On Monday 17 February 2003 10:18, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and
> qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a
> symlink would this create overhead a human would notice?
You most probably wouldn't notice,
On Thursday 20 February 2003 14:03, lloyd wrote:
> After spending a few days asking around, this stopped me in my tracks
> from trying Debian at all. Call me spoiled if you like - but I'll give
> Debian a try when I can insert a CD-ROM, boot, and just install onto my
> 3ware IDE RAID -only system.
On Saturday 22 February 2003 20:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how a cd could break into pices in a cd drive?
It is certainly possible. When Neverwinter Nights was released, some batches
of CDs were low quality and had the tendency to break apart in faster drives.
Thode disks
On Saturday 08 March 2003 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> anyone got any ideas? links?
Read this:
http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision2.html
Basically, it screws up the sync signal so that you cannot record the signal
properly.
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On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:10, J. Lambrecht wrote:
> "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) "
>
> Debian startup scripts
>
> If SuSE is the ultimate example of a well-designed, well-executed plan
> for the management of startup scripts, Debian is the exact opposite. The
> De
Hi all...
I've got a little problem with Mozilla. When I try to load certain URLs, X
crashes with a segfault. I cannot remember having this problem with a
self-built X installation, it came along with the 4.2.1 .deb's. It happens
with 1.2.1and 1.3a.
Did anybody else encounter this problem?
A
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 20:14, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I do, however, see mozilla crash occasionally. I think it has to do
> with the version of Java I run (Sun 1.3.1).
That's definitely not the problem I'm encountering ;-)
It's not Mozilla that's crashing, it's X. Weird stuff, I just get thrown ba
On Thursday 13 March 2003 21:54, Martin J. Hillyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote:
> > I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+,
> > 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been
> > bitten by the AMD-AGP
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 13:41, Goeman Stefan wrote:
> I use following command: mkdosfs -F 32 -v /dev/hdc8
> It prints something and then it stops without formatting the partition.
What does it print?
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On Tuesday 18 March 2003 23:23, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've recently been having problems where if grip encounters a particular
> nasty track, it will totally slow down the computer but continue ripping
> (albeit at 0.1x). Clicking repeatedly on abort rip (or abort rip +
> encode (th
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 18:34, I wrote:
> I've got a little problem with Mozilla. When I try to load certain URLs, X
> crashes with a segfault. I cannot remember having this problem with a
> self-built X installation, it came along with the 4.2.1 .deb's. It happens
> with 1.2.1and 1.3a.
So, it se
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 11:49, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> If I understand corectly, apache-perl is staticaly compiled with mod_perl
> (that is it's the same as installing apache+mod_perl). so how come I can
> install both? the same with apache-ssl.
There are some known problems with the mod_perl m
On Sunday 23 March 2003 10:48, Brian Durant wrote:
> How do I expunge OpenOffice.org totally from my system? I want to
> install Star Office 6, which I have on CD. I am using Libranet 2.7,
> which I believe is 100% compatible with Debian 3.
Normally, 'apt-get --purge remove openoffice.org' should
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:30, David W.Aquilina wrote:
> That's the truly annoying thing. There aren't any errors in the XFree
> log, unless I'm missing something not-obvious. A copy of one such log
> is here: http://bombadil.starkindler.us/XFree86.log
It really looks like you don't have a "p
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 00:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:44:02 +0200,
> Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > Doing this yourself is generally unnecessary.
>
> ..hush, we can use every new developer. ;-)
Everyone working on and pa
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:29, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > Every once in a while, apt thought it just had to "update" X (from 4.2 to
> > some early 4.1 at that time), so I had to move the "normal" X direc
On Friday 17 October 2003 13:15, Tom wrote:
> Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
> languages using non-English syntax?
I think parts of the scripting language Microsoft uses in its Office suite are
localized.
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On Saturday 18 October 2003 16:34, Dasn Cups wrote:
> If I use GNU's source code in my project but don't open my source, who will
> punish me?
