Re: Search for real debian Live -cd

2006-09-28 Thread Tony Godshall
4)live.debian.net is a nice project but it is not 100% pure as it use Casper from Ubuntu, but it is a clean project and the iso's are a good base to develop (I, for example, I am building my custom distro from here: http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/i386/ Almost nothing in Debian is 100%

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rodolfo Medina, > Hi. > > When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, > the following error message appears: > > $ rm -vr to-be-removed > rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. > This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. > NOTIFY YOUR SYSTE

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-27 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike McCarty, > Michelle Konzack wrote: > >Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson: > > > >>On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >>>Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand > >>>the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like tha

Re: Color printers

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Miles Bader, > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron, there's a really neat site called the Wikipedia > > (www.wikipedia.org). It's almost like an encyclopedia, but it has > > entries for a lot of fictional characters, TV shows, and such. > > Indeed, some say it contains

Re: google_desktop_tool

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Paul Johnson, > On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:08, Juraj Fedel wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Friday 21 April 2006 12:09, steef wrote: > > > The functionality that you're panicking about is disabled by default. > > > You have to go out

Re: How do I fix this?

2006-04-10 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Gene Heskett, > On Saturday 08 April 2006 12:04, M A wrote: > >Hi there Got this from my ISP the other day > > > >We have been forced to take your server off line, since your server is > >performing phishing from your secondary IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.224. > > > >that IP address was one

Re: Trouble Installing nvidia-graphics-driver on Etch

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Godshall
> ... X won't start when I finish the > installation and put > Driver "nvidia" > instead of > Driver "nv" > in the xorg.conf file. At the bottom of this mail is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file. > > What can I do to install the nVidia-driver properly? ... I haven't read the installat

Re: I recieve spam "Debian security."

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Godshall
... > I'm not sure when or why the messages go the original paster vs the > entire list, though. Because on this list (like many) the messages retain their original From: line, and they are using that. Don't you just hate those clueless halfwit ISPs? They've got to be losing business. Best

Re: i must install the gnome,if i install the xgl

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to blye eric, > I uses the window maker,but i saw a lot the document about xgl,said you > must install gnome-environment before install xgl, it's really? > :) There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Best Regards, Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2006-03-29 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Florian Kulzer, > H S Rai wrote: > >Today at 7:37am - Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > >> The sshd_config file (probably under /etc/ssh/sshd_config or somewhere > >> similar) has AllowX11Forwarding no > >> > >> Change that to yes and restart sshd > > > > > >It did not solve my p

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2006-03-27 Thread Tony Godshall
According to H S Rai, > On stable Debian installed PC, it appers that X is not > allowed with ssh. As on issuing command: > > ssh -X ip.number1 gnome-terminal > > it open a window, but issuing any command of graphic > program, says: > > >Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display > > Same comm

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-24 Thread Tony Godshall
> That is EXCACTLY what I was looking for. Setting limits on the Looking for things in open source that work EXACTLY like commercial tools in Windows is a recipe for failure. People are trying to be helpful and you slap them down. Go troll somewhere else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: gnome menu update

2006-03-24 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Christopher Nelson, > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:22:21PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > When/how do the gnome menus get updated? I just installed two programs > > via apt-get and neither shows in either the regular gnome menus nor the > > debian menu even though both have entries in /u

Re: On Open Source Support of hardware (was: Re: Best Linux Laptop)

2006-03-19 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rog?rio Brito, > On Mar 19 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > > You might want to consider walking into the store with a Knoppix boot > > CD/DVD and booting the laptop with Knoppix. If it works you know the > > hardware will be supported by Linux. > > And if you are concerned with hardw

Re: hacked server

2006-03-18 Thread Tony Godshall
gt; Wouldn't the same rootkits be on the secondary? In a mirror it writes to the > primary then writes to the secondary drive. I plan to keep the drive intact > since I may need files from the drive(s). > > >>> Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3:47:57 pm 18/03/2006

