Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
stem will easily set you back $2-3000.  You can get some comparable, Supermicro mini-itx boxes for a bit less. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing wor

Re: Three unsolvable Problems

2022-07-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
issue. 3 With the digicam we made MP4 files - videos. Because the battery became empty the files are not finalized. So vlc or avidemux cannot open them. Can somebody help to repair them e.g. with FFmpeg? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, th

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
er-grade drives just give up after the first try - letting RAID do its thing. You might want to check the specs on your drive, and run a deep set of diagnostics, starting with the more intrusive smart diagnostics. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practi

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/20/20 11:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 01:40, Reco wrote: Hi. Hello.  :-) On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:32:47AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote:   On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, bac

Re: GNU Guix

2020-09-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
ty interesting). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing wo

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
tries actually mean.  Traditionally, a "page fault" indicates that a page is not found in memory, so the o/s is swapping the required page in from disk.  This might simply mean that you need more memory.  You might look at diagnostics that indicate memory usage and swapping. Miles F

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:45:25AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: [174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event l

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
quot;man getty" or "man agetty" and you should find what you need Miles Fidelman On 6/5/19 10:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; This machine has only one serial port, which I normally use a session of minicom to connect as a terminal quit a bit dumber than a vt102, to a TR

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
n X-window or other GUI for sys admin work.  Lots of getty instances running, sitting on network ports, just waiting for logins. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but not

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
tty5 00:00:00 agetty Why all this would tie up the serial port I don't know. Depends on how the serial port is configured.  It's pretty standard for it to be set up as a console, by default, in which case an instance of getty would be running waiting for a user to login. Miles Fidelman

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
ury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;" These days, it seems, we don't wait for them to die. We just kill them, professionally. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Of course, the real way to return ANY system to a pristine state is to do a re-install from scratch. Which, one might add, is why we have things like Ansible. Miles Fidelman On 5/28/20 1:15 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Victor Sudakov wrote: A production system, especially a

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
don't want any of the desktop applications - but then we know enough not to install it in the first place.  We tend to be more worried about all the interdependcies installed/required by systemd - but that's another battle entirely. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between th

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
or apt - ranging from stuff installed directly from tarballs, to local configurations & scripts. As far as I can tell, the only way to get to a "pristine" system, is to rebuild from scratch. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In p

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
m of establishing a good set of gender-neutral pronouns, for English, (and maybe declarations in other languages) - then let's come back and debate colors.  Meanwhile, life's too short for this. Miles Fidelman On 6/20/20 3:25 AM, Weaver wrote: On 20-06-2020 12:57, Dan Ritter wrote:

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
out a substantive discussion.  I'm almost at the point where I'm willing to relax my strong "free speech" stance, to make calls for "moderation" or banning people the one and only grounds for immediate ejection from a list. Cheers, Miles Fidelman -- In theo

Re: technical terms overhaul

2020-06-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/22/20 5:59 AM, Will Mengarini wrote: * Miles Fidelman [20-06/20=Sa 11:58 -0400]: Solve the problem of establishing a good set of gender-neutral pronouns, for English, (and maybe declarations in other languages) - then let's come back and debate colors. Here you go: cocos

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
er the hood, and I've run all kinds of Linux distros on Macs, under virtualization.  You should be able to run Debian directly, though I've never tried it. Miles Fidelman On 6/26/2020 1:34 PM, echo test wrote: Hello, First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't wan

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/27/20 11:56 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 8:08 PM Fred <mailto:f...@blakemfg.com>> wrote: On 6/27/20 1:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them > and it's easy

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
ultiple sites.  Red Hat has some good solutions, out-of-the-box, and last time I looked, they were all based on open source components - you could integrate those with CentOS, and probably Debian - but it takes a lot of work. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
folks who actually know how to do this stuff.  Here, I'm speaking as someone who HAS homebrewed a small service bureau, with serious experience in computing & IT - back before any of this stuff was available off the shelf.  It's a royal PITA.  These days, I'm far more likely to

