Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-11 Thread steve reilly
On 12/11/2011 02:46 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Richard Owlett [111211 08:19]: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. Back in the days of Lenny, this outfit

Re: web server migration

2011-12-11 Thread steve reilly
On 12/11/2011 10:40 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote: Basically, I would: * Manually install the packages on the new machine. You can use dpkg --set-selections and friends, but for just a website you're probably looking at<10 packages and here's a good chance to not also install everything you

Re: web server migration

2011-12-11 Thread steve reilly
On 12/11/2011 02:58 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: Although my explanation may seem quite complex, it works out as really useful tidy way to manage sites. They always need updating from time to time and it is quite hard to remember all the details if you work with lots of different sites. With my mech

Re: web server migration

2011-12-11 Thread steve reilly
On 12/11/2011 03:47 AM, bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com wrote: I would first move to some virtualisation in order to make the next migration easier (I am currently using OpenVz containers with Proxmox ditro, but there are many others out there) thats something i didnt think of, thanks, ill look at i

Re: web server migration

2011-12-10 Thread steve reilly
On 12/10/2011 05:38 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: More information needed, please. You said that your desktop machine is running lenny. yes, it is. I'll start with a few questions and let other folks add theirs 1. Do you want to try squeeze on the poweredge or stay with lenny? Is the hardwa

web server migration

2011-12-10 Thread steve reilly
good afternoon looking for input on moving a couple small family websites from a desktop machine running lenny to a poweredge 4600 I just bought. poweredge has two 73gb scsi drives, perc3 embedded raid. in process of formatting drives, and then setting up container. desktop has a 300gb drive,

Re: [OT] Network Bizzard

2010-06-30 Thread steve reilly
On 06/29/2010 08:41 PM, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Thank for you replies, Once those 3 PCs on level 5 turn on, after a few minutes, level 4 and 5 loose connections The PCs starting to throws errors IP duplications are *both* of the switches handing out DHCP addresses? steve -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Steve Reilly
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I should have explained in my original post what I wanted to do. In the short run I want to run a Windows version of WordPerfect and so have access to WordPerfect 5.1 (

Re: camorama vs xawtv

2009-11-24 Thread Steve Reilly
maybe thisll help? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=831510 ubuntu, but shouldnt make a difference. -- Steve Reilly http://reillyblog.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should I go ahead with the full-upgrade

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Reilly
on machine. does it work now? why do you want to update? if it was me, id be backing up the db, installing stable, and restoring the db to that, then let it ride. -- Steve Reilly http://reillyblog.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Serious clock problem

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Reilly
how to fix this? > > Thanks > > Eric L. > > > boot back to the old kernel and delete the new one? restore a backup? just curiouswhy are you installing something other than a security update on a server? -- Steve Reilly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: virtualbox and usb thumb drives

2009-10-24 Thread Steve Reilly
eding the PUEL > version in order to access USB drives. Is that correct? Or am I just > missing something painfully obvious (but not to me)? > > Thanks > Kevin > > -- > > the ose version of virtualbox doesnt include usb, you need to download the deb from t

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-13 Thread Steve Reilly
Long Wind wrote: > I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 > how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? > > fsck /dev/yourdevice -- Steve Reilly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub won't but XP

2009-07-11 Thread Steve Reilly
Bernard Fay wrote: > title Windows XP > rootnoverify(hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > makeactive if im not mistaken the rootnoverify line should be (hd0.1) not (hd2,0), at least thats what mine is that works fine. steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: video-conference with web-cameras

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Reilly
consultores1 wrote: > Hello > > Does somebody know how to realize a video-conference point to point with > 5 different linux boxes? We need to see and talk each to the others. http://www.yuuguu.com/home works with ubuntu, should also with debian i would imagine. steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Reilly
Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" >> wrote: > On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web > interfa

Re: sudo logging

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Reilly
Steve Reilly wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: >> We have many users at my university engineering lab. Some professors >> need commands for root and of other users, so we decided to setup sudo >> permissions. I was wondering if there is a way to log all commands >> when they s