The FSF
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On Sunday 19 October 2003 17:09, Daniel B. wrote:
> Is this something I need to do something about:
>
> Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
>
> I'm running 2.4.18 with SMP (AMD Athlon MPs).
Considering that "turn off SMP support" is a solution to the problem... ;-)
Nobod
On Sunday 19 October 2003 20:24, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> I guess I don't. Emacs _is_ graphical. And it has addons to do just
> about anything.
Yeah, it's a nice OS, but it's desparately missing a good editor :-P
Further reference: http://bash.cx/?29888
Now, don't get me wrong, I used it for
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:02, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hm. I already have the 4.3 xlibs packages and it still doesn't work, :-(
Did you make sure the xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common packages are at 4.3?
There's quite a lot of stuff that doesn't get upgraded implicitly.
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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 15:45, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Not trying to start a flame-fest here, but the correct plural form of
> virus is viruses.
Last thing I heard was that the original word had no plural at all, so as I
see it we're all free to write what we want. "Little
On Thursday 23 October 2003 03:02, techlists wrote:
> it seemed to install ok, but when I rebooted, the machine would show
> LI and start beeping. I had to reinstall lilo from a rescue disk,
> which of course overwrote my lilo.conf file
It usually helps to just re-run lilo if it's screwed up.
On Saturday 25 October 2003 16:23, Frank A. Uepping wrote:
> Hi,
> Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default.
> I have some misgivings about this location.
> Doesn't the filesystem standard allow to delete all files below /var?
> This would be rather fatal for the development team if s
On Sunday 26 October 2003 16:38, Lorenzo Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new Debian user, and I have a strange problem with USB subsystem.
> I have a Logitech mouse mx700, and when I connect it to one of my usb
> ports, a message appear in console:
>
> Oct 26 15:43:53 europa kernel: hub.c: new USB dev
On Monday 27 October 2003 08:08, Nick Hastings wrote:
> What happens if you
>
> cat /dev/input/mice
>
> and then move the mouse? Does a bunch of stuff spew onto your terminal?
I'd consider doing something like
cat /dev/input/mice | od
since this takes care of the nonprintable characters and you
On Monday 27 October 2003 21:28, Lorenzo Rossi wrote:
> The first mouse is a logitech on ps2 port, and it works.
> The second is the Logitech usb that does not work...
Have a look at the BIOS. If there is an option like "PS/2 emulation for USB
mouse", make sure it is disabled. Normally it should
On Thursday 30 October 2003 17:41, Tom wrote:
> Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is
> getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the Mac
> OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do something as
> drastic.
Well, why not? To be hon
On Friday 31 October 2003 19:11, Tom wrote:
> Theseus was walking in the woods one day, when he came across the house
> of a giant. Now, this giant considered himself a perfect host; all who
> visited him must spend the night, and must be given a bed which fits the
> guest perfectly.
>
> Unfortuna
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:44, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > So what? They did indeed change a LOT. If you compare WinME to WinMX, see
> > the fact that MS plans to include an actually useful firewall and disable
> > sev
On Sunday 09 November 2003 16:32, stan wrote:
> I have several "testing" machines, when I try to do apt-get dist-upgrade on
> them, they want to remove kde-base.
>
> This seems like a bad idea :-)
Not really as long as kdebase is the only package to be removed. It's just a
metapackage for easier
On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:08, Jørgen H. Seland wrote:
> (As a footnote: I'd like to keep the "BIOS legacy keyboard" option
> activated, as I need it to manipulate the BIOS settings, and attaching a
> PS/2 keyboard involves dismantling the machine. Just opting for a normal
> USB HID solution i
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:17:06 -0800
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when I run X :1 there are some error messages about not being able to
> initialize DRI (X :0 can initialize DRI without problems, openGL
> programs work):
>
> (II) fglrx(0): VisualConfigs initialized
> (EE) fglrx(0): Fai
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 16:40, Narins, Josh wrote:
> I know I had help figuring this out a couple years ago, but I don't
> remember, and it's impossible to google (the dashes are stripped if you
> try).
