nvidia and console freeze

2002-09-12 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, I know this has popped up before, but I have found a solution that works for me (P4, i845G, nVidia Ti 4200). Turn off APM in the BIOS. That's it folks! Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the

AC97 on ICH4

2002-09-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
SCSI card which I really can't remove! Does anyone have any pointers on this one at all? -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

2002-06-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
e driver > wasn't in my kernel, so I couldn't toss it in. Rule of thumb: keep 'sensible' device drivers compiled as modules. You never know when you're going to need them, and let's face it, it really won't add too much to the compile time. Matthew -- Matt

Re: dns setup with domain name

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:21:13AM -0400, Debian User wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:06:11PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > BIND doesn't care less whether you own the domain name or not. Just so > > long as it's not going to come across another DNS server that thin

Re: dns setup with domain name

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
a (TM) to use an illegal domain name internally (i.e. without a valid extension, so not a .com .co.uk .info .biz etc etc. I just use 'namkas' here and bind really doesn't mind). Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: not properly grounded, please bury comp

Re: makepasswd: naive question

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
and read the data. As for how to actually do this, I've no idea! I am aware that there are kernel patches available, and some dists have the default kernels with the patches compiled in. Debian does not so you will need to role your own kernel (a good idea anyway). There's most likely a HOWT

Re: Problems with 2.4. series kernels and Adaptec scsi card

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
than being modular and you shouldn't have any further problems. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: not properly grounded, please bury computer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monitor Problems

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
g driven too hard. Try resetting up the config files for XFree, specifying a slightly lower spec monitor. You can always tweak later. Use XFree86 -version to find the version of xfree Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: not properly grounded, please bury compute

Re: hdd change

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > Sure, this would be quite easy to do. > > 1. Install the new HDD on a secondary IDE chain, say primary slave, hdb > > 2. Partition the drive the way you want > > 3. Mount the drive up the way it will appear for boot, on s

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
oppies mailing list archives, but I know it's come up before. Does the BIOS not provide legacy support? (makes the USB keyboard + mouse appear as standard devices). You make have to pass some kernel options on boot up. Can't remember, but I'm sure it can be done. Matthew -- Matth

Delay on posts

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
ding it out to me until 21:19:06 Is anyone else seeing this delay. Is there a known problem? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Zombie processes haunting the computer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMAP + fetchmail + procmail

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
e advice, just ask! [1] Yes, I do still use uw-imapd here despite what I've said. The only reason I use it is because I'm lazy and havn't got round to switching over, and also uw-imapd reads mail in standard mbox files and as a result seems slightly faster in sending 6000 emails

Re: OT:spam mail with To:-feld without my address

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
how do I get > procmail to handle this. Use spam assassine [sp!]. I don't, but I don't have that much of a spam problem. Other people will tell you that it's accurate and reliable and a very effective tool. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Zombie

Re: 'hw' RAID1

2002-06-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
e success (I suspect) hanging all your disks off normal IDE channels and setting up software RAID: that is proven to work and there are a lot of people who are knowledgeable as to how to get it to work etc etc. Read the howto on it. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England mysql> select *

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
r responces are. Matthew On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:59:34PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:55:33AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > > > * Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > In muc.lists

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
TAT > [number of messages, size in octets of all messages] hopefully there's only 1: yours! < RETR 1 text of your email will be shown a '.' terminates the email < QUIT where > is text sent from server and < is text sent to server. [1] LART: Luser Attitude Re-adju

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
er? (in which case see if you can track the logs). Seeing as you mention Eudora is fine, I take it this implies download from POP/IMAP as Eudora doesn't know Exchange. This I therefore find really odd: the emails must be arriving, so why doesn't O/OE show them? Could you see if you can

Re: default window manager

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Or simply control it from your ~/.xinitrc file. Mine reads: #exec twm #exec sawfish #exec gnome-session #exec uwm #exec wmaker #exec enlightenment #exec startkde #exec fvwm exec xfwm Thus very easy to control and you can do it on a user per user basis.

Re: dentist

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
es, controlled by bracing technology. It's also water proof and has high longevity. It'll be popular too, skinnable (veneers) and hard waring. Good high bandwidth communication system, though is limited to communicating between two devices... Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham Eng

Re: What about Woody?

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:23:51PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I suspect that the very last NMUs are going up, the images are being > > readied and press-statements released: I would expect within the

Re: My ultimate linux box - raid

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
e said. "But these haters need to realize that if you > > mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Operators killed when huge stack of backup tapes fell over. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My ultimate linux box

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
en, etc. > > You'd only get Fast Ethernet speeds, but your executables will > be on Box 2, and with 2.5GB RAM, you'll have a huge cache to > work with... Yes, that's what I would do too: a workstation and a compile/testing/development machine. Plus allows you to have a

Re: What about Woody?

