Re: Debian TVIO like PVR

2001-11-23 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: > > According to Tom's Hardware, realtime MPEG4 encoding requires > > about a 600mhz > > P3. > > Does this assume the encoding is all done in software? I would guess a > hardware assisted MPEG encoder would require much less. But I hav

Re: Opinions on Laptops to Install With Debian

2001-11-18 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
> > Mark Seven Smith, 2001-Nov-16 15:52 -0800: > > > > > > What sort of a laptop should I look for, in terms of what is really > > > compatible with Linux, and especially DEBIAN? > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > I have installed it on my Compaq Armada m700. Never had any problems with it with Deb

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:30:15AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > What program would i use to remove old messages automatically once a month > or something? > > Although, I suspect some ls -l magic with a sort piped into rm would work > ;) > 'find' is your friend; 'find . -type f -mtime +31 -pr

Re: xscreensaver

2001-11-16 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:21:29PM -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: > You know, the guys are right about DRI. GL needs it to run full screen. > What was not mentioned is the fact that xscreensaver will not run as a root > and DRI has root only permissions by default. Put following in your XF86C

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
Ok, someone will probably tell you it's a bad idea, but remounting the drives with 'noatime' in the options will cause the drives to spin up less. The only drawback I've noticed so far is that mutt can't figure out when a mailbox has been updated, but for my laptop that's not really a problem as I

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-04 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > GTX (?) disks are widely reported to have quality issues, as previously > noted. > IBM 75GXP is the model. I know, since I'm running one on my workstation as of now and are just waiting for it to give up. :( Something about using

Re: gunzip stops working

2001-10-21 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:48:41PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I was driving myself nuts trying to figure > out what was going on! > 'file' is a great command. For this and much more. :)

Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Quoting dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC > > receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is | > > installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts

Re: hej bara en fragar

2001-08-18 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
Depends on what you want to do. To change the layout of the keyboard use 'xmodmap'. I have one keyboard map for US (when programming) and one for Swedish (when being social). I also have 'vim' setup with digraphs so I can type whatever char I need without changing keyboard map. You have to look i

Re: Snort

2001-08-15 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:30:55AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On 15 Aug 2001 15:15:00 +1000, Craig W wrote: > > > putatively stable package. Maybe the maintainer of the package > has some more insight. Robert van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is > listed. Give him an email. Don't cou

Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:46:42AM -0700, patrick q wrote: > > Would it not be better to compress the files individually first and > then tar them into an archive instead of the normal tar.gz operation, > to have the best chance of recovering as many files as possible? The best would be not to

Re: sqrt C function(clarification)

2001-08-11 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:44:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry not to have provided more information in my first e-mail although > i'm very glad so many people responded to help, but i've done some more > testing: > > specifically i'm getting 'prase error in tmp/x' where x is a l

Re: dselect and hda:irq timeout

2001-08-10 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:17:09AM -0400, Michael Mueller wrote: > > I double checked - there is no way to set CPU clk speed on Biostar M7VKB rev > 1 board. It must be set by a Duron-Mainboard interaction. > > I'll try some kernel compiling and different cables to see if the problem > pops up wi

Re: exim not sending mail

2001-08-09 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
With most DSL connections you don't need a smarthost (that is, a server that will accept your mail and forward it to the correct server) and let you send your mail directly to the correct server. Try to run eximconfig and set your server to alternative 1 (if my memory serves me correctly), that is,

Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.

2001-08-09 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:01:36PM +0300, David Randelman wrote: > I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq > M700, there seems to be 2 problems: 1) It won't install a boot > manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried > to partition a 10MB drive in