Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-07 Thread Michael Madden
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __

Re: HPC Cluster with Debian Etch

2008-07-31 Thread Michael Madden
Stackpole, Chris wrote: I love Rocks. They have done an amazing job with that Distro. I won't call myself an expert or anything like that, but I /really/ enjoy the clustering world and have been involved with it for a few years now (both for fun and work). I have worked with clusters across a w

HPC Cluster with Debian Etch

2008-07-31 Thread Michael Madden
Hello: Is anyone aware of a project similar to Rocks Clusters (http://www.rocksclusters.org/) that uses Debian as it's base? Rocks is super simple to get setup; I recently setup a 8 node HPC cluster with Rocks to develop MPI applications in under an hour. However I'd prefer to use somethin

Debian 4.0 - NFS Install

2008-05-04 Thread Michael Madden
Is there a way to perform a NFS install of Debian 4.o on x86 or x86_64? From what I can tell, HTTP is the preferred network install method. Ideally I'd like to copy my install DVDs to a NFS share and perform an installation via NFS. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Unable to view gcc manpages on Debian 4.0 r3 i386

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Madden
I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386. Other manpages work just fine. :~$ man gcc No manual entry for gcc See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. :~$ man g++ No manual entry for g++ See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages ar

OpenAFS, Kerberos setup for Debian Sarge

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Madden
Does anyone know of any documentation for setting up OpenAFS and Kerberos for Debian Sarge. We have roughly 100 Linux and Windows clients that use NFS and Samba to access roughly 10 file servers. The idea behind considering OpenAFS is to create a common file storage area our Linux and Windows clie

xine crashes on Sarge

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Madden
I'm getting the following errors when trying to play media with xine. I have the mplayer codecs installed in /usr/lib/win32 and the folowing xine packages: libarts1-xine 3.3.2-1 libxine1 1.0.1-1 totem-xine 0.100-5 xine-ui 0.99.3-1 $ xine trailer.mov This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player

Recommended GB NIC

2005-07-14 Thread Michael Madden
We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610, and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you recommend to work with Sarge running Linux 2.6.8-2? Intel, Broadcom, 3Com? Thanks. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Debian Sarge on Alienware/Sager laptop

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten Debian Sarge working on a recent Alienware or Sager notebook? http://www.alienware.com/Product_Pages/notebook_small_bus.aspx http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/product_info.html I'm wanted to buy a high end laptop and wanted to ensure Sarge worked on the laptop before investing t

Recommended laptop for Sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Madden
What new laptop from a tier 1 vendor (Dell, HP, IBM, etc) would you recommend to use with Debian 3.1? Ideally I'd like a processor >= 2.0 GHz, memory >= 1 GB, a 60 GB hard drive, a 14'' or 15'' LCD, a NVIDIA graphics card, a on-board gigabit NIC, a built-in floppy, a built-in DVD+-R drive, and to

Re: Sarge Released!

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Madden
Curt Howland wrote: Ok, now that Debian 3.1 is out, does anyone know if any books will be written to cover the new distribution? The three year old books are not something I want to recommend to newbies. Curt- I'm not sure when this will be published, but it looks promising: http://www.w

Re: gcc with Debian on amd64

2004-12-24 Thread Michael Madden
David Purton wrote: Usually development headers and import libraries are not installed by default. You want libc6-dev. dc Thanks for all the help. libc6-dev wasn't installed. I've used potato, woody, and sarge forever, and I never had to install libc6-dev by hand. I guess it is part of the base i

gcc with Debian on amd64

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Madden
I just installed the latest amd64 netboot on my Sun SunFire V20z, and I tried to compile a simple C program: #include int main(void) { printf("Hello World!\n"); return (0); } [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc -o hello hello.c hello.c:1:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory I have the following gcc

Re: Debian netboot on a SunFire v20z

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Madden
Kurt Roeckx wrote: amd64 is not yet part of the official debian archive. Please see the howto for a list of mirrors: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Kurt That was it. After setting up the mirror manually it worked like a charm. Thank you very much!! --

Debian netboot on a SunFire v20z

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten a netboot install for amd64 working on a Sun SunFire V20z? I'm using the netboot from 12/21/2004. It boots from the cd, detects my Broadcom card, loads the tg3 module, configures the network, obtains an IP address, netmask, gateway, and DNS servers from my DHCP server. It then a

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Madden
I figured out what was wrong with my OpenBSD 3.6 setup. I needed to setup pf=YES in /etc/rc.conf. I must have missed this when reading though the install documentation. Anyhow these are the steps that worked for me: 1.) Install OpenBSD 3.6 according to the directions at: http://www.openbsd.org

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Madden
> The main point is that there are so many things to do in Linux in order to > configure it for masquerading (Recompiling Kernel etc). There also so many > different commands that do exactly the same thing but in different ways. If a > person is starting off in firewalling it's not good to overw

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Michael Madden
Alex Barylo wrote: I second that - I use my old AMD-K6 box with Sarge as a firewall. I use and _highly_ recommend FIAIF firewall (http://www.fiaif.net/) - I picked it up from securityfocus.com top tools. HTH, Alex. Thanks for all the advice. I guess something like LRP appealed to me more since it

Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Michael Madden
Does anyone know of a decent Linux based router project out there? In the past I've used LRP (http://www.linuxrouter.org), but it looks like the project isn't maintained anymore. My requirements are pretty simple. I want to route traffic from network A to network B and route traffice from networ

Learning GTK+ proramming under Debian

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Madden
What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+ or Qt seem more acceptable under Linux. Maybe there's a recommended bo

Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Madden
Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that I can run from the command line? Right now I'm using a shell script that checks if the machine is pingable, but I'm finding that often the service has

