Re: Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-05 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Michael M. wrote: "why Debian instead of Ubuntu/SuSE/Linspire/etc.?" Do that and I doubt you'd get too many users for whom Debian probably isn't the best choice. Well I think at the very least, we could all come up with answers to this for ourselves. I know for me it involves two things: 1) D

Re: Re: Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

2007-02-02 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Thanks for the responses to contact debian-installer and debian-boot. I'm already using Etch, so I know the modules aren't there. I'll try to do a little work and find the source code for whatever kernel is in unstable and see if I find it. I did already look at packages.debian.org, but I co

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
next database with MySQL (instead of Postgres like planned), just to spite you. -- Angelo Bertolli Please remove my email address from your post when replying [Tech http://bitfreedom.com | Gaming http://heroesonly.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > >> (2) MySQL is a shorter learning curve for new users >> >> > What? In what way? Learning to develop against MySQL is no harder or > easier than learning to devel

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/07 12:16, Angelo Bertolli wrote: I've been debating whether or not to make a comment on this discussion, but it finally got to me. I think you're being way too hard on MySQL considering the fact that thi

Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
In particular, I'm interested in finding out if Debian has any intention of including some of the wireless drivers that Ubuntu has gotten into their kernel. Does anyone know anything about this, or who I should contact? In particular, I'm interested in Debian including the 818x driver for re

Re: Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Angelo Bertolli
I've been debating whether or not to make a comment on this discussion, but it finally got to me. I think you're being way too hard on MySQL considering the fact that this question originated from the idea of using a database backend for OpenOffice.org. Yeah, I didn't like "MySQL is definitel

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Paul Johnson wrote: > Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > >> There is actually an operational difference. In the about:config page >> the setting general.useragent.extra.firefox is set to >> "Iceweasel/2.0.0.1". Looks harmless, but it stopped me from logging >> on to a website. It would only let me in

Re: Re: Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Paul Johnson wrote: > Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> Angelo Bertolli wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. (I >>>>

Re: Re: ndiswraaper install error.

2007-01-29 Thread Angelo Bertolli
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Thanks for your time. I have done this using m-a a-i ndiswrapper. everything goes OK. My wifi interface is recognised as eth0 and ethernet one as eth1. I don't know how this done. But any reference to know is welcome. I could get connected also by the script as given by me ea

Re: Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Paul Johnson wrote: > Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > >> I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. (I >> just figured it was for upgrades.) >> > > Why put something in non-free if trivial changes to the name and artwork > mak

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > The choice of words by the OP was unfortunate, to say the least. > But among all his blathering there was the germ of a valid point. > The only potential valid point I saw coming out of it was that maybe "transitional" wasn't the way to go. I don't know what other o

Re: Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installsand security

2007-01-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
For console, you can use lokkit: lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console interface) But I don't think it gives you as much control as iptables. Angelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I think that automatically upgrading people to Iceweasel is better than > leaving the stagnant Firefox package since: > > - The security team can't support > - Debian is not allowed to continue redistributing > - People may not know to go looking for it > Not to menti

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/26/07 23:18, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > >> Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > >>> Ex-Debian user... > >>> ... back to the Gentoo > >> If going to the Mozilla website to dow

Re: Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hmmm, every time I do a net install, it installs the base files first, reboots, and then uses the actual system to install the rest... Angelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > Answers: > Etch > apt-get > > I was informed by apt-get that Iceweasel package will be installed, > but I wasn't informed that instead of Firefox and it is a problem! > If I would like to uninstall (even current version of) Firefox I would > do it myself. > 1) It is a rep

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:49:17PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> Roberto writes: >> >>> Debian policy requires that all packages be built on Debian autobuilders >>> (there are rare exceptions, but they are extremely few) >>> >> There is no such policy. D

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > Ex-Debian user... > ... back to the Gentoo If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is too much work for you, Debian is definitely not a good choice for you. You might try another OS called Windows--I hear it's got its own browser that's pretty pop

Re: Ubuntu to Debian Installation

2007-01-24 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > Greetings, > > I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop > machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an > easy way to change installations (without actually going through the > install) by changing the repositories an

Re: RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like this hanging around t

