Re: Wiki recommendation
Storm wrote: > Hi, > > I need to do some collaboration with a friend and intend to set up an OpenVPN > connection for him to access a wiki located on one of my servers. Which wiki > is generally best? I'm looking for something that is simple to maintain and > simple for collaboration. > > Suggestions? I can recommend Zwiki because it features ReStructured Text which is very easy to learn and use. See the example below: This is the Header == 1. One -- Text 2. Two -- Foo. (The database management there is done through zope. ) Cheers, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die
Manaen Schlabach wrote: > I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for > a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed > ingredients? > > Ingredients > > 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers > A heavy dose of green color > 1 Social Contract > 1 smidgen of "how do you address somebody..." > Add politics You could add some of the Ubuntu root as well but if this will make the dish more digestible is still under discussion. Cheers, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: runit - another possibility
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > One thing I like about runit is it's split up into many small programs > (in the traditional UNIX style), so it provides an easy migration path: > runsvdir runs nicely as an inittab service providing supervision for > other runit services. Services can be gradually migrated from sysvinit > to runit as necessary, and then once nothing depends on sysvinit > anymore, runit provides a replacement init binary if you're interested. Yes, I looked into runit once and I do appreciate the work of the developers very much. But because it looked like work ;-) to migrate everything, (I can't really comment on that much since I got to one crash after which I restored sysvinit) I decided to wait for a debian package which not only installs runit or initng but migrates the services as well. And I am very pleased to see that there is a need for such a package so it is quite likely we are going to see something like this sometime soon. ;-) Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
runit - another possibility
Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Florian. > > On Apr 18 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>If you have disabled all services that you can do without and you are >>still unhappy about the boot-up time, you might want to take a look at >>the "initng" package. Quoting from the package description: > > (...) > >> Homepage: http://initng.thinktux.net > > Could you or other users of it give us some > feedback about how it works currently in a Debian system? > > I'm quite interested to know. Since I wrote my last reply off list by accident: Hi everyone Another option might be the runit package which as I recall does the same as initng. But I can't really recommend it since you have to migrate your boot services manually. Is this the same with initng? Then it whould be pretty much useless for me. Cheers, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: source for downloadable music?
John Halton wrote: > Wackojacko wrote: > I use allofmp3.com. Russian site (click button in top left corner for english) and you pay based on the size of the file downloaded not per song. Supports various different formats too. > > > Quite apart from the credit card security risks, bear in mind these > Russian sites are *not* legal download sites (certainly not for > non-Russian users) and the artists/record companies don't see a penny of > the fees you pay. That may or may not bother you, but it's as well to be > aware that that's the situation. According to a german computer magazin (C't) this site *is* legal in russia. And if the stuff you buy isn't illegal in your country (i.e. drugs etc.) it is perfectly legal to import it. At least according to german law. But it should be in most other countries as well. Why else would the movie industry come up with ideas as region code for DVD-Players? -- "1984" is not a howto! Égalité (+ 1848) Fraternité (+ 1914) Liberté (+ 2001) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)
Bruno Buys wrote: > Nikolai Hlubek wrote: [...] >> Just get yourself a IDE (raid) controller card. The cheapest will do >> since you are not going to use any of the raid features. I got one for >> 10 euros. >> >> Install Linux on the original hard disk and attach your modern ones to >> the IDE controller. My file server (P1 133MHz) now has the extraordinary >> capacity of 0.5 TB (read terra byte ;-)). [...] > Nikolai, > I considered building such a server. How did you cope with the power > requirement of your modern discs? Are you using the original power > supply of the P133 in this file server? Hi Bruno, hi everyone First I removed every unnecessary compenent including the floppy drive. (I'm not sure if it would also be possible to remove the graphics card.) Now, I only have the following devices in the PC: 1x mainboard 1x graphics card 1x old hard disk 1x ide controller card 1x ethernet card 4x modern hard disk 2x hard disk fan At first I also had an usb 2.0 card inserted and the system had trouble booting. It only worked every once in a while. I'm not sure what was the problem here, because removing the hard disks did not help. Maybe usb needs a lot more power? I also was considering buying a new power supply but for now I've been using the original one with the above setup (without usb card) and the system has been running stable for a month now. So I guess everything is all right. When I get home today and find some time I will have a look at the power supply but I believe it has around 250W or so. Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! Égalité (+ 1848) Fraternité (+ 1914) Liberté (+ 2001) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hosts.deny doesn't work for web services
Hi everyone :-) On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should only be accessible from my LAN so I set: hosts.deny ALL: ALL The hosts.deny manual states: This denies all service to all hosts, unless they are permitted access by entries in the allow file. Ping and ssh connects are refused but the web services provided by zope are still accessible from the outside. Is this a bug or am I missing something here? Cheers, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! Égalité (+ 1848) Fraternité (+ 1914) Liberté (+ 2001) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)
Hi everyone :-) Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > >>On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: >> >>>You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why >>>use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a >>>firewall or backup server? > > Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered > that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond > about 128 gig, tha other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G. Just get yourself a IDE (raid) controller card. The cheapest will do since you are not going to use any of the raid features. I got one for 10 euros. Install Linux on the original hard disk and attach your modern ones to the IDE controller. My file server (P1 133MHz) now has the extraordinary capacity of 0.5 TB (read terra byte ;-)). Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! Égalité (+ 1848) Fraternité (+ 1914) Liberté (+ 2001) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Melden!!!
