Re: How many cd I need to install debian (kde)

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
I want to install debian stable/testing on my pc desktop. How many cd I need to install only using for desktop (home) with kde. I don't want download all cd iso. well you can use just one, the net-install iso, but it requires a lot of downloading during the install and if you have

Re: Bloqueo extra?o de las X

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike McCarty, Tony Godshall wrote: ... ... 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

Re: Can't get 1153x864 resolution with 865 video and i810 driver

2006-02-06 Thread Tony Godshall
... What's more, now it's starting making a high pitched noise when I use 1152x864 with my XFree86 system (though not with Windows which is using a lower refresh rate). I may have damaged it. ... Ouch. I'd check your vsync and hsync frequency ranges and make sure you are driving the monitor

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

2006-02-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rodney Richison, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, I was planing to use rsync with SSH on Windows and the Linux server and schedule the script to copy the files/folders to a Debian based Linux server in the following folder structure: /backup/Monday/server

Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-04 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm not familiar with chkrootkit. It sounds like the Microsoftian antivirus mindset of looking for known compromises, which is a mindset I avoid. My own methodology would be to examine the script in question, and poke around at other files. If the system looks compromised, I'd do a fresh

Re: gpg error - testing ?

2006-02-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT, hi all, i am getting this when apt-get update : W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net testing/security-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 946AA6E18722E71E W: You may

Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Todd Weaver, On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:24:02PM +0100, Ben Meijering wrote: [snip] I was looking in my /etc/rc2.d directory to see what kind of services were installed on my server. The contents of my rc2.d directory is as follows S10distwatchd

Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tyson Varosyan, Given the fact that Katipo and Alvin were the only ones to reply to this thread and nether proved to know anything about how to resolve my issue, I thought that I should post the resolution here so that others looking for the answer later would not have to

Re: Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux

2006-01-30 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Paolo Alexis Falcone, On 1/30/06, Rishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anyone knows of any Branded (HP/IBM/Dell etc.) Server that supports Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) I need to order a server for a customer with the following specs or higher. CPU: P-IV RAM: 512 MB HDD:

Re: Hardware RAID, software RAID, 3ware 9550SX, level 1 vs. level 5

2006-01-27 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Joseph H. Fry, I am partial to software raid for one important reason longevity. One great thing about linux is that it rarely makes something entirely obsolete... and even if it does, you can always download previous versions of your favorite distro... an array created

Re: How to minimize /dev (using udev)?

2006-01-26 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, Magnus Therning wrote: I am somewhat surprised to find so many devices in /dev when using udev (on Sid): % ls /dev|wc -l 662 I use udev with Sarge, and I get: $ ls /dev |wc -l 155 More than 600 entries in /dev is hardly the lean mean /dev promised by udev...

Re: system requirements for debian

2006-01-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Bob Hynes, I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm also considering tying another version of Linux, but maybe

Re: Using USB Memory-Stick with Debian

2006-01-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Felix Karpfen, With the help of Google, I have located the following instructions for configuring Debian to recognise the presence of a USB Memory-Stick: ,[ memory_stick.txt ]- | USB memory stick | | * plug in Memory-Stick | * become root (su -) | * modprobe

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread Tony Godshall
... Suppose Ubuntu were to cease claiming[0] that it gives back to Debian. Would everyone be happy then? I doubt it. Is your goal to make everybody happy or be truthful? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Recommend an HD/SD tuner card?

2006-01-12 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Steve Adeff, On Thursday 12 January 2006 14:04, Dorsey Graphics wrote: That's the issue - it may be Comcast, it may be DirecTC. Probably not OTA, but I don't really know yet. Comcast Possible HD cable box firewire for HD capture 5C could prevent lots of

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Oliver Lupton, On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information

Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Andrew Sackville-West, On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:12:21 -0800 Tyson Varosyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, I am going to keep with it. This is just so damn frustrating! How would all TCP traffic just be blocked be default?! I do not know enough about the OS. I just got home and I

Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-06 Thread Tony Godshall
Solutions LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.up-times.com 206-715-TECH (8324) UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime -Original Message- From: Tony Godshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: TCP not working over ppp

Re: copying with SSH(please help)

2006-01-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rozita Reza, in SSH we have the command SCP to copy files from a remote machine ;but i cant use this correctly, please help me. scp remotehost:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/dir/. scp /path/to/localfile/file remotehost:/path/to/remote/dir/. or substitute rsync for better

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Jimmy Liang, Hi All, I'm in need of some hints here. I have a P4 box running Debian 3.1, with things like Postfix, spamassassin, MySQL, Apache, and other misc softwares. What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon. Can you suggest the best way to

Re: Which network auto-detect do you use?

