Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hose wrote: | On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote: |> I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and |> reliability. |> ~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going to remove JFS |> f

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alex Samad wrote: | On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:49:44PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote: |> Alex Samad wrote: |> | Hi | [snip] |> Anyhow, JFS hasn't given me any problems, and at one time I used it for |> everything except for my /boot

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-15 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alex Samad wrote: | Hi | | I remember reading in the list that JFS was a dying FS, because IBM | wasn't maintaining it full time. And that it might disappear from the | kernel soon. | | Any one still using it. I was actually thinking of using it fo

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Paul Johnson wrote: | On Friday 04 April 2008 08:45:14 pm Chris Walters wrote: | |> This would mean the end of modern economic theory (i.e. capitalism - |> socialism spectrum). It would require a completely new paradigm of |> economi

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hal Vaughan wrote: | On Friday 04 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | ... |> If RMS is basing his ideals on the GNU charter, I don't think he read |> it clearly enough. "Free: As in freedom". This should apply whether |> a

Re: [Not So Horrendously OT] Psychology, Economics and Debian Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 s. keeling wrote: | Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: |> Hal Vaughan wrote: |>> stay alive. Some, those generally at the lower levels of Piaget's |>> Hierarchy of Needs, will say survival is important while those focused |>> on the higher levels (f

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Michael C wrote: | Chris Walters wrote: | Michael C wrote: | | Hal Vaughan wrote: | |> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: | |> | |>> Hal Vaughan wrote: | |>> | |>>> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: | |&g

Re: [Somewhat OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Michael C wrote: | Hal Vaughan wrote: |> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: |> |>> Hal Vaughan wrote: |>> |>>> On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote: |>>> | Ivan Savcic wrote: | |> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackvil

Re: Can we change these subject lines? Sarcasm? Me? Nah. Just a bit of humor to illustrate a point.

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Owen Townend wrote: | On 04/04/2008, *Chris Walters* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: | | Ron Johnson wrote: | | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: | |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson | &l

Re: [OT Tangent to the plane] Elitism...

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 04/03/08 19:19, Chris Walters wrote: |> Ron Johnson wrote: |> | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: |> |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> wrote: |> |> |>&g

Re: Debian? Not true GNU/Linux?? Say it isn't so!

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hal Vaughan wrote: | On Thursday 03 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: |> Ron Johnson wrote: |> | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: |> |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson |> |> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> That smells of elitism. (Not that I mind...) |> No, it's just you can't have all. It's a matter of compromis

Re: Distributions

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ivan Savcic wrote: | Sorry for that personal message, I misclicked. It wasn't aimed at you | specifically. Apology accepted. I am sure most everyone, myself included, has made similar mistakes. | Anyhow, to get back on topic. | | I have myself tr

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ivan Savcic wrote: | Very insightful discussion on "Debian losing it's users", I | must notice. | | BTW, I don't get the Ubuntu anathema. "They stole *our* apt!" ? Hey, why target me? I didn't start the thread, and I did post an "insightful" pos

[Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: | On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:44:23AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: |> On 04/02/08 03:42, Chris Bannister wrote: |>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:17:33PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: |>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:06:03

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 andy wrote: | Paul Cartwright wrote: |> On Mon March 31 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: | This sounded like a pretty straight forward response. | | Once I downloaded the packages and went to install, this is what I got: | | ~$ sudo dpkg -i libofx4_0.9.

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: |> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: |>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister |>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:1

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Walters
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:30:16PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: are searching for completely unrelated terms (say, "Barack Obama" or "gravid platypus" [0]) more than they used to. Daniel [0] I think the next Ubuntu release should be named "gravid platypus", don

Just testing.

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Just testing, because I haven't gotten a message from this list for over 12 hours. Regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFH7pGFUx1jS/ORyCsRCh+mAJ9DhWmBlS/HjiTNILsOk1juz9t4RQCfchCw 0Y/hS2nE4mNoFc65yR88MUY= =aVgC -END PGP SIGNATURE

Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Everyone, I have a couple of observations, and a couple of questions to think on. Monique Y. Mudama wrote: | On 2008-03-27, Wei Chen penned: |> Hi, |> |> I am somewhat disappointed that when you see that post, what most of |> you, if not all, r

Re: TOT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Steve Lamb wrote: > Chris Walters wrote: >>>> Anyone remember FidoNET? > >> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. > > Better still, anyone find themselves nostalgic over Fi

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-10-26 19:34:49 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> DENY=^Subject:.*v..agra > > You may reject legitimate mail, in particular because . can replace > anything including a space (in French, "agra" is contained in > "agrand

I made a mistake.

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid thing and for making such a stupid error. Chris

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 - Original Message From: Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM

Re: md5sum lots of files

2006-10-21 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Grok Mogger wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2006-10-20T07:33:46-0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: >>> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/source.sums >>> cd /dest/dir >>> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/dest.sums >>> diff -

I don't know if this is the right list for this issue, but...

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, I have been trying to install Etch using a variety of methods for some time now - always a full clean install. Almost everything goes fine until it comes time to "Finish the Installation". The part that does not go fine is that, some

Mixing sarge and etch

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck in mixing elements of etch with a sarge installation. I am reluctant to do this, because I tried twice to install etch and it failed to work, and when I tried to do what I just said, it brok

Re: Changing floppy0 ownership

2006-06-03 Thread Chris Walters
Florian Kulzer wrote: I don't remember if you mentioned it in your original message: Can you actually write to the floppy if you are root? It might be that mount detects some error/inconsistency in the file system, which would cause it to mount read-only. If even root cannot write to the device i

Re: Changing floppy0 ownership

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Walters
George Langford wrote: > I originally groaned: > > >>I use the following line in my fstab file: >> >>>/dev/fd0/media/floppy0 msdosrw,user,noauto 0 0 >> >>Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly: >> >>>sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 >> >>But when I