Virtual box

2015-10-19 Thread Mitch Nuss
I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info you have for me would be great thanks. Sent from my iPhone

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread mitch
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:35:25 -0400 Long Wind wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, mitch > wrote: > > > > I had the same problem, scsi drives failing to start, shutting down > > while running. > > > > Bad power connector. The pins were not ma

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread mitch
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:21 -0400 Long Wind wrote: > It's no surprise because the light on scsi disk isn't on > I reconnect the power cable to scsi disk again and again > and then with some luck the disk works normally. > It seems that the power connection becomes loose I had the same problem,

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-06-27 Thread mitch
> This might be a good time to consider Linux?! It's made my boobie grepping better! Linux that is... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread mitch
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 15:17 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > how to association mailto mime type with icedove? > > Currently, when clicking on a mailto url, firefox gives me an error > message saying that there is no association for the mailto mime type. I > want to association with icedove, how

ldonfig errors

2009-03-16 Thread mitch
ran aptitude update and then safe-upgrade and the following error messages came up. Googled for help, found some bugs from last year. Is this a bug or an error that is correctable? debian:/home/mitch# aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-14 Thread mitch
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:30 -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. > Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations > or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. > Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and th

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:04 -0500, Rob Singelais wrote: > mitch wrote: > >> I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. > >> The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong > >> with my cups config because X

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
> > Sharing a printer to Windows XP clients with Samba and Cups > > > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 > > > > > > > I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. > The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong > with my

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 07:42 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rob Singelais wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed hplip 2.8.7 using the automatic installer from > > sourceforge and the printer works fine on Debian Lenny. I installed > > samba and am trying to share it to a Windows XP machine.

Mulit card USB reader Compact Flash not being detected

2009-01-20 Thread mitch
Have a USB multi slot card reader. When I plug it in, all slots except the Compact Flash are shown. Tried a different card reader, no difference. Insert a 1GB card and it is accessible. Other slots are shown and mounted, tried a SD card and could access the files on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:24 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > then move your ~/.mozilla somewhere else, and reboot? > > Mitch, > > I'm not sure if you were catching this as humor or not, but just to be > on the safe side... you're s

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:55 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2009 January 05 14:07:19 you wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:58 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > If so, send me *via private > > > mail* the file created by: > > > strace -f -t $(which iceweasel) 2>&1 | bzip2

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
T (No such file or directory) [pid 17037] open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/stock/media", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 23 [pid 17037] open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache", O_RDONLY| O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or direc

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:57 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2009 January 05 11:29:48 André Neves wrote: > > Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox > > processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). > > Wow! How many times

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 15:29 -0200, André Neves wrote: > Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox > processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). > > André There are none running. Use Gnome as desk top and looked in System Monitor and it shows no

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:16:41 -0500, mitch wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > > > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was us

Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below started. "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart your system." Googled for reasons and possible fixes. Killed iceweasel proces

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:26 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch wrote: > > Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. > > > > Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. > > What about after

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > > started. > > > > "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 23 Feb, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which SATA controller are we talking about? Post the output of: > lspci -nn | grep -i sata debian:~# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge [1106:0336] 00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, In

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 22 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean get the machine to see? I can't access it, view it, format it or anything? I'm at a complete loss on how to proceed. > What does dmesg show? eth0: RTL8169s/8110s at 0xd8850c00, 00:e0:4c:69:13:15, IRQ 50 Probing IDE interface

Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-22 Thread Mitch Crawford
the same data on another machine (would be WinXP ) -- Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sand-hill.freeserve.co.uk/terminal_crazy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-22 Thread Mitch Crawford
Thanks to all those that helped get my internet connection working. AFAICT the Guru router seems to be replying with malformed packets on the DNS, just what that means I don't know at this stage, but my other machines seem to connect OK. All i have done basically is list the router 3rd and put th

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This to me suggests that you have a dns related issue. I'd check to make > sure you have no entries in /etc/hosts for 1.0.0.0 , then you check > your nameservers each by: host ftp.debian.org 10.0.0.254 , then replace > the 10.0.0.254 with each dns se

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
I _DON'T_ think this _IS_ a dns issue anymore. I can ping external addresses & traceroute finds them it just appears to be the web browsers that can't. Anybody got any idea? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
Ok, I noticed when the machine booted, a lwresd ( lightweight resolver daemon) which appears to be running as well as bind ? What DNS services should be running? or are multiple ones compatable with each other? How do I check for clashes etc ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hhhm, I have: > hosts: files dns > You could at least try putting 'dns' immediately after 'files'. had tried before, & now looks like that > The only thing I can find related to mdns (and which seems relevant > here) is avahi-daemo