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Chris Lale, > Clyde Wilson wrote: > > >I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly > >good firewall? > >Thanks for your time! > > If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at ... If you are talking about hardware firewall, most

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-25 Thread Tony Godshall
... > No matter what mechanism you use for copying, you will need to know the > IP of the box which you are not using to initiate the transfer. ... Actually, no. SMB works without IP addresses- it actually predates use of IP in PC LANs. Check out the Samba howto. Downsides are the usual one for

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
> Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so > these things don't get loaded in the first place? Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it won't show up in lspci or /proc and the various autoloading packages like discover and hotplug won't load the drivers for i

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Edward Shornock, > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: > > Per previous thread where I was asking about options for running an > > SSH server on my box, I ran apt-get install ssh. I was asked a few > > simple questions and chose support for SSH 1 & 2 and sel

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-02-10 Thread Tony Godshall
> ... I have the instructions to do this in a > file but I have forgotten the vim command to attach it to this message. > I'll re-post it if anyone needs it. Generally one does not attach inside a text editor- that's a MUA function. One can include in vim/vi with... :r (filepath) (enter)Q r i

Re: Bloqueo extra?o de las X

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike McCarty, > Tony Godshall wrote: > >... > > > >>... Creo incluso que alguna vez intent? > >> > >>>usar las X sin mouse. > >> > >>... With the intent of some day maybe running > >>X without a mouse.

Re: How many cd I need to install debian (kde)

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
> > I want to install debian stable/testing on my pc desktop. > > How many cd I need to install only using for desktop (home) with kde. > > I don't want download all cd iso. > well you can use just one, the net-install iso, but it requires a lot of > downloading during the install and if you hav

Re: Bloqueo extra?o de las X

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
... > ... Creo incluso que alguna vez intent? > >usar las X sin mouse. > > ... With the intent of some day maybe running > X without a mouse. [Translator's note: that last sentence doesn't make > much sense to me.] ... Perhaps it's "In addition I think I once tried to start X without mouse att

Re: Can't get 1153x864 resolution with 865 video and i810 driver

2006-02-06 Thread Tony Godshall
... > What's more, now it's starting making a high pitched noise when I use > 1152x864 with my XFree86 system (though not with Windows which is using > a lower refresh rate). I may have damaged it. ... Ouch. I'd check your vsync and hsync frequency ranges and make sure you are driving the monit

Re: gpg error - testing ?

2006-02-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT, > hi all, > i am getting this when apt-get update : > > W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net testing/security-updates > Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public > key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 946AA6E18722E71E > W: You

Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-04 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm not familiar with chkrootkit. It sounds like the Microsoftian antivirus mindset of looking for known compromises, which is a mindset I avoid. My own methodology would be to examine the script in question, and poke around at other files. If the system looks compromised, I'd do a fresh cle

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

2006-02-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rodney Richison, > > > Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > > hi, > > > >> I was planing to use rsync with SSH on Windows and the Linux server > >> and schedule the script to copy the files/folders to a Debian based > >> Linux server in the following folder structure: > >> > >> /backup/Monday/ser

Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Todd Weaver, > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:24:02PM +0100, Ben Meijering wrote: > [snip] > > I was looking in my /etc/rc2.d directory to see what kind of services > > were installed on my server. > > > > The contents of my rc2.d directory is as follows > > > > S10distwatchd S20cour

Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tyson Varosyan, > Given the fact that Katipo and Alvin were the only ones to reply to this > thread and nether proved to know anything about how to resolve my issue, I > thought that I should post the resolution here so that others looking for > the answer later would not have to bo

Re: Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux

2006-01-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Paolo Alexis Falcone, > On 1/30/06, Rishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Anyone knows of any Branded (HP/IBM/Dell etc.) Server that supports > > Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) > > > > I need to order a server for a customer with the following specs or higher. > > > > CPU: P-IV > >