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/28/20 3:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: echo test wrote: Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. We are firmly of the opinion that mdadm or ZFS are the best solutions here. Absolutely. Actually I'd go further and differentiate the two by sugg

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just to be clear... mdadm is NOT raid - it's an admin program for managing linux raid (md) devices.?? And then you need to worry about LVM (logical volume manager), and a network file system on top of them. Just to be clear, yo

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
the data volume formatted as XFS.  I use separate partitioned SSDs for booting and swap. On 6/28/2020 3:48 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/28/20 3:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: echo test wrote: Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. We are firmly

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Now who's being pedantic? Precisely. And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it doesn't perform the raid function. And it'

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-07-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/1/20 7:04 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:49:09PM +1000, elvis wrote: On 1/7/20 4:51 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Now who's

RAID stuff [was Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center]

2020-07-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/1/20 8:15 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 7/1/20 7:04 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 08:49:09PM +1000, elvis wrote: On 1/7/20 4:51 am, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
ou going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of products.) Good Eating, Miles Fidelman

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 7/27/20 11:16 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited. Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as t

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
st of databases!  Thanks for posting this.  Who knew? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theo

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
seem to make a lot of sense. Anything else, and some kind of converter will be needed. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
ith anything other than another LinkedIn user (except by using one's browser to mail the item or a link). Nope.  Forwarding by email is about the only universal way to share stuff, or to move it from some service or another to one's personal storage (I can't tell you how often I e

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
group in New Zealand.  It has a bit of traction in the "electronic democracy" community. Miles Fidelman On 8/28/18 12:25 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 28/08/2018 17:12, Francesco Porro wrote: Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the bes

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
NNTP for distributing header information, and a distributed hash table for the files themselves. Saved a lot of bandwidth. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
to be?" and ignore the rest of the argument. But one might want it to be - as compared to something centralized, like a list server or forum. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
g the changes to user requirements for UI/UX is at least part of why NNTP is no longer a major factor in internet usage. Last time I looked, Thunderbird & Exchange both support news - a newsgroup looks just like another email account. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no differenc

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-29 Thread Miles Fidelman
rtainly not all business mail. Chances are, that most mail - at least business mail - will originate in Outlook, go through an Exchange server, and from there, travel over SMTP. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
gs, I hate to recommend it, but google groups is about as free & easy as it gets. Otherwise, I expect somebody in your membership might have a corporate machine they'd host you on. Miles Fidelman On 10/23/18 9:53 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Aside to Jeff: Just sending you a co

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/23/18 8:16 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:04:52 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: Speaking from experience: Running your own server is a bit of a pain - to setup, and to administer, Must be my day to reply to email messages ;-) Yes, I've tried that before.

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 6:45 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:32:15 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: > Yes, but you really need a PUBLIC static IP address, or things tend to > get hairy.  Dynamic DNS will help, but only to a point.  And, a lot of > ISPs really don't

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 12:56 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-24 17:47, Miles Fidelman wrote: We've had somebody make such an offer, and we'll probably take them up on it -- I sort of wanted to try to set up a small mail list on one of my computers, as long as I didn't have to run a w

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 2:30 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, a useful clue -- so the mail lists that list procmail as a dependency (and no MTA) might meet my desires of being able to run a mail list without setting up an MTA on my own machine. No. Procmail is primarily a LOCAL delivery agent - genera

Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

2018-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 10/24/18 2:05 PM, Joe wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:47:10 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: On 10/24/18 6:45 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:32:15 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: Yes, but you really need a PUBLIC static IP address, or things tend to get hairy

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
ther way leads into both licensing issues, and boot issues. Miles Fidelman (typing on a Mac, which is BSD Unix underneath, sending via a server running Debian in a VM over Xen, with Dom0 also being Debian - meanwhile, there are several Windows & Linux VMs on this Mac - not running at the mome

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well... that would basically be MacOS, or a GUI that looks like MacOS running on another BSD. Mario Marietto wrote: How difficult will it be to create a BSD system with the look and feel of the MacOSX ? I mean,not only based on aesthetics,but more structural,but not so much structural to inc