2005-12-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to pmarc, 2005/12/20, Jason Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/312 Yeah, using guessnet and ifplugd. Nice article. back at home I installed those 2 packages, but was unable to fully configure them. I also use resolvconf so I can set up DNS

Bug#343148: wishlist: instructions for debian under familiar (e.g. IPAQ) as described here

2005-12-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Frans Pop, reassign 343148 installation-guide-arm thanks On Tuesday 13 December 2005 08:23, Tony Godshall wrote: For ARM installation manual: wishlist: instructions for debian under familiar (e.g. iPAQ) as described here... http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi

Re: No comments

2005-12-13 Thread Tony Godshall
In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...? This list has so much traffic that many just skim the subject lines for topics that we can answer or learn from.

Bug#343148: wishlist: instructions for debian under familiar (e.g. IPAQ) as described here

2005-12-12 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: install Version: etch For ARM installation manual: wishlist: instructions for debian under familiar (e.g. iPAQ) as described here... http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/MyDebianInstallDiary Best Regards, Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Tony Godshall
As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive Doomsday Book of error, fallability, and redemption... -- Neal Stephenson In The Beginning Was The Command Line,

Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alex Malinovich, On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:26 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its phenomenal bug database... which is a sort of interactive Doomsday Book of error

Re: USB DVD/CD burners

2005-12-10 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Nate Bargmann, * Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Dec 09 11:05 -0600]: According to Andreas Rippl, On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:07:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm contemplating adding a USB DVD burner to my system. Does anyone have any good or bad experiences

Re: USB DVD/CD burners

2005-12-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Andreas Rippl, On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:07:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm contemplating adding a USB DVD burner to my system. Does anyone have any good or bad experiences with these? In theory it should be simple, but I thought I'd check on the practice

Re: [mythtv-users] Myth/Debian distribution

2005-12-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike Robinson, I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore: http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README Does this mean that I'm SOL for Myth on a Debian

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Tony Godshall
What cert would people recomend to do at home ? (This my own money here so cant afford corporate rates) LPI - then, potentially, RHCE if you can find someone to stump up for you once you've a proven track record. nice tip, for a Debian list ;-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#342509: ifp-line-libifp: ifp upload /path/to/file.mp3 /. reports device full when device is not.

2005-12-07 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: ifp-line-libifp Version: 1.0.0.2-1 Severity: minor Error is misreported: ifp upload /path/to/file.mp3 /. says ifp upload: Not enough space on device. But, ... ifp upload /path/to/file.mp3 / allows upload to iRiver to complete. I'm not sure if ifp is supposed to

SOLVED(2) Re: [exim] slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-12-06 Thread Tony Godshall
#reject for 40 seconds each time we get a smtp_penalty_box hit iptables -A INPUT \ -m recent --name smtp_penalty_box --rcheck --seconds 40 \ -j DROP ... We do something not entirely unlike this with an ACL. defer condition = ${if and {{! def:acl_c2} \ ... If

Re: SOLVED(2) Re: [exim] slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-12-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tony Godshall, #reject for 40 seconds each time we get a smtp_penalty_box hit iptables -A INPUT \ -m recent --name smtp_penalty_box --rcheck --seconds 40 \ -j DROP ... We do something not entirely unlike this with an ACL. defer condition

domain hosted on a static cable-modem address [was Re: [exim] Please help with getting out of RBL hell]

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, Jason. ... And the net can't run without cooperation. HELO 'Dude' wants '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'? Granted. And the horse you rode in on. Hmmm. I gather there's an issue with dude's (my mail server's) config? Sorry. I'll go inspect some headers. Hi, Bill. Welcome to the reality

