Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The only dialup modem to get is an external USRobotics 56K modem. It > hooks up to your serial port and is always recognized w/o driver needs. > I will never ever get another modem. I also live where there is no > broadband. H

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derrick Hudson wrote: BTW, the exact command to make (almost) all Hayes-compatible modems quiet is ATM0L0. I suggest you to make your init-string something like AT&F1M0L0 (add any local customizations here). Well, I live in Russia where dial-up access

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saverio Trioni wrote: > I just observed it happens when I open big documents with evince. Does > it happen to you also? Maybe it's a bug in Evince and should be filed. I don't use Evince (anyway, what's this?) and had encountered that bug one or two

Re: hacked: can't delete files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Hatz wrote: > ns:/usr/lib/libsh# rm -rf * > rm: cannot unlink `hide': Permission denied > rm: cannot remove directory `utilz': Permission denied Oh, really fun... Well, you've been r00ted, so be careful and use tripwire in the future ;). - --

Re: Laptop:- nothing for several minutes before bringing up certain apps..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie wrote: > I am wondering if anyone might have experienced this frustrating behaviour, > and if fixed, be willing to share the information of how it was done. > > Acer 1350LC laptop running Debian Sarge 3.1 > KDE as window manager, 2.4.27-2-686

Re: Network card recommendation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Great! So now some people say Realtek sucks, others say it's better. > What's a poor admin to do? > Don't flame, just stick with the 3COM and their 3C905... Works well and it's robust (although 3COM had some problems with

Mustek 2400CU Plus [gt68xx] problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I'm using Sarge 3.1r0a with sane 1.0.13-2 and sane-utils 1.0.16-1, the Mustek 2400CU Plus scanner. Well, I downloaded the PS2Dfw.usb firmware file as they say on their homepage, but managed to scan only the [distorted] half of the page. Then, I tr

Re: reading boot messages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > Hello all, > how can I read the boot messages? I've had some big problems today > which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly > ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1. Before I only had a ppp0. I got > some sort of

Re: Spinning down external USB HDD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [KS] wrote: > I have an external USB HDD which I use only for backups. Although the > disk spins down itself after about half an hour or more ( I checked for > half an hour last time and it was still spinning). I had installed > sdparm earlier but I c