Low level data recovery

. If recovery is possible at all, can anyone point me to the type of tools I might need? Thank you in advance -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Two internet connections

lt gateway. How do I tell it to respond via the interface that the connection was made on? Any links to relevant documentation would be appreciated. Thanks -- Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Two internet connections

und this: http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html which seems to be the answer to my problem, will try it out tomorrow when I have access to the building. Thanks -- Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Two internet connections

Thanks for all the replies. I think I have basically the right setup going. Unfortunately the old line went down before I could actually test it (talk about a quick switchover!), so I can't say if it work - will keep my notes around for the next time Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du

ASUS A7V880

on them. Does anybody else run this board and have problems with it? Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ASUS A7V880 [solved]

Problem seems to have been a bad DIMM, despite memtest giving it the OK. If I set it down to 333mhz, all works fine Thanks for all who replied -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

3.1_r0a ?

Hi guys, What's the difference between 3.1_r0 and 3.1_r0a? Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3.1_r0a ?

you are going to install more systems from the CDs. Like I will be! Thanks - that's a reasonably bothersome bug if you're jigdo-ing the images over a 64k line.... -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Firewall

used > to be, but read the docs in /usr/share/doc/shorewall, after you install. Isn't there a standard way, via a rc script or something, where Debian would load an iptables script from, without the need for an iptables frontend like shorewall? -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty)

Re: PROMISE Fasttrak 100TX2PRO

E raid card get a 3ware. My humble opinion... :-) -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Etch experiences

Hi guys, Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? I'm getting my notebook back tomorrow, wondering what to put on it - shall I put on sid and live on the edge or try the etch? Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

Re: Etch experiences

gine etch would undergo a few big changes. Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch experiences

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 03:19 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 22 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. > > You're welcome, Hans. > > > It's a P-III 1ghz, 256MB ram, so I don't want to loaded with a too heavy > >

removeltmodem

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 63433 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-1-686 ... Could not identify your distribution's way of automatically loading modules, Exiting. Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at saga

Re: removeltmodem

lib/dpkg/info/ltmodem.prerm, and either > find why it fails, or add an "exit 0" line at the beginning. Thanks, I'll give this a try -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DRI on Compaq M700 (Rage Mobility)

ndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" BoardName "Rage Mobility Pro" VendorName "ATi" Driver "ati" Chipset "mach64" VideoRam8192 EndSection Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

woody upgrade/update path

ding production servers goes) way to upgrade these machines? Thank you kind regards Hans du Plooy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

spamassassin

Hi all, I installed spamassassin-2.6.1 using apt-get (woody) When starting spamd, I get the following in my mail.log: Jan 6 16:41:21 hermes spamd[14266]: Failed to run RAZOR_CHECK SpamAssassin test, skipping: ^I(Can't locate object method "check_razor" via package "Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgS

Re: spamassassin

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 19:55, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I've never seen this error message before, but I'm wondering if you > don't have razor installed, but have SA configured to run it? Monique, thank you. Your reply made me found the problem. I didn't have razor installed, but then I do

Re: spamassassin

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:04, Colin Watson wrote: > The module is supposed to be loaded by spamd, not by you. If it isn't > working properly I'd consider a bug report (check if there isn't one > already filed first). Thanks, but I don't think it's a bug - same versions of the same software ru

Re: spamassassin [SOLVED]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:02, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Thanks, but I don't think it's a bug - same versions of the same software > run on three identical machines with woody - just the one doesn't want to > play along. > > Something seems to be misconfigured -

Re: Segmentation fault - meaning

On Thursday 08 January 2004 00:05, Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > I try to run it on the laptop I get a segmentation fault. What does > > that mean, and what sorts of things might cause it? > This is a but, plain and simple. It means that the program tried to > access some prot

Re: I want spam!