Re: [exim] Re: domain hosted on a static cable-modem address

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm not on a dynamic IP. ... Then you should get your provider to fix your reverse DNS. $ host 24.143.132.148 148.132.143.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer cpe-24-143-132-148.cable.alamedanet.net. $ host cpe-24-143-132-148.cable.alamedanet.net Host

Re: [exim] Please help with getting out of RBL hell

2005-12-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Matthew Byng-Maddick, On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:25:08PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: According to Jason W., Welcome to the reality of life.. If you decide to live in a neighborhood known for crime, don't be surprised if you're labeled a criminal at some point... Sorry

Re: [exim] Please help with getting out of RBL hell

2005-12-03 Thread Tony Godshall
at 10:48:08AM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: According to Matthew Byng-Maddick, On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:25:08PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: According to Jason W., Welcome to the reality of life.. If you decide to live in a neighborhood known for crime, don't be surprised if you're labeled

Re: [exim] Please help with getting out of RBL hell

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Jason W., On 12/2/05, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I run Gentoo and Exim 4.54 on my home cable modem. I'm getting increasingly frustrated ... Welcome to the reality of life.. If you decide to live in a neighborhood known for crime, don't be surprised if

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alex Malinovich, On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:35 +1100, Neil Dugan wrote: Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that

Re: [exim] slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-28 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marc Sherman, Lasse Birnbaum Jensen wrote: Either you forward many messages, or your server is an open relay. Normaly the Unroutable address only comes when the server til forwarding/sending. That's not at all true. He's rejecting bogus addresses from spammers in the

[exim] slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-27 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi folks. I asked this over on debian-user and got some response but nothing specific. So I joined this list and perused its archives. Interesting stuff but nothing close. Here goes... I've been using Exim since I started doing e-mail on my Debian box many years ago. But I never was able to

Re: grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-23 Thread Tony Godshall
... So my question is... Can you tell me or point me toward where I would put my echo to the penalty box in the Exim4 configs? Best Regards, Tony Just a guess: Use fail2ban, point it to exim4/mainlog, set /etc/fail2ban.conf to trigger 'Unrouteable' to ban the offending IP

grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi folks. I've been using Exim since I started doing e-mail on my Debian box many years ago. But I never was able to really get into its configs- the docs are kind of hard to grok for me. And the exim4 configs really make my brain hurt... I can't tell where the settings are without doing a

Re: 16 mb problem

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
I ran Debian nearly 10 years ago on an HP Omnibook 300 (386sx/16), so it's certainly possible. If the laptop is to be run independently, then you need to run X if you want a GUI. My favorite light-weight window manager is fluxbox because it's light (a fork of blackbox) but also does tabs. I

Re: 16 mb problem

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
Thanks Derek. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:08:12 -0500 Subject: Your email requires verification verify#3rWYYM26DfbIv... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message you sent requires that you verify that you are a real live human

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to kamaraju kusumanchi, Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, is there some tool to synchronize files or directories between a hard disk and a USB stick? I have some files on the hard disk of my home computer. I have a copy of them on a USB stick so that I can use the files at other

Re: Examining Swap

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Thomas, Hello there. My debian server uses max 50% of its 1 GB ram while im looking at it, also under stress conditions. Still, if it is running for a few days, there are about 100 MB swapspace used. I dont know what is written into the swapfile. Now i ask myself, how i

Re: Synchronize file on HD and USB stick

2005-11-03 Thread Tony Godshall
-u will make sure that newer overwrites older, not vice versa (warning- make sure clocks are right!- I don't do this till I'm sure ntpd is running on the machines). and by source-address and destination-address you of course mean path-to-file-or-directory in this context (though of course

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB - 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
... How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM? free If you want a record over time, put it in cron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
According to mikepolniak, On 11:56 Mon 24 Oct , mikepolniak wrote: On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a suitable one either

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
I've been thinking about unzipping them all, but I figured it wasn't worth the disk space. Depends on howmuch disk space you have, and how much you read the documentation in /usr/share/doc. I just read with zless instead of less, and zgrep instead of grep, zcat instead of cat... there's

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-19 Thread Tony Godshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys$ cd /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat idProduct 1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat idVendor 10d6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-2$ cat serial USB 2.0(FS) FLASH DISK [EMAIL