You can google for it (Query: debian syslog "--MARK--"). One result:
http://lists.debian.o
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 16:45, Philipp wrote:
> 3) I dont think its possible to deinstall the old threating package
> first because of dependencies. how can i (with apt or dselct, or
> whatever) force a reinstall of a specific package ?
apt-get --reinstall install
Alternatively, aptitude le
Hi all...
I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my
/usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story.
Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in /usr/share or
plain and simple all packages, I reinstalled the whole system. (OK
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've got a voodoo3 using X DRI which _was_ working just fine
> until I "upgraded" to testing.
>
> Now it's broke.
>
> Things I _know _ are OK (after all - it _was_ working):
>
> * kernel 2.4.19 has got tdfx compiled in
This might actua
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that
> > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something?
>
> I think 'd
On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:50, Dale Hair wrote:
> If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the
> line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every installed
> package to be reinstalled.
Yep, thanks a lot. Hope I'll never need it (again) :-P
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On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:21, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> i have a unix account with a mail address. i want all mail to that account
> forwarded to another mail address. how is this done?
Normally, you just put a .forward file in your home directory with the address
in the first line.
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On Friday 24 January 2003 15:26, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> I thought there was some kind of support in more modern kernels... I
> remember seeing some option in xconfig while configuring my kernel which
> did something like search for ISA PNP cards at boot time. Maybe that will
> help some? In any
On Friday 24 January 2003 16:01, Vera Friederichs wrote:
> Hi,
> in my computer is a ATAPI IDE CD-writer (and another CDROM). But cdrecord
> -scanbus finds only my scsi hard disk.
> In lilo.conf there is a line
> append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
Try "hdb=scsi hdc=scsi" instead. That's what works
On Friday 24 January 2003 16:52, Joris Huizer wrote:
> What is the program to use when I want to know which
> programs are running ?
There's "ps" for a quick glimpse (has a load of options, so read the manpage)
or "top" for continuous monitoring.
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Hi all...
For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from my
harddisk, especially during I/O operations. From the sound of it, it might be
a seek to somewhere on the disk. Could this be accesses to the journal (using
ext3)? I want to be sure here because I had a severe failur
On Saturday 25 January 2003 10:08, Dave Selby wrote:
> Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
> winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
>
> OK I get the bit about
>
> tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
>
> I dont get the bit about
>
> touch /forcefsck
This cre
On Sunday 26 January 2003 11:21, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the
> command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs
> over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results.
>
> Which tool do I have to
On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote:
> What I _did_ try was
>
> mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
>
> and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so
> I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed. Perhaps it's
> using sr or sg or one of the other scsi alphabet soup
On Monday 27 January 2003 00:55, Mikkel wrote:
> How do i install Debian on my scsi HD?
Normally you do this the same way as if you'd be installing on an IDE disk. Do
you experience any problems? What controller are you using?
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On Monday 27 January 2003 02:31, Tom Allison wrote:
> What does this mean?
>
> I'm failing at the beginning of a boot.
You mean you get the message directly after LILO (or BRUB or whatever you're
using as bootmanager) is done? It would be helpful if you could pinpoint that
a little more precisel
On Monday 27 January 2003 18:57, Dave Selby wrote:
> Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
>
> Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage ??
NO! Don't touch the swap partition. It has no file system and creating one
would corrupt it. A file system on
On Monday 27 January 2003 19:03, john gennard wrote:
> If possible I'd like to avoid reinstalling Woody onto the
> new drive (and it's no use waiting for it to crash as it
> never does). I can find a 3gig primary partition on hda
> which I could use in whole or part to take /usr. But how
> to trans
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:51, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on
> the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just that
> with swapd. Question is what effects do a journalling file system have on
> swap files?
