How to regenerate a popularity-contest UUID
Hi All I have a group of machines I was going to enroll in popularity-contest, but since they were created by cloning them via mondo-rescue, the UUID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf is all identical. I've looked at the FAQ and the README, as well as the man page and the website, and the only thing I've found is # This key was generated automatically so you should normally just # leave it alone. How do I create a new one? Brian PS The popularity contest list seems to be a devel only kinda thing - I figured I'd ask here before I spammed it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to regenerate a popularity-contest UUID
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2009-01-15 17:45 +0100, Brian McKee wrote: I have a group of machines I was going to enroll in popularity-contest, but since they were created by cloning them via mondo-rescue, the UUID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf is all identical. I've looked at the FAQ and the README, as well as the man page and the website, and the only thing I've found is # This key was generated automatically so you should normally just # leave it alone. How do I create a new one? Look into /var/lib/dpkg/info/popularity-contest.postinst, the generate_id() function shows you how to generate it. Deleting the MY_HOSTID line in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and running dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest should also do the trick. Thanks guys. Just deleting the MY_HOSTID line didn't work. Neither did just running dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest (I had tried that earlier). Looking at that postinst file you mentioned shows it matches the md5sum of a .conf file with a blank MY_HOSTID rather than just checking to see if it's there. So rather than mucking around making sure every space was in the right spot, I just deleted the whole /etc/popularity-contest.conf file THEN ran dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest. Tada! Thanks again, Brian PS and my guess was right - it does use uuid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon p...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I do this because I want to store large files on a HD whose hardware interface limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) As the others have pointed out - that doesn't seem likely. A drive is just a bit bucket that doesn't grok it's own contents. However, let's say for the sake of argument you don't want to have any files over 4 gig. Why not shrink the existing partition and create a series of 4 gig partitions, then use them for physical volumes in LVM. Much simpler than getting loop devices in there etc. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: For my backups, I bought a DVD burner and a pack of DVD+RW's but I'm stuck with one major issue. The upside of the DVD+RW's is kind of a yellow-gold-bronze color and I can't seem to find any way I can write anything on them. Does anyone know of a magical pen that would write something legible on that surface and possibly come with an eraser so that I can reuse them and still have a clue what I used them for? I'd just by DVD-R in bulk and shred them as required. If you insist on being enviromentally friendly, I was given a set of labels and marker that were specifically made to do just that. Stick the label on the dvd and the marker was some sort of dry erase that didn't seem to smudge much Came from Staples I think - but you said you weren't in NA Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Audio: How to Cut out Seconds of Silence
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 19:26:34 -0700, wauh...@yahoo.com (wauh...@yahoo.com) wrote: I have an audio file (wav or mp3 format), which consists of sequences of useful audio-data - after a few seconds interrupted by about two seconds of absolute silence. I could edit the file with AUDACITY manually for to CUT OUT all these silent seconds. There's a tool built into Audacity which will do that automatically. See the effects menu, named something like 'Gap removal' I note that it's a recent feature - I have it on my Lenny machine at home, but not here at work where I'm running an older version of Audacity. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: cupsys installation
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11 libraries? I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the resources available for needlessly running X11. If you have a resource-limited box, you probably don't want to run CUPS. What is it you're trying to do. CUPS is only one of a few print spooler systems available. I've never found CUPS to be hard on resources - even on old boxes, and the alternatives are all rather lame IMO Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: squid cache ssl
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does squid3 come with SSL support compiled in? I don't know, but I do know that you don't traditionally cache SSL as you'd have to make yourself a trusted man in the middle... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Alternative to network-manager
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would like to avoid using it. Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of networking (especially wireless), listing networks in reach and allowing automatic connection to them? Try http://wicd.sourceforge.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Fwd: xrandr -o left
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rob Starling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:24:08PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: I was actually doing it here for a bit, but my CRT distorts colours when you put it on it's side. did you find all colors distorted? or just text? and when you say crt, do you mean it? or is it an lcd? i ask b/c it could have been due to subpixel rendering of fonts on lcds. It's all CRT, and there was nothing 'subpixel' or subtle about it. It's like the alignment on the colour guns in the tube goes to heck. I'm guessing things have settled into place, and shifting it on it's side jostles the insides around. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: xrandr -o left
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM Subject: Re: xrandr -o left To: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, With 'xrandr -o left' you rotate the display. Anybody use that for a useful purpose? I am at a loss to find one because mouse action is all backwards. Do you physically have to rotate your monitor for it to be useful? I think that's the point - e.g. Sears Portrait Studios (and other photography stores that do portrait shots) often set their monitors up that way for more vertical real-estate. I was actually doing it here for a bit, but my CRT distorts colours when you put it on it's side. Dunno why - hanging wiring I guess. Wide screen really only makes sense for video I think - I'd rather have the vertical space for web browsing and text. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info
Hi All, I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find lots of references to this procedure Backup installed package list on current machine dpkg --get-selections selections.txt move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and install packages dpkg --set-selections selections.txt apt-get update apt-get upgrade What I can't find, but I know I've seen, is a way to do it using aptitude that preserves aptitude's knowledge of what was installed manually vs automatically. Can someone throw me a link (or a cluestick) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find lots of references to this procedure Backup installed package list on current machine dpkg --get-selections selections.txt move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and install packages dpkg --set-selections selections.txt apt-get update apt-get upgrade What I can't find, but I know I've seen, is a way to do it using aptitude that preserves aptitude's knowledge of what was installed manually vs automatically. Can someone throw me a link (or a cluestick) If you want to preserve auto-install information, use aptitude only, not dpkg or apt-get. Note that I have almost never actually restored the package selections using the commands under [restore] but the [save] ones are run with each backup. Understand what the [restore] commands do before you use them. And if this works, maybe someone could put it on the wiki. [save] # Save a list of all installed packages aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i | installed-all # Save a list of all installed packages with their versions aptitude -F %?p=%?V --disable-columns search \~i | installed-all-ver # Save a list of all automatically installed packages aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\~M | installed-auto [restore] # Install all essential, important, required, or standard packages aptitude -R --schedule-only install $( aptitude -F %?p search \!\~i?or(\~E,\~pimportant,\~prequired,\~pstandard) ) # Mark as manually installed all essential, important, required, or standard priority packages aptitude -R --schedule-only unmarkauto $( aptitude -F %?p search \~i?or(\~E,\~pimportant,\~prequired,\~pstandard) ) # Mark as automatically installed all packages that are not essential, important, required, or standard priority aptitude --schedule-only markauto $( aptitude -F %?p search \~i\!\~E\!\~pimportant\!\~prequired\!\~pstandard ) # Install all the packages in the installed package list (manual + automatic) aptitude -R --schedule-only install $( cat installed-all ) # Mark as automatically installed all packages in that list aptitude --schedule-only markauto $( cat installed-auto ) Thanks for that. I'm not sure of the implications of marking 'essential, important, required, or standard priority packages' as manually installed and the rest as automatically installed. I mean, how did I get to that spot - from the install disc I'm assuming. Is that a manual or automatic install?. If I look at initscripts say, it's required, but automatic right now. If I follow your logic correctly, you'd be marking it manual. I also wonder about too many arguments if I do aptitude -R --schedule-only install $( cat installed-all ) with a lot of packages on that list. I like the idea of creating the lists as a cron job - thanks for that thought. Florian's suggestion looks simpler at the moment. Food for thought for sure. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging a bash script using sudo and time
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: time sudo (echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom) == time sudo (echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `echo' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
removing inaccurate LVM info
I have a working installation of linux that was running LVM but when I restored from backup I changed to regular partitions and UUID. The LVM info still shows up if you do a pvdisplay or vgdisplay etc. even though it's not actually there anymore. == sudo vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group VOLUME-GROUP-1 using metadata type lvm2 == sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xbfc1bfc1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/sda2 * 10 41 257040 83 Linux /dev/sda3 424865387487805 Extended /dev/sda5 42 172 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 173272120474811 83 Linux /dev/sda72722486517221648+ 83 Linux How can I remove that LVM metadata without mucking up the regular, working, in use, disk partitons ? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logging a bash script using sudo and time
Hi All I regularly run a script with time and sudo. e.g. time sudo echo 'hi mom' I've set up the sudoers file so that one script (represented in my example as `echo`) can be run as sudo by my user account without a password prompt. Now I want to log the entire output to a log file as well as display it on the screen. time sudo echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom Only that doesn't work :-) Time is only on the screen, not in the log file, and /var/log/hiMom is empty, regardless of the permissions on that file. Can someone explain the redirection going on here in a way I can grok? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logging a bash script using sudo and time