Re: [apps] [mythtv-users] why do i have a 2 gig limit on avi files

2005-10-14 Thread Tony Godshall
What filesystems are you using? According to jondz, Hi I'm new(re-subscribed) to the list. Has anybody encountered this before: I seem to have a 2 gigabyte limit on avi files (transcoded movies). When either the Internal player or the mythcommflag reaches that they just hang. I

Re: [debian] Re: whereami, hibernate ifconfig

2005-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
... (Incidentally, I've also had ifplugd completely freeze my laptop for somewhere around 10 minutes if I make the mistake of removing the ethernet cable immediately _before_ shutting down the computer) Hi. I also use a Dell with a b44 chip (mine's an Insprion 8600). After a couple

Bug#331568: [debian] Re: Bug#331568: ifp-line-libifp: weird char in filename blocks even ifp format

2005-10-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Joe Wreschnig, On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:10 -0400, Geoff Oakham wrote: That's an interesting case; thanks for discovering and reporting it! Here's what's happening: as part of the self-test procedure, libifp attempts to list the main directory.. which it should be able to do

Bug#331585: Fwd: [debian] Bug#331585: Acknowledgement (ifp-line: strange char in directory causes ifp format to silently fail and other operatoins to segfault)

2005-10-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Upon further review, my subject line is slightly incorrect. It would appear that the ifp from ifp-line responds to most error conditions with a segfault, so this is apparently *not* a result of the wierd char. In fact, device reset before and after ifp format made it work, as I'd described.

Re: backup compress on the fly

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike McCarty, Joe Mc Cool wrote: ... But, (now that I have installed all those lovely debian goodies), the wretched tape is filling up and asking for another. (I erase the tape beforehand.) I really want to fit all my current data, or certainly selected dirs unto one tape.

Bug#331585: ifp-line: strange char in directory causes ifp format to silently fail and other operatoins to segfault

2005-10-03 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: ifp-line Version: 0.2.4.6-2 Severity: important ifp from ifp-line provides this result on one of my irivers: mo:~# ifp ls d VOICE d RECORD d store Segmentation fault mo:~# ifp format WARNING: Do you want to format iFP? [y/N]: y Formating. Please wait... Done. mo:~# ifp ls ifp ls: : No

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-27 Thread Tony Godshall
Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, and even windows (gah!). IIRC, Debian Gnu/HURD and Debian GNU/BSD work already, and Windows isn't being seriously worked on. If interested, there's a mailing list to join at debian.org (and archives to read). So it doesn't make sense

Re: [mythtv-users] Mounting two hard drives to single mounting point

2005-09-23 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Jim Reith, Hi, I'm not sure if this has been asked before or if its even possible, but is there any way to mount two HD's to a single mounting point in Linux? I just added a second HD to my mythbox and was hoping there might be a way for /video to point to both of them.

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Robert Kopp, --- Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dale schleyer wrote: for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even though i am logged in as root any help greatly appericated You need to give us more information - the above is far

Bug#324550: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 Version: 2.6.12-5 Severity: important sena:~# apt-get -V install linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: lilo (22.6.1-6.2) The following NEW packages will be installed:

Bug#324550: Needs dependency fix [linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory]

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi. Looks like building the initrd required an upgraded Depends: directly or indirectly to e2fsprogs. Not sure the minimum version required, but I had 1.35-6 when installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 failed and 1.38-1.1 when installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 succeeded. Best Regards, Tony

Bug#324550: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 Version: 2.6.12-5 Severity: important sena:~# apt-get -V install linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: lilo (22.6.1-6.2) The following NEW packages will be installed:

Bug#324550: Needs dependency fix [linux-image-2.6.12-1-686: install fails with cannot stat `(0xffffe000)': No such file or directory]

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi. Looks like building the initrd required an upgraded Depends: directly or indirectly to e2fsprogs. Not sure the minimum version required, but I had 1.35-6 when installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 failed and 1.38-1.1 when installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 succeeded. Best Regards, Tony

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Matt Zagrabelny, On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will newer versions of some packages eventually need a newer kernel? yes. for instance some desktop stuff is starting to use udev/hotplug. this requires a 2.6 kernel. Can you indicate which ones?

udev + linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 solved: needs a newer e2fsprogs to build its initrd.