A
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:50, Andrew M. Lindley wrote:
> Two questions - how do I find out what parameters a module accepts (which
> part of the kernel source if thats where you look)?
No need to dig this deep. 'modinfo -p ' prints a list of
parameters and descriptions.
> And how do you get
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 19:12, Jaque Moreau wrote:
> Also i noticed that after a apt-get dist-upgrade a package called
> "coreutils" was updated from testing! Is this normal? Do the coreutils
> depend on Xfree86? Or is it because my glibc6 was also updated?
Some stuff was moved to a new package
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 19:02, Dave De Graff wrote:
> I've installed gcc but can't find its executables. Seems like the last time
> I installed it on a fresh woody installation, it was all configured to run.
> Session output is below. Any ideas?
>
> [...]
>
> root@host:# feta install gcc-3.2
> R
On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:39, Francois Chenais wrote:
> What's happens to my previous /dev directory ?
It stays on the disk but isn't seen anymore.
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On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:47, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> The motherboard specs say that pc100 ram should be used and I've
> installed pc133. Is this a problem ?
No, that stuff is pretty much downwards compatible. I suppose you're using a
256MB and two 64MB modules? It could be that the BIOS ha
On Friday 31 January 2003 09:56, S Yuval wrote:
> Also, I noticed that when the computer is idle, X shuts down automatically
> after some period of time. How can I cancel this option?
That sounds like a problem with power management. Try turning it off in the
BIOS and see if the problem persists.
On Friday 31 January 2003 02:01, Marcin Chady wrote:
> I had to install the drm-trunk-module-src_2002.12.05-5_all.deb and
> xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.12.05-4_i386.deb from
> http://dri.sourceforge.net for my Radeon 9000, which seems to have gone ok
> since I do get the Xserver up, I can login
On Friday 31 January 2003 12:53, funky soul wrote:
> i'm wondering if anybody knows how to convert .dmg CD images(?) created
> under MacOS to iso9660 images. i'd like to burn those images on CD with
> xcdroast or similar programs under linux. is there a program or a script
> that can do the convers
On Saturday 25 January 2003 11:33, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from my
> harddisk, especially during I/O operations.
First of all, thanks to those who answered, luckily there was and is nothing
of value on that disk anyway, so I
On Friday 31 January 2003 20:20, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> In /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/VIA-chipset there is a statement
> that the kernel should include PCI Quirks. I have stepped through make
> xconfig and cannot find this option.
>From what I've seen, "PCI quirks" means a set of wo
On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:10, Elijah wrote:
> After upgrading pilot-link and jpilot I've been getting these errors:
>
>
>
> Syncing on device /dev/pilot
> Press the HotSync button now
> ***
On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:24, Thomas Nyman wrote:
> Am an old SuSEr that has just switched to Debian. Can someone give me a
> helping hand getting hy hdc cd-rom burner working with ide-scsi emulation
You just have to use the kernel parameter "hdc=scsi" (add it to your append
line in lilo.co
On Saturday 01 February 2003 22:21, Thomas Nyman wrote:
> I tried to enable ide-scsi emulation but it doesnt work..there is no such
> module found. I installed woody basically with defaults...so I'm kind of
> lost as to what to do.
The only thing I can think of right now is that you're running an
On Sunday 02 February 2003 22:45, Britton wrote:
> I recently got a new 80G ATA disk, and cloned my debian install onto an
> ext3 journaled file system on it. Now some programs that move lots of
> data seg fault sometimes, causing subsequent ls to hang or my machine to
> lock up completely. I thi
On Monday 03 February 2003 17:43, Peter Schüller wrote:
> Is there any Debianized solution for having GnuPG prompt for passphrases
> when used with KMail and the Aegypten plugin?
