libqt5 errors

2023-05-29 Thread Owen Hogarth
I am running debian version: PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/";

Stretch Alpha 8 netinst fails

2016-11-15 Thread Michael Owen
Installation fails installing the base system: /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: line 88 /lib/partman/active_choices/copy/choices: not found I've tried different hard drives, both installing on a blank drive and a selected partition and always the exact same error message

reporting nvidia driver bug on debian jessie

2015-11-03 Thread Owen Alanzo Hogarth
Hi I would like report a bug, I have a lot of images,that I took off my screen. How can i get them to the right people?

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Märk Owen
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:50:05 +0100 maderios wrote: > On 12/03/2014 08:37 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > > Jessie isn't Debian. > > > > Devuan IS (will be) what we know about Debian! Waiting to see Joel > > joining Devuan... lol > > > I've no problem with systemd (Sid), it works fine). I dont und

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-02 Thread Märk Owen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:47:19 +0100 maderios wrote: > Hi guys > Not for me but interesting. > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg1MDQ It's a waste. They shouldn't have left. I'm pretty neutral about systemd as I'm only an end user

Re: NFS client performance slow with ls

2011-02-11 Thread owen
grep '\[nfsd\]' | wc -l > > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f7df28xb4t@new

Re: if the file changes send email about diff

2011-02-09 Thread owen
hen this should be fairly easy using the 'on release' or 'on expiry' events. -- Brynnen Owen University of Illinois. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

NFS client performance slow with ls

2011-02-08 Thread owen
orms as expected -- it takes a similar amount of time to run 'ls' or 'strace ls' and the times are ~.1 seconds. The only other common element to this is that the servers are all using the BNX2 network driver while the workstation is using the forcedeth network driver. Anyon

Re: Reproducible filesystem corruption in lenny

2009-07-28 Thread Owen Townend
will produce no errors. Reading it back will show corruption once passed the actual size of the device. Your comment didn't mention whether you were able to successfully read back the data after it was written in Windows. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > 2009/5/26 Owen Townend [snip] >> >> Not quite, the syntax is: >> $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile >> '-' can be used to mean stdin/out >> >> Your command would be: >> $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 -

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Owen Townend : > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] >> >> from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the >> real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though >> I'm wondering if l

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
ou like. Instead of just 'gzip' you could use 'gzip --best' or 'bzip2' or... whatever you like to handle the output. If you didn't have enough space to handle the entire disk in one place you could use something like 'tar -zL' to handle

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
n image out of it? Try, for example $ dd_rescue /dev/sda1 - | gzip > image.gz Where /dev/sda1 is your dying disk and image.gz is the compressed output. Be aware that having stdout as the destination for dd_rescue means it is unable to handle writing sparse files properly (if that is requ

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-26 Thread Owen Townend
-)  The relevant values are: The hint was here.. ^^ ...'I designed this code'... $ man aptitide | grep -A1 ^AUTHOR AUTHOR Daniel Burrows [snip] > > Besides get-selections there are other approaches to saving and restoring > the state of the apt system. Are you aware of the d

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-28 Thread Owen Townend
2009/3/28 Paul E Condon : > I'm convinced that the suggestion is worthwhile, but I'm having > difficulty following it. See below. > > On 2009-03-27_16:33:11, Owen Townend wrote: >> 2009/3/27 Paul E Condon : >> > On 2009-03-26_19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrot

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-26 Thread Owen Townend
e marked as manually installed on the new system and will _never_ be automatically removed as 'just' dependancies. Example summary of Douglas' solution as I understood it: 1) Schedule `aptitude search '~i!M' > /usr/local/backup/package_list` (see 'cron') 2) Alter

Re: vim

2009-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
ile for fortran. e.g. $ dpkg -S syntax/fortran.vim vim-runtime: /usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/fortran.vim Next, read vim help (`:help syntax`) to decide how you wish to enable it. (probably `:syntax enable`) cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: all config files need .conf

2009-03-05 Thread Owen Townend
tching. They are going to be altering it to only match files with a .conf suffix. There is a recent discussion on the devel list[0] which, if I understand correctly, means that as a user it _should_ mean only that any files you've added manually will need to be renamed in the future. cheers, Owe

Re: Debian on s390

2009-03-05 Thread Owen Townend
in this issue? > Lets start with a basic question - what storage have you presented to the lpar? cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: No soft-links for scp?

