Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 01:56, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 10 Dec 2002, 23:18:30, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > I was digging through some old papers and found this from nearly a > > decade ago: > > > > (Dec. 21) > > I'm getting tired of lazy, slovenly, good-for-nothing programmers > > wasting my hard-e

Re: need help on webserver or apache

2002-12-11 Thread eric lin
pasha wrote: Check your apache's log to see what goes wrong... tail -f /var/log/apache/errors.log www:/home/fsshl# tail -f /var/log/apache/error.log [Wed Dec 11 04:21:17 2002] [error] [client 64.91.61.186] File does not exist: /v ar/www/favicon.ico [Wed Dec 11 06:21:54 2002] [error] [client 15

galeon's screwed up cookie management

2002-12-11 Thread martin f krafft
no matter whether i allow galeon to accept cookies from all, this, or no sites, selecting Tools->Cookies->Accept Cookies from this site does *not* do what it should. While the "Block cookies from this site" command works by entering the site into the Cookies Sites table with "Blocked", the "allow..

Wireless card recommendations

2002-12-11 Thread Glyn Millington
I'm running straight Woody - my wife is running (blush) Winders 98. I'd like to link up the two without too many cables. Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian? The Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but seem rather expensive... (Ha

Re: floppy icon disappeared

2002-12-11 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 09:43, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:41:41PM -0800, Cyberthor wrote: > > Hello > > > > before floppy icon work good at xwindow of gnome at desktop then > > 2 days ago it disappeared after boot up after update wvdial and libwvs > > files installed so on

Souvenir

2002-12-11 Thread Souvenir
Title: Bonjour, Bonjour,   Nous vous envoyons ce mail pour vous donner quelques informations sur Souvenir, un logiciel français très original et vraiment très simple qui mérite d'être plus connu.   Souvenir permet la gestion de carnets d'adresses, la prise de notes rapide, la compositi

spamassasin help needed

2002-12-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i recently installed spamassasin and it is working wonderfully. if a particular mails appears to be a spam, it marks it as SPAM in the index. i would like to know if i can: - automatically move these messages to a particular folder - say spam - block some

Apache 2 * PHP 4

2002-12-11 Thread Sobkowiak Krzysztof
Hallo Where can I find PHP4 packages for Apache 2? Hoo can I install PHP4 with Apache 2? -- Sobkowiak Krzysztof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTU-Cottbus signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: need help on webserver or apache

2002-12-11 Thread eric lin
pasha wrote: can you send me your entire httpd.conf file? It isn't necessarily the problem with these lines, but could also be affected by their location within the file, among with other things... So, to make things much easier, and quicker, to resolve - I'd like to take a loot at your entire htt

Re: need help on webserver or apache

2002-12-11 Thread eric lin
pasha wrote: can you send me your entire httpd.conf file? It isn't necessarily the problem with these lines, but could also be affected by their location within the file, among with other things... So, to make things much easier, and quicker, to resolve - I'd like to take a loot at your entire htt

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:25:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > Hanasaki JiJi said: > 5 9s on any hardware..You need redundant motherboards, power supplies, Yes. > cpus, ram, disks, network, and of course it all needs to be hot swappable. No. Think RAID. In RAID it is acceptable that any one harddriv

Re: complete system lock up

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Thompson
>> I have tried different graphics cards, and that didn't make any>> difference.> Did the cards use different drivers?  Using two different nVidia cards> won't help if the conflict is in the driver.   Yes one used the ati driver, and the other nvidia.   The problem recently got much worse, t

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:46:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > the places that I have worked at probably aim for 95% uptime to be > minimum. not sure how many hours or days a year of downtime that > calculates to .. I realistically aim for 99.9% on my webserver. Last year we got around 99.99, this year w

Re: need help on webserver or apache

2002-12-11 Thread eric lin
pasha wrote: I am afraid the following few lines of your file got sent, please re-send the file... I suspect that it could have been truncated along the way... You can archive it with tar.gz and attach it - email it directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that should do it! :P # This is the main

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:41:44PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > Jason Majors wrote: > > > I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play > > > Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when > > > it gets power, but it still takes almost 30

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread nate
Rogier Wolff said: > No. > > Think RAID. think CPU fan fails, CPU overheats, CPU fails, system crashes. think memory goes bad(it does happen), system crashes. think power supply blows out, system crashes. I have also had a power supply trip out a UPS as well. I happened to come into the office

APM / PCMCIA conflict.

