On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> There was also a TI something back then.
TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users...
begrudgingly)
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oof of the pudding is in the eating," which actually makes
sense.
The More You Know.
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ying to install one package to an already installed system? Do you want
this to happen automatically? If that's the case, you may want to look into
puppet, chef, bcfg2, or cfengine. (I recommend puppet myself).
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ybe you should petition to have the list
name changed to debian-user-english, to avoid confusion.
Could someone who speaks Spanish please apologize to the OP and direct them to
debian-user-spanish.
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tfix' and unselect 'exim4' at that
point? Or is that after the base system install?
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on't have
those kiosks in operation anymore and their code is lost to the winds, but I
can try to give tips if you want to try to build one this way.
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s with:
$ strings $yourFile | grep -oce '$yourString'
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is point, is it still running (btw, pgrep
is helpful for this type of command)? Have you check the vncserver logs (I
can't recall off the top of my head where they are... maybe ~/.vnc)? I assume
you have network interfaces up and running.
Otherwise... you got me stumped. That's a goo
estricting to SFTP only, you can do it
natively in SSH since 4.9. Instructions here:
http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/sftp/builtin
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d-i partman/confirm boolean true
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I was going to suggest what you've already done, so I'm no help :-(
But if no one else gives you a good answer here in the next few days, you could
*try* debian-boot. I'm not on that list, so I don't know how they'd respond to
a query like this, but it could be wor
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:38:49AM -0700, Robert Patton wrote:
> - Original Message
> > From: Eric Gerlach
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:55:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: Mouse not sync'd with pointer
> >
> &
pointer. This makes navigating the desktop extremely difficult.
> Has anyone seen this problem
> before? What do I do to get the pointer to be placed where the mouse
> coordinates are?
What OS is on the host? The guest?
Do you have VMWare tools installed on the guest?
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> read the documentation and ask again
To be a bit more specific, you can look at the Debian Developer's Reference,
specifically chapters 5 and 6. They give a lot of info on the packaging
process.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/index.en.html
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> >
> >
>
> Fortunately, after a little digging, I found out aptitude symlinked
> /bin/sh -> dash before actually installing it. Now everything's cool again
> :D
>
> -JK
That *could* be a bug. It may be worth looking to see if anyone else has seen
it, and fil
to make, especially if all your drives are the same make/model.
>
>
> Do you mean in the boot sequence? All three disks are in the boot sequence.
Make sure that you don't have any USB drives plugged in that could hijack the
boot sequence. I've been caught off-guard by that one b
postfix-ldap works
too though, as already mentioned.
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;t even care if their
competitors got it. :-)
> I say this being hit by a complete HW and data loss to a fire in '97.
> I prefer keeping my data off-site and off-net.
If off-net is a concern, then don't use Amazon. It's not a concern for me or
any of my clients.
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:02:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-28 09:18, Eric Gerlach wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Sure. Let's go with 1TB for $90. Now I have to make sure the client brings
> >the drive in, backs up, and takes it home every day. Try explain
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:21:21AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
> Paul E Condon writes:
>
> > On 2009-07-27_17:55:18, Eric Gerlach wrote:
> [...]
> >> Oh, and S3 storage is cheap. $0.15/GB/mo, plus $0.10/GB upload/download.
>
> [...]
>
> > Renting i
age is cheap. $0.15/GB/mo, plus $0.10/GB upload/download.
I'm backing up about 150MB per day one place for about US$3/month.
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the files themselves.
More info:
http://www.gitready.com/beginner/2009/02/17/how-git-stores-your-data.html
http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:19:04PM +0200, Andy Kannberg wrote:
> I've solved the problem.
>
> Leaving out the escapes chars and putting the whole recipe on one line did
> the job. Now it works like a charm.
You probably had spaces after the backslashes. That'll do it.
Che
you
checked the error console (VT 4) during install (or the installer log after
install) for errors?
Also, if you drop to a console on VT 2 or 3 during install, does
/dev/cciss/c0d0 exist?
That's all I can think of. Let me know if you figure it out.
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ng "aptitude install ntfs-3g"
as root (or with sudo). Then you can use the "ntfs-3g" mount type or command.
$ man ntfs-3g
will give you more info once the package is installed.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:53:50AM +0100, AG wrote:
> Eric Gerlach wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 05:09:33PM +0100, AG wrote:
>>
>> You'll probably get better luck filing a bug against the dopewars package
>> (use
>> reportbug). That is... assuming it
etchup
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You'll probably get better luck filing a bug against the dopewars package (use
reportbug). That is... assuming it has an active maintainer.
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:03:39AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> Then I'd use the editors features to format it. I can't remember how to
> do the line wrapping stuff in vim, but
gq{motion}
So, gqap to format the current paragraph.
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to eth1. If so, then it's probably a
problem with /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
But that's *only* if that's the MAC of the new card. If it's the MAC of your
old eth1, then udev is doing the right thing, and I have no idea.
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:42:36PM +0530, Foss User wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Eric Gerlach
> wrote:
> > vim can do it like so (for example):
> >
> > (in command mode)
> > !!ls
> > (edit to your heart's content)
> > :%!wc
> >
>
edit it, then pipe it back
into another command, may I suggest your favourite editor?
vim can do it like so (for example):
(in command mode)
!!ls
(edit to your heart's content)
:%!wc
I'm sure emacs can do it too, but I don't know emacs all that well.
