> I want to give the packages from
> my fast work internet connected PC to my slow connected home PC.
This link discusses one way of doing that!
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-7455.html
Rob
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On Tue, 2007-16-01 at 12:15 -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote:
> I just got a great deal on a Toshiba 2500CDS:
>
> The seller told me that he does not know the user/password. Is there
> a
> way to crack this?
Are you asking about a BIOS password, a Windows password or is there
already a Linux OS on t
Many people are installing Debian "from the internet". Yet, the Securing
Debian Manual suggests no contact with the internet until the
installation is "secure."
The manual states that installing the OS off the web is not the best
idea (Section 3.3 found here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/secu
> Did you *read* the link you posted?
Yes, I've read/seen this Appendix F section in various versions.
Up until the last version that I read (version 3.10 of last November)
there has been a "FIXME: test this setup to see if it works properly."
Didn't exactly inspire me to use it as an aid for net
> to create a default set of rules that would work for many people.
The default set of rules only needs to get people through the
installation safely. After that, they can alter them with their
favourite program, as needed.
The rules here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/a
> Firewalling routers are $50 and do a reasonably
> good job.
Any recommendations?
What are you using?
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> I use a Netgear RP614v2, but don't like it.
>
> The Linux geek fave is the Linksys WRT54GL, since it runs Linux and
> can be upgraded with 3rd-party binaries. It's a wireless access
> port, but also has 4 RJ45 jacks and has a firewall. US$54 at Newegg.
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On Mon, 2007-29-01 at 18:02 +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:13, Kristian Lampen wrote:
> > I have not found a
> > suitable HOWTO or tutorial for this task.
>
> May be because there is no need to provide a tutorial for such a simple thing.
> Dealing for five yea
> > Anybody else get 3 copies of this?
>
> I've gotten 2 copies of some list emails for the past couple of days.
Oh, well then. Lucky me!
I got to read it 3 times.
Guess I win.
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> This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
> Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
> points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
> latest packages after Etch goes stable. What happens to testing when
> it becomes Lenny? I
> I've seen several warnings now about making sure to change "testing" to
> "etch" in /etc/apt/sources.lst once Etch goes stable. (For testing
> purposes I've just always left it "etch".) But what if what I want is
> to keep our machines at "testing"? It seems to have the latest and
> groovi
On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 08:24 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> > I am writting down a pege with useful links for a Python programmer.
> > That is reference, tutorials and anything that can be useful. I use it
> > regulary when programming in Python and I can't do without it.
> >
> > Where did you get that logo? When it came up on the
> > gnome desktop it immediatlely reminded me of
> > something being flushed down the drain. I hope it
> > doesn't mean that!
>
> Actually, the logo is a logarithmic spiral, which has
> the interesting property that it employs what th
Good morning!
On Sun, 2006-16-07 at 16:19 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi, Debian users.
>
> My sister wants to chat with MS Windows users who use a chat
> program called `messenger'.
> Can she do that using Debian GNU/Linux, and will any IRC client
> be fine? A command line tool would be bette
On Wed, 2006-09-08 at 08:08 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> > Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you
> > prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair
> > your system. Ev
> How can I find out what version number KDE would call this
> Debian "kde" package? OR, how could I find out what version
> number Debian would call KDE 3.5.4?
>
> I suspect the same situation exists with other packages, so I'm
> hoping for a general procedure I can follow, not simply the
> answ
On Wed, 2006-27-09 at 07:11 -0400, Henry Sobotka wrote:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > I've a co-worker I'm trying to convert to Linux. He's a musician, and
> > his primary app in $REDMOND is something called cakewalk. I've no
> > idea what that is (I'm not a musician). Is there anything in the
> > Lin
> have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that
> holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab
> have the correct entries. Grub is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda and
> the menu.lst resides in /boot/grub/.
>
I'm curious here. Etch is on an
A suggestion.
Check your BIOS settings to make sure USB boot is at the top of the boot
order.
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> >
> >> Scribus is probably your best bet for actually importing a PDF in any
> >> friendly way -- I think they were at least working on that, not sure if it
> >> is really usable
> >>
> >
> > Hmm... never heard of it. Looks interesting. I don't know how to make it
> > read PDF, tho.
>
Good morning!
Hi, I've downloaded Samba as a .deb file. Is there an easy way for me to
install from that?
dpkg -i should work. Check the dpkg man pages for exact syntax.
Rob
P.S. How come you didn't bring it in through apt-get or synaptic or aptitude
(just curious!)
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Good morning!
I have an old Pentium box, and have two copies of SBM, downloaded at
diferent times. ONe of them just gives me the message "SBMK"
and gives up.
I've had that happen on some of my boxes, too. Never got around to figuring
out what the problem was.
The other will only read my C
Howdy!
At 11:48 AM 12/12/2005, Martin Lefebvre wrote:
dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb
UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while
Good morning!
