVidia + Compiz == no good?

2007-01-29 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 18:01:58 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: >On 1/25/07, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi Magnus! >> >>On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to get Compiz to run on my Debian Sid system. This is >>> the setup: >>> >>[snip] >> >>You didn't

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: does apt-setup exist? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:10:15 +0100 On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:55 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It's in the base-config package Or was at least. base-config seems to have been made o

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:55 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It's in the base-config package Or was at least. base-config seems to have been made obsolete. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: packet forwarding

2007-01-29 Thread cassiano
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:29:56PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to set up a debian proxy such as this: USERDEBIANINTERNET The debian box will have two network cards. How can I set up the debian box to forward packets

Re: ssh med deres netværk installation

2007-01-29 Thread Per Carlson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:43:13PM +0100, Dennis Larsen wrote: > Jeg er ny inden for linux, og jeg tænkte jeg ville prøve debian. så jeg > hentede netværksinstallation på 190 mb. That is a minimal installation CD. To get a fully working system, you need to download the rest from internet. > Da

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:43:03 + "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > Is there such a utility as apt-setup? Some web sites say it exists, > others say it does not. > > I tried typing apt-setup into a terminal prompt as root and got > "command not found". > >

Re: Απ : how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Nick Demou wrote: > Someone else did the installation and included the GUI by mistake. Tasksel is what installs software during the install, and it can also be used post-install to remove it. Just run tasksel, unselect the desktop task, and continue and it will remove it all. -- see shy jo sig

does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, Is there such a utility as apt-setup? Some web sites say it exists, others say it does not. I tried typing apt-setup into a terminal prompt as root and got "command not found". I was wanting to use it to add a mirror site to the apt sources.lst file. Comments apprec

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