kvm hypervisor host network problem during VM startup/shutdown

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Carpenter
(please CC me on replies) I have been running kvm on this host for almost two years now. Using bridged networking, rather simple setup, with about 4 VMs and the hypervisor. There is one bridge, br1 (there is an unused br0 which has no connection out) which is connected to the physical ethernet, o

xen on lenny stock

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Carpenter, KSC
Hey All, Long time no email. Please cc me on replies, as I can't keep up with this list and no longer subscribe. SO I got some new hardware... to wit: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R Drives: 4 250 GB SATA Anyway, Etch worked, right up until boot time came. Every single time I tried, I got dum

Re: dpkg on other OSs

2001-01-10 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:25:56AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >at work we are looking into package management for sysadmin stuff that we > >do. Its not really my project but, as a debian supporter and a true believer > >in

dpkg on other OSs

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Carpenter
[please cc me on responses - I can't handle the volume of mail that comes from actually subscribing to this list - its been a long time since I had the time to read it] Ok... at work we are looking into package management for sysadmin stuff that we do. Its not really my project but, as a debian

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:38:06AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > > > On 8 Jun 98 02:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > For writing audio CDs I would recommend a WORM. That sort of data > > doesn't really need the advantage of being able to re

Re: lyx Bus Error...hardware? -Reply

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
portnat data -Steve > --Greg > > >>> Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/08/98 09:56am >>> > I am having a frustrating problem installing and using lyx here at work and I > am wondering if it may be hardware, or software or what not. The story goes

Re: which script is missing from rpm

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:44:18AM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: > On 5 Jun 98 03:39:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > >> > >> Which script is it that rpm doesn't have, that dpkg does? I had thought > >> it > >> was the post-removal, but I'm being challen

lyx Bus Error...hardware?

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am having a frustrating problem installing and using lyx here at work and I am wondering if it may be hardware, or software or what not. The story goes like this: On Friday I decided to install lyx on my system (see the histories below) This is the latest lyx as apt-get got from frozen for me.

Re: X Colors

1998-06-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 12:31:04PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: > How do you change the X default 8bpp color to something higher? > I really need this please. > edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config ..in the section where it lists your screen setup (ie it is the last section that mrentions your vid c

Re: copyright howto (was: none)

1998-06-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
NB: This is a rather long message. It contains mainly my views, musings, and general distaste for the US legal system. I supose at this point this is really off-topic here but...it started out on topic a coupla days ago I just re-read the end of this message...and can't figure out how this discuss

Re: cgi-bin scripts for ppp dial-up

1998-06-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 10:37:09AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > hi, I wonder whether any body can help. i am trying to get my system (halve > bo, halve hamm) to dial-up the internet. yes it works, but only by running > pon as root. i want to have a cgi-script so that all my users on win95 boxes > c

Windows Registry Editor for Linux

1998-06-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
There was a thread a week or 2 ago where someone asked if there was a registry editor for linux. In that thread I said that I did not know of one but had a file whioch described the registry (written by someone outside of M$ who spent a few sleepless nights reverse engineering it) The next few d

Re: tar & exclude options

1998-06-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:40:52AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > As I read the man page and info page, > > tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X News -X www -X Office40 > > should tar the local directory to the new file hawktar980603 save for the > directories News, www, and Office40 acc

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:38:28AM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > on the fixed fonts question... > I have the following truetype fixed pitch fonts on nt3.51: thanx for the list of TT fixed fonts...I should have those somewhere > > These all work with emacs on nt...(don't ask, I do the best >

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 04:06:38PM +, Christian Zander wrote: > Getting the fonts is up to you.. Have a look at the FAQ or browse the net to > find a LOT of places that supply you with FREE fonts. > Of course you could simply take the fonts from ..\windows\fonts (files like > Verdana.ttf), but

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 07:37:19PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > I have xfstt now. Have not tried xfsft. And unfortunately fonts like fixed > don't exist in TT form. Also, netscape can't use fixed width TT fonts with > xfstt at least. I lookind into xfsft a while ago...but decided that pa

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 04:34:12PM +, Christian Zander wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 03 Jun 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > >Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > >now? > > > >If not does anyone know who to make netscapes fonts bigger

Re: FW: about K6 bug

1998-06-03 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > >(ex: Office Max here in Anchorage has > >Packard Bell 200MMX's with 32MB SDRAM, 3GB HD's, 56k modems etc. for $699. > >The demo at the store has been running for over a month solid now with no > >problems...). > > Yep,

Re: File-system on tape

1998-05-27 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:15:58PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi, Hi > Is it possible to create a file system on a tape drive ( like on > mainframes) and use it as a disk? I know it is very slow, but is it > possible? That is really very sick and twisted to even think of such a thing... hmm I

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-------- > >Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the

Re: A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

1998-05-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
planning and bad programming (I am inclined to believe the latter over the former) (BTW if you want that file on the regisrtyI think I can find it...) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "We must respect the other fellow's religi

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
oy lilo and reinstall the Win95 boot loader... then get out your linux emergency boot disk (you do have one right?... ig no tlook for Tom's Unix on a Floppy (as the lsm for it says sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery tomsrtbt-1.1.4.38.tar.gz ) mount yout root partition and then cd /mnt

Re: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?