Re: Who pays Debian developement

2023-01-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
s out there, who are working on company time, to make contributions to Debian (and other) open source software.  And folks at places that host the work - like the OSU OSL - are certainly drawing salaries from their parent institutions.  I expect a lot of that work is grant funded. Miles Fid

Re: You removed Weboob package over pollitical reasons?Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
s up.  For anything except the most common stuff, I'll always stick with >make;make install Miles Fidelman On 12/24/18 5:25 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: 500 comments at Slashdot, >200 at Phoronix and >1000 at linux org ru! See now? When a technical project starts making their decisions

Re: Fwd: You removed Weboob package over pollitical reasons?Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 12/24/18 6:43 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 7:56 Miles Fidelman mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: Not for nothing... Please don’t top post. Yeah, whatever.  Grammar nazi. but I'd never heard of weboob before.  Looks like a rath

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
m really not so sure.  All of the debacle around systemd, and some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering migrating to either Gentoo or a BSD platform. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
on the laptop and radius configuration. I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine with a head. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/2/19 5:16 PM, deloptes wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm not sure how well GIMP would run on across a network, particularly if one wants to use a pen.  It's really designed to run on a machine with a head. so you are saying you can not ssh -X to the server and run your gimp

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/3/19 5:55 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:56:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering migrating to either Gentoo or a BSD pla

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
, and slower, for no apparent reason. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and p

Re: cannot bring up phpmyadmin in browser, cannot link to mysql

2019-10-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
.  It's saved me no end of trouble. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory an

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 11/27/19 7:38 PM, John Hasler wrote: Paul Sutton wrote: We have need, at the South Devon Tech Jam to gain access to a switch that has a serial port, but using the serial port, (having issues using the switch ip address). I have a netbook running debian along with a usb -> 9 pin serial conne

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:48:56PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm not really convinced that's the case. Glasnost allowed the average Soviet to find out the full horror of their regime's history. The collective shock, awe and outrage of the

Re: How to make mailing list,,,

2007-03-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andi Mappesona wrote: dear all I have a task to make a framework/engine mailing list,,,like yahoogroups etc,,, but i don't know to start from where i have search tutorials at google but i didn't find anything,,, maybe someone can help me,,,? give me a clue,,etc it's not clear - do you nee

anybody familiar with php4-curl?

2007-03-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I'm trying to install a package that requires curl support, and it's installer tells me that curl isn't enabled. I'm running Debian Sarge, Apache2, PHP-4, and I thought I had installed php4-curl when I did my initial installs (apt-get install php4-curl) tells me that it's up to dat

Re: Weird apache2 issue

2007-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In setting up apache 2.2.3 with virtual hosts I have experienced > something very strange which has never happened before. name-based or IP-based virtual hosts ? It's all IP-based one obvious step: look at your acce

2nd try: anybody familiar with php4-curl?

2007-03-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
[Sent this a week or so back - never received a single reply... so, one more try... Thanks... Miles] Hi Folks, I'm trying to install a package that requires curl support, and it's installer tells me that curl isn't enabled. I'm running Debian Sarge, Apache2, PHP-4, and I thought I had ins

Re: 2nd try: anybody familiar with php4-curl? - SOLVED

2007-03-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
That did it. Thanks Roberto! Miles Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 05:19:11PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: [Sent this a week or so back - never received a single reply... so, one more try... Thanks... Miles] Hmm. I missed it the first time. Hi Folks, I&#

Re: 2nd try: anybody familiar with php4-curl?

2007-03-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kevin Mark wrote: Generally, when you install a php4-foo package, you need to add the 'extension=foo.so' to the php configuration and then restart apache. Would it make sense to add a wishlist bug to phpX-foo to 'detect apacheX' and then either ask or automatically add this line to /etc/php

Re: 2nd try: anybody familiar with php4-curl?