2009-02-26 Thread Owen Townend
our locations. >> `find` has options to print much more information than just the filename >> if you need that (check the -printf options). >> >> There are options... what's the actual _problem_ you're trying to solve? >> >> cheers, >> Owen. >>

Re: No soft-links for scp?

2009-02-26 Thread Owen Townend
information than just the filename if you need that (check the -printf options). There are options... what's the actual _problem_ you're trying to solve? cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

2009-02-25 Thread Owen Townend
specially if you ever have to recover from it in another system. I use partitions in my set-up for this reason, it makes it _slightly_ more fool-proof. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Logitech MX Revolution/MX1100

2009-02-22 Thread Owen Townend
`xev`. It is simply a matter of mapping them all to useful functions (e.g. using xmodmap). There are some guides[0] around to help get you started. cheers, Owen. Footnotes: -- [0] e.g. http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+Mouse+Buttons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: DD command

2008-12-19 Thread Owen Townend
and then resume copying. | | $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! | $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid | | 18335302+0 records in 18335302+0 records out 9387674624 bytes | (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s cheers, Ow

Re: batch RAW converters

2008-12-02 Thread Owen Townend
xiftool/exiftool_pod.html > :: > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hey hey, Here's a skeleton to get you started, at least something to work with. I don't work

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Owen Townend
r age at which they tend to die (no "bathtub curve" typical for consumer products). Rate of drive failure is initially low but steadily increases as they age. " cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/27 Lachlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/27 Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] >> Ubuntu is based on Debian but is a much faster moving distribution. >> Debian Etch is now several years old and being a stable release no >> major changes like this wo

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Owen Townend
ery least these changes will not appear until a future release (lenny, sid, squeeze, etc). Hope that helps, Cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Playing Dirac with Gstreamer?

2008-09-21 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/22 Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:20:05 +0200, Owen Townend wrote: > >> Before getting to the video you need to demux the mpeg2 transport >> stream. Totem is telling you that you don't have the plugin necessary to >> do thi

Re: Playing Dirac with Gstreamer?

2008-09-21 Thread Owen Townend
ow how to handle video/x-dirac ** Message: Error: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument Which the schroedinger plugin will then handle. Cheers, Owen. Footnotes: -- [0] http://packages.debian.org/testing/libs/gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Convert HTML document to use relative links ?

2008-09-03 Thread Owen Townend
as exact mirror 2) apache virtual host for the exact mirror as foo.com 3) temporary hosts line/dns entry either on bar.local or your workstation aliasing foo.com to bar.local 4) wget -k foo.com would pull from local exact copy as a local relative mirror. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Owen Townend
directory,which the cabinet can be open as the folder,but not directly access to them, need with the #, such as /home/yourname/garro.rar should be visited as follows: cd /home/yourname/.avfs/home/yourname/garro.rar#/ " This works for tar, gzip, rar, bzip2 and others. cheers, Owen.