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
m probably about to get flamed for suggesting a date. In which case I think I'll say "it gets released when it's ready"... I think that we can all rest assured that the people who are working on the woody release are working to get it released asap. Matthew -- Matthe

Re: IMAP and POP

2002-05-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
server and IMAP server are you using? Cyrus certainly should be able to do what you require... Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Small animal kamikaze attack on power supplies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Iomega Ditto Drive

2002-05-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, Does anyone have an Iomega Ditto Max Parallel drive? What's it like, does it work, is it reliable etc etc? I know that they will work under Linux, I'm just curious as to how *well* they work! Any advice gratefully received, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England B

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
ig differents between 17Mhz and 700Mhz ... also 8MB Flash and > a 20GB HD can't be compared. I'm waiting for the Sharp Zaurus SL5500. Proper keyboad (well, small), linux and Qtopia (QT embedded) plus a large range of expansion slots: this thing should be big when it hits the shelves so lon

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and >

Re: Diagnosing poor performance

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
? rox (rox.sourceforge.net): *The* fastest file manager. Also, for ages I've been using uwm/ude as the wm, but eventually got bored with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. Have fun. Matthew

Re: Ask Slashdot: How Well Does Windows Cluster? Turned around

2002-02-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Michael Jinks, IB ## JFI/MRSEC Computing ## University of Chicago ## > Reader! Think not that > technical information > ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, "How to decrypt a DVD" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Computers under water due to SYN flooding. pgpWwVpvHpaSX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: user homedir chroot jail..

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
So yes, the best solution is chmod 711 /home; chmod 750 /home/* and then set the umask for all users to 027. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Interference between the keyboard and the chair.

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
and exciting that makes your usage of your computer more productive. Just a few pennies. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Too much radiation coming from the soil.

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:15:20PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:48:21PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > I've now got a pair of realtek's which are a damn site better, but I still > > have problems with enbd under high load, wh

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-02-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
od" Load"glx" Load"pex5" Load"record" Load"xie" Load"bitmap" Load"freetype" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe&

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
pect are attributed to them. Plus when one machine is under high load, an ssh can take up to 15 seconds to connect. I don't know any of the more expensive ones - can't afford them myself. At work we use Intel and 3com nics in the big machines and realteks in the small machines. Switches are

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
ories about such setups that if you're going to do RAID 5 then only use hardware SCSI controllers (Mylex for example). These are pricey, but they will not kill you data with gay abandon - cheap (or not so) IDE RAID cards can afford you false security. Just my 2p. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
the following: mount -o rw,remount -t type /dev/hdXX / mount -t proc proc /proc mount /usr passwd umount /usr mount -t ro,remount -t type /dev/hdXX / reboot That should work, just be sure of your / fs type and the partition before you do this. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England

test

2002-01-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
test - please ignore this.

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
ing that the problems are made worse if you're on a privart network and using a gateway. Not sure about that though. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: excessive collisions & not enough packet ambulances

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
>From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: OT Open Transport (Apple) HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch.

Re: semi-ot: learning python

2002-01-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
g 'real' programs (in C): please this is not a call to flame-war! I guess I may eventually get round to learning python. C is a little easier to make myself learn as I *need* to know it to help develop programs written in it... Not sure when I'll learn python. Matthew -- M

Re: woody & ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
to tty2, partition and format manually in ext3 and then switch back to tty1 and complete the install. Note that this is not trivial and a large amount of RTFM'ing is required. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: waste water tank overflowed onto computer

OT: BOFH sig gen

2001-12-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
@text) { if ($_ =~ /Your excuse is\: (.*)/) { $bofh = $1; } } my $sig = q/ Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: #bofh# /; $sig =~ s/#bofh#/$bofh/msg; #print $sig, "\n"; open(FILE,

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
x that when something screws up... The fact that they come with no firewall tools and have telnetd enabled by default should be enough to scare off anyone with any sense! ;-) -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Your/our computer(s) had suffered a memory leak, and we are waiting for them to be topped up.

Re: nfs woes

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
that you have a lot of this already going. The problem is that your setup to too complicated IMHO, simply use the 10MBit card to boot, then drop 10mbps and start everything on the 100mbps. I'm assuming that you're using a boot chip on your 10mbps card to tell it where to get the kernel etc, in which case it should just be a matter of redesigning the initrd image. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Bogon emissions pgpJJoJydmE6n.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NIC Netgear FA311 : how do i make it work ?

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
le. Note that gateway is critical as it determines the routing of packets going out of your machine. You may well need to initially use the route command to display the routing tables and/or modify them. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: pgprD20cKFark.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] Dual head console?