Re: Re: Xorg will not start no matter what I do

2007-01-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:12:55PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > >> (II) LoadModule: "kbd" >> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module kbd >> (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" >> (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0) >> (II) LoadModule: "mouse" >> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse >

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

2007-01-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Daniel Haude wrote: Hello, I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced bigger and uglier fonts. How is it done? I don't really know how to change the fonts to any font that I want, but if I i

Re: Re: Re: WEP encryption and ndiswrapper

2007-01-15 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jan Schledermann wrote: > Angelo wrote: > > >> Jan Schledermann wrote: >> >>> Angelo Bertolli wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> And if I turn off WEP, then I'm able to connect either way. >> >> I kind of figur

Re: Re: Re: WEP encryption and ndiswrapper

2007-01-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:31:15PM -0500, Angelo wrote: > >> It's been useful to me ;) But I guess I might have to switch to >> blocking people by mac add... just seems like a hassel to have to add a >> new machine each time. >> >> > Except that MAC addresses

WEP encryption and ndiswrapper

2007-01-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone was having a similar problem: I can connect to my wireless network using ndiswrapper, but only if I have WEP encryption turned off. Otherwise, it never connects. I tried with Ubuntu a while back, and it worked fine. Anyone know why Debian would have any p

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Russell L. Harris wrote: Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into spam-spewing zombies. If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only against incoming messages, and is useless against

Re: Re: Can I change motherboard without reinstal ling sarge

2007-01-07 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:04:34AM +0800, a wrote: > >> >> I change motherboard, sarge refuse to boot, it says BIOS check fails >> I used debian before (woody, potato...) there's no such problem >> Do I have to re-install sarge? >> > > Short answer: It depends.

Net Install with ndiswrapper

2006-12-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Does anyone have a way to do a net install using ndiswrapper to enable your network connection for the install? Whenever the installer asks for the network setup, it isn't even close to being in a state where I can download and compile ndiswrapper. Angelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian)

2006-12-27 Thread Angelo Bertolli
David Pastern wrote: With the risk of sounding rude, that’s what you get for using a proprietary system. Do NOT support Apple, and their usage of DRM protected, user screwed systems that are iTunes etc. Dave Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin

Re: local partition backup with rsync

2006-12-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into: rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local -

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

2006-12-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
David Christensen wrote: > I've been using CVS (and RCS before it) for several years new. I've > also looked at switched to SVN, but seem to recall that there was an SVN > "feature" whereby SVN applied to same version number to all files in the > project (repository?) whenever you checked somethin

Re: Re: CVS Application

2006-12-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:30:37PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Unless... they're not the maintainer of the repository. Sometimes you have to use cvs, and some people prefer cvs. I think you're hard pressed to justify using subversion over

Re: CVS Application

2006-12-18 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:46:43PM -0800, rocky wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> apt-cahce search CVS will pull lots of CVS application on the console. >> As a newbie to the Linux program development environment, I would like >> to hear your valueble comments on your favorite C

Re: Problems with phpbb and mysql vi dselect

2006-12-18 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Bill Warren wrote: > > Hello, > > I have dselected phpbb2 and mysql. The database is done and works. > When I go to http://mywebsite.com/phpbb the web page I get: > > The database module for the database you are using, MySQL, is not > available. Please (re)install the php4-mysql package or if it's

Re: Mouse Pointer Disappears Under xorg "nv" Driver

2006-12-18 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Matt Miller wrote: > Om running etch on my shuttle XPC SN21G5. According to lspci, this > machine has on-board GeForce 6100 video: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/postgres/8.2.0/postgresql-8.2.0$ lspci |grep VGA > 00:05. VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce >6100] (rev a2) >

Re: Failed Installation

2006-03-07 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Joseph Michael Smidt wrote: I have installed Etch about 5 or 6 times using the Beta1 installer. I tried the daily builds and I get this error when trying to connect with the mirrors: Bad archive mirror, The specified Debian mirror is unavailable or does not have a valid release file on it. Whe

Problems with new testing kernel package

2006-03-06 Thread Angelo Bertolli
After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't boot from that kernel. It doesn't even get to init. It seems to not be able to find the gzip module on startup. I wrote down the errors since all I get is BusyBox when I boot: ... some hardware detection stuff here ... Begi

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping. ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan test hits the bad sector, whichever happens first. Before that, ma