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread Owen Townend
ts or ideas? > > TIA Hey, There are a few fuse drivers that can do what you're after[0]. There's an article showing how one of them, archivemount, works on linux.com[1]. cheers, Owen. [0] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ArchiveFileSystems [1] http://www.linux.com/fea

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-30 Thread Owen Townend
d to the onboard plug is causing the trouble, can you get video with a monitor _only_ plugged into the new adapter? cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scripting Question - tar

2008-07-10 Thread Owen Townend
Hey, You're missing the '-' for stdin tar -czvf - --one-file-system $sourceDir | split -b 2000m - $targetFile :) cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-05 Thread Owen Townend
g simple :-) > > TIA > Hey, Try 'iftop' if you just want network details. There's a screenshot here: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/ or 'atop' if you want to have network and disk stats along with processes. Screenshots: http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop/sc

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-28 Thread Owen Townend
, Again sidestepping the actual question: I had this same issue when they started phasing out RS232 ports from laptops, the solution for me was to use a usb adapter. I believe the same solution may apply here. Staying with the google theme there are results such as these: http://www.google.com/p

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-18 Thread Owen Townend
On 18 Jun 2008 18:00:44 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OT> On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> do

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Owen Townend
On 17/06/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:41:50PM +1000, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Owen Townend
ternal chat server or join up to one of the mainstream ones, though xmessage may fulfill the need as `echo "hey"|xmessage -nearmouse -file -` is simple enough. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-16 Thread Owen Townend
an: possible, but definately far from easy. Avoiding PRC gov't owned and run may be easier to adhere to, and also attempts to avoid punishing the people for the leaders' position. WRT Lenovo: from wikipedia[1]: "effectively the Chinese government owns about 27.17% of Lenovo an

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Owen Townend
thernet over usb driver). I imagine that other manufacturers would take this approach too as it is probably the cheapest. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Owen Townend
authentication is the help page to download the client. (available for windows and linux) The list can continue, but I doubt there will be anything on the list that requires more than the specs of an eepc or several year old laptop. (though buying new grants you warranty and support). If you really want to spent more money offer to buy his textbooks :) cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: > > On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png > > > > > heh, I

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-24 Thread Owen Townend
ere being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > heh, I still like `apt-get moo` cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Owen Townend
yway. There are plenty of grub tutorials around, easily found by searching for 'restore grub windows' as windows is a common culprit for nuking grub and the restore process is the same. cheers, Owen. Footnotes: -- [1] I'm not at a terminal, this is from memory, check & rtfm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nfs and iptables

2008-05-18 Thread Owen Townend
-kernel-server and /etc/default/nfs-common. cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SATA hotplug in Etch?

2008-05-12 Thread Owen B. Mehegan
2.6 kernels? Is it present in Etch, or do I need to upgrade to testing or unstable? Bonus question: Can you point me to a set of instructions for what exactly I need to do on the software side to swap a drive? -- Owen B. Mehegan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: scripting - how to handle blanks

2008-04-24 Thread Owen Townend
;$1" "$2" Running this: $ echo "1 2 3 4 5" > tmp.txt $ ./tmp.sh "1 2 3" tmp.txt Returns the line. cheers, Owen. echo nope > sleep 60 > done > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: Kernel sources for Debian kernel 2.6.18-6-686

2008-04-23 Thread Owen Townend
re linux-source packages # apt-cache search linux-source Hope this helps. cheers, Owen. -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: website front-end

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
t; activities. Is there nothing smaller? > > > -- hendrik Hey, Apache can do plenty for you, but if you're after something a little lighter have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_web_servers One of the smallest is micro_httpd[1]. cheers, Owen. footnotes: -- [1] $ aptitu

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 22/04/2008, Pete Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Owen: > > Here is the output of running the 4 commands: > > ser:# showmount -e 192.168.1.101 > Export list for 192.168.1.101: > /var/fs 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.104 > Hey, I'm running short on ideas he

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
On 21/04/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +1000, Owen Townend < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Do you have the nfs-common package installed? > > > I thought it was nfs-client

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
al email, either the output of `exportfs` was truncated or the export isn't working as it should be listed in the output. Try reloading and/or restarting the nfs-server: debian:# invoke-rc.d nfs-kernel-server reload (or nfs-user-server) cheers, Owen.

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
nk you in advance for all your help. > > Regards, > Pete Hey, Does dmesg|tail have anything relevant? Do you have the nfs-common package installed? cheers, Owen.