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian McKee wrote: I regularly run a script with time and sudo. e.g. time sudo echo 'hi mom' [snip] Now I want to log the entire output to a log file as well as display it on the screen. time sudo echo 'hi mom' | tee | logger -f /var/log/hiMom Only that doesn't work :-) Time is only on the screen, not in the log file, and /var/log/hiMom is empty, regardless of the permissions on that file. Can someone explain the redirection going on here in a way I can grok? 'time' writes output to stderr, use time sudo echo 'hi mom' 21 And why logger -f? Just tee /var/log/hiMom. Aha! Thanks - I didn't know time used stderr and I didn't think about that being a possibility. I have logger in there because I was considering whether to put the output in syslog, or a file in /var/log, and either way I like the formatting you get with the -i option. Now I've really confused myself. I ran it without the tee on three different systems (buntu, Mandrake, a nameless proprietary OS) and got three different answers! --- == time sudo echo 'hi mom' 21 | logger -i -f /var/log/test.log real0m0.018s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.016s == cat /var/log/test.log --- == time sudo echo 'hi mom' 21 | logger -i -f /var/log/test.log == cat /var/log/test.log --- == time sudo echo 'hi mom' 21 | logger -i -f /var/log/test.log Password: real0m2.835s user0m0.004s sys 0m0.014s == cat /var/log/test.log hi mom --- Poking around seems to indicate that the -i option doesn't work when used in combination with the -f option, but I can't explain the differences in output past that. Jeez, I thought this would be easy! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard drive problem
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote: On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out smoothly. fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to read /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc1: the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem /dev/hda6: clean, 11/3424256 files 151509/6839665 blocks fsck died with exit status 8 failed (code 8) If you type fdisk /dev/hdc1 and then press P, does it see the drive size correctly or does it complain to you about accessing the device? fdisk /dev/hdc1 == unable to open /dev/hdc1 If however I enter fdisk /dev/hda1 then it gives me a whole paragraph about the hard drive having more than 1024 cylinders, the partition table contains no entries, and there is a message stating What does just fdisk -l show? Is it really at hdc ? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Mitchell Laks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18:14 Mon 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: Go to: Edit - Preferences - Security - Remember Passwords for Sites then remove the public library from the Exceptions... list the site in question is not listed there. That only lists my bank. there must be some other place that lists the sites which it will post the logins for not the passwords. If it's filling in the username, but not the password, the site may be remembering you via a cookie. Often there is a 'remember me on this site' checkbox somewhere, but there doesn't have to be. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pc doesn't start
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Claudius Hubig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lóránd Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and the pc is in a wooden box:D but the connector is grounded, could that be the problem? I have a similiar problem with my desktop PC: After running for a while and then being shut down, it wont turn on again. Waiting a few minutes (quite a few in fact, maybe an hour) and the problem is solved again. Both of you could try unplugging it for ten seconds. I have seen a couple of units that behave that way. It seems to be the motherboard/BIOS as replacing the PSU on one of units I have that behaves that way didn't change anything. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Csanyi Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From desktop I can to open web page on my apache web server, but only with IP address: 192.168.2.100. If I try to access it with FQDN: csanyi-pal.info then I can't open it. Then it sounds like a DNS issue. Changed the settings in there recently? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: resurrecting dead mouse
g - missed reply to all (again) -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM Subject: Re: resurrecting dead mouse To: Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen. I have seen a couple of desktops that every once in a while would not recognize a PS2 mouse. On both of them rebooting always 'fixed' it. One of them I found out by accident that it was related to how many items were plugged into the USB ports. Weird I know, I guessed at the time that the PS2 ports must use the same power bus that the USB did, and total power required was causing brown outs so to speak. The other one seemed to be fixed by a BIOS update. Of course a bad mouse is possible too... I wouldn't be too quick to blame X on this one - otherwise wouldn't logging in and out fix it since you indicated to startx manually? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anacron with cron or alternate to cron
Hi All I'm confused about running anacron and cron at the same time. I was under the impression that it was either/or, but I see on a server running here that it has both cron and anacron. IIUC, anacron keeps track of jobs it runs, and marks down the completion time so it knows when it needs to be run the next time. How does anacron know that cron already ran that job and it doesn't need to? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anacron with cron or alternate to cron
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does anacron know that cron already ran that job and it doesn't need to? Found my answer - there's a script called 0anacron in /etc/cron.daily that runs 'anacron -u cron.daily' which updates anacron's time stamps without actually running the scripts. So, it's worth noting that if you want something in /etc/crontab to be run by anacron if crontab fails, it needs to be in both places, and the cron job has to update the anacron stamp Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not see what is wrong with that, Listen specifies a (local) interface to listen to: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#Listen Ahh... reading that link I see I didn't understand the Listen directive correctly. Your setup isn't being affected by that. Nevertheless, I tried the Port directive and removed the first two Listen directives and I saw no change at all (i.e. same error message in the error_log): D [07/Jul/2008:23:05:23 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from 192.168.2.1:631 (IPv4) D [07/Jul/2008:23:05:23 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 D [07/Jul/2008:23:05:23 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. That word 'authentication' makes me think that's the next thing to look at. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allow 192.169.2.* /Location That looks weird when the rest of your file seems to be referring to a 192.168.1.0/24 subnet Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client
# Only listen for connections from the local machine. Listen localhost:631 Listen 192.168.1.10:631 Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock Oh - and I meant to point these lines out. It 1.10 is the server than I believe it won't listen to your client. Try Port 631 instead of those first two Listen lines and see if that works. You can of course tighten that down further if you are inclined. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:58 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I recently bought a Cowan D2 to replace my dead iPod mini - Ogg right out of the box as well as a pretty good selection of other formats too. Mounts as a standard USB drive. Audio quality seems good and battery life is great. Still not sold on the touch screen interface, but it is a cool little device for audio or video podcasts, and you can read plain text files ok with it too... HTH, Brian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Root sending messages to users
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/20/08 17:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: While I agree that every user of a machine should have his own home directory, I am not a user of that machine. I am an administrator (ha!) of that machine. So what? Since you don't use it that often, it won't matter that it's not customized to the Nth degree. Doing the right thing takes just a fraction more effort than doing the right thing, Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. - Voltaire There is a point at which security becomes busy-work... IMO _in this situation_ this is it. I'd stick my ssh key in there though, in case she changes her password one day. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Root sending messages to users
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/20 Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does 'sudo wall' work for you? I don't have a machine handy to try - No, wall is inappropriate because she is in KDE, not a terminal. but it used to pop up in X too IIRC Sends it to everybody - but if it's a one user box... Well, it is a one-user box, but she is that user! When I SSH in I SSH in as her. Darn it, now you've got me digging. I'm sure on an old box I had (Redhat 7.2 maybe?) wall messages were posted in X as well automatically. But I can' t figure out how now Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Root sending messages to users
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in place. Does 'sudo wall' work for you? I don't have a machine handy to try - but it used to pop up in X too IIRC Sends it to everybody - but if it's a one user box... Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, if you sat down to use the mouse you'd find it worked just as you expected. Oh come on... I've got a Mighty Mouse in my travel laptop bag because it's the most expendable mouse in the building. I and everyone else I know hates the thing - almost as much as the hockey puck mouse! I keep handing it to unexpecting victims though :-) Apple refuses to admit to mistakes, so they keep trying to prove they had it right - even when it's a waste of time. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: blogging - alternative packages
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. WordPress rapidly is increasing in complexity because features are being added. The procedure for backing up and restoring the MySQL data base is complex. And with the complexity comes the need for frequent updates of the WordPress software; this is becoming a hassle. Wordpress does have plug ins to do updates and backups. I've found Wordpress Automatic Updater reduces a lot of the fiddling required. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blocking Gmail ads
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple doesn't give a rats ass about integrating with KDE, nor should they. They do, however, consider rich text editing a priority, and KDE isn't as concerned about that. This is the one statement I think could be modified - Apple doesn't care about about integrating with KDE, and thus lost the opportunity to keep reaping the benefits that the KDE guys could have provided on going. I'd like to think that the companies that try harder to work with the existing community will do better in the long term - spending some of their resources on things they didn't care about would return them effort by others on things they do care about. There's nothing illegal or immoral about it - it's just short sighted to believe that the code was worth taking, but the coders weren't worth the effort required (in a direction they didn't care about) to keep them on board. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny
On 3-May-08, at 2:07 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:28:33 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: May I ask how to resolve errors (sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code 1) about exim4-daemon-light at exim4 bsd-mailx mailx as the result of upgrading i386 from etch to lenny. Can't find which program is affected (mail from gnome, ssh, in situ compiled graphic programs, programs driven by wine, all OK). We need to see the complete error message; the part that you posted does not give us any clue as to why dpkg failed. Run apt-get install -f or aptitude install -f (whichever you prefer) and post the full output that you get. FWIW, I had trouble on the weekend going from etch to lenny as well. Some of it was self-inflicted, so when I had this problem I assumed it was as well. There was an error when it tried to configure exim4-daemon-light My 'fix' was aptitude install postfix :-) If I'd have known it wasn't my fault I'd have filed a bug. Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: exim4 config for Lenny?