Debian Sarge on HP B2000

2004-11-30 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten X working for Debian Sarge on a hppa machine? I am using the 11/22/04 snapshot on a HP B2000, and no matter how many times I run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' with various options, I cannot get X configured correctly. Here are the last things I see in the XFree86.0.log; I as

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Madden
The root hub should at least show up in /proc/bus/usb/devices What USB modules do you have loaded? modprobe usbcore modprobe usb-uhci Your post led me in the right direction. I didn't have the uhci module loaded. After loading it, it worked great. Thanks for your help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Madden
What does 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices' return? I use a memory stick on my box... Linux debiantosh 2.4.22-ben2 #1 Sun Dec 28 15:18:36 PST 2003 ppc GNU/Linux What type of reader are you using? The memory stick is generic, it's the reader that needs to be recognized. /proc/bus/usb/devices is empty. The

Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone has any success using USB memory sticks on Debian 3.0? I am using kernel 2.4.26 with the following needed options compiled into my kernel, but I cannot see my memory stick. SCSI support * CONFIG_SCSI scsi_mod.o * CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD sd_mod.o File systems * CONFIG_FAT_FS fat.o * CONFIG_M

Installing Woody on MIPS via CDROM

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Madden
Is there anything special about getting Woody installed on MIPS using a CDROM? I've loaded Woody on x86 and HPPA without any problems, but I cannot get my Indigo2 to boot off the cd to start the install. The same Indigo2 boots up off the cd and installs Irix 5.3 just fine. Thanks, Mike -- To

Debian Woody NFS Install

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Madden
How can I install Debian Woody via NFS? I have figured out how to install the base system via NFS after loading the network card driver, but after the base system is installed and a reboot is performed, I cannot figure out how to install the rest of the system via NFS. Am I missing something obvio

Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-19 Thread Michael Madden
Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the following: dump, tar, cpio, pax I will be backing up ext2 and ext3 filesystems to a DDS4 tape drive on the local machine. Is any of the prementioned backup utilit

mgetty + pppd on woody

2002-05-16 Thread Michael Madden
I've setup mgetty & pppd to allow incoming connections to my home computer with a broadband connection. I can successfully dial up, login, and obtain an ip address, but I can only connect (ping, ftp, telnet, etc) to the box I dialed into. I cannot connect to other boxes on my lan or connect to th

rsync performance between HP-UX and Debian

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Madden
I've been using rsync to backup HP-UX 10.20 and Debian Woody machines, and I've seen performance issues on the HP-UX machines. On the Debian machines, I'm using rsync 2.5.5-0.1, and the HP-UX machines are using 2.5.5. All the HPs are C3600s with 100 MB connections and 18 GB SCSI disks. The Linu

WindowMaker setup with gdm

2002-04-02 Thread Michael Madden
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:03:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: >How do I tell gdm or xdm to start WindowMaker instead of the default GNOME? Hi, In the top left corner of the GDM screen you see a menu that allows you to choose a Debian session, a Gnome session, X session etc. Chose Deb

Re: Debian SID & Configuring X

2002-04-02 Thread Michael Madden
Thanks! That is exactly what I wanted to do. It works like a charm. Thanks again, Mike On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:58:31AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:03:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: > >How do I tell gdm or xdm to start WindowMaker instead of the defa

Re: Debian SID & Configuring X

2002-04-01 Thread Michael Madden
I normally login by using the gdm or xdm login screen. However, when I do so GNOME is started. I cannot figure out how to get WindowMaker to start. If I don't start gdm and run startx from the shell, it works fine since I added the exec /usr/bin/wmaker line to my .xinitrc fine. However, if I lo

Debian SID & Configuring X

2002-03-31 Thread Michael Madden
I recently installed the latest Debian Woody SID version, and I am running into tons of problems getting X to work. I have the following X packages installed: ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-13 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-13 the XFree86 X server I am us

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Woody CD Image

2001-02-03 Thread Michael Madden
I downloaded the latest woody image this evening. I am used to seeing linux distributions in an iso image, but this came as a .raw file. I've used EasyCD Creator to make cds from .iso and .cif files, but I've never seen a .raw image. What utility on a Windows machine (I don't have a cdr on my de

Post linux 2.4.0 xdm problems

2001-01-16 Thread Michael Madden
After upgrading to linux 2.4.0, I've noticed xdm is noticeably slower. For example, after the xdm screen, it takes almost exactly 1 minute to start WindowMaker. It used to almost immediate when I was running 2.2.18. I am using a Matrox G400 with 32 MB RAM. Other than the slow login, WindowMaker

Re: Kernal 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Michael Madden
I'd look at the kernel howto: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Kernel-HOWTO.html This would be a great place to start. Mike --- Tim 'trout' Apple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okie..I wanna put the new kernal on my system. I > have no clue how, and I > also do

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-14 Thread Michael Madden
like this: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time 3c59x es1371 Thanks, Mike --- pplaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Madden wrote: > > > I'd written yesterday describing problems with > linux > > 2.4.0, Debian 2.2 R2, and NE2000/3C509

Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-13 Thread Michael Madden
I'd written yesterday describing problems with linux 2.4.0, Debian 2.2 R2, and NE2000/3C509 NICS. Thanks for all the help! The working solution was to download and install the new modutils package from: http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/modutils_2.4.1-0potato1_i386.deb Thanks, Michael _

Kernel 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-12 Thread Michael Madden
I've got 2 Debian 2.2 R2 systems. One has a NE2000 ISA NIC, and the other one has a 3Com 3C509 ISA card. I've recently updated the kernel to 2.4.0, and I'm having a great deal of trouble getting the network cards working. When it is booting up I get errors indicating the device /dev/eth0 doesn'