On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:
I use producer from real.com which use real media format. Sometimes
producer warns :"Channel 0 clips moderately". What does that mean?
It probably means your recording level is a little too high.
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On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
An external box. The only ones I've seen (never used) are Roland.
The Griffin iMic is popular with the Mac crowd and has a Linux driver.
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On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Amaya, from W3C, seems to be a little buggy, or else it
doesn't suppport everything a "real" browser does!
Amaya is supposed to follow HTML standards strictly, IIRC. So not
supporting everything other browsers do is one of its "features."
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Emacs's bidirectional text rendering is still non-existing.
I recall that there was a patch for bidi support in Emacs. But I
have no
idea what ever came up with it.
It's buggy and based on an old version of Emacs. Last time I tried to
bu
On Feb 6, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Davide Mancusi wrote the following on 02/06/2008 03:28 PM:
Have you tried to move your .mozilla directory out of the way
and to
restart with a fresh profile? Maybe some extension or some setting
are
causing problems...
K, that seems
On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
The main problem that I saw is that on delete operations it does
something that is insanely slower than TBird. For example, on TBird I
can mark 25 messages as deleted, hit delete, and within about a second
they are in the trash folder.
I think
On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/05/08 13:40, David Brodbeck wrote:
Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so that
should be a non-issue. (Assuming there isn't any
broadband-over-powerline system i
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines?
Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so that
should be a non-issue. (Assuming there isn't any broadband-over-
powerline system in his area, at least.)
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On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I was also wondering, re RF/EMF shielding, if a rack-mount server in a
half-height rack with front and back doors may be a good way to go.
With the doors closed, there's a lot fewer openings large enough for
the
EMF to get out.
I haven't b
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On 02/02/08 22:59, Johan Kullstam wrote:
[snip]
Btw are there are any motherboards *not* using this POS realtek?
Every new board I have bothered to check had it. I guess some might
have an intel et
On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Alan Chandler wrote:
I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason
the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held a
lot less (somewhat arround the 4.7GB point, but definately less than
that). As soon as I had a little b
On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Stuart Gall wrote:
The other HUGE problem with cheap hardware raid is that in 5 years
time
when your controller dies there is no practical way to recover the
data.
Well, except restoring it from the backup you made. You *did* make
one, right? RAID (hardware
On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at:
http://openwebmail.org/ ?
I used it on my personal server for a while. It had a reasonable user
interface, and no glaring bugs that I ran into. Attachment handling
was
On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that
with AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able
to swap out a program when memory became full, UNIX allocated a page
of swap for every page of virtual memory
On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote:
Hoi Everyone
Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser
and type www.foo.bar.
Now, my problem begins:
Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..."
In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite
a lot of time (more than 1
On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
The old "you need 2x RAM for swap" rule is hard to forget.
I never really understood the rationale for that rule. It seems like
a system with more RAM would need less swap, not more. In particular,
it always seemed to me like it'd be a bit
On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Michael Shuler wrote:
On 01/20/2008 04:29 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
In the last few days, ssh connections have turned dog slow. I mean
very slow, like 20-30 seconds of just sitting there after issuing
"ssh server" before it asks for my password.
This is very stran
On Jan 19, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Charlie wrote:
There would be people who can't afford more RAM, or have machines
for which
RAM is no longer available I suppose.
Well, OK, fair enough. My answer was intentionally a bit flip.
Still, with 512 MB of RAM going for $30, someone who can't afford
e
On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
But all of that still gives me no reason to change all of my ext2
partitions to something else.
I decided to change the first time I had a server down for an hour
because it was waiting for the on-boot fsck to finish... :)
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On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote:
On Jan 18, 2008 4:27 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
xfs sure does copy and delete really large files faster - I do use it
for video at home.
How big do files have to be before one starts to notice the advantages
of XFS?
In my exp
On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote:
(4) ReiserFS can be flaky on a system crash.
I haven't found it to be flaky on system crashes. I have found it to
be extremely unforgiving of disk corruption and IDE bus problems. I
was able to recover the data with reiserfsck, but it took a ve
On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
I have a few laptop ide laptop HDs lying around. I can use an
adaptor to run it from my IDE controller on the MB. My question is
this: Is there any draw back to doing this?