what does this error below mean?? E: exim4: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured this is what I get when I went to install xorg-dev(among other things..): The following partially installed packages will be configured: exim4 exim4-daemon-light and when it was over: exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however: Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet. Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed. dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-daemon-light exim4 Same error I mentioned earlier, and someone else pointed out over the weekend. Can someone more familiar with deb packages explain how he can get the actual error that occurs when it tries to configure exim4? As I said earlier, I 'fixed' it by installing postfix instead Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: virtual text consoles gone
On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text console a month or two ago. Today the vertual text consoles are back. No explanation. Doug Tutty gave up trying to instantiate them :-) There was an intel video driver bug on u***u https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/ +bug/182865 but I didn't mention as I didn't figure you had intel video with AMD chipset. Maybe your video driver had a similar issue. Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Backup requirement
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I am looking at Mondo http://www.mondorescue.net/, etc. Kindly give suggestions. I've never used Mondo. I tried once only to find that the mondo kernel couldn't boot my machine. I figure that if I found a machine it wouldn't boot that easily, then my luck would be that the bare-metal I ended up with after a disaster wouldn't boot either. I do use mondo regularly granted not with Debian machines. I have a couple of standard images at work that I simply restore whenever I need another desktop or firewall machine. I really like it. It's easy to test that it's working correctly before you need it too. The current developer has put in a lot of effort on it in the last while, and is steadily making improvements. I would point out your files are kept in cpio archives, so worst case you can still always get your data back. FYI Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Backup requirement
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: New business venture: send a datacentre to mars with enough redundancy and tape libraries to be great off-site backup Not a new idea :-) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200789,00.asp from 2003 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: smartctl shows hard drive problem
On 26-Apr-08, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I checked the hard drive, but the output seems strange. 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 097 097 000Old_age Always - 393216 this is a laptop, and I just put it on the desk and play some music loudly. Why strange? What did you expect? Looks ok to me at a quick glance. Note the first three columns are descending - e.g. 40 is worse than 50... Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)
On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I would then like to press some key combo and have the text replaced by cr[snip]cr [snippage] map C-S-F1 dEsciCR[snip]CREsc [snippage] You make a selection in vim, i.e. press Shift+v, then go down a few lines, and then press the shortcut, which will delete the selection (d), go into insert mode (i) and put in your text and then leave insert mode again (Esc). [snippage] You'll have to play around a bit to see how you want things when you don't select full lines. Wouldn't 'c' be better than 'dEsci' ? Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: badblock can not be detected
On 22-Apr-08, at 6:06 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive, then copy my data in again, it worked. but after some days, it starts to tell me about read error again. so, this means the hard drive has died, right? Install smartmontools and interrogate the smart data on the drive, if it reports a reallocated sector count and it keeps growing you know your drive is on it's way out. A static reallocated sector count doesn't necessarily mean your drive is bad but if that count keeps growing it's not a good sign. Note that I don't believe smartmontools will work thru the USB interface - you'll have to use the native SATA or ATA interface (e.g. install it in a tower) Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Which backup package?
On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? If they are all linux boxes, and you aren't hung up on backing up to tape, I like rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ It uses just perl, rsync and hard links. Works well for small setups because the backups aren't munged or filed or tar'd up - restore is just a matter of moving files back. Backing up to disk makes for easy access, and you can back that up to an external drive or over the internet for offsite copies. That in combination with mondorescue (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) for bare metal recovery has served me well. (lots of lightly used linux desktops in various locations) Doesn't work with Windows or Mac very well though... Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: badblock can not be detected
On 21-Apr-08, at 2:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. maybe you are right. when I tried to use different usb to ide adapter to connect the hard drive, things became different. but there still has some errors when reading or writing. Note that modern hard drives remap bad sectors when they can. Your reformatting might be reassigning a bunch of bad blocks, then it's finding more when it tries to read the next time Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: smartctl Vs lm-sensors
On 18-Apr-08, at 1:22 PM, Bhasker C V wrote: I want to monitor the harddisk temperature since I/O task in my system is very high and usually heatsup the harddisk. I get two different values viz. one from lm-sensors and other from smartctl smartctl gives me very large values like the one below showing 148 whereas hddtemp or the lm-sensors gives me value 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 148 148 000Old_age Always - 37 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/45) /dev/hda: HTS541010G9AT00: 38 Smartctl is reporting 37 (see it there in the last column?) The 148 raw value needs to be interpreted, it's not actually in degrees. See the smartctl man page / website for more info Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP
On 17-Apr-08, at 10:31 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I find myself in a bizarre networking predicament. [...] I) Use static network configuration, rather than DHCP, for edith. The problem is that edith needs to get my ISP's nameservers from gwen, which normally occurs through DHCP. Several sub-solutions: A) Hard code the nameservers, and hope they don't change. The drawback to this approach is obvious; hope isn't a valid substitute for correctness. I'd do that, and add an additional name server or two (like OpenDNS, or your ISP's competition's name server) to the list, on the off chance they do get changed.I don't know your ISP, but mine has used the same three IP addresses for DNS for many years now (and if you're in the north-east of North America I'd be happy to give them to you - they've been very reliable) It's simple, and not prone to breakage My 2c Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage
On 14-Apr-08, at 9:47 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:34:00PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 12-Apr-08, at 6:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic rich text output. I actually use a wiki currently - tiddlyWiki - and I edit the text in it with Vim using the It's All Text plugin for Firefox. Since it's a one page portable wiki (no server required) it's completely cross platform - I can carry it around on a USB stick and edit it where ever I'm at. Mixing code and data is not my preffered method. It's not really - Is a pdf file mixing data and code? or latex? LaTeX and PostScript (though not PDF) allow a similar the same level of programability that HTML+Javascript (as used in many browsers) does. It is not often abused as in the way it is done in in tiddlyWiki . If you have complex (La)TeX code in your document, you'd probably make it a separate style / package. Wiki syntax is less 'code' then those - and the raw data is still there as entered when you hit the edit button the next time. What happens when you find a bug in the code that implements the interpetation of the wiki? Then you re-edit it - the original text is still there unmangled. And how do I know that the document you give me doesn't really log all of my details to your server? I have to re-inspect the code with each and every document. It is javascript that is run locally on my system and hence my browser assumes it is a bit more trustworthy. Indeed tiddlyWiki.org is hosted on a mediawiki. The tiddlyWiki itself is self-contained and runs fine off-line, (although there are plug ins to make it run on a server) but I grant you it's not easily verifiable I use it because I've come to rely pretty heavily on the easy linking to both internal and external data that wiki's provide. Latex and AsciiDoc (I looked very quickly) have that 'compile as a separate step' process I find irritating. My output is in the format I need it in as soon as I hit the 'done' button, and still ready to be edited when I hit the 'edit' button. Granted, I don't have the wide range of output options provided by markup/compile cycle setups like Latex, but I don't need them But then again, everybody must use your code to view your data. I agree with you it's quite unsuitable for redistribution. When I do need to export data from it I use 'print to pdf' and distribute the pdf. Not as flexible as the other systems, but it's almost exclusively my notes and to-do lists, it's not intended to be sent anywhere.I find it handy for the OP's use case - taking notes. When it's a very often edited document (e.g. I edit my to-do list a dozen times a day or more) the 'make' step is too much, and the html rendering I have is all I need. Hope that explains the different pros and cons as I see them. Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Firewall froth..
