Re: [Way off topic] babble babble bubble

2004-12-28 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Facts are facts. Outside of a few isolated incidents with the Irish where has the majority of terrorism come from in the past several decades? Hell, outside a few isolated Irish incidents where has *ALL* terrorism come from? Let me guess... from iraq? Oh, don't think so... why invade it th

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
In what way does "ubuntu.org" have a terrorist agenda? I mean dude, they use like a hippie name and they live in the country "africa". How can they not be terrorist-supporting weed smoking lefties? Or does pacifist equate to terrorist in your dictionary? Well, I seem to remember that Bus

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:02 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" semantica

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
I like the 'back-end' stability that Linux has, but question whether that stability will be negated by a more difficult user interface, or lack thereof. I don't think it's more difficult, but it is *different*. I would say that the main difference is that you need to take your time to read the

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-24 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Carl Fink wrote: Hi. I'm in the process of setting up a warm backup for a server I run. I was in the middle of hacking together scripts to keep them in sync, but then it came to me: what if Debian has a package that does that *for* me? I'm interested in this too. Ideally I'd like to have a too

Re: Dynamic Web Page creation from Bash??

2004-12-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
The idea is that everytime a particular URL is typed in the script executes and a webpage is created with the latest details, which is then sent to my browser. Is there any program/apache plugin that will do this automatically? Congrats, you've just re-invented the CGI script! Make sure your sc

Re: Knoppix & Swap

2004-12-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
I'm wondering why you asked here instead of a Knoppix mailing list? Just to torture your soul! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix & Swap

2004-12-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Have you run mkswap /dev/hda2? That did it! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix & Swap

2004-12-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Have you verified via `free -m` if the swap partition wasn't even mounted? I don't think it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 249188 60 0 32129 -/+ buffers/cache:

Knoppix & Swap

2004-12-10 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Hi List, I have installed knoppix with knx2hd but it doesn't seem to be using swap. I was wondering: - What tool can I use to make sure the swap partition exists? - What do I need to do to "mount" the swap, or rather let linux know that it should use the swap partition? Cheers, Jean-Michel. --

Re: Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
What will be my best choises with software for password creating? TNX I use pwgen Perl's Crypt::Passgen module is pretty cool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian on USB HDD

2004-12-04 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Johnson, Chad wrote: Hi, I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on it. I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my drive is not listed, so I can't partition my drive. Actually I would be interested

Re: HTML debloater for reading on PDA

2004-11-30 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Dan Jacobson wrote: Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and white PDA? There is a perl script developed by the BBC to turn pages into something accessible - it's called 'betsie'. You could combine t

Re: Linux Gaming (Was: Full replacement of MS)

2004-11-29 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
If you have nVidia. ATI, you're left in the cold. I bought a Transgaming subscription when they announced support for City of Heroes. It's not 3 months later and I've not played one second of City of Heroes. In fact I've not even made it to the login screen. I've complained about it sever

Eicon Diva ISDN trouble

2004-11-24 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Hi List, I am trying to get a PCI Eicon DIVA 2.0 S/T ISDN card working on a dknoppix-hd box running with a 2.6 kernel but I'm getting stuck and I don't know how to troubleshoot it. lspci -v gives: :00:0e.0 Network controller: Eicon Networks Corporation Diva 2.01 S/T PCI (rev 01) Subs