Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread David
Scott Gifford wrote: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] (2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue? My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a lot of potential for abuse. Google turned up these results of the

Re: V?: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/12, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:47:21PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > 2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > > > > If what you asked for really worked, then you would loose

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Angus Auld
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/11/08 18:15, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > As the sub-atomic particles that maintain the > charge that represent the > > bits on the outside edge are moving faster than > those on the inside > > edge, they will have less mass and ther

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread Scott Gifford
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] >> (2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue? >> My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a >> lot of potential for abuse. >> Google turned up these results of the beginnings o

links in icedove/thunderbird stopped working

2008-01-11 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi all, I run testing - I read email in icedove/thunderbird and browse the web with iceweasel/firefox. Lately (past few days) links have stopped working in icedove. Before, I'd click a web link and the page would come up in firefox. Now, nothing. I haven't changed any preferences recently. Anyone

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 11 January 2008 22:14, Jimmy Wu wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 PM, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > > > You might want to make the recovery CDs and save the recovery > > > partition. > > > In this sad world, being able to restore

Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?

2008-01-11 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sat January 12 2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for > > the video chat.) > > I cant find any packages in the usual debian > repositorys, > and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch. Will > it > work OK? (And if it does, silly question:

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread David
Jimmy Wu wrote: I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today. I went in to system properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed it included "Trusted Platform Module 1.2". Now, this raised a red flag for me, as my first impressions of "trusted computing" were framed by thi

Re: installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:16:06PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2008 16:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Show us your /etc/apt/sources.list, is it up-to-date? > > ## etch - Debian (currently etch) > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free > deb-src http:

Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?

2008-01-11 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for > > the video chat.) > > I cant find any packages in the usual debian > repositorys, > and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch. Will > it > work OK? (And if it do

Apache and Page Lengths (OT?)

2008-01-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
This may be more of a Java OR an Apache issue, but it looks like it might fall into some nether region or apply to servers directly. I've put up questions in a couple specific forums, but I'm asking here in case it's in a gray area between the two. I'm reading web pages served by Apache on a w

Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-11 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 PM, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > > You might want to make the recovery CDs and save the recovery > > partition. > > In this sad world, being able to restore/reinstall Vista will > > dramatically > > improve resale

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread Marty
KS wrote: I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :( Any other suggestions?

[OT] Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread s. keeling
pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 11, 4:20 am, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >       - > >            #!/usr/bin/perl > >            # this just re-implements tail -1 > >            # > >            # usage: > >            #   /this/file < /some/text

Re: Syncing mail with a PalmOs device

2008-01-11 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 11 January 2008 18:20, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:35:58 -0500 > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fine). Does kpilot contain a mail conduit? I don't use KDE, but a > > solid mail conduit mi

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread s. keeling
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The real problem is a problem caused by the fact that the people > who "created" the wodim "project" don't like to cooperate in a way > that results in quality. I cannot accept patches that don't fix > the problems they are intended to fix but introduc

Re: installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 11 January 2008 16:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:56:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > last night i installed 'hotplug', trying to get a usb wireless device to > > work. after, per the installer instructions, rebooting the system, a > > number of my devices were

Re: installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/08 18:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Doesn't udev conflict with hotplug? Yes. Is this etch? Must be, because it's not in Sid, and I doubt Lenny. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" u

Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?

2008-01-11 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for the video chat.) I cant find any packages in the usual debian repositorys, and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch. Will it work OK? (And if it does, silly question: whats the name for the QT4 package? I use Gnome. There were a bunch o

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/08 18:15, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] As the sub-atomic particles that maintain the charge that represent the bits on the outside edge are moving faster than those on the inside edge, they will have less mass and therefore are easier to move "uphill". Also, they will move faster sti

Re: strange behavior of etherneth cards

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:24:10PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > I have an old PC box that I use as router / gateway. > > So far it works well. > > There was three etherneth cards in this box: > eth0 was for my 1. ISp that I use no any more > eth1 was for my LAN > eth2 was for my DMZ > > Today I c

Re: installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:56:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > last night i installed 'hotplug', trying to get a usb wireless device to > work. > after, per the installer instructions, rebooting the system, a number of my > devices were not recognized by the system, or similar. > > details:

Re: vesa 1280x800

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:21:56AM +0100, Kum Gabor wrote: > Can somebody help me how to set up 1280x800 on Etch with vesa driver? > For me only 1280x720 is working. (video is SiS672) > That may not be possible for the vesa driver (see the vesa(4) man page) as it only accesses the basic vesa-compl

Re: V?: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:47:21PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > > > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > > I've n

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:47:03AM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? > > > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding

Re: Syncing mail with a PalmOs device

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:35:58 -0500 > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fine). Does kpilot contain a mail conduit? I don't use KDE, but a > solid mail conduit might be a sufficient reason to install it. I'd > think, however, th

