Re: File Permissions

2008-05-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Insane Boi wrote: Unique question, Pidgin (aka gaim) has some configuration files. I would like to have these configuration files remain untouched/unmodified, but readable. I am running pidgin under a normal user account. Here is what I tried: chmod 004 file.xml sudo chown root:root file.x

Network Printer Fuji Xerox C525A failed to work after dist-upgrade

2008-05-09 Thread wongdg
Appreciate if anyone can provide me with a clue on this issue. I'm running amd64 lenny testing and print to a network printer Fuji Xerox C525A through CUPS with lpd queue. One point to note is Fujix Xerox provides only a single version of driver and it was a 32-bit one. I installed it with dpkg

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-05-09 Thread Sean Connor
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to /mnt/music. > Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the script from > writing to the mount directory: is there any easy way to prevent this? Umount /mnt/music. Run "chattr +i

File Permissions

2008-05-09 Thread Insane Boi
Unique question, Pidgin (aka gaim) has some configuration files. I would like to have these configuration files remain untouched/unmodified, but readable. I am running pidgin under a normal user account. Here is what I tried: chmod 004 file.xml sudo chown root:root file.xml Launch pidgin as us

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Tenant wrote: > I've been lurking on the list for a while, but haven't posted before. > We're looking at upgrading our co-lo web server which is now running > Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at > Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. Is there anywhere a balanced > overv

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:14:28PM +, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:23 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > You can delete all the downloaded .deb files by running "aptitude clean". > > I didn't know aptitude had that option. Is there any differ

Re: vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:13:58PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: [snip] > However, I now need to use an application, as part of a course I am doing, > > which only runs on Windows. > > > So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that. Exactly what I did (except on Lenny). [snip]

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > By the way, if you have a floppy drive, you can install GRUB on a > floppy too, then you have a GRUB emergency disk which lets you > perform operation such as those you described (in the GRUB shell) > (for cases of drive failure etc.). > > -Moritz That shall I to do, o

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am not sure if I understood you correctly, so please correct me if > I am wrong, but I assume: > > * you have basically moved all needed partitions for a full Debian > system from one disk to another, That is correct. I copied all Debian partition from sda to sdb wit

compiz / Nvidia FX 5200 issues

2008-05-09 Thread David Fox
Warning, I am using Shame's repos and just did an aptitude dist-upgrade in Lenny which brought in compiz updates, so technically this isn't really debian but figure it's close enough. I've been able to run compiz in the past but haven't been able lately to run it. If I start compiz-manager I get a

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/09/2008 06:31 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? here's the first few lines: - --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-language: Content

Re: selected pages printing from gv gives random output

2008-05-09 Thread H.S.
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: * From: "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if I print a few pages from gv by selecting them, that goes okay. However, if then deselect those pages and select another set and print them, thing go wrong and the output is odd characters here and there on the printouts. at

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-09 Thread H.S.
s. keeling wrote: That's almost trivial. The datasets you see in the petrochemical industry can be in the terabyte range. They're so big, they have to edit in place, not write another output file. perl handles even this well. I/O performance is pretty much hardware bound. This is binary da

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-09 Thread H.S.
s. keeling wrote: Yes, and you need to do more research. and I skipped some other factors as well which contributed to not using an interpreted language. Perhaps in my next project, I will see how that goes. For this one, I am using bash, sed, perl and awk and gnuplot for post processing th

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 18:31, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > here's the first few lines: > > --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-langua

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 18:21, Nate Duehr wrote: [snip] > > Real freedom = BSD. The BSD License allowed the Unix Wars to take place. > Freedom with an agenda = GPL. Everyone has an agenda. Always. You've just got to figure out what the agenda is. > Apple us

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 17:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >>> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? >>Linkname: Considera

PROGRESS Re: Can't resolve ftp.us.debian.org

2008-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/8/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:18:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does it help defining in /etc/hosts the http hosts of your sources.list ? > > > > I can try that, but I've never done that before. > > well, try it, it is not diffico

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On Fri, 09 May 2008 18:35:49 -0700 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri May 9 2008 04:31:52 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > > > > here's the first few lines: > > > > --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) > > Content-ty

Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread s. keeling
Doug Mitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have been following Debian User for a long time now, via the > UseNet group. Lately I have replied to an issue or 2 (via the > mailing list) but not all responses seem to make it to the UseNet. Tried playing with the test groups? I use a free connection