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Good question. I'd like to know this too. I always thought that short of puting up an external serial interface, this wasn't possible. Angelo --

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Steve Lamb wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Well I like the benefit of typing one line. In debian, being in the group sudo allows you to skip using a password. So to me there's a benefit over: typing su, typing root's password, typing my command, exiting. I like the bene

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Steve Lamb wrote: Stephen R Laniel wrote: But he *does* want to mess with sudo. Sudo is a much safer tool than logging in as root, for reasons that have been done to death on any number of Linux lists. On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the de facto

Re: reboot with fsck and bad block check

2005-09-24 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 23 September 2005 21:39, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Does shutdown -rF also include a bad block check? I'm guessing it doesn't, but I can't find any information online on how to tell it to do a bad block check also. I did find in /etc/default/rcS a

Re: console font

2005-09-24 Thread Angelo Bertolli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, my default debian installation gives a console with 25 rows and a huuuge font. I feed vga=ask as boot parameter and choose 80x43 and get a viewable screen with squashed fonts. During the boot messages, just after the nic is up and running, the fonts reconfi

reboot with fsck and bad block check

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Does shutdown -rF also include a bad block check? I'm guessing it doesn't, but I can't find any information online on how to tell it to do a bad block check also. I did find in /etc/default/rcS a setting to send -y to fsck, but nothing that would indicate any reason it needs -y. Angelo --

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Antony Gelberg wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Albert wrote: michael wrote: and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful manner, but then you prob knew that already ;) Insults? I only responded in kind to Antony, who believes answer

Re: Panda, Beware!

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Mike McCarty wrote: Wm Stanley wrote: Yes, And this is related to Debian? How? I believe it's related to improving spamassassin's filter. Thanks OP for the sample! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html This is fine. Notice how "reply to the list, but don't CC me" isn't part of what "reasonable mailers" are expected to do: "Reply-To munging does not benefit the user with a reasonable mailer. People want to munge Reply-To h

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:36:02PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: I was logged into the system as root, and opened an xterm, then tried dpkg. That should work, if I ignore that "--install" stuff? I don't know why they were telling you to do dpkg -i | --install -

Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
[Sorry for replying in that other thread, here is a new one:] Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the poster only. When I hit "reply-all" it goes to the poster, the list, and maybe a few others

Responses to the list

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Ron Johnson wrote: If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer to only go to the list. Ok, now I'm confused. I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list lately. I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the poster only. When I hit "reply-all" it goes t

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Albert wrote: michael wrote: and insults don't generally inspire people to respond in a helpful manner, but then you prob knew that already ;) Insults? I only responded in kind to Antony, who believes answering a newbie question is 'breast feeding'. Please, not in front of the kids. W

Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

2005-09-22 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marty wrote: John Hasler wrote: Marty writes: I was thinking it should be handled during boot by an init script like keymap.sh (just a guess). How would that set it correctly for each user? Some init scripts use configation files in /etc/default, and I guess the script's stop routine c

Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Sean Whitton wrote: Hi all, I would be grateful for any help on the following problems. Please indicate what you are replying to in your response! Thanks. 1) I installed apache using wajig. I want to create a link between ~/public_html and the webspace for the user at ip/~user. How do I do thi

Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-21 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Robert Storey wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another machine. Let me explain more clearly: If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed.

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Mike McCarty wrote: Borislav Petkov wrote: [snip] P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away from? Rather than say something negative, I'll say something positive: Seagate and Western Digital are chammpion drives in my estimation. I would agree minus Weste

Re: Debian Compatible UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Craig M. Houck wrote: The more I think about this the more I think using car batteries for this is a tad dangerous, sealed, old-school with caps, no spill batteries, etc no matter the type/style. Chemically created energy in a thin walled box is not to be played with, particularly when it sits i

Re: Used Laptop Reccomendations for Sarge

2005-09-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 07:05 -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: Thinking about getting a used laptop and loading sarge into it. I was wondering what specs I need to look for It really depends on what sort of performance you're looking for. I bought a secondhand Compa