Re: sudo logging

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Reilly
Mag Gam wrote: > We have many users at my university engineering lab. Some professors > need commands for root and of other users, so we decided to setup sudo > permissions. I was wondering if there is a way to log all commands > when they sudo into an account or root account. > > I would like to

Re: upgrade Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny

2009-06-08 Thread Steve Reilly
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Is Etch still available in the standard repositories? I.e. can I just change > Sarge to etch, then etch to lenny in etc. in sources.list? > > TIA > > Lisi > > take a look here http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch as far as i know etch should be supported for a year after len

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Steve Reilly
Thomas H. George wrote: > My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried > http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: > > > > > Weekday Skiers > > > > http://www.cnn.com";>CNN > > > and got a gray 300x500 box. > > Clearly I need to pose th

Re: OT:How to Connect GPS to Laptop?

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Reilly
Thomas H. George wrote: > I have an old Magellan 315 GPS which I would like to connect to a laptop > with only USB ports (OLPC). Checking the Debian packages I see three - > gpsman, gpsd and gpsbabel - which can understand the NMEA ouput from the > GPS. > > I would appreciate any guidance or re

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread Steve Reilly
Dotan Cohen wrote: > After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this error: > > $ ssh -X u...@x.x.x.x > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > @

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Reilly
JoeHill wrote: > Steve Reilly wrote: > >> JoeHill wrote: >>> Was just looking at all the 'how to install Skype' pages, and wondering >>> why, as far as I can tell, there are no Debian packages. Is this a >>> licensing issue? >> skype can

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Reilly
JoeHill wrote: > Was just looking at all the 'how to install Skype' pages, and wondering why, > as > far as I can tell, there are no Debian packages. Is this a licensing issue? skype cant be re distributed. its not open source. > > ...and also why the heck I need to install all of KDE for it to

Re: pdf -> jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Reilly
Rick Pasotto wrote: > What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? > if im not mistaken imagemagick can convert files of many different types. take a look at that steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Reilly
Does anyone have experience with similar NetVistas? Do these machines have marginal power supplies or some other design fault which causes problems? Any other ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. pop open the box. I can almost guarantee the capacitors are oozing onto the motherboard.

Re: Playing .amr files from Nokia

2007-12-24 Thread Steve Reilly
Dotan Cohen wrote: > My Nokia 6288 saves audio files in .amr format. What can play these > files on Debian? Thanks in advance. > > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.misc/2007-09/msg01329.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: opening and ejecting a DVD

2007-05-21 Thread steve reilly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 May 2007 20:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > Etch is working here with kernel 2.6.18-4. > > Within a few seconds after a movie DVD is inserted > into the drive, an icon appears on the XFCE4 desktop. > Using the menu invoked with th

Re: OT: Can't we just drop all the OT stuff...

2007-05-09 Thread steve reilly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 May 2007 13:25, Joe Hart wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Come on, we all come here for "TOPICAL" discussions and bare metal > > Debian stuff. > > > > I mean, I might just have to unsubscribe and find another venue to find > > my "fix"

Re: new list user

2006-12-02 Thread steve reilly
On Saturday 02 December 2006 18:37, Alan Ianson wrote: ".   > > > > > > I also tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg > > > > > > and got the same error message > > > > not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been > > customized". > > > > > > It seems to me when you give the command to FORCE!

Re: new list user

2006-12-02 Thread steve reilly
On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:53, you wrote: > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg --force Thank you Igor, how frustrating!! I tried the above and get the same error message  not updating /etc/X11/X;  file has been customized".   I also tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserve

Re: new list user

2006-12-02 Thread steve reilly
On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:08, Igor Guerrero Fonseca wrote: > I think your problem will solve with this: > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg > hi, thank you. I think im making a step in the right direction. I tried that but got an error message "xserver-xorg postinst wa

new list user

2006-12-02 Thread steve reilly
Hi, Having a problem with something stupid I did with one of my computers running debian etch. Using the computer primarily to serve 2 sites, a a blog, and a local LUG site.. Took the drive out of one pc with a slower processor, and put it in a newer pc I built with an athlon sempron process