1998-05-19 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 11:10:15AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > "From" had weird charicters...8 bitters) > > anyway..there is then a program on the net somewhere (search for it) > > that converts from MSIM to Eudora...which

Re: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?

1998-05-19 Thread Stephen Carpenter
bitters) anyway..there is then a program on the net somewhere (search for it) that converts from MSIM to Eudora...which uses the same mailbox format as Nutscrape (which is standard maildir format...used by pine etc) -Steve (and all that worked without paying the $700 or so to get the other program...

Re: Folders in pine

1998-05-19 Thread Stephen Carpenter
t;><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Re: share files

1998-05-14 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, hi > I'd like to know how can I share linux directories to other PC > connected to the same network. I have a 2 linux boxes, 1 NT/WS, > 1 NT/server and 1 95/notebook. ok so you have 2 NT workstations and 1 95 Workstation I would suggest SAMBA Samba allows you

Re: ATAPI Tape Drives

1998-05-14 Thread Stephen Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody give me any con's of the Seagate Tapestor 8G IDE tape drive? > I found a great deal on one and want to look out for any gotcha's. I > checked the Hardware compatibility list and it is on there but I > thought I would just check. The ide-tape.c driver says i

Re: how to zmodem via telnet?

1998-05-13 Thread Stephen Carpenter
interesting..sorta hits home... Bob McGowan wrote: > -Original Message- > From: shaul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 12:09 PM > To: Vesa Kaihlavirta > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how to zmodem via telnet? > > ++ > I'd like to t

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

1998-05-13 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ionut Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the tips. Now, my system is working again. I've aded the > system users from a backup of the passwd. Mainly the mail, www-user, > etc. I just wonder about several things: good to hear its back up > 1. how do I test that everything is back to normal ? T

Re: changing a users group

1998-05-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I think vipw also performs some sanity checks... (least that what it says) I think that s anice thing...I would bet an extra charicter in juts the wrong spot could suffciantly screw a system up course..I only used vipw once...and I didn't change anything... I immediatly exited the program as soon

Re: Questions, questions, questions...*sigh*

1998-05-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Hi! Ok lets see... your hardware should be fine...I dont know about that sound card tho (BTW I have been advised to stay away from anything by SIIG...cheap stuff) SOund is usually something you might wanna wait a while to setup :) it can be confusing. My best advice is to take it slow at first...ch

Rescue Disks

1998-05-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am looking fro a good resource and information on making "Emergency Boot Floppies" Specifically I need to mke one for my own system with some specific system dependant stuff... It needs the obvious stuff...custom kerenl and command line options for it but thats th eeasy part (I kno whow to do tha

Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI card

1998-05-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Thanx for the info...sometimes it is good to be wrong :) -Steve Joel Klecker wrote: > At 21:19 -0400 1998-05-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The AudioPCI is available with the OSS/Linux drivers... > >there is also an OSS/Free set of drivers but AudioPCI > >is alas, unsuported by those :( > >It lo

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I HIGHLY recommend the AMD K6 and as much RAM as you can get :) The AMD K6 200 (what I use) is really nice It has served me very well...and it has an added bonus... there is a metal plate attached to the front of the chip (which the heat sink then touches that metal plate instead of the actual chip

Re: NE2000

1998-05-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Do you know what type of card it is (vendor and model)? It must be rather old...I have a few "Combo Cards" (UTP + Coax) and have never seen on ethat NEEDED you to select for it what interface it used. Generally yes, you wil need to boot DOS with a config disk... I have about 3 or 4 diff config disk

Re: whoop

1998-05-03 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I know what you mean... it is easy to have the "OS Poitics" startup. Unfortunatly (ive had this problem too) In the state things are in now you hafat be careful what you buy when you use linux Unfortunaly even I am just now starting to get to the point of being able to look and figure out what I

Re: Diskcopy

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Thats pretty easy... format a disk...as in put an second extended filesystem on it? try mke2fs /dev/fd0 to copy a disk...(this works for any disk I found...even DOS disks it doesn't care) cp /dev/fd0 filname put in a new disk cp filename /dev/fd0 -Steve On Fri, 1 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > I'm

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok ...I installed StarOffice 4.0 a few weeks ago but... it didn't work... it would install (will hafta try that trick on the install) but as soon as I try to do ANYTHING it exist with n error (I think it seg faults) did you do this on a bo system? I am running h

Re: mounting /usr as read only.