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
any ideas or is this just not possible? Using 2.4.13 and woody. As always, any help is much appreciated. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s)

Re: ARRGH!!! Tulip card again

2001-11-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
ine. If it is possible, go with the latest kernel revision > (2.4.14). > > There is a linux-tulip mailing list if you get really frustrated. Kinda related... I had big problems with the natsemi driver until I compiled it as a module - it seems it's a lot more stable as a module

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-17 Thread Matthew Sackman
7;s just AFAIK 2.4.14 is the latest - am I wrong here? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s) only. This may or may not be indicated in the above e

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

2001-11-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe > 905 ttyp000:00:00 bash > 917 tty1 00:00:00 getty > 1050 ?00:00:15 emacs > 1051 ttyp200:00:00 gnuserv > 1064 ttyp000:00:00 bash > 1092 ?00:00:00 cron > 1095 ?00:00:00 atd > 1124 ttyp0 00:00

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
t to try to get it to work properly - and as we've heard, it doesn't. If you're going to be setting up a dedicated fileserver then you will probably not get a severe performance hit if you just use software RAID 5 in the kernel - i've been using it here for some months

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
med to support linux more actively. However, I'd personally not touch either and go for SCSI - I'd even prefer software SCSI RAID to hardware IDE RAID. Plus the 3ware is true hardware RAID whilst the Promise is firmware RAID ( = software RAID on dedicated processor = not as good). A

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:16:06PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > | On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > | > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > | > > I'm trying to

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-30 Thread Matthew Sackman
A pulls the name from /etc/mailname and puts your username infront of it. You therefore need to configure your MTA that you are a privileged user and am allowed to send emails from systems other than your own (which is what it amounts to). This will depend on your MTA - check the man pages f

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
2.4.13-ac4 sounds like it ought to be good, but I haven't tried it. > > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND

dual head in XFree86

2001-10-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
g is set properly in XF86Config-4 - I'm sure it's not something in there - has anyone else come accross this? Also, I sometimes notice a horizontal line sinking slowly on the primary and rising on the secondary - is this a timing problem or what? Any help/advice much appreciated!

Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
t had something to do with pressing space (or maybe that's when you've gone c c to chdir and then space to select dir. And then return to select mailbox. Not sure - been using UW-Imapd for ages now. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND -

Re: /etc/princtap && opera

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
I have cupsys-bsd > installed? > > Thanks much :), > Rohan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND ---

Re: potato e RAID software

2001-10-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
_ > > > > Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact &g

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
can you > synopsize the benefits that ext3 brings over ext2? > > Thanks, > Russ > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > No, ext3 is not yet ready for 2.4.12. > > This is mainly because Linus changed a whole bunch of s

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Tip]From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > LOST #140 -**< Sub : Line numbering your programs (#1) >**- > Want a listing of your program with line numbers ? > Try: grep -n $ my_prog.c > my_prog.no.c > -n is to number a line; and $ for till end ... > > > -- > To

Re: Advice on creating a workstation

2001-10-13 Thread Matthew Sackman
o > welcome). > > At the moment I am deciding how to partition the > hard disk - I have reserved 4GB for linux. > > TIA > > T:Irvine > -- > > Only in the dictionary does success > come before work > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:58:35PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 10:48, dman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > | It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being > > | anything

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ > > > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfac

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
> -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
ddress] and get an address (provided by your ISP) that will then map back into the same IP. So long as these two conditions are met (and I'm not even sure if the second is really necessary), then the mail should be delivered. HTH Matthew -- Matt

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
mputer with a trashed floppy controller, so I installed from CD - potato CDs, which don't have the module in it for my NIC, so I ended up copying a 2.4 kernel deb onto a harddisc, moving the harddisc to the new machine and installing that kernel. It worked a treat! M

Re: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
onnect the cable to the on-board card, both interfaces continue > to function through the PCI card! > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s) only. T

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
ething like running `nc -l -u -p 1666 >/dev/null` on one machine and > `dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k | nc -u -p 1666` on the other, then looking with > `iptraf` how much traffic you?re getting across. > > cheers, > &rw -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND ---

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
lable. Lowering the port and re-raising it doesn't help either. Thus I've gone back to the ones in the kernel - they may not be quite as fast but at least they don't completely die on me! Mainly FYI I guess. Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:12:43PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: >

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
cards. Thanks for your help. Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:56:31PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Yes, it's a 2.4.9 kernel on both machines with the included natsemi > driver. > > dmesg reports much the same for both machines: > > eth0: link is back. Enabling wa

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
e new one right? Thanks, Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:41:59PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. > > Netgear FA311 cards and a single

Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
y now and again; getting mutt to read off the imap daemon on the other computer also shows very slow reading of the mail. Does anyone have any idea what I need to start tweaking or what might be causing this? Thanks in advance, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU

MBR not being read.

