On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:13:05AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> People process information differently. Apparently, few find it more
> efficient to process it in reverse order. That being so, I'll
> continue to bottom post in this forum, if only to accommodate the LCD.
Just out of curiosity:
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
Apt can fonction without [apt.conf]. Unless you have specific network settings
(like access through proxy) then you don't need it. Either its an empty
file either it's not there. If you use testing it might be there of not
depending of the moment of your upgrade.
Tha
John Hasler said:
> Marty writes:
>> This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf
>> file.
>
> toncho/~ 1 ls /etc/apt
> apt-file.conf apt.conf.d listchanges.conf sources.list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pad]$ ls /etc/apt
apt.conf.d sources.list
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Juhani Pöyry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 on my computers. Filesystem is RaiserFS
> 3.6.25. What I need to do for upgrading kernel to 2.6.x
>
> Juhani Pöyry
>
>
If you are going to build the kernel from source, don't forget to
also build Reiserfs into the kernel.
If you wi
Marty writes:
> This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf
> file.
toncho/~ 1 ls /etc/apt
apt-file.conf apt.conf.d listchanges.conf sources.list
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I have very hard time believing that I'm the only one experiencing
I am not very techno wiz on this computer so please
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you guys and you may totally
Hi,
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On 06/10/2005 04:20 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced
> messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and
> sending out bogus messages. I normally get a few of these and mark them
> as spam, but this is ridiculous. Is
Marty wrote:
Colin Ingram wrote:
On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I
created both by hand.
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an
apt.conf file.
I wonder how apt can
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (10/06/05 13:13), Marty wrote:
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf
file.
I wonder how apt can function without it? In particular, how do you specify
your Debian version?!
I think it's mainly for situations where you have multiple
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:54:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 10, Anthony Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > and how it is meant to be used, specific to this list and which
> > propagates to linux.debian.user only, may be a good idea?
> Maybe. Do you want to write one?
Yup.
> Send i
On Friday 10 June 2005 12:30 pm, Hubert Chan wrote:
> I don't believe I was. I was just trying to give reasons for why I
> think that top-posting (in a mailing list context) is not a good thing
> to do.
I haven't been keeping track of who said what in which post, so I don't know
if I responded
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:12:51PM +0200 or thereabouts, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:03:13AM -0400, Steve Å wrote:
> You're confusing the filesystem directory /boot, where the kernel
> image and the boot loader configuration are, and the lilo line
> "boot=", which tells lil
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:57:36PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
> So, what is the difference between a duck, Hendrik? It better be good. ;)
>
> Adam
One of the joys of age. You can recycle jokes from fifty years ago,
and you find new people to tell them to!
This one has a tradidional answer:
On
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:02:28AM -0700, Ben Chong wrote:
>
> So top posting or bottom posting? It's like pornography: if u don't
> like it, don't read it. But please don't impose your morality on the
> rest of us.
>
Except that it is not morality. It is practicality in this case. If
you want
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Well begun is half done.
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Here's my take:
One of the *BSD newsgroups I subscribed to used to be pretty nice. Not too much
traffic, helpful people.
The last time I went online to ask a question (after some years of absence),
and followed up on that question, some @[EMAIL PROTECTED] started whining about
my top posting.
On 10/06/05 16:02 Hendrik Boom wrote:
It seems this is a problem resolvable by technology. Set the mail
reader to start a message display at the bottom of the message.
Does anyone know a mail reader that does this?
The Mozilla folks may well be persuaded to implement this for
Thunderbird (I
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:09:26 -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My usual practice, actually, is to edit and interpolate, as if we were
> having a conversation.
(Did you mean interleave rather than interpolate?) Yes, that is the way
things should be. Anyone who bottom posts witho
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:30:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > If you press F2 or F3 (I forget which) at the boot prompt, it will show
> > you how to get a 2.6 kernel. It is that way because 2.4 is consistently
> > better across all the architectures that Debian support
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:12:37 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You've been around too many Outlook Express and Outlook users, then.
> Those are the only two clients that encourage top posting by default
> and make you strain to post properly, instead of the other way
> around.