>
> I've installed the KDE 3.1 Debian package version of KMail and everything
> works, including most GnuPG stuff, excep
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:59, David Turetsky wrote:
> When I boot under linux, periodically (occasionally under Potato,
> frequently now that I've installed a fresh copy of Woody) I get
>
>
>
> Boot: (linux selected)
>
> Loading Linux (24, count em)
>
> W07
>
> W07
>
> Uncompressing
Hi all...
I just started building a software RAID1 array on two IDE disks. Now I'm a
little unsure whether it's running like it should. Looking at /proc/mdstat,
I'm shown a speed of about 275K/sec and an estimated remaining time somewhat
short of 70(!!) hours. Is this normal? /proc/ide/via says
On Friday 07 February 2003 20:06, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> I just started building a software RAID1 array on two IDE disks. Now I'm a
> little unsure whether it's running like it should. Looking at /proc/mdstat,
> I'm shown a speed of about 275K/sec and an estimated remaining
On Saturday 08 February 2003 18:43, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0
> or /dev/lp1?
I'd suggest using devfs. Makes it terribly easy since you get the
/dev/printers directory.
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On Sunday 09 February 2003 06:27, Steve Lamb wrote:
> It's the only /reasonable/ explanation for having one thread pretty
> much match if not drown out all other conversation on this list.
Now that you say it... whee! That filter just about halved the number of
messages in my inbox.
Seri
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:56, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am about to setup a local mirror for internal installations.
>
> I run
> debmirror -a i386 -d unstable -d testing
>
> What is the size of the mirror? I has now been downloading for quite
> a while and reports 1.3GB although t
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 12:53, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> what is the alogrithm used to determine the server to use?
>
> In my I specified about three different
> servers.
Read the debmirror manpage... It's hardwired to ftp.debian.org unless you give
it an alternative host.
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On Wednesday 12 February 2003 15:49, Robert Ewald wrote:
> robert@debian:~$ cdparanoia -vd /dev/scd0 10 test.wav
>
>
>
> Checking /dev/scd0 for cdrom...
> Testing /dev/scd0 for cooked ioctl() interface
> /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
> Testing /dev/scd0 for
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:41, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> is there a test battery to check the OpenGL installation ?
For starters, check the output of glxinfo for irregularities.
Are you trying to get on as many filter lists as possible? Guess what, you're
on mine.
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On Thursday 13 February 2003 00:04, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Jeffrey L . Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003.02.12.2215 +0100]:
> > AFAIK, there is not any way to kill this short of rebooting.
>
> one more proof that Linux is actually flawed. going BSD...
> it seems that popularity of a s
On Thursday 13 February 2003 19:07, Craig Dickson wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]:
> > > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!)
> >
> > For all those wh
On Thursday 13 February 2003 22:04, Chris Mitchell wrote:
> Hi all.
> I'm a bit stumped in my efforts to get ALSA sound working...
> and I've been unable to find much in the way of docs for ALSA
> (No "man alsa", /usr/doc/alsa* adds up to a couple examples, several
> copies of the changelog,
On Friday 14 February 2003 16:39, Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote:
> It turns out that although i could use it with RedHat, Suse,
> Turbo,...,Linux they don't provide drivers for debian, they do provide a
> "open source driver".
That open source driver supports the chip as a simple IDE contro
On Friday 14 February 2003 19:09, Carlos Jiménez wrote:
> I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM
> (hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following:
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> Does it mean that CDROM
On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:28, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> [1] I hear 3ware doesn't suck, but I've never used one.
>From what I read in a review in c't magazine, 3ware has nice drivers included
in the standard kernel and good performance when it comes to RAID 0 or 1. The
review also had a look
On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:35, Alvin Oga wrote:
> == my raid test ...
>
> - unplug /dev/hda ... and try to boot ( into degraded mode )
> - unplug /dev/hdc ... and try to boot
>
> - it should still boot w/o any intervention/typing
>
> - copy a 2TB file to the raid
On Sunday 16 February 2003 03:53, Gemini wrote:
> In my opinion, the best free avi format is XVid. See http://www.xvid.org/
> for more informations. It is really fast for encoding in its new 0.9
> version. I am using it for all my avi encoding needs.