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

2006-01-27 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Joseph H. Fry, > I am partial to software raid for one important reason longevity. One > great thing about linux is that it rarely makes something entirely > obsolete... and even if it does, you can always download previous versions of > your favorite distro... an array create

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, > Magnus Therning wrote: > >I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev > >(on Sid): > > > > % ls /dev|wc -l > > 662 > > I use udev with Sarge, and I get: > $ ls /dev |wc -l > 155 > > > > >More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev p

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Bob Hynes, > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying another version of Linux, but may

Re: Using USB Memory-Stick with Debian

2006-01-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Felix Karpfen, > With the help of Google, I have located the following instructions > for configuring Debian to recognise the presence of a USB Memory-Stick: > > > ,[ memory_stick.txt ]- > | USB memory stick > | > | * plug in Memory-Stick > | * become root (su -) > | * mo

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Oliver Lupton, > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: > > > When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls > > past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug > > the debug message, not the debuging informat

Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-06 Thread Tony Godshall
yson Varosyan > Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.up-times.com > 206-715-TECH (8324) > > UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime > > -Original Message- > From: Tony Godshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4

Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Andrew Sackville-West, > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:12:21 -0800 > "Tyson Varosyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yea, I am going to keep with it. This is just so damn frustrating! How would > > all TCP traffic just be blocked be default?! I do not know enough about the > > OS. I just go

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Jimmy Liang, > Hi All, > > I'm in need of some hints here. I have a P4 box running Debian 3.1, with > things like Postfix, spamassassin, MySQL, Apache, and other misc > softwares. > What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon. > Can you suggest the best w

Re: No comments

2005-12-13 Thread Tony Godshall
> > > In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions > > I > > > post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. > > > What happened ? something that I did ...? This list has so much traffic that many just skim the subject lines for topics that we can answer or lear

Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alex Malinovich, > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:26 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > > "As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its > > own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its > > phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of intera

Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Tony Godshall
"As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive Doomsday Book of error, fallability, and redemption..." -- Neal Stephenson In The Beginning Was The Command Line,

Re: USB DVD/CD burners

2005-12-10 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Nate Bargmann, > * Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 09 11:05 -0600]: > > According to Andreas Rippl, > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:07:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm contemplating adding a USB DVD burner to my sys

Re: USB DVD/CD burners

2005-12-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Andreas Rippl, > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:07:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm contemplating adding a USB DVD burner to my system. Does anyone > > have any good or bad experiences with these? > > > > In theory it should be simple, but I thought I'd check on the practice >

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Tony Godshall
> > > > What cert would people recomend to do at home ? (This my own money here > > > > so cant afford corporate rates) > LPI - then, potentially, RHCE if you can find someone to stump up for > you once you've a proven track record. nice tip, for a Debian list ;-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alex Malinovich, > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:35 +1100, 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 th

Re: grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-23 Thread Tony Godshall
... > > So my question is... Can you tell me or point me toward where I > > would put my "echo to the penalty box" in the Exim4 configs? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Tony > > Just a guess: Use fail2ban, point it to exim4/mainlog, set > /etc/fail2ban.conf to trigger 'Unrouteable' to ban the of

grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi folks. I've been using Exim since I started doing e-mail on my Debian box many years ago. But I never was able to really get into its configs- the docs are kind of hard to grok for me. And the exim4 configs really make my brain hurt... I can't tell where the settings are without doing a 'gr

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
> >-u will make sure that newer overwrites older, not vice > >versa (warning- make sure clocks are right!- I don't do this > >till I'm sure ntpd is running on the machines). > > > >and by source-address and destination-address you of course > >mean path-to-file-or-directory in this context (though

Re: Examining Swap

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Thomas, > Hello there. > > > My debian server uses max 50% of its 1 GB ram while im looking at it, > also under stress conditions. Still, if it is running for a few days, > there are about 100 MB swapspace used. > > I dont know what is written into the swapfile. > Now i ask myself