My
Colin Ingram wrote:
Another point :
in sources.list : changing testing by stable or testing by sarge
returns me error when updating. Like apt can't find the
repositories
Does someone remember the command to reconfigure to get the choice
of mirrors?
G
I use apt-spy to find mirrors.
On (10/06/05 13:13), Marty wrote:
> Colin Ingram wrote:
>
> >On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
> >didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I created
> >both by hand.
> >
> >
>
> This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking
Curt Howland wrote:
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is a good way for a lot of people, but maybe not for
newbies who think they can create a better way through the exercise
of pure rhetoric without benefit of experience.
Having been using Debian since 1995, I consider mys
Andrey Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago I did something dreadfully stupid on my Debian - I
> upgraded a repository, which was trully not meant for installing on a
> normal Debian:
>
> #maemo
> deb http://repository.maemo.org/ maemo ossw
> deb-src http://repository.maem
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> If you press F2 or F3 (I forget which) at the boot prompt, it will show
> you how to get a 2.6 kernel. It is that way because 2.4 is consistently
> better across all the architectures that Debian supports (not
> necessarily true for i386, but true when you consider how
Colin Ingram wrote:
On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I created
both by hand.
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf file.
I wonder how apt can function withou
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:03:13AM -0400, Steve Å wrote:
I'm a little confused. How does one determine what partition their /boot is on ?
Here is my directory structure in /boot (It looks to me that my boot is root
?);
You're confusing the filesystem directory /boot, where the kernel
image an
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David Nicholls said:
> I've been having a few problems with dns lookups and have been given a
> new set up dns servers and not the same ones placed into resolv.conf by
> dhcp.
>
> Obviously if I make a change to resolv.conf, it will be soon-after be
>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:36:35PM +0200, M. Maas wrote:
Ok, that's cool, here you go:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 24321 195358401 8e Linux LVM
Looks a lot better right? Except:
Yes, that looks right.
Yes, but make sure yo
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Dave Babb wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
>
> My current distribution of choice is Arch Linux. Arch is too techie for my
> daughter, who wants to admin her own system.
>
> I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge".
>
That was not necessary. Only
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 16:17, Dave Babb wrote:
> I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge".
You didn't need to do that. A single CD would be more than enough for a basic
install, after which apt will download any packages you ask it for. Just
quicker.
> Default Kernel still in the
Another point :
in sources.list : changing testing by stable or testing by sarge
returns me error when updating. Like apt can't find the repositories
Does someone remember the command to reconfigure to get the choice of
mirrors?
G
I use apt-spy to find mirrors. You can update the mi
Thanks, arpwatch is what I want.
Jonathan Opperman wrote:
Hi Alexandar
I think what you are looking for is arpwatch:
Arpwatch keeps track of ethernet/ip address pairings
apt-cache search arpwatch
apt-get install arpwatch
Regards,
Jonathan
On 08 Jun 2005, at 1:07 PM, alexandar wrote:
Wh
Good Morning,
My current distribution of choice is Arch Linux. Arch is too techie for
my daughter, who wants to admin her own system.
I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge".
I backed up her /home/* directory to CD and began the install last
night. I'm puzzled.
Default Kern
On 10 Jun 2005, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced
> > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and
> > sending out bogus messages.
>
> This is referred
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:58 -0400, Brian Pack wrote:
[...]
> Then there is the changeover from XFree86 to X.org, which may break *lots* of
> stuff. :)
>
> Any word on the timetable for this switch?
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml
That is the X Strike Force news... keep an e
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, PB wrote:
> Massimo Dentico wrote:
> >Note that the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP), that I called harshly
> >"sacred" on another mailing-list,
>
> What is so strange with the substitution principle,
> be it in the Liskov variant or in my granny's var
David Mat wrote:
> Quick question, is the debian installer, on the Sarge install disc, capable
> of eresizing ntfs partitions in a non-destructive manner?
Yes.
