Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Henk Koster wrote: Thanks for your assistance. I use lp or lpr for printing text files (as stated in the OP), e.g. $ ls |lp to print a directory listing to the default printer (I have only one printer). That lp is really /usr/bin/lp. I've made no changes to the default Debian printing setup.

Re: [OT] German was Re: Laptop

2009-02-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: I understand the rest but what's "Bastelkunst"? "The art of how to do-it-yourself" is the closest translation I can think of. 'Basteln' literally means 'do handicrafts'. It's also used for experiment

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Cartwright wrote: I only plug it in to do backups. The rest of the time it is unplugged and away That's good. from the regualr PC. I have an UPS and 2 surge protectors between all my PC stuff and any electrical outlet. This IS a home system, and I don't really have access to an off-si

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Richard Hector wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:05 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: I would agree.. I use a $100 500Gb Mybook external as 1-part of my backup scheme. I use rsync and back up my desktop AND my laptop to the external HD. easy to specify folders and use a file for

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: Is there an altogether better/smarter/reliabl-er solution? IMHO, the smartest, fastest, most reliable and cheapest solution is to use external hard disks like usb-disks. You could reuse the same disk f

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
H.S. wrote: Currently, I backup my /home to a partition on a second hard disk in my desktop. The photos are mounted on a different desktop in a partition on a hard disk which is shared via samba so that anyone on my home lan can view them. That partition is backed up on to an external USB hard di

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Cartwright wrote: I would agree.. I use a $100 500Gb Mybook external as 1-part of my backup scheme. I use rsync and back up my desktop AND my laptop to the external HD. easy to specify folders and use a file for exceptions. IMO, this is an inadequate strategy. Backup media need to be stor

Re: building entire Lenny from source

2008-12-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I'd like to build the whole of Lenny from source and am looking for advice on the easiest tools to use. I looked at pbuilder and rebuildd and nearly had a headache. Are there tutorials out there? May I suggest Linux From Scratch? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Dotan Cohen wrote: On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that are used when logging in / starting a Konsole: .profile Run once upon login. .bash_history List of previous commands for recall/edit/re execution .bash_logout Run once upon logout .bash_profile

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Mike McCarty
David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what do you recommend for such an annoyance? rsync takes a while for me. But I rather I have 1 large tar file and untar as needed. tar isn't the best tool to use for the job, especially if you need 1 file

Re: Copy entire /usr

2008-09-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Dave Patterson wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote: Hi all. I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks is starting to fail. [...] Example: assume /usr is the only thing on /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1 (or some partition on another disk) has eno

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping google.com PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=180 ms Hmm. It translates to the same IP address fo

Re: rsync over lan

2008-09-09 Thread Mike McCarty
tyler wrote: [I use my lan to] do the backup from my user account as: rsync -av --include-from=/home/tyler/rsync_includes / etch.mynetwork:/home/tyler/laptop Then the ownerships all get set to tyler tyler, even when they are originally root root. In order to preserve the ownerships, I have t

Re: partitions

2008-09-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Mark Grieveson wrote: Thanks for this detailed response. And thanks to others for their feedback. At some point in the future, I'm going to give this a try. I should get a larger, and/or additional hard-drive first, though, for backups. In browsing the available list of packages, I saw the pa

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

2008-09-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: If he's filled up memory, and the system has swapped the code EMACS uses to move the cursor to disc, then he may be seeing lag due to swap time to move the code in and execute it. That might or might not

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

2008-09-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeff Soules wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Must... not... compare... emacs... to... Operating... System... I wasn't comparing anything to anything. I don't understand even what your objection might be. In the old vi-vs.-EMACS

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

2008-09-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/05/08 10:46, Mike McCarty wrote: Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Have

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

2008-09-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Have you looked at the output from top? You may be swapping. Mik

Re: partitions

2008-09-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Mark Grieveson wrote: Thanks for this detailed response. And thanks to others for their feedback. At some point in the future, I'm going to give this a try. I should get a larger, and/or additional hard-drive first, though, for backups. In browsing the available list of packages, I saw the pa

Re: partitions

2008-09-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. When debian first installs, it gives the option of separating the home directory (and some other directories) into a separate partition. I did not choose this option, and instead went for the recommended newbie option of everything in one partition. However, now I

Re: partitions

2008-09-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [...] # mount -o remount,rw / # echo "/dev/hdb1 /home auto exec" >> /etc/fstab Hah, used a cut-n-paste, which missed something which flowed over onto the next line. Make that echo "/dev/hdb1 /home auto exec 1 1" >>

