Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread Spencer Gordon
Thanks! -Spencer :) *Be yourself, * *nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.* *-Snoopy* On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:45 PM, limpia wrote: > On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote: > >> The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, >> but I&#

Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread Spencer Gordon
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU. -Spencer :) *Be yourself, * *nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.* *-Snoopy* On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: &

PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-28 Thread Spencer Gordon
hanks! -Spencer

jessie selinux reference policy package missing

2015-05-08 Thread Spencer Minear
I installed the new Jessie version of debian on a VirtualBox system, and had no problems with the installation. Because I wanted to do work with the SELinux policy I wanted to first make sure that the system would run with SE Linux to provide a platform on which to experiment with the policy. I o

Package debian-ispell.el needs updated

2012-07-25 Thread Jeffrey Spencer
an be pointed where to report the bug I can provide more info. Cheers, Jeff Jeff Spencer Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Melbourne jeffspenc...@gmail.com

Re: Re: tvtime

2008-08-02 Thread Jeff Spencer
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Something's Eating all my RAM and Swap when I unmount a drive

2007-03-08 Thread Spencer Russell
ng? As soon as I hit ctrl-c my memory usage drops back to normal. mount version 2.12r-19 Kernel package linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (Same problem with my older 2.6.13 Kernel, too) udev version 0.105-3 Any ideas? Thanks, spencer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy - SOLVED

2005-01-04 Thread Spencer Russell
YES!! So I didn't have to reinstall, I found out from a bug report that in one case the lsbdev package was the problem. So I did a dpkg -P lsbdev, and then apt-get let me upgrade libc6 just fine. So I guess this is a bug in the lsbdev package? -spencer here's a copy of the em

Re: libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

2005-01-02 Thread Spencer Russell
Hello, So with no progress on fixing this, is my best option to reinstall? How much would I probably need to get rid of? What's the best "debian way" to reinstall all the packages? Thanks! -spencer here's a copy of the email I sent de

libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

2004-12-30 Thread Spencer Russell
hey'd been resolved, and the solutions seemed to consist of rebooting. I've tried with both my 2.6.10 and 2.4.26 kernels, as well as booting from a rescue disk. I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with reiserfs? Thanks, Spencer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Still trying to update to sarge.

2004-09-11 Thread Spencer
On Friday 10 September 2004 10:47 pm, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:51:55PM -0400, Spencer wrote: > > Hi again, > > I can't seem to get around, if that's the right way of putting it, > > the error I'm still getting while trying to update

Still trying to update to sarge.

2004-09-10 Thread Spencer
Hi again, I can't seem to get around, if that's the right way of putting it, the error I'm still getting while trying to update to sarge. After several hours I always end with this error -- Preparing to replace nano1.0.6-3 (using .. /archives//nano_1.2.4-2_i386.deb) .. update alternative/editor.1

Error while updating to sarge .

2004-09-09 Thread Spencer
Hi, Before getting to error question I would like to find another method in the way I'm trying to update to sarge. What I do now is change my sources.list file, then run apt-get update and finally run apt-get -u dist-upgrade. Then once process fails I reload my woody version from the cd I burnt a

Some question on source.list.

2004-09-08 Thread Spencer
Hi, If one is going to upgrade to sarge do you need the security pointers? Here is my current sources.list file from installing woody. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US mai

Several questions.

2004-09-04 Thread spencer ward
Hi, Last week I installed Debian for the first time and now I would like to update my system. My first question is when I try to sign on in the debian gui pop up I get the message that root can't use that window to sign on. Why is that and how can I over come that? I would now like to update my des

No flames please.

2004-09-01 Thread spencer ward
Hi, I recently change to debian and notice that the default desktop mgr. is KDE. I've been lurking on UserLinux and the group had a debate as to which desktop they would put in thier distrobution. They decided to use GNOME because of the licencing of Qt. I thought that Troll Co. removed the restri

X Config and Knoppix

2004-08-26 Thread Adam Spencer
Hello I apologize for my ignorance, I am no expert but have set up many Linux installations. I work for RSPCA Sheffield, a friend designed and created software for us and other shelters to use, to save money for the shelter we decided to make use of all the fantastic free, open source software

large sperm bank

2004-05-02 Thread Spencer Hernandes
The best solution to male enlargement: - http://www.e-herbs.info/b/?vcrx Happy with your current size? - http://e-herbs.info/1v3.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 18 April 2004 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: U.S. Penis enlargement pill > > The

