Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-18 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 17, 2004 10:29 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or > Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. > I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software > is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.

Re: Debian has turned unusable.

2004-04-12 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 12, 2004 10:54 am, Trollcollect wrote: > Hello list, > > after 3 days of twiddling with a "recent" copy of > debians woody release i need to vent a bit of the > anger and frustration that this distribution has > caused. > > I want to start with saying that i was a strong > advocate of debi

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 05:09 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:21:07 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > >40 GB IBM 60GXP Hard Drive > >40 GB Western Digital 400JB 8MB Cache Hard drive > > Aha! Both on the same IDE cable? > > If they are, try switching it to

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 05:03 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I > >find out? > > What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any def

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 08:35 am, Justin Guerin wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has seen anything like this. Here's a copy of > top: > > > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I > can't seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that something > is, though, be

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 09:44 am, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:36, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > But what's accounting for the 32.1%? I have about 30% usage all the > > time too and the top couple entries add up to less than 5 percent > > followed by a bunch of pro

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 08:45 am, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Justin > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:35, Justin Guerin wrote: > > > > Cpu(s): 32.1% us, 67.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, > > 0.0% si > > > > > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. > > > > The 67.9% S

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-06 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 6, 2004 12:56 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from David Baron: > > On Tuesday 06 April 2004 00:04, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > > > First I want to confess that I work all the time as root since my > > > beginning of using Linux (I forgot when this was). > > > > So do I. This i

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-06 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 5, 2004 10:34 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > "Jaap Haitsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when > >>> > I > >>> > >>> try > >>> > >>> > to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login > >>> > manager. > >>> > >>> I

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-06 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 5, 2004 05:45 am, John Hasler wrote: > Leo Spalteholz writes: > > So there was no (easy) way to execute a graphical application as > > root... > > There is no good reason to do so and good reason not to do so. Uh.. What are you talking about? Lots of graphical ap

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 4, 2004 05:47 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I > > try to startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login > > manager. I don't have any problem using a normal user. > > > > Anybo

Re: Sarge is trying to remove Netscape

2004-03-29 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 29, 2004 11:40 am, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:30:22AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > While the Mozilla family has many nice new features, > > > it simply falls over and dies when attempting to print > > > pages on many major

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 25, 2004 11:04 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-26, Leo Spalteholz penned: > > On March 25, 2004 04:12 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: > >> > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > >> >> http://w

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 25, 2004 11:02 pm, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My university has programs to encourage women to enroll in > > engineering and women tend to be favoured for jobs here but still > > the percentage of female engineer

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 25, 2004 04:12 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: > > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ > > > > That one elicited about the loudest flamefest I've ever seen, in > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you can find t

Re: SVG display in Debian

2004-03-25 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 25, 2004 05:55 am, Peter Samek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:22:53PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just read an interesting article about Scalable Vector Graphics > > (SVG) support in Linux and started visiting a few websites with SVG >

Re: SVG display in Debian

2004-03-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 24, 2004 09:22 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Hi everyone, > I just read an interesting article about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) > support in Linux and started visiting a few websites with SVG content to > try it out. I'm running KDE 3.2.1 from unstable which should h

SVG display in Debian

2004-03-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi everyone, I just read an interesting article about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support in Linux and started visiting a few websites with SVG content to try it out. I'm running KDE 3.2.1 from unstable which should have SVG support through ksvg (which I have installed) but Konqueror just di

Re: d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters

2003-08-14 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On August 7, 2003 09:39 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:53AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > No. They are, being spammers at heart, and therefore mortally > > opposed to CR programs, just trying to distract people. > > OK, if

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 22, 2003 06:13 pm, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:52 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > > > Leo, > > > > > >

Re: Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 22, 2003 12:33 pm, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:37, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > Leo, > > > > * Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-22 07:42 AKDT]: > > > Anyone have experience wrt the reliability of this test kernel? &

Kernel image 2.6.0 test

2003-07-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was just wondering if it is considered fairly safe to install the new kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-1-386 package in unstable.. I'd really like to help test the new kernel but I don't really have the time to rebuild my system if it screws up. If I install the 2.6.0 test kernel can it be adde

freenet-unstable package

2003-07-17 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I think I just ran into a bug in the freenet-unstable package in sid. When you install it it automatically guesses a port to run on (ten thousand something) but then pops up an error saying that the port must be between 1 and 65000... Theres no way to quit out of that error, it just keeps

OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Leo Spalteholz
lable I will have to go with a Windows solution for now as that is a requirement for the project. Thank you, Leo Spalteholz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-08 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 7, 2003 08:34 pm, Daniel B. wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > >... > > - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB > > buffer disks > > Unless someone can confirm that, I believe that statement is bogus. yup, thats complete bullshit. I have a drive with a 2MB Cache IBM Deaths

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-25 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 25, 2003 11:16 am, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Quoting Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On June 22, 2003 04:00 pm, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > vrms (99.5%) keeps me warm at night. :-( > > > > Root mean square voltage? > > damn I've b

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 04:00 pm, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. > > vrms (99.5%) keeps me war

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 01:23 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United Stat

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 09:46 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > support for the first time. > > You can download it here: > ftp://ftp.sten

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army > > announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux > > support for the first time. > > > > You can download it here: > > ftp://ft

Re: fluxbox

2003-06-12 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 12, 2003 01:51 pm, SwordSaint0 wrote: > Initial install of fluxbox went smoothly. apt-get install fluxbox > got me an older version which had some bugs. So I did a dpkg -r and > removed it. (please bear with me Im new to linux this is my second > day at it and yes I have read every pertinen

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 11, 2003 08:43 am, Corey Donohoe wrote: > feh, http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ > > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from > > australia. I would like to view them full screen scaled to the > > screen size and idealy flick throu

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 2, 2003 03:33 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:06:58PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > when did you upgrade? I tried it on saturday with the deb from > > ftp.debian.org. 3.1.1-1 AFAIK... > > That's the version installed

Re: Starting a program in a specific virtual terminal

2003-03-31 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 31, 2003 09:12 pm, sean finney wrote: > hi leo, > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:25:57PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to run a certain program (darkstat) at boot but I want > > it to run in verbose mode and display the output in one of the >

Re: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-03-31 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 31, 2003 12:44 pm, Thomas Guettler wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:30:07 +0200, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > > I have the first 93 JPEG images from the new digital camera on my > > hard drive. The gimp will load an image and print it perfectly. > > I see it also has an option to create a

Starting a program in a specific virtual terminal

2003-03-31 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I wanted to run a certain program (darkstat) at boot but I want it to run in verbose mode and display the output in one of the other virtual terminals so I can ALT-Fx to it.. I've got it starting at boot but how can I specify the VT it starts in? Thanks, Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 30, 2003 11:03 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:45:55AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up > > > until now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i a

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 27, 2003 09:02 pm, Terry Milnes wrote: > Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I > have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to > add the other software that I want? > > NeoFax yes. However the stable repository will most likely have older pa

Re: X

2003-03-23 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 23, 2003 01:03 pm, Glenn English wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X > login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 22, 2003 09:35 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for > another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? No its a good joke. If you don't get it, go somewhere else and stop complaining. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 22, 2003 08:27 am, Sharninder wrote: > hi, > anybody here has any idea when will Sarge or Sid become stable. Sid will never become stable. Sarge will become stable when its ready. I'm guessing not for another year or so. > AFAIK when sarge becomes stable, only then will Sid become sar

Re: Windoze Explorer crashes when access debian samba share

2003-03-09 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 9, 2003 02:37 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.09.2311 +0100]: > > Something weirds from Windoze XP Pro, > > one in many... > > > I don't know why, but I can't access samba shares anymore. > > I can access the _normal_ Windoze shares,

Re: buy or build computer? - intel v amd

2003-03-09 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 9, 2003 02:50 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > cool -- speed is not the issue, as i've been happy with my 650 > > MHz PIII until the motherboard blew. just asking about how they > > stack up along the Intel-vs.-AMD line. > > depends on who's doing the t

Automatically log in

2003-03-09 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I'm setting up a debian box to use as an mp3 player for a car.. What I need it to do is automatically login when you power it up. I found some resources on how to accomplish that by patching mingetty but I was wondering if theres an easier way. Any suggestions? Thx, Leo -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-09 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 9, 2003 10:55 am, Peter Christensen wrote: > My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't > boot from the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into > bios-setup mode.) I don't think it's fixable, and anyway, it was > so slow that it's probably time to replace