AFAIK, XVid isn't free but an implementation of
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> was it tested, and does it work
I guess I'll use 'fortune -s' as sig again. I'm getting too many answers to
this one! :-)
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On Sunday 16 February 2003 20:34, Scruloose wrote:
> And Alicq seems to have imploded on install. Run it and it just exits
> instantly with an error message (something about username or password not
> supplied, IIRC), and when I edit its config file, I get one long line of
> non-ascii garbage.
No
On Sunday 07 September 2003 22:38, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote:
> I always face problem while copying any VCD on my Debian GNU/Linux system
> , even when i tried on Rehat and Antomic also . But i get Input/Output
> error. I checked VCD , VCD is OK , and even my CD-Writer is new and is in
> good co
On Monday 08 September 2003 21:08, Donald Spoon wrote:
> If you are able to connect to other sites from the internal network, and
> only have problems with this site (or maybe just a few others), I would
> suspect ECN is set on your NAT box. Check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> and see if it is set
I updated my installation yesterday and had to reinstall Qt (from unstable)
because of some version conflicts that would otherwise have required removal
of half the KDE development packages. Since then, the Qt Designer doesn't
show the KDE-specific widgets anymore, just the standard Qt stuff. I
On Friday 19 September 2003 05:33, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I don't know what's going on, but I've been getting literally hundreds of
> virus/worm-looking emails per hour all day today. I grew tired of it and
> wrote the following Sieve script to filter my mail on the server.
I tried it with SpamAs
On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:08, Walt L. Williams wrote:
> Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails
> that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming
> is increasing exponentially.
Well, it seems to have slowed down a little. Yesterday, I received about 11MB
i
On Saturday 20 September 2003 23:06, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script
> below, which does...nothing.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for file in $*
> do
> if [ -f $file ]
> then
> ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`
> if [ $file != $ucfile ]
> t
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 22:42, René Seindal wrote:
> I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked
> the logs because the disk make a weird sound.
>
> Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count.
This one might actually be harmless if you alw
On Thursday 25 September 2003 20:28, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Does sa-learn recognize and ignore spamassassin's markup?
From what I've seen in the source, it does this for you (it's looking for the
X-Spam-Status header IIRC).
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On Friday 26 September 2003 14:53, Ron Johnson wrote:
> After getting hundreds of infections per day early in the week of
> 14-Sep, it seems to have radically tapered off:
>
> [...]
>
> Am I the only one to see it slow down?
I had 24MB of that sucker tonight... Compared to the 34MB last night, it'
I have a little problem in chewing through that whole IPSec/VPN stuff. I have
a NAT machine and a small home network on the inside, sharing a common
internet connection. Now, one of the machines will need to run a VPN client
to access a remote network, so the configuration is something like
cli
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:09, Abdul Latip wrote:
> May I know where to find recent "weblint" and/or "xmllint" and/or
> equivalent packages?
xmllint is in libxml2-utils and weblint should be in the 'weblint' package. I
don't know if they're recent enough, though.
apt-cache search is your fr
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 06:19, Ken wrote:
> I have appended the console output apt-get -u dist-upgrade produces
> below. If let run, it will remove a whole lot of packages that I want
> to keep.
I had a similar problem with a Debian testing/unstable mix. Some of the system
libraries, most n
On Friday 03 October 2003 14:37, dan oram wrote:
> I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed to
> go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly. Booting
> from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following:
>
> Booting from IDE 0
>
> LI
>
>
I found a strange thing in kernel 2.6.0-test4. The joystick devices that
should be /dev/input/js* are directly in /dev (so I have /dev/js*). I have
enabled the joystick interface (INPUT_JOYDEV) which says in the help it would
create the devices in /dev/input. And yes, I am using devfs. Right now
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