Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Defects tend to happen to all the units in a certain production run. If one goes, the others may go before you can replace & rebuild the first bad drive. Fair enough. I'd still prefer to have all my RAID drives be the same manufacturer + model. Maybe that's just an ingrained habit I picked up

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
Greg Folkert wrote: >> These are to Oxygen what nano is to emacs ... childsplay. > > If you want Whizzbang, Wizard style, auto-magic crap, then why use a > powerful OS? > > I say its: > > "Go back to Windows and Visual * something studio Pro-Live-Vista Crap" > > And leave our "unpretty" but ex

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/07 01:14, Pete Clarke wrote: [snip] >>> 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives >> >> (Incidentally I would recommend against making a RAID array from >> several drives from the same manufacturer. Especially if they're >> the same model. Even more so if

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
For SATA, you need to add "-d ata" to the command line, i.e.: # smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda bungo:~# smartctl -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ bungo:~# smartctl -d ata /dev/sdb smartctl

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
There was/is an issue with certain Maxtor SATA hard disk drives. In some cases, it is necessary to force them to SATA-I mode (1.5 gb/s). There's a jumper in the back for that. Yep, set that :-) 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives (Incidentally I would recommend against making a RAID array from seve

Re: goddammit

2007-02-01 Thread M-L
On Friday 02 February 2007 17:16, Incoming shared this with us all: >--} I have been fighting with this damned Debian 3.1 - Sergeant Wolly or > some such - and I can't even print. I have also installed JRE, but I > haven't found out how to connect it to Firefox. --} >--} I can't downlosd from my d

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 01 February 2007 17:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > > I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying > > for Windows. > > A Macbook. It even runs Etch, so you can setup a dual boot. There is > an exc

goddammit

2007-02-01 Thread Incoming
I have been fighting with this damned Debian 3.1 - Sergeant Wolly or some such - and I can't even print. I have also installed JRE, but I haven't found out how to connect it to Firefox. I can't downlosd from my digital camera. I can only play a few of the video formats out on the web. There d

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 23:41, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> That splatting noise is my hurl splatting onto the opposite wall. >> >> Remind me never to hire you. >> >> Are you sure you don't work for Microsoft? Or maybe you're an MCSE? >> >> It's

Re: OT MySQL and PostgreSQL

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 22:19, Paul E Condon wrote: > The recent heated discussion as to the relative merits of MySQL and > PostgresSQL reminded me of a question that I want to ask of RDBMS > experts, particularly experts who are willing to take a clear > position

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 22:43, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:28:53AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: >> Random Quotes From Megas XLR > > As much as I may love anime, I just can't deal with a series named > "Megasex LR", even if it's not spelled

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: > That splatting noise is my hurl splatting onto the opposite wall. > > Remind me never to hire you. > > Are you sure you don't work for Microsoft? Or maybe you're an MCSE? > > It's confirmed. You *are* an MCSE. For that I may implement my next database with MySQL (instead of

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Mihira Fernando
Dave Sherohman wrote: Yes, I'm paranoid that it's going to be full of tentacles... (Seriously, though, I have watched an episode or two and it's simply not my style. I just like poking fun at the name.) Its a pretty funny toon. Parodies quite a lot of shows, persons, characters and some well

greylistd / exim4 troubles -- how to troubleshoot?

2007-02-01 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
I'm wondering if this package "just worked" for anyone and if not, how they got it to work, especially with exim4 and a monolithic exim4.conf that was converted from an exim3 installation, on unstable. greylistd-setup-exim4 only seemed to apply to the split config files. After fiddling with the e

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:50:27AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >As much as I may love anime, I just can't deal with a series named > >"Megasex LR", even if it's not spelled that way. > > > Your love for anime shouldn't have any issues with a cartoon named Megas > XLR. H

How to disable AAAA query?

2007-02-01 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I am using ipv4 network and I found that the system will always do a query when name resolution is needed, which substantially slows down the speed. How can I disable this? TIA! Cheers, Deephay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Danesh Daroui
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/01/07 20:10, Angelo Bertolli wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: >>> (2) MySQL is a shorter learning curve for new users >>> What? In what way? Learning to develop against MySQL

Re: What is loading module pcspkr (inspite blacklist)?