On 15-Apr-08, at 11:42 AM, Digby Tarvin wrote: The problem I am having is that the messages from the firewall really flood /var/log/messages to the point where I am concerned they may cause me to miss other important things. ... Perhaps I should redirect the firewall logs to a separate file? Or just stick my head in the sand and log nothing - which is presumably the situation with my dsl router.. If it's dropped - then the firewall did it's job. Why look at the results unless you have a problem? Worry about what's getting through, not what isn't Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage
On 12-Apr-08, at 6:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Everyone, Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic rich text output. I actually use a wiki currently - tiddlyWiki - and I edit the text in it with Vim using the It's All Text plugin for Firefox. Since it's a one page portable wiki (no server required) it's completely cross platform - I can carry it around on a USB stick and edit it where ever I'm at. It's not a perfect solution, but it doesn't bug me so much I've replaced it yet. Mixing code and data is not my preffered method. It's not really - Is a pdf file mixing data and code? or latex? Wiki syntax is less 'code' then those - and the raw data is still there as entered when you hit the edit button the next time. I use it because I've come to rely pretty heavily on the easy linking to both internal and external data that wiki's provide. Latex and AsciiDoc (I looked very quickly) have that 'compile as a separate step' process I find irritating. My output is in the format I need it in as soon as I hit the 'done' button, and still ready to be edited when I hit the 'edit' button. Granted, I don't have the wide range of output options provided by markup/compile cycle setups like Latex, but I don't need them Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Reg Blind
On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on most boxes and comes up with voice prompts automatically. Ideally, it would be a whole new installer with question/answer dialogs with a repeat function as in (say that again?). I'm no expert - but isn't that the wrong approach? EVERY install disc should have 'accessibility' options built right in shouldn't they? Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: system not using hosts file
On 10-Apr-08, at 9:21 PM, Sudev Barar wrote: On 11/04/2008, Bernardo Dal Seno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/04/2008, Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 17:02:14 -0400, Brian McKee ([EMAIL PROTECTED] heb.com) wrote: I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1 I think host performs a DNS lookup, so maybe it bypasses the file hosts altogether. ping, as Bob Cox suggested, should be a better test. Thank you all for your comments. I did not know that host doesn't look at the hosts file, regardless of the nsswitch and resolv files. Other programs on the box seemed to be resolving 'fred' properly, even though 'host fred' didn't work and I couldn't figure out why. That is correct as output below shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host localhost localhost.selfip.org has address 210.24.115.116 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms Interestingly, this actually was part of my confusion. In my case 'host localhost' returns 127.0.0.1 Both my dns server and the ISP's dns server return 127.0.0.1 when you ask for localhost. I didn't realize that wasn't coming from my hosts file Most helpful - THANKS! Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage
On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Everyone, Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic rich text output. I actually use a wiki currently - tiddlyWiki - and I edit the text in it with Vim using the It's All Text plugin for Firefox. Since it's a one page portable wiki (no server required) it's completely cross platform - I can carry it around on a USB stick and edit it where ever I'm at. It's not a perfect solution, but it doesn't bug me so much I've replaced it yet. If I was consistently using linux everywhere I think I'd take another look at Tomboy - it had the wiki-ish features I like built in. The syncing options were interesting too. As far as a markup language - I believe Markdown was pretty close to wiki style too. HTH, Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: trans
On 10-Apr-08, at 12:02 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually you ARE allowed to pump diesel in Oregon; just not normal petrol--go figure. So if you drive a Mercedes 300D, you can pump your own fuel, but if you drive a MB 300 you can't. The filling station lobbyists in Oregon are brilliant! Give 'em time... I'm sure they'll eventually notice that diesel is no longer the exclusive domain of trained professionals (i.e., truckers) and adjust the law to exclude those who drive diesel vehicles without proper training in the handling of dangerous fuels. Nah, they'll just make everybody that drives a diesel buy a license and take a test every year PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
system not using hosts file
I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1 == host -v fred Trying fred.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com Trying fred.realdomainname.com Trying fred Host fred not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Received 97 bytes from 192.168.0.2#53 in 0 ms == cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fred 14.0.0.1fake.fakelocaldomain fred2 fred3 192.168.0.11realhostname.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com realhostname == cat /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on nospoof on spoofalert on == cat /etc/resolv.conf search realsubdomain.realdomainname.com realdomainname.com nameserver 192.168.0.2 # ppp temp entry I confess this isn't a debian box, but it should be :-) (It's actually Mandrake, but I don't think that's pertinent to this problem) Why are all domain name requests going to the nameserver first? Doesn't host.conf control that? Comments appreciated Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Adding entries to kicker from commandline
Hi All I'd like to add a shortcut/alias/launchthingy to the panel on a KDE desktop from the command line. I've created a .desktop file, dragged it into the kicker panel and did a 'find' on it - it showed up in .kde/share/apps/kicker/ which seemed to make sense. But, when I copy that .desktop file to another machine in the same location - it doesn't show up in the panel - even after logging in and out. What am I doing wrong? Comments appreciated, Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!