Re: partitions

2008-09-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] # mount -o remount,rw / # echo "/dev/hdb1 /home auto exec" >> /etc/fstab Hah, used a cut-n-paste, which missed something which flowed over onto the next line. Make that echo "/dev/hdb1 /home auto exec 1 1" >> /etc/fstab That

Re: partitions

2008-09-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. When debian first installs, it gives the option of separating the home directory (and some other directories) into a separate partition. I did not choose this option, and instead went for the recommended newbie option of everything in one partition. However, now I

Re: package to make a system restore image

2008-08-26 Thread Mike McCarty
edu gargiulo wrote: I've recently finished installing xen from sources on my system. During the compiling process, the system had connected to different places and downloaded packages. I would like to make a system image at this time, so if I need to install xen in the future, I just only have to

Re: problems with tar for backup (maximum tar file size?)

2008-08-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] So I was wondering: (1) Is it true that tar files can't be bigger than 8GB, and (2) If so, what should I use to backup directories bigger than 8GB? I wanted to stick with tar because I can open those on other platforms. If directory size isn't the problem, then what coul

Re: boot

2008-05-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Diego A. Podestá wrote: Buenas Antes que nada aclaro que soy novato. Y antes que nada, siento que la lista es solo ingles. [...] Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% r

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Wackojacko wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] to Debian. Her plan is to use Knoppix to move her mail files etc. from the Debian partition to an external FAT drive, and then reboot Windows and import. If the debian install used ext2/3 then there is a driver for windows XP (http://www.fs

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:14:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Thanks all for the advice and help with this. I went over ... Windows XP. ... snipped tale of the death of a free computer... and a fantastic anecdote in support of RTFM

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... (what' s a GF?) ... Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better before Debian came along ) The concept is not hazy, but the practice is. I don't understand THEM much at all. But, as I advised my son, I don't try too

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested that they be reposted. [snip] Well, the story is under the thread about GNOME and multiple queues on printers. Thanks all for the helpful comments and such. Michelle, I believe we've met before

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-25 03:11:39, schrieb Mike McCarty: It would take more than just kernel, of course. I am investigating LFS. Gentoo seems to have accepted SELinux as well, though since it is a source distro most of the work would be easier in that case, perhaps. And where is

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: Thanks all for the advice and help with this. I went over to her house a little early yesterday, and walked up to her machine, which had the customary blank screen. I tapped the "left shift" key, and poised to enter the password into the screen saver, when I was

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: As I said, I'm going to try using the direct CUPS I/F tonight when I go over there. At present, I'm about 15 miles from the computer, so it's problematic to try stuff out :-) Have you consi

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Okay, I think a lot of your problems would be alleviated by an upgrade to etch. Again, this is all predicated on the idea that she will give you a little more time to do this stuff. Ok. head over to www.debian.org and read up (at least browse through) the upgrad

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I realise that, just posting up so that 1) others can keep track of stuff we've discussed off-list and 2) so that I know you got the message not knowing how/when you

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] has for a while. I suspect its a case of PEBCAK. :) You can definitely set up another queue and you can do so for sure through the localhost:631 interface. YOu have to review all the data from the other instance of the printer as you have to re-enter it as if

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: I know how to do the necessary admin with FC. Debian I'm much less capable with. I wouldn't call FC "turnkey". But it uses a completely different set of admin tools. Why did you push Debian on her, when your expertise lies in FC? "Push" is a four letter word :-) I got her

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: How current is her Debian install? From stable, but a little old. From what you're saying I think she is running oldstable (sarge) and not stable (etch). It could make a big difference as etch has kernel 2.6.18 as opposed to 2.6.8 (or the default 2.4). From stable a

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I've printed off the CUPS docu from their home page, and I'll give the web or CLI another try tomorrow night. (If she'll let me, that is :-) Thanks! Your welcome, Mike. One question. With your GF h

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been a while) using a debug startup allows us to get up to a root login, and look around, but usi

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 01:17 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: [snip of something I can't help with] She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, but there

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:44 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... PS/2 style keyboard PS/2 style mouse Keyboard works PS/2 style keyboard USB style mouse Keyboard stops working I am afraid I

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Ok, so how does one get a newer kernel, install it, and get all the memory available? That question indicates, to me at least, that you don't know as much about Debian as I thought you did. That's not

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 03:22 -0500]: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. Oops! I somehow n

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: Plenty of stuff, lots of replies and multipost threads. Can't see any bug reports. Guess it's off to the BTS to search there. Drat. How 'bout that? Search of the BTS for submitter reports no reports found. Huh? What address did you submit them from? H, methinks t

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 20:49 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. Cool! What distro is that? What version of gnome does i

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: [snip of something I can't help with] She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, but there is already another thread about that. There is currently no work around, but there is hope