J.Moore wrote:
I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on
an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2
kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible.
I finally located the 2.2 distro on archives.debian.org, but h
Good morning!
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my
install the Etch or Sid? Is it as simple as changing my sources.list,
doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm sure I'll end
Hey Michelle!
I am creating a TByte Archive Server of Debian and I am searching for
older Official Debian-CD-Images. Generaly I am looking for 2.2.r7 but
yours 2.2r5 are better ethen nothing.
I am interested in a full copy of it (any architektures) but only
official Debian CD-Images. I ca
Hi Phillipe:
One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command.
During installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are
caught off guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and
password. It can be unnerving. A root password CAN be set up, though.
And task
Right to left...What was I thinking! That explained everything!
Mike McCarty wrote:
Matt Richards wrote:
i dont understand :(
It's Hebrew. Just read from right to left :-)
compix wrote:
המחשב מקולקל ? עם וירוסים ? איטי?
אל תחכו שהוא ייהרס לגמרי הזמינו היום טכנאי שיציל לכם את המחשב, ייעל
Howdy and glad you asked!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
The answer is "Why don't you put a u in the word colour?" ;)
Rob
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Okay that was fun.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
Here is an explanation from http://open-dictionary.com/Color
(Can't vouch for how truthful this is...wasn't there at the time)
[Co-lor] /_/
1)...
Alternative Spelling of
* colour (UK Engl
Hey, theo!
On Wed, 2006-12-04 at 06:49 +0200, theo wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hodgins Family wrote:
> > The short answer is that the French made us do it!
> >
>
> Sorry for that.
>
> (I also plead guilty for centre/center,
So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour?
On Sat, 2006-15-04 at 11:45 -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> Not to drift too far from all this fascinating political speculation
> but it looks like we have Noah Webster to thank for the American
> spelling of the word color.
> "French (or indirect
Good afternoon!
> How can one install .deb package as non-root user? I see a 'dpkg --root'
> parameter, but it doesn't seem to help (as per below).
Couldn't you work something out using sudo? In Ubuntu folks run commands
like: sudo dpkg .
Rob
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On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 10:21 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Could someone explain this syslog message to me? It's evidently from a
> bittorrent session.
>
> Apr 28 08:07:28 mnr kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer
> 203.156.176.100:4126/23047 shrinks window 191100048:191101508. Repaired.
>
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On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox.
> When I sent that message, Thunderbird's spell-checker flagged
> "Debianistas" as "Lesbianism's".
>
> Huh?!!
>
> ;-)
Which begs a question!
Why do pe
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Hodgins Family wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>Kent West wrote:
> >>
> >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox.
>
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Hodgins Family wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>Kent West wrote:
> >>
> >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox.
>
On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 11:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> >
> > (And speaking of Freedom, anyone ever heard of that newfangled OS,
> > Debian? I hear it's the Hots, baby. ;-) )
> >
>
> Vaporware. It's just a ploy to delay people from adopting Vista. :-)
>
> -Roberto
Ingredients for a thread that won't die.
2 Dozen Broccoli Growers
A heavy dose of green color
1 Social Contract
1 smidgen of "how do you address somebody..."
Politics (to taste)
1 dash of "I don't want to be CCd"
50 requests to Unsubscribe
Stir.
Add some light Colour if it still doesn't look ri
Good morning!
Hello List,
I recently got my hands on a Toshiba Libretto 110CT. Which is a very
small laptop, with no cd player, just a pcmcia floppy disk that only
works under DOS, because the Linux kernel does not have the drivers for it.
I've finally been able to upload files to and from th
Good morning!
> > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site
> > doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade
> > process. Anyone able to advise?
Sorry, got into this list late and lost the original post!
Old version iso's "for a gradual upgrade" ca
Good morning.
Just got my SBC DSL package with a 2Wire 1701 HG
Gateway, wireless router/DSL modem. I need 2 wireless
adaptors to complete the network hookup. Googled til
I about to shoot myself as I don't know/understand all
the rhetoric. I just need to know the brand, model,
chipset of a linux
Good morning!
So what we really need is a strictly Debian live CD. Are there any?
AFAIK damnsmalllinux is Debian on a bootable CD
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/packages.html
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Good morning:
simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done
> 2. In the centre we do a lot of video editing using Premiere on
> window$.
> I know some Linux video editing software but the problem is that just
> one computer is powerful enough to do the job. If I make cluster o
Good afternoon!
So in this case, do we hit reply-all, and cut and paste the list email as
the To: line, removing all others, etc?
I use reply all and then cut out everyone's name leaving only the list
address.
So far, I haven't annoyed anyone.
Rob
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Good morning!
Quick, how many commands are there at the disposal of a CLI enthusiast?
Every time some newbie asks how to do this that or something else, along
comes a new command "that-was-always-there" but sort of "unknown". Now
that's security through obscurity for you! This is not a rant...