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 9 2008 04:31:52 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > here's the first few lines: > > --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-language: > Content-transfer-encoding: base64 > > U

problems compiling recent kernels from kernel-archive.buildserver.net

2008-05-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi I recently reported bug #480436 against kernel-package as I've had trouble compiling recent kernels (2.6.25-2) from kernel-archive.buildserver.net on Debian unstable on a Pentium II. The last successful build I had was on 5 May from source 2.6.25-2~snapshot.11251. I tried downgrading perl

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 09 May 2008 19:46:04 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:31:52PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > > > > here's the first few lin

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-09 Thread s. keeling
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sorry. It just seems (to an old C programmer) that this is pretty > >> simple problem, unless there's some tricky detail that you aren't > >> telling us. > > > > That's exactly what I was thinking looking

touchpad problem

2008-05-09 Thread Lee Glidewell
I've been running Ubuntu on my laptop for some time, mainly because it doesn't require much fussing with power-saving and wireless settings that make laptops more difficult. With Ubuntu development continuing to depart from what I want or need, and with the advent of iwlwifi (the card is a 3945A

Googleearth mailto: mess .

2008-05-09 Thread thveillon.debian
Hi, I am fighting with Googleearth mailto feature which allows the happy user to send a capture or a link of what is looking at to yet another happy user. Problem is the call this mailto function does is to the $BROWSER (equivalent to x-wwwbrowser ?), and then relying on the browser ability t

Re: vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
John O Laoi wrote: Hi, I am running debian etch on a dell laptop which is dual boot with XP. I rarely, if ever, use XP. However, I now need to use an application, as part of a course I am doing, which only runs on Windows. So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that. (I k

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:31:52PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > here's the first few lines: > > - --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) > Content-type: text/plain;

decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? here's the first few lines: - --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-language: Content-transfer-encoding: base64 U29tZSBSZWFsbHkgR3JlY

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Yes Apple does apparently give back some code... It looks khtml or Webkit or whatever the marketable term nowadays is does indeed have free Apple code in it, even if they gave it back in ways that were difficult for free developers to adopt and took a long time to

Re: vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:13:58PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > However, I think that it might be better if I proceed by > > (1) creating a vmware image of my existing XP, (as it has all of the drivers > etc. for my hardware.) vmware presents a different hardware to the vm th

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? > >Linkname: Considerations when creating ext3 filesystems - Ext4 > URL: > http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org

Re: vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: "John O Laoi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that. > (I know about WINE, but I'd prefer to go the vmware route, as I want to get > familiar with > vmware.) have you considered also virtualbox-ose (which ia available as debian package; fo

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: >>> Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any >>> corresponding BIOS drive. >> >> is /etc/mtab correct ? >> >> is /boo

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/10 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I really hope that this doesn't turn into a flame war. I respect your >> ideals. Please respect mine. > > Uhm. > > And what exactly are those ideals of yours? I haven't seen you expre

vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread John O Laoi
Hi, I am running debian etch on a dell laptop which is dual boot with XP. I rarely, if ever, use XP. However, I now need to use an application, as part of a course I am doing, which only runs on Windows. So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that. (I know about WINE, but

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 09/05/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you *know* whether Apple doesn't pass anything back to Darwin? > > Well, they made a GPL exception *just for themselves only* with CUPS. Allow me to qualify that a bit more. Yes Apple does apparently give back some code...

Re: selected pages printing from gv gives random output

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > if I print > a few pages from gv by selecting them, that goes okay. However, if then > deselect those > pages and select another set and print them, thing go wrong and the output is > odd > characters here and there on the printouts. at first look it se

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 09/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/09/08 14:51, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Lots of proprietary software is available for Linux. > > > > Yeah, it's a tragedy. Takers of code who don't give back code.

Re: Why no libapache2-mod-auth-mysql in etch?

