Re: Ubuntu-Mobile and large windows?

2008-08-05 Thread Tony Godshall
$ xtightvncviewer -passwd ~/.vnc/passwd :1 ... opens up a viewer to that viewer. You'll of course adapt the geometry and depth to your needs of course I meant opens up a new viewer to that server That is a nice trick to know. Thanks! you are welcome. it's handy to be able to start an X

Re: Should I try Ubuntu Mobile?

2008-04-21 Thread Tony Godshall
You should try ubuntu mobile Though there is no guarantee you will not go insane It is people who try things who get things mature No, thank *you* On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am quite a newbe, although I can use command line and I do not think

Re: .1, .2 before suffix rather than after

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Godshall
... At the release of Wget 1.11, it is my intention to try to attract as much developer interest as possible. At the moment, and despite Wget's pervasive presence, it has virtually no user or developer community. Given the amount of work that needs to be done, this is not good. The

Re: wget2

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Godshall
On Nov 29, 2007 3:48 PM, Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is wget2? Any plans to move to Java? (Of course, the latter will not be controversial. :) Troll ;-)

Re: wget2

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Godshall
On Nov 29, 2007 4:02 PM, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Thomas wrote: What is wget2? Any plans to move to Java? (Of course, the latter will not be controversial. :) Java is not likely. The most likely language is probably

Re: [Moblin Dev] Google's Open Source Mobile Platform

2007-11-22 Thread Tony Godshall
You are confusing Java and Javascript. Totally different beasts, tho they have some syntactical similarities (which is why Sun let Netscape use the Java name) On Nov 7, 2007 5:04 PM, Zheng, Changqiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's because Google is going to make Gphone become a

Re: Can't add ampersand to url I want to get

2007-11-20 Thread Tony Godshall
Single quotes will work when a URL includes a dollar sign. Double quotes won't. On Nov 5, 2007 12:07 PM, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Alles, Kris wrote: I tried wrapping the url with double quotes instead of single quotes and it

Re: If usb-hdd image larger than 2000MB aufs gets trouble (for me)

2007-11-14 Thread Tony Godshall
Um, your problem is here... # parted mkpartfs primary fat16 0.0 100% FAT16 is limited to 2 gibibytes ( ;-) ) On Nov 13, 2007 12:01 AM, Peter Skogström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have done some tests with doing a customized partitiontable in lh_binary_usb-hdd, but I got trouble when

Re: Need help with wget from a password-protected URL

2007-11-10 Thread Tony Godshall
sounds like a shell issue. assuming you are on a nix, try 'pass' (so shell passed the weird chars literally. If you are on Windows, it's another story. On 11/10/07, Uma Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I've been struggling to download data from a protected site. The man pages intruct me

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/31/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: Perhaps the little wget could be called wg

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-31 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: Perhaps the little wget could be called wg. A quick google and wikipedia search shows no real namespace collisions. To reduce confusion/upgrade problems, I would think

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/26/07, Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, of course, when I say there would be two Wgets, what I really mean by that is that the more exotic-featured one would be something else entirely than a Wget, and would have a separate

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/29/07, Dražen Kačar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: AFAIK, _no_ system supports POSIX 100%, AIX and Solaris have certified POSIX support. That's for the latest, IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. More systems have certified POSIX support for the older POSIX release. OTOH, all POSIX

Bug#447646: apt-cacher: upstream server caught mid-sync causes indefinite false hits and constant client MD5Sum mismatch errors

2007-10-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When upstream server is caught mid-sync and apt-cacher downloads only a partial file, apt-get on client identifies it as a MD5Sum mismatch error. Without apt-cacher, this is easily handled- one simply

Bug#447646: apt-cacher: upstream server caught mid-sync causes indefinite false hits and constant client MD5Sum mismatch errors

2007-10-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When upstream server is caught mid-sync and apt-cacher downloads only a partial file, apt-get on client identifies it as a MD5Sum mismatch error. Without apt-cacher, this is easily handled- one simply

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/19/07, Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Also: does the current proposed patch deal properly with situations such as where the first 15 seconds haven't been taken up by part of a single download, but rather several very small ones? I'm not very familiar yet

Re: stuck in ubuntu-mode?

2007-10-19 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/18/07, Will Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ sudo lh_clean purge P: Cleaning chroot $ lh_config -d etch --mode debian --mirror-binary 'http://sub:3142/debian' --mirror-binary-security 'http://sub:3142/debian-security' --mirror

stuck in ubuntu-mode?