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Allison
I have an orinoco gold pcmcia wireless LAN card. works fine. But I can't suspend the notebook, or hibernate. If I pull the card, the apm related operations are just fine. apm -s works with the card in place. apm -S doesn't work in either case. but the keyboard buttons for standby/hibernate don't

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

2002-12-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:57:57AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > I think x2x would be handy here. and/or x2vnc -if you happen to use a lame OS as well! hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: galeon's screwed up cookie management

2002-12-11 Thread Frank Copeland
On 11 Dec 02 08:40:33 GMT, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no matter whether i allow galeon to accept cookies from all, this, or > no sites, selecting Tools->Cookies->Accept Cookies from this site does > *not* do what it should. While the "Block cookies from this site" > command works

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Re: pfinger

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:40:02PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:31:05PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > So unless it's the fp-units-net version, which you say it's not, it > > looks like it isn't in Debian. > > > > (You can also use http://packages.debian.org/

Re: mozilla mail reader

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:42:49PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Yes the date field will change tomorrow to some format determined by > your locale which includes the date. Whenever I 'find' a 'bug' like > this, I think to myself, "Would the programmers really have made this > big of an error an

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-11 Thread Gilbert Laycock
>>> Gary Turner writes: > Alan Shutko wrote: >> Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> (This shouldn't be a problem nowadays, since Type 1 >> versions of the Computer Modern fonts have been included with TeX >> distributions for a while.) > How do I get these fonts and/or how do I get TeX

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:31:47AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:08:33 +, Johann Spies wrote: > > > The subject line says it all. > > You can use xmms to do this. It handles the standard .pls files you get > from shoutcast.com. Just set up mozilla to process the .pl

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. > Thanks. Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real Player but I can't find one now in Debian. How do you install Real Player? Re

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:46:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > John Griffiths said: > > having said that anyone who's todding "five 9's" around as a phrase > > probably wants to do something a bit more demanding. > > either that or they don't know what they are talking about. my > previous company it see

Re: install macromedia coldfusion MX have problem

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:56:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > eric lin said: > > Dear Linuxer; > > > >I tried to install macromedia's coldfusion MX > > > 6/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file > > probably cannot use it on debian woody. it is linked against glibc 2.

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Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

2002-12-11 Thread Lloyd Zusman
What process or utility changes the contents of /etc/motd? Occasionally, I see an extra system identification line that has been placed into that file. Also, what causes the following prompt to print out at login, after /etc/motd has been displayed? ... Last login: Wed Dec 11 06:25:26 2002 fro

Re: spamassasin help needed

2002-12-11 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i would like to know if i can: > > - automatically move these messages to a particular folder - say > spam > Hi, add this to your .procmailrc file: :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes caughtspam Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -

mozilla spell checker

2002-12-11 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello, I'm trying to install the mozilla spell checker: http://spellchecker.mozdev.org It doesn't work. When I lauch mozilla directly (/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin) (in order to see thye stderr of the program which the shell script /usr/bin/mozilla redirect to /dev/null) I have the following e

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:34:48AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > What process or utility changes the contents of /etc/motd? > Occasionally, I see an extra system identification line that has been > placed into that file. [cjwatson@arborlon /etc/init.d]$ grep motd * bootmisc.sh:# Update /etc/mot

SoundBlaster Audigy

2002-12-11 Thread Berend Weel
Hi, I have a soundblaster Audigy, wich I'd like to work in Debian of course. I know the kernel-module for this is emu10k2 and I put that in /etc/modules but my sound still isn't working, have I forgotten to install something or do I need a newer kernel? I use woody to install with the 2.4.2

Re: mozilla spell checker

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:41:53PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: > ** > nsNativeComponentLoader: > SelfRegisterDll(/usr/lib/mozilla/components/libspellchecker.so) Load > FAILED with error: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object > file: N

Routing Problem

2002-12-11 Thread mb
Hi, hope, my question is not offtopic. Here is my situation: On Server (with debian 3.0 ofcourse, kernel 2.4.20 ) has got two network-adapter. The ip's on this adapters are in seperated subnets. NIC A ist the def.gw. The machine is running two webservers (apache). A forwarding between the NIC

