Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: > > > [snipped 8 lines] > > > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > > > On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on > >

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: > > > [snipped 8 lines] > > > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > > > On a more serious note

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: [snipped 8 lines] > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... > > On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on > different "technologies", those tools may help. But for single > (or very similar) VMs

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: [snipped 10 lines] >> intrastructure admin / manager / department, i.e. the network >> overlords. > > Thanks, Arno. I'm obviously too far out of the "swing" these days. > Sorry, that was typo from my

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: > > From: lisi.re...@gmail.com > > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 > > > > On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > >> Our IT infra came up to me > > > > Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_,

RE: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: lisi.re...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 > > On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> Our IT infra came up to me > > Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he > she or it is at home, is an IT "infra". I simply can't fi

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Our IT infra came up to me Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he she or it is at home, is an IT "infra". I simply can't find infra as a noun! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:20:13PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on > shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and > said, use Vagrant with it to make it eas

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:16:58 +0300 Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me > > some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place > > to ask. > > > > My SSD is de

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-28 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some > useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. > > My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally > recommended bra

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Petter Adsen: > > the 850 EVO does not support queued TRIM. Is that a problem for > everyday desktop use? No. It only means that TRIM commands must not be queued by the drive but executed instantly (after clearing the existing commands in the queue, I guess). For desktop use this means that a we

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some > useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. > > My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally > recommended bra

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 08:40 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me > some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to > ask. > > My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a > generally recommended brand, but acco

Re: [slightly OT] anybody know the status of wiki.kernel.org?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:22:02 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I realize this list is for Debian, but I expect there are some kernel > hackers here as well. > > What with the security breach of kernel.org, a month or so back, access > to info about things like btrfs and xen in the kernal is hard to

Re: [slightly OT] anybody know the status of wiki.kernel.org?

2011-10-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011, Miles Fidelman wrote: > What with the security breach of kernel.org, a month or so back, > access to info about things like btrfs and xen in the kernal is hard > to come by (at least wiki.kernel.org seems to be offline, as does > btrfs.wiki.kernel.org). > > Anybody know the st

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Aug 2011 at 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: > My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to > swap when I initially partitioned the HDD. More than enough. > My response to Ivan crossed yours, so if there's no value and I also run > the risk of meddling with the ker

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 6:51 AM, AG wrote: > Hey list > > Just a quick query about releasing swap space.  On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets > used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. > > Is there any val

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: […] > So, who is going to say that a "/swap" partition is going to be > needed with 8 GiB of RAM? I wouldn't, I just thought kernel makes > use of all of the available resources are allocates them to get the > best performance. Meaning: if you have available resourc

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> AG writes: > On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > AG writes: […] > I have recently switched to Xfce4 on Stable from Gnome because the > latter was quite a memory hog and seemed to retain pages in swap > until I logged/ rebooted. The pages that stay longer in the

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: > On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: >> What's your amount of physical ram? >> >> > My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to > swap when I initially partitioned the HDD. That's a fair amount of ram... I wonder why your sy

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote: Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: AG writes: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. > Is

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. What's your amount of physi

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> AG writes: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. > Is there any value/ harm in releasing this spac

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-18 Thread Doug
On 02/18/2011 07:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:11:30 +, AG wrote: I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of ex

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

2011-02-18 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/17/2011 06:48 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think this is a valid technical explanation of why some people are bothered by the video 3d technology. Disliking 3d is absolutely *not* something to be embarrassed about. Being able to watch a 3d movie without discomfort is a clear sign of a percept

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:11:30 +, AG wrote: > I'm seriously considering this laptop > http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of > Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. > > Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of > experience for the user with a De

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

2011-02-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110217_174340, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, AG wrote: > >Hello list > > > >I'm seriously considering this laptop > >http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of > >Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. > > > >Given the specs of the hardware, what is t

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-17 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, AG wrote: Hello list I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of experience for the user with a Debian testin

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-31 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi again >> Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible >> home security system? > You could also consider small domo IP networked cameras which provide an > embedded mini web-server and they're easy to setup and control (basically > you only need to provide the power

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:37:20 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible > home security system? > > We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before > we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time

RE: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems usingDebian?

