Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:12:50PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ >> >> I've been slowly wading through it. I honestly didn't find anything >> offensive in the document. I guess I should re-re

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 25, 2004 11:04 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-26, Leo Spalteholz penned: > > On March 25, 2004 04:12 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: > >> > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ > >> >

Re: email signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 26 March 2004 04.04, Brad Sims wrote: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 2:45 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > > Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line > > length to use in email. Some even argue 72 so that it stays below 80 > > chars even with

Re: Hardware Support

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Christopher J. Noyes (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am trying to find hardware support for two items. I wonder if anyone > can help me HP DeskJet 842C. Just plain DeskJet would work The printer should work with Cups (and

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 25 March 2004 19.52, s. keeling wrote: > I think (eg.) "Networking For Women" workshops are demeaning and > insulting to women. "What, you don't think I could handle a real > networking course?!? Pig!" The women I hang with agree. When I say > something about it on-line, I'm roundl

Re: Hardware Support

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
"Christopher J. Noyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to find hardware support for two items. I wonder if anyone can > help me > > HP DeskJet 842C. Just plain DeskJet would work Works perfectly. http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Hardware-HOWT

Re: [OT] How big are Logitech's balls?

2004-03-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/03/04 21:31), Andrew Perrin wrote: > The one in my logitech T-BB18 is 35mm. > > ap > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Pigeon wrote: > > > Logitech do some rather neat optical trackballs, called "Marble", with > > a speckledy ball to give the optical sensor something to work on. > > > > Unfortunatel

Re: DNS setup

2004-03-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Mar 2004, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/25/04 18:52,typed: > >I can connect and ping IPs, but DNS does not resolve. /etc/resolv.conf > >exists and the > >ISPs servers are added automatically. > >Now have no clue what to check. Any ideas? > > > >(I installed from Knoppix

False positive chkrootkit report for rpc.statd process as 'bindshell' exploit

2004-03-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
Going through system mail, I found several chkrootkit runs showing a possible bindshell exploit: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 600) On checking with 'chkrootkit -x bindshell', turns out that I had a process open on port 600 UDP: ud

How to start network _after_ pcmcia drivers load?

2004-03-26 Thread Randy W. Sims
I recently did a reinstall of Debian (3.0r1 kernel 2.4.18-686). I must have done something different this time as the network is trying to come up before the pcmcia driver is loaded which is where the network card is. The first time I installed on this laptop everything worked fine (after chang

aic7xxx kernel freeze...

2004-03-26 Thread Ignacio Más Ivars
Hi all! I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I am trying install a custom version of the 2.4.25 kernel no matter what I do it freezes dead when trying to load the aic7xxx driver. I have tried to compile the driver in the kernel, as a module, both the driver and the SCSI support as a module,

Re: Locale requirements for GnuCash

2004-03-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:40, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > David Goodenough (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > I am trying to run GnuCash, and it keeps complaining when I start it > > > > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library > > > > I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales and selected en

Re: RE: warning

2004-03-26 Thread h.varney
What does this mean?

Re: RE: warning

2004-03-26 Thread h.varney
 

2.6 kernel being less responsive than 2.4

2004-03-26 Thread Caoilte O'Connor
Hi, I've been upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a little while now, but I must not have things configured properly because the performance I get is terrible. Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse becomes unresponsive, my mp3 player skips constantly and the like. This didn't used to happ

KThemeStyle cache seems corrupt!

2004-03-26 Thread Bruno Bieth
Bonjour, Lorsque je lance une application kde, j'obtient le message. KThemeStyle cache seems corrupt! J'ai l'impression que ceci a à voir avec le crash de nombreuse d'entre-elles ? ( k3b : creation de projet => QMetaObject::findSignal:KFileDetailView: Conflict with

Re: Why can't Xfree86 use AGP 8X?

2004-03-26 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. März 2004 06:02 schrieb Marc Wilson: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Bjorn Johansson wrote: > > If I try AGP ="8" in /etc/XF86Config-4 it says that the mode is invalid. > > Is it really true that no higher than AGP 4X is sup

Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 04:52: > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > >> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > >> (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-26 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 13:40, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:27:40 GMT > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wednesday 24 March 2004 08:40, Adam Funk wrote: >>> On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:40, Rob Weir wrote: >>> What does "file" say the weird .wav is? >>> >>> RI

Re: Promise or 3Ware? - booting

2004-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:08:50, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > The problem with software raid is that if the first (boot) disk > > goes south, the system won't boot anymore. If you're using RAID1 > > just for data integrity and don't care if you have to o

Re: Installing on an SiI680?