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy

2002-12-11 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:43:20 +0100 "Berend Weel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > I have a soundblaster Audigy, wich I'd like to work in Debian of course. I > know the kernel-module for this is emu10k2 and I put that in /etc/modules > but my sound still isn't working, have I for

Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:06:33PM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > That is also a goody ... I thought F stands for the f-word and y ... > I do not know ... are children here on the list? Yeah, we are. -rob msg18396/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #827

2002-12-11 Thread Larry Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Help please, apt-get update failing From: Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:57:15 +1100

Lexmark Z23

2002-12-11 Thread Alan Davis
Is ti possible, or not, using Sid? There seems to be little of specific interest on the Inet. Apparently it is done, but Linuxprinting.org thinks it's a "paperweight." I would really appreciate hearing from people who have done it. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install macromedia coldfusion MX have problem

2002-12-11 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:26:18 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:56:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > > eric lin said: > > > Dear Linuxer; > > > > > >I tried to install macromedia's coldfusion MX > > > > > 6/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not

Re: install macromedia coldfusion MX have problem

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:54:40AM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:26:18 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric, you need to get a fixed version of Java that doesn't use internal > > libc symbols like this, in order that it can work with glibc 2.3.1. Or > > els

Re: Compiling gsview

2002-12-11 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:30:29PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > It appears the package gs-aladdin just ships as a single executable. > You may have to build from source to get a shared library. Will have to try that. The docs point to an address which has only rpms :-( >

Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-11 Thread D.
--- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:06:33PM +0100, Oliver > Fuchs wrote: > > That is also a goody ... I thought F stands for > the f-word and y ... > > I do not know ... are children here on the list? > > Yeah, we are. > > -rob BTW as a check of the kids today, I

RE: EXIM relay for specific users

2002-12-11 Thread Michael Olds
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:28:56PM -0800, Michael Olds wrote: > I guess I didn't see the post with the RTFM and YFA. I said I read O'Reilly. > I have read the manuals... I don't think Paul was too harsh... ... First, I don't believe it was Paul that sent the RTFM and YFA post...at least I hope n

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

2002-12-11 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:34:48AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> > > [cjwatson@arborlon /etc/init.d]$ grep motd * > bootmisc.sh:# Update /etc/motd. > bootmisc.sh:uname -a > /etc/motd.tmp > bootmisc.sh:sed 1d /etc/motd >> /e

RE: Proftp behind firewall problem solved

2002-12-11 Thread Michael Olds
p.s. It's standard practice to not CC anyone on the list, unless their Mail-Followup-To header says to or they explictely ask. Sorry if my reply went directly to you. I am not really in the "list" habit...what usually happens is that I hit "Reply" in stead of "Reply to All" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: config X under woody -- SOLVED... and yet...

2002-12-11 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:20:18PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > * will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021210 14:16]: > > okay, i've gone thru > > > > XFree86 -configure > > xf86cfg > > xf86config > > Do it the Debian way: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 that was actually the fi

Re: DVD Player w/KDE 3

2002-12-11 Thread Frederik Dannemare
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:31:51AM -0500, David Ellis wrote: Has anyone had any luck with DVD Playback on Debian with KDE 3? Can you point out a good player (and maybe a website) with a download and HOWTO? I believe mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) can handle this, even DVDs with th

Re: Routing Problem

2002-12-11 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 11 Dec 2002, 11:57:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Server (with debian 3.0 ofcourse, kernel 2.4.20 ) has got two > network-adapter. The ip's on this adapters are in seperated subnets. NIC A > ist the def.gw. The machine is running two webservers (apache). A forwarding > between the NIC sho

Re: Exim permissions

2002-12-11 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 11 Dec 2002 02:54:02 +(+1100), Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:31:56AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:49:52PM +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > I have not heard that sudo is inherently insecure in any specific way > > > (but I'm not a long time sudo

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 11 Dec 2002, 03:00:14, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Speaking of the Atari, I've got atari800 installed, and one of these > days, I should look at what I would need to do to get some of the > programs on cassettes and cartridges transferred into it. I actually > enjoyed Eastern Front (1941) and would l