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 05:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please send me lots and lots of spam, viruses, hoaxes, etc! > > I'm testing filters and want real-world spam to hit me. > > Send it all here! > I was already thinking "what's he doing". When you did the trick...would > you please tell

BitDefender-postfix

Has anybody used this package successfully? The logs complain: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) This doesn't happen when I comment the relevant BitDefender lines in main.cf and master.cf. So this recipient table seems to be part of BitD

Re: BitDefender-postfix [Solved]

Thanks for your reply. As it turned out, it didn't work because I didn't have vmailbox, vuid and vgid specified. Mostly because this is my workstation with just one user. Adding those fixed it. Which won't be a problem, because our mailservers have to have those files in any way. BitDefende

Re: BitDefender-postfix [Solved]

Thanks for your reply. As it turned out, it didn't work because I didn't have vmailbox, vuid and vgid specified. Mostly because this is my workstation with just one user. Adding those fixed it. Which won't be a problem, because our mailservers have to have those files in any way. BitDefende

wma files

Hi guys/girls, Have we found any way to play wma files in linux? I used to be able to play them with mplayer, but that was a long time ago, and now it doesn't work any more. I guess they probably had to remove support to prevent litigation or someting. I also tried xine, zinf and xmms. Any i

Re: changing root password

On Friday 16 January 2004 01:11, Anita Rohani wrote: > I'd like to change the root password on our machine. > Do i have to do anything more than just use the > 'passwd' command to change the root password? Do i > have to be on the console to change the password or > can i simply su to root and chan

Re: kernel

On Monday 19 January 2004 14:19, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > cd /usr/src/linux > > Is not there to run make xconfig. Need I download a new kernel source? Yes, or install the kernel-source package from your Debian CD Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

mirror for http://security.debian.org/

ebian stable main deb ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/debian stable main deb ftp://ftp.up.ac.za/debian stable main but I'm not sure how to configure them for security and even if they do carry the security updates. Thanks -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot z

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

ideo device it uses. It should use XV. If it uses x11, that's your problem. I had a 600mhz Celeron with 256mb Ram and 128mb Radeon 7500 - the difference between xv and x11 was the difference between smooth DVD and not. -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newington

Re: spamassassin

able rather than trying to install the > one from testing/unstable directly. I have this in my /etc/apt/sources.list on woody: deb http://www.gonkgonk.com/mirrors/backports.org/debian stable all I have spamassassin-2.63 running now. -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newin

cron path problem

rc.d' not found on PATH. dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH. I thought that cron would run as user cron, but there's no such user. Who does it run as? Or how can I set the path that cron has access to? Thanks -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at

Re: cron path problem

ng the PATH in your cronjob script. Did that, will see how it goes Thanks -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mymail worm

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:59, Antony Gelberg wrote: > :0 > > * > 14 > * < 165000 > { > > :0 BD > > * > b3IAAABBZG1pbgAAAEdFVCBodHRwOi8vd3cyLmZjZS52dXRici5jei9iaW4vY291bnRlci5naWY >v /dev/null Which virus is this? thanks -- Kind regards Hans du

restricting mail user to internal mail

d to look like? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to see if SMP is working

5096K free,75780K cached How do I know if the second CPU is being used? If it's not, how to I get it to use it? I checked the Documentation directory in the kernel source, but the smp docs doesn't say anything beyond compiling smp support into the kernel. Thanks -- Kind regards

sender&recipient restrictions

local_only local_domains: company.net OK Your advice would be appreciated. Thank you -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian/BSD

Hi guys, Is this still being worked on? http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ The install floppies dates 6 October 2002 I'd be really interested to try this out if it's current. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

arning project to get to know the cool new features of the 386... I know that older versions of BSD (don't know which versions tho) did run on 286 machines . I've read before of 286 mailservers running on some flavour of BSD. Maybe try the BSD user-lists? -- Kind regards Hans du Ploo

general permissions

and writeable, or at least readable by the owner of the directory. How can I set the directory permissions so that files will always be created at lease a+rw or that it is set to belong to the owner of the directory? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

apt-get sources.list

Hi all, What do I specify in sources.list to get access to *all* the packages in http://www.gonkgonk.com/mirrors/backports.org/debian/dists/woody/ ? I currently have: deb http://www.gonkgonk.com/mirrors/backports.org/debian stable spamassassin postfix Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy

Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

cleaner with the box open, so I can relate. So my guess is you can safely leave it with the fan turning slowly and it'll survive the odd spike. One thing I do when I have have to leave the computer on while I sleep, is to put a pillow on top of the case - it absorbs a lot of sound. --

