Re: tsclient

2012-08-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:39 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: > On 08/13/2012 04:19 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 08:23 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: > >> On 08/13/2012 04:19 AM, lina wrote: > >> >> > >>>> "tsclient has been

Re: tsclient

2012-08-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 08:23 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: > On 08/13/2012 04:19 AM, lina wrote: > >> > >> "tsclient has been unmaintained upstream for a long time. > >> We have kept it because we lacked a client for RDP, but > >> now that grdc is in the archive, which is maintained and > >> much bett

Re: ot: file sharing other than yousendit, or sendspace?

2012-08-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 10:16 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-08-12, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am sort of in a hurry, need to send two small files. While the y > > might normally go via email, google will not let them through because they > > are program files. > > Upload the files t

Re: any stable open source ldap software for SSO

2012-06-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:06:39 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2012/6/22 Camaleón : > >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:30:57 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> > >> > > > >> If you

Re: any stable open source ldap software for SSO

2012-06-20 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 13:45 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:42:50 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > this is for a organization with 2000+ windows 7 & windows xp desktops > > and multiple file sharing softwares > > > > any idea aside openldap? > I admit that I have never exten

Re: any stable open source ldap software for SSO

2012-06-19 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:42 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > this is for a organization with 2000+ windows 7 & windows xp desktops > and multiple file sharing softwares > > any idea aside openldap? > > have anyone configured openldap for the above situation? > > any gotchas when working with win

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

2012-06-08 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 09:40 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 12:58:16AM +0400, Darren Baginski wrote: > > Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init > > scripts > > for auto start , /etc/ files like the same for linux-vserver ? > > This was recently d

Dynamic Traffic Shaping

2012-05-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. This thread is response to this exchange with Alberto about the new and fabulous Debian Adminstrator's handbook: > I went to the > > http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.quality-of-service.html > > page simply because it was an area where I had done a lot of work lately > >

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

2012-05-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 15:59 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > On 10/05/12 15:47, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:21 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and download: > >> >

Re: Debian Administrator's Handbook

2012-05-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:21 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > The Debian Administrator's Handbook is available for sale and download: > > http://debian-handbook.info/ > > Regards, > /Lars > > What a great contribution. Thank you. I went to the http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.qua

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > > > It's a

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > > engines not in ASIC's which means that t

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 22:38 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, John A. Sullivan III > wrote: > >> > > Yes but doesn't xrdp rely upon VNC and thus have the same performance > > issues as VNC? I would be delighted to be wro

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 21:57 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Alberto Fuentes > wrote: > > Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i "aptsearched" > > (new verb guys! if i can google something i can certanly aptsearch as well > > :) freenx doe

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:45 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:01:30AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > I would strongly suggest looking at X2Go - also NX based. It is a > > relatively young progress but has been making significant progress over &g

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 11:49 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i > "aptsearched" (new verb guys! if i can google something i can certanly > aptsearch as well :) freenx does not give any result back on > repositories. Searching freenx and

Re: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > Quick question (I think...): > > Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will > allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop? I would recommend X2Go - www.x2go.org. It is based upon NX and is far faster

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-18 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 13:38 -0500, Joey L wrote: > thanks for the reply - > > 1. my issue is that i am not getting to the grub menu on the good > disk, it always goes to the bad one. > I think it puts me in a intrdfsram prompt or something similar - even > if i change the bios settings. > - so edi

Re: I want to build an NAS,

2012-01-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
- Original Message - From: "abdelkader belahcene" To: "debian-user" Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:18:36 AM Subject: I want to build an NAS, HI, I want to build an NAS, I know there is a specialist distro ( freeNAS) unfortunately it is based on bsd, I find it somewhat diffic

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > > > It is? > > > > > > Acroread both linux and win thing failed to s

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:44 +0100, Siard wrote: > hvw59601: > > Siard wrote: > > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters > >

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > Siard wrote: > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > > very limited options

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 18:50 +0100, Siard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote: > Greetings, > > > Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. > Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read > it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. > Open it on a poxy winblos machin

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:04 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On 01/05/12 16:30, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hmm . . . could you install with a manual IP address and then simply > > change the configuration once the installation is done? - John > > Of course. And that's e

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:55 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the > >> net

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network > can still limp along. > > Anyway, that's the theory. > > Rick > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >> I'm not the OP, but I do have this problem.