Re: modem hungup forever

2008-01-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:15:25PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: > hi all, > after the latest update when my internet connection break down, my > modem don't disconnect the port ttys0, infact if I try to connect > again (with pon and poff) there isn't any connection. > > I try also to instal

installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread tom arnall
indeed, the problem is that the hotplug install creamed the udev setup, e.g., flat out removed udevd and udevtest. so what am i risking if i remove 'hotplug' and reinstall 'udev'? tom arnall arcata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: strange behavior of etherneth cards

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Greff
Hello! On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:24:10 +0100 "Paul Csanyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have an old PC box that I use as router / gateway. > > So far it works well. > > There was three etherneth cards in this box: > eth0 was for my 1. ISp that I use no any more > eth1 was for my LAN

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/08 17:28, Rob Sims wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:03:41AM -0800, johnny wrote: The graphs say it is clearly not bandwith fault. Reading around: "It is well known that the medium access control (MAC) layer is the main bottleneck for

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-11 Thread Rob Sims
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:03:41AM -0800, johnny wrote: > The graphs say it is clearly not bandwith fault. Reading around: > "It is well known > that the medium access control (MAC) layer is the main bottleneck for > the IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs.

strange behavior of etherneth cards

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I have an old PC box that I use as router / gateway. So far it works well. There was three etherneth cards in this box: eth0 was for my 1. ISp that I use no any more eth1 was for my LAN eth2 was for my DMZ Today I change these ethernet cards abowe. I remove eth0 and move it to my server

installed 'hotplug' and now devices don't work

2008-01-11 Thread tom arnall
last night i installed 'hotplug' and after rebooting several of my hardware devices did not work. as best i can make out, the problem is with the way hotplug loads drivers. is there any way i can go back to the state of things before in installed hotplug? 'apt-get remove hotplug'? thanks, tom

Re: GLIBC 2.4 for Debian Etch

2008-01-11 Thread David Fox
On 1/11/08, Kum Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does somebody know something easy method of upgrading GLIBC to version 2.4 > from 2.3.6 without upgrading Etch to Lenny? I don't see it - and likely there would be too many breakages. You're better off doing a dist-upgrade to lenny. -- To UNSU

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-11 Thread johnny
> It's actually pretty hard to get the full bandwidth that 802.11g promises. Sorry if I cut a bit but your objection is fondamentally this way (possible factors: close wireless networks, 2.4GHz devices, ..., ok, but all linked to your mother reasoning). But I am telling you that if you see mrtg

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread David
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:47:03 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash card, a

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
> Wodim is nothing but a fork of a quite old version of cdrecord and, as > far as I know, only exists inside Debian. The main reason for this fork > are a dispute over Jörg Schilling's (cdrecord author) licensing and (at There is a lot of missinformation spread from a few Debian people. These p

packages broken

2008-01-11 Thread Zach
I am running Debian testing with 2.6.18 kernel and ALSA sound. Any fix for these likely to be available soon? I've been doing an update every day and still see these errors. Something broken in Gnome it seems related to the audio. Zach netrek:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/08 14:43, KS wrote: [snip] I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread steef
steef wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: hi jörg, i still owe you an answer; already a rather long time. I just forgot it and am sorry <> i discovered that *without* *dev=* (your suggestion) my optiarc-device works perfectly with a command like *sudo /usr/schily/bin/cdrecord

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 11 January 2008 21:28, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:12:06 +0100 Nigel Henry wrote: > > I have a separate mailbox for the Debian-user list, and when the spam > > flood was in full flow everything turned up in this mailbox, ham, and > > spam, so no spam from the Debian li

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread steef
Joerg Schilling wrote: Hello, that is apparently a long story if you start to read into it. It has somenthing to do with licensing and philosophy. As far as I can tell The story has nothing to do with licensing or philosophy but with the missing will for quality oriented collaboration wit

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread KS
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:21:37 -0500, "Brian McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote: > > I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and > > compiled > > ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:47:03 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? > > > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash > > card, a

Re: NTFS and discover1

2008-01-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:23:49 +0100, Per Tunedal Debian wrote: > Hi, > as a new user I am puzzled about the inability of my Debian installation > to handle NTFS-partitions from start. I installed in expert mode and > chose to install support for NTFS. Your system is able to handle the NTFS part

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote: I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB

Re: UPS

2008-01-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Brodbeck wrote: On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nate that's a very complete answer. Let me try to apply that to Oaxaca, Mexico. Thanks! I can't provide any specific advice, because I don't live there. But given the amount of manufacturing that goes on in Mexico thes