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:45:49PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote: > Hello all!! > >I'm trying to install Debian on my second computer and have ran into > some problems... All my hard disks are connected to my computer via an > SiI680 based PCI IDE controller... >On to the next thing I'v

chkrootkit finds

2004-03-26 Thread David Baron
Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for readdir command You have 1 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Is this a true report? What does this do? How to get rid of it if true? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: How to start network _after_ pcmcia drivers load?

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:10:29AM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: > I recently did a reinstall of Debian (3.0r1 kernel 2.4.18-686). I must > have done something different this time as the network is trying to come > up before the pcmcia driver is loaded which is where the network card > is. The fir

ezmlm response

2004-03-26 Thread suse-linux-e-return-
Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a list of the command addresses supported: Send mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Promise or 3Ware? - booting

2004-03-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > i've not seen sw raid1 preventing a system boot if either/any disks > > goes down ... > > I have. > > > - just need to config it correctly .. and test it by pulling > > the ide cable off of the disk under test > > That

raid fun in debian (sarge)

2004-03-26 Thread Mauricio
I have 2 120GB IDE drives in the second IDE controller of a P4 debian box that I would like to set up as a raid1 array. Using info from the following links, http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html I do laurel:/home/d

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Katipo
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:28, Kent West wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I think you'd have to be incredibly smooth to pull off that >> "husband" line without sounding like a jerk. They just told him they were married. > I wouldn't say it to a 20-year old girl; but a

Re: chkrootkit finds

2004-03-26 Thread Wang WenRui
Are you running multithread process with NPTL? It seems to be a false positive of chkrootkit. Around 12 o'clock on 26 Mar, David Baron wrote: > Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for readdir command > You have 1 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installe

Re: Config for 2.4.18-bf24

2004-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
> Where can I find the config for 2.4.18-bf24 kernel? Install it and look in /boot/. There should be a file called something like config-2.4.18-bf24 there. Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-2.4.6 re-build steps

2004-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
> FATAL ERROR: inserting ext3 > (lib/modules/2.6.4-1-386/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko) : Invalid module format > *snip* Sounds like a mismatch between kernel and module versions. Are you sure you installed the modules? Are you sure you are booting the new kernel and not the old ones? Trying moving /etc/

Re: How/where does the kernal compute local time

2004-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
> Dos anyone know where or how in the kernal does the machine time gets > converted to local time? I'm most curious as to how DST gets > figured. > For example, the machine runs on UTC, but I can set my TZ=EST. > > When I get my local time, it tells me if I'm in DST or not (the kernal > must > also

Re: USB installation

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Allison
Paul Johnson wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Has anyone tried to do an sarge debian-install from a USB pen-drive? I tried it but the motherboard doesn't do the USB boot very well. Do I need to get an install floppy #1 to do this? If it doesn't boot from the USB device itself, y

Re: DNS setup

2004-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I can connect and ping IPs, but DNS does not resolve. /etc/resolv.conf exists and > the > ISPs servers are added automatically. > Now have no clue what to check. Any ideas? Move /etc/host.conf to /etc/host.conf.off and post the contents of running 'grep hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf'. Alexis htt

Re: Shell pipe command with key pause

2004-03-26 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I am wondering how to write simple shell script of "more" equivalent: > > 1. read from stdin > 2. write to stdout > 3. this loop is paused by key > > Of course, I know this can be dome by other means but when I was making > a bit more complicated shell script, I could not find an easy way to s

Via Epia 5000 Video RAM

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to install XFree86 and it's asking about video ram. I don't know how much ram to specify. The online docs I can find say it uses system RAM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 03:59, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 04:52: > > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: > > >> For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " > > >

Re: raid fun in debian (sarge)

2004-03-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mauricio On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Mauricio wrote: > not needed> you should move /dev/hdd to /dev/hde for reasons mike and i were saying ... you cant boot or use the other disk if one of um goes bonkers - its fairly common if the master disk is whacky, that the slave on the