Laptop drives are usually slower and lower in capacity than
On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you guys think?
I think you should add RAM until you don't swap. :)
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On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:58 AM, John Hasler wrote:
David Brodbeck writes:
At worst, everyone on the same distribution transformer. The
transformers should act as pretty effective chokes for high-frequency
signals like this.
I don't think that you can guarantee that no signal will
On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
Ah :-) Since anybody on the same power line [*] can listen in, it
should
be treated similarly to an unsecured wireless network. My solution was
to run openvpn on top.
At worst, everyone on the same distribution transformer. The
transfo
On Jan 17, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Peter Teunissen wrote:
I have no experience with wifi range extenders but it seems to me it
should really just 'resend' the signal. If the extender is a 802.11g
device, I'd expect it to produce the same throughput as the original
source.
When dealing with a half-du
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman wrote:
anything that
kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU
overheating, etc.)
also takes out your RAID controller. T
On Jan 15, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Stuff like that makes me think I'm better off now driving a truck.
Pays about the same as a decent, call-center and outsource-free
environment either way...
Isn't NAFTA about to "in-source" Mexican trucks to take care of that?
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On Jan 14, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
This is a bottom-posting list, like every other list that has such a
rule. I've never heard of a list that specifically _prefers_ top
posting. If there is such a list, I doubt that it would be of a very
technical nature.
While not technically a m
On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Hal Finney wrote:
I am actively involved with
some open-source TPM projects and see this technology as having
tremendous potential. It pains me to see so much uninformed FUD being
cast about whenever the topic comes up.
We're a twitchy bunch, aren't we?
I remember
On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:03 AM, johnny wrote:
Hi,
in my flat there are 1 router, 1 range extender, 2 vista, 1 XP and my
2 linux ubuntu (one of which is mail/samba/nfs/etc server, is
monitored via mrtg and contains a lot of music/movies). All, wireless.
The problem: when I listen to music or wat
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Storage: how is the storage viewed? Contiguous or
block based, is it possible to have random access etc.
Like any other block (ie hard dri
On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Misko wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:38:38AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And
how do I enable that feature.
Emacs 22 automatically detects that it's in an svn working copy and
does the right
On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just
switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a
Unix
(SCO) system with the same serial terminal. For barcode, they had a
device that went between the keyb
On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Misko wrote:
Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And
how do I enable that feature.
Emacs 22 automatically detects that it's in an svn working copy and
does the right thing when I use the version control commands. I've
never gotten Emac
On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
On Wed January 9 2008 13:51:21 Jimmy Wu wrote:
The reasons I don't want Vista are as follows:
(1) Microsoft claims even the Home Basic needs "20 GB hard drive with
at least 15 GB of available space" (see
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/win
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Chris Howie wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was
using it as an
opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to
filter out
the mailing list spam.
On Jan 8, 2008, at 6:23 AM, John Hasler wrote:
This is true, but there has been a surge in spam on this list
recently. It
is quite clear that all the spam is not getting through, but I'm
seeing
more here than on other lists. and more than usual.
Yup. I'd say fully half my spam today came
On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:49 PM, David wrote:
Well, we might have to disagree here.
I simply can't equate spam, which is invasive - agreed, with theft/
burglary/misappropriation.
People who run large mail servers and have to devote resources to
processing spam might disagree. Spammers essential
On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:32 PM, David wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be
fixed in
a day or so.
Agreed!
And, I've made the point before, spam is good.
Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve.
That's like saying "if not for thieves
On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the floppy
drive...
I find I have to do this a lot, these days. Floppy drives don't get
used much, so they get packed full of dust.
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On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/05/08 15:00, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I started this thread on debian-user after a thread on OpenBSD
berated
someone for relying on CD/DVDs for backups and archives because they
fade over
On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:46:11AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old
version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not
those old IBM on
On Jan 5, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I started this thread on debian-user after a thread on OpenBSD berated
someone for relying on CD/DVDs for backups and archives because they
fade over time.
