Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-27 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them. After I was done with making a bootchart for init, I tried doing the same with initng and

Re: Hardware Change .... How to update

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Lale
Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:04:26 -0700 (PDT) > Khurram Pirzada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Previously I had Lucent "winmodem", which is NOT supported in GNU/Debian or >> any >> linux. So I have changed and brought 2 new: 1) Apache CONEXANT 2) US >> Robotics, which >> a

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:44:07 +0800 Ken Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All: > > I found myself in a strange situation. > The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and > there's no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be > used on that notebook. > The onl

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ken Hu: > > The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's > no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on > that notebook. > The only way I can boot is from the existed WindowsXP on 1 of my 2 > partitions. > > So , if I want to install debian on

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teilhard Knight wrote: > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. > Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to > go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I > went 32 bi

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-27 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 08:44, Ken Hu wrote: > Dear All: > > I found myself in a strange situation. > The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's > no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on > that notebook. > The only way I can boot is fro

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-27 Thread KS
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where > Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving > from > Sysvinit to initng. > I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on http://www

Re: Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:47:15 -0500 "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have downloaded (apt etc) and "installed" truetype fonts which > Sarge placed in file: > > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries)and > in > > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-ve

how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-27 Thread Ken Hu
Dear All: I found myself in a strange situation. The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on that notebook. The only way I can boot is from the existed WindowsXP on 1 of my 2 partitions. So , if I w

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) > > Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others. > > My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with > > module-assistant.

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:56:03 -0600 "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > >> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. > >> Only > >> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go > >> with > >> it, and th

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
On Tue ... you wrote > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. > Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE >to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. ... later you wrote in answer to this > > I'm running etch

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I wa

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
> You could of snipped the unnecessary bits. > Chris. errr.. that might be good advice Chris BUT, it kinda ASSumes that I knew what the 'unnecessary bits' were ... doesn't it? If I'd known that ... then I would have been able to spot the error instantly (as others did when they saw t

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with module-assistant. How do I find and use module assistant? Teilhard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teilhard Knight escribió: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-27 Thread dave
on Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:39:37PM -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Your ability to excel at displaying ignorance is unmatched. > > Regards, > > -Roberto Bravo. Regards, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-27 Thread dave
on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:20:06PM -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/26/07 13:26, dave wrote: > > on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:23AM -0500 Kent West wrote: > 6 months? No. But it seems like it. > Oh. Yeah, you're right. Ciao, Dave -- T

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-27 Thread dave
on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:06:41PM -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" > > > Ahh, but something must have been used to design Emacs (it did not > evolve by itself), and so clearly vi is [the tool of] the intelligent > designe

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-27 Thread s. keeling
Michael M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Like I said, it's the "when it's ready" attitude taken to the extreme -- > to the exclusion of providing users any kind of predictablility or > expectations of timeliness -- that I don't like. Go elsewhere, please! Debian's job, from day one, has been to pr

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Kent West
Greg Folkert wrote: Sheesh, hte more O look the more I discover... oh well. I'll clip this time. Thanks for all the ideas, Greg! They actually give me some hope. I'll look at the machine again tomorrow and see what I discover. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Stefan Monnier wrote: No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from kernel.org. These are my options in either kernel: The stock 2.6.18-4-686 kernel has it enabled, but the 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem doesn't have it at all (not even disabled). Maybe that can help you,

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
Sheesh, hte more O look the more I discover... oh well. I'll clip this time. On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:49 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant, so I'll ask anyway. > > A friend brought her HP Pavilion ze5170 laptop to me the other day; she > said her har

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-27 Thread Mihira Fernando
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: >> In other words: Reviewers compare Debian stable against Ubuntu's beta >> releases, which is an unfair comparison. >> > That sort of thing often makes me think that the reviewers have some > sort of axe to

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:49 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant, so I'll ask anyway. > > A friend brought her HP Pavilion ze5170 laptop to me the other day; she > said her hard drive had died, and she ordered a new one, and on > installing it she coul

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:49 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant, so I'll ask anyway. > > A friend brought her HP Pavilion ze5170 laptop to me the other day; she > said her hard drive had died, and she ordered a new one, and on > installing it she coul

OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-27 Thread Kent West
Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant, so I'll ask anyway. A friend brought her HP Pavilion ze5170 laptop to me the other day; she said her hard drive had died, and she ordered a new one, and on installing it she could never get the System Restore CDs to restore the system. Sh

Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Walker
I have downloaded (apt etc) and "installed" truetype fonts which Sarge placed in file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries)and in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/ (11 entries) but I can't seem to make applications aware of them. I have a Gnome de

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Teilhard Knight wrote: > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only > problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with > it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit > and installed the KDE version of i386. Now,

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-27 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister escribió: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:45:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> I started with Debian shortly after Woody was released. I remember >> being disappointed with the repeated delays of Sarge. However, I stuck >> with it

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue March 27 2007 19:05, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only > problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with > it, and that port doesn't include those environments. I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this

kscd doesn't show utf-8 characters

2007-03-27 Thread H.S.
Hello, On Debian Etch, if I listen to an audio CD using Kscd, the application doesn't show utf-8 encoded characters. Instead, it shows a series of question marks. Information that is in English is shown properly. I have selected the UTF-8 option in kscd's configuration menu without success.