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 May 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LZ> What do you have to say about $SUBJECT? > LZ> I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted. > > It's probably a good preventative measure, in the same

SCSI..woes..The FIX!

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I finnally solved my SCSI problems and got it working... since I posted here I thought I would share how I did it. This was s stupid... I went into the main BIOS just for "Shits and Giggles" and noticed a "Plug N Pray" area (i forget the actual name) where it

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
No I am not braver than you I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul dbe there if you see them I guess) anyway I will look again when I can but... I didn't see anything -Steve Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried

Re: Swap

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
actually thats good...use the new drive exclusively but... don't "use th eold drive for garbage" old hard drives are great...good for lofting monitors once you get a few of them -Steve Ben Pfaff wrote: >I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is = >good to use a

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the > SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the kernelSCSI drivers > Also, is > your kernel configured t

more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok I got a differt SCSI card...the only one I could find in a reasonable price range locally was an Adaptec 1520 ...it is suported by the 152x driver I should hope... here is the problem... it coems up..in SCSI Bios and with jumpers I have set: IRQ: 10 (also tri

Re: linux shutdown

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thats not exactly true (as I pointed out earlier but I might have accidently not sent my response ot the list) actually sync;sync;halt would work fine...under ideal conditions :) but...under debian linux (and redhat) it will work fine in fatcyou can just for

Re: linux shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
HAHA go ahead and use his system tho ;) sync;sync;halt is the same as sync;sync;shutdown -h now on most systems now (at least on both RedHat and Debian it is) Halt checks the current runlevel..and if the runlevel is not 0 then it executes shutdown -h now on its own...this is a saftey catch The OLD

Re: Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am an emacs user myself...when im in X anyway... but...debian has a few other cool editors... ae (which is part of the base and base disks) is tiny and very easy to use (unfortunatly the lastest version in 2.0 has some problems...partially due to slang -- which i just found out about a few minits

Re: COBOL?

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ive never seen any COBOL stuff...ive never even seen COBOL but its funny... just yesterday I was wondering to myself if there were any COBOL comilers for linux Then I had some really evil thoughts about learning COBOL and trying to convert the kernel over to COBOL...and after that point I just

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
you knowsince I have started using linux...I think my system as crashed probably about 6 times give or take... most all fo them were hardware! Once I had exactly the problem you describe...my system was running... doing "its thing" and power went out (while I wasn't home) then came on again 2 d

Re: ACK! SCSI Not WOrking

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
> > You can ping your node, you can ping you neighbor, but you can't ping your > neighbors node. > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > Stephen Carpenter > > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 9

MUTT...the final configs

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As per that big pine discussion I decided to try mutt... I used it for about 5 mins...and think I would like to continue using it. I believe I have the version from non-us (a coupla weeks ago I burned a CD at work with the entire non-us portion of debian on it...

Re: DNS/Non-authoritative answer trouble

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I get the same thing... I don't think this needs to be "fixed" I believe this is correct... in any case I have never seen it be wrong even whan it says that... have you seen any wrong entries with it? might be a good idea to seek out what "non-authoritative" means before trying to fix it ;) -Steve

Re: TCP/IP Network +WIN95

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I dunno what to tell you about the Win95 boxes and dialing every 5 mins :( I used to do it this way: I had a linux server with no monitor (oh sure its a minor detail... until you need to reboot it and find out hours later there was a bootable CD in the CD drive (but I digress)) I would telnet to th

ACK! SCSI Not WOrking

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I got my SCSI tape drive and I installed a SCSI card I had lying around unfortunatly it didn't work :( I THINK the problem may be the controller... I get the messages: aha152x: processing commandline: ok aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152

Re: window manager lockups with latest X

1998-04-29 Thread Stephen Carpenter
This makes me wonder when you say that "the mouse can't give any window focus" is it able to move windows by dragging or bring them to the front? I have had a very similar problem without even leaving X to a VT an dback...just ocasionally I can click on windows, bring them to front etc juct can

Re: text mode IDE?