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 06:16:35PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I thought maybe somebody knows what loads the module pcspkr on a sid (up > to date) with stock kernel 2.6.18-3-686? > > I even blacklisted the module in /etc/modprobe.d/00local (I blacklisted > ipv6 in the s

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Mihira Fernando
Dave Sherohman wrote: As much as I may love anime, I just can't deal with a series named "Megasex LR", even if it's not spelled that way. Your love for anime shouldn't have any issues with a cartoon named Megas XLR. However if it does, then you need professional help. -- Random Quotes From M

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:28:53AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Random Quotes From Megas XLR As much as I may love anime, I just can't deal with a series named "Megasex LR", even if it's not spelled that way. -- I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than th

Re: What is loading module pcspkr (inspite blacklist)?

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:25:16PM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Friday 02 February 2007 03:16, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hello Debian Users, > > > > I thought maybe somebody knows what loads the module pcspkr on a sid (up > > to date) with stock kernel 2.6.18-3-686? > > > > I even blacklisted th

Re: What is loading module pcspkr (inspite blacklist)?

2007-02-01 Thread John O'Hagan
On Friday 02 February 2007 03:16, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I thought maybe somebody knows what loads the module pcspkr on a sid (up > to date) with stock kernel 2.6.18-3-686? > > I even blacklisted the module in /etc/modprobe.d/00local (I blacklisted > ipv6 in the same file a

OT MySQL and PostgreSQL

2007-02-01 Thread Paul E Condon
The recent heated discussion as to the relative merits of MySQL and PostgresSQL reminded me of a question that I want to ask of RDBMS experts, particularly experts who are willing to take a clear position. Namely, what do you think of the work of C. J. Date? He rejects SQL, as far as I can tell. Is

Re: Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller driver for linux-2.6.9

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:43:28AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi; > Due to my clearcase linux thin client version which comes with > mvfs module that is built against linux-2.6.9 kernel headers, I have to > use this version of linux kernel on my workstation which uses Intel > 82801GBM

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 02 February 2007 04:28, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > [snip] > > >>> Naaa... South Park :) > >> > >> /South Park/ and /Family Guy/ are funny in small doses. Mostly, > >> they are just boorish. > >> > >> /Futurama/ is *the* modern animated show. > > > > If you're talking m

Re: Jonny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 22:00, Max Hyre wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > The wiki article mentions nothing of a similarly-titled book. > >In fact, it mentions its inspiration being, among others, the > _Jack Armstrong_ radio show and Milt Caniff's comics, as well as his > name being spelled

Re: Fonts problem on Debian Etch

2007-02-01 Thread David Shultz
Is there anyway to fix the blurriness of Gnome Logon Screen which has the same blurriness problem I was complaining about? Is Gnome Logon Screen using a diffrent refresh rate other than Gnome? I really want to dive into the freedom of linux. Please help me.

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Colin wrote: Dave Witbrodt wrote: Thanks for the tip. As it turns out I already knew about this. It's just that AMD/ATI just released a brand new driver package this month, and I wanted that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy fglrx-kernel-src fglrx-kernel-src: Installed: 8.

Re: Jonny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Max Hyre
Ron Johnson wrote: > The wiki article mentions nothing of a similarly-titled book. In fact, it mentions its inspiration being, among others, the _Jack Armstrong_ radio show and Milt Caniff's comics, as well as his name being spelled `Jonny'. Sounds as if there's no relation, though you'd thin

Re: CPU time

2007-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:33:05 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25 > > percent of cpu time when

Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller driver for linux-2.6.9

2007-02-01 Thread KokHow.Teh
Hi; Due to my clearcase linux thin client version which comes with mvfs module that is built against linux-2.6.9 kernel headers, I have to use this version of linux kernel on my workstation which uses Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller for harddisks. Linux-2.6.9 does not have the driver fo

Re: Boot logs ?

