Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Stevens
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:35 -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > All, > > I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI > video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely > lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to start X. If I remove > the PCI

Re: IPTables Port Forwarding

2007-03-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
Johnno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > Need a little bit of help here... eth1 = Internet, eth0 = LAN, will > this work? > > iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to > 192.168.1.50:80 > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 80 -i eth1 -j ACCEPT >

Re: etch installer hanging on packages

2007-03-02 Thread Alain Kalker
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:13 -0500, Kevin Scott Sumner wrote: > Hi all, > > We've been using preseeds with etch since December for testing. Recently, > something has broken these installs. I suspect the recent key switch on the > repositories. I filed a bug report for this (Bug#412378), and a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:33 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Mitja

Re: A very simple documentation framework

2007-03-02 Thread ][
Sorry for responding late... On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:11:58AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: >> So far my personal doc system amounts to a patchwork of notes and >> cheat sheets in ascii files that I grep when I need to find some piece >>

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:22:16 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800 >> > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> > You're confusing socialism with totalitari

Base printer package

2007-03-02 Thread Nikhil Nair
Hi, I'm running a recently setup etch system (debootstrapped, amd64, 2.6 kernel, udev etc.), and have just noticed that /dev/lp0 wasn't present (I'd installed lpr, and was getting errors to that effect). modprobe lp fixed this, but the lp module obviously isn't being loaded automatically. I

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:10:15AM +, Ken Heard wrote: > When working off line in Icedove messages to be sent later are not saved > in the Unsent Messages folder of the e-mail account where the messages > are created, for later sending when back on line. > > Instead they are saved in the Unsen

Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-02 Thread Ken Heard
When working off line in Icedove messages to be sent later are not saved in the Unsent Messages folder of the e-mail account where the messages are created, for later sending when back on line. Instead they are saved in the Unsent folder of the Local Folders "account". Consequently they are not

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Mitja Podreka wrote: [snip] Who's rich enough to afford to waste gas driving faster than 60 MPH,

ANSI art with xterm

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Cyrus
Thus spake Jan Willem Stumpel on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:06:20PM +0200 or thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 13:36]: cga2000 wrote: Not AFAIK. But xterm basically understands ansi sequences, so it should not be difficult to write a filter that would produce the picture by means of ca

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

2007-03-02 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:37:37AM EST, Bhasker C V wrote: >I have logname command give me this output >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ logname >bhaskerv > >and say i execute this command > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo `logname` >bhaskerv > >till this it is all fine > >BUT

Re: getting a Samsung ML2510 laser printer working on an Etch RC1i386 box...

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: getting a Samsung ML2510 laser printer working on an Etch RC1i386 box... Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:58:00 +0100 On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:49 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I would appreciate any suggest

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Michael M. writes: > Sorry I can't find on that website where it says installing DeCSS is > illegal. Certain specific parties were enjoined from distributing DeCSS under trade secret law[1]. As far as I know there has been no other ruling on the subject. [1] Once DeCSS became public knowledge

Cannot ping localhost

2007-03-02 Thread Bruno Delalleau
Hello debianers! For some reason I can no longer ping localhost: ping -c 3 localhost PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- localhost.localdomain ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2000ms I saw that when I tried to configure m

Re: getting a Samsung ML2510 laser printer working on an Etch RC1 i386 box...

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:49 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I would appreciate any suggestions on getting it to work. I will be back at > this machine on Monday morning and any ideas people have I will test out on > it. Have you followed these instructions? http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 14:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian > stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence > of mice. > > Have no idea why so with the Debian stock

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 15:08, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:50 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, [snip] > Depnds on what you call multi-seat. > > I have a machine, that manages ~25 X-Displays. No, the X-Server runs on > an X-Terminal (each wi

GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I get this error when trying to do the daily update. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :-/ -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.or

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 12:22, Paul Johnson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800 >> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Paul Johnson wrote: You're confusing socialism with totalitarianism. Please see my previo

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 14:41, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: > Mitja Podreka wrote: >>> [snip] Who's rich enough to a

Re: GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:26:58PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi list > > I get this error when trying to do the daily update. > > http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 > > What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 12:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 03/01/07 19:16, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/01/07 15:51, Joe Hart wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: [snip] [snip] >>> Transfer t

GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I get this error when trying to do the daily update. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :-/ -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.o

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:24 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Michael M. wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > > According to Automatix (the easy installer that is used by many ubuntu > users ( http://www.getautomatix.com ) it is illegal to install deCSS in > the United States.