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's that comma doing there? typo, since I've not got the network working yet! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
Looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf I have a line hosts:files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 I presume this is the order used to find hosts... and does it look correct? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's that comma doing there? typo also other typo #ip address shows eth0 shows 10.0.0.7 when it is actually 10.0.0.6 > Also note that all nameserver lines after the first three will be > ignored, and your "domain" and "search" lines are at b

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can the other machines in your LAN ping 10.0.0.6 ? yes, no problem > A few days ago, upon routine (daily) upgrading with Synaptic, I > discovered that network-manager (which previously was not working > correctly on this machine) was obtain

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. I have 3 other machines connected to this 4 port router all which can connect ok & have

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-16 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 16 Feb, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mitch writes: > > Why I want static IP addresses so don't want DHCP turned on. > Then you are going to have to get the IP numbers of your ISP's > nameservers and put them in /etc/resolv.conf. Done that /e

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
OK, I can ping local & external sites. I still can't browse by name, but entering the IP no in the browser allows me to connect to some sites. I've added more ISP dns numbers to /etc/resolv.conf I've still no idea what's wrong :-( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you removed NetworkManager? > > no, how do i do that ? > With aptitude. Ok, Done that, now what -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you removed NetworkManager? > > no, how do i do that ? > With aptitude. what would the command be ? (I have no idea) > I'm a bit confused. > Do we have two peopl with networking troubles using th

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, we'll start from here. thanks > Have you removed NetworkManager? no, how do i do that ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can only use fixed IP if the router to which you are connecting is > under your control as well. If it will only use DHCP then you have to > use it for the network connection between this box and the router. I think the router uses DHCP

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought you said that the router was the DHCP server and that the > debian box we're working on should use DHCP (as a __client__). I think it is Paul that is having simialr problems No this is a fresh install of debian 4.0r2. I have tried

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
I've tried deactivating eth0 and rebooted. the program NetworkManager Applet 0.6.4 connects with active connection ,the IP no is169.254.176.243 as per the link-local setting. Again i can connect with the browser only to www.debian.org but now i can't ping local machines or internet addresses. rou

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok i've rebooted again and still the same. > I've looked in /etc/networks and it has a line link-local 169.254.0.0 > what is this for, as this was nearly the ip i get when the network > connects to the router and gets its own ip. (169.254.176.243)] I've be

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
Ok i've rebooted again and still the same. I've looked in /etc/networks and it has a line link-local 169.254.0.0 what is this for, as this was nearly the ip i get when the network connects to the router and gets its own ip. (169.254.176.243)] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it looks like you might have a dns issue now. I would suggest you > verify your dns settings in /etc/resolv.conf. It should look something > like this: > search your.domain > nameserver 1.3.5.7 > nameserver 2.4.6.8 I've got nameserver 10.0.0.25

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, that all looks good, is everything working now? No > ping? seems to be fine names & IP nos. >browsing web? I canconnect to www.debian.org and www.google.co.uk serching google for debian comes up with a list, i can select & connect to a link www

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
ok i've rebooted and now have: > > ip route show > 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0 protp kernel scope link src 10.0.0.6 default via 10.0.0.254 dev eth0 > > or if you dont have the iproute2 package installed > > ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:69:13:15 > inet addr:10.0.0.6 Bc

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you aren't using ipv6 you can disable it by adding : > alias ipv6 off > to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases ok done that. > whats the out put of: > ip address show dev eth0 2: eth0: mtu1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:e0:4c:69:13:15 brd ff

New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
OK I've tried setting up the dhcp server and am still having similar results so I've gone back to fixed IP nos. I can ping local machines by name & number I can ping www.debian.org using the web browser epiphany i can't connect using the IP no for debian.org or by name. the browser iceweasel

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf package zeroconf is not installed, so not removed. On 15 Feb, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just try "aptitude purge zeroconf". the following packages have been kept back: linux-image-2.6.-486 0 packa

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ifconfig is showing inet6 addr with the 169.254.176.243 net address, > You probably have zeroconf installed. Remove it. Where does it live ? Search can't find it -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > internet <-> ISP <-> router <-> [your computer] <-> your network > and I assume that we are then discussing [your computer]. The debian, all the others are working fine internet <-> ISP<->router-<-> Debian box

New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Mitch Crawford
ifconfig is showing inet6 addr with the 169.254.176.243 net address, where is this coming from, the router or the ISP ? I can't connect using any other method or settings. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 14 Feb, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > right now there are these 3 scripts: > S38resolvconf > S39ifupdown > S40networking I havn't got S38 ? What I have found is that if I disable the network & re enable it I do get a connection from the wired network. I'm gu

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 14 Feb, Mitch Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having problems with a new installation 4.0r2 > I can't get the machine to connect out using the browser. > I can ping local machines ( i've set up hosts file & use fixed ip nos only > in the 10.0.0

New User- Network Problem

2008-02-14 Thread Mitch Crawford
I'm having problems with a new installation 4.0r2 I can't get the machine to connect out using the browser. I can ping local machines ( i've set up hosts file & use fixed ip nos only in the 10.0.0.x 255.255.255.0 range) I can ping debian.org ok, it gives 192.25.206.10 as an ip no so the dns appea

apt-get update, bzip "Data integrity error"

2007-09-13 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Hello everyone, I popped into my Etch Web server today to check for updates, and found a few (using aptitude). I marked all of the suggested updates and pushed "g" to install them, and then went back to my work. When I checked in on my server again, I got the error messages included below. The

Re: Vim highlight high-ascii characters?