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:40:18PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Yeah, hyphenation irritates me because, taken to its logical extreme, it > can't continue. I thought it would be cool to invent our own last name, > but my s.o. is hyper-aware of the fact that he is the only person of his > gener

chkrootkit: many hidden processes

2004-03-26 Thread Kristian Niemi
Ran chkrootkit, and it found several (over 12) hidden processes. Checked with chkrproc, and it seems like the following programs create (several) hidden processes: Mozilla Thunderbird: 6 hidden processes Mozilla Firefox: 4 hidden processes Clamav-daemon: 1 hidden process Fireflier-server: 2 hidde

Re: Via Epia 5000 Video RAM

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:10:09AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to install XFree86 and it's asking about video ram. > > I don't know how much ram to specify. The online docs I can find say it > uses system RAM. > Leave it blank - works fine for me. Correct answer might be in the BIO

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Kent West
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:24:09PM -0600, Kent West wrote: One way I treated one of the women on this list (you? Emma?) differently is like I said earlier; I posted something like "Cool! A woman and she's a geek! ". It was inappropriate, sure, but even at that, I _nev

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Kent West
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: PS I'll probably change my last name when I get married because Kent is way cooler than Hogbin. Not to mention I've always wanted to have a name that's 4+4+4 letters long. Hogbin's too long. Emma Jane Kent - Cool. And I'm flattered . . . (there goes that politically inc

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joerg Johannes (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Am Fr, den 26.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 04:52: >> Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> Errh, your sig starts with "- -- \n". Bad example. Go fix it. >> >> Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. >

Re: OT: last names

2004-03-26 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: If someone tells me I have to do something, I tend to do the exact opposite, even if I would originally have done it the way I've been told to. You have to refrain from sending me a check for $100. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

usb broadband modem

2004-03-26 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks,   I want to upgrade to sid, via network installation. To deal with the download, I have upgraded to broadband service. The USB modem, which comes free with the subscription, is Prolink Hurricane 8000. Just found out from Prolink website this modem does not work with Linux. Hopefully the L

Re: Via Epia 5000 Video RAM

2004-03-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tom Allison (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying to install XFree86 and it's asking about video ram. > > I don't know how much ram to specify. The online docs I can find say > it uses system RAM. Did you try to leave the setting alone? In many cases you do not need to enter the amou

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Number Six
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:01:50AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Emma Jane Kent - Cool. And I'm flattered . . . > (there goes that politically incorrect '60s throwback again . . .) Actually the 60s parallel may be pretty on-topic here: the way women were treated in the Berkley radical movements, the

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I mean, if you were reading through, I dunno, some female-majority list, would you wonder about the stats of every one of them? Seems unlikely. Having never done it, I can't say for sure, but, "probably". Sitting in a restaurant last night, 7 people walked in; 4 men;

Re: chkrootkit: many hidden processes

2004-03-26 Thread Anders Karlsson
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 12:07, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Ran chkrootkit, and it found several (over 12) hidden processes. > Checked with chkrproc, and it seems like the following programs create > (several) hidden processes: > > Mozilla Thunderbird: 6 hidden processes > Mozilla Firefox: 4 hidden proc

Re: usb broadband modem

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:49:07AM -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to upgrade to sid, via network installation. To deal with the download, I > have upgraded to broadband service. The USB modem, which comes free with the > subscription, is Prolink Hurricane 8000. Just found out

apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread Pete RedHair
Hi, i'm running a linux box with debeian stable. Because of some needed features i've upgrade my postfix and spamassasin packages to testing and along with it apt upgraded a lot of other packages. Everything i tested is working ok except for mailgraph. In /var/log/apache/error.log i get the fol

Re: chkrootkit: many hidden processes

2004-03-26 Thread Kristian Niemi
Er ... Then, should someone tell chkrootkit that as well, or ... ? h: Kristian Anders Karlsson wrote: They are threads. I read yesterday about this when I was trying to find some other stuff. Was an interesting read. Apparently you can use 'ps -ef -T' to see the threads as well. Regards, --

