Re: Debian 5

at ia64 is used in some servers, but the common one is amd64 as the previous poster said. M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.lin

Re: secured limited access to webaplication

ing users, but it would not be the whole security solution - most of that would be handled upstream. > VPN i guess you ment? it can work with a key AND a password (have not > implemented this tough since the laptops already have encrypted > partitions and strong passwords) That sounds fair

Re: Iceape Problems - Is there hope for Squeeze?

e it to /opt. ... Only problem with this solution is the lack of 64-bit builds. At least there was every time I've looked. I'd *love* to use Mozilla-issued builds. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smi

Re: Looking for simple s2disk implementation

Quoth green at 12/10/09 11:06... Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-10-10 18:41 -0500: What I can't figure out how to do is how to get a script to run after resume. I've looked at the hibernate system but it appear overly complex for what I want and besides, I have a bash allergy ;-)

Re: virtualbox: Install from backup DVD HP Pavilion

s of IE which my work demands, it's a handy way to run iTunes ;-) Cheers M PS - now it only remains for me to get one of my TWO corrupt (legitimate MSFT) copies of XP Pro to install. -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: htt

Re: virtualbox: Install from backup DVD HP Pavilion

n should not let your installation programme "see" the underlying hardware at all - hence your problem. Sorry. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ Lin

Re: virtualbox: Install from backup DVD HP Pavilion

y are supplied; they check to see if they are being installed on the correct hardware and will stop if they are not. This is the most likely reason that I can think of that you cannot install onto VirtualBox. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web App

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

rosoft.com/kb/313472 Hope this helps. Cheers M * Retreats to underground bunker. * -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in

Re: site to which iceweasel cannot connect - SOLVED

s and NoScript plugins take care of that for me. All from within Firefox/Iceweasel. -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.c

Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

ndom password (which is stored as a cryptographic hash) which is actually longer than the application will accept. Whilst I can't see any way that the user active check could be bypassed, this gives an extra level of security, just in case. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consultin

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

ly wanted to do this, I'd do it in Perl anyway. (Because I'm a Perl developer.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://ww

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

ting to the problem. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @sm

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

at might help with the issue. I'd rather re-crimp a dozen CAT5 cables than try to fix one wireless network issue ;-) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

esults - always every item. The only way I can think of to guarantee that this would work on any system would be to use Perl. But that's my answer to everything ;-) Cheers M The guy with the shell allergy. -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Develo

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

7;1,2d') I thought this looked like an interesting recipe, so I tried it. (With echo, I hasten to add.) I get a listing of every file (and directory) in the directory, but all on one line. All the sed seems to do is to convert the multiple spaces used to format ls -t into single spa

Re: Fonts looking bad on qt apps

distribution is supplying, that is.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitt

Re: acpid not logging - or doing other things

nfig of this kernel and see if that is set. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy

Re: tasksel problems

up and decided to do it the "proper" way. However, as the "proper" way caused me problems - including making it VERY hard to install the backports kernel I need for my wlan - I'll certainly see if I can use the original recipe I was using once I've got the s

Re: acpid not logging - or doing other things

Quoth Alex Samad at 2009-10-13 08:06... > maybe have alook at acpi_listen to see if acpi is getting the event Thanks - sounds like an easier way than wading through logs. Another useful programme for my toolkit. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Appl

Re: tasksel problems

Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-10-12 12:29... > So, how do I get the nice tasksel menu (with all the options) that I get > when booted from netinst? (I won't even ask why the mirrors won't work > when they did 5 days ago when I did the original install.) Not exactly answering my

Re: acpid not logging - or doing other things

ith acpi (like running s2disk when the battery gets to a certain level) so really need to get that logging sorted. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ L

tasksel problems

? (I won't even ask why the mirrors won't work when they did 5 days ago when I did the original install.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smi

acpid not logging - or doing other things

og or appearing in dmesg, for that matter. I know that I must have some acpi support here as I'm able to look at my battery info through /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state. If it's relevant, I'm running the 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64, which I need for wlan support. Ideas? Cheers

Looking for simple s2disk implementation

have a bash allergy ;-) The man pages for s2disk/resume the uswsusp.conf are not forthcoming on how to execute something after resume has done it's business. Ideas, anyone? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: ht

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

such has been my experience with both Toshibas and ThinkPads. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Sk

Re: Iceweasel: Flash broken, again

ng the 64 bit plugin instead. Check the list archives for the thread "Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?" (less than a week ago) for direction. I can't say that this will solve your update problem but when I was running the 32 bit plugin using nspluginwrapper under

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

of your hand. My TrackMan also works well with Xorg with minimal configuration. (Like clicking the wheel for "floaty scrolling".) Also works best for me when my carpal tunnel syndrome is playing me up. Tried a tablet once, could NOT get on with it. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech -

My Netbook Project

ed fairly limited hardware. Comments? Suggestions? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skyp

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

onf: > class/leds/iwl-phy0:RX/trigger = none > class/leds/iwl-phy0:TX/trigger = none Thanks - I'll try this out late. Much preferable to putting duct tape over the LED! Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

ses those horrible xruns on jackd. Thanks for the tip anyway! Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/

Re: Best slim laptop on debian

fully support on linux? I'd suggest that you have a look here: http://www.linuxlaptops.org/ Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn:

Re: Iceweasel: Can't find helper application

ulty. I'll take a dive into the profile directory and remove all the PDF references in mimeTypes.rdf so that it will be forced to ask me next time I encounter one, hopefully putting things straight. Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffy

Re: Is there any replacement product for Keil uVision3

from one of the devs in no time flat. Wish I had more time to use it. avr-gcc for Atmel stuff. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http

Re: Iceweasel: Can't find helper application

as a plugin, Open Office for all the filetypes it could handle, gvim for things like C source.) I noticed that, by default, mozplugger was trying to handle office documents - I got rid of that pretty sharpish and set it to invoke oowriter, oocalc, etc., instead. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiff

Iceweasel: Can't find helper application

'ask' dialogue next time that MIME type was encountered, generally fixing the issue. It appears that we no longer have that luxury. Any pointers on this? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffy

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

e back next week ;-) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smif

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

Quoth Frederik Kriewitz at 2009-03-23 17:04... > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: >> Is there a mirror of this anywhere that I can use or is there an >> alternative, not-too-complicated way of doing this? > > Download the 64 Bit plugin from > http://

Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

this anywhere that I can use or is there an alternative, not-too-complicated way of doing this? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn:

Re: mysql server stopped and i cannot restart

directory (wherever that might be - /var/lib/mysql is MySQL AB's own default) and have a look in the log file there which will be based on your host name with a .err suffix. The .err file has always got me out of trouble before. Hope this helps. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

inconvenience for me - I WANT to have the kernel built with the latest version of gcc to avoid any issues with installing extra stuff (like VMware) or anything else not coming from the Debian repository. It also appeals to my strange sense of neatness ;-) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytec

Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

with odd wireless drivers - so forgive me if I sound a little stunned! Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.co

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit [RESOLVED]

Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-03-18 08:36... The issue is this: * Boot machine. * Console font size is sensible. * Run xorg (startx). * Close xorg. * Console font size is now enormous on all TTYs to the point of being unusable. (Have to reboot to be able to work again.) It seems that the

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

don't know if this throws further light on the problem but doing this has no effect. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn:

Re: "Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

y give you any Sendmail anti-spam pointers other than Spamhaus' Zen DNSBL. (I'm assuming that you are getting your issues due to anti-spam configuration stuff.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

gs have generally worked to my satisfaction and thus I have never investigated.) 2. What happens if you blindly type "reset" or setterm -reset? Both these get the prompt/cursor back to the top of the screen, but still in the same gigantic font. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech -

Console font size change on xorg exit

console font size once I quit xorg? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy

Re: interfaces changed after upgrade

problems and errors" it should help resolve your issue: <http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi> Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn:

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

get all my regular stuff working first. It should then be a trivial exercise to copy the configured kernel source and patch it for the RT kernel. Many thanks for everyone's help on this - I'm finally on my way! Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & We

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

ping anyone from cobbling something together with, say Perl and XSLT. If nobody has done this and you don't fancy writing it yourself, I'm afraid that you will still need to use OOo to render to a printable format. Hope this makes sense. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Tech

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

Iceweasel but Firefox. I just tried this search: firefox address completion option ...and got what looked like likely answers. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://w

Re: nForce2 ethernet not working after dist-upgrade to lenny

u've only got 2 cards - they'd normally come up as eth0 and eth1 but then I'd believe any weirdness when udev is involved. If you're only using IPv6, please ignore this ;-) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Busines

Re: Postfix Version/Upgrading

isn't fixing a nasty security flaw, I wouldn't be too worried about using the older one. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

the time, and report back. Many thanks again for this tip - I feel like I'm headed somewhere at last. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ Linke

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

27;ve only had to use it once, but others on the list probably know it well. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.link

Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

ve forgotten to include an essential kernel module - but I can't see what I could have missed. (Then again, I've never tried booting from an external device before - but the stock kernel can do it!) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application De

Kernel issues: booting from USB storage

l can do it!) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffytech

Help requested getting mailscanner + sendmail running

Just wondered if anyone else was puzzling over the same thing as me. Mailscanner seems fairly exim orientated, but the docs are almost non-existant on how to get it up and running with woody. According to the web page I need to change startup params, but I have no idea where and how to change. Any