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-09 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 9, 2003 01:25 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:36:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated: > > You might check out the following (in no particular order): > >http://pricewatch.com > > i second this one! (no experience with the others) > > > > A few people recommended

Re: Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-06 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 6, 2003 02:15 pm, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:33:55PM +, cirrus wrote: > > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 6:06 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html > > > and then view source in Konqueror

Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Sorry this is pretty OT but can anyone running KDE 3.1 check this out? Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html and then view source in Konqueror. For some reason it looks really wonky on my system. Every other page works just fine... theres a space between each character (or ki

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 09:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm) > > implements a menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot. > > Hmm, doesn't the version in Woody have that cabability? GDM has > be

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 07:51 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated: > > IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works to > > reboot the machine. > > so, say you're in charge of a server, and you or another sysadmin > has lost root, and y

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 07:35 pm, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 18.40 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:08, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 02.08 schrieb Carla Schroder: > > > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > [snip] > >

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 09:49 am, al davis wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 09:10 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > I would recommend the unstable sources.. As far as I can > > tell all of KDE is now in it. > > No. kmail and knode are still not there. I don't know what > else

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-03 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 3, 2003 06:33 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 20:19]: > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the > > > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for gettin

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-03 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 11:12 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 11:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas > > Petrely-fied > > ... > > > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 06:28 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 02:50, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > > > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > > > Except for one minor flaw: E

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 03:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas > Petrely-fied > > :) Seriously though, I've contemplated it for some time now. I use > > Enlightenment as my WM and I know I can continue to use it if I'd > like. I've given Sawfish, and n

Re: KMail : Index 0 out of range

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 05:22 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: > I'm using KMail (1.3.2) on a woody-box and it works perfectly. > Except for one minor flaw: Each time i jump to a new message, > either via , +, Cursor or Mouse, > I get a new entry in .xsession-errors, saying: > QMenuData::removeItem: Index 0 out

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 12:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> But > > > > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > > > > >>> (although i

Re: Dummy

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > >>> > > >>> But > > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > > >>> (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > > >> > > >> Thanks a lot, Kent. A

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 09:38 am, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Steve Wollkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 09:51 AM -0600): > > I have a similar problem with my computer here, with the added > > bonus that when it is sitting there saying "power down" the power > > switch

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 2, 2003 02:06 am, Brian Durant wrote: > I checked Knoppix' web site, which directed to a page with "cheat > codes". I gave the command "knoppix noapic" at the boot prompt. > When the system started, I used "netcartconfig" to get the system > to broadcast a DHCP something or other. Unlike t

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall [SOLVED]

2003-03-01 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 1, 2003 10:09 am, ScruLoose wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:01:43AM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > On February 28, 2003 11:09 pm, ScruLoose wrote: > > > Well, I went to apt-get.org and found a place to get Licq as a > > > .deb, and it works like a charm,

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall [SOLVED]

2003-03-01 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 28, 2003 11:09 pm, ScruLoose wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:34:12PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > Using Trillian under windo~1 ... flawless ICQ > > connectivity... not using any port-forwarding or any such. Under > > debian, I can't seem to get a client to work. > >

Re: Power off

2003-03-01 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 1, 2003 08:02 am, David Turetsky wrote: > >>> daniel huhardeaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> write on Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:17 AM > >I have 4 computers running kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 and all of > them, when >I ask to power down, *never* really dot it. They stay switch on >

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 27, 2003 08:00 am, Tom wrote: > Richard Hector: > > > > >> Is there anything I can edit to make Mozilla behave like it was > >> Internet Explorer? > > > > I have a couple of thoughts on this - first, it's nothing to do > > with Debian. > > Hm. You're absolutely right; my apologies. Sub

Re: MySQL is eating up my RAM

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 26, 2003 08:01 pm, louie miranda wrote: > > Check the PHP scripts that are accessing your server. If they > > are using the "mysql_pconnect" function (persistant connections) > > to connect to the database, tell them to use "mysql_connect" > > instead. Persistant connections can cause

Re: MySQL is eating up my RAM

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 26, 2003 01:04 pm, GBV wrote: > Debian People, > > I have an Debian 3.0 2.4.18-bf24 running MySQL 3.23.49 > > Usually my mysqld stops because too many connections errors, what > make me run mysqladmin-flushhosts to make it work. > > Another host in internet access this mysqld host via PHP.

