Race Conditions between initramfs interface scripts and network file mounts in Debian Etch?

2008-08-21 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
:oP Has anyone else experienced this or am I looking at a potential bug here? Please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list anymore, Kind regards, Matt. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
ivative if I recall correctly and can have debian installed onto them), and are incredibly good looking! ;o) They can also be upgraded through hardware hacking and this is actively encouraged by Asus. Hope this is of some help, Matt. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The

Re: how to display on another machine

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
ant to display the output, type: ssh -C -X @ "command" if the above doesn't make sense to you, I suggest the man pages for ssh or googling "ssh XForwarding" Kind regards, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists"

Re: Is there any todo manager tools?

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
see above. It also has the added bonus of being completely cross-platform as it's just a text file! :o) Hope this helps, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in

Re: INQUIRY for DEBIAN LINUX

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
ry: aptitude install build-essential linux-source- which should give you gcc plus a load of other stuff to help you compile from Source. aptitude search libpam should give you the package names you need for the PAM development libs. Hope this helps, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Comp

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-22 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
) you will append the contents of /dev/null to the end of the file (in this case, your disk). All I can say is "I hope you took a backup..." Kind regards, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:07:10 +0100 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's an IDE you're after, check out Eclipse[0]. It rocks. 'Nuff > Said. :oP Sorry, missed the bit about needing a shell. :o( If you're using a command line, as raju sa

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
an IDE you're after, check out Eclipse[0]. It rocks. 'Nuff Said. :oP Matt [0] http://www.eclipse.org/ -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company numb

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:25:20 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you make something a bit more stable!? More testing?!! :oP > Just go with testing - it's perfect. Agreed, I just like Ubuntu! :o) M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
uot;, why not use Ubuntu? As I understand it, Ubuntu takes the Testing repos and makes them a bit more stable, then releases them. Regards, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Regi

Re: Sony VAIO support, anyone have experience?

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:07:11 +0100 From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sony VAIO support, anyone have experience? On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:32:49 +0100 Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
ed to define a virtual host for each and every website on your server including all sub-domains and then place the files in the appropriate directories. Once you have the configuration files in place, execute a2ensite $sitename$ and then reload Apache /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Hope this hel

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
ll the software it runs on is free, and the site design is £500". People didn't buy it. As soon as I said, "We can build you a website and host it for £500 with a monthly fee of £25, we couldn't sell things fast enough. meh. Matt. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Comput

Re: 4.0R3 SATA support (or lack thereof)

2008-03-10 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
, however having to wait up to eight months [0] for a version of the Kernel that is out and running on other systems at the moment can be a bit of a pain some times! :o) Cheers, M. [0] That's what I've been quoted as a possible for 2.6.24, not sure how accurate that is. -- |Matthew Macdon

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-03 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
-in > of the so called 'consumer' market.Mint (http://linuxmint.com/). If memory serves, Mint is based on Ubuntu but doesn't care about the "freedom" side of things so therefore it works really well for end-users... /me dons flame-proof jacket and grabs a large troll-gun.

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Programs for bluetooth

2008-02-29 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:49:10 + Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:34:50 + > > Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Andrius wrote: > >>> Hi lads, > >&g

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Programs for bluetooth

2008-02-29 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
; > > Find myself. > > Andrius Can you list them here for us? It means that future google searches may flag up this thread form the archives. Thanks, M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-02-29 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
tc/modules.d/blacklist # quit $ quit Then reboot the system. That should work, although I don't have a system at hand to test it! Cheers, M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |R

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
s my belief that if you want a stable OS that you can rely on for servers/corporate desktops, use Debian/Gentoo/RHEL/SuSE. If you want a desktop that has the software you need for a Personal Computer, use Ubuntu. My £0.02, M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Sp

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
t will be some > time yet before it is ready. My guess is 8 months or so, the key word > there being guess.. :) > > Better info is here.. > > http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that site. Regards, Matt. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Com

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > A while back there was an announcement that debian would be &

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
on RHEL. CentOS is not RHEL, even > though it is based on its code and it is pretty close. > AIUI, wasn't the codebase just run through sed and all instances of RHEL switched to CENTOS? :oP M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |

Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
ke to make them "official", does anyone know of a potential release data for this kernel version? Thanks in advance, Matt. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:45:48 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:27:56 -0600 > "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings! > > > > It seems the time has come to build a dedicated &g

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
y or > something else that will provide that service. Also > socks 4/5 and probably a virus/adware scanner too. > > Thanks for any suggestions and/or pointers to recent > resources on the subject! Shorewall all the way!!! :O) www.shorewall.net - its as easy or as difficult as you want

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
before he thinks that he knows a reasonable amount about Linux... M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 |Registered address: Wyastone Busines

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
s it do? > > Thanks for any reply > > Regards > M What does # file \[ produce? Is it a script or a binary? M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |"The Linux Specialists" | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Com