Re: Lenny (Debian 5.0) approaching end of life

2012-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:34 +, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2012 15:26:01 Tony Baldwin wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 10:54:29AM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > > > There was discussion here a few months ago about there being no official > > > date for end of life on Lenny. This h

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 17:31 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello: > > > On 17/11/11 17:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT > > wrote: > >> Hello List: > >> > >> Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer > >> for PDF file

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 21:02 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Running updated wheezy > > > > Does any other firefox user see this phenomena: > > > > Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see > > really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it

Re: kvm and bonding

2011-10-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
- Original Message - From: "Stan Hoeppner" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 7:23:49 AM Subject: Re: kvm and bonding On 10/23/2011 3:05 PM, Jesus arteche wrote: > hey guys, > > do you know if it is possible to increase the bandwidth in a virtual machine >

Re: [OT] FLOSS implementation of ActiveSync server?

2011-10-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 22:53 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Recent versions of MS Exchange Server implement a protocol (targeted at > mobile devices) named ActiveSync. I know that Google supports ActiveSync > for its various services, but those are the only two implementations of the > protocol AFA

Re: Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-19 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 12:16 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi Debianologists, > > Many word processors can fill to the right margin > with a repeated character (often dot or underscore). > > I think the technical term is 'leadering'. > > Does anyone know how to do it in OOW? > > Thanks > > -- > Jo

Re: Xfce not locking screen on suspend

2011-09-08 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 17:06 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Xfce4.8 from wheezy. I have ticked the "Lock screen when > going for suspend/hibernate" checkbox in the "Extended" section of the > Power Manager settings, but the screen is never locked when I bring my > computer back fr

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? Does "uptime" do what you want or do you mean booted for the truly very first time (not counting reboots)? - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

[OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. This is off-topic because I'm not asking how to create a Debian boot stick. There seem to be good how-to documents for that. However, we are thinking of creating a large number of Debian boot sticks and neither I nor may staff have any experience using them and we have a limited numbe

Re: KDE4.4 desktop customization for multiple users.

2011-08-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 09:54 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/08/11 01:50, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 02:48 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >>> I think that's the hard way. Using KIOSK is probably easier and more > >>>

Re: KDE4.4 desktop customization for multiple users.

2011-08-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 02:48 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I think that's the hard way. Using KIOSK is probably easier and more > > consistent (e.g., KDE does not normally read all the bash profile/rc > > scripts). Alas, I'm flat out today through Monday so I don't think I'll > > have time to

Re: KDE4.4 desktop customization for multiple users.

2011-07-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 14:14 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > > Thank You for Your time and answer, Hans: > > >Create a default user and configure it to your needs. Then copy > > >everything of your settings to /etc/skel. When a new user is created, > >

Re: pin priority in apt_preferences

2011-07-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 21:06 +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > > Despite the priority, I put in my /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: origin "" > Pin-Priority: 999 > > Package: * > Pin: origin "localhost" > Pin-Priority: 995 > > Package: * > Pin: origin "ftp.fr.debian.org" > Pi

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-25 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:45 +0200, lee wrote: > "John A. Sullivan III" writes: > > > If it is of any help, we are just about finished with an enhancement to > > the mailscanner and zendto projects where mailscanner can be optionally > > configured to detect ema

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 15:28 +0200, lee wrote: > Andrew McGlashan writes: > What is more efficient when people have to spend the extra time to > figure out how to up- and download and how to solve security issues > involved with transferring the files via http or ftp? Are you going to > explain

Re: Trinity site offline?

2011-07-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 20:00 -0600, Brad Alexander wrote: > I upgraded my daughter's desktop to squeeze, and the last step is to > install Trinity. Unfortunately, the trinitydesktop.org site is not > found in iceweasel, and when I tried to download the key for the > repository, I get: > > # apt-key

Re: KDE4.4 desktop customization for multiple users.

2011-07-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 15:27 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > How I can customize the KDE4 desktop so that it can be then transferred > to other users. > > For example - I login under a user, make my preferences, save the > session, logout. Then, super user copies the (which?) f

Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files

2011-07-12 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 17:34 +0100, AG wrote: > Hi all > > Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf > files together to make one large one? > > I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or > possibly a command-line approach? > We made it a r

Re: Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2011-06-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:37 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:31:44 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > >

Re: Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2011-06-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:31:44 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > > &g

Re: Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2011-06-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:31:44 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > What happened and how do I fix it? This is a bit of a disaster. > >> >

Re: Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2011-06-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:05:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Hello, all. Today, I upgraded my wireshark as you can see from the > > below excerpt from the apt log. Since doing so, I cannot run any GTK > > b

Re: X on a virtual server

2011-06-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:01 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 26 iun 11, 03:11:51, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > > I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given > > machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X > > doesn't want to configure itself on a "virt

Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2011-06-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. Today, I upgraded my wireshark as you can see from the below excerpt from the apt log. Since doing so, I cannot run any GTK based applications. They all fail with: Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported Here is the log: Commandline: apt-get install wireshar

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-11 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 11:58 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. So far > > sillaj: too simple > > dotproject: seems like it might be buried in there, but way too complex, > undocumented, the demo is down, ... > > opentimetool: looks like it might do the trick - unf

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
- Original Message - From: "Miles Fidelman" To: "debian-user" Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:10:03 PM Subject: open source time/expense tracking package? Hi Folks, I've been looking high and low for a simple time & expense tracking package that I can run on my (Debian) server, to suppo

Re: Trinity and Pearson computing

2011-06-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:58 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Does anyone know what has happened to the Perason website? And whether the > repositories at least are findable somewhere else? > > I can't ask on the mailing list, because that appears to have disappeared > along with everything else. > > Lis

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:03 -0400, Dan wrote: > > I think that sshfs is a file system oriented to the user, and NFS can > be used for many users. NFS should be more robust if there are many > users connected. > > Moreover, with sshfs each user will have to mount his folder and enter > his passwo

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:51 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Simon Brandmair wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 3/6/2011 19:50 Axel Freyn wrote: > >> [...] > >>> For NFSv4 this has changed. You can use NFSv4 in different mo

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 15:27 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, John A. Sullivan III > File ownership is a constant confusion between the two basic systems. > *DO NOT* try to manage the same file server and accessing its material > with the two differe

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 23:08 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > > samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the > > shares of the file server in the

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
- Original Message - From: "Jari Fredriksson" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 11:58:15 AM Subject: Re: Samba or NFS 3.6.2011 18:08, Dan kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > samba and one application server (

Re: Disable a service

2011-04-11 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 17:33 -0400, Tom H wrote: > You're welcome. I should perhaps add that there's probably a > possibility of Debian moving to systemd rather than upstart and > therefore adopting (and possibly adapting) Red Hat's service and > chkconfig. > > I'd be very happy to see that if an

Re: Disable a service

2011-04-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 12:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:29:51PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 11:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 11:04:52AM -0400, Dan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > &

Re: Disable a service

2011-04-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 11:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 11:04:52AM -0400, Dan wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know which is the standard way to disable services. I > > thought that the standard way is just to delete the link of the > > service from rc*.d > > > > For exampl

Re: bonding

2011-04-07 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 16:26 +0200, Fabio DellaCorte wrote: > Hello everybody , > i'm tryng to use two network device for improving performance as > describe > in http://wiki.debian.org/Bonding and > http://www.debianadmin.com/linux-ethernet-bonding-configuration.html . > I have two problem : > >

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 18:35 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > After updating my hosts in my house to the new stable, Debian Squeeze, > I'm thinking of upgrading my desktop to Squeeze. > > With my hosts with Lenny in general, except for some things, everything > was working after upgradin

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 20:56 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 13:53, John A. Sullivan III > wrote: > > > > If I recall correctly, the question was about Windows solutions. Many > > of those suggested are Linux only. I don't know about Ekiga bu

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:02:50 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most important > > contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed Ekiga and > > signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP address

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-12 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 17:25 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:02:50AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most > > important contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed > > Ekiga and signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP add

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:25 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: > >>> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> > >>&

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > >> > >> This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > >> deb

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-03-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:19 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 02/11/2011 11:19 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > I should mention that the DirSyncPro dev has started responding with his > > usual quick attention. I've sent a pile of logs and test results and > > h

Re: IPTABLES rule for separating users

2011-03-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 00:58 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > I have an OpenWrt 10.03 router [ IP: 192.168.1.1 ], and it has a DHCP > server pool: 192.168.1.0/24 - clients are using it through > wireless/wired connection. Ok! > > > Here's the catch: I need to separate the users from each other. > >

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 23:06 -0500, Ryan Collins wrote: > Someone for the love of GOD, help me. > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have > to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless > entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:53 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 mar 11, 05:15:36, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > There are examples besides OpenOffice. For example, we are eagerly > > awaiting Iceweasel/Firefox 3.6 because the HTML5 support will finally > >

Re: NTP-Server no longer available in Squeeze?

2011-03-02 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 19:55 -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Jimmy Johnson writes: > >> Instead of the 'ntp' server what you probably want is 'ntpdate' > >> installed... > > > > Ntpdate is deprecated. > > > >> ...it's the client... > > > > It is a client, and a very limite

Re: Command line: How do you keep the output from scrolling out of sight?