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
all, and parents are not happy... Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Re: ./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass

2001-09-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass

2001-09-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
Thanks in advance, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
of other things too When I use a graphical filemanager, I use ROX - very fast and very straight- forward. http://rox.sourceforge.net It's based on the RISC OS filemanager. HTH Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
ing winXP could discover that they have access to a new internet. With 100 million users Cisco would have to be pretty dumb not to move quickly to make sure a non-crippled internet was available otherwise who'd get the blame? Surely not Microsoft? I hope it won't happen. Matthew Sackman

Re: woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hmm, I seem to have realised that the images are only available as images and not as a package tree. Is this correct? Matthew On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:37:00PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a pseudo image for woody on > my localhost, and ha

woody cd pseudo-images

2001-07-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
listed in the email announcing the unofficial images, but even there they are not in the 'correct' place. Any help is much appreciated? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux. pgpHabPnJrrT3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
in /bin), but I'm not really sure. In the interests of maximising hard-disc usage, I once moved the contents of /lib to another partition (non-root) and created a sym-link. An hour later I had repaired the damage - it really don't like it!!! :-( Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingha

Re: Squid - a bit off-topic

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
rnal machines and DHCP then you should be able to set up a subdomain for the machines that can connect to the net and then authenticate on this. Or, if you use fixed IPs then you can just authenticate on that. HTH Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying

Re: mod_ssl vs. apache-ssl

2001-07-10 Thread Matthew Sackman
a --with-layout=Debian That's how I do it... Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux. pgpj5Qh3OBDw7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: client-server backup using NFS and tar

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
> but how do you set the remote system up (in this case the > server) to allow the tar process access to the device? > > Many thanks for your help, > > Matthew > > -- > > Matthew Sackman > Nottingham, > ENGLAND > > Using Debian/GNU Linux > Enjoyin

client-server backup using NFS and tar

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Sackman
how do you set the remote system up (in this case the server) to allow the tar process access to the device? Many thanks for your help, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

hardware RAID boot

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
support it wouldn't it? Just hoping someone can shed some light on this. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux. pgpeijPeadVRY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
ail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Window manager ....

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:23:39AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > Try uwm - it's very very non-system hungry - it's built > > around the xwindows libraries rather than qt or gtk so it's > &g

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
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Re: Window manager ....

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
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mutt imap ssl etc

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
ow gone back to 1.3.15 and that's still working. Anyone any ideas? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

FYI: KDE printing through CUPS

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
er way round if you're symlinking) and then restart your KDE apps, then you will find that they now know about the correct printers and will print fine to em. Hope this is useful, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Web server

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
titute |C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 > http://www.mri.ernet.in/~raghu/ |37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806 -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Network printing HP 840C over Samba

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
freeze on the server, requiring a restart of those services. I'm not particularly bothered about using CUPS - if someone has this printer (or similar) working successfully under LPRng (or equiv) then I'd be very grateful to hear about it. I just really need this printer working. Thanks in a

[: Re: dual NICs]

2001-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
Matthew > > >- overid3 =) > > > > > >On Tuesday 15 May 2001 14:12, Matthew Sackman wrote: > >> Hay all. > >> > >> Does anyone have any knowledge of a network card that has two > >> independant eth ports on it? The reason I ask is th

dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
tthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
lems under linux so I would not recommend these. I'm quite encouraged by 3ware's linux drivers: they support many more distributions than promise and seem to have a better commitment to linux. Thus although I've not used them, I'd be tempted to go for the 3ware cards. Matthew --

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
l 2.4.4 ? > The only thing I can think is that you've got your / partition as a reiser partition? Do you have a seperate /boot partition that's ext2? Apart from that, I can't think of owt else. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing pgpl45GkvO7l3.pgp Description: PGP signature

ISA and PCI network cards

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
the PCI card as eth1? Is it reliable to assume that the ISA IO address will always be the same (so long as no other hardware is added/removed)? and thus can this address be premanently inserted in /etc/modules? Thanks for any help you guys can offer. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLA

KDE printing to cups

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. So how do you do it then? I really can't work out how to get kde to print to cups. Any ideas? I normally just print with a pipe to lp -d LaserJet. In all the kde apps there is just listed a generic dot-matrix printer, but printing to it does sod all. Thanks, Matthew -- Ma

Re: wet blue

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
D : show the differences between the versions Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. The default action is to install the new version. The default action is to bulldoze over your existing house in order to install wet-blue-sp

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