Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-27 Thread cls-du
For a screwy format like mbox, use a program designed to deal with the screwy format. Try something like this. mkdir tmp cat bigfatmboxfile | formail -s sh -c 'cat > tmp/$FILENO' Formail is one of those programs that keep getting more versatile as you learn more about them. It's in the pro

Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

2003-11-26 Thread cls-du
"Iago Sineiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi. >> >> I have a hard drive that is damaged and the BIOS can't recognize it. Could I >> access using some tool of Linux? "Haioken" wrote: >Not if the bios can't recognize it. >There is very few pieces of software in e

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-03 Thread cls-du
I read this "list" via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. Newsguy filters out all the spam. I have a large spam blocking list, http://www.greens.org/about/r.txt (tcprules format) and yesterday I blocked a big chunk of Global Crossing, because

patents, Re: Multi-user Debian

2003-09-28 Thread cls-du
"csj" wrote: > Just because something's obvious doesn't mean it can't be > patented. That's true today, but only because the USPTO is broken. Long ago, when they were doing their job, the rules were: 1. No prior art 2. Not "obvious to anyone skilled in the art" 3. Useful and valuable. #2 meant

Re: Internet Access for Linux?

2003-09-25 Thread cls-du
>[NetZero] say Windows or Mac are required. Then boycott them for being Linux-unfriendly. There *are* MS-Windows-only ISPs. They are the ones using unmaintained remote access boxes that are compatible with Microsoft's broken PPP but not with standard PPP. It's got nothing to do with whether they

Re: Recommended free secondary DNS?

2003-09-20 Thread cls-du
>> Can someone recommend any free secondary DNS services? >> I've used Granite Canyon but need others. Granite Canyon can be tricky. I've found NS2 doesn't work, for years and years and years, but they require it be "advertised" in an NS record. Therefore: 1. Put NS1 in your domain registration

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

2003-09-02 Thread cls-du
I think I have a related problem. Invoking acroread on my (woody) laptop, I get an error message "Warning: charset of fontList (ISO10646-1) does not match locale (ISO8859-1)." Acroread displays little dotted boxes instead of characters in its menu bar. But if I use ssh -X to log into the laptop fr

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-03 Thread cls-du
>Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap >and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. >Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap >and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on >the original hda. # Get a root shell

Re: screens

2003-08-03 Thread cls-du
Cees wrote: >after I installed [Woody] I get the error message "No screens found" Don't worry about it. In my experience the X Window System installed by Woody does that about half the time. That's one reason they're writing a new installer. >Can anyone tell me wath I dit wrong? You did nothin

Re: Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody

2003-08-03 Thread cls-du
I wrote: > >> # cardctl ident > >> Socket 1: > >> product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", "" > >> manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 > >> function: 6 (network) Works with 2.4.21 kernel drivers mii and tulip, but you need the hotplug package to get it recognized. Jesse Meyer wrote: > >[I've g

Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody

2003-08-02 Thread cls-du
I wrote: >> # cardctl ident >> Socket 1: >> product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", "" >> manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 >> function: 6 (network) Jesse Meyer wrote: >[I've got the same card,] FCC ID of "MQ4C2K5MX" > [...] under the 2.4 debian kernel, I have > got the card to work, but onl

Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody ?

2003-08-02 Thread cls-du
I've got a Cardbus 10/100 NIC from Hawking. # cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "3Com", "Megahertz 3CCFEM556", "LAN + 56k Modem", "" manfid: 0x0101, 0x0556 function: 0 (multifunction) Socket 1: product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", "" manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 function: 6

Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable <-- bad idea

2003-06-10 Thread cls-du
>On Tue, 27 May 2003 05:40:06 +0200, J F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Splitting the cable >I've seen a network set up with most of the cables were doubled up to >carry 2 10/100 connections over one wire. I don't think any of the >computers in the office were connecting at 100mb and the network h