2011-03-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:59 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I'm using Debian in a command-line-only installation for running a > firewall/server. > > I know that I'm supposed to use the messages I see every time I enter a > command for troubleshooting purposes. But if the output is too long, then >

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:57 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2011/3/1 John A. Sullivan III : > > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:34 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> 2011/3/1 John A. Sullivan III : > >> > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:23 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:34 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2011/3/1 John A. Sullivan III : > > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:23 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > > >> UBuntu lts is now very attractive to desktops, because of long support > >> and it is also possi

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-01 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:23 +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > UBuntu lts is now very attractive to desktops, because of long support > and it is also possible to buy support from canonical. That's what we first thought but it may not be what you expect. We assumed that LTS meant that applications w

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 22:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:47, Jason Hsu wrote: > > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > > desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > >

Re: SSH pauses

2011-02-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 20:44 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I notice that when I am logged into my desktop remotely via SSH that I > get frequent pauses sometimes lasting for up to a half a minute or so. > Generally it's not too problematic although it is annoying when typing > an email (I log into m

Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

2011-02-18 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 10:15 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > > > Use of compression had a discernible effect. To be honest I really > didn't expect it to help. This is a pretty fast network. It's still > slower than tsclient, but it's acceptable now. Without compression the > screen drawing d

Re: why can't I access trinity repo

2011-02-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:30 +0100, deloptes wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:02 +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> I recently updated my firewall rules and since then I can't update from > >> trinity repo. Is it a coincidence or

Re: why can't I access trinity repo

2011-02-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:02 +0100, deloptes wrote: > I recently updated my firewall rules and since then I can't update from > trinity repo. Is it a coincidence or something is wrong with my firewall > rules?! There was a problem with that repository today. The mirrors were working fine but the m

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 11:38 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:18:47 Sam Leon wrote: > > I honestly don't know how in the world my sound even works. I don't have > > pulseaudio or jack or any other daemons installed: > > ALSA is sufficient in many desktop situa

Re: Fwd: Re: Buffers VS Page Cache

2011-02-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 15:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4d58173b.7050...@gmail.com>, George Shuklin wrote: > >What data stored in Buffers area, and what data a stored in Cached area? > >And what difference between them? > > > >If you know at least one article in kernels sources/Docum

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-02-11 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 01:14 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 23:26 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 10:52 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:57 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > > >

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-02-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 23:26 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 10:52 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:57 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > > On 01/11/2011 06:31 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > On Tue, 201

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-02-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 10:52 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:57 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > On 01/11/2011 06:31 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:37 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > >> Hello, al

Re: squeeze and trinity

2011-01-31 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 18:04 +0100, deloptes wrote: > So far I've migrated to squeeze and trinity and I'm in production, means I > use this at work. > Everything works much better than in kde 3.5.9 (lenny). > > Few programs needed to be compiled manually as they were missing in trinity. > > Evolut

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 05:47 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or > ramfs? ], and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. > what to write in the "/etc/fstab"? > > I would like to collect the [ answers too:P ]: > > Advantages: > - M

Re: Occasional hangups with forcedeth

2011-01-17 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:56 +0100, Klaus Pieper wrote: > Hi gurus, > > using > > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1) > > I have occasional (i.e. occuring about every 6 weeks) hangups of this > device. > Ping to and from the machine does work, but loss is over

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-01-12 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:57 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 01/11/2011 06:31 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:37 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> Hello, all. We are looking for a Lenny/Squeeze package to synchronize > >> direc

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-01-11 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:37 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are looking for a Lenny/Squeeze package to synchronize > directories between our physical desktops and our X2Go (www.x2go.org) / > Trinity (KDE3 - trinity.pearsoncomputing.net) based virtual desktops via &g

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 16:59 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the > > > JPEGs into a DOC & SAVE-AS PDF.. > > > > Thank Paul Cartwright ! > > I'll try Writer later on. > > That is a good

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:57 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > John A. Sullivan III writes: > > Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE, > > dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until > > the reduction is complete? > >

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 03:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > So I gave up with Acrobat and used the ghostscript command gs > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen > -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf which > worked really well and made a small

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-30 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 15:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:34:18 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > (...) > > > the question is, do I want to try to go to all the trouble of converting > > my years of kmail mail, to MBOX format... > > Yes, that's another handicap :-) > > I love

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-19 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 19:55 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:26:30 +0100, AG wrote: > > (...) > > > Is there a trick to forwarding emails in KMail so that all that happens > > is that the OP's email content is preserved along with any attachments > > but that the OP's details can b

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:27 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:46:37 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On 10/14/2010 02:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:34:30 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >>> I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. >

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 19:11 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: > > > > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. > > Out of all the awesome things in KDE4 why would disa

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