RE: Make your own Debian Woody Dist. Server on Apache - AGAIN

2004-03-26 Thread Simmel
Hi List, I already asked this question, but the answers weren't of any use for me I looked @ this apt-cache and apt-proxy stuff and it's far too much. I don't need to drive a Ferrari to get some cigarettes from the corner, if a bicycle will do the job! Okay I'll go back to the start and ask m

Re: chkrootkit finds

2004-03-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:33:01 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for readdir command > You have 1 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > Is this a true report? > What does this do? > How to get rid

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-26 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:58:52PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-26 04:55]: > > > > On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:37, arief# wrote: > > > > > > I mean, can I make it viewing different view than the ones coming up on > > > my LCD? > > > > > > > Sure you can, just li

Re: Make your own Debian Woody Dist. Server on Apache - AGAIN

2004-03-26 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'Simmel'! On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:06:09PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > I already asked this question, but the answers weren't of any use for me > I looked @ this apt-cache and apt-proxy stuff and it's far too much. I personally think the answers were well suited _for the question you asked

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:00:38 GMT Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some other WAVE files that XMMS won't play are described thus: > RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 A-law, mono 8000 Hz > But they can be converted to usable version: > sox foo.wav -w foo-w.wav Right. 8000Hz

Re: x-crash (please decipher my log file)

2004-03-26 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: I recently updated my xfree from 4.0 to 4.3 (sarge). Suddenly my x stopped working. I would be grateful if someone could help me decipher my log file. My XF86Conf-4 is almost directly created by dpkg-reconfigure. However I removed the part about the generic mouse because

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:59:24AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: | > Not when using inline PGP signatures, then it's considered valid. | | OK, sorry for that. But now to something else: I use evolution as mua, | and I don't quite understand what to do with inline PGP signatures. Upgrade them to P

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread Pete RedHair
--- Robert Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pete RedHair wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i'm running a linux box with debeian stable. > > > > Because of some needed features i've upgrade my > > postfix and spamassasin packages to testing and > along > > with it apt upgraded a lot of other packages. > >

Re: OT: last names

2004-03-26 Thread Katipo
Kent West wrote: Monique Y. Herman wrote: If someone tells me I have to do something, I tend to do the exact opposite, even if I would originally have done it the way I've been told to. You have to refrain from sending me a check for $100. You're cheap. I insist she doesn't send me one for a

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Pete RedHair wrote: Hi, i'm running a linux box with debeian stable. Because of some needed features i've upgrade my postfix and spamassasin packages to testing and along with it apt upgraded a lot of other packages. You mean you upgraded your system from woody to sarge. Everything i tested is

Mozilla FireFox and extensions

2004-03-26 Thread Magnus Therning
I was trying to update the RSS reader extension to my FireFox today[1], but ran into an error: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome:// mozapps/content/xpinstall/xpinstallConfirm.xul Line Number 1, Column 3: id="itmeList" flex="1" style="height" 16em; overflow; auto;"/> --^ /M --

Re: Gnome battery applet don't work with normal user account

2004-03-26 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:34 +0100, Sascha Petranka wrote: > ON my Notebook ASUS L8400B, I've installed Debian Sarge with Gnome 2.4 > The Battery Applet works fine, when I'm logged in as root, but not with a > normal user account. Then the following Error message appears: > > Can't access ACPI even

Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk

2004-03-26 Thread csj
On 24. March 2004 at 10:51AM +0100, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:44:09AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800, > > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, > > > Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

AW: Make your own Debian Woody Dist. Server on Apache - AGAIN

2004-03-26 Thread Simmel
Hello 'Simmel'! >> I already asked this question, but the answers weren't of any use for me >> I looked @ this apt-cache and apt-proxy stuff and it's far too much. >I personally think the answers were well suited _for the question you >asked_. As I said before, I don't go into the Dusseldo

Re: how to do/repair a raid1 missing disk install (was: Re: lilo + raid = disaster (again))

2004-03-26 Thread Antony Gelberg
Awesome post Henrique. This is worth structuring into a howto. This is the third time I've tried this, and the third time I've hosed the boot sector, and I'm tired of it. If you don't have time to make it into a howto, let me know and I'll do it. At this point, I have managed to recover to the

Re: OT: last names

2004-03-26 Thread Raiz-mpx
>> Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>If someone tells me I >>have to do something, I tend to do the exact opposite, even if I >>would >>originally have done it the way I've been told to. >> >> >Kent wrote: >You have to refrain from sending me a check for $100. Thats funny! This all makes me think about

Re: locale errors

2004-03-26 Thread Conall O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:17:52PM GMT, Al Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> incoherently babbled: > If someone can explain why this happens, that would be nice. I am > guessing that it has something to do with locale being updated, but > some applications or dynamic libraries or something like that a

SecureID cards?