Ivan Glushkov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hallo Debian User, >> >> bitte einmal kurz in der EDV melden. Danke. >> >> MfG >> >> >> > What is EDV? EDV is short for "elektronische Datenverarbeitung" in german which means data processing. Cheers, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enlightenment and long menus
Hi Robert Waldner wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using Enlightenment (0.16.5-6), which seems to have a problem with > long menus, eg. ones that have more entries than will fit on the > desktop. When I select one of those (like Debian Menus/Apps/Net), I > see it pop up shortly, then it instantly vanishes. Enlightenment uses the debian menu structure which has per default many entries and I think the version you are using has had some problems with icon rescaling. Therefore the longer menus don't fit on the screen at all. > Any hints on how I could make such menus actually useful? Maybe have > them wrap into multiple columns or somesuch. google and the mailing > list archives haven't been of much help (though I might've missed the > proper search terms). Any pointers appreciated. I only have a few very poor hints, you probably already thought of: - Make a user menu for the applications you want to use. - The more recent versions of enlightenment seem to handle rescaling better - Enlightenment has its own mailinglist. You can find it under www.enlightenment.org. It might be a good idea asking your question there. The new maintainer of E16 Kim Woelders is really doing a good job in making it better. Best regards, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Font size
j Mak wrote: > --- Nikolai Hlubek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>KDE and GNOME integration >>= >> >>When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not >>running a complete >>GNOME or KDE session (not using "kwn" or "metacity" >>as windowmanager) >>you have the problem, that many subsystems (i.e. the >>fonts) are not loaded. >> >>Here is the solution >> >>Configure kde-apps through kcontrol and gnome with >>gnome-control-center >>then put the following lines in your local .xsession >>creating it if it >>doesn't exist: >> >>kdeinit & >>gnome-settings-daemon & >> >>This ensures that both subsystems will be loaded. >> >> >>Best regards, >>Nikolai >> > > > Hi Nikolai, > > Me too am suffering from the small font syndrome; not > only in Firefox but in syanptic as well. In fact, in > synaptic the fonts are so tiny that i can hardly see > them. Firefox is a bit better. The rest of the > applications are OK. My desktop is kde. I set the > font sizes in the Control Center to 12 pt, then I > created an .xsession file in my home directory as you > mentioned, with “kdeinit &” line inside. I rebooted my > computer and the login screen appeared but didn't > accept my password anymore. When I entered my password > the login screen just kept reappearing without > reporting any error message. All in all, i couldn't > log in; I had to delete the .xsession file from the > home directory to be able to login again. Did i do > something wrong? Or did i miss something? I am not > very experienced with Linux yet, so it might be that i > misunderstood something. > > Regards, > jozsefmak Hi jozsefmak If you use kde, kdeinit is already invoked at startup. Synaptic on the other hand is a gnome application so you need to add gnome-settings-daemon & to your .xsession. Firefox uses its own font settings, you can change them under Preferences > General therefore it looks a bit different. I'm sorry if my suggestion was a bit unclear. I use enlightenment and have to load both subsystems. Hope this helps, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Font size
Jeff Elkins wrote: > I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's great > for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. KDE apps and > firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so tiny as to be > near-unreadable. > > In /etc/X11/fs/config I changed: > > #default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75 > default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 > > w/o effect. > > Is this an X DPI issue and how can I fix this? I'm running sid. [...] Hi Jeff The font size shouldn't be changed by changing the dpi as dpi means dots per inch and that is fixed by your monitor. Instead you should change the font size through kcontrol and gnome-control-center. I'll just copy the text out of my groups wiki, it should cover your problem exactly: KDE and GNOME integration = When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not running a complete GNOME or KDE session (not using "kwn" or "metacity" as windowmanager) you have the problem, that many subsystems (i.e. the fonts) are not loaded. Here is the solution Configure kde-apps through kcontrol and gnome with gnome-control-center then put the following lines in your local .xsession creating it if it doesn't exist: kdeinit & gnome-settings-daemon & This ensures that both subsystems will be loaded. Best regards, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request for window manager recommendations