If that's the concern, why not copy the archived material to new media
every five ye
On Jan 4, 2008, at 6:10 PM, s. keeling wrote:
Floppies often became unreadable (when I still used them). I've never
run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old ones.
I've had one. I left it in a sunny corner of my desk and the dye
layer bleached. I've also had a couple where
On Jan 4, 2008, at 2:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
You *could* use an X10 computer-controlled power controller and a
couple of appliance modules to put the power to the two external
drives under computer control. Or you could use an independent
external timer (have to have a 48-hour or b
On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Larry Irwin wrote:
I've heard about issues with DLT's but never experienced any
problems with them.
I thought DLT was OK when I was using it. It was certainly better
than the DDS/DAT drives it replaced -- those had to be cleaned every
other day, whereas the D
On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Angus Auld wrote:
I'm not familiar with the flow of things here on
this
list, but I hope
no one is offended if I am amused by these sort of
communications.
It's all in good fun. (I hope. That's how I intended my comment,
anyway.)
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On 01/02/08 08:20, s. keeling wrote:
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Says you. I think you should spend the next year in a Cat in the Hat
suit, but I doubt you'll comply.
He wears furry bear suit
On Jan 1, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I know some people respect (such as RMS) say
that, but I also think it's a statement that's more easily made by
people who get nice tidy paychecks and aren't the ones who have to
figure out how to do the marketing.
AMEN to that. It's so easy for
On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
We must be careful not to offend. Companies now spend untold time and
money searching through languages of all sorts to be sure that a new
product or merged company name is not offensive. If even one
person^Wattorney finds it offensive^Wlucrati
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, 'Netscape' is a good name. I always wondered
how names like 'Seamonkey', 'Iceape' or 'Firefox' could ever make
their
way into a serious, corporate environment.
Silly names seem to be all the rage with start-ups the
On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Is there any way to re-export an nfs mounted directory?
No. At least, not with the kernel NFS server.
The userspace NFS server can re-export, but I haven't tested it other
than noticing that mounts work. This is almost certainly unsup
On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
That's not how it works on z/OS (OS/MVS), DOS/VSE & OpenVMS.
On them, you have "named batch queues". Each queue has a default
(in Unix terminology) niceness level, and "width" (like how a
bank branch has a single line feeding multiple teller win
On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:55 PM, H.H. Ding wrote:
I ssh to remote host, then run a program and put it to background,
then I try to logout, but bash paused and wait until the program
finished. How can I logout immeditaly?
There's extensive technical discussion here, which sheds some light on
On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
So no, likely there is nothing wrong your raid configuration. I'd
suggest
scsi drives and, better yet, hardware scsi raid if you can afford
them, but
with standard ide components there's not much to be done. hdparm
_might_
allow you to
On Dec 19, 2007, at 4:50 AM, S Scharf wrote:
I am running a Debian 3.1 (Sarge) server with Raid 1 mirroring on
the disk drive.
Recently, one of the disks failed. The system sent root a proper e-
mail notification of the failure. Unfortunately,
the system seemed to continue to try to use the
On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Joel Roberts wrote:
I’ve set up a Debian Etch server to deploy several monitoring tools
in my Active Directory domain. The Debian box keeps slipping further
and further behind in time. I’ve pointed it to my domain controller
which is configured as an NTP serve
On Dec 14, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:49:13 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Douglas,
opto-isolator for it. So I used the TV screen. I covered the top
half with photo-sensors. Had my program put black blobs on the
appropriate spot
On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
No. There's a fundamental difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
FreeBSD seems to have an attitude to Linux as Linux has to
Windows. Try
to be like them and convert users by making configs easy. OpenBSD
does
nothing to convert users;
On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Bob Goldberg wrote:
Apparently, the que is not used for "local" delivery, and is only
used to send Email on to its final destination.
So, in my application, I expect that ALL deliverable Email is
placed in the que.
I read that there is immediate email delivery,
On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Bob McGowan wrote:
I was under the impression that, even with CPU based encoding, the
recording process went directly to the compressed format.