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. I had some trouble installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686... it said I needed a newer udev. So I installed a newer udev, and linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 wouldn't install. Then udev wouldn't start, because it said my 2.6.11 wasn't good enough, so I lost access to my USB drive.

Re: Automounter in KDE

2005-08-09 Thread Tony Godshall
The system should be able to unmount the device regardsless of which resources are using it when you press the eject button. You know best if you want the disk out or not, the system shouldn't restrict you in doing this. I think this choice shouldn't be made by you or by me, but by every

Re: Editing the menu

2005-08-09 Thread Tony Godshall
/etc/menu/README ... : In this directory, the system administrator can install menufiles to : override the menu files provided by Debian in /usr/lib/menu and : /usr/share/menu/default. : : The filename should be the name of the package that it is overwriting, : and may contain as many lines and

Re: Can't get more than 1024x768 even with the on-board card properly detected (XFree86+KDE 3.3)

2005-08-05 Thread Tony Godshall
... I only get at most 1024x768 in KDE 3.3 (and I think in gdm too) (in fact, the pulldown menu shows just up to this resolution) How can I fix this? Related note: I see I have both XF86Config and XF86Config-4.. which one is my system using? How can I tell? Why are there both? IIRC, X

Re: network notification

2005-08-02 Thread Tony Godshall
According to ? v, hey guys, i have a small problem with my network cable becomeing unplugged on my laptop, is there any program that will notify me with a popup or something when it does become unplugged? it doesnt come out of the jack but just enough to drop the connection,

ugly X fonts on laptop [Re: OK, a second try: New Debian User needs help!]

2005-07-30 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi. This list has a lot of traffic, so most people just read subject lines and read if pertinent. So you're more likely to get help if your subject line is specific enough for someone to be able to tell if they have any expertise in your issue. Generally, for X issues, you'll probably want to

Re: CIA training

2005-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Fredrik Demonen Vold, Dear SIr, I believe we may have been introduced, perhaps even on the street. [.blabla..] You've got to worry about the ones with funny titles, like ~??. ?? ??!!![2], too. I hear those are mind-control devices.

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-18 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Thomas Hood, On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:51:57 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: My point was simple: If you are going to get a derivative of Debian or Red Hat or whatever, you will never have the perfect compatibility that is often promised but cannot be delivered. You will have it

Re: Program Execution: output does not appear

2005-07-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tony Godshall, According to Angelo R. Rossi, Hello: I am using a large molecular dynamics program in the following manner: charmm input.file output.file The problem is that the file output.file is created, but remains empty. After

Re: take your fucking shit out of my computer

2005-07-15 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Tom Allison, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:45:15PM +0800, rodger wrote: Well Well Well: I thought I was the only one.No os is safe not even linux. They Slow down my band width drop trojans in my pc.Turn of my security tools and hide themselves and are

Re: Program Execution: output does not appear

2005-07-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Angelo R. Rossi, Hello: I am using a large molecular dynamics program in the following manner: charmm input.file output.file The problem is that the file output.file is created, but remains empty. After a while, the file fills with some

Re: is there a software like Bandwidth

2005-07-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to , mrtg??bandwidth??debian is bandwidth in Debian's package?? -- please see http://packages.debian.org Best Regards, Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Atheros support in Ubuntu, but not Debian?

2005-07-09 Thread Tony Godshall
IIRC the drivers require non-free stuff, or there was some other reason they weren't accepted into the mainstream kernel. See recent Linux Journal for a card that's supportable by Linux w/o proprietary drivers or go with a distrib (e.g. Ubuntu or Xandros or Knoppix) that doesn't mind

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Stephen Lokitz, On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, michael wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:46 -0400, Stephen Lokitz wrote: Thanks again for your response. Any other suggestions? Our only current option remaining is to attempt to return the server and find another with different

Re: isp service

2005-07-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to TedNick, How and where can I find a Linux friendly ISP. I need the DNS or IP address number. All of the ISP's that I have contacted do not want to provide me with that number. They say sorry. You cannot use Linux. I find it easier to say I want a service that doesn't

Re: SSH and X11 Forwrding query

2005-07-02 Thread Tony Godshall
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Re: Help loading Debian