On 7-Apr-08, at 3:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I believe the technique you're looking for is greylisting. I know the concept of greylisting. Are you sure, that we do want greylinsting on debian? Do we want that poor lads on dial-up have to dial-up several times in order to send a simple, short text message? Wouldn't anyone on dialup be using a smarthost ? e.g. their ISP to send mail? And isn't it only for the first time that server is used that it bounces it? Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Unless they take the time to successfully factor the public key, Can you expand on that sentence? I'm not sure what you meant by it. Other than that I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion to use public-private key pairs, and would suggest (as others have pointed out) that you turn OFF the ability to log in with a password thru ssh - - e.g. make ssh authorize with keys only. Just in case it wasn't clear - the user names do not have to match, even when using public keys. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH9R51GnOmb9xIQHQRAu+lAKCQRa4s/3FYxwCjKeRnqV4vmCzSmACfUFw6 sWRtK9J6sVaS2gAQq/zH8ew= =zu28 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian is losing its users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Mar-08, at 2:43 AM, Wei Chen wrote: Hi, The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search take heart - IE is already dead! http://www.google.com/trends?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+internet +explorerctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH6sbwGnOmb9xIQHQRAo1VAKDh+oTryU0bbl8QRv6ESmHlKxyO1gCgv9BS FA1o2VvXRQi/BwEI73slQy0= =uFVl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-Mar-08, at 12:52 PM, Russell Gadd wrote: Alternatively is anyone using version 5 happily without suffering negative experience as mentioned in some places, e.g. Truecrypt 5.1 - How I loathe thee http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php? t=10025 One user suggests he will return in a year's time. I don't want to wait that long for a usable version. I tried to follow that link From their website Please note that as you are not logged in, you can search only publicly accessible forums (for example, you cannot search the Problems forum). To search all available forums, you need to log in. No thanks, I'll try something else ! Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH4DKbGnOmb9xIQHQRAu3WAJ9QcwFy3l0n3e5U9qxlr4cHxKND+wCgudmV kPWmDqpdI/q+WZrEiaaaQzI= =8e7w -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install debian usbdisk through ide cable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Mar-08, at 9:20 PM, jeffry s wrote: i am not very sure this one can be done. i have a old computer at home without hardisk. it is quite old computer and only support 2GB hardisk since 2GB hardisk is quite rare this day. I am planning to install debian into the 2GB pendrive (i know this one can be done). But the computer is quite old. No USB support not to mention BOOT FROM USB feature. i want to attach the kingston pendrive to the motherboard IDE using USB-to-IDE cable. will this kind of hardware configuration supported by debian? Even though the BIOS may not recognize drives over 2 gig - debian will... It doesn't use the BIOS for working with the drive once it gets going. Just make sure your boot loader is at the start of the drive (the normal configuration). Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH19nCGnOmb9xIQHQRAr/6AJ0VRplr0vB7SOHgH79X0TjjbMMSHwCfdf3X sjHdQ659WjiLME7RKixhQtI= =gKtD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Mar-08, at 12:32 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: Hi All, The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console keyboard. I'm trying to use this keymap on gutsy and etch. I gather both of them have converted to the console-tools package, which somehow uses the X keymaps on the console. I'm trying to figure out how to add my keymap additions to those keymaps and so far I'm lost in a sea of documentation :-) So, assuming I'm using a standard pc 104 us qwerty keyboard, how do I add these entries to an X style keymap? And no, the tn5250 project list doesn't know - they've mostly moved on from using the console to X I don't know tn5250, but at least x3270 does its own keymapping. IIRC c3270 used the same mappings. So try doing the mapping at the application level. I recall that the x3270 man page had a comprehensive and yet difficult to understand description of that mapping. x5250 and xt5250 both work fine... in X :-( Unfortunately they don't work on a console (sidebar - 'in' a console?) It seems like the current maintainers are focused on the X versions and aren't familiar with the linux console, so there's not much help there unfortunately. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH1To0GnOmb9xIQHQRAn4yAKC9BMrhSa+eXiDrJ9Flmuv951D7AgCgoqEG 5R+L2pBEBQAXPsXP1MGKnlE= =sDx9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Failure of Ethernet link with Belkin adapter Netgear hub.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Mar-08, at 4:07 PM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub, communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. The light on the Belkin adapter is green. If the AT hub is removed and the Belkin adapter is connected directly to the Netgear hub, its 100 Mb/s link light goes on while the Belkin light goes amber. ethtool reports 100 Mb/s, half on the adapter but communication fails. Can anyone say whether this more likely a problem with hardware or a problem with the Pegasus driver which runs the Belkin adapter. In the second case, I suppose a bug report is warranted. Is one port on one hub or the other set to 'uplink' ? i.e. is your problem that you need a cross-over cable not a straight thru when you remove the AT hub? (or even vice versa) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH1TxLGnOmb9xIQHQRAkiFAJ0bmEv9EgI0QXFN8cMQNw4ts6BlEQCZAQzT aD2dQ7kbDna97FN7E1ZHaTM= =JQ/o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Mar-08, at 1:33 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I should clean that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal insulator but I'm unsure what to use, since air alone isn't doing it. I don't want to remove e.g. the CPU from its socket. (P-133, socket 7). As another take on the issue, there's also such a thing as leaving well enough alone. A definite +1 on this for me. A P-133 just doesn't generate that much heat Clean the fans and the heat sink and leave it alone. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH1UHOGnOmb9xIQHQRAlVNAJ9TtH79nWRwnYqc8DmeSzfYXp7kgwCeLEG4 d57k/gKqM3eVrykMjo01rYA= =7lhT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to extract text from PDF?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Mar-08, at 5:10 AM, Andrius wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Andrius wrote: One more question. How to megre several pdf files to one file using command mode please? pdftk is what you are after. Sample command looks like pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf For more info, take a look at the pdftk's man page. It can do much more than simply joining pdf files. hth raju Believ or not, but it does not work. No result after effort to merge 10 pdf to one. Since many people use pdftk regularly without issues, I don't believe it. :-) Suggest you try again, and if you need further help then describe what 'no result' means. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH1UKNGnOmb9xIQHQRAvxxAJ4888D9KddL3Si+Tt6FJ9soozehpgCfWm6v fZDY6KHRo4HL44y27yls7K4= =g5ZT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console keyboard. I'm trying to use this keymap on gutsy and etch. I gather both of them have converted to the console-tools package, which somehow uses the X keymaps on the console. I'm trying to figure out how to add my keymap additions to those keymaps and so far I'm lost in a sea of documentation :-) So, assuming I'm using a standard pc 104 us qwerty keyboard, how do I add these entries to an X style keymap? And no, the tn5250 project list doesn't know - they've mostly moved on from using the console to X Life Rafts appreciated, Brian keycode 15 = Tab F100 keycode 78 = KP_Add Control_x keycode 74 = KP_Subtract Meta_m string F21 = \033[35~ string F22 = \033[36~ string F23 = \033[37~ string F24 = \033[38~ string F100 = \033[Z -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHzqrwGnOmb9xIQHQRAn6EAJ9b4fZEKjrVLmQE4vig1pXA0mFcbgCgx/be Hyt/MPr74eMV+8vwFHB0GHU= =3aKn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28-Feb-08, at 6:49 PM, Kent West wrote: I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection methods: Windows Fileshare (Samba/smb/cifs), Apple Filesharing (AFS), and FTP). I came into the Linux world about the time that FTP was being deprecated in favor of SFTP and its variants, so I have a real skittishness of using plain FTP. AFS is irrelevant for me. And Samba, whereas slightly distasteful, would be okay, except for two problems: 1. file permissions are not preserved when doing something like rsync, and 2. tarballs get truncated at an apparent 2GB limit when using tar. That sounds to me like the issue is the device you are backing up to, not your preferred backup method :-) Is there no way to reformat the backup server? A 2 gig limit sounds like FAT32 to me (I could be wrong) and thus why your permissions aren't respected either. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHyBAqGnOmb9xIQHQRAl5zAJ92gUn/X8UPlfIhXJ37DfSeV0heqgCfXGcY 0f826oE4gLQwE0oxQz+I13M= =RpG7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash removed from etch - process explained?