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On Friday 10 June 2005 12:49 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:29:01PM +0200, Lech Karol Paw?aszek wrote:
> I've mused in the past about having a thread-analyser that puts back all
> the deleted parts of the message (by following the thread back, of course)
> and putting togethe
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:29:01PM +0200, Lech Karol Paw?aszek wrote:
> On Thursday 09 of June 2005 23:06, Graham Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > I understand the reasons why bottom posting is supposed to be better but
> > if I am following the thread, which is normally the case if I'm actually
> > readin
You could just write a quick script that writes a good resolv.conf
file, and then stick it in your system-wide crontab. I don't know how
often it would need to run, but it should be pretty trivial.
Good luck,
Cameron Matheson
On 6/10/05, David Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Hi,
I've got a few Debian (sarge) boxes connected to isp's via either ADSL
modems (dlink dsl-300t's) or with a internal pci adsl modems.
I've been having a few problems with dns lookups and have been given a
new set up dns servers and not the same on
On Friday 10 June 2005 12:46, Phil Dyer wrote:
> Piero Piutti said:
> > deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./
>
> There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too.
I've just finished the update from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 and it works just so nicely!
I guess that anybody wishing to get the latest KDE can up
Joe Potter wrote:
That, of course, is the main point you made. I put all this in the lap
of Bill Gates --- the miserable ass. He is never happy unless he is
destroying some standard and replacing it with crap of some kind.
Outlook does it this way not to be contrary, but for an obvious re
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:40:26AM -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> >It's preserved for posterity and not everybody wants to read a whole thread
> >to
> >figure out what solved some random printing problem.
>
>
> But, in fact, most people use web-based archives in w
Paul Johnson wrote:
It's
preserved for posterity and not everybody wants to read a whole
thread to figure out what solved some random printing problem.
But, in fact, most people use web-based archives in which that's exactly
how they access the messages after the original discussion.
-
I see. Thanks.
On 6/10/05, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:11:44PM +0800, hell0 un1verse wrote:
> > I found that the release was named "3.1_r0a". Just for curiosity, what
> > does that "a" mean?
>
> It simply means it is the first update to the 3.1_r0 rele
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Jan Leewe Behrendt:
>> could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch?
>
> If you don't know how to do that, you better refrain from upgrading.
> Etch will not be as stable as sarge has been the last couple of months.
>
> I really do not want to offend you, but the nu
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 16:27, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
> >>"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
> Just yesterday, I started having problems with kate. It will start up,
> and then giv
On Jun 10, Anthony Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Other linux.debian.* gateways are fine because people using those can be
> expected to know how gateways work. An faq about what the gateway is
There are no other gateways.
> and how it is meant to be used, specific to this list and which
> pr
On 6/10/05, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * to see the reply first (for those who have just finished reading
> the previous message)
>
> It seems this is a problem resolvable by technology. Set the mail
> reader to start a message display at the bottom of the message.
This doesn't
Sylvain SAUREL a écrit :
Bonjour,
J'ai une debian sarge 3.1 que je viens d'installer et une carte Nvidia GeForce
2.
J'ai donc repris sur le net les tutorials que j'avais trouvé pour installer les
drivers nvidia sur ma distribution.
J'ai téléchargé le driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg1.run
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:16:41PM +0200 or thereabouts, mess-mate wrote:
> Steve A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Greetings.
> |
> | I upgraded my Sarge box to a new 2.4.27 kernel yesterday. When I ran lilo
> | afterwards I'm presented with the following warning;
> |
> | Warning: '/proc/part
On Friday 10 June 2005 10:45 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Friday June 10 2005 12:56 am, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > Why it's such a big deal to them, I'll never know, but some people
> > don't seem able to accept that different people do things
> > differently.
>
> It's already been explained to you by
On Friday 10 June 2005 10:42 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Friday June 10 2005 12:12 am, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> > Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > Bottom-posting makes reading easier for those
> > >who haven't followed an entire thread.
> >
> > True. But that's the point: making it easier for thos
On Friday 10 June 2005 03:05 am, Basajaun wrote:
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 June 2005 05:26 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 22:06 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > I would argue that top-posters fall into the same category as most
> > > users of propr
Phil Dyer wrote:
> I agree with that point exactly.