2007-10-18 Thread Tony Godshall
$ sudo lh_clean purge P: Cleaning chroot $ lh_config -d etch --mode debian --mirror-binary 'http://sub:3142/debian' --mirror-binary-security 'http://sub:3142/debian-security' --mirror-bootstrap 'http://sub:3142/debian' --mirror-bootstrap-security 'http://sub:3142/debian-security' $ find config/.

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-18 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/18/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall

Re: Cannot build ISO

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/16/07, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: So, then, where is this log of which you speak? the output on the screen you had. Ah, ok, then I guess I'll re-run it with 21 and |tee logfile so I can capture the full output. Thanks

Re: Cannot build ISO

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/16/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/07, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: So, then, where is this log of which you speak? the output on the screen you had. Ah, ok, then I guess I'll re-run it with 21 and |tee logfile so I can

Re: ... --limit-rate nn%

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: About the parser... I'm thinking I can hack the parser that now handles the K, M, etc. suffixes so it works as it did before but also sees a '%' suffix as valid

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Matthias Vill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: If it was me, I'd have it default to backing off to 95% by default and have options for more aggressive behavior, like the multiple connections, etc. I don't like a default back-off rule. I often encounter downloads

Ignoring robots.txt [was Re: wget default behavior...]

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
... Perhaps it should be one of those things that one can do oneself if one must but is generally frowned upon (like making a version of wget that ignores robots.txt). Damn. I was only joking about ignoring robots.txt, but now I'm thinking[1] there may be good reasons to do so... maybe it

Re: Ignoring robots.txt [was Re: wget default behavior...]

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
Tony Godshall wrote: ... Perhaps it should be one of those things that one can do oneself if one must but is generally frowned upon (like making a version of wget that ignores robots.txt). Damn. I was only joking about ignoring robots.txt, but now I'm thinking[1] there may be good

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Oleg Ace wrote: Greetings, Was the feature being discussed here http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg05546.html and here

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: Well, I'm don't have much to say about about the other points but one certainly does not need to keep an array for something like this- with the classic pseudorandom

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: Well, I'm don't have much to say about about the other points but one certainly does not need to keep an array

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: Well, I'm don't have much to say about about the other

Re: Cannot build ISO

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
... I too tried this (on ubuntu feisty), with the latest from your git repository and it seems it can't find apt-get and aptitude (even if I specify them explicitly)... if aptitude is not available, this means that the bootstrap stage was not complete/successfull/$whatever. as you can see

Re: Cannot build ISO

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/16/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I too tried this (on ubuntu feisty), with the latest from your git repository and it seems it can't find apt-get and aptitude (even if I specify them explicitly)... if aptitude is not available, this means that the bootstrap

Re: Cannot build ISO

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/16/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I too tried this (on ubuntu feisty), with the latest from your git repository and it seems it can't find apt-get and aptitude (even if I specify them explicitly

Re: ... --limit-rate nn%

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/15/07, Matthias Vill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Cowan schrieb: Matthias Vill wrote: I would appreciate having a --limit-rate N% option. So now about those broken cases. You could do some least of both policy (which would of course still need the time to do measuring and can

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing

Re: PATCHES file removed

2007-10-15 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-14 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you may have such problems but you are very much reaching in thinking that my --linux-percent has anything to do with any failing in linux. It's about dealing with unfair

Re: wget default behavior

2007-10-14 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/14/07, Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. And so is the default behavior of curl, Firefox, Opera, and so on. The expected behavior

wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? Tony

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point remains that the maximum initial rate (however you define initial in a protocol as unreliable as TCP/IP) can and will be wrong in a large number of cases, especially on shared connections

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: available bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in trying to be unobtrusive to other users. The problem is that Wget simply doesn't have enough information to be unobtrusive

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I do not claim to be unobtrusive. Merely to reduce obtrusiveness. I do not and cannot claim to be making wget *nice*, just nicER. You can't deny that dialing back is nicer

Re: anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
... I guess I'd like to see compile-time options so people could make a tiny version for their embedded system, with most options and all documentation stripped out, and a huge kitchen-sink all-the-bells version and complete documentation for the power user version. I don't think you

Re: Using Debian Live

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
, but I don't know what I am doing. John - Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Using Debian Live On 10/11/07, John

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/10/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: The scenario I was picturing was where you'd want to make sure some bandwidth was left available so that unfair routers wouldn't screw your net-neighbors. I really

anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/11/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: On 10/10/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current impression is that this is a useful addition for some limited scenarios, but not particularly more useful