2007-03-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Celejar wrote: Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install a package that requires curl support, and it's installer tells me that curl isn't enabled. well, the problem has been solved (see previous posting to debian-user) but, to answer your

Re: RAID vs Multiple Drives

2007-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Adrian Hall wrote: Put RAID 5 into Google and you should be able to find out plenty more information - it's been a while since I had to deal with RAID so my descriptions are a little vague. Someone else on this list will likely give a better description. last time I looked, wi

Re: xquery

2007-08-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
There are some links to various java implementation from Wikipedia's xquery page. http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/ looks interesting Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:27:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/07 13:08, Hendrik Boom w

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Hasler wrote: David Baron writes: just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-ray

Re: webbased SSH server/client

2007-01-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark wrote: Hi List, I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client) Trying to circumvent a firewall that only let's out po

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Blatant disregard of reality is a bright, shiny shibboleth that you are a student. Don't believe I've ever heard the term used that way before. I rather like it. But I suspect few today would know the etymology. But just doing a google, I find it's not an

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a pure learning experience there is gentoo (vaguely debian-like) or Linux From Scratch. If you fight your way through one of those installs you will know a lot of the tearful side of Linux. They don't hide the details, they glory in the low level nuts and bolts. I'

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do you mean that there's nothing I can do about it? My sarge is intended to be server, hopefully, most of server-related work I add can be done in memory. Do you run a mail server on it? Send/recei

[OT] Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/07 01:45, Serena Cantor wrote: I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) The machine is Sarge? Isn't that slightly Jurassic? I don't know, I'm still running it on a couple of production servers. I

Re: Netinst Fails to Recognize SATA Components

2007-09-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thomas H. George wrote: I purchased an HP desktop with a SATA hard drive and a SATA dvdrom/cdrw and added a second SATA hard drive on which I want to install Debian Etch. Clearly the SATA components are not recognized by either programs. I had that problem with a couple of servers a while b

Re: [OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Martin Marcher wrote: In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be done from debian then). Something like 2GB RAM a decent CPU (not too much since it'll be dedicated to file services and RAID) and the opt

Re: I Hate the Debian Mailing List!!!!

2007-09-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I can't get one single email to come through, so I might get help. I have have you checked your SMTP server against the various spam databases - there's a great tool on www.dnsstuff.com that will run a test against all the major databases (note: you need to s

Re: I Hate the Debian Mailing List!!!!

2007-09-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Jason Zaphyr wrote: I can't get one single email to come through, so I might get help. I have well there's at least one thing that might be causing you a problem: if you're using mail.bluebottle.com as your smtp server, it has not PTR record listed for

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
ntly there's no such experience on debian-user. So... just as a suggestion to the original writer: cast a wider net. And... if you happen to come across a good email list focused on document/content management - let me know! Miles Fidelman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Math Package to Solve Linear Equations?

2007-10-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: I'm feeling stupid. I used to have a math package which inverted matrices to solve systems of linear equations - i.e. enter the matrix and the y values and the program inverts the matrix and reports the x values. I know how to do it manua

Re: booting from DVD?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
steve wrote: good question - my other main machine is a PowerPC Mac, so that's no help; just tried it on the kids' Windows box - same symptom - seems to try to read the DVD, then boots from the hard drive (into Windows) I guess I must be missing something about making the DVDs bootable Thoughts

utilities for liteon dvd drive?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
apropos my earlier query regarding not being able to boot from a DVD, it's been suggested to me that I might need a firmware update to my DVD/RW drive unfortunately, all the manufacturer doesn't directly support anything except windows so.. can anybody suggest utilities I can use, under Debi

booting from DVD?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I've been trying to get my system to boot from a DVD, and it's not working. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong (or more likely, stupid). The system: - Foxconn motherboard (681 something) - Phoenix BIOS - E-IDE CDROM/DVD+RW drive - boot order set to CD, HDD If I stick in a bootab

Re: booting from DVD?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
steve wrote: ill assume you are using gnome, all I do is right click on the iso file, then choose write to disc. has always worked fine for me. yup did you burn the dvd on the pc your trying to boot from, and is the file actually an .iso ? yes, and looks like it - at least it mounts and

Re: booting from DVD?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Wayne Topa wrote: If you have k3b installed you could try usig it to create a bootable dvd. just tried k3b, and it wasn't bootable either I've tried burning several images that purport to be bootable, but I'm guessing there are some parameters I have to set as well. When I burn CDs, the

Re: booting from DVD?