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
John Hasler wrote: You _might_ get a bang if you stick a spark igniter inside a cell while the battery is being heavily overcharged. Actually now that you mention it, how will the battery get recharged if it's used? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jared Hall wrote: I would have to look at the code to see if this sort of logic is being used. which I guess I could if really wanted to, but I don't, because it works really well and there is no need to. I would discourage working around the system that Apache has set up for Debian. there ar

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jared Hall wrote: PS I don't see why people who want more organization could have just done all this on their own without all that fancy reprogramming Debian did. Perhaps these changes to httpd configuration actually make httpd run more efficiently (less information being included at certain t

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Jared Hall wrote: Maybe let me know what you all are using. Please help me navigate the sea of UPS. car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely car battery lasts abut 14 hrs with an idle P3-1G .. last time i checked

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On mandag 19 september 2005, 00:18, Hans Ekbrand wrote: You must expect issues like these, it is a feature... :-) Not getting security updates automatically installed a feature? Not in my world! Well, imagine the security.debian.org box getting compromis

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On mandag 19 september 2005, 06:53, Steve Dondley wrote: The README file that came with Debian doesn't cover the difference between the httpd.conf file and the apache2.conf file. Is the httpd.conf file basically obsolete? I haven't had time to look into it at

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
David Huemer wrote: I tried the provided .deb package and also compiled my own apache2 server and discovered the following: If you use the Debian package all configuration is done in the apache2.conf and the httpd.conf is only for compatibility reasons. If you compile your own server, all config

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-18 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Oliver Lupton wrote: Kent West wrote: Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these versions you'll want to install, especially as a newbie. Opera, however, not being "F"ree (alt

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Andy Streich wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find very little support for

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
I'll throw in a suggestion for bacula: http://bacula.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Angelo Bertolli wrote: Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ServerAlias pop.domain.com ... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pop\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ServerAlias pop.domain.com ... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pop\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 <h

Re: readpst

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Stephen R Laniel wrote: I've just been handed a couple of Outlook PST files to convert to any other usable format. I installed readpst, but it really didn't get anywhere with the PSTs that I have. Instead I got the sequence of errors below. It may be because the PSTs are a very recent version; I

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: If I put only the option "ServerAlias", the bar of the client doesn't come rewritten. You need to do both a ServerAlias and a Rewrite. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kent West wrote: Fritz Brown wrote: , surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux ready to install), Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these versions you'll want to

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Josh Battles wrote: Fritz Brown said: Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic names and cryptic descriptions on

Re: Gnome Task Launcher for user with root privileges....

2005-09-15 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Redefined Horizons wrote: I would like to create a task launcher for my GNOME desktop that launches a program that requires root access. How would I do this? For example, I'd like to start Synaptic from a task launcher. Thanks for the help. Scott Huey P.S. - I'm running Debian Sarge, w

Re: Minimize diskaccess on a light server

2005-09-15 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, Arjen Verweij wrote: The current machine is an AMD K6-233MHz with 64MB and one 120G disc, running Debian stable for years (now Sarge). Unfortunately, the cpu has a bug, where it becomes unstable under stress (i.e. compiling a kernel) when using more than 32MB of

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

2005-09-15 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Matt Price wrote: Thanks wim! and everyone else. I must have missed something in the admin screens, 'cause when I logged in this morning there was "virtual server" right in my face. I set up the ports just as wim describes, and it works great! Only problem now is that when I use ssh from out

Re: How do you "move to testin =?iso-8859-1?Q?ng/etch=22??=

2005-09-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
You may already know this, but just in case you don't . . .you need to understand that the decision to track testing instead of stable or unstable is a serious one, with potentially serious hazards. Many people have the concept in their heads that testing is a fairly robust distribution that's

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

2005-09-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Matt Price wrote: ssh -p 2000 -l me mydomain.dyndns.org which gets to the router; the router sees that it's supposed to forward requests on port 2000 to 192.168.2.199; 192.168.2.199 picks up the request and an ssh tunnel is formed You won't need tunneling for this, just the NAT that your "r

Re: Login help

2005-09-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Evan Storer wrote: Helpful folks, I just got a computer from work that was used by someone a few years ago which runs Debian, and I can't do anything with it since I don't know any usernames or passwords or anything. Is there some kind of override to get past the login screen so I can set up