Re: Debian Package for viewing/editing .ai files (Adobe Illustrator)

2002-12-11 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 11 Dec 2002, 00:54:49, Hugh Saunders wrote: > Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:42:13AM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > anyway... in gimp, to remove the white background, you want to make sure > the image has an alpha layer [right click on image, layers->add alpha > layer] then use the 'select contiguous

Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-11 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, D. wrote: > BTW as a check of the kids today, I ask my 13 year old > daughter what word started with f and ended with uck. > You know her response was and when I told her the > answer was firetruck she was shocked. > Don Now she knows that f...ck is only the abbreviatio

Re: Debian Package for viewing/editing .ai files (Adobe Illustrator)

2002-12-11 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 10 Dec 2002, 20:24:41, Ludwig wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:54, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:42:13AM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Bear in mind that the JPEG format doesn't support transparency, so > you'll have to save that logo as a GIF or PNG. Thanks!! Yeah - the

Re: DNS problem with Yahoo

2002-12-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > How do your logs look? Do they give any more info about wht postfix is > bouncing it? Are you running a spamfilter or something that's a little > overzealous? > I am running spamassassin (if you have a public mail server you've got to nowadays.) but postfi

apt-get automated

2002-12-11 Thread Niclas Söderlund
Hiya folks, any tips on how to have apt-get every evening at a fixed time via cron, do an update (easy) and then a simulated upgrade/dist-upgrade and then mail it to root? I.e I want something telling me its time to do an upgrade of some packages, but dont want it to be run automatically (dang

Re: Imp3/Horde2 just dumps me back to the login screen

2002-12-11 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Joe Emenaker wrote: Okay... I *had* horde2/imp3 working about a few weeks ago. My guess is libc-client2002 (2002rc10debian-1) is the problem In an upgrade around the beginning of November, the default for this package was to disable plaintext passwords. As IMP does not use IMAPS (i.e. an SS

Lexmark Z23 please?

2002-12-11 Thread Alan Davis
Can anyone shed light on recent success with the Lexmark Z23. Is Omni working w/ Debian (sid)? One mention found that this worked on a mandrake system. Thank you, Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-322-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saip

Re: apt-get automated

2002-12-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:29:08PM +0100, Niclas Söderlund wrote: > Hiya folks, > > any tips on how to have apt-get every evening at a fixed time via cron, do > an update (easy) and then a simulated upgrade/dist-upgrade and then mail it > to root? > > I.e I want something telling me its time to

Re: apt-get automated

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Pritchard
This is quite simple - I do it myself: You have one line in your crontab like this: 5 1 * * * /usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -d -y upgrade -d is better because it will download the file, but not upgrade. -y is needed so that it will say 'yes' to downloading the files. That way when i

Re: Routing Problem

2002-12-11 Thread mb
Doug MacFarlane schreibt: On 11 Dec 2002, 11:57:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Server (with debian 3.0 ofcourse, kernel 2.4.20 ) has got two network-adapter. The ip's on this adapters are in seperated subnets. NIC A ist the def.gw. The machine is running two webservers (apache). A forwarding

Re: Debian Package for viewing/editing .ai files (Adobe Illustrator)

2002-12-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 02:25 PM +): > On 10 Dec 2002, 20:24:41, Ludwig wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:54, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:42:13AM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > > > Bear in mind that the JPEG forma

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:24:01PM +, Simon Tod wrote: > I've had several different response to this problem... > I did run lilo after altering lilo.conf and already > have apmd installed - I get a 'No APM support in > kernel' message with this as well. > I don't get anywhere with the 'modprobe

Re: APM / PCMCIA conflict.