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread KS
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:31:57 -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Perhaps, I've never needed to go that far. The one time I thought I had > a hard drive go bad and put it into another computer, it didn't get any > errors on boot. I just fsck'ed it and it was fine. Turned out

Re: Syncing mail with a PalmOs device

2008-01-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:35:58 -0500 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri January 11 2008, you wrote: > > I want to sync mail between a Debian box and a PalmOs device (Centro). > > I'd prefer to use something in Debian, but jpilot-mail has been removed > > [0], and pilot-mailsync [1]

Vá: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > I've never tried that automatically with aptitude and checking the man > page sug

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Adrian Levi
On 12/01/2008, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash > card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're h

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-11 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:12:06 +0100 Nigel Henry wrote: > I have a separate mailbox for the Debian-user list, and when the spam > flood was in full flow everything turned up in this mailbox, ham, and > spam, so no spam from the Debian list was sent to the wastebin. I've got Sylpheed with bogofilter

Syncing mail with a PalmOs device

2008-01-11 Thread Celejar
Hi, I want to sync mail between a Debian box and a PalmOs device (Centro). I'd prefer to use something in Debian, but jpilot-mail has been removed [0], and pilot-mailsync [1] doesn't appear to be in Debian (it also seems to have been abandoned by upstream). There's SyncMail for PilotManager [2];

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 2:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As comparison to hard-disk scenario is the a

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 11-jan-2008, at 19:03, johnny wrote: Hi, in my flat there are 1 router, 1 range extender, 2 vista, 1 XP and my 2 linux ubuntu (one of which is mail/samba/nfs/etc server, is monitored via mrtg and contains a lot of music/movies). All, wireless. The problem: when I listen to music or watch m

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:03 AM, johnny wrote: Hi, in my flat there are 1 router, 1 range extender, 2 vista, 1 XP and my 2 linux ubuntu (one of which is mail/samba/nfs/etc server, is monitored via mrtg and contains a lot of music/movies). All, wireless. The problem: when I listen to music or wat

installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread tom arnall
POSTSCRIPT: i'm running etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Storage: how is the storage viewed? Contiguous or block based, is it possible to have random access etc. Like any other block (ie hard dri

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Storage: how is the storage viewed? Contiguous or block based, is it possible to have random access etc. Like any other block (ie hard drive) device. As comparison to hard-disk scenario

Re: emacs and svn

2008-01-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Misko wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:38:38AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And how do I enable that feature. Emacs 22 automatically detects that it's in an svn working copy and does the right thing whe

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Storage: how is the storage viewed? Contiguous or > block based, is it possible to have random access etc. Like any other block (ie hard drive) device. > As comparison to hard-disk scenario is the access > overhead (seek/rtotati

installing 'hotplug' disrupts device management

2008-01-11 Thread tom arnall
last night i installed 'hotplug', trying to get a usb wireless device to work. after, per the installer instructions, rebooting the system, a number of my devices were not recognized by the system, or similar. details: 'usbserial' and 'visor' not loaded at boot /dev/p

Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-11 Thread johnny
Hi, in my flat there are 1 router, 1 range extender, 2 vista, 1 XP and my 2 linux ubuntu (one of which is mail/samba/nfs/etc server, is monitored via mrtg and contains a lot of music/movies). All, wireless. The problem: when I listen to music or watch movies from my laptop (my flatmates idem) the

Re: OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/08 10:51, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: It is way off but some one will direct me to the right place.. I am interested in knowing the storage and access architecture of 'Flash Memory'. Storage: how is the storage viewed? Contiguous or block based, is it possible to have random access etc. As c

how to customise Apache2 logs

2008-01-11 Thread michael
I'm trying to follow the subversion/svn example for putting svn-related (over http) activities into a new log and decyphering the actions, but nothing is appearing in the new log. >From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html, it says mod_dav_svn, however, can come to your

OT: Flash memory

2008-01-11 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
It is way off but some one will direct me to the right place.. I am interested in knowing the storage and access architecture of 'Flash Memory'. Storage: how is the storage viewed? Contiguous or block based, is it possible to have random access etc. As comparison to hard-disk scenario is the ac

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:51:44AM -0800, pedxing wrote: > But the point is that scope doesn't change in a loop, but it > does in a subroutine. You are incorrect. Every set of { braces } is its own (sub)scope, regardless of whether they are separated out into a sub or not. ~$ perl -w -e ' { my $

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Jan 10, 2008 1:23 PM, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 1:11 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am coming back to perl after a long time. > > > > The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: > > > > my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/01/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2008-01-08 08:09:58, schrieb Joel Roberts: > > I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully > > supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of > > spam e-mails weekly to pursue this any long

GNU style Changelog for SVN in Emacs (was: emacs and svn)