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Owen Townend
e the error if you explicitly give the type?: ser:# mount -t nfs 192.168.1.101:/var/fs /mnt/nfs cheers, Owen.

Re: What are proper permissions for home directory?

2008-04-20 Thread Owen Townend
ry when I > run certain apps such as gpg or when I log in through gdm. What should the > permissions of the files in my home directory be? > Hey, The default is 755 though it is common to use 750 for a little privacy. IIRC the warning displays if you have the write bit set for anyone but you. cheers, Owen.

Re: JFS

2008-04-15 Thread Owen Townend
head and/or ncq when reading more than a single file. You can mount with `-o notail` to turn it off. cheers, Owen. [1] The wikipedia page has a little info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Design I am going to still to ext3, wait till ext4 comes ready and keep using > xfs

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Owen Townend
pe reference sheets available if you google a bit which, when stuck to a nearby wall, help out as you get started. Once you are comfortable with vi syntax there are a few other places where it comes in handy such as less/more (navigation and searching) and on the commandline (`set -o vi`). cheers,

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Owen Townend
> Hey, Try this: `sed -e 's:;.*::' -e ':^$:d' abc.ccp` It removes everything from ';' to the end of the line and removes empty lines. There's a great sed tutorial site here: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html cheers, Owen.

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
p/ip stack? Hey, Tyrant maybe, but I can see his point. I'm sure he'd have been more aminable to you sending in two patches, one for the bugfix and another for a feature. That way he can apply the bugfix and then, if he feels like it, look at the feature. It's similar to the

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
vi on the commandline. Make sure your scripts are well commented and well structured. The minimal extra time/effort it takes to make the code maintainable saves much effort and head scratching when you come back to it later. A nice tutorial site for sed: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html and a handy reference file: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt Good luck, cheers, Owen.

Re: installed php5, but no php binary?

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
re is no php in Debian package? Hey, I believe 'php5-cli' gives the php5 command line binary. cheers, Owen. Thank you. > > Jim > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-11 Thread Owen Townend
mes/fortune -a; echo fi Also, IIRC, the default 'fortunes-mod' package includes only a single data file which has no 'offensive' fortunes, so unless you add more (e.g. fortunes-off) the '-a' is unnecessary. cheers, Owen.

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-08 Thread Owen Townend
arrays requesting the same dev number (eg for md0) then each should get their preference. The array itself does have a uuid (check `mdadm --detail /dev/md0|grep UUID`), but I have never tried using it as the boot argument. cheers, Owen. n.b. I'm on a windows comp at the moment so take ab

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #701

2008-04-08 Thread Owen Townend
== > El Amigo, the tropical Debianista :o) > > > > If replying to digests please rewrite the subject line to something more meaningful than 're: Digest'. Replying to digests breaks threading in most (all?) viewers so even with the quoted portions it is difficult to place where this is from when it is in isolation. cheers, Owen.

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Owen Townend
aines Brown, KB1GRM Hey, There are other options around too such as local rsync. Something like this should work similarly: rsync -avh --exclude=/media --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys / /media/mirror/${dirName}/ 2>&1 | cat -vT > /home/brownh/.backup.log cheers, Owen. -- > To UNSU

Re: [OT Tangent to the plane] Elitism...

2008-04-03 Thread Owen Townend
ht and 24 more times > | when I wake up, that's a bad thing??? > > Nah, that is not a bad thing. A little odd, maybe, but not bad. The > Debian, > has room for all, The Debian IS all, join The Debian now... Resistance is [ $towel ? useless : futile ]. cheers, Owen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > iD8DBQFH9YQhUx1jS/ORyCsRCq6CAJ41xSpWTcDOqZwc1rItyBxL7IY0pwCfTpCB > m6FpTifyw3lZRY51GzSOVmo= > =yHRw > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-03 Thread Owen Townend
an is the only good distribution, the only > truly > GNU/Linux distribution worth having. All others are for the uneducated > masses, > who don't care about being right. We are smarter and better than they > are, > because we choose Debian - all hail the mighty Debian!&