2002-12-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Tom Allison said: > I have an orinoco gold pcmcia wireless LAN card. > works fine. > > But I can't suspend the notebook, or hibernate. > If I pull the card, the apm related operations are just fine. > > apm -s works with the card in place. > apm -S doesn't work in eit

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:19:43AM +, Johann Spies wrote: | On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: | | > I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. | | Thanks. | | Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real | Play

Re: spamassasin help needed

2002-12-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Oliver Fuchs said: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > i would like to know if i can: > > > > - automatically move these messages to a particular folder - say > > spam > > > > Hi, > add this to your .procmailrc file: > > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Stat

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 05:22 AM +): > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:24:01PM +, Simon Tod wrote: > > I've had several different response to this problem... > > I did run lilo after altering lilo.conf and already > > have apmd installed - I get a 'No

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:19:23AM -0800, nate wrote: > Rogier Wolff said: > > > No. > > > > Think RAID. > > think CPU fan fails, CPU overheats, CPU fails, system crashes. You misunderstand my "think Raid" remark. In a RAID configuration you can handle a WHOLE DISK going offline. If your SYSTEM

Re: Lexmark Z23 please?

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:26:32PM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: > Can anyone shed light on recent success with the Lexmark Z23. Originally posted on... Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:15:29 +1000 Dude! Slow it down! Mailing lists don't work that way. If you need it done faster then, say, a week, hire

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:21:24AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I once worked for a company that produced software for telephone > systems where the requirement was six nines uptime, that is at most 30 > seconds downtime a year. Interesting stuff - at that level you get > into having multiple redu

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-12-11T05:41:36Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just today, I received 3 512MB SDRAMS for the grand sum of US$94. > That's 24,576x more RAM that was in my KayPro2, and 2,458x as much > RAM as in my first PC/AT. The 768MB in my workstation is 786432x more than in my little Time

X problem: mouse pointer shifted

2002-12-11 Thread Jens Grivolla
Hi, I have a problem on my Acer TM210 laptop with integrated ALi (Trident) graphics (sorry, I don't have the exact name, it doesn't seem to show anywhere) on XFree86 4.2.1.1, but also on older versions. Regularly, after some time, the mouse pointer will shift and then be shown around 100 pixels t

Re: complete system lock up

2002-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:40:44AM -, Ben Thompson wrote: > Yes one used the ati driver, and the other nvidia. Just wanted to make sure. > The problem recently got much worse, to the point where kdm crashed > before it had even displayed the login window. I removed kdm and I was > able to st

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. > XForms is vile. Qt lyx-1.3.0cvs is worth trying out, feature frozen even. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-12-11T06:56:21Z, "Doug MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When PC RAM hit $1/MB I was really in shock. Now you can get 1 GB or RAM > for a little over $100 . . . My corollary is that I always spend the same amount for memory - $100. With the exception of my first RAM upgrade (br

Uppdating kernel issue

2002-12-11 Thread Lasse
Hello I'm having problem updating the kernel after an installation of woody. I dont know what caused it so i paste the diffrent bootup messages. ---/snip bf2.4 boot messages PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-11 Thread Gene
nagios ntop good luck. /gene Kevin Coyner wrote: Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use. I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on independent ISP/hosts. A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and a couple on Linux. I'm looking for a pro

Installing a CD burner and USB head card

2002-12-11 Thread Barry Cugley
Hello My system is Debian V3 with kernel 2.4.18 on a 200Mhz Pentium. I have just installed a USB head card which has two connections for external devices. I have connected a CD burner to the head card. The CD burner is an external Iomega, Predator, CD-RW having a speed of 4*4*6 on USB 1.1. Debi

SOLVED: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-11 Thread Barry Cugley
Hello all The problem described at the bottom of the page and posted to this mail list about a week ago, was solved in the following way. The command: #dmesg | grep CD reported that the CD was at /dev/hdb I did try: #ls -l /dev/cdrom and recieved a message saying there was no such device. The

Re: FYI: Linksys router vulnerability

2002-12-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Josh Rehman wrote: > It's interesting, the advisory claims that this can be exploited even > when remote admin is disabled. I tried to break my own router with their > advice, but it didn't work. (Maybe a kind soul has already cracked my > router and updated my firmware for me? :-) > > Presumably

Re: Debian Package for viewing/editing .ai files (Adobe Illustrator)

2002-12-11 Thread Jörg Johannes
There's no Save As . . . option for .gif in the gimp. Is there some proprietary format issue? Yes: The LZW patent. If you want .gif support, apt-get install gimp-nonfree. I saved as a png and that worked perfectly!!! It displays properly in Galeon. But from IE on WinDoze box, I still get t

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:26:31AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:21:24AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On the telephone system the uptime level is a government requirement, > > at least in the US. > > Maybe at the carrier level, but not at the PBX level. Ah yes, so

Re: mail basics on a debian system

2002-12-11 Thread Robert Land
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > | What I'm realy unsure about is if _all_ mail, even the one > | sent by the lowlevel 'mail' program goes through port 25. > > No. Many unix programs use a local

Is it possible to switch these processors?