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > the auth_mysql module, while available in sarge, lenny, and sid, is not > available in etch > (and, this being a production server, I want it 'stable'). Is there a > solution? I have _not_ tried this, but etch has both libapache2-mod-auth-pa

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 15:06, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/9 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Lots of proprietary software is available for Linux. >> Yeah, it's a tragedy. Takers of code wh

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 14:51, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Lots of proprietary software is available for Linux. > > Yeah, it's a tragedy. Takers of code who don't give back code. :-( > > Apple, I'm

Vanishing RAID autodetect partition

2008-05-09 Thread ketonom
I'm currently running Linux version 2.6.18-6-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 24 03:57:46 UTC 2008 Up until now, things have been working fine with the two software raid5 arrays I've got running

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread hh . eu
Am 2008-05-09 um 22:13 schrieb Paul Csanyi: At last I have success! :D I don't use grub-install command but run grub on the command line, and: grub> root (hd1,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit OK, I hadn't seen this last message from you when I wrote mine, but I see that you have had success

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread hh . eu
I am not sure if I understood you correctly, so please correct me if I am wrong, but I assume: * you have basically moved all needed partitions for a full Debian system from one disk to another, * and now you want to install GRUB to this second disk so that GRUB can boot from that dis

Why no libapache2-mod-auth-mysql in etch?

2008-05-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I'm setting up a server which has to be able to communicate with other servers in our network. In particular, it has to authenticate http users against a MySql database. But the auth_mysql module, while available in sarge, lenny, and sid, is not available in etch (and, this being a production ser

Looking for help with maintainance of a package

2008-05-09 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, I am the maintainer of hfsprogs, which is a package taken from Apple's Darwin code that provides a mkfs.hfs{,plus} and, more importantly, fsck.hfs{,plus}. Unfortunately, the present version has problems not being 64-bit clean and, as a result, I had to restrict the list of architectu

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:38:33PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/9 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu May 8 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> What programs does she use in Windows? Have you not found Linux > >> equivalents? Have you written to the vendors and asked about a Linux > >>

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any corresponding BIOS dr

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would very happily pay for Linux had that been the situation. > > What does money have to do with freedom? I paid good money for the > privilege to have Linux on my machine. > Nothi

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Lots of proprietary software is available for Linux. > > Yeah, it's a tragedy. Takers of code who don't give back code. :-( > That's why the GPL was written. The BSD (or was it MIT? I

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 09 May 2008 10:57:08 am Christopher Judd wrote: > On Friday 09 May 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > What's wrong with USB? USB performs as good as 100Mbit Ethernet, > > > generally. > > > > 1.1MBit thinnet more like it. > > > > > Anyway, people have been using DSL technologies on phone wir

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lots of proprietary software is available for Linux. Yeah, it's a tragedy. Takers of code who don't give back code. :-( Apple, I'm looking at you. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 09/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would very happily pay for Linux had that been the situation. What does money have to do with freedom? I paid good money for the privilege to have Linux on my machine. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 14:37, ChadDavis wrote: > > > There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone > had the solution. Google should find the thread. > > > Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms > sugge

Re: D-Link DWL-122 Wireless Adapter

2008-05-09 Thread Consultores Agropecuarios
El vie, 09-05-2008 a las 12:21 -0700, francisco escribió: > El mié, 16-04-2008 a las 09:01 +0200, Sven Joachim escribió: > > On 2008-04-16 03:35 +0200, francisco wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > Does somebody knows how to install the DWL-122 Wireless Adapter? > > > > Which revision is that? It

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: >>> Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any >>> corresponding BIOS drive. >> >> is /etc/mtab correct ? >> >> is /boot/

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread ChadDavis
> > There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone > had the solution. Google should find the thread. > Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms suggestsions, other than: debian bigmem kernel linux etc.

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I just looked at an OS-X machine for the first time. It costs about >> four times what a comparable machine that I build myself would cost. > > But it's more polished than GNOME or KDE, and probably better for > "regular users"/ > Maybe. I couldn't figu

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread H.S.
Mike Bird wrote: On Fri May 9 2008 09:30:43 Tenant wrote: I've been lurking on the list for a while, but haven't posted before. We're looking at upgrading our co-lo web server which is now running Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at Ubuntu, which is based on Debian

Re: Spamassassin don' t find perl

2008-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 16:52:17 +0200, Josep M. wrote: > Hello. > > I have installed spamassassin from www.backports.org and runs well, but > when I want stop this gives me a message error that perl is not found. > > I have all ok in my system, and perl is in the right place, what can I > do her

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, May 9, 2008 9:30 am, Tenant wrote: > We're looking at upgrading our co-lo web server which is now running > Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at > Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. Is there anywhere a balanced > overview of the pros and cons of using Debian or

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 13:28, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I'll stick with Debian. I don't need to get myself into anything even >>> more obscure than I currently use. In Israel, almost noone had even >>> heard of Linux. Exce