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-09 Thread Chris Spencer
This is of course my personal understanding of the licenses. If you advise your client of things and are wrong and get sued...hey it's not my problem. I am not giving legal advice, that's not my job. On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:06, Michael D Schleif wrote: > OK, this is my first foray into a sale-a

Cron problems

2003-09-08 Thread Curtis Spencer
I put a small script into the cron.daily folder expecting it to run. It simply creates a file with the current timestamp as its name to see if successfully ran. However, I woke up this morning to not be greeted by this file, so I know cron didn't run it. I did check my root email to find the

Hard Drive Crash Recovery

2003-08-21 Thread Curtis Spencer
I had a hard drive crash last night on one of my systems. Fortunately only a near empty /home and the swap partition were on that drive so I did not lose too much data. However, I don't know how to go about remounting the /home directory and the swap partition. Is there any way to mount the /

Newbie imapd Question

2003-08-14 Thread Curtis Spencer
Hi there, I have been running postfix on my server for a while and I am able to get mail to my accounts just fine. However, I want to put in an imapd server, so I decided to aptitude install of cyrus-imapd. That install seemed to work properly. Now I would like to just run it stand alone wi

cell phone data kit / linux compatible?

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Spencer
Anyone know of any Cell phones available in the US that have data kits that will work with Linux? -Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Spencer
The advantage of Red Hat is commercial support and easy installation. The advantage of debian is a truly stable platform with thousands upon thousands of apps compiled for it. Red Hat actually does have people you can call and talk with for help installing or configuring a supported application.

OT: Putting down the SCO FUD

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Spencer
I know a number of people expressed interest in the SCO Vs. IBM lawsuit. You may find these articles of interest. -Chris -Forwarded Message- From: Jeremy Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OS:N:] Putting down the SCO FUD Date: 28 May 2003 11:56:36 -0400 If there

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Chris Spencer
Why limit yourself to just KDE and Gnome? What about blackbox? enlightenment, fvwm, cde, window maker, icewm, sawfish, afterstep, etc Lots of little benefits here or there. Personally I like KDE. It has more of a flashy interface. It really doesn't matter. The others aren't obsolete. They j

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

2003-02-10 Thread Curtis Spencer
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:28:09AM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list > in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. > my muttrc looks like this, yet everything still gets save

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

2003-02-10 Thread Curtis Spencer
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +0100, Christian Arthaber wrote: > * Curtis Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 00:49]: > > I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list > > in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-

Mutt Save-Hook Help

2003-02-10 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. my muttrc looks like this, yet everything still gets saved to the inbox. set mbox=+inbox set record=+outbox set sort=threads set noprompt_after # M

KDE 3.0 Package Issues

2003-01-22 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am trying to install the new kde3 from deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/sid ./ And I get this output apt-get install kde-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package kde-base thorin:~# apt-get install kdebase Reading Pa

ls color's messed up

2003-01-20 Thread Curtis Spencer
This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, but Files with 700 privileges are still gray. When I just use 'ls --color' do I not get any green. However, when I use ls --color -l it works fine. St

RE: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Curtis Spencer
everything seemed to be fine. Cheers, Curtis -Original Message- From: Trey Sizemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:17 PM To: Curtis Spencer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Galeon HELP!!! I read of someone on another post with the same problem...I don&#

RE: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Curtis Spencer
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:34 PM To: Curtis Spencer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Galeon HELP!!! On 13 January 2003 at 17:12, "Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I launched Galeon the first time and everything worked fine. I impo

Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Curtis Spencer
I launched Galeon the first time and everything worked fine. I imported the bookmarks and started browsing the web. However, when I run it now, it spawns windows in what seems like an infinite loop and I have to console in and kill the process. I have no idea what logs to check or anything. Any

Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-12 Thread Curtis Spencer
I want to set up DNS on my system so I can have my domain names point to it. What is a good way to do this? Is there an easy way? I am running the current unstable distribution. Is there something I can apt-get easily? Cheers, Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

RE: apt-get pukes

2003-01-12 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am quoting this from David Raeker's answer to a same problem asked a few days ago. I hope it works for you. Add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf Apt::Cache-Limit 12582912; (Don't ask me why it works, but it worked for me.) Cheers, Curtis -Original Message- From: Art Edwards [mailt