Re: anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
... I have, yes. And yes, it's a very small patch. The issue isn't so much about the extra code or code maintenance; it's more about extra documentation, and avoiding too much clutter of documentation and lists of options/rc-commands. I'm not very picky about adding little improvements to

Re: anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/11/07, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I have, yes. And yes, it's a very small patch. The issue isn't so much about the extra code or code maintenance; it's more about extra documentation, and avoiding too much clutter of documentation and lists of options/rc-commands

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
- --limit-rate will find your version handy, but I want to hear from them. :) I would appreciate and have use for such an option. We often access instruments in remote locations (think a tiny island in the Aleutians) where we share bandwidth with other organizations. A

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
... I worry that that might be more harmful to those sharing channel in cases like Hvroje's ... Sorry, Hvroje, Jim, I meant Jim's case. Tony

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
Jim Wright wrote: I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I agree with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of the link and adjust to that. The approach discovers the current available bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in trying

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/10/07, Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Measuring initial bandwidth is simply insufficient to decide what bandwidth is really appropriate for Wget; only the user can know that, and that's what --limit-rate does. The user might be able to make a reasonable

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
Indeed. On 10/10/07, Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I agree with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of the link and adjust to that. The approach discovers the

Re: working on patch to limit to percent of bandwidth

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I agree with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of the link and adjust to that. The approach discovers the current available bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in trying to be unobtrusive

not dominating bandwidth caching a value [Re: ... patch to limit to percent of bandwidth]

2007-10-09 Thread Tony Godshall
[private response to limit list clutter] or not. oops. ... Note though that my patch *does* dominate the bandwidth for about 15 seconds to measure the available bandwidth before it falls back. On my network, it seemed to take a few seconds before enough bytes were transferred to get a

Initial draft- patch to limit bandwidth by percent of measured rate

2007-10-08 Thread Tony Godshall
Please find attached... The quick test: If you run wget with --limit-percent 50, you should see it run at full blast for 15 seconds and then back off till it's downloading at 50% the rate it acheived in the first 15 seconds. This is only the initial Works For Me version of the patch. Comments

Re: how I'm using debian-live

2007-10-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi What's in the magic tarball? Tony ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel

Re: debian(izeable) laptop

2007-09-28 Thread Tony Godshall
Particulary if you want to support having linux available without mswindows since they've recently started making it available. Sure, it's Ubuntu, not Debian but it's definitely a step in the right direction. And no microsoft tax. And if you do put pure Debian on it, you have a fully working

http://live.debian.net/README.Images

2007-09-27 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi all I was wondering if it would be possible for ... http://live.debian.net/README.Images ... to show the specific commandline used to generate each image? I think it would be an easy change to make and would help newbies up to speed. -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch.

Re: http://live.debian.net/README.Images

2007-09-27 Thread Tony Godshall
On 9/27/07, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: ... to show the specific commandline used to generate each image? well, it's really that easy: ... Indeed. Good to make that clear right up front. I think it would be an easy change to make and would help newbies up

Bug#440984: xserver-xorg-input-kbd brings in too much xorg

2007-09-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd Version: 1:1.1.0-4 Debian:4.0r1/stable IMHO, installing xserver-xorg-input-kbd brings in way too much- see below. What's the point of having X11 be modular if you can't install modules specific to your hardware without bringing in the whole kitchen sink? #

Bug#440984: xserver-xorg-input-kbd brings in too much xorg

2007-09-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd Version: 1:1.1.0-4 Debian:4.0r1/stable IMHO, installing xserver-xorg-input-kbd brings in way too much- see below. What's the point of having X11 be modular if you can't install modules specific to your hardware without bringing in the whole kitchen sink? #

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Tony Godshall
I've been working with similar setup, but with ext2 partition in usb stick, whithout journaling there are few writes to device. Also mount with noatime! Otherwise any read is also a write! Otherwise, yes, if you don't have swap and /var/tmp and /var/log and /tmp and swap using the flash

Re: booting usb images created by make-live using vmware

2007-02-14 Thread Tony Godshall
/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel -- -- Tony Godshall g ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel

Bug#411008: live-package: manpage should indicate new usb type

2007-02-14 Thread Tony Godshall
1:3.1r2-6 Tool to create and append to squas live-package recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- -- Tony Godshall g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Search for real debian Live -cd

2006-09-28 Thread Tony Godshall
4)live.debian.net is a nice project but it is not 100% pure as it use Casper from Ubuntu, but it is a clean project and the iso's are a good base to develop (I, for example, I am building my custom distro from here: http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/current/i386/ Almost nothing in Debian is 100%