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'll stick with Debian. I don't need to get myself into anything even >> more obscure than I currently use. In Israel, almost noone had even >> heard of Linux. Except for the few lucky souls who drool over compiz >> and then beg me to install Ubuntu for

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If Debian Stable runs on your hardware and provides the software > versions that you need then use it. It is by far the best quality > and your colleagues on debian-users are much more likely than those > on ubuntu-users to give an accurate answer rather t

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-05-09 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hi, I had the same problem (this time with an ASUS A8F laptop) but I managed to fix it by passing the model option to modprobe. Maybe you should try again with kernel 2.6.25 (it's now in unstable), I saw that there is a new model name for your codec chip (STAC9205): STAC9205/9254 ref

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Christopher Judd
On Friday 09 May 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > What's wrong with USB? USB performs as good as 100Mbit Ethernet, > > generally. > > 1.1MBit thinnet more like it. > > > Anyway, people have been using DSL technologies on phone wires for quite > > some time. > > Speaking from experience, it's not

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: >> Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any >> corresponding BIOS drive. > > is /etc/mtab correct ? > > is /boot/grub/device.map (which might be created by grub-ins

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 9 2008 09:30:43 Tenant wrote: > I've been lurking on the list for a while, but haven't posted before. > We're looking at upgrading our co-lo web server which is now running > Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at > Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. Is there a

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: >> Hello! >> >> cd / >> mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc1/part1 /mnt >> # this is the / partition of the sdb >> mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc1/part2 /mnt/usr >> # this is the /usr partition of the

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 11:30, Tenant wrote: > I've been lurking on the list for a while, but haven't posted before. > We're looking at upgrading our co-lo web server which is now running > Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at > Ubunt

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 09 May 2008 06:52:11 am Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:52:28AM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > > Yes it is possible, theres various devices on the market todo it. > > > > There is one big catch, you only usually get 10 meg links. Also the > > devices are hard to find, I kno

Re: making a fileserver

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 05:11:38 am Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-05-04 12:36:10, schrieb Paul Johnson: > > On Saturday 03 May 2008 11:38:59 pm NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Saturday 03 May 2008 02:17:30 am LÉVAI Dániel

Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-09 Thread Tenant
I've been lurking on the list for a while, but haven't posted before. We're looking at upgrading our co-lo web server which is now running Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. Is there anywhere a balanced overview of the pros and c

selected pages printing from gv gives random output on laserprinter

2008-05-09 Thread H.S.
Hello, This is an odd problem I have just noticed. On a Brother HL-2070N Laser Printer if I print a few pages from gv by selecting them, that goes okay. However, if then deselect those pages and select another set and print them, thing go wrong and the output is odd characters here and there

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 10:35, ChadDavis wrote: > When I run the bigmem version of the 2.6.24-1 kernel, my machine slows > to a crawl. It does actually run, but it's shockingly slow. 5-10 > minutes to boot, 5 minutes to login. Then it runs like a Windows > mach

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 11:01, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> It should. If they hadn't added a Linux compatibility layer, they'd >> have been even deader than Netcraft says they are... > > I'll stick with Debian. I don't need

Ismerkedés, barátkozás, beszélgetés (m eghívó)

2008-05-09 Thread Kiss Barbara
Kedves Hölgyem/Uram! Szívesen ismerkedne, barátkozna, beszélgetne? ( Klikkeljen az alábbi linkre, a többit meglátja! ) Cím: tarskereso.mediatop.hu ( Amennyiben mégsem, tisztelettel elnézést kérünk Öntől, és az alsó linken törölheti levelünket. Így többet nem keressük hasonló levelekkel ) Üdvözlet

Re: Package authentication

2008-05-09 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:19 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > This might be really obvious, but what is the process for not getting the > following message when downloading audacious packages using apt-get install: > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > > > H

Package authentication

2008-05-09 Thread andy
Hello This might be really obvious, but what is the process for not getting the following message when downloading audacious packages using apt-get install: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! How does one authenticate a package? Cheers Andy -- "If they can get you a

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adobe, photoshop Elements... She really doesn't like Gimp. And my scanner ( > Epson Perfection 4180 ) never worked under Linux. > This is what I got back from Epson: """ Thank you for contacting the Epson Connection. While Epson makes drivers for o

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It should. If they hadn't added a Linux compatibility layer, they'd > have been even deader than Netcraft says they are... I'll stick with Debian. I don't need to get myself into anything even more obscure than I currently use. In Israel, almost noone h