Re: [OT] what are you running? (was Complaint)

2003-02-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 26, 2003 06:40 pm, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:07:16PM -0600, Ray wrote: > > > > (I'm sure there are more then a few Evolution and OE users on > > > > the list). > > > > > > what are people on the debian-user list using

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote: > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > >... > > > Are you using DMA? > > > > ... I didn't do anything outside of a > > normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. > > The Linux kernel and some

Re: pronto users ???

2003-02-13 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 13, 2003 07:13 pm, Russell wrote: > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Russell wrote: > >>Michael D. Schleif wrote: > >>>Any pronto mua users here? > >>> > >>>As you may or may not know, I am working on moving a 2GB, > >>> ~100 message, ~500 folder, ~400 messages per day mail > >>> archi

Re: mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
ah! I thought of that and made a partition but forgot to reboot after making it so that was the reason it wasn't working thanks, leo On January 26, 2003 08:33 pm, nate wrote: > Leo Spalteholz said: > > Hi, > > I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new d

mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive but I kept getting the following error pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 2 <-mkreiserfs, 2002-> reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 mkreiserfs: Guessing about desired format.. mkreiserfs: Kernel 2.4.19-k7 is ru

Re: What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-08 Thread Leo Spalteholz
offtopic On December 8, 2002 10:20 pm, hiranokazunari wrote: > Hi folks, > > Can anyone tell me what [OT] stands for, which I often see in the > message title box for this mailing list? > > Thanks. > > Nari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

unable to mount root filesystem

2002-12-03 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I recompiled my kernel (2.4.19 for k7) and am now getting an error about not being able to mount root filesystem and a kernel panic on boot. In my grub menu.lst I have title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.19-k7 root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-k7 root=/de

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 09:20 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > &g

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > >>>you can add > >>> > >>>deb http:

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > sean finney wrote: > > i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian > > distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or > > proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution > > illegal. i'm not sure

Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 02:56 pm, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:53:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > wouldnt it be slower though? Pentium 1 or 2? What about a Cyrix > > MII 366. > > > > Regards, Dean. > > Well, it sounds like a pretty old machine, so it may be limited to > a Penti

Re: Manually starting X

2002-11-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 7, 2002 13:04, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joe Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-07 10:10:48 -0800]: > > I have installed a basic X system (Woody stable). > > When the system boots, the gui login window comes up. > > Which gui? xdm, kdm, or gdm, or other? > > > When the window manager (twm) is

Re: Stuck with Netscape 4.7X: How to switch?

2002-11-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 6, 2002 19:08, Russell wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi: > > > > > > I am currently using Netscape 4.7X as one of my mailer. > > > > > > - May I know why Netscape packaging is discontinued? > > > > I didn't know it was, but there are a few

Re: xmms doesn't work well with alsa

2002-10-29 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 29, 2002 10:47 pm, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:27:02PM +0100, Bache Kharazmi wrote: > > I had problems using xmms myself with alsa. > > Oh, I'm not the only one. ;-) > > > Try alsamixer instead and get free from xmms bugs. > > alsamixer? You mean alsaplayer,

Re: Shoutcast - passwords

2002-10-28 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 28, 2002 07:08 pm, David Cureton wrote: > Oh I recall a problem like that with icecast. I think it was due > to there being a space or some other whitespace character at the > end of the password in the config file. Very frustrating!! Yeah thats not the problem I think.. there are no e

Re: Missing readme for icecast

2002-10-28 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 28, 2002 04:04 am, Andreas Eichner wrote: > Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 20:49 schrieb Leo Spalteholz: > > Plain > > text password consequently won't work. > > From /usr/share/doc/icecast-server/FAQ.gz: > > To produce these crypted passwords, use the

