Re: Definitely inappropriate emails (was Re: How to pick up on anything)

2006-04-04 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:23, Martijn Marsman wrote: > Duncan Anderson wrote: > >On Saturday, 1 April 2006 22:20, Hex Star wrote: > >>Ok fine...but FYI there's conflicting posts on this list...some people > >> are saying off topic posts are welcome and fine on

Re: Definitely inappropriate emails (was Re: How to pick up on anything)

2006-04-04 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Saturday, 1 April 2006 22:20, Hex Star wrote: > Ok fine...but FYI there's conflicting posts on this list...some people are > saying off topic posts are welcome and fine on this list...yet others say > it's not OK and to stop...so confusing...:-( > > On 4/1/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:33, Steve Lamb wrote: > anoop aryal wrote: > > is openoffice.org *EXACTLY* like MS Office? > > is Evolution *EXACTLY* like Outlook? > > No, but I wasn't asking for an exact match. That was a strawman Tony > set up. I asked for a tool that was *like* it. I even d

Re: Copress a directory

2006-03-24 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Friday, 24 March 2006 05:07, Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey, > > Can anyone tell me how to compress a directory so that I could SCP it to > remote server more quikly? I tried gzip -cf directoryName it does not work, > And then I tried tar -vf DirectoryNme no rerult as well. I may blind but I > could not

Re: How to restrict user access to internet ?

2006-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:00, Mark Niven wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a single box running sid with effectively always on broadband > internet access through ethernet and adsl modem, using pppoe. I need a > simple way (not for example squid which would use a lot of resources > unnecessarily) t

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:40, John Fleming wrote: > >> > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not > >> > just > >> > partition. > > Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone > else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it's th

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-18 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Saturday, 18 March 2006 23:36, Wulfy wrote: > My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I > have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. > So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. > > I plugged it into one of my USB ports an

Re: Hard disk failure?

2006-03-10 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Friday, 10 March 2006 11:52, Jim MacBaine wrote: > Hello, > > one of my hard drives seems to be dying. To me as a layman this looks > as if the disk should be returned to the shop where I bought it. Is > this right? > > ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 > ata1

Re: Dual boot comoputer

2006-03-03 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Saturday, 4 March 2006 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting cody chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi to all, > >> I had a dual boot computer, Debian and Windows XP. The motherboard in > >> the computer failed, the motherbo

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-05 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Monday, 6 February 2006 04:58, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 08:50 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: > > On Monday, 6 February 2006 04:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:08:15 -0600 > > > > > > Anthony Simonelli <[EMAIL

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-05 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Monday, 6 February 2006 04:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:08:15 -0600 > > Anthony Simonelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running KDE and use Konsole but everytime I invoke vi from Konsole, I > > get the following: > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > X

Re: empty root history file

2006-02-02 Thread Duncan Anderson
BTP wrote: Hello, I have logged in today to discover my root history file to be nicely empty. However my main user 'bart' .bash_history file still contains all the previous commands.. I know I didn't delete this myself, is there any debian management process that archives the history conte

Re: squirrelmail problems

2006-01-20 Thread Duncan Anderson
Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, it seems that the problems were caused by apache (just wondering why, the php should be communicating with the ssl imap directly shouldn't it?) keeping all configs, ... and downgrading the apache did the trick. the workinh version of apache is 2.0.54-5. the version 2.

Re: squirrelmail problems

2006-01-20 Thread Duncan Anderson
Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, It seems to be complaining about your network card. Was the NIC changed during this "upgrade"? In other words, is the same ethernet card being used? this was just software update. the machine is debian testing, i386. iirc, there is only one ethernet card in it, and t

Re: squirrelmail problems

2006-01-20 Thread Duncan Anderson
Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, after yesterday's upgrade our mailserver running squirrelmail doesn't allow any user to log in. other methods of access work fine (pop, imap, ssh login + mutt). the configtest script reports the following. does anyone know what's going on? thanks for any help.

Re: Lynx

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan Anderson
Thomas Dickey wrote: Paddy Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally located Lynx. However I am havin diffiulty finding information. I keep getting a lot of technical and other instructions. However despite what I do there is no adequate response. The current version of lynx is 2.8

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Duncan Anderson
Hodgins Family wrote: Hey! Just take them to a recycling center and buy something from this decade used for under 200. Hold on a sec. Why go through all the bother? 1) 200 bucks all at once may not be a feasible outlay. 2) some of the older software may run just fine on the older mach

Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-12 Thread Duncan Anderson
John Hasler wrote: Alvin Oga writes: - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" which to me is wrong to do.. We Debian developers don't see anything wrong with it. Besides, Ubuntu is available free. They will even send you free CDs, postage-paid. It's also only one

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

2005-08-24 Thread Duncan Anderson
Tim Ruehsen wrote: Jiann-Ming Su posted a link, which talks about two possibilities to defragment your discs: either use defrag (but make a backup before!) or just make a backup, clean your partitions and restore the backup. I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10