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to kamaraju kusumanchi, > Vincent Smeets wrote: > > >Hallo, > > > >is there some tool to synchronize files or directories between a hard > >disk and a USB stick? I have some files on the hard disk of my home > >computer. I have a copy of them on a USB stick so that I can use the > >fi

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
... > How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM? free If you want a record over time, put it in cron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
> > I've been thinking about unzipping them all, but I figured it wasn't > > worth the disk space. > > Depends on howmuch disk space you have, and how much you read the > documentation in /usr/share/doc. I just read with zless instead of less, and zgrep instead of grep, zcat instead of cat... th

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
According to mikepolniak, > On 11:56 Mon 24 Oct , mikepolniak wrote: > > On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > > > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > > > suit

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-19 Thread Tony Godshall
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys$ cd /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat idProduct > 1100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat idVendor > 10d6 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat serial > USB 2.0(FS) FLASH DISK > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys

Re: backup compress on the fly

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike McCarty, > Joe Mc Cool wrote: ... > > > >But, (now that I have installed all those lovely debian goodies), the > >wretched tape is filling up and asking for another. (I erase the > >tape beforehand.) > > > >I really want to fit all my current data, or certainly selected dirs > >

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-27 Thread Tony Godshall
Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, and even windows (gah!). IIRC, Debian Gnu/HURD and Debian GNU/BSD work already, and Windows isn't being seriously worked on. If interested, there's a mailing list to join at debian.org (and archives to read). So it doesn't make sense to

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Robert Kopp, > > > --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dale schleyer wrote: > > > for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config > > file even though i am logged in as "root" > > > > > > any help greatly appericated > > > > You need to give us more information

udev + linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 solved: needs a newer e2fsprogs to build its initrd.

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. I had some trouble installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686... it said I needed a newer udev. So I installed a newer udev, and linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 wouldn't install. Then udev wouldn't start, because it said my 2.6.11 wasn't good enough, so I lost access to my USB drive. http://bug

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Matt Zagrabelny, > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will newer > > versions of some packages eventually need a newer kernel? > > yes. for instance some desktop stuff is starting to use udev/hotplug. > this requires a 2.6 kernel. Can you indicate which o

Re: Editing the menu

2005-08-09 Thread Tony Godshall
/etc/menu/README ... : In this directory, the system administrator can install menufiles to : override the menu files provided by Debian in /usr/lib/menu and : /usr/share/menu/default. : : The filename should be the name of the package that it is overwriting, : and may contain as many lines and

Re: Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

2005-08-05 Thread Tony Godshall
... > I only get at most 1024x768 in KDE 3.3 (and I think in gdm too) (in fact, > the pulldown menu shows just up to this resolution) > > How can I fix this? > > Related note: I see I have both XF86Config and XF86Config-4.. which one is > my system using? How can I tell? Why are there both? II

Re: network notification

2005-08-02 Thread Tony Godshall
According to ? v, > hey guys, i have a small problem with my network cable becomeing unplugged > on my laptop, is there any program that will notify me with a popup or > something when it does become unplugged? it doesnt come out of the jack but > just enough to drop the connecti

ugly X fonts on laptop [Re: OK, a second try: New Debian User needs help!]

2005-07-30 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi. This list has a lot of traffic, so most people just read subject lines and read if pertinent. So you're more likely to get help if your subject line is specific enough for someone to be able to tell if they have any expertise in your issue. Generally, for X issues, you'll probably want to p

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-18 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Thomas Hood, > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:51:57 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > My point was simple: If you are going to get a derivative of Debian > > or Red Hat or whatever, you will never have the perfect > > compatibility that is often promised but cannot be delivered. You > > will

Re: take your fucking shit out of my computer

2005-07-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tom Allison, > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:45:15PM +0800, rodger wrote: > > > >>Well Well Well: > >>I thought I was the only one.No os is safe not even linux. > >>They Slow down my band width drop trojans in my pc.Turn of my security > >>tools > >>and hide the