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:51PM -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering is anyone knows how I can configure my Vim (7.0) to >> highlight ASCII characters outside of the 0-128 range. >> >> I

Vim highlight high-ascii characters?

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Hi all, I'm wondering is anyone knows how I can configure my Vim (7.0) to highlight ASCII characters outside of the 0-128 range. I mostly write PHP/XHTML, and sometimes I have to copy content from word processed documents, and that sometimes inserts odd, but otherwise not visually detectable char

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Matthew K Poer wrote: > [snip] > Absolutely. If you can learn some basic PHP, start coding by hand and > send it to your web host. > > But, again, we're looking for the least-bad WYSIWYG editor, I think, and > NVU is the only one I even know of other than mozilla composer. > > Follow up to a previ

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > Two approches: > 1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the Save As > XHTML > feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for a quick > page. However, > 2. For creating an intricate web site, or a serie

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > While I haven't used DW in many years (since I realized it has serious > vendor lock-in issues) > > I didn't know that. And I suspect my friend didn't know that before he > started using DW. > Yep, back in the days of yore, I began developing a We

Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Paul Johnson wrote: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote in Article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > >> I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However >> he had some problems (which I don't remember, and my friend is not here >> right now).

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-09 Thread Mitch
before ATI will. Mitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bandwidth and uptime graphs

2006-08-08 Thread Mitch
On 08/06/06 22:28 PM, Bryan Fr?chette wrote: > Hi i would like to know if anyone has a php app that can show bandwidth > and uptime graphs or ping graphs on a website, if anyone has an idea, > thank you > http://cricket.sf.net and http://www.cacti.net/ are two more rrdtool based pack

Re: ATI Driver Installer ATI Installer Version: 8.27.10

2006-08-08 Thread Mitch
just ln -s the dri dir. You can confirm this with 'setenv LIBGL_DEBUG verbose' (tcsh, translate to yours) before running glxinfo. Maybe that helps, sorry if it doesn't. Mitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

moving the boot harddrive to a different IDE cable/position

2006-05-04 Thread Mitch Marks
trd.img-2.4.27-2-386 savedefault boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST Can I just imitate these entries but make it /dev/hda1? Would it be better to just change these, or to leave them and add copies edited to use dev/hda1? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give, == Mitch -- Mitchell M

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:19:10 -0500 >Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I suggest you keep your ego in check and remember you're on a >>*debian-user* email list. >> >> > >As a Debian user (an

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Mike McCarty wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:35:15AM -0500, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >> >>> I'd like to make a motion that we discontinue this very OT thread. >> >> >> >> Second. > > > You don't have t

Re: Science and Religion the same??? (was Re: Request to remove Information)

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Could you all argue about this amongst yourselves? You're spamming the rest of the *debian-user* list. Remember Debian? It's a computer operating system. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Imap

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
ion tweaking on the server, or the client may be needed to allow weird e-mail clients like Microsoft Outlook to access it? So, does anyone have experience hooking MS Outlook to an IMAP server? -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -

HTML e-mail and mailing lists

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
t I wouldn't send it to an e-mail list unless it was a generally accepted practice on the specific list. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing kernel 2.6

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
X420." When I try to install the .run program it tells me >something about the kernel source. If someone can help me I would Greatly >Appreciate it. > > I can't help you there. I don't use non-free drivers. I'd be surprised if there isn't a few pages on the W

"Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Is anyone else suddenly getting spammed by "Antispam UOL" messages related to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
I'd like to make a motion that we discontinue this very OT thread. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphical installer

2005-11-16 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
ortunity to install from CD, FTP/HTTP, and a few other places. Good luck! -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing default runlevels

2005-11-15 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
, kdm, gdm, or wdm). > Or, instead of removing the display manager (*dm), simply remove the symlink in /etc/rc2.d/S99*dm. That way, it'll still be there if you want it, but it won't start at boot time. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Imap

2005-11-15 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
following: Fatal error > Maildir No such file or directory). The imap server is running and > postfix is working fine. > > Good someone explain what this means? > > Roy Do other mail clients work properly? Or does everyone receive the same error? -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster

Re: sytem running out of free disk space

2005-11-15 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
ith debian. > >Regards, > > Is adding another disk out of the question? Have you removed all packages that you do not use via apt? Simply hacking away at files that you don't think you are using is kinda dangerous. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Assoc

Re: Changing file associations in KDE

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
surface There are other ways to association files (using mime types and such) in KDE, but the above method is what works best for me. Good luck. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >All Nicks Are Taken wrote: > > > >>Hi. >>A few of days ago I decided I want to upgrade my Sarge to Sid >>(unstable) and so I did (changed the apt sources list, as I've read in >>some article.) >>Couple of days ago everything

Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
orking) /etc/fstab get hosed by a new non-worky fstab? You *do* have a backup of your old /etc/fstab don't you? :) That would be my first step. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with e2fsprogs - conflicts/pre-depeds loop

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
appreciate it if you > could kindly mail me offlist. > > > -- > You have to be what you don't want to be, in order to be what you want > to be! The only way I've been able to fix this problem (usually encountered when upgrading a "testing" distro) was to

Re: jpilot

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
> >But what device is "uhci_hcd"? > >Thank you > >Chris > > My Sony Clie usually uses /dev/ttyUSB1. Also, make sure you are in the "dialout" group, or whichever group is associated with the ttyUSB devs -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free S

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-12 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
g a great deal of time upgrading perfectly useful software for no reason, and fixing the bugs that were being introduced with each upgrade. That's great if I'm involved in helping the distribution developers, but not so great if I'm just trying to get work done. That is why I don't

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-11 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Brad Sawatzky wrote: > I am afraid that the request is going to generate a much larger trail > than if it had been just left alone... A very good point. I knew nothing of the original message before ther removal request came along. This is going to end up on Slashdot... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-11 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Weissgerber, Tom L wrote: > //Debian,// > > //The following information should not have been made available to the > entire public domain. Please remove the following links/files at your > earliest convenience. // > // I don't know how to break this to you Tom, but the message thread has already b

Re: apt problems

2005-11-10 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
just edit /etc/apt/sources.lst with nano, then do apt-get update -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Many packages missing from testing

2005-11-10 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
ck out this thread. Some perspectives on the missing packages in testing... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg00683.html -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing vs. Stable

2005-11-10 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
s the repository name. This means that I'll always be using the "stable" distribution, whether it is Woody, Sarge, Etch, or whatever. HTH -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI

2005-11-10 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
link which causes your installed display manager (gdm, kdm, or xdm) to start: rm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm rm /etc/rc2.d/S99kdm rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm This will leave you with a complete GUI that simply doesn't start on boot. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association htt

Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
he potential for some occasional aggravation) use "testing" or "unstable". If you want nice, boring consistency, and predictability, use "stable", and take a couple of steps back from the leading edge... :) -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
f iptable. > > Could someone let me know the location? > > Thanks > > Badboy Hi Roy, I have an iptables script that I store in my home directory, but I create a symlink for it in /etc/rc2.d so that it will be run at boot time. Others that I know store it in /root. So,

Re: wrangling screen and btdownloadcurses [solved]

2005-11-04 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >Greetings all, > >I have a custom GNU/Linux live CD that I am offering for download via >bittorrent. I have been using a "screen" session to run >"btdownloadcurses" to seed the download on my Web server. This works >just fine for

wrangling screen and btdownloadcurses

2005-11-04 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
pt to gracefully kill the screen + btdownload first. All of this has gotten rather Rube Goldberg-esque, so I thought it might be time to ask for help. :) -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Missing curses libraries

2005-11-04 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
ps after the rebuild. The system works >amazingly well to be missing something so important.:-) > > Thanks for any ideas. It makes me wonder what else isn't >working because of the missing libraries. > >Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >OSU Information

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
t;I'd vote for REJECTing. > > I prefer DROP because it's more stealthy. But I just did a Google search about DROP v. REJECT and found this interesting thread: http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=161991 Cheers. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Soft

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
e owner of the attackers ip address? > Should i do something else? > > > Greetings, > > Thomas Have you considered setting up a firewall? The best thing to do with attackers is drop their packets. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafree

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-11-03 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
fers are optimised using a version of the rsync protocol, making it ideal for slower links. Unison has a clear and precise specification, and is resilient to failure due to its careful handling of the replicas and its private structures. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Associa

Re: Trouble installing on to Dell Laptop

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
n one of them, I actually had to install from a Woody disc and upgrade. You might also try getting the full Sarge disc 1 iso and see if that works. Sorry I don't have more useful info for you, but you aren't alone... -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association ht

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Thomas wrote: > Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > >> Thomas wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi there. >>> >>> I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can >>> receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop

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