Re: AMD vs. Intel

red out what was wrong. I also frequently see Durons and Athlons (of various cores) that run stably well into the 80 and 90 degrees when their fans quit. So, my guess is your problems isn't CPU related. Hans -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newington

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

od graphics that is 3D accelerated too, I would definitely recommend a Radeon 7500 - they are fully and natively supported by XFree and the kernel's radeon driver. On most distros they're pretty much "plug&play" -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services

Re: AMD vs. Intel

ything to do with the processor itself - it's almost always about the rest of the box - what's in it. /rant off Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

r drivers to the point where it's mostly a no-nonsens procedure to install them. Both could have done like many other companies and simply not bothered at all. Now think how bad that would be -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot

Re: AMD vs. Intel

II that was hotter than the K6, then came the Athlon, that was hotter than the P-III. It's a cycle. You can't penalise either for running hotter than the other. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: AMD vs. Intel

;ve had it for a year and a half. It runs Setiathome, acts as a gateway and mailserver, squid proxy and a host of other things that puts strain on resources. I've only ever had to restart this machine when I added hardware, it's never been unstable for a second. -- Kind regards Hans

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

On Thursday 08 April 2004 20:06, Pigeon wrote: > ...hack the video card's BIOS, so you get a penguin in POST instead of > the video card manufacturer's logo? If you know how would you please tell us? :-) Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at

Corel - which debian?

Does anybody know for sure on which version of Debian Corel Linux was based? I'm pretty sure it was before Potato - Potato was probably still testing, but I'm not familiar with Debian that far back. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newin

Re: gigabit nic

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Can't really go wrong with an Intel or 3Com (are they still making new > stuff?). Careful. Intel's onboard controllers of late are often rebranded Marvel Yukons - and they're useless. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

On Wed, February 28, 2007 00:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Here [0]: > > 4. I have an Adaptec 1210SA SATA RAID card. Why doesn't Linux support > my hardware RAID? The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the aacraid module, and to the linux kernel look no different to Adaptec SCS

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

On Wed, February 28, 2007 14:22, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:15:26PM -0000, Hans du Plooy wrote: >> The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the aacraid module, >> and to the linux kernel look no different to Adaptec SCSI Raid cards >>

Re: gigabit nic

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:24 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:36:44PM +0000, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Can't really go wrong with an Intel or 3Com (are they still

Re: IMAP Mail server question

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote: > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go > with. There's really very little difference. Dovecot is supposedly a little faster, but if you reached the

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works like > on > Windows systems, though. I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla wine though. It does work, but there are limitations. For one thing

Re: IMAP Mail server question

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by > hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using > the -f switch of maildirmake. Believe me, it can save you lots of grief. > Otherwise courier-i

Re: Converting Debian Testing to Stable

On Wed, March 7, 2007 16:55, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I installed Debian Testing on a computer, and now want to convert it to > Stable. Is it correct if I (1) Replace "testing" with "etch" in APT > sources, > (2) Wait for Etch to become Stable, and then (3) Dist-upgrade? > > And what is current

Re: ndiswrapper problem

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:24 -0500, Celejar wrote: > Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) > supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built > in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One > 54g rev 02) and it works quite we

ATI fglrx driver and notebook brightness ajustment

Hi guys, On my notebook, HP nx6125 (ATI X300 graphics), if I use the included radeon (oss) driver, I can ajust the screen brightness with the fn keys on the keyboard, and if I unplug AC power, the screen dimms automatically. But if I used the fglrx driver, this doesn't work correctly. It does w

Re: cheap LCD display

On Fri, March 16, 2007 16:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display > for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): > any advice is more than wellcome ! I got this for my Mac Mini: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-AL1916WAS-Widescreen-LCD-Monitor/dp/B000H5UKBM/

Vanilla kernel and third party driver difficulties

Hi guys, I'm running etch, and for the sake of my notebook's ACPI, I'm running the the latest 2.6.21-rc4 kernel. There are some third party drivers that I need, and since 2.6.21-rc3 module-assistant fails to compile any of them, and I get the same error accross the board: /usr/src/modules/rt2x00

