Re: Finding the name server owning a domain name

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel Palmer
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:51:36 Micha Feigin wrote: > Is there a way to find which domain name server owns a given domain name? I > don't want to lookup the IP address but rather where the name is defined. > > I tried dig but it shows the name server defined in resolv.conf and not the > actual

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel Palmer
Manon Metten wrote: BTW: IIRC from C-programming (has been a very long time ago), AmigaDOS uses a FileInfoBlock structure and that's where the file note (alias comment) is stored. The structure looks like this: AmigaOS via the workbench also has a nice interface to view and edit notes on files.

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Palmer
pedxing wrote: To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it (up to 15 minutes!) to complete before unmounting the drive. The benefit of delaying the writes is that you update the filesystem data less often and extend the life span of the flash. You can adjust the interva

Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel Palmer
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:38 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: Hello. I had this working in sarge, but somehow things have changed in etch, and I can't see Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal. Currently I have installed packages like cjk-latex, hbf-kanji48, ttf-kochi-mincho, among

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

2007-05-03 Thread Daniel Palmer
Biggest contenders for optimisation are the kernel and libc. Most applications are mainly a series of calls to these two so won't directly benefit from by being compiled with *magical* flags. Debian supply both optimised kernels and to a lesser degree optimised libc packages. Use of SIMD extensi

Re: [OT] Favoured Firewall

2007-04-27 Thread Daniel Palmer
Firehol is pretty easy to configure for plain accept this and block that usage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UTF8 problem with BitTornado in Ubuntu 7.04

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Palmer
Christian Matschke wrote: Hi, I am a linux newbie, sort of. After upgrading from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04, I suddenly experience a problem I might be wrong but I don't think the Debian mailing lists support Ubuntu queries. The Debian IRC channels certainly don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-21 Thread Daniel Palmer
Here goes this term "package breakage" again. Do you know what it is and how it arises? Most of the time, dist-upgrade just decides to install a couple of extra packages. But some other times... I just never figured out what makes the difference and what the possible problems and solutions

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Palmer
Georgi Alexandrov wrote: Too much is going on in testing, unstable and experimental but not in the stable branch. Mmm I'd say that having less package changes would be more reason to monitor the process instead of just throwing it out there. :P From the look of it there applications that wi

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Palmer
Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Ok, but what is the alternative? I find that without dist-upgrade, I end up with a constantly growing number of packages in the "The following packages have been kept back" category. Jamming dist-upgrade into a cron job will cause problems when a package doesn't upgr

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Palmer
Georgi Alexandrov wrote: Or you can: for i in `seq 10-150`; do ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade &>/var/log/apt-upgrade.log; done The automatic dist-upgrade is a bad idea in my opinion. Asking for package breakage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Palmer
Tarek Soliman wrote: "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server?" OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer "none" ? That was a serious question on my part: what is the correct answer to Tarek's questi

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Palmer
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, Mar 12 2007, 07:06:43PM]: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Roberto. I see. I was asking since I have a whole drive full of videos and such which are usually between 100MB and 300MB per file. So

Re: Strange WINE behavior

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Palmer
Dan H. wrote: Hello, there's this one Windows application I can't do without, and it is quite well-behaved under wine. Sometimes I start it and all is fine. Sometimes I start it and it takes literally 15 minutes until the application comes up (and then behaves normally). In the meantime there's

Re: Use Virtual Server or not?

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel Palmer
redhat penguin wrote: hi, I've got an AMD 64 X2 5200. I wish to run 1 or 2 counter-strike server(s), Apache, MYSQL and maybe a mail server. My question is if i was to use a Vserver for cs server and a Vserver for all the Web servers(apache, mysql, mail) would this make my machine more stable

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Palmer
>booting from some type of rescue disk > and doing the fsck from it is the most reliable and safest way to deal > with a corrupt root partition. Unless that rescue disk has old filesystem tools on it, then it has the potential to do more damage than good. If you can still boot from the fs going in

Re: Which USB WLAN adapter to get?

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Palmer
Ralink based cards for sure.. The cheapest ones being the conceptronic USB dongles. 20 euro or so from PC City in Spain. The advantage with these is that they have good free drivers, don't require firmware, and have nice extra functionality like packet injection. The conceptronic ones can also be m

Sid + Radeon 7000

2003-03-28 Thread Daniel Palmer
ll be updated to cure the problem ? Cheers, Daniel Palmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]