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... PS/2 style keyboard PS/2 style mouse Keyboard works PS/2 style keyboar

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this "room for improvement." A lot of projects and products spend a lot of time working on non-goals; the question at hand is whether adoption by the level of user in question is or is not a goal. I'm

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
cothrige wrote: After walking in from a day of my kids' soccer matches I noticed this thread and feel I really must post a comment. I may be very late to It seems like just one of those things, doesn't it :-) [snip] which posts or questions were those being talked about here. Really, with

Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested that they be reposted. If you don't like reading stuff YET AGAIN, then just skip this message, please. My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been a while) using

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: [that he couldn's use the GUI to put multiple queues on one printer] I don't run Gnome or KDE here I hope they accept the Cups config. If not, someone someone that does run them, should submit a bug repo

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. Cool! What distro is that? What version of gnome does it run? Maybe it's running a newer version that didn't hit debian yet. I'

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:43:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Have you tried it on other distros and it's different? Yes. [snip] This is gnome, love it or leave it! Wor

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
s. keeling wrote: [snip] fwiw, I've found a really good place to ask difficult questions is in debian-mentors. Thanks for the pointer. If I can convince her not to wipe Debian from the disc, I think I'll subscribe there as well. I don't have much hopes on that point, however. Mike -- p="p=%c

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: Mike writes: There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was directed at those people. You told us that some unnamed person had unidentified problems which they reported in some unknown way with reported

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: That's precisely it. It appears to me that the GNOME printer manager shipped with Debian is either broken or deficient in this area. Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Hav

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: I tried to reply off-list, but the email bounced. Mike writes: I provide this information only as an indicator of where there might be an opportunity to win more Windows users and lose fewer. I don't see that you provided any useful information. Then it wasn't directed a

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing that, but so far have failed to manage it with Debian. Can anyone help me get

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Bird wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote: I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event. We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess some of us would appreciate your posting links to the previous problems you

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Martin Marcher wrote: Why is it that simple statments, preceded by disclaimers indicating that they are not complaints, get treated as complaints? Hello, I'm interested in the job offer you posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several years of experience in Desktop and Server systems with debian

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] On the other hand, I did not see a statement in your original letter that said she (or you) actually asked for help on a mailing list or similar forum. Every problem she's had has been reported here with details as well. just before this one, I seriously doubt your

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mark Phillips wrote: Mike, you have to realize that support is provided by volunteers who have lives (families, children, jobs, little league, etc.) outside of supporting the software. There is no guarentee of any support when you install Debian. But it is there. You have to learn how to ask, an

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Bird wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: (big snip) Anyway, that's it, FWIW. Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to perceived lack of help, a user is leaving (or at least it s

Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
I have some feedback about my GF who uses Debian at my suggestion. I have no irons in the fire on this one, as I don't use Debian, though I do administer her machine for her. So, please don't take this as a complaint from me, as it isn't. I'm simply informing the Debian forum of a situation. She'

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:11:39 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] packages. It is fewer than that. Compared to 10k source packages, however, even the bloated figure of 50 is "few". BTW, I count 29 packages. I was using the publishe

GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing that, but so far have failed to manage it with Debian. Can anyone help me get her machine set up to have more than one queue on her printer? The connectivit

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:54:34 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:16 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Firstly: Very few packages have been actively pat

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:16 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Firstly: Very few packages have been actively patched to link Something like 50 or so. ls, mv, cp, etc. Source packages. All those are from coreuti

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-24 Thread Mike McCarty
consultores agropecuarios wrote: The real problem with SELinux is that it come from a really well known untrusted organization around the globe; and if the Debian Team accep it blindly, Debian is going to become as Windows; remember that, who I don't think anyone has accepted SELinux "blindly"

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:14:57 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On small systems, what about the penalty of just larger binaries? I have some older boxes with 16-64 MB ram. Firstly: Very few packages have been actively patched to link Somethi

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Its not their thing either. I know there are minidistros like DSL but DSL is small as in how much can they pack onto a small CD, not how to shoehorn into 16-32 MB ram. I'm also not sure how they keep up with security fixes. I beg to differ. One of the "selling points"

Re: Systemmonitor im KDE Kicker aktivieren?