Bill Wohler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be >>much appreciated. > > > I used twm/awm back in the eighties. I've been using enlightenment for > years now though. I tried wmaker and sawfish but they lacked features > from enlightenment that I discovered I really missed. If you've loved > enlightenment and found an even better WM, please let me know. [...] Hi everyone I can absolutely acknowledge that. I've been using enlightenment for five years now and don't know of any better window manager. Bill already listed most of the great features so let me say something on performance: I'm using enlightenment on a few machines ranging from a notebook with 133MHz and 48Mb of memory to my office machine with 3GHz and 1GB of memory. The felt performance is roughly the same on every machine, even with all the nice features turned on. The above mentioned office machine has an uptime of a few month now and enlightenment is using a total of 4.2MB now. :-o If you are more into numbers you can have a look at http://www.rasterman.com/ Cheers, Nikolai -- "1984" is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card
Hi there, I have the Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card and just wanted to ask if someone here has experience with this thing? Any idea which drivers I should use? Nikolai -- | apt-get | Debian GNU/Linux | into it | http://www.debian.org
Re: Games on Linux?
Hi there, I hope a version of Parsec (http://www.parsec.org/) which is playable on the Internet comes out soon. It looks so promising. Nikolai -- | apt-get | Debian GNU/Linux | into it | http://www.debian.org
Re: VIA sound chipset
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:25:08PM -0200, francisco m neto wrote: > I'm having some problems trying to have sound working on some > machines which have the via89xxx chipset. When using kernel 2.2.x, mpg123, > for example, will play a mp3 file at a higher rate than the normal, i.e., it > will sound "faster". When using kernel 2.4.x, it won't even play the file, > complaining about "not finding any supported rates". Does anyone have some > experience with this chipset? Greetings Some of the 2.4.* kernels have a bug in downsampling. 2.4.3 works for me. 2.4.6 / 2.4.9 gave me the same problems you report. So I would recommend using the latest version like Peter De Wachter suggested or if stablity is a problem use 2.4.3. Regards, Nikolai -- | apt-get | Debian GNU/Linux | into it | http://www.debian.org
Re: Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz
Hi again, in 2.4.3 it works with the same options that 2.4.6/9 ... doesn't work with. Just tried it. So it must be really a bug. Either in via82cxxx or pci quirks.c . I guess I will file a bugreport. Oh and sorry for the double-posting. I got and error-message when sending to this list and told a friend of mine to try to send the message. Nikolai -- | apt-get | Debian GNU/Linux | into it | http://www.debian.org
Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz
Hi there, if have the following problem regarding the VT82C686A chipset for sound output. With kernel 2.4.3 everything worked fine. All recent kernel versions (2.4.6 / 2.4.9) lock the audio play rate at 48kHz. I think it has something to do with a bug in the chipset which was fixed by quirks.c in 2.4.3. But I really don't know why it doesn't work with the new kernels. I would be grateful for any suggestion, and please no "use alsa instead" replies. Nikolai -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|
Re: exim startup fails
I already solved it. There was an exim start line in inetd.conf. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|
exim startup fails
Hi there, I recently installed Debian testing using my old home directory. My problem is that my e-mails only get delivered when I start exim -bd manually as root. But the startup script in init.d/ exists. Has anybody an idea what I'm missing? Thanks so far, Nikolai. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|
Re: Reinstalling Debian
Thank you very much. I used grep to filter out the deinstalled packages. Here's the line that worked. dpkg --get-selections | grep -w install | cut -f1 | / xargs apt-get --reinstall -y install Nikolai. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|
Linux substitue for Origin
Hi there fellow Debian'a'holics, does anybody know of a linux programm which can compete with Origin. (Origin is similar to Excel but with more advanced features, which are important for me.) Read you, Nikolai. Escape the gates of hell. http://www.debian.org Use Linux.
modprobe lp failure
Hi there, I was just trying to configure my printer and the "modprobe lp" command fails. However I am able to start the printer manually by using "insmod lp", but it fails at boottime. By searching in a few newsgroups I figured out that the lp.o module in kernel 2.2.17 is somehow broken. So I just wanted to know if there exists a solution yet without having to recompile the kernel because I don't have the time for that right now. Bye, Nikolai. -- +-+ | Escape the | | Gates of hell. | | | http://www.debian.org | Use Linux. | +-+
