Unable to access a IDE HDD sitting of an Silicon Image ATA PCI controller card

2004-06-21 Thread Crispin Wellington
0 LOC: 71676 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Any ideas of where I should go from here? Kind Regards Crispin Wellington Network Administrator Christ Church Grammar School -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No screens found

2003-09-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
reens found' try dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low --frontend=dialog xserver-xfree86 Kinds Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: burning a lot of coasters

2003-09-17 Thread Crispin Wellington
ling allows the burning process to get all the CPU it needs, regardless of what other processes are doing. I have never made any coasters, ever, burning as root. For background info on scheduling (this is off topic, but interesting none the less), man 2 sched_setscheduler. Kind Regards Crispin

Re: an unfortunate dummy apologies

2003-09-01 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:20 am, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:13:22PM +, zoe wrote: > > red hat, suse, mandrake, caldera, and half a dozen > > other distributions all crashed or became unworkable) > > Sounds like a hardware problem in your computer. I second this. Everything yo

Re: Piping file to scp

2003-08-30 Thread Crispin Wellington
You can utilise a fifo. mkfifo whatever.fifo someprocess > whatever.fifo & scp whatever.fifo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path Crispin On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 15:47, Neo wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 07:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to send an attachement directly from mutt to another machine.

Re: programmatic access to framegrabber

2003-08-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
Why not use the v4l calls directly? Then your grabber will work with all the cards v4l supports, not just the bt8x8 series. Crispin On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 16:36, martin f krafft wrote: > I need access to the data provided by a framegrabber in a program (C > or C++). I have two questions about that

OT: RE: no war

2003-02-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 16:02 PST]: > > > Iraq. > > Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for As much as I like where this guys heart is, he is a bit naive. The decision for war was pro

Re: SCO-ANSI emulation via telnet

2003-01-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:54, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way I can get sco-ansi terminal emulation in a telnet session? > > Thank you for any hints, Use a telnet programme that emulates a sco-ansi terminal. Crispin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote: > If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling > yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or > something a little less fun. Humour can stay, but geek elitism must die. (That goes for all elitist geek

Re: which RAID cards work with debian?

2002-12-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 17:38, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > I tried to install woody on an old HP server with NetRAID card and it > didn't recognize it. I've also couldn't find any reference for this over > the internet. I was wondering which RAID cards are supported except for > Mylex (I know tha

Re: dlt tape drive on Compaq ML370

2002-11-24 Thread Crispin Wellington
xx controller. modprobe and add that in. Then your SCSI bus will appear. Cheers Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icons on a Blackbox Desktop

2002-11-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
ler as a desktop with blackbox. Its very lightweight and super-fast. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Re: World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) OutgrowingMostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
is is not a re-present-ational democracy. So becoming more non-democratic really doesn't do anything for a system that isn't democratic to start with. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: file encryption

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
sl enc -h Kind Regards Crispin Wellington. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Qt compiling problem

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
identifier is reported only once main.cpp:34: for each function it appears in.) main.cpp:34: parse error before `;' main.cpp:35: `bookForm' undeclared (first use this function) make: *** [main.o] Error 1 Looks like you need to include a header file or two that are missing. Kind Regard

Re: funky network slowdown

2002-11-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
oses the connection. This way its a process thats generating the data rather than a file being read of disk. You know the process is going to be able to saturate the pipe faster than the network can handle. And then any Web browser can be used to test the speed (This removes the encryption bottle ne

Re: Elementary Woody Firewall with DSL.

2002-11-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
it on startup, edit /etc/network/options and change ip_forward to 'yes'. You can make sure syn cookies and spoof protection are on as well while you're there. If this doesn't make the packets traverse the gateway properly, then something else is wrong. Kind Regards Crispin Wellingt

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-04 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 01:28, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 18:58:41 +1300]: > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms > > > > The state ``D'' means uninterruptible. > > Any idea why? Blocked waiting for I/O perhaps? A DMA event that ha

Re: html as background

2002-11-02 Thread Crispin Wellington
c I have found to render HTML most beautifully as postscript. It has a gui but can also be launched scripted-style from the shell. Use lynx to download your webpage in your script as html. Use htmldoc to render it to postscript. And the pstools to turn the postscript into an image. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: html as background