>
> PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which
> poster I'm agreeing with.
>
> (I really did try to stay out of this...)
>
> phil
>
I get no points at all as it is not worth trying to figure out what the
point was
On Friday June 10 2005 8:02 am, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> It seems this is a problem resolvable by technology. Set the mail
> reader to start a message display at the bottom of the message.
>
> Does anyone know a mail reader that does this?
gnus fixes broken quoting for you on reply. Make top poster
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:28, Sh1t Scared wrote:
> The reported Bug #293667 in mailscanner is preventing a successful upgrade
> from woody to sarge for me.
>
> I get the following error when I perform either
> apt-get install mailscanner or
> aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade
> -
On Friday June 10 2005 12:56 am, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Why it's such a big deal to them, I'll never know, but some people
> don't seem able to accept that different people do things
> differently.
It's already been explained to you by a large number of people
already. Maybe if you read for compre
On Friday June 10 2005 12:12 am, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Bottom-posting makes reading easier for those
> >who haven't followed an entire thread.
>
> True. But that's the point: making it easier for those who *are*
> following a thread ahould be the priority.
No, mak
Thanks Lee Braiden, M. Maas, and Andrea Benedetto... 16 it shall be...
(lol) =) ... This place is like a sea of Debian "Jedi Knights" and I'm
just happy to be a Padawan Learner... :o) Thanks again for the help.
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 10, Tony Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > All of these are signs that the message has been posted somehow
> > to Usenet but not gated to the list.
> If they can post them, their news server is misconfigured.
> If you see t
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:32:04AM -0400, Phil Dyer wrote:
> I agree with that point exactly.
>
> PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which
> poster I'm agreeing with.
I think the point you agree with is both point.
-- hendrik
P.S. What is the difference between a
I'm an incurable bottom-poster; q.v.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:20:11PM +0200, Mark wrote:
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> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> >
> >>I completely agree. Whoever (the attribution is not clear to m
On 6/10/05, Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with that point exactly.
>
> PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which
> poster I'm agreeing with.
>
> (I really did try to stay out of this...)
>
> phil
>
> Mark said:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >>> On Thur
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is a good way for a lot of people, but maybe not for
> newbies who think they can create a better way through the exercise
> of pure rhetoric without benefit of experience.
Having been using Debian since 1995, I consider myself to have some
benefit o
I agree with that point exactly.
PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which
poster I'm agreeing with.
(I really did try to stay out of this...)
phil
Mark said:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>>
I completely agr
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Simon Atkinson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm relatively new to Linux and in particular to the Debian
> distribution. I have read through the installtion manual for Sarge and
> see that for a (network-based) CD installation it is possible to use
> the following image
Ever since upgrading to kernel 2.6.8 on Debian (sarge) I've had a problem with
keys auto-repeating in X Windows.
The problem only shows up in X windows. While typing in a terminal window (for
example) the key auto-repeat kicks in making it impossible to type. For
example if I try to type 'clear',
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:38:48PM +0100, belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to send a file from one remote machine to another one like this
> scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/dsl-1.2.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian
> Password:
> Host key verification failed.
> lost connection
>
What you probably
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 12:48, michael wrote:
> Now I am confused since my bios says my chip is amd k7 athlon 4 but
> cpuinfo gives
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 6
> model : 6
> model name : AMD At
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Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>
>>I completely agree. Whoever (the attribution is not clear to me)
>>wrote that crap about top posters vs bottom posters is an arrogant
>>idiot. Processing information i
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:44:23PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced
> > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and
> > sending out bogus messag
nullman:
>
> isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
> -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
No, it will not. Not in the Debian sense of 'stable' (no new features or
packages) and because of that almost inevitably unstable in the usual
sense (uninstallable packages,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Kevin Mark:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:04:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > If all I need are the 1st 3 or 4 CD's, then what is on the other 10 CD's,
> > > just a whole lot of software? Is there a breakdown somewh
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:51:50PM +0200, nullman wrote:
> i AM sure, that ..