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-27 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Siju George escribió: > Hi, > > Just wondering for what amount of Load the default configuration of > apache2-mpm-prefork in Sarge is tuned? > > Will it server well about 1,000 users simultaneously? > Is not that much problem of the server or serve

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teilhard Knight escribió: > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. > Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to > go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I > went 32

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from > kernel.org. These are my options in either kernel: The stock 2.6.18-4-686 kernel has it enabled, but the 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem doesn't have it at all (not even disabled). Maybe that can help you, Stefan "who swi

Re: cron.d works, but cron.daily doesn't

2007-03-27 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 3/27/07, Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've got a strange issue with cron. I try to run a simple script that calls tar to backup my wiki. I can run the script using sudo, it runs fine from an entry in cron.d but refuses to run after being dropped into cron.daily. It's ow

How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver m

Re: Hardware Change ... how to Update

2007-03-27 Thread John Hasler
Khurram Pirzada wrote: > All I want is to plug-in my modem, give command(s) (can any one tell me > what will be those) so that Debian could recognize my new modem, and then > I can make dial-up connection settings and use internet. If it is an external serial modem run pppconfig (as root) and foll

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:39 -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > > > >>This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > >>that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > >>being "stuck" with it. Here is

Re: Hardware Change ... how to Update

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/07 19:59, Khurram Pirzada wrote: > All I want is to plug-in my modem, give command(s) (can any one tell me what > will be > those) so that Debian could recognize my new modem, and then I can make > dial-up > connection settings and use inter

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > >>This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM >>that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about >>being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS

Re: riped dvd menu

2007-03-27 Thread gustavo halperin
Wackojacko wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs'. 4: try to burn the dvd with 'growisofs'. The

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:50:42AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc > color body brightred brightdefault > "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" > > That should be all on one line with a space after brightdefault > > No

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:47:10AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > > [fvwm-crystal review] > > I'm running fvwm on my laptop (49M of RAM 1.2G HDD). I have to use the > vesa driver cause the cirrus

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Paul Stolp
* Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-27 18:45]: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:28:47PM -0500, Paul Stolp wrote: > > [options] > > verbose=1 > unnecessary, default *is* 1 > > > readall=1 > > That should be read_all and the default *is* true > Thanks, I'll try removing these lines. > >

Hardware Change ... how to Update

2007-03-27 Thread Khurram Pirzada
All I want is to plug-in my modem, give command(s) (can any one tell me what will be those) so that Debian could recognize my new modem, and then I can make dial-up connection settings and use internet. Broadband is not cheap for average user, in this part of world :) Thanks --- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: I posted clearly that those options were not available and even copied over the menuconfig screen in my previous post. So, you telling me that the options are there helps me little. What I am asking (and, yes, I did try Google) is: I'm I misconfiguring the kernel config in

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Nick Lidakis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >Nick Lidakis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >>Celejar wrote: > >> > >>>In 2.6.18, it's under 'Power Management Options'. Check 'Software > >>>Suspend'. > >>> > >>>Celejar > >>> > >>> > >>> >

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Stephenson
On Mar 27, 5:50 pm, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Stephenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Did you do /etc/init/d/networking force-reload > after adding this to th interfaces file? > > no, I just rebooted Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-27 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:50:42PM EST, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc > color body brightred brightdefault > "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" > > That should be all on one line with a space after brightdefault > > Now

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/07 18:08, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] > What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails through an > MTA like exim/postfix/... just to do some filtering. Getmail can do > this on its own just fine (well not the actual filtering,

Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Walker
I have downloaded (apt etc) and "installed" truetype fonts which Sarge placed in file: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries)and in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/ (11 entries) but I can't seem to make applications aware of them. I have a Gnome de

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Dave Stephenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I feel like I am missing something obvious. > > here is my interfaces file: > > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > #allow-hotplug eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp

Re: postfix log query

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:29:46AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > This looks interesting: > === > Mar 16 23:25:15 kan postfix/smtpd[24950]: 8CAFA1109A: > client=kan[127.0.0.1] > Mar 16 23:25:15 kan postfix/cleanup[25272]: 8CAFA1109A: > mes

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:49:35AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been thinking > about] > > Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your servers > running stable? An example which springs to mind would be postgreSQL > wh

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:06:43PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hey, your name tell me you are not a "real" US-American... > Are you origin Mexican? - Most (percentage) US-Combatants are Mexican... > > They are killing Irakies for a US-Green-Card... > Your ability to excel at displaying ig

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > In other words: Reviewers compare Debian stable against Ubuntu's beta > releases, which is an unfair comparison. > That sort of thing often makes me think that the reviewers have some sort of axe to grind against Debian. Regards

mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc color body brightred brightdefault "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" That should be all on one line with a space after brightdefault Now when you view peoples log files in your mail and either warning alert caution fai

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:23:14AM +0100, Ian Broadbent wrote: > OK, now I am really into DEEP water I have run the lspci > command ... but I'm not too sure what it is telling me on a quick > scan down this lot (below) I only see the entry for VGA graphics > controller. Would you not

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:28:47PM -0500, Paul Stolp wrote: > [options] > verbose=1 unnecessary, default *is* 1 > readall=1 That should be read_all and the default *is* true > delete=1 > message_log=~/.getmail/getmail.log > [retriever] > type=SimplePOP3Retriever > server=.xxx > username=

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:48:00PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Not even screen -rda worked? > > Woohoo! That's got it, thanks. > > Now I just have to remember to use screen whenever I'm about to do > anyth

Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:45:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I started with Debian shortly after Woody was released. I remember > being disappointed with the repeated delays of Sarge. However, I stuck > with it because I knew that when the release finally did come it would > be rock soli

SO GRATEFUL

2007-03-27 Thread goliathuy
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Re: Intel Sound in Notebook LG

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:51:02AM -0700, gaston Rey wrote: > I have a Notebook LG, and have problems with sound, my sound driver is > ICH6-Intel High definition Audio, something know why it only get sound from > Headphones but not from OutPut ?? > I had tested and compiled very much versions of

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:42:25PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Just a thought: > > $ touch äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ > -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -1 > filelist > > $ file filelist > filelist: UTF-8 Unicode text, with escape sequences Interesting

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:11:37PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip interesting reviews of WMs] > Fvwm: Too hard to configure for me, but from what I've seen it's an > awesome window manager after reading through all of the docs. It takes > a day to a week to configure how you want, but it's well

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 02:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The point you've been trying to make all through this thread is I > > think starting to become clear to me (everyone cheer now), because I > > didn't realize think about mail being scanned for spa

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point you've been trying to make all through this thread is I > think starting to become clear to me (everyone cheer now), because I > didn't realize think about mail being scanned for spam before a full > message is received. Is it true that in the c

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:14:35PM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > [Reviewers] don't understand the idea of the Debian > > release schedule; It's aimed at servers, NOT home > > computers. > >This one I disagree with. I've never heard a developer > say ``I'm building this

Looking for a RTSP proxy

2007-03-27 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I need to install a RTSP proxy on a Debian Sarge machine (but I could have an Etch one available, too), to allow access to rtsp:// RealVideo content from Windows clients in a LAN where web access happens through Squid on that same Sarge machine. The only solution, by searching on Google,

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Dave Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 27, 4:00 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dave Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I feel like I am missing something obvious. > > > > Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept > > variables? M

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 18:15 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would think that this would then use exim's spam and > > > > virus checking (I actual

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Stephenson
On Mar 27, 4:00 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dave Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel like I am missing something obvious. > > Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept > variables? Maybe $IFACE was meant to be replaced by the relevant > int

Re: Hardware Change .... How to update

2007-03-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Khurram Pirzada: > > What must I do for my Debian to see new modem and install/use it for > 56k connection? What exactly are you expecting Debian to do? If you are running a stock kernel, you probably only need to install the software you want to use with the modem and use it. I don't know your h

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Dave Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel like I am missing something obvious. > Maybe a 'post-up' is more useful here. And does interfaces accept variables? Maybe $IFACE was meant to be replaced by the relevant interface name. HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to > >> give it a try. > >> > >> When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. > >> > >> When I t

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems (OK)

2007-03-27 Thread David Baron
> I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more > will time out with a failed HTTP Get. > > Worked last week. What gives? Seems to be working now. SIte problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Stephenson
I feel like I am missing something obvious. here is my interfaces file: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 #force higher speed in spite of signal peak & dhcp #mtu 1500 iface eth