2010-12-30 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: rbtho...@pobox.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems >usingDebian? >Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:37:20 -0800 > >>Does anybody have any experience install

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! Thanks, I'll look into those. Rick On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, > We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in > -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under > $1000

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, > We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in > -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under > $1000 for parts -- I'll do the installation myself) CC-TV ("CC"="closed circuit") and recorder > that can

Re: slightly OT or notdoes anybody know if git can be like wget

2010-12-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , shirish शिरीष wrote: >Wget is persistent and its great at leeching/using bandwidth >to download a file. Git atleast the way I know isn't aggresive as >wget is. I'm sure there are improvements which one has to do on server >perhaps, the git repository server. > >But is there somethin

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark : > Unless I'm reading the ThinkWiki wrong Tp_smapi is not compatible with my > machines... Then I don't know, you'll have to find out about alternatives yourself or hope someone else points them out, if they exist (I also guess not all hardware allows to do that). Ch. -- To UNS

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Lawrence Cadden
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote: > 2010/7/30 Mark : > > Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is > there a > > way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both > > machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one X

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote: > 2010/7/30 Mark : > > Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is > there a > > way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both > > machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one X

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark : > Thank you Christian.  Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here.  So is there a > way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%?  Both > machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years > old. Yes, see the Tp_smapi link posted above (al

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote: > 2010/7/30 Mark : > > Or do you shutdown when the battery > > reaches, say, 5%? > > > > I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements > > I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries > (as all modern devices ar

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 07/30/2010 08:08 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark: Or do you shutdown when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using either of those)? Then

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark : > Or do you shutdown  when the battery > reaches, say, 5%? > > I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using either of those)? Then you do rather *not* want to deep discharge

RE: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Viau
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:24:52 -0700 Subject: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be man

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 30 of July 2010, Mark wrote: > I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while > using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be many > (if any) software solutions for draining a laptop battery completely, > before recharging.

Re: [slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

2008-08-27 Thread gary turner
gary turner wrote: Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html standards. It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice. OK, I got a good start. I'd appreciate anyone's help who uses

Re: (Slightly OT) (SOLVED) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings This says that the TZ can be checked from the javascript console, but that it must be changed through the OS. The problem with this is t

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Matthias Julius wrote: > >> >> Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings >> > This says that the TZ can be checked from the javascript console, but > that it must be changed through the OS. The problem with this is that > the OS says that the box

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matthias Julius wrote: Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is the mail client responsible for setting the time on outgoing mail? I am running Sarge, with exim 3.36-16 and Thunderbird 1.0.2. I used to live on the east coast (of the US) and am now living on the west coast (3 TZs later).

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Julius
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the mail client responsible for setting the time on outgoing mail? > I am running Sarge, with exim 3.36-16 and Thunderbird 1.0.2. I used > to live on the east coast (of the US) and am now living on the west > coast (3 TZs later). > > Output of tzconfi

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Josh Battles
On Fri, April 28, 2006 11:09 am, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: >> Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for >> gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) > > If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have do

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Jan Schledermann
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: >> Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite >> for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this >> posting) > > If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have dozens spare. > Thanx a lot J

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread IraqiGeek
On Friday, April 28, 2006 5:09 PM GMT, Martin A. Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite, pl

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have dozens spare. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ |

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:09:57AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya hendrik > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient > > detail to enable me to use it. > > i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct >

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient > detail to enable me to use it. i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct config files ... ( or good enuff for some .. but not the silly boat i want )

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:13:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > webmin is the purrfect example to me of what's broken, > but is agoo dstart for beginners that like to point-n-click > because if you looked at the files, what to change in the config > files would be deep void > - it's

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
Some thing I wish for are A diagnostic index -- solutions indexed by symptom. IBM once had one of these for OS/2. It starts with common classes of complaints, like, the screen stays black, and ends up in a tree of possibilities. Obvious things like "make sure it's turned on". Unobvious things

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Kemp
> My ideal website would be one that combined the material in the really > useful http://www.debian-administration.org/ :) > with simpler guides for less experienced users (such as, the basics of > aptitude, how to install Nvidia/ATI 3d drivers, or the basics of > Debian-specific commands lik

tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andy On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andy Streich wrote: > But I expect you to have something in mind as well -- something of your own > that has motivated you to create a new Debian site. yup.. :-) > Anyway, I'd love to see not just docs for new users but configuration > software > that plays an