2005-07-02 Thread Tony Godshall
According to roach, On Saturday 02 July 2005 22:24, Jim Kern wrote: This is my second attempt in a year to get Debian on my machine. Why is it so dificult. I have downloaded the ISO image of the net install and burned it to a CD. Is this CD supposed to be bootable? Yes. Anyway

Harvard + Re: unsubscribe

2005-07-01 Thread Tony Godshall
Pedro Antonio Reche [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ahem. Hey, it must be easier to get into Harvard than I had thought! Maybe it's time to go back to school... -- Tony

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Tony Godshall
... I guess there is some european debian users here : you're concerned more than ever. Your favorite system, your favorite apps, your skills and future jobs are in danger. Why spend time getting more skills on a system which might die? Debian and other free software will survive by

Re: [mythtv-users] bigger fonts please

2005-06-23 Thread Tony Godshall
According to John Clabaugh, On 6/23/05, Jeroen Brosens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I will create the MythCenter v2 despite the upcoming themeing engine, but such knowledge as you mentioned here is very useful. Where can I find a comprehensive documentation about theme creation? I found some

Re: [mythtv-users] feature request: plasma burn-in module

2005-06-20 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Michael Anthon, Jason H wrote: so what you're saying I can just write an X application and plug that into myth some how? How does one set a screensaver app that is activated from an idle myth menu? How about using the gallery slideshow? Tie a nice google images search

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-20 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Andrew Schulman, Of course, it might well be combine with some actual copy protection scheme that involves damaging the CD in some way. My guess is yes, since the attacks that Tony and Shaun mentioned are well-known. I'm interested in the mechanism that - allows audio CD

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-19 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Bj??rn Lindstr??m, Andrew Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know the details? Some Windows-specific driver that's required to read the tracks? And how does it know how many times you've ripped a song-- stashing counts in the registry some place, or in a

Re: kernel upgrade from 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.6.x

2005-06-10 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm running kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 on my computers. Filesystem is RaiserFS 3.6.25. What I need to do for upgrading kernel to 2.6.x If you are going to build the kernel from source, don't forget to also build Reiserfs into the kernel. ... Or not. initrd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, Basajaun wrote: For understanding what version you are running, and what packages will get updated (or not), take a look at man apt_preferences. Good point. Specifically, the apt conffile /etc/apt/apt.conf must indicate the debian version. e.g. mine contains:

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Marty, Tony Godshall wrote: According to Marty, Basajaun wrote: For understanding what version you are running, and what packages will get updated (or not), take a look at man apt_preferences. Good point. Specifically, the apt conffile /etc/apt/apt.conf must indicate

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
... reading it, then I find it quicker to read just the top section of each post rather than having to scroll down past everything I've already read. ... I think you are reacting to cases where the responder is too lazy to trim. There isn't a problem with context because I can remember

Re: Sarge Disks

2005-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Roberto C. Sanchez, On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:48:26PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: Hi I think Sarge is super, but can anyone tell me where to find out whats on disks 1-14? I have been using Debian for about 2 years, but have not been able to figure out what

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Steve Block, On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. Currently, I am running an unstable machine (I have unstable in sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If someone

Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

2005-06-02 Thread Tony Godshall
What does cat /proc/partitions show? If it assigned the drive to e.g. sdb and found a valid partition table, you would see e.g. sdb1 -- Tony Godshall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Display/resolution problems

2005-06-01 Thread Tony Godshall
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Re: Display/resolution problems

2005-06-01 Thread Tony Godshall
. I will give these ideas a try as soon as sarge is done reinstalling :) Otherwise, could it be that ubuntu uses Xorg and debian is not? if this is the case, what steps would i have to take to get xorg into debian Thanks Trevor On 6/1/05, Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Network scan

2005-05-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mark Roach, Alexandar Angelov wrote: Mark Roach wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 00:39 +0300, Alexandar Angelov wrote: Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to 92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. nmap -Mark MAC? If you just

Re: TX ok but no RX packets at all!

2005-05-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Joseph H. Fry, I have two identical Debian Sarge boxes... I can say identical because I used dd to copy the HDD from the first one I set up (#1) and placed it in the other (#2). I have changed the hostname, mailname, and IP address in the second machine and both seem to work ok

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