2004-03-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is anyone using SecurID cards with Linux or preferably DebianLinux? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu DISCLAIMER: These

nut 2.0 startup script needed]

2004-03-26 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, If anybody has a start up script for nut 2.0, could you then send it to me? I compiled it from source. Thanks in advance, Rudy Gevaert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to do/repair a raid1 missing disk install (was: Re: lilo + raid = disaster (again))

2004-03-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > sector, and I'm tired of it. If you don't have time to make it into a > howto, let me know and I'll do it. Please do it :-) I lack the time to write (and maintain) such a howto. > At this point, I have managed to recover to the point where I'm bootin

Re: OT: last names

2004-03-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Kent West: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > >If someone tells me I > >have to do something, I tend to do the exact opposite, even if I would > >originally have done it the way I've been told to. > > You have to refrain from sending me a check for $100. If you purposely get into the o

Re: [OT] How big are Logitech's balls?

2004-03-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Pigeon wrote: > Unfortunately they are all very decidedly asymmetrical and > right-handed only. Odd, I'm left handed, and I can't properly use a mouse in that hand. However, the fact that anything I draw or trace with the righthand-using mouse/trackball looks like a Kinderga

Re: Gnome battery applet don't work with normal user account

2004-03-26 Thread Sascha Petranka
Am Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:30:18 +0100 schrieb Mark Roach: > On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:34 +0100, Sascha Petranka wrote: >> ON my Notebook ASUS L8400B, I've installed Debian Sarge with Gnome 2.4 >> The Battery Applet works fine, when I'm logged in as root, but not with a >> normal user account. Then the

Kernel recompile woes

2004-03-26 Thread stdPikachu
Hello there, long time lurker, first time poster. As you may have gathered, I'm having trouble getting a new kernel working on my (pretty bog standard) Woody install, which after much trial and tribulation got downgraded back to 2.4.18-bf2.4. I'd love to use one of the stock kernel images, but

Re: False positive chkrootkit report for rpc.statd process as 'bindshell' exploit

2004-03-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > Going through system mail, I found several chkrootkit runs showing a > possible bindshell exploit: > > Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 600) > > On checking with 'chkrootkit -x bindshell', turns out that I h

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread Pete RedHair
> Hi, > > i'm running a linux box with debeian stable. > > Because of some needed features i've upgrade my > postfix and spamassasin packages to testing and along > with it apt upgraded a lot of other packages. >You mean you upgraded your system from woody to sarge. > > Everything i tested i

Re: chkrootkit finds

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for readdir command > You have 1 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > Is this a true report? > What does this do? > How to get rid of it if true? STFW, it's already

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread Pete RedHair
--- Robert Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pete RedHair wrote: > > > I was hopping that there was a way of fixing this > and > > when i have the necessary resources (time, another > hd, > > ...) i would do this upgrade. > > > > I think that testing is now "stable" enough to be > used > > on

apt-get segmentation fault

2004-03-26 Thread abhijit Brahme
When I run the apt-get tool or for that matter of fact apt-* I get segmentation fault. Is there any way to repaire this. thanks abhijit _ Free up your inbox with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage. Multiple plans available. http://join.msn

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I know evolution does not support the old (and very common) > inline PGP/GPG signatures. Instead it only supports attatched GPG/PGP > signatures (PGP/MIME). Inline PGP is fading from popularity, broken clients be damned. > The problem is t

Re: chkrootkit: many hidden processes

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Kristian Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there bugs in the mentioned software? Yes. If you bothered to check reportbug or search the fscking web before asking, you would already know this. -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and use

Re: usb broadband modem

2004-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jack kinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to upgrade to sid, via network installation. To deal with the > download, I have upgraded to broadband service. The USB modem, which > comes free with the subscription, is Prolink Hurricane 8000. Just >

Which files contain monospace and sans font?