Re: Missing readme for icecast

2002-10-28 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 28, 2002 05:21 am, Jon-o Addleman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz spake thusly: > > On October 26, 2002 11:51 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > > It appears you need to use an input file containing your > > > > plaint

Re: Shoutcast

2002-10-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 26, 2002 09:42 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Bache Kharazmi wrote: > > hi > > > > Anyone who've experience in sending shoutcast radio ? > > I've been trying xmms-liveice but it sucks and make xmms crash. > > any suggestions ? > > Have you had a look at t

Re: Speed

2002-10-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 26, 2002 11:48 pm, C. Brewer wrote: > - From power on to KDE- > > Mandrake 8.1=1min 52secs > RedHat 7.1= 1min 35secs > Debian 3.0= 47secs > > (with setups as close as possible by distro) KDE 3. XP 1600+ Debian 3.0 = 43 sec Windows XP = 23 sec Then again they're not really comparable,

Re: Missing readme for icecast

2002-10-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 26, 2002 11:51 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > It appears you need to use an input file containing your > > plaintext password - create that with a text editor, or with > > 'echo password > filename'. > > > > Then type 'makepasswd --crypt

Re: Missing readme for icecast

2002-10-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 26, 2002 11:07 am, Jon-o Addleman wrote: > > Where can I get this file or other instructions on how to set up > > icecast in debian? > > Hmm. I just realized that I don't have the file either. but I do > have icecast working. Should I file a bug report? > It appears you need to use an

Missing readme for icecast

2002-10-25 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I wanted to set up an icecast server (icecast-server 1:1.3.11-4.3 in testing) and in the first configuration screen it says: "Icecast has been compiled with encrypted passwords support. Plain text password consequently won't work. Please read the README.Debian file to learn how to generate e

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 24, 2002 11:45 am, UnKnown wrote: > Yours its really one of the most intresting introspections that I > have read on any of the debian lists. Hehe, thanks. > To beging with most of the > people complayns on how hard is to work with debian compear with > redhat or suse. Most say that i

Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
I just thought of something while setting up port forwarding on my server First I searched google on how to do something like that and came across a howto. I figured thats great and tried to work through it but it was pretty technical and I didn't really have a clue what I was doing. Then

Re: Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-14 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:39:23 -0400 Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does debian-user > get trolled/web-botted a lot? No problem here. I've been subscribed for over a year and have only gotten about 5 items of spam total on th

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-14 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On 14 Oct 2002 02:51:27 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, his computer always wants a FQDN for all computers. So, > whereas I can do an 'ssh gandalf' to connect to my mailserver, he has to > use 'ssh gandalf.theloveshack.local'. I'm sure that there's some very > si

Setting up Bind9

2002-10-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I am trying to configure a dns server (bind9) on my server so that I can host my domain on it. I read and followed the dns-howto but I cant get it to work for some reason.. I noticed that there are some differences in how debian handles the configuration for bind and was wondering if the

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:36:35 -0700 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > [snip] > > > > Excuse me, but I think that preventing someone from inadvertently nuking > > their whole Debian installation might have something to do with Debian. > > >

Kernel 2.4 filesystem corruption

2002-09-29 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I was installing debian (pre woody cds) on a server of mine with some pretty old drives (SAMSUNG SHD-3212A (APOLLO-4) AD 407MB and QUANTUM LPS270A 250MB). It works fine with the 2.20 kernel but when I try to boot from cd with the bf24 flavor it just gives me some messages about hda, interr

Icecast setup

2002-09-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, I'm having some trouble with the basic icecast setup. I edited and copied the files in /etc/icecast/ to /etc like described in the files. I tried modifying hosts.allow to let me connect to the web interface but I always get a 403 permission denied error. icecast says something about no moun

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:11:20AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Leo Spalteholz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Leo, > > > > > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk o

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Leo, > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > > system up right now.. > > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ > > You can boot from boot-floppy, your debian-CD, ... Or the Knoppix cd!! T

Re: I don't understand USB Mouses in Debian

2002-09-23 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Richard Spillane wrote: > I tried using the dpkg-reconfigure xserver xfree86 command, and I thought it > would work, but even though I set my device to /dev/input/mouse it didn't > take. I also installed hotplug, and that didn't seem to work. I am really > lost, I would figure that if you had yo

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