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Wayne Topa wrote: If you tried using the prior udf dvd then I would think it wouldn't work. Did you try formating that dvd before you tried burning to it? I always use a cd/dvd R/W to check the iso out before I burn to a cd/dvd R, just in case. now THAT's a great idea - guess I'll have to go

Re: booting from DVD? SOLVED

2007-10-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: If you have k3b installed you could try usig it to create a bootable dvd. just tried k3b, and it wasn't bootable either I've tried burning several images that purport to be bootable, but I'm guessing there are some parameters I have

Re: which mailing list manager...

2007-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Attila Horvath wrote: Any opinions about which mailing list manager is better? My personal favorite is sympa (www.sympa.org) Needed are... - 'relative' customization ease - self administering (as most are) - archiving and retrieval - spam filtering [optional] - I'm running spa

Re: which mailing list manager...

2007-01-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
details etc - ... compared to Compose email offline - go online - send email. Leaving aside differences of opinion on this... FYI: sympa - the list manager I recommended earlier - provides for access to most of its functions via email commands, as well as its web interface. Miles

webalizer question

2007-01-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
To anybody out there using the stable version of webalizer: Is there a way to turn on hostname resolution through the config file, or does that require recompiling the source package? (Or is there a better place to ask this question?). Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: webalizer question - solved

2007-01-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 06:42 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: To anybody out there using the stable version of webalizer: Is there a way to turn on hostname resolution through the config file, or does that require recompiling the source package? (Or is there a better place

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))

2007-01-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Oleg Verych wrote: 30-01-2007, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> пишет: 30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight savings time in the US? Which branch are you running?

Re: Boot logs ?

2007-01-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Frank McCormick wrote: Does Debian (Sarge testing) save COMPLETE boot logs anywhere? Dmsg | less only gives me a "cleaned up" boot log - but when my system boots I can see there are some hotplug problems that aren't in the log. Ahhh the recurrent question. A lot of what Sarge generates d

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mike McCarty wrote: BTW, where in the Constitution of these USA does it state that Copyright must be limited? Well, this is getting WAY off topic, but... Article I, Section 8. The actual language in the constitution states that "The Congress shall have the power to ... promote the Progress o

[Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: What do you need in a WP? Academic features (formal citations, embedded graphics, TOC, index, etc), movie/theater formating, something I haven't thought of? Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents with people who use Word - particularly in work

Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)

2007-02-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 14:03, Joe Hart wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] I am a writer, and I used Word to write my books. Personally I don't like OO Writer. It, just like MS Word is overblown. I still haven't found the Perfe

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents with people who use Word - particularly in work settings, and features like change track

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:39 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents with people who use Word - particularly in work settings, and features like change tracking, Change tracking in word is a horrible feature

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Greg Folkert wrote: There are lots of reasons to dislike Word - for example, the excreble HTML it generates when people insist on using it to prepare web pages - but for run-of-the-mill document preparation in a corporate setting, it's a pretty good tool. Practicality sometimes trumps religion

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 19:07]: There are lots of reasons to dislike Word - for example, the excreble HTML it generates when people insist on using it to prepare web pages - but for run-of-the-mill document preparation in a corporate s

Re: yet another newbie tutorial

2007-02-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Clive Menzies wrote: On (12/02/07 15:02), Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hi, I wrote a "for dummies" tutorial on how to install Xen on sid. http://www.asso-polyvalente.fr/workspaces/members/mihamina/public/xen-3-debiansid Thanks for this, although the file seems to be corrupt; c

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't care how ugly their printed documents look. I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and government who'd contest this. Not to mention those in the advertising and marketing a

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't care how ugly their printed documents look. I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and governm

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