Re: Program Execution: output does not appear

2005-07-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tony Godshall, > According to Angelo R. Rossi, > > Hello: > > > > I am using a large molecular dynamics program in the following manner: > > > > charmm output.file > > > > The problem is that the f

Re: Program Execution: output does not appear

2005-07-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Angelo R. Rossi, > Hello: > > I am using a large molecular dynamics program in the following manner: > > charmm output.file > > The problem is that the file output.file is created, but remains empty. > After a while, the file fills with some output but

Re: is there a software like Bandwidth

2005-07-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to , > > mrtg??bandwidth??debian > > > is bandwidth in Debian's package?? > > -- > please see http://packages.debian.org Best Regards, Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Atheros support in Ubuntu, but not Debian?

2005-07-09 Thread Tony Godshall
IIRC the drivers require non-free stuff, or there was some other reason they weren't accepted into the mainstream kernel. See recent Linux Journal for a card that's supportable by Linux w/o proprietary drivers or go with a distrib (e.g. Ubuntu or Xandros or Knoppix) that doesn't mind distributing

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Stephen Lokitz, > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, michael wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:46 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: > > > Thanks again for your response. Any other suggestions? Our only current > > > option remaining is to attempt to return the server and find another with > > > d

Re: isp service

2005-07-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to TedNick, > How and where can I find a Linux friendly ISP. > > I need the DNS or IP address number. > > All of the ISP's that I have contacted do not want to provide me with that > number. > > They say sorry. You cannot use Linux. I find it easier to say I want a service that doesn

Re: Help loading Debian

2005-07-02 Thread Tony Godshall
According to roach, > On Saturday 02 July 2005 22:24, Jim Kern wrote: > > This is my second attempt in a year to get Debian on my machine. Why is it > > so dificult. I have downloaded the ISO image of the net install and burned > > it to a CD. Is this CD supposed to be bootable? > > Yes. > > >

Re: SSH and X11 Forwrding query

2005-07-02 Thread Tony Godshall
50.95033N, 114.03791E > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > KeyID at at pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371: 0x9643AE65 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject

Harvard + Re: unsubscribe

2005-07-01 Thread Tony Godshall
t! Maybe it's time to go back to school... -- Tony Godshall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Tony Godshall
... > I guess there is some european debian users here : you're concerned more > than ever. Your favorite system, your favorite apps, your skills and > future jobs are in danger. > > Why spend time getting more skills on a system which might die? Debian and other free software will survive by

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-20 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Andrew Schulman, > > Of course, it might well be combine with some actual copy protection > > scheme that involves damaging the CD in some way. > > My guess is yes, since the attacks that Tony and Shaun mentioned are > well-known. I'm interested in the mechanism that > > - allows au

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-19 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Bj??rn Lindstr??m, > Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know the details? Some Windows-specific driver that's > > required to read the tracks? And how does it know how many times > > you've ripped a song-- stashing counts in the registry some place, or > >

Re: kernel upgrade from 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.6.x

2005-06-10 Thread Tony Godshall
> > I'm running kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 on my computers. Filesystem is RaiserFS > > 3.6.25. What I need to do for upgrading kernel to 2.6.x > If you are going to build the kernel from source, don't forget to > also build Reiserfs into the kernel. ... Or not. initrd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sarge Disks

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Roberto C. Sanchez, > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:48:26PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: > > Hi > > > > I think Sarge is super, but can anyone tell me where to find out whats on > > disks > > 1-14? > > > > I have been using Debian for about 2 years, but have not been able to > > figu

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
... > reading it, then I find it quicker to read just the top section of each > post rather than having to scroll down past everything I've already > read. ... I think you are reacting to cases where the responder is too lazy to trim. > There isn't a problem with context because I can remember

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, > Tony Godshall wrote: > >According to Marty, > >>Basajaun wrote: > >> > >>>For understanding what version you are running, and what packages will > >>>get updated (or not), take a look at "man apt_preferences".