[tip] lynx and annoying cookie messages

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Annoyed by those annoying messages in lynx whether to accept this cookie, and accept this invalid cookie path / (n) ? Then edit /etc/lynx.cfg: [..] SET_COOKIES:FALSE [..] ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:FALSE [..] -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned

Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 9 2008 06:51:16 am Doug Mitton wrote: > Hi all; > > I have been following Debian User for a long time now, via the UseNet > group. Lately I have replied to an issue or 2 (via the mailing list) but > not all responses seem to make it to the UseNet. I haven't used usenet newsgroups in a

bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread ChadDavis
When I run the bigmem version of the 2.6.24-1 kernel, my machine slows to a crawl. It does actually run, but it's shockingly slow. 5-10 minutes to boot, 5 minutes to login. Then it runs like a Windows machine after that. I don't really need to fix this because I can fall back to the normal vers

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 09:41, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I understand that many people use Linux because of the freedom it >>> brings us. Personally, I don't. I use Linux because it is the most >>> stable and secure OS avai

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 08:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:52:28AM +0100, Jamie White wrote: >> Yes it is possible, theres various devices on the market todo it. >> >> There is one big catch, you only usually get 10 meg links. Also the >> dev

Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 09:40, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Doug Mitton wrote: [snip] > >> (This is such a high volume mailing list that the UseNet access is a nice >> alternative to a full mailbox all the time.) Hard drives are Really Cheap and Really High Ca

Re: Which distro for workstations?

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue May 6 2008 05:19:56 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-05-03 11:24:39, schrieb Mike Bird: > > During the same period there were approx 800 package > > updates in Stable, of which approx 160 applied to a > > typical workstation here. > > Are you sure, they where 800 updates in Stable? > I have

Re: Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:02:04PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > every > time I want to print I need the NON-FREE Acrobat since PS is not able to > print two pages per side... what about apt-cache search psbook page-crunch - GUI/frontend to psutils programs, like psnup, psbook psutils - A co

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen writes: >> I use Linux because it is the most stable and secure OS available in my >> opinion. The fact freedom factor is just a bonus for me. > > Has it occurred to you that there might be a connection there? I am more than certain that ther

Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Doug Mitton wrote: > Hi all; > > I have been following Debian User for a long time now, via the UseNet > group. Lately I have replied to an issue or 2 (via the mailing list) but > not all responses seem to make it to the UseNet. > > Are there any others who access it this way and have you notic

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/09/08 07:33, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I use Linux because it is the most > > stable and secure OS available in my opinion. > I'm sure the {Free|Open}BSD crowds would more than quibble with you. also the NetBSD ones > And a workst

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/9 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I understand that many people use Linux because of the freedom it >> brings us. Personally, I don't. I use Linux because it is the most >> stable and secure OS available in my opinion. The fact freedom factor > > I'm sure the {Free|Open}BSD crowds would

Re: users manager

2008-05-09 Thread rihab84
i mean that i've juste installed debian to make it like a server of administrations but only the server in a linux but the other pc have like OS XP Pro so my question is to create the accounts for users of thes PC Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:30:32AM -0700, rihab84 wrot

Re: users manager

2008-05-09 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: rihab84 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > how to create accounts to connect as for windows server (I > believe that the active directory). As it has already been said, your question is not copletely clear. If you want that your debian machine be part of a windows active directory domain, read

Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread Doug Mitton
Hi all; I have been following Debian User for a long time now, via the UseNet group. Lately I have replied to an issue or 2 (via the mailing list) but not all responses seem to make it to the UseNet. Are there any others who access it this way and have you noticed missing posts ... or is th

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-09 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 09/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then write your apps in FORTRAN. (But then, you aren't the OP...) Sometimes I do, as a matter of fact, but I feel more comfortable with C++. > > You're not going to convince a numericist to give up compiled > > languages. :-) Give it up.

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:52:28AM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > Yes it is possible, theres various devices on the market todo it. > > There is one big catch, you only usually get 10 meg links. Also the > devices are hard to find, I know the one I got (which I am not using > because it didn't work i

Re: Which distro for workstations?

2008-05-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:31:24PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Douglas, > I am using NetBSD since ages (longer then Debian) and I can confirm, if > someone need only a BASIC Workstation, she/he could go with ANY BSD > derivates but there is only a problem with hardware support w

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