It doesn't have to -- it depends on the software you're using.
Usually *some* kind of compression is used, though, be
On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
I agree the Apple II and TRS-80 keyboards were crap, but I have very
fond memories of hacking on the VT-100. I guess the keyboard feel
wasn't all that great compared to a model-m or something, but there
was
just something very nice about the who
On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
How about the Atari 800 (or was it the 400?) that had the bare
membrane. ugh. now that was crap!
Fortunately I never had the displeasure of using one of those. I did
have to use an Atari 800XL for a while, at one job. That one at
On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The PC keyboard had that exaggerated click so it would feel more
like a Selectric typewriter. IBM Data Entry Division wanted to sell
PCs through the typewriter channel because Armonk didn't want the PC.
The Boca Raton marketing droids hoped it
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
Humbug. If you learned hot to type *properly* on a real IBM
Selectric (hint: you never pushed the key down past the "click",
certainly never to the stops), using a clicky keyboard today won't
cause you carpal tunnel any faster than a squish-bo
On Dec 7, 2007, at 8:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:35:46PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
You're close. Try this:
tar cvvf - bar | ssh -e none [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat >foo.tar"
Using
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Ed Curtis wrote:
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii,
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ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
ASW> If you need that amazingly
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:31 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
One obvious problem with removing permissions on all this stuff is
there are sometimes situations where an ordinary user legitimately
needs to run, say, mount.
Seems to me like setting up
On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
It is BSD not Linux. Linux is a bit of SysV and a bit of BSD.
Permission of files inherit a bit of the directory they're in (I
forget the details). Initscrips are rc NOT SysV. If you add a
package you have to
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Jerry DuVal wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation of a backup utility/system that
has a web interface for configuring?
BackupPC has an excellent web interface for administration. You do
have to configure it by editing configuration files first, though, so
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The installer acts as a weed-eater: it weeds out users who don't read
the docs. If you don't read, the partioner will kill you.
At least it doesn't require a pocket calculator anymore. When I
first installed it you had to manually calcula
On Dec 5, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I don't know if OpenBSD has any other tricks under the hood to protect
the system from a milicious but legitimate shell user.
They might have a few, I don't know. It's worth noting that their
brag line on their website only refers to *rem
On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Bob Goldberg wrote:
when I setup an exim conf file - what exactly runs it? perl?
Exim reads it in itself. Just like Sendmail reads in sendmail.cf.
Unless you're talking about Debian's Rube-Goldbergian system for
building an Exim config file from pieces. I never
Given this thread, I found it slightly amusing that there was an
announcement in my mailbox today about a security hole in Battle for
Wesnoth.
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On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Michael Pobega wrote:
tar cvvf foo.tar bar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar"
Or am I doing it wrong (I most likely am)? I've never done any sort of
piping through SSH before, so any sort of help would be appreciated.
You're close. Try this:
tar cvvf - bar |
On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Martin Marcher wrote:
But since *nix has a history of being secure because a user/process
can't by default destroy any data besides the data one/it owns. Why
not take that one further and require explicit permission to even run
a program that can potentially destroy d
On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:51 AM, John Hasler wrote:
andy writes:
OK - but according to RUTE sbin = "Superuser binary executables.
The "s" is for "system", not for "superuser".
These are programs for system administration only. Only the root will
have these executables in their path" ("Rute User
On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Michael Pobega wrote:
I'm trying to write a shell script to use tar for backups, but I
want to
know; Which directories are nessecary to backup with tar and which
aren't? Obviously /bin, /usr, /home, /boot, /lib, /srv (Where I keep
all of my chroots) and /etc are,
On Dec 5, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Please don't call this the "Usual Python error recovery problems".
Python allows you to trap all the errors it could discover. You just
have to wrap everything in a try block. So if you're getting error
messages in a stack trace, then call it
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:11 AM, Tom Allison wrote:
seems that APC owners are either dominant to the Debian users list
or just the kind of fanatic to answer an email about their UPS.