2004-03-26 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Hi, I'm trying to find out which files contain the monospace and sans font. If in nautilus I show all the fonts by going to fonts:/// these two fonts are not listed, but if I go and select for example fonts in the desktop preferences they are there. The reason I'm asking is that I like the monosp

Re: howto get connected to internet?

2004-03-26 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Paul Johnson_, on 03/25/04 23:52,typed: Ajith R Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am new to knoppix and I am just wondering how do I get connected with knoppix. If you can read this, you're connected. Not if the OP is using another computer to get help from here. ->HS -- (Remo

Re: OT: last names (was: Re: debian and women? from DWN #10)

2004-03-26 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:34:56PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: > > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > >> > > Marriage shouldn't have to mean becoming someone else's property! > > Indeed, and it doesn't. There's a huge difference between choosing to > do s

Request unrecognized

2004-03-26 Thread agora
This mail is not a spam but the automatic reply to your mail; Subject: Re: Your details From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:26:27 +0100 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Sorry, your request wasn't recognized To get help,

Re: Kernel recompile woes

2004-03-26 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:35:16PM +, stdPikachu wrote: > Hello there, long time lurker, first time poster. > > As you may have gathered, I'm having trouble getting a new kernel working > on my (pretty bog standard) Woody install, which after much trial and > tribulation got downgraded back

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:46:09 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe because not everyone agrees it has nothing to do with debian, at > least no more so than exim and postgres and NFS questions have nothing > to do with debian? If

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread Katipo
Pete RedHair wrote: --- Robert Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pete RedHair wrote: I suggest you change your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it references just testing (or sarge) instead of woody or stable and then do a: apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade Running with a

Re: apt-get install from testing got me into trouble with perl and libpng

2004-03-26 Thread Pete RedHair
--- Pete RedHair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > i'm running a linux box with debeian stable. > > > > Because of some needed features i've upgrade my > > postfix and spamassasin packages to testing and > along > > with it apt upgraded a lot of other packages. > > >You mean you upg

Re: Which files contain monospace and sans font?

2004-03-26 Thread Hamilton Coutinho
On 03/26/2004 01:59 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: I'm trying to find out which files contain the monospace and sans font. If in nautilus I show all the fonts by going to fonts:/// these two fonts are not listed, but if I go and select for example fonts in the desktop preferences they are there. The re

Re: Via Epia 5000 Video RAM

2004-03-26 Thread Ruben Lopez
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install XFree86 and it's asking about video ram. > > I don't know how much ram to specify. The online docs I can find say it > uses system RAM. Not sure if this is what you mean, but... Alot of video cards display a quick graphic as the co

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: If I'm not mistaken, this list is supposed to be a technical list discussing issues specific to the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution. You're mistaken. debian-user mailing list Help and discussion among users of Debian Help *and discussion* among users of Debian. The > 5

RE: multiple inputs... one computer... math teacher

2004-03-26 Thread Wilson Morris
Hello, I am a fairly new math teacher, with some programming, computer background. One of the keys to teaching is CFU which means checking for understanding, which is supposed to be done constantly during the course of a lecture. Traditionally, teachers give a quiz, or class-work (time consu

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:59:11 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I'm not mistaken, this list is supposed to be a technical list > discussing issues specific to the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution. >From http://lists.debian.org/users.html : } debian-user: Help and discussion am

Re: nut 2.0 startup script needed]

2004-03-26 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:37:18PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > Hi, > > If anybody has a start up script for nut 2.0, could you then send it > to me? I compiled it from source. I don't have one, but I think there is a debian package of (possibly earlier version) of it. Why not download the p

Installation of Sarge on IBMs with i845 video chipset?

2004-03-26 Thread Robert Maynord
I work at a school where we have multiple IBM 8310 desktop computers for student and teacher use. I have been attempting to install Sarge (using the network install), but have had difficulty with the i845 video chipset. I understand that there are some modules to load, and perhaps issues rega

Installation of Sarge on IBMs with i845 video chipset?

2004-03-26 Thread Robert Maynord
I work at a school where we have multiple IBM 8310 desktop computers for student and teacher use. I have been attempting to install Sarge (using the network install), but have had difficulty with the i845 video chipset. I understand that there are some modules to load, and perhaps issues rega

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