Re: [Debian-User] Nice Job Andrew

2007-03-02 Thread Ted Hilts
Michelle Sorry. I have that problem fixed now but have sent very little email since the change. The problem occurred because I was fiddling with Netscape Mail trying to create accounts which bridged other email accounts on other machines in my LAN and Netscape would not let me use the same se

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:21:35PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > > > I have multiple applications that require an X server. > That's why you have a workstation :-) You ssh in, forward the X connection back to your workstation and viola. You can also use VNC if you would prefer to see the entire

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:47:15PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > just to put it out there, another way to look at that stat: > > assuming 2 trips per work day for commuting, that is 1,327,822,650 > work round trips per year or 5,311,291 man/years of work commuting or > 28% of commutes.

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-03-02 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2007-03-02, John L Fjellstad wrote: > "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is it really dual-ported? Some months ago I posted stuff there that >> obviously nobody saw. > > My understanding is things posted to the mailing list will show up in > the newsgroup, but not the other way around.

Re: [Debian-User] Xen Debian Package Management

2007-03-02 Thread Ted Hilts
Michelle The subject matter is mine but the content is some else's. I did not write what you quoted. Probably, the original email trail was missing. I know that Xen development is far further along than Xen 2. I have a copy of the original email if you want to see it -- just ask. The origina

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 08:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > (II) UnloadModu

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:03:33PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Yeah, when I sent it I wanted to recall it back. And replace copyright > with trademark. But, its just one of those things not worth tracking > down until someone responds. Sorry :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http:

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:42:04PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:55:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 2 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> > > > Here is a list of cities to which I have travelled that attempted to > > > put public transportation in pla

Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Blair wrote: >> As for your problem, it seems rather strange, but it could be the buggy >> version that you have. You might want to get the etch daily build, >> which you can find at www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >> >> Get one of the

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:47 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > These errors (and the warnings above) indicate that you need to load the > > framebuffer driver for nvidia cards, "modprobe nvidiafb". > > Hmm, looks like it's time to really display my ignorance. Is this a > driver in the sense of kern

getting a Samsung ML2510 laser printer working on an Etch RC1 i386 box...

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I bought myself a Samsung ML2510 monochrome laser printer. I want to use it with a 1200MHz i386 box I have at work that runs Debian Etch RC1 I had been using an Epson C86 printer but the heads dried and I couldn't easily fix unblock them. I needed a printer that yo

debian не установить на VIA PT880RO

2007-03-02 Thread Эдуард
Привет, debian-user ! Скачал мини-браз для установки debian-31r5-i386-netinst.iso , но при установке он не видит моего SATA HDD Samsung 200Gb и не размечает диск. Материнская плата Asrock 775Dual-VSTA (на VIA VT880Pro). Пробовал параметр linux26 - то-же самое. Вот Ubuntu 6.10 с

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:55:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> > > Here is a list of cities to which I have travelled that attempted to > > put public transportation in place which still have massivley > > attrocious traffic problems (hint: that is a

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > You won't know until you go to the transit planning meetings and ask. I don't have to go to the transit planning meetings to know what is and is not possible based simply on the distance invovled and how public transportation operates. > Most people are not suicidal and

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Trey Perrin
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:35:21PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: All, I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to st

Re: MP3

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 18:44 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> I didn't know that Lucent bought Frauenhover though. That is >> interesting news. > > > Huh? Lucent does not own Fraunhofer. > > Thompson handles mp3 licensing for Fraunhofe

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Next question: how many Debian users run multi-seat Sid? > Answer: 18-) > well, in your house, that would be 2: you and your wife. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Because we all use the same energy sources and breathe the same air? Then someone should tell China and Canada. China's the fastest growing worldwide polluter. The US gets slammed for not signing the Kyoto treaty (China hasn't either) and yet Canada, who has signed it,

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >> The libraries here have all sorts of media, including both games for the >> computer and audio CD's. But then again the copyright rules are >> different here than in the US :

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > > which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > > kernel's framebuffer. I (stupidly) failed to save the

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread judd
On 2 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:09:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: >> > >> > Er... in what reality? Pretty much every major metro area that >> > has tried public transportation it has ended up not really >> > improving thi

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:50 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian > stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence > of mice. > > Have no idea why so with the Debian stock kernels and not with my own

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:49 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:23:49PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > No big deal, it is sort of like copyright enforcement, if you don't look > > after it well, you might lose it. > > > I believe you are thinking of trademark. Yeah,

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:35:21PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > All, > > I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI > video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely > lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to start X. If I remove >

Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Trey Perrin
All, I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to start X. If I remove the PCI video cards, X starts, but the on board ATI video card can only

HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, When you use multiple videocards/monitors/keyboards/mice and Debian stock kernels, the starting of gpm/gdm will fail because of the absence of mice. Have no idea why so with the Debian stock kernels and not with my own generated kernel. But this is the fix: Put this script into /etc/i

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:23:49PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > No big deal, it is sort of like copyright enforcement, if you don't look > after it well, you might lose it. > I believe you are thinking of trademark. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:09:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > Er... in what reality? Pretty much every major metro area that > > has tried public transportation it has ended up not really improving > > things, costing more than projected and has all

Re: [SOLVED] linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

2007-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these l

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:16 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Steve Lamb wrote: > >>> Mitja Podreka wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> Who's rich enough to afford to waste gas driving faster than 60 MPH, much > >> less more on a regular bas

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > When was the last time a republican finished a war a democratic president > started instead of the other way around? > Here is a list of US participation in wars [0]: conflictstarted finished

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

2007-03-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:26:31 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > > internet; I bought a cheap one on Ebay. > > Is it

[OT]

2007-03-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:37:55 -0800 Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > -- > Raquel > > The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is > the first and only legitimate object of good government. > --Thomas J

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread judd
On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While it's true that public transportation is not a good >> solution for much of rural America, it's also true that it is >> woefully underused areas where it could work. > > Er... in what reality? Pretty much every major metro a

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-02 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:22:37AM -0600 or thereabouts, Dave Walker wrote: [ ...] > What I don't know is how to reply to the list so that I don't create a > separate thread with each e-mail. If I use the "reply" button in > Gmail, the reply goes to the sender, and not to the list. It would be >

Re: configuring fetchmail, exim and mutt for remote access

2007-03-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:21:33 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:20:06PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:48:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [snip] > > fetchmail sends messages to port 25 via SMTP whereas > > mutt wa

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread judd
On 1 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> What's foolish here is your making generalizations based on your >> specific situation. :-) > > You mean like the people who are making generalizations based on > their specific situation? "Oh, it's great for me to bike everywhe

Re: Emailing the system messages to me

2007-03-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:51:12 + Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:49:52AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > >> On 3/1/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 00:36 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: [snip] >

Re: MP3

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 18:44 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I didn't know that Lucent bought Frauenhover though. That is > interesting news. Huh? Lucent does not own Fraunhofer. Thompson handles mp3 licensing for Fraunhofer: Questions about MP3 End Users: Fraunhofer IIS is a research institute.

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:29 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:11:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Steve Lamb wrote: > LA's > > average freeway speed over the entire county on any given 24 hour period is > > 14 MPH. > > I am reminded of some sci-fi story, I don't

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:28 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > There isn't. Again, what have you tried to isolate any errors? Have you > > put the beremote into debug mode? Have you noted any errors on the > > server's logs? > > > > IOW, You really need to tell us hard info about

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:18 +0200, Salvatore Iovene wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these: > > - Xoops > > - Joomla > > - e107 > > > > What do you use in your servers? Have you been using these in yo

Re: Newie questions about security

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:51:11 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:21:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >> >> Firestarter and other Linux based firewalls are when you want to build >> >> a >> >> fir

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:22:16 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800 > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > You're confusing socialism with totalitarianism. Please see my > >> > previou

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:48:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > But USA is not the entire world. >> >> No, it's not. So why is the rest of the world trying to tell the US >> what >> would work for them when most rational people in the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Mitja Podreka wrote: > [snip] >> >> Who's rich enough to afford to waste gas driving faster than 60 MPH, much >> less more on a regular basis? Fuel economy on most vehicles takes a >> massive nosedive after 60MP

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:11:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: LA's > average freeway speed over the entire county on any given 24 hour period is > 14 MPH. I am reminded of some sci-fi story, I don't remember who what where or when but... as a part of the tourist appeal of Ne

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/07 15:58, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 03/01/07 08:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Feb, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On We

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:12 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> I think word of mouth from ex-Marines is doing more for the Marine Corps > >> than PR money could. > > > > DO NOT USE THE TERM "ex-Marines" it insults.

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Celejar wrote: > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > internet; I bought a cheap one on Ebay. Is it green or purple? There are two kinds, ones for keyboards and ones for mice. The green o

Re: SCIOFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable

2007-03-02 Thread iain murray
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Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Would be half that if LA had not destroyed it's public transport in the >> 1940s and 1950s. 45 minutes is a long commute by anybody's standards. > > Uh, no, Paul it wouldn't. It is pretty much physically impossible to > get from Long Beach to Pasadena

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800 > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> > You're confusing socialism with totalitarianism. Please see my >> > previous posts about this. >> >> You're thinking there is a difference is the mistake. > > An