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:26 pm, Josh King wrote: > So, the question is still open. What is "all the Debian-related material > we all wish for"? At least in your view? I've received several inputs on > this, both on and off this list. Its given us a good direction to start > with, but I'd li

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Josh King wrote: > All I can do is give my assurances that I plan to be in this for the > duration. Those who know me know I'm not one to give up easily ;-) yup... from what i can see so far .. > As for help to fix the problems, I would welcome anyone willing to roll > u

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Alvin Oga wrote: yes .. always give credit to those willing to put in time and effort into free documentation and other relevant info ... - and if they are looking for helpers, one could step in and help fix the problems they're having what someone doesn't like may be what othe

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andy Streich wrote: > Sometimes it's about the "personal requirement for individual recognition," > but other times it has more to do with an individual having a vision and > trying it out. That's not something we should be pushing back on. Sure it > would be nice if all

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Mark Crean wrote: > The OP's post was sincere and his questions worthwhile. His site is also > new and so not yet fully worked out, so far as I can tell. I think he > deserves more than you appear able to give. yes .. always give credit to those willing to put in time and e

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Andy Streich wrote: Sometimes it's about the "personal requirement for individual recognition," but other times it has more to do with an individual having a vision and trying it out. That's not something we should be pushing back on. Sure it would be nice if all these people found a way to

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:26 pm, Katipo wrote: > Mark Crean wrote: > > However, in my experience running a website is a great deal of hard > > work and many people start to flag after three months or so. Many > > other people enjoy running their own show and wouldn't want to combine > > into

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Katipo
Mark Crean wrote: However, in my experience running a website is a great deal of hard work and many people start to flag after three months or so. Many other people enjoy running their own show and wouldn't want to combine into a bigger one, other than as, perhaps, an item in a web ring. Whi

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Antony Gelberg wrote: I don't understand what you want to do other than run a website and collaborate with other websites, whatever that means in this instance. What I want to do is cut down on the redundancy. Whether I run it or not is irrelevant. I would like to be involved, yes. Collaborati

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
> I wonder if you or colleagues have taken a good look at what other > distros and their users are doing with regard to websites. Perhaps some > ideas may come of it? The only other ones I know well are SuSE and > Ubuntu. SuSE's online presence is also a little bitty and spread around, > largely be

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
> Josh King wrote: > > Don't take this the wrong way, but you asked. What is the point of your > site existing? What does it achieve that has not already been achieved > elsewhere, better? > > I like the one-question FAQ: > "I want to get more involved with DebCentral, what can I do to help? WHo

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Crean
Antony Gelberg wrote: [snip] I like the one-question FAQ: "I want to get more involved with DebCentral, what can I do to help? WHo (sic) do I need to contact?" What an informative resource. The OP's post was sincere and his questions worthwhile. His site is also new and so not yet fully wo

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Crean
Josh King wrote: Hey all, Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs on an idea I have. [snip] I wonder if you or colleagues have taken a good look at what other distros and their users are do

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Richard Lyons wrote: I'm half inclined to ignore this post as merely promotional, but debcentral looks fairly interesting, even if I couldn't create an account on its wiki (that part of the form missing). Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I am hoping that we can accomplish some kind of a

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 21:43:15 -0600, Josh King wrote: > Hey all, > > Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really > would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs > on an idea I have. [...] > subject was the basis of an article written b

Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux

2005-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: Hi, I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I think a consumer grade one) through which they connect their lan computer

Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 28-nov-2005, at 19:02, H.S. wrote: Hi, I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I think a consumer grade one) through which th

Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux

2005-11-28 Thread Piero Piutti
2005/11/28, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a GUI firewall application for Linux that can > be installed on router computers to deal with with various applications: > web browsing, email, databases: oracle & siebel, or other Windows stuff? > > I am also thinking about suggesting he use spam a

Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux

2005-11-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:02:27PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > Hi, > > I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based > machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all > their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I > think a consumer g

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 7/29/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with hom

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:57:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Two things come to mind, neither of which I've used (or used enough) > to judge their viability. > > (1) rsync > which I'm told is a way of keeping two file systems in sync with one another > I currently make heavy use of rsync.