Bug#386203: apt-proxy fails to complete start up, with apt_pkg.so complaining of a missing Python symbol

2006-09-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.35 Severity: important sub:~# /etc/init.d/apt-proxy stop Stopping apt-proxy. sub:~# /etc/init.d/apt-proxy start Starting apt-proxy Failed to load application: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/apt_pkg.so: undefined symbol: _ZN15SHA256SummationC1Ev -- Tony Godshall

Bug#385672: regression report- unlike prior versions, boot hangs unless noacpi =off on Toshiba Portege 7020CT

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Godshall
was also observed when a beta-2 install was upgraded to kernel 2.6.16 Hang point is just past report of serial port detected. Tony Godshall (g) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#385671: regression report- unlike prior versions, boot hangs unless noacpi =off on Toshiba Portege 7020CT

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Godshall
and when a hard-drive-based debian was upgraded to kernel 2.6.16 Hang point is just past report of serial port detected. Tony Godshall (g) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#385672: regression report- unlike prior versions, boot hangs unless noacpi =off on Toshiba Portege 7020CT

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Godshall
was also observed when a beta-2 install was upgraded to kernel 2.6.16 Hang point is just past report of serial port detected. Tony Godshall (g) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#385671: regression report- unlike prior versions, boot hangs unless noacpi =off on Toshiba Portege 7020CT

2006-09-01 Thread Tony Godshall
and when a hard-drive-based debian was upgraded to kernel 2.6.16 Hang point is just past report of serial port detected. Tony Godshall (g) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rodolfo Medina, Hi. When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, the following error message appears: $ rm -vr to-be-removed rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-27 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike McCarty, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson: On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote: Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that into a

Re: google_desktop_tool

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Paul Johnson, On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:08, Juraj Fedel wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 12:09, steef wrote: The functionality that you're panicking about is disabled by default. You have to go out of your way

Re: Color printers

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Miles Bader, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron, there's a really neat site called the Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). It's almost like an encyclopedia, but it has entries for a lot of fictional characters, TV shows, and such. Indeed, some say it contains _mostly_

Bug#361851: mozilla-thunderbird: Undo undoes next-to-last operation, not mark all as read

2006-04-10 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: mozilla-thunderbird Version: 1.0.7-3 Severity: normal Mark all as read appears in the (right-click) context menu for the message listings. I clicked it, thinking incorrectly that it would mark all highlighted messages as read, and all messages were marked as read. I tried undo

Re: How do I fix this?

2006-04-10 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Gene Heskett, On Saturday 08 April 2006 12:04, M A wrote: Hi there Got this from my ISP the other day We have been forced to take your server off line, since your server is performing phishing from your secondary IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.224. that IP address was one my

Re: i must install the gnome,if i install the xgl

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to blye eric, I uses the window maker,but i saw a lot the document about xgl,said you must install gnome-environment before install xgl, it's really? :) There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Best Regards, Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I recieve spam Debian security.

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Godshall
... I'm not sure when or why the messages go the original paster vs the entire list, though. Because on this list (like many) the messages retain their original From: line, and they are using that. Don't you just hate those clueless halfwit ISPs? They've got to be losing business. Best

Re: Trouble Installing nvidia-graphics-driver on Etch

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Godshall
... X won't start when I finish the installation and put Driver nvidia instead of Driver nv in the xorg.conf file. At the bottom of this mail is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. What can I do to install the nVidia-driver properly? ... I haven't read the installation manual

Bug#360147: mozilla-firefox: firefox creashes on print-to-file when named destination directory missing or readonly

2006-03-30 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.7-1 Severity: important print to file causes crash when directory is missing or unwritable -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell:

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2006-03-29 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Florian Kulzer, H S Rai wrote: Today at 7:37am - Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: The sshd_config file (probably under /etc/ssh/sshd_config or somewhere similar) has AllowX11Forwarding no Change that to yes and restart sshd It did not solve my problem. I made changes

Re: gnome menu update

2006-03-24 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Christopher Nelson, On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:22:21PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: When/how do the gnome menus get updated? I just installed two programs via apt-get and neither shows in either the regular gnome menus nor the debian menu even though both have entries in

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-24 Thread Tony Godshall
That is EXCACTLY what I was looking for. Setting limits on the Looking for things in open source that work EXACTLY like commercial tools in Windows is a recipe for failure. People are trying to be helpful and you slap them down. Go troll somewhere else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ???????????????????? ????????????????!