Hostname (none) after dist-upgrade

Hi guys, I did a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on a server and all went well, except for one thing. At console, I now see this: root@(none):~#hostname (none) root@(none):~# hostname -f hostname: Unknown host BUT: root@(none):~# cat /etc/hostname rimwards.obscured.tld root@(none):~# cat /etc/

Hostname (none) after dist-upgrade

Hi guys, I did a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on a server and all went well, except for one thing. At console, I now see this: root@(none):~#hostname (none) root@(none):~# hostname -f hostname: Unknown host BUT: root@(none):~# cat /etc/hostname rimwards.obscured.tld root@(none):~# cat /etc/

Re: Hostname (none) after dist-upgrade [solved]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 13:49 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Thy this. echo "rimwards" > /etc/hostname > rimwards.obscured.tld is the FQDN Spot on! Thanks! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bcm43xx vs NetworkManager (was Re: ndiswrapper problem)

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:03 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Bizarrely, the interface seems to lose power or something every 1-2 > minutes. Not my connection to the AP - this is a lower level, it > happens even if I'm running airodump-ng. All of a sudden I just see > nothing. O

Triple/Quad screen options

Hi guys, I'm Looking for your experiences using three or more monitors under Linux? We use two to four screens at work (depending on our exact requirements). Using two screens on a dual-head card works mostly OK, at least for my legitimate work needs (some things like fullscreen mplayer don

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 00:40 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > If it installs properly, then my guess is you should be able to install grub > which should be able to boot osX (you may need to hack to variables). Maybe > the > mac program to dual boot windows will also work here. It's not that simple.

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 06:25 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I haven't created anything similar for Linux yet or I > would be happy to let folks try it out. http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ Should sort it out. In addition it's always a good idea to disable root login. One one server that

Roundcube mail

Hi guys, I'm having trouble getting Roundcubemail (www.roundcube.net) working on Sarge. I have set it up to use mysql, and when I open the page, it gives me this error instead of the login box: "SERVICE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE! Error No. 1f4)" No useful output in the logs. If I swich to sqlite

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > put the system into high wait-state load averages, and system > performance as a whole suffe

Re: Roundcube mail

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 20:35 +0700, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > Anyone know of anything special I have to do here? > http://trac.roundcube.net/trac.cgi/wiki/Howto_Install That is the one (or one of the ones) I used. > Check your php-mysql libraries. Maybe you're missing something there. I have this

Re: wireless pcmcia

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 21:12 +, Barney Rubble wrote: > I've acquired a Netgear WG511T. > > Can anyone point me to a decent resource on how to set this up in debian > (or any other card/distibution combination for that matter)? Superb card. I used to use that card with Sarge (when Sarge was s

Re: SATA PCI

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 16:52 +0100, Martinez Perez Alberto wrote: > I'm planning to add a SATA PCI card to a system which as no SATA > support on motherboard. > > Does debian support any of these cards or I have to take care with the > model I purchase? Take your pick: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/H

Re: SATA PCI

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:30 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > Quite a comprehensive list. I have to add though that you have to still > check what the chipset is on whatever card you are considering. Well, to that end, the Titan VSCOM cards use a Silicon Imagae 3112 chip (I think - either ways, a suppor

Re: SATA PCI

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:11 +0800, Bob wrote: > Get one based on the Sil 3124-2 for Sata II, it's not supported by older > kernels and the driver hasn't been backported to 2.4 yet but it's an > open documented design an it's good to buy from manufacturers that help OS. > > You may be unable to f

Re: Laptop choice?

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:32 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Compaq Presario ($399.98 US) [snip] > HP ($379.99 US) Don't buy an HP/Compaq. Two reasons: 1. They never perform as good as the hardware suggest. This has been my observation over several years dealing with clients who buy nothing but HP

Re: ripping several hundred cds?

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 12:03 -0500, Matt Price wrote:as part of this project I want to rip all of our cds to mp3 or ogg (if > someone has a suggestion ofr an ogg-friendly ipod-replacement?). I'm > doing enough of these that I'd like to have as little user interaction > as possible -- just shove in

Re: Laptop choice?