2002-12-11 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I have an older system with a P100 processor, I have another older system with P450 processor. what dangers do i face in swapping the processors? thanks in advance. mw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing a CD burner and USB head card

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Barry Cugley wrote: > Hello > > My system is Debian V3 with kernel 2.4.18 on a 200Mhz Pentium. > > I have just installed a USB head card which has two connections for external > devices. I have connected a CD burner to the head card. The CD burner is an > external Iomega, P

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. > > > > Thanks. > > Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real > Player but I can't find o

Re: Installing a CD burner and USB head card

2002-12-11 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:37:20PM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote: > Q1. How can I find out if the hardware has been found and what do I do if it > has not been found? lsmod, and look for the USB module. (There are two separate ones for most x86 based machines - I use uhci). > A driver for the CD bur

RE: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Matthew Weier O'Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: enabling apm on laptop > > > -- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 05:22 AM +): > > On T

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. > > > > Thanks. > > Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real > Player but I can't find o

Re: mail basics on a debian system

2002-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:49:41PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > | What I'm realy unsure about is if _all_ mail, even the one > > | sent by the lowlevel 'mail' p

Optimizing Debian

2002-12-11 Thread javier
Hi, I am a new Debian user. I used to work in Mandrake and there the x86 packages are compiled for i586, while in Debian they are compiled for i386. From my experience, I know you can improve the performance recompiling the kernel for your particular machine architecture, but I am not sure abou

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Tod
Okay, so 'uname -r' yields 2.4.19 and modprobe does exist (wasn't running it as root...) but 'modprobe apm' yields the response modprobe: Can't locate module apm. Now I have apm installed and it's in the file /etc/modules BUT I cannot find a compiled file apm.o in /lib/modules/2.4.19 or any of its

Re: slowwww IMAP

2002-12-11 Thread Justin Ryan
> > In any case, I'm trying to find a way to make my IMAP access faster. > > I've considered converting to Maildir format but can't find an easy way > > to convert my existing mailboxes. > > Debians' uw-imapd package already has the maildir patches the other > respondent was talking about applied.

Re: Is it possible to switch these processors?

2002-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > I have an older system with a P100 processor, I have another older system > with P450 processor. what dangers do i face in swapping the processors? > > thanks in advance. > mw If they have the same pin-count and the same voltage, the

My linksys router can't see the name of my linux box...

2002-12-11 Thread alan brown
I have a linux box and a win xp box connected to a linksys firewall router.  They’re sharing an internet connection and are able to ping each other as long as I use their IP address.  However, only my xp box is recognized by name by my router.  The linux box appears to be nameless.    So

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > When PC DASD (Hard-Drives) hit $1/MB, I was in shock. Now it's $1/GB. > When PC RAM hit $1/MB I was really in shock. Now you can get 1 GB or RAM > for a little over $100 . . . > > I hate being old. > > madmac I've got a 16 kb module for my ZX81 that

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On 11 Dec 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > The 768MB in my workstation is 786432x more than in my little Timex Sinclair > (100[0]?). My first "programming environment" was an Atari 2600 with the > BASIC module. It had 63 bytes (yes, you read that correctly) of RAM. If i remember right, the TS1000 h

Re: Is it possible to switch these processors?

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I have an older system with a P100 processor, I have another older system > with P450 processor. what dangers do i face in swapping the processors? > > thanks in advance. > mw Most likely, is the fact the p100 is a socket 7 processor, an

Re: Is it possible to switch these processors?

2002-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:20:40AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > I have an older system with a P100 processor, I have another older > system with P450 processor. what dangers do i face in swapping the > processors? Other than the fact that they (the physical processors) are not compatible at

apt error

2002-12-11 Thread Bruce Park
Hello debian users, I'm currenty experiencing some difficulty in trying to install 'aktion' from KDE. Here's what happens: bash$ apt-get install aktion Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Package aktion has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means th

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