2006-03-23 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Jacob S, -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:48:38 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:41, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 22 March 2006 09:45, Henning

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Olivier Bonvalet, Stephen Gran a ?crit : You'll need to profile to figure out where yourbottleneck is, unfortunately. It occurs to me that if 6 servers send 5 emails/second, and the email is 5k, that's 150k/s, which is roughly the speed of a T1. If I have guessed right, and you

Re: On Open Source Support of hardware (was: Re: Best Linux Laptop)

2006-03-19 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rog?rio Brito, On Mar 19 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote: You might want to consider walking into the store with a Knoppix boot CD/DVD and booting the laptop with Knoppix. If it works you know the hardware will be supported by Linux. And if you are concerned with hardware that

Re: hacked server

2006-03-18 Thread Tony Godshall
be on the secondary? In a mirror it writes to the primary then writes to the secondary drive. I plan to keep the drive intact since I may need files from the drive(s). Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:47:57 pm 18/03/2006 If it was me, I'd move the drive to secondary and get a new drive

Bug#357153: fluxbox: Closing tabbed xterms moves windows down

2006-03-15 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: fluxbox Version: 0.9.14-1 Severity: normal xterms are automatically tabbed by my $HOME/.fluxbox/groups file but when an xterm is closed the tabbed set of remaining xterms bops halfway off the screen (downwards). My groups file includes... xterm xt xtt xtw eterm et ett etw Eterm aterm

Bug#355051: ifp-line-libifp: permissions error should indicate which device

2006-03-02 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: ifp-line-libifp Version: 1.0.0.2-1 Severity: wishlist When run as normal user... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/store/new$ ifp -v rm /path/to/my.mp3 Device is busy. (I was unable to claim its interface.) When run as root (or with sudo) it is successful. I interpret this to mean there is

Re: Recommended Firewalls

2006-02-28 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Chris Lale, Clyde Wilson wrote: I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend an easy but fairly good firewall? Thanks for your time! If you are talking about a personal firewall for your PC, have alook at ... If you are talking about hardware firewall, most broadband

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-25 Thread Tony Godshall
... No matter what mechanism you use for copying, you will need to know the IP of the box which you are not using to initiate the transfer. ... Actually, no. SMB works without IP addresses- it actually predates use of IP in PC LANs. Check out the Samba howto. Downsides are the usual one for

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Edward Shornock, On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: Per previous thread where I was asking about options for running an SSH server on my box, I ran apt-get install ssh. I was asked a few simple questions and chose support for SSH 1 2 and selected

Re: How do I disable USB?

2006-02-11 Thread Tony Godshall
Anyway, is there any way to force Debian to ignore my USB hardware so these things don't get loaded in the first place? Easiest way is to disable it in the BIOS. Then it won't show up in lspci or /proc and the various autoloading packages like discover and hotplug won't load the drivers for

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-02-10 Thread Tony Godshall
... I have the instructions to do this in a file but I have forgotten the vim command to attach it to this message. I'll re-post it if anyone needs it. Generally one does not attach inside a text editor- that's a MUA function. One can include in vim/vi with... :r (filepath) (enter)Q r is

Bug#352118: xmms doen\'t start and doesn\'t abort when it can\'t find its skin

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: xmms Version: 1.2.10+cvs20050809-5 Severity: normal $ xmms somesong.mp3 Message: device: default unzip: cannot find or open /usr/share/xmms/Skins/7947-plastik.zip, /usr/share/xmms/Skins/7947-plastik.zip.zip or /usr/share/xmms/Skins/7947-plastik.zip.ZIP. ^C There was no newer xmms in

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Brent Clark, Hi all Yesterday someone sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my domain), and now Im seeing this 2006-02-08 07:32:34 1F6SuX-0002gj-Ph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /var/spool/uucp/. (No such file or directory) Did a check on

Bug#351837: cupsys: web interface does not permit use of udev-enhanced devices

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-12 Severity: wishlist With two printers, they can come in as /dev/lp0 or as /dev/lp1 depending on power status. This results in mismatching encodings and jobs. Solution is to use udev to map permanent dev names with udev. On my system, I have... [EMAIL

Re: Bloqueo extra?o de las X

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
... ... Creo incluso que alguna vez intent? usar las X sin mouse. ... With the intent of some day maybe running X without a mouse. [Translator's note: that last sentence doesn't make much sense to me.] ... Perhaps it's In addition I think I once tried to start X without mouse attached ?

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