2007-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:00:57 + (GMT) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > deb ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > > deb-src ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > > deb http://se

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 20:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/01/07 20:10, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > >> > >>> (2) MySQL is a shorter learning cu

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/07 03:28, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > [snip] Naaa... South Park :) >>> /South Park/ and /Family Guy/ are funny in small doses. Mostly, >>> they are just boorish. >>> >>> /Futurama/ is *the* modern animated show. >> >> I

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 20:10, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: >> >>> (2) MySQL is a shorter learning curve for new users >>> >>> >> What? In what way? Learning to dev

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Mihira Fernando
Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Naaa... South Park :) /South Park/ and /Family Guy/ are funny in small doses. Mostly, they are just boorish. /Futurama/ is *the* modern animated show. If you're talking modern, my vote is for Gargoyles. All this talk about Animations and not even a peek about anim

Re: Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > >> (2) MySQL is a shorter learning curve for new users >> >> > What? In what way? Learning to develop against MySQL is no harder or > easier than learning to develop against PostgreSQL (besides

Re: best log checker

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I'm trying to find a good log checker. > > Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. > > I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I > tried logwatch. It has an ignore file that it says to just cut and > pas

Re: Outlook clients and Linux Debian

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Hervé Piedvache wrote: > What kind of solution could I find to this stuff under a Debian Linux > service ? If you happen to run postfix for an MTA, Kolab might be exactly what you are looking for. If not, you may now curse Kolab's rather interesting dependency on a specific MTA. http://www.kolab

Re: How do I undelete a file in GNU/Linux or UNIX?

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Glen Yu wrote: > If I accidentally deleted a file in any GNU/Linux or Unix-based OS, is > there anyway I can recover those files? The good news is the file can be recovered in exactly the same way as you do in windows: Restore the file from a recent backup. The bad news is you need to have a ba

kernel image: difference between xen and xen-vserver

2007-02-01 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, What is the difference between those two kernels? Their description is the same and I dont know which one to take... http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64 Thank you for your answ

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:53 +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:09 +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that > >> makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered

Re: Johnny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 18:37, Max Hyre wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just as there are spin-off books of movies, I would not be > > surprised if there were/are spin-off book of popular cartoons. > >Was the cartoon around in 1962? That's when I was reading the > book. The show was in t

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-01 Thread Colin
Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Thanks for the tip. As it turns out I already knew about this. It's > just that AMD/ATI just released a brand new driver package this month, > and I wanted that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy fglrx-kernel-src > fglrx-kernel-src: > Installed: 8.33

Re: spcaview

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 06:54:49PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:26:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/01/07 16:59, Bayrouni wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Is there any spcaview package for debia

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >more and more I think I should be building and selling > >debian-installed computers... > > > > But would they sell ;-) > I know i can count on you to buy one... A signature.asc Description:

Re: Dual head setup

2007-02-01 Thread Greg Vickers
Hello Hans, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi Greg, thanks for your reply To get my video card working and stable, I had to use the fglrx module provided by ATI. (http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html Mine is a Radeon 7000 - not supported by fglrx, but supported by the opensource radeon driver. You

RE: ProFTPD fails to start

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: redhat penguin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:23 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: ProFTPD fails to start > > hi, > > I just installed ProFTPD using 'apt-get install proftpd'. > The installation was successful b

mdadm - raid1 - sata - udev - kernel-2.6.16-2-686 - Problems

2007-02-01 Thread Richard
debian sarge - mdadm 1.8.0-4sarge1 my problem is that on reboot the only md device that comes up is md1 which is the / device that gets compiled into the initrd.img. in the boot sequence when it comes to mounting the others from /e

Re: spcaview

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:26:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/01/07 16:59, Bayrouni wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Is there any spcaview package for debian. > > I made some searchs but nothing. (aptitude, google) > > How do you view the S

Re: Johnny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 17:37, Max Hyre wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Just as there are spin-off books of movies, I would not be surprised >> if there were/are spin-off book of popular cartoons. > >Was the cartoon around in 1962? That's when I was readin

Re: Johnny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Max Hyre
Ron Johnson wrote: > Just as there are spin-off books of movies, I would not be surprised > if there were/are spin-off book of popular cartoons. Was the cartoon around in 1962? That's when I was reading the book. -- Best wishes, Max Hyre signature.asc Descr

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote: It's probably worth getting a larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-sup

Re: spcaview

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 16:59, Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there any spcaview package for debian. > I made some searchs but nothing. (aptitude, google) How do you view the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 16:55, Johannes Graumann wrote: > I'd prefer to concentrate on my xml rather than on the editor ... Learn vim and you won't need to concentrate on the editor. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwnbhS9

ProFTPD fails to start

2007-02-01 Thread redhat penguin
hi, I just installed ProFTPD using 'apt-get install proftpd'. The installation was successful but it said: ProFTPd warning: cannot start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd mode. Check your configuration. My /etc/proftpd.conf has: ServerName "rhftp" ServerType inetd DeferWe

RE: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Ross
> > What does smartmontools say about the drive's S.M.A.R.T.s? > > > > I get: > > bungo:~# smartctl --all /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) > 2002-6 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Device: ATA ST3250620AS Version: 3

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 17:03, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:37:39PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: [snip] > Yes, they were "fast" when computers were still slow. Unfortunately, > many people were willing to give up data integrity in excha

Re: How to change some staff in evolution?