Re: Strange problems with permissions on fat32 partitions

2005-09-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Michelasso wrote: I have added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount at boot the windows partition of my hd and to give every user permission to write on it: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winvfat rw,users,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 But I have this problem: I don't have write a

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-14 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Hi, I have removed the Rewrite rule on my Virtual Host configuration file, I have added the rule ServerAlias domain1.com *.domain1.com, and I have restart apache2. Test: http://www.domain1.com --> OK http://domain1.com --> PAGE NOT FOUND ??? I have also an other question, using

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:39:58PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: This thread is turning into a bit of monologue. Does nobody else have issues with their window manager? Or even better, solved them? Adam, keep talking. It is an interesting monologue. Yes, I'd lik

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Juha Pahkala wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:44 +0300, Juha Pahkala wrote: But today I found out, that out of my 10Gb root partition df only shows around 300Mb free! So, I started looking and trying to find out what took all this disk

Re: How to lock user in his home.

2005-09-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Leonardo Marques wrote: Hello people, I wanna how to lock a user in his home, he cannot see any other directory, just his home. Someone how can i do this? Are you sure you want to do this? This means they will also not be able to see things like /bin/ls, so you might have to provide them s

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Juha Pahkala wrote: Sorry about the previous, it had an old mail server address...but the question remains... ### Hello, Recently my old home server crashed and I had to get a new one, and install debian unst

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Oliver Elphick wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:44 +0300, Juha Pahkala wrote: But today I found out, that out of my 10Gb root partition df only shows around 300Mb free! So, I started looking and trying to find out what took all this disk space. But I didn't get very far. As previously,

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: I think you need to add ServerAlias domain2.com to your second vhost. When Apache first decides which vhost block to use, it doesn't find one for domain2.com so it defaults to the first block. I would want that when a user write a URL as

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-12 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Marco wrote: Simo Kauppi ha scritto: It seems to me that the conditions for the first domain say that any hostname which is not www.doamin1.com should go to www.domain1.com. I.e. Apache is doing exacly as asked (domain2.com != www.domain1.com) :) I guess you want requests to http://domain2.co

Re: ServerAlias considered harmful

2005-09-12 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On mandag 12 september 2005, 02:07, David Clymer wrote: but wouldnt it be much easier to add a ServerAlias to the vitualhost config? Without trying to respond to the original question, I would like to point out that ServerAliases are vil and architecturally

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Kent West wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Which is of course they the GNU people prefer info pages :-P "Oh if only I didn't have to read the man info to understand how to read info gcc..." Amen to that. I've never been able to understand anything in an inf

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Which is of course they the GNU people prefer info pages :-P "Oh if only I didn't have to read the man info to understand how to read info gcc..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Angelo Bertolli
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with apache 1.3 and php5

2005-09-09 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Oliver Fuhrer wrote: Well, If I try to access a website which contains php scripts like http://phpsysinfo.warezmaster.ath.cx/ the browser just asks me to download the php-file. I also disabled connections over internal proxy server and cleared the browser cache but nothing changed. The server-in

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Bruno Buys wrote: Errr, wasn't the real reason for the problem not having installed properly? I mean sure, if you don't install gnome, you can install it later, but I think allowing people to choose "Desktop" is easier than trying to apt-get all the packages later. If by choosing "Deskto

Re: apache2 and php rendering

2005-09-08 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use some Flickr images on my website and wrote a php script that gets me the link. Within the html page I want to use now a tag like for the image. If I call the script directly in the browser with "http://myserver/php/getImage.php"; I get the desired imag

Re: Help!

2005-09-08 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:27:01PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:52:50AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: For some products, Stephen's position is simply silly. Consider, for example, a Boeing 747. Another example is a C compiler. There are many mo

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-08 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: seems to me that windows has problems with this. it really only wants to be first partition on the first harddrive. I strongly recommend that you put windows on its own HD, or on the first partition of a second HD. you can remap the drives in lilo so that windows d

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-08 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up. I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR) (...) The partition for the windows OS is ready and empty. It's hda4

Re: Help!

2005-09-07 Thread Angelo Bertolli
steef wrote: ..nice little discussion. maybe some of you noticed that debian_sarge too with the new installer went wide away from the 'linux-way' that is 'treating/educating' people: 'users' as/into thinking entities. just compare the installation of potato with the installation of sar

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