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, > Basajaun wrote: > > >For understanding what version you are running, and what packages will > >get updated (or not), take a look at "man apt_preferences". > > Good point. Specifically, the apt conffile /etc/apt/apt.conf must > indicate the debian version. e.g. mine contains

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Steve Block, > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > >For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. > >Currently, I am running an "unstable" machine (I have unstable in > >sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If

Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

2005-06-02 Thread Tony Godshall
; Jun 2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at > > scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > Jun 2 07:51:18 localhost scsi.agent[27430]: sd_mod: loaded > > sucessfully (for disk) > > Jun 2 07:51:19 localhost udev[27460]: creating device node '/dev/sda&

Re: Display/resolution problems

2005-06-01 Thread Tony Godshall
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Re: Display/resolution problems

2005-06-01 Thread Tony Godshall
" You can see what resolution your monitor is in by typing 'xwininfo -root'. I think xwininfo is in packages xutils. -- Tony Godshall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TX ok but no RX packets at all!

2005-05-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Joseph H. Fry, > I have two identical Debian Sarge boxes... I can say identical because I > used dd to copy the HDD from the first one I set up (#1) and placed it in > the other (#2). I have changed the hostname, mailname, and IP address in the > second machine and both seem to work ok

Re: Network scan

2005-05-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mark Roach, > Alexandar Angelov wrote: > >Mark Roach wrote: > > > >>On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 00:39 +0300, Alexandar Angelov wrote: > >>>Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to > >>>92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. > >>nmap > >> > >>-Mark

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Stephen Patterson, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they start

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Lee Braiden, > On Friday 13 May 2005 18:32, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Since it's not yet formatted, I would think there must be a way to > > recover all the data still. I could install this knoppix on the small > > 3 GB hdd and connecting the big hdd, try to recover. Is there a > > program I

Re: laptop and different networks

2005-05-12 Thread Tony Godshall
am > willing to give this another shot. > > regards, > ->HS > -- > Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address > to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Monique Y. Mudama, > On 2005-05-10, Bill Marcum penned: > > > > I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox? > > I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two > different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was > using multiple

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alan Chandler, > On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:41, Mr Mike wrote: > > On Saturday 30 April 2005 03:42 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > I am using PHP and I am trying to parse a string into substrings > ... > > > > You know... if I ask this sorta question all I get is RTFM and in reality >

Re: rediscovering hardware

2005-05-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tom Allison, > > >> I should expect discover to rebuild the modules.conf file? > >> (sounds like "Yes"). > >> I take it discover is not able (ever or yet) to modify the modules.conf > >Modules.conf is there for those modules which are NOT detected automatically, > >discover dynamicall

Re: rediscovering hardware

2005-05-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tom Allison, > Tony Godshall wrote: > >According to Tom Allison, > > > >>Tony Godshall wrote: > >> > >>>According to Kent West, > >>> > >>> > >>>>Tom Allison wrote: > >>>> > >>&

Re: pdf printing

2005-05-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > Using xpdf when you tell it to print, it displays a dialog, in a textbox is > lpr > remove the r to obtain lp which is the cups command to print and it works > Have a good day I use 'lpr filename.pdf' and it just works. I'm not sure the mechanism, but I do ha

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Vincent Lefevre, > On 2004-12-15 22:30:34 -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > > have some questions: > [...] > > First, you should have aske

Re: AMD 64 with woody or sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tim Kelley, > On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:38, Nick Miller wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had > > running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I > > would really like to push my company to rep

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Hugo Vanwoerkom, > George Iordanou wrote: > >I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage > >and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following > >files: > > > >boot.img > >cd-drivers.img > >net-drivers.img > >root.img > > > >How can i create a

Re: Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Allan Wind, > On 2004-11-30T11:25:38+0100, Juergen Neumann wrote: > > Have you ore anyone else found a solution for this problem yet? > > Do you have flash installed? It seems you have choice between one that > cause 100% cpu utilization (swf-player) or crashing > (libflash-mozplugin

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