2002-11-01 Thread Crispin Wellington
know whether I'd do it like that (I think it would be better to bottom stack a shell window than a browser, or a transparent, borderless shell window showing a nice backdrop and the shell is tailing the system logs ...), but it certainly is possible. Check to see if windowmaker supports this f

Re: /etc/init.d services start/stop question

2002-10-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
ne goes "telinit S"? > > What scripts are called first, K or S? AFAIK... K's are called in order as the run level is *exited* as /etc/rc2.d/K20whatever stop S's are called in order as the run level is *entered* as /etc/rc2.d/S20whatever start Is that correct? Kind

Re: Speed

2002-10-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
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Re: Ogg Vorbis encoder speed

2002-10-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
as jack steals *all* the CPU. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Speed

2002-10-28 Thread Crispin Wellington
(you'll need to use a disk-on-chip and NFS root), then your boots can get very quick indeed. Combine this with the Linux BIOS project and you have <1 second boot times. Although no HDD :P Makes you realise why linux is used for so much embedded work. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: print some pngs with a console program?

2002-10-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
m using > cups. > > Some suggestions what is going wrong here? crispin@void:~$ pngtopnm shot2.png | pnmdepth 128 | pnmtops | lpr pnmtops: warning, image too large for page, rescaling to 0.597656 pnmtops: writing color PostScript... apt-get install netpbm Kind Regards Crispin Wellington si

Re: Speed

2002-10-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 16:33, nate wrote: > C. Brewer said: > > > Debian 3.0= 47secs > > not sure what kinda computer you have but i don't even get to > my LILO prompt for at least 30 seconds from power on. Some motherboards are reprehensible for the bios startup time. When are we going to demand

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
nc it will reboot my linux box, > not a good move at present. I have ctrl-alt-delete disabled in /etc/inittab Always better to initiate my own shutdowns rather than the cat on my keyboard do it for me :) Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

2002-10-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
*legally* do this (its bordering on restraint of trade) is irrelevant. They have the money and the lawyers. You go directly to jail, and do not pass go. And the law doesn't seem to have been much of a problem for them so far :P Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

2002-10-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
ot;shared-source". I don't think they've ever called it open source, nor should they, because it isn't open source. I remember the register had some articles about this. www.thregister.co.uk and do a search. Slashdot might have some stories and links. The other referen

Re: looping ogg123 file

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
d of that you are going to have to probably do your own code ussing the ogg libraries. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: xterm raw input

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
erminal into raw mode. Thus ctrl-v, return prints ^M, but its not ^ - M. Its ctrl-v, return. ctrl-v left cursor for me does... ^[[D Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Trouble ripping from CDs.

2002-10-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
hese "generic" drives, and the driver that works for mine is generic-mmc. If I use others, I get very similar "scsi" errors. So maybe one of these drivers is worth a try. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
ject is really for a diskless workstation, not a thin client. It uses NFS to mount the root filesystem over the network AFAIK. Thus you would need to allow the world to mount your root filesystems (eek!). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Tomcat woes

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
ut log have a full backtrace in it? Its something like /usr/share/tomcat/logs/stdout.log I think. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 16:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 18, 2002, Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 08:15, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > <...> > > > One thing I have noticed is the Windows VNC viewer is *crap*. During >

RE: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
it colour only. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
RAID-5 SCSI array, and with 100 desktops being used it sits at about 50% CPU idle. Under windows of course, there is only one session. Because windows is not a multi user OS. Even if it pretends to be sometimes. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: unknown restarts

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
Read up on setting up your kernel with ksymops. This is used for kernel debugging and can be used to trace the point at which the kernel's last boot stopped functioning. Your going to have to be a pretty mean code monkey to work this one to a solution though. Kind Regards Crispin Welli

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
dedicated clients on their machines (TightVNC tunnelled over SSL), but the web option is there for them when they are at a kiosk or something. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Crispin Wellington
ely due to bad coding in the Windows client. There is no reason why the windows client is so slow, other than its badly programmed. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to "contribute"

2002-10-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
ally found my final resting place. As if there is such a thing... If you do write documentation, don't forget to attach a license. The FDL springs to mind. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: X color pickers

2002-10-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
olour picker. It gives it to you as a HTML style hex string aswell. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:04, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Crispin Wellington wrote: > > While most games are developed for Windows systems, you can find a lot > of useful information at gamedev.net and such. Oh yes! And gamasutra.com is another excellent resource. Crispin s

Re: OT: Programming books

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
can even sell it (Python's license is quite liberal). If you want to sell your game, and need it to be *high speed* binaries, then C/C++ is probably the way to go. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Reiserfs & bad blocks??