1998-04-29 Thread Stephen Carpenter
You shouldn't forget wpe/xwpe it is a great little program if you are programmin gin C (never tried anything else with it) it will color the source code acoring to what it is...rather neat it even has drpdown menus in text mode a very easy one to use...and it has all of the compile, and whet not co

Re: make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
hmm /usr/sbin/make-kpkg is the script... unfortunatlythat is not all :( it runs other programs and other scripts ok I may have found something check out /usr/lib/kernel-package/Control and search for lilo... looks ifne in mine but -Steve Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Yo- > > > What v

Re: make-kpkg help!

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Yo- Yo :) > ...(compiles for 3 min) then, > > dpkg --build debian/tmp-image .. > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp-image/DEBIAN/control' near line > 4 package `kernel-image-2.0.33': > `Suggests' field, invalid package name `"lilo': must start with an > alphan

Re: Connecting Linux machine to Win.95\Linux Machine.

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I woul dmost definitly agree with this assesment but... I have always prefered to use 10Base2 to a crossover cable on UTP I like the coaxial cable setup because it is very easy to extend when you decide that 2 computers is not enough and a hub is too expensive (of course i have found I can get 2 ni

Tape Drive Q

1998-04-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Last week I ordered a tape drive (and posted a question about SCSI controllers) It should arrive today :) ...I realized however that I still have questions... someone mentioned "creating the tape device" what is the name of the device? (I assume it is just /dev/MAKEDEV to make it) is there nay goo

StarOffice Install

1998-04-24 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am in need of some help installing StarOffice 4.0 SInce I have a great setup at work and not at home.. (network wise) I downloaded the staroffice 4 and gunzip'd and untar'd it then I burnt it onto a CD (with a bunch of other stuff) to bring home and have. I can

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
If you happen to have an hour or two to killand nothing better to do you caould call the tech suport for the company and complain tell them that you want to delete the software off of the hard drive but refuse to turn it on because you don't want to agree to and be bound by those licences .

Re: xconsole question

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
home anmd work on twhayt a slow day -Steve Shaleh wrote: > Once again I point you to the almighty man page. Also, read > /etc/syslogd.conf. If you are still lost, post back. > > Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > > This may be a silly Question but I figure it can

xconsole question

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
This may be a silly Question but I figure it can't hurt to ask anyway... When I went to WPI last year they had allot of systems running DEC UNIX I could go and sit down at a really cool DEC Xterminal and login... when I did I got a small window called xconsole. whenever I ran any program it wou

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following > > annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured: I don't know if I agree witha bug report against X...as the keyword there is "misconfigured"...although you co

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > better. I am among those who feel this way. Why is mutt better? > > Because it is faster. I still was able to read 30+ MB mailboxes (debian bug > reports ;) without struggle. Over 7000 messages, and after building and > sorting the index (which took half a minute on

Re: Bash help

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
to make bash wait a certain amount of time... sleep(X) # X = number of seconds to "sleep" as for detecting an error scripts can return errors just like any program... I think maybe hmmm I forget exactly how...but I know its no differnt than a program -Steve BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: > I am tr

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Stephen Carpenter writes: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > >> The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the > >> license, even if you

Re: ISP setup with IP Masquerading

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Paul Miller wrote: > I'm trying to setup a dialup ppp server using only 1 real internet IP. Is > this currently possible using Linux? Yes it is. It has its limitations but it can be done. > /etc/hosts: > > /var/named/db.domain.net: > > /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1: > serv:ppp1-serv > /etc/ppp/options

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jason Costomiris wrote: > : Put another way. If you have to support a couple of hundred relative unix > : clueless, I would rather they use pine than mutt. I will admit that it > : has sveraql months since I last took a look at it, I am

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the license, > even if you signed a contract (which most users even did not). But I'm > not a lawyer, and won't speak as if I knew better than I do...

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. > > Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the > Windows components, I think. That sounds right to meIt is of course illegal to distribute the

SCSI and Tape Drives

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me "Loosing everything" lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive I have been told that with linux "most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI tape dirves will work" I have had a secret desire (ok..not so secret) to start using SCSI on my

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
okup right? (here at work everything is AFU...everything is on DHCP behind a firewall and you can lookup an IP adress by hostname but not vica-versa.. allot of times you can't even do that much) I dunno...just a thought on why it wont work -Steve Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21,

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > > Debian of course)? > > > > We have some people who have (and want to k

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Well, IE 4 with Active Desktop is a piece of sh*t. I installed it on the > > machine of my girl friend,and she wanted me to remove it instantly. With all > > those circles and orange buttons, you can't find the f

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
e mail and only read one)? Could that be easily done? I wonder (hmm possibly use an external script which would grep the "folder" for that identical message ID and not deliver it if that ID shows up??) -Steve Joel Klecker wrote: > At 10:14 -0400 1998-04-21, Stephen Carpenter wro

Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I used to use that also but a number of them got through I don't think that handles cc: to the list -Steve Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 09:22:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : > > > > :0 > > * ^From [EM

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
The one you link is the old version It is v.23 and I elieve from what I read this morning .25 was releaces According to the old versiont he latest version shoul dbe at: http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/autoup/ -Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:42:01PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eri

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
ahh thanx for the info It has been on that list saying it needed a new maintainer for a while now...oh well... hopefully now the documentation will be fixed :) -Steve Petra wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to > > someones > > attention... > > the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! > > I i

Re: HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Rob Goodwin wrote: > Hi there, > Hi :) > I'm having a serious problem here. I have been able to set up my machine > to accept PPP connection. I can dial from a win95 machine and use PAP to > authenticate and connect. The IP address is assigned to the win95 machine > alright and I can then pi

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package off of sunsite and unpack the tarball just to get the do

Re: Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > > hi, > >now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must > > be doing something weird. > > Uhm, you probably ARE the only one using Exim and Procmail! Exim has its > own filtering and delivery scriptin

Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space my idea was to mount my "Windows NT home directory" here at work and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) o far I have mounted my home drive \\home5\sjc8$ on /mnt/partners with smbmount because o fmy specific probl

Re: Big hard disks

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Larry Panzer wrote: > Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have > decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have > heard of or know of the following problems: > > Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and > will

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have seen this problem before. > Thanks Michael for quick response. > Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? > I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh -> /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. > > A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; > should I repor

Q: Suport for IR?

1998-04-18 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just got a new Motherboard and was looking over it I noticed this one (my old bad one had this too but I never took notice) it has support for an IR port I supose this is basically a communmications port that uses infra-red devices instead wire cables Can this

Re: Cannot login?

1998-04-18 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > Hey guys. Big problem... I had freebsd 3.0 sitting around, decided to > mount my linux ext2fs partitions with it. I umounted it... rebooted back > into linux. Now I can ONLY login as root. If I login as myse

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-18 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > If youw ant the "Easy way out" check out > > www.4front-tech.com they have the OSS/Linux sound card dri

pppd flakines and hamm CDs

1998-04-17 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I finnally resolved my computer problems (thanx to everyone who helped) by getting a nice new motherboard Now I have reinstalled debian and have upgraded to hamm before my crash I had a bo system, which I upgraded to hamm... but I had set up PPP to work to my ISP under bo... with this installation

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
What type of soundcard do you have? For many Soundblaster compatible types if you get all of its info and recompile your kernel and turn on the built-in kernel sound card drivers (and configure them) then you are all set I have never had luck going that route but...I had a couple of really weir

Re: HELP!!!

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Joost Kooij wrote: > My advice: run for the shop and get another board. Another brand and > model. I don't know how you value your time, but I would certainly shell > out some money if it would save me a week of hassle. I value my time highlyit its one thing strugling getting something to wor

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
seemd to run cool...couse.// my heatsink is large with a fan...and I have a larger case fan blowing crosswind it -Steve George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > I am pretty sure that my current problem is not CPU related (unless the > > pentiu

Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Albert Hurd wrote: > Could anyone help me understand the following, and what to do about it: I can try :) . > Wheh I am on the net (with netscape 3.04) my disk suddenly begins > thrashing. A look at top shows a "find / ( -fstype" under user:nobody. > The rather extensive find explains the disk t

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Jeff Noxon wrote: > to 2.0.32 or 34pre? My K6 is one of the ">32M bug free" ones. > You have me a bit worried I posted last night (througha friend) and a littlwe while ago about a major hardware problem When I replaced my motherboard I also got some more RAM... my new motherboard has 1

HELP!!!

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
A friend of mine sent out an e-mail about this last night (taking half-assed dictation in his own way) I woul dlike to elaborate and ask again for help...I am desparate. Last thursday I was recompiling my kernel (2.0.29) on a hamm system (pre-freze but this had worked b4) and I got the dreaded SIGN

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I don't believe that is true I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP I can't seem to get mail working but... I downloaded pine as a binary for hamm I saw the deb of hamm in hamm/non-free/binary-i386/mail -Steve

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Chris wrote: > Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable? I forget whether a date is set or not...but my system crashed due to major hardware failure (I am respondign from work now)...hamm seems rather stable > Also, I am in the middle of installing a hamm system onto a clean drive,

Re: enlarge my / directory

1998-04-10 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I don't think you can "merger" trhe 2 partitions it would be a real feat to do it and would involve changing the partition tabl, moving other partitions, and re-writing disk structures through ALL of the partitions (probably) and I know of no program that can do it... you coul dposibly however

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