RE: USB Mouse Problem

2003-01-11 Thread Curtis Spencer
, Curtis -Original Message- From: Nicos Gollan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 3:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: USB Mouse Problem -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:08, Curtis Spencer wrote: > Section "Inp

USB Mouse Problem

2003-01-10 Thread Curtis Spencer
I thought I was going to be able to get some sleep last night, but I ended up staying up trying to get XFree86 working. I have the nvidia modules compiled in to my 2.4.20 kernel and I have my touchpad working fine, but my USB mouse still needs help. When I plug in the USB mouse an event is thro

Creating a new user without a password

2002-12-29 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am just curious. I am installing mysql 4.0 and following their instructions. They say run these commands. groupadd mysql useradd -g mysql mysql This creates a new user, but no where is the password set. Is this a security problem or will no one be able to ever log in as user mysql? Thanks, Cu

Configuring a static IP on startup

2002-12-27 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am using dhclient right now on startup to give me a DHCP ip address, but I want to set the system to have a static IP on my sub net so I can have the router forward everything on port 80 to the debian system. What is a decent way to do this? Thanks, Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: Booting without a monitor: No Go

2002-12-26 Thread Curtis Spencer
problem with debian, but perhaps someone might have an idea. It is a Elsa Geforce 2 Vid Card by the way and KT7 Raid. Thanks, Curtis -Original Message- From: dave mallery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of dave mallery Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 8:48 AM To: Curtis Spencer Cc

Booting without a monitor: No Go

2002-12-25 Thread Curtis Spencer
I have a weird issue that I have never had with any other system I have been running. I have a Abit KT7 Board with a Geforce 2 vid card. It is a minimalist system because I just want it to be a mysql/cvs server, so I haven't installed XFree86 or the nvidia drivers. The console works fine and I c

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2002-01-26 Thread Guy Spencer
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Re: IP Masqing question II

2001-06-16 Thread Chris Spencer
On Friday 15 June 2001 22:44, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:36:54AM -0400, Ed Lawson wrote: > > I installed the ipmasq package rather than using home rolled scripts and > > the issue remains: the desktop machines cannot access ceertain websites > > (linuxtoday) nor certain web

Multiple Sessions?

2001-06-08 Thread Chris Spencer
Has anyone else running Unstable noticed that multiple tty sessions (ie: ALT-CTRL-F1, F2, etc.) is gone? As well I have noticed that I can't start a second X session. Am I missing something? -Chris

Xmame

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Spencer
I'm running Debian unstable and just downloaded all of the Xmame .debs. Unfortunately I can't get Xmame to run. It seems as though the executables were not included in the packages. Am I losing my mind or has anyone else experienced this problem? -Chris

Root in X Display

2001-05-21 Thread Chris Spencer
Hello, How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the X Display of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su to root, and try to configure the kernel by typing in "make xconfig" I get the error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client i

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Chris Spencer
On Monday 21 May 2001 13:37, Gordon Hart wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, > > and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the > > tar file, rig

Re: Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread Chris Spencer
On Sunday 20 May 2001 22:00, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Am I right in thinking that I need something like "sendmail" and > "procmail" on the server and any old mail client on the Windows/Linux > machines in order to get this done? Do I need to be setting up any other > software specifically to make

Boot Disk & Reiserfs How To?

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Spencer
Hello, Although I am new to Debian up until now I have been using Mandrake. Please excuse me if this is a dumb question. I am currently running unstable with 2.4.4 kernel. I would like to change my / partition from ext2 to reiserfs. I have already converted my other partitions. Can someone te

Re: Is Nvidia Geforce supported on potato?

2001-05-13 Thread Chris Spencer
On Saturday 12 May 2001 23:22, Lars Jensen wrote: > Is the eVGA Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 32MB Video Card supported on potato, or > is there some way of getting it to work? Any help appreciated. The SVGA server from XFree 3.3.6 (which comes with Potato) might work with it but I dunno for sure. You'd be

wannabe newbie

1999-02-16 Thread Spencer Marks
loppy disk thing, but do have a fast network connection and working rh config.) Any ideas appreciated. Thanks, Spencer

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1999-02-16 Thread Spencer Marks
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