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
s now without a blip. The important thing though, is *dont trust it*. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: making a deb distro

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and go apt-get install jmrsystem. Have a read of the debian packaging guides. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ADSL, routers firewalls etc.

2002-10-14 Thread Crispin Wellington
odem is not assigned an IP. In PPPoE, neither is the Ethernet card. If the modem were assigned an IP (or two, one for each interface) it would be called a router (you can get DSL routers). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 23:25, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 11 Oct 2002, 18:20:19, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > When you put gw: in your interfaces thats the *default* gateway. That > > is, the host to send it to if no route matches. Set it up something like > > this.

Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
an internal lan (192.168.*.*) and the world at large on the other interface, then the 192.168.*.* interface shouldn't have a gateway entry at all. More explanation of what your trying to achieve might be of aid here, David. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
hese for adding extra routes if they're needed, or doing funky stuff as the link changes. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
iling script looks for them in the linux default /usr/src/linux Thus you should symlink one to the other... ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux Then the NVidia compile script should be able to find your modversions.h Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: T

Command line utility to put stdin into the X 'current selection'clipboard

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
Is there a shell utility that can take stdin and put it into an X clipboard. The 'current selection' clipboard would be ideal, but any of the X Clipboard's would suffice. For example ls | someutility and then middle mouse click (or ctrl-v) somewhere else to paste the text?

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
here's a way to do something like this in > X... man import Something like sleep 5; import -window root filename.png For shell windows, just highlight the text and middle-mouse click into your word processor. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digi

Re: Weird(?) process " -:0 "?

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Do somebody know what process named " -:0 " do? > I was running ps -aux, when i spotted that i > have quite "weird" process running... That will be X. In particular, a display manager, like kdm. for me... crispin@void:~$ ps auxw

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 00:23, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:05, Russell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Where abouts in the linux boot-up sequence is the > > terminal type (VT220?) defined that users interact > > with after logging in? --snip &

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
ell type from the pwd database (/etc/passwd) and begins that as your login shell (depending on the user logging in). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: CD-R not mounting

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
make sure the modules are in the kernel) and then 'cdrecord -scanbus' and see if your drive is being scsi-emulated. Then you'll need to change any symlinks, /etc/fstab entries etc. from /dev/hdc to /dev/scd0 For example, /dev/cdrom might point to /dev/hdc. You'll need to poi

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:16, Chris McCormick wrote: > >So your package system has libc6 marked as installed but /lib/libc.so.6 > >is not there. Is that correct? > > No, it has /lib/libc.so.6 but it's just a previous version. > > I guess this problem is going to be the dpkg race condition that Co

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so* > >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 16:40, Chris McCormick wrote: > I'm suspecting i might have some kind of broken glibc action going on. I > think that it might not be able to re-attach to tar because of an actual > corruption in the library binaries that handle that kind of thing. Maybe > it's half instal

Re: configuring ADSL at Debian??

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:43, Albert Tuulas wrote: > Hello. > After > setup my parameters pppoeconf tries to make a connection and I am > getting error: > > > ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found! > > > Runing plog after that prints out: > > > Oct 7 05:21:12 localhost

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:57, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 12:41 7/10/2002 +0800, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > > > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > > > >when it doesn't work > > > > > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:34, Chris McCormick wrote: > >You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and > >when it doesn't work > > > >strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output > > Excellent suggestion - at the moment I can't get it to run correctly

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-06 Thread Crispin Wellington
Hello there stranger! On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote: > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > work

Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
till very fast, and are *much* more stable. In the above situation I didn't have a crash once. So it all depends on what you want/are prepared to live with. Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Grub Splash Image

2002-06-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
t the Linux Progress Patch. http://lpp.freelords.org/ If you like customizing your boot and having it all swish looking graphics, you're gonna love this. You have to patch your kernel though. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Replacement for X-Windows?