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-01 Thread Owen Townend
o ~/.ssh on the hosts that the sysop is using and you won't need a password. This works cross user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] can login to [EMAIL PROTECTED] provided she has the private key and the public key is in bob's authorized_keys file. To enable this you need to uncomment/add to /etc

Re: NFS requires stronger authentication

2008-04-01 Thread Owen Townend
On 01/04/2008, Tim Frink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > after an update of our Sun NFS server, I get this error message in > /var/log/syslog of my Etch system: > > debianMachine kernel: call_verify: server SunNFS requires > stronger authentication. > > Any ideas how I can set up the authent

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Owen Townend
o cron's mail) and stdout will be going to the file. This could also be desireable. Also, with `cat -vt` the arg '-t' == '-vT' making your argument string play out to '-vvT'. At a guess you are either after just '-t' or trying to explicitly give &#x

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-29 Thread Owen Townend
? > > > -- > Chris. > == > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey, They also alphabetically increment with each release and Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Herron and Intrepid Ibex are the current timeline releases for 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10 respectively. So it'll have to be 'j' onwards. How about Jovial Jackal? cheers, Owen.

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Owen Townend
r repeat search forwards/backwards 'j/k' for up/down. With commandline args apitude can provide similar functionality to apt-get though there are some discrepencies[2] Moving into X frontends there is Synaptic and KPackage which are intuitively point and click. cheers, Owen. [1]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ [2] try `apt-get moo` vs `aptitude moo` :)

Re: Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
> > seconded, (or thirded) --kudos sounds good, didn't know about it Though for totally non-function related easter eggs my favourite is still `apt-get moo` (and/or the `aptitude [-v] ... moo` chain) cheers, Owen.

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
T2, TNT Ultra, GeForce, and GeForce2 chipsets. AGP, TV-out and flat panel displays are also supported. . This is the 'legacy' driver for older chipsets. Unless your chipset is explicitly listed in the above paragraph, please use the nvidia-glx driver, which is much more up to date. cheers, Owen.

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Owen Townend
y acts/reacts as if it is making it somewhat self fulfilling. Playing out their conclusions to make Ron's point: RedHat linux is a hit in business _because_ it costs more than normal (free) distros not in spite of it. cheers, Owen.

Re: Trouble with grub on usb thumb drive :(

2008-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
27;t actually reference itself AFIK.) Try http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Booting_from_USB or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows -- ^^ It's not identical, but very similar to the case where windows has hijacked the bootloader, the fix is the same though. cheers, Owen.

Re: install debian usbdisk through ide cable

2008-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
ling on flash media and extending the life expectancy. cheers, Owen.

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-11 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/11/08 03:17, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:42:39PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > >> On 3/9/08, Chris Bannister <[EMA

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
ct of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey, `dmesg | vim -` shows this at the bottom of the resulting vim screen: "-stdin-" 506L, 24189C Should work just fine to view/edit/save the output... if you only want a 'viewer' you could use `| view -` or `| vim -R -` cheers, Owen.

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > Hey, It may be overkill, but the sleuthkit/autopsy combination can usually recover just about anything. cheers, Owen.

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Owen Townend
ds separately at your chosen nice level. $ apropos fifo fifo (4) - first-in first-out special file, named pipe fifo (7) - first-in first-out special file, named pipe mkfifo (1) - make FIFOs (named pipes) pipe (7) - overview of pipes and FIFOs cheers, Owen.

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(Red_Dwarf) > > > > It's from Red Dwarf, a british comedy set ~ 3 million ye

Re: installing debian on raid

2008-03-08 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/9/08, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 3/8/08, *Ivan Glushkov* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have an Asus A8N32-

Re: installing debian on raid

2008-03-07 Thread Owen Townend
aid the mobo uses actually uses the system cpu and memory anyway. If you're dual booting and already have windows installed on the array then pursue the issue, otherwise it seems your time is better spent relaxing with a software raid soution. cheers, Owen.

Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

2008-03-07 Thread Owen Townend
> Damon L. Chesser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey, Have a look here: 'Simple CD-ROM & ISO image cookbook.' --> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/273 It _is_ as simple as `dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/mycd.iso` but there are some other neat cd tricks listed in the article. cheers, Owen.

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-06 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:43:35PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > > Hey, > > Of course there's always my favourite ship computer -> Holly, much > more > > friendly, though arguably less

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-06 Thread Owen Townend
rguably less usefull, especially since 'computer senility' set in lowering his/her IQ from 6000 to 68... It would be a fitting name for an aging server. cheers, Owen.

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-05 Thread Owen Townend
7;d be more likely to name them after apocalypse ponies than the originals. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UGGLENEEVYc That being said, one satelite office of my last company had all their servers named after simpsons characters while ours were all from the Adams family. Lurch was our workhorse testing box, Gomez may have been more fitting given its size but lurch always seemed to get more done (he was an H50 btw). We may get older, sure, but we don't have to be 'grown ups'. cheers, Owen.

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-04 Thread Owen Townend
that was fitting. Thankfully they didn't have an Ate or Eris (mischief & discord respectively). It's always amusing walking into a new site and discovering their naming scheme. Provided of course it's not logical (sydneydmz) or progressive (ws013cv41) or other similarly boring schemes. cheers, Owen.

Re: 4 gigs of ram shows only 3 in meminfo

2008-02-29 Thread Owen Townend
mX67FFRWNxA= > =+bF8 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey, Or it could be to do with this: http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm (short version: a 32 bit os maps other memory into its 4gb address space) cheers, Owen.

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-28 Thread Owen Townend
for any suggestions/help! > > -- > Kent > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey, If all is working except for the 2GB file limit (documented or otherwise) you can just use 'split' to break the archive into smaller parts: eg: `split -b 2000m backup.tar.gz backup.tar.gz.` or pipe tar straight to it: `tar ${your-args} | split -b 2000m - backup.tar.gz.` You can then join them by using 'cat': `cat backup.tar.gz.* > backup.tar.gz` cheers, Owen. -- If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Owen Townend
ames instead of stable etc was made, (the old way still works btw) but I believe it is to help prevent unexpected dist-upgrades when stable is moved on. Windows emulation/compatibility wise: being gone for so long you might find that wine has caught up a little and may be able to run some of the app

Re: Debian Etch PPC install issue

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
ave had your problem and solved it by copying the kernel onto the mac partition in /system folder/Linux Kernels See http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3995.html cheers, Owen.

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
is Debian box to harvest the emails. > > stable reliable multi-architecture spamming! w00t! spammers FTW. lovely. A > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hey, Something like this could work... echo ${message} | mail -es ${subject} -b ${userlist} cheers, Owen.

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
AM though it does thrash the HDD. I use 'atop' to look at the hdd usage amongst other things. With the right kernel patches it can show live disk and network usage per process. It's basically a root run, binary logging 'top' with more features. cheers, Owen.

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/20/08, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 2/20/08, *Tero Mäntyvaara* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Owen Townend wrote: > > >

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-19 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/20/08, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 2/20/08, *Tero Mäntyvaara* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have got motherbo

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-19 Thread Owen Townend
ED] > > Hey, Looks like it can't find the right disks/partitions to boot from. The order may be being re-arranged when you attach them all at once. Could be an issue with identification, are you using device paths or uuid's in grub? On the subject of grub, what's your boot setup? Where is the boot manager installed and what's in your menu.1st (or equiv non-grub) ? If in doubt post your /boot/grub/menu.1st Just a thought. cheers, Owen.

  1   2   3   4   >