Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-12 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:44 AM, Eugen Dedu wrote: I agree with you, Eric. I find sad that people cannot speak without using negative words, such as those below. When a client has a problem, even if its his fault, why not SIMPLY trying to understand where is the error? Even more: if a

Re: swsusp2, and, pbbuttonsd, with, vlock

2005-09-18 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Sep 16, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: I would like to make my laptop more secure if someone would eventaully steal it. I have an encrypted filesystem where i store my files. Perhaps we could get brigadoon to extend MacPhoneHome support to Linux?

Re: [OT] Spam

2005-09-15 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Sep 15, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: On 9/15/05, Federico 'Pain' Pistono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont' you get a bit too much spam in from this ML? Not that it bothers me that much, gMail thinks about it, but I do get a significant amount of unwanted email directed to the

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-08 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Sep 7, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Matthias Grimm wrote: If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport card only supports 40Bit WEP which is not longer supported by recent access points. They use 128bit WEP

Re: My Debian/MacMini web pages

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Aug 8, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote: macosx has the same locked root as ubuntu to enable root, log in as an user with admin privileges. then open a shell sudu bash put in your password youll then be in a bash shell as root, you can then go passwd change your root password. then

Re: Replacing iBook Hard Drive

2005-06-12 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Jun 11, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Marc Menem wrote: Hi, I'm writting to this list since I can't find any useful answer anywhere else. If you anyone has ever replaced a Mac hard drive, I would use some advice. I own a G3 iBook (dual USB, 750 MHz) and the hard drive died a few days ago. It started

Re: iMac hardware

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Mar 23, 2005, at 7:47 AM, Jérôme Marant wrote: Hi, While thinking of bying a new machine, I found the IMacs quite appealing, especially the 20 inches one. Does anyone have feedbacks about the hardware quality, pros and cons, rebutals? Look at the eMacs - they are a better deal. If you aren't

Re: Swap

2005-03-17 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Mar 17, 2005, at 4:48 AM, Michael wrote: How crucial is a swap partition? It is not crucial for it to be a separate partition. Apple, for instance, does not, by default - they use space on the boot disk instead. However - if you don't, and if the partition you share with something else

Re: Wrong sized wrench

2005-02-28 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Feb 28, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Josh Narins wrote: Josh Narins wrote: I finally got around to buying the TORX wrenches that can be used on the powerbook, but although I got a multi-TORX tool (sizes 10,15,20,25,27,30 and 40) they are all too big. Anyone know the right size? It'd be helpful to know

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: On (22/12/04 12:56), vinai wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: I want to install sarge in my Old-World Mac 9500. I know I need to use BootX, and that I should copy linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz into the Linux Kernels

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: On the d-i rc2 sarge netinstall iso the are two files: initrd.gz and vmlinux (look in /install/powerpc) Copy those to your Linux Kernels folder on the Mac side and away you go. Just remember to copy the installed initrd.gz and vmlinux files

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:51 PM, vinai wrote: Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: 2) It automatically configures the network using DHCP, which i would rather NOT do, and When I used the old installer, you had the choice to specify dhcp or a static IP. I'm surprised this option was removed

Re: installing sarge

2004-12-22 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 22, 2004, at 1:56 PM, vinai wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: I want to install sarge in my Old-World Mac 9500. I know I need to use BootX, and that I should copy linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz into the Linux Kernels folder, but I can't find those files

Linear aperture not available (again)

2004-12-12 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
My original message: xdm fails to start up, giving the error Linear aperture not available What is the significance of this message? Well, when I got the message about bad blocks, I did a low-level reformatting, mapping out bad blocks. Then I reinstalled Debian, doing a bad block scan on

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 9, 2004, at 3:24 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:42 -0500, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote: xdm fails to start up, giving the error Linear aperture not available What is the significance of this message? Weird ... using the X mach64 driver right ? The linear

Re: Resizing ReiserFS for MacOSX

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:20 PM, vinai wrote: Not sure about resizing, but Mac OS X will probably take up in region of 3 G. If you're careful about not installing extra fonts, print drivers, etc, you should be able to cut that down ... Better leave more space than that, if you plan to update

Linear aperture not available

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
xdm fails to start up, giving the error Linear aperture not available What is the significance of this message? TIA, Dan Killoran Hardware: Macintosh 9500 120 MHz (Old World) Apple display card, which is identified as ATY, mach 64 ATY,88800GX-F Software: debian linux 3.0r2 without the 01

Re: Linear aperture not available

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Dec 8, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: DRKPD ATY, mach 64 DRKPD ATY,88800GX-F XFree supports only 8-bit color depth on this one IIRC. Try using depth 8 and see if it helps. I did! At least that was what I specified in the setup! Dan Killoran

Re: How to set display depth in xdm?

2004-10-28 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When installing debian, I guessed wrong about the display depth. The xdm error log complains that the hardware cant support 24 bits. How can I change this to 8 bits? The man pages on xdm don't mention it. Hardware: Macintosh 9500 120

How to set display depth in xdm?

2004-10-27 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
When installing debian, I guessed wrong about the display depth. The xdm error log complains that the hardware cant support 24 bits. How can I change this to 8 bits? The man pages on xdm don't mention it. Hardware: Macintosh 9500 120 MHz (Old World) Apple display card Software: debian linux