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:35:56AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Not long after I started getting to grips with debian, I asked a similar > question and a guy call Todd Pytel sent me a lot of info and suggestions > for solutions (some of it off-list). You should be able to find the > thread by

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:01:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever)

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/07/05 20:01), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with home directories mounted from

Re: (SLIGHTLY OT): PC speaker not working with 2.6.12.2 kernel

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Monday 04 July 2005 01:40, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:02, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > However, under my new kernel the PC speaker (which > > I use only for beeping me when mail arrives, when I > > hit tab in a shell and haven't typed enough to > > uniquely identify a file

Re: (SLIGHTLY OT): PC speaker not working with 2.6.12.2 kernel

2005-07-03 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:02, Mark Fletcher wrote: > However, under my new kernel the PC speaker (which I use > only for beeping me when mail arrives, when I hit tab > in a shell and haven't typed enough to uniquely > identify a file etc) isn't working (no beeps). > > I'm guessing there's a kernel

Re: (SLIGHTLY OT): PC speaker not working with 2.6.12.2 kernel

2005-07-03 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Mark Fletcher wrote: > I built the 2.6.12.2 kernel by copying over the .config > from 2.4.19 and using make xconfig to tweak the > settings. I use make-kpkg to compile and make the .deb > file and dpkg to install it. That all goes according to > plan. > However, under my new kernel the PC spea

Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:09:31PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:00 -0500 > > > > network currently runs through a smc2404wbr wireless (802.11b) router > > (which I confess doesn't work all that well). I'm looking for > > something that would make one or, preferably, both the

Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:00 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi folks, > > this is a hardware question, so maybe slightly OT. I am looking for a > way to make our 2 printers easily accessible over the 'net, nad wouldl > ove to hear back on other people's experience. here's > what

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no good reason I'd know about. Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (f

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I > started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no > good reason I'd know about. > > Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - availab

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Uwe Dippel (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until > I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; > for no good reason I'd know about. > > Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - available from outs

Re: Slightly OT: KDE3.1 vs. Gnome2 Seeking Info!

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:49:06AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I recently installed Both Gnome2 from SID and a few other places and > KDE3.1 Much ot this was installed using apt-build from sources outside > the US. I have had VERY decent results with both when using the display > manager GDM b

Re: slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.

2002-03-19 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
martin f krafft wrote: no, not yet. i think that paypal was deemed to expensive and insecure to be officially supported by debian. we're working on a scheme. However, a package gpal does exist. -- AvH

Re: slightly OT: making donation to debian using paypal or such.

2002-03-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.18.2214 +0100]: > just wondering if it was / would be possible to make donations to > debian using Paypal or something like that making it a lot easier > for people who are not US based to make donations. no, not yet. i think that paypal was

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Thanks to everyone who suggested mem=224M as a kernel parameter - after botching a grub install on not one but *two* machines consecutively, this works fine. Tom Thomas Cook wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in i

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a > memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > tot

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread nate
> Hi, > > It says I only have (just less than) 64 Meg! Any ideas why? > the kernel is not able to get a reliable report from your BIOS as to how much ram the system has so it plays it safe and sticks to 64MB. you can override this in lilo.conf: append="mem=XXXM" where XXX = amount of ram you

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requestsbehind a proxy?

2001-12-12 Thread Calyth
I guess i'll set up a split DNS because I do have a domain (shh... don't ask) and I need to get a DNS running anyways. Is it possible for me to move the internal DNS to another machine other than the firewall? Calyth

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requests behind a proxy?

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:07:27AM -0800, Calyth wrote: | I'm planning to set up a proxy, and I'll have to get the standard | services (HTTP, FTP, POP), and SOCKS on the firewall. I'm just wondering | how the heck the machines inside can get DNS requests if they need to | have a DNS resolved? Do I

Re: [slightly OT] How the heck can the private LAN make DNS requests

2001-12-12 Thread nate
> I'm planning to set up a proxy, and I'll have to get the standard > services (HTTP, FTP, POP), and SOCKS on the firewall. I'm just > wondering how the heck the machines inside can get DNS requests if > they need to have a DNS resolved? Do I have to setup a DNS for that > purpose? i would highly

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