Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Dugan
Duncan Anderson wrote: On Saturday, 18 March 2006 23:36, Wulfy wrote: My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. I plugged it into one

Re: Debian DVD Cebit-Edition: What is the password for root ?

2006-03-16 Thread Neil Dugan
Kent West wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello dear maintainers, I have got a Debian-DVD at the Cebit in Hannover. Installing went fine, but it does not ask, what password root should have. However, I saw that there already a password for root exists. What is it ? Can you please tell me ?

Re: Newcomers to Debian downloading/ordering full CD-set

2006-03-14 Thread Neil Dugan
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:38:58 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about having a Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the development part. No it's not, all releases

Re: autodns-dhcp

2006-03-07 Thread Neil Dugan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, I need badly to switch from Red Hat linux to Debian. Is there somewhere I can go or there someone who can do it for me. I'm willing to pay. Thank you. Tom Boyd If you want someone to do it for you it is best to say where you are. Just a thought I am

Re: about ip adress

2006-03-01 Thread Neil Dugan
Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: Dear friend on servera apache and mysql works then I setup up a mysql server on diferent machine (serverb) and test it, everything is ok with serverb. there are two ethernet cards on server a but one(eth0) was active this gat real ip. and I want to give eth1

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Neil Dugan
. wrote: . wrote: how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet Thanks for your input! :) I've installed wu-ftpd on the workstation rather than on the mailserver (I should have thought earlier of that!), and it was easy and worked flawless except that the ftp cli

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Neil Dugan
Clyde Wilson wrote: When I run "shieldsup" at grc.com it says my firewall sucks. I would like to plug obvious leaks in my home system... If you are using a broadband connection then what (most likely) got tested is the firewall on the broadband modem/router. If you are using a dialup connec

Re: networking problem

2006-02-26 Thread Neil Dugan
L.V.Gandhi wrote: My laptop is served by dhcp router. my hostname lvgdell600m. lvgdell600m:~# cat /etc/hostname lvgdell600m my /etc/hosts is lvgdell600m:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost lvgdell600m 192.168.1.51mohan 192.168.1.52lvgdell600m 192.168

Re: dns?

2006-02-26 Thread Neil Dugan
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 2/26/06, Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Running a local caching dns server is just fine, and can improve performance. If you are serving dhcp on a network, it is more or less required. This is quite distinct from running an authoritative DNS server which serves

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Neil Dugan
Marc Shapiro wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you have a dynamic IP of some sort. You might want to look at registering your ip with one of the dynamic dns services, who will effectively map your address to a static for you.

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Neil Dugan
Mike McCarty wrote: Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge. I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. Thanks in advance! Almost surely you do not have a fixed IP address. If you want to host a web site, the usual way with this type

Re: Debian as terminalserver

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Dugan
Lars wrote: Hi I got a mini-itx epia-800 board and i'm planning on using it to experiment with terminal-server. The mini-itx should work as a diskless thin client and i got a pc to work as server. But what software makes a good terminal-server? I read that the fai-server, although its an install

Re: Chinese censorship Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-06 Thread Neil Dugan
Alex Polite wrote: On 2/3/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But how come I find no google hits at all for distwatchd? Maybe the Chinese mistook it for a human rights watch group ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Censorship_in_mainland_China you could always go directly

Re: Chinese censorship Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-06 Thread Neil Dugan
Alex Polite wrote: On 2/3/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But how come I find no google hits at all for distwatchd? Maybe the Chinese mistook it for a human rights watch group ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#Censorship_in_mainland_China you could always go directly

Re: Hardware RAID, software RAID, 3ware 9550SX, level 1 vs. level 5

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Dugan
David Gaudine wrote: I have to set up a system that is totally reliable w.r.t. data integrity. That is, if a disk (or anything else) fails, it's OK if the system is down for a few hours, but when it comes back up it has to be exactly as it was, i.e. I can't restore from the previous day's back

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Joseph Smidt wrote: I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together. Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others. Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together. My question is how do you d

After update mp3c and cdda2wav not working.

2006-01-14 Thread Neil Dugan
I just did an update of my debian system, I hadn't done it for a while so there was a lot to update. After the update mp3c wasn't working. Its reporting "cdda2wav: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl" If I run mp3c as root it can rip the tracks, but it can't seem to write th

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Colin wrote: Neil Dugan wrote: Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that pressing the power button no longer shuts the computer down

Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that pressing the power button no longer shuts the computer down. Any help in this would be appreci

Re: LAN & DHCP/DDNS name

2005-11-26 Thread Neil Dugan
Oliver Lupton wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:51:55 +1100 Neil Dugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have a LAN with DHCP and DDNS running, I have just installed Debian on one of the computers. This new computer isn't specifying a name when doing the DHCP lookup, so the DDNS h

LAN & DHCP/DDNS name

2005-11-23 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi I have a LAN with DHCP and DDNS running, I have just installed Debian on one of the computers. This new computer isn't specifying a name when doing the DHCP lookup, so the DDNS hasn't got a useful name for it to use. How do I specify a name for the computer to use with DHCP? There is a nam

Re: Permanently stoping gnome-panel

2005-11-16 Thread Neil Dugan
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:31:41 +1100 Neil Dugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have set up tightvncserver on my computer, I am using 'gnome-panel' to put up some icons etc.. on the vnc screen. My problem is when I go to stop the new gnome-panel proce

Permanently stoping gnome-panel

2005-11-16 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have set up tightvncserver on my computer, I am using 'gnome-panel' to put up some icons etc.. on the vnc screen. My problem is when I go to stop the new gnome-panel process it won't stay stopped. I puts a requester on my main X window that refuses to go away. Is there any way to sto

getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class (from a book) I get the following error message. ---cut--- $ jikes app.java Found 1 system error: *** Semantic Error: You need to modify your classpath,

getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class (from a book) I get the following error message. ---cut--- $ jikes app.java Found 1 system error: *** Semantic Error: You need to modify your classpat

mouse button bounce

2005-10-30 Thread Neil Dugan
I have a problem with a mouse button, sometimes when activated it bounces and that acts like I hit the button twice. Is there a way I can tell gnome to ignore the second button click if it happens within a very small time frame? That is to say the mouse button clicks need to be more that 0.1

Re: General linux question.

2005-10-17 Thread Neil Dugan
On Monday 17 October 2005 19:09, Bruno Buys wrote: > stephen horvath wrote: > > Help, > > > > I have used the Linux programs for quite a few weeks and have decided > > to use it for all of my personal computing needs. > > > > I have used two distrubutions and have liked them both, one is Red > > Ha