2007-02-01 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:34:35PM +0300, Vladimir Kozlov wrote: > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Hi Vladimir, > > I think what you want is to change the locale when you run evolution. > > try this: > > LC_ALL=en_US evolution > > cheers, > > Kev > > Another (stupid) question - how I should change t

Re: old hardware, newer Debian

2007-02-01 Thread s. keeling
Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been running woody on > for 5 years and find I can't run X cause the Trident tvga 9800b > chipset is no longer supported in the xserver-xfree86 v4.3. Any Try the svga driver. I'm using a PCI Matrox card, developme

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:37:39PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > The fundamental difference is licensing. If Windows was open source, I > certainly wouldn't bother disagreeing with them if they specified which > users would benefit more from Windows. And on that issue MySQL wins > because

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
I'd prefer to concentrate on my xml rather than on the editor ... Joh Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Johannes. > > Johannes Graumann, 01.02.2007 23:09: >> Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that >> makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial lice

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > (1) MySQL is shown to be faster in a single-user environment than > Postgres, especially with complicated SELECT statements > IIRC, this does not hold for transactional tables. So, we are back to the "if you don't care about y

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:43:13PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > as has already been said, natural sponges, having protien content, > > would surely have some reaction in a microwave. That said, we all know > > that 1) there's nothing natural abou

spcaview

2007-02-01 Thread Bayrouni
Hello all, Is there any spcaview package for debian. I made some searchs but nothing. (aptitude, google) Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:09 +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that >> makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of >> oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... >>

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying > for Windows. > A Macbook. It even runs Etch, so you can setup a dual boot. There is an excellent HOWTO at wiki.debian.org. I've had mine for 8 months and I hav

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread s. keeling
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > as has already been said, natural sponges, having protien content, > would surely have some reaction in a microwave. That said, we all know > that 1) there's nothing natural about the aforementioned "sponge" and ...^

Re: EXT3-fs error, directory contains a hole

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:18:53PM -0300, Jos? Pablo Fern?ndez wrote: > Hello, > > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:20, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Its been years since I ran ext* but I don't think it can hurt to do > > another fsck with the filesystem totally unmounted. That means that if > >

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-02-01 20:34 -, Pete Clarke wrote: > I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: > > P4, 1.7Ghz > 512MB Ram > 2 x SI based SATA I controllers > 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives > > It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall performance > is terrible. > > bungo:~#

Re: EXT3-fs error, directory contains a hole

2007-02-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 16:18, José Pablo Fernández wrote: > Hello, > > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:20, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> Its been years since I ran ext* but I don't think it can hurt to do >> another fsck with the filesystem totally unmounted. T

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Johannes. Johannes Graumann, 01.02.2007 23:09: > Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes > life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen > for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... > Desperation takes over: is there no NICE XML edit

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-02-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le jeudi 11 janvier 2007 05:13, Douglas Tutty a écrit : > I'm running Etch amd64 and this is my first box without a floppy drive. > On previous boxes I've used Woody's boot floppies and some extra > utilities disks I've made to cobble together a text-mode rescue setup on > a ram disk. [...] Pay ex

Re: boot + lvm ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mardi 16 janvier 2007 14:24, Stephane Durieux a écrit : > Hello, > > I encounter a problem using lvm and lilo. > On standart install, everythings works despite the boot partition is on a > logical volum. > > But when I try to make a custom kernel and then run a lilo, I get the > following messag

Re: Etch on X86-64

2007-02-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 00:58, Ananda Samaddar a écrit : > Hello there, > > my desktop computer recently bit the dust and I'm thinking of getting a > Core 2 duo system. What is the status of Debian on the X86-64 platform? > Is it usable? I'd love to hear from people using this particular port a

Re: resize2fs on LVM2 on hardware RAID5

2007-02-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mardi 30 janvier 2007 22:21, Pim Bliek a écrit : > Hi > > Since a couple of months I am running Etch on a new production server, > with the following specs: > > - kernel 2.6.18-smp package > - lvm 2.02.06-3 > - RAID5 on a 3Ware card (3w_9xxx) > > I want to grow my /var filesystem ONLINE. I can f

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:09 +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi there, > > Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes > life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen > for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... > Desperation takes over: is t

Re: EXT3-fs error, directory contains a hole

2007-02-01 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:20, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Its been years since I ran ext* but I don't think it can hurt to do > another fsck with the filesystem totally unmounted. That means that if > this is the / filesystem, you need to use a rescue media not just the > boot-time

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:34:20PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: >> >> P4, 1.7Ghz >> 512MB Ram >> 2 x SI based SATA I controllers >> 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives >> >> It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall p

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: > > So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with > > issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check > > the HW? > > Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote: > > > It's probably worth getting a > > > larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on th

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: > > So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with > > issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check > > the HW? > > Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom

XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi there, Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... Desperation takes over: is there no NICE XML editor that's licensed compatibly with the Debian guide

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:34:20PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: > > P4, 1.7Ghz > 512MB Ram > 2 x SI based SATA I controllers > 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives > > It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall performanc

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 12:16, Angelo Bertolli wrote: I've been debating whether or not to make a comment on this discussion, but it finally got to me. I think you're being way too hard on MySQL considering the fact that this question ori

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: > So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with > issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check > the HW? Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom test software. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 14:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/01/07 08:35, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: > >>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200 > >>> >

Re: best log checker

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:15:32PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:55:12AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Why doesn't someone make a companion interactive rule maker? Run it in

Re: Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:34:19PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > In particular, I'm interested in finding out if Debian has any intention > of including some of the wireless drivers that Ubuntu has gotten into > their kernel. Does anyone know anything about this, or who I should > contact? >

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-02-01 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +, John K Masters wrote: > It can be done but it is very, very convoluted. Windows always > likes to overwrite the MBR which means you will lose GRUB or LILO. Not necessarily. You can tell LILO to pu

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > So the consensus seems to be that LVM is the way to go. > > So what's the cutoff between building arrays of varying size versus > grouping them under LVM? > > I.e. Right now I've got two large arrays. Should I maybe break that

Kismet and Hermes wireless card

2007-02-01 Thread anthony
Hello I'm using Debian Etch and just switched wireless card to an orinoco hermes I chipset - the card is using 8.7 firmware I'm using kismet with the card and I get this error: Server options: none Client options: none Starting server... Waiting for server to start before starting UI... Suid p

Re: apt-listbugs behavior (was libpangocairo and gimp...)

2007-02-01 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 27 January 2007 03:15, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:12:44PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > use aptitude interactively and ':' will hold a package at its current > > level. Also, '?' within apt-listbugs allows you to pin the packages, > > but I've not trie

Re: Avidemux and monitor energy saver

2007-02-01 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Dijous 01 Febrer 2007 18:50, Wu-Kung Sun va escriure: > > Right click on the desktop choose Configure Desktop then Display option > > next Power Control tab then I usually change the Standby setting up one > > click then back down and click on the Apply button. > > Or from a console: > xset s on

Re: Fonts problem on Debian Etch

2007-02-01 Thread David Shultz
On 2/1/07, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please check to see if you have the package fontconfig-config installed. If so, then do this as root: dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config I did exactly what you've instructed but no improvement.

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Rick Reynolds
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:52, Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: It's probably worth getting a larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual boot option just so you can verify that a

Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-01 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: P4, 1.7Ghz 512MB Ram 2 x SI based SATA I controllers 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall performance is terrible. Every time it reboots (which happens due to dodgy power!), it do

Re: Mount or mount-aes

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
David Baron wrote: > The latest and greatest ddclient on Sid wants initscripts which wants mount. > mount conflicts with mount-aes which replaces mount. > So this upgrade would replace the mount-aes currently installed with mount. > The dialog talks about removing mount-aes is something that shou

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:52, Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > It's probably worth getting a > larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a > dual boot option just so you can verify that any problems you'r

Re: Mount or mount-aes

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:55:05PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > The latest and greatest ddclient on Sid wants initscripts which wants mount. > mount conflicts with mount-aes which replaces mount. > > So this upgrade would replace the mount-aes currently installed with mount. > > The dialog talks a

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