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. > Sorry I don't understand - what do you mean "gets assigned"? > the DISPLAY variable is createx by X server, when the X server, when it > allocates the port. In my case I am t

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/07 19:16, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 03/01/07 15:51, Joe Hart wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >>> [snip] However, I was exaggerating a bit. To go the 26 km from he

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:37:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 02/28/07 14:37, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> >> >> >> > Except that they all come in unskilled. All the comme

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> But USA is not the entire world. > > No, it's not. So why is the rest of the world trying to tell the US > what would work for them when most rational people in the US could tell > you it won't? Because we all use the same energy sources and breath

Re: Configurable files and functions

2007-03-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/03/07 10:37), Raquel wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:33:11 -0600 > "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used > > in sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the > > location (path), function (what the system

Re: Configurable files and functions

2007-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:33 -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used in > sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the location > (path), function (what the system uses it for), and whether the file > can be successfully changed by e

Re: Z8000

2007-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Larry Irwin writes: > But the [Altos] main processor was an early x86 I think. 80286 -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > The libraries here have all sorts of media, including both games for the > computer and audio CD's. But then again the copyright rules are > different here than in the US :) That's why I can legally install > libdvdcss2 and people in the US can

Re: Configurable files and functions

2007-03-02 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:33:11 -0600 "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used > in sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the > location (path), function (what the system uses it for), and > whether the file can be suc

Configurable files and functions

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Walker
I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used in sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the location (path), function (what the system uses it for), and whether the file can be successfully changed by editing. Does such a list exist? I have in mind such files a

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Does the aluminum get magnetized, or the nickel and cobalt? Alnico => alumimum, nickel, cobalt. And it's the intermetallic compound that gets magnetized. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Michelle Konzack wrote: > The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. Not true. The Z80 was an 8-bitter, upward-compatible with the 8080. The Z8000 was a 16-bitter, with a completely different architecture and instruction set. > Z80 => 1983 Z80 => 1976 Z8000 => 1979 -- John Hasler

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-02 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 March 2007 03:30, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > You're confusing socialism with totalitarianism.  Please see my > previous posts about this. No, "socialism" is collective ownership of property. A totalitarian stat

Re: Z8000 (WAS Woody on 486 problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Larry Irwin
I remember the Z80 on the Altos 586 and 986 series... We ran Altos Xenix 3.0 on them... They used a Z80 for each set of 4 serial ports... But the main processor was an early x86 I think. That is the machine I learned *nix on! (it was better than MPM or Oasis (later called Theos))... (showing my

Re: MP3

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-22 10:23:35, schrieb pinniped: >> Even Bill Clinton would never be able to convince anyone that MP3 was free, >> so I'm not surprised the software author charges for MP3 support - he may >> have spent some money t

Re: [OT] Adobe Reader changes font size!

2007-03-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If I print a pdf document through MS Windows Adobe Reader, I see that >>> the font is smaller than when I print it under Linux. Can anybody >>> explain this, and to avoid it? Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Are you using a font that is available

OT: Z8000 (WAS Woody on 486 problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-22 09:25:14, schrieb Mike McCarty: Sinclair ZX81 => Zylog Z80/Z8000 The Zilog Z80 is an 8 bit machine, the Z8000 is a 16 bit machine. The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. I went and looked at the Wikipedia article about the Z8000 and I

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-03-02 Thread Owen Heisler
Am 2007-02-19 21:35:37, schrieb Kelly: > I am having a problem with my email. I am running 'Postfix' SMTP > server. I am running the 'Courier IMAP' server. I can send email just > fine. When I am receiving email there is a problem. The email is > supposed to go to the 'maildirs' directory i

Re: Debian on ancient machines

2007-03-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-22 09:41:19, schrieb Mike McCarty: They claim to make a "universal embedded operting system." When do I get my port to the MC68HC11? It's my favorite embedded machine. IF YOU CONTRIBUTE :-) Since you are a REAL-GEEK, - it will be no problem for yo

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-03-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-22 09:25:14, schrieb Mike McCarty: Sinclair ZX81 => Zylog Z80/Z8000 The Zilog Z80 is an 8 bit machine, the Z8000 is a 16 bit machine. The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. Hmm? The Z8000 was a machine I programmed for 16 years or so, and

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-03-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hey Mike, Am 2007-02-20 14:04:27, schrieb Mike McCarty: Don't listen to him. He thinks he's the only Real Geek. I've written boot firmware for several new boards when I worked in telecomm, and he doesn't think I'm a Real Geek. HOW easy is it today to write VERY small

Re: Fonts from GDM?

2007-03-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:15:42 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what the DPI of my monitor is, or how to tell. Try here: http://www.raydreams.com/prog/dpi.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

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