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-26 17:49:38 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Also, I was unconvinced by the reasoning of several posters that > they use fetchmail and have never been bothered by losing email: If > I were losing email, how would I know? [...] If you don't receive anything, this may be an indication. FYI,

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-27 Thread Max Hyre
Michael Pobega wrote: > Debian, on the other hand, only gets negative PR. That's largely true. Every review I've read leaves the impression that Debian is problematic, even though the review mentions some (often many) good points. > Outside of the Debian community nobody really gives Debian >

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-27 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to give it a try. When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem. When I try to run it outside

Re: Hardware Change .... How to update

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Khurram Pirzada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Previously I had Lucent "winmodem", which is NOT supported in > GNU/Debian or any linux. So I have changed and brought 2 new: 1) I think you are wrong here. I have used the Lucent winmodem years ago. It wasn't easy to setup but it worked (prob

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Wayne Topa wrote: Nick Lidakis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Celejar wrote: In 2.6.18, it's under 'Power Management Options'. Check 'Software Suspend'. Celejar No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from kernel.org. These are my

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/07 15:28, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] > > As to the respect for all Prophets, 'the Prophet' always means > Mohammed. Mohammed is the last in a sequence of prophets, not merely > the most recent. There will be no more prophets, according to t

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/07 15:13, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 14:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/27/07 12:13, Ed G wrote: >>> Bug 401255[1] has all of the details. To answer your question, I am >>> running sid. It's not saving the homepage,

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:04:08PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-28 14:28:41, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:05:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Actually, Muslims teach that Jesus was a true prophet, in fact one > > > of the four (I th

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to > give it a try. > > When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. > > When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem. > > When I try to run it outside of X as a n

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 12:43 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: > Hello again, > > MTU 1500 does indeed fix the speed problem, but I can't make it stick. > When i reboot I get MTU 576 again. I presume DHCP is setting this > somehow. > I have searched around and have tried to put MTU in /etc/network/ >

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Nick Lidakis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Celejar wrote: > > > >In 2.6.18, it's under 'Power Management Options'. Check 'Software > >Suspend'. > > > >Celejar > > > > > > > No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 > from kernel.org. These are my opti

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ion2: Arguably the lightest window manager available. I loved Ion2 and Have you tried OpenBox? Now its my WM of choice for super light environments. > Fluxbox: A nice window manager, I really only use it when I'm running Also nice. I used it before O

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 14:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/27/07 12:13, Ed G wrote: > > Bug 401255[1] has all of the details. To answer your question, I am > > running sid. It's not saving the homepage, history, or bookmarks on exit. > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Stephenson
Hello again, MTU 1500 does indeed fix the speed problem, but I can't make it stick. When i reboot I get MTU 576 again. I presume DHCP is setting this somehow. I have searched around and have tried to put MTU in /etc/network/ interfaces without success. I have not been able to find an example clea

cron.d works, but cron.daily doesn't

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi all, I've got a strange issue with cron. I try to run a simple script that calls tar to backup my wiki. I can run the script using sudo, it runs fine from an entry in cron.d but refuses to run after being dropped into cron.daily. It's owned by root:root and chmodded 755 just like the

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/07 12:13, Ed G wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:01:56 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Were you running Sid or Etch? What kind of session management issues? >> >> Lots and lots of us are using IW with no problems. > > Bug 401255[1] has all of

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/07 13:56, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> This is a device issue, no filesystem may fix it. Not that I expect even >>> the crap we buy today for desktops and servers to be THIS dumb. >> Yes, a

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > >This is a device issue, no filesystem may fix it. Not that I expect even > >the crap we buy today for desktops and servers to be THIS dumb. > > Yes, a file system can fix that. But it has to be a file system > which understands redundant hardware. I th

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:06:41PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > Waitaminnit! > > > > We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" > > > Ahh, but something must have been used to design Emacs (i

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:12:25 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > > Well, like many kernel options, it does depend on other things. For > > example, if swap (General Setup / support for paging anonymous memory > > (swap)) isn't enabled, you won't get an option for s

Solved: Re: Help: No Xprint server(s) found.

2007-03-27 Thread Michael S. Peek
Michael S. Peek wrote: Michael S. Peek wrote: Hi Debian gurus. I'm running an up-to-date testing version. Recently an upgrade of firefox went out, which I installed. Now I get the above error when trying to print: "No Xprint server(s) found". The thing is, I am running Xprt: % ps -ef |

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Celejar wrote: Well, like many kernel options, it does depend on other things. For example, if swap (General Setup / support for paging anonymous memory (swap)) isn't enabled, you won't get an option for software suspend. >From 'kernel/power/Kconfig': config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND bool "S

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