2007-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Gebhardt Thomas wrote: Hallo, ich habe verschiedene Etch-Rechner (und auch diverse Kubuntu-Varianten). Leider ist dies keine deutsche sprache Liste. Bei einigen dieser Rechner wird bei der Auswahl der verfügbaren Miniprogramme der "Systemmonitor" angeboten, bei anderen nicht. Ich grüble nun

Can't configure multiple print queues for one printer

2007-09-21 Thread Mike McCarty
I administer a machine on which we wish to have multiple queues associated with a single locally (USB) connected printer. This machine is GNOME. I can't seem to figure out how to do that with Debian. I use FC2 on another machine, and have no troubles configuring multiple queues for my single print

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Miles Bader wrote: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lighten up, Mike! You are reading into my reply a connotation which I did not intend and which is not supported by the context. If you want people to take you lightly, then add a smiley. The word "humbug" basic

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Joey Hess wrote: SE Linux is already included in Debian, and is even installed, though not enabled, by default. You can remove the selinux-policy-* packages to remove it. That is naive, is it not? The apps themselves have to be SELinux- aware. So, one can remove the policy packages, but not S

Re: LPR and CUPS

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] to choose not to use cups). I'm baffled by the source of this continued trouble, though I don't deny its existence. You should have stopped sooner! You're just baffled - FULL STOP! :-) Nice to see you again! Still getting SPAM? I'm not. Mike -- p="p=%c%s

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070920 22:21]: Russell L. Harris wrote: * Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070920 21:10]: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Gregory O'Neal wrote: I am new to linux. I have been running Etch for

SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
May I suggest to the Debian developers that, should they contemplate including SELinux into Debian, they not follow Red Hat's decision to make it a fixed part of the distro, which can be disabled, but rather continue to provide a version of the distro which just does not have SELinux in it at all?

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070920 21:10]: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Gregory O'Neal wrote: I am new to linux. I have been running Etch for a month or so now on my Gateway Desktop. I am considering moving up to testing. This brings up th

Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/21/07 13:44, Tod Detre wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Most pdf's are mainly text. You should be able to use standard tools like grep and perl. But PDF is compressed. ? You could try converting to post script and searching, I suppose. But I n

Re: chkrootkit and rkhunter are too old ?

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Good point. Too bad tripwire isn't on Knoppix. One might e-mail Knopper :-) One might also do his own respin :-) Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made fro

Re: using sizeof

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Jon Dowland wrote: Because sizeof is not really the size of the struct, it is the distance between adjacent structs in an array. Alignment forces the extra bytes I'm not quite sure I get what you're saying here. Yes, alignment pads out the structure. But I'm not sure where arrays come into it

Re: How can I acces unformatted cd/dvd with data on

2007-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Michael Schwinck wrote: I am running etch (last updated in April 2007) and trying to read a dvd which contains one big file (no file system). - It has been written by a dvd-recorder (connected to a tv set). But also writing e.g. a tar archive to a cd leads to the same issue: /var/log/messages ext

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 16:59, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: lkml? What is lkml? This is not an insult, but a stunned question: You've been around Linux this long and don't know what that means? Since low

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Manon Metten wrote: Hi Mike, On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do believe he's got it... almost. Errr... She :-) Sorry 'bout that! Hard to see what you look like! Abject apologies and all that. Also, that's a better quote (from "My Fair

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: lkml? What is lkml? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't un

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory stick. Here's the setup... CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick Ok, I realize that it mounts when connected directly, so there is a work around. But is anyone willing to help figure out what is

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy a

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS 6.22

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones possbile. This is not an issue with the distro, it's a d

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Mike. Mike McCarty, 07.08.2007 09:22: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Manon Metten wrote: Thanks for explaining. So I understand that export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH concatenates "~/scripts" and "$PATH" and sets the result to be the new $PATH. I do believe he's got it... almost. If ENV_VAR is an environment variable, then the shell interprets $ENV_VAR as a request

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Manon Metten wrote: Hi Mike, On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do something like this $ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done every time. I was looking for some kind of 'path' command but could n

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
terryc wrote: [snip] Now, if you really want low cost per page, mono, look at a good dot Did you really mean to use that word? I dunno what language you intended, but in slangy Spanish "'mano" is short for "hermano", or brother. But "mono" is pejorative. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,3

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Manon Metten wrote: Hi, I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that? M> echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games But how do I add ~/scripts to that path? Do something like this $ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH If you put it into the appropriate startup

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: There's a Live CD based on Mandriva which has Virtualbox built-in. RAM requirements are bound to be very hefty, but 1 GB should be enough. $ head /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 248088 kB MemFree: 2916 kB Buffers: 9240 kB Cached: 51432 kB Swap

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Mike. [about kqemu] No, I couldn't get it to build for me. How did you try? More than the following commands is not necessary: I downloaded the source and used the recommended commands. # apt-get install module-assistant # m-a prepare # m-a a-i kqemu # modpro

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Tom Grove wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. [snip] Did you run kqemu with qemu? No, I couldn'

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