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 5:54 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:16:16 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going to that link I see that they have removed flash Closed source and no security support [...] What is the normal Debian procedure here? I think the main problem is that flash does not fit into the normal Debian procedure for the stable distribution: New versions are not supposed to be introduced to stable once it is released, but the security fixes cannot be backported by the Debian security team because flash is a closed application. How can I find out who/how this decision was made and why? Look at the QA page of the package: http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/flashplugin-nonfree.html (more specifically, the removed from stable link) or at the bugreports for the ftp.debian.org pseudo-package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org (search for flashplugin). In both cases you end up with bug report #458550, in which the maintainer himself requests the removal of the package. Thanks Florian, I really appreciate the fact that the reasons for decisions like these are out in the open and justified, whether I agree with them or not :-) e.g. this one is laid out pretty clearly Most newer versions of the Adobe Flash Player are a combination of new features and fixes for security bugs. The Debian Security Team does not support contrib and non-free. The Debian Stable Release Managers Team does not support fast updates in stable. And volatile is not meant to bring new features in stable. It is not acceptable that users of Debian stable use flashplugin-nonfree to install the Adobe Flash Plugin, and not get updates for security bugs in the Adobe Flash Plugin within reasonable time. And it is not acceptable that new features are thrown in stable too soon too fast. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHxr87GnOmb9xIQHQRAiFoAJ4p6aFCiCjzd7M4JNUlWUe0XTytJgCgnrae dRr3VFNb31Xje6eH/6Z/l84= =zyBt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printer driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haven't used that Dell model, but it looks roughly like a Lexmark e230. If you don't have a specific driver for it, (and dell doesn't provide them?) try a generic postscript which should work. Point your browser at it and it'll probably have links to drivers right on it's built in webpage (assuming Dell didn't completely lobotomize it) For Lexmark you could try this http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/ downloads.cgi? ccs=37:1:0:451:0:0emeaframe=fileID=13146searchLang=enos_group=Debian %20GNU although note I have not used Lexmark drivers in Debian. I have installed their ppd files from the tar ball on all our Mandrake machines with great results. We've been quite happy with our Lexmark laser printers under Linux. HTH, Brian On 28-Feb-08, at 12:28 PM, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: I am trying to setup a Dell 1710n printer on Lenny, but I do not know which model/driver it is compatible with. All I know it is made by Lexmark. I have tried a range of HP and Lexmark models, at no avail. Has anyone used a Dell printer like this with Debian? Thank you all. -- Regards, -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHxvmNGnOmb9xIQHQRAlHRAKDj2DPoDFWqLD55mx0hDm+ZRqJwzgCghUF0 J48NjLko6KhFu/OKi4TDitU= =KAjD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: Hello, Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud clicking noises coming from the area where the HD is then the kernel panicked and the screen froze and I then heard several high pitched beeps and loud chirping noises like a cricket. This is the small ATA/IDE HD that came with the laptop (~8 years old, Hitachi Travelstar 08K0851, 20GB). I tried rebooting and it said it could not load the root filesystem and complained about error reading disk and input/output error and I heard beeping noises again - 2 quick very sharp beeps ~90 seconds after it tried loading the / filesystem. I booted into my Ubuntu Live CD and tried mounting the disk but it gave read error. So I went to a local computer shop and bought another HD and installed it in the laptop; I made sure the laptop had no power (battery is dead and I unplugged power cord) and I used latex gloves and had the laptop on a wen table when inserting the new drive into the side of the laptop. It's a Toshiba ATA disk, MK6026 GAX, 60GB, another $60 sigh. That drive also gave similar read, I/O problems so I suspect it is a bad hardware controller or maybe even the interface connection. Two drives both cannot be read. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this happening before (the HD is god but cannot be read due to fault in the system's hardware)? I hope whatever is wrong didn't damage the data on my drives. It's odd that the new drive is unreadable as well. It's possible, but the noises you mention make it sound like it was drive failure, not controller failure. The best way forward you've already stated - grab an external drive case and put the drive in that to see what happens. Since you have a laptop drive, look for a 'slim' or 'small' or 'portable' case - they are meant for use with laptop drives. You'll know one when you see it - the box is too small to hold a regular 3.5 case. Alternatively, they do make adaptor cables that let you hook the laptop drive up to a regular 3.5 drive cable. The interface is the same, just the connectors are different so a simple adaptor works fine. Alternative to that, they do make IDE to USB adaptors, and some of those come with the connectors for laptop drives. HTH, Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHxXSZGnOmb9xIQHQRAkgcAKDVjh6/QZn6WUZ4tOJPDU0qUaTSMACgnlN6 nyrvMPVn35mF4LjfZnMZoVE= =VSp6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flash removed from etch - process explained?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going to that link I see that they have removed flash Closed source and no security support It also says The complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with rationale is on the preparation page for this revision: http://release.debian.org/stable/4.0/4.0r3/ Going on to that page - there is no mention of flash at all. What is the normal Debian procedure here? How can I find out who/how this decision was made and why? Please note I am expressing no opinion or trolling. I'm just trying to get more insight into the Debian 'psyche' Your comments appreciated Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHxZrhGnOmb9xIQHQRAmEsAKCnKBLEOPNR29CQgAQe06Deikt9BQCeNwn2 oNmQYOEIMcDsxmVPFY0It/Q= =MGWX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What are the various error messages I should look out for? I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large files than it did before. That is why I think the hard drive could be dying. smartmontools http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ will retrieve smart info and can be helpful. Also worth doing is checking the manufacturer's website for a bootable cd image that will run non-destructive checks (of course, backup first anyway!) I find if smart says it's bad, it's bad, but the reverse is not necessarily true. Note modern drives automatically try to work around bad blocks once they see them. You can 'fix' a drive by writing lots of data so that the problems are seen by the drive hardware. Once it runs out of relocatable sectors though HTH Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHxJTLGnOmb9xIQHQRAkxUAKDtMSRxboCZwgpAT/Et7tzmH1gZxwCfcvzD Y7UaYL2v4YVsRotdU0S4Ofc= =4eYv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 4:33 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:30:32AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird. :-) Do they require a special spanner? :-) Well, since the problem is almost always the loose nut on the keyboard, I'd love to have one of those spanners (although I'll admit it'll always be a wrench to me) You could make a fortune selling them ! Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHwsh5GnOmb9xIQHQRAv6MAKDn52l3j/KA73t2/6sAENTmTEhr6gCbBYPV kDoyOkSWsDRLpld9FHJ01AE= =/BcS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 11:38 PM, Zach wrote: I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on the modem but I still don't see any network connection. dsl modem --- --- | | - - - - - ethernet cable -| | --- --- laptop | | phone line | [ x ] line filter | Your chart makes me wonder. You do know that the filters go on everything *EXCEPT* the modem right? i.e. filter your phones, answering machine, alarm system etc etc etc If so, please ignore the noise, but it's counter- intuitive to most people and thus often gets missed. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHws8wGnOmb9xIQHQRAot1AKDYZT9ZnzPx8ihKYH4j13RE9itHWACffDq+ mYipyA1scukeMbgPNX8d3lI= =NL0g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
broadcast printing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'd like to set up a printer queue in cups that actually prints to multiple printers. I see where there's an option to put multiple printers in a queue so that it prints to the next available one, what I want to do is print to all of them. Any pointers? Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHsv/wGnOmb9xIQHQRAmxsAKDSpdG8sjr1MERuDv45I6q4H/1MPgCgm6BQ lxg55jucO4XT4Snwx0ADtaY= =dh1X -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Feb-08, at 12:51 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: Does GIMP support layers ? If it can parse the PDF as an image perhaps that might be the way to go ? I personally don't know as I don't use GIMP. Would work fine for one page only and the text wouldn't be text and thus not searchable... So, no - doesn't work :-) Note that pdf has advanced features that are often used in trade documents like embedded video and search indexes that nothing but Adobe's Reader will do... (I keep checking) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHsz3gGnOmb9xIQHQRAuvAAKCF1UgUfLszY9OmTD99RRFOPeuC+QCg03dA /nbYPgtMjZRzc+mniJo8Kvs= =6CXL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm wary of using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [1] seems to reject many of the PDF files I've just tried because they are linearised according to the bug report [2] So what joy have others had, or is this the Holy Grail [3]? I believe scribus has some pdf editing capabilities, but I *think* it has limitations as well. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHsadwGnOmb9xIQHQRAiCbAJ44S5tJvrG+Yu9qqVaFIFQS30hY6wCg52P3 rdfcn9aW7nq7t+Zho60kpAE= =ZMfI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-Feb-08, at 12:37 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I have libflash-mozplugin installed but not flashplugin-nonfree. As far as I can tell, they're both Flash 9. I figure the sites that don't work are Flash 10, which isn't available for Linux at all. As far as I know there is no such thing as Flash 10 9.0115 is the current version for Windows, Mac and Linux, and the 9 series has seen quite a bit of plumbing changes in the Linux series as they've brought it up to speed. In addition the earlier versions of flash (even 9.048) have fairly serious security issues as I understand it. I wouldn't be running with old versions, and I think your crashes might very well be related - they've improved as they've come along!Caveat - I think 9.0115 had/has some issues with Konqueror on Ubuntu that may apply to debian as well. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHq0nUGnOmb9xIQHQRAkKDAKChMQ7GBB96AbOqv+cITlvhQwxFEACg5K2/ IHEdnmF6UYfiFuvkeN7OBPk= =EDI7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] Proper font and colour in telnet session....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah I know - a solution without a problem before. But this was such a pain I wanted to document it for the poor sap who hits the same wall. Problem A telnet session from an Etch (or Ubuntu Gutsy) box either doesn't display pop up window frames properly, or it displays the window frames fine but the colours are wrong (mainly yellow bkg colour becomes an dull orange). Works fine from various older Redhat/Mandrake distros. Solution - install console-setup(possibly not required, but that's the road I took - and it's default in Gutsy) console-terminus mingetty (NOT OPTIONAL) Edit /etc/inittab on Etch or /etc/event.d/ttyX on Gutsy to use mingetty not getty (note mingetty specifies no serial line speed on its config line) This is required to get the 'frame' to display Edit /etc/default/console-setup to use CODESET=Lat15 not one of the ISOs This is required to get the right colours VERBOSE_OUTPUT=yes (because otherwise it doesn't complain about errors!) FONTFACE=TerminusBoldVGA FONTSIZE=16 use setupcon to bring your font settings live. I *think* that you have to make sure you alter ALL of the ttys and not just one, and you may have to change runlevels or do some other magic incantation to make everything 'take.' I had weird issues going on when I was testing that were resolved only after a reboot. I also had to edit /boot/grub/menu.1st to remove quiet and splash entries from the default, because I need 80x25 Hopefully this helps a future reader and the present ones just pass on by Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHqJJlGnOmb9xIQHQRAlB6AKDWckGzLRuHgD3BBjp8c0wBCSORtgCgm0yG xOulauYLH7S+Pgurs0XQ7oE= =HGFV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 Network Cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1-Feb-08, at 11:59 PM, Raquel wrote: I think that I understand what you're saying. However, what's the difference? If the machine is capable of handling 15 VirtualHosts with 1 nic and 1 IP number, why can it not handle 15 VirtualHosts with 2 nics and 2 IP numbers? What am I not understanding? Two nics = 2 pieces of hardware that can fail, both consuming hydro. On the other hand, tripping over one wire only gets one website. Ya win some, ya lose some :-) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHpxxeGnOmb9xIQHQRAl6zAKCVR7vNyRhp/UVL9vz+9JJX7SSZcwCfcMTJ IB2pc1DzYPUXm1kmHNmqDAo= =CS8b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] was Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: My desktop has more memory than some of our old still-in-service workhorse Alphas. A friend has more RAM and a faster processor in his video card than I do in my laptop. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHofuCGnOmb9xIQHQRAlKIAJ9U4aeX2+ECI0CvlbnxQSQTVebgpwCfS9ES sKTmWOlFQZzcB/xDxkdkMto= =SG7/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unresponsive system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:51 AM, Federico Lazcano wrote: El Jueves, 24 de Enero de 2008 12:24, Brian McKee escribió: On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. Now it's running a wee mite slow Yep - it took it over an hour to run top once and put the output in a file. Then it started beeping again. I had to hard reboot it (the noise was driving me batty) and guess what - output.txt is nowhere to be found! What kind of noise is it? Coming from the hard drive? Based on the above...if it takes forever to write to output.txt, it looks like hard drive is messed up. No, it's the same tone an origin as the POST beep or console beep - only it's a continuous tone. There are three drives in there - software RAID 5 - and they seem to resync fine. checkout temp and consult your motherboard manual The manual wasn't much help. The temps seem ok too. Well, this has been educational I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. It eventually (12ish hours later) found a problem with the controller on the third hard drive. But when I swapped in a new drive it claimed that one was bad too On a hunch I changed out the CD-RW on the same cable and now both those hard drives passed the test. So, I'm hoping the issue was funkiness with that CD-RW (even though it appeared to be working ok). I'll run it for a while now and see if the problems return. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmgrGGnOmb9xIQHQRApKDAJ9Kq3l5QgLe9EdjRQJh7iSTQ8mb2gCfcfy+ tCgGX+QTyy1vo561LMhKQfc= =TJgu -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: unresponsive system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 3:06 PM, Chris Lale wrote: Brian McKee wrote: [...] I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article [1] ahould get you started smart monitoring was running, and smart reported all OK. (the BIOS, linux daemon and the IBM test all agreed) In my experience if smart says it's bad it's bad, but often they go bad without smart noticing. I'm not sure what exactly that IBM disc was calling a 'controller' error - since the other tests it ran on that drive it passed.. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmkk9GnOmb9xIQHQRAmEcAKDDu1ohE/NTW01YoeqeT0JoA1pMZACeKpde Kx8sZaVqZeA90Pks0iqMHGw= =QOWJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 1:25 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to Keychain on Mac OS X. I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and look at some passwords that I have forgotten. vim + gpg vim can be configured to automatically use gpg to decrypt *.gpg files when they're read and re-encrypt thenm when saving. The decrypted data never touches the disk (though encrypting your swap partition too wouldn't hurt). Dump the following in your .vimrc: Transparent editing of gpg encrypted files. By Wouter Hanegraaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] My variation of that uses openssl and blowfish Note - don't do :wq if you use this - because if the passwords don't match it doesn't write it - but it does quit :-) You have to get in the habit of :w and then :q Brian - Transparent editing of bf encrypted files. Originally By Wouter Hanegraaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] with alterations for bf by bmckee note the file must be encrypted with the -a and -salt options augroup encrypted au! First make sure nothing is written to ~/.viminfo while editing an encrypted file. autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set viminfo= We don't want a swap file, as it writes unencrypted data to disk autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set nobackup We don't want a backup autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set nowritebackup We don't want an inprogress backup either autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set noswapfile Switch to binary mode to read the encrypted file autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf set bin autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.bf let ch_save = ch|set ch=2 autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost*.bf '[,']!openssl bf -d - salt -a 2 /dev/null Switch to normal mode for editing autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost*.bf set nobin autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost*.bf let ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost*.bf execute :doautocmd BufReadPost . expand(%:r) Convert all text to encrypted text before writing autocmd BufWritePre,FileWritePre*.bf '[,']!openssl enc -bf - -salt -a 2/dev/null Undo the encryption so we are back in the normal text, directly after the file has been written. autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost*.bf u augroup END -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmjJ0GnOmb9xIQHQRArnWAJsFRdv+18H3AUb1jbmSn6hf5SdIbgCg6Uh1 wc4sHdso8IerMjVyxXe7+/M= =gQvF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Persistent Vim Folding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 5:45 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: I have set up vim to add these lines automatically whenever I create a php/tex/c/whatever file I create. Share details please :-) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmfU3GnOmb9xIQHQRAtBvAKDZb21o//GXc3il1OxwUfrWAnLRZQCg3IRH URUDneeC4vr0179FfuiLdtQ= =uLt8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Jan-08, at 9:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm really gettin' old! Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it so much easier, and don't appreciate what they have? I'm getting a new-to-me dot-matrix printer (Epson LQ-2080) delivered tomorrow. Next week I expect a VT-520. I wonder how many VT-520s a modern computer could support? Directly attached via a serial multi-port card, or via an Ethernet terminal server? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECserver When people had terminals instead of computers on their desks, how big was a computer with 2 GB ram and 500 GB hard drive space and the power of a modern CPU (e.g. Athlon64)? The last time I had an actual real-live VT220 on my desk was 1991. I've got a bunch of them here on a skid if you want another one :-) With some Wyse and other brands for variety. I'll sell the serial port multi card(s) if somebody actually wants it Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD4DBQFHmJeiGnOmb9xIQHQRAjn3AJ4szNdUOoUWb+/7UmTgPIDrmor+1ACXZk7d 4opMjSRl6ENkfkcFjb0hNg== =7XFi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unresponsive system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. Now it's running a wee mite slow Yep - it took it over an hour to run top once and put the output in a file. Then it started beeping again. I had to hard reboot it (the noise was driving me batty) and guess what - output.txt is nowhere to be found! What kind of noise is it? Coming from the hard drive? Based on the above...if it takes forever to write to output.txt, it looks like hard drive is messed up. No, it's the same tone an origin as the POST beep or console beep - only it's a continuous tone. There are three drives in there - software RAID 5 - and they seem to resync fine. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmJ+IGnOmb9xIQHQRAn6WAJ99m0ifppRVtNdWfZrrUCVNGq8pJACgkj1G mrexCEDxWY74YcxMgbSM2P0= =c57Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 12:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:50:26AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: On 23-Jan-08, at 9:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The last time I had an actual real-live VT220 on my desk was 1991. I've got a bunch of them here on a skid if you want another one :-) With some Wyse and other brands for variety. I'll sell the serial port multi card(s) if somebody actually wants it Brian Where's here? What bus does the serial multi-port card go on (ISA/PCI/PCI-e)? As for the VT220, on of the reasons that I've bought the VT520-A6 is that, while it came with a dedicated keyboard, it can use any normal 101-104 PS/2 keyboard. Looking at eBay, there are lots of termials available without a keyboard but very few keyboards for the terminals. I was unable to get users manuals for the Wyse to know what keyboards they can use (or how, eg., to get to the config menu). Here is Central Ontario, Canada - shipping a complete terminal was a tongue in cheek crack to the gentleman in LA, USA The VT220 and 320s I have all take a custom keyboard that was their downfall - it died before the terminal. The Wyse 50's and 60's took a custom keyboard too - but with them the terminal itself died first. Heck, I might still have some terminal manuals although I did pitch a lot of that stuff last summer. The serial card is a PCI card - IBM branded - Serial controller: Equinox Systems, Inc. SST-16P RJ Adapter (rev 4) There's a second one that's now unused as well, but I'm not going to shut down that server to remove it :-) Come to think of it - I bet there's a 32 port card and concentrator boxes in our old ( long shelved but not discarded ) RS6000 - but that one would be MCA bus (or whatever that IBM thing was). I think I'm drifting OT here - if anybody actually is interested in that old stuff drop me a line off list... Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmNoqGnOmb9xIQHQRAqMzAKC6jM80CPUkZ1Tkm516idd9y/FMnACg6HU5 +0fMC6MAmQlRI4IE1Y2ej5M= =dES6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unresponsive system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. Now it's running a wee mite slow time top -n 1 output.txt real 67m42.116s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.000s Yep - it took it over an hour to run top once and put the output in a file. Then it started beeping again. I had to hard reboot it (the noise was driving me batty) and guess what - output.txt is nowhere to be found! I did see the file before I rebooted - cpu was 0%us 0%ni 89%id, swap was 0k used and the first process listed was using less than 2% cpu. After the reboot it seems to run fine - the software RAID rebuilds etc etc. I can't seem to nail down what makes it start - I'm not actually using the system at present. I just set it up to do some testing and it's just sitting there idle. Any suggestions what's going on here or how to troubleshoot further? Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHl6srGnOmb9xIQHQRAujRAJ9f2VUlfGMP7OUbz8fqSn2bii9BxQCg1TeG TG38UsibefkhPgMWUi1hbUM= =A2pV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configure postfix to send out emails on local machine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22-Jan-08, at 2:16 AM, rockymaxsource wrote: Hey, Our company has a domain www.ourcompany.com registered and the site is hosted at a hosting company. The company does not provide SMTP service neither does my ISP. But I will need to send out e-newsletters once a while. My local machine is running Debian. I'm thinking of setting up my local box as SMTP to send out newsletters. Is this doable? If it is doable, can you give me some hint please? Plus, I have a personal website hosted at another hosting company. The domain is www.mydomain.net. My personal website's hosting company provides SMTP service. Can I use the server of my personal website's hosting company to send out our company's newsletter? How do I set it up? You can *send* email pretending to be anyone. That's why spam happens. What you need is a server that will accept the inevitable bounce messages and replies your outgoing mail will cause Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHlfM9GnOmb9xIQHQRAkO7AJ9i0i/hlWDvT9t71T9D8u3Ka+PAZgCgmhHB 2oTDmPScl1ma9kSoEeowQ4g= =HUSt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] Re: Computer won't resume from S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Scott Lair wrote: Brian McKee wrote: On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I have changed some of the hardware since then. It _seems like_ the hard drives are the issue - they don't spin back up and any attempt at logging in at the console times out. It looks like the problem goes away if I change the suspend type to S1 instead of S3 in the BIOS, although I thought Linux overrode the BIOS when using ACPI? OK - so much for that idea - this morning as soon as I touched the keyboard it started a long single continuous tone and never stopped. Won't shutdown either. The hunt continues might try adding acpi=off noapic to the kernel line in grub. I've got an 8311CCU and fiddled with the bios for a few weeks to no avail. The above fixed it. Just quick follow up note. There was a case fan that wasn't spinning (probably because it never had to) and another case fan that was only partially spinning. I'm not sure if the issue is the BIOS not running the fans properly or the power supply being insufficient to spin all the fans (the fans themselves seem fine) but removing the extra case fans has made the continuous error tone go away, and the temperature inside the case is still fine. I'm calling it 'fixed' Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHjNr5GnOmb9xIQHQRAtjzAJ9qvHVYWUp+C8vVpghntmn/085rhwCgtBJd Bf/0VdexEUE07Pz/8UEnPLk= =jzZq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote: I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :( Any other suggestions? Put the drive in a ziplock bag, removing as much air as possible and toss it in the freezer. Pull it back out after it's cold soaked (couple of hours?) and hook it back up, leaving a freezer pack or something on top of it to help keep it cold while you try again. Obviously this is a last resort YMMV and if your cat demands a raise after the operation I claim no responsibility. but I have had it work maybe twice in a over a half a dozen attempts at similar problems. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHh93hGnOmb9xIQHQRAn6UAKCNy52kfTAqctrIEyo4CeD1Ic3KRQCfW+sP JEjiisAwCGr6MQScHhqB800= =1uDI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Flash memory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jan-08, at 2:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/08 13:18, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As comparison to hard-disk scenario is the access overhead (seek/rtotational/transfer delays) - do such concepts apply to flash memory? Yes, but the times involved are much smaller. How do seek and rotational delays affect Flash RAM? If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're harder to reach. ;) Wouldn't the increased acceleration from centripetal forces get you to the outside edge faster, counterbalancing that effect? I suppose moving the data back 'uphill' would increase the transfer delay though... :-) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHh891GnOmb9xIQHQRAvYjAJ0Z1xoD5E/Rb6xPWVxgoy/m+eKd9ACeN8vR luoG2laX6YaXzZhfnj0QDOo= =2u7g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Computer won't resume from S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I have changed some of the hardware since then. It _seems like_ the hard drives are the issue - they don't spin back up and any attempt at logging in at the console times out. It looks like the problem goes away if I change the suspend type to S1 instead of S3 in the BIOS, although I thought Linux overrode the BIOS when using ACPI? OK - so much for that idea - this morning as soon as I touched the keyboard it started a long single continuous tone and never stopped. Won't shutdown either. The hunt continues Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHhNe3GnOmb9xIQHQRAvQwAKCpP5QpOHEqDGWTYKPCzXJbhGQblACeNlPD sE4aNxzL3Z+S9npxbiOjJXY= =9LgH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer won't resume from S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All First post - pretty new to Debian, less so to linux in general. I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I have changed some of the hardware since then. It _seems like_ the hard drives are the issue - they don't spin back up and any attempt at logging in at the console times out. It looks like the problem goes away if I change the suspend type to S1 instead of S3 in the BIOS, although I thought Linux overrode the BIOS when using ACPI? ACPI seems like a real can of worms right now - is there a good way to track down what the issue is? and if I find it will I be able to fix anything? Suggestions appreciated, Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHg8BuGnOmb9xIQHQRAgD5AKCf93FljLfiYGGAUP9FScEOyk3smQCeI+Bz 7MGhTZUHz7KjllByob5AahY= =Vj8Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [debian-user] Debian Repository Usage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Jan-08, at 4:46 PM, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: I obtained the full set of Ubuntu disks, installed the desktop stuff and now have a working system without SERVERS. It seems the servers come on another disk separate from the LIVE/INSTALL desktop software. The server CD is an INSTALL only and not a LIVE CD. This means I would have to over write the desktop installation. I tried using the Ubuntu POOL directory on the sever CD but although it looks like it was installing it turns out it was not. So I tried using aptitude which very nicely rushed off to the Ubuntu repository. But I want it to run off to the Debian repository because there are a lot of special packages (like OCTAVE) and others. Ah Ted If you are running Ubuntu you really should be talking to the Ubuntu users list. There are helpful people there too. No need to mix and match repositories like you are wanting to do - that way lies ruin Start here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu The extra repositories that are not enabled by default will get you what you need. On the other hand - if you really want Debian packages - then install Debian not Ubuntu I'm new here - but I suspect the Debian people would rather not support Ubuntu users. Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHg/eeGnOmb9xIQHQRAuFaAKDnZNgVaFaMrob04TgF7ywwpArHEACgudk8 OX29iVZ7/SUKOHUqxS+m8Tg= =2Gy/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