2008-01-11 Thread Seb
Hi, I've asked in the Emacs NG, but have not gotten help. I've recently migrated a small repository to subversion from CVS. I used to work with PCL-CVS with Emacs to interact with my working copies and repository, generating the necessary Changelog entries with 'A' (the equivalent of `vc-update-

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 11, 2008 4:01 AM, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > # this just re-implements tail -1 > > # > > # usage: > > # /this/file < /some/text/file.txt > > # > > > > my $last; > > > > while( <> ) { > > $last = $_; > > } > > > > print $last; > > -

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Find a way to attach that drive to a functional system. One way would > be to use a 2.5" portable USB enclosure. No. from my experience USB will hang if the drive hit a wrong sector. You should: - attach the disk to an internal IDE (or sata) cab

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:08:31AM +0100, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > And because I only have 33k modem internet connection I do > not plan to add any online repository to that list. > I would be willing to download single packages that I am > interested in only if I could find U

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
When Debian changed from cdrtools to wodim, k3b never noticed and I went along merrily burning CDs and DVDs. Nary a problem noted. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-08 08:09:58, schrieb Joel Roberts: > I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully > supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of > spam e-mails weekly to pursue this any longer. If the list organizers > can implement some anti-spam measures,

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
>Hello, that is apparently a long story if you start to read into it. It >has somenthing to do with licensing and philosophy. As far as I can tell The story has nothing to do with licensing or philosophy but with the missing will for quality oriented collaboration with the Author. The attacks ag

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
hce: > > Ok, I am going to install wodim (I've never used it, may take me days > to learn it). Years ago, seems everyone used cdrecord for burning CD. > Is it in now days that the wodim is more popular than the cdrecord? That depends on your definition of popularity. :) Wodim is nothing but a f

modem hungup forever

2008-01-11 Thread Micaela Gallerini
hi all, after the latest update when my internet connection break down, my modem don't disconnect the port ttys0, infact if I try to connect again (with pon and poff) there isn't any connection. I try also to install again ppp, but there is the same problem. any ideas, please? my messages/sy

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread Kc9EYE
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:35:51PM +1100, hce wrote: > Ok, I am going to install wodim (I've never used it, may take me days > to learn it). Years ago, seems everyone used cdrecord for burning CD. > Is it in now days that the wodim is more popular than the cdrecord? > > Thanks steef and Bob. >

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
>Ok, I am going to install wodim (I've never used it, may take me days >to learn it). Years ago, seems everyone used cdrecord for burning CD. >Is it in now days that the wodim is more popular than the cdrecord? Why do you believe that an extremely outdated version from cdrecord where somebody ev

SOLVED: subversion/apache2 errors

2008-01-11 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 09:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've tried numerous variations for getting subversion working on apache2 > > but whatever I tried gave the "Could not open the requested SVN > > filesystem" error. Does anybody have a simple gu

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread pedxing
On Jan 11, 4:20 am, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >  I am coming back to perl after a long time. > > >  The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: > > >     my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(); > >     my @modules = $inst->mod

GLIBC 2.4 for Debian Etch

2008-01-11 Thread Kum Gabor
Hello! Does somebody know something easy method of upgrading GLIBC to version 2.4 from 2.3.6 without upgrading Etch to Lenny? thanks, -- Kum Gabor www.kumgabor.hu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread pedxing
On Jan 11, 4:20 am, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >  I am coming back toperlafter a long time. > > >  The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: > > >     my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(); > >     my @modules = $inst->modul

NTFS and discover1

2008-01-11 Thread Per Tunedal Debian
Hi, as a new user I am puzzled about the inability of my Debian installation to handle NTFS-partitions from start. I installed in expert mode and chose to install support for NTFS. The NTFS-partitions are shown alright if I click the My Computer icon on my Gnome desktop. But they cannot be mounted

vesa 1280x800

2008-01-11 Thread Kum Gabor
Hello! Can somebody help me how to set up 1280x800 on Etch with vesa driver? For me only 1280x720 is working. (video is SiS672) regards, -- Kum Gabor www.kumgabor.hu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-11 Thread hce
On 1/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:36:22PM +1100, hce wrote: > > On 1/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:10:14PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > > > > Is "cdck" a command? I could not find it, or should I in

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-11 Thread hce
On 1/10/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > > On 1/8/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> hce wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Is following burn CD command correct? I've got following errors: > >>> > >>> > >>> $ sudo cdrecord -scanbus > >>> > >>> cdrecord: Warning:

Re: Where to report a problem with new 4.0r2 DVD images?

2008-01-11 Thread dusan . vodopivec
> But now images for DVD 2 and 3 have some missing files at > dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386. Currently we only have Release file at > DVD 2 and 3. Comparing with DVD 1 we have Release, Packages.gz and > Packages. On DVD 2 and 3 directory /pool/contrib does not exist. > Because of that apt compla