>
> 1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
> 2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
>
> -> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
>
> When testing (etch) becom
On Friday 10 June 2005 09:51 am, nullman wrote:
> i AM sure, that ..
>
> 1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
> 2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
>
> -> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
>
> When testing (etch) becomes more busy
i AM sure, that ..
1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
-> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
When testing (etch) becomes more busy (new packages -
gnome-transition, ...) it MAY be unstable fo
On Friday 10 June 2005 12:46, Phil Dyer wrote:
> Piero Piutti said:
> > deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./
>
> There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too.
Thanks for the hint. I'm upgrading as I write. Hopefully when I'm done I'll
post to confirm that's safe to switch to 3.4.1.
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced
> messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and
> sending out bogus messages.
This is referred to as a "joe job" (google for more info). In
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>HI, a simple question here, when I wanted to download the netinst ISO
>image for Sarge at this address:
>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
>
>I found that the release was named "3.1_r0a". Just for curiosi
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:33, nullman wrote:
> isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
> -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
I'm not sure. Etch is likely to get the latest version of KDE, Gnome,
Perl, python... soon which will make it very unstable for a while.
Nico
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Raymond A. Meijer wrote:
> No sorry my bad
>
> I meant 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' of course!!!
Ok, that's cool, here you go:
ams-it:/home/mark# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
U
isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
-> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
Jochen Schulz wrote:
>Fernando Cacciola:
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>>P.S.: To what debian does knoopix 3.8.1 installed on hd corresponds to?
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>Knoppix is always a mixture of stable, testing and unstable. You can
>only tell that for each single package. Some of them are patched
>versions, which you will n
Jan Leewe Behrendt:
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> could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch?
If you don't know how to do that, you better refrain from upgrading.
Etch will not be as stable as sarge has been the last couple of months.
I really do not want to offend you, but the number of mails that have
hit the m
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debian said:
> Thnx for the reply.
> My windows has reverse zone.
Can you see the rev entry in windows dns for a specific box?
- From the windows box, can you nslookup the ipaddress with correct results?
> This is an error:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sar
Hi
I'm relatively new to Linux and in particular to the Debian distribution. I
have read through the installtion manual for Sarge and see that for a
(network-based) CD installation it is possible to use the following images:
debian-31r0a-i386-businesscard.iso
debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:30:08PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> John Carline wrote:
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> > Personally, I don't care where an individual posts. But, it would make
> > my reading/following of threads much easier if I didn't have to
> > scroll down to the bottom of post after post in a long string just
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Jan Leewe Behrendt wrote:
> could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch?
See 'man apt_preferences'.
put:
APT::Default-Release "etch";
in the file
/etc/apt/apt.conf
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:11:44PM +0800, hell0 un1verse wrote:
> I found that the release was named "3.1_r0a". Just for curiosity, what
> does that "a" mean?
It simply means it is the first update to the 3.1_r0 release. It was
released just a day after the original release. There was a mistake in
On 6/9/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > I completely agree. Whoever (the attribution is not clear to me)
> > wrote that crap about top posters vs bottom posters is an arrogant
> > idiot. Processing information in reverse or
Hi,
Thnx for the reply.
My windows has reverse zone.
This is an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sarg-2.0.5]# host 10.51.10.10
Host 10.10.51.10.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sarg-2.0.5]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sarg-2.0.5]# host searolxe
Host searolxe not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Thnx f
Is it really necessary to get so exercised about top- vs bottom-posting?
On 6/10/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:10:35 -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
> Do you see why it's nice to have the context provided immediately? With
> a bottom-p
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debian said:
> We use windows 2003 servers and various linux application servers, DNS
> is on windows and we have a suffix say; test.tralala
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> So when i perform the command
> Host 192.168.0.10 i must get a reply that this host is
> pipo.test.tral
Hello *,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:11:44PM +0800, hell0 un1verse wrote:
> HI, a simple question here, when I wanted to download the netinst ISO
> image for Sarge at this address:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
>
> I found that the release
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