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:24:51PM -0700, Rob Starling wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble using Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps like:
> >
> > http://www.realtor.ca/
>
Hey all,
I'm having some trouble using Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps like:
http://www.realtor.ca/
http://192.237.29.245/hastinfoweb/ (my local transit planning site)
The little flags on the maps don't show up.
Is anyone else having this problem? Or is it just me?
Cheers,
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enerally you just run one DHCP server that gives everyone the
> netboot information and there's little downside.
This is probably the best way.
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to be aware of is that if someone
has the ability to change you /usr/bin/sudo, then they can probably update the
debsum as well (unless debsums are signed... are they?)
If you're really paranoid about this, you should consider looking at tools like
tripwire or samhain. But they take considerabl
to be a pretty awesome iSCSI
device. Don't know if it fits your definition of "portable," though.
http://www.drobo.com/drobopro
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> pressing anything on the keyboard.
The kernel blanks the screen after N minutes, right? I wonder how it knows that
it's time to do so? Can that be hooked somehow?
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as looking myself on Firefox 3/Windows the other day. It worked fine.
Haven't tried it on Lenny at home, though.
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format. When someone uploads a video, you'll have to set up queued processing
to convert it to FLV in the right sizes, etc. Of course, if you're the only
one doing uploads, then that's not really an issue.
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ite (http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm).
It's saved my behind a few times.
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d it to this email. Just save the file, and then:
$ sudo mv /path/to/the/flightgear.desktop /usr/share/applications
(assuming you use sudo)
I'm not sure if you have to run any update-* commands after adding the file.
Hopefully someone else can help out with that one.
Sorry again for the
(1.0.1-1)
> libopenal0a (1:0.0.8-4)
> plib1.8.4c2 (1.8.4-6)
> simgear0 (0.3.10-2)
> "
>
> So, the package and its dependencies show as having been installed, but
> no .desktop file was apparently created.
Perhaps try reinstalling the flightgear package? It really should contain t
.
debconf-get-selections from debconf-utils
Add '--installer' to get the settings for the installer, omit to get the
settings for all other (installed?) packages.
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ou get a list of potential matches.
The only trick is setting the threshold... and I have no idea how to help you
there.
And if you're looking for fragments of files, that's a whole different
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on this graph:
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
Obviously, the green and blue lines are at roughly the same place right now,
because squeeze is just a copy of lenny. But give it a few weeks and the green
line will go rocketing up. It used to be that I'd upgrade once the RC n
ll try sftp first, but there is a separate sftp program. Windows
users can use FileZilla, OSX users can use Fugu (IIRC).
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of time reading up, because it's
not trivial. Also you'll have to put a copy of every command you want your
users to be able to run in the jail.
Overall, if you can convince your users to live with SFTP only, do that. It's
what we've done in one case, and nobody really c
sted that it does what you want. But it may
be worth a shot. I've never tried putting a command that wasn't designed for
inetd in its config before. If you try it I'm curious how it ends up working
for you.
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ld be a standard whereby dates and times (even when
> embedded in text) would transmitted and stored in UTC but displayed
> according to the locale of the user.
Anyone else remember Internet Time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
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it.
>
> Is df considered safe to be setuid?
>
> Any other suggestions?
Use sudo?
Setup your /etc/sudoers so the nagios user can run df without a password, then
configure Nagios to use "sudo df" instead of just "df" (I'm just learning
Nagios myself, so I do
.@email.com -subject
> hello - text some text' . I have looked at mailx but cant seem to find what
> I am looking for. Anything like this around? Thanks
Newer versions of mutt will do this. Not sure if by "mail client" you mean an
MTA, an MUA or both, though. The other sugg
where it is storing the leases.
If your DHCP server is running on your router, you'll have to look at the
router.
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so I have that advantage.
For my servers, I wait until the next release enters freeze, wait a month or
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that mutt in lenny has built-in ESMTP capabilities. Just set:
set smtp=smtps://myacco...@pop.myprovider.fr
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x27;t know where parallelization fits into this, but I think it's up to
cryptsetup to make sure it plays well in that scenario (or warns the
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Eric De Mund wrote:
This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen
session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work.
If my work->home connection dies, I simply reconnect to home via ssh,
then resume my screen session. W
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it.
INSERT has it: http://www.inside-security.de/INSERT_en.html
... looking at the project page, though, they haven't done a release in
a while. Last one was in 2007. Which is too bad.
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discussion): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383282
I'd love to see something happen, but, honestly, I've found it hard
enough to just explain my point of view here and had a big enough
hurdle getting some people to see what the issue was that it stil
open the old bug, move it to grub, attach the
patch and hope for the best, but there's already another bug that's very
similar and might welcome such a patch (and a link to this discussion):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383282
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ho the
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Tim Edwards wrote:
I'm currently working on hands-off installations, with both Redhat,
Debian and Ubuntu. Redhat's kickstart is well documented, with a
complete list of each possible option, any parameters and the possible
values (or where to find a list of them - eg. keyboard mappings):
http
re I can choose packages
from other licenses if I please.
Brain-dumping here: maybe Debian needs a "might-be-free" archive? Or
maybe just "gnu-free" for GNU licenses that aren't DFSG-free? That
might also help with some of the non-free doc packages (if there are any
ar
, and I really don't like
it.
What do you, gurus out there, think about that? Any suggestion? Does anyone know
about some kind of home caching solution or something?
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yspell
Thanks in advance.
If I recall correctly, for the longest time one just didn't exist for
OOo. OpenOffice.org offers the following page (disclosure: I haven't
tried it):
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
I'd be interested in knowing how you make o
uot; and try it again.
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