I have a Belkin (lame) and a TrippLite (not so lame) that are both
"dumb" and I might keep for the VCR/Tivo/TV s
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:07 AM, Tom Allison wrote:
APC has two model lines. Their BackUPS models give you basic
functionality and a contact-closure interface for power failure
and low battery alerts. Configuration is by DIP switches.
Their SmartUPS line adds scheduled self-tests, voltage bu
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Seriously though, I use rdiff-backup and cron jobs to pull backups of
critical data and /etc using pub-key ssh authentication to make the
connections. I have no bare-metal restoration plan, just reinstall,
install packages, recover data an
On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nate that's a very complete answer. Let me try to apply that to
Oaxaca, Mexico. Thanks!
I can't provide any specific advice, because I don't live there. But
given the amount of manufacturing that goes on in Mexico these days,
there must
On Dec 4, 2007, at 6:18 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Or OpenBSD. Has a much smaller memory footprint (means less swapping)
than linux and perhaps faster as well. Also, since its a firewall,
OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure firewall to which regular
people have access.
I also found pf
On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
My BackUPS does a daily load test. The first indication that
batteries are dead is when it tries to move the load to the battery
and the alarm starts screaming bloody murder.
Is it a BackUPS Pro, by any chance? They sort of straddled the two
On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/03/07 16:11, Ralph Katz wrote:
[snip]
Maybe check your NIC. What do you get for this (etch):
$ grep 'link up' /var/log/dmesg
Maybe the ancient PII has an ancient ethernet card!
My (just pur
On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Tom Allison wrote:
So -- what's a working combination of UPS and software? What to
avoid?
I've had good results with APC UPSs and Network UPS Tools (NUT).
APC has two model lines. Their BackUPS models give you basic
functionality and a contact-closure interfac
On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I have a Back-UPS LS 500 that uses the Debian apcupsd package.
It gets excellent support: http://www.apcupsd.org/
It also is a need of a new battery. And getting that in Oaxaca,
Mexico is quite another story.
If it helps, gelled lead acid b
On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:22 PM, John Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home).
I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the
LAN ports
on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a
PII -- 400
MHz box wi
On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
No. The NTFS file system does not need defragmentation.
The best explanation I've heard of why they have a defragmenter for it
is that it was considered easier to write a defragmenter than to go
about explaining that FAT32 just sucks.
Are you
On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Robert Hodgins wrote:
But then some genius gave us the > sign to allowed us to select how
far back in a thread we wished to read and also saved our scroll
wheels many many miles of rolling through text that we had already
read only to find a one-liner at the
On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Michael Pobega wrote:
I guess my question is pointless now switch I've switched to W3M,
but I
know Links2/Elinks on the console let you use GPM to follow
hyperlinks;
The return key works as well, but a mouse would be a lot easier --
Especially in a minefield of h
On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:30 PM, andy wrote:
If I install Privoxy on my Deb machine behind a firewall, Privoxy
will trim out all of the junk that plugins currently do (e.g.
noscript and adbuster, etc.), as well as block cookies. It will not
mask/block my IP address however.
Right.
If I in
On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:55 PM, andy wrote:
Actually I don't know, never having used it. But I am considering
it, but need to figure out the following first.
My user machine is one of a small LAN behind a hardware dedicated
firewall running a DSL modem. If I were to install Privoxy on my
u
On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Nov 17, 5:00 am, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
it appears that ext3 doesn't need a real defragmentation operation
(by 'real'
I mean a specific tool that need to be run sometimes related to
disk usage).
Is it correc
On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
your description of a mail hub does sound like what I want...
I'll see if I can download the source dist of the exim pkg... & chk
into that that would be REALLY nice...
OK. I'll dig a little to see if I have copies of the config files
On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
running etch in console (no X);
I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only
email w/ valid recipients.
isn't there a document that says how to do this in
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jeff D wrote:
André Wendt wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and
repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This
is on ext3.
$ ulimit -f
unlimited
$ uname -a
Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:
On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Would anyone be able to suggest what's failing, and what to do
about it?
Or what information I need to gather to diagnose the situation?
Try transferring a file between april and the problem machines with
FTP. Both directions. Sometimes ne
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