Good afternoon!
Easy, on my system there are 3312 (YMMV), just hit tab twice from the CLI
:)
$
Display all 3312 possibilities? (y or n)
OK. That's good. That's a start. And yes, my mileage may vary. It is
unlikely that I will have 3312 commands available on my system. That will
depend on w
Good afternoon!
Any unix, linux book will give you a good hint on posibilities.
Many linux books have discussions of rpm related stuff, fewer discuss
apt..just to pick on two obvious distinctions.
Right now, I'm a Debian guy. I'm studying Debian Linux. For now, I'm only
interested in Debian
Good afternoon!
http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/commands/
Thanks for this link. Do you know how many of these commands are
Debian-specific?
Rob
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Good afternoon!
Have you read the Debian Reference? That's all shell-based.
It can be found here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html#contents
The document at this site has lots of useful info that I'm not (immediately)
interested in. I have bokmarked it, though
Good morning!
Perhaps you'd like this:
Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card
The 101 most important things when using Debian GNU/Linux
http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/
Thanks, Ralph!
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Good afternoon!
Like I said, I don't have enough space in the new apartment to set up
multiple computers, but I dislike having computing power going to waste.
Glad to hear that you aren't going to junk 'em (at least not right now).
Can anyone suggest a way to network/connect all four to poss
Hey!
Just take them to a recycling center and buy something from this decade
used
for under 200.
Hold on a sec.
Why go through all the bother?
1) 200 bucks all at once may not be a feasible outlay.
2) some of the older software may run just fine on the older machines (a
newer one won't m
Good evening!
My pap used to have a set of lights programmed to change in a random way
and he kept an ancient box running for many years doing little other than
that. Light up, gradually dim, switch off, the whole lot. Classic
anti-burglar mechanism jazzed up to make it plausible day after
Good afternoon:
I think this exchange sparked more discussion than Brendan anticipated. It
caught me, that's for sure.
Another few benefits of keeping old CPU's going hit me yesterday (after
buying a brand new battery for an 80386 motherboard -- the kind you have to
solder on!):
i) To the sp
Good morning!
I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge,
and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it
closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour?
The page is:
http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e=9797
Good afternoon!
I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when
something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. Since that I can`t
boot my Debian Gnu/Linux System. So here is my question:
-"How do I reinstall Grub in MBR the way I`ll can boot both systems
again?"
Good afternoon!
Someone's been putting grapefruit juice in my grapefruit juice again! :)
I'll just repost with the page reference and hope no one notices...how's
that?
I just was running a dual boot machine (Sarge & Win 98) nicely when
something wrong happened and I got to reinstall Win 98. S
Good afternoon!
I've a couple of these today.
- Original Message -
From: "Steward-owner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 6:29 PM
Subject: Your Message To scoug-general
Your message to the list scoug-general has been rejected.
You are not a member of the lis
Good morning:
Follow this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=7455&page=1
My friend has installed a sarge workstation from
the 14 CDs. With limited dial-up access he can't
upgrade it. I would like to make a "disk 15"
for him from the contents of my /var/cache/apt/archives.
Is there
Hey Cameron:
(There's also some stuff about
Synaptic, whatever that is.)
Think of Synaptic as a GUI for apt-get (no flames from purists, please!)
That's neater than just
copying all the deb files from my apt/archives to his,
but it still doesn't get me something I could put on
an isofs so
Good morning!
No 386's here, but I have two 486 SX25's with 8MB memory each and 80MB to
120MB HDs that I have been trying to figure out how to get Debian onto.
Some ideas here: http://www.linux.ca/library/linux/minideb.shtml although
you would have to strip out some of the apps.
Also, this
Good morning!
I'm about to buy 6 boxes with the Tyan Tomcat i7221A mainboard in it. The
client wants to run Debian. Now .. I don't know a lot about the hardware
support in Debian. Can someone advise me on this? Will this box install
with
the latest stable install CD?
The full specs can be f
Good morning!
Hello all,
What would be a good chocie in Color Laser Printer for use with Debian ?
Thanks in advance.
/Lars
Go wild, Lars http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
Rob
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Good evening!
In the past few days, it seems that http://mail.sinetsrl.it has gone
missing. Visiting that web site, that link no longer exists.
Any idea what happened?
Thanks
A login page? Popped right in Opera.
I got the login page as well in uh, uh, well, uh.
Good morning!
I am using Corel WP Office 2002
But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord.
It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how
to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice
or
help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to buy new sof
Good afternoon!
I have an old pentium box that's a candidate for a sarge install.
It has a hdd and a cd. The bios does not detect the cd, and the
boot order can only be set to A:/C: or C:/A:. Hence, it cannot be
set to boot from the Sarge CD.
Smart Boot Manager "might" be a solution. Also cal
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