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:13 -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote: > > 2. HP of late has a filthy habit of boobytrapping their notebooks to > > not take generic components. My nx6125, for example, will not work with > > any hard disc other than the 80GB Seagate (with HP firmware) that it > > came with. Sure

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? 1. Postfix. 2. Amarok. Yes, both run on other *nix, so it's not strictly Linux, but in both cases the authors were very clear that they have no plans to make it run on Windows.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, sure. If FreeBSD had been easy to install in year 2000, had a > large community, and apps like Netscape (or was Mozilla released by > then?) then I maybe would have tried FreeBSD. They had, actually. I remember going to an internet ca

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:20 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > My concern is that we are going to have only one server. So if there was > a hardware problem, with software raid I could just temporarily move the > disks to an ordinary workstation and serve the data from there. With > hardware raid,

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:58 +0100, Björn Gustafsson wrote: > On the contrary, the amarok team has stated that a windows port can/will > happen with the 2.0 codebase ( > http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/225-Porting-to-Windows-part-2.html > for example ). The post referred to in the first se

Re: Adding additional postfix server to init daemon

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:23 -0800, Adam D wrote: > I just have created additional postfix servers on the mail server and > would like to add the additional configs into the init daemon but > looking at the scrip from LaMont Jones I am not able to decipher where > to put the additional servers. I h

Re: SATA PCI

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:43 +0800, Bob wrote: > Sorry delay RL. > http://www.stardom.com.tw/others%20satacard.htm > 4 port PCI-X Nice! I lilke the e-SATA express card - solves a few minor storage headaches for me! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Two gateways on same network

Hi guys, I'm setting up a Debian antispam mail relay. I have two gateways on the network (two separate internet connections): 4mbit ADSL = 192.168.1.6 128k line = 192.168.1.1 Both have NAT firewalls, both forward port 25 to the Debian box. I'm trying to do the following: Always use 192.168.1.

Re: Two gateways on same network

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 20:50 +0100, srg krn wrote: > It is normal that if I connect to your public IP (say IPa) from the > 128k line my connection times out. > > THE REASON IS: > It is normal because I am in Internet and my machine sends the SYN [snip] Thanks, the why I understand - it's the how..

Re: SATA PCI

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:18 +0800, Bob wrote: > I have no experience with the PCI-E card, it's a 2 port card so that > would support a max of 10 drives, also it employs a different chipset > the sil3132 for PCI-E vs the sil3124 for PCI-X however they use the same > driver sata_sil24 so it should

Re: Debian as a Web server

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:38 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > I own two dedicated web servers and they run Red Hat and CentOS but > what makes them different to Debian? I have done a lot of reading and > research on Debian and my impression of, particularly stable is that > it is one of the most relia

Etch ISO images

Hi guys, I want to download the latest current testing images. What is the difference between the first three images, and the -binary images after that in: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Intel D915GEV board problem

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone else has problems with Debian on this board? I have Etch installed. About three out of four boots hang at random. What happens is it starts normally, but somewhere in the boot proccess the display gets corrupted and the machine hangs. Doesn't happen at the same

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 15:30 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron > CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under > a default Debian Sarge. Hard to say, you provide no details on the hardware - what model motherboard, etc. > If so, where can I c

http://cdimage.debian.org/

Is http://cdimage.debian.org/ down? I'm getting time-outs all day. Tried from my UK server too - same result. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and > the AMD 64 version of Etch? I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a DVD of my Sarge-AMD64 CDs. But cdimage.debian.org doesn

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:12 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I am going to do this as an exercise to learn about jigdo and also to find > >> the most efficient way of downloading a full distribution from the mirror > >> sites. > >Jigdo certainly is efficient. The nice thing about it is if you >

apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

Hi guys, Going from sarge to etch, I'm getting this: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: ssh: Depends: openssh-client but it is not inst

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:26 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > Going from sarge to etch, I'm getting this: > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to corre

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > use dpkg with --force-all Thanks, that did it. Couldn't install telnetd because apt would moan about the deps. But at least I got ssh sorted out. Now just apache still seem to be broken - working on that. > might help. good luck

cleanup after dist-upgrade

OK, I got all the problems sorted out after doing dist-upgrade on a live production server :-) What's the best way to clean this up? By the looks of it I now have two versions of mysql installed. mysql -V does give me the 5.0.30 though: # dpkg -l | grep mysql rc courier-authmysql

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