2002-06-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 05:51, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > One other thing: I am stuck knowing only BASIC. Anyone willing to bring > > this > > idea to fruition, however, would have my blessings. > > > > go right now to http://www.python.org. Easy, fun, elegant. You should be > able > to us

Re: PAM not working reliably

2002-06-25 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > So why is it if I have /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow, group has read > access, and mail in the shadow group, exim can't authenticate through > PAM. If I chown /etc/shadow to root:mail, it wor

Re: SQUID iptables error.

2002-06-20 Thread Crispin Wellington
sure ip_conntrack, ip_tables, ipt_REDIRECT, iptable_filter and iptable_nat are included. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compaq RIB

2002-05-23 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm setting up a Compaq ML370, and one of the developers wants me to install > X. The box boots with video defaulted to the Compaq RIB, which has an ATI > rage IIc video chipset. I've configured things normally. Used the ati > driver, bu

Re: crashme

2002-05-01 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 09:10, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to run crashme to test my machine, but it exited: > ... > Subprocess 70: Got signal 11 segmentation violation > Subprocess 70: Barfed > Subprocess 70: try 40, Badboy at 134605992. 0x805ECA8 > Subprocess 70: Got signal 4 illegal instructi

Re: Assembly Compiler

2002-04-30 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 18:10, Marlon Viado wrote: > Mom, >I'm ICE of the Philippines and i really need the assembly language > compiler,can you help me regarding to my problem. > Thanks. 'as' man as, for more information. No problems, son. Crispin Wellington -

Re: mount troubble

2002-04-29 Thread Crispin Wellington
ntrol Lists that will deny the listing of any directories not specified (for *any* user logged in, not just anonymous). I'm not sure of a server that does this. You may want to do an appraisal of their features. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] DFSG-free DVD writing software

2002-04-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 08:25, csj wrote: > On 25 Apr 2002 17:37:26 +0800 > Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 06:54, csj wrote: > > > I've noticed that the price of DVD writers and media are starting to > > > fall.

Re: [OT] DFSG-free DVD writing software

2002-04-25 Thread Crispin Wellington
free software that can write DVD's. Even CDR/W-burning > appears limited to two backends: cdrdao and cdrecord. I wouldn't call cdrdao and cdrecord 'limited'. dvdrtools package for dvd burners. Gives dvdrecord, a fork of the cdrecord code. Same sort of layout. http://www.freesoft

Re: multiple network interfaces

2002-04-23 Thread Crispin Wellington
way it will use if none other matches. Windows 2000 is evil. They have abused the gateway idea by calling the interface a gateway. Its not. Its an interface. A gateway is an external bastion host, NOT a local IP. And now some people think the win2k way, the wrong way. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington

Re: IPCop, CIPE, FreeS/WAN

2002-04-23 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 11:11, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > Question, opinions. > > Last week I tried to get IPCop up and running between 2 computers. The > problem why it didn’t work, I think is because the IPCop server at my end > was behind a firewall which also does NAT. > > So, prior to wasting

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

2002-04-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
el incase its the kernel thats been corrupted (perhaps). Just some ideas. Kind Regards. Crispin Wellington. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panic: NO INIT FOUND, but seems to be there.

2002-04-22 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:08, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > > Hi. > > My laptop hanged, and I shut it down. Afterwards it cannot boot. > After loading linux, it stops saying roughly > > > Partition check > hda: hda1 > apm: Bios version ... > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesyustem) readonly. >

Re: Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Crispin Wellington
flag a certain way (maybe for collaberation)? You will be unsetting it. Make sure people using the system are aware. Make sure the user level that proftpd is running at does not belong to a group that may access the files (easily tested by trying to read them using ftp). Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-17 Thread Crispin Wellington
hat do this. Eg. http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkps/ Theres one called chrootkit, or something similar that checks for kernel modules. I forget where it is though. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: nvidia Twinview TV wo/ 800x600

2002-04-16 Thread Crispin Wellington
nes but never went completely. NVidia's support of the TV-out in their drivers is woeful. My personal opinion is its a macrovision/open source legal clash, and NVidia are afraid to test the waters. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: 3nics and routing...

2002-04-15 Thread Crispin Wellington
these are correct and things arn't working then have a look at the sniffer info to see what is actually happening on the wire. Whether things are routing correctly but responses are not returned (which is the routing on the other hardware). Good luck Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with gnome

2002-04-12 Thread Crispin Wellington
lready have that functionality. sheesh. I like woody's official packages a lot more, now they are becoming a lot more stable. If you need more up to date stuff, look at using priority pinning in your apt setup to bring sid packages forward. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNS

Re: 3 nic and routing

2002-04-12 Thread Crispin Wellington
Ive already answered this. To make it more clear... On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 12:15, Suresh Kumar R wrote: > > This is route output: > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags > Metric Ref Use Iface > 210.212.236.112 210.212.236.113 255.255.255.240 UG > 0 0 0 eth2

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 21:17, Mattias Berg wrote: > I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally > fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable... > didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server... Of course being a wise and resposible sys admin

Re: P4 harddisk UDMA problem

2002-04-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
850GB etc. > > Any pointers appreciated, Perhaps its a bug in the kernel. Stick hdparm -d 1 commands in your startup. apt-get install hwtools, then edit /etc/init.d/hwtools. Make sure its symlinked in /etc/rc2.d Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: 3nics and routing...

2002-04-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
towards your box. Then its IP masq and firewall time. > For example, if I try to traceroute to > 210.212.236.105, it reaches the correct card in the > firewall but from there it times out. (no ipchain > rules running right now). Because you have gateways set in our routes where they sh

Re: Home Networking

2002-04-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
are on on the hub. All cat 5 is good. Then ping. from both machines. Any luck? Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware with parport device in bidirectional mode

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 18:42, Arno Baier wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2002 10:29 schrieb Crispin Wellington: > > > What about /dev/par0? > > the same message "Cannot open /dev/par0: No such device" And you're in group lp? Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUB

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
w can I use 75dpi fonts instead? Your problem may not be caused by the font dpi. But anyway... edit /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc change -dpi 100 to -dpi 75 start X Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware with parport device in bidirectional mode

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
so only root can use this > device. is it possible to make it as lp wich has root,lp rights? What about /dev/par0? Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISP user and password

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
se pppconfig to change them anyway. Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux utility to recover NTFS

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
x-ntfs/ You're probably after http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ntfs/linux-ntfs/ntfstools/ntfsfix.c Good luck. I sure don't envy you ;) Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X window cut-n-paste question

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
... http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt http://dot.kde.org/1006384488/1006476851/1006480500/1006486361/ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2000-November/msg00023.html Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppd dial-in problems

2002-04-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
Are you using mgetty? Crispin On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 04:17, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a 2.2r5 system for dial-in PPP access. > The dail-in part works fine, but when the dial-in user starts > pppd using "exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach", the ppp daemon just > sits there forever:

Re: Woody: Apache SSL not starting

2002-04-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
g, does it start? If so, try the following format... SSLEnable ... I vaguely remember reading somewhere aswell that https:// needs individual IP numbers for every virtual domains. That is ip based virtuals not name based virtuals. Thus every virtual https:// domain must have its own IP

Re: kernel recompile takes the "work" out of "network"

2002-04-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:49, Yury Sulsky wrote: > Crispin, thanks for replying. > > I checked "dmesg | grep tulip" and "dmesg | grep eth0", and the returned > lines looked the same as what I got with the default kernel. Besides, > wouldn't "ifconfig -a" not find eth0 if the tulip driver wasn't wor

Re: kernel recompile takes the "work" out of "network"

2002-04-09 Thread Crispin Wellington
heck that the tulip driver is loading on boot up. It should output some message on startup. Use 'dmesg' to do this. It is most likely to be your kernel configuration. Post the config file and someone on this list will be able to spot whats wrong (It will be in your /boot directory, named

Re: good day.

2002-04-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:22, Greg Ray wrote: > Does it accur to people that maby sending e-mails like this to thousands of > people might be a security risk? This is a mailing-list with allot of > subscribers. Not if the original is full of lies. Crispin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

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