Re: measuring CPU usage (was Re: nvidia driver problem)

2007-02-21 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: steef wrote: LAST QUESTION: what package do i need to measure cpu-usage? (valgrind maybe??) I don't think valgrind is what you're after. "top" is a console program that does what you want (and is a required package in Debian), or there'

Command Line (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] >>> You have to understand that a whole generation has grown up without >>> knowing what a prompt is, and for those

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 23:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> What GUI would that be? > > The relevance being? Because I asked? Why do I have to justify why I asked that question? > I figured since you didn't know the te

Re: cannot find PDF file printed by cups

2007-02-21 Thread H.S.
Paul Stolp wrote: * H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-21 11:30]: Hello, On Debian Testing, I have installed a cups-pdf virtual printer. Last time I check, last week, it was working okay. Today when I tried to print a web page, it seemed like the virtual printer worked, but the printed file w

Re: [Debian-User] Nice Job Andrew

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:57:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > ps. could you use something other than 'Admin' in the From line, I'd > prefer 'Ted' or even a nickname. But that's just me. I associate people > by their From line and Admin is not something I'd associate with a > person. Also replying

Re: Xen-enabled kernel sources for etch

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:10:42PM +0300, Иванов Михаил wrote: > Where can I find debian etch kernel sources patched for xen? This bug report contains a fix and instructions for using make-kpkg to rebuild your own kernel with the xen patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: > So I am not arguing aginst LVM. Those that use it and recommend it keep > telling me I should plan on using it. I will do that if these same > people start explaining the features in way that makes sense to the > kinds of things I have

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Re: Install of "etch"

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:32:56PM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi List; > > I want to try out "Etch". Etch is the current 'testing' version of Debian, but will shortly be released. But I'd say its reasonable to install it. > I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to > i

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Daniel B. wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> This is no different. > Actually, it is. Sorry, nope. > We're not talking about Seamonkey's Trash folder to which tentatively > deleted messages are moved and from which users can recover or really > delete those tentatively deleted messages, worki

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > What GUI would that be? The relevance being? I figured since you didn't know the terms of fully expanded you were one of dem d'ere CLI people who think GUIs are da werk uf da debil! -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 23:00, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> "fully expanded"? > > Yes, I am using vim in a wicked GUI and click on the leetle button which > expands the window to the entire screen. :P > > Although I pine for the day I can g

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > "fully expanded"? Yes, I am using vim in a wicked GUI and click on the leetle button which expands the window to the entire screen. :P Although I pine for the day I can give Wing IDE a try. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?

libusb stopped working?

2007-02-21 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi folks, Yesterday, jpilot stopped syncing my USB PalmPilot. I had been using libusb (i.e. "usb:" as the port). A reboot and a different cable didn't help, but un-blacklisting the visor module and changing the port to /dev/pilot -- i.e. using the kernel visor module instead of libusb -- and now s

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 22:05, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar >> printout next to your terminal. > > I prefer 2 screens now. Left screen is the on-line Python manual, right > screen i

Re: was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 21:30, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:23:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Grok Mogger wrote: [snip] > The most amazing moment in the development of my *nix geekness wa

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar > printout next to your terminal. I prefer 2 screens now. Left screen is the on-line Python manual, right screen is my code in vim, fully expanded. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what t

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:33:16PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: > > Good suggestion, thank you. However, I checked the page; > > http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/m/ > > And I couldn't find mysql-server listed anywhere. Is there another backport > site I'm not aware of? > They are all

XIO: fatal IO error 104

2007-02-21 Thread linux china
hello, I tried to search Internet but no lucky with following error, XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "110.113.154.234:1.0" after 59 requests (58 known processed) with 0 events remaining. 110.113.154.234:1.0 is my Debian Linux on which tightVNC server is runn

Re: enlightenment news server

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:50:31PM +0100, Jakub Narojczyk wrote: > Hi All! > I'm having trouble customizing a theme in the enlightenment under etch. > Sourceforge.net holds a couple of mailing lists on developing and using > enlightenment. I'd like to view and post to those lists via thunderbird

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe > > videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll > > have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. >

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:20:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > rocky wrote: > > 3, What is the best way for me to find out which is the fastest mirror > > for me to download the Testing distribute packages? > > apt-spy > unfortunately, it appears apt-spy is *still* broken (segfaults). http://bu

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > And secondly, with this little epiphany comes a realization of > just how easy it is to spam and where it all comes from... I > could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux > box sitting right here without the

Re: was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:23:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > Grok Mogger wrote: > >> I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under > >> what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails > >> it. I know t

Re: [solved]Email receiving problems

2007-02-21 Thread Kelly
adding the command in main.cf and uncommented the line in maildroprc and it is now working. Thanks Kelly Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:04:26 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder if you need this in main.cf?

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2007-02-21 Thread 4235983253
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Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:39:05PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new > > video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? > > > > I'm not finding the informa

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I read an article: > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says > is a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption. > > But the article

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Emenaker
Paul Johnson wrote: Voting with your money is important when it comes to compatability on Linux. I'd be all for getting something other than a Dell, but they were the only ones I could find that offered a laptop with a screen resolution meeting or exceeding 1600x1200. Does anybody know of an

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michelle Konzack wrote: > I can not recommend ReiserFS I second that advisory. I've found problems with data corruption on my system using reiser. > and with XFS I have no experience. > I am looking forward to the new "ext4" which could give a > performance plus for databases I tried XFS, b

Re: switching mysql server on debian etch

2007-02-21 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:40:11AM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > [...] > I've installed mysql-server-4.1 on etch but > mysql-server-5.0 installed too. > [...] $ apt-cache show mysql-server-4.1 Package: mysql-server-4.1 [...] Version: 5.0.32-3 Depends: mysql-server-5.0 [...] This is an empty transit

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Celejar wrote: > On 15 Feb 2007 18:25:28 -0800 > "rocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to >> make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion >> loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to > make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion > loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. > Can any of you help me on the following please? > > 1,

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Ken Heard wrote: > Thanks everyone for the replies. If I understand them correctly, the > situation is as follows: > > PCMCIA cards can be hot plugged and hot unplugged just like for instance > USB devices. Right. > However, also like USB devices, if the PCMCIA card is or contains a > mobile s

Re: It's a simple question....

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Justin Hartman wrote: > So down to the "simple" question. Is this really normal on a PC-based > Laptop to experience such pitfalls in installing Debian? With the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, not usually. With Dell, HP, Acer, etc, yes, the experience is typical. This is a result of most laptop vendors

Re: Install locations when not using .deb

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Peter Teunissen wrote: > I'm trying to install CloverETL [1], a java based ETL tool. It's not in > the repository, and they don't provide a rpm or deb installer, only the > java apps etc. in a zip file or the java source. That's fine with me, > but I'd like to follow debian's guidelines on the FSH

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: > I could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux box > sitting right here without the need for a valid "mail account" on a > "mail" server or anything of the like. That's right, isn't it? No. You have a valid "mail account" on a "mail server": your own mach

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe > videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll > have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one d

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > xorg is only core to people who still (*even* if they don't realize > it) think that Real Operating Systems are designed the same way that > MS Windows is designed. If that were the case, X woudldn't be network aware and would suck at trying to run it over a network. Meanwhi

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Ken Heard wrote: > PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when > installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Only if they contain a filesystem, otherwise as long as you aren't doing anything with the card at the time you yank it, everything should happen automagically

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Grok Mogger
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I do

Re: Install of "etch"

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed February 21 2007 17:32, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is > it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off > downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Either way will work. If I were in you situation I wo

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new > video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? > > I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for > that matter. What

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 19:16, John Hasler wrote: > Grok Mogger writes: [snip] >> I find that hard to believe. > > Why? Because he's been a client all his life. The technology has been magic to him. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linu

Re: Install of "etch"

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:32 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi List; > > I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is it > easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off > downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Depends. Is the test machine a cou

Mail for newbies (was Re: How does Cron send email?)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 18:53, Grok Mogger wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Grok Mogger wrote: >>> I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically >>> sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real >>> Internet email so inst

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: > I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under > what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. Most likely it uses the 'sendmail' command, which all MTAs provide. > Are you telling me that if I set my MAILTO entry to somethin

Install of "etch"

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi List; I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

2007-02-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for that matter. Thanks Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Grok Mogger wrote: >> I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under >> what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails >> it. I know that cron just sends the ou

Re: syntax higlighting of vim in konsole

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > How can I get xterm's behaviour in konsole as well? I am using Debian Etch > (testing). > :set t_Co=256 inside .vimrc solved the issue. regards raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- T

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:53 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Grok Mogger wrote: > >> I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically > >> sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real > >> Internet email so instead of just getting mail

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that outp

OT: Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: What do you mean "legitimate internet mail?" What would illegitimate internet mail be? Well.. not to throw gas on the fire spam, improperly formatted headers, :-( Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

[Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

2007-02-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that output. I'd like to unde

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Grok Mogger writes: > I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends > email. man mail > My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet > email It already does. > ...so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box > (which I read via the

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: > I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and > under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is > HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of > whatever script it runs. I don't understand how

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Grok Mogger
Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command

Re: How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at m

How does Cron send email?

2007-02-21 Thread Grok Mogger
Hello, I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at my gmail accoun

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 15:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Looks like a flame war to me >> No, just some good natured humor. > > indeed. > > :) > >>> T

Re: cannot find PDF file printed by cups

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Stolp
* H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-21 11:30]: > > Hello, > > On Debian Testing, I have installed a cups-pdf virtual printer. Last > time I check, last week, it was working okay. Today when I tried to > print a web page, it seemed like the virtual printer worked, but the > printed file was now

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:47:03PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have tried to compile my own Xen-Kernel but failed... > > Is there a Step-by-Step docu/howto HOW to build your OWN Xen-Kernel > on a Debian-System? This is something I wrote a while back about compiling your own Xen kerne

Re: Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

2007-02-21 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 2/20/07, Niels Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported. I think this is the problem I had. You need to "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" to allow sending mail outside your computer. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

syntax higlighting of vim in konsole

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .vimrc set bg=dark hls syn on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju When I search for kamaraju in file.c inside a vim session opened by 1) konsole (with white on black schema) then the highlighted string is shown in brown colo

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Ropetin Again
On 2/21/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:04:33PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: > We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been > running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To > support a specific web

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:45:35 -0600, Hugo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > The only re

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-21 Thread Archive
Michelle Here is an excerpt from Xen Development that I think applies to your situation. There do not appear to be a lot of Debian possibilities as near as I can find out. But I'm still forging around. Your questions are further down. Here is the scoop from Xen Development regarding AMD. Th

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread H.S.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The last time I saw this it was the end of my disk. What does /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/hdb say? Hugo Here it is what it says: ## ~# /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -a -d ata /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-li

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:19 -0500, Larry Irwin wrote: > > On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > >>> Wher

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:19, Larry Irwin wrote: > > On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > >>> >

enlightenment news server

2007-02-21 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Hi All! I'm having trouble customizing a theme in the enlightenment under etch. Sourceforge.net holds a couple of mailing lists on developing and using enlightenment. I'd like to view and post to those lists via thunderbird (...sory, I ment icedove ;) ) but I can't find what news server holds

Re: VMWARE problem with Etch

2007-02-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:12 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > > three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not > able to run Debian > Have you properly compiled and setup VMware on you new installation? Are you running a Debian Kernel? which one? Do you have "kernel-pa

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > Looks like a flame war to me > > No, just some good natured humor. indeed. :) > > > This computer boots strait into KDE because the installer put in the > > init scripts to start kdm.

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:04:33PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: > We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been > running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To > support a specific web application, I need to upgrade the version of MySQL > we have

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:53:06 +0100, Joe wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >>> ..huh??? Both c-w and C-q works for me, both in kde and fluxbox, > >on >> both Iceweasel and Konqueror. > >> Perhaps you're running Sa

Security bug in CAPI code; please test updates

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
There is a potential buffer overflow in logging of CAPI messages in libcapi20 (part of isdnutils; bug 408530). The same broken code from libcapi20 is present in the Linux kernel (bug 411294). Also, the affected functions are not thread-safe and are unlikely to be made so without API changes; multit

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:52, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with > > this mail. > > > > what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Larry Irwin
On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from? What's the model number? http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/me

VMWARE problem with Etch

2007-02-21 Thread Guillermo Garron
Hi, three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not able to run Debian First on Gnome, i could open the console, connect to the server (localhost) but when i browse for the file I got an error, that is documented on the internet, but with no solutions. :( I tried with XFCE a

Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

2007-02-21 Thread Ropetin Again
We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To support a specific web application, I need to upgrade the version of MySQL we have installed. To achieve this I set up apt-pinning to Testing, and trie

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue,

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:34, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 15

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte >>> Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. >> Where from? What's the mod

Re: questions regarding debian use

2007-02-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. When I attempted to add my printer, was unable to complete > installation process. Initially, the name and model of my printer popped > up automatically, but in the screen where I am suppose to choose printer > make and model, my mode

Re: Debian on ancient machines

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:25 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> Michelle Konzack wrote: >>> Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: Two popular ones I know of are: DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fa

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +, andy wro

questions regarding debian use

2007-02-21 Thread tbctalonso
Hi! We just installed Debian a couple of days ago, and so far are thrilled with what we've found! I've just encountered a couple of difficulties, I'd like to request help with. 1. When I attempted to add my printer, was unable to complete installation process. Initially, the name and model of my p

[OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > > Where from? What's the model number? http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with > this > mail. > > what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy > stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there'

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
Hi again, Michelle. I think that, for such a long document (2500 pages, 11 volumes), LaTeX makes very good sense. Using the LaTeX "\include" directive, you could keep each volume in a separate file, and yet LaTeX would process the set of files as one large document. And LaTeX provides valuabl

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. Rebooting after a general upgrade will make n

latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-21 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today > > that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and > > completeness (proper versi

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: Earlier today I noticed these messages in /var/log/syslog: Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault See

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 07:32, John Hasler wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: >> You certainly are correct in that the wide paper left sufficient room to >> make notes, etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the >> back for flow charts and such. > > Prin

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On

Re: /dev/sda1 --> /dev/hda1 ???

2007-02-21 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:44:42PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:38:16PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > > > >root=/dev/sda1 > > > > to: > > > >root=/dev/hda1 > > > > Um... Is this bad or something? Why doe

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 12:05, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually, I'm serious a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:3

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 03:58, Chris Lale wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> [...] >> I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has >> the *incredibly* useful app "